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As the world around him darkened, Shi Feng felt weightless.

'Is this what death feels like?' He thought to himself.

Remembering everything that had happened, he was filled with regret. For messing up right at the end after ten years of hard work, for letting Fire Dance die… Also, his guildmates must have heard what happened and were rushing to help him, but they'll only end up with the same fate.

He felt even worse about it now. Not only had he failed Fire, he had also failed everyone else.

Di! Di! Di!

Shi Feng opened his eyes and stared at a familiar ceiling.

It only took him a moment to process what had happened and stare at that broken-down ceiling in disbelief. He couldn't believe it.

He had returned!

Di! Di! Di!

The continuous ringing of his phone shook Shi Feng out of his thoughts. He quickly grabbed the old and broken down iPhone 6, never would he have thought that he would hold one again, and answered.

"What's up?"

"Brother Feng, it's me, Blackie. You're still asking what's up? Didn't we agree to become professional gamers? Shadow Workshop is recruiting at our school today. Haven't you always wanted to become Shadow's core member?"

Shi Feng had never been so glad to hear Blackie's voice.

"Right… I'll be there soon."

"Alright, just come quickly."

After ending the call, Shi Feng took a moment to take in his surroundings, getting flashbacks of his time spent here in the previous two timelines. Looking at his reflection in the mirror, he looked very similar to how he looked like in his previous life.

Due to the advanced technology and resources like the Life Potion, Shi Feng had remained young in his previous life. The only difference now was that he was skinnier and his physique was nowhere near his previous one.

Shi Feng suddenly realized what that familiar sensation he felt was. He didn't notice it the first time he reincarnated, but this time, maybe because of his advanced mental strength, he felt something.

Although he wasn't quite sure what he felt, or how to describe it, it felt like something in his very soul had activated.

Speaking of souls, Shi Feng looked down at his hand and tried to spread his senses.

Suddenly, from Shi Feng's perspective, his hand looked transparent, and some blue energy running through it was visible. Looking at his chest, Shi Feng saw what looked like a blue fireball in the center of his chest. However, there were some black cracks running along the blue fireball.

This was his ability.

The ability that terrified those old monsters, without even knowing what it was. The ability that that person predicted will be a disaster… and he was right, it is going to bring disaster to them.

He originally didn't plan to use it in that way, but now, things were different.

He has changed his mind.

They predicted a disaster, so a disaster is what they'll get.

This was the ability to interfere with the very soul. With it, Shi Feng could decide the fate of any person he touched, and it wasn't limited to only destroying the soul, like how he did to that old assassin.

Thinking of the usage of his ability, an idea came to Shi Feng's mind. If he used it on someone's, soul he could change their memories. Normally this could be used to make someone loyal to you, or erase something they saw, or give misinformation to your enemies.

There were plenty of such uses people might call immoral, but what if…

What if you already knew what the soul of someone with different memories looked like? At most, it could be used to treat amnesia, or such situations where someone lost their memory.

But for Shi Feng's case… it could be used to do something else…

What if he changed the part of the souls' memories of his friends to what they were like in his previous life? Of course, this was under the condition that he remembered what their soul looked like with those memories. However, this wasn't a problem for Shi Feng.

He had unlocked this ability almost a year before he was sent back to this timeline, so Shi Feng had seen the soul of pretty much every important member of Zero Wing.

Though, he couldn't remember most of them right now, if he could boost his brain activity, he might be able to remember some of the ones he saw more often. If he reached the Mental Strength Master standard, he could tap into all of his memories.

But even now, he could still remember the souls of those he was close to. Like Blackie, Aqua Rose, Gentle Snow, Violet Cloud… and Fire Dance…

There was no way he could forget hers when one of the last things he saw was it breaking.

Another call from Blackie interrupted Shi Feng's thoughts, urging him to hurry over.

He tidied himself up before heading to Jin Hai University. Unlike in his previous life, he was somewhat in a rush, as he wanted to try to return Blackie's memories, unsure if it will work or not.

