Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 548: Chapter 165: Well 4, The First Generation, The Pursuer

Denglin City’s Technology Building still stands out prominently.

Compared to the ruins of other cities, this building is almost indistinguishable from its state seven hundred years ago.

Jing Si still had some memories from seven hundred years ago, the time of madness.

His heart was undoubtedly filled with guilt.

Jing Si’s imposing aura, the domain above his head where the stars shone brightly, made countless Evil Fallen retreat.

Not long ago, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu joined forces and slain Jing Si’s heart.

Although Jing Si’s heart had been continuously strengthened over the past seven hundred years, it still had a vast and unbridgeable gap with Jing Si’s true self.

If even Jing Si’s heart was enough to instill fear in those Evil Fallen, what more for Jing Si himself?

However, Jing Si did not head directly to the Technology Building in Denglin City.

First, he thought about atoning for his past sins.

Upon regaining consciousness, Jing Si found himself at the time of the High Tower defense battle; he was restrained by Jing Yi and later defeated by Qian Yixin. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

But the process by which Qian Yixin defeated Jing Si differed from his defeat of Jing Yi.

The process of defeating Jing Yi was decisive and efficient, demonstrating overwhelming strength with no superfluous movements or idle talk.

It was simply to incapacitate Jing Yi for a short time, to make Jing Yi understand that the will of the world could not be defied.

For Jing Si, Qian Yixin spent a bit more time, partly because Jing Si’s power had reached an unimaginable level and, on the other hand, he saw two possible futures at the time.

In order to create an opportunity for Bai Wu and reduce the gap between the combat power of friends and foes, Qian Yixin ultimately did not inflict a severe injury on Jing Si.

Otherwise, even with Reincarnation within him, Qian Yixin had a way to prevent Jing Si from utilizing his temporal power.

To turn Jing Si into an effective combatant, Qian Yixin banished Jing Si but also had a conversation with him.

Apart from his guilt from seven hundred years ago towards Tao Xingzhi, it was those words from Qian Yixin that guided Jing Si to this place.

Although the colossal corpse had dissipated, Jing Si still recalled the events of that year.

With towering hatred, he cursed this city.

The most deeply affected by the curse in this city was Professor Tao.

When Jing Si arrived at the cemetery, he saw many familiar headstones.

Among them was the headstone of The First Generation.

In Jing Si’s memory, it was he who had killed that friend who had repeatedly saved him.

Endless remorse surged forth.

Jing Si stood motionless before the gravestone, recalling the scenes when he fought against the bald Qian Yixin.

"The Inverted Well Domain is truly formidable. If I don’t take it seriously, I could also get hurt," Jing Si reflected.

Jing Si’s body was shattered, never having imagined that inside the Inverted Well Domain, he would be critically wounded by a powerful entity.

He possessed an immortal body, yet at that moment, he felt he might truly die.

But Qian Yixin did not do so.

"Relying on Reincarnation, you can recover quickly, but I, as the world itself, can also create a domain devoid of the concepts of time and space."

"Who... Who are you?" Jing Si asked.

Shrouded in golden light, Qian Yixin said coldly,

"You don’t need to know who I am, but you have come to your senses. You should realize that for your mad sister, you have destroyed many who truly regarded you as kin and friends."

"If you continue to obsess over Jing Liu, you might become an enemy of humanity in the future, slaughtering all those who once believed in you. I can show you such a future."

As if his words were law, as Qian Yixin finished speaking, Jing Si seemed to experience a long life in a brief period.

In this extended existence, Jing Si continually waged war, searching for Jing Liu, becoming enemies with Bai Wu, with Alpha, with Jing Yi, and also with all of humanity.

He wasn’t very clever, manipulated by Alpha with ease, who, on the surface, was his enemy and never tried to win Jing Si over...

But by exploiting Jing Liu, Alpha always managed to divert Jing Si’s hostility elsewhere.

In this future timeline, Jing Si was forever in anguish, always wondering why those who believed in him ended up harmed by his own hands?

Previously, it was because of Jing Liu, and afterward, it was because of Alpha.

But as an insider, he was always unable to detect it.

Not until Qian Yixin used a more powerful fusion of Temporal Power and spiritual power to directly create a "future possibility."

In this possibility, Jing Si witnessed his own foolishness from a third-person perspective.

Qian Yixin was very satisfied with the pained expression on Jing Si’s face, his tone still indifferent,

"Choosing the wrong path, no matter how you struggle, is still wrong. However, you have another possibility, and I will give you some time to think. Once you break out of my seal, head to Denglin City."

At the mention of Denglin City, Jing Si appeared very hesitant,

"Denglin City... I dare not go there... In that place... I once made an unforgivable mistake."

