Chapter 1607: The Second That Doesn't Exist

Chapter 1607: The Second That Doesn't Exist

Jiang Nan was completely dumbfounded!
He knew exactly how fast a laser could travel!
Yet now, the high-energy laser beam fired by Ruisen had stopped!
It was frozen right in front of him!
Even the laser that had pierced through his body had stopped!
But his blood was still flowing, and he could still move!
Bewildered, Jiang Nan looked around.
The entire world seemed to have been hit by a pause button.
The chaotic battlefield stood completely still at this moment.
The Tong Gang bullets flying out of gun muzzles, the exploding debris, the people frozen in place—
Even Mila was motionless!
Time had stopped flowing at this instant!
Only Jiang Nan's time continued to flow.
The ticking sound of a clock echoed in his ears. Jiang Nan looked down at his feet.
The hands of the solar corona clock were spinning rapidly clockwise.
Starting from the twelve o'clock position, they had already passed halfway.
At this rotation speed, it would take only one second for the hands to complete a full rotation and return to the starting point.
Jiang Nan: !!!
Even though he didn't understand what was happening,
This seemed like a time-stopping ability, right?
With red light flickering in his eyes, Jiang Nan set his sights on the motionless Ruisen!
Dragging his heavily injured body, he teleported directly in front of Ruisen. The Godslaying Blade in his hand slashed down fiercely toward Ruisen's head!
But Ruisen still maintained the exact same posture, his thoughts even stuck in the previous second.
Just as the Godslaying Blade was about to land on Ruisen's head,
The solar corona clock under Jiang Nan's feet reached the end of its rotation and returned to the starting point.
The frozen world instantly started moving again!
Ruisen was still smugly looking at Jiang Nan's original position, but there was no trace of Jiang Nan there anymore!
The Godslaying Blade was already upon him!
Ruisen's pupils constricted sharply. Instinctively, he turned his body into light and dodged to the side!
"Shua!"
The blade aura spread. The Godslaying Blade slashed through in an instant!
One of Ruisen's ears was sliced off by Jiang Nan's blade, and the edge cut into his shoulder. But that was all—
He had still managed to escape!
"Pwah—"
After delivering the strike, Jiang Nan collapsed to the ground, unable to even stand. He coughed up large mouthfuls of blood mixed with chunks of organs scorched by the laser.
His life force was draining rapidly!
"Restore!"
A pillar of restorative light fell. Within a few breaths, Jiang Nan recovered completely.
Mila dashed over and threw herself into Jiang Nan's arms.
"Jiang Nan Gege!"
Jiang Nan panted heavily, still wearing a look of shock.
That experience just now... was too incredible!
But Jiang Nan's expression turned serious. He grabbed Mila's shoulders and warned her.
"Mila? Did you just use a large-scale time spirit technique? You stopped the world's time, didn't you?"
"Don't do that! Even if I die, you can't do that!"
With what happened to Xiao Di as a precedent, Jiang Nan was afraid of this.
Mila's spirit techniques came with a price!
A technique that stops the world's time like that—how much lifespan did it cost?
Mila looked like she had done something wrong, pouting pitifully.
(๑′◔﹏◔`) "I... I didn't stop the world's time. I can't do that right now."
"This technique is called Instant of Time. It's a new platinum-grade talent technique I just comprehended."
"I only accelerated your personal time flow by one second. So to you, the world's time seemed to stop."
"Because you gained one extra second relative to others. To everyone except you, that second doesn't exist."
Jiang Nan was stunned. "Just... just accelerated my time? Under normal time flow, I was one second faster than everyone else?"
Time flow in the universe isn't uniform. For example, near a black hole, due to strong gravitational fields, time can even slow down.
Maybe three hours pass at the edge of a black hole, while thirty years pass outside.
Yet now, Mila could accelerate someone's time all by herself!
This ability was incredibly OP!
Even though it was only one second, that second was a "nonexistent" second. It could accomplish so much!
If Jiang Nan had reacted a bit faster, he could have chopped off Ruisen's head.
Mila nodded: (๑◔₃◔ิ๑) "That second was stolen from your time, Jiang Nan Gege. So now you should be living one second less."
"You... you won't blame Mila, will you?"
Jiang Nan shrugged carelessly.
(︶ꇴ︶#) "Only one second? I can live over three hundred years. No fear, no fear~"
Then his expression turned serious. "Instant of Time has a cost too, right? Don't lie to me! If you lie, Jiang Nan Gege won't like you anymore!"
Mila's face turned pale. She fidgeted with her fingers and said weakly.
(๑◔‸◔ิ๑) "It... it does. That nonexistent second needs to be exchanged with my own time."
"How much of my time it costs... I... I don't know..."
Jiang Nan took a deep breath. So there was a cost after all.
To accelerate him by one second, Mila might be using up who knows how much of her own time—maybe thousands or tens of thousands of times more.
Worried, Jiang Nan immediately took out a fragrance bead and shoved it into Mila's mouth, forcing her to swallow it.
Jiang Ning: ∑(°口°๑)
"No... don't eat it! You're supposed to smell it slowly! This fragrance bead is extremely precious!"
Jiang Nan shook his head. "I don't care about that. Let's replenish first. The reason I kept so many fragrance beads is to prevent anything from happening to Mila!"
