A certain sword soul's infinite journey

Chapter 661 How the River of Time Works

"congratulations!"

The old cardinal clapped his hands and looked at Lin Yi with a smile on his face: "Not bad, I just mentioned it a little bit, and I asked you to forge a sword of rules, and it's also a sword of space. It seems that your understanding of the rules of space has already been very thorough."

"Hehe, you're overrated."

Lin Yi waved his hands with a smile, and two regular swords, one gold and one silver, flew behind him, stretched out like half wings, and turned into two sword feathers, one large and one small, floating behind his back.

The old cardinal was a little surprised.

He can see that the arrangement and combination of these two sword feathers is very regular. If a regular sword is forged later, it seems that it can be extended to form half of the regular sword feathers.

"Lin Yi, I really look forward to you more and more!"

The old cardinal couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Lin Yi smiled, then raised his head and glanced at the moon in the sky, trying to confirm the current time.

From the perspective of him and the little black cat, the two have been in that dimension for two full years.

In the past two years, they have been watching the images of God's creation repeatedly. It was not until Lin Yi broke through the bottleneck in his understanding of the rules of space and successfully forged the sword of space with the help of Raptor Duan Kongzhan that they stopped watching repeatedly. the behavior of.

Since then, Lin Yi wanted to see the chaotic void and the river of true spirits that God spoke of, but he couldn't find traces of these two, let alone how they existed.

So in desperation, he could only use the sword of space to open a portal and return to Van Helsing's world.

Lin Yi looked at the moon in the sky, and according to the angle of the moonlight, the moon's waxing and waning, and the familiar street under his feet, he quickly judged that the time in the human world did not pass long during his retreat, and maybe even only a few minutes passed time!
Realizing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He didn't want to find out that her elder brother Viken had ascended to heaven to reunite with Anna when he wanted to get Anna's soul back. In that case, Lin Yi could only cancel the contract with Van Helsing.

After all, he's not Lucifer, so he can't appreciate this kind of twisted and funny plot.

The old cardinal smiled slightly, as if he realized what Lin Yi was thinking from his actions, so he explained with a smile: "The time and space of the dimension you are in is independent and not connected to any world. You stayed there for hundreds of years, and when you come back, it’s still the time you left.”

"I see."

Lin Yi nodded and accepted the big brother's explanation.

But at this moment, the boss changed the subject and said with a grin: "Of course, this is just a situation where I didn't intervene. After all, these two worlds are my creations. As long as I want, I can combine that dimension with the world." Any time node in the long river of time in this world is connected."

"..."

Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth.

That makes even more sense!

No wonder he didn't see Joan of Arc. It turned out that the boss had finished dealing with Joan's affairs, and then deliberately connected that dimension to the current time node. In this way, no matter when he left that dimension, he would return to the present.

But if this is the case, it means that the time of the two worlds is not synchronized. If the boss deliberately connects that piece of time and space with the past time node, wouldn't he be able to see another self?
Numerous doubts about the rules of time emerged in Lin Yi's heart.

Fortunately, he was standing in front of a creation god at this moment, so he poured out all these doubts in one brain, and by the way, some questions like the grandmother paradox were mixed in.

Hearing Lin Yi's question, the old cardinal smiled and shook his head.

"These questions are really difficult for you to understand now, because you can't see how the long river of time in a universe works. What you call 'closed loop of time', 'grandmother paradox', 'what happened has already happened', And the point of view that 'affecting the past creates parallel universes' is actually true."

Lin Yi frowned and said, "How is this possible? Some viewpoints are fundamentally contradictory?"

The old cardinal smiled: "It is naturally contradictory to be placed in the same world, but it is not contradictory to be placed in different worlds. As I said before, you cannot see the long river of time in a universe. , naturally don’t know how the time of this universe works.”

"..."

Lin Yi nodded thoughtfully: "What you mean is that different worlds have different rivers of time, and therefore have different rules of time. It all depends on how the river of time operates."

"Yes."

The old cardinal nodded: "For example, the world I created allows for time travel, going back to the past to change the future, but the long river of time I set has a certain self-regulation ability, and I will try my best to bring history back Its original appearance is the so-called destiny."

...What a wicked setting!

Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth, and then asked suspiciously: "What about me? If you connect that dimension to the past time node, will I go back to the past and see another self?"

