I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1922 - 1315: Opportunities Blasted Out_3

He regained more than he lost.

But the Earth’s timeline was already on the verge of collapse, unable to maintain stability for long. To stabilize it, Zheng Yichen could only narrow the scope of the timeline, akin to robbing Peter to pay Paul.

This is the only way.

The flame of the timeline burning on Zheng Yichen’s body intensified, causing Tia to furrow her brows for the first time.

"This is not good, you shouldn’t forsake yourself."

"Hahaha, what if I insist on doing this?" Zheng Yichen chuckled deeply.

"I would feel regretful."

She would regret it, but wouldn’t show mercy to Zheng Yichen. As long as Zheng Yichen showed a flaw, she would deliver another fatal blow to him.

"It’s not your place to feel regret for me!"

The teetering Earth’s timeline began to contract, rapidly reducing the range in which Tia could engage with Zheng Yichen.

She knew Zheng Yichen was making his last stand, but this method also gave her an opportunity. The contracting timeline became more compact but also more easily broken.

She could easily touch the edge of the Earth’s timeline, where her connection with the New World’s environment would strengthen.

Zheng Yichen, watching Tia still pulling back, ignited the entire Earth’s timeline with flames to isolate Tia’s contact with the edge of the Earth’s timeline.

Even so, Tia moved with ease in evasion, and Zheng Yichen’s splash damage was too weak to harm her.

The loss of appearance age truly mattered little to her.

When her appearance shrunk to thirteen years old, the Earth’s timeline had completely rotten, and she looked at Zheng Yichen, who seemed ready to engulf her, with a slightly regretful expression.

Zheng Yichen’s choice was the one she least favored; no matter how rotten the Earth’s timeline was, its influence on her still existed. Approaching Zheng Yichen by force now would only lead to her being burned out.

If truly burned out, once the Earth’s timeline disappeared, she would cease to exist as well.

So Tia would only watch Zheng Yichen burn himself out.

Or he would explode in a do-or-die self-destruction.

As the boiling flames gradually withdrew, Zheng Yichen launched his final charge at Tia.

Tia observed Zheng Yichen’s state and immediately deduced the outcome; this was yet another destined-to-fail attack, and it was Zheng Yichen’s last possible attack.

Afterwards, the Earth’s timeline would completely collapse, and everything would return to normal—except for Zheng Yichen.

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Tia had predicted all of Zheng Yichen’s attack routes, yet Zheng Yichen suddenly exploded in front of her.

In an extremely brief moment after the explosion, Zheng Yichen burned instantly to nothing in the flames of the timeline, disappearing completely from Tia’s perception as if he had never existed.

The Earth’s timeline, lit by Zheng Yichen, remained precariously intact, ready to crumble in the next second.

But the next second never arrived as expected.

Emerging abruptly, flames pouring from every pore, Zheng Yichen hugged Tia, leaving her no room for escape.

How did Zheng Yichen come to her side?

Tia glanced at the teetering Earth’s timeline; this final second was extremely prolonged, and with Zheng Yichen’s grasp, the passage of time began to slow.

She understood how Zheng Yichen approached her.

Zheng Yichen did indeed self-destruct just now, but the problem was that it did not signify his true death.

The timeline recorded in Zheng Yichen’s own existence still remained, his consciousness still existed, only the existing part was no longer in the self-exploded body of Zheng Yichen.

After self-destruction, that part of Zheng Yichen’s consciousness she seized naturally became the ’main body’, equivalent to Zheng Yichen breaking space limitations and directly shifting to her side.

The inescapable Tia asked Zheng Yichen: "Are they worth it for you to do this?"

"I’m doing this for myself this time! You damn hag, you really deserve it! I’ll screw you over!!"

The flames on Zheng Yichen’s body grew even more wild, yet Tia remained unperturbed. Though Zheng Yichen won with a surprise move, the price he paid was severe. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Directly burning his original body to gain a one-time chance to get close, but the consciousness stripped from Zheng Yichen was limited, and using this method of transferring his remaining consciousness to get close, he lacked the power to kill her.

Yet this was the limit of what Zheng Yichen could achieve. Without the deduction abilities of Dusk, losing Lilith’s assistance, all battle directions were grasped by himself.

Aside from sheer bravery, stepping to this point from a disadvantage was already beyond the scope of Dusk’s deductions.

In Tia’s many deduced outcomes, the chaos power wielded by Zheng Yichen was indeed a variable, yet the result within the variable was never this. During Tia’s deduction, she integrated various results stemming from chaos power.

However, when Zheng Yichen reached this point, he didn’t use chaos power but rather another bold idea, and he dared to implement it.

The preserved power was just too little.

Nevertheless, this was also Zheng Yichen’s reason for success. If Zheng Yichen had intentionally sacrificed more of his consciousness, she would have anticipated that Zheng Yichen would entertain such a thought.

The power borne by the consciousness Zheng Yichen retained now was totally insufficient to ’destroy’ her.

Time delay was not a condition under which Zheng Yichen could destroy her; the harm Zheng Yichen’s existing power could cause her was already determined, delaying time merely made the Earth’s timeline last longer in a roundabout way.

As the flames burned, deep life line marks appeared on Tia’s body, where the erosion of the Ark of Life left traces on her existence’s essence due to Zheng Yichen’s close-range burn.

Meanwhile, Zheng Yichen’s body became increasingly thin.

With her appearance burned down to less than ten years old, Tia sighed softly: "You showed me the potential of humanity and convinced me."

"Damn it, I don’t believe it!!" Zheng Yichen shouted somewhat frantically, letting himself burn almost to transparency. His timeline records in the Collective World were almost completely burned out.

All the burning power injected into Tia’s body, if he didn’t leave an absolute mark on her this Dusk, he wouldn’t forgive himself!!

Tia did not resist the erosion of the Ark of Life; the results of resistance or non-resistance were the same, making Zheng Yichen’s madness more reasonable.

Most of his own consciousness burned away, before normal recovery, his self-awareness was very weak, his rationality nearly negligible. She could even slightly provoke Zheng Yichen, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he self-destructed again on the spot.

Yet, Zheng Yichen had ’convinced her,’ so she couldn’t bear for Zheng Yichen to play with self-destruction.

So... just like this.

In Tia’s eyes, the materialized Earth’s timeline collapsed, and the ignited world returned to normal.