Chapter 3491: Quantitative Models, Bloodline Tracing

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Xia Duo originally did not have many advantages over the Illuminati, and he needed to strive for every possible advantage; just like how he created the Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force, he originally only had the one Time Gem that Dafuni handed to Dali.

Moreover, due to the characteristic of Time Force transcending the Time Line, the Time Force within that gem always decreased as Xia Duo reshaped the Time Line, which also meant there was an upper limit to the number of times he could reshape the Time Line.

Once he failed to defeat the Illuminati within that limit, it would mean the war was lost; yet Xia Duo did not have such certainty, so he could only find ways to seek other sources of Time Force to increase his odds of winning the war.

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After making up his mind, Xia Duo quietly left the Red River Valley; of course, this was what he considered "quietly," but in reality, on the Illuminati's side, Dafuni still sensed it.

But Xia Duo resided within heaven and earth, almost equivalent to non-existent; even if Dafuni could judge his existence from the perspective of prophecy and time, she still could not stop Xia Duo from leaving.

After leaving the Red River Valley, Xia Duo did not immediately return to Yongle City, but instead randomly found a spot in the wilderness, performed Spellcasting to take a certain amount of soil and stone, and stored them in his Personal Space.

Only afterwards did he return to Yongle City to begin reshaping the Time Line. While in the Astral Plane, he confirmed once again that the soil and stone in his Personal Space during this reshaping of the Time Line were real and existed completely independently of the Main Plane.

"Then what kind of impact will there be?"

Carrying a trace of anticipation, Xia Duo finally completed the reshaping of the Time Line. In just an instant, his consciousness returned to the past.

Next, just like in the previous Time Line, he contacted the Ilfaren representative to ask them to help contact Xinnaliya, and eventually headed to Beilunuo.

In the previous Time Line, because he had confirmed in advance that the Time Flow Regulator could collect Time Force, Xia Duo did not anchor the event of going to Beilunuo to obtain the Time Gem.

Besides the reason of the Time Flow Regulator, the fact that the clash with Dafuni occurred before obtaining the Time Gem was also a very important reason.

It was just that at the very beginning, Xia Duo wanted to repeatedly "farm" Dafuni, this source of Time Force, to obtain more Time Force; once he anchored the event of obtaining the Time Gem from Beilunuo, the event of clashing with Dafuni would also likely be anchored.

Of course, things changed later on; Xia Duo altered his original plan, no longer seeking to defeat the Illuminati directly on the Time Line battlefield, but instead fighting a war of attrition, using the Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force.

Under these circumstances, clashing with Dafuni needed to be avoided even more, so as to prevent Dafuni from using Time Force to transmit the news that he could collect Time Force to other Time Lines, thereby increasing the risks of the war.

Therefore, in the previous Time Line, although the reasons Xia Duo had at the beginning and the end regarding whether to anchor the trip to Beilunuo were not quite the same, fortunately, they both pointed to the same result, which was—

Do not anchor the trip to Beilunuo.

So this time, reshaping the Time Line, Xia Duo returned once again to the original starting point, which was "that reality" he had anchored with the help of the previous Prophecy Ritual.

When the reshaping of the Time Line was completed, it was equivalent to the end of the Prophecy Ritual, only in the very first Time Line, the information he obtained from the prophecy was very limited, merely some prophetic scenes for which he could not judge the truth.

But now, including the previous Time Line, he had obtained the prophecy results from the very first Time Line, but with the addition of the experiences from the previous Time Line.

It was equivalent to having fully prophesied the future with the help of Time Force; all details, as long as he had personally experienced them, were clearly visible!

Of course, this was only Xia Duo's own experience; if it were Dafuni, her "observation" of the future might not be like this, after all, the two sides used Time Force in completely different ways.

But regardless, Dafuni, who mastered Time Force, was a formidable enemy.

It was just that the other party's ambition was too great, the setup was too broad, and she wanted too much. Otherwise, if someone had told Xia Duo in advance that the enemy was a prophet who had mastered Time Force, he might have avoided the battle from the very beginning.

It was just that now he was already involved, and he was not without any chance of winning, so he could persist; for him now, to ask him to fight a battle with no chance of winning was also unlikely.

Know when to retreat, know when to yield; only by preserving oneself is there an opportunity to launch a counterattack. If even he himself were finished, what would the people behind him do?

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Because the development of the first half of the previous Time Line was basically consistent with Xia Duo's expectations, he did not intend to change it; he still contacted the Ilfaren representative to ask them to help contact Beilunuo, or at least provide a channel to contact Beilunuo.

At the same time, he was also trying to find a way to conduct a quantitative inspection of the Time Force saved within the Time Flow Regulator he brought over from the previous Time Line.

Although Time Force was a power that was very difficult to quantify, Xia Duo did not need it to be very precise; as long as he could roughly judge a quantity, he could determine a standard himself through repeated comparisons.

Or rather, this was also a process of quantifying Time Force.

Previously, while in the Astral Plane, Xia Duo already had ideas in this regard, and now, back in the normal Magic Net environment, he could truly conduct experiments.

In the process of the experiment, he basically determined that the Time Force that a specific Spell could save was limited, or more colloquially, the Time Force capacity of the Time Flow Regulator he designed was limited.

If he defined the amount of Time Force that could be saved by the Spell for collecting Time Force, which he had simplified and improved from the Time-Involving Ritual at the beginning, as "1", then—

The capacity limit of the Time Flow Regulator was about five thousand or so!

As for the cost of reshaping a Time Line, it could not be determined for the time being, because the Time Flow Regulator he currently held was stored in his Personal Space and had not been used to reshape the Time Line.

Previously, reshaping the Time Line was still done using the strange gemstone designed at the beginning, and the Time Force saved inside it all came from the Time Gem obtained from Beilunuo.

In other words, to determine the consumption of one Time Line reshaping, he still needed to obtain another Time Gem.

Furthermore, due to the increased number of times he used Time Force, or perhaps it could also be the increased number of times he experienced the birth and death of Time Lines, Xia Duo's Perception of Time Force had improved.

This Perception even exceeded the Arcane means he currently used to quantify Time Force; in other words, he could directly perceive the amount of Time Force, and even the amount of change.

And this Perception could also trace back previous perceptions; in other words, as long as he obtained a Time Gem again, he could know the consumption of the several previous Time Line reshapings all at once.

Including the result after additionally collecting a certain amount of soil and stone from the wilderness last time.