Chapter 589: Marriage Is Always the Best Alliance

The passage of time is always silent.

The leaves of the black fir tree outside the window turned yellow and then green again. It was not aware of how many years had passed, and the vegetation was becoming more and more prosperous.

Ji Xun looked at the girl writing letters at the desk through the glass of the attic, and she was getting older in front of her eyes.

From the girl with a bright smile on her face, she gradually became a white-haired old man.

Song Yu turned her thoughts into letters, telling about the romantic encounter she had at the most beautiful age.

She would often talk to herself in front of the window, and pour out her thoughts to the lover outside the window who she was sure would come to see her in the long river of time.

Fate is like a clown, playing a joke on them.

While giving the two people a surprise in fate, it also brought endless thoughts and regrets.

Ji Xun accompanied Song Yu on a long journey of life;

And that Miss Yu missed him all his life.

Time is like quicksand between fingers that disappears in a flash.

A long hundred years, and then it is just a blink of an eye.

Ji Xun stood silently in front of the window, accompanying her for a long, long time, but looking back, it seemed like a lifetime that had passed by in a flash.

Ji Xun looked at the gray-haired Song Yu in front of the window, and his eyes became more and more gentle.

Finally, the figure of the girl in front of him gradually disintegrated.

The light in the tree house suddenly went out.

Leaving all the beauty in the long river of time.

She has always been there,

and never left.

Ji Xun looked at the dim and dilapidated tree house in front of him, and stayed in the breeze in the forest for a long time.

Thousands of thoughts finally turned into a gentle sigh: "Miss Yu"

For a long time.

For a long time.

The scattered eyes gradually focused.

Ji Xun looked at the letter in his hand, and the [Trans-Time and Space Stamp] whose light had completely dissipated, and his face had become more relieved.

He traveled back a hundred years ago to witness Miss Yu's life again, still relying on the extraordinary effect of this stamp.

But this time is different from the last time.

He did not participate in that period of history by "modification", but witnessed that period of history from the perspective of an "observer".

The second wonderful journey through time allowed him to touch the true mystery of time.

In other words, in the future, when he stabilizes his understanding of the laws of time, he can go back to see Song Yu at any time.

The girl will still be there, waiting for him.

Time is relative.

Standing at a high enough height, time is like a book that can open the past and the future.

"So that's it."

I don't know how long it took, Ji Xun murmured.

I don't understand.

But I have touched the mystery of time.

Just when I sensed someone coming down from the tree house, Ji Xun's thoughts were completely put away.

That person had been here for a while, and he had been standing under the tree house, as if waiting for something.

Ji Xun was also very curious, who was it.

It stands to reason that no one knew he was here, and no one found him here, so how could someone come?

Looking back at the tree house that hid so many beautiful memories, Ji Xun's eyes also flashed with emotion. This might be the last time he came here in his life.

When he comes again in the future, it will be time to find this memory again in the long river of time.

"Miss Yu, I'll see you next time."

Ji Xun murmured, and without thinking much, he jumped down.

Under the tree house, there was an old man with a cane and a hunched body.

Ji Xun recognized him at a glance. It was the old housekeeper of the Song family, "Mr. Jiu".

After the last farewell in Honglou, the "little dove" he knew a hundred years ago has aged too much.

Ji Xun saw that he had reached the end of his life.

This old servant who had been loyal to the Song family for a lifetime, after the war in Donghuang ended, held on to his last breath and returned to the manor where he had stayed for most of his life.

Like a withered leaf, it finally wants to fall beside the tree roots that nurtured it.

This old man was like countless years ago, and his young lady was resting in the tree house.

He waited quietly under the tree.

It seemed that if he waited, he would be able to wait for the young lady to come down.

When Ji Xun came down from the tree house, the old man seemed to sense something.

He looked up, and a hint of expectation flashed in his turbid eyes, and he said to himself: "Young lady, are you calling me?"

A hundred years of time, this is a loyal memory engraved in his bones.

However, the luster in his eyes faded in an instant, and he said to himself: "Oh, the young lady is gone."

This sigh revealed endless loneliness.

While muttering to himself, he suddenly saw a figure gradually emerging in front of him.

The old man was startled at first, thinking it was his own illusion.

Before the expectation in his eyes dimmed again, he heard the man in front of him greet him: "Mr. Jiu."

The old man burst into tears and immediately recognized him. He raised his hand tremblingly and greeted him, "Mr. Ji Xun. You. Are you here to see the young lady?"

"Yes."

Ji Xun nodded, and his tone was ethereal, as if he had just walked out of the long river of time.

He looked at the old man in front of him and said again: "Mr. Jiu, long time no see."

"You"

Mr. Jiu couldn't help but moisten his eyes when he heard the old face full of relief.

It was as if he had returned to the scene of their first meeting in the refugee camp a hundred years ago.

He heard a farewell from this greeting.

It was probably the last time they would meet in this life.

Mr. Jiu was filled with emotion.

He was no longer the decisive and ruthless butler of the Song family, but an ordinary old man, mumbling about the last bit of concern in his heart: "You are still as young as a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, the young lady is gone. I am also old. This is probably the last time I see Mr. Ji Xun."

