Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 173

Chapter 173 Frozen Time

“You’re from another world?” The teachers and students were astonished to hear Abu’s story. Though they’d read about other worlds daily in the Tianji Newspaper, this was their first time seeing a living person.

“So your world is being destroyed by the Twelve Heavenly Kings or something? Do we need to rescue it?” The teacher felt he was only a mere Nascent Soul cultivator. How could he possibly save them? This was too much of a compliment.

“What evidence do you have?” The teacher hesitated to believe it. And even if he did, what would it matter? Could they even reach Abu’s world?

Even those in the Tribulation Crossing stage couldn’t withstand the turbulent flow of the void, let alone them?

“This is an heirloom left to our family by an immortal. It’s how I came to Jiuzhou.” Abu held out the Boundary Breaking Talisman. Their world was about to be destroyed, and he didn’t care to hide his origins.

Was he going to watch it fall to pieces while he lived in fear to hide his identity?

Abu didn’t want to be that person.

Abu had already done his research. This world was filled with powerful beings, but only Jiang Renhuang could help him. No one else could enter their world.

Although Emperor Jiang Renhuang was gentle, he couldn’t just meet him.

He needed the help of the people of this world to see him.

Abu had considered the possibility that his teacher might have been greedy and covet the Boundary Breaking Talisman.

Abu was betting that his teacher was a gentleman and wouldn’t embezzle his own money. Even if he did, the chance to contact Emperor Jiang Renhuang would be worth it.

If he did, he wouldn’t care about anything… Abu tried not to consider that possibility.

Fortunately, the academy teacher didn’t have such thoughts.

“We need to report this at this time. This is not for us to decide,” the academy teacher said sternly.

The runes on the Boundary Breaking Talisman were extremely complex, and the teacher couldn’t decipher them. Whether it could break through boundaries or whether it was left by an immortal was hard to say, but it was definitely from the Fusion Stage or above.

The Boundary Breaking Talisman couldn’t definitively prove Abu’s origins, but it did indicate that Abu, who held it, had an unusual background.

The Great Zhou Imperial Academy had a new dean, now only at the peak of the Spiritualization Realm and unable to make a decision on the matter. He couldn’t decipher the Boundary Breaking Talisman either, but he deduced that it was from someone at the Tribulation Stage or above.

The dean went to the Yangxin Palace with the Boundary Breaking Talisman to find Ji Zhi, but found only a single brush, writing furiously, with no sign of Ji Zhi.

Later, he found Ji Zhi cultivating in the back garden.

He was determined to break through the Fusion Stage, no matter what.

Holding the Boundary Breaking Talisman, Ji Zhi glanced at Abu with deep pupils.

Abu was puzzled.

Ji Zhi tried to contact Jiang Li, but found he had no Telecommunication Talisman, so he couldn’t find Jiang Li.

“Come with me,” he said.

He led Abu through several spatial tunnels and arrived at the Human Emperor Palace.

Although it wasn’t his first time teleporting, he was astonished to see the convenient spatial tunnels in the Jiuzhou world.

When using the Boundary Breaking Talisman, Abu was so focused on escaping that he didn’t pay attention to the teleportation process.

The more he compared himself to Ji Zhi, the more he felt his own world seemed weaker.

Abu looked at Ji Zhi with admiration.

Was this the Divine Transformation Stage master, even more powerful than his father? It was said that with the blessing of the national destiny, he could even reach the Tribulation Crossing Stage? How powerful!

“Emperor Zhou,” the Human Emperor Palace guards saluted Ji Zhi.

“Is Jiang Li here?”

The guards at the Human Emperor Palace were stumped by the question. “Your Majesty, you’re such a joke! There’s no wife in wife cakes, and no husband and wife in husband and wife lung slices. How could there be a Human Emperor in the Human Emperor Palace?”

“…You seem to have a point.”

“If you’re not in a hurry, you can wait here for a dozen years and you’ll find the Palace Master.” The guards at the Human Emperor Palace shared their experience with Ji Zhi.

“…”

Even if I wasn’t in a hurry, I couldn’t wait for a decade.

“Then Commander Liu should be here

, right?” “Commander Liu is here.

Wait a moment, I’ll let him know.” A moment later, Ji Zhi felt the space shift, and he and Abu were teleported to Commander Liu’s side.

While not as skilled as Sumeru Buddha, Commander Liu’s spatial skills were among the best in the Nine Provinces.

“Your Majesty.”

“Senior Liu.”

The two nodded.

“Is this the alien visitor you mentioned?” Commander Liu looked at Abu, marveling.

The only alien visitors he had ever seen in his life were demons from outer space.

Commander Liu picked up the Boundary Breaking Talisman and examined it for a moment. “It’s certainly not something from the Nine Provinces. Judging by the runes, it should randomly teleport to another world. Unfortunately, it’s a one-time use, becoming nothing more than a piece of waste paper after use. Even if I knew your world was in trouble, I couldn’t deduce its location from the Boundary Breaking Talisman, and I couldn’t reach it.”

Seeing the Boundary Breaking Talisman dim, Ji Zhi assumed it would activate with enough power, but it was already useless.

“Then, what should I do?”

Abu was nearly in tears, anxious. He knew he could find the Human Emperor and save the world, but now he couldn’t find his own world.

“I’ll contact the Palace Master first; maybe he has some methods I can’t understand.”

After hearing the story, Jiang Li looked at Abu with a strange expression.

Could it be that Abu’s world was the same as his current one?

The time didn’t match.

Did the Boundary Breaking Talisman teleport for hundreds of years? That’s incredibly inefficient.

Jiang Li took the Telecommunication Talisman and walked around the city, asking Abu to see if he knew anything.

Seeing the familiar city, Abu was stunned, his body trembling, and tears flowed uncontrollably: “This is Buwu City, my home!”

“So we defeated the kings!?”

“But how much time has passed? Why does it seem like we have never experienced war?”

Jiang Li was silent.

…

“I heard you guys failed the mission because you didn’t find the Ice Crystal Flower while rescuing people?”

At the Great Zhou Imperial Academy, a group of students were comparing their mission accomplishments.

“Hey, I’m not bragging. Our team not only found an Ice Crystal Flower, but we found three! This is an amazing discovery! It’s a new discovery for all of Kyushu!”

“Three?” Zhu Zhu was surprised. Ice Crystal Flowers usually grow alone, rarely in pairs, let alone three.

Zhu Zhu suddenly remembered that when they rescued Abu, there were three Ice Crystal Flowers beneath him, but everyone was so busy saving people that they hadn’t paid much attention.

The man chuckled, “We’ve discovered that when three ice crystal flowers are together, they freeze living things. For example, if someone was only twenty years old when they were frozen, a thousand years later, they’d still be twenty years old after thawing. Their lifespan would stop counting! This discovery is enough for us to graduate.”

Zhu Zhu had a hypothesis:

Abu hadn’t just arrived in Jiuzhou. Perhaps decades or even centuries ago, he was transported to Jiuzhou by the Boundary Breaking Talisman. Seriously injured, he fell into a place where three ice crystal flowers grew, and the ice crystals froze Abu. Abu was seriously injured and unconscious, and he knew nothing about it. Until one day, someone carelessly threw a warming talisman in the far north, right on top of Abu, and the warming talisman melted the ice on him.

“No way…” Zhu Zhu felt her guess was too bold, and she didn’t even believe it herself.

But she clearly remembered that Abu had a warming talisman on him. Everyone kept warming talismans in their pockets, so who would leave them out in the open?

And Abu was from another world, so where did he get the warming talisman?

(End of Chapter)