Chapter 639 The End of the World
"What is that?"
In the space of memory, seeing the frozen nothingness, Li Qi asked blankly.
The people of Soul World who escaped, the strong souls who were unable to escape, and the completely collapsed Soul World brought great shock to his heart.
An inexplicable feeling of despair and powerlessness spread in his heart.
This despair and powerlessness are the same as those of the Devil.
Hearing Li Qi's question, the Demon King just shook his head slowly: "I don't know."
Li Qi then looked at the Demon King. He opened his mouth slightly, intending to ask something, but as soon as the words came out, they turned into another question: "Those... Soul Saints, why don't they... just move away?"
The World Sea is endless... at least that's what everyone thought before they saw the nothingness.
The vast world ocean would take an incalculable amount of time to reach from one end to the other relying solely on one's own speed.
Therefore, the way for the strong to connect each other's worlds is to use [Transfer].
Utilize the power of each world, utilize the [space strings] that are everywhere in the world sea, and reach where you want to go through space transfer.
Li Qi used this method when he rushed from the Wanxing Realm to the Cangxuan Realm.
Otherwise, if he continued at the original speed, it would probably take him tens of millions of years... or even hundreds of millions of years to reach the Cang Xuan Realm.
It is common sense that the strong use transfer to speed up their journey.
However, these Soul Saints in the Soul Realm did not do so.
Why? "I don't know." The Demon King said solemnly, "But according to my guess, at that time, the [space string] in that space, including the Soul Realm, was already disordered, or even non-existent! Only this can explain why they did not transfer."
Or worse.
The space string still exists, but the place it points to is only the void that is swallowing up everything.
That's why the strong would rather escape in the most ordinary way.
"But... even so, their speed..."
The speed of a ninth-order strongman can surpass the limit of what light can reach in the current universe. Simply put, it is superluminal.
This may not be the case in some worlds. The speed of light is the fastest speed in the current world and cannot be surpassed. However, in the world, the speed of light is no longer the standard of speed.
It takes a speed faster than light to travel back and forth between adjacent worlds.
And that speed is very, very fast.
It is so fast that ordinary people can't even imagine what speed it is.
But even at this speed, those strong men could not escape the collapse.
"…they don't have enough escape velocity."
The demon king said in a deep voice: "The speed of collapse is faster than their maximum speed!"
"Or... they are slowing down..."
Li Qi thought of another possibility.
The ninth-level strongmen are applying the rules, and even the tenth-level strongmen cannot create rules, which means that all their power is based on the application of rules.
Whoever masters the rules more proficiently and applies them better will have greater power.
But if the rules they are familiar with change, their strength will also change.
The power of all strong people is based on the overall rules of the World Sea, so once the rules of the World Sea change, their power will also change.
Therefore, if the collapse causes disorder in the space strings and changes in the rules, then it is very likely that the fastest speed will no longer be the speed they thought.
Even the speed of light may be slowed down.
They thought they were running very fast, but in fact, their speed was probably lower than the speed of light, or even lower...
"But no matter what, it has been proven that once the scope of the collapse covers the area of the big world, everyone... will have no chance of escaping!"
The devil said to Li Qi in a deep voice.
This is the scariest part.
The means used by the strong to escape and hurry were unusable, and their own speed was also lower than the speed of collapse. They could only watch themselves and the world fall into the endless void.
This is the same for anyone.
Li Qi felt his palms sweating. He hadn't felt this way for a long time.
In the past, Li Qi thought that even if things reached the worst possible situation, he could still run away, and he could also go to the next world through his own special way of reincarnation.
He will always be the special one.
But now, his special abilities have become useless in the face of the disaster that has swept across the entire world.
After all the worlds were swallowed by the void, even if Li Qi could escape, where could he go? At most, he could live a little longer than others.
"No..." Li Qi suddenly looked up at the Demon King, staring at him intently: "How did you get out? Even those ninth- and tenth-level warriors were enveloped by the collapse, so how could you get out?"
"Can't you guess?"
Leaving from the memory, the devil let go of Li Qi. He took two steps back to distance himself from Li Qi, opened his arms to release his soul power, and said: "The soul power array is the reason why I can come here."
"Soul Power Array..."
“The method of the soul power array to travel through the world is not to lock the coordinates through the space string and transfer, but to determine the coordinates of the small world in advance and use the power of the small world to pull.
“On the surface, you are throwing your soul out, but in reality, it is the small world that is pulling you in.”