In theory, it should work, but you never know if something might go wrong. What if it doesn't work? What if he breaks Blackie's soul in the process? What if Blackie's current mind isn't able to cope with ten years worth of memories? What if…?

While thinking of all the possibilities, Shi Feng arrived at Teaching Block 1 and caught sight of a thin and tall figure in front of the building. The tanned youth was pacing around the hallway in a panic; it was none other than Blackie.

"Brother Feng, you've finally decided to show up. Fortunately, registration hasn't closed yet, so let's hurry in and sign up." Blackie said anxiously after seeing Shi Feng.

"Blackie, I'm not joining Shadow."

Blackie was stunned for a moment. Looking at Shi Feng, he felt something was different about him, but he still asked "Brother Feng, what do you mean? Why not?"

Shi Feng's face turned serious.

"Blackie, do you trust me?" Shi Feng looked at Blackie again, now seeing him transparent, with blue energy coursing through what his veins should be. In his chest, a small, blue fireball was glowing.

Blackie was once again taken aback by the sudden question, but seeing Shi Feng's serious face, he also seriously answered "Of course I do. You're my good brother, after all."

Hearing that, Shi Feng felt relieved.

"Good." He said, as he extended a finger and pressed it on Blackie's forehead.

Blackie wanted to ask what he was doing, but before he could, his body froze, and his mouth stayed in the middle of trying to speak. Blackie's pupils became diluted and empty. He looked like he was watching his life flash before his eyes.

Shi Feng's aura changed as a torrent of energy rushed out of Shi Feng and went towards Blackie's soul.

Somewhere in the Greater World. In a secluded mansion

An old man opened his eyes as the crystal ball in front of him started glowing.

The man furrowed his brows, as he felt an ominous feeling come from the crystal ball.

"A disaster?" The old man mumbled to himself in confusion "But from where?" He spread his senses as he used his prediction ability with the crystal ball as the catalyst, searching for the source through the entire Greater World.

Seconds went by, then minutes, then hours, yet still nothing. No realm was left unchecked, no stone left unturned.

"How could there be nothing?" The old man was even more confused now. Normally, he would start feeling a bit of danger before it gradually grew; but now, a big sense of danger came at him out of nowhere. Worse yet, he couldn't find the source.

Of course, this was because he was only able to search the Greater World. Shi Feng's world has yet to merge with it or even have a slight connection, so there was no way to sense him. Although the old man knew that he couldn't search for things outside of the Greater World, he never considered the threat to come from one of the smaller worlds.

Something that could be of any threat to him had to be at the Mental Strength Great Grandmaster standard or something that could rival it at the very least. Even reaching the One-star Mental Strength Grandmaster standard while in the smaller worlds without the Greater World's resources was nearly impossible, let alone above it.

So how could the danger possibly come from one of those? Thus, the old man guessed there was something hiding the source.

Alas, no matter how much the old man racked his brains, he would never guess the truth.

Meanwhile, back to Shi Feng.

A moment later, Shi Feng removed his finger as he stumbled, nearly falling over before leaning against the wall. His face was completely pale, and he was drenched in sweat. Although it seemed like it took only a moment, for Shi Feng, it felt like hours had passed.

He could have never imagined it would be so difficult.

Even with his current shitty mental energy, he thought it wouldn't be that difficult. However, he quickly realized how naive he was being. How could reconstructing ten years worth of memories be that simple?

Recreating all those little details wasn't as simple as copying something from one paper to another.

Shi Feng had still thought that, even if he couldn't do it, he could at least recreate the first year or something like that. Even if that didn't work he could at least stop and give up. He could then come up with some excuse to give to Blackie and then convince him like he did in his previous life.

Nope

When he started, there was no going back.

Simply touching Blackie's soul and intervening with his memories had created problems, and he still wasn't skilled enough with his ability to only recreate a small part of Blackie's memories, so he could only finish it or risk breaking Blackie's mind.

