[Time Stop + Apocalypse + Meme References + Cthulhu Mythos + Eastern Mythology + Mad, Elegant Tyrant]
When the hands of the clock turn backward, even the gods' blood will freeze in midair.
Gu Shen transmigrated to the "Gray Mist World" five hundred years in the future, a deranged apocalypse where Eastern immortals and Western eldritch gods perished together, their corpses contaminating reality.
In an age when everyone lived in fear and sanity was crumbling, he awakened the only salvation, and the only curse:
[Moment Eternal: Revised Edition]: You can pause the world for one minute each day. Unused time can accumulate without limit.
The price? Merely forgetting a few "unimportant" things.
And so began a legend of "forgetting one's roots" and "elegance."
Faced with indescribable Cthulhu tentacles, he would calmly fix the monster's makeup while time stood still, then smile as time resumed and say, "Your makeup looks hideous today."
Faced with the lofty Eastern immortals and Buddhas, he would swap their magical treasures for speakers playing square-dancing music, then perform the viral dance Craze III beneath the gazes of the assembled gods.
In this mad world, Gu Shen was the only normal person, and the only madman.
Dressed in a bespoke suit, he strolled through mountains of corpses; holding a black long-handled umbrella, he danced through a downpour of bullets.
He was the "Clockmaker" who made every god tremble, the "Time Leech" that reaped lives.
Years later, when the ancient Great Old Ones tried to awaken from the depths of the sea, and the shattered Celestial Court sought to return to the mortal world,
Gu Shen looked at the "time balance" he had accumulated over thousands of years, smiled faintly, and pressed his pocket watch.
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