Free Web NovelChapter 570: Chapter 187: Heroes of Two Eras
Denglin City.
Before the two Pursuers decided to initiate the ritual to bestow the Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies upon The First Generation, The First Generation and Xu Wei were also discussing the possibilities of Temporal Power.
"So, the formation you spoke of, is it mainly a temporal barrier?"
"Yes, in short, the High Tower will not be destroyed. It has merely developed a breach, which we will re-summon... this is the revelation I received. Using the Teleportation Stele, we can seal the Twisted Master inside the High Tower."
"A revelation?"
Xu Wei found it very mystical. He was the first person to enter the High Tower.
Yet even he did not know why the High Tower could contain Alpha or why only it could do so.
The theory involved is indeed complicated, which also depends on the Array Eye concept and a comparison between the Origin World where Bai Wu exists and the real world.
Of course, The First Generation didn’t know about the Origin World either.
The First Generation said,
"At the beginning, both Bai and I received a revelation. Ah... it just seems neither of our endings will be good. I chose not to believe in that outcome, while he chose to flee from it."
Over these days, Xu Wei and The First Generation had also exchanged their past experiences with each other.
Xu Wei is the kind of person who talks non-stop, and everyone finds him annoying, except The First Generation doesn’t.
The First Generation is carefree, often bursting into laughter because of Xu Wei’s words.
At the same time, The First Generation also told Xu Wei much about himself.
To some extent, Xu Wei had come to understand Bai, as described by The First Generation.
"I always feel that this person you talk about... doesn’t seem like someone who would run away, just my feeling."
The First Generation nodded,
"Unfortunately, I didn’t live long thereafter and couldn’t verify anything, but he and I... will have no chance to meet again."
In his past experiences, The First Generation had repeatedly protected Bai Yuan, and to him, this was only natural.
Bai Yuan seemed to take it for granted as well. If it had been someone else, they might have criticized Bai Yuan for being... too thick-skinned.
But not The First Generation.
To have the patience to endure seven hundred years alone within Qian Yixin’s barrier domain, for The First Generation, only those memories could help him survive over two million days and nights.
He even felt somewhat self-reproachful. If he had been strong enough, perhaps Bai would not have chosen to flee to another world, right?
"What about now? How confident are you?"
Xu Wei asked a crucial question.
The First Generation suddenly paused.
The Pursuers had obtained Temporal Power, and in the near future, his abilities would also continue to improve. Through exchanges with Xu Wei, his own Temporal Power had achieved breakthroughs.
Jing Si had also become more lucid.
As for human scientists, he had no expectations, but watching the scientists bustle about, it seemed they were also making progress.
Moreover, just recently...the concentration of distortion had significantly reduced, a global phenomenon.
This was the case both inside and outside the Mist.
Everything seemed to be getting better.
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The First Generation couldn’t provide an answer to this question.
Xu Wei laughed it off. One advantage of being a chatterbox is that when you ask an inappropriate question, you can quickly change the subject:
"Oh right, can you now precisely anchor yourself at a certain point in time? Like this, like this, like this..."
As Xu Wei spoke, his body underwent continuous changes.
He was able to preserve himself in different time periods and then access them at will.
The First Generation was also a master of Temporal Power, but he could not do what Xu Wei did.
The effect of Temporal Return impressed The First Generation.
Life and death, causality, time and space, along with some special powers, are considered source powers.
Sequences and terms originate from one or several of these powers.
Sequences and terms cannot expand to as many functions as source powers.
Just like Xu Wei cannot move and traverse time as The First Generation can.
But in returning to a specific point in time, he is much more precise than The First Generation.
However, this kind of precision had gradually come under the control of The First Generation during these days.
That is to say, the owners of entries or sequences, in one realm, are more specialized than the owners of source power.
But this specialization, for the owners of source power, like those with the temporal power of The First Generation... is not unattainable.
Despite his unimpressive appearance because of the lesions left by Jing Si, The First Generation was ranked as a K-level figure of the Golden Generation, which especially, with that face, indicated astonishing talent.
Unlike Bai Yuan’s type of talent, The First Generation’s talent was all focused on combat.
Therefore, in these days of interaction with Xu Wei—
One possessed origin power like temporal power. The other, the most precise temporal sequence.
Both grew through mutual interaction, but ultimately, The First Generation’s growth far surpassed Xu Wei’s.
The First Generation, without sequence 12 Temporal Return, had almost achieved the same level of precise control over his body as Temporal Return.
"Take a minute before now as an example, shall we compare?" The First Generation suggested.
Xu Wei didn’t mind:
"Sure, but you’ve always lost before."
The First Generation and Xu Wei had gone through many such contests these days.
The two continuously activated their temporal power, returning to one minute prior, to sixty seconds of sixty different states.
This required precise control of time.
