Chapter 71: Time Restarts, I'm a Chess Player (Part II)
The wind tore through the mountains, carried the gravel and danced wildly, and the aftermath was swept away and dissipated into powder.
The cracked earth was overwhelmed, and the aftermath of each collision ploughed the earth up, causing it to collapse and sink.
This heaven and earth seemed to be experiencing the end of the world, and the sky that was originally surging with black clouds had already been filled with spatial cracks.
It's like a piece of shattered glass that can tip down at any moment.
Blue energy and blood energy squeezed this world, tearing the world into distinct red and blue colors, each on one side of the world.
Su Nian could clearly feel that the power of the Angry Demon was further increasing in battle, and the anger emotion was like a source of energy for it, making it even more powerful.
He didn't understand why Ji Yun was still making provocative remarks, this move was obviously not good for him.
The angry demon's attack gradually became more and more violent, and its height rose little by little, and at this time, it took the initiative to step out of the blood-colored realm where it was located, and went straight into the blue energy realm created by Ji Yun.
Carrying the effects of the corrosion of time, a hideous smile appeared on the corner of the angry demon's mouth.
A second in the blue space may be ten years or a hundred years, if ordinary life is in the blue energy field, it will experience a rapid aging process in a short period of time, and finally usher in death in aging.
But the angry demon resisted the corrosion of time with his vigorous vitality, and the wrinkles on his face disappeared as the blood-colored streamer swept away.
Rumble!
The steel fork burning with blood-colored flames in his hand struck out at the same time, and the furious blood-colored energy instantly overwhelmed the blue energy, turning into a rising wave and slamming down.
Red and blue energy are intertwined, and the already overwhelmed scene collapses.
Like a ball full of gas being punctured, this space quickly dissipated, and the outside world was covered, and Su Nian, who was protected in a blue bubble, saw an inky first quarter moon hanging high in the sky.
Ji Yun and the power of the Angry Demon tear apart the Lower Quarter Moon Scene, piercing the world barriers, causing them to descend on the First Quarter Moon Scene.
Su Nian turned his head to look down, and what appeared in front of him was a majestic city, with towering golden walls, a large number of defensive towers standing in the city, and countless giant beasts defending the city flying around the city under the control of the soldiers.
The city was extremely well guarded.
But in front of the power of Ji Yun and the angry demon, it was like tissue paper.
Finding that the sky was rendered red and blue, countless dark-skinned alien beings in the city looked up at the sky, their eyes full of doubts.
No one could have imagined that this would be the last image they would see before the end of their lives.
Rumble!
The red and blue storms swept across the land, and the majestic golden city dissipated into wind and sand, including all life in the city.
The aftermath was approaching, and the surface of the blue bubble in front of Su Nian was flooded with layers of ripples.
Looking up, the city ahead was long gone.
Prosperity and sinkholes, change is only in a moment.
Neither Ji Yun nor the Angry Demon looked down at the erased city, and the battle continued.
"Anger, why don't you release your foresight of the future, you can't make me do my best at all."
As he spoke, Ji Yun's arm passed through the blood and grabbed the arm where the angry demon had fallen.
Rumble!
The raging air currents radiated in all directions around them, and Ji Yun's arms were blue light, while the angry arms were aging at a speed visible to the naked eye, with folds appearing on them.
"You're not enough right now."
The angry demon replied in a hoarse voice, and the terrifying power of his hand burst out around him, knocking Ji Yun back.
Roar!
With a roar, the Angry Demon opened its arms and slammed it together in the direction where Ji Yun was.
The blood-colored air flow collapsed and coalesced, turning into a blood-colored angry dragon and crashing straight into Ji Yun.
Ji Yun raised his hand at this time, and the blue energy gathered in front of him, turning into an energy light shield.
The blood and blue collided again, and when the blood-colored angry dragon dissipated, the figure of the angry demon appeared through the blood mist, and the arms holding the steel fork smashed down with the force of splitting Huashan.
Rumble!
This blow shook the scene of the first quarter moon, and the dense energy bubble collided with the center as the starting point, quickly spreading and spreading, exploding countless sonic booms.
