Under a sky ablaze with the Scorching Sun, with every instant, a golden-haired figure flickered in different locations, engaging in an endless, desperate dash through the air.
But when the Space Lock spread across the sky and temporal ripples reset everything, as the Dark Moonlight sealed The Six Directions, he quickly fell like a shot bird, overwheld by a pursuer burdened with a heavy Black Coffin. He was pressed down hard upon the mid-air Barrier, creating countless green square ripples.
His legs were severed by Dark Moonlight, his left hand crushed under the icy blade of the Voidwalker, and his right hand shattered from afar by the ripples of ti and space by the Dread Chronomancer.
His capture signified the end of this trial.
Ren Suo looked at the expressionless Sorrowful Face before him and suddenly had the illusion of looking into a mirror.
That smooth, mournful mask seed to reflect his own calm visage.
Among the Emotions, the Voidwalker was joyous and brimming with sympathy, the Dread Chronomancer lazy and playful in corruption, and Mister Darkmoon painstaking yet repressed and wild.
In so sense, only the Black Coffin Demon King was most like him.
If he were a monster, then the Black Coffin Demon King before him was probably a monster too.
He was the calmness of a heart without ripples, while the Black Coffin Demon King was the quiet of emotions burning to the extre.
They were two monsters, each going their own ways, tearing at each other.
"Clever tricks can't defeat us," the Black Coffin Demon King gripped his throat and said coldly. "You realized we could read your mind, so you've been thinking about sixty-seven different things every second to confuse us."
"I must admit, your cleverness is useful, but in terms of raw power, we can easily destroy your sches, suppress your ambition, and tear apart your illusions."
Ren Suo smiled and said, "Without taking the first step, one cannot travel a thousand miles; without gathering small streams, one cannot form rivers and seas. I will gradually improve, step by step I will weaken your advantage, step by step I will compensate for my weakness. In the end, you are rely stepping stones."
"Is that so?" The Voidwalker teleported over and smiled. "But this stepping stone of ours is so large it even blocks the path."
The Dread Chronomancer also ca over and said lazily, "With so much ti, doing sothing else would be better, yet you insist on seeking abuse; it truly hurts just to look at you."
Ren Suo gave a slight smile. "But the end for a stepping stone is always the sa."
Mister Darkmoon, blotting out the sky, transford from moonlight into human form and landed beside, calmly stating, "Do not utter wild words lightly, for that only exposes your weakness."
"Weakness?" Ren Suo wasn't angry at all; he had already lost the function to anger. "Don't misunderstand, I never struggle for ideals that cannot be realized. The fact that I'm willing to spend ti here ans..."
"I am only one step away from Victory. It may require everything I have, but in the end, I shall have Everything One Expects to Find."
The Black Coffin Demon King looked at Ren Suo and shook his head gently. "I no longer know what you're thinking, and I will never be able to understand it."
Ren Suo replied, "Humans can never truly understand one another, which is why wars break out."
"But, perhaps the Door of Truth might be able to solve this problem? I'm very much looking forward to it."
The Black Coffin Demon King snorted coldly. "You an to say that you're a Warrior striving for world peace?"
"Why evaluate with narrow societal rules?" Ren Suo replied. "So-called rules are made for those who cannot survive without abiding by them."
"I'm no longer that kind of weakling, and I don't need to care about the opinions of those petty and ordinary people. Ti will judge , and a great crown will remain for ."
"As long as I have the power of a hero and do heroic deeds, I will beco a hero, whether I want to or not," Ren Suo said. "Only when I wield the Door of Truth and possess power can I express the real without hesitation."
The Black Coffin Demon King, holding Ren Suo's head, asked sorrowfully, "Just for these, are you willing to sacrifice everything?"
"Without input, there is no harvest; such is the truth of this world," Ren Suo replied. "Farrs busy in spring and autumn, students hard at their studies in the cold, office workers busy with the 996 grind… it's all the sa."
The Black Coffin Demon King shook his head. "I really cannot understand you."
"So... would tearing open this chest show your heart, shattering this head reveal your thoughts?"
