A long time ago, when it became clear that his opponent at certain stages was most likely the reclusive and aloof King Zhou Yi, Shen Qian tried to understand him as much as possible.
It is no longer possible to test which era King Zhou Yi was a warrior. According to the oral accounts of some of the top warriors Shen Qian came into contact with, King Zhou Yi first left traces in history, which may be traced back thousands of years to the third feudal state in China. When the Zhou Dynasty was established.
However, it is impossible to verify which emperor of the Zhou Dynasty the earliest identity of King Zhou Yi was.
Shen Qian even once suspected that King Zhou Yi might be a remnant of an earlier era.
He uses the word "Yi" as his nickname, which symbolizes the unpredictable fate.
What kind of opponent is the most terrifying?
In Shen Qian's view, an existence like King Zhou Yi, who always hides in the dark and controls everything that affects everything invisibly, is far more terrifying than an enemy on the surface like the Witch King.
Even though Emperor Wu was the great emperor, and King Zhou Yi was probably just King Wu... Shen Qian's fear of King Zhou Yi was unspeakable.
The most impressive thing is that Shen Qian often ignores everything about King Zhou Yi.
If his mental power had not reached a certain level and the system often issued early warnings, as time went by, Shen Qian would have unknowingly lost his memory of King Zhou Yi, even if his incarnation Ling Tianhou had wanted to destroy him. He died, but Shen Qian often couldn't think of it.
What a buggy passive skill this is.
Ineffable, unperceivable, whatever is said must be noticed...almost exactly the same as the "Way of Heaven".
Only when Shen Qian kept tightening the string could he faintly sense that something was wrong with Gu Donglai.
But at this moment, when Shen Qian faced King Zhou Yi who was behind Gu Donglai, he was confident. Shen Qian suddenly remembered a detail that he had forgotten.
King Zhou Yi often came to Babel Tower and maintained the highest clearance record all year round.
I don’t know if he has ever stepped onto the 100th floor, but his footprints are all over the first 99 floors.
Thinking about it now, one thing I didn't pay much attention to at the time is full of loopholes when I look back now.
Although the Vientiane Tower is a secret realm open to warriors of all levels, who is King Zhou Yi?
The only Martial King in existence!
Even though Jiang Huan is at the top, he is just a mountain and sea. He can be forgiven for breaking through the Vientiane Tower, but why does King Zhou Yi have to come back here all the year round?
You must know that Bai Di, the founder of Wanxiang Tower, is only one level higher than him. Because he is not sure about dealing with King Zhou Yi, he can only bind him with a two-hundred-year agreement. Is it possible that the secret realm he left behind can really test Zhou Yi? king?
So there are only two possibilities.
Either King Zhou Yi is looking for something, or he has arranged something in it...or both.
Shen Qian thought, and an illusory light curtain suddenly appeared in his mind. It was some historical images of the Vientiane Tower that he retrieved after communicating with the tower spirit, mainly about the part about King Zhou Yi.
In those clearance scenes, King Zhou Yi seemed to be feeling the mystery of the Vientiane Tower on each floor, but Shen Qian instantly discovered the clues.
Every time he entered a different level, he would always stay in one or some places for a long time. At this time, the images would become blurry and it was impossible to see what King Zhou Yi was doing.
But the cold sweat on Shen's forehead was already dripping down.
He realized that he had fallen into a "trap" that had been woven long ago.
The Wanxiang Tower, which he thought was the safest, or all the princes thought was the safest, had already been infiltrated by King Zhou Yi silently, and this method was so clever that the Wanxiang Tower's tower spirit was not even aware of it.
The King of Zhou Yi could fool even fate, so how could he not mislead a consciousness with only superficial wisdom?
"It seems you found it."
Gu Donglai looked at Shen Qian with a smile, and suddenly sighed, "You thought the Vientiane Tower should be your home court, but it's a pity. How can it be difficult for me to live in a secret realm left by a fallen emperor?"
While speaking, Gu Donglai or King Zhou Yi suddenly waved his hand.
The surrounding scenery suddenly changed. The originally empty space inside the tower suddenly turned into a dense forest with high water flow, and soon turned into a barren desert with stars and aurora passing by. Various different scenes were quickly switched. With.
