Chapter 1950 - 1949: Super Memory Promoted to Usurper God

Of course, others can also influence this probability.

For example, if the Tuning Master were still alive, under the blessing of the God of Machinery, it might have been possible to detect it, but he is already dead.

And the God of Machinery’s other subordinate, the Usurper God ’Star Shadow’, is purely a loafer without any proactive work ethic.

The God of Machinery can only personally keep an eye on both ends.

The longer the Holy Master is kept here by He Ao, the stronger the Holy Master’s power is displayed, the deeper the God of Machinery’s attention, the more likely He Ao’s plan will succeed.

So He Ao must hold the Holy Master back.

Stealing the Prophet’s Talent Sequences and struggling with the Dreamer are his means of holding back the Holy Master.

In fact, at the end, He Ao almost couldn’t hold it anymore; the Holy Master is not only incredibly powerful but also particularly sensitive.

This elderly man is instead the most likely person in the entire situation to see through He Ao’s intentions and setups.

However, He Ao did not expect that the God of Machinery would pull off a flashy trick at the end, completing the most difficult step in an instant, greatly saving He Ao time.

Of course, at that time the ceremony was still not completely finished, and the God of Machinery still had the possibility of discovering flaws and modifying everything.

So He Ao still had to hold the Holy Master back and draw the God of Machinery’s attention.

But by then the Holy Master was ready to leave.

He Ao had to expose a flaw, letting the Holy Master see the complete annihilation of his hope, thus keeping the Holy Master in the abnormal timeline.

To hold on for these few brief moments, He Ao lost two lives.

One was the Undying Lotus’s.

And the other came from the power transmitted from the Main World.

To create an illusion of World Exchange, a large amount of power was transmitted from the Main World to stabilize this world’s state.

Some of this power supported He Ao’s form, allowing him to be resurrected.

The rest, the vast majority, was gathered together by He Ao, who took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, penetrating the Holy Master’s body.

The rising sea water brushed past the thin and weak body, passing through the empty clothes of that body.

——

Abnormal Timeline

The Holy Master lifted his head, gazing at He Ao, seemingly associating many things from He Ao’s words. He spoke hoarsely, laughing, "You young man are bold, daring to treat me as a chess piece."

"We are all life, nothing different," He Ao looked at him, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and coughed lightly, as the purple radiance flowed into his throat, "No one is destined to be just a pawn or a player."

"I really shouldn’t have helped you pull out the Dreamer Talent Sequence just now," the Holy Master looked at He Ao, saying hoarsely, "If it stays inside you, you who do not match with it, it will eventually drag you toward madness."

"Even if you change a thousand times, you would still make the same choice," He Ao laughed, "You needed that."

Surging power scattered in He Ao’s body, filling his limbs and bones, filling his soul.

Everything he did was an open conspiracy.

Even if the Holy Master knew He Ao’s plan, what he would think of would be how to both destroy He Ao’s plan and take the Dreamer, instead of simply not coming.

"Young man, you’re impressive." The Holy Master raised his eyes, gazing at He Ao, with a slight smile at the corners of his mouth.

Rumble——

The sky roared, the ground trembled.

Some kind of invisible terrifying pressure descended from the firmament above, thoroughly tearing apart the already riddled-with-scars world.

"It seems that the reckless Bull that was teased about is finally realizing what has happened," the Holy Master glanced at the sky, lowered his gaze to He Ao, and said with a smile, "We will meet again, young man."

He Ao clutched the Barrier Wood in his hand, feeling the connection to the Historical Contract, hoarsely replied, "I await that day."

"That day won’t be far off," the Holy Master gazed at He Ao, smiling, "You know, my grasp of historical power is far stronger than that of machinery,"

His gaze slightly lifted, "How do you know that I didn’t decipher that true spacetime coordinate from the historical timeline?"

He Ao’s pupils suddenly contracted.

"Your performance was splendid. Thank you for helping me stop the machinery. Clearly, you care about that world, you don’t want that world to be destroyed," the Holy Master broke free from the restrictions of the surrounding radiance, gently stood up, gazing at He Ao, smiling,

"At that time, I will tell your friends, tell your family, tell the entire world you care about, tell them it was you who betrayed them, it was you who handed the spacetime coordinates into my hands, it was you who brought about the apocalypse. Believe me, the scene at that time will certainly be interesting, then, I will destroy your world."

The surging purple brilliance poured in from all directions, covering the Holy Master’s body, covering the Holy Master’s soul.

