Are You Denying Yourself?!

Night hung low. Beneath the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, ripples suddenly stirred through the darkness of space.

Li Jinsheng stepped out of the waterlike space, not forgetting to marvel at the wonder of this power.

What a pity that his future self was such a bum—after finishing his business, he immediately had to find a way to look for his past self!

With that thought, he shoved his hands into his pockets and swaggered toward Eastsea Academy.

The streetlights were sparse, stretching the shadows long and making the surroundings exceptionally quiet.

Suddenly, a roar came from above his head.

A Black Mecha hovered in the air. A beam of light snapped down, its pillar illuminating the youth directly.

From inside the cockpit, Guang Biao's voice crashed down through the loudspeaker. "Black hair, short kid. Found you."

Li Jinsheng narrowed his eyes. Against the glare, he could only make out the steel insignia of the Mecha Brigade on the mecha's chest, and he could not help but smile.

A helpless voice sounded in his mind. "He has a Black-class Mecha. You're no match for him! You might have a chance if he didn't have a mecha."

"What? You think I can beat a Soul Emperor?" Li Jinsheng knew himself well. Crossing thirty levels to fight someone—was the Dragon God attached to him or something?

"Just thirty levels! A body of flesh has no right to defeat you! Without the Dragon God's bloodline suppression, what the hell is he worth!"

There was not the slightest trace of respect or reverence for the Dragon God in that voice.

"Leave the rest to me! We were going to fight Tang San anyway, so it makes no difference whether we strike early or late. More importantly, when I plotted against Tang San back then, I paid an enormous price for those three moves. There were three outbreaks of rampant lifeforms at the time, and the one I remembered most vividly was the Insect Plague!"

"You sure you weren't harvesting lives?"

"No. I merely treated everyone equally. How could life be divided into noble and lowly? It was all just a matter of a slash across the neck."

As the words fell, "Li Jinsheng" let out a long breath, his chest rising and falling.

Emerald green fire lit up from his heart. It began as a single spark, then unfurled into threads in an instant, racing through his veins and crawling over his shoulder blades, elbows, and knuckles before turning into a robe of flame.

The "youth" raised his eyes. His form had already changed, becoming a handsome silver-haired man. His pupils turned into two translucent pieces of jade, reflecting the mecha before him.

The mecha hovered ten meters away, its searchlight still shining, but at that moment, the light itself began to twist.

The silver-haired man clenched his left fist. Light gathered along his finger bones, condensing into a ball of emerald green flame.

The next instant, flames tore through the night, shattering its silence.

Boom!

His fist slammed forward, and the Black-class Mecha's chest was instantly set ablaze. The metal did not even have time to melt before it was burned to ashes and scattered on the wind.

Inside the mecha, Guang Biao felt his life force rapidly draining away. He aged at a visible rate.

Wherever the fire passed, steel, lampposts, beams of light—everything turned to drifting ash.

It was as though that Black-class Mecha had never existed in the first place. Only the Silver-haired Man remained standing where he was, his gaze as calm and undisturbed as ever.

"This is..."

"Life Fire. It can burn away all things. Burn it for an hour, and it'll probably consume about one Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's worth. It isn't difficult to use, but it's not something you can use yet!"

"Then why can you control Space-Time?"

"Wherever I walk is desolation; wherever I pass is rebirth! I am both the beginning and the end, while the line connecting them is the process. So why shouldn't I be able to command Space-Time?"

As he spoke, green Life Fire ignited around his body. Space immediately twisted, and in the next instant, he arrived directly beside Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin was sitting cross-legged in meditation at the time, but the mark of the Golden Trident lit up between his brows, and his distinct black-and-white eyes instantly turned blue-gold.

His gaze became indifferent, his eyes filled with shrewd calculation.

The one controlling Tang Wulin's body was none other than Tang San!

Having sensed that terrifying killing intent and danger, he awoke at once. Ever since he had provoked the contingency left behind by the Spirit of the Plane, one misfortune after another had struck him!

"Again! Who is it this time?!" Tang San sighed. He had clearly already driven the original Plane Master from power, so why were there still so many contingencies left behind?

"Last time, it was a Fierce Beast! This one feels no weaker—only stronger!"

A ray of light shot out from Tang Wulin's brow, and the Sea God's Trident abruptly appeared before Tang San. The sea bordering Eastsea City instantly boiled, letting out excited whimpers.

