Chapter 1547: Wuji Jun’s Request

Wuji Jun remained silent for a long time before speaking:

"Walking this path, what do you think of the Eternal Realm?"

"It's very good," Chen Ling replied truthfully. "The people are well-fed and clothed, everyone lives in peace and contentment. In this era... no, even in the era before the Great Cataclysm, there was no better place than this."

A flash of gratification crossed the depths of Wuji Jun’s eyes, and he nodded:

"Then do you think this can achieve 'Eternity'?"

"No."

Chen Ling answered very decisively.

"Why?"

"Nothing is eternal. The only constant in this world is 'change'." Chen Ling paused for a moment. "Although everything looks perfect now, no one can say for sure what changes will appear in the future..."

Wuji Jun was not surprised by Chen Ling’s evaluation. "You once said that people change."

Chen Ling was startled; he hadn't expected Wuji Jun to still remember his words from back then.

"Yes, I said that, especially you... Even if you can guarantee fairness and justice now, and are the guardian deity in everyone’s hearts, as time passes, desire will always grow in the depths of the heart... As long as one is human, there will always be flaws, and the position you are in now will amplify any flaw you have infinitely."

"As long as one is human, there will always be flaws," Wuji Jun repeated, nodding.

Then,

he countered,

"Then what if... I am no longer 'human'?"

Chen Ling’s brow furrowed instinctively. He looked into Wuji Jun’s eyes, unable to grasp the meaning of this statement.

"Humans are creatures swayed by emotions, and true fairness and justice cannot contain even a shred of personal emotion... This was the reminder you gave me." Wuji Jun spoke slowly.

"Since then, I have been thinking about this problem. I have been thinking about what I must do to ensure my absolute fairness and allow the Eternal to truly achieve 'Eternity'."

"Later, I understood..."

Wuji Jun raised his hand gently, and a black-gold crown, shimmering with a mysterious glow, appeared in his palm.

"Since emotions will sway my judgment, I will completely erase my emotions... including my memories, my personality, and... my self."

"As long as I do not possess 'humanity' and only act according to specific rules, I can achieve eternally unchanging fairness and justice."

"This crown was crafted by my own hands. As long as I put it on, everything about me will be erased... I have already inscribed all the rules of the Eternal Realm within it. This body of mine will carry them out forever."

"From now on, my physical body will not age or die, and my fairness will never waver."

"In this way..."

"I can create a true 'Eternity'."

Wuji Jun’s gaze was fixed on the crown in his hand. In his eyes, there was no reluctance to part with his "self," only expectation and firmness regarding "Eternity."

After hearing this, Chen Ling was stunned for several seconds...

"You... want to turn yourself into a machine?"

Existing forever, never tiring, having no self-awareness, acting only according to established rules, and given that Wuji Jun didn't belong to carbon-based life forms anyway... wasn't this just a machine?

Erasing the self meant that Lou Yu would cease to exist. He was going to sacrifice himself to practice the "Eternity" he believed in?

"A machine... not bad, it is indeed a machine." Wuji Jun smiled faintly. "As long as I can ensure that humanity continues forever, what does it matter if I become a machine?"

"You..."

Chen Ling didn't know what else to say.

Wuji Jun’s choice was too extreme, yet it was extremely logical... He had truly thought seriously about the question Chen Ling had posed back then and had provided an answer in the most ruthless and direct way possible.

"Now, do you still think we cannot reach 'Eternity'?"

Wuji Jun asked, looking into Chen Ling’s eyes.

Chen Ling was silent.

"...I don't know."

"Not knowing means you still don't believe." Wuji Jun looked at Chen Ling deeply and countered, "Then why do you think we cannot reach 'Eternity'?"

"I... don't know."

Chen Ling never considered himself particularly forward-thinking, nor did he think he was smarter than others, smarter than the Nine Sovereigns... The current Wuji Jun seemed to have truly solved all the problems.

Absolute fairness, absolute rule, endless resources, effective management... He couldn't think of any other factor that could sentence this Eternal Realm to death.

Even if the Red Star returned and smashed the entire Earth into rubble, they could survive by converting those planetary fragments. Even if technology regressed to the level of cavemen, the material foundation provided by Wuji Jun could protect everyone here forever.

But even so, Chen Ling did not give Wuji Jun a definitive answer...

After all, if Wuji Jun truly succeeded, how could he, in the era archive, kill his own self from the next world?

Wuji Jun received Chen Ling’s reply, but no ripples appeared in his eyes. He already had the answer in his heart; his decision would not change because of any answer Chen Ling gave.

After a long pause, he spoke slowly:

"Chen Ling, I have a request."

Chen Ling knew that Wuji Jun was finally getting to the point.

He had gone to such lengths through Diamond 8 to get him to come to the Eternal Realm; it couldn't just be to show off his achievements, nor was it simply to ask for his opinion on "Eternity"... He must have a more important reason.

"Let's hear it."

"I hope you will give up on restarting the world."

Chen Ling’s eyes narrowed slightly: "...Oh?"

"The destruction of the three realms on the surface is almost inevitable. With technology regressed to this point, they are guarding a pile of broken walls and ruins, and they simply don't have the material foundation to sustain the lives of so many people... The only suspense left now is to see how much longer they can linger on."

"I hope that even if the three realms are destroyed, even if the surface is plunged into misery... you will not reverse the era and restart the world."

"After all, creating the Eternal Realm... is simply too difficult."

"You have seen what I have experienced along this path. I, Lou Yu, can succeed in this lifetime, and I can make the Eternal so perfect in this lifetime, but in the next... I might not be able to do it."

"Therefore, the opportunity for Eternity is almost only once."

"Once you restart the world, it means all my efforts in this lifetime will turn to dust, and the final eternity of humanity that we have worked so hard to build will also regress back to the starting point of everything."

"I know that the Twilight Society reverses the era and restarts the world to find a glimmer of hope to save humanity..."

"But..."

"How can you be sure that the Eternal Realm cannot become that 'hope'?"