Blackie had just told him that he trusted him, so how could Shi Feng do that? Therefore, he pushed himself and completely restored Blackie's memories.

After taking a couple of deep breaths and regaining some of his strength, Shi Feng started observing Blackie, who had a lost expression on his face. A few seconds later, light returned to his eyes.

He looked around in confusion before his eyes fell on the pale-faced Shi Feng.

"Brother Feng?" Blackie asked with an unsure tone.

"Who else has this handsome face other than me?" Shi Feng laughed, but Blackie was now even more confused as he looked at him before looking down at his hands. He reached up and touched his face, before pinching himself, still wondering if he was dreaming.

"A-are we…? How a-am I?" He still had no idea what had happened, and countless questions were swimming in his mind. He looked at the only person who could possibly explain just what the hell was going on.

"Please, Blackie. For your good brother, time traveling is something simple." Shi Feng said, trying to sound like he did something casually, while unsure how to properly explain. He didn't think this far ahead. Originally, Shi Feng hadn't even been sure if it would work and was only thinking about what he'd do if it didn't. In retrospect, he should have thought his plan through a bit better.

So now, he could only awkwardly joke and confirm what Blackie was already thinking.

Meanwhile, Blackie, whose suspicions were confirmed, stood still in a daze, not knowing how to react. However, seeing Shi Feng's pale complexion, he knew that things were nowhere near as simple as they seemed; not that things seemed simple in the first place.

"Ahem, let's go somewhere else." Shi Feng cleared his throat and said. They were currently in a public place, and anyone passing by could listen in on their conversation.

"Alright." His still dazed friend nodded and followed him.

After getting to a private location, Shi Feng explained the gist of things to Blackie, who more or less understood.

He had already heard that Shi Feng was ambushed by a group of Mental Strength Pseudo-Supreme Grandmasters. Blackie had hoped that Shi Feng would get away and was anxiously waiting for the news, not being capable of providing any help at all, but when he saw Shi Feng after his memories were restored, he assumed the worst.

Only, he didn't think that Shi Feng was capable of time traveling, or reincarnating, or whatever it is. And he was technically right, since Shi Feng had no actual idea of how it works.

"So what do we do now?" Blackie asked, gritting his teeth in anger. His best friend had died in battle, while he could only stay safe and wait for news, unable to help. Like a wife whose husband went to war.

Never again. He was determined to get stronger.

Oh how she wanted to tell him

She wanted to tell him that it's not his fault

She wanted to tell him to not worry about her

She wanted to tell him to just stay alive

She wanted to tell him how… how she felt, how he makes her feel

God how she wanted to tell him…

But strength was quickly leaving her body, and she couldn't speak. So she tried to tell him through her eyes, but Shi Feng had already looked away and was focusing on surviving.

As usual, he didn't have the time to focus on her; but now, instead of stopping herself from telling him, like she has been doing for the past ten years, she didn't have the option to choose anymore.

She could only sigh internally in regret, and close her eyes as the last of her strength slowly left her body.

Sensing that Fire Dance was dying, and that there was nothing he could do to save her or himself, rage bubbled inside of Shi Feng. But this time, he didn't suppress it. He directly let it fuel his ability.

When the buff old man attacked him again with a fist capable of sundering mountains, Shi Feng no longer dodged. He switched to holding Fire Dance's body with one hand, below his armpit, and sent a fist back at the buff old man.

There was no great power behind it, and it looked like a last-ditch effort of a man who was at the end of his road.

The buff old man sneered at his attempt.

However, when their fists collided, there was no aftershock or dissipating energy. They just bounced off each other and separated.

As if nothing happened, Shi Feng continued running, but the buff old man just stood still in a daze.

A moment later, the buff old man shook and coughed up blood.

"Old Insane, what happened?" A lithe woman carrying some kind of gun arrived silently next to the buff old man, asking curiously as she aimed at Shi Feng, before firing energy bullets.

