Free Web NovelChapter 515: Chapter 132: New Era (Super Long Chapter)
The harsh golden light was like a sun suddenly descending onto the battlefield.
Many people here had adapted to dark vision, seeing clearly in the darkness, but few had evolved to handle strong light.
They couldn’t make out who was beneath the golden pillar of light.
But they could hear the voice.
Nie Chongshan looked toward Bai Wu:
"This voice is... that greedy bald guy from the prison?"
He initially wanted to say a very poor piece of trash, but he changed his words before speaking.
Although to them, this aura wasn’t as suffocating, and Qian Yixin’s imposing presence wasn’t even as strong as the Twisted Hand.
But Nie Chongshan saw it, the hand was trembling. All the Evil Fallen were trembling too.
In that moment, the strongest shadows in the Shadow Legion, Shadow Wu Jiu, Shadow Nie Chongshan, Shadow Bai Wu, and so on, all dared not make a move.
Bai Wu gave Nie Chongshan a definite answer:
"It’s him..."
This was the first time Wu Jiu had ever seen Bai Wu so astonished, voice trembling, unsure if it was due to extreme excitement or shock.
They didn’t know what had happened to Qian Yixin, but Wu Jiu knew that Bai Wu could see unique annotations in all things.
"What did you see?"
Bai Wu didn’t know how to answer, too many emotions rising, too many thoughts intertwining, suddenly unable to form words.
After perhaps a second, Li You, Nie Chongshan, Mirror Evil Fallen, Wu Jiu, heard Bai Wu’s reply:
"I saw the infinite, I saw the world itself."
[My old pal, no matter how complex this game is, I must say... this is a truly breathtaking miracle.
I can’t describe this dazzling existence before you, even the owners of the previous order and the Twisted Civilization were not comparable to him.
He will create miracles, yet such an entity, such a form, is doomed not to last long.
But one thing is certain, he now is the strongest creature.
He has an inevitable fate, yet also immeasurable possibilities.
For various reasons, we can consider him—the fusion of countless rules, the vessel for the will of numerous worlds. ]
It was the first time Bai Wu saw such an introduction.
From beginning to end, the introduction seemed to say just two words—indefeatable.
Bai Wu excitedly watched Qian Yixin, who right now, perhaps could do anything.
It was hard to imagine how a perfect Mutation Entry like the Spirit of Contract could unleash such great power.
Just how much money had Zhao given to Qian Yixin?
No...
Even all the money in the world combined couldn’t achieve this effect.
The so-called ’paycheck in place, Well level falls apart’ was just Bai Wu joking.
Bai Wu’s brain worked quickly, extracting the key information from the data of Prayle’s Eye—
Was he the vessel of the World Will, perhaps in special circumstances, equating to the world itself becoming part of Qian Yixin’s wealth?
Especially in this Twisted World, it was hard to gauge its true value, let alone put a price tag on it.
Would the Spirit of Contract undergo some sort of mutation in this process?
Everything was unknown.
The only thing that could be known was one thing—
Right now, Qian Yixin was unmatched in the world!
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The battlefield was littered with corpses, the huge chasm created by Li You was originally bottomless, but now it was piled high with mountains of corpses.
In the distance, the few surviving humans were still retreating, while some Evil Fallen and the Shadow Legion who were further away kept up the chase.
Qian Yixin looked around and realized that the most urgent thing was to prevent the Twisted Hand from touching the High Tower.
Red light had begun to emanate from the surrounding Sequence text of the High Tower.
Before this, many Evil Fallen had touched the High Tower but had been unable to leave any mark on its outer wall.
But the Twisted Hand was different, it hadn’t even come close yet, and it had already triggered the High Tower’s defense mechanism.
A mere hundred meters away, a red barrier made of Sequence text appeared around the High Tower.
Of course, the barrier was no match for the Twisted Hand.
Jing Yu felt the fear of the Twisted Hand, the source of fear refueling from behind the golden column of light.
But Jing Yu was not afraid and strengthened control over the Twisted Hand.
With the presence of Jing Yi, Xiaoyugan’s Split Body, Jing Yu’s spiritual power was beyond what countless Evil Fallen could reach.
The strong spiritual power finally stabilized the Divine Body.
No matter how strong the opponent, as long as the High Tower was destroyed, and God descended, God would solve everything!
The massive Twisted Hand moved forward again and the red Sequence text defense barrier disappeared the instant it was touched by the Twisted Hand.
Jing Yu, during this process, also activated the Twisted Chessboard again.
"As long as this guy stays away, that’ll be enough!"
Although somewhat panicked about the entity inside the light column, Jing Yu was clear that all that mattered was not to be touched by it.
One second was all he needed, to destroy the High Tower at the fastest pace...
Everything seemed within arm’s reach.
But Jing Yu had no idea what he was truly up against.
In that short second, Qian Yixin did three things.
The first thing, he snapped his fingers.
Jing Yu, breaking through the High Tower’s defense mechanism, instantly crashed into a golden vortex.
Temporal Power, at the mere thought of Qian Yixin, instantly teleported Jing Yu away.
The second thing, he glanced at the sky.
The two enormous disks that blotted out the sky were huge arrays covering the entire battlefield.
These were two legendary Mutation Entries, the Twisted Chessboard and the Twisted Shadow.
<>But now, the disks were shattered.