Ji Yun's flesh and blood body instantly shattered and turned into powder, and then disappeared under the energy wash, leaving only a mark hovering in the air, and the surface was full of brilliance.
At this time, the powder condensed into flesh and blood, and the flesh flowed backwards and reassembled into Ji Yun's body.
He smiled and looked at the angry demon:
"It's okay this time, but not enough to kill me."
"Kill you a thousand times, I don't believe you can be resurrected forever."
A new round of fierce fighting is about to break out.
Ji Yun under the protection of time could not be killed at all.
Even if the flesh is crumbled into powder, as long as time goes back, the body can be reunited.
Constantly shattering Ji Yun's body, the anger demon's emotions became more and more out of control.
As if having made some kind of decision, a mark of brilliance appeared on the forehead of the angry demon:
"As you wish"
At this moment, the angry demon finally chose to release the ability to foresee the future, and the mark on his forehead burst into bright light.
The world in front of him has become a structure intertwined with countless colored lines in the eyes of the angry demon, each timeline representing a direction of things.
At this moment, he stretched out his hand to grasp a fate line connected to Ji Yun.
In an instant, countless information poured into his mind, and Ji Yun's next move was under control.
The fate line connected to Ji Yun exposed all his secrets to the angry demon.
But the angry demon's face showed a frightened expression, and it suddenly looked up at Ji Yun, a look of disbelief appeared in its eyes.
On the other side, seeing the angry demon attack with all his might, a bright smile appeared on Ji Yun's face:
"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
Hearing these words, Su Nian, who was protected by blue bubbles in the distance, was suddenly excited, thinking that Ji Yun was leaving a back hand, and now he seized the opportunity to start a counterattack.
But to his surprise, Ji Yun turned his head to look at him:
"Brother Nian, do you remember the last card game between you and me?"
Hearing these words, Su Nian's heart suddenly rose with strong uneasiness.
Then the picture of his last card game with Ji Yun came to mind, and when he won the victory.
"Giving up this important hand to pave the way for the growth of other hands, you lose...... This is called dark Chen Cang, and you can't bear to let the child trap you. ”
In the same way, Ji Yun also asked him on the rooftop.
Looking at Ji Yun with a bright smile from afar, Su Nian suddenly realized what Ji Yun was going to do next.
"Brother Nian, this trick is too strong, I learned it secretly."
Ji Yun turned to look at the angry demon at this time, his body was instantly enveloped in blue energy, and he crashed towards him in the angry demon's unbelievable expression:
"Angry, we never really won or lost each other, because as long as I lived, I had the opportunity to start over, so I didn't dare to ...... But this time, I'm going to split the winner with you. ”
Ji Yun, who turned into a blue streamer, collided with the Angry Demon, and the Time Control Mark on his forehead broke away from his body and crashed into the Foresight Future Mark on the Angry Demon's forehead.
"You're crazy!"
The anger in the eyes of the Angry Demon was instantly eroded by fear.
The moment he caught Ji Yun's fate line, he knew Ji Yun's true purpose.
The unhappiness he showed before was not to challenge him stronger, but to use the time in his hand to control the mark and destroy the foresight of the future in his hand.
At this point, it's too late to dodge.
It could only watch as the two sigils collided in front of its eyes, cracks appearing on its surface at the same time.
"Get out!"
The angry demon roared hysterically, reaching for the two sigils that were canceling each other out, trying to separate them.
"Time is on my side, your long life may not end, but there must be a beginning."
Ji Yun, who was shrouded in time energy, stretched out his hand and pointed at the center of the angry demon's eyebrows, and the moment the blue energy shrouded his body accelerated, and he easily touched the center of the angry demon's eyebrows.
The angry demon's body trembled, and he wanted to struggle, but it was too late.
His body had begun to contract.
This time, without it, it experienced accelerated aging, and time rushed in the other direction, and the huge body of the angry demon continued to shrink, scars appeared on different parts of the body, and then quickly disappeared.
These scars were all too familiar to him, the marks of a veteran of his battles for the Infernal God, they had stayed on his body for a short time, and in severe cases, they had almost killed him, but eventually disappeared as he grew.
It also doesn't remember how many times it was injured, only that it crawled out of the mountain of corpses and blood, step by step, to where it is today.
