The Era of Gods

Chapter 675: Chapter 675 Sudden Awakening Chapter 675: Chapter 675 Sudden Awakening “Lord Lin Xiao!”
Her stunningly beautiful face showed a trace of shock, and joy, as she said:
“Lord Lin Xiao, I have wronged you.

I never expected that you had mastered the ability to control the Balance of All Things.

I can already feel my strength and her strength drawing closer, and soon they will return to equilibrium.

The Jade Dreamland will once again enjoy a thousand years of peace!”
“The beautiful lady should not be so hasty to conclude before it’s all over!”
Lin Xiao winked at her and said:
“Calm your heart and feel my presence closely!”
Soon, as the power of the Rule of Balance rose and fell, their strengths leveled off.

But at the moment of equilibrium, their forces didn’t stop but passed by each other and fell out of balance again.

This time, however, the strength of the Emerald Queen before Lin Xiao was increasing, while the power of the other Emerald Queen was decreasing.

At this moment, their strengths had lost balance once more.

“You deceiver!”

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The other Emerald Queen roared angrily in his mind.

In fact, she had realized she’d been deceived by this man when she found her strength decreasing rather than increasing as expected.

She had experienced such situations hundreds of times; she thought it was same as always and didn’t get too agitated, merely noting this trickster in her mind.

But what she had not expected was that this scoundrel didn’t stop after suppressing his strength to the same level as her other self but continued to drive it down.

She instantly realized what the man wanted to do, and an involuntary fear rose in her heart.

No matter how much she cursed, it was useless.

She and her other self were two sides of the same coin, each unable to overcome the other under normal circumstances.

Even a few minutes earlier, when one was strong and the other weak, it was the result of thousands of years of accumulation, and they couldn’t do anything to each other immediately.

But with Lin Xiao—this outsider intervening—it was easy to suppress one side.

However, what she feared most was Lin Xiao’s effortless ability to break the balance.

One must know that this situation had persisted hundreds of times, with the Emerald Queen in the limelight always emerging victorious.

Didn’t she also want to overcome her unified other half?

No, they both harbored this thought; it’s just that no one had ever managed to achieve it, not even when the Wizard World’s peak included more than ten Guardians acting together.

This was naturally a rule left by the powerful slumbering entity.

If balance was lost naturally, external forces could help them regain balance.

But to break the balance under balanced conditions was not something ordinary people could do.

At the very least, it would require a strength more formidable than the Sleeper’s to achieve, and clearly, all the external forces she had found thus far were incapable.

Among these hundreds of attempts, there were definitely Guardians seduced by the hidden Emerald Queen with the intent to do something, but none succeeded—until now…

Balance power could restore lost balance as well as break existing balance.

This Divine Power of the Ancient God, which had rarely been useful since Lin Xiao obtained it, finally came into great play at this moment.

It forcefully broke the equilibrium that the slumbering unknown entity had maintained for who-knows-how-many hundreds of thousands of years, causing rapid imbalance in the strength of the two Emerald Queens—one overt and one covert, one external and one internal—one growing rapidly stronger as the other weakened just as quickly.

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When the gap between the powerful and the weak grew large enough, they possessed sufficient strength to alter the balance, the powerful accelerated to become stronger, the weak accelerated to become weaker, until…..

Looming before Lin Xiao, the aura of the Emerald Queen, as she devoured another Emerald Queen, naturally broke through Rank 7, stepping into Rank 8, and continued to grow stronger as if she intended to leap from the beginning to the middle stage of Rank 8 in one breath.

But in reality, his thoughts were still conservative.

As the strength of the other Emerald Queen was gradually consumed to emptiness, and even her body became transparent and began to devour her origin, the aura of the Emerald Queen before Lin Xiao rapidly swelled as if undergoing a qualitative change.

Her aura quickly surpassed his expectations.

It’s worth mentioning that after confirming she was certain to be devoured by another self, the other Emerald Queen deep in the Jade Dreamland did not show any semblance of pleading or wrath.

Instead, her beautiful face bore a hint of a weird smile as she looked up at the sky.

As she locked gazes with the Emerald Queen before Lin Xiao, her body grew increasingly transparent, nearing nonexistence, leaving only a trace of her origin being devoured.

As he watched her on the verge of being completely consumed, Lin Xiao felt an ominous sensation, as if some change was occurring in the world.

“Bang!”
Suddenly, a heartbeat sound, riveting and penetrating to the core, echoed between heaven and earth without warning, causing his own heart to leap violently.

The Emerald Queen beside him, who was about to successfully complete the devouring, turned deathly pale.

She forcefully stopped her devouring action.

At that moment, the other Emerald Queen was left with only a remnant of her origin, just one more breath away from being consumed.

But she stood there, frozen as if she dared not continue, and even the previously devoured strength began to reflux after that deep, resonant heartbeat sounded.

Lin Xiao furrowed his brows.