The massive armies of shadows chasing after humans dissipated in an instant.
Powerful figures like Shadow Bai Wu, Shadow Nie Chongshan, Shadow Li You, and others, seemed as if they had never existed.
It wasn’t any rule or method, it was just a moment where, with an indescribable, powerful destructive force, with one glance, they dismantled the opponent’s means.
Li You couldn’t believe it. The two moves from Jing Yu had utterly routed humanity, to the point where they weren’t even able to touch the Twisted Hand – defeated utterly.
In front of Qian Yixin, such powerful methods were like child’s play, like bubbles blown by a child.
On the third matter, the golden pillar of light became slightly thinner.
The sky seemed to suddenly begin showering golden snow. Countless tiny specks of gold dust fluttered down upon the war-torn battlefield.
A miracle had arrived.
Shang Xiaoyi, whose heart had been pierced, had originally died in the process of escaping, grieving in his last moments that he could not fulfill his promise.
The Seventh Team should not lose a single person, but in the end, his gaze gradually lowered, only able to watch footsteps of countless people fleeing and wishing the best for his teammates to survive.
Shang Xiaoyi opened his eyes once more. The first sensation was one of dazzling brightness.
Golden light like snowflakes fluttered down, the whole world covered with a layer of golden dust.
Looking at all this, his second feeling was one of astonishment.
Is this the Underworld? Is this hell?
He saw countless deceased individuals standing up just like him, saw the towering High Tower, and also saw Bai Wu, Wu Jiu, and others.
Many others shared the same realization as Shang Xiaoyi.
Some of these people’s bodies had already been devoured by the Evil Fallen, but they ultimately appeared unharmed at the locations where they had died.
More and more people stood up; more and more crawled out of the trenches.
This scene left Nie Chongshan, Li You, Wu Jiu... and even Bai Wu and Jing Yu, dumbfounded.
"How did this guy become so strong all of a sudden? How much money was given?" Nie Chongshan faintly recalled that Qian Yixin’s abilities were related to money.
Watching countless people resurrect and seeing Jing Yu dare not move, Bai Wu said:
"In this world, rules can become power, obsessions can become power, emotions can also become power."
"You will find that all things of the spirit can correspond to substantial forces in the Twisted."
"As for Qian Yixin... you can understand him as the human obsession with money, no, the obsession with wealth. This obsession is terrifying."
"Although humanity extols love, and mocks the greedy, do you know what reality is?"
Nie Chongshan more or less got it – real life isn’t filled with so much irony.
Reality is supremely real.
"The reality is that humans worship money. Maybe this world does have sacred love, family, and friendship, but for most people, the price is just not right."
"So the greatest obsession in the world is the obsession with survival; that’s true. But when people no longer struggle to live, another obsession arises, the obsession with obtaining higher status, more power, more resources."
"The concrete embodiment of these things—money."
"And when the entire world becomes money, he becomes the world itself. His obsession, then, is also the world’s obsession."
Up to this point, Qian Yixin had shown tremendous destructive power, Temporal Power, the power over life and death.
Add to that the Barrier of Causality that could not be seen through, Qian Yixin was even skilled in the Power of Causality.
Thus, Qian Yixin foresaw his end.
He snapped his fingers again:
Nie Chongshan, Mirror Evil Fallen, Wu Jiu, and all these humans who had just been resurrected on the battlefield were all transferred to the other side of the battlefield.
Nie Chongshan, Mirror Evil Fallen, Wu Jiu, of course, still wanted to fight. But in an instant, Qian Yixin’s voice appeared in their minds.
Eventually, the three of them did not insist on staying on the battlefield and began organizing humans to head to the Ark, urgently evacuating.
Only Li You and Bai Wu remained.
The battlefield outside the High Tower became extremely desolate,
"Your plan is dangerous, and I can’t see through your end. But I know that you will survive," Qian Yixin told Bai Wu.
Jing Yu was shocked by Qian Yixin’s power, but he was not resigned. Although the Array had been broken, the powerful Twisted Shadow had other uses.
The huge Twisted Hand, with Sequence texts floating across the palm.
The Array destroyed by Qian Yixin appeared beneath his feet.
Jing Yu wanted to use the Twisted Shadow to replicate Qian Yixin.
Qian Yixin could see through this too, but he was unmoved, still watching Bai Wu with a calm face.
Bai Wu suddenly felt, in this moment, Qian Yixin... was losing the sensibility of a human.
Or to put it differently, it wasn’t a loss, but being marginalized.
From the moment Qian Yixin appeared to now, in the short span of several dozen seconds, his tone, his expression, had changed greatly.
As if just seconds before, he was still that Qian Yixin who could smile and say the words "Bai boss", and the next his demeanor turned aloof.
With every second, Qian Yixin’s consciousness was undergoing tremendous changes.
"You are not wrong in your feeling; a massive amount of information from this world is constantly flooding my mind. You can think of it as the World Will."
"The World Will is constantly converging; while the will of Qian Yixin hasn’t decreased, its proportion is becoming less and less."
"Not long ago, I was in great pain because I couldn’t bear this immense power, which is why I was a little late arriving, but fortunately, I made it in time."
"Now I can control all known rules and powers: causality, life and death, time and space, and absolute destruction. As well as endless information."
"What belongs to me personally will become less and less, what belongs to this world, will become more and more."
