Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 576: Chapter 193: Everyone’s Task

By this point, all the notes had been read.

Bai Wu discovered several misconceptions people used to believe in.

The High Tower Master and the Twisted Master, their powers both originated from the Well.

The belief that the Sequence came from the High Tower Master and that the first Evil Fallen originated from the Twisted Master were both incorrect notions.

Because long before the Well was discovered, the Well World already had many corresponding Evil Fallen Bodies for its creatures.

Furthermore, the initial origin power contained many forces, including life and death, causality, spacetime, and even the power over various natural elements. freewebnøvel.coɱ

These forces, perhaps brought by the dormant state of the Well, could be perceived by high-dimensional beings, yet their application was weak.

However, once the Well was truly opened, these forces, which were essentially rules, became stronger as the Well twisted.

Bai Wu sorted out all the clues discovered so far, and based on these clues, he deduced a rough outline of the entire timeline, as well as many previously unclear events.

The timeline could be roughly divided as follows—

The Era of the Ancient Order Civilization.

The Age of Harsh Winter.

The Well Era.

The Era of Human Civilization.

The Era of the High Tower.

Now could be regarded as the late period of The Era of the High Tower.

If he won, then the next era would leap back to the Era of Human Civilization; if he lost, then the next era would fall back to the Well Era.

History is a cycle, and even twisted history cannot escape this pattern.

Bai Wu considered the possibility that he might fail, and suddenly felt an urge to write, so he began to record everything.

His record was much simpler, after all, the High Tower Master had already documented much.

"During the Era of the Ancient Order Civilization, high-dimensional beings exhibited various supernatural abilities by sensing various source powers."

"By the Age of Harsh Winter, they found that these powers hardly helped them survive through the extreme climate changes, disasters that could make most of the world’s creatures extinct and reshuffle the food chain."

"Thus, the Well Era arrived. This era was exceptionally brilliant, yet also extraordinarily brief."

"Of course, this briefness refers not to the Well, but to the high-dimensional civilization that opened the Well; they went through true extinction."

"In the few decades after the Well completely awoke, the high-dimensional civilization experienced near extinction, recovery, prosperity, extreme strength, reaching the pinnacle, and then annihilation."

"Under the terrifying twisted rules, an extremely small number of individuals loyal to the order, led by the High Tower Master, began to enter the Well, reaching its fourth layer."

"They attempted to find a way to close the Well within this Inverse Tower."

"Fortunately, as long as the Well falls into deep slumber, everything it caused can be reversed." freēwebnovel.com

"Thus began the lengthy duel between the High Tower Master and the Twisted Master."

"This duel lasted much longer than people believed."

"The two battled each other while surveying causality, in the process leaving various contingencies."

"One made their Soul’s epitaph into various revelations."

"The other searched everywhere for followers, sealing them like eggs, waiting for the right moment to hatch."

"The two calculated against each other. They also knew each other’s plots. They tormented each other like nested dolls for a long time."

"The High Tower Master saw his own victory and also saw his own death."

"The Twisted Master saw his own defeat, yet saw a glimmer of hope in the immortality he left behind."

"The High Tower Master knew the Twisted Master would leave behind six Angel Envoys."

"The Twisted Master also knew the High Tower Master would leave behind revelations."

"As mentioned before, they also knew what the other one knew. The two fought for countless years in this manner."

"Truly, for countless years, time may have taken on a different dimension for those two."

"But for this world, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years have passed."

"Throughout the process, the High Tower Master was constantly suppressing the Twisted Master."

"The Well did not fall into a deep slumber, but the distortion it brought about had been largely eliminated."

"By the time the High Tower Master sealed the Twisted Master, most traces of distortion had been erased, with the very few that remained possibly preserved in the mythological texts of us humans. People saw some things as miracles and relied on their imagination to create literary works."

"The High Tower Master left behind revelations. The Twisted Master also completed the selection of Apostles."

"Both were beings who could toy with time and space, in the eyes of others, their actions had a sequence."

"For instance, Jing Er was an ancient monk, while Jing Si and Jing Wu were clearly born thousands of years after Jing Er."

"But for these two, there was no before or after with regard to Jing Er, Jing Si, Jing Wu, or even the four Ks in the farm."

"Therefore, the High Tower Master, in order to thwart the Twisted Master’s future breakthrough of the tower, tampered with the not-yet-hatched Jing Si."