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Ji Xun looked at him, silent and did not speak.

Time and fate were once again clearly manifested in his eyes at this moment.

At the beginning of a person's life, he was completely unaware of the passage of time, and began to feel the passage of time, as if it was only after saying goodbye again and again that he realized it.

The old man showed a gratified smile on his face, and his tone became weaker and weaker: "It is the greatest luck for 'Little Dove' to meet Mr. Ji Xun and the young lady in this life. I have no regrets to see you again."

Ji Xun looked at the old face, and said only one sentence among thousands of words: "Little Dove, I am also honored to know you in my life."

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When the old man heard this, he was already in tears.

The corners of his mouth raised a calm smile.

It seems that if there is no more worry in the world, people can calmly walk to the end of their lives.

Mr. Jiu's words are a farewell to his benefactor a hundred years ago, and also a farewell to this world of fireworks.

At the last moment of life, the scenes of this life flashed rapidly in his mind.

It suddenly occurred to me that the starting point of the story with memories was when I met "Mr. Ji Xun".

As I thought about it, the last ray of light in his eyes dimmed, and his hand, which was originally trembling with a cane, gradually settled down.

The old man stood there, slowly closed his eyes, his face peaceful and happy.

This life, no regrets.

Ji Xun clearly felt that life was dissipating in front of his eyes like a wisp of green smoke.

A line of destiny reached its end here.

Witnessing the death of an old friend again, Ji Xun's eyes showed an indescribable depth.

Time and life are like entangled threads in the universe, becoming clearer.

The manor remains, but the old friend is gone.

At some point, the sound of footsteps rushed from outside the woods, calling anxiously and worriedly.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

The young man in a long gown looked at the old man standing there quietly, and burst into tears.

Ji Xun left the Safir Manor.

Under the street lights, a mushroom-headed boy was holding a book with the cover of "Infinite Scripts: The World of Will and Representation" and reading it attentively.

It seemed that this book was very profound, and he frowned and pursed his lips from time to time.

At this moment, Mushroom Head looked up and saw Ji Xun coming out of the manor. He quickly put away the book and put it in the cloth bag he carried with him, and greeted him respectfully: "Teacher!"

Ji Xun nodded, "Let's go."

"Oh."

Mushroom Head nodded obediently, but he seemed to have discovered something. He blinked and asked again: "Teacher, why do I feel that you are different from before?"

Ji Xun tilted his head and glanced at him, "What's different?"

"Well, I can't tell."

Mushroom Head held his cheek and pondered for a moment, then said in a somewhat mature tone: "In you, I seem to see the traces of the passage of time, the decayed breath of the end of cause and effect, and love."

As soon as he said it, he seemed to come back to his senses. It was a very imprecise behavior to say "love" that he didn't even understand in front of his teacher. He quickly made up for it: "I also read it in the book."

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Ji Xun listened and laughed, and praised: "Well. Not bad."

"Hehe."

Mushroom Head blinked, and he felt very happy to be praised by the teacher.

After thinking for a while, he asked one more question: "By the way, teacher, I saw a word recorded in ancient Taren language on the title page of the notebook you gave me before, which seems very important. Do you know what it records?"

When he heard this, Ji Xun immediately knew what the boy said, and said: "That sentence says that there are fifty laws of the universe, forty-nine are ordered, and one is disordered."

Mushroom head looked confused, "Ah?"

Ji Xun didn't explain much: "You can't understand it now, and when you can understand it, you will naturally see it."

"Oh."

Mushroom head touched his head, seemed to understand, and asked again, "Teacher, where are we going?"

Ji Xun pondered for a moment and said, "To the Old Continent."

Coming to the Seifer Manor is to say goodbye to that time.

The situation in the East Wilderness has stabilized now, and there is no need to stay.

The most important thing is that after advancing to the ninth level, he also found that it is difficult to absorb the law elements by normal breathing in the East Wilderness.

And the Old Continent and the South Continent, where the law limit is higher, are naturally going to go.

Half a month later

The old continent, the original Gold Mining Wharf.

The current "Hundred Battles City".

This is the headquarters of the Iris Corps and the territory established by the Andre family.

Although the once prosperous Innocence City and Gold Mining Wharf were destroyed, the iron chain that spanned the world rift was reconnected.

Ji Xun walked over the iron chain with a mushroom-headed boy.

As soon as the two of them landed on the ground, the burly middle-aged man in the City Lord's Mansion immediately sensed something and teleported to the dock.

Darcy was also scared when he saw the middle-aged man who suddenly appeared in front of him.

Especially the terrifying dragon power, which frightened his soul, who had just advanced to the third level, as if it was stiff.

Ji Xun looked at the bearded man in front of him calmly and greeted him: "Sir Andre, long time no see."

Andre squinted his eyes and looked at Ji Xun in front of him, and said: "You have advanced to the ninth level? Congratulations."

In fact, during the decisive battle in the East Wilderness before, he saw that this guy in front of him was special and had a high probability of successfully advancing to the ninth level.

But what surprised the great marshal was that this new ninth-level player seemed a little too strong.