Bai Wu understood, put simply—Qian Yixin’s divinity was swallowing up his humanity.
Qian Yixin’s expression already seemed somewhat indifferent, like an A.I. of a computer materialized.
Under the assault of the overwhelming information, his own characteristics would become fewer and fewer.
"But do not worry, I will not become a god, as there are no gods in this world."
"You can think of the current me as the embodiment of the World Will, just that no one can bear the burden of the World Will."
"Excessive power, overwhelming information, it makes me omnipotent but also unable to prevent my own demise."
"I will die because my body has been dead since it began receiving this force."
"Regrettably, I am not the savior."
At the moment the final words were uttered, Jing Yu in the distance suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The five fingers of the hand activating the Array that twisted began to violently burst with blood.
Suddenly, the five fingers became a blurred mass of flesh and blood.
Jing Yu couldn’t believe it:
"Impossible... impossible... I can’t believe I’m unable to copy him..."
"Who in the world are you! What kind of monster are you!"
Even without a real fight, Jing Yu was already consumed by fear.
Countless thoughts flashed through Jing Yu’s mind.
"Is Jing Yi deceiving me? No... it’s not possible for Jing Yi to deceive me."
"Jing Yi looked with the Power of Causality, such a powerful being should not be possible to appear on this battlefield."
"But if he did appear, does it mean that this is an existence stronger in the Power of Causality than Jing Yi?"
The more Jing Yu thought, the more terrified he became, but he had to suppress the fear within.
Qian Yixin was still speaking with Bai Wu, not caring about Jing Yu at all:
"All I can do is restore all the losses of this battlefield, reverting everything. Because I made a mistake."
"What mistake?"
Bai Wu didn’t understand, yet he had an ominous premonition.
What kind of mistake could the present Qian Yixin not amend?
"The correct approach was for me to destroy High Tower and kill the monster inside," Qian Yixin said, looking toward High Tower.
A hint of regret and remorse appeared on the face of one who was nearly divine.
Bai Wu could imagine, even under the vast cover of divinity, he still felt remorse to the extreme.
"Perhaps it was destined that his fate should not end. Due to my stupidity, this world has paid the price."
"My power is built upon a contract. If I do not honor the contract, this power will vanish."
"But if I keep the contract, I won’t be able to destroy the High Tower before I dissipate, nor can I allow anyone else to do so."
Qian Yixin’s words were somewhat cryptic, and Li You did not understand.
But Bai Wu understood. He froze slightly, not expecting the error to be so fatal.
He quickly organized his thoughts in his mind, clarifying all the cause and effect—
"Qian Yixin obtained supreme power, to wield this power he had to establish a contract."
"This contract had to be honored within a certain time limit."
"Qian Yixin reflected and eventually chose to guard High Tower as his contract."
"As long as High Tower remained, he would always have this power. This was reasonable, in line with Qian Yixin’s understanding at the time."
"The problem is, the power was too great, so great that it exceeded everyone’s calculations. Qian Yixin’s body couldn’t absorb this immense power."
"The price of obtaining power was the protraction of life, just as Qian Yixin said, from the moment he received the world’s power, he was already dead."
"Such power could not be sustained for long, and his body would ultimately dissipate completely."
"His intentions were good, and the contract seemed the most suitable, but ironically... the predestined failure lay right there."
"To resolve the true source of the twist, High Tower had to be destroyed. Only by destroying High Tower could the root of it all be resolved."
"The current old Qian could definitely defeat the Alpha inside the Tower."
"But if the High Tower were destroyed, or if someone else destroyed it, it would mean breaking the contract... and so the power he had would disappear."
"It’s a paradox, so due to a wrong contract, he squandered this tremendous power."
What a merciless truth it was, victory had seemed so close.
If all this were a story, then perhaps today should be the eve of the ending.
But now... the story suddenly veered in another direction.
Because of a wrong set-up, the story moved towards the unknown, with no end in sight.
Struggle flashed in Qian Yixin’s eyes, as if his humanity was trying to wrest back divinity:
"After I realized my mistake, I found it was all too late, and what I could do was very limited."
"Because once the monster from the High Tower appears, everything I can do now will be overturned."
"And the time I have is very, very little. This power is too strong, yet as fleeting as fireworks, I’m sorry, Bai Wu, I can only do this once... a redemptive act that cures the symptoms rather than the root cause."
To say he wasn’t disappointed would be a lie.
An opportunity to completely resolve the twist, to completely end all enemies... Qian Yixin had once been so close.
But can he be blamed?
He wasn’t viewing things from a god’s perspective, before he received this power, he was just a minor character with limited strength and understanding.
He desired to protect the High Tower, yet because of that, he was unable to protect the world.
It was like a trap fated by destiny, as if the monster inside the Tower’s fate shouldn’t have ended.
Or like a divine weapon capable of cutting through everything, which could be used only once, was used to chop firewood.
Bai Wu knew none of this could be blamed on Qian Yixin, but he couldn’t help feeling helpless inside.
Even the usually rational him felt a sense of failure so close to success.
On Qian Yixin’s face full of divinity, the same emotions surfaced:
"Though I have failed, you can succeed. Bai Wu, your choice is not wrong."
"Just like you saw infinite possibilities in me, I see the same possibilities in you."
Bai Wu was taken aback, had Qian Yixin seen his own causality?
