Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1194 - 646: Severing Cause and Effect

Yet, Su Yu couldn’t simply vanish right away; he had to first soothe Prince Chu Mu and the elite nobles.

Without that, the emperor’s sudden absence might plunge the whole empire into turmoil.

Thus, Su Yu shared a brief exchange with Prince Chu Mu next, where Chu Mu dominated the conversation and Su Yu offered only occasional short replies, keeping his words minimal.

He stuck to the rule that silence prevents errors, wary that a single misspoken phrase might strike a raw nerve in Prince Chu Mu and spark a dangerous change.

Even though Su Yu said little, Prince Chu Mu felt deeply gratified. He had anticipated this moment for thousands of years, yearning for a direct talk with the emperor about his innermost thoughts.

With it finally here, he believed every trial endured over those millennia had paid off.

The chaotic primordial energy inside him had fully settled too, sparing him any immediate threat of wild transformation.

Once Prince Chu Mu felt fulfilled, Su Yu gradually revealed that he was preparing to set off on a vital mission, urging him to keep ruling and steadying the empire.

Hearing the emperor planned to depart, Prince Chu Mu jolted in surprise and quickly inquired about the nature of this crucial task and if he could offer any help.

Su Yu merely gave a faint headshake, replying, "It’s unspeakable..."

Prince Chu Mu’s gaze shifted upon hearing this, as though a realization dawned, and he quieted down without pressing further.

At his stature, he understood well that some beings and secrets carried immense peril just from awareness alone.

His hunch was spot on; learning Su Yu’s true intent for leaving would indeed bring severe danger.

The peril lay in him discovering the emperor standing before him was an impostor, having wrongly taken someone else for his father... That would instantly unleash an unstoppable mutation.

Su Yu naturally withheld the truth, opting instead for an air of enigma.

After a brief pause, Prince Chu Mu let out a sigh.

Steering the empire for thousands of years had worn him down too, overseeing a colossal domain across hundreds of billions of light-years, buried in endless big and small issues each day. Without his exceptional gifts, he’d have crumbled long ago.

He had imagined handing over the reins upon the emperor’s return, content to resume life as a prince, but now the emperor chose to depart just after rousing.

The weary look on Prince Chu Mu’s face evoked for Su Yu the image from his original world of an overworked employee facing more unpaid hours.

Su Yu chuckled inwardly; among all, Prince Chu Mu showed the most human qualities, making him the ideal prince as long as his origins stayed hidden to avoid mutation.

Having such a dutiful prince labor endlessly felt a tad unfair.

Still, Su Yu reflected that he himself had been bound to the throne for ten thousand years, plus a billion years crafting the Creation Machine. By that measure, Prince Chu Mu’s burdens paled.

With this perspective, Su Yu felt at ease, then spoke in a majestic voice, motivating Prince Chu Mu with words on princely duty and avoiding laziness.

In a typical household, this mirrored a parent schooling their offspring by sharing past struggles to downplay the child’s woes, boosting them: ’I trust you...’

Or a boss prodding a worker to embrace extra shifts willingly...

However, Su Yu phrased it succinctly with imperial gravitas, masking any such vibe, though close scrutiny revealed the subtext.

Prince Chu Mu failed to catch it, yet for the first time under the emperor’s urging, he felt invigorated and pondered earnestly.

Soon, Prince Chu Mu rediscovered his drive, reflecting that yielding to fatigue shamed him when the emperor had endured far graver perils...

Watching Prince Chu Mu’s bright, student-like gaze, Su Yu breathed easy.

"Rest assured, this time when I go out, I’ll definitely find your real father and put him back on the throne."

Su Yu murmured to himself, then unleashed and withdrew a burst of golden radiance, vanishing from the throne.

Despite Prince Chu Mu’s power, he couldn’t detect Su Yu’s method of departure.

Su Yu now wielded the "Cause and Effect Singularity" profession, and purely in mental prowess, he lagged behind Prince Chu Mu’s routine galaxy-spanning might.

Yet the Cause and Effect Singularity’s powers were profoundly mystical.

For example, Su Yu just now harnessed the Cause and Effect Singularity to cut all his causal links to the outer world, slipping into a causality vacuum state that let him instantly span hundreds of billions of light-years through space-time to reach the Azure Star System’s vicinity.

That explained why Prince Chu Mu sensed nothing of his exit.

Prince Chu Mu eyed the vacant throne in mild confusion, a trace of letdown in his eyes, before stepping slowly from the hall.

Shortly after, the empire’s leaders outside learned the emperor had roused only to depart again, leaving them exchanging stunned glances.

The prior occasion the emperor quitted Zhendan Mother Star was amid the Great Expedition era, and he hadn’t strayed since.

What urgent matter demanded his attention this time?

...

Meanwhile, Su Yu gazed toward the distant Azure Star System, silently musing on his traversal of hundreds of billions of light-years in an instant—termed the "causal leap."

In essence, Su Yu had disconnected every causal thread from the "Source of Cause and Effect," the root of all causes, transforming into a "Cause and Effect Void Body" beyond any causal touch.

This stemmed from the Cause and Effect Singularity’s prowess, enabling profound control over the Source of Cause and Effect’s force to cherry-pick specific causes.

But moments ago, Su Yu chose none, rendering himself causally barren.

Thus, he mimicked existing in a cosmic causality void, severed from all ties, where the outside world might as well not exist.

Then, with a mere thought, Su Yu tugged at the Azure Star System’s causation. With all else severed, this lone link blazed vividly.

Consequently, he swiftly reconnected via that causation, leaping across hundreds of billions of light-years.

Should Su Yu wish, he could span vastly greater gulfs, thousands or billions of times more.

This stood as the swiftest velocity under Su Yu’s command.

Formerly feasible only beyond the universe—causal leap—Su Yu now performed it inside the Primordial Universe.

"Does this imply no true barrier exists between the Primordial Universe’s interior and exterior..."

"Or maybe beyond the Primordial Universe isn’t genuine emptiness, but rather causes there are isolated, rendering it undetectable and thus a causal void..."

Su Yu reflected on his past ventures outside the universe.

There, no causation flowed, no substance lingered—just an unfounded emptiness.

Survival demanded emitting causality radiation via cause-effect mechanics, followed by intent-driven causal leaps for travel.

Yet now Su Yu questioned if the universe’s exterior was truly barren.

Conceivably, it brimmed with entities, but their causations couldn’t link to Su Yu, creating a void sensation.

Much like earlier, when Su Yu’s Cause and Effect Singularity severed all causation, his surroundings vanished from sense.

This mirrored the extracosmic state perfectly.

The universe’s outside holds no void; Su Yu simply "couldn’t perceive," barred from causal bonds, hence detecting nothingness.

"Is this the Radiant Emperor’s famed Infinite Universe?"

"Beyond lies no nothingness, but a tangible infinite cosmos; causation’s severance alone hides it from view..."