Cataclysm King

Chapter 589: Marriage is always the best alliance
The passage of time is always silent.

The leaves of the black fir tree outside the window turned yellow and then green again. Before I knew it, so many years had passed and the vegetation was becoming more and more lush.

Ji Xun looked through the attic glass at the girl who was writing a letter at her desk, and saw the girl growing older little by little before his eyes.

From that young girl with a bright smile on her face, she gradually turned into a white-haired old woman.

Song Yu turned his longing into letters, describing the romantic encounter he had at the most beautiful age.

She would often talk to herself in front of the window, pouring out her longing for the lover outside the window who she was sure would come to see her in the long river of time.

Fate was like a clown, playing a joke on them.

While it brought surprises to the two of them, it also brought endless longing and regret.

Ji Xun accompanied Song Yu on a long journey of life;
And that fisherman lady thought of him all her life.

Time disappears like quicksand between fingers.

A long hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Ji Xun stood silently in front of the window and accompanied her for a very long time, but looking back it seemed like a lifetime had passed by in a flash.

Ji Xun looked at the gray-haired Song Yu standing in front of the window, and his eyes became more gentle.

Finally, the figure of the girl in front of him gradually disintegrated.

The light in the tree house suddenly went out.

Leave all the beautiful things in the long river of time.

She's always been there.

Never left.

Ji Xun looked at the dark and dilapidated tree house in front of him and stood there for a long time in the breeze in the forest.

Thousands of thoughts finally turned into a gentle sigh: "Miss Fisherman"

for a long time.

for a long time.

The scattered gaze gradually came into focus.

Ji Xun looked at the letter in his hand, as well as the [Trans-Time and Space Stamp] whose light had completely faded, and a look of relief appeared on his face.

I traveled back a hundred years to witness Miss Fisher's life, still relying on the extraordinary effect of this stamp.

But this time is different from last time.

He did not participate in that history by "modifying" it, but rather witnessed that history from the perspective of an "observer".

The second wonderful journey through time allowed him to touch the true mystery of time.

In other words, in the future, when he has stabilized his understanding of the laws of time, he can go back to see Song Yu at any time.

The girl will still be there, waiting for him.

Time is relative.

Standing at a high enough altitude, time is like a book that can open up the past and the future.

"I see."

I don’t know how long it took, Ji Xun murmured something.

Don't understand.

But the mystery of time has been touched.

Just as he sensed someone coming down from the tree house, Ji Xun completely put his thoughts to rest.

The man had been there for a while and had been standing under the tree house, as if waiting for something.

Ji Xun was also very curious about who it was.

Logically, no one knew he was coming, and no one noticed he was here, so how could someone come?

Looking back at the tree house that held so many beautiful memories, Ji Xun's eyes flashed with emotion. He was afraid that this would be the last time he would come here in his life.

When we come back in the future, it will be time to rediscover this memory in the long river of time.

"Miss Yu, I'll see you next time."

Ji Xun murmured something, and without thinking much, he jumped down.

Under the tree house, there was an old man with a hunched back and leaning on a cane.

Ji Xun recognized him at a glance, it was the Song family's old butler "Mr. Jiu".

Since the last time we parted at Honglou, this "little dove" whom I met a hundred years ago has aged a lot.

Ji Xun realized that he had reached the end of his life.

This old servant who had been loyal to the Song family all his life, took his last breath and returned to the manor where he had spent most of his life after the war in East Wilderness ended.

Like a fallen leaf, it eventually wants to fall next to the tree roots that nurtured it.

The old man watched his young lady resting in the tree house as he had done for countless years.

He just waited quietly under the tree.

It seems that if you wait, you will eventually get the lady to come down.

Ji Xun came down from the tree house, and the old man seemed to sense something.

He looked up, a hint of expectation flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he said to himself: "Miss, are you calling me?"

A hundred years have passed, and this is a memory of loyalty engraved in our bones.

However, the gleam in his eyes faded in an instant, and he said to himself: "Oh, the lady is gone."

This sigh revealed endless loneliness.

As I was muttering to myself, I suddenly saw a figure gradually emerging in front of me.

The old man was shocked at first and thought it was his own hallucination.

Before the expectation in his eyes dimmed again, he heard the man in front of him greet him, "Mr. Jiu."

The old man burst into tears and immediately recognized her. He raised his hand tremblingly and greeted her, "Mr. Ji Xun, you, have you come to see the young lady?"

"Ah."

Ji Xun nodded, his tone sounding ethereal, as if he had just walked out of the long river of time.

He looked at the old man in front of him and said again: "Mr. Jiu, long time no see."

"you"

Mr. Jiu couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes when he heard the old man's face full of relief.

It was as if we were back to the scene of our first meeting in the refugee camp a hundred years ago.

He heard a farewell in this greeting.

This may be the last time we meet in this life.

Mr. Jiu was filled with emotion.

He was no longer the ruthless butler of the Song family, but an ordinary old man, mumbling about the last bit of concern in his heart: "You are still as young as you were a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, the young lady is gone. I am also old. This is probably the last time I will see Mr. Ji Xun."

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Ji Xun looked at him and remained silent.

