You call me a calamity? But I am Hyper Zetton!

Wu Bai nodded, his face still expressionless.

She just looked down at him without saying a word.

Qi Yuanbao braced himself on the floor with both hands, his arms trembling, and it took a lot of effort to lift his heavy body up. He then sat cross-legged on the floor.

After calming down a bit, he cleared his throat and began to explain everything.

"I am a reborn person, but strictly speaking, not entirely."

Qi Yuanbao raised his head and stared at Wu Bai: "To be precise, I come from the future, one month from now."

Wu Bai frowned.

...He had been leaning back on the sofa with his legs crossed, but he put his legs down when he heard this.

He leaned forward slightly, straightened his back, and his lazy demeanor vanished instantly, replaced by an invisible sense of oppression.

"A month from now? Are you sure?"

Qi Yuanbao nodded heavily, his voice low and hoarse: "To come back, I sacrificed a full 30 years of my lifespan and reversed the timeline of the entire Earth."

Wu Bai tilted his head, narrowed his eyes into slits, and looked the fat man up and down.

"Are you sure you're telling the truth? Reverse time? With your abilities?"

Honestly, looking at Qi Yuanbao in front of me, who wasn't even an Awakened One and seemed rather weak, I was quite taken aback.

When asked if he could reverse time, Wu Bai didn't believe a single punctuation mark.

"Well, theoretically... it really wasn't by my own strength." Qi Yuanbao hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind.

He slowly closed his eyes, and the next second, a dazzling seven-colored light suddenly burst forth from between his brows.

Then, a fragment shimmering with iridescent light...

...slowly drifted out from the light between his brows, quietly hovering in mid-air, rising and falling.

The fragment, about the size of a palm, is an irregular geometric polyhedron, resembling a piece of something much larger that has crumbled.

"This is a 'fragment of the laws of time,' and it's with it that I reversed time."

Wu Bai suddenly sprang up from the sofa, staring intently at the shard...

...A look of extremely rare horror crossed his face: "Where did you get this?"

The instant the fragment appeared, he actually felt a familiar aura on it... it was his own aura.

More precisely, this fragment is essentially a part of his body, a crystallization of his power.

But how is that possible?

Wu Bai raised his hand to touch his chin, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper as his mind raced.

and many more.

It's not entirely impossible.

What if this fragment of time comes from "yourself" in the future?

Since this thing itself is a product of the laws of time.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense that it crossed the river of time and appeared on the current timeline.

only……

Wu Bai stared at the jagged, broken edge, his eyes turning slightly cold.

The fragment was clearly broken, as if it had been shattered by some terrifying external force.

Could it be... that something happened to my future self?

Qi Yuanbao looked at the floating fragment, nervously swallowed, and explained:

"A month later, I met an old beggar in Hope Base City."

"I saw that he was dirty and pitiful, so I gave him some money to help him."

"As a result, the old beggar said that because I was kind-hearted, he insisted on giving me this piece of metal, saying that it was a good thing and could save my life in a critical moment..."

Wu Bai snapped out of his thoughts, glanced at Qi Yuanbao, and looked speechless.

...He turned his gaze back to the fragment, as if sensing the call of his true self.

The colorful fragments suspended in mid-air suddenly trembled violently, emitting a crisp buzzing sound.

Then, it transformed into a streak of seven-colored light and with a whoosh, it went straight into Wu Bai's brow.

[Completed Consumption]

[Gained: 5% Time Fragment; 95% away from mastering the complete Laws of Time]

[Note: Time is a universal law itself. Its use does not consume conventional energy, but requires the exchange of something precious within oneself.]

Feeling the newly surging, profound power within his body, Wu Bai sat back down on the sofa, his brows furrowing slightly.

The ability is incredibly powerful, but the cost of using it is...

Isn't it a bit too big?

Qi Yuanbao used it once, at the cost of thirty years of his lifespan.

In other words, if he uses it again now, he'll probably kick the bucket.

The cost is the same for me, except that it consumes energy.

This is like a devil's deal. Who made these ridiculous rules?

Wu Bai suddenly slapped his forehead.

Since this is something that belongs to me in the future, does that mean that I set these rules myself?

Moreover, there are a whole host of restrictive rules in their minds.

The longer the time span of the reversal, the more energy is consumed.

The larger the area of ​​reversal, the more energy is consumed.

The stronger the life form undergoing the reversal, the more energy it consumes.

……

...If all these rules were added together, the cost would be astronomical.

So, by that logic, the ability to reverse time is practically the same as not having it at all.

However, it can be used as a trump card.

Or... it can also be used to protect your younger sister. If something unfortunate happens, even if she dies, you can forcibly bring her back to life.

Thinking of this, Wu Bai was overjoyed.

She is a powerful healer with healing skills, but she just needs a resurrection skill.

...Isn't this like someone bringing you a pillow when you're sleepy?

He composed himself and looked at Qi Yuanbao, who was sitting on the ground, again: "This thing is very useful to me. In exchange, I can spare your life."

At this point, Wu Bai paused, a playful smile curving his lips: "Not only will I not kill you, I will also reward you... I will give you the opportunity to become the strongest race in the universe, the Zetton race."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Bai's right palm faced upwards, and a drop of thick, dark purple blood appeared.

It appeared out of thin air above his palm, radiating a heart-pounding aura.

Without giving Qi Yuanbao any time to accept or refuse, and before he could even react to what it was, Wu Bai flicked his wrist slightly.

That drop of purple blood precisely burrowed into Qi Yuanbao's slightly open mouth.

The fat man was a great help, and Wu Bai really had no reason to kill him to silence him.

Since we can't silence him, we'll turn him into a loyal member of the Zetton clan. That way, we won't have to worry about him spreading rumors and revealing his identity.

Suddenly, Qi Yuanbao gripped his clothes tightly with both hands, his body began to tremble violently, and it felt as if something was moving under his skin.

"Come back to me after the renovation is complete," Wu Bai said, waving his hand.

A burst of seven-colored light flashed, and Qi Yuanbao disappeared. The transformation would take some time, and it would be difficult to explain if Wu Minmin came back and saw him.

……

the other side.

After Wu Minmin handed the written formula for the new awakening drug to Ye Lan.

After giving a few instructions, he hurriedly left the Ye family.

She skillfully navigated several streets, making several turns, and after confirming that there were no tails behind her, she slipped into the depths of a secluded alley.

Wu Minmin stopped and looked around warily.

After confirming that no one was around, he took out the Hyper Flash Sword from his pocket.

"Why have you calamities all awakened this time?"

The Hyper Flash Sword flickered slightly: "I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing. To us, they're just a bunch of food."

"By the way, don't kill them all. Try to keep them alive for a while."

"I understand." Wu Minmin drew the Hyper Flash Sword directly.

A dazzling seven-colored light flashed briefly in the alley, then quickly returned to darkness.

"Although I can't kill them, I still want to investigate thoroughly."