Amidst heart-wrenching pain, Ren Suo once again returned to the Pristine Space.
He looked up and saw that the three Primordial Flas at the top of the Door of Truth had been extinguished again.
The seventh trial run... Success.
Ren Suo successfully proved that multi-threaded thinking could indeed, to a certain extent, shield his thoughts from being read by the Emotions.
However, facing the combined assault of the four Emotions, Ren Suo's strength was far from reaching the threshold required to compete with them on an equal footing.
But this was only temporary. As long as Ren Suo was willing to spend Krypton Gold to strengthen himself, he would naturally possess the strength to confront them head-on.
First, by trying out the ga and figuring out their details and weaknesses, when it ca to the official playthrough, he could significantly reduce the number of attempts to clear the ga, or even achieve it in one go.
But Ren Suo noticed a problem.
Except for the first reconnaissance run, where the four Emotions would introduce themselves and were willing to chat with Ren Suo for a while, in the subsequent trial runs, the Emotions would no longer introduce themselves but would instead attack Ren Suo together right from the start of the trial.
It was as if only the first run would feature a story CG, and subsequent challenges would skip the story CG altogether.
The pain curse from the Black Coffin Demon King also activated from the beginning of the ga, unlike the first reconnaissance run, where there was a warm-up match with Ren Suo that lasted for more than ten minutes.
Although he missed the great opportunity during the first reconnaissance run, Ren Suo did not care. As the number of reconnaissance runs increased, Ren Suo also gained more intelligence about the four Emotions.
The advantages brought by this intelligence had completely offset the advantage of the first reconnaissance run.
Ren Suo opened the exchange list to confirm that the items he wanted to exchange had not disappeared.
After Ren Suo cleared the fourth trial, the trading permissions underwent a major update, and many new items appeared in the exchange list, such as Angel Zack's "Holy Angel Card," the Ren Family's original version of "Celestial Lord's Form," and the "Duel King's Bracer Collection Card Device" once fleetingly used by an adventurer.
Among them, there were two items that offered the best value for money and were must-exchange trump cards!
"Experience Card: Directly raises cultivation to achieve the First Rank. Value: 100,000 Truth Points. Stock: 1."
"Key of Truth: An essential item to master the Door of Truth. Only with the Key of Truth can one operate the Door of Truth. It contains a hint of the Door of Truth's power, allowing one to Insight into the flow of all things and predict scenes three seconds into the future. Value: 250,000 Truth Points. Stock: 1."
Regardless of bottlenecks or Talent, anyone can use it to directly achieve First Rank Cultivation!
Compared to the Key of Truth, however, the Experience Card was not so significant.
Predicting scenes three seconds into the future—this simple description essentially told Ren Suo, "If you buy this, you're invincible."
The more powerful one is, the higher the benefits one can reap from 'predicting three seconds' ahead.
Given Ren Suo's current ntal capacity and individual strength, theoretically, he could easily defeat You Jiu if he had the Key of Truth.
He also had a 65% chance of defeating Angel Zack, mainly because Ren Suo didn't know if he could breach Angel Zack's Defense; if he could inflict Armor Break, he could defeat Zack.
Moreover, the Key of Truth was the key to mastering the Door of Truth, and Ren Suo would need to purchase it after clearing the ga even if he did not now.
Furthermore, after the trading permissions were updated, the Door of Truth allowed Ren Suo to try out any item in the Pristine Space, including the Key of Truth!
That was a marvelous sensation.
Past, present, future.
All things, all truths, all possibilities.
Ren Suo could glimpse the power of the Door of Truth through the Key of Truth; although he could see it and not touch it, he could use the Key of Truth to Insight into the flow of all things and predict scenes three seconds into the future.
But the feeling of controlling everything, acquiring everything, being omnipotent, had already been deeply Inscribed within the depths of his soul.
It was a strength that transcends all, a power that perates eternity.
It was a force worth spending everything to possess.
Ren Suo was quite certain that as long as he held the Key of Truth and touched the Door of Truth, completely ignited by ten blossoms of Primordial Substance, he would have the highest trading authority and could exchange for everything in the world that could be described in words.
