Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 222 - 210 Possible World 1

Chapter 222: 210 Possible World 1

My power continues to rise ceaselessly, and the immense Flame Spear unleashed at this moment exceeds the limits of the past in its ferocity. Although it lacks a compression phase in pursuit of speed, it might already be nearing the level capable of forcefully cracking the "Teleportation Door’s armor."

Previously, although I have inflicted damage upon Yinyue’s spirit, she managed to repair it all, but I do not believe this repair comes effortlessly. There must be a limit somewhere to healing the spirit with superpower.

Just like Mazao, she can also use the Power of Return to restore her spirit, yet still struggles to mobilize her power from time to time due to her deteriorating spiritual state. The same goes for the demon hunters in the independent reality space; despite countless revivals by the power of restart, their spirits are on the brink of collapse due to numerous past deaths.

I think, perhaps my attacks on Yinyue’s spirit haven’t been profound enough. She was undoubtedly severely injured by me before, but since she can heal, it means my power hasn’t reached the essence of her spirit. My understanding of the spirit is still too superficial. No matter, superficiality can be compensated by sheer power. This is my forte, and not making use of it would be truly foolish.

Such an intense attack might kill both Changan and Yinyue; regarding this, I can only try to instill the thought in my flames to "cease once the opponent’s spirit is damaged to the point of losing consciousness"—not knowing if such a delicate adjustment could work, there’s no place for grievances if it fails.

I must bite the bullet and try. Allowing Changan to be controlled by Yinyue for an extended period will definitely lead to terrible consequences.

As for whether the giant Flame Spear might be nullified before hitting its target, it probably won’t. As just seen, she couldn’t instantly erase an attack of massive scale; she likely won’t manage to instantly erase this attack either. In the end, even her absurdly potent superpower is driven by Mana.

Since the source of our powers is the same, there is no reason that she could whimsically control me, an enemy of at least the same level. She must adhere to some universal principles.

Or perhaps, her superpower might even trample these principles? It’s not entirely impossible. Violating universal principles is fundamentally the nature of Mana. However, as counter-evidence, her recent "Death Decree" did not instantly kill me.

And in the instant I fired the immense Flame Spear, in my eyes, despite the distance between us, her hand incredibly touched my body.

No, she didn’t actually touch me; it was merely the sensation I experienced. In my perceptual feeling, her hand spanned the temporal and spatial distance between us and touched my spirit. In that moment, flames erupted all over her body. And I instinctively understood what happened.

She was attempting to interfere with my spirit. The past Lu Youxun once described my spirit as the sun; once acted against with malice, or if I hold malice towards the interferer, the one intending the interference would be immediately incinerated.

Naturally, I harbor animosity towards Yinyue, and the self-immolation she suffered is proof ignited by retaliation. But she is not a spirit interferer of a lower level like Lu Youxun; she is a demon of the Great Success Rank. Even if subjected to my automatic retaliatory attack in the spiritual realm, she didn’t die immediately. Instead, like the previously restart-empowered Chen Long, she clung onto her life through altering the Power of Reality. And the invisible hand that touched my spirit burst forth with abnormal power.

Unsurprisingly, what she aims to impose on me seems to be the power of illusion.

Her Illusion Technique is potent enough to be mistaken for reality, but no matter what, an illusion is still an illusion; "enough to be mistaken for reality" is just a display of its strength, probably her forte is imposing illusions after all.

In the brief moment, as I further unleashed flames on the spiritual level, the giant Flame Spear was merely an inch away from hitting her. However, compared to my action, hers was quicker—almost abnormally quick—perhaps this is the normal speed of her using Illusion Technique. More crucially, unlike me who needs to undergo the attack process in real space, her power acts directly on me irrespective of space. Thought is always faster than physical movement.

The giant Flame Spear, like flinging at fog, hit nothing, and when I looked up again, I was shockingly on an empty street with no one around, even the giant Flame Spear had vanished.

The sky was dark, I stood alone under a streetlight, surrounded by corpses dressed differently, lying in gruesome death, blood flowing like rivers.