"Theoretically, it is possible, but I will never do it, because your power has surpassed the recovery threshold of the time river of a single universe. Once you are sent back to the past, it will definitely cause the time river to be disordered, and even the entire universe will be destroyed." into cave-in and collapse."

Hearing the boss' plain explanation, Lin Yi couldn't help dismissing this dangerous idea.

The old cardinal sighed: "When you reach my level, you will understand. For us, time is like a delicate glass bottle, which needs to be carefully cared for. The country is easy, but it is difficult to stay in the country', and the creation of the world is the same, and the rule of time is the most difficult part of it."

"..."

Looking at the sighing boss, Lin Yi's eyes twitched slightly.

I don't know why, but he suddenly felt like he was taken by Versailles...

Lin Yi skipped over this topic very consciously, and suddenly asked as if thinking of something: "By the way, what kind of form do the chaotic void and the river of true spirits you mentioned before exist? Why am I there?" Didn't notice any signs of them in the slice dimension?"

The boss raised his eyebrows: "Really didn't notice it at all?"

Lin Yi shook his head very positively: "Not at all."

"Then I can't help it!" The old cardinal said with a smile, "Both of these are existences that can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. If you can perceive it, you can understand it without my explanation. If You can't feel it, no matter how I explain it, I can't understand it..."

All in all, in a word, you can understand everything you know, and it’s okay if you don’t understand it.

Lin Yi rolled his eyes, and instantly lost the intention to continue inquiring.

The old cardinal continued to smile and said: "I have prepared Anna's soul. As long as you find her body, you can bring her back to life. This cooperation is very pleasant, so if you can still find her in that world Souls like Joan of Arc must be brought to me!"

... Aren't you afraid that God next door will be angry?
Lin Yi complained in his heart, and suddenly remembered the [Brilliant Cosmic Soul-Incomplete] in the Hephaestus panel, so he threw out this question based on the principle that tool people don't use it for nothing.

"This time, apart from Jeanne, I actually found another life with a splendid cosmic soul, but his soul seems to be incomplete."

"Broken?"

The old cardinal was slightly taken aback, and when he came back to his senses, he said thoughtfully, "If I'm not mistaken, is the person you met a god from some primitive pantheon?"

"..."

The boss is indeed a boss, right in one sentence!
Lin Yi nodded in admiration, acknowledging the boss' guess.

"That's easy to explain." The old cardinal said with a smile, "I can only think of two situations, either this god is the projection of a powerful god, or he is someone with a splendid cosmic soul. Sons of the gods!"

"You also know that in some gods, there was only one god at the beginning of the world, and all other gods were his heirs born through sexual or asexual reproduction, or the heirs of his heirs, in this case , His soul is likely to continue to split with the birth of heirs."

"..."

Lin Yi nodded thoughtfully, but he really couldn't determine what kind of situation Hephaestus was, because both situations were actually possible for him...

First of all, Hephaestus in the DC world is indeed not the original one in Greek mythology, and it is indeed reasonable to say that it is the projection of the real Hephaestus.

Secondly, Greek mythology is indeed the same as the gods mentioned by the boss.

In their worldview, the chaos at the beginning of the world was called Chaos, the original first-generation god, who gave birth to Gaia, the goddess of the earth, Tartarus, the god of hell and the abyss, and the god of love through self-reproduction. Ross, the dark god Erebus and the night goddess Nyx.

And Gaia also has the ability to reproduce herself. She gave birth to her son Uranus, the god of the sky, and gods such as mountains and oceans, and then gave birth to many Titan gods with her son...

Ahem, in short, all gods originated from the original Chaos God Chaos.

Therefore, if it is this Chaos who has a splendid cosmic soul, or other second-generation and third-generation gods who also have the ability to self-reproduce, it is indeed possible for this to happen.

Of course, Lin Yi doesn't really care about the situation of Hephaestus, as long as he confirms that the boss knows what the situation of the incomplete and splendid cosmic soul is, he can ask the question he cares most about——

"Do you need this kind of disabled soul?"

"need!"

The old cardinal said without hesitation: "Not only is it necessary, but the more the better, it is best to pack and send all the gods, so that I can expand the talent pool of hell!"

(End of this chapter)