Chapter 348: Chapter 319: Darkness Under the Lamp

The proposal of Lin Qianxuan received agreement, thus the three Deputy Tower Masters in the Tower of Truth didn’t hesitate any further and immediately mobilized all available forces to begin excavation in the designated area.

At the same time, some of them went to unite more forces, as well as numerous beings in the Abyss Ruins, to jointly carry out the excavation.

This vast [Abyss Excavation Project] started accordingly.

The Abyss Ruins are vast, so vast that ordinary people can’t even imagine it.

Even those with Cultivation of the Great Dao would frown upon it.

And to want to excavate one-fifth of the Abyss Ruins is even more unimaginable.

But, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

If you do nothing, there is no chance at all.

Once you do it, hope might come to pass.

Lin Qianxuan and Peiya were also providing help, writing entry after entry and enhancing tool after tool.

With these tools in hand, even ordinary people could easily excavate hundreds of miles range.

But excavation is merely an action, not the purpose.

The true purpose is to forge this entire action into a Glorious Deed.

As long as it’s acknowledged, within the rules of the Abyss Ruins, it might give birth to an artifact similar to the Bottomless Abyss.

Capable of devouring the giant boulders rolling through time and space.

It’s akin to using the opponent’s strength to restrict the opponent.

To resolve all this, the Enlightened has only one method.

That is to actively break this cyclical time loop.

Once the opponent actively breaks the time loop and withdraws their power, Peiya will no longer be restricted and will return to the Infinite Realm.

At that time, he and Peiya two to one, might not necessarily lose.

If the opponent does not break the restriction, this calamity can also be smoothly resolved.

Lin Qianxuan can also gain more time to nurture Peiya and grow together.

While countless beings were excavating the abyss, Lin Qianxuan was also searching for that Wish Machine-like artifact that led to the destruction of the Tower of Truth.

He perused Peiya’s Dark Diary.

This diary is a product from another cyclical time.

Within it, it describes Peiya’s many hardships.

And it depicts some information about these hardships.

What left Lin Qianxuan speechless was that even in the midst of suffering, she seemed unwilling to blame everything on external factors.

Always feeling that it was her own fault.

As a result, this diary never clearly describes the origin and situation of the calamities.

Only continuous self-blame and self-pity.

The further it goes, the more pronounced it becomes.

“Does she think it was because of her that everyone was drawn into the cyclical time and suffered?”

Lin Qianxuan pondered.

Peiya is different from others.

She was born as an Innate Saint, and even though she experienced much, the identities she incorporated were always those of an experiencer, never voluntarily causing trouble for the weak.

The stance she held was always one of intrinsic goodness and order.

Precisely because of this, her self-blame makes sense.

After all, when two mighty beings clash, the innocent would inevitably suffer—even if she had no ill intentions, she would still bear some responsibility.

It was precisely this pure and emotional thinking mode that led to the creation of this Dark Diary.

If Lin Qianxuan were in her place, it would have been someone else writing the Dark Diary.

After going back and forth examining for a long time, he even inquired Joshua about it, but got no answers.

In the end, Lin Qianxuan could only sigh, temporarily set it aside, and put all his effort into the Abyss Excavation Project.

One by one, the enchanted items manifested from their hands, countless beings, machines, puppets, magical constructs, artifacts… everything was excavating.

They neither needed food nor drink, and they felt no fatigue.

Nor did they possess willingness or unwillingness.

Even if they were unwilling, the artifacts would make them willing.

All of this was solely to excavate one-fifth of the Abyss Ruins within seventy-one days and forge a Glorious Deed.

In unity, Lin Qianxuan witnessed firsthand a complete excavation of everything within two thousand three hundred million light-years range in one day.

The next day, this range expanded dozens of times.

The time-space boulders were expanding exponentially, they needed to act faster to qualify in stopping it.

By the seventieth day, they achieved their predetermined purpose—the endless abyss had formed.

One-fifth of the Abyss Ruins was excavated.

If this isn’t a Glorious Deed, what could be called a Glorious Deed?

Invisibly, the rules of the Abyss Ruins descended.

Endowing this constructed object with a concept.

[Endless Abyss: This is an abyss that can never reach the bottom, its purpose at birth is to be able to block a boulder. [Bottomless Abyss] (Note: This is an abyss broader than the universe.)]

[Bottomless Abyss: This abyss has no bottom, items falling into it will fall perpetually. (Cost: For every artifact that falls in, the abyss expands by one-tenth.)]

The Miracle Level of this Endless Abyss is very high, reaching the theoretical limit of the Abyss Ruins as well.

Calculated in the Seeking Wonders Association’s way, it’s [Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine] Level.

The same as that time-space boulder.

Having completed the Glorious Deed in advance, everyone had half a day of rest time.

Lin Qianxuan held a fishing rod, and calmly continued to fish.

Beside him, Peiya embraced Little Ke, lost in thought.

