Volume Three: Academy's Full-Scale Rampage - Jili (3)

"Let me see! I'm so curious!!!"

"Don't rush me! I haven't seen it either!"

Xiao Wu and Givinia quickly flipped through the notebook, finally reaching the page on "The Leader" --

"Let me see first!"

"I'll go first!"

"Let's do it together!"

The two huddled together, reading the delicate handwriting on the page.

"'Leader Jili'... So his name is Jili!?"

You don't even know his name?

"Nobody except the higher-ups knows his name!"

"Keep reading!"

"I reappear, I reappear, I reappear!"

The atmosphere trembled, space groaned, and the world wailed.

The main axis that sustains the existence of the world has been directly interfered with.

Jili's left eye emitted a dazzling gray-white light, with complex patterns flowing within the white of the eye, and the pupil repeatedly dilating and contracting.

The Past Sight Eye.

"I recreate the moment the meteorite struck the earth, 12422 years, 196 days, 7 hours, 28 minutes, and 41 seconds ago."

Then, an enormous fireball suddenly appeared in the space.

It was less than a millimeter above the ground.

At the moment of impact, flames pierced the sky, vibrations penetrated the earth, and shockwaves swept everything away.

The entire Magma Sea, most of the Boundary Breaking Armor, and half of the Central United Academy Army were all reduced to ashes in an impact powerful enough to cause the earth to split apart.

"Xiao Wu, before I explain the Leader's special ability to you, I must first share some knowledge that cannot be learned from books."

Have you ever heard of the superpower of being 'completely immortal' since you were born?

Have you ever heard of superpowers like 'pausing time,' 'reversing time,' 'accelerating time,' or 'erasing time'?

Have you ever heard of the superpower to 'rewrite causality' or 'reverse cause and effect'?

Have you ever heard of the superpower to 'create something infinitely'?

Have you ever heard of superpowers like 'creation' or 'destruction'?

That's impossible to have heard of.

These superpowers aren't hard to imagine, but such superpowered individuals shouldn't exist in the world.

What happened?

Fiaz was puzzled by the impact-specific protective shield.

He was more concerned about this than the heavy losses suffered by friendly forces.

The sudden appearance of a massive meteorite—it's not that simple.

Although the stone appeared suddenly, the blazing flames burning on it proved that it had been rubbing against the air for a long time.

Moreover, it was falling from a height of less than one millimeter off the ground; it simply couldn't have had that kind of power.

All the facts indicate that although this meteorite appeared suddenly, it had actually been falling for a long time.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Jili launched a second round of attacks.

"I reappear, I reappear, I reappear—I reappear, 35,010,000 years, 6 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes to 22 minutes ago, the ancient sea flood."

The next instant, a truly colossal wave, reaching a height of two thousand meters, appeared.

It was like a giant wall, completely surrounding the battlefield.

Then, the two-thousand-meter-high wall of waves was captured.

The remaining body of the Boundary Breaking Armor was also smashed, the remaining sparks in the Magma Sea disappeared, most of the mechanical legion was wiped out, and the remaining forces of the Central United Academy were reduced by half.

It's not that such superhumans 'won' be born, but rather that 'they can be born, but their existence is not permitted.'

This world has its own inherent laws.

For example, time is the central axis of this world, and it is unshakeable.

For example, everything has a cause before an effect, and this is irreversible.

For example, there is no such thing as an immortal and eternal thing, because the world itself is not eternal.

Creation and destruction are absolutely unacceptable.

Therefore, once a human being—or other creature, or even an object—with the ability to shake these inherent laws appears, the will of the world will personally intervene and completely obliterate its existence.

It's estimated that the vast majority of people with those superpowers died in the womb while still fetuses.

A very small number may survive to birth, and the luckiest may live to adolescence, but in the end, they are all wiped out by the World Will.

There is only one exception among the exceptions, the luckiest of the lucky.

That is the Jili.

