He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Gu Xun looked at Zhou Tu, his face expressionless.

Zhou Tu continued:

"You want to use me as a stepping stone to take away your only chance to live."

Gu Xun did not deny it, but nodded.

"That's indeed my thought, but you, as a stepping stone, might still have a chance to survive."

Zhou Tu frowned.

Gu Xun continued:

"The premise you mentioned is that the other party is interfering with Paradise again, but Paradise is not so easy to interfere with, and the other party will definitely pay a heavy price."

"Besides, even if you don't use it, with their current abilities, it wouldn't be difficult for them to kill us."

"If you use it, your chances of survival are no less than mine."

"Besides, I'm the captain. Given that we've both offended each other, he's more likely to kill me than you are. You used the Return Crystal, so Yun Yi might not be willing to pay the price to interfere with Paradise, but it's different for me."

"Besides, without me around, can you be 100% sure that you, without your memories, can evade the other party's calculations? You know, even Shi Xuan couldn't evade them."

Zhou Tu fell silent after hearing this.

The hand holding the Return Crystal began to hesitate.

He knew the captain was still tempting him to use the Return Crystal.

But he had to admit that what the captain said made sense.

Without his memory, could he really evade the other party's calculations?

Even Shi Xuan, who manipulates fate and karma, couldn't escape it, so what about him?

Without a doubt, it's impossible.

The two men faced off.

Shen Can, standing to the side, was deathly pale.

Both the captain and Zhou Tu have a return crystal.

But she.

She never had it in the first place.

Her return crystal was destroyed six years ago.

Therefore, she was the one in the most urgent situation, and also the one with the least room for retreat.

But just then...

Gu Xun and Zhou Tu turned their gazes at the same time.

Shen Can was stunned.

The look in those two eyes sent chills down her spine.

She didn't have time to think.

The forbidden technique was activated almost instantly, and her figure transformed into a streak of blood-red light, hurtling off into the distance.

Gu Xun and Zhou Tu chased after them at the same time.

The two chased after him very quickly, talking as they went.

"Actually, instead of speculating here about who used the Return Crystal, we have a better method: the other party has a grudge against you and has erased your memories."

Gu Xun's voice was steady, but every word pierced Shen Can's heart.

"Then our only chance to survive is to hand you over."

Zhou Tu added a sentence.

So just accept your fate.

Shen Can's figure paused for a moment in the void.

Then she burst into laughter.

The laughter was sharp and piercing, echoing in the void.

"Accept your fate?"

She screamed.

"Why should I accept my fate?"

Her speed suddenly increased dramatically, her body enveloped in a bloody light, as she frantically fled into the distance.

"You two cowards think you can make me accept my fate? Absolutely not!"

Three figures chased and fled in the void at great speed, covering most of the star field in the blink of an eye.

……

Far behind them, on a desolate, dead star.

Yun Yi sat cross-legged on a boulder, holding a chess piece in his hand, leisurely watching the three figures chasing each other in the distance.

Yunling squatted down next to him, still clutching the handful of uneaten sunflower seeds in her hand, tilting her head to watch the chase in the distance.

"elder brother."

She spoke.

"I remember you weren't someone who could smash everything with invincible power, were you? How come you're starting to use your brain now?"

Yun Yi watched as two people chased after one other person.

He gently placed the chess piece in his hand on the stone surface.

"There's nothing we can do; plans can't keep up with changes."

"How was I supposed to know that I would gain invincible power so quickly? But I couldn't let my painstakingly devised plan go to waste, so I used it."

Yunling's lips twitched when she heard this, and then she sighed.

I couldn't help but think of the first time I used the Heavenly Dao Sand Table to simulate meeting Yun Yi.

Yun Yi's first words almost scared her to death.

"You took so long to come find me, it seems this time you're still in your simulation."

God knows how shaken she was when she heard those words.

My heart skipped a beat.

Then he directly gave her a memory that didn't belong to this period, saying that she could use it to ambush those guys who were chasing her. After that, he snapped his fingers and forcibly ended her simulation.