"At that time, in the fourth layer of the Well World, on a certain floor of the Inverse Tower, the fountain still had Well Water..."

"So in my speculation, although both Jing Si and I resonated with the Well and entered into it while still in our shells, Jing Si arrived at a Well that still had Well Water. By the time it was my turn, the Well had already run dry."

"No, ’dry’ isn’t the right word. According to high-dimensional civilization terminology, Well Water is derived from the emotions and thoughts of all things; it can’t dry up, as it sustains the operation of the Well."

"The greater likelihood is that the fourth layer discovered by the high-dimensional civilization contained only a small amount of Well Water, an era a million times more twisted than the Era of the Well might be initiated by the Twisted Master."

"Assuming... he reaches the fifth layer. Perhaps there, he will find a Well Water far more abundant than when they first entered the Well World."

"Fortunately, the High Tower Master defeated the Twisted Master, buying time for humanity, this lower-dimensional civilization."

"The Era of the Well ended. The era of humanity began. Although humanity’s starting point was lower than that civilization, its potential for growth seems no less than the previous one."

"If I can’t complete the sealing of the distortion... please carry on with our will and continue this matter."

He stopped writing.

Though he left behind a flag, Bai Wu did not wish to engage in any heroic inheritance shenanigans.

If possible, to be an efficient hero and deal with the Great Demon King in one go was preferable.

However, he wasn’t so arrogant as to believe he could certainly accomplish this feat, hence he left behind the notes.

Of course, such notes... were actually meaningless.

Not even the High Tower Master knew which side he stood on at this point.

If he failed, the next person to come here would most likely be Alpha... not the next hero.

The last note Bai Wu discovered was likely written on the eve of the High Tower Master’s final battle with the Twisted Master."

At that time, the High Tower Master had already found a way to seal Alpha and close the Well.

But he could only seal and close it, so a sense of discouragement was inevitable.

Which is why he wrote down such a question—

Is there really no way to completely eliminate the distortion, to kill Alpha once and for all?

Deep down, the High Tower Master perhaps hadn’t entirely rejected these possibilities. Maybe he believed that Sequence One, Sequence Two, could achieve it.

Bai Wu also didn’t deny this notion, but as mad as he was, he wasn’t about to waste energy on something that was merely conjecture and essentially intangible."

Therefore, on this matter, Bai Wu decided to proceed by the method that had already proven successful.

"Gather the Seven Sins, collect the Doomsday Puzzle pieces."

"The Doomsday Puzzle pieces require me to return to the outside world to collect. Right now, I have the materials and the blueprints, so I should complete the Seven Sins."

Jing Si had crafted the Seven Sins, Alpha had crafted the Seven Sins, and the High Tower Master had crafted the Seven Sins, it seems that the most powerful beings who had crossed that threshold had all made the weapons of the Seven Sins."

And now, Bai Wu had finally reached this step.

The method to go from the fourth to the fifth layer was clearly stated.

So his task now was to forge the Seven Sins within the fourth layer."

He didn’t know how long it would take, nor how much the world would change during this process at the hands of Alpha...

But this time, he had to be patient and do it.

...

...

Time is something that will never stop.

Bai Wu began to study the blueprints for Gluttony, exchanging ideas with the tyrant.

Creating the Seven Sins is not straightforward, even if one has the blueprints and a furnace. It still requires a considerable amount of work.

Especially since it needed a catalyst.

Luckily for Bai Wu, the catalyst for the Seven Sins—was emotion.

A person who could even make a tyrant become fully fledged would naturally not be short on this element.

But even with that issue resolved, there were countless others.

Time began to grow tedious.

Sometimes, when weary from research, Bai Wu would take out Jing Si’s Sequence Protocol.

Attempting to penetrate its secrets.

He had hardly ever taken it out before, as Bai Wu had always been cautious of Jing Liu.

In order to obtain the Sequence, Jing Liu had been extremely cooperative at first.

Bai Wu had also always been somewhat wary of Jing Liu.

Later, when Alpha arrived and saw right through Jing Liu, Bai Wu even felt that he had underestimated Jing Liu.

Now that Jing Liu had disappeared, he had time to study it.

He had many fantasies about this Sequence Protocol, hoping it could surpass the High Tower Master’s Sequence 4 Rule Binding and Alpha’s Sequence 3 Immortality.

But clearly, this was a dreamer’s wild fantasy.