At the same time, Shen Qian's expression changed, because he found that he had lost control of the Vientiane Tower, and his connection with the tower spirit was also severed.
Not long after, everything around him finally came to a standstill, and Shen Qian found himself on a black and white altar.
The altar was engraved with various mysterious inscriptions, with yin and yang fish as the base, surrounded by astrological symbols and Bagua patterns, and Shen Qian stood in the center of the altar.
I don't know when he had transformed into another young man with an elegant appearance. He was standing on the other floor of the altar, still looking at him with a smile.
A strong premonition of uneasiness arose in Shen Qian's heart. He tried to move away from the altar, but layers of illusory chains suddenly appeared around him.
Those chains had a pale red color, and there were exactly ninety-nine of them. They penetrated Shen Qian's body, and they seemed to not exist, and Shen Qian didn't feel anything, but they firmly fixed Shen Qian in the body. On the altar.
"This is... a formation?"
Shen Qian frowned and looked solemn.
He sensed fluctuations similar to the formation, but could not find any trace of the formation at all.
"I have spent seventy-three years laying out the ninety-nine layers of the 'Life Stealing Catalog' on this Tower of Babel. Now it's finally time to reap the rewards."
King Zhou Yi seemed a little sad, and said with a smile, "This is the 'destiny path'. The frontal combat power is simply not as good as other paths. Everything requires enough patience and a long time."
"The good thing is... no matter what goal you want to achieve, you basically won't fail."
"Pictures of Stealing Lives?"
Shen Qian chewed on these four words and felt something unusual from them.
No matter what the means required to be deployed over a hundred years, it would be very troublesome to deal with.
"I don't understand something."
Shen Qian looked at King Zhou Yi, "Do you think the way of destiny is so magical? I was not even born more than seventy years ago, how could you foresee today?"
“Control of destiny does not mean omniscience and omnipotence.”
At this time, King Zhou Yi seemed like a gentle elder, patiently answering Shen Qian, "When you peek into destiny, all you can actually see are some colors of the lake... Well, in other words, you know abstract painting, right?" , yes, it’s actually a large abstract painting.”
"It only has some revelations from the model lake. Everyone will have their own interpretation, but when you are proficient enough, you can always find those destined trajectories in it."
“It doesn’t tell you what will happen in the end, but it will tell you where you land.”
Regarding King Zhou Yi's explanation, Shen Qian barely understood it and could only secretly complain that it was really tiring to communicate with the magic stick.
However, he could probably understand what King Zhou Yi meant. The other party might not know exactly what would happen decades later, but he could foresee some trajectories in advance from the revelation of fate, and then make plans in advance at the Vientiane Tower.
Because he was very sure that this would be a very important turning point.
Sure enough, King Zhou Yi's next sentence confirmed his guess.
"I don't know where the 'fire' will land, but I can guess that such a shocking plan cannot bypass Bai Emperor and King Jiangling. With Bai Emperor's ability, leaving the Vientiane Tower behind must symbolize more Meaning, I only need to know this, that’s enough.”
King Zhou Yi smiled.
"Then what's the use of this 'Picture of Stealing Lives'?"
Shen Qian also seemed like a curious student at this time. He didn't seem to care about his situation and continued to ask.
"Because you are so unusual."
King Zhou Yi said with approval, "I have intervened in the fate of countless people, and also quietly stolen the lives of many people, but the most common life-stealing method may not be effective on you. After all, you have the characteristics of other great emperors. Remaining breath.”
"In just one or two years, you have risen from an unknown boy from a border town to the pinnacle of the human race today. The power of 'fire' far exceeds my imagination, so I have to be cautious."
At this time, King Zhou Yi spread his hands, seeming a little helpless, "Look...in order to deal with you, I have put in two unique clones of princes, plus a life-stealing plan that took hundreds of years to lay out. Lu, this is a big investment, so naturally we can’t lose it.”
"So, even Ling Tianhou is just testing it?" Shen Qian felt ridiculous.
"Naturally." King Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Although it is a pity that the incarnation was swallowed by the Zhulong, but if it were not so, how would I know that you have the ability to enter and exit the long river of time, and you have also fought with the ancient beast Zhulong There are deep implications.”