The others also perked up their ears without stopping their chase.

It should be known that this Old Insane was a cultivation maniac in his younger days. He was especially known for his sturdy body and brute strength. Even his ability was focused on that.

So, for him to cough up blood from a single exchange, without the opponent even using any energy, it was quite shocking.

"It looks like his prediction was right, as always." Old Insane said as he tried to restabilize the energy in his body "That brat somehow managed to disrupt my energy." He continued in a rough tone.

"That's probably his ability, then." The lithe women reasoned.

The others also came to the same conclusion. If Shi Feng had the ability to disrupt the energy of someone on Old Insane's level after just breaking through, then that indeed was a terrifying ability.

But it wasn't that concerning for them. As long as they avoid his attacks, it can be easily dealt with.

"Yea…" Old Insane replied doubtfully.

Unlike the rest, he experienced the attack personally and felt something; but he chose not to say anything in the end.

On one hand, they probably wouldn't believe him if he told them his thoughts. On the other hand, even he himself doesn't believe it… Because, if it's true, and this kid has that type of ability, then that guy's prediction of a disaster would be an understatement.

He quickly shook those thoughts off, believing them impossible, and continued chasing after Shi Feng.

Unaware of Old Insane's thinking, Shi Feng kept running while avoiding swordlights, bullets, and other attacks from his pursuers.

Although he tried his best, he was getting more and more exhausted with each step and dodge.

Just as he barely dodged another barrage of attacks and thought he could have a millisecond to catch his breath, a dagger appeared out of thin air and stabbed into his abdomen.

With him already being so tired and unfocused, there was no way he could dodge the attack.

However, Shi Feng wasn't planning to.

"There you are." Shi Feng hissed at his attacker, who was none other than the assassin who had nearly killed him and wounded Fire Dance. Tightening his skin and muscles, he locked the dagger, stunning the old assassin by his comment and actions; appearing like he was waiting for him to attack.

The assassin has been silently following Shi Feng from the beginning, patiently waiting for his opportunity while not letting even a peep of his presence leak. So there was no way Shi Feng knew he was there.

His train of thought was interrupted when Shi Feng grabbed his dagger-holding arm with his left hand, while punching at him with his right fist.

All he received from the old assassin for his efforts was a disdainful sneer.

Just as the old assassin was about to use his ability to vanish and retreat, Shi Feng's left hand tightened, and a mysterious energy invaded the old assassin's body, holding him in place.

Shi Feng's fist came closer, and although the old assassin tried to move, he felt like his entire being was held in place. Shi Feng's attack struck the assassin's chest.

It was at this moment the assassin realized what Shi Feng's ability truly is. He wanted to curse at Old Insane for not saying anything. Had he known the truth, he wouldn't have even dared to approach Shi Feng, let alone allow the young man to touch him.

But before he could say anything, the old assassin felt something inside him burst. Blood started flowing in great amounts out of all of his seven orifices, as all his energy and life force left his body.

"I've avenged you, Fire." Just as a faint smile appeared on Shi Feng's face, bullets went through his chest.

"What the hell happened." The gun-wielding woman questioned as she stared at the assassin's lifeless corpse.

The others soon arrived and surrounded Shi Feng, having the same question. When Old Insane saw the assassin's state, he couldn't help but gulp.

'Was I right?' He thought to himself.

"Doesn't matter. Let's just kill the brat. This has already taken too long." An old man carrying a sword said as he walked towards Shi Feng, who was leaning against a tree.

At this moment, Shi Feng's face was as pale as a ghost. Using his ability to that extent was quite draining. Although it's an amazing ability, it costs too much energy. Especially to kill a Mental Strength Great Grandmaster of the assassin's level in one hit, when he himself wasn't even a Great Grandmaster yet.

With the energy he already spent fighting for hours, and that attack just now, along with his injuries both old and new, right now he couldn't even stand properly, let alone continue fighting.

Though he still carried Fire Dance's body.

