Chapter 1082 No Longer Making Friends
After Dongshi was defeated, no guardian challenged Ya again. Time passed minute by minute, until the last second left in the countdown to the ranking battle, and finally a guardian challenged Ya again.
"It's really not going to be so easy for a half-human like Ya to take first place." Zhang Chunqiu sighed as he looked at the cube.
"Even the cave world that possesses the power of time was defeated. Is there any other ability among the guardians that is stronger than time?" Zhang Yuzhi asked with some confusion.
Zhang Chunqiu smiled and said, "Time is indeed a very powerful attribute. Theoretically, time and space should be considered top-tier powers among all attributes. However, at that level, the mutual generation and restraint of attributes are no longer the most important, and the strength of skills is no longer the main criterion for judging combat effectiveness."
"Then how do we tell who is strong and who is weak?" Zhang Yuzhi asked.
"It all comes down to who has the stronger will, who has greater wisdom, and who can perform better on the spot. At that point, there are only weak people, not weak abilities. Any ability, even one that seems weak, can be the key to victory or defeat if used properly." Zhang Chunqiu paused, then added, "Of course, this only applies when the difference in power levels is relatively small. If the power disparity is huge, that's another matter. However, Ya's power and abilities are probably among the best on Earth. It's impossible for a force that can absolutely suppress her to appear on Earth."
"Why won't it appear? Didn't you say that there is a more powerful disaster level above the fear level?" Zhang Yuzhi still looked confused.
"Catastrophe-level beings can naturally crush Terror-level beings, but in a place like Earth, there are only two possibilities for a Calamity-level being to appear. One is the arrival of a Calamity-level being from another dimension. However, the arrival of a Calamity-level being from another dimension would be constrained by the rules of Earth, making it impossible for them to unleash their full power. If they were to forcibly use their power, they might even be cast down to the level of a mythical being by the rules."
Zhang Chunqiu organized his words and continued, "Another possibility is that a Guardian forms a contract with a human and uses their body to ascend to Calamity-level. Guardians born in this era have been around so little time, let alone reaching Calamity-level, there aren't even many who can reach Terror-level. So, if a natural disaster strikes Earth, the only possibility is a Calamity-level Guardian who survived the previous war."
"Is it like the one in our demon tomb?" Zhang Yuzhi asked.
Zhang Chunqiu didn't answer, but continued, "But those guardians who survived the previous wars were incredibly powerful, but the humans they contracted with couldn't survive that long. After leaving humanity, their power was once again suppressed by the laws of Earth. Even if they had catastrophic-level power, they couldn't use it on Earth unless they contracted with humans again."
"There are so many humans on Earth, it shouldn't be difficult to find a contractor, right?" Zhang Yuzhi said after thinking for a while.
"It's not that easy. There must be some kind of restriction. Otherwise, do you think the one in our family wouldn't want to come out?" Zhang Chunqiu smiled and said, "Anyway, it looks like Ya still has a good chance. As long as he can survive the next single-dimensional limit challenge, he will most likely become the final winner."
"Brother, do you want Ya to win or lose?" Zhang Yuzhi asked with blinking eyes.
"From my own point of view, I hope he wins, but his chances are slim." Zhang Chunqiu answered strangely.
The one challenging Ya was a guardian named Jiuyue, a very unfamiliar name that had never appeared on the leaderboards before, and no one knew what abilities he possessed.
After the battle started, we immediately knew what his abilities were, because his ability characteristics were so obvious.
Teleport, teleport continuously, Ya's continuous attacks were unable to touch even a corner of Jiuyue's clothes.
But Jiuyue had no intention of fighting back. He would teleport away when Ya attacked him, and would not move when Ya did not attack him. It seemed that he came here to delay time rather than to fight.
Ya did not launch any unnecessary attacks and directly entered the state of terror, his body turning into light and shadow. However, Jiuyue was also able to transform into terror. After he transformed into terror, he disappeared more cleanly than Ya.
However, the frightened Jiuyue still had no intention of fighting back and kept dodging. Now everyone could see that Jiuyue was delaying time, but they just didn't understand why he was delaying time.
"What does Jiu Yue want to do? If he wants to consume Ya's vitality, that doesn't make sense. The vitality he consumes by teleporting is much more than Ya's." Xia Xianyue looked at the cube screen and said thoughtfully.
Xia Liuchuan frowned as he stared at the screen and said, "I have a bad feeling. I'm afraid this battle for first place won't end so easily."
"Why do you say that?" Xia Xinyue asked in confusion.
"I don't know, it's just a feeling." Xia Liuchuan shook his head slightly, but his expression was a little solemn.
Just as Xia Xianyue said, Jiuyue was constantly teleporting in a state of fear, and his energy consumption was far greater than Ya's. If they continued to fight, Ya would definitely be the winner in the end.
But Ya did not continue to attack. He stopped, got rid of his fear, sat down on the fighting arena, and placed the ancient immortal sword on his legs.
"Why don't you fight anymore?" Jiuyue also came out of his fear and asked Ya with some confusion.
"Don't you need time to prepare to deal with me? I'll give you time." Ya said lightly.
Jiu Yue looked at Ya, his expression becoming somewhat complicated: "You know I need time to deal with you, why don't you defeat me as soon as possible? If you are fast enough, maybe you can avoid a lot of trouble."
"The trouble that is supposed to come will always come, and I'm not afraid of trouble," Ya said.
"No regrets?" Jiu Yue looked at Ya and asked.
"We are not born to regret, but to do what we want to do," Ya replied.
Jiuyue looked at Ya and sighed softly: "If I had met you earlier, maybe we could have become friends."
"We won't be friends. I've stopped making friends a long time ago," Ya said.
"Why?" Jiu Yue looked at Ya in a daze and asked.
"Because I only have one life, and I have too many friends to share it with," Ya replied.
Jiuyue didn't say anything after hearing this, but just looked at Ya silently. After a moment, Jiuyue said: "If you take action now, if you can defeat me within a quarter of an hour, you still have a chance."
Ya had no intention of moving, still sitting there with his eyes closed to rest. Jiu Yue looked at him and asked, "Do you think I'm lying to you?"
"No, I believe you are telling the truth." Ya said with certainty.
"Then why don't you fight?" Jiu Yue asked curiously.
"Because I don't want to be friends with you, I won't take anything that belongs to you," said Ya.
Jiuyue looked at Ya with a strange look in his eyes. He was about to say something after a while, but his expression suddenly changed. He glanced into the void and sighed, "It's too late now."
In the void, a beam of light descended, illuminating the entire cube fighting arena.
(End of this chapter)
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