Its special ability is--"

"I almost forgot about this clown..."

Jili's icy gaze locked onto Fiaz.

"Reappearance - The Emperor Slaying Sword"

Ten thousand rays of light gathered in his hand, transforming into an ancient, simple longsword. This sword, though unassuming in appearance, constantly emanated a regal aura that commanded the knees of thousands, as if it were the very monarch of this world.

"Idiot, behave yourself!"

However, Jili only muttered a curse, and the aura of the Emperor Slaying Sword quickly weakened. It immediately withdrew its domineering aura and obediently stayed in Jili's hand, no longer daring to act recklessly.

"The Emperor Slaying Sword, that really is the Emperor Slaying Sword..."

Too many shocks had almost numbed Fiaz; his worldview had been turned upside down. The Emperor Slaying Sword, also one of the nine divine Divine Item, symbolized power and conquest. It was the sword of the Saint Emperor who unified the West Saint Continent more than two thousand years ago. However, with the Saint Emperor's death, this divine weapon broke on its own, and even the remains disappeared without a trace.

This very Divine Artifact, destroyed two thousand years ago, is now standing right in front of him!

A meteorite from over 100 million years ago, a flood from over 30 million years ago, and the Divine Artifact Emperor Slaying Sword, which vanished two thousand years ago—

"I see..."

A flash of insight struck Fiaz; he finally realized the truth behind the Jili ability!

"You... can interfere with time, making things that have happened or long ago reappear!!!"

"'The recurrence of the past'."

To bring back to life events or objects that have existed in the ancient river of time.

Nothing in this world is permanent; everything will fade away with time, eventually disappearing at the end of the river of time, never to return. This is one of the most fundamental ironclad laws of this world, which must never be violated. Once violated, the very foundation of the world will be severely shaken.

Does it sound unimpressive at first glance?

But think about it.

Since Spirit Star birth, how many meteorites has impacted Lingxing? If every meteorite impact from ancient times to the present were reenacted, it would be enough to destroy existing human civilization in an instant.

How many times have the continental plates on this planet shifted? If it were to replicate all the tectonic movements that have ever occurred on the continents, all terrestrial life would face annihilation.

He could recreate all the past disasters in an instant; in the face of such devastating danger, all resistance and escape were futile.

He can bring the dead back to life at will, not by reproducing their image, not by recalling their soul, not by reshaping their body, not by creating a substitute that is exactly the same as the dead and inherits their personality and memories, but by truly resurrecting them.

He can restore all the resources in the world that have been consumed—water, minerals, plants, and even spiritual energy—making them truly inexhaustible and creating an endless, eternal kingdom.

He can easily recreate items that were once destroyed or self-destructed, even Divine Artifacts.

He can extract his used lifespan and bestow it upon his subordinates, allowing anyone to live forever.

He's already very, very close to recreating the moment of a planet's birth or destruction in the universe, unleashing the ultimate move that can wipe out a planet or even a galaxy with a flick of his wrist.

His superpowers are still evolving, and the scale and time span of the recurrence of things are constantly increasing. One day, he will be able to reach the end of time and recreate the moment of the universe's birth. At that time, the creation and destruction of the world in an instant—something that only appears in myths or third-rate novels—will become a reality.

Such a person, simply by existing, would touch the raw nerve of the World Will.

With a swift movement, the sword flashed, piercing the heavens and earth. As the sword light vanished, Fiaz's body was severed in two at the waist.

His lower body plummeted to the ground, and white intestines spilled out from the cross-section of his upper body, but Fiaz showed no sign of pain; instead, he appeared completely absorbed in the experience.

"So beautiful..."

His bloodless lips murmured, a sickly smile appeared on his face, and his eyes blinked incessantly, as if trying to imprint everything before him into his very being.

"I never imagined 'the rejected by the world' actually existed... So powerful... So beautiful... I want to take them back to study... Haha..."

