"I roughly guessed that someone was restricting your bond network. It was a miracle of fate far beyond my imagination. Therefore, I have not taken any action to avoid attracting 'their' attention."
The stars sound brisk:
"Until you returned from hell, I saw that the traces of your destiny had faded a lot, leaving only the thread of bond. I knew that no one could stop us from being connected, so I tied the thread between us... so I could borrow your virtual wings, Ash."
"How did you tie it!?" Ash asked immediately.
"Yash," Fanxing looked at him with a helpless look, "Neither Fili nor Fanxing would support you in connecting with more women, right?"
"Of course the stars won't give me more help," Ash said calmly, "but Fili will."
Fanxing was slightly startled, looked away, and tucked her hair behind her ears, unconsciously revealing a hint of tenderness: "Yes, I will, but... Fanxing doesn't want to."
"So what is your state? Split personality? Two souls in one?" Ash asked, "And since you can borrow my virtual wings, why can't I borrow yours?"
"Because it is Fili who lives and dies with you, and Fanxing is an enemy who has nothing to do with you." Fanxing restrained her smile. At this moment, she seemed to be neither Fili nor Fanxing, but a third party who had separated herself from her: "The one who really borrowed your virtual wings was Fili, but Fili's belongs to Fanxing, so Fanxing can also use your virtual wings."
"But the stars don't belong to Fili. Fili is just a demon who has just become a magician. She doesn't even have virtual wings. She doesn't have any resources to share with you, so you can't get anything."
"As for our state..." Fanxing raised his head and looked up at the sea of stars, "You know, the starlight we can see comes from stars countless light years away. Before we encounter the starlight, the star itself may have already shattered for various reasons. What we can see is a beam of brilliant starlight that connects the past and the future, originating from destruction and running towards eternity."
"Fili is a beam of light from a destroyed star?"
"No, Fili is just the trace left by this starlight when it passed through your world." Fanxing said calmly: "I am the starlight."
She never showed Fili's cuteness again.
Ash gripped his swords tightly.
"You will die here." She said slowly, "You should die here."
"I've heard this kind of thing from the citizens of Kaimon City to the Six-Winged Lord." Ash said, "I didn't expect that the curse of the Supreme Magician would be nothing new."
"We have only two endings. Either I kill you, destroy the virtual world, devour the world, and become the only one with eight wings that has never been seen before or since, surpassing everything and achieving eternity." Fanxing raised his chin and said, "Or you kill me, and then..."
"It will repeat the mistakes you have heard of countless times." She said: "This world that was supposed to be swallowed by Ouroboros will return to the right track of fate and give birth to our world-devouring snake. No one can transcend fate, only magic is eternal."
"I will work out a way to reduce gravity."
"Don't you think 'they' haven't studied it? Don't you think 'they' haven't thought of all the methods you could think of?" Fanxing closed her eyes: "If I didn't know 'they' existed, and didn't know you were 'their' work, I might still have a chance of agreeing... But now that I know all my efforts are in vain, and even you, a work that once came infinitely close to the Eight Wings, can't cut off 'their' fate, I won't have any illusions anymore."
Ash was silent. He remembered that Death Maniac said they had a way to reduce their attraction to Ouroboros. If the Final Five had not interfered with their demigod promotion, Ouroboros might not have found this world so quickly... Various signs showed that the Final Five not only studied the method of "reducing gravity", but also were able to apply it.
But apart from delaying time, it had no effect. The dead maniac even just said it casually, and it was obvious that even she thought it was not worth mentioning.
"Although this possibility does not exist," Fanxing suddenly asked, "but if you beat me, but you still have no way out before the end, what will you do?"
Ash was silent for a moment, "I will take as many people as possible and escape against the timeline."
Suddenly, Ash thought of the Doomsday Five again. If they kept running away, would they become like the Doomsday Five? They had hope again and again, and fell into despair again and again, and finally went crazy and cried, just like the messenger of the disaster that brought the foreshadowing of the end, bringing disaster and burying the world...
"Is this what you call rebirth?" Fanxing seemed to want to laugh: "What's the difference between this and stealing life?"
"This is a question only you, Fanxing, would ask." Ash said indifferently.
Fanxing stared at him in silence, her cold expression gradually showing a hint of smile. She shook her head: "No, I would ask the same question. I also hope that you can be cruel enough to abandon everyone, even if it's just yourself, and live on with strength."
"Ash, think about it. Instead of dying with everyone else, why not become the only Eight-Winged One? Then maybe you will be able to revive everyone, or even restore the entire world? This may be the only solution. If you talk to Sword Princess and the others, I believe they will advise you the same."
"Don't you think I will definitely lose to you?" Ash asked back, "Why do you care about what I will do?"
"Because I believe in you." Fanxing clenched his fists and looked at Ash with bright eyes: "I believe you can definitely defeat me!"
"Do you want to release the water?"
"No way, I will kill you mercilessly just to survive!"
"So," Ash asked, "you can love me deeply and want to kill me at the same time?"
Fanxing blinked her eyes, her face flushed slightly, she scratched her cheek a little embarrassedly: "Ash, you have become so mature... You can even say such words..."
What the hell are you blushing about
Ash felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Whether Fanxing did it intentionally or unintentionally, her girlish attitude that came from Fili really made Ash lose all his will to fight. He was afraid that he would never encounter a more outrageous situation than this again - the enemy and relatives merged into one. He could neither be happy for Fili's return nor make up his mind to hate Fanxing. He was full of entanglements and heartbreak. No matter what he did, it seemed to be wrong.