Qian Yixin smiled cryptically,

"In that place, you killed two people who saw you as a friend. But not long ago, Bai Wu had already allowed the person you cursed to be relieved, to find solace."

"Denglin City was not destroyed by the curse, and the backbone of humanity still stands tall."

"As for whether the other mistake you made is equally unforgivable, only by going to that place will you be able to find the answer."

At the moment of departure, Qian Yixin said to Jing Si,

"Make your choice, do not be a person who wavers. Do not make the same mistake you did seven hundred years ago."

His thoughts returned to the present, and Jing Si finally mustered the courage to come to Denglin City.

Looking at the stele of The First Generation, seeing that the two weapons had disappeared, Jing Si guessed that Bai Wu had come.

Perhaps it was Bai Wu who had allowed Professor Tao to find relief.

He thought Qian Yixin was ultimately wrong; coming to this city, he still felt nothing but regret.

He guessed that Qian Yixin only thought that the scientist in Denglin City was still alive, which Jing Si had already sensed.

At the same time, Professor Tao had been relieved.

Perhaps Qian Yixin thought that in this way, he had the right to be forgiven.

But this was far from enough; in Jing Si’s heart, the act of killing The First Generation...

He would never forgive himself.

Especially after seeing the other future Qian Yixin had presented, Jing Si found it even harder to forgive himself.

"This world... was supposed to have heroes, but because of me... they all disappeared."

His fist clenched, the massive wave of negative emotions almost engulfed Jing Si.

He seemed to be about to fall into madness from guilt again.

But at the moment when Reincarnation was about to be triggered—

Jing Si suddenly felt a familiar aura.

And several other powerful presences.

"This is indeed rare, the one who tried to kill me is now paying respects to me?"

"Feeling so guilty in front of my grave doesn’t make sense, why not come over and say sorry to me in person?"

The familiar voice and aura made Jing Si’s heart, long "heartless," suddenly skip a beat.

He turned around quickly, even without Reincarnation, those madnesses that were on the verge of consuming him... ebbed away like the tide.

In front of Jing Si stood several powerful beings.

And one of them wore the mask he knew well.

The First Generation Masked Hero, Lin Rui.

Countless memories converged, and in Jing Si’s eyes, mist suddenly filled them.

This most powerful monster of the age was shedding tears.

Xu Wei and the two Pursuers were profoundly shocked.

They did not know the relationship between The First Generation and Jing Si, only that Jing Si was a monster.

A monster that all of them together could never hope to contend with.

The monster actually shed tears, which truly astonished them.

Deep inside Jing Si’s heart, he had committed unforgivable errors.

The guilt and remorse within his heart could not be erased by anyone.

Unless—it was the source of the guilt.

This source was none other than The First Generation.

The First Generation removed his mask, revealing a face covered in death spots.

Those death spots were also a "gift" from Jing Si.

In that already opened closed loop, two generations of Masked Strange Persons both died at Jing Si’s hand.

The alternating deaths made the death spots an indelible mark.

The First Generation had come to know everything, aware of his own "past life and current existence."

He had every reason not to forgive Jing Si, and even at the moment when Jing Si gravely wounded him... he felt anger and disappointment towards Jing Si.

But after arriving in Denglin City and seeing Jing Si... he changed his mind.

The First Generation wasn’t suddenly overcome with a saintly heart; rather he could sense that Jing Si’s control over his own emotions had indeed changed.

Moreover, to activate the Sealing Array and reseal Alpha within the new High Tower, they needed the possessor of Temporal Power.

And the more Temporal Power... the better. freewebnøvel.coɱ

He was one, and Xu Wei was another.

While two owners of Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies did not have Temporal Power, because of the Law Body’s uniqueness—they could ultimately possess Temporal Power.

And now, Jing Si still possessed Reincarnation.

In a sense, if Jing Si could join, the likelihood of a successful sealing would be higher.

The First Generation approached Jing Si:

"The dead have risen from their graves, don’t you have anything to say?"

Jing Si, of course, wanted to speak, but a thousand words could not express the tumultuous emotions inside his heart.

In the end, he embraced The First Generation.

"Sorry... I’m sorry... I’m sorry! I had lost my reason back then, killing you was not my intention!"

"Sorry, sorry..."

Jing Si kept repeating ’I’m sorry.’ Seven hundred years of madness rendered him somewhat foolish even after regaining clarity.

But with the passage of time, his mind had long since recovered.

Yet at this moment, Jing Si was still crying like a child.

The two Pursuers, originally poised for battle, were at a loss for what to do.

And Xu Wei, always rich in emotion and a chatterbox throughout the journey—also started crying.

When others cried, there was an aura of sorrow; when Xu Wei cried—it significantly diluted that atmosphere.