The sudden realization that brought him to the brink of death made Fiaz laugh maniacally. Jili glanced at him with disgust, pointed his sword, and Fiatz's upper body exploded into a cloud of Blood Mist. The top leader of the Central United Academy had fallen.

"Then only..."

Jili looked at the pure white flames hovering above his head, his eyes narrowing slightly. Since the beginning, the karmic fire had been retreating, seemingly hesitant about whether to attack.

Now it can't escape even if it wants to.

Jili out his hand, and this time, azure crystal light condensed in his palm.

"I recreate that Crystal Realm Fruit that was born and vanished 2,900 years, 243 days, 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 30 seconds ago."

The unorthodox 28-sided cube appeared in his hand. Sensing something amiss, the karmic fire immediately condensed into flames—

"I'll throw it!"

The Crystal Realm Fruit, carrying an extremely heavy and sluggish pressure, flew towards the Karmic Fire, and exploded the moment the two made contact! Blinding crystal light scattered everywhere, and even space itself became solidified and slowed down. If the Karmic Fire had not attracted the main firepower, the area within a thousand miles would have already turned into a sea of crystals!

As the crystalline light dissipated, most of the karmic fire transformed into azure crystals. The remaining portion withered and died, but it still struggled desperately, slowly melting away the suppressive crystalline layers that were almost its natural enemy.

"See those three? That's why it takes two Crystal Realm Fruits to create World Crossing Gate; one isn't enough to control it."

Jili spoke, he materialized another Crystal Realm Fruit and threw it directly into the Karmic Fire! If Jili wanted, he could treat a divine Divine Item like the Crystal Realm Fruit like a pebble skipping across the water.

After suffering another heavy blow, the karmic fire finally lost all power to resist, and all the white flames were sealed by thick crystals!

"Ah, Leader! That—"

A tiny yet intensely concentrated flame, almost solid in appearance, slipped through the net, bypassing the crystal's blockade and vanishing into the distance with lightning speed.

"That's half of the karmic fire seed; the other half should still be inside its host body. Now it's trying to escape back to its host body."

"Leader," Huang Huo immediately stepped forward, "I will track it down and find its host to make amends."

"Well... I agree. If anything goes wrong, I'll hold you responsible!"

"Thank you, Leader!"

Success! Huang Huo relief; the plan was back on track. He extracted the Karmic Fire Seed from Evelynths, attached a forced contract to it, and gave Jili Ji Li. As for the little girl, he'd give her to Liu Ye and the others, just as a favor.

However--

"Oh right, bring that host body along too. It will continue to serve as a container for the karmic fire, otherwise it won't be easy to preserve."

"... Understood."

Damn it!

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Finally, the Leader's superpower has been revealed! I've thought about what the Leader's superpower should be for a long time. At first, I thought of Yuri or the second brother, but vector manipulation and unreal matter have been overused in various fanfics; then I thought of Word Spirit, causality manipulation, or illusion manifestation, but these are neither original nor too overpowered; then I thought of spatial abilities, but the strongest spatial ability is already the Void Realm, and traveling to parallel universes doesn't make me the Führer; finally, I focused on time abilities. The first thing that came to mind was the bosses of JoJo except for the Führer. Time stop and acceleration are more about control, and reversal and elimination are difficult to write. The most crucial thing is that time abilities are limited by... Aside from accelerating the flow of time to cause matter to age rapidly and the priest's acceleration in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 7, it has almost no direct offensive power. After much deliberation, I finally settled on "the reappearance of the past." Its offensive power is extremely strong; at a certain level, it could easily wipe out human civilization and destroy planets. Moreover, its uses are very diverse; the ability to resurrect the dead at will can also be used to torture others (I didn't say anything~), but it's not invincible. I also added "the World Will," the only thing that can counter it, giving it a natural enemy to prevent it from becoming too unrestrained. As for how Ye Jiang can defeat it... that's something to discuss after obtaining the ultimate power-up. (It's not that I haven't figured it out yet!)

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