Legend of the Great Sage

e whose path was more correct.

Yes, only “self-betrayal” was intolerable.

He calmly and indifferently made a decision before setting aside all of these matters.
That had never been his objective for understanding himself.

All of this counted on him being able to emerge from Ruin’s End, or there was no point considering any of this.

He emitted light, purging the darkness wave by wave.
A thought process like that was extremely exhausting.
The drowsiness became heavier.

Ruin’s End was different from outer space.
Not only would his powers remain with him, he could easily absorb the endless power of Ruin’s End instead, supporting him for all eternity to swim through Ruin’s End.

However, the power of Ruin’s End was not purely a resource.
It contained a tremendous amount of information and the primordial spirit turtle’s will, which accelerated the assimilation of his consciousness.

Once the assimilation began, it could not be stopped.
Upon reaching a certain level, he would still fall asleep, and he would proactively choose to do so.

He was in a dilemma!

However, when he understood himself, he had already found a way to deal with it, or perhaps that was his exact objective.

During the two decades he spent studying arduously in the Pavilion of Heavenly Tomes, he comprehended another two innate abilities of the spirit turtle.

One was called Absolute Will.
There was nothing special about it.
It just completely consolidated his consciousness, such that he would not be affected by any inner demons.

If the Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell and the Last Reflection of the Setting Sun were to protect his body, then Absolute Will was to protect his mind, basically living up to the idiom “turtling up in his shell” to the very end.

Unfortunately, this ability was completely useless in Ruin’s End, as this was the spirit turtle’s homeland.
The primordial spirit turtle’s will was the true “Absolute Will”.

Even pure-blooded spirit turtles would accept the assimilation.
As a fake spirit turtle, casually using any innate abilities of the spirit turtle would only accelerate the assimilation.

In short, no matter what he did, assimilation was unavoidable, just like water wearing down a rock, changing everything droplet by droplet.

He did not limit his scope to that.
Instead, he considered the innate abilities of the spirit turtle comprehensively and found a way to deal with it.

First of all, he would use the Watermirror’s Image to create a mirror clone before carrying out a comprehensive self-reflection and making a copy of all of his memories and knowledge, consolidating it through the Absolute Will and storing it in his mirror clone.

It made him seem like he had projected out his soul.
The image of a spirit turtle overlapped with him, copying his movements at every step.

Afterwards, he would absorb the power of Ruin’s End, recovering his strength and accepting the assimilation at the same time.

When his main body was about to fall asleep, he would immediately use his mirror clone to merge with his body, waking up himself through the Absolute Will and using his entire lifetime of memories to weave a new consciousness before creating a new mirror clone.

As long as he repeated this process endlessly, he could avoid assimilation, constantly returning to the same starting point.

Even though it was equivalent to assimilating countless times in reality.

Compared to the Absolute Will of his mirror clone, everything that happened to his main body would become so-called “inner demons”.
After colliding together, smashing and suppressing all of it, it would be assembled again…

That was the only method to avoid assimilating with Ruin’s End that he could come up with.

Of course, it was impossible for this cycle to continue forever.
From the start of the very first cycle, he had anticipated this.

Whenever he suppressed his “inner demons”, he would lose a portion of his memories in the collision, and it would be destroyed forever, unable to be backed up, unable to be found, lost forever.

According to the varying depths of the memories, he would forget the most unimportant memories first, such as a third-rate novel he had read in the past or a joke he had made.

During the two decades he spent in the Pavilion of Heavenly Tomes, he had accumulated enough of these memories to “offer up”.

However, if this continued, his memories would decrease, gradually approaching his most central and most important memories.

He had to find that prisoner of Ruin’s End before he lost all of his memories, or he would forget everything, including brother ox, including Xiao An, including himself…