Legend Management Bureau Chapter 433

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“There will be no more ‘Time’… What kind of nonsense are you spouting!”

Du Yu smiled ambiguously. “What? You are no longer ‘Time’, so what does it have to do with you? Not only am I going to be the ‘terminator’ of one Reincarnation Cycle, but I will be the ‘terminator’ of all Reincarnation Cycles.”

“That’s impossible!!” Time exclaimed frantically. “I told you not to challenge the unknown. Besides, with your power, it’s absolutely impossible to achieve!”

Du Yu shook his head. “If my guess is right, You Si is the first Great Pivot, and this first Great Pivot was born because of Time. If there were no Time, this world’s timeline would permanently return to peace, and chaos would never appear again. Such a thing as a Great Pivot was never meant to exist in the first place.”

“But you yourself are a Great Pivot!!” A trace of disbelief appeared in Time’s eyes. “Do you really want to sit idly for hundreds of thousands of years, only to let yourself vanish?!”

“That is not something you need to worry about,” Du Yu said, waving his hand dismissively. “Whether I vanish or not, Time will thoroughly die.”

“You…” Time paused slightly upon hearing this, picked up a shard from the ground, and viciously plunged it into Du Yu’s chest. Du Yu did not even try to dodge.

Although he felt some pain, he watched as the wound gradually healed, and even the shard fell to the ground.

“Du Yu, do you see? Time cannot die! Stop daydreaming! Someone in this world must always become Time! Otherwise, space cannot repair itself and will continuously collapse. This ‘net’ will shatter, and that will be true destruction!”

“You…!” This time, Time was truly terrified. He had waited bitterly for three hundred and thirty thousand years to finally regain his freedom, yet this current generation’s Du Yu sought to completely eliminate Time. What kind of massive paradox would this create?

“No matter what you’re trying to do, you need to think it through! The consequences of losing this gamble are far too severe!”

But before he could make a move to stop it, his entire body began to turn ethereal.

The next second, he appeared on the Battlefield of the former great war. Time began to flow again. In an instant, the billions of Threads in the sky all shattered into dust on the spot, leaving the many Immortal Beings dumbfounded.

Having just landed, Time had no chance to look at his friends nearby; instead, he raised his head to look at Du Yu, his mouth moving as he shouted something at the top of his lungs.

Du Yu stopped watching the scene. With a gentle wave of his hand, all the fragments drifted back into the sky. He felt an unprecedented surge of power, as if he could control everything.

But all of this…

Du Yu slowly opened his eyes, only to find himself sitting on a stone bench. His flesh and blood had fused entirely with the cold stone; he could not stand up, let alone move.

“Heh…” Du Yu muttered to himself. “So this dazzling starry sky was just my inner world… The real me… will just sit here and wither away forever…”

A profoundly meaningful smile continuously crept up the corners of his mouth.

Directly opposite Du Yu stood that familiar Stone Door, and on the ground remained an intact magic array.

It seemed that everything had started all over again.

As long as things continued, You Si would appear, and the curtain would rise on the next Reincarnation Cycle.

But now was not the time to worry about such things.

Du Yu closed his eyes once more, formulating an eerie plan in his mind.

The very first thing he needed to do was deal with the Threads on the Battlefield. He had no idea how long it would take to completely erase their influence, but at the very least, he had to ensure those people survived. Only then could his next step succeed.

He gently waved his hand, and the Threads from the sky flew right before his eyes. The moment Du Yu touched a Thread, he instantly knew the entire story contained within it.

The Thread currently in his hand belonged to the Western Queen Mother. She had already lost her way within the chaotic rifts of time and space, so it was impossible for her to appear in the modern era.

If this Thread connected to her body, the Western Queen Mother would vanish entirely.

Du Yu pondered for a moment, weaving an excuse in his mind. He told the Thread that the one who vanished was named “Western Queen Mother,” while the person on the field was merely called “Queen Mother”—it had found the wrong person.

The Thread seemed to understand Du Yu’s thoughts. It trembled lightly, and then a dense web of cracks appeared along its surface.

He could not help but marvel at the immense power of Time; as long as a lie was woven in the mind, it could become reality.

He recalled what You Si had once said to Fuxi… “The Mind Thought Technique can control everything in the world, except for time.”

And Du Yu knew that the art of time was the exact opposite; it could only repair time, but it could not change his current predicament.

“So this is what it means to repair time… I have lied countless times within the Legends, yet I never imagined I would be stuck here lying forever. How ironic.”

Du Yu looked up at the billions of Threads in the sky. He knew that to salvage all of this, he would need to lie for tens of thousands of years.

One strand, two strands.

A thousand strands, two thousand strands.

Ten thousand strands, twenty thousand strands.

Back when Du Yu had so confidently sworn to become Time, he never imagined there would be a possibility of regret.

Standing in the void, endlessly repairing the paradoxes of others, Du Yu felt a little dazed.

‘What is my purpose in doing all this…?’

But he quickly understood. He had an obsession, and his obsession was to liberate all the “Du Yus” in this world, ensuring that Time would never be personified again.

Time was never meant to exist in this world, nor was anyone meant to become Time.

Ninety years.

A full ninety years.

No one had ever told Du Yu that trimming these endless Threads in the sky would require ninety years of tireless, sleepless work.

If not for the obsession still burning in his heart, he likely would have lost himself in this vast river of stars long ago.

He learned the story of everyone on the field, whether it was their tragic pasts or the Lovesickness they could not let go of.

But what use was any of that?

What value did all this useless Lovesickness, resentment, Suffering, and Reluctance hold for an eternal entity like Time?

Du Yu slowly opened his eyes, finding himself still sitting withered on the stone bench. It was terrifyingly quiet around here, like a corner forgotten by the universe.

“Ninety years… If I follow the progress of the previous generation’s Time, I am only short by three hundred and twenty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ten years. Ha, hahahaha…” Du Yu laughed bitterly and incessantly. His body could not move, so all he could do was shout at the top of his lungs in this freezing stone chamber.

An unknown amount of time passed before Du Yu closed his eyes again, returning once more to that paused Battlefield.

He lightly flicked his fingers, making time flow backward a bit. He knew that if he wanted to save those who had already died, he absolutely had to trace time back to the past.

Yet to his despair, for every second the scene’s time rewound, new Threads would appear in the sky.

While not in the trillions, there were still easily thousands of them.

The moment time moved, the Threads shifted along with it.

If he wanted to revert everything to before the great war, how many more years would he have to endure?

Right at that moment, an unseen Thread suddenly drifted before Du Yu’s eyes. This Thread seemed detached from the entire Battlefield, looking incredibly bizarre.

Du Yu gently reached out to touch it, only to instantly frown.

The contents of this Thread belonged neither to the Chinese Immortal Beings, the Underworld Messengers, the Greek Gods, nor the subordinates of Shuten Doji.

Instead, it belonged to a demon from Fusang named Enenra.