That was the first time she felt fear, and it was already a sign of her magnanimity that she didn't immediately use the Return Crystal.

The two chatted casually. Yunling finished the last sunflower seed, patted the crumbs off her hands, and was about to stand up and stretch.

Suddenly, her movements froze.

"Why."

She spoke, her tone tinged with doubt.

"Why is there no space available here?"

She raised her hand and made a gesture in the air, a faint ripple appearing where her fingertips touched, as if she had touched some extremely viscous liquid.

Space was frozen.

Yunling turned to look at Yunyi.

"Did you do this?"

Yun Yi shook his head.

"It wasn't me."

"Besides, can't you see the future? Why don't you look?"

Yunling rolled her eyes.

"Isn't it because you have invincible power that we have you? Since we're all invincible, the future is the same for everyone, whether we look at it or not, it's all the same."

Yun Yi nodded, confirming the other party's statement.

"Too."

The moment the words fell.

A voice echoed from the void.

The voice was hoarse, carrying a resolute determination that seemed to burn with everything it had.

"The Calamity of the Vast Expanse, the Spatial Annihilation!"

The moment the sound faded, the entire space shattered like broken glass, cracking outwards from the center with countless tiny fissures.

The cracks spread extremely quickly, covering the entire star field in the blink of an eye.

Then, it exploded.

Space shattered into countless tiny fragments, each fragment transforming into an extremely sharp spatial blade that lashed out at Yun Yi and Yun Ling.

Those spatial blades were densely packed, covering the sky and earth, carrying a terrifying power capable of cutting even a peak True God into pieces.

However, when those spatial blades reached within three feet of Yun Yi, they seemed to have hit an invisible wall.

That wall was invisible and intangible, yet it was there, blocking all the spatial blades from entering.

The spatial blade collided with it and shattered.

They transformed into countless tiny specks of light, dissipating into the shattered void.

Yun Yi sat cross-legged on the spot, not even lifting his eyelids.

Immediately afterwards, another voice rang out.

This time, the voice was rough and violent, carrying a fierceness that seemed to have crawled out from the depths of a sea of ​​blood.

"Thousands of pagodas, all ghosts and gods vanish!"

In the shattered space, endless crimson aura surged from all directions, as if opening a gate that sealed a hellish realm.

A crimson torrent surged toward Yun Yi, containing the wails of countless dead souls, the resentment of countless living beings, and the decaying aura of death.

That wave of blood was more than ten times stronger than the Floating Pagoda Domain that Zhou Tu unleashed in the Black and White World six years ago.

The invisible wall in front of Yun Yi was still there.

The wave of blood surged up and shattered.

Rinse again, break again.

No matter how many people come, the wall remains completely still.

Yun Yi looked at the surging waves of blood in front of him, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Then he tilted his head to the side.

A very subtle force stabbed at his back, like a sharp dagger.

"Kill him!"

This move came silently, more covert and deadly than the previous two attacks.

Shen Can burned at least 90% of his lifespan to deliver this full-force attack.

The power condensed into a single point and precisely pierced Yun Yi's back.

then.

It didn't even pierce the clothes.

That small amount of force struck Yun Yi's dark robe like a drop of water falling on a stone, sliding down silently.

Shen Can's figure fell out of the void, looking incredibly old.

Her hair was gray, her face was etched with deep wrinkles like knife-cut ravines, her body was hunched over, and her breath was so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

She sacrificed 99% of her lifespan to deliver that blow.

Then that attack didn't even break the opponent's clothes.

Shen Can's eyes were filled with disbelief.

She opened her mouth, making hoarse sounds in her throat, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a single word.

at the same time.

Not far away, Gu Xun and Zhou Tu's figures also emerged from the void.

They stood there, their faces pale, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths, their chests heaving violently.

Those two moves just now, the Vast Calamity and the Myriad Floating Pagodas, were their most treasured and forbidden secret techniques.

Those secret techniques invoke the laws of another world; that power does not belong to this world, and its use comes at a price.

The backlash came.

