Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 197 Take the initiative
Upon seeing Ji Fuyou suddenly stop, Ji Qingqing, Yu Xiaoyu, and Su Zhen, who had been chatting with him about interesting things related to starlight, all stopped talking and changed their expressions.

The scene seemed to freeze, as if his emotional shift had been put on pause.

An invisible sense of oppression gradually permeated the office.

For several seconds...

Of the six or seven people present, not a single one dared to speak.

After a long while, Ji Qingqing's voice finally broke the oppressive atmosphere: "Xiao You...you're going to be a father...shouldn't you be happy?"

Her words finally calmed Ji Fuyou down.

Happy?

He glanced at Ji Qingqing, and then at Yu Xiaoyu, whose face was pale and whose eyes even showed a hint of fear.

After a long pause, he finally said, "Yes, I should be happy, but this wonderful news came too suddenly, and I didn't have time to react."

He paused for a moment, then finally concluded the matter: "This is indeed a pleasantly surprising piece of good news."

However, his words still did not completely dispel Ji Qingqing's, and especially Yu Xiaoyu's, anxiety.

Seeing this, Su Zhen said, "What Chairman Ji said should be his true thoughts."

He smiled and said, "I remember when I first found out that Qingyan was pregnant, I was also stunned for a long time and couldn't react. It wasn't because I didn't like her, or for any other reason, but... a sense of being caught off guard, a sense of bewilderment and unease that my life rhythm would be completely disrupted and my lifestyle would change."

His tone was soothing: "When I first received the news, I even had an instinctive sense of rejection, because men have always disliked unexpected and uncontrollable things. But as time went by, when I truly accepted the arrival of this little life, all of that changed. Especially when they were born, looking at their adorable faces, the thing I looked forward to most every day became seeing them."

Uncontrollable.

Ji Fuyou actually took some defensive measures.

He knew very well what the future of Akahoshi would be.

Therefore, he doesn't want his future children to live in such an unstable environment.

Even if you really want to have it, you have to wait until you survive the disaster that will happen 3 years and 8 months later.

only……

Plans are worse than changes.

He glanced at Yu Xiaoyu.

Now that things have come to this, the subsequent development of the situation is indeed difficult to change according to his personal will.

Whatever his thoughts were, he had to do something next.

It has nothing to do with personal preferences, only with a sense of responsibility.

"I need to assemble an obstetrics and gynecology team."

Ji Fuyou said to Su Zhen, "I'll trouble you and Dean Fang to help arrange this matter."

"Leave this joyous occasion to me, and I will certainly not disappoint you."

Su Zhen smiled and agreed.

He then turned his gaze to Yu Xiaoyu: "Don't go to Shanguang's place. Your original goal there was to study, but now you obviously have something more important to do."

"It's okay, it's still early, I..."

"It's still early, so we need to be extra careful."

Ji Qingqing interrupted Yu Xiaoyu.

"Put aside your trip to the Misty Fog with Yang Kaitai and the others for now. Spend some time with Xiaoyu during this period."

He said something.

Originally, he wanted to train Ji Qingqing so that they could enter the fog together.

Putting everything else aside, even just helping to clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils of war would be helpful.

Now it seems……

Once again, he was left to venture into the fog alone.

"I'll go call Mom and the others over..."

"No need. Xiaoyu probably won't get used to it either. We need to take her feelings into consideration."

Ji Fuyou said, "Of course, your main responsibility is to accompany them; other matters will be handled by the accompanying team."

"That's...ok."

Ji Qingqing agreed.

Next, Ji Fuyou discussed some matters with a chief physician behind Dean Fang.

The others, along with Yu Xiaoyu, explained some details to her.

After working for more than half an hour, Ji Fuyou even placed an order for some home medical equipment before returning to his residence.

This day was destined to be a sleepless night for him.

……

The current time is March 26, 2032.

It had only been five months since he broke through his inner demons and fought the leopard man at the foot of Mount Fulong.

It was about 3 years and 8 months before the time vaguely recorded in his first dream.

Yes, probably, many scenes in dreams are actually blurry, as if they weren't rendered at all.

He didn't know the exact time.

What he saw was a peerless swordsman, his sword slicing through the heavens and abyss, battling the star-devouring demon.

But the result...

"The version of me in my dream... is dead."

He died before he could see the outcome of the battle between the peerless swordsman and the star-devouring demon.

So what was the result?

It's possible that the peerless swordsman defeated the star-devouring demon.

But more likely...

It was that star-devouring monster that killed him, that peerless swordsman, and the entire Crimson Star…

He swallowed it all in one gulp.

The world ends.

The Red Star human civilization thus came to an end. Therefore…

If he doesn't do something in the future, will the outcome be the same? Should he take a gamble?
They bet he would die before that peerless swordsman. In reality, that peerless swordsman achieved final victory, defeated the Star-Devouring Demon, preserved human civilization, and protected the Crimson Star.
still is……

The end of the world?

