Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm - Chapter 248:
Chapter 248: Chapter 247 What’s there to flaunt about the Mahayana Realm?
Translator: 549690339
The Time River has many peculiarities, such as it being measured by time rather than length, the lack of human race, the inability of the Brahma Tower, which controls the path of space, to be transported to the world within the Time River, and so forth.
“Only those who enter the Time River at the same time can see each other, like you and Ji Kongkong.”
“People from the past can’t see those from the future, and the future can’t see the past either. These are the restrictions placed by the Time River on outsiders. Of course, you could not possibly see me.”
“Creatures of the Time River are not bounded by this rule. For instance, Ancestor Shun can see you now, as well as your future self.”
These rules that Ji Zhi shared were not discovered by him, but recorded in the scripts left by Emperor Shun, supplemented by conclusions drawn from the attempts of generations of the Ji family.
“If people from the future could meet with those of the past, couldn’t I tell my past self what will happen in the future? Do I look like someone who’s seen the future to you?”
“Ancestor Shun said he saw your future self, and your future self didn’t meet your current self. This already explains a lot.”
“The creatures of the Time River clearly have unique rules,” Jiang Li joked, noting that none of these rules applied to Baiyu.
Ji Zhi corrected Jiang Li’s perspective: “You’re wrong. We, who have stepped into the Time River, are the ones who are peculiar.”
“You can think of the Time River as a reflection of the time of various worlds, separate from any world, independent of Jiuzhou, and independent of the Immortal Realm. In theory, no creatures from worlds outside the Time River should set foot in it, but there are always exceptions, like Ancestor Shun who left his descendents, shaping us. We are the exceptions, while Baiyu are the norm.”
“Those who have always lived in the normal world, once they enter a world that only consists of time, would naturally be subject to a multitude of constraints.”
“There’s another issue.”
“Ask. ”
Ji Zhi felt a sense of achievement answering Jiang Li’s ignorant questions, which delighted him.
Even you have today.
Ji Zhi felt that today, for the first time, he had the chance to surpass Jiang Li in terms of knowledge.
Save for more wives than Jiang Li, Ji Zhi could not exceed Jiang Li in anything.
He was two levels behind Jiang Li in cultivation, and while his status as Zhou
Emperor was equivalent to the Human Emperor, in the eyes of the people of
Jiuzhou, the Human Emperor held a higher rank than any other emperor. Jiang Li made friends without regard to cultivation level, only character, and had a wide network. Ji Zhi, as the Zhou Emperor, had to maintain the authority of the emperor and could not make friends indiscriminately.
The time Ji Zhi came closest to Jiang Li was when the two were classmates.
At that time, they were students in the Great Zhou Dynasty Family School, and Ji Zhi could only see the future up to four hours ahead.
He planned to review the textbooks and discuss the questions with his classmates to find the answers after the exams.
During the examination, he used his heavy pupils to observe the actions of his future self and obtained the exam answers.
This was equivalent to an open-book exam, or even worse.
But he still came in second.
Jiang Li firmly held the top position.
Ji Zhi was very frustrated by not being able to surpass Jiang Li, despite cheating.
Jiang Li consistently achieved first place during his time at the Great Zhou Dynasty Family School, which laid the foundation for his solid cultivation theory.
The worst part was that there was an uncle of Ji Zhi’s who was well-versed in the ways of time in the Great Zhou Dynasty Family School. He found out about Ji Zhi’s cheating and reported it to the Old Zhou Emperor.
The Old Zhou Emperor was furious, reprimanding Ji Zhi for not setting a good example as a member of the royal family, abusing his talent to breach the rules. Consequently, he whipped him with a water-soaked leather strap on the buttocks, and prohibited him from taking any elixirs for healing.
That was the time when Ji Zhi cried the hardest.
Later, Ji Zhi spent the entirety of his holiday lying in bed with his buttocks raised.
From then on, Ji Zhi strictly adhered to the rules and became an excellent student of the royal family, and subsequently, a wise monarch.
“Why was I able to walk freely on the riverbank, and the mist didn’t stop me?” asked Jiang Li.
Ji Zhi suddenly deflated.
Is there any other explanation other than Jiang Li being excessively powerful and unreasonable?
He definitely can’t claim that Jiang Li, in reality, is a genius well-versed in the ways of time and had an epiphany in the base Time River?
Ji Zhi himself didn’t believe that.
Ji Zhi had just heard from Jiang Li that he was frolicking along the riverbank, and he had an eyelid twitch.
In Jiuzhou, no one knows more about the Time River than the Ji family. The Ji family has a history of tens of thousands of years, and their ancestors were fish swimming up the river. They had seen all sorts of vicissitudes in their time.
However, they had never witnessed or even heard of a case as absurd as Jiang Li’s.
Ji Zhi reckoned, were it not for Jiang Li worrying about Ji Kongkong’s safety, he would have run back nine thousand years to see how the ladder to immortality disappeared.
“Honestly, I always feel you’re excessively powerful for someone in the
Mahayana Realm. I don’t know what it’s like for a Heavenly Immortal, but an Earth Immortal definitely cannot break through the thick fog with brute strength.”
Ji Zhi looked at Jiang Li suspiciously: ‘We’re all brothers here; tell me the truth, are you already a celestial being, or is there another realm above the
Mahayana Realm, but you’ve been keeping it a secret for fear of discouraging
“Does this spiritual power of mine look like that of a celestial being to you?”
“Besides, didn’t the Eternal Immortal say it? Mahayana Practitioners are rare and come around every few tens of thousands of years; their extraordinary combat power is to be expected. Just like the Mahayana practitioner from thirty to forty thousand years ago, who ascended and became a Heavenly Immortal immediately after, and broke subsequent limits several times, becoming a giant in the Immortal Realm, commanding respect everywhere.”
Mahayana practitioners are scarce. The most recent ones date back to thirty to forty thousand years ago, which were only encountered by the Eternal Immortal. For the ones futher back in time, one would have to look back eighty to ninety thousand years when the Eternal Immortal had not even been born yet.
“Of course, I, as a Mahayana practitioner, might be a bit stronger than that predecessor from thirty to forty thousand years ago. That predecessor was incapable of defeating a Heavenly Immortal, while I probably can.” Jiang Li said proudly.
Jiang Li wasn’t quite clear about his own strength, mainly because since becoming a Mahayana practitioner, he had not encountered a suitable opponent as a benchmark.
A Body Integration Realm practitioner can easily shatter stars, or even destroy an entire star system.
A Transcendence Tribulation Stage practitioner can treat planets like dust, manipulating them as they wish.
An Earth Immortal at full strength can destroy an entire world.
Jiang Li, being slightly stronger than an Earth Immortal, of course, could also destroy an entire world. This was evident from when he gathered and refined the stars of the entire universe into tombstones.
But Jiang Li knew that this was not his limit; he hadn’t used his full strength yet.
However, he couldn’t destroy a few worlds just to test his power.
Otherwise, he would have drawn the admiration of the Heavenly Demons from outside the realm.
“Finding an opponent who can bear the brunt of my full strength is so difficult.” Jiang Li lamented. He hadn’t used his full strength for over two hundred years.
“Get lost, get lost, get lost, don’t be a nuisance here!” Ji Zhi glared at Jiang Li in anger. As someone at the Divinity Transformation Stage, he could not understand Jiang Li’s feelings at all.
Although the stronger Jiang Li was, the safer Jiuzhou would be, Ji Zhi was still annoyed by his show-off attitude.
Show-off what? If I were a Mahayana practitioner… I would probably show-off more than Jiang Li, thought Ji Zhi guiltily..
