Transform into a human

"Oh no, Neptune's Crown has made its move!" a bystander exclaimed.

Although no one thought Yue Lai could succeed, who wouldn't have a "what if" mentality? Neptune's Crown's move completely shattered that hope.

The rainwater gathered into trickling streams, rushing towards the mountains. Compared to the raging storms that made the fleet teeter on the brink of collapse, its power was not great, but its stature was enough to make any general lose his way in history in an instant.

Even his own kind, or even old acquaintances, Neptune Crown showed no mercy.

But fortunately, scoundrels are always the trendsetters of time and space!

Then, a scene that shocked everyone appeared. Yue Lai completely ignored the tides of time and space and resolutely went against the current, like a prodigal son on a river or lake. What he was traversing was the torrent of history!

There are excellent swimmers here!

It's the second way of a slacker, passing the time.

It not only transforms time into spiritual cultivation, but also grants slackers extremely strong resistance to time.

"How...how did he do that!?"

"Could it be because of that relic?"

"Impossible. That's just a level-two relic in Wen Qing's possession. Its only function is to help with takeoff."

"Wen Qing, you truly are a pillar of our Empire. Even in prison, you still remember to do your part for the Empire and the Federation."

The person who said this looked toward Prison Number Fourteen, where the buildings had been razed to the ground.

"Could it be that he was just pretending all along?"

"Look, Yue Lai is getting close to the Zhenhai Sword!"

Everyone's attention was quickly diverted from "why Yue Lai can walk through history." If the crisis could be resolved, they would even "make special arrangements" for hiding a few evil relics!

Neptune's Crown paid the price for underestimating its enemy. Or rather, it was already overwhelmed with the task of fighting the Sea-Suppressing Sword, dealing with the makeshift human alliance, dividing the police hub, and guiding the return of true history.

As Yue Lai drew closer to the Zhenhai Sword, the spacetime power of the Sea King's Crown was suppressed by the golden light emanating from the Zhenhai Sword, and Yue Lai finally arrived at the broken seal as he had wished.

The allied forces were now on tenterhooks.

"Why! Why!!" Neptune's Crown roared in everyone's minds, "Feodtai, you should stand with me!"

The words "Feo Detai" were erased by some force as soon as they were uttered, and no one heard them except Yue Lai and the Zhenhai Sword, which possessed near-divine power.

Yue Lai pursed his lips. Although the rain was pouring down, it wasn't real "water." His lips were dry, cracked, and bitter.

Among the countless historical fragments related to the Neptune's Crown that he had just passed through, one of them was actually related to him. The fragment dampened the corner of his clothes and was awakened by the name of the Neptune's Crown.

At a banquet, the gods used starlight as wine and star fragments as goblets.

A figure resembling a siren queen appeared before him, patted his head, and took the hand of the person beside him.

"***, is he your child?"

A gentle female voice responded:

"Nila, he is a child of time."

It turns out that the Siren Queen's name is Nira, which means "deep" and "blue" in the Siren language.

"Child of Time, you haven't named him yet, have you? How about Feodori?"

"To him, we are all just companions, so let him decide on the name himself."

"Companions... But the lifespan of us gods is infinite."

"I know that, Nira."

The Siren Queen was quite displeased:

"***, you still refuse to tell us what you see in the future."

"Enough of that. Your crown is about to acquire divinity. Have you decided on a name for it?"

"How's Xiaohai?"

Nira looked disgusted.

"So you're not naming him because you're terrible at it!"

"Haha, you saw right through me."

"The name I've decided on for it is Jay, and his name will become synonymous with 'victory'!"

The reflection of history has ended, and Yue Lai feels as if he has lived through another world.

"I see……"

At that time, Neptune's Crown had already developed some intelligence, which is why it was only brought into the highly polluted deep history in the school history museum; later, it was discovered that it could withstand a certain degree of impact, which is why it was brought into the real history.

Yue Lai said softly:

"I'm sorry... No matter what I've been through in the past or what my relationship with you is, it can't change what I'm experiencing now. After all, those people have already left their mark on my memory with undeniable authenticity."

"Like Aunt Nira...they're all real, aren't they?"

The moment the word "Nila" was uttered, an invisible force enveloped the police headquarters... no, it should now be called Serena. The wind and rain seemed to freeze in mid-air, and in an instant, all was silent.

"Is this what gods are...?"

Even though He has been dead for centuries, uttering His true name can alter the order of space.