"It’s so touching! It reminds me of the day my one hundred and ninety-fifth and two hundred and twenty-seventh phantasms unexpectedly reunited! They also embraced and wept like this!"

"Ah! Although I’ve only just met the one with the mask, and don’t know the one in front of me at all, I can see that they are two people who have come together, defying worldly conventions!"

This appalling description made The First Generation stiffen.

It was normal for two men reunited after a long separation to embrace, but Xu Wei’s description made The First Generation uncomfortable.

Therefore, The First Generation slowly pulled back and soothed Jing Si by saying:

"I forgive you, Jing Si."

That short sentence seemed to unlock the shackles that had bound Jing Si for seven hundred years, and Jing Si cried even louder.

After a long, long time... the graveyard finally returned to normal.

The two Pursuers, Xu Wei, Jing Si, The First Generation—all of humanity’s strongest forces were gathered in Denglin City.

This was naturally extraordinary, and The First Generation also said:

"Jing Si, let the past be in the past. The Twisted Master has already broken out of the High Tower, and the world... the places left for humans to live are getting fewer and fewer."

"Indulging in the pain of the past and torturing oneself has lost all meaning. If you want to find redemption, then be a true hero,"

"We can’t imagine what the Twisted Master would do, but now...we few are humanity’s greatest hope. I hope you can join us."

After The First Generation had spoken, The Pursuer let out a cold snort:

"His dangerousness and uncontrollability... You don’t know about them?"

This Pursuer was the one who had narrowly escaped from the hands of Bai Wu at Jing Si and Jing Wu on the death flight.

He had grown accustomed to calling himself The Pursuer, and it had become his name.

Another Pursuer, the one with a human name, was standing right next to Xu Wei.

It was this second Pursuer who had saved Yin Shuang not long ago.

A complex history was finally unable to remain hidden.

His heart had been dead, yet during the battle when the High Tower was destroyed, he ultimately still went to where the High Tower stood.

There, he saw his daughter—Yin Shuang.

Later on, as one of the Stele Inscribers, he met another Stele Inscriber—The First Generation.

The First Generation shared his plan, intending to trap Alpha in the High Tower once again.

The Stele Inscriber, heart dead as if turned to ash, didn’t plan on participating in what was likely a suicidal plan by The First Generation.

But in the end, to earn his daughter’s forgiveness and prove that the incident back then was beyond his control, to show that he too was against the twisted...he joined The First Generation.

Thus, a resounding plan commenced, and the Stele Inscriber, along with The First Generation and Xu Wei, sought out another Pursuer.

It was easy, for due to the Divine Revelation, the Stele Inscriber quickly found the Pursuer.

The two Pursuers, The First Generation, and Xu Wei were thus assembled together.

And the Stele Inscriber, who originated from the same source as the Pursuers, had possessed many identities and names. His current name, also his last, was Yin He.

The last role he played was that of a servant in the ruler of the High Tower’s house.

In the process of assembling everyone, The First Generation knew some of the complex past between Yin Shuang and Yin He.

He admired the girl named Yin Shuang. Without her, it would have been impossible to persuade Yin He.

In any case, during this time, The First Generation formulated the embryonic stage of the plan.

Also during this period, the strongest warriors of the human camp were assembled.

The First Generation said:

"No one can seal the Twisted Master with their own strength like the creator of the High Tower. Even knowing the method of sealing, it requires the power of several people."

"If Jing Si stands with us, our chances of success will greatly increase."

Xu Wei said:

"But just us few setting up the array wouldn’t be enough, right?"

The First Generation nodded:

"Yes, the process of sealing Alpha will also open the Well’s passage. According to the revelation...we must find an Array Eye."

"The requirements for the Array Eye, I remember you mentioned... the stronger, the better? Why not let this monster before you serve as the Array Eye?" The Pursuer was not fond of Jing Si.

In the eyes of The Pursuer, all the Well Level beings were sources of the twisted. In fact, everyone in the world was a part of the twisted.

If not for the critical importance of sealing the Twisted Master, he would not have agreed to cooperate with The First Generation.

On the other hand, Yin He’s view of many things had changed, and compared to the other Pursuer—his hatred for the twisted wasn’t as intense.

After being persuaded by Yin Shuang, Yin He was ready to go all out.

"In the process of us performing the sealing, only Jing Si can wrestle with the Twisted Master. Additionally, Jing Si himself has Temporal Power. Jing Si cannot serve as the Array Eye."

The First Generation rejected the suggestion. Jing Si, not understanding the situation, was still in a bewildered state regarding the arrival of these people and K.

Suddenly, Yin He spoke up:

"We need someone like Jing Si, with an almost Immortal body and a heart that is kind and resolute. Only such a person can become the Array Eye."

"But does such a person even exist?"