The Reason for Not Being Able to Find the God of Slaughter

"Wanting to be refined?"

Upon hearing the old man's purpose, Yin Xue spoke first, his tone filled with disbelief.

Lin Mo's gaze swept back and forth between the silent black shadow and the old man of time.

The black sword was still held in the God of Slaughter's hand, and the dark golden arc of light on the blade and the dark red glow in the God of Slaughter's palm were still silently colliding.

He remained silent for a few moments, neither sheathing his sword nor increasing his strength, but simply asked in a statement of fact.

Why?

Old Man Time casually gathered the robe that had been split in two.

He raised his eyelids to look at Lin Mo, a mischievous smile that was completely out of character for his age, and spoke as if he were sharing a little secret that had been hidden for thousands of years.

"You came from the future, right? You met Gao Yang in the future, fought him, and discovered that the laws of time were too unreasonable—you couldn't kill him no matter what you did. Then someone told you that only the God of Slaughter could kill him. So you searched everywhere for the God of Slaughter, from the rifts to the divine realm, from the divine realm to the mortal world, but you couldn't find him no matter what you did. Right?"

Lin Mo frowned very slightly, but did not deny it.

"Have you ever thought about this question?"

Old Man Time stretched out a withered finger and tapped his temple, his bright eyes, which didn't look old at all, darted around.

Why can't Gao Yang find the God of Slaughter himself?

Lin Mo remained silent for a few moments.

He had thought about this question before, but he didn't have an answer.

Gao Yang spent three thousand years scouring all timelines and searching every possible place where he could find the God of Slaughter, but he still found nothing.

As he was pondering, the voice of the judge came from beside him, the tone returning to its usual calm and methodical manner, but the speed of speech was a few degrees faster than usual.

"The God of Slaughter has sealed himself away. He has erased his aura of law from all timelines, so Gao Yang cannot find him."

Old Man Time shook his head, his smile deepening.

"Self-sealing can indeed hide for a while, but not for that long. Two Gods of Time cannot coexist in one timeline. He cannot return during the time I am here, but after I am refined, all the secrets of the world will be meaningless to him. Gao Yang will eventually find the God of Slaughter by following the timeline. There is only one way to ensure that Gao Yang never finds him..."

He deliberately dragged out his words, shifting his gaze from the judge to Lin Mo, then to Yin Xue, and finally settling on the silent black figure beside him, as if waiting for someone to respond to him.

Yin Xue flew up from Lin Mo's shoulder, its wings flapping loudly, and a sharp light flashed in its scarlet eyes.

Her mind works faster than anyone else's, not because she understands the law better than the judge, but because she is an expert at exploiting loopholes in the rules.

She has lived for countless years, and her greatest skill is finding the crack in the rules set by others that no one else can see, and then kicking it in.

She flew to the old man of time, crossed her arms, and stared at the dark figure who was still silently holding Lin Mo's black sword for several breaths.

Then he slowly spoke: "You mean, make him disappear completely. Not hide him, not seal him away, but make him cease to exist in the causal chain. The God of Slaughter was refined by Lin Mo three thousand years ago, so Gao Yang has searched through all timelines for the past three thousand years and still can't find him, because he simply doesn't exist anymore."

Snapped.

Old Man Time snapped his fingers.

His withered fingers made a crisp sound in the air, and his face was full of satisfaction at the prospect of a promising young man.

"This little girl is smart! She understands things immediately."

After praising Yin Xue, he turned to look at Lin Mo, whose brows were furrowed.

"Gao Yang hasn't become a god yet, and he hasn't been summoned by the teleportation array at this point in time, but he will come sooner or later. Once he masters the laws of time, the first thing he will do is find the God of Slaughter. However, from the moment he became a god until you arrive here three thousand years later, there has been no God of Slaughter on any timeline in those three thousand years. That's because he was already refined by Lin Mo three thousand years ago, which is now. The laws of slaughter are still there, but the God of Slaughter has been completely erased from the causal chain."

The old man paused at this point, then said, "This is the only method we can think of."

After hearing the trial proceedings, the judge gasped in shock.

Her usually calm, gray eyes were now churning with extremely complex emotions.

Some realized it suddenly, while others couldn't believe it.

She spoke in a very low voice, as if she were talking to herself, or as if she were untangling this chain of cause and effect for all those who were still confused.

"So Gao Yang searched for three thousand years but couldn't find the God of Slaughter, not because the God of Slaughter was well hidden, but because the God of Slaughter already didn't exist before he started searching. We always thought it was just bad luck that we couldn't find him, but in fact, it was inevitable that we wouldn't find him."

Old Man Time nodded, held up three fingers, and then bent the first one down.

"Gao Yang will come; it's inevitable."

Then bend the second one.

"It's inevitable that he'll search for the God of Slaughter, but no matter how hard he tries, he won't find him, because the God of Slaughter was already refined by Lin Mo before he even started searching."

Finally, bend down the third one.

"When you return to the Twilight Layer three thousand years later, Lin Mo will possess the complete Law of Slaughter. No matter how Gao Yang alters the timeline, he cannot stop the causal law of the absolute end. This is the only way to completely kill Gao Yang."

Lin Mo remained silent for a long while after hearing this.

He tapped the hilt of the black sword twice with his fingers, then raised his eyelids to look at the old man of time and asked a question unrelated to refining the God of Slaughter.

"Since you've already seen the future, seen that Gao Yang will come, destroy the divine realm, and imprison all the original gods, why don't you stop him? If you kill him now, none of this will have happened!"

Old Man Time laughed.

There was a hint of bitterness and helplessness in that smile.

He reached up and touched the sword wound on his chest that was still throbbing faintly.

His tone was unusually serious, devoid of any joking or banter.

"I've tried to stop it, or rather, I've seen every possible future on the timeline that I could have stopped. I saw Gao Yang kneeling in the rain, crying while holding his sister's body. I saw him being called crazy by his classmates. I saw him being summoned to this world by the teleportation array and not being able to speak a word of the local language. I saw him vomiting all day after killing his first monster."

He paused for a moment at this point.

"I did try to stop him, but no matter what I did, things only got worse."

He raised his right hand and gently drew a line in the air with his five fingers, and dozens of time rifts unfolded in front of everyone like a fan.

Each crack reflects a different timeline, and each timeline contains a different Gao Yang.

Some Gao Yangs became gods ten years ahead of schedule, directly detonating the laws of time on the continent and completely erasing the entire continent from its spatial structure.

Some of Gao Yang completely lost control during the process of being stopped, using the law of time to spread his existence to all timelines, turning into a law plague that could never be killed.

In other timelines, the person who stopped Gao Yang became a second Gao Yang, using even more insane methods to try to accomplish everything he was obsessed with.

The images flashed by frame by frame, each frame showing an ending worse than the present.

"I've seen countless possibilities across countless timelines."

The old man of time withdrew his finger, and the time rift closed simultaneously.

He pointed at Lin Mo.

"What we need is not just a hero who can kill Gao Yang, but someone who can put an end to Gao Yang's three-thousand-year-old madness in the chain of cause and effect."