Chapter 2297: Change in Mentality
No one remembered what had just happened, and Jiangnan certainly had no idea what death felt like!
To Jiangnan, everything that occurred was a future that had never come to pass!
At that moment, everyone was inside the time-stop sphere, resisting Chong Bishi's life-deprivation domain.
They were waiting for Mila to release Moment of Time for the third time.
Chong Bishi's pupils abruptly contracted as she retreated swiftly: "Azure Sky Palace!"
In an instant, an energy phantom of a celestial palace materialized, drawing countless two-dimensional fragments toward Jiangnan and the others.
It seemed too late already!
Mila shouted anxiously, "Brother Jiangnan!"
As she spoke, she tapped her own head.
Jiangnan's gaze immediately shifted to her, seeing her pale complexion.
His heart sank—she hadn't looked like that just a moment ago.
How could she have...
Had using Moment of Time twice in a row drained her too much?
No!
Jiangnan's mental energy instantly flared as he read the scene within Mila's mind. He froze completely.
He saw a future in which they were all annihilated.
He had pulled out Chong Bishi's heart, but that had allowed her to activate a blood sacrifice, destroying him, Xuexue, and Lang Mie within the time-stop sphere.
Wu Liang's head had been blown off, and Jiu Lan had been shattered.
All of it was a result of his own flawed decision—a future born from that mistake.
He had gambled and lost...
Jiangnan clenched his steel teeth, his eyes bloodshot as he looked at Mila.
Had Mila used time reversal? Just like Xiao Di?
She didn't want that future!
Had that future just happened for the first time, or had it repeated many times already?
Jiangnan didn't know, but there was no time to dwell on it.
The arrow was nocked; there was no turning back.
Blood couldn't be shed in vain, and lives couldn't be lost for nothing.
Jiangnan took a deep breath, then looked at Chong Bishi again. Killing intent blazed in his eyes.
Within an instant, he had already devised a countermeasure—but this wasn't something he could accomplish alone.
Wu Liang urged, "The two-dimensional fragments are closing in! There's no time! Brother Nan! Hurry!"
Jiangnan's mental energy burst forth, linking to everyone's minds.
"Once Moment of Time ends, act immediately. Do exactly what I tell you, and don't ask why."
"Get ready now."
In that extremely brief moment, Jiangnan assigned everyone their tasks.
Then he nodded firmly at Mila.
Mila took a deep breath: "Moment of Time!"
This time, Mila activated two instances of Moment of Time.
One for herself, and one for Jiangnan.
Each got 1.5 seconds.
Jiangnan pushed his Warp Bubble to the limit, burning everything. His eyes were bloodshot as he crossed an immeasurable distance in an instant.
He had thrown everything into this.
Along the way, he tossed out a few coins and even a small glass orb.
Finally, he closed in on Chong Bishi.
Last time, reaching her had taken 1.58 seconds, leaving 1.42 seconds.
But this time, Jiangnan only used 1.18 seconds.
He had 0.32 seconds left!
In that extreme time frame, Jiangnan dared not waste a moment.
With a wave of his hand, countless Void Chains emerged, drawing the two-dimensional fragments straight toward Chong Bishi's true body.
Under Moment of Time, the fragments expanded, but not quickly—they were far from touching her body.
But Jiangnan wasn't done yet.
He waved again. Six spatial wormholes—three pairs—opened around Chong Bishi's body: front, back, left, right, top, and bottom.
Both the entrances and exits faced directly toward her.
This was the Anti-Void of Nothingness!
Thus, he created an infinite loop of space. No matter how you ran, you would stay in place.
It was another use of wormholes—Jiangnan called it Time-Space Reincarnation!
He also placed three small glass spheres beside Chong Bishi's body.
Meanwhile, Mila wasn't idle. Even after setting up all those measures, she used this opportunity to place a time-stop sphere at Chong Bishi's location.
This would slow her down, preventing her from instantly killing everyone.
As soon as it was released, the pointers all returned to zero, and time resumed its flow.
Chong Bishi had no idea what had happened. She only found herself trapped in an infinite reincarnation space.
Looking forward, she could even see her own back.
It was like an endless cycle.
The moment Moment of Time ended, Jiangnan roared, "Now!"
Wu Liang and the others, already prepared, acted instantly.
Wu Liang let out a furious roar. Golden divine runes flickered on his hands as two enormous golden rune-covered hands materialized within the Time-Space Reincarnation space.
The hands were normal size but looked solid.
They plunged directly into the time-stop sphere, reaching for Chong Bishi's heart.
At the same time, an annihilating aura enveloped the divine hands.
Their temperature approached the Planck temperature—the theoretical limit of the universe.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. With a *pfft* sound,
Chong Bishi's chest was burned straight through. Even a Star Devourer's physical body couldn't withstand direct contact with Planck temperature; her flesh began to disintegrate.
Wu Liang used those divine hands to breach her defenses, but instead of grabbing the Jadeite Heart, he crushed and melted it, seizing the Celestial Spirit Cocoon inside.
