To ordinary people, Lu Xing was merely a clever, mischievous child who liked showing off petty tricks. To Ji Jue, Youngest was a troublemaker with a good head on his shoulders and a promising future.
But to the Star Core Association, he was a rare and precious rough stone who had awakened on his own.
And to [Worm], he was probably good material and fine jade beyond compare!
Those worms parasitizing time could smell the precious aura within future years, the dazzling brilliance each soul was capable of unleashing.
The only reason Residual Difference had fixated on Lu Xing and refused to let go was that Lu Xing's future was even more brilliant and vast than Ji Jue had imagined.
The marks and traces he would leave in time, the influence he could exert, surpassed the combined total of tens of millions.
To those worms, Lu Xing was an epic-sized battery pack!
The reason Residual Difference had gambled with its life to stop him, and would not let go even with Doberman present, was precisely because it needed Lu Xing to prolong its life! They needed time—endless time!
Simply continuing to exist required countless times more time than ordinary people. The stronger they were, the more they owed, and the greater the consumption. Not to mention using those techniques and moves!
The more they used, the more they owed, and the more they would have to repay in the future.
Unless they underwent chrysalis once more, every moment, every second they existed consumed time at hundreds or thousands of times the rate of ordinary people. Yet even if they wanted to pupate and form a cocoon, turning themselves into crystals to temporarily evade their debts and interest, they still had to pay an exceedingly steep price.
"Now do you understand?