Additionally, Ren Suo had acquired two surprisingly good spoils of war.
After using "Angel Zack's Combat mories," he obtained a "Reset Card."
By using "Taoist You Jiu's Combat mories," he obtained an "Overlord Card."
"Reset Card: Resets the purchase count of any item in the exchange list; can only be used on items with unlimited purchase counts."
"Overlord Card: Can be used on any item valued at less than 1,001 Points to directly obtain the corresponding item without increasing the purchase count."
The mont Ren Suo saw these two cards, he realized the correct way to use them: first, use the "Reset Card" to reset the purchase count of the "Fourth-Level Cultivation Card," then use the "Overlord Card" to overpoweringly purchase the "Fourth-Level Cultivation Card"!
The "Fourth-Level Cultivation Card" costs 100 Points for the first purchase, 10,000 Points for the second, and 1 million Points for the third. Ren Suo had already made two purchases, and it was absolutely impossible for him to afford the third one.
At the sa ti, each "Fourth-Level Cultivation Card" could provide Ren Suo with a 20% increase in his Cultivation Progress, so his Fourth-Rank Cultivation progress also increased to 43%.
Once the "Fourth-Level Cultivation Card" is reset, its price returns to 100 Points. Then, Ren Suo could use the "Overlord Card" to buy one, spend 10,100 Points to buy two more, totaling three cards, which after use would enable him to advance to the Fifth Tier.
Then, by purchasing "Experience Cards," he could advance to the Sixth Transformation!
That's a Cultivation Realm not even Angel Zack has reached, let alone Taoist You Jiu who is far behind!
Even without mastering the Door of Truth, Ren Suo could beco the first person on Earth by exchanging these items!
As for the trial of the Emotions in the fifth stage, he had the confidence to erge victorious!
So, what was Ren Suo hesitating for? Why hadn't he hurried to buy them?
Poor.
No money.
Not enough money.
Together, these items amounted to 360,100 Truth Points.
As for Ren Suo's current assets, they were not too shabby either. After all, he had fought dozens of Fourth-Stage Cultivators in the fourth stage, gaining a lot of combat mories and the corresponding abilities, props, and Truth Points, as well as the Truth Points awarded for completing the fourth stage, totaling 30,000 Points.
Also, with each Primordial Substance ignited at the Door of Truth, Ren Suo's emotions appreciated in value by 20%.
Previously, the total value of Ren Suo's emotions was 106,000 Points, but these days, with Xiao Suo and Xiao Ren adding lots of new emotions and seeing the steady rise in others' emotional values during his retreat, after three consecutive 20% increases, Ren Suo's current total emotional value is—
250,000 Points.
Ren Suo's total capital ca to 280,000 Points, and if Ren Suo were to convert all his rit Points, that could add another 10,000 Points, making it 290,000 Points, very close to 360,000 Points.
If he deposited this capital into the Truth Bank at a rate of 10%, it would only take 3 days for his total capital to exceed 360,000 Points.
If there were enough ti, Ren Suo could even buy all the items with just the interest earned.
However, the remaining ti to clear the fifth stage is—
1 day.
Today is the 19th. Ren Suo must upload the final ga record before 00:00 on the 21st—essentially, by the end of the 20th—or he fails the ga.
If he hadn't lingered in the fourth stage for so long, maybe he would have had more days to prepare.
But there's no point in lanting past actions; if Ren Suo wanted to bla himself, he'd have to spend a whole day doing so, starting from the little kid who at three or four didn't exercise and just played with his sister all day.
Then, is there a way for Ren Suo to make a wild 70,000 Truth Points within one day?
Ren Suo took off the "Pandora's Magic Box" device, went to the restroom to comb his hair, tidy up his appearance, put on his handsost casual outfit, and headed to the Dong Chengling family's place for dinner.
Gu Yueyan, Ren Xingi, and Lin Xianyu had already arrived, and Ren Suo joined them to play gas for a bit, to increase the value of emotions.