"But I think your question is quite strange," Fanxing asked, "Aren't you and Jian Ji in a love-hate relationship? I thought you were used to this kind of relationship..."
“Isn’t it different?”
"It's the same, but I'm more clear about it," Fanxing put his hands on his chest, "The individual named Fili loves you deeply, and the individual named Fanxing pursues the ultimate in magic. The former is emotion, and the latter is ideal. When ideals and emotions conflict, ideals prevail. So now my feelings for you are just right. I can borrow your virtual wings, but I won't show mercy to you."
Ash was almost laughing out of anger: "You really used Fili just right."
"Thank you for your compliment." Fanxing said calmly, "And this is not without cost. Although Fili is only a tiny part of me, this feeling is also my feeling... When I become the only magician, the Lord of the Void Realm, I will try to resurrect you and let this feeling belong to you."
The sea of stars suddenly began to speed up, and the overwhelming killing intent made Ash's scalp numb, but his mood became more and more high-spirited. He spread his virtual wings and ignited the source power circuit: "Kill me and then revive me? The Fili I know is not such a sickly person! But before I die, I have one more question."
"explain."
"Fili and I have only been together for a few months, but our bond has already reached the point where we can share virtual wings?" This is the question that puzzled Ash the most: "It took Sword Princess and I a long time to improve to this level."
Fanxing was silent for a moment, "Have you ever thought that ordinary girls might not be as troublesome as your lovers?"
"ah?"
“You risked your life to save me from Vichy, and brought me into the unimaginable world of magicians... You always encouraged and helped me, and would never give up on me. You took me to create miracles and nearly died time and time again... You were loyal and gentle, and missed Sword Princess and Witch every day... It had nothing to do with you, but you still wanted to save me and the Kingdom of Stars at all costs... I still remember that I had a life-and-death battle with the devil on the top of the train, and you drove a sports car to chase me, wishing you could grow wings and fly over to help me. At that time, I felt that it was worth it to die... How could the bond between you and I not be deep?”
As he spoke, Fanxing shook his head, the sea of stars stopped accelerating, and the huge murderous intent that was suffocating Ash was also swept away.
Ash looked at her in surprise. Fanxing looked away and squeezed out a word: "Seven days."
"I will need about seven days to set up the virtual realm collapse spell." She said, "I'll give you seven days to think about it. Either you are prepared to destroy everything and fight with me for the only position; or you accept death obediently, and I can do my best to preserve your soul for future resurrection."
It seems that I am not the only one who is confused, Ash thought, and suddenly found it a little funny.
It would have been fine if he had been influenced by Fili's feelings, but Fanxing was actually shaken by the shadow girl's thoughts and his killing intent... He had shot himself in the foot, didn't he
"Okay." Ash accepted Fili's kindness: "Then I'll go back."
"You want to go back?" Fanxing seemed a little surprised: "Have you forgotten that the World Devouring Snake will follow you? If you go back, the snake will be reborn around you."
"It's okay," Ash said with a smile, "Before I entered the seventh level of the Void Realm, they made me swear that I would never hide it from them again and bear everything alone."
"This time," he said seriously, "I will challenge fate with them."
Fanxing looked at him for a long time, and suddenly a beam of extremely dazzling light gathered in his hand: "Forget it, you'd better die here - Gama Violent Sword!"
Ash didn't know how he had offended her. He was slashed by her sword that burned the sea of stars and was completely defeated. Even his soul was severely branded. When he finally managed to resist, Fanxing had already turned around and waved her hand: "Get out before I change my mind."
Just get out!
Now that he really couldn't win, Ash didn't even say anything harsh, and fled decisively. But soon he came back: "I have something I want to thank Fanxing for - when Jian Ji and the others raised the Kingdom of Heaven and unsealed the Hell, thank you for not stopping them."
"I regret it already." Fanxing said, "It's not just me, Fili thinks so too."
"Do you know I'm in hell?" Ash was a little confused: "Even the Lord God has lost his memory. Although they didn't lose their memory, they would probably stop it... Only Sword Princess and the others remembered me through clues... Didn't you lose your memory?"
"I have lost my memory."
"Then why did you allow them to unseal Hell? Didn't you seal it yourself?"
"I lost my memory, but Fili didn't forget."
Ash suddenly realized, all his doubts were answered, he did not stay and hurried to leave the seventh layer of the virtual realm. As the supreme seven-winged Ash should only stay in the sea of stars, just like the Lord of Gods had to stay in the seven heavens, but because Ash did not have the sixth secret wing, his soul heaven did not have a single secret realm, in theory he was still a five-winged magician, so he could ambiguously cross the six hells, the seven heavens and the sea of stars, and the barrier between the sixth and seventh layers of the virtual realm did not prevent him from shuttling back and forth.
In such a vast sea of stars, only the Most High Stars and the Dramatic Poet are left.
"Although I don't know many secrets, at least I still remember who became a magician and when." The dramatic poet in the Sun Cage said: "Fili should have merged into your soul ten days ago to become a half-magician—"
"You go too."
"Okay!"
The dramatic poet took off his tall round hat and bowed politely, then jumped directly into the tall round hat, squeezing his body into the hat like a cat and disappearing. After a few seconds, a hand stretched out from the hat and took the hat in, and the whole person disappeared completely.
Fanxing looked at the brilliant sea of stars quietly. The virtual wings from Ash gradually dissipated, and her expression returned to its usual tranquility, like a beam of moonlight shining on the lake.
"Fili, you are amazing."
PS: Although I update late, I update a lot! I went to bed at 12 noon yesterday and 5 pm today. I feel like I can go to bed until midnight tomorrow.