"I advanced by luck."

Ji Xun said modestly, and then introduced: "This is my disciple Darcy. This is Marshal Andre."

Although the mushroom-headed man was shocked, he bowed and saluted neither servilely nor arrogantly: "Marshal."

Andre took a look and smacked his lips: "There are many good seedlings in the East Wilderness."

Ji Xun smiled without comment.

After all, he was a visitor, and Andre greeted him: "Let's go and sit in my mansion."

The guy who used to be despised has become a top-level strongman of the same level as himself. In an instant, Andre, as the great marshal, not only felt emotional, but also changed many of his original plans.

Ji Xun came to the Old Continent and visited the Hundred Battles City first because Catalina said that their ally was "not at peace".

It was not that Marshal Andre wanted to break the covenant, but he wanted to gain as much benefit as possible.

After all, in terms of strength, the Iris Corps is stronger than any force in the East Wilderness. The covenant between the strong and the weak originally meant that the weaker party needed to cede some benefits.

It would be great if the "Alliance Army" that is gaining momentum could be incorporated into the army.

It would be hard to say if it was a few years later.

Do it as soon as possible.

And Ji Xun came this time to renegotiate some cooperation conditions.

He had already clearly understood the intelligence before.

The situation in the Old Continent is now very chaotic.

The melee between the two dragon gods in the South Continent is still going on. A large number of pioneering lords have brought countless refugees and war refugees to the Old Continent, each enclosing a new territory.

Originally, this was nothing.

After all, the nobles are all dragon descendants. When the two dragon gods in the South Continent decide the winner, these people will still be loyal to the dragon god.

It was equivalent to the dragon race gaining a large new territory in the Old World for nothing.

However, the surprise was the [Gene Anchoring Potion] that suddenly appeared on the black market.

It was a magical potion that could allow the dragon race to break free from the suppression of the dragon bloodline.

This made the dragon races who came to the Old World think differently.

Originally, those who came to the Old World to open up wasteland were some marginal nobles, and their desire to submit to the Arel Empire was not that strong.

It was more of a last resort at the blood level.

Now the gene potion gave them the right to choose.

If possible, no one would be willing to be a slave.

Except for those high-ranking nobles who relied on the pure-blooded dragon race for their achievements, almost all other dragon race lords were secretly inquiring about the [Gene Anchoring Potion].

Of course, there was the secret instigation of the Iris Legion.

After all, although they had decided to break away from the control of the dragon race, the Iris Legion was still one of the three major legions of the Red Dragon on the surface.

They didn't dare to use the gene potion only for themselves.

And if most of the people who came to the Old World betrayed the rule of the dragon race, it would not be a problem.

Therefore, [Gene Anchoring Potion] spread rapidly through the black market of the Old World.

Another point is, mechanical technology!

Although the Alliance Army lost some elites in the East Wasteland last time, the rewards they got were also very great!

Now the mechanical army of the Alliance Army has basically taken shape.

Now there are four Titan mechas and countless Hunter God-level mechas in the Alliance Army, and the East Wasteland has stabilized, and the New World Mechanical City is still continuously manufacturing new armors and sending them over.

In case of encountering a strong enemy, the Angel Armor and the other two Titan Armors being studied in the New World can also come to the Old World for support.

With this combat power, there is almost no lord in the Old World who can chew the hard bone of the Alliance Army alone.

Another crucial point is that after Katarina, the commander-in-chief of the Alliance Army, merged with [Plum Blossom Q-Moonlight Queen], she became the carrier of the Moon God, the gathering place of the Silver Moon Sect's faith in divine power, and her strength is skyrocketing every day.

It can be said that it is impossible to behead.

So the Alliance Army does not have to hide and grow like before. Instead, they forcefully let those old antiques in the southern continent see the horror of the steel torrent.

In addition, the forces originally controlled by the rebel dragon army near Rune Highlands look after each other, and the alliance with the Iris Legion, this iron triangle is already the most stable alliance in the old continent.

The dragon descendants in the southern continent who have seen the power of mechanical technology have also begun to ponder mechanical technology.

Originally, machinery was regarded as a taboo by the Holy See in the southern continent. Now the control of the Holy See is gradually weakening, and it is basically non-existent in the old continent.

Of course, the lords will not give up something that can easily equip a powerful legion with some equipment.

And it just so happens that all kinds of mechanical equipment and mechanical drawings have become rich in the black market since some time.

This is of course also secretly fueled by the Iris.

Andre is still one of the three marshals of the Red Dragon Kingdom on the surface, and of course it is impossible to blatantly declare support for mechanical technology.

But in fact, he has secretly supported several new forces in the development of mechanical technology.

The reception room was chosen in the study of the Lord's Mansion of Baizhan City.

The study of the generals did not have so many fancy things, mostly armor and weapons.

The few gold-plated books on the bookshelf were decorations that had not been opened for decades.

Although there were not many people, this was a meeting of extremely high standards and high confidentiality.

Ji Xun sat leisurely on the chair, chatting like an old friend, and asked: "So, what does Mr. Andre mean?"

Andre glanced at Ji Xun and said two words: "Marriage!"