Chapter 1043: Past And Future Bodies (1)

Su Yu was overjoyed. He was getting rich! He had just picked up his second Sunmoon corpse. The first Sunmoon was a shark while the second Sunmoon was a late-stage Sunmoon.

This was a large monkey with some golden fur on its head. Or to be precise, this was a heavenly spirit ape. This was the overlord of the ape races, akin to the status of the first divines among the divines.

Previously, Su Yu had bought an ancient trident from a heavenly spirit ape. A late-stage Sunmoon. This race was ranked twelfth, so it could be considered a powerful race. A late-stage Sunmoon of this race had actually died.

After studying the corpse for a bit, an odd look appeared in Su Yu's eyes. This did not seem to be the work of any death spirit. Rather, it was a living being.

Su Yu was unable to determine who the killer was. But he didn't care. At the time, the situation was too chaotic, with Invincibles and death sovereigns running wild in the city. Anyone could be the killer. This ape must have offended someone and died to this person during the chaos.

Additionally, Su Yu had also collected a large number of ancient city medallions. As of now, he still wasn't sure what he could do with these medallions. But he was lucky enough to pick up a third ring medallion as well. It was most likely dropped by a seventh-stage death spirit who had probably been killed by an Invincible.

This was a great find. With this medallion, he would be able to forcefully enter the occupied buildings up to the third ring. That was an impressive function.

Eventually, he collected about a dozen Mountainsea corpses and dozens of Cloudbreach corpses. The rest of the corpses must have been destroyed during the chaos as he couldn't find more of them.

He continued roaming the city. After a while, he noticed a group of death spirits gathering together. He approached the group out of curiosity. He noticed a few powerful death spirits among them. These were probably late-stage Sunmoons.

As he approached, the powerful death spirits turned to look at him. He merely flashed them an awkward smile. They seemed to be slightly intelligent...but they were family now, right?

"Uhm...Lords, I'm a resident here. What are you looking at?"

Yes. He was getting more and more brazen. His courage had been further boosted by the fact that not a single death spirit had attacked him so far. The death qi of these death spirits had not harmed him much either. Even the death qi of Sunmoon death spirits would only slightly accelerate the growth of the death qi in his body.

Thus, he wasn't too afraid of the late-stage Sunmoon death spirits. But he did maintain a distance with them out of wariness. He squeezed into the center of the group, pushing aside the heads of the death spirits blocking his view. Finally, he saw the item all these death spirits were surrounding.

It seemed to be a book, but it also didn't look like one. Was it a treasure? The death spirits were merely staring at it, but none touched it. Was this really a treasure? He was tempted. He loved nothing more than treasures.

The death spirits ignored his greeting. It was unknown if they couldn't speak or if they simply didn't feel like replying. This was probably the bravest resident to ever exist. Even the mayor would feel very uncomfortable in their presence and try to stay as far away as possible from them.

Su Yu was relieved to see that even the powerful death spirits were ignoring him. This book before him...might only be a plank or something else. But it seemed to be quite valuable. And some nether qi could be felt on it.

He could clearly feel that nether qi was slightly different from death qi. Was this something dropped by the nether Invincible? He did notice what happened earlier. Something in the ancient city had punched through the nether Invincible's body. Was this thing related to that nether Invincible?

"If this is related to that Invincible, then it is definitely a treasure."

Su Yu was tempted to pick it up. But the Sunmoon death spirits were still here. He was worried that he would provoke them by picking it up. Just because they had been ignoring him did not mean that they couldn't do anything to him. Who could predict what they would do?

But Su Yu was very tempted. What should he do about this? Suddenly, a death spirit wearing a cloak appeared. Noticing the uniquely fashionable death spirit, Su Yu hurriedly lowered his head and turned around.

Fuck!

That might...be the same death spirit who had spoken to him previously! This might be an Invincible! Finally, he knew fear.

He wasn't able to get a good look at the battle between Invincibles, but he did overhear some of the conversations. This death spirit...was likely to be the one called Xing Yue. It wasn't a good idea to stay anywhere near such an existence.

He might be very brave now, but he still didn't want to turn into the dead from the living dead. Just as he was about to leave, the death spirits around him prostrated on the ground. Or to be precise, only the more powerful ones did so while the weaker ones continued floating around blankly.

Xing Yue wasn't even facing Su Yu. It was staring at the item on the ground with its back to Su Yu. However, its voice still rang out in Su Yu's mind, "Do you know what this is?"

Su Yu's heart thumped.

