The Era of Gods

Chapter 676: Chapter 676: Caught Off Guard and Overturned Chapter 676: Chapter 676: Caught Off Guard and Overturned “`
This made him feel strangely, as if he were eloping with a good family’s daughter, but…

He looked up at her radiant beauty and perfect figure, along with her peerless, cool temperament—and considering her strength wasn’t bad either, her power after completing her transformation was likely comparable to the Powerful Divine Power in the Main World.

Such a beauty, possessing both looks and strength, truly would be a fine choice.

However, this was just a thought, as Lin Xiao was well aware that they were not very familiar with each other and nowhere near that step yet.

He then asked,
“If it were you, what would you do?

Which one would you choose?”
The Emerald Queen countered,
“Are you willing to take me away with you?”
“If I could, I would certainly wish to leave this world and be free from Destiny forever, but I know that this world imposes significant restrictions on you.

You cannot enter or leave at will, let alone take someone with you.

Can you really do it?”
“This…”

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Lin Xiao was momentarily at a loss for words, his arms folded and his hand stroking his chin as he paced back and forth.

After a short while, he turned back to her and said,
“I have an important task in this world that I must complete before I can leave.”
“Can I be of any assistance to you?

If I help you, will you be able to take me away when the time comes?”
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and shook his head,
“You can be of help to me, but I cannot let you do so.”
What a joke, it was the legacy of one of the Ancestors—an inheritance.

How could he dare to let someone else help with that?

What if the helper turned against him at the last moment?

This was like the legacy left by a being of great divine power in the Main World, which could prove irresistibly tempting to those with Powerful Divine Power and Super Divine Power.

For powerhouses at this step, moving forward meant ascending to become an Ancestor.

Discovering another Ancestor’s legacy would tempt them in almost all cases.

The remaining fraction of a percent wasn’t due to a lack of desire—they either couldn’t use it, already had it, or it was bound to be tempting regardless of moral character or relationships.

Moreover, his relationship with the Emerald Queen was average at best; how could he possibly trust her?

She seemed to realize this too and fell silent for a moment before saying,
“I guess it must be something very important to you, something you can’t share with me.

I understand.

I can agree to wait for you at a certain place, and after you complete your task, you can come and take me with you.

As the price for taking me away, I can offer you a thousand years of service once we leave.”
…

“I may not be able to agree to your proposal!”
“Why not?”
Lin Xiao fell silent.

He couldn’t say it was due to the ominous premonition that cautioned him against agreeing.

Having acquired the Time Law, although his power was still not enough to perform such heaven-defying feats as stopping time or reversing its flow, his foresight was already incredibly strong.

Whatever decision he made, he had a mysterious premonition.

When he decided to disrupt the Balance, he had a premonition that it would greatly benefit him, so he resolutely broke the Balance and chose to aid the visible, the Emerald Queen, because his intuition told him that helping her would be most beneficial to him.

Now, as he was about to agree to her, not only did he have a premonition, but he also vaguely saw some shattered future fragments.

Although these future fragments were disjointed and unclear, combining them with the omen, he roughly guessed that agreeing would entail significant risks.

Yes, extremely significant risks.

Gazing into her captivatingly beautiful pupils and gaze, he spoke frankly,
“I possess a strong precognitive ability, which I’ve relied on to avoid many risks.

Just now, when I was about to agree to your request, my premonition told me that if I help you, I will face tremendous dangers.”
He paused for a moment before continuing,
“To be honest, we are strangers to each other and not closely related.

I cannot take a tremendous risk for someone to whom I have no close connection.”
Unexpectedly, she was not disappointed by his refusal.

In fact, she didn’t even contemplate what he had imagined.

Instead, she became intrigued by something else he said, asking,
“Can your precognitive ability see what specific dangers are involved?”
“Yes!”
Almost instantly, her pupils seemed to brighten a tick, and with some urgency, she asked,
“What are they?”
Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment before responding,
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“I didn’t dare to look directly, nor could I utter Its name!”
The fragmented images shown were of the danger Lin Xiao had seen before when he was refining the True Nether Mirror of a Child of the Spirit Realm—it was the True Nether Ancestor.

In other words, the grave danger that this stunning beauty would face in the future involved an Ancestor, which was the main reason why he dismissed all other thoughts.

A respectable person would not willingly provoke an Ancestor.

“I know who you are talking about!”
The Emerald Queen’s gaze was lowered, as if pondering something.

Lin Xiao, however, had no interest in hearing what she had to say, and told her:
“The risk of taking you away is too great, so great that it exceeds my capacity to bear.

Even I can’t do it, and I believe you won’t find anyone else who can take you away, unless it’s another Ancestor.

I advise you to choose the first option; deceive them for a thousand years.

During that time, you can look for other ways out or flee to other worlds.