Is this an illusion created by Yinyue?

I immediately wanted to break free from the illusion, and the problem is, I have no experience in this area. Although I can’t recognize which street this is, it looks every bit real; there’s the sound of a bustling city in the distance, and the air reeks of blood. Why did these bodies die here?

Now is not the time to scrutinize the background setting of the illusion. Without understanding the solution to the problem, I tried to use brute force to destroy everything before me. Perhaps Yinyue is attacking me in the real world right now, and by doing this, my body in reality might perform the same actions.

However, I felt like an empty lighter at the moment. Although I tried to ignite, not a spark of flame emerged.

Has my superpower disappeared?

This is really a disaster looming. Under the premise of not being able to use my superpower, I can hardly imagine myself breaking through the illusion of the demon at the Rank of Great Success—wait, calm down first. My superpower may not be malfunctioning, it’s probably just an illusion imposed on me by Yinyue that I can’t use my superpower.

From another perspective, it’s not me who’s cornered, but Yinyue.

Imposing such spiritual interference on me would also cause considerable damage to her. Even though she can continuously repair herself by altering the power of reality, since she is continuously imposing illusions, she must also be suffering from constant burning. Regardless of how painful this state is, given that my power has now been greatly enhanced, I don’t think she can infinitely repair the severe damage from me.

Additionally, this is just a vague intuition of mine—she seems to be off her game right now.

The previous nuclear explosion seemed to expose this side of her to some extent. I must admit, the nuclear explosion was truly formidable and seemed to pose a certain threat to me at first. But as a manifestation of the superpower "turning illusions into reality" akin to that of a God, it seems somewhat overstated.

Is it because she’s not using her real body right now and therefore can’t unleash her full power? If so, why does she still insist on fighting me to the death instead of retreating for the time being? Even though I have reasons to keep her here, there’s no urgent reason for her to kill me immediately. I find it hard to believe she is such a stubborn character.

Just then, I heard footsteps coming from behind. I turned around, and the figure who approached, stepped into the range of the streetlight, revealing themselves from the darkness.

This person wore a brown-black conical hat and a coat of the same color, carrying a sword scabbard that was black and red, and held a gleaming sword, looking like a hero straight out of a historical martial arts drama.

The person appearing before me was Zhu Shi.

Yet she looked at me with a sorrowful expression, then glanced at the surrounding scene of bloodshed, and pointed her sword at me.

"...This is the end, Fallen Demon Hunter—Zhuang Cheng," she said.

Is this requiring me to fight against my own friend in the illusion? What a vile illusion!

As this thought crossed my mind, a stone stirred a thousand ripples, and ambiguous memories emerged from my mind—

All the divergence started over a year ago, on that night tracking the Undying Monster.

Back then, Mazao was still missing, and while hesitating whether to follow the Undying Monster for a long time under the premise of watching him kill innocent bystanders, Zhu Shi didn’t come up with the method using the power of Buzhou Mountain to sever the connection between the Undying Monster and the seed of the heart in time. Eventually, I chose to follow the Undying Monster and even forcibly stopped Zhu Shi from killing him. This led to our estrangement.

As the broken window theory suggests, once something starts, it’s hard to undo. From then on, to satisfy my curiosity about abnormal events, I didn’t care about repeatedly involving innocent people, even resulting in the destruction of a town recently. Zhu Shi tried to stop me multiple times, but all failed.

My existence and deeds alerted the Luoshan Headquarters, and Fa Zheng, the leader of the Governance Ideology camp, labeled me as a "Fallen Demon Hunter," and Zhu Shi joined the ranks to subdue me.

She seemed to think that she was half responsible for my entry into the abnormal world, influencing what I became partly due to her poor guidance.

With feelings of self-blame and despising evil, she appeared before me again.

—What kind of setup is this?

Is this really the setup in this illusion? Is there really a Great Impermanence named Fa Zheng? I’m actually becoming a Fallen Demon Hunter?

Though shocked, reason told

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