His precious little one—no matter how much money he threw in, Jiang Nan wouldn't feel bad.
Jiang Ning was stunned, then shook her head with a wry smile.
So this was Jiang Nan. But it was really ridiculously extravagant!
After one fragrance bead went down, Mila was already tipsy, exuding a strange fragrance all over.
[From ???'s resentment value +1003!]
That was from the baby!
I haven't even gotten to eat one yet!
At this moment, Ruisen was far away from Jiang Nan, covering his ear, his eyes full of indignation.
The wound healed at an astonishingly slow rate.
(ﾉ)°᷄益°᷅) "Damn it! Impossible! As long as you're still human, you can't react that fast!"
"I was about to blow you to bits! How could you dash out of the laser beam and slash me with your sword in an instant?"
Ruisen couldn't figure it out. For him, that one second just now didn't exist.
He only saw that his attack missed. By the time he reacted, Jiang Nan had already slashed him.
Even a space-type couldn't be this fast!
Jiang Nan sneered: "What's it to you? As long as it can kill you, it's a good method!"
Ruisen's eyes widened, his red laser blazing fiercely.
"Fuck you!"
Meanwhile, Jiang Ning was also shining with laser light.
Ruisen quickly scanned the battlefield and frowned.
(ﾉ)･ˇ益ˇ) "Yegor! Where's the other Star-Devouring Giant Worm? Why is there only one? It's the final battle, are you still holding back?"
"Bring it out and fight together!"
Yegor, who was being ganged up on, used his single eye to rapidly predict the movements of many Dao Heaven cultivators and managed to reply in between.
(‧̣̥̇ Bemused) "The... the other one got lost!"
Ruisen: ???
"What do you mean it got lost? How can such a big worm get lost? Do you know how much effort Lord Igor spent to get those two worms?"
"And you lost one?"
Yegor also looked aggrieved. "I don't know where it went either. I lost track of it while chasing Jiang Nan and his group!"
"Holy Envoy! We've been fighting for so long. Our energy reserves..."
Ruisen looked at Jiang Nan in disgust.
"Where's my Star-Devouring Giant Worm?"
Jiang Nan looked confused: (๑•̌ࡇ•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "What do you mean your Star-Devouring Giant Worm? It's clearly my money-printing worm!"
Then he patted the posterior of the money-printing worm proudly.
Everyone's mouths twitched. Good heavens, it's already become yours just like that?
Ruisen was furious: "Fine, fine, fine! One worm is enough. I'll make you understand that all your efforts are futile!"
"Wait until the moon shatters, then let's see if you can still laugh!"
Yang Jian prayed frantically.
(‧̣̥̇ˇʃƪˇ‧̣̥̇) "Moon moon, don't shatter! That would make us very sad~"
Meanwhile, the Star-Devouring Giant Worm, sensing the fragrance bead scent emanating from Mila, charged straight toward them.
The alliance forces' palms were sweating as they braced for battle.
Ruisen looked up at the area above the Moon Eye, his eyes filled with malice.
"Do you really think you can wear down the One-Eyed species' energy and win this war?"
"The sky... is about to dawn. Witness this epic defeat in despair! From today on, the starry sky has no moon!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A series of explosions rang out. Over forty thousand One-Eyed species descended from above the Moon Eye, falling like divine soldiers from heaven!
They smashed heavily into the bottom of the Moon Eye, blasting deep craters.
Their eyes were wide open, clearly full of abundant energy.
At this moment, despair filled the eyes of the alliance forces.
Had the reinforcements from Tong City arrived?
After fighting this long, they had barely worn down the One-Eyed Army in the Moon Eye.
The alliance forces' losses were also significant. The scales of victory had just tilted their way.
But now, so many more One-Eyed species had arrived? The alliance no longer even had the numerical advantage!
On one side was the devouring Star-Devouring Giant Worm, on the other were over forty thousand Tong City One-Eyed reinforcements.
The situation was utterly hopeless!
It was destined to be a brutal life-and-death battle!
Ruisen waved his hand grandly:
٩(｀ι_´✡)و "Hathaway! Blast them! Don't hold back!"
At that moment, the over forty thousand One-Eyed species gathered energy into their single eyes, purple energy shining brilliantly.
Pang Badi gritted his steel teeth: "Tank squad! Block it for me!"
But after fighting so long, the tank squad had taken too many attacks and was already at their limit.
Could they block it? No! But even if they couldn't, they had to!
In this battle, humanity had no retreat!
One after another, battered and blood-soaked tanks, clutching shields made of Tian Cheng Bao Steel that were already covered in cracks, roared as they charged forward, their eyes filled with the determination to die!
"Wife! I love you! I'll love you in the next life too!"
"Mom, Dad! Your son isn't coming back. He didn't do anything bad—he's a hero!"
"For our homeland! For humanity! For Lan Xing! Charge!"
"Be proud of me! This is life! No regrets!"
Amidst the roaring battle cries, they raised their shields and rushed into that brilliant purple light!
The One-Eyed species army's energy beams had accumulated to their peak!
At this moment, Jiang Nan stood in the void, not a trace of panic or despair in his eyes.
Instead, there was excitement, as if he was about to grasp victory.
It was the hunger of a wolf eyeing its prey!
He roared at the One-Eyed species army.
"Little Walnut! Now!"