“Teacher, can we succeed?” Peiya asked.

“That’s uncertain.” Lin Qianxuan replied: “To use the opponent’s spear to attack the opponent’s shield is no easy task, the other party could withdraw at any moment.”

“Am I really a reincarnation of the Enlightened? Is his aim me? If… ” Peiya questioned again.

She was very confused in her heart.

If this Abyss Ruins exists because of me, all the suffering has only emerged because of my existence.

Even the calamity of world destruction is because of me.

So does it mean if I calmly give up my life, I can end it all?

Lin Qianxuan saw what Peiya wanted to say and immediately interrupted her, cursing: “Are you stupid? Obviously, it’s the other’s problem, and even if you surrender, it may not have any effect. Now I’ve also certainly become one of their targets, you know?”

Perhaps due to limitations, with her rationality worn away too much, her current thinking is overly innocent.

She actually considered sacrificing herself so that the enemy would spare everyone else.

“Only by fighting can we achieve true peace!”

Lin Qianxuan set the tone for it all.

If the opponent wants trouble, they should fight back without hesitation, fight until it hurts, fight until they dare not move a thought, and even kill them, root and branch removal would be better.

After being scolded twice by Lin Qianxuan, Peiya did not get mad; on the contrary, she felt a bit better.

Moreover, the thought that if she didn’t make it, Lin Qianxuan would also be in trouble made her even more unwilling to compromise.

Lin Qianxuan patted Peiya’s head and said, “Don’t think too much, it’s an inevitable victory!”

Peiya appreciated it very much, nodded, and said, “Mmm.”

“Mr. Lin, I want it too.” Xiao Ke chimed in.

Lin Qianxuan sighed and reached out to rub Xiao Ke’s drone head.

“Hehe~!”

A happy expression appeared on Xiao Ke’s screen.

Time slowly passed.

Until a certain moment, that huge oppressive feeling enveloped all the creatures within the Abyss Ruins.

In the Hall of Truth, Lin Qianxuan was still fishing.

Beside him, Joshua remarked, “You are really at ease.”

“Because I still have the chance to start over,” Lin Qianxuan said.

Joshua did not understand the realm of the Enlightened, nor did he know what kind of great power Lin Qianxuan’s String of Destiny possessed.

He only assumed Lin Qianxuan had that kind of ability.

“Let’s hope there is no next time,” Joshua said.

“I think so too,” Lin Qianxuan nodded and said.

In the next moment, they saw the form of a rolling stone of time and space.

Or rather, from their perspective, it looked more like an endless wall.

It rolled, seeming slow but actually fast, advancing towards that bottomless abyss.

Having rolled countless times, its mass was now unimaginable.

The Chaos Rules did not allow for such enormous and exaggerated mass objects to exist.

But because it was the product of a Dao Fruit, it could transcend the Chaos Rules.

Before it, everything was destroyed.

Nothing could obstruct its advance.

All this was silent, like a scene of the world’s end frozen in frames.

Countless eyes watched quietly, waiting to be destroyed by it, or to halt it.

And then it fell into the abyss.

The abyss suddenly expanded by one percent, but it successfully stopped the rolling stone from advancing.

“Did we succeed?” Hubert voiced.

In the Hall of Truth, three Deputy Tower Masters and Peiya looked towards Joshua and Lin Qianxuan.

Only they had the authority to define the success or failure of this experiment.

“We succeeded, but we also failed.”

Lin Qianxuan said as much.

“A new rolling stone is coming again from the beginning of time, faster than before,” Joshua said.

Every time it devoured a miracle, the abyss expanded by one percent, so the stones rolling into the abyss would continuously expand it.

They indeed would not be destroyed by the rolling stone; they would be devoured by the abyss.

And this abyss was created by themselves.

“How much time do we have left?” Lin Qianxuan looked at Joshua and asked.

“One day,” Joshua said.

“That’s enough,” Lin Qianxuan nodded.

“What are you going to do?” Joshua asked.

“I suddenly understand what that thing is,” Lin Qianxuan smiled and said.

He had been recalling the contents of the Dark Diary, pondering what kind of miracle the Wish Machine might be.

Given the current situation, he had no reason to not find its existence.

Yet he just hadn’t seen it.

That could only mean one thing.

It was hidden in plain sight.

It might not even be a miracle.

But another Dao Fruit’s power.

In a time loop without him, within this Abyss Ruins, besides the power of the miracle Dao Fruit, there was another Dao Fruit present.

Even, everything was written by it.

Lin Qianxuan turned to look at Peiya.

Facing darkness, she wrote of darkness.

Facing light, she wrote of light.

So at the beginning, her words were not entirely to tease but to tell him the way to pass through.

To treat her like an ardent love, accompany, guard!

She would then feel warmth and hope.

Lin Qianxuan smiled and said to Peiya, “Peiya, may I see your diary?”

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