Chapter 1687: A Single Word Difference

Silent and soundless, only the heartbeat surged.

Standing beneath the exchange light orb, Lin An was like a frozen sculpture, and only after a long while did he slowly open his eyes.

As a flash of resolute intent flickered in his eyes, Lin An decisively raised his right hand, laying down layer upon layer of mental barriers, intending to test the two newly added abilities.

Although at the exchange point, here the system's protection can isolate probing.

But the matter is of great importance; Lin An will not allow himself any oversight.

Testing, it must be tested.

He must know whether the effect of Time Flame is truly that strong, or rather, how high the cost actually is.

As long as using it does not cause immediate death, if its effect is as strong as described, then he would have a trump card to survive even against a Star-Destroying Level!

Even perhaps, if forced to the last moment and having to detonate the Black Lock, he would not be considered gambling with his life...

"Time Flame.."

"Past, future."

Taking a deep breath, Lin An did not overthink and directly chose "future".

Although the cost of burning the past appears smallest, merely memory.

But Lin An clearly knows that this seemingly smallest cost is often actually the greatest.

Whether he lives long or short, he doesn't care at all.

Under the Apocalypse, even one as strong as the Fifth Stage is no more than fodder ants. To Lin An, he only fights for each morning and evening; surviving this mission would already be a miracle!

But burning memory...

Without memory, forgetting the past, that is truly terrifying.

"Time Flame... future!"

As Lin An let out a low shout,

Almost at the moment the rules were activated, a cluster of silver flame suddenly erupted from beneath his feet.

The soundless flame, like flowing water, enveloped him, spreading across his entire body in an extremely short time.

But at the instant the flame just began to burn, Lin An felt as if he were wrapped in another world, a strange sensation, as if separated by a layer of glass, suddenly arising.

It's hard to imagine that even with his will now exceeding a thousand points, he cannot adapt to this state.

Without thinking, as if by instinct, Lin An realized this is the effect brought by being wrapped in soul fire.

Similar to the original Eternal Body, yet with differences.

Within the soul flame, everything before his eyes was like slow motion; not only were the various energies drifting inside the exchange point shielded, at this moment he seemed as if his whole person were independent of the entire battlefield, and the whole world instantly fell silent.

To attack him, one must break "time", attack the future!?

"This is.."

Instinctively reaching out to touch the blood mist drifting in the air, in an instant, upon contacting those drifting blood droplets, the flame covering his fingertips boiled like boiling, with a boom it vaporized the droplet, then a wisp of somewhat evil, curse-like aura was again melted and dissipated. The flame isolated inside and outside; watching the blood droplet burn, this strange phenomenon made Lin An astonished to discover that these bloods from the sacrificers' bodies actually retained some kind of "pollution".

But before Lin An could think further, after 0.01 seconds he suddenly felt his vitality rapidly draining from his whole body.

A feeling of weakness and fatigue never before experienced instantly erupted within his body.

His knees went soft, causing him to collapse.

The burning began.

Completely different from the sensation of vitality depletion before, this time, while burning the future, Lin An only felt an exhaustion pushed to the extreme, as if a feeling of spiritual collapse burst forth from deep within his soul.

Using his future self as fuel, Lin An for the first time felt that the taste of truly burning life was actually so terrifying.

Just like a drowning person fallen into the abyss, he seemed to keep falling into nothingness; as time passed, a sense of unprecedented deathly stillness completely enveloped him.

The roaring soul flame is devouring flesh and blood!

I am..

Truly losing the future!

Lin An's face turned pale; although he had prepared, when the cost of burning began to appear, he actually seemed unable to suppress the fear in his genes, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

He is accelerating death, exchanging his own life as the price for power!

It's as if he were making a deal with the grim reaper; with each passing second, he can feel death drawing nearer!

How fast the loss speed...!

Yet there is no intention to stop at all.

Forcibly suppressing this intense discomfort, Lin An hardened his heart, like a cold machine, only intending to hurry and test.

"Hum!"

Accompanying the instantaneous activation of the electromagnetic rule.

Without hesitation, Lin An actually gripped his long sword with his right hand, and under the full-power infusion of electromagnetic rule and repulsion, he unleashed a full-force strike of all rules, directly blasting his own chest.

He intends to "kill" himself!

Using the strongest strike to test his strongest defense!

If testing, test to the limit; he must know just how strong the defense of Time Flame truly is!

The rule attack is extremely fast.

The violently spinning electromagnetic rule, like thunder in the void, crackled and drew in a large amount of charge.

As if a thunderbolt and a gray black hole exploded before his chest.

In the blink of an eye, under Lin An's fixed gaze, this strike, capable of piercing his entire heart and shattering his flesh and blood, at this moment actually could not advance, as if in slow motion.

Under the coordination of electromagnetic rule and repulsion, the rule's bombardment, like a forcibly compressed energy ball, moved "with difficulty" across his body surface.

Within the blazing time-flame fire, his rule attack began to distort as if twisted.

One layer, two layers, three layers.

As if piercing through time.

After a full 0.1 second had passed, this Rule Bomb that had consumed all his Rule Reserve then with a boom shattered his entire chest.

Boom!!!

Like suicide!

Flesh instantly carbonized and decomposed, as Lin An's one blow shattered his entire chest, even his heart melting and exploding.

His whole body was instantly flung backward by the tremendous impact force, crashing heavily onto the ground.

Boom!!

The earth trembled, shocking.

He forcibly blasted out a huge pit, having endured his own full-force strike; Lin An was near death at this moment.

Despite such injuries, looking at his horrifying wounds, Lin An was not disappointed; instead, as if feeling no pain, his face was full of excitement.

What a strong defense!

Although the Time Flame seemed unable to block the rule attack, it only delayed the damage by about 0.1 second.

But only Lin An himself knew what had just happened!

What percent of rule weakening?!

No... In the state of burning the future, my resistance to rules is basically increased by 300%!

Half of his body was beaten down, yet at this moment Lin An, his face filled with frenzy, seemed like a demonic madman, unable to help bursting into loud laughter.

He clutched the fragments of his own shattered heart in one hand.

At this moment, Lin An lay on his back in the pit; after his ecstasy, a flash of madness and cruelty crossed his eyes.

He probably could already confirm it.

He now had a crucial trump card.