Every scar is a memory of the past, proof that he became the commander of the First Legion.
At this moment, it is as if the memories in my mind are also going back in time, and the past keeps passing through my mind, uncontrollably moving towards the starting point.
"Don't."
The angry demon's mouth made a childish sound, but his body was still shrinking further.
Even in the face of death, he was never afraid of him, but he was completely afraid of Ji Yun's time reversal.
It knew what it was going to face next, to be completely erased from its existence.
"Anger, it turns out that you will also be afraid, in my eyes you used to be fearless."
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The angry demon burned the qi and blood in his body, and kept smashing his fists on Ji Yun's body, trying to force Ji Yun back in this way.
But no matter how he made a move, Ji Yun was not as easily shattered as before.
At this time, Ji Yun was shrouded in blue light, and his body was temporarily fixed by time.
This moment is eternal, external forces cannot make Ji Yun's body fluctuate for a second, and time has been completely locked.
The Angry Demon was completely panicked, and could only attack the guy in front of him with all his might.
Click!
At this moment, a crisp cracking sound sounded.
Time is like an inverted hourglass, finally passing again.
But the power of the Angry Demon was already difficult to inflict substantial damage on Ji Yunzai.
The strength gained through the long years of struggle has long since disappeared under the witness of time.
But Ji Yun's body also reached the limit of what it could bear, and a crack appeared on the surface of his body, followed by a second and a third ...... The body that filled the memory image was finally overwhelmed, and the memory followed the blue energy through the cracks, rendering the entire sky.
Su Nian looked up at the sky and saw incredible scenes of memory.
This is a tortuous experience that Ji Yun has never recounted.
In these scenes, he saw Ji Yun become a conscripted warrior, and through his efforts to step into the inner city, until he stood in the core area of Purgatory City, he became the best among the conscripted soldiers.
Suffering and setbacks did not make Ji Yun fall, let alone abandon his dreams.
At the end of this scene, in the process of exploring the decaying world, Ji Yun accidentally gains the mark of time control.
It was a blue mark, with complex patterns on its surface, suspended in the darkness, like a bright light guiding Ji Yun to approach.
This mark, Ji Yun called it a miracle.
Because it gave Ji Yun the power to create the impossible.
From that moment on, Ji Yun embarked on a lonely and long road to chasing his dreams.
Broken limbs and discarded on the battlefield littered with corpses, Ji Yun licked his wounds in the sunset, laughing and muttering:
"Hehe, I'm not dead, just start over."
was betrayed by his teammates, fled all the way, vomited blood on the way, and every step was a bloody footprint, but Ji Yun still had a smile on his face:
"It hurts, hold on a little longer, find a place where no one is around, and restart."
shivering and hiding in the dungeon full of ice crystals, even though he was about to collapse, he was still cheering himself up:
"It's not terrible to fail, it's terrible to lose the confidence to start over, Ji Yun, you kid have to hold on to me, and you're still a good man when you start over."
……
Ji Yun, who gained control of time, rushed to the road of chasing his dreams, enduring countless pains and despair.
But he can always stand up with a smile, wipe off the dust on his body, and continue to run on the road of chasing his dreams.
Countless times of time restart, the head of black hair turned white, and the vitality in the body was gradually depleted, and it could no longer be repaired by any means.
Ke Jiyun is still continuing to restart.
Unwilling to give up, he continued to try all possibilities, trying to break through the blockade of the Purgatory God.
After countless reboots, the black hair turned white, and the vitality in the body gradually ran out, and it could not be repaired by any means.
Until another restart, Ji Yun met him in Purgatory City.
This timeline, Ji Yun smiled very happily, although there was not much time left for him, but he found a new path full of hope.
But that timeline soon came to an end.
Because there is a huge roadblock in front of this road.
If the boulder cannot be removed, the road will not be possible.
With a new beginning, Ji Yun decides to hide his secrets, reduce the timeline information that he can capture in the future, and protect the successor he sees as a replacement.
But the timeline still fails.
The flame of life that is about to burn out is like a candle in the wind.
Next, it was the last time he set foot on the journey.