He didn't dare to make any noise. That fellow wasn't talking to him, right?

Xing Yue's voice rang out again, "This is a valuable treasure, meant to bear one's past and future. Do you know the meaning behind the term Eternal?"

Su Yu's eyes flickered.

"Past, present, and future. Joint as one, achieving eternity."

Su Yu's heart skipped a beat. Eternal?

Was this the truth of the Invincible Realm?

"Past, present, future..." After muttering to himself, Su Yu lowered his head and spoke deferentially, "Lord, is this something left behind by an Eternal?"

The death spirit replied, "This was the treasure bearing the future body of that Eternal from the nether race. With such a treasure, one can search the future for the strongest future body in the River of Time. To achieve eternity, one needs to carry the future body with the treasure and become one with it. The future and present bodies of that Eternal have perished, leaving him with only the past body. He might still be an Eternal, but he's basically crippled. He is still an Eternal. But the past will forever remain in the past. He will no longer be capable of growth. He no longer has a present and a future."

Su Yu couldn't really understand what the death spirit was saying. He only knew two things. Firstly, this plank was a treasure. Secondly, that nether Invincible seemed to have suffered grave injuries, with no possibility of future growth.

Past body?

Were all Invincibles required to play with all those complicated concepts?

Su Yu asked, "Lord, what is the level of strength an Invincible can muster? To be precise, what is the value of an Invincible's strength converted into the number of acupoints?

"Acupoints?"

The death spirit did not answer. For Invincibles, the strength of acupoints was pointless.

After a long moment, Xing Yue said, "I'll tell you after your death."

"..."

What the fuck was that? Su Yu didn't even dare to think too much in the presence of this person. This fellow here was basically waiting for him to die.

But for some reason, this fellow did not try to kill him. Perhaps this fellow was restrained by something unknown. At this point, Su Yu was starting to grow brazen again. It wasn't that he no longer feared Invincibles. Rather, he realized that it was pointless to be scared in front of an Invincible as he would be completely helpless anyway.

Seeing that the death spirit was speaking to him again, he took the chance to ask, "Lord, what...can this treasure do?"

"Bear the weight of the future body." The death spirit did not hide anything, "With this treasure, you can fish for your strongest past and strongest future in the River of Time. After capturing your past and future bodies from the River of Time, you can fuse with them to achieve eternity."

After a slight pause, the death spirit continued, "That is the most valuable function of this treasure. Of course, it can also be used for weaponsmithing, but that's a waste of material."

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. So that was how it was. In short, it was useless. Or to be precise, it was useless for the present him. Thanks to this explanation, his understanding of the Invincible Realm grew. He thought of Xia Longwu. Was that what Xia Longwu needed to do as well?

While he was deep in thought, the death spirit continued, "The so-called Pseudo Invincibles are generally people who have fused with either their future or the past bodies. The strength of one's past body will be quite limited, but a Pseudo Invincible who has fused with the future body can even be stronger than Invincibles at times."

"..."

Su Yu was stunned. Was that...possible?

The death spirit said, "But of the three bodies, the past body is more important than the future body. After all, you need to have a past to have a future. The death of the past body might result in total death."

Without a future, one would only suffer a complete stop of growth.

Without a past, one might cease to exist.

Once again, understanding dawned on Su Yu.

After thinking for a bit, he asked, "In that case, won't the enemies of Invincibles be completely helpless if the Invincibles decide to return to the past and kill them?"

"Return to the past?"

The death spirit sneered.

"The so-called time rewind can be split into two categories. The first category is a true rewinding of time. But not all Invincibles can do that. Only an extremely powerful Invincible with great proficiency in the dao of time can do so.

"The second category is much simpler. It is simply the rewinding of memories. Everything you see is simply a reenaction of the past. The first category is the only way to kill someone in the past. The second category is incapable of changing anything."

Su Yu was enlightened yet again. In that case, not all Invincibles were capable of time manipulation.

The death spirit added, "Furthermore, it is a very bad idea to interfere with the past. You might end up dying to the power of time during the attempt. If it is so easy to interfere with the passage of time and the Myriad Realms...all the Eternals would have died long ago."

Simply put, this was an extremely difficult feat to accomplish. Even an Invincible had a past. Even an Invincible was once weak.

Technically, since each Invincible was someone who had fused with their past and future, it was almost impossible to kill their past anyway. In practice, even the past of a Sunmoon couldn't be killed so easily.

Once again, Su Yu nodded. This seemed incredibly complicated. Suddenly, the death spirit shook.