Chapter 739: This Is Transcendence (7/10, please subscribe)

The instant the words on the parchment fell.

Fang Yue immediately felt everything about his body rewinding!

But the rewind did not go smoothly—like a turning gear jammed by some hard object, every rotation came with scraping, crunching sounds.

His lifespan burned wildly, as if brute force were being used to shove the gears into turning.

Time Rewind began to take effect!

That terrifying, spine-chilling sensation instantly receded like a tide.

If Fang Yue could see the 【Yin Agent】's movements at this moment, he would surely notice that the 【Yin Agent】, upon seeing Fang Yue regain free movement, had paused briefly as if in bewilderment.

That single opening was all Fang Yue needed—he had already shot backward, fleeing wildly into the distance.

【Speed!】

Fang Yue's speed had already been fast to begin with, but with black Qi coiling around his legs, he practically became a black shadow, retreating madly.

Yet the parchment still thought Fang Yue was running too slowly—under the augmentation of the Ancient Words' power, his speed surged another notch!

His body nearly became a black line, streaking across half of Chunuan City!

This kind of fleeing speed—across all of Chunuan City, none could match it!

"What do we do next?"

【Keep running!!】

"I can't just leave Captain Wu behind…"

【Stop!!】

"…No need! I mean once we're safe, we can turn back and contact him."

【Stop! You idiot! It's caught up!】

What?!

Fang Yue's face changed. He slammed to a halt, spun around, and stared fixedly ahead—but apart from the Night Rain that followed him everywhere overhead, there was nothing around. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Where! Where is the Yin Agent? It caught up? Can you see it?"

【I can't see it either!】

"Then how do you know…"

This time, the parchment didn't directly answer Fang Yue's question. Instead, it used another method—words surfaced in Fang Yue's mind.

【My name is Fang Yue. I'm running for my life, dodging the 【Yin Agent】's pursuit from behind.】

【I have to run very fast, but I can't outrun the Yin Agent.】

【Before I could escape Chunuan City, the Yin Agent caught up to me.】

【An invisible hand pierced straight through my chest. I died on the spot.】

Damn it!

With my Ghost Value amplification and the parchment's Ancient Words power supporting me, at such violent speed the Yin Agent still had the edge—catching up from behind and killing me…

Fang Yue's expression darkened. Gripping the Ice Blade in his hand, he asked, "Then what do we do?"

【Can't escape, what can we do? Break our contract quick, I want to go swear allegiance to Lord Yin Agent!】

His fist clenched hard!

He was already angry!

"Enough. We live and die together. Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!"

【!!!】

【Zhi Zhi is crying!!】

【Wu Wuwu! How did I end up with you, this jinx?! Are you even human?! Any shred of conscience and you'd let poor, pitiful, weak little Xiao Zhi Zhi go!】

Cry my ass! I'm half a damn Ghost Spirit Root—I'm only half human, alright!

"Cut the crap. Tell me quick—do we have any chance of surviving the 【Yin Agent】?"

【No chance at all! I'm just a pitiful Rain-grade Ghost Artifact, and you're just a Human-grade martial artist. With our strength, what do we have to fight a 【Yin Agent】 with?】

So depressing!

The parchment is so depressing!

No good—got to fire up the parchment's fighting spirit!

"Ooh-ooh, are you really that great and noble Rain-grade Ghost Artifact, Lord Parchment? A few days haven't passed and you're this washed out? It's just one Yin Agent—you must have a way!"

【!!!】

【The great and noble Lord Parchment has never had a moment of being washed out!!】

"Then hurry up and…"

Fang Yue's words were cut short. His voice stopped abruptly, and his eyes suddenly went wide.

Because he felt that something heavy had suddenly settled on his back.

As if… some kind of existence had pressed itself against his back!

The Yin Agent… had arrived!

Fang Yue's body froze, unable to move. At the same time, an icy right hand pierced through from behind and gripped his heart.

One light squeeze from the Yin Agent and his heart would burst instantly, killing him on the spot.

"Par…"

【Time Rewind!!】

The two of them had long since reached a certain Synchronize. The thought had barely arisen when the other had already responded.

The next instant, the 【Yin Agent】's right hand was forced back by an invisible power—dragged out in reverse, like rewinding!

"Nice one. Let's get out of here!"

【Don't run!】

【I foresaw it… the closer to your time of death, the richer my foresight becomes, the fuller the details!】

【So I foresaw it—it's the 【Void Horn】! Hurry and stab it toward the back!! This is our last chance to survive!】

The closer to death, the stronger the parchment's foresight! The more specific!

This point, Fang Yue had once discussed with the parchment.

He just hadn't expected that the parchment, at this moment, had actually found a way to live!

Almost without any room left to think, the instant the parchment spoke, Fang Yue had already obediently taken out a Void Horn, gripped it in his hand, and without hesitation stabbed viciously toward his back!

At this life-and-death crisis, he had completely emptied his mind, betting everything on this last sliver of survival!

【Stab!!】

Illusory Ancient Script surfaced from Fang Yue's right hand.

Fang Yue, who had only just raised his hand, suddenly felt a terrifying surge of force from his right hand, pushing his strength in an instant to its peak—beyond even his peak!

"Stab!!"

【Stab!!】

The two roars rang out almost simultaneously in their hearts, bellowing aloud!

Black spiraling currents of air coiled around the 【Void Horn】 and violently stabbed forward!

Whoosh—

The sound of tearing air rang out.

Fang Yue had already completed that stab!

He—had struck!

But… his face had gone deathly pale.

Because, it was useless.

That stab of his, using the 【Void Horn】 as a medium and combined with the parchment's power, truly gave him the sensation of having stabbed into something.

But, it was the hard feedback of stabbing into armor.

For him, it was a power beyond his peak, but landing on the 【Yin Soldier】 was like a tickle—neither painful nor itchy, not even enough to scrape the skin!

If one had to say, the 【Yin Soldier】 had been nudged slightly by Fang Yue—and that was all.

"It's over…"

【We're… doomed!】

One person and one piece of parchment, their hearts ashen.

That was the strongest joint strike the two of them could muster, yet it couldn't even break through the 【Yin Soldier】's defense—it merely… touched the 【Yin Soldier】…

Crack, crack, crack…

The 【Void Horn】 that Fang Yue had used as a weapon was covered in dense cracks, collapsing and shattering into a skyful of fragments that scattered on the wind.

Trembling, fear, despair… all manner of emotions rose from the hearts of one person and one piece of parchment.

A Yin Soldier, cannot be reversed!

It's angry… the Yin Soldier must be angry!

Fang Yue's whole body trembled; this time, no longer because of the Yin Soldier's aura, but from an instinctive sense of fear!

(End of this chapter)