On the night of the restart of time, Ji Yun thought a lot, and the past flashed in his mind like a slide.
In the end, he made a choice, deciding to burn the last of his afterglow to open up a possible path to the future for this path of success.
At one time he was a chess player, playing against the God of Purgatory in countless reboots.
But this time, he chose a piece on the board.
To enter the chess game, just to win the day and half a son.
Looking at Ji Yun's rapidly decomposing body, Su Nian's eyes were blurred with tears, he finally knew Ji Yun's secret, and also understood the meaning behind the words he had inadvertently said.
When he first met while exploring the Decaying World, when he asked Ji Xiu how his mortal body could fight against the Purgatory God, Ji Yun said in a joking tone:
"Exploring the Corrupt World is our chance to rebel against the Infernal God, because the Rotten World has infinite possibilities, maybe I can gain the power to surpass the Infernal God in the process of continuous exploration, and then free all mankind from the Purgatory God."
Behind the joke, there is Ji Yun's secret.
He finally understood why Ji Yun said in an admonishing tone:
"If you have acquired abilities like those of the Infernal God, do not enslave conscripted warriors through oppression and death threats...... Perhaps, one of the enslaved ones will be able to change their lives in the process of exploring the decaying world, and gain the ability to splatter the blood of the gods in five steps. ”
This sentence is exactly what Ji Yun himself is talking about.
Having gained the mark of time control, he was once a chess player against the God of Purgatory, and it was proved that the gods were not untouchable.
During this period of getting along, what Ji Yun said echoed in Su Nian's mind.
"Brother Nian, there have never been natural heroes in this world, only mortals who have stepped forward, most of them have fallen on the way forward, and a very few have been reborn as heroes in the eyes of people in the fire...... Maybe I can't, but I believe that there will be people among thousands of fellow travelers who will achieve the impossible, such as you. ”
"Being brave doesn't mean you won't be afraid, it's just that you will choose to move on when you're afraid."
"Dreams are not something that you say in your mouth, you can understand dreams as a kind of spiritual sustenance, the process of weaving dreams, but also weaving expectations for yourself to grow and progress, this is the process of accumulating motivation, so that you will not be shaken by the confusion and unknown of the road ahead, and you can wake up every day to know what you want to do...... Becoming a big hero is our dream, and it can also be the driving force for our progress. ”
"Dreams must be wanton, even dreams must be cautious, how can restrained dreams be worthy of the word dreams."
"The sunset does not mean the end, the light will rise from the other side across the darkness, the same is true for dreams, failure does not mean the end, silence in the darkness for a while, and then burst into light again, every reincarnation restart is a new beginning."
"When I was younger, I was always worried about what role I should play when the Terrans were in danger...... The thoughts that came to my mind at that time have not been shaken to this day. ”
……
Ji Yun was hanging in the air, and his body was rapidly decomposing.
The angry demon in front of him had turned into a baby, and with a cry, life receded to the beginning, and finally crossed the beginning of birth in the blue light of time, and disappeared.
Ji Yun, who was hanging in the air, turned his head to look at him at this time, and his face was already full of cracks with a bright smile:
"Brother Nian...... Going to say goodbye...... No...... This time it should be goodbye. ”
"Ah Yun." Su Nian's eyes were blurred with tears, and he reached out to grab the dying Ji Yun and mend his broken body, but he couldn't do anything.
At this moment, he hated his weakness immensely and couldn't change the upcoming ending.
Ji Yun's cracked body drifted away in the wind, and the two broken marks that had already fused together fell from the sky.
The blue bubble in front of Su Nian also shattered at this time.
He struggled to his feet, clutching the shattered mark of time in his hand before it hit the ground.
A ray of blue light from the residual mark poured into his body, and Ji Yun's laughter sounded in his ears for the last time:
"Brother Nian, I said that I would break the shackles for you, even if I fought for my life, I would make it impossible for you to achieve...... Now that my journey is over, it's time for you to set sail...... Come on. ”
(The foreshadowing line of this chapter is sorted out: the main foreshadowing plot enters the decaying world for the second time in chapter 17, followed by the related plots of chapters 21 and 38, and some of the chapters with buried details will not be sorted out.) )