Chapter 670 - 426: Passing On

Chapter 670: Chapter 426: Passing On

He felt a strange sense of melancholy in his heart.

This time, he didn’t even get to see Earth...

After that, time fell into what could only be described as a repetitive reset.

Starting from Miselux, he had thirty days to travel to hundreds of different continents in the vicinity.

But most of the surrounding continents weren’t as large as Miselux.

It was a process of dress rehearsals and field surveys.

Through this, Lu Cang had become very familiar with his surroundings.

For example, nearby Glan Island was a gathering place for Ice Element Mages. The climate there was exceptionally cold, and Ice Element Magic was unusually advanced.

There was only one Church there, and it was almost entirely filled with fanatics of the Cold Church.

Besides Glan Island,

he had also visited places like Baril Island and the Neximia Continent more than once.

’I guess I’m pretty well-traveled now.’

Only after watching everything unfold in the Secret Sea did Lu Cang begin to tell An Su about his true situation.

Over the course of many resets, Lu Cang had also confirmed An Su’s safety.

Even if An Su knew he had come back from the future, it wouldn’t have any major consequences.

First, he hadn’t returned from the distant future.

Second, An Su himself lacked the ability to harm him.

Even if Lu Cang revealed he was under a Time Curse that constantly reset time, An Su wouldn’t be able to cause any harm with that information.

"So, you’re saying you’re actually from the future? Just not the distant future."

An Su asked from within the Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Cang: "Yeah."

An Su sounded somewhat relieved. "I knew it... I had a feeling back in the Secret Sea."

"What are you planning to do next?"

"According to you, the day of the reset will happen again in just over 30 days, right?"

Lu Cang: "Yeah, that’s right."

"So, I’m going to try a few things now."

An Su: "Try what?"

Lu Cang said, "Actually, during these repeating periods, I’ve discovered some possibilities for changing time."

Having mastered Time Taboo Magic, Lu Cang’s understanding of time was far deeper than that of an ordinary person.

While conversing with An Su in his mind, Lu Cang arrived at the Ancient Library once again.

"Morning, Betti."

Lu Cang’s voice was quiet, but Betti, who was beside him, awoke with a start.

She wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth.

"Mor-morning, Lu Cang..."

"I wasn’t sleeping!"

Lu Cang gave a helpless smile. "I didn’t say you were."

This was the 10th time he had greeted Betti in the exact same way.

At the same time, on the same day.

Betti’s response never changed in the slightest.

Engaging in fixed interactions with certain people was one of Lu Cang’s routine checks, a way to determine if the world had deviated at all.

After his friendly greeting, Lu Cang vanished from before Betti’s eyes in the next instant.

He could sense a faint flicker of surprise from Betti.

But it was only surprise.

Lu Cang, however, had already arrived in the Ancient Books Room.

"Is this what you said you wanted to do?"

"It’s pretty boring."

Lu Cang chuckled and shook his head. "How could it be something so trivial?"

Lu Cang opened an ancient book.

An Su looked at the book in Lu Cang’s hands—so tattered it was little more than a few rotten pages—and couldn’t help but remark, "Can you even make sense of a book that worn out?"

Lu Cang smiled. "Actually, I can read it quite clearly."

"You already know I’m cursed, and that time repeats itself again and again."

"And everyone’s actions, everything they do, will be replayed without the slightest deviation as long as I don’t deliberately change anything."

An Su agreed. "Things that have already happened are, of course, fixed and unchangeable."

Lu Cang nodded, then said, "And this book... I actually come to look at it every single time."

"But guess what happens?"

An Su: "The way you’re asking... it sounds like it changed?"

Lu Cang: "Yeah."

"The title of this book is *Time Curse*. It’s about the experiences of another person who went through the same thing I did, who received the same curse."

"But every time I look at this book,"

"the content written inside is different."

An Su: "You mean, within your own repeating timeline, there’s another variable besides you."

An Su was a genius, after all.

He understood the essence of the curse in an instant.

If time and space were repeatedly resetting,

then the only one causing changes should be Lu Cang alone. If Lu Cang didn’t change, then basically nothing else would change either.

But this book, if it was as Lu Cang described,

was a variable that shouldn’t exist.

"I remember you were so sure, An Su, that history couldn’t be changed by anything."

An Su replied with conviction, "Of course. If history could be changed, the world would be thrown into chaos."

"Then what if... it’s a history that never existed in the first place?"

An Su paused for a moment, then asked, "What do you mean?"

His question wasn’t because he didn’t understand, but because he had thought of something, yet couldn’t be sure.

Lu Cang: "I’ve been thinking for a long time..."

"Thinking a lot about time."

"An Su, regarding the gap in history from 5000 years ago... what do you know?"

An Su was just about to speak when Lu Cang answered for him.

"Nothing, right?"

An Su gave a dry laugh. "You’ve already asked me, haven’t you? Why ask when you already know the answer?"

In one of the countless timelines before this, Lu Cang must have already asked.

Lu Cang continued, "Why don’t you know?"

"Because at that time, you were in a critical period of your Reincarnation and needed an undisturbed environment."

"At the same time, you wouldn’t have known what was happening in the world."

An Su said nothing.

This short exchange proved that Lu Cang knew him very well.

Lu Cang said slowly, "Time is divided into the past, present, and future."

"The present is but a fleeting moment."

"The future is still hazy."

"Only the past is certain."

"You said the past can’t be changed, because if it were, the world would fall into chaos."

"But what if it’s a part of the past that no one knows anything about?"

"What would happen if that were changed?"

An Su was silent for a while before continuing, "Then according to your logic, to change the past, you would have to deceive the entire world."

Lu Cang added, "Or make everyone in the world believe something that never existed is true."

As soon as he said this, a name involuntarily popped into An Su’s mind.

Luoti.

The one who had once controlled the entire world with her mind.

"Don’t tell me you’re planning to stage a deception that fools the entire world? To reverse time and space."

Lu Cang shook his head. "No, at least not me, not now. I can’t accomplish something so grand."

"But..."

Lu Cang looked at the tattered ancient book.

"If history can be changed, and if people in two different timelines can influence each other..."

"couldn’t I influence another person as well?"

A new stack of books materialized in Lu Cang’s hand.

He opened a book, and with a thought, his handwriting appeared on the page.

"My name is Lu Cang. In the ruins of time, I was afflicted by a ’curse’ that constantly resets me to a point in the past. It is now April 14th, year 5026. If there is anyone with the same experience as me, please leave your information here. This curse..."

Lu Cang wrote freely, filling hundreds of thousands of words.

In just a few minutes, as if writing a novel, he roughly chronicled his experiences since the time resets began.

An Su: "Will this actually work?"

Lu Cang: "Who knows..."

But if his theory was correct, if there was someone else whose constantly resetting timeline overlapped with his own,

then maybe, just maybe, he would actually get a reply.

Even if that person was cursed more than 100 years in the future, as long as they looped back to Lu Cang’s current time, it was possible they would see it.

Of course, it was only a possibility...