"This can at least eliminate one surprise...for example, the candle dragon suddenly appears at this time, adding some variables that I don't want to see in this perfect ending."
When Shen Qian heard this, he tried to sense the snake scales left by the candle dragon in the space ring, but as expected there was no reaction.
"What now? Kill me and take away the 'fire'. Is this your final plan?"
Shen Qian raised his head and said.
"No, no, why do I want to kill you?"
King Zhou Yi shook his head, "The 'Fire' cannot be touched by fate. How do I know if the 'Fire' will disappear if I kill you?"
Shen Qian was silent for a moment, and a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from his body. He punched out, and the burning energy instantly penetrated the void and struck King Zhou Yi not far away.
King Zhou Yi, however, did not dodge or evade, but watched helplessly as the hundred-refined Yuan Power, which was blended with the power of the strange fire, penetrated his body with a "swish".
However, nothing happened.
King Zhou Yi stood on the spot unscathed, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
Shen Qiantong shrank and already felt something, "Is this an illusion?"
"No, this is the destiny space generated by the life-stealing catalogue. You can understand it as an alternative realm."
King Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Here, only fate can show its traces, and everything else is false."
Seeing Shen Qian frowning, King Zhou Yi was very happy to demonstrate again.
"for example……"
King Zhou Yi suddenly waved his hand.
Shen Qian felt a stabbing pain in his head, and then he raised his head blankly, and saw a little light seeping out from his body. The light floated into the air, forming slide-like pictures that kept flashing in the sky. Pass.
Among them are the youthful scenes of him wearing school uniform and sweating profusely in the physical examination hall; there are also scenes of him quietly following Ding Yi and pretending to be on the way; there are also memories of his childhood in Lucheng where Wang Xiao donated popsicles to trick him into cutting his hair; there are also scenes of him worshiping Ding Yi The day when he entered the Tongtian Tower and was extremely drunk, the moment when he was in great military glory in Jiangzhong...
This is more than just memory.
This is his life, everything he has experienced.
At this moment, King Zhou Yi grabbed his finger and suddenly pulled away the scene of Shen Qian's college entrance examination results day.
Shen Qian didn't feel much, but his heart suddenly became empty and his eyes became more blank. He felt as if he was missing something, but he couldn't tell what it was.
Because everything about that day has been stripped away by King Zhou Yi.
At this time, if someone from the outside world opens the official website of the Martial Arts Club, they will find something extremely strange.
That was the announcement of the top scorer in the college entrance examination in 2297, which suddenly turned into a blank page.
Thousands of miles away, in Jingcheng, Shen Qian's former alma mater, the Seventh Senior High School, the portrait erected specifically for Shen Qian also disappeared extremely suddenly.
But the teachers and students who were hurriedly coming and going due to the war were unaware of it, as if the middle position of the square was originally blank.
At the same time, countless people's related memories disappeared. If someone asked them who was the top martial arts champion in the college entrance examination in 1997, they would find that they could not remember it at all.
Although Shen Qian didn't know that King Zhou Yi changed all related things in a moment with just a simple move, he could also sense that something had changed.
"This one seems too ordinary. Try something different."
King Zhou Yi said to himself, while casually grabbing another picture.
It was a confrontation between a boy and a girl under the scorching sun. The boy was quibbling about something with a smile, but the girl turned her back to him and looked like she didn't want to pay attention.
"Huh?"
But this time King Zhou Yi failed. Although the scene was shaking violently, King Zhou Yi tried several times but could not successfully pull it away.
"Only ordinary people are trapped by emotions..."
Upon seeing this, King Zhou Yi shook his head and retracted his palm, his expression gradually becoming serious.
At the same time, a deep red slowly penetrated the void around the altar.
"Leave your fate to me."
King Zhou Yi murmured to himself and suddenly walked towards Shen Qian, who was still slightly conscious.
"There are three joys in life: meeting an old friend in a foreign country, and being named on the gold medal list, and the wedding night with flowers and candles!"
King Zhou Yi chanted loudly as he moved forward.
He raised his hands, and suddenly three more pictures came out of Shen Qian's body, the colors in them were obviously much brighter.
"These should also be the three most important nodes in your life. Let me think about it, where should I start?"
King Zhou Yi held his chin and thought, seemingly undecided for a moment.