Had he seen the choice Bai Wu made on the seventh layer?
"Your decision was right. A new journey will begin with you. Although it’s different from the journey you envisioned, in the end, you will get the answers you desire."
"Those former resistors will also join you at the critical moment, moving forward together."
How cryptic those words were, Li You didn’t understand at all, and even Bai Wu didn’t understand everything.
Qian Yixin turned around.
His gaze fell upon Jing Yu:
"I am the embodiment of the World Will, it’s just that even I, with the little time remaining, am unable to kill this twisted body."
"But at least, it can feel fear. This can also buy you some time. And the High Tower, it must be destroyed, that’s the cause and effect I foresaw," he said.
The huge pillar of light vanished.
Qian Yixin... disappeared.
Above the battlefield, Wu Jiu, Nie Chongshan, Mirror Evil Fallen, with everyone, began evacuating the battlefield.
They didn’t know why Qian Yixin left behind only Li You and Bai Wu.
But they trusted Qian Yixin. And once again, humanity realized its insignificance. Faced with this level of distortion, they could do nothing.
With the shift in space-time, everyone quickly arrived at the port, Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, Lin Wurou, Bai Xiaoyu, and the others all gathered together.
Just when everyone was feeling relieved, they noticed someone was missing.
But they no longer had the time to search, as the massive cruise ship roared to life.
Under the direction of Qin Zong and others, the fleeing humans began boarding the Ark.
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Outside the High Tower.
Jing Yu’s breathing was still extremely rapid.
He couldn’t believe that such a powerful being could exist in this world.
In front of this monster... he was as insignificant as a speck of dust.
In his imagination, the destruction of the High Tower should have been like crushing dry weeds, invincible.
In fact, it indeed would have been like this, if the monster hadn’t appeared.
Bai Wu and Li You watched Jing Yu.
They didn’t know where Qian Yixin had gone.
Nor did they know what Qian Yixin was doing. If Qian Yixin didn’t return soon, the situation would become very dangerous.
Jing Yu also suddenly realized that Qian Yixin was gone.
"Did he leave?"
He was first puzzled, but then fell into a frenzy:
"He left... right... he left! Hahaha..."
Qian Yixin indeed had disappeared. And gone to a very distant place.
Even the Twisted Hand no longer trembled, and Jing Yu, with madness in his eyes, exclaimed:
"Illusion, so it’s all an illusion! Such monsters shouldn’t exist!"
The Twisted Hand pressed forward again, Bai Wu tried to stop it.
The Power of Twist activated, and three Seven Sins weapons were brandished at once.
But they couldn’t break through Jing Yu’s Twisted Chessboard.
The positions of Bai Wu and Li You were constantly shifted, once again clearing the path between Jing Yu and the High Tower.
This time, Jing Yu didn’t dare to be the least bit negligent, and he rushed forward frantically!
Once again, he came within a hundred meters of the High Tower, and the giant Twisted Hand was once again a hair’s breadth away from touching the High Tower.
But ultimately, he didn’t touch the High Tower.
Just as Jing Yu was about to successfully complete the task, that damned, that cursed golden pillar of light appeared yet again!
Jing Yu almost roared in breakdown.
Like a golden thunder from the heavens, the massive column of light this time landed exactly on the body of the Twisted Origin.
The Twisted Hand, in an instant, turned to ash... turning into dense Black Mist.
The Black Mist then quickly recondensed into the Twisted Hand.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
Jing Yu, now part of the Twisted Hand, was also revived during the recondensation process.
He carried a deep fear, but cursed out of anger.
How could there be such an aberrant monster?
How could this world possibly have a being that can destroy a Divine Body in a single blow?
Not only was Jing Yu unable to believe it, Bai Wu also couldn’t believe it.
Qian Yixin looked at Jing Yu:
"You are destined to die, although not by my hand, it doesn’t mean I can’t cause you pain."
Bai Wu couldn’t understand why Qian Yixin disappeared, neither could Li You.
But suddenly it seemed Jing Yu understood something.
"Impossible... This can’t be possible..."
Jing Yu’s eyes widened.
He was the farm’s Sir, the Split Body of Xiaoyugan, but he also carried the aura of Jing Yi.
An evil being with tremendous spiritual power.
He always had some connection with Jing Yi, a kind of spiritual mutual sensation.
But just now, Jing Yu suddenly realized that this sensation was gone.
This meant that the monster before him, in such a short period of time, crossed countless distances and easily killed Jing Yi.
He couldn’t even see a hint of emotion on the monster’s face.
The expression on Qian Yixin’s face remained indifferent, as if he had only done a minor, trivial thing.
He had done all he could do, and life was already counting down the seconds.
Just a while ago, he crossed space in an instant, descending within the mist-clad area.
Jing Si and Jing Yi were indiscriminately gravely injured. Their injuries were even more severe than Jing Wu’s.
For a long time to come, these two existences with the greatest collective and individual martial power would not be able to be active in this world.
Meanwhile, Qian Yixin saw through all cause and effect, and wanted to do something for Bai Wu, to change some regretful outcomes.
But unfortunately, there were some things he couldn’t do, as the logic of time and space didn’t allow him to return to the past, to make a different contract for his past self.
He saw this cause and effect and very much wanted to change it.
However, divinity made him rational, clear about the consequences of doing so.