Bai Wu had always been unable to see through the Sequence Protocol.

However, each time he opened it, it seemed as though the earthworm-like scrawls started to make more sense.

From being utterly opaque, from a state of complete incomprehension with no imagery in mind, it evolved into something almost perceivable.

He spent countless days like this.

Forging the Seven Sins and studying the Sequence.

...

In the real world, in Shudu City.

With the collection of the Doomsday Puzzle fragments from Food City, Baichuan City, and Denglin City complete,

the small team led by Wu Jiu had precisely gathered several cities’ Doomsday Puzzle fragments.

They had encountered some formidable creatures along the way.

So formidable that even a peerless warrior like Nie Chongshan had to exert full effort to deal with them.

But no matter the Fragment Guardian, Wu Jiu always performed some prayer-like gestures and rites after their death.

As if in some world, Wu Jiu had been old friends with them for years.

Sometimes Zheng Yue felt... Wu Jiu didn’t seem like himself.

But more often, he just thought that Wu Jiu had grown.

With another fragment in hand, the once-baffling scroll began to take shape and form a framework.

Many had also noticed that four Doomsday Puzzle fragments combined into a whole.

And these wholes... seemed to fit with others, forming part of a larger scroll.

Wu Jiu almost never rested, it was always Zheng Yue who urged breaks along the way.

Out of consideration for Zheng Yue, Wu Jiu would occasionally stop.

But sometimes, he chose to press on.

This intense pace of fragment collection left many struggling to keep up. Only Nie Chongshan managed to stay stride for stride with Wu Jiu.

"Stop for a moment, I’m tired, Wu Jiu, let me rest a while, catch my breath. That last big fellow drained too much energy from me, using Mirror Flower, Water Moon is exhausting, you know."

Zheng Yue didn’t want to continue.

Wu Jiu looked at Zheng Yue and, convinced that the other was just being lazy and not truly exhausted, said:

"We must hurry, Bai Wu is waiting for us."

"Bai Wu..." Zheng Yue felt that Wu Jiu might be unwilling to face reality.

Most believed that Bai Wu had likely died.

He had been missing for too long.

The last retreat from High Tower had left only Bai Wu and Li You behind.

And these two people... were both very important to Wu Jiu.

Now that Wu Jiu had turned into Evil Fallen, it also meant that another person of great importance could not stay by his side forever.

Zheng Yue wanted to say something.

Wu Jiu spoke:

"He’s not dead. Before I turned into Evil Fallen Body, my Evil Fallen had seen Bai Wu."

"He... indeed suffered some hardships, but is also fighting against the distortion in his own way."

Crimson perfectly merged with Wu Jiu, and through the transformation from human to Evil Fallen form, Wu Jiu gained Crimson’s recognition and memories.

In the last vision before Crimson’s death, Wu Jiu saw Bai Wu dissolving into blood and flesh, struggling desperately to save himself.

He didn’t know the aftermath of that great battle, but he knew that he must do something in response to Bai Wu.

He believed that he and Bai Wu would surely meet again somewhere.

...

...

In the Well World, Bai Wu and the tyrant worked tirelessly into the night on the Seven Sins and the Sequence Protocol.

Collecting Doomsday Puzzle fragments and creating the Seven Sins were almost impossible tasks, but Bai Wu did not dwell on these thoughts.

In Denglin City, Jing Si and the scientists also researched weapons that could counter the distortion around the clock.

Also in Denglin City, the third Pursuer was born.

Under the ceremony performed by Yin He and the Pursuer, The First Generation finally mastered the Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies.

The most powerful individuals of human forces, each in their own way, kept improving, casting aside past differences.

Contributing their strength for the battle that was approaching.

In an unknown region, a monk led a White Deer, which carried a girl in a black dress. The girl holding balloons spoke softly with the two girls beside her.

They didn’t know where they were headed. These three girls, who had suffered the harshest torments humanity could offer, simply wanted to follow the monk,

Believing he radiated a tranquility that could cleanse the resentment in their hearts.

The monk was headed to Denglin City.

Back in Shudu City, the Doomsday Puzzle collection team led by Wu Jiu continued to slay Fragment Guardians.

With those collected previously, and those Cain had gathered, they had already accumulated more than half of the fragments.

And their pace was increasing.

All were making efforts. In the era after the shattering of High Tower, after the arrival of the distortion, as if on the eve of a new Age of the Well—

They had never given up.

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