Inside Gu Xun's body, his meridians were broken inch by inch, and his internal organs felt as if they had been crushed and reassembled. He was in so much pain that he couldn't even stand up straight.

Zhou Tu was in an even worse state; the dark red lines on his arms had all cracked open, and blood gushed from the cracks, turning him into a blood-soaked figure.

The two people's auras were rapidly weakening, and their True God-level cultivation was running wildly and chaotically within their bodies, as if they were about to explode.

But it was precisely because of the backlash that they realized something more clearly.

The gap between them and the other side.

That absolute gap in strength made them feel despair from the depths of their souls.

They launched three attacks with all their might, burning through their lifespan, using forbidden techniques, and paying the price of backlash.

You can't even break through the hem of their clothes.

The other party, on the other hand, didn't move an inch from beginning to end.

Why?

They developed a full ten years earlier, so why is the difference so great?

Gu Xun lowered his head, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth and falling into the void.

Then, he suddenly laughed.

"Ha ha……"

The laughter started out very low, as if it were squeezed out from deep in the throat.

But soon, the laughter grew louder and louder.

"Haha...hahaha..."

Gu Xun laughed until his whole body trembled. His broken meridians caused him to vomit blood with every laugh, but he seemed not to feel the pain. He raised his head and stared intently at Yun Yi.

Zhou Tu was stunned.

Shen Can also struggled to lift his cloudy eyes.

"team leader……"

Gu Xun ignored Zhou Tu.

He stared at Yun Yi, laughing maniacally, but his eyes shone with a frightening light.

"Yunyi, I finally understand."

"Your strength is definitely not normal."

"As a fellow privileged user, it's impossible for you to have developed this quickly in just six years."

"We left a full ten years before you, yet you are so strong that even if the three of us burned our lifespans and used forbidden secret techniques, we couldn't even tear a single layer of your clothing."

"Moreover, this is our first meeting, yet you know everything about us."

"Shen Can lost the Return Crystal and his memories. Even Shi Xuan couldn't escape the calculation, but you seem to have seen our ending in advance."

"So there's only one possibility—"

Gu Xun coughed up a mouthful of blood, but his laughter didn't stop.

"You have a time-related ability."

"And it's an extremely powerful time-manipulation ability."

"You can go back in time and start over with 100% of your strength."

"Only this can explain all of this, and explain your incomprehensible strength."

"You think I'm just throwing my life away by staying here and fighting you?"

Gu Xun slowly straightened up. Although his legs were trembling and his breath was dissipating, the madness in his eyes grew stronger.

"I'm not without a backup plan."

"Besides, it's about time."

He suddenly formed a hand seal, and the Great Dao of Time and Space roared around him.

"I cultivate the paths of space and time. Space is merely an external manifestation; time is my true domain."

"Since you most likely used time rewind, then I will summon you back to the timeline of me before that."

"Future body!"

"With my future self combined with my present self, I might not be without a fighting chance."

"I believe that the fact that you didn't destroy my return crystal when you went back to that previous timeline means that you didn't have that ability back then."

"And as long as the version of me from that time and space is superimposed, then the you back then didn't have that ability, and the you now doesn't have that ability either."

Yun Yi remained seated, making no move.

He just looked at Gu Xun, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Meanwhile, Yunling laughed without any restraint.

She laughed so hard she slapped her thigh, scattering sunflower seeds all over the floor.

Gu Xun couldn't understand their expressions.

But he doesn't need to understand.

The future body has already been used.

They couldn't stop it.

Soon, the future versions of themselves appeared.

Behind Gu Xun, a phantom image of a long river of time suddenly appeared, the river water surging backward, and the laws of time boiling like a tide.

A blurry figure emerged from the depths of time and slowly merged with Gu Xun's body.

Gu Xun's aura surged.

The backlash was forcibly suppressed, the severed meridians were temporarily reconnected, blood flowed backward, and even the shattered space began to flow backward to repair itself.

Hope ignited in Zhou Tu's eyes.

Shen Can also raised his head, a glint of light flashing in his turbid eyes.

Available in the next second.

Gu Xun was completely stunned.

Memories from my future self flooded my mind.