Even now, Qian Yixin must adhere to the rule "if you change causality, you will be bitten back by causality."
He is the embodiment of the World Will, and if he goes against causality, it is the world itself that suffers the backlash.
This price is something he cannot afford, and the world cannot afford it either.
Qian Yixin, driven by divinity, had actually done everything that could be done.
What follows is the ending where the monster will ultimately destroy the High Tower.
Bai Wu and Li You... will have the missions they are supposed to have.
It can end here.
He could dissipate with satisfaction, but in the end, Qian Yixin still did one private thing for Bai Wu...
Using Temporal Power, he went back to the past. Qian Yixin thought long and hard about how to change causality without changing it?
This paradox seemed unsolvable, but it was indeed resolved by the almost omnipotent deity, Qian Yixin.
For Bai Wu, he left behind a gift that was unimaginable.
It’s just that now is not the time to unwrap this gift.
The severe injuries of Jing Yi plunged Jing Yu into self-doubt and deep fear.
Qian Yixin’s figure also began to slowly dissipate, tearing apart Jing Yu while instructing some matters.
But as he gazed intently, the body of the Source of Twist kept disintegrating.
And the body turning into Black Mist kept gathering again.
Qian Yixin didn’t mind, his ultimate goal was to make Jing Yu feel the pain. To feel the true gap in power.
"There is little I can tell you, because once it involves causality, I’m not clear what this world will become,"
At the end of his life, Qian Yixin’s indifferent face finally showed some emotion.
This greatly surprised Bai Wu; the emotions on Qian Yixin’s face grew richer.
It was like the final flicker of life seen in someone nearing death.
His humanity was fiercely suppressing his divinity!
"Boss Bai, thank you for leading us out of the prison."
"Take good care of Yuan Ye, Colt, and Lu Yan... I, Qian Yixin, am indeed a failure, with an opportunity to save the world in front of me, I still did not do well."
"The rest... I can only leave to you."
The tone and demeanor had changed significantly from before, Bai Wu could feel that the familiar old Qian had returned.
But he was also about to leave soon.
"I’m sorry, I... the thing I fear most is taking people’s money but failing to eliminate their disasters, yet I still thought of a bit of a way."
"Jing Yi and Jing Si will be unable to act for a while, and the bodies of the Twisted Master... I’ve hidden them in a place he won’t find for some time."
"Humans will have a chance to catch their breath, the most important thing is... you will have a chance to catch your breath. You have a special path to walk after this. After you’ve completed that journey, you will meet someone... someone you’ve longed to see. That’s my gift to you."
"It’s also a little compensation for my failure to do this task properly."
"It’s a pity I can’t explain these things too thoroughly."
Golden tears fell.
The great Twisted Hand kept destroying and reviving, in unending agony, Qian Yixin had already left a shadow in Jing Yu’s heart.
But all this could not bring Qian Yixin joy.
Regardless of what he had done, no matter how he consoled himself, once his humanity took control, Qian Yixin was still overwhelmed by immense regret.
He wished he could tell Bai Wu at the time of his death:
"I, Qian Yixin am determined to fulfill my mission and have a clear conscience!"
He wished that his death could bring about the twist-free days that the people in the prison had once fantasized about.
But all of this was no longer possible. Qian Yixin’s time was running out.
As if sensing this man’s regretful heart and watching Qian Yixin’s body diminish to a shadow, Bai Wu went forward and embraced Qian Yixin:
"You don’t owe this world anything, Qian Yixin. You saved everyone, you defeated the source of the Twisted, you defeated Jing Yi, defeated Jing Si, and saved the world. Just remember that!"
"Really... Boss Bai... did I truly make a difference?"
"Of course, the you of today is the savior!"
As the final words of this sentence fell, Qian Yixin ultimately couldn’t let go.
All the golden light between heaven and earth suddenly dimmed.
The immense divinity had once repressed the humanity of Qian Yixin.
But as life counted down to the end, even at the last moment, Qian Yixin never let divinity take control again.
Even though doing so could have lessened the guilt in his heart.
This man, who had saved all the warriors of the High Tower, chose, in the end, to die amidst guilt.
All the golden light was extinguished.
The journey of the savior Qian Yixin came to an end here.
Li You watched this scene, visibly moved.
She had peeked into the memories of Wu Jiu; Qian Yixin was really just a minor character of little consequence.
But such a minor character also had the dream of becoming a hero.
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The dense Black Mist gathered again.
When a part of the Twisted Hand reappeared, Bai Wu and Li You had become very calm.
"Qian Yixin was a miracle that didn’t belong to this world, and now the miracle is gone. Next, we will see the real Great Demon King."
"Li You, you can choose not to agree,"
Bai Wu said, looking at the distant Black Mist.
Li You also looked at the mass of Black Mist:
"Clearly, your friend didn’t dare to change causality. He is so powerful, yet he left both you and me here, so you should know, I won’t run away."
Bai Wu nodded, the team leader was indeed fortunate.
But as a staunch holder of his shares in Roan, he would not withdraw his investment lightly.
"What should we do next to deal with it?"
Even after witnessing Qian Yixin’s strength and seeing him dominating Jing Yu, Li You and Bai Wu wouldn’t really believe that Jing Yu was a minor character.
In fact, Qian Yixin was just a magic show in this world.