It looks far less magical than traveling back to several days before, but both are different tests.
The latter is like a person throwing a shot put a thousand meters.
But the former requires you to throw it exactly nine hundred ninety-eight meters.
One is about maximum strength, the other about control.
The First Generation had always lost before, with Xu Wei being able to deploy Temporal Return repeatedly within a minute to return his body to fifty-four of the sixty states within those sixty seconds.
The First Generation couldn’t do it before, not even going back one minute, always exerting too much force and accidentally breaking through the temporal barrier, entering a timeline that could disturb the cause and effect...
But with continuous practice with Xu Wei, The First Generation had made significant progress.
Initially, he would land several weeks before...
And sometimes, even a slight surge of emotion would take him back decades...
But later on, these errors became smaller and smaller.
By the seventh contest, The First Generation had reduced his error unit from weeks to days.
And by the eleventh contest, from days to hours.
By the twenty-fifth contest, from hours to minutes.
Now it was the one hundred forty-fourth attempt... At the one hundred forty-third, The First Generation’s error unit was still minutes.
Xu Wei was shocked by The First Generation’s performance at first, but as the contests repeated, Xu Wei believed—
The First Generation would not be able to use origin power as precisely as a sequence.
When The First Generation suggested another contest of this sort, Xu Wei was unconcerned.
"Sure, let’s do it! But it’ll most likely be a waste of effort."
Xu Wei’s figure kept shifting, the changes of a person in a single minute almost imperceptible.
Especially since neither of them made any big movements.
But The First Generation could feel it.
A minute passed quickly, and during that time, The First Generation once again marveled at the subtlety of Temporal Return.
"It’s your turn... Actually, such a contest is quite meaningless. Sequences are sequences because they are a tool that allows one to do things that are impossible with mere temporal power."
"So no matter how hard you try, it’s unlikely that..."
Xu Wei was in the middle of his lengthy explanation, but his words suddenly stopped.
The figure of The First Generation in front of him became slightly blurry, flickering...
However, if one did not look closely or feel the fluctuations of temporal power, it would seem like The First Generation hadn’t changed at all.
Only Xu Wei could sense... The First Generation’s control over temporal power was becoming more and more precise!
In that minute, The First Generation managed to return himself to fifty-two of the sixty-second states, closely following Xu Wei’s fifty-four states.
"No way, no way, no way! How did you suddenly become so precise?"
"It just feels like the time was right," The First Generation admitted frankly.
Xu Wei clapped his hands:
"Congratulations... Now, even without Temporal Return, you have essentially mastered it."
Xu Wei had an axe that could swiftly chop down a tree.
The First Generation initially lacked an axe, but as he continuously changed himself, he eventually could slice through a tree as if his body were an axe.
Xu Wei relied on tools, The First Generation on his own efforts.
"Now, probably only Jing Si and Alpha are stronger than you, right? Speaking of which, what’s the purpose of you learning this..." Xu Wei still felt very shocked.
To Xu Wei, Temporal Return was a means of saving his own life, recording his various states through time, so that in the face of any danger, he could keep reloading.
But in his view, The First Generation didn’t need to do that.
The First Generation could move himself to different times and spaces at any time.
The First Generation was silent, merely looking at his own hands.
But Xu Wei wouldn’t let the silence settle, and thus continued to talk about various matters.
The First Generation wasn’t interested in listening and finally explained:
"We who possess Temporal Power, when it becomes strong enough, can ignore temporal paradoxes."
"So what? What will you do by ignoring the paradox?" Xu Wei didn’t understand.
"It’s a secret for now, I can’t tell you yet," The First Generation thought to himself.
To seal Alpha, the possessors of Temporal Power must come together to form an array.
And with Jing Si, who had Reincarnation, The Pursuer and Yin He, who now had Temporal Power, along with Xu Wei... With so many people together, the converged Temporal Power would certainly be astounding.
If possible, he hoped to accomplish what only a god could.
This was also the final words left by Qian Yixin:
"Do as you please."
And what The First Generation was thinking... was astonishing.
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Inside the Mist, an unknown area.
The fog swirled, and the rocks were rugged, with purple poisonous, acidic mucus scattered on the ground.
This mucus emitted green smoke, filling the area with a stench.
A powerful level 8 Mutant fell with a howl.
The Crimson figure, like a peerless swordsman, didn’t cause the Mutant any pain.
The moment the Doomsday Puzzle fragment fell, Nie Chongshan’s attention wasn’t even on the fragment.
Merged with Liu Mu, he had promised to protect the shorty with his life.
Now the shorty was no longer present, replaced by that slender, Crimson figure.
This made Nie Chongshan feel guilty.
Yet it also left him astonished.
Although Wu Jiu’s Evil Fallen Transformation was clear to bring about a change in strength, especially given Wu Jiu’s already unfathomable level of power.
