Chapter 1712: Lord Lingxu's Purpose

Just as Chen Ling was deep in thought.

Outside the half-collapsed Akashic Tower, sounds of commotion came.

It was the wailing of the people of the Lingxu Domain after seeing the tower they had worked so hard to build collapse again; it was the questioning of the workers, countless doubts and accusations, like a mighty tide, surging toward Lord Lingxu, who was kneeling in the ruins...

Lord Lingxu just knelt there blankly, until a faint glimmer of light shone through the broken tower top onto his shoulder, and his hollow eyes regained a trace of clarity.

He slowly looked up.

A quiet and vast starry sky entered his eyes.

Seeing this starry sky, Lord Lingxu fell into a brief trance, and a familiar figure in a white lab coat emerged in his mind.

I don't know how much time passed, but Lord Lingxu's fists clenched tightly.

No...

Now is not the time to throw in the towel and admit defeat.

The confusion and despair in his eyes gradually receded, replaced by the firmness and determination belonging to "Lord Lingxu." He took a deep look at this crumbling tower and spoke slowly:

"If it doesn't exist... then so be it."

"Since there is no information library in the universe that stores all possibilities..."

"Then I shall just build one."

Thump—!

The moment Lord Lingxu said his last sentence.

The surrounding scene turned into countless streams of light retreating upward again, and Chen Ling's figure plummeted in the tower once more!

At this moment, he still hadn't recovered from Lord Lingxu's last words...

What did he mean by building one?

Wasn't the Akashic Record the ultimate storage device that stored the possibilities of everything in the universe? How could such a thing be built just like that?

Wait...

Chen Ling seemed to realize something. Lord Lingxu's words just now echoed in his mind again.

"Chen Ling, what do you think... is the meaning of mathematics' existence?"

"...Mathematics itself doesn't exist; it's just a tool invented by humans to interpret the world..."

"...The meaning of mathematics' existence is calculation, using invisible rules to calculate the development of the tangible material world, helping humans to screen, deduce, and even predict."

At the time, Chen Ling only felt that Lord Lingxu's words were inexplicable, but thinking about it now, perhaps he was implying something.

The Akashic Tower had the ability to deduce the world. If this power were expanded to the entire Earth, did it mean... it could be regarded as a man-made Akashic Record that could infinitely deduce possibilities?

Was Lord Lingxu rebuilding the Akashic Tower for this?

Buzz—!!

When Chen Ling came back to his senses, his figure had returned to the tower.

Lord Lingxu's corpse was still kneeling in place, and deep blue halos rippled out from beneath his feet, faster and faster, as if some power was being crazily injected into this tower through his body!

The next second,

Lord Lingxu's eyes opened again!

They were deep blue eyes, as if endowed with some divinity. He looked at Chen Ling, and then that hollow body that had lost its heart slowly stood up...

"You..."

Seeing the "resurrected" Lord Lingxu, Chen Ling's gaze was filled with horror.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen enemies that were hard to kill, but this was the first time he had seen an enemy who could return to life after being dead for quite a while.

Lord Lingxu stumbled toward Chen Ling, and dazzling radiance rippled from beneath his feet, sweeping through the entire Akashic Tower. In the flickering light and shadow, he raised his only remaining arm toward Chen Ling with difficulty...

"Chen... Ling..."

His hoarse voice reached Chen Ling's ears:

"I know... you hate me..."

"But I know what you are doing... and I also know... what I am doing..."

"Whether it's right or wrong... I have no heart left to argue... at least for now... I hope you can... stand on the side of humanity..."

Lord Lingxu raised his fingertips, and a giant net constructed of electromagnetism flew from the end of the Imaginary Number World. If an ordinary person looked at it, the giant net seemed empty...

But in Chen Ling's vision, illusory ghosts were imprisoned within that electromagnetic giant net!

Su Zhiwei, the Clown, Hong Xiu, Lü Liangren, the Farmer...

None of the people Lord Lingxu had killed in the Imaginary Number World had their souls escape; they hadn't been absorbed into the Ghost Path, but had been collected by Lord Lingxu and kept here all along!

Seeing this, a light of pleasant surprise erupted in Chen Ling's eyes.

He immediately activated the red paper umbrella, taking all those ghosts into it. He had thought he would have no chance to take them into the next world; the current situation was undoubtedly excellent news!

Looking at it this way, Lord Lingxu had long calculated that Chen Ling was collecting ghosts, and dragging his severely injured body, he had kept them all...

Lord Lingxu had never actively started a war with anyone; his killing of these people, in the final analysis, was just to protect himself.

He absolutely could not die at the hands of others... He had a more important mission.

Having taken the ghosts, Chen Ling's gaze toward Lord Lingxu finally softened a little:

"Wu Tongyuan, what exactly do you want to do?"

"I want to... build an Akashic Record, I want to... calculate the future where humanity defeats the Red Star!" A touch of madness appeared in Lord Lingxu's eyes,

"Wen Ruoshui's ability can cover the entire Earth... and so can I!"

"As long as I replicate the Earth one-to-one and then perform calculations, I will eventually find the best solution..."

"However, the current Akashic Tower cannot do this... Only by merging myself into it can I have enough computing power..."

"After that... it will be up to you."

Chen Ling frowned: "...Up to me??"

"I said, this Imaginary Number World... was built for you." Lord Lingxu continued to stumble forward,

"After I die, this tower will become an ultimate computer... but computers always need people to operate them."

"Your power of negation can change all the underlying code... can infinitely restart and find loopholes..."

"If this is really turned into an Akashic Record... then the only person in the world with the ability to access it and deduce the future... can only be you."

"Although your power of negation hasn't reached my expectations... we don't have time anymore."

Lord Lingxu raised his finger and pointed at the void above.

In the deep space of the universe outside the Earth, a red meteor was approaching here at high speed, even dyeing the entire sky a shade of red!

From the approach of the Red Star to the end of the battle between Lord Lingxu and Chen Ling, and now, the timing was just right...

As if an invisible pair of hands had already arranged everything in advance.

"Chen Ling..."

"Squeeze out your last potential and use this tower to the limit..."

"The person qualified to peek at that corner of 'possibility' and bring it into the next world... can only be you."