Time and destiny once again clearly materialized in his eyes at this moment.

In the beginning of life, people are completely unaware that time passes like a river. It is only when they say goodbye again and again that they begin to feel the passing of time.

The old man showed a relieved smile on his face, and his voice became weaker and weaker: "It is the greatest luck for Little Dove to meet you, Mr. Ji Xun and Miss in this life. I have no regrets to see you again."

Ji Xun looked at the old face and said only one thing out of thousands of words: "Little Dove, I am also honored to know you in my life."

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When the old man heard this, he burst into tears.

The corner of his mouth raised up into a frank smile.

It seems that if one has no more worries in this world, one can calmly walk towards the end of life.

Mr. Jiu's words were a farewell to his benefactor from a hundred years ago, and also a farewell to this mundane world.

At the last moment of life, scenes of this life flashed rapidly in my mind.

It suddenly dawned on me that the starting point of the story I had memories of was when I met "Mr. Ji Xun".
As he thought about it, the last glimmer of light in his eyes dimmed, and his hand, which was originally trembling with the cane, gradually calmed down.

The old man stood there, slowly closed his eyes, his face peaceful and happy.

I have no regrets in this life.

Ji Xun clearly felt that life was dissipating before his eyes like a wisp of smoke.

A line of destiny reaches its end here.

Witnessing the death of an old friend again, Ji Xun's eyes were filled with an indescribable depth.

Time and life became clearer, like intertwined threads in the universe.

The manor remains, but the old friends are gone.

At some point, the sound of rushing footsteps came from outside the woods, calling out anxiously and worriedly.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

The young man in the long gown looked at the old man standing quietly there and burst into tears.

Ji Xun left the Saifeier Manor.

Under the street lights, a mushroom-haired boy was holding a book with the cover of "Infinite Scripts: The World of Will and Representation" and reading it attentively. It seemed that this book was very profound, and he frowned and pursed his lips from time to time while reading it.

At this moment, Mushroom Head looked up and saw Ji Xun coming out of the manor. He quickly put the book away and put it in his cloth bag, and greeted him respectfully: "Teacher!"

Ji Xun nodded, "Let's go."

"Oh."

Mushroom Head nodded obediently, but he seemed to have discovered something, blinked and asked again: "Teacher, why do I feel that you are different from before?"

Ji Xun tilted his head and glanced at him, "What's the difference?"

"Well, I can't tell."

The mushroom-head held his chin and pondered for a moment, then said in a somewhat mature tone: "In you, I seem to see the traces of the passage of time, the decayed smell of the end of cause and effect, and also love."

As soon as he said this, he seemed to come to his senses. It was very imprecise to talk about love that he didn't even understand in front of his teacher. He quickly made amends by saying, "I also read that in a book."

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Ji Xun laughed and praised: "Yeah. Not bad."

"whee."

The mushroom-head boy blinked and felt very happy to be praised by the teacher.

After thinking for a while, he asked another question: "By the way, teacher, I saw a message in ancient Tarun language on the title page of the notebook you gave me. It seems very important. Do you know what it records?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Xun immediately knew what the boy was talking about, and said, "That sentence says that there are fifty laws in the universe, forty-nine of them are ordered, and one is disordered."

Mushroom Head looked confused, "Huh?"

Ji Xun didn't explain much: "You can't understand it now, but when you can understand it, you will naturally be able to see it."

"Oh."

Mushroom Head touched his head, not quite understanding, and asked again, "Teacher, where are we going?"

Ji Xun pondered for a moment and said, "Go to the Old World."

A trip to Saffir Manor is to say goodbye to that time.

The situation in Eastern Wasteland has now stabilized, and there is no need to stay.

The most important thing is that after advancing to the ninth level, he also found that it was difficult to absorb the elements of the law through normal breathing in the Eastern Wilderness.

As for the Old Continent and the Southern Continent, where the upper limits of the laws are higher, we should naturally go there.

half a month later.

Old World, the original gold mining dock.

The current "City of a Hundred Battles".

This is the base camp of the Iris Legion and also the territory established by the Andre family.

Although the once prosperous Innocence City and Gold Nugget Dock were destroyed, the iron chain that spanned the rift in the world was reconnected.

Ji Xun walked across the iron chain with a mushroom-headed boy.

As soon as the two of them landed on the ground, the burly middle-aged man in the City Lord's Mansion immediately sensed something and teleported to the dock.

Darcy was also frightened when he saw the middle-aged man suddenly appear in front of him.

Especially the terrifying dragon might, which frightened him so much that his soul seemed to be frozen after he had just advanced to the third level.

Ji Xun looked at the bearded man in front of him calmly and said, "Sir Andre, long time no see."

Andre squinted his eyes and looked at Ji Xun in front of him, and said, "You have advanced to the ninth level? Congratulations."

In fact, during the final battle in East Wasteland, he had already seen the peculiarity of this guy in front of him, and the probability of him successfully advancing to the ninth level was very high.

But what surprised the Grand Marshal was that this new ninth-level cultivator seemed a little too strong.

"Advanced by chance."

Ji Xun said modestly, and then introduced: "This is my disciple Darcy. This is Marshal Andre."

