Chapter 249
The power of the laws surged forth, and Lilith's eyes transformed completely into the shape of stars, with a deep blue halo resembling an asteroid belt rapidly rotating around her.
In an instant, the ground beneath their feet and the gray sky vanished, replaced by a vast and boundless universe.
Thousands of stars converge to form a mesmerizing and enchanting Milky Way, vibrant and dreamlike.
Above and below, all is hidden darkness, yet deep within the darkness, stars twinkle and shift, like an unchanging beacon in a lost voyage.
Time stretched on endlessly, and the sense of distance and direction vanished.
They hang above these billions of stars, like a tiny speck of dust among them.
A broken meteorite could smash them to pieces, and the afterglow of a supernova explosion could completely annihilate them.
Xie Xubai's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and a mysterious, blurry image flashed before his eyes.
In this boundless universe, in this dangerous and unknown world, he exerted all his divine power, sending out his consciousness again and again, like a pebble thrown into the ocean, trying to create faint ripples—
As if he were experiencing the scene firsthand, a sharp pain erupted from the depths of Xie Xubai's soul, whipping through his limbs and bones like an electric current!
His vision went black, and he suddenly clenched his fist to steady his dizzy brain.
A few seconds later, the shadow, seemingly out of extreme anxiety, emerged from under Xie Xubai's feet and supported the young man whose temples were throbbing with veins.
As soon as the shadow moved, Lilith, who was focused on the action, noticed that Xie Xubai was acting strangely. Shocked, she tried to stop, but he stopped her, saying, "Continue! I'm fine!"
Lilith could certainly tell which was more important, and with a furrowed brow, she continued her calculations.
However, she also unexpectedly encountered obstacles.
Whenever she tried to observe the specific scenes further, it was as if an invisible wall was blocking her way, and she couldn't get around it no matter what.
Lilith clenched her fists, pouring almost all of her divine power into them.
The meteorite's light band rotated at an extreme speed, leaving afterimages and bursting out with even more intense light, almost scorching through space.
However, no matter what, they could not see through that timeline shrouded in mist.
If this continues, the dungeon will be overwhelmed, and Lilith will have to break free from her divination state.
The ravaged land and the gray sky reappeared before their eyes, and in the distance, alien space beasts raged in the tide of pollution, their roars echoing endlessly.
Lilith gasped for breath and looked to her side: "How are you?"
Xie Xubai pressed his throbbing forehead, shook his head, and lowered his hand to indicate that he was alright.
Lilith pinched her brow, looking utterly bewildered, and said in an extremely grave tone, "There's something wrong with Messiah. I can't even see the future related to him. This has never happened before."
Xie Xubai turned to look at her abruptly, a hint of surprise flashing across his usually calm face: "Your precognitive abilities are among the best in the entire server, yet you couldn't observe his timeline?"
Lilith's gaze swept over his forehead, which was covered in cold sweat, and touched the bulging veins that hadn't subsided. She couldn't help but recall his unusual behavior just now.
She had witnessed White's unwavering willpower firsthand. During the toxic fog of the competition, he endured the near-death experience, determined to stay hidden until the very last second and wipe out the entire team.
What kind of pain could have triggered him to this state?
...It seems that little thought is required.
Of all the things related to the universe and star systems, there was only that one.
Lilith's fingers clenched slightly, and for a moment she felt an urge to ask the other party in detail what had happened after absorbing the divine core.
In the end, he held back and took a deep breath to explain in a hoarse voice.
“That’s right, but you’ve overlooked a premise: I myself don’t have the ability to foresee the future. This power comes from my teacher, and no matter how skilled I become, I can never surpass her.”
Lilith: "Do you still remember what the four divine artifacts that Teacher forged from his body were?"
Xie Xubai remained silent for a long while before finally humming in agreement.
He will never forget this.
Although the Goddess of Fortune paid an extremely heavy price for remaining in the river of time, her actions of successfully manipulating the timeline and secretly maneuvering under the system's surveillance undoubtedly delivered a resounding slap to the arrogant Infinite Game.
The system was probably surprised that humans could actually develop their own potential. From then on, it became extremely vigilant and tried its best to suppress any player with time-space talent.
As a result, the experience points required for players of the two major law systems to advance to the next level are more than ten times, or even dozens of times, that of other players!
The two systems of time and space are rare talents that only one in hundreds of millions of individuals might possess.
With the system suppressing them like this, players of the time-space system had no chance to rise again. After the Goddess of Destiny, there was a complete gap in their talent pool, and many promising heroes and geniuses were suppressed in this way.
Upon witnessing this scene, Xie Yuchun did not hesitate to refine his own organs into a Destiny Artifact that could be used directly.
As mentioned earlier, they are: [The Eye That Sees into the Future], [The Vast Revelation Containing All Possibilities], [The Bone Pen That Can Rewrite Destiny], and [The Unbreakable Heart That Resists Fate].
What is being refined is not only organs and divine power, but also the "cause and effect," "existence," and "fate" involved.
When Xie Yuchun completely sacrifices herself, she will also disappear from people's memory.
Xie Yuchun was intentionally controlling the speed of her self-sacrifice so that she could stay in the human world for a longer period of time.
However, in order to refine these divine artifacts, she had to accelerate the sacrifice.
As a result, people in later times only knew of the "Goddess of Fate," but could no longer clearly remember the individual named Xie Yuchun.
