【You weren’t using clones just now.】
【In reality, all nine attacks were launched by you alone.】
【You were simply too fast.】
【You moved so quickly that it seemed as though you had appeared in nine places at once.】
【This is a movement technique!】
【It is a new divine art you comprehended by combining the Divine Movement ability with the fifth-grade spell, “Seven Steps Through the Starry Sky.”】
【You named it—“Quantum Ghoststep”!】
【Once activated, this divine art makes you move as swiftly as a ghost, leaving afterimages everywhere.】
【Any one of those afterimages could be your true body, because each was left behind when you deliberately slowed down at a certain moment.】
【And of course, you slowed down in order to attack.】
【That was why it seemed as though you were attacking from countless directions at once.】
【Although the Earthbinding Ghost Chains had successfully bound the nine experts of the Absolute Realm together and restricted their movements,】
【they clearly couldn’t hold for long.】
【Once the nine of them joined forces, the Earthbinding Ghost Chains would certainly be destroyed.】
【You wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to finish all nine of them at once.】
【But it was a risky move.】
【Your destructive power might not be enough to kill them effectively, not with their divine arts, spirit treasures, divine markings, and other defensive measures.】
【If you failed to kill all nine, you would miss the best chance to escape.】
【“Brother Chen! Go! A hundred li west of here, there’s a solitary mountain. An old friend of yours is waiting there! He can take you away from Blazelight Star!”】
【“An old friend?”】
【“Hurry! I’ll hold them off!”】
【“Senior Shen, you…”】
【You suddenly saw Shen Yifeng slam a palm into his own dantian and pull out his core!】
【Though you didn’t understand what he was doing, you could imagine that it was certainly nothing good.】
【Whoosh!】
【You activated Quantum Ghoststep, transforming into layers upon layers of afterimages. In the blink of an eye, you had vanished from the battlefield around the starport.】
【Behind you came Shen Yifeng’s booming laughter.】
【“Hahahaha! I, Shen Yifeng, have lived a wretched life beneath the rule of the alien races! I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life! Death may be light as a feather, or weightier than Mount Tai!”】
【At the same time, the nine alien leaders of the Absolute Realm, who were destroying the Earthbinding Ghost Chains, cried out in terror.】
【“Stop! You lunatic!”】
【“It’s the forbidden technique, Yuan Core Ignition! Get away from him! If you’re too close, you’ll be blown to death!”】
【“Forget this damned chain! Run!”】
【“To the left!”】
【“The right!”】
【“Oh, for heaven’s sake! Straight ahead!”】
【Nine experts of the Absolute Realm, nine different opinions.】
【By the time they reached a consensus, it was already too late.】
【A radiance bright enough to dim the sunlight erupted from the earth. A vast mushroom cloud surged ten thousand meters into the sky, scattering the endless white clouds.】
【BOOOOM!!!!!!!】
【Shen Yifeng had perished together with his enemies.】
【For his entire life, he had maintained an obscure human sect, struggling to survive under the rule of alien sects.】
【With his cultivation, it would have been easy for him to retreat into the deep mountains and live a carefree life.】
【But he hadn’t.】
【It was nothing more than a single thought: to save all living beings.】
【Unfortunately, he did not possess the ability to accomplish something so grand. He could only do everything within his power.】
【Using a forbidden technique, he detonated his own core. He killed the enemies, but many of his allies were caught in the blast as well.】
【Yet no one would blame him.】
【Everyone who had taken part in the operation had signed a life-and-death contract before setting out.】
【If they lived, it was because Heaven had favored them.】
【If they died, it was because they had sacrificed themselves for the survival of their people, with no shame before Heaven or earth.】
【In a world where the immortal path reigned supreme, strength represented the right to be heard.】
【If every member of the human race were an ordinary mortal, humanity would be reduced to ants beneath the feet of others.】
【Only by protecting those gifted in cultivation could they plant hope for the future.】
【It was precisely because their predecessors had always done the same that the torch had been passed down, allowing some human sects to remain on Blazelight Star even now.】
【If the people of today do not follow in the footsteps of those who came before, how could there be a today?】
【You stood a hundred li away, the light from the detonation of the core illuminating your face.】
【“It’s happening again…”】
【It had happened on Fortune Star, and now it was happening on Blazelight Star.】
【Your fists clenched tightly.】
【You knew that this wasn’t a problem with Fortune Star, nor with Blazelight Star, nor with the Winged God Sect, nor with the three great sects.】
【The problem was with this entire world!】
【The boundless firmament, the endless starry cosmos, the countless races beneath Heaven and earth—why was there no room for humanity?!】
【Where, exactly, had things gone wrong?!】
【Your gaze turned toward the void, pierced through space and time, and once again met the eyes of your self beyond the simulation.】
In the real world.
Chen Yi sat in the courtyard of his home, watching the simulated deduction unfold.
Even though this was only a simulation, he still felt deeply troubled by what he had seen.
One could glimpse the larger picture from the smaller one. In that boundless true world, humanity’s plight was likely the same everywhere.
Stories even more tragic and heroic than what his simulated self had experienced were probably unfolding every day.
“Brother, we’ll definitely uncover the reason behind all of this. Let’s do our best to survive and live this life well.”
【You turned and climbed the mountain. As you drew closer to the summit, you sensed a familiar aura.】
【“Could it be…”】
【You weren’t entirely certain.】
【Not until you reached the mountaintop and saw that black steed.】
【“Black Wind?!”】
【“Boss!”】
【After fighting your way out through a bitter battle, your body drenched in blood, you embraced Black Wind’s neck and held him close.】
【“Black Wind, what are you doing on Blazelight Star?”】
【The year you set foot on the Ascension Road, you had told Black Wind to take the Ascension Road to the true world the following year.】
【You knew that Black Wind would certainly come to the true world. But the true world was unimaginably vast, and there were countless branches along the Ascension Road. You had never dared to hope that you would reunite with him in this lifetime.】
【You never expected life to give you such a wonderful surprise.】
【Black Wind told you that after coming through the Ascension Road, he hadn’t arrived directly on Blazelight Star.】
【Instead, he had reached a place called Watergrass Star.】
【That habitable planet was covered in grasslands, so Black Wind had never needed to worry about finding food there.】
【No intelligent races had settled on Watergrass Star, though merchant caravans would occasionally visit to gather resources.】
【Black Wind had been discovered by one such caravan.】
【“They said I was an ancient divine beast.”】
【“An ancient divine beast? Ah, Black Wind, I knew you were amazing! Anyone could tell you were one of a kind!”】
【“There are countless others like me in another galaxy…”】
【“Yes, yes, of course.”】
【Black Wind belonged to the Dragon-Scaled Horse race, more specifically, the Soul Horse clan.】
【The Dragonfolk, Winged, humans, and demons all belonged to the same broader race, known as the Humanoid races.】
【The galaxy you were currently in was called the Milky Way Galaxy. The Dragon-Scaled Horse race lived in another galaxy, so far away that the distance was impossible to imagine.】
【“The merchant caravan treated me with great respect. They said the Dragon-Scaled Horse race was extremely powerful and wanted to establish a favorable connection with me. They asked whether I had become lost on Watergrass Star and if I wanted to take their starship to search for my kind.
“So I boarded their starship and traveled through many planets along the way.
Not long ago, we arrived at Blazing Light Star.
I heard that a human here once killed a Dragonkin expert in the Transformed Core Realm while at the Heaven-Ascending Realm. It felt very much like Boss’s style, so I stayed behind to look into news of Boss…”
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