He pulled it out.
Throughout the process, the divine runes on the hand phantoms kept collapsing and regenerating, but it didn't affect Wu Liang's true body.
Because it wasn't direct contact.
Chong Bishi felt a piercing pain as she watched the cocoon, glowing with celestial light, being removed, stained with her own blood.
The divine hands, having retrieved the cocoon, didn't leave—they couldn't escape the Time-Space Reincarnation.
Instead, they tossed the cocoon directly toward Chong Bishi's shadow.
At that moment, a shadow figure emerged from the shadow—Yingyao. She caught the cocoon and began retreating back into the shadow.
Chong Bishi's eyes almost split with fury. The moment the cocoon left her body, she instantly blood-sacrificed her four arms along with the remnants of the Jadeite Heart.
A bloody aura enveloped her. She moved within the time-stop sphere.
Her hair extended, lashing toward the cocoon.
Don't even think about taking it!
But Jiangnan had already anticipated this. Narrowing his eyes, he said, "Kingdom Bloom!"
The small glass spheres he had placed near Chong Bishi instantly activated.
Inside was space compressed to the limit.
It squeezed Chong Bishi with immense force, echoing through the Time-Space Reincarnation space.
The space seemed ready to explode at any moment.
Taking advantage of this, Yingyao successfully withdrew with the cocoon.
She reached out from her own shadow and handed over the Celestial Spirit Cocoon.
Chong Bishi's eyes were bloodshot. An incredibly terrifying energy fluctuation erupted from within her.
"All of you, die!"
But Jiu Lan hadn't been idle either. She had long released Minghe Chongxing,
which used the Void Chains to draw the two-dimensional fragments toward them.
The fragments charged madly, heading straight for the group.
Xia Yao shouted urgently, "Got it, it's warm! Go!"
Jiangnan gritted his steel teeth: "Spatial Displacement!"
In the next instant, Jiangnan and the others vanished. A small glass sphere appeared in their former position.
At the same time, the Time-Space Reincarnation space disappeared, and all six wormholes were canceled.
Chong Bishi, with a massive hole in her chest, was now fully exposed to everyone's view.
Before her lay a small glass sphere, sitting quietly.
All around, the two-dimensional fragments spread wildly.
Before Chong Bishi could react,
the glass sphere suddenly bloomed. Inside was a Star Source Planet—compressed to its limit—
which expanded with the space.
Chong Bishi froze, then her expression twisted with fury.
"Damn it!"
"Insect Emperor Rebirth!"
**BOOM!**
The outcome of throwing a Star Source Planet in Tiantang Zhijing was obvious.
The instant it was released, it was unfolded by the expanding two-dimensional fragments.
As an energy-rich planet, the energy released during its unfolding was absolutely terrifying.
Even with the blood sacrifice, Chong Bishi couldn't escape from such close range.
In the blink of an eye, the entire Star Source Planet was flattened by the two-dimensional fragments,
along with Chong Bishi's true body.
The vast life-deprivation domain also dissipated.
Jiangnan performed continuous displacements, retreating frantically.
On his way here, he had dropped a string of coin marks.
But even so, he couldn't avoid the expanding two-dimensional fragments in time.
They were about to be caught too!
"Tch—Space Wormhole: Anti-Void of Nothingness!"
"Time-Space Reincarnation Space!"
He used the same technique again, but this time, the ones trapped in the reincarnation space were Jiangnan and his group.
This space, relative to the outside, didn't exist and couldn't be touched.
They could only use this method to hold out until the expansion ended, then find a gap to escape.
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao's faces flushed with excitement.
"Yeah! We got it! We really got it!"
Wu Liang trembled with excitement. "I just ripped out the heart of a Star Devourer? Just like that *pfft*?"
"I'll remember that feeling forever. I've got something to brag about now! Brother Nan, did you see that?"
"That little combo was absolutely insane! How did you come up with it?"
Everyone was overjoyed, but Jiangnan couldn't muster any happiness. He forced a dry smile and didn't respond.
He just silently held Mila's cold little hand, pulling her tightly into his embrace.
As if afraid that if he let go, she would disappear.
Jiangnan's heart was unbearably heavy. Where was there any "smooth little combo"?
It was just a lesson paid for with their lives. They had already died once—maybe more than once.
His own mistake, his recklessness, had led to the worst possible outcome.
And the fault he had committed—Mila had to clean up after him.
How could Jiangnan feel good about that?
If snatching the Celestial Spirit Cocoon had been a test paper with unknown answers,
Jiangnan had filled it in the first time and gotten it wrong.
But Mila had given him a second chance, even handing him the answers.
If he still failed after that, he didn't deserve to be in the game.
In the silence, Jiangnan's mentality was quietly changing.
He no longer wanted to be a gambler. He didn't want the people he cared about to pay for mistakes he made.
It was time to change.
Otherwise, Jiangnan was certain that if he continued like this, he might not end up with a good outcome...