Chapter 378

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

"Monarch of Extinction, Cinder Light..."

Black Xuan Ge rolled this title on the tip of his tongue, chewing it over several times.

Finally, he looked at Xuan Ge with helplessness, pulling out a self-mocking smile.

"Scolding myself... it always feels somewhat off."

"You clearly could have dodged that." Xuan Ge didn't understand what this IF-line version of himself was trying to do.

Informing him of the tragedy's occurrence was indeed important, but to him, it wasn't important.

Although he was walking into Gui Ji's trap, he had long since made foolproof preparations.

He would bind the Iron Tomb to the Divine Martial, and only set off for the Two-Phase Paradise after completely controlling it.

As for why he did this, it was to force the Erudition Aeon to anchor Ji Zi; otherwise, rashly changing the past might cause a total collapse of the future.

So he wasn't afraid of Gui Ji at all.

But what he couldn't figure out was what this bastard was doing running to the Luofu.

"Listen, Xuan Ge. I'm about to tell you something, and you need to stay absolutely calm."

Black Xuan Ge paid no mind to the hand still pierced through his own chest; instead, he raised his hand and pinched Xuan Ge's shoulder, signaling him to listen seriously.

"First, disperse the Destruction Power on Jing Liu and Ling Sha. Otherwise, I won't listen."

Xuan Ge didn't want to dawdle. If not for the fact that the man before him was another version of himself, he would've given him a couple of Light Lances, high or low.

"Heh, fine." Black Xuan Ge nodded, palm aimed toward Jing Liu and Ling Sha's direction, recalling all the power of Destruction.

"Jing Yuan's Mo Yin body — you'll pay the price."

Xuan Ge glanced at the cracks on Ling Sha slowly fading, and next he was going to collect the debt for his good brother.

"Don't get worked up, this is for your own good." Black Xuan Ge nodded.

He was about to reach his limit; once he finished the remaining words, everything would be left to the him of this world.

"Xuan Ge, we're Transmigrators, right."

"... Huh?" Xuan Ge's brow furrowed — what the hell kind of dogshit question was this.

"Yes. But what does that have to do with Jing Yuan falling into Mo Yin."

"You listen to me, I don't have much time left."

Black Xuan Ge cupped Xuan Ge's face, forcing him to meet his gaze directly.

"I ask you — do Transmigrators create many timelines?"

"You...!" Xuan Ge's pupils violently contracted.

"My answer is, no."

Black Xuan Ge smashed the answer into his face.

"Transmigrators don't create many timelines, because he is merely a variable, not multiple Xuan Ges transmigrating together."

"Impossible! If what you say is true, then what is the End!" Xuan Ge absolutely refused to believe these words.

Black Xuan Ge's meaning was clear: the timeline Xuan Ge was in had only one line.

If that were so, whether he was real or fake, or whether Black Xuan Ge was real or fake.

"I don't believe it either..." Black Xuan Ge's expression turned pained, "But I paid the price."

Irritability surged in Xuan Ge's heart; he withdrew his hand and grabbed Black Xuan Ge's shoulder in return: "What exactly do you mean. You want to learn from Ai Li Ou and play riddler here too!?"

Black Xuan Ge stared straight into Xuan Ge's golden pupils, speaking the truth that even he himself was still unwilling to believe to this day.

"We... are copies."

The instant the words fell, a thunderclap suddenly exploded in the skies above the Luofu.

"Looks like you've figured it out."

Black Xuan Ge watched Xuan Ge's constantly trembling pupils, preparing to pierce that layer of window paper he didn't dare think further about.

"That thing Ai Li Ou said — you still haven't figured it out to this day, have you."

"... You... too... are?" Xuan Ge's voice was low and muffled.

"Why would a General ask when he already knows? With your ability, you should have long foreseen the ending — that you yourself would die in that war."

Black Xuan Ge recited verbatim the prophecy from Ai Li Ou's script.

This was the secret that these Divine Might Generals who had lived through the Third Amber Era War — that is, every single Xuan Ge — had always been investigating.

"So..." Xuan Ge swallowed hard, he already didn't dare continue thinking further.

"So, the true Monarch of Extinction, Cinder Light — that is, the only true Xuan Ge — he is currently..."

Halfway through, Black Xuan Ge violently vomited a large mouthful of blood, spraying it all over Xuan Ge.

Xuan Ge didn't press further; he had just felt a wave of heart-palpitations surge up from the depths of his heart.

"Let's put it from another angle." Black Xuan Ge retreated a few steps, leaning heavily against the broken wall of the ruins.

"I've never had direct contact with Cinder Light, but my experiences are the same as yours — both passed down from the previous Xuan Ge."

"Wait, you're saying, in your timeline, there were also other IF-line Xuan Ges who came to find you." Xuan Ge immediately seized the key point.

Black Xuan Ge nodded, a trace of bitterness surfacing in those eyes crawling with cracks.

"Yes. Although I never fought Cinder Light directly, the Xuan Ge who intruded into my timeline was one who had truly fought Cinder Light head-on."

He suddenly let out a shrill laugh.

"Heh heh heh..."

This one laugh let Xuan Ge understand everything — that intruder Xuan Ge had lost.

"I suppose I can call you junior."

Black Xuan Ge stowed his laughter, suddenly turning solemn.

"After all, I failed to save Ji Zi, while you haven't made a move yet; by rights I'm your senior."

"Can we skip the nonsense." Xuan Ge was getting somewhat impatient.

"I just became invincible under heaven, and right away enemies come from the heavens — I'm really in a hurry, okay."

He still hadn't figured out what the deal with the copies was, so how come this Black Xuan Ge was already acting like a dying man's final flash?

"I'm telling you, in the next world line, Jinguang will definitely come looking for you!"

Black Xuan Ge directly raised his middle finger aimed at Xuan Ge.

"Because you're the one among us Xuan Ges who's living the most damn comfortable life!"

"Dumbass Xuan Ge." Xuan Ge cursed right back, "This old man fought wars all his life, so what if I live comfortable."

He paused, lifted his leg and kicked Black Xuan Ge: "Hurry up and talk, I can see you're about to die."

"The only intel I could dig up is one thing — it's Jing Liu. This is very important."

Black Xuan Ge finally spoke the conjecture of why their group are copies.

"Because the previous Xuan Ge said — obsession."

"Obsession?"

"Right, obsession." Black Xuan Ge nodded, "We Xuan Ges, more or less all have a bit of a problem."

Xuan Ge fell silent for an instant, his complexion somewhat unsightly, but he still gritted his teeth and spoke: "Uh.... yandere?"

"Oh? You too?" Black Xuan Ge's eyebrow quirked, "Who's the first one."

".... Tsk, big bro, we're talking business, can you not drag this in."

"My first one is Yao Guang, how about you?" Black Xuan Ge was quite curious about this, "The Xuan Ge who invaded my world line, his first one is Xing Xiao."

Xuan Ge didn't answer, merely subconsciously glanced toward Ling Sha's direction.

"Heh, stallion emperor. Ptooey."

Black Xuan Ge cursed with his mouth, but a trace of envy flashed in his eyes, yet he didn't take it to heart.

"The reason I say Jing Liu is the key clue is because, all of us, failed to take her down during the Yun Shang Five Braves period."

Xuan Ge frowned and spoke: "You explain, just explain properly — where am I supposed to understand this from?"

"Because the first Xuan Ge was also like this. So, our group, our obsession with the big one, runs extremely deep."

Xuan Ge froze, just about to curse him for pure bullshit, but carefully ran through it in his head.....

It seems there really is a few points of truth to it.

Black Xuan Ge watched him ponder quietly; it was clear this world's Xuan Ge was much stronger than him.

"So.... Hua is also...." Although Xuan Ge extremely didn't want to discuss his women with an outsider, especially when this "outsider" was another version of himself, right now there was simply no choice.

"Who? Hua!?" This time it was Black Xuan Ge's turn to freeze.

He looked Xuan Ge up and down, letting out a question from the depths of his soul: "Hua used Abundance to reshape her body?"

Xuan Ge: "......"

After a moment of silence, he still opened his mouth to explain the relationship: "Hua is my consort. She..... uh.... is older."

"You really are..... forget it, this is Da Li Hua's fault." The corner of Black Xuan Ge's mouth twitched hard.

This Xuan Ge was somewhat indiscriminate in his hunger, but since he also took Da Li Hua in, it's fine.

Xuan Ge nodded in deep agreement.