Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2182: Chapter 2177: Why Anticipate

So does the snake have nine lives too?

The prompt that rang out was not entirely within Fu Qian’s expectations.

Initially, he estimated that after a few more executions, it should still hold up, and Fu Qian was mentally prepared for that.

Facts proved that the SAN Points of the predecessors might indeed not be very abundant.

Right, the last few words were not just to set the mood.

The life philosophy mentioned by Lord Destiny Snake has always been seriously considered by Fu Qian, even long before it was pointed out by Him.

For example, why did I come here, what is the meaning of my actions, and finally, honestly, I’m not too sure how many lives the other party has.

"To face and execute the Destiny Snake," the task content is quite explicitly brutal.

And as analyzed earlier, due to setting traps for himself and the cost paid for that, the Destiny Snake needs to ensure that He can definitely be "faced" when one comes here.

Then it is execution, a beheading.

As a result, the other party’s posture truly seemed like He was sitting at the market entrance, besides splattering oneself with blood, He had no intention of counterattacking.

So much so that it seemed the only thing to calculate was whether one could withstand the blood splattering.

The conclusion is that it’s difficult to withstand.

Even the body of a Tyrant, which astonished Lord Destiny Snake, was quickly crumbling due to the sins committed.

Meanwhile, as a symbol of destiny, the other party seemed to be reborn eternally, making it look as if the task was impossible to complete—but is it really so?

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Of course not, if it was truly undying, why would there be this task?

So the execution can definitely be completed, and Fu Qian still has confidence in this.

The troubling part of this issue is actually the subsequent suggestion—should you try a different method?

A wooden stake without a visible Blood Bar, while counterattack damage seems about to rebound and kill oneself; even if you think execution is possible, attempting something more technical is obviously a reasonable strategy.

Though in doing so, in the already limited time, one also needs to attempt to find an alternative method of annihilating the Superior Being.

It’s absurd, but given that the chances of success on the other side seem zero, it’s a particularly tempting option for an ordinary person—but that’s an ordinary person.

Who said there’s no Blood Bar?

Perhaps previously lacking understanding of destiny, and the warehouse couldn’t provide more hints due to various limitations.

But Fu Qian expresses that if you enjoy pondering seemingly meaningless questions, they might help yield some meaningful answers at critical moments.

For instance, why am I here at all.

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Previously, it was concluded that the Old Hunter was a predecessor who failed.

So for Lord Destiny Snake, he is a new Scavenger.

And for the warehouse, this is another attempt at containment.

Some answers are easily obtainable, but therein lies a core question—what was the state of the Destiny Snake before coming here as a new Scavenger?

This has also been something Fu Qian has long pondered.

Long before this, it was nearly confirmed that there were predecessors whose SAN Points dropped to zero due to containment failure, so what about the tasks they were supposed to complete?

Label it with a failure mark, the target rebelled against the warehouse successfully, and wait for the next Scavenger to make efforts again?

And aside from the last one, define all efforts as false history?

It does sound somewhat reasonable.

But standing from the viewpoint of Lord Destiny Snake, could it be that after narrowly escaping a calamity, He still has to be wary of someone crossing time and space to take Him out, while singing and eating hot pot years later?

Then the world lines change, and in the next moment, it’s all boxed up?

And being an outsider with special physique, holding a transcendent position in time and space, can one experience contradictory scenes without being affected by some paradoxes?

This indeed is a common understanding when involving time-space.

But Fu Qian, however, is not blindly accepting experiences and has always maintained a cautious approach.

This operation of Lord Destiny Snake, to a certain extent, could indeed be surprising.

As a player in the field of destiny, having an unusual sensitivity for control over the past is not surprising.

For instance, during this specific containment, using the failure of predecessors as a tool to tighten it together with the new attempt of the warehouse, creating a dangerous cage for oneself using the Inner World method.

In Fu Qian’s view, this is understandable, but aside from that, there are two points that draw attention.

First, no running away.

Lord Destiny Snake could discern the deformity of His own existence form and hence should somewhat find it easier to gain Insight into one’s perceptual weaknesses at the moment.

However, even when facing right in the room, the other party still showed no intention of fleeing, but just stood there taking the hits.

From the start, Fu Qian had been a little curious about this.

Finally, after step-by-step testing, an approximate reasonable explanation was found.

That is, as long as He meets and locks on to Calamity, even if one runs out of sight, the execution by the Calamity Eye cannot be escaped.

And "connection" has spatial attributes, in layman’s terms, He needs to stay somewhat closer to convey the Bonds of destiny.

If one attempts to run, what welcomes them would be a unilateral remote bombardment, it’s better to stay and fight it out on site with the Blood Bar.

So from the moment this door was opened, it indeed is genuinely an "execution" process.

Yet even if this doubt was explained, it made Fu Qian increasingly sensitive to another anomaly—too many words.

Although not speaking in human language, from meeting to the end, Lord Destiny Snake still revealed several interesting pieces of information—

He anticipates my arrival...

I don’t really know what I’m doing...

The warehouse is a fool...

Of course, it can be understood as bluffing to weaken my determination, but believing that my later actions would’ve made Him realize it’s meaningless.

Yet, Lord Destiny Snake still showed no signs of conserving energy, making it unavoidable to question whether these words that cannot at all alter the actions of the opponent possess other meanings—Reminiscence Record.

Similar instances have indeed been encountered before.

No need to change opponents’ actions, cognition itself holds power.

If the time comes and I fail to take Him down, what would it be like coupled with these received snippets of information?

Could it make one more agreeable to the "fool" theory, doubting the might of the warehouse, even questioning the feasibility of completing this task?

And this is the doubt coming from the Abandonment King himself, is it possible, similar to previous Reminiscence Records, to leverage this consensus to impact the warehouse?

Thereby completely forgoing the effort of containing Him, or perhaps—

"Clearly not losing, but still unreasonably arriving at a failed conclusion? Is that the authority of the fool?"

Seizing the final opportunity, Fu Qian, toward the Destiny Snake in Annihilation, affirms a certain thought.

"And you anticipate my arrival, hoping for me to break it for you?"