709. Time acceleration, can the Soul Master competition preliminaries come earlier?_1

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be nothing but a blackened, charred skeleton under that frost.

After waiting for a moment, the white frost began to melt into boiling hot water, which then turned into scalding steam and evaporated into the air.

Only then did Lin Yi's true appearance reemerge.

Little White felt somewhat frustrated; it had finally acquired a brand-new skill but couldn't test its effects on Lin Yi. It could only judge based on the damage numbers that would appear later.

But no matter, it would soon be able to try it out in that... what was it called, Cloud Edge Town? Speaking of which, dealing with bandits by killing them should be the normal approach, right?

Facing the Damage Rebound, Little White resolved it with another blast of White Frost Dragon Flame, and to one's surprise, the frost eliminated the rebound effect much like sulfuric acid corroding something.

Lin Yi looked at the panel.

[Blood loss: 376486]

[Remaining Health: 883025507634]

[Damage Grade: Red (Intermediate)]

[Random Reward: Space-time Leap Gate (One of the keys to open it)]

[Host Reward: Space-time Leap Gate (One of the keys to open it, identical to the random reward key)]

Space-time Leap Gate?

The third type of gate? Or is it another form of the Spatiotemporal Gate?

Lin Yi immediately opened the annotations to check, and the content made his expression slightly odd.

A moment later, Lin Yi said to Little White, "The damage is 376486, Red Intermediate level. Your reward is a key, a key to the Space-time Leap Gate. But, to open this gate, you need two keys, so for now, you can't open it."

Little White's mouth twitched, "So my reward is practically useless?"

Lin Yi, "Not entirely, it depends on personal needs. Even with two keys in your possession, to be honest, you won't get the most direct benefits."

Unable to help himself, Little White asked, "What exactly is this Space-time Leap Gate?"

Lin Yi, "Unlike the Spatiotemporal Gate, the Space-time Leap Gate can accelerate the flow of time. Open the gate, step through, and you will enter a world where time has been sped up. However, if someone sees the gate, their time cannot be accelerated, and they will be directly sucked into the gate."

"You can set the specific date you want to accelerate time to."

Little White shook its head in confusion, "I don't quite understand the purpose of this reward."

Lin Yi paused for a moment, then continued to explain, "Let me give you an example. Right now, you have one key. If another key appears, the two keys can open the Space-time Leap Gate together."

"After the gate appears, you need to set the time in the world behind the gate, like how many days into the future. For instance, if it's set to the day after the preliminaries of the Soul Master competition, then by stepping through the gate, we could arrive at that time."

"By then, the preliminaries of the Soul Master competition would be over, and the results of who advanced would already be out. That's the change in the outside world caused by the acceleration of time. However, since the people here saw the gate, our time won't accelerate, and all of us will be sucked in, arriving together at that point in time."

Little White slowly nodded, "So it's like if you're looking forward to something happening at a future date and feel like the day is a long way off, and time is passing slowly, this reward allows you to quickly reach that day."

Lin Yi, "Correct."

Little White: "Now I understand the meaning of this reward, and I think the example Senior Lin Yi gave was very enticing."

Lin Yi: "What?"

"The Soul Master contest example. I really can't wait to get to the Soul Master contest. If another key appears, all of us could immediately go to the day when the preliminary round of the contest ends, and then officially start our Soul Master contest."

Lin Yi was stunned. To tell the truth, he used that example because he thought that perhaps the System itself wanted to accelerate time and move quickly to the Soul Master contest.

Just as Little White had finished speaking, others suddenly chimed in: "Yeah, we're also eager to start the Soul Master contest sooner. It's only been one day of preliminaries, and it's passing so slowly!"

"What's the rush? Have you collected enough rewards or what?"

An off-key voice rang out—it was Gu Yuena.

She looked oddly at the crowd around her: "It's like you've already got enough rewards, thinking that you can win the championship at the Soul Master contest now? Let me tell you, I haven't gotten enough rewards yet. If all goes well, I'll get my first Platinum Level reward tomorrow. I don't want to speed up time and get to the Soul Master contest too quickly!"

Apart from Gu Yuena, there were quite a few people on the scene who didn't want to accelerate time either. Most of them were about to advance in reward level, moving from Black Level to Red, or from Red to Gold.

For the Gua Sha Masters, the Soul Master contest had nothing to do with them, so they were even less interested in time acceleration; that would almost be equivalent to losing the opportunity to attack Lin Yi.

Lin Yi: "I don't know when we'll be able to get another key; let's wait and see."

Gu Yuena was still reluctant. After all, starting from tomorrow, she would be able to claim Platinum Level rewards. Once the Platinum Rewards were in her hands, the balance of victory at the soul beast contest would almost certainly tip in favor of their team.

The Wuhun Hall Team, however, seemed to sniff out some chance of victory at the moment.

"If someone manages to get the key before Gu Yuena's attack tomorrow, couldn't that potentially cost Gu Yuena her chance at the Platinum reward? Then our odds of winning would greatly increase."

Thousand Waves whispered.

His reasoning was unanimously agreed upon by his teammates from the same camp.

Little White finished her attack, and aside from the Gua Sha Masters, everyone else's attack for the day was over as well.

The sky had already darkened, and the main attackers began to leave one after another, but Snow Emperor, Ice Emperor, and Little Snow Maiden, unexpectedly, stayed at the scene.

There was no helping it, Little Snow Maiden was fussing that the cave was too dark and scary, insisting on sleeping on the street. Snow Emperor also wanted to find a chance to get close to Lin Yi, so he agreed to Little Snow Maiden's impudence.

Gu Yuena gave the three of them a strange look and still left Soul City with her subordinates.

'These three had better not have any crooked ideas,' she thought as she left.

"Xi Xi, blow a bubblegum and let's see how big you can make it now," Tang Chen said, trotting behind Poseissi with a flattering smile on his face along with Thousand Waves.

Poseissi was just thinking about taking out her jar to show off a bit when she saw the sycophantic expressions on the faces of these two sycophants, and she immediately lost the mood.

"You two idiots, stay away from me and don't get in the way."

"Sure, sure!"

ps. An unexpected situation has arisen; this is the only update for now. There will definitely be another update this month; please wait.