After hearing this, Li Qi understood, and also understood why the Demon King was so desperate.
With a complicated look, he said to the Demon King: "That's why you are here."
"Yes." The devil nodded: "I fled here... to die."
The soul power array can only be used for one shuttle at a time. After the shuttle, if you want to use the soul power array again, you need to use the power of the array to return.
But now... the Demon King's soul power formation is in the collapsed and shattered soul world, in the world that has fallen into the void.
He no longer had the chance to use the soul power formation, and could no longer escape.
Perhaps some people who possess secret techniques, or who are already very powerful, can break away from the formation, leave the small world and go to other worlds.
But the devil is definitely not that kind of person.
He was just one of the thousands of ordinary practitioners escaping from the Soul World.
So, it's just as he said.
He came here to die.
"If that's the case, then why did you become a demon king?"
Li Qi became curious about the devil's motives.
The devil laughed. His smile was bitter and desperate: "I thought... I could live a long time... I could live until death..."
The flow rate between the small world and the big world is different.
Therefore, even if the World Sea is really going to be destroyed, at least before it is destroyed, the Demon King should be able to live a peaceful life in the small world.
In this life, he does whatever he wants, just as the last madness of his life.
"You 'thought'?"
After hearing what the Demon King said, Li Qi's eyelids twitched and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
The devil didn't waste any words. He waved his hand, and the strange clock in front of the throne flew in front of the two of them.
This is a clock that can only be seen by soul power practitioners or consciousness practitioners.
The devil pointed at the special bell and said:
"This is a prop we created together through mutual communication. We call it the Death Knell."
“…”
Putting aside the fact that the name seemed to overlap with an anti-hero in the DC universe, Li Qi understood why they chose such a name.
"Because it can predict the progress of collapse?" Li Qi guessed.
Unfortunately, he guessed right.
The demon king nodded and pointed at the pointer above and said, "This pointer will only go one round, starting from the very top and ending at the very top. When it completes a round, it means that collapse is imminent. But now... it only has one scale left."
"How long did it take?"
"Twelve years."
The demon king laughed miserably: "Twelve years... This world is just an ordinary medium-sized world. The time flow difference with the soul world is at least a hundred times, but... Now it only took twelve years to collapse and get here. Even if this world is very close to the soul world, this should not happen."
"Time... is slowing down?"
“Some of us speculate that it is the collapse that has caused the change in the rules of time. As the country approaches collapse, the speed of time in nearby small worlds will become closer to that of the big world,” the Devil explained.
If soul power practitioners can exchange each other's soul power leads, then they can communicate through soul power even if their small worlds are very close to each other.
It's like a chat group.
However, the chat group only covers a small area. If you want to get information from farther places, you need someone to act as a middleman.
The good news is that nowadays, most of the soul power practitioners in the soul world have used soul power formations to scatter into various small worlds. On average, there is likely to be one soul power practitioner in every five small worlds nearby.
Communication is not a problem for them at all.
The bad news is…
They are all fish that have been landed.
Only one step away from death.
Li Qi was silent. He stared at the pointer on the Death Knell, looking at the arrow that was gradually approaching the 'end point', and asked the Demon King:
"How long?"
"I don't know, maybe a year? Maybe half a year? Maybe only one day left, but I can be sure that at least it's not now, because it just moved the scale."
The Demon King originally thought so.
Li Qi also thought so. Since the scale had just been moved not long ago, there was no need to move the pointer again so quickly.
It took the devil twelve years for the pointer to almost complete a circle. Even if the pointer's movement speed gradually increased, it should not be possible for it to complete a circle so quickly.
But both of them were wrong.
Just when Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief and planned to return to the Holy City to continue collecting the practice materials of this world.
A crisp clicking sound rang in the ears of both of them.
That sound was truly like a death knell, roaring in the ears of the two and shocking their hearts.
The Demon King's expression became dull and stunned, and Li Qi also looked silently at the death knell beside the Demon King.
The crisp sound just now was the sound of the pointer turning.
It completed a full cycle during the conversation between the two people, and the pointer pointed back to the starting point, which was also the final end point.
Then it dissipated under the gaze of the two, and turned into the appearance of the formation of this world, the burning fire.
The fire was scattered all over the floor, and the sparks inside rolled on the ground and gradually went out.
The extinguished fire seemed to symbolize the final end of this world.
(End of this chapter)
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