Now that the magic had dissipated, everything had to return to reality.
And the reality was, they stood no chance against Jing Yu.
Bai Wu smiled and shook his head: freēwebnovel.com
"We are no match for him. I originally thought that I would need to use my first backup plan, but not the second. However, I must admit, the methods of Jing Yi and the body of the Power of Twist are so strong that all planning and deployment become meaningless."
Even Qian Yixin couldn’t kill the Power of Twist completely in a short period of time.
No wonder then that the creator of the High Tower could only separate its body and soul.
Li You was very puzzled:
"Isn’t Qian Yixin your backup plan?"
Bai Wu shook his head:
"To be honest, I never had any expectations for him, otherwise how could I have made such a mistake? My first backup plan is in Denglin City, and I have already arranged for someone to inform them."
"But it seems that my intuition was wrong, those scientists haven’t figured out a way to deal with the Evil Fallen. Maybe they will in the future, but at least this time... they haven’t caught up."
Li You asked:
"What about the second backup plan then?"
The figure of Jing Yu reappeared on the other side of the Power of Twist.
Bai Wu looked and said:
"The second backup plan, I hope not to resort to it."
Li You didn’t understand.
Bai Wu did not explain further, but what happened next was exactly as Bai Wu had predicted.
He and Li You didn’t even attempt to resist any longer.
Jing Yu took a long time to temporarily overcome his fear of Qian Yixin.
Finally, he accepted the reality that Qian Yixin had died.
But this time, Jing Yu didn’t even dare to laugh triumphantly, out of fear that the moment he lost himself in pride, that damned Bald Guy would reappear as a streak of golden light.
In the previous battle, Jing Wu’s mindset was shattered by Bai Wu.
In this battle, Jing Yu’s mindset was shattered by Qian Yixin.
Even once Qian Yixin was dead, Jing Yu didn’t dare to profane his memory for fear that the omnipotent being might appear again.
In the end, Jing Yu steeled his heart... and controlled the huge Power of Twist to crash into the High Tower.
The short few hundred meters distance provoked countless images of Qian Yixin descending from the sky in Jing Yu’s mind.
So much so that Li You was a bit confused, wondering why this person kept stopping and starting when there were no obstacles in the way...
The world darkened, and an endless Hei Wu billowed out from the High Tower.
The extreme Twist plunged the whole world into darkness in an instant.
The body of the Power of Twist finally touched the tower walls under Jing Yu’s control.
The owner of this giant arm finally broke out of the tower.
Thousands of meters above, billows of Hei Wu continuously spilled out of the tower.
Overshadowing the sun and the sky, it seemed like an endless black cloud layer, cutting off all light.
Day turned into night instantaneously. The rolling Hei Wu tumbled, and the sky resembled a black ocean, raising billows.
The soul of the strongest monster of this world had returned to the mortal realm.
The era belonging to the High Tower had finally drawn to a close, and from this moment, a new Twisted Epoch began.
Even though he had witnessed many shocking sights today, Li You was still astounded.
Looking at this spectacle, Jing Yu’s eyes moistened, and he briefly overcame his fear again, spreading his arms wide and staring at the thick fog envelop the sky, his expression frenzied:
"Great God! You have finally descended! You’ve finally come!"
The churning Hei Wu in the sky seemed endless, and the world’s density of Twist kept increasing.
Rules in countless areas started to mutate rapidly.
Above the High Tower, within the black clouds, Twist condensed into a giant black shadow.
Twist didn’t have a form, its body had been moved by Qian Yixin to another space.
Although no longer confined by the tower’s power, the Twisted Master still hadn’t entered its strongest state.
The giant black shadow gazed at Bai Wu and Jing Yu.
Then, Bai Wu made his choice.
Li You watched the scene unfold before him, completely unable to comprehend what was happening.
Endless Twist wrapped around Bai Wu, as if a breach appeared in the Milky Way, and countless tendrils of black mist symbolizing Twist fell from the sky!
They converged around Bai Wu.
He seemed like one chosen by the Twist.
Watching this, Jing Yu suddenly understood what it meant:
"No! Great God! I am your follower! Shouldn’t the eternal, undying glory be mine! I am the one who saved you!"
"He is your enemy! He is your greatest obstacle! Great God, what are you doing! Why send him to the Well!"
Bai Wu knelt on one knee; he raised his head, looking at the black shadow in the sky, his expression full of devotion.
But he heard words Bai Yuan had said before going to the sixth floor ringing in his ears.
...
...
"You now possess Well Level strength, but you are not from Well Level. The seventh floor is different from the sixth."
About to head to the seventh floor, Bai Yuan’s gaze towards Bai Wu became more serious.
The charming smile had also completely disappeared.
"What’s different? Can’t you just modify the various parameters of the so-called Inner World like before?"
Bai Wu looked at the ceiling, then continued to say:
"Just like before, we fooled Jing Liu with this trick, so we can surely fool the monsters in the High Tower, right?"
"How could it be so easy? Some powerful beings, even if you deceive yourself, you can’t deceive them. The monsters of the seventh level are such existences."
Bai Yuan’s seriousness made Bai Wu somewhat uncomfortable.
It was as if this man should always have a charming and composed smile on his face.
On the contrary, it was Bai Wu who suddenly smiled:
"Bai Yuan, if I were your opponent, would I be a troublesome one?"