He hadn’t expected that after the Evil Fallen Transformation, Wu Jiu could become even stronger.
In the Evil Fallen City, after merging with Liu Mu, Nie Chongshan thought he was a unique monster second only to those with the power of the Well.
But facing the Crimson figure, he was sure he stood no chance.
And for some reason, it was as if he could sense another aura on Wu Jiu.
Since becoming Evil Fallen, Wu Jiu had seemingly become aware of many things once he regained consciousness.
Waking from the Ark, the first thing Wu Jiu did was to gather the three calamities—Calamity, Disease, and Disasters—then he tried to make contact with the various people from the shelter.
Nie Chongshan, Gu Hailin, Zheng Yue, Calamity, Disease, Disasters, Wu Jiu.
These people formed the Doomsday Puzzle collection team.
Wu Jiu seemed purposeful as he continuously collected Puzzle fragments in various regions.
Many regions lacked Doomsday Puzzle fragments.
Yet Wu Jiu seemed to have a built-in fragment radar, as every region he went to invariably concealed a fragment of the Doomsday Puzzle.
At this moment, another fragment was in hand, one of the four pieces.
This time the fragment represented the Four Symbols: the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
Next, they had to venture into three more areas to obtain the fragments of the Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird.
In these days, they had already obtained quite a few sets of four-grouped fragments.
Like Demons and Ghosts, wind, rain, snow, mist, or four different constellation patterns...
The efficiency was so high it was astounding.
But every time... after killing a Fragment Guardian of the area, Wu Jiu would perform certain actions.
Zheng Yue watched Wu Jiu and said to Nie Chongshan beside him,
"He’s started again... Did these behaviors begin after he became an Evil Fallen?"
Nie Chongshan replied,
"It seems so. In the past, this kid would just kill with his sword and that would be that, he definitely wouldn’t perform these actions."
At this moment, Wu Jiu, with his eyes closed, used his blood-stained fingers to inscribe a character on the forehead of the dead monster.
This was a blessing word that spread in the third layer of the Well World.
When an Evil Fallen died, if Crimson saw it, she would bestow luck on the other in this manner.
Hopeful that the other could receive protection in the real world.
Not long ago, Wu Jiu had undergone an Evil Fallen Transformation.
In his consciousness, he met Crimson for the first time.
But long before that, Crimson had already started to notice Wu Jiu.
If there was a person who could become his human vessel, it would certainly be Wu Jiu.
For Wu Jiu, the moment Crimson entrusted him with her memories made him quite proud.
If there was someone who could become his Evil Fallen Body, it would inevitably be Crimson. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
Two heroes in their own worlds had earned each other’s recognition.
So, unlike other humans who had undergone the Evil Fallen Transformation,
Wu Jiu received the memories of Crimson.
To Crimson, many of these Area Fragment Guardians were once old friends who had blessed her within the Well World.
Now having to kill them and take the fragments... Wu Jiu was actually somewhat sad inside.
But the memories from Crimson let him understand the significance of the Doomsday Puzzle fragments.
He needed to be ready to help Bai Wu with these things at the first instance Bai Wu required them.
After the prayer was over, Wu Jiu stood up,
"Let’s go, everyone, to the next area."
Nie Chongshan nodded, but he had a question,
"The last time we faced Zhong Xu, I saw you like this, but back then, your body didn’t have these patterns. What do they represent?"
"They represent sacrifice."
Back in the Color Domain, Wu Jiu had become an Evil Fallen through Bai Wu’s wristwatch.
Now, Wu Jiu looked approximately eighty percent similar to how he was back then.
The missing twenty percent were the marks on his body that resembled shackles.
Nie Chongshan didn’t understand, and Wu Jiu didn’t explain much, only smiled,
"It’s my trump card. Let’s go, Elder Nie, our mission is a daunting one."
Different from The First Generation Jing Si and others, Wu Jiu chose to support Bai Wu.
The First Generation, The Pursuer, even Xu Wei, and the scientists in Denglin City, they were all the fighters of the previous era.
They were working toward sealing Alpha by improving themselves.
But Wu Jiu, Zheng Yue, Nie Chongshan, and Bai Wu were the fighters of this era, and to defeat Twisted, they had chosen another way.
And both groups were destined to meet on the final stage.
Zheng Yue looked at Wu Jiu, who was leading the way, and the typically nonchalant man, who rarely felt anything stirring inside, suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable,
"I remember his wife was quite beautiful. Well, not wife exactly, but if he were still human... he might get married and have children in the future, right?"
"What kind of heart does this guy have? Is he not even a little bit sad for himself?"
Jiang Zhu, Liu Bingshu, and Li Xin, after hearing Zheng Yue’s words and having worked with Wu Jiu these days, admired him more and more.
"Being a hero is truly no easy task."