"The four divine artifacts originate from the same source, complement each other, and also check and balance each other. If he can prevent observation that even the system cannot completely block, then he must be the holder of the divine artifacts."
Lilith: "Our teacher passed on the [Eye of the Future] to me and the [Revelation] to the pinnacle. As for the [Bone Pen], I originally thought our teacher gave it to you, but now it seems it might be in the Messiah's hands."
"If you don't know about this, there are only two possibilities. One is that you forgot about it while your soul was damaged, and the other is..."
Xie Xubai reacted quickly: "Mom deliberately didn't tell me about this."
After saying that, he frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.
Lilith suggested, "To understand what happened, it's best to ask the people involved."
She smiled knowingly: "I guess Messiah won't refuse you. After all, it's hard to find another normal person in the world who can meet his harsh, twisted, and perverse moral standards besides you."
Clearly, this wasn't a compliment. Xie Xubai glanced helplessly at Lilith, a sense of crisis lingering in his heart, unable to be as optimistic as she was.
Regardless, the fact that all three of Lilith's Vision of the Future, the Pinnacle of Revelation, and Messiah's Bone Pen are gathered in the "Game House" dungeon is enough to prove that there is definitely hope this time, rather than an unsolvable dead end.
Lilith glanced at the spatial beast that was still causing trouble not far away, clapped her hands, and called it over to bestow a blessing upon Xie Xubai.
The beast was extremely unwilling, but under Lilith's deathly gaze, it could only slink back.
It was at this moment that the various levels of the Black Tower, which had been calm after the fire was extinguished, suddenly erupted again, with black and red mist surging up from the ground, and secondary pollution broke out!
Xie Xubai's eyes sharpened, and he activated his mental power, intending to control the auxiliary combat system to help the player resist the fierce attack.
But Lilith seemed to have anticipated this and acted even faster than him!
When the blessing of the spatial beast descended and the golden emblem appeared on the back of Lilith's hand, a surge of divine power instantly poured into Xie Xubai's sea of consciousness, filling his soul like a raging storm!
His progress toward godhood jumped from 92% to 94% in an instant!
Xie Xubai looked at Lilith in astonishment: "How could you..."
Although Lilith enslaved the spatial beasts, she did not sign a contract of kinship with any deity, so she could naturally become a chosen one of the gods.
However, Xie Xubai had worked with her for many years and knew that she was proud and unyielding. Even if the highest-ranking holy angel wanted to form a pact with her, she would only smile and ask in return, "If I form a pact with you, will I be able to stay at the pinnacle of power forever?"
Lilith dismissed it: "I'm just temporarily becoming your follower before dawn."
"Those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trifles, and they act expediently in times of emergency. These are the lessons our teacher taught us."
After working together with Xie Xubai, Lilith had a general understanding of how the system worked and quickly got the hang of it.
She skillfully used the golden divine power to operate the combat assistance system, connecting with the players' consciousness, and said casually, "Alright, I'll take care of things here. You go find the others first, and come back to me anytime if anything happens."
Seeing that Lilith's operation was effortless and flawless, Xie Xubai knew there was no need to worry, and nodded solemnly: "Okay, then I'll leave it to you."
The blessing from the spatial beast allowed Xie Xubai to use basic location teleportation.
He inquired about the current locations of the other apostles and peak members of the Shadow Sect, then channeled his divine power and vanished from the spot in a flash.
Shadow lagged slightly behind, turned his head, and exchanged a seemingly casual glance with Lilith.
Lilith didn't look up: "Stop your ridiculous and filthy possessiveness. I have no feelings for him in that way. He is the teacher's only son, and I have always regarded him as my own brother."
"Shouldn't you be thanking me, Evil God? If I hadn't had the spatial beasts lock onto the coordinates of his soul, where would you have gone to retrieve it from this vast and boundless outer universe?"
The shadow watched her.
Seemingly finding her words reasonable, the black mist surged and billowed, and she solemnly wrote down her thanks:
"Thank you so much, senior sister. I'm grateful for your guidance before I began my explanation."
Lilith stared at the words "Senior Sister," trying to maintain her usual elegance and offer a polite smile.
After a spasm-like tremor, the corners of his mouth finally collapsed in unbearable pain.
"Who is your senior sister?"
The shadows had already faded away; Xie Xubai had gone to pursue them.
Lilith's heart was pounding, and she kept telling herself: No matter how much she couldn't stand it, White was the partner he chose. She couldn't be angry, she couldn't be angry.
After a long while, she exhaled a sigh of frustration and lowered her eyelashes.
The azure pupils intertwine with stars, and the illusory starlight sweeps into the river of time and space, reflecting the past.
In a daze, she felt as if she had returned to that day.
Numerous support staff rushed around her, their chaotic footsteps approaching from afar, while the communications officer's shouts grew hoarse and broken.
"The Third Apostle left the battlefield midway, sacrificing his body to forcibly trap the spatial behemoth, but his soul is collapsing under the pressure!"
"She wants to enslave a spatial behemoth? What a joke! That's a cosmic-level monster!"
"My God, how dare she?"
"The space around the Third Apostle is rapidly distorting and collapsing! Standing too close will result in being sucked in. Retreat! Do not approach! Go and fetch the Inspector!"
"Wait a minute, look at the sky! What's that?... The goddess of fate! The goddess of fate has appeared!"
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