Unbeatable! Invincible! Unparalleled! 20 Chapter 20: Duan Li's Bizarre Trial! 2

Furthermore, streaks of fire and lightning surrounded his body, yet not a single damage was done to him.

"This is.. the future.." said Duan Li as he closed his eyes and entered into a state of contemplation.

...

"Huh?" he was struck by a sudden realization.

He couldn't see his inner body!

His bones, skeletal muscles and the blood vessels that he could usually see after he closes his eyes was not there!

In other words, he doesn't have the All-seeing eye ability!

"What is going on?" he thought as his brows creased together.

He tried closing and opening his eyes multiple times but it was still the same.

"Could it be..?" a theory came into his mind.

Duan Li tried to peer into the past memories of this future self of his. To his surprise, this future self does not have any recollection of ever touching the mysterious pearl at all!

In fact, when he was chopping the trees in the woods, he was supposed to chop the tree on the left, not the right!

Furthermore, he had no recollection of the memories where Ancestor Zong underwent a rebirth, only that its spirit was awaken after absorbing the spiritual Qi refined by Duan Li's sky grade potential.

"Is this.. really.. is a separate.. timeline.. ? " he said in confusion.

He tried to peer further into his memories.

He then recalled that when Ancestor Zong awoke in this timeline during his test before, the other party had also did the same of peering into his fate.

Even the words of warning and prophecy of the future by the ancestor remained the same, but the words it had spoken regarding his fate was slightly different than what he had remembered!

The ancestor instead had just said that his fate was peculiar, in that instead of a single line with branches along it, his fate was in round circles as if going haywire!

He also remembered that the ancestor told him it may meant that he was not tied to the normal path fate had dictated, but a path of one fate that could be experienced in many different ways in a single moment.

At that time, he was entirely mind-boggled and thought that the ancestor was just playing word riddles with him to sound mysterious, but now he knew what the ancestor could have meant!

"It seems that.. this is a timeline.. where I do not encountered the mysterious pearl.."

If his deductions was true, then it meant.. his latent high talent were all his and wasn't related to the mysterious pearl at all!

Perhaps the pearl only aided him in giving unique abilities such as the All-Seeing eye and instant memorization!

"So.. in this timeline.. we are fated to doom.. but due to the mysterious pearl.. it has changed my original fate.. to the extent that it was able to bring my past consciousness into this future.."

His heart palpitated in nervousness as he realized one crucial element in this event.

That this.. is really not an illusion..

But instead, he had dived straight to his future self from the original timeline!

This is real!

Holy cow!

"If I die here, would I die for real?!" he exclaimed.

The thought of this scared him a little bit, but as he recalled everything that had happened to this future self of his in this original timeline, including the death of his mother, the feeling of fear disappeared without a trace.

Replacing it, was extreme anger.

Even if Duan Li had come from a different timeline than this one, when their memories merged together before, he had experienced the whole lifetime of this future self of his.

Thus, it could be said that, right now, he was the Duan Li of this future and not of the past!

Psheww!

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The Tian continent was extremely vast, even with his lightning speed, he could only arrive at the northern-most kingdom after some time.

The scenery quickly changed from green to white as he pa.s.sed the northern zone of the Tian continent. Temperatures also swiftly dropped to below freezing point.

Flying for about an hour, Duan Li could finally see a long stretch of wall with the heights of several hundred meters amidst the blowing snowstorm.

From my memories, it seems that this is the lands of the t.i.tan race!

They are at least five meters taller than the average human being and boasted twenty more times the strength! For them, building such a colossal wall was within their capabilities.

But sadly, the abominations that were to come was a colossal being that spanned kilometers in width and height like the Crastesauros!

Who knows if the others were even bigger!

Thus, such walls wouldn't amount to anything in stopping them at all.

After approaching near the walls, he circled to the left and found a black gate, even taller and majestic of about one kilometer high and four kilometers wide.

Duan Li stopped in mid-air as he hailed to state his ident.i.ty according to the memories of his future self.

"Supreme General of the Jiu Empire, First-rank white t.i.tled-Knight! Duan Li!"

His voice reverberated through the air as it travelled towards the gate.

...

Bang!

The door towards a war room where many veterans and experts of the t.i.tan race are currently gathering for an emergency meeting were opened abruptly by a guard.

"Impudent! How dare you disrupt this meeting!" said an angry elder as he smashed his table with a fist.

