Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 225 - 212 should be observed like this_2

Chapter 225: 212 should be observed like this_2

Chen Long’s "Teleportation Door Armor," although it has an extremely rule-breaking mechanism, still adheres to human thought processes in terms of skills, therefore it’s possible to find loopholes and break it using human ways of thinking; while the Divine Spear’s "Guaranteed Hit and Kill" is also a rule-breaking skill, in practice, it still doesn’t depart from human thought processes. From a normal point of view, they indeed appear very strong, but in terms of the power of the strange, they lack a certain crucial otherness.

Yinyue, being a demon, demon, creature of the strange, exhibits a fundamentally different dimension of nature from those "Human Great Success Rank" abilities in the underlying logic of using her superpowers.

Although Mr. Zhu has described her power in the past as "turning illusions into reality," it’s probably not the case in her own understanding. It is very possible that she has never possessed the power to "turn illusions into reality." What she has been able to do from the beginning is only "manipulating illusions." Perhaps in her worldview, "reality" itself is an illusion, which is why she can use the power of illusion to arbitrarily and recklessly alter everything.

And, just as a prism reveals different colors when viewed from different angles, and just as light presents different properties when observed through different experimental methods, her "illusion" might just be a distortion of the "angle" through which I observe the world.

Through the flames burning on her body, and this metaphysical level of perception, I seem to have also come into contact with her spirit.

The concept of spirit is inherently metaphysical and should not actually be divisible by volume. It’s just that perhaps in my consciousness there is a notion that "the spirit of the powerful should be bigger," so the spirits of the powerful feel immense in my perception. The spirit of the Great Success Rank produces more "slag" during its transformation, likely related to this perception.

Yinyue’s spirit feels immense to me as well, but for some reason, I sense an indescribable abnormality in this spirit... as if it’s not because she’s not human, or something is wrong with her state... I cannot temporarily come up with a conclusion that fits my intuition.

At the same time, although I touched the spirit of Yinyue, I did not touch Changan’s spirit. Is it because Changan’s spirit was devoured by her, or is it that my flames subconsciously avoided Changan, so I did not touch it? Or is it that her spirit has merged with Changan’s to an extent that I cannot discern? I can only suppress my uneasy suspicion for now, everything will wait until after the battle has concluded.

After choosing the scenario of "seeing things as they ought to be," my consciousness was drawn into the remaining scenes of the real world as if attracted by it. When I came to, I had returned to that forest engulfed by a Fire Sea, and my Fire Element body was automatically woven and formed with my return.

The flame that was continuously destroying Yinyue’s body and spirit was also extinguished at the same time, and she, neither relieved nor as if facing a formidable enemy, just looked over with an expected gaze.

I thought that the illusion just now was her Killing Move, but now it seems, she still has a trump card.

"So quickly you’ve recalibrated yourself..."

Her hand still hasn’t dropped, just slightly adjusted the direction, aiming towards me, and then said: "You really are an incredible genius. However, I have made my preparations as well.

"This is the final strike, fall into Naraku, Zhuang Cheng."

As the words fell, she suddenly erupted with a terrifying mana fluctuation tenfold stronger than before.

She had actually speculated that I would return, and while I was trapped in the illusion, she had not stopped accumulating power in her original position. Now, her energy accumulation was complete.

Like a full moon, a burst of light suddenly appeared in her palm and transformed into a bombardment, hurtling towards me!

My reflex was to raise my arm, firing off a blaze shaped like a bombardment from my palm, just like her. Needless to say, compared to her preparedness, my response was still half a beat slower. But even if I had raised my hand first, I might have been hit first. Because her Moonlight Bombardment seemed to travel through physical space, in reality, it appeared to have spiritual properties, directly acting on my body. By the time I realized the existence of this move, I had already been hit.

In an instant, my body was blown to pieces. Not just that, my spirit also suffered a catastrophic disaster. This strike was more than ten times more powerful than the Divine Spear’s past attack that pierced through my spirit, like using an anti-materiel rifle to shoot an unarmed human body, the torso hit by a bullet with immense kinetic energy wouldn’t just have a hole - it would be reduced to fragments.

If I were to describe my soul as a tangible, shaped entity, right now, about half of its volume would have been eradicated.

The consequences of such damage to a human body are obvious, and the soul is no exception.

What’s incredible is that I can still think at the moment.

This incident is not extraordinarily unexpected; my soul, like my body, can undergo Elementalization. Since the body wouldn’t die from being shattered, the soul wouldn’t either from the same fate. Furthermore, I often break down my soul in the form of flames and don’t seem to suffer any consequence.

But the soul is ultimately different from the body, and being damaged by Mana is not the same as being willingly split. Besides, my soul now is not just shattered, the part that was hit was outright annihilated. Although I’m confident I won’t die immediately, at the very least, I shouldn’t be able to maintain the functions that support consciousness.

Special abilities, skills, tactics... Yinyue is an enemy who surpasses me by far in many aspects. To be honest, even if I were truly defeated by her, I would have no choice but to be convinced. Rather, the fact that I haven’t been defeated until now even leaves me speechless about my own strength.

However, I did prepare a contