Chapter 1663: Excluding Me

Excluding Me

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"Lord of Wuji... I'm in so much pain... I feel like my head is splitting open..."

"It hurts so much... I beg you... I beg you to stop... ahhhhhhhh!!!"

Strands of electric light flickered in the dim hall. A thin and haggard figure was currently locked on a metal table, letting out wails of pain.

At this time, a figure in Black Alchemical Robes was standing coldly beside him. As his fingers lightly traced over the patient's pus-filled flesh and blood, the flesh and blood unexpectedly turned little by little into mysterious metal gleaming with a golden luster, reflecting a faint light in the dim hall.

No emotional fluctuations could be seen on the Lord of Wuji's face, as if he had already focused all his mind on the material changes in his hands. Even if the patient's wails were more painful and piercing, he seemed completely deaf to it.

As more and more of the patient's flesh and blood was transformed into metal, the wails echoing in the hall also grew weaker and weaker... until they turned into bursts of painful murmurs and pleas...

And then completely fell into a deathly silence.

Under the dim glimmer, half of the patient's body in his hands had already turned into metal emitting a golden luster. The head even looked as if it had been cut open, like a bizarre and ugly monster.

Only when the heartbeat stopped did the Lord of Wuji finally gradually withdraw from the state of absolute concentration just now, a flash of confusion briefly appearing in his pupils... When he clearly saw the neither human nor ghost corpse in his hands, this touch of confusion was gradually replaced by pain.

He just stood there blankly, the mysterious Black Alchemical Robes fluttering in the silence. His hands under the sleeves clenched little by little, and hideous green veins bulged on the back of his hands!

It was unknown how long passed...

Before he took a deep breath, and pressed his palm against the surface of the corpse again.

Between breaths, the half-human half-metal corpse was directly completely transformed into metal, emitting a golden luster all over, like a lifelike golden sculpture.

The Lord of Wuji gently raised his hand, and the golden sculpture automatically flew to the edge of the hall. As the lights in the hall gradually brightened, hundreds of golden sculptures were sitting in various parts of the hall like treasures displayed in a museum... There were men and women, old and young among them. The only commonality lay in the fact that the movements and expressions of these sculptures were all extremely painful, as if they had encountered tragic torture before dying.

"You failed again."

A voice came from behind him.

The Lord of Wuji didn't turn his head. He knew who the person who came was... A figure wearing rough white sackcloth was slowly walking over from the entrance of the hall.

The person had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, with an extraordinary bearing. Every movement revealed a faint Oppressive Aura. But at this time, there was no domineering momentum in his eyes, only an indescribable weariness...

The Lord of Wuji looked back and, seeing the ancient mourning clothes on Ying Fu's body, his pupils slightly shrank.

"That Mr. Han... couldn't save your sister?"

Ying Fu slowly closed his eyes.

He lowered his head and was silent for a long time before speaking hoarsely:

"She begged Us... to kill her."

The hall fell into deathly silence.

Even the Lord of Wuji, at this moment, didn't know what to say. To Ying Fu, A'Qian was absolutely his only attachment in this world. But in this despairing era, even an Emperor through the ages... couldn't save the person he cherished.

An Emperor and a Nine Monarch just stood there amidst the hideous suffering appearances of all living beings, their lonely shadows reflected on the wall, swaying weakly like a dim fire...

"Before they died... they also begged for mercy like this." The Lord of Wuji's gaze swept over the surrounding golden sculptures.

"Us said from the very beginning that your wish to help these Ordinary Persons discard their flesh and blood bodies is fundamentally wishful thinking." Ying Fu spoke in a deep voice. "In the Eternal Domain, you can make all matter maintain eternity... Only humans, it cannot be done."

"How do you know it can't be done without trying?" The Lord of Wuji snorted coldly. "Do you think I'm like you, turning soft-hearted when hearing others beg for death?"

Ying Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, and an Emperor's Oppressive Aura vented out from his body. At this time, he was in a sensitive period of losing A'Qian. His inner depression and anger had nowhere to vent, like a powder keg that would explode at the slightest touch.

"...Are you, courting death?"

Facing Ying Fu's furious anger, the Lord of Wuji didn't really continue to provoke him. He fundamentally didn't want to fight right now... To eternity, that was meaningless.

"I'm just telling the truth... Along my journey, if I had been soft-hearted even once, it would be impossible for me to reach today."

"Then you just try slowly. When you finish killing your people with your own hands, you will know... whether the thing you pursue is truly meaningful or not."

After Ying Fu finished speaking, he didn't leave directly, but extended his hand towards the Lord of Wuji.

The Lord of Wuji's eyes narrowed slightly:

"What's the meaning of this?"

"[Morality]." Ying Fu spoke calmly. "After Reversing the Era and Rebooting the World, only those holding the three Timeline Save Files can enter the new world... This one of Ours is a Counterfeit you made, it cannot enter."

The Lord of Wuji sneered, "Why should I give it to you?"

"That thing in your hands is meaningless." Ying Fu continued, "The moment the world is rebooted, the Timeline Save File will trigger the 'Excluding Me' mechanism. Anyone who has another 'self' consciousness existing in the world at the point of return cannot enter the new world."

"The return point is the moment the Red Star first crossed over. In that timeline, the scientist Lou Yu already exists... So, even if you hold this save file, you cannot return."

A touch of surprise flashed in the depths of the Lord of Wuji's eyes.

The Counterfeit in Ying Fu's hand was personally copied by him. Having thoroughly grasped the principle of the Timeline Save File, he naturally knew this point. But from beginning to end, he had never revealed this mechanism to Ying Fu... How did the other party know?

"Even if I can't return, why should I give it to you?" The Lord of Wuji frowned tightly.

"The humanity of this world has already failed." Ying Fu slowly spoke. He took out a strangely shaped Cloth Bag from his bosom, a profound look flashing in his eyes, "Let Us go to the next world... Humanity still has a chance to turn everything around."

Ying Fu opened that Cloth Bag in front of the Lord of Wuji. When the latter saw the contents inside, he was slightly taken aback...

He just stared at Ying Fu like this, as if lost in thought.

"No..."

"I can't give it to you right now."

In the end, the Lord of Wuji shook his head.

Ying Fu seemed not to expect the Lord of Wuji to refuse. He understood the Lord of Wuji and knew that the source of his doing all this was to prolong human civilization... Letting him proceed to the next world would definitely be extremely beneficial to humanity.

The Lord of Wuji's gaze slowly swept over the surrounding golden sculptures,

"I can't give it to you now... but I can later."

"I..."

"Still have some things left unfinished."