Right now with all his emotions like despair, regret, anger, unwillingness, frustration, depression, powerlessness, hate, and everything boiling inside of him, he started feeling a familiar sensation, but he couldn't quite place his finger on it.

Shi Feng's thoughts were interrupted by a sword piercing towards his heart.

He wanted to move, but his body didn't listen.

As Shi Feng watched the sword approach him in slow motion, the familiar sensation kept increasing.

Just as the sword started piercing through his skin, his vision darkened…

…

…..

……….

Di! Di! Di!

In the wilderness of the Greater World

Crack!

A young-looking man can be seen running through a forest at high speeds, such that normal people would only see an afterimage.

The young man had an average appearance, and in a world where handsome men and beautiful women were everywhere, his face could even be called unattractive.

Whoosh!

A whooshing sound came from behind. The young man quickly changed directions and jumped to the left, barely avoiding an energy fist that went past his head and smashed into a tree.

Boom!

The tree instantly turned to dust, and the resulting shockwave slightly destabilized the young man's footing, but he quickly leaned forward and continued running. Not a moment later, a bullet filled with mental energy, enough to level a building, went behind the young man's head, breaking a few of his hair strands.

'Dammit.' The young man cursed in his mind, but continued running.

A swordlight destroyed the environment in front of him, forcing him to slide to a stop. Before the young man could even completely stop and stabilize his footing, an explosion from something landing behind him, and rising a cloud of smoke, sent him flying.

Without giving him time to catch his bearings, a fist, aimed at his head, came from the smoke cloud, intending to crush his skull. The young man dodged the fist at an impossible angle, surprising the buff old man who just tried to kill him.

As the young man tried to regain his balance in mid-air, another swordlight attacked him. Again, the young man avoided the swordlight at an impossible angle, and just as he landed, another energy fist came flying at him.

Unable to dodge after just landing, and unable to defend with his preoccupied hands, the young man could only send a kick at the energy fist, which sent him flying through the air once again. As the young man landed, he ignored the pain in his leg and continued running.

'How did this happen?' Despairing thoughts started overwhelming the young man's mind, but he pushed them to the back of his mind. However, those thoughts, along with guilt and regret, came back as he glanced at the heavily injured woman in his arms.

"Guild Leader cough, just leave me behind. Save yourself." The red haired woman with an alluring figure in his arms tried to convince the young man, as she coughed up blood.

"Don't say anything, just save your strength. I'll get us out of this." Said the young man to the woman, who was bleeding profusely, trying to sound calm. However, his shaky voice, heavy breathing, and pained expression didn't convince the woman.

Another swordlight came at the young man from behind. He tried to dodge it, for the god knows what time today, however, with his previous injuries and now injured leg, his dodge wasn't as flawless as before; and his shoulder ended up getting cut.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the swordlight had corrosive energy which he had to push out of his system, which wasted his own energy and concentration, which was being continuously attacked by mental attacks.

"How can you geezers be this shameless!" The young man shouted at his attackers in rage as he continued running.

But the only response he received was an energy fist.

"Brat, you can only blame yourself." The buff old man answered with a laugh, however, he was also feeling extremely bitter and frustrated that they were ganging up on a kid.

They were all proud experts who had surpassed the Three-star Mental Strength Grandmaster standard, and were peerless even among other Great Grandmasters, yet they had to work together to kill a single person, who was barely in his thirties.

If news of this was to get out, even if none dared to say anything out loud, they'd surely laugh at them in private.

However, circumstances have forced them, and there was no going back now. When someone breaks through to the Mental Strength Great Grandmaster standard, they fuse their energy with the world and unlock special abilities. This was why they were trying to kill the young man.

Normally, no matter what kind of ability someone unlocked, these proud individuals wouldn't care. However, the ability this young man that they were hunting unlocked was too frightening, so much so that one of their peers, who had prediction abilities which have never been wrong, had predicted there would be a disaster, without even knowing what the ability the young man had unlocked is.

