Chapter 197 The Obscurity of the World

A week later, Jiang Xiao, with two baits in tow, wandered through a silent Dragon Cave surrounded by textual symbols, striving to comprehend the mysteries of the world.

"Aaaaaaah!" Suddenly, from beneath a string of horizontally-shifting textual symbols, came wails of despair, "What does it all mean? Stop playing tricks! I'm telling you, if I can't understand this soon, I'm going home to drink milk tea!"

Jiang Xiao muttered to himself. For seven whole days, he hadn't understood what this space was about, nor had he grasped the specific function of the sixth page.

Or rather... was the function of the sixth page simply to transmit a piece of information?

"Those who transform me live, those who break me advance, those who resemble me die?"

Moreover, Jiang Xiao couldn't understand the seventh page either. Up until now, the seventh page was still filled with textual symbols, not in image form.

"Hmm..." Jiang Xiao stroked his chin, deciding not to waste any more time here.

He should do something he *could* do first and put these mysterious things aside for later.

Jiang Xiao's Jiu Xing Du Nai could be secondarily Star-Forged into a martial skill, and his ability to rewind time had also increased countless times.

Now, he could trace back to the moment his parents disappeared! If he wanted, he could even trace back hundreds, or even thousands of years, to see what ancient wars looked like...

Logically speaking, Jiang Xiao could write history textbooks now, with absolute objectivity, absolute precision, and a comprehensive restoration of all historical facts.

Hmm...

The next moment, the nine stars in Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up.

Although Jiang Xiao was still at the Starry Sky Pinnacle stage, he had been secondarily enlightened by the baits' advancement to the Star Gatherer stage, mastering the ability of secondary Star-Forging into a martial skill.

Nine brilliant stars arranged themselves neatly in his eyes. In an instant, in Jiang Xiao's world, those textual symbols drifting horizontally from left to right floated backward. Those textual symbols falling from top to bottom quickly rose again...

Because Jiang Xiao was rewinding time to eight years ago, he deliberately accelerated the speed.

"This..." Jiang Xiao's expression was slightly astonished. Inevitably, during the rewind, Jiang Xiao saw the Dragon Cave collapsing!

All the mountains, rivers, the sun, moon, and stars, had actually shattered into a sky full of textual symbols in an instant!?

And before the shattering, Jiang Xiao also saw the scene of the Dragon Cave collapsing, which was incredibly tragic!

Yo~ Poor Dragon Dragon... cut into pieces by ubiquitous spatial rifts.

Oh my god~

Was this the legendary dismemberment?

Too bad Dragon Dragon died after being cut into ten thousand pieces. If it were an earthworm, would it regrow into ten thousand dragons?

Jiang Xiao thought, while watching the reversed disaster scene, unable to stop clicking his tongue in amazement.

Too terrifying... it was really too terrifying...

Thankfully, he, in the past, had left here every time before the Dragon Cave completely collapsed. Otherwise, he would probably have been torn into pieces by spatial rifts long ago, right?

Thinking about it that way, that Hidden Dragon from before was really lucky, actually only having its tail cut off and surviving with its life.

Speaking of surviving... it really had to be the Hidden Dragon...

In the frantic rewind of time, Jiang Xiao experienced the Dragon Cave collapsing and reopening again and again.

From the initial amazement to the gradual adaptation later on.

Well... the secondary Star-Forging martial skill of Jiu Xing Mou was definitely strong, but the problem was that it didn't give people a good mindset.

Here, Jiang Xiao saw the Dragon race's unchanging hunting and biting for ten thousand years, and also saw teams of soldiers either returning home successfully or dying tragically here.

Jiang Xiao saw the reversed mountains and rivers, and also witnessed the returning sun, moon, and stars.

When he could witness history and had truly witnessed the "rise and fall" time and time again, a slightly incorrect idea suddenly rose in Jiang Xiao's heart.

It seemed... it seemed... as if many things were really not that important.

The powerful Dragon race remained unchanged for ten thousand years, constantly fighting.

Teams of human soldiers intruded again and again, their lives left to fate.

But all of this was just a drop in the ocean, and also a grain of millet in the torrent of time.

That scene of life and death, which should have been shocking and inspired awe in Jiang Xiao, had turned into repeated pictures, making people more and more numb the more they looked at them.

Tens of millions of lives, their goals, persistence, and beliefs; tens of millions of dragons, their dwelling, hunting, and fighting, constituted the main theme of the Dragon Cave.

And in this main theme, the individual's survival and death infinitely reduced the internal impact on Jiang Xiao...

When did I suddenly stop caring about the lives of my comrades?

"Heh..." Jiang Xiao took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and supported his forehead with one hand, rubbing his temples with his thumb and ring finger.

If he continued like this, he would really soon "not care."

After adjusting for a while, Jiang Xiao opened his eyes again. In his vision, those frozen images began to replay again.

And Jiang Xiao, also wearing a cloak, flew in the direction of the Dragon Cave entrance.

In the Dragon Cave with only textual symbols, there was no concept of east, west, north, or south.

But in Jiang Xiao's Jiu Xing Mou, there was a very clear terrain map.

In fact, the location Jiang Xiao flashed to at the very beginning was the Dragon Cave entrance, which was the junction of the four terrains, but in the week that followed, Jiang Xiao searched everywhere and left the entrance.

Returning to the entrance again, Jiang Xiao focused his attention, increasing the intensity again and again, making time rewind faster, faster...

......

Lu Dong Province, on a beach.