The next moment, the sea could no longer laugh. It sensed a force erasing its ability to nurture life, and it trembled in terror, no longer daring to move.

The authority over Douluo Continent's oceans had never belonged to Douluo Continent itself. If even the sea's ability to nurture life vanished, then Douluo Continent would truly be finished.

Without marine life, the food chain of Douluo Continent was destined to collapse.

Tang San looked at the man of fire before him, gripping the Sea God's Trident as he demanded, "Who are you?!"

"I can't be bothered wasting words on you. You're not worthy of hearing them!"

The silver-haired youth did not waste any words. He charged forward directly, throwing a punch that made heaven and earth lose their color.

Tang San frowned and swung his trident, instantly shifting his position through space and appearing above the stars.

This power was god-level...

How was that possible?

Seeing the Space Shift, Li Jinsheng looked helplessly at his own hand. "This body is far too weak. I can't use all of my power! Otherwise, that strike just now would've already life-activated the Sea God's Trident!"

"Fine, fine, fine, I'm weak, okay? I'm the one holding you back! But how did you become a god?"

"Devoured ninety percent of the life on Douluo Continent!"

"No wonder I couldn't beat him. Turns out I'd devoured one percent less, so my foundation was unstable!"

"The Abyss devoured that one percent. That was why the Abyss was gone! Before I was ready to devour Douluo Continent in the Abyss, I chose to carry on with the will of ninety percent of its people!

I might not have been a Good Person, but I still promised the Spirit of the Plane that I would restart Douluo Continent. In the new world, the people I knew and cared about appeared again, but we had become strangers.

The conflict between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters had rules in the new world that meant they no longer clashed. After resolving everything, I went to play battle royale with Tang San! He ran, I chased—he had a great time."

Hearing this, Li Jinsheng finally understood why his future self had become such a loafer. Turns out he had nowhere to go! No, wait. Wasn't there something off about the way this guy spoke?

Holy shit! The world forgot me!

The Silver-haired Man flashed and appeared before Tang San once more, throwing another punch.

The punch was not fast, yet it carried an uncanny force.

It was clearly just one punch, yet it seemed to come from every direction—from the past, the present, and the future.

There was no avoiding it!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ..."

A series of impacts rang out. Tang San forcibly blocked every attack, feeling pressure unlike anything he had ever experienced. He vaguely sensed that even if he blocked the attacks, he was still suffering unimaginable damage.

The Law of Time and the Law of Space could actually be used together?

The Sea God's Trident pointed forward, its sharp tip gleaming coldly. Tang San said icily, "Evil one! You have chosen the path to death!"

"An evil one? Are you denying me? Do you think I deserve to die?" A faint smile appeared in the Silver-haired Man's eyes. After twenty thousand years, it was still the same old line. But when it came to righteousness, he possessed absolute righteousness. After all, both the end and the beginning were him.

"So what?"

Before he could finish, however, his divine soul began to tremble violently.

"What did you do?"

"Me? Do you know why all living things initially evolved toward the form of dragons, and later evolved toward the form of humans?"

"Because I am the ultimate endpoint of all life's evolution! To deny me is to deny the meaning of all life!"

"I was born in the distant future, but my influence has long spread throughout the past!"

The Silver-haired Man was telling the truth. Denying him was equivalent to denying the meaning of all life's evolution.

Of course, he had not told the whole truth. Even if one was not human, he could still suppress them.

Tang San was affected by self-denial, and his divine soul shook. He was also humanoid, so he too was influenced by the other's power.

"Damn it, don't think that means I have no way to deal with you! You say you came from the future, which means you can't fight with your full strength either! How long can someone like you remain in this era?" He seemed to have seen through the weakness of the green figure and was still smug about it.

In the distance, a faint force, so weak it was almost imperceptible, began to gather.

Although the Silver-haired Man truly could not use his full strength, there was someone here who did not care about his life and could fight at full power. Moreover, he had to ensure that Li Jinsheng would not die ahead of time.

Even if it meant perishing together with Tang San.

"So what? Do you really think you're my opponent?" A glimmer of emerald light lit up in the Green Fire Man's jade-like eyes.

The next instant, his figure vanished. When he reappeared, he was above the sea—Tang San's main battlefield.