After a while, Little Jiu also returned with the Black Cat. Sotis, Little Jiu hid the Black Cat in her schoolbag and took it to school with her, where the cat would hide in a drawer, sleeping and observing human society.
After all, there are a few days each month when the Black Cat's favorite virtual live strears don't broadcast, so the bored cat accompanied Little Jiu to school.
He teased the little girl and petted the cat. When it was nearly dinnerti, Qiao Muyi, clad in her Tactical Bureau vest, arrived.
Covering her mouth with a yawn, Qiao Muyi said lazily, "I have to go back to work overti later; I'm so tired. I don't want to drive ho tonight; Cheng Ling, let's squeeze in together and sleep tonight."
Dong Chengling nodded, and Ren Suo asked, "You're working overti too?"
"Yeah, after all, I am the Deputy Director of the Tactical Bureau, and it's hard to find a day off with my busy schedule. It's not like you students and teachers…" Qiao Muyi complained sourly.
Looking at the dinner scene that was as usual, Ren Suo was slightly puzzled.
Although his nine-day seclusion hadn't actually affected the world's operations in the slightest—WeChat had no urgent ssages, QQ no private ssage bombardnts, and even text ssages were only spam coupons from Taobao or JD—he had still thought that their attitude towards him would have improved sowhat after his return.
It wasn't that Ren Suo was being self-conscious, but the increase in the emotional value list proved that they really had been missing him these days.
Although reality was sowhat different from his fantasy, Ren Suo didn't mind. After drinking a bowl of soup and eating a bowl of rice, feeling that the carbon dioxide from the digested food was about to affect their brains, Ren Suo spoke up, "By the way…"
However, at this mont Qiao Muyi also happened to ask, "Xiao Suo, do you have ti tomorrow?"
Ren Suo blinked, nodding, "I'm free."
"Let's go on a date," Qiao Muyi said straightforwardly.
Ren Suo glanced at Dong Chengling and Gu Yueyan, noticing no particular reaction from them, and nodded, "Sure, where to?"
Qiao Muyi took out a small mirror to check her makeup and said, "We haven't really toured Lianjiang properly. Let's visit all the tourist spots in one go tomorrow."
At this point, Ren Suo sensed sothing was amiss. "We?"
He had thought that 'we' ant 'you and ,' but now it seed that it wasn't just the two of them.
"Yeah." Qiao Muyi stood up, walked between Ren Xingi and Gu Yueyan, and draped her arms over their shoulders, while Dong Chengling put down her utensils and quietly looked at Ren Suo.
"Tomorrow, let's all go out and have fun together."
In the fox-like eyes of Qiao Muyi, there was an indescribable enchanting glint.
Gu Yueyan looked a bit reluctant, but with her hands crossed in front of her chest, she decisively nodded.
Ren Xingi's eyes twinkled as she winked at Ren Suo.
Dong Chengling's face was serene, and she nodded slightly with a smile, adding, "The four of us, on a date with you."
This was the outco they had reached after their discussion.
No more delays.
No more hesitations.
No more backing down.
Tomorrow would be the ultimate showdown!
Ren Suo was montarily stunned, looked at them seriously, then nodded emphatically, and said with a smile, "Okay."
Ren Suo had already planned to go out with them tomorrow. He hadn't expected them to bring it up first.
There were ways to make a frantic 70,000 Truth Points in one day. It wasn't impossible.
Since the Door of Truth had kindled seven Primordial Flas, Ren Suo's emotional value had increased seven tis in a row.
At the sa ti, the rate at which Ren Suo's emotional value increased had also greatly accelerated; it used to increase by tens of points, but now it had to be by at least hundreds.
And for significant lovers like Dong Chengling, the increase in emotional value could reach thousands of points!
The emotional value of each of them could reach over 30,000 points!
As long as the average increase per person was another 14,000 points, Ren Suo would be able to gather 360,000 Truth Points!
If he couldn't gather 360,000 points...
He would still have at least 250,000 points.
Instead of putting emotions in the Truth Bank to earn a tiny bit of interest, it was better to stake everything on tomorrow's decisive battle. Tomorrow would be the ultimate showdown.
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