Chapter 18 The Tranquility Before Departure

The deafening music, the swaying semi-mechanical crowds, the dazzling, eye-piercing light show.

All these elements combined created the most popular venting scene at the Scarlet Lightning Bar.

The crowds waved their silver and black metal limbs, spinning and twirling on the dance floor, emitting bizarre screams and howls.

Iserine sat at the bar, watching the chaotic scene with a strange sense of calm.

"Last weekend, I blew up three bars like this. Just because they were too noisy."

She picked up her drink and took a light sip, turning to look at the tall man beside her.

The man wore a black shirt, the collar open to reveal his strong chest muscles. His arm, resting on the bar, was pale and powerful, with a faint pattern of a purple-black disc visible on the back of his hand.

"It's okay," the man said softly, picking up his milk and taking a gentle sip. "I restored everything. No one was hurt, no one died, everything is back to the way it was."

He was Li Cheng Yi.

Before pursuing transcendence, he intended to enjoy a period of peaceful, happy life.

The restart of all things was not a rebirth after destruction, nor was it the reshaping of everything in his memory.

All things were still all things. They had always been there, never destroyed, only temporarily distanced.

The distancing of the Primordial Objects, in the eyes of ordinary people, was seen as destruction.

But in reality, the Primordial Objects could not be destroyed.

They neither increased nor decreased, and were the most fundamental elements in constructing the entire Black Sea. If true destruction were to occur, it would be the beginning of the Black Sea's complete disappearance.

Of course, Li Cheng Yi couldn't imagine any way to destroy a Primordial Object, because the essence of power and energy was just another aspect of the Primordial Objects.

His method of leveraging the Primordial Objects was simply to use other Primordial Objects to collide and interact with them.

"But in that kind of resurrection, are they still themselves?" Iserine frowned. As a Flower God General, she had the most reason to doubt this.

There were many types of resurrection.

Pure temporal reversal, or the reorganization of the body and consciousness, or the resurrection of all things in accordance with the image of the past within Li Cheng Yi's consciousness and memory.

All of these were resurrections.

But only the first type, temporal reversal, was the most authentic resurrection. The others were nothing more than playthings of Li Cheng Yi, this great, unique, and all-encompassing reason.

"Yes," Li Cheng Yi nodded. "They are naturally still themselves, because they were never destroyed. Humans, living beings, are themselves a type of Primordial Object. When they are destroyed, they only temporarily disappear from the known plane, becoming imperceptible. But they are still there, still in this Black Sea, circulating freely between the known and the unknown."

"So, they are just paused?" Iserine asked, somewhat confused.

"Yes... That's also the result I wanted," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

They were currently in an unknown dead corner, which was very similar to Earth in his previous life, with a vast expanse of cosmic space and countless galaxies distributed widely.

This made him suspect that Earth might also be a reflection of a corner of the Black Sea.

"Brother, now that you can have whatever you want, won't it be very boring?" Iserine thought for a moment and asked.

"No... I've locked down the ability to make things come true," Li Cheng Yi smiled. Becoming the subject of all unique concepts was not a pleasant feeling.

Because if he wasn't careful, everything around him would undergo permanent changes as a result of his absentmindedness.

Whether the other party was a person or an object.

"Why? Isn't that very powerful?" Iserine frowned.

"Well, do you want to try it? I can open up a portion," Li Cheng Yi said with a smile.

Iserine raised her repaired arm and looked at her fair palm.

"Can I?"

"Of course. After all, we are family. All Flower God Generals will live with me for a very, very long time, until the Eternal One," Li Cheng Yi nodded, his expression gentle.

"Then I want to see," Iserine said curiously.

She now looked to be in her twenties, but her personality was still very innocent, although this innocence had a firm will as its backbone.

"Alright..." Li Cheng Yi smiled.

He gently tapped the back of his hand, and the purple-black disc on it automatically turned light gold.

"Okay,"

He released her hand and smiled.

"Is it done?" Iserine looked around. She didn't notice anything different.

"Come with me."

Li Cheng Yi reached out and opened his hand upwards, allowing Iserine to place her hand in his palm.

The two slowly walked towards the bar door.

"Actually, sometimes I feel like this world is like a huge box. The people inside want to go out, but they don't know what's outside. They just simply want to go out."

Li Cheng Yi said softly.

As his voice changed, the entire bar suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned into a patch of darkness, dissolving and disappearing.

And more than that.

In Iserine's perception, this entire planet, this galaxy, the larger galaxy, everything, turned into a mass of darkness, their shape like a huge box.

The inside was bottomless.

"Sorry, I spaced out a bit," Li Cheng Yi seemed to realize something, and came back to his senses.