He then looked up at the Jade Dreamland, which appeared normal but felt oppressively gloomy through spiritual sensing.

Clenching his teeth, he reached out to point at the forehead of the Emerald Queen before him and commanded:
“I wield the balance, I break the balance, break!”
The next moment, the strength that had been reversing suddenly stalled, then resumed its flow at a blistering pace, and the other Emerald Queen’s transparent silhouette flickered and swiftly disappeared.

“Boom boom boom!”
The Jade Dreamland resounded with deafening thunder as clouds of lightning, formed from pure spiritual power, struck repeatedly.

The vast world of the Jade Dreamland began to shake violently as if it were on the brink of destruction.

With one of the Emerald Queens sustaining the Jade Dreamland’s stability and balance gone, the entire realm lost its balance, beginning to destabilize.

Lin Xiao turned to the Emerald Queen, whose strength was increasing rapidly, now surpassing the Old Sorcerer King and still accelerating at an unnerving pace.

He said loudly:
“You must stabilize the Jade Dreamland now.

If the world perishes, It will immediately awaken.”
The Emerald Queen slowly opened her eyes, her stunning pupils landing on him.

A sentiment akin to humanity appeared in her gaze, something that had never existed before.

Neither the original her nor the other hidden Emerald Queen had exhibited true human emotions, despite different personalities and self-awareness, neither encompassed humanity.

Now that the two had merged, completing themselves, she had birthed humanity.

At this moment, she was truly a complete being.

“We calculated wrongly.

Its awakening cannot be avoided, nor delayed!”
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She spoke with a complex look in her eyes,
“When we become one, He will awaken.

This won’t change with our will.

Ten years later, His will shall start to awaken, and I will return to Him.

A hundred years later, He will awaken completely.”
“Must return?”
Lin Xiao furrowed his brows, this was something he hadn’t anticipated.

She nodded,
“Both she and I are parts of Him.

We are Him.

When He awakens, we will naturally return!”
Lin Xiao understood immediately, it was as if the two of them were like two incarnations of that unknown existence.

When the True Body awoke, it could take back the two incarnations with just a thought, without any resistance.

If that was the case, it would be somewhat of a pitfall for him.

His actions were akin to forcibly waking someone from a sound sleep.

Everyone gets cranky when they’re woken up, and by that time…

Especially since this unknown existence was asleep to heal from injuries.

Many powerful beings relied on sleep to slowly recover from serious injuries.

By forcibly waking such a being, the consequences would undoubtedly be dire.

“No, I must delay His awakening.”
Otherwise, he would need to start planning his escape now, because once a hundred years passed and that being fully woke up, he wouldn’t be able to run away.

He looked at the Emerald Queen, who had just gained humanity and now for the first time showed emotions of fear and fright like a delicate schoolgirl.

Although she had ascended to Rank 8 and was considered a deity, she had just gained a human nature and her mentality was no different from a child’s.

He asked,
“Do you have any way to delay His awakening?

Any method would do, just tell me.”
She thought for a moment and said,
“There are two methods.”
Lin Xiao quickly asked with joy,
“Let’s hear them.”
“The first method is to split my Strength back into two and create another incarnation to stabilize the Jade Dreamland again.

But our spirits have become one and cannot be separated; the split-off incarnation would simply be a puppet, nowhere near as effective as before.

Yet, this method can deceive Him temporarily and delay for some time.”
“Approximately how long could it delay?”
“One cycle!”
“And how long is one cycle?”
“A thousand years!”
“What about the second method?”
Honestly, Lin Xiao thought the first method was viable.

Delaying for a thousand years was quite good; he had enough confidence that in a thousand years, he would be able to condense a second True Body.

By then, he would have already left this world to search for the Heritage of the Ancestor of All Things and would no longer be in this world.

Once the unknown being awoke, it wouldn’t be able to find him.

The Emerald Queen, of course, did not know what was going on in his mind and merely continued,
“I dissociate from the Jade Dreamland and sever the connection with it, leaving the Wizard World.”
Lin Xiao found this curious and said,
“You’re just a part of her.

Your connection is extraordinary.

Can it really be severed by leaving this world?

That seems unlikely, doesn’t it?”
The Emerald Queen lifted her eyelids to look at him, a mysterious fluctuation flickering in her pupils.

She reiterated,
“I am leaving the Crystal Wall Universe of the Wizard World.”
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Lin Xiao immediately realized she was not talking about this Wizard World, but the Crystal Wall Universe of wizards.

He opened his mouth, momentarily at a loss for words.

She spoke again,
“I know you, like the True Underworld Council, come from a world outside the Wizard World.

But I have a grudge against the True Underworld Council…”
As she said this, she paused, then explained,
“To be precise, He has a grudge against the True Underworld Council.”
“If you wish to escape Him, the only way is to leave this world.

I need you to take me away.”
Lin Xiao…