When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 1351 - 865: Protector
Back when Xiang Beifei was still in Jiuzhou, he intruded into the Five Regions Desolate Beast Research Base. At that time, Professor Zhao Ruizhong, upon realizing he was aiding evil, decided to destroy those Beast Pill breeding bases, only to be discovered by the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage.
Accompanying Zhao Ruizhong then was a mysterious woman cloaked from head to toe, who said to Xiang Beifei, "You carry the scent of the Mustard Seed in Palm." It was the first time Xiang Beifei had heard of the Mustard Seed in Palm!
Afterwards, that mysterious woman disappeared. Xiang Beifei initially thought she was from the Congji abyss, but later realized she wasn’t at all.
He didn’t expect the mysterious woman to appear at the world’s end!
"It’s you."
Xiang Beifei looked at the mysterious woman in front of him with surprise.
"How long has it been for you since we last met?"
The mysterious woman’s voice still felt very gentle.
"Can’t you even remember that?" Xiang Beifei asked.
The mysterious woman said, "It’s not that I can’t remember, but what I remember isn’t necessarily the same as what you do."
"What time do you remember?" Xiang Beifei asked.
The mysterious woman examined Xiang Beifei, pondered for a moment, then said:
"Yesterday."
"Yesterday?"
Xiang Beifei was slightly stunned!
"How could it be yesterday? It’s been about ten years!" Erha interjected.
"Have you gone through ten years?"
The mysterious woman tilted her head slightly.
"What does this mean? Did you meet us yesterday, and we meet you after ten years? Did you traverse time, or did we?"
Xiaohei scratched his head.
"The time I remember and the time you remember are not the same. You’ve reached the world’s end, haven’t you figured out the situation here?" the mysterious woman asked.
Xiang Beifei seemed to understand something, saying, "You mean—there’s no concept of time here?"
"It’s not that there’s no concept of time. The world’s end is a chaotic zone, but here, every local Heavenly Dao Laws are discontinuous, unlike the Edge Corner Airspace where time is specific everywhere," the mysterious woman explained.
"What do you mean by discontinuous time?" Erha asked inquisitively.
"At the chaotic end, all sorts of scenarios may arise, and each chaotic zone has a different time flow rate. If you use the time of Edge Corner Airspace as a reference, ten years there could mean a day here, and ten meters further might be an hour, and another ten meters further might equate to a year, or even a hundred, or ten thousand years!"
The mysterious woman explained.
Xiang Beifei was very astonished!
"Just a ten-meter gap can result in such a time difference?"
"Yes. In the Chaotic Zone, there’s no order to speak of, and you can’t view it with the logic of Edge Corner Airspace. Here, you have to correct your thinking," the mysterious woman said.
Xiang Beifei looked around and asked, "Then where is this place?"
"This is the reverse Heavenly Dao Laws, used to protect myself from getting lost in chaos. I found that you can also control the reverse Heavenly Dao, so I led you here." The mysterious woman said.
"May I ask who you are?" Xiang Beifei asked.
The mysterious woman was silent for a moment before saying, "Guardian of the Dao, we are usually called Protectors."
"We?"
"Yes, we."
"Are there other Protectors?"
"Many."
The mysterious woman lightly waved her hand, and a fog appeared ahead.
At this moment, the sharp-eyed Xiaohei shouted, "Look, there’s another person there!"
Indeed, about twenty meters away, an old, withered man appeared as if he were walking, maintaining his walking posture with one foot in mid-air, yet not moving.
He seemed to be frozen in place, turned into a statue.
"Is he a cultivator, or a statue?" Erha exclaimed.
"He’s like me, a Protector," the mysterious woman said.
"Alive?"
"Alive."
"But why does he look unmoving?" Xiaohei asked.
"Because the region he’s in has a different time flow than ours. While a day might have passed for us, for him, it might only be a breath, so from here, he looks almost motionless." The mysterious woman said.
This feeling was truly eerie.
"What do Protectors do?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"Come with me."
The mysterious woman stepped forward, and the road ahead began to reverse; the city remained a city, but everything was overturned. The sharp screams from outside sounded almost adorable here, seemingly unnoticed by them.
Soon, the group left Half City and quickly entered a chaos. Xiang Beifei wasn’t sure how they had moved, but when his vision returned to normal, it seemed they were high in the sky.
Strictly speaking, this couldn’t be called high sky, because the concept of ’high’ didn’t exist here, but in the distance, Xiang Beifei saw a world like a bubble.
This world had countless intersecting rays of light, colorful and intertwined, forming various things—breath soil, cultivators, trees, houses...
These things were enclosed within a bubble-like film.
"Is this—Edge Corner Airspace?" Xiang Beifei asked in astonishment.
"Yes, this is the Edge Corner Airspace. This is how it looks when viewed from within the chaos," the mysterious woman said.
"Edge Corner Airspace, wrapped in a bubble, how odd!" Xiaohei muttered.