The Holy Master seemed not to see this purple brilliance at all. He slightly raised his hand like a gentleman, saluting He Ao, while his entire body rapidly began to dissolve. He smiled, gazing at He Ao, "Looking forward to our next meeting."

Whoosh——

That brilliant purple brilliance swept through the empty space like a wind, sweeping past the spot where the elderly man stood.

On the ground, only a patch of residual ashes remained, which was the last offering from the Holy Master’s avatar.

Thump, thump, thump——

Some urgent drumbeats resounded in the void, as if dense heartbeats.

As the purple brilliance swept past, He Ao’s actions did not pause for a moment. The surging force erupted inside him, and the brilliant purple brilliance instantly ignited in the surrounding void, enveloping everything in a shroud of black mist.

Without hesitation, He Ao activated the power of the Historical Contract, pulling himself toward the Main World.

The surrounding space and time momentarily shifted and transformed into a bizarre and fantastic corridor.

He Ao could feel, at the moment he left, some terrifying and grand existence descended upon where he had just stood.

But before this perception fully came to life, bursts of dazzling light and shadow unfurled before his eyes.

They were dense gray lines, and crisscrossing light and shadows. Everything in the world seemed dim under these light and shadows, at this moment, He Ao seemed to see the reflection of the starry sky.

Embedded within the dazzling starlight were the cosmic rules, the tides of stars.

It was as if a ruler measuring everything was placed before him, allowing him to collect everything in the universe, converting them into creations of civilization, into his own creations.

Everything in the world seemed, at this moment, to have gained a measuring scale, all rules had gained a method to be borne.

Even fate and eternity could be imprisoned within cold machinery.

This itself was the most fundamental rule of the universe.

Vast and incomprehensible knowledge rushed into He Ao’s mind like a tide, taking over his being.

The dazzling light and shadow, from the first instant of appearance, were about to reach upon him.

At the same time, part of the light and shadow bypassed his body and followed the connection behind him through the Historical Contract channel to the other end.

In that brief moment, He Ao activated the power of Barrier Wood. The surging purple brilliance simultaneously ignited within him, and the Historical Contract that constructed the passage seemed to be burning fiercely at this moment.

The power from history was activated to its fullest.

A huge and terrifying pull instantly grabbed onto He Ao, dragging him through the gaps between worlds, plunging into some kind of ’Space-Time Deep Sea’.

Before falling into that deep sea, He Ao vaguely felt the dazzling light and shadow quivering, as if saying something.

That voice carried some kind of doubt, whispering a word:

’Serenas’

It seemed to be pointing at He Ao, yet also at something else.

But He Ao could no longer hear the subsequent sounds; his body had already passed through the sky, falling into the boundless ocean of the Main World.

Beneath the ripples of void, He Ao’s body floated up from the depths of the ocean.

He raised his head, gazing at the azure blue sky above the ocean.

Fine purple light crawled over his body like patterns, and gray-purple blood seeped from his body, staining the surrounding seawater.

Intense pain surged through his consciousness and soul like waves, tearing at his body.

A terrifying pressure oscillated and condensed in the void, like an ancient, aging heart slowly rising and falling, pulsing.

A small sardine passed through the seawater dyed by light and blood, and in an instant, it grew sharp dorsal fins.

Immediately after, its body began to grow visibly larger, transforming into a massive entity hundreds of meters long, leaping from the ocean and creating turbulent waves before crashing back into the water.

Then another colossal creature burst from the sea; it was another fish that had passed through the blood-stained seawater, a clownfish.

Its size wasn’t as large as the sardine’s, only over a hundred meters, but it was covered in dense Thunder, and radiant electric light erupted from it, piercing through the sardine’s body in an instant.

More and more giant fish surged from the sea, some bearing flames, some electric light, and some toxic mists.

Dark clouds shrouded the sky as if heralding an apocalyptic scene.

Finally, after an unknown period, the brilliance that spread within He Ao’s body abruptly condensed, and the dark clouds in the sky completely dispersed.

Lying on the surface of the ocean, He Ao opened his eyes, faint purple light appeared in his eyes, dyeing his entire pupils purple.

Invisible light swept across the void, and the mutated monsters disappeared in an instant.

The sky returned to clarity.

These monsters, along with the surrounding blood-stained seawater, were all packed and thrown into Biqing Sky by him.

Then he sat up from the water, his entire body floating up, isolating himself from contact with the seawater.

He lifted his head and looked at the clear sky above.

The promotion was completely over.