Bai Yuan didn’t know why Bai Wu would ask this question, but ultimately he nodded his head.
"That’s good to hear. This time, do as I say. Aren’t you always seeking an interesting process? You will see an interesting process."
Bai Yuan shrugged his shoulders, and the smile returned to his face:
"Since that’s the case, let me enjoy your performance then. From now on, I’ll modify your memories until you leave the seventh level."
...
...
A black shell appeared around Bai Wu.
The memories of heading to the seventh level were vivid in his mind.
Powerful distortions started to destroy and manipulate Bai Wu’s memories.
Endless negative emotions began seeping into every corner of Bai Wu’s memories.
Looking at those "shells," Jing Yu couldn’t believe it.
After destroying themselves countless times, being reborn countless times, enduring such extreme pain to finally save the deity, why would it grant such a great honor to a human?
"Why! Why does he deserve it!"
The black shadow in the sky, what Bai Wu was undergoing, was the same as what he had done to his six siblings, Jing Yi to Jing Liu, back in the day.
He granted them twist and eternity, making them truly immortal beings.
Although Bai Wu had obtained the life force of Jing San and possessed the powerful strength of Well Level, he was not truly of Well Level.
To become a true Well Level being, to become an existence trusted by the Source of Twist—
One must undergo such a ritual.
This ritual was the one Jing Yu had longed for.
After the ritual, when the shell sealing Bai Wu cracked, Bai Wu’s memories would be thoroughly twisted, just like Zhou Zeshui’s.
He would begin to hate this world and become a claw of the Source of Twist.
At the same time— he would abandon his own name and become the true seventh Well Level being.
...
...
Not long ago, Bai Wu had gone to the seventh level of the High Tower with courage, intending to use false memories to deceive this Alpha.
Using Bai Yuan’s ability, he altered his own memories to make Alpha believe that he was on its side.
The original intention of Bai Wu’s actions was to consider that if the High Tower truly were destroyed, he could buy time for everyone.
He could temporarily hold back Alpha, and even stage a deception.
Bai Yuan did not think that Alpha and Jing Liu were alike. He did not believe that such means could deceive Alpha.
The seventh level, the conversation between the transmigrator and the Twisted Master, went very smoothly.
So smoothly that Bai Yuan felt there was a problem.
It was only when he was leaving the seventh level that Bai Yuan, recalling what Zhou Zeshui had said to Bai Wu, truly understood Bai Wu’s plan.
As the black "shell" was about to completely cover Bai Wu, Bai Yuan appeared once again.
"You calculated that the one in the Tower would change you into someone he recognized as one of his own?"
"Yes."
A vast amount of memories began to twist, and Bai Wu seemed to be in great pain.
Bai Yuan’s figure also became illusory, but he did not care and slowly deduced:
"This is indeed a clever scheme because of Zhou Zeshui’s incident, you had once been sure that the method to kill the Well was hidden inside the shell."
"And you, my dear child, once thought that finding Jing Er might help you unlock the secrets of the shell, yet you weren’t certain of this. So, you turned to the idea of the Tower Monster."
"After all, he is the maker of the ’shell’. He also knows where the ’Well’ is located, and based on what Jing Si told you before, all six Well Level beings are wrapped by the shell, hidden inside the Well."
"What exactly lies within the shell? Where exactly is the Well? And what is the Well? Why can’t the Well Level and Alpha be killed? The answers to all these questions, you’ve found a direction to solve them all."
"This direction is to impress Alpha with your aptitude and have you turned into a real Well Level, Jing Qi. Unlike the life force and power given to you by Jing San, this time, it’s like transforming your soul into the Well Level too."
"Just there’s one flaw, what makes you think he won’t just kill you in the seventh level, but rather choose to transform you into Jing Qi?"
As long as one had gone through the process of his siblings like Jing Yi and Jing Liu being transformed, all the puzzles could be solved.
But the most crucial point lies here, how can one ensure they’ll be noticed by Alpha?
Bai Yuan found it very interesting, but his figure grew even more faint.
"It’s simple...because it is not complacent...and because alive...I’m more useful than dead, also because you...once said... that an inevitable failure doesn’t mean failure is inevitable..."
Bai Wu’s forehead was covered in sweat; he could already feel an evil version of himself being born.
Countless twisted memories began to clash with the true memories.
He was trying his best to stay conscious, wanting to resist this spiritual power that twisted everything.
Unconsciously, Bai Wu had activated the Twisted Realm.
"So that’s how it is, when you previously went with Cain to the sixth level of the Tower and met with the sealed monster, you deliberately mentioned Jing Si, was that actually to test his reaction?"
Bai Yuan remembered, at that time when Bai Wu mentioned Jing Si, who had gone insane due to the Well Water, the response showed that Alpha was actually very wary of Jing Si.
[Hmph! Jing Si... An overconfident fool, he is an existence that should not have been born, a mistake I made. He thought he could suppress the Twist, but was ultimately devoured by it.]
Bai Wu had not forgotten these casually mentioned pieces of information for the sake of survival, nor had he forgotten the monster’s reactions to these pieces of information.
He took advantage of the monster’s wariness towards Jing Si, confirming that the monster needed to create a disciple who could defeat Jing Si!
In the end, it was a grand gamble by Bai Wu.
Since he had already experienced an inevitable defeat, then any danger to come could be survived.
