Li Leider walked across the desolate lands of the Gray World.
His British Overcoat fluttered gently in the wind. Like a silent ghost, he drifted alone through the dreary realm, his head bowed in deep thought.
He believed that under Ying Fu's command, there had to be soone who possessed the Heart Python or another thod to erase mories. Given the emperor's cunning and power, he could undoubtedly handle it perfectly... However, Ying Fu had to guard the Chengtian Domain. This ant that aside from Chengtian, the mories of the inhabitants of the other seven domains still needed to be wiped.
The problem was that even with Li Leider being as powerful as he was now—wielding the strongest Heart Python in history—he still could not devour the mories of tens of millions of people regarding the Red Star and Chen Ling. The sheer volu was simply too massive. Even Li Leider could not endure the toll; his Heart Python would undoubtedly be bursting at the seams until it ruptured.
If he wanted to devour everyone's mories, he had to beco even stronger...
"I need more Red Star Aspiration Power,"
Li Leider muttered to himself.
But by now, he had completely drained the entire Scarlet Heaven Cult on Earth. In the recent battle, aside from the portions ignited by the Seven Monarchs, all the remaining fragnts had been restructured by the core...
Where was he supposed to find more Red Star Aspiration Power?
Li Leider's frown deepened.
Just as his thoughts reached a dead end,
the void a short distance away rippled like overlapping waves. A figure wearing a white lab coat stumbled out from within!
"Holy crap..."
"I actually did it... Altering mass through the Higgs boson really can open a wormhole for ti travel?!"
"I actually reached the future?!"
"Hahahahahaha!!!"
"I'm so fucking aweso!"
A youthful figure simply jumped for joy in the Gray World, as excited as a little kid.
Li Leider stared blankly at the figure, frozen in place like a statue.
For the first ti, he felt that this world was incredibly surreal and absurd.
At this mont,
Li Qingshan's final words echoed in his ears:
"The scales of victory will eventually tip in our favor."
...
"What did you say?"
Sun Bumian turned to look at Liu Qingyan in astonishnt. "Aside from the four King cards in the Dusk Society... the first person to advance to Rank 8 has appeared?"
"...Yes," Liu Qingyan nodded. "I'm quite surprised as well."
"Is it the Queen of Hearts?"
"No."
"Who is it then?"
"...Eight of Diamonds."
Sun Bumian froze.
It took him a long mont to recall who exactly the Eight of Diamonds was... He spoke in disbelief,
"How could it be him?"
"He received the true legacy of a Rank 8 practitioner of the Path of the Scholar God. After coming out of seclusion, he advanced to Rank 8."
"???" Sun Bumian was flabbergasted. "How co I've never heard of any Divine Path where the rank can rely on being 'passed down'?"
"It's the first ti I've heard of it too." Liu Qingyan pulled out a book from nowhere.
"But I later flipped through the ancient texts and found that a similar case occurred during the Song Dynasty... So this isn't entirely unprecedented, the probability is just incredibly low, and we happened to run into it."
Sun Bumian took the book to look at it. Among the densely packed historical records, there was indeed a single line of text:
"In the autumn of the third year of Qingli, a certain Huang, a Rank 8 of the Scholar Path, passed away at ho. His son received the words passed down from his heart's blood and entered Rank 8 overnight."
"...It's actually possible?"
Sun Bumian murmured to himself. "Why haven't I heard of this before... But then again, there are so many people in this world; it's perfectly normal that there are things I don't know..."
Just as the two were talking, Li Qingshan, who was sitting on a chair to the side resting with his eyes closed, suddenly felt sothing and slowly opened his eyes.
He rubbed his chin with one hand, as if pondering sothing.
"Mister Chen, what do you think?"
He turned his head to look behind him.
"There's a problem," the Red-Clad Perforr answered without hesitation. "The letter carrier shouldn't have advanced to Rank 8 at this ti, and the thod is simply too unbelievable..."
"Is it a bad thing?"
"No..."
The Red-Clad Perforr pondered for a mont. "Perhaps, my self on the Red Star did sothing. Otherwise, all of this is far too coincidental."
The 'Chen Ling' manifested through Li Qingshan's True Self Performance only retained mories up to the mont Chen Ling released the Audience and shot himself with the revolver. However, he possessed the sa way of thinking as Chen Ling, and his perspective on matters was completely identical.
He could sense that behind the letter carrier inexplicably becoming Rank 8, there had to be a pair of invisible hands exerting force.
He carefully calculated in his heart and suddenly realized sothing.
"Invite the Eight of Diamonds over. I need him to help deliver a letter."
...
The invisible Heart Python slowly crawled off Ji Xuan.
This clueless Ji Xuan from the past stood frozen in place for a long ti before he snapped out of it:
"Are you saying... you want to return to the past and help you collect the Red Star Fragnts that were blasted into space by the nuclear bombs?"
"That is correct, Your Excellency Lord of Hanging Jade," Li Leider said respectfully, placing one hand over his chest like a gentleman who had long admired Ji Xuan. "This era is the worst of eras, and we are trying every possible thod to fight the Red Star... But here, there are no extra Red Star Fragnts left."
"Now, only you—soone capable of opening a wormhole and traveling through ti—can reverse the past and save the humanity of this era."
"Hmm... I suppose it's possible, but can these Red Star Fragnts really be collected?"
"They can."
Li Leider took off his fedora and handed it to Ji Xuan. "This hat can steal anything, and it can also contain Red Star Fragnts."
Ji Xuan took the hat, played with it carefully for a mont, and gave a slight nod.
"Alright, I understand."
"There is one more thing. You need to be careful of that man among you nad Lou Yu," Li Leider stated solemnly. "I interacted with him in my Tiline Save File. I personally believe that his style of doing things is extrely radical, and he will slaughter innocents in the future... If possible, do not let him grow too quickly."
Li Leider had devoured the mories of the fifth-generation Dusk Society mbers using the Heart Python, so he knew what the Lord of Wuji had done. Li Leider himself had also used the Primal Beginning to operate within the Tiline Save File for a long ti, crossing paths with this Lord of Wuji... He knew how uncontrollable that guy was. If Li Leider was to reboot the world as the Seventh-Generation Red King in the future, the Lord of Wuji would undoubtedly beco an obstacle.
"Slaughter innocents??" Ji Xuan furrowed his brows. "In my impression, Dr. Lou doesn't seem like that kind of person..."
The Heart Python coiled on Ji Xuan's shoulder and took another vicious bite.
"I understand," Ji Xuan nodded. "Since that's the case, I will keep an eye on him."
"There is one more thing..."
Li Leider paused for a mont. "If you run into Chen Ling in the past, try not to interact with him. As I just told you, even he does not know the future's trajectory. Communicating with him recklessly might alter history..."
"However, you can pass a ssage to him for ..."
"What is it?"
The corners of Li Leider's mouth curled up slightly.
"The Seventh-Generation Red King... sends his regards."
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