I Am Loaded With Passive Skills

Chapter 3853: Chapter 1855: Gift

It’s Him...

Crazy Nu...

Xu Xiaoshou paused for a while, only then did he connect to memories of himself from a hundred thousand years ago or from ten epochs ago, as spoken by this being.

"At that time..."

Squinting while pondering, he recalled that along this Path, there should be another Name Ancestor and Time Ancestor.

So Xu Xiaoshou scanned the black world across the river, easily casting his own Intent over the entire world, quickly taking in almost the whole continent and ocean at a glance.

There were no living beings, nor Time Ancestor, or Name Ancestor, only Nu!

Between Heaven and Earth, only Nu remained!

Then came the question... Xu Xiaoshou thus fixed his gaze on the roasted lamb leg in Crazy Nu’s hand. If all living beings were extinct, where did this thing come from?

"Hmm..."

Xu Xiaoshou attempted to open his mouth.

Perhaps it had been too long since he last spoke, for he couldn’t utter a word at first. Soon, he sensed the strangeness via his consciousness.

The world where Crazy Nu resided was not on the same plane as his own across the river.

Which meant.

Whether he opened his mouth to speak, or used telepathic communication, there was no way Crazy Nu could hear or feel it.

Xu Xiaoshou swallowed his saliva, moistening his throat while quietly waiting for the "progress" of the scene in front of him.

He already knew this was a similar "shadow projection," and the real Nuozu might still exist or might have long ceased to be.

"But if this is a prior projection, how could it precisely lock onto the moment ten epochs later when I turned and saw Him?"

This question, Xu Xiaoshou might not have had an answer before, but now a slight thought gave him a result.

Intent!

The touch of Intent could bring about Sensing.

Time does not proceed past, present, future in a linear fashion.

Time can run parallel. As I see Him, Crazy Nu in another spacetime must have a Sensing.

His Path is too self-centered, His Intent must be strong.

He can calculate time, leave the words He wanted to say, and project them to another time-space self.

As for himself, he currently couldn’t achieve such feats.

In fact, originally he should have been unable to see this segment of projection, yet many years passed, and he had honed his "Intent" to make it possible.

"To what level has my Will Dao Disc reached now?"

Xu Xiaoshou remembered he had a Passive System, and cultivation insights could be quantified.

Even though he hadn’t used Passive Points to rashly approach the Will Dao Disc in all these years, he was certain he had made substantial progress in the Great Path of Will.

After all, his former self before entering this third gate world.

Relying solely on Intent, there was no way he could transcend the vast river of time and see this shadow projection left by Nuozu.

"Later comers, or perhaps my predecessors..."

Across the river of time, Nuozu finally raised His head by the campfire and looked over.

What He gazed at was the void, as if speaking to the air, yet seemingly confident that at the moment He spoke, there would be at least one listener in an unknown place far away.

He calmly began His self-telling, a sound overlapping with ten thousand voices, actually revealing a kind of loneliness:

"Name Ancestor has fallen."

"Time Ancestor has fallen."

"My two closest companions fell in succession under the calamity of law destruction... in other words, they fell, they died."

A thunderclap on flat ground.

The first few lines uttered by Nuozu left a chilling sensation.

Xu Xiaoshou furrowed his brows slightly, but his heart remained untroubled, continuing to listen:

"Those who died cannot be resurrected."

"Those who return are not the same."

"Lingering above the river of time, I found a dozen comrades, without exception, they too fell in succession."

He paused, lowered His head, chuckled darkly:

"Great calamity! Great calamity!"

"The great calamity of the end of law, even eroded all my demonic power..."

His laugh was bleak, marked by bitterness and melancholy: "But indeed, not even the great calamity could kill me..."

Xu Xiaoshou was finally moved.

How strong must this Crazy Nu be?

Finding a dozen comrades successively, were they a dozen Ancestral Gods?

Ordinary Ancestral Gods couldn’t withstand the great calamity. Even at the level of Time Ancestor or Name Ancestor, could He do so?

What about the Ten Ancestors of Shengshen Continent?

Did Crazy Nu find the Ten Ancestors to aid him in some spacetime, and how did they perform?

Crazy Nu didn’t mention these at length, and after a few reflections, He returned to calm, grabbed the roasted lamb leg and continued:

"I know who you are."

"And I might as well tell you, the predicament of the river of time, wasn’t crafted by Time Ancestor, but stems from me."

He extended His hand.

His broad, calloused hand gently tapped the void in front of Him.

As if tapping across the void on an existence He couldn’t see but could definitely hear His words:

"This is tempering."

"At the end of the Dao of all myriad worlds, it’s nothing more than transcending the Dao Method of each plane, becoming Gods and Ancestors, surpassing extremes."

"However, while being an Ancestral God is easy, discerning the true self is difficult. Even for Name and Time, it’s no exception, which is why I, before the end-law, severed the river of time, leaving this predicament, specifically to hone your will."

At this point, Xu Xiaoshou recalled the prior predicament of the river of time.

With merely a turn, a persistence, he had almost refined his "Intent" to its utmost, reaching an unspeakably high level.

Were these all the handiwork of Crazy Nu?

This guy...

Xu Xiaoshou no longer knew if he should harbor enmity or gratitude, quietly continuing to listen.

Crazy Nu was indeed mad, indeed arrogantly presumptuous, and indeed had the arrogance to be mad and presumptuous, lightly shook his head and sighed:

"Not enough."

"Under the end-law calamity, Intent easily dissolves, but I alone am hard to perish."

"You must remember, Intent is not self, only the self is the self. As for what is the self? This thing often approaches the Dao, often approaches the Name, the Dao that can be Dao is not the eternal Dao, the Name that can be named is not the eternal Name, therefore it is indescribable."