No wonder everyone only refers to that lady as "Director," and even her surname is unknown to the public.

The allied forces were unaware of what had happened. They only saw Yue Lai standing there quietly, and after a long while, he suddenly grabbed the Zhenhai Sword!

The latter was furious; these humans were always after its body!

Just as Deng Hongquan's tragic fate was about to be repeated, Yue Lai suddenly said, "I'm your master's boyfriend!"

Zhenhai Sword: ?

"But my master is a man."

Yue Lai: ?

"That girl who held your hand last time..."

"That's my little master."

"Okay, I'm your little master's boyfriend."

"Even the little master's boyfriend is useless!"

The Zhenhai Sword immediately shone with golden light, and Yue Lai hurriedly said:

"No, no, no, we're family after all, let's talk this out."

"Master said that no one except the young master is allowed to touch me!"

"You said it yourself, it could be any 'person,' but I'm not a person."

"What nonsense are you spouting!"

Yue Lai extended the little finger of his other hand:

"Don't believe me? Try cutting me with your sword."

The Zhenhai Sword showed no mercy, slashing without hesitation. A flash of golden light appeared, and Yue Lai's little finger landed on the ground, blood gushing out. He looked no different from a normal person.

The Zhenhai Sword was shocked:

"Something's not right... You're really not human!"

"You...you're really the little master's boyfriend?" It could indeed sense a lot of Li's "qi" on Yue Lai.

"I am just like Li, a child at heart, I'm not lying."

But it's a deception.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhenhai Sword said, "Alright then... you can use it this once."

That damned crown, how dare it mock him just now!

Yue Lai was overjoyed. At least he wouldn't be exiled to another dimension. He was an archaeologist and didn't want to be the subject of someone else's archaeology.

Little did they know that during the brief exchange between him and Zhenhai Sword, the feelings of the allied forces underwent a rollercoaster-like transformation.

"Look, he's got it!"

"The Zhenhai Sword doesn't seem to be resisting... Oh no, that golden light!"

"Huh, the golden light has dimmed again."

"He seemed to be saying something like, 'Can divine relics communicate with people?'"

"I've heard that some master craftsmen do have the ability to communicate with relics, but I thought it was a hoax."

"What...what is he doing?!"

From the perspective of the Allied Forces, Yue Lai seemed to have gone mad; the first thing he did after grasping the Zhenhai Sword was to cut off his own finger.

"I understand!" an old professor exclaimed in sudden realization. "According to my research, the 'Golden Emperor' among the Thirty-Six Extraordinary Warriors had another name in ancient times: 'Swordsman'."

"Legend has it that these swordsmen believed that swords had spirits, and they would smear their own blood on the swords, a practice they called 'sword sacrifice'."

"After the ceremony, they will become connected with their swords. Perhaps... Yue Lai is imitating the sword-worshiping ceremony!"

Tang Xiao suddenly realized that this extraordinary person, whose lifespan was unknown, had even dabbled in such ancient techniques.

"The police headquarters is saved!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ancient Zhenhai Pass reappeared in the sky above the university town, even more magnificent than before, like a towering mountain range stretching across the sky, cutting off the manifestation of history.

"Feodtai!!"

Anger filled the sky. More than seven hundred years ago, it and its master were betrayed. And now, more than seven hundred years later, it tasted betrayal again!

Yue Lai hovered in the frozen wind and rain, like the setting sun descending into a furnace, finally forging a golden statue. The armor condensed from the light around him, ancient inscriptions woven into mysterious patterns, and flames pulsed slowly between the gaps in the armor.

The longsword in his hand transformed into a pure extension of light, and wherever its edge touched, reality emitted a scorching hum.

His suspended posture was so absolute that it felt as if he were not in the air, but rather the earth beneath his feet, humbly hanging down.

"It's simply a work of art by the Creator..."

The allied forces were immersed in the ultimate aesthetic enjoyment.

Yue Lai did not act rashly; he simply "existed" in that chaotic spacetime, becoming the only static coordinate between heaven and earth. Light radiated out from him, becoming the forefront of the confrontation between falsehood and truth.

"It's a shame that I'm fighting you as the one who's lying, Jay."

Neptune's Crown said softly, "That's not my name."

Yue Lai suddenly realized: "Xiao Hai..."

"Shut up! You don't deserve that name!"

Rainwater flowed upstream, converging into a sea whose surface, like a mirror, reflected two heavens. In the heart of this ocean, the true form of Neptune's crown was finally revealed to the world.