"It seems... we can't go on like this."

Ji Fuyou whispered.

He can leverage the advantage of precognitive dreams and use dream control techniques to construct dreams, so that he can be fully aware of every crisis and know himself and his enemy.

The safety of this method is beyond doubt.

but……

too slow.

The growth rate is too slow.

This can be seen from the fact that he had a near-death experience when facing every monster by relying solely on precognitive dreams.

Before taking the initiative to go to Blue Moon City and the Temple of Fertile Crescent, he faced numerous life-threatening situations, whether it was against mutated giant scorpions, mutated blood bats, or blood skeletons.

Only by relying entirely on external objects and tools can one achieve final victory.

During his trip to Blue Moon City, he gained a lot of extra resources, including source crystals and supplies, which made dealing with the Corpse Demon King much easier.

After visiting the Temple of Fertile Crescent, they easily defeated the orc chieftain.

Even the giant mutated centipedes in the Death Rift Valley and the ruins of Yindu, as well as the pale boar-men, have reduced their threat to him by a large margin.

Compared to the previous cautiousness and near-death experiences, this is much easier now.
But what if he doesn't venture deeper into the fog...?

His strength will gradually be caught up by the rapidly increasing monster strength in the dream.

Then came demons, living statues, tree spirits, horned dragons, thunder scorpions...

Each one is more powerful than the previous one.

"Speaking of which, some of these monsters look very familiar to me, and even... the places where they appear seem similar."

Ji Fuyou kept recalling one dream after another.

Thanks to the improvement in mental capacity, these dreams that were somewhat blurry in the past have become much clearer.

For example, tree spirits...

It looks a lot like the tree spirit that once appeared in the Misty Forest.

The horned dragons behind the tree spirits live in a place somewhat similar to the Death Rift.

But it is different from the Great Rift Valley.

Perhaps it is the Death Rift Valley, which has been completely eroded by the mist and turned into a forbidden area.

That horned dragon also resembles a giant mutated centipede with a deeper level of mutation.

If the latter is an evil centipede corrupted by the power of the mist, then the horned dragon has undoubtedly transformed from a centipede into a dragon-like monster covered in tentacles.

In addition, demons and living figures seem to appear in the same place and maintain the same style.

It was a temple.

One of them, with a goat's head, which he called a demon, was a monster wielding a bow and arrow, whose arrows possessed unparalleled destructive power.

The rest are just like...

Strictly speaking, they are two different kinds of monsters.

Ji Fuyou remembered that he had just passed by a few statues when they suddenly came to life from the rock and launched a fierce attack on him.

Based on the characteristics of these monsters, once he found the demon and the temple that seemed to be living there, he should construct a dream early on, merging the two dreams into one, in order to buy himself more time to "familiarize" himself with them.

"We've found the mutated centipede in the Death Rift Valley. My next step in exploring the dream world is to delve deeper into the rift valley to see if I can find the horned dragon and... adapt to its power!"

He knew very well that his current strength was probably inferior to that of the horned dragon.

But more practice is never a bad thing.

As for now...

"Let's go to the Misty Forest and practice with the tree spirits. On one hand, we'll see if we can get some valuable source crystals, and on the other hand..."

Avoid those people from the Heavenly Ranking Committee for a while.

In just a few days, the World Martial Arts Tournament will officially begin.

To avoid He Qilin and his ilk coming to him again to make him participate in the competition, he went to wander around the Misty Forest. If they couldn't find him, they would naturally have to take matters into their own hands.

As for whether He Qilin and his group will resort to any tricks after they can't find the person...

He wasn't too worried about that.

He Qilin and his ilk are political creatures; without sufficient self-interest, they won't do anything excessive.

Having already relinquished his power, they wouldn't risk completely offending him by forcing him to participate in the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament to fight against the Black Gold Empire and the Griffin Republic.

That's putting the cart before the horse.

Therefore, security is still guaranteed.

Having made his decision, Ji Fuyou no longer felt anxious or uncertain.

Over the next two days, he interviewed the medical team that Su Zhen had found for him.

They also hired two nannies to take care of Ji Qingqing and Yu Xiaoyu's daily needs.

Having arranged these matters, and with the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament drawing ever closer, he wasted no more time, packed his things, and headed for the Misty Forest.

in the past……

He was just reacting passively!
Even the events concerning Blue Moon City and the Temple of Fertile had various causes.

But this time, he truly took the initiative!

There was no reason; he simply wanted to slay the monsters in the mist and quickly improve himself, hoping to gain the power to fight the star-devouring monster three years and eight months later!

If, when the end of the world truly arrives, that peerless swordsman is no match for that star-devouring monster...

So……

"let me try!"

(End of this chapter)