Instantly, everything in the surrounding bar reappeared.

People continued to dance, sing, and drink as if nothing had happened.

*Crack.*

The two walked out of the bar.

Outside was a somewhat deserted snack street. A few scattered students were just getting out of night school, and couples were slowly savoring the snacks they had just bought, chatting and laughing as they passed by.

From the shops on the edge of the street, a jumble of messy music mixed together, somewhat noisy.

"Actually, do you know?" Li Cheng Yi held Iserine's hand and slowly walked along the street.

"I think sometimes, if everyone returned to the most primitive era, it might be the happiest. There wouldn't be so many disputes, so many calculations."

As soon as his voice fell, everything beside him, all the people and buildings on the entire planet, instantly regressed and disappeared.

Replaced by large swaths of dense primitive jungle.

And more than that.

In Iserine's perception, and outside of her perception, all the known areas of the entire Black Sea instantly became a unified state.

With the exception of the All-Knowing, all other living things regressed to the primitive era.

All civilization systems disappeared, the intelligence of living beings regressed countless times, and they began a hunter-gatherer lifestyle of ancient times.

Countless ultra-ancient behemoths reappeared.

All civilizations in the entire Black Sea, countless dead corners, all returned to ancient times.

"But sometimes, I also feel that the interstellar era is the most magnificent, because endless new resources are waiting for people, all internal contradictions are unified, transferred, and diluted. Everyone is unanimously expanding outwards, pursuing the endless starry sky."

As Li Cheng Yi's words landed, all civilizations in the Black Sea uniformly transformed into the same interstellar-level civilization.

Biological technology, Qi cultivation civilization, mechanical civilization, etc., all civilizations entered the space age.

Everyone's consciousness, as if it were a toy, instantly and naturally transformed into various roles of the new era, and rapidly integrated into it.

"..." Iserine watched from the side in shock and fear. With the casual change of thoughts, he could naturally change everything around him...

Such power... could no longer be simply called power.

"So, do you understand now?" Li Cheng Yi snapped his fingers, and everything around them returned to its original state.

"Trying not to let oneself affect all things, this behavior itself is also very difficult..."

"I understand..." Iserine nodded, a little afraid.

"No wonder the behemoth Asradunni chose to slumber after finally breaking through the boundary..."

"Perhaps, my situation is different from theirs. What lies beyond the boundary, I don't know, and no one will know. Those who know cannot tell us, because knowing is itself a kind of cognitive transmission. It belongs to the known."

Li Cheng Yi said lightly.

He put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the sky above.

In the black sky, countless silver stars flickered, like countless small eyes.

As this thought flashed through his mind.

Instantly, all the planets in this starry sky transformed into real, gigantic eyeballs, floating in the universe...

"Uh..." Collecting his thoughts, Li Cheng Yi quickly restored everything with Flower Language.

As his own thoughts flashed, the outside world would be permanently changed.

This situation was actually very distressing.

Thinking required a large flow of thoughts, flashing, but flashing could cause changes in everything external at any time.

This was also the fundamental reason for his self-sealing.

However, his current self-sealing seemed to be unable to hold on any longer.

Because the Unique Life System was still constantly expanding and strengthening.

His influence had grown to the point where it could no longer be hidden.

"Brother Yi!"

Suddenly, from the street corner ahead, two scantily clad girls waved at him one after another.

The girl on the left had long braids, which were draped from behind to her chest. Her expression was gentle and charming, and her legs were adorned with denim shorts and black stockings, outlining a well-proportioned and healthy female curve.

The girl on the right wore pigtails, her pink hair slightly curled, and a cute rabbit hairpin was fastened to the top of her head.

A pair of big eyes flickered with colorful fluorescence. The simple white t-shirt on her chest was arched into an astonishing curve, which had already exceeded the limit height of normal humans.

But the girl clearly didn't care about these things, she only wanted them big.

Both girls had exceptionally fair and delicate skin, and their eyes, as they looked over, carried a sense of closeness, like that of family.

"Da Xiong, Tang Tang," Iserine called out from beside Li Cheng Yi, taking the initiative to trot over and hug the two girls happily.

"Brother Yi, taking your sisters-in-law out for a stroll?" Long Men Diao's voice came from behind Li Cheng Yi.

Li Cheng Yi was speechless, and looked back at him.

This guy, with the appearance of a Rainbow Candy, was wearing a black tight leather suit, his pink hair was draped over his shoulders, and he was playing with a sharp small knife in his hand, constantly tossing it up and down.

"Don't talk nonsense. You are all my closest family," Li Cheng Yi said softly.

"Also, don't talk like..." Li Cheng Yi's words were interrupted by Long Men Diao.