"State your business or die!" shouted another burly t.i.tan with his hand already unsheathing his sword.

The guard swallowed his saliva as he bowed and swiftly told them;

"Generals! We spotted a human who claimed to be that legendary figure, Supreme General of the Jiu Empire, Duan Li!" said the guard.

It was only just a few moments ago that he had to run like crazy when his captain told him that he must reach the war room within ten breaths to relay this information or else he will be decapitated.

And now, he was under the threat of being beheaded?

You guys are too much!!

Hearing this, the hostile aura within the room suddenly halted and the t.i.tans who were enraged previously went mute. Their knees grew weak as their lips turned purple.

Bang!

Another table got crushed.

"Imbecile! How dare you delay the information of his holiness arrival!" shouted the man on the center of the room who seemed to be the most savage and brutal out of them all.

This was the Supreme General of the Left hand of the t.i.tan race, Kong Donghai!

His body had many scars on him, ontop of being bare-chested, his hair was colored in deep red, as if from the blood of countless enemies that he had slained and decapitated.

Yet this same brutal man who seemed to be limitless in his strength had an obvious fear reflected in that sharp eyes of his.

"Come! Let us go meet his holiness!" he said.

They all then rushed out from the war room as they bolted into the air and flew frantically towards the gate, leaving the stifled guard standing alone in indignance.

"I don't want to live anymore.."

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At the gate..

"Supreme General Duan Li! Welcome to the lands of the t.i.tans!" greeted Kong Donghai respectfully with a straight bow.

"Welcome Supreme General Duan Li!!" shouted the rest of the t.i.tans at the back following suit as they too bowed with a straight back.

It created a very peculiar scene where giants were bowing against a man that was hardly even two meters tall.

One has to know that the t.i.tan race will only truly respect one another if they are stronger than them, no matter from what race those powerful being came from.

What more when it is Duan Li himself, the undisputed number one rank Knight in the whole Tian continent!

The gap between the number two and Duan Li in battle prowess is extremely vast. Such that, if the number two knight had powers that could be said to be as vast as the ocean, then Duan Li's powers are as vast as the sky, fully encompa.s.sing the world and the ocean itself!

Thus, not only do they respect Duan Li, they even feared him as well!

"En. There is no need to be so formal." replied Duan Li casually as he waved his hands, acting in accord with his memories of how the future him behaves.

The t.i.tans then stood straight with their backs like unbreachable walls.

"Supreme General Duan Li.. it seems that.. the surrounding empires and kingdoms had already fallen.." said Kong Donghai slowly.

"We have several jade slips which contained the spiritual Qi of important people within them from each of the empires and kingdoms, but.. all of them had cracked and turned to ashes!" one of them added.

Another one of the veteran also decided to ask to Duan Li;

"Could it be.. that the Jiu Empire.. has also.."

Pa!

He was. .h.i.t in the head before he could even finish his sentence. The rest besides him glared at that t.i.tan with deadly gaze, seeming to say;

'If you say any more, we will pummel you to death!'

This was because they had actually knew that the Jiu empire had already fallen when the jade slips cracked and turned to ashes.

For the whole empire to be destroyed, Duan Li's emotion must be extremely unstable right now, filled with griefs and anger. If any words spouted by them were to trigger his ire, they could possibly pay it with their life!

Hearing that question, Duan Li could only look towards the sky with his hands clasped behind his back.

He nodded.

"Alas... " exclaimed the crowd looking extremely dejected.

"Was it.. the abominations from the prophecy?" asked Kong Donghai hesitatingly.

Duan Li nodded again.

...

Everyone became silent to the point that no one dared to speak or breath out loudly.

As the mood slowly turned sour, Duan Li finally began to speak while looking towards the sky.

"The abominations that will be coming for us will be far beyond your imagination." said Duan Li.

"But, I have already slaughtered one of them. Thus, I know that they can be beaten!" he continued as his gaze turned sharp with deep killing intention reflected on his eyes.

The crowd's eyes began to glow with hope.

"That's right! Even if we are all to die, we will drag them along to h.e.l.l with us!" shouted Kong Donghai to the crowd.

"Yeahh!!!"

The morale of the crowd rose as they moved to prepare for the incoming battle.

The lands quake as Duan Li's brows creased together and look towards the distance.

He had bad premonitions for the battle to come..

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