Originally, they were doubtful even when that person stressed how important it was to eliminate the young man, however, to respect their peer who had never been wrong, they investigated the young man.

The more they looked into him the more interested and less doubtful they became, so they decided to take action. And when they did, all of their doubts disappeared.

Indeed that old man had never been wrong, and now was no exception. The simple proof was that the young man was still alive.

The young man was none other than Shi Feng. Even though he hadn't completely broken through to the Great Grandmaster standard, and only unlocked an ability, he was still able to survive an onslaught from these old monsters, which made them think he had already broken through.

If they knew they were putting this much effort into killing a Mental Strength Pseudo-Great Grandmaster, god knew what they'd do, so Shi Feng thought it best not to correct their thinking.

While in the process of breaking through, he was called for an emergency meeting by his close allies. Though a bit suspicious, he didn't think any of them would betray him.

They were all close allies and friends who wouldn't betray him even if their lives or guilds were threatened, so he didn't think any of them would betray him. LET ALONE ALL OF THEM!

However, when he got there and saw the guilt in their eyes, he immediately knew something was wrong. But before he could react, he was ambushed by these old bastards. Even though he defended himself, he was injured, and an old assassin took the chance to try and kill him.

Thankfully, Fire Dance had accompanied him and saved Shi Feng from a strike that should have killed him. But due to the huge difference in strength between her and the assassin, she ended up lethally wounded.

As she was about to die, Shi Feng intervened and managed to save her before escaping; while being attacked and injured by the assassin and the other old monsters.

Thinking about the traitors, rage overwhelmed Shi Feng's mind; but he tried to calm himself by remembering their eyes full of guilt.

He knew they wouldn't betray him even if their lives were threatened, or they would have at least tried to somehow inform him while pretending. However, it's a different story if their families or close ones were to be threatened.

As the buff old man said, Shi Feng could only blame himself for being careless.

But his mind was once again overwhelmed with despair and guilt as he glanced at Fire Dance, who was barely still alive.

'Was he going to die here?' Such thoughts permeated in his mind, causing him him to lose focus and get more injuries.

Shi Feng suppressed those thoughts, knowing it was the ability of one of the old monsters hunting him. He had previously tried to kill the woman with that ability, but the others pushed him back, forcing him to aimlessly run into the wilderness of the Greater World for hours; until he got into the situation he was in now.

'Dammit, if I had broken through, I could have already killed all these fuckers.' Despite trying to keep a calm mind, rage resurfaced, and because of his tired mind, he didn't notice it was being amplified.

'Got him.' An old woman smirked while running after Shi Feng, but still keeping a safe distance from him at all times; thus preventing him from attacking her, which caused further rage in his mind 'He's beginning to lose it. Hasten your attacks.' The old woman sent a mental message to the other attackers.

'Witch, don't order me around.' The buff old man replied as he sent another, but stronger energy fist at Shi Feng's back.

This is what they were waiting for. For this woman to cause chaos in Shi Feng's emotions. Now when they sent stronger attacks and injured him even more, those thoughts will cause him to lose even more focus, slowly breaking him.

With Shi Feng's tired mind and body, after being on complete alert and fighting opponents at a higher realm from him for hours, he will start to fall apart.

Shi Feng knew that too, but there was nothing he could do…

He could only try his best to survive for as long as possible, and hope for a miracle. To try to create a miracle like he always did. But deep down, he knew that he was really screwed this time. Even if he somehow managed to break through to the Great Grandmaster stage right now, he was too injured. Sooner or later, they would still get him. He might unlock a second ability, but he doubted something like that would happen.

The only thing he could do was hope that Fire Dance could recover enough to run away while he slowed them down, but…

He glanced down at her, who was barely hanging on by a thread. Sensing his gaze, Fire Dance opened her eyes slightly, and seeing the guilt and worry in Shi Feng's eyes, she put on a loving smile. She wanted to speak, but she couldn't.

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