The system personal attribute panel appeared in his field of view.

[He Ao]

[Authority Level: Advanced Player]

[Physical fitness: 1290482352309+?]

[Skills: Talent Sequence 409: Super Memory (Usurper God) (Abnormal), Basic Firearms Mastery, Talent Sequence 216: Secret Wizard (A-level), Mysterious Academic Style Intermediate]

[Mechanical Modification: None]

[Martial Arts: Refining Void and Merging Dao (Usurper God) (Abnormal)]

Talent Sequence 409: Super Memory.

When He Ao saw this sequence number, many of his original doubts seemed to have been answered.

Why Super Memory was so special, why Super Memory and Memory Inheritors shared the same Talent Sequence number.

Because 272 is not the real sequence number of Super Memory; it belongs to something higher.

The subsequent Usurper God of the Memory Inheritor, though there was only one Secret Medicine, corresponded to two Talent Sequences.

Dreamer is 408, and the other is 409.

The difference in Promotion Ceremony ultimately leads to two different Talent Sequences, probably also possessing different powers.

He Ao ultimately didn’t complete the Dreamer’s ceremony, because in such a short time, he didn’t have time to fabricate a world and deceive the universe.

But he completed another ceremony, the Super Memory ceremony.

’Pointing a Deer as a Horse.’

The prompts given by Well Shadow were vague, but He Ao had a gut feeling that this was the Super Memory ceremony.

Moreover, as the subsequent Talent Sequence of the Memory Inheritor, Super Memory differed from Dreamer, but the core of the ceremony might be similar, perhaps both were ’deception.’

The ceremony for Dreamer requires deceiving the universe, so what exists in the universe with a status similar to the universe’s?

There is, and that is the Divine Being.

Perhaps the meaning of deceiving the universe is deceiving the Divine Being.

Of course, He Ao couldn’t be sure at the time that Super Memory was indeed the corresponding alternative Usurper God-level Talent Sequence of Memory Inheritor.

But regardless of whether that Talent Sequence was called Super Memory, the ceremony was most likely this one.

At the time, He Ao had no choice but to take a gamble.

Ultimately, the result was that He Ao successfully deceived the Divine Beings, both of them.

At the moment when the dust settled, he faintly sensed that his ceremony had succeeded.

So while chatting with the Holy Master, he covertly ate the Dreamer’s Talent Sequence under the guise of a cough.

In fact, this was quite risky, but fortunately, He Ao had previously tried to control the Dreamer’s Talent Sequence and had developed a certain degree of fusion with it.

But at that time, the fusion was inclined towards Dreamer; attempting to promote Super Memory with that degree of fusion, He Ao estimated he would explode on the spot.

As the Holy Master said, if he hadn’t been there to manage him, He Ao would have blown up on his own.

This is also why he made a ’transaction’ with the Holy Master; he needed the Holy Master to help extract the improperly fused Dreamer Talent Sequence from his body.

Under normal circumstances, finding such a considerate Divine Being for help is virtually impossible, and even if it succeeded, who knows how much it would cost.

Yet, the Holy Master appeared to be just such a helpful person.

He helped He Ao extract the wrongly directed Talent Sequence and allowed He Ao to retain affinity with this Talent Sequence.

Though a sinister heart, the task was accomplished well.

This was likely the reason the Holy Master was a bit peeved at the end.

He Ao’s direct promotion idea was simple; he wanted to use the Usurper God’s power to see if he could imprison the Holy Master’s incarnate soul.

Though the success rate was low, what if it worked?

So he chatted with the Holy Master while waiting for the promotion to complete.

Naturally, the Holy Master’s idea was also simple; he aimed to stall He Ao until the God of Machinery regained cognition and eliminated He Ao.

For this, when He Ao was finally ready to escape, he even tried to seduce him with knowledge of the Main World’s coordinates to prevent He Ao from leaving.

If not for He Ao’s promotion to Usurper God and forcibly pulling himself up with Usurper God’s power, he might not have outrun the God of Machinery and would have been slain on the spot.

But the Holy Master fled just as quickly, even sacrificing his entire incarnation to swiftly withdraw his soul and evade He Ao’s soul capture.

Of course···

He Ao raised his hand, his entire form flickering and appearing in Biqing Sky.

A ball of purple light emerged in his hand, and amidst this sphere, a wisp of gray light fluctuated in intensity.

This was what he ’caught,’ likely not the Holy Master’s soul but an important power from that clone.

As for the words spoken by the Holy Master later···