Chapter 1528: Unequal Trade

In a haze, Jian Changsheng slowly opened his eyes.

What met his eyes was not the normal sky, nor the artificial buildings of the domain, but a misty fog, and vaguely, a trace of extremely thin killing intent wandering silently...

Jian Changsheng looked down at the ground, where a familiar swamp was quietly beneath his feet.

"This dream again..." Jian Changsheng muttered to himself.

Jian Changsheng remembered having had a similar dream before. That time, he had struggled in the swamp and almost been swallowed whole, while Bai Qi had stood in the thick fog, watching coldly as he sank deeper and deeper.

This time, Jian Changsheng didn't sink into the swamp. He stood firmly on it, looking around, but he didn't see Bai Qi’s shadow.

He really had disappeared...

For the culprit who had tried to occupy his body and almost killed Chen Ling and the others, Jian Changsheng felt no sympathy. But in a sense, without Bai Qi, he, Jian Changsheng, could never have made it to today, let alone become Spade 6 by Chen Ling’s side... He was too ordinary.

Jian Changsheng felt empty inside. He slowly began to walk across the swamp.

It was too quiet here, so quiet that Jian Changsheng could only hear his own breathing. The thin mist, swirling with a faint killing intent, surrounded him, preventing him from seeing his surroundings clearly... He didn't know how long he had walked when, vaguely, a human silhouette took shape in the distance.

It was a figure clad in armor, sitting quietly on the swamp. His form was like a semi-transparent ghost, as if a gust of wind would blow him away.

Seeing that figure, Jian Changsheng’s heart shook!

Bai Qi?

He hadn't been completely destroyed... He still had a trace of his lingering thoughts left in his body?

Jian Changsheng clearly remembered that in the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury, Bai Qi’s soul had been shattered by two Ghost Path heavenly thunders, and then ambushed and swallowed by Wang Jian... He had thought Bai Qi was completely gone, but there were still remnants in his body...

This guy was truly hard to kill.

Jian Changsheng was initially wary, but after observing Bai Qi carefully for a moment, he found that the other’s soul strength was extremely weak. Forget about possessing his body; if he just exerted a little will, he could even wipe out these lingering thoughts directly.

Confirming this, Jian Changsheng stepped forward and walked slowly toward Bai Qi.

Bai Qi sat there quietly, eyes closed, seemingly unaware of Jian Changsheng’s approach, as if he had fallen into a deep slumber...

Jian Changsheng walked up to him, looking at his body curiously from close range. Just as he tried to poke that ancient armor with his fingertip, a calm voice sounded from within:

"If you want to kill, then kill. This general... has always been willing to accept a loss."

Jian Changsheng was startled by the sudden voice and instinctively took half a step back. He had thought Bai Qi was asleep; he didn't expect him to be awake.

Come to think of it, this seemed to be the first time Bai Qi had spoken to him.

Jian Changsheng calmed down for a moment and asked the question he most wanted to know:

"Back in the Soldier Path Ancient Treasury... why did you choose me?"

Bai Qi slowly opened his eyes and scanned Jian Changsheng in front of him. Although he was now only a wisp of a remnant soul, his eyes still showed no attempt to hide his arrogance and disdain as he spoke faintly:

"This general initially wanted to choose that Chen Ling, but he is a Mockery Calamity and cannot be used for resurrection... And at that time, in the Soldier Path Ancient Treasury, there were only two people most suitable for the Asura. Besides him... it could only be you."

Even though Jian Changsheng had been mentally prepared, his mouth still twitched slightly upon hearing this answer:

"Is my talent really that bad?"

Bai Qi glanced at him, closed his eyes, and didn't intend to waste his breath answering.

True... if his talent were really good, why hadn't he attracted divine favor in all those years? Why had he only barely stepped onto the divine path when he reached the Soldier Path Ancient Treasury? Thinking of this, Jian Changsheng felt a bit bitter.

He didn't have Chen Ling’s talent, Sun Bumian’s accumulation, or Jiang Xiaohua’s mystery... In the end, he was just an ordinary divine path practitioner.

"Can I still catch up to their footsteps?" Jian Changsheng couldn't help but ask.

"Your companions all have extraordinary aptitude and backgrounds. If this general’s power were still here, you might have had a chance. But without me... you will stop here in this life," Bai Qi said calmly.

"In fact, with your talent, the Fourth Stage is the limit. If it weren't for me forcibly pushing you, how could you have reached your current rank?"

"You... should have been left behind by them long ago."

Hearing this, Jian Changsheng’s face turned deathly pale.

He had thought his talent was poor, but he hadn't expected it to be this bad... Bai Qi’s words, "stop here in this life," were a direct death sentence.

Stop here?

Stop at the Seventh Stage?

How could that be!!

Chen Ling had just become the Red King; he wanted to reverse the era and restart the world, which required powerful assistance by his side... He had said he needed him, but how could a Seventh Stage help him?

Jiang Xiaohua grew stronger against strong opponents, his own strength always a mystery. Sun Bumian had broken through to the Eighth Stage, and Chen Ling already possessed Eighth-Stage combat power... In this team, where was there room for a Seventh Stage?

Jian Changsheng pursed his lips. He looked at Bai Qi in front of him, as if having made a decision:

"What do I have to do to become stronger?"

"You have no chance."

"No, there must be a chance!" Jian Changsheng looked into Bai Qi’s eyes. "Since you chose me to use my body to prove the Soldier Path demigod, you must have a way to let me break through my current talent shackles and become stronger!"

Bai Qi’s voice was as cold as frost. "Why should this general help you?"

Jian Changsheng was speechless for a moment.

Bai Qi had helped him break through ranks before because he needed this body to resurrect. Now that Bai Qi’s remnant soul had been crushed by Chen Ling, there was no possibility of resurrection... Why would Bai Qi, with only a wisp of a soul left, help him?

Jian Changsheng was silent for a long time, as if he had finally made up his mind. He took a deep breath:

"Isn't it resurrection you want?"

"Although you failed in this world, you aren't without a chance in the future."

"After I help Chen Ling successfully reverse the era and restart the world... in the next new world, I will give you my body to help you resurrect."

Bai Qi’s eyes narrowed slightly.

He stared at Jian Changsheng for a long time, wondering what he was thinking.

"I know that in the next world, you might still look down on my body, but I can provide absolute cooperation. Even if you need it, I can scatter my soul at any time... Don't you have that 'Bai Qi Order'? I can swear to it. With it there, you shouldn't be afraid of me going back on my word."