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Chapter 474 - 440: Destiny

Chapter 474: Chapter 440: Destiny

"There is much inequality in this world,"

The White Horse Tombstone murmured to herself, deeply digging her fingertips into the seams of the stone coffin lid, using all her strength to pry it open.

"Only death,"

The clothes she had worn before were torn to shreds by sound waves, and now her upper body was only wrapped in a blood-soaked coarse cloth. Her muscles were outlined clearly, as if carved by knives.

"Waits for us all equally at the end..."

With an earth-shattering roar, the reality-distorting collapse effect quickly spread.

The asphalt road along with the gravel below was first torn into several pieces, then floated up and exploded with a bang. But when it reached the feet of the White Horse Tombstone, it seemed to hit an invisible wall and couldn’t advance an inch.

Boom!!!

The stone coffin lid finally opened, falling heavily to the ground under the influence of gravity. A putrid stench burst out, permeating the air.

Inside the stone coffin, there was no extraordinary Divine Beast Demon Pet, nor was there an Extreme Emperor’s Weapon hidden; there was only a shriveled and terribly mutilated female corpse.

The corpse of the White Horse Tombstone herself.

[Item Name: Reverse Time Coffin]

[Type: Ritual Item]

[Quality: Epic]

[Special Effect 1: Fated Death. After binding to an individual, the coffin will contain the corpse of the bound person at the moment of their future death. The binder can enhance their various values, including Basic Attributes and Spiritual Power Value, Sanity Value, achieving the median of their current and future death self. Passive effect active]

[Special Effect 2: Reverse Time Reliance. Open the coffin to summon the corpse of oneself at the moment of future death; the two become one]

[Special Effect 2 Consumption: 50% of total Spiritual Power Value, 50% of total Sanity Value, all attributes decrease by 5 points within the future 168 hours]

[Special Effect 2 Cooling Time: 168 hours]

[Use Conditions: The level gap between the current self and the future death self must not exceed 10 levels]

[Note: During the activation of Reverse Time Reliance, every minute increases the binder’s instant death probability by 1% in the next minute]

[Note: During the activation of Reverse Time Reliance, one can use the future self’s various skills, but cannot use items, consumption type Skill Scrolls. If the brain is intact at the time of death, there is a certain probability of retrieving future memory fragments]

[Note: Fated death cannot be altered unless through early suicide or encountering powerful causality interference]

[Note: Even if I’m dead, nailed in the coffin, I will scream in the tomb with my decaying vocal cords: "I think I can still be saved"]

[Note: Look, a coffin of white marble, lined with Hainan huanghuali, crafted by an old master from the palace. Even I feel like laying in it]

The highly decomposed corpse, with a gaping wound from split head to waist, stepped out of the coffin slowly.

The maggot-filled eye sockets met the current White Horse Tombstone’s gaze silently, the latter fearlessly raised her palm, interlocking fingers with the corpse.

Sha—

The current self and the future dead self became one,

The White Horse Tombstone’s skin rapidly decayed, tendons peeled away, revealing stark white bones.

Vague emotions from a moment of future death surged to the heart, intense fear, unwillingness, resentment, lament. Countless sounds seemed to scream in her ears, pain reaching the soul from every inch of her body.

The Black-clothed Woman noticed the profound change in the White Horse Tombstone, the compassion in her brows faded away.

She raised her hands solemnly and swung forcefully at the void.

Buzz!

The ground, ceiling, and walls on both sides of the passage were driven by the reality-distorting effect, squeezed towards the White Horse Tombstone.

This wasn’t just a simple material crush, but also spatial compression.

For other players, perhaps only Binary Tree’s dataification could escape unscathed in such a situation.

"Huh..."

The White Horse Tombstone slowly exhaled putrid air, she slightly bent down, and smashed downwards with a simple punch.

This punch is called, Leveling the Ground and Sky. Lv33 Fist Technique.

Invisible power rapidly spread from the fist seal in all directions.

Collapsed space was violently blown open, the reality-distorting effect was ruthlessly suppressed.

"..."

The expression of the Black-clothed Woman couldn’t hide her astonishment, she instinctively clenched her fists. In an instant, thunder, flames, ice, various attacks appeared out of thin air, enveloping the other.

The half-alive White Horse Tombstone stood in place, faintly shining with a golden light.

Lv34 Secret Technique, Vajra Unbreakable.

She stepped out, instantly traversing a hundred meters, her seemingly decayed and fragile body directly smashed through the fortifications spawned by the reality-distorting effect, her hand firmly grasped the Black-clothed Woman trying to flee far away.

The dried hair of the White Horse Tombstone moved without wind, her eyes brimmed with murderous intent, her body surged with demonic qi, transforming into hundreds and thousands of humanoid shadows.

Lv35 Martial Arts, One Thousand Hits in an Instant·Instant Prison Kill.

In the literal sense of one thousand hits in an instant, the drone Binary Tree left in mid-air was torn apart directly by the aftermath of battle,

The last recorded scene was the White Horse Tombstone standing with her back in a pit dozens of meters deep, at the bottom of the pit, the Black-clothed had turned into powder.

Lv35, that is the future death level where the White Horse Tombstone halted. From her current Lv29 state, the destined death is coming, maximum in a year, minimum in half a year.

Clearly knowing one’s death date is quite a terrible thing.

Even worse is the inability to avoid it—wanting to change fate requires having stronger strength, yet the stronger the strength, the heavier the "causality" needed to defy fate becomes.

So heavy that even the top-level powerhouses seemingly divine at Lv40 cannot defy fate.

Seemingly divine, ultimately not omniscient and omnipotent True Gods.

The only good news, perhaps, is knowing in advance that one won’t die in this Secret Realm, right...

"Hm?"

As if sensing something, the White Horse Tombstone turned her head, only to see the Black-clothed Woman H stepping out from the shadows again.

"You should have already been dead."

A full-force strike from a Lv35 Transcendent in Close Combat already carried a trace of the Power of Laws. The White Horse Tombstone was very certain she had just killed the other.

If indeed the other can resurrect, then why can a similarly abnormal existence like Gray Green Giant A be permanently eliminated?

"I am different from A, I am special."

The Black-clothed Woman seemed to guess what White Horse Tombstone was thinking, her expression inexplicably bitter, "I am, Hope."

Hope, Hope.

"...I understand, let’s fight"

The White Horse Tombstone nodded, the sudden increase in strength allowed her to see more deeply the essence of the Black-clothed Woman. Unfortunately, the Binary Tree’s drone had already been destroyed, unable to transmit information to Pifu and others.

No matter what, I still have to delay this Black-clothed Woman who can resurrect infinitely as much as possible, to buy time for the other teammates.

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At the same moment, an armored truck that had passed by the cinema, stadium, amusement park, and other clusters of buildings finally couldn’t sustain, broke down, and stopped.

Everyone knew, the White Horse Tombstone was risking her life to create opportunities for them. Without saying a word, Blood Lion Roar dragged his constantly bleeding body off the truck to urgently repair it.

Binary Tree and Zhangsun Yao poured bottle after bottle of Blue Recovery Potion into themselves, Li Cheng also put on a mask, tinkering with Red Spider’s brain to see if he could save Brother Spider.

Seeing she was idle, Gray Rain scratched her head, her clothing corners changed into a suona shape, and began to play "toot toot toot".