The Wizard World is vast; there are surely places your True Body cannot reach, or if you could find an Ancestor willing to shelter you, that would work too.”
“It’s useless.

In this world, I cannot escape anywhere I go.”
Lin Xiao…

He said speechlessly:
“How is that possible?

Even the power of an Ancestor cannot extend to the far end of the vast Void.

If you fled far away and lived incognito, who could find you?”
“It is not an enemy!”
“Not an enemy?

Are you saying your True Body can find you?

But that’s unreasonable.

I have had Incarnations myself and I know the situation.

If they are in different worlds, the connection between the True Body and the Incarnation weakens.

If the distance is too great, the True Body can’t concern itself with the Incarnation at all and can’t even locate it.

Given the vastness of the Wizard World, if you hide deeply and shield the link with your True Body from your soul, how could It find you?

Don’t tell me your True Body is an Ancestor?”
The Emerald Queen remained silent, prompting Lin Xiao to shake his head and say:
“Please forgive me, but I cannot help you!”
He bowed to her with his hands clasped and said:
“I have already resolved your problem, and according to our agreement, I should receive some benefits.

What are they?”
She remained silent, her head still lowered.

Lin Xiao’s gaze grew displeased, thinking she either did not want to pay or that she could not offer any benefits now that her True Body was awakening.

He spoke somewhat harshly:
“If you still hold to your promise, please give me what is mine.

If you cannot pay now, you can say so outright—we can settle it in another way, such as committing to assist me wholeheartedly three times.”
He felt she probably couldn’t provide any benefits now; after all, the agreed benefits were for helping her address the imbalance in the Jade Dreamland.

Now that she had devoured another Incarnation and her True Body was about to awaken, it was uncertain whether she still had any control over the Jade Dreamland.

It was only natural that she couldn’t offer the original agreed benefits.

He didn’t like making difficult demands, but he firmly intended to claim what was his.

Thus, he only had to change his approach and suggest she commit to assist him three times with all her might in exchange.

The strength of someone currently at mid-Rank 8, who might reach the late phase of Rank 8 before long, could be quite useful when desperately needed.

However, just as he had this thought, the Emerald Queen suddenly looked up.

A mysterious force had emerged in her pupils, and her aura had changed slightly.

She closely examined Lin Xiao from top to bottom, as if making a critically important decision, and suddenly she smiled—a smile that made his heart skip a beat.

In that moment, he felt her beauty and temperament were even more stunning than before, and he felt…

an inexplicable palpitation.

“This lord always keeps promises, and never reneges on a given word.

Now, I shall bestow Strength upon you.

Are you ready?”
“Oh, you can still grant Strength?”
Lin Xiao was rather puzzled, but he didn’t think too much about it and nodded:
“Of course, that would be best.

I am ready!”
No sooner had he finished speaking, however, he immediately realized something was off about her tone.

By the time he became alert, it was already too late.

A power he couldn’t describe had emerged within this Jade Dreamland, and Lin Xiao felt his will, divine consciousness, and Strength being rapidly compressed by this force, his consciousness also slowly blurring.

“You are not the Emerald Queen!”
“No, are you that being sleeping in the Jade Dreamland?”
As he drifted in and out of consciousness, he vaguely sensed that everything in the world was converging towards the exquisite figure before him—energy, scattered spirits, and Rules were all merging with her, forming layers of invisible brilliance that enshrouded her like a membrane of light.

In his eyes, the Emerald Queen—or so she would be called for now—was rapidly solidifying.

Not the solidification visible to ordinary people, but one on a Transcendent level.

The original persona was merely an Incarnation, but now she was transforming from an Incarnation to a True Body.

To put it bluntly, her True Body had awakened and was taking her place, descending upon this Incarnation as an anchor.

“Damn it, seems like I’m about to crash and burn!”
Lin Xiao was speechless, resorting to his last resort and transforming into a Black Hole with the last of his will.

An invisible pulling force emanated from him, and the space centered around him began to collapse inward rapidly, bending light into the embryonic form of a black hole.

In that instant, the descending being noticed his transformation, revealing a hint of surprise, yet made no other move but to point a finger.

An invisible wave of Rule fluctuations swept over, and space shook violently.

The nascent black hole collapsed instantly.

“Fuck!”
After that, an irresistible great divine power descended, suppressing him so thoroughly that even his gaze became fixed, and his will was driven back into his mind, unable to break free.

“What the hell is this monster, and why is it so powerful?”
At this moment, though Lin Xiao was only Rank 7, his Soul had already reached the peak of Medium Divine Power, equivalent to a mid-Rank 8 Wizard.

Although he was not of Powerful Divine Power, even a Level 19 Super Divine Power could not suppress him in such a manner.

By now, a fear-inducing thought had surfaced in his mind: this unknown being might well be an injured Ancestor in hiding…