Although the mushroom-head was shocked, he bowed and saluted without being servile or arrogant: "Your Excellency Marshal."

Andre took a look and smacked his lips: "There are quite a few good talents in the East Desert."

Ji Xun smiled noncommittally.

After all, he was a visitor, so Andre greeted him, "Come on, come to my mansion and have a seat."

The guy whom he once despised has become a top-level warrior of the same level as himself. In an instant, Andre, as the Grand Marshal, not only felt emotional, but also changed many of his original plans.

Ji Xun came to the Old Continent and visited the Hundred Battles City first because Catalina said that their ally was now a little "uneasy".

It’s not that Marshal Andre wanted to break the alliance, but he wanted to gain as much benefit as possible.

After all, in terms of strength, the Iris Legion is stronger than any other force in the Eastern Wilderness. The alliance between the strong and the weak requires the weaker party to give up some interests.

It would be great if we could bring the "Alliance Army" under our command.

It’s hard to say if it’s a few years later.

If you want to do it, do it early.

Ji Xun came this time to renegotiate some cooperation terms.

He had already had a clear understanding of the intelligence before.

The situation in the Old World is now very chaotic.

The battle between the two dragon gods in the southern continent is still going on. A large number of pioneering lords have brought countless refugees and war refugees to the old continent, each of them enclosing new territories.

Originally, this was nothing.

After all, the nobles are all descendants of dragons, and when the two dragon gods of the southern continent decide the winner, these people will still be loyal to the dragon gods.

This is equivalent to the dragon clan gaining a new territory as large as the Old Continent for free.

However, the surprise lies in the [Gene Anchoring Drugs] that suddenly appeared on the black market.

It was a magical potion that could free the dragonborn from the suppression of dragon blood.

This gave the dragonborns who came to the Old World other ideas.

Those who originally came to the Old World to open up new land were just some marginal nobles, and they did not have a strong desire to submit to the Arel Empire.

It's more of a necessity at the blood level.

Now genetic drugs give them the right to choose.

No one would want to be a slave if they could.

Except for those high-ranking nobles who relied on the pure-blooded dragon race for their achievements, almost all other dragon lords were secretly inquiring about the situation of the [Gene Anchoring Potion].

Of course, the Iris Legion was secretly fueling this.

After all, although they have decided to break away from the control of the dragon clan, on the surface the Iris Legion is still one of the three major legions of the Red Dragon.

They don't dare to use the genetic medicine alone.

But if most of the people coming to the Old World betrayed the rule of the Dragon Clan, then that wouldn't be a problem.

Therefore, [Gene Anchoring Drug] spread rapidly through the black market of the Old World.

Another point is mechanical technology!

Although the Alliance Army lost some elite troops in the Eastern Wilderness last time, the rewards they received were also huge!

Now the mechanical corps of the Alliance Army has basically taken shape.

There are now four Titan mechas and countless Hunter-class mechas in the Allied forces, and the situation in the Eastern Wilderness has stabilized. The New World Mechanical City is still continuously manufacturing and sending new mechas.

In case of encountering a strong enemy, the Angel Armor and the other two Titan Armors that are being researched in the New World can also come to the Old Continent for support.

With this level of combat power, there is hardly any lord in the Old Continent who can single-handedly tackle the tough challenge of the Alliance Army.

Another crucial point is that after Katarina, as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, merged with the [Q of Clubs-Moonlight Queen], she became the carrier of the Moon Goddess, the gathering place of the Silver Moon Sect's faith and divine power, and its strength was skyrocketing every day.

It can be said that beheading is no longer possible.

Therefore, the Alliance Army no longer had to hide and grow like before. Instead, they were very tough and let those old antiques in the southern continent see the horror of the steel torrent.

In addition, the forces originally controlled by the Rebel Dragon Army near Rune Highlands look out for each other, and the alliance with the Iris Legion, this iron triangle is already the most stable alliance in the Old Continent.

The dragon descendants of the southern continent, having witnessed the power of mechanical technology, also began to study mechanical technology.

Originally, machines were considered taboo by the Holy See in the southern continent. Now, the Holy See's control is weakening day by day, and they are basically useless in the old continent.

The lords certainly would not give up something that could easily equip a powerful legion by buying some equipment.

As it happens, since some time ago, all kinds of mechanical equipment and mechanical drawings have become abundant in the black market.

This was of course also secretly fueled by Iris.

Andre is still one of the three marshals of the Red Dragon Kingdom on the surface, so of course it is impossible for him to openly announce his support for mechanical technology.

But in fact, it has secretly supported several new forces in the development of mechanical technology.

The reception room was chosen to be in the study room of the City Lord's Mansion of Baizhan City.

There aren't many fancy things in a general's study, mostly armor and weapons.

The few gold-embossed classics on the bookshelf are decorations that have not been opened for decades.

Although there were only a few people, this was a meeting of extremely high standards and with a very high level of confidentiality.

Ji Xun sat leisurely in the chair, chatting like an old friend, and asked, "So, what does Mr. Andre mean?"

Andre glanced at Ji Xun and said two words: "Marriage!"

(End of this chapter)