Free Web NovelChapter 587: Chapter 82: Dissection_2
"We often say that life cannot be redone, time cannot be reversed. This statement is true in most parts of the Xiangzhou Continent, but here, in the deepest part of the Nether Sea, time can indeed flow backward! During the most chaotic times before, I have personally witnessed time reversal more than once: old men turning into children, children vanishing into thin air! Here, it is possible for a person to start over!"
"Of course, starting over is limited to the individual; their connection to the world cannot be altered, so I can’t make events that have already happened start anew. But I myself have an opportunity to redesign myself. Using this opportunity, I have made a very bold design."
"I want to utilize the chaos of time and space, reverse a hundred years, go back to when I was still being gestated in the womb, and then further back, to the union of my biological parents. Then, I’ll make slight changes, causing my father’s yang energy to shift slightly, forming a completely new me. After that, I will rapidly grow along a few critical nodes I have designed, becoming a Sect Leader of the Saint Sect, differing only in gender."
"This design is so bold that when I completed the entire design draft in one go, I was surprised by this genius idea."
"However, this was just a concept. When the design draft was completed, I was the only survivor of the investigation team. My first-in-the-world cultivation ironically came into play at this moment; I endured far longer torment than anyone else in the team. So no one could help me perfect this design draft; there must be errors in it—academically, I am not as flawless as I am in the field of Immortal Cultivation. Although I can always propose ideas that surprise experts, I lack the ability to independently perfect them. So, if I were to execute according to this draft, death would inevitably await me—either I would die during the time reversal, or I would die in the rapid remolding after the reversal. In any case, I could not complete the reset of life along the most ideal path."
"Yet, in the midst of it all, I had a premonition that in this land of despair, some force would protect me, help me correct all the details lacking, and bless me to fulfill the last wish of my life. In fact, without such external protection, I can hardly imagine this exploration team might have persisted for so long amid such intense time-space chaos. According to most space-time theories, the moment we crossed the gap, we should have been ground to dust. So, there must be something in this sea trying to protect us. Thus, I place my hope on this invisible force, hoping it will bless me with success and leave a miracle for future generations."
"If you read to this point in one breath, you should already be interested in the final design draft I left behind. Please then refer to attachment 3: Inversion of Yin and Yang."
Of course, Wang Jiu was not interested in this technique of yin-yang inversion.
Even before the war between the Immortal and Demon, humanity hadn’t undergone the baptism of the Demon Race’s time-space disorder. Given the technological advancement of the Immortal Dao at that time, their understanding of space-time far exceeded that of later Xiangzhou people.
The legacy left by this former Sect Leader was no longer a rarity for the cultivators of the Jiuzhou Era. Long ago, there were already similar conjectures proposed: If time could be reversed, and a person could return to the moment they were just born, could life be restarted?
Of course, the answer is no, unless someone’s divine techniques are powerful enough to reverse the entire world’s time. Otherwise, even if a person could return to the past, there is no way to restore their connection with the world to the past. Simply put, only a person’s physical body could go back in time.
So, what about tracing back from the past to the present?
Of course, it’s even more impossible. For a person to form as a "person," besides the body, they must also possess various attributes, the most crucial being social attributes. These social attributes do not change with the body’s time reversal, and naturally, they cannot be completely bestowed upon the newborn physique.
Therefore, what time reversal could yield is but an empty shell.
Just like the sleeping woman in front of Wang Jiu—a flawless empty shell.
Yet it was precisely this flawless empty shell that shocked Wang Jiu all the more.
Because she was too perfect! Although there was no residing soul, not even the slightest trace of a soul ever having been there, just this body alone was enough to astonish people.
Even in the Jiuzhou Era, such time reversal was purely theoretical and held no practical significance. If you had to say, it could be regarded as an additional mortuary service. But putting it into practice bore many challenges. Bringing a person’s body back to the newborn stage, then growing all the way up to now, entailed overcoming too many difficulties; it’s easier just to perform plastic surgery on a corpse. As a contemporary time-space theorist put it, creating a living person from scratch is far simpler!
However, what couldn’t be achieved during the Jiuzhou Era was perfectly demonstrated by the technically inferior Xiangzhou individuals.
At this moment, even the Celestial Divine Sword found it incredible.
How could this body possibly be reshaped so perfectly?
According to the will, the Sect Leader of the Saint Sect was alone during the last moments, with no one to help him perfect this technology, let alone adjust the course after the remodeling. Everything had been predetermined when the Immortal Technique was initiated.
No one could rely solely on a design draft to clarify every detail of the entire process. Especially since Wang Jiu, after a quick glance at the content of attachment 3, could determine that even though the Sect Leader had the correct ideas, due to limited knowledge, many details were flawed. Following his design draft, the entire person would explode into pieces at the point of reverting to birth.
Considering the second to last paragraph of the will, a force was protecting him... or her.
What exactly was this force?
At this thought, Wang Jiu suddenly realized that the answer to this question was actually right in front of him, or at least the clues were.
So he moved forward, probing with the sword tip to touch the woman on the lounge chair.
"Dear, what are you doing?"
Beside him, Zhao Chenlu couldn’t help but ask.
"Dissection."