That wasn't yourself before the time travel, nor was it a powerful figure from another timeline.

That is the future of the current timeline.

At most, it will be extended by ten days or so.

Gu Xun's face was deathly pale, and he was trembling all over.

"How could this be...?"

"How could my future self be... only a dozen days from now..."

"There is no other timeline...no..."

He opened his mouth, making hoarse sounds in his throat, as if he couldn't accept what was happening before him.

The fact that the future self was used successfully indicates that this world was indeed rewound.

His lack of relevant memories only indicates that his time management skills are inferior to the other party's.

How could it only be a mere ten days or so?

If the opponent had this strength before the time travel, why did they only destroy Shen Can's return crystal?

Unless—the opponent can only destroy one person's return crystal, but not theirs.

That's the only plausible explanation.

If that's the case, then their current siege of Yun Yi is a true dead end.

From the moment they appeared, they lost the right to use the Return Crystal.

The real way to survive should have been to immediately use the Return Crystal.

Because the opponent can only take down one person.

Despite all the calculations, he ended up driving himself to a dead end.

Having figured out all the key points, Gu Xun stopped trembling. He suddenly threw his head back and burst into a hysterical laugh.

"Hahaha!!!"

The laughter was filled with resentment, madness, and a hint of utter despair.

He laughed until tears streamed down his face before staring intently at Yun Yi, his voice filled with a desolate sense of relief.

"What a brilliant scheme... what a brilliant scheme to undermine my own power! I have schemed and plotted my way through everything, and I have killed at least eighty or a hundred powerful individuals. I have spent my whole life plotting and scheming, but I never expected to be outmaneuvered by someone else in the end."

"There are countless heroes in the world, I admit defeat."

He suddenly spread his arms wide, closed his eyes, and without giving Yun Yi a chance to make a move, he directly ended his own life.

Yun Yi stared blankly for a second as he watched him suddenly complete the entire mental journey.

No... what was he imagining just now?

Although Yun Yi was full of questions, he didn't take it to heart.

He stood up and casually patted off non-existent dust from the hem of his clothes.

He raised his hand and lightly slapped it down.

Snapped.

The other two didn't even have a chance to run before their bodies turned into grayish-white dust as quickly as weathered stone sculptures, leaving not a trace behind.

Yun Yi raised his eyelids slightly.

"The farce is over."

The oppressive atmosphere that had enveloped the entire star field vanished instantly, and the surroundings returned to deathly silence.

Yunling, who had finished eating the last handful of sunflower seeds, patted the crumbs off her hands, tilted her head, and looked over with a puzzled expression.

"Brother, what exactly was that scheme that guy was spouting before he died? I didn't understand a word he said."

Yun Yi put the chess piece back into his sleeve and slowly shook his head.

"I didn't understand either."

"I guess even though he's about to die, he wants to leave me with a knot in my heart, to keep me confused for a while."

Yunling didn't think much of it when she heard this and nodded in agreement.

"That person was really wicked; even in death, he wanted to keep us confused for a long time."

……

……

To all the readers who have made it this far, the author can only apologize.

It seems unlikely that this book will ever be written.

Starting from the 20th, the author noticed that Tomato (a popular online bookstore chain) began to promote the author's work, and on the 21st, it promoted the work to more than 50,000 bookstores.

The author thought his good days had finally arrived, but within a few days, the number of books in the bookstore dropped from 50,000 to 100, leaving the author completely dumbfounded.

I contacted customer service and found out that because the book contained illegal or low-quality content, its exposure was affected, and there would likely be no further promotion, essentially putting it in a "blacklist."

I went to ask, but there wasn't even a chance to appeal.

The author also realized that those two days of promotion might have been Tomato's last dance for the author.

In the following days, the author also had some mental issues and really couldn't write anything.

These past few days have all been drafts from the backlog; this is the last draft from the backlog.

The author didn't know what to do either, and the most he could do was create a million-word book review, even though he knew it was probably not very useful.

Of course, the author will try to finish writing this part, but he's been having some mental issues lately and might need a few days to recover.

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