Therefore, Bai Wu believed that with the human intellect to understand the Twist, the human body overcoming the innate talents of the Well Level, and the source of the Twist’s wariness towards Jing Si—
He would not kill Bai Wu, but choose to transform him.
The negotiation on the seventh level, it all was a facade, the real purpose was for Bai Wu to audition to become Jing Qi.
This was Bai Wu’s second line of defense!
If he could, Bai Wu would not wish to resort to this last resort.
What he had hoped for more was that the High Tower would disappear, and the monsters would still be suppressed within it.
But now, the worst outcome had occurred, the High Tower was destroyed, and the most terrifying monsters in the world... had been released.
The so-called second safeguard was, in a desperate situation, to turn death into life, planting a seed that could reverse everything.
This seed was one that Bai Wu took upon himself without hesitation.
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...
Bai Yuan was gone, or perhaps Bai Yuan hadn’t disappeared; it was just that Bai Wu could no longer sense him.
He, within the shell, could no longer perceive the changes in the world outside.
Perhaps Li You was knocking on the "shell", or had he already arrived at the location of the "Well"?
What would happen to the world outside the shell?
Would the captain and the others safely evacuate?
In the shelter, would everything go smoothly?
The humans of Sanchez City, would they realize they had been domesticated by the Evil Fallen?
In the confrontation between Jing Si and Alpha, who would ultimately emerge victorious?
To all these questions, Bai Wu had no answers.
The twisted memories were gradually being suppressed. Whether they were memories of past lives or this life, they had become chaotic after the appearance of the shell.
But because he had no negative emotions, Bai Wu was never deceived by the chaos within the memories.
He always remained clear-headed. The pain he felt was simply due to the clashing of consciousness against consciousness, memory against memory.
Twist represented absolute chaos.
All plans could possibly be completely disrupted in the face of twist.
Indeed, Bai Wu had gotten his wish and lured Alpha to transform him.
But while resisting the invasion of twisted memories, Bai Wu, also out of pain, unwittingly activated the Twisted Realm.
He thought he would experience the same as Jing Yi, Jing Er, Jing San, Jing Si, and the others.
Yet, he who was inside the shell could only feel absolute silence.
When the twisted memories could no longer cause any emotional fluctuations in Bai Wu, they had lost their significance.
This sort of thing had never happened among the six siblings from Jing Yi to Jing Liu.
Because no one could isolate those negative emotions. And no one could use twist to resist twist.
These two conditions, which were almost impossible for anyone to possess, were both present in Bai Wu alone.
Even Alpha had not anticipated that these two traits would allow Bai Wu to experience a completely different "Twisted Journey".
Space seemed to constantly change.
Despite the absolute darkness surrounding him, though Bai Wu could not see anything, he could still feel it.
He seemed to be walking through an absolute dark temporal tunnel—passing through countless areas.
Bai Wu didn’t know how much longer he would have to wait in the darkness, nor how much longer space would continue to change.
He closed his eyes, and within the world of the shell, Bai Wu couldn’t even feel the passage of time.
It was a peculiar feeling; even if he counted silently in his mind, timing each count as one second, he still couldn’t feel the correct flow of time.
Because the memory of the previous second could become very long, and the memory of the next second could become very short.
Looking at the boundless darkness, Bai Wu suddenly had a feeling of being banished.
As if he had been sent by the gods to the deepest part of the universe, a place forgotten by time and space.
He thought this, even imagining that he might spend millions or even billions of years here.
He thought perhaps the source of twist had discovered his deepest intentions, that he was not inside the shell but had already died and come to the world of the dead.
Fortunately, these thoughts did not linger for long, because in the silent and dark space—suddenly there was a sound.
A woman’s coughing:
"Cough, cough, cough... Who is... Who is it...?"
In the absolute silence and darkness, every sound was magnified countless times.
The sound waves seemed as if they could directly strike the soul.
Hearing this familiar voice, Bai Wu’s face was filled with disbelief:
"Are you... Jing Liu?"
The woman in the darkness was taken aback; in this world, there were two voices she would never forget.
One of them belonged to Bai Wu.
"Bai Wu! You are Bai Wu!"
Bai Wu now confirmed it, but in this chaotic, dark world of the shell, how could it be possible to encounter Jing Liu?
He wasn’t surprised that Jing Liu was still alive; after all, he had only banished her.
But why would Jing Liu appear here?
Could it be that he... wasn’t inside the shell? Where exactly had Jing Liu been banished to using the Power of Twist?
As Jing Liu was about to ask Bai Wu, and Bai Wu also wanted to ask Jing Liu, another voice sounded.
"Tsk, it’s quite lively here. I thought I was the only one here, but it turns out there are two people, and both are old acquaintances," said the very familiar voice, making Bai Wu’s heart race.
Even Jing Liu did not expect to hear this voice.
"You are... impossible, you’re clearly already dead," Jing Liu’s words seemed to confirm Bai Wu’s suspicions.
Then the third person who had suddenly appeared in this mysterious void of the shell world bluntly stated his identity:
"As a Deceiver, my greatest interest is, of course, in deception."
The voice in the darkness was gentle, and Bai Wu’s reaction was the same as Jing Liu’s.
Why would he encounter these two people in the shell world, this endless void and darkness?
Jing Liu...
And the Jack of Spades.