A tall, slender figure was standing quietly on a giant rock, looking out at the distant horizon where the sea met the sky.

The early autumn sun was still hot, but the sea breeze brought coolness and scattered her black hair.

Beneath the giant rock was an Obsidian Elephant Bishop, standing silently facing the sea breeze, and around him were several Obsidian Guards, diligently standing guard.

Suddenly, the sand on the beach flowed, forming a vortex of quicksand.

The Elephant Bishop gripped the long cross scepter in his hand and shouted loudly: "%#!!"

In an instant, the guards standing around the giant rock picked up the spears in their hands and aimed them at the vortex of quicksand.

Slowly, a miniature giant tree emerged from the sand.

Beneath the tree's hair was a pure human face.

Earth - Xiao's first form was very different from the second form, not only in size but also in appearance.

On the giant rock, Han Jiangxue looked down, just in time to see Jiang Xiao's head emerging.

Bait Jiang Xiao waved his hand and said, "What are you doing? Getting ready to jump into the sea?"

A hint of a smile appeared on Han Jiangxue's expressionless face. Seeing his face made her feel a little better for no reason.

She asked, "What's wrong?"

Bait Jiang Xiao's body slowly floated up, his upper body exposed on the beach. He opened his mouth and said, "Put them all away, I'll take you somewhere."

Han Jiangxue frowned slightly and said, "I'm on duty."

"And I'm your vice commander~" Jiang Xiao shrugged.

Han Jiangxue glared at Jiang Xiao, but obediently waved her hand, opening the spatial gate to the Hai Ling Shelter.

She pointed to the spatial gate with one finger, and the Elephant Bishop immediately urged several Obsidian soldiers to enter the Hai Ling Shelter.

"Where are we going?" Han Jiangxue closed the spatial gate, stood on the giant rock, and took the hair tie from her wrist. While tying up her hair that was messed up by the sea breeze, she looked down at Jiang Xiao and asked softly.

It could be seen that she was already preparing to enter combat mode.

And the hair tie she was holding was originally a string of ruby bracelets, which Jiang Xiao and others gave her after conquering the Void Other Dimension Space, but she transformed it into a hair tie.

"No need to tie up your hair, just put on the Soul of the Sea Eater." Bait Jiang Xiao said.

"Oh." Han Jiangxue paused her movements, summoned the Sea Eater's Garment, and also put the ruby hair tie back on her wrist, turning it back into a bracelet.

"Tsk tsk..." Bait Jiang Xiao stroked his chin, murmuring, "It seems I've trained you well, you're really becoming more and more obedient."

Han Jiangxue: ???

With a leap, she quickly flew down from the giant rock, stepped on the big tree on top of Jiang Xiao's head, and directly stomped him into the rotating quicksand.

"Pfft..." Bait Jiang Xiao immediately swallowed a mouthful of sand...

"Let's go, I'll take you to see something good." Behind them, a familiar voice suddenly came.

Han Jiangxue, stepping on the bait's head, turned her head to look. Her originally stiff expression relaxed a lot.

For some reason, she always had a huge difference in the way she treated the bait and the main body.

The next moment, Han Jiangxue only felt a blur in front of her eyes, and the picturesque beach also turned into a dim void.

In the distance, a string of strange Star Power text faintly flickered.

Han Jiangxue raised her eyebrows slightly, "This is..."

Before she could finish speaking, she felt a slight warmth on her fingers.

Han Jiangxue lowered her head and saw Jiang Xiao's palm carefully holding her hand.

Han Jiangxue did not shake off his palm, but raised her eyelids and silently looked at Jiang Xiao.

But Jiang Xiao did not look at her, but was still looking at her hand.

Fair, slender... a cool and soft touch.

Han Jiangxue looked at his careful, but inching-forward appearance. Suddenly, for a moment, she felt that where she was no longer mattered.

What really mattered was... why he was acting this way.

In the past, he could casually take her hand, and they were both used to it.

But this time, his actions, his attitude, seemed a little different?

Han Jiangxue's mind was a little confused, and she always felt like something was about to happen.

In her vision, Jiang Xiao finally raised his head, and nine brilliant stars were arranged in each of his dark eyes.

"Buzz..."

The next moment, the Humming Whale appeared above the heads of the two, and a whale song floated in this strange and silent environment.

Just a few minutes later, Han Jiangxue suddenly gripped Jiang Xiao's hand back.

In her mind, were the images transmitted by the Humming Whale.

To be precise, the Humming Whale transmitted the world in Jiang Xiao's Jiu Xing Mou eyes to Han Jiangxue.

Those were four familiar figures, four men and women whose clothes were not military uniforms, but whose clothes were generally desert-colored.

Xia Shanhai!

Wu Huaxing!

And... a tall man wearing a desert coat and a round camouflage hat.

His face was serious and his eyes were firm.

Next to him was a middle-aged woman with a brown coat, a brown scarf, and a pretty short hair.

In the open brown coat, the white women's shirt complemented her beautiful face.

The images in Han Jiangxue's mind were like a movie, slowly playing.

And she, allowed Jiang Xiao to hold her hand, and followed this four-person team slowly forward.

When Han Jiangxue was alone with Jiang Xiao, although she would shed her coldness, she rarely had violent emotional fluctuations.

But this time, a layer of mist rose in her eyes.

Slowly, she lowered her head, closed her eyes, and allowed Jiang Xiao to lead her forward.

Finally, she embarked on the road her parents had once taken.

As for... where the end of this road was, she did not know yet. She just clenched her hand hard and held his hand tightly.