Hearing this, Ye Chen in the sky seemed to receive supreme encouragement, and a bitter smile rose in his heart despite himself.
"Very good."
"To examine myself from an observer's perspective... this experience truly is incredible."
"Still, come to think of it, I've always been this kind of person."
Then, Ye Chen on the ground pleaded desperately with his dying breath:
"So, mysterious and great 'Auling'..."
"Please help me undergo another transformation."
"Even if destruction awaits me after this transformation..."
"I will not hesitate."
"It has always been so."
"It will always be so!"
Yet the Ye Chen of the future gave the following answer.
"You do not need to humble yourself like this."
"Because your strength was never given to you by someone else."
"It came from yourself."
"The one who helps you..."
"Will. Al-ways. Be. Your-self------!"
As his words fell, Ye Chen's mind abruptly focused. In an instant, a solid yet invisible force formed at the ends of his limbs, forcefully drawing the consciousness of his past self out from the spirit body of his past self. Then, like a tree trunk drawing up nourishment, it sent his soul straight toward the end of the sky where he stood!
Whoosh------------------!
Only after that did Ye Chen's remaining soul body get struck precisely by the thunder-light blood bullet Jietisikoki had later fired at the cost of his life, exploding it into a mangled mess of flesh and blood!
The Butcher Hunter thought he had won!
But the truth was far from it!
What he had struck in the end was merely an empty shell!
The real Ye Chen had long since turned into formless consciousness and flown straight into the heavens!
And as the consciousness of the past Ye Chen ascended along the trunk, the consciousness of the future