"Don't, don't! I was wrong! I will definitely not talk nonsense anymore, Boss, have mercy!" His expression changed slightly, and he quickly said loudly.

Last time, Li Cheng Yi scolded him for talking like farting...

Then he had to use his mouth to fart for a whole month...

He didn't want to experience such a nightmare again.

"Boss, I heard you're leaving? When are you planning to go?" Long Men quickly changed the subject.

"... Everyone else knows?" The smile on Li Cheng Yi's face slowly faded.

He was planning to go to his previous life, to Earth, and he hadn't hidden this from everyone, but the time hadn't been set yet.

"Yeah, everyone knows. They just haven't had time to come over yet."

Da Xiong walked closer and generously put her arm around Li Cheng Yi's arm, leaning her whole body against him.

Then she gave Rainbow Candy a demonstrative look.

The latter rolled her eyes dismissively, too lazy to pay attention to her.

"What's beyond the boundary, no one knows. But the behemoths and the Void Mother have failed... lost their self-awareness, so... everyone is very worried about you," Rainbow Candy said seriously.

They had all returned to their hometowns to live.

She, Da Xiong, Long Men, and a few others had returned to Earth-Moon.

Xiao Zong and his resurrected brother Da Hei had gone to travel to other dead corners.

Chen Jia Han had gone to Bai Xing, and was said to be re-establishing the Chen family clan and branching out.

Xinde La had collected his son's sub-bodies and was about to re-merge and restore his son's consciousness. He refused Li Cheng Yi's help and instead relied on himself, carefully completing this task bit by bit.

Pan En married the esper woman who had always comforted him, and was now living in a highly technologically advanced dead corner with his other wives.

Huo Qing Kong was the most troublesome. Like Li Cheng Yi, he was constantly and tirelessly exploring the unknown. He spent all day mixed up with freaks like the Bi Lu Zhi Mu (Verdant Mother).

Because Li Cheng Yi's strength and level had been elevated to the extreme, all the Flower God Generals and Flower Language Pearl carriers had received more or less blessings and upgrades.

The Flower God Generals had been forcibly promoted to the Saint Realm. Subsequent realms required cognitive alignment in order to slowly reach higher levels.

Although they were only Saints, their upward obstacles had been removed. As long as their cognition could keep up, they could directly reach All-Knowing.

Perhaps this process would take countless years, but compared to other hopeless individuals, they were already extremely lucky.

This was still Li Cheng Yi having adjusted the proportional rules of his own strength to distribute a trace of it to them, in order to prevent all things from becoming unbalanced.

Coming back to his senses.

Li Cheng Yi smiled.

"Don't worry, death is not the end, all things ultimately are immortal. Now that all the Unique has been taken away by me, everyone doesn't need to blindly fight and snatch for anything anymore. Without the hope of breaking through, everyone can quietly recuperate. Isn't that very good?"

"..." The few were speechless.

"Brother Yi... will you come back?" Long Men asked cautiously.

"Yes... I'll come back after I figure out what's beyond the boundary."

Li Cheng Yi nodded.

Time was just a change of state to him. As long as he came back and adjusted himself, returning to the next second, everything would be as if nothing had happened.

No matter how many years he was gone, this place would only stop and wait for him.

"Then, Boss, before you leave, can you help me with one thing?" Long Men asked cautiously. "This is the wish I've always longed for in my life!"

"Tell me. I'll consider it," Li Cheng Yi smiled.

Long Men Diao looked at Rainbow Candy.

"I want a world of beautiful girls that belongs only to me alone!!" He suddenly shouted loudly.

"That's right! All the beautiful girls have to have Sister Tang's face!! I want ten thousand! No! Ten billion Sister Tangs!!!"

"Bullshit!!" Rainbow Candy instantly flew into a rage and rushed up with a hook punch.

"It's okay to turn into my face, but you even dare to fantasize about me, are you tired of living!!"

"Sister Tang, come on, I'm not afraid of you anymore! Come! If you have the guts, beat me to death!! If you don't beat me to death, you won't be named Tang today!!" Long Men opened his arms with an expression of enjoyment, letting the other party beat him.

"Too abstract... these two," Iserine was speechless on the side, and walked forward to naturally take Li Cheng Yi's other arm.

"Let's go, I know a new teahouse opened recently, red tea with milk is very delicious, Brother, I'll take you there."

"My sisters have created a new massage race that can simultaneously press one hundred and eight acupoints all over the body, and the appearance can also be adjusted to the type you like. After we finish drinking tea, I'll take you all to experience it," Da Xiong smiled on the other side.

The two pulled Li Cheng Yi and slowly walked away, leaving Rainbow Candy and Long Men fighting behind them.

Life had returned to its usual peace and tranquility...