A crown, twisted from deep blue crystal and ancient coral, floats silently. It has no wearer; it is the king in itself.

Ripples spread out from it, each ripple carving out spatial folds of varying depths—that was its authority, derived from the Siren Queen's mastery of space.

On the other side, the radiance of the "Suppressing Sea Sword" no longer flowed freely, but began to condense into a tangible gilding, heavy and stable, silently smoothing out the ripples in the surrounding space and protecting Yue Lai's body.

Unlike the hasty rehearsal last time, this battle began with the most subtle rule alteration.

The space beside Yue Lai began to "fall apart" without warning, as if being swallowed by an invisible giant mouth, leaving only a pure void. Almost simultaneously, the space on his other symmetrical side began to "proliferate" wildly, folding and squeezing to form visible, crystalline fractures that rolled towards him like sharp crystal teeth.

Yue Lai did not move. He handed over control of his body to the Zhenhai Sword, and the divine relic in his hand was only pressed down slightly by an inch.

He said involuntarily:

"town."

Centered on him, the sea and space were forcibly "defined" as a stable and unchangeable state. The spatial folds created by Neptune's crown were all smoothed out, as if ironed by the will of heaven.

"Is that all?" Yue Lai's voice was like metal striking stone.

At the center of Neptune's crown, a huge deep blue sapphire gleamed.

The next moment, the sky wept.

The rain fell even harder without warning. Each raindrop contained a rapidly flashing scene: the boiling interstellar war, the lone sails on distant voyages, the tribes gathering and migrating on Serena... This was the dust of history, falling in the form of rain, carrying the weight of time.

A slight golden light rippled around Yue Lai, as if countless fine ripples were spreading out. Those historical scenes that attempted to invade, when they touched the "immovable" essence of the Zhenhai Sword, mostly shattered like bubbles.

However, some particularly heavy, regretful, or obsessive historical fragments remain as damp, cold traces, briefly lingering on the surface of the carapace.

Yue Lai said softly, "You should know that time is an aid to me, while you are just doing useless work."

Once he uses [Mixed Time] at this moment, the rainwater on these armored leaves will be transformed into the divine power of the Sea-Suppressing Sword, which in turn will become an aid in suppressing the Sea King's Crown.

Xiao Hai didn't respond for a long time, but Yue Lai knew what it was thinking.

These are all Serena and Nira's past. It doesn't want the "real world" it's creating to lack their presence. It doesn't want to lose them again!

"Xiao Hai..." Yue Lai said bitterly, "You can't succeed. The Federation has nine gods suppressing Andromeda, as well as countless elite warrior legions."

"What's protecting you now is nothing more than their covetousness of Prince You's divine authority. But the turmoil you've stirred up has gone beyond the realm of political games. I can still talk to you now, but once the military fleet arrives, who will you talk to?"

Unmoved by Neptune's Crown, Yue Lai finally pulled out his trump card.

"Have you ever thought that, Xiao Hai, you are actually cutting off the possibility of Aunt Nira's return?"

"Shut up!"

"Aunt Nira's head was sealed along with yours. I won't ask where her remaining divinity is, but have you ever thought that now that you're wielding spatial divine power, the interest groups that once considered you their exclusive possession may no longer be able to protect you?"

"They will devour you like a pack of wolves. The path to becoming Prince You will be complete. Soon, a god will be born, and the old gods will be completely buried."

"Your impulsive argument resulted in Aunt Nira never being able to return!"

Faced with these scathing words, Neptune's Crown could no longer remain silent:

"Then what do you suggest we do! In another ten years or so, this fabricated history will become the truth, and I'll still have nowhere to escape then. We might as well take a gamble now!"

On the allied flagship, people whispered among themselves.

"What is Yue Lai doing?"

"The Zhenhai Sword was specially crafted for the war against the sea monsters. It could have easily suppressed them, but instead, we're wasting time on empty talk."

"That divine relic is already showing signs of corruption; it's impossible to communicate with it now."

Tang Xiao, in his debate with Yue Lai, said, "Have you forgotten his path to enlightenment?"

"Yes, he's a liar... a conman."

"But the Zhenhai Sword can't increase one's cultivation level, can it?"

"Have you ever held a sword before?"

"No……"

"Then what are you barking about here!"

In the center of the battlefield, Yue Lai remained silent for a long time before finally giving his answer to Xiao Hai:

"Give me a wisp of divine power, not too much, just a tiny wisp."