Chapter 641 - 400: Gate of Closed Time

Chapter 641: Chapter 400: Gate of Closed Time

The visions of the future were fragmented. Spacetime seemed to have jumbled into a confused mess.

"An Su, do you feel it?"

"Feel what?"

"Time has been reset."

"No, I don’t feel anything at all."

Lu Cang was testing him. He wanted to know if only his own time had been reset, or if An Su had been reset along with him.

If they had both been reset, then An Su should have retained his memories of it.

But if it was only him...

It would be like he had returned to the past, and An Su wouldn’t remember what happened afterward.

From the looks of it...

He truly didn’t know what had happened.

"Actually..."

Lu Cang was just about to explain.

However.

TICK—

A crisp echo rang out, like the sound of a clock’s hand being forcibly turned backward.

Lu Cang found that he had returned to the very beginning.

At the very start of the corridor...

At the far end of the corridor was the door he had just seen.

’A door?’

An Su’s thought echoed in his mind.

He was surprised. ’There’s actually a door here?’

’The exact same reaction as when we first entered...’

"An Su, I think Time has reversed."

Lu Cang said with extreme seriousness.

His consciousness surged, and he conveyed the current situation to An Su via his thoughts at top speed.

An Su pondered for a moment and was just about to give Lu Cang his answer...

TICK—

Once again, it was the sound of a clock hand moving.

When he looked up again, he was already outside the ruins.

He had left the corridor area and was back in the vast darkness from before.

’I don’t even need to think about it; my brain already has the answer...’

’I’ve been reset in Time again, and this time, I’ve gone back even further.’

’The previous time loop was exactly the duration it took from entering the corridor to reaching the door.’

’It seemed to take a long time, but it was actually just a matter of seconds.’

’So, the simple act of communicating with An Su in my mind and waiting for him to think of an answer already exceeded those few seconds.’

’In other words, as soon as the time is up, I get reset to an even earlier point in time...’

’Is that how it works?’ Lu Cang wondered.

He didn’t know if the resets would continue now that he was out of the corridor.

There wasn’t much time to communicate with An Su and get an answer, but An Su’s thought process had given him a good deal of inspiration.

TICK—

It hadn’t been long—about ten seconds since the last reset.

The scene before Lu Cang’s eyes changed abruptly once more. He found himself even farther from the spiral entrance.

’This time, it’s 30 seconds.’

’From this location to the door... a total of 30 seconds of elapsed Time.’

TICK—

This time, as soon as he was reset, Lu Cang shared what was happening with An Su at top speed.

An Su conveyed a brief sense of astonishment.

But he quickly began thinking at high speed, formulating a strategy for Lu Cang.

’Time keeps reversing...’

’But according to established theory, the past cannot be changed. As long as it’s a fixed part of History, it’s absolutely immutable.’

’If your Time can be reversed, it would mean you could go back months, or even years.’

’You could make different decisions back then.’

’That would be equivalent to changing History.’

’That’s impossible!’

’So, this must be a trick.’

’This Time reset definitely isn’t a true Time reset.’

This was An Su’s answer for Lu Cang.

SWOOSH—

He spread his Perception wide, but everything felt real. Where was there any trace of illusion? At the very least, he could confirm this wasn’t an Illusion Realm.

TICK—

Time reversed once again.

The spiral entrance was no longer visible.

He had returned to a time before he had even found the entrance.

And this time.

BANG!

Lu Cang’s figure shot forward in an explosive burst!

He completely ignored the astonished and confused An Su, charging directly toward the spiral entrance’s location.

Before, he had been strolling through the darkness, not moving at his top Speed.

And the duration of each reset was the total time it took him to get from his current point to the door.

As long as he moved at full Speed.

There would be more than enough Time.

He had previously spent ten-odd minutes wandering in the darkness, but now, he spotted the entrance again in just a few breaths.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Cang charged straight into the entrance.

BANG!

He entered the corridor.

Without a moment’s delay, Lu Cang maintained his top Speed and closed in on the door!

In an instant, he was just a short distance from the door.

But Lu Cang didn’t go and touch it directly.

There were no Restrictions around, nor could he see anything illusory.

It was just that every time, right as he was about to touch it, the reset would be triggered.

So this time, Lu Cang didn’t intend to touch it himself.

Instead, he extended his Core!

SWISH!

The Core touched the door.

Gate of Closed Time

Creator: Aikator

Beyond the door lies a different manifestation of Time, a Time unimaginable to mortals. This place is also a cage that imprisons Time.

’So that’s what this door is.’

Lu Cang felt it in his Intuition. He also had a premonition that if he didn’t open this door, he would be reset again.

His Intuition had originally only given him a vague feeling that he would be reset.

But... his Level 6 mastery as a Decryption Scholar allowed Lu Cang to accurately perceive where his Intuition was coming from.

He knew the reason for this Intuition.

’I have to say, reaching Level 6 Decryption Scholar has been a huge help.’

’Although I don’t know how far back the resets will go, or if they’ll stop once I’m back in the real world, the first priority when encountering an anomaly is to find a way to stop it.’

As his power increased.

He found himself encountering more and more incidents involving the Laws.

TICK—

’It seems touching it with the Core is fine...’

’Next up, I’ll push the door open!’

Lu Cang abruptly exerted force with his Core!

BOOM!

The Core was him; the Core was his very being.

"Azure Sky Stream—Sixth Form: Extreme·Piercing Dragon Void Nether"

A Sacrifice of ten billion souls was made!

An immense force erupted against the door in an instant!

BANG!

However, as the blow struck the door, there was no feedback whatsoever. The great door didn’t budge an inch. But under the force of the impact, faint golden, intricate patterns began to flow across its surface.

Lu Cang’s Perception swept over these patterns.

’Another puzzle...’

Almost instantly, he deciphered the meaning of the patterns in his mind. They were a complex language, a language based on Time.

But Lu Cang was experienced in solving this type of puzzle.

"A collection of Time... This place is a cage that imprisons a forbidden Time..."

Lu Cang muttered to himself.

’It seems...’

’...opening this door will lead to an even greater disaster.’

In that instant, the image of Iz, whom he had just met, flashed through Lu Cang’s mind, along with the words she had said to him.

’It seems I’m destined to make many mistakes, to do many evil deeds.’

’If I really open this door here, could this be one of those deeds from my Future?’

’Like Pandora’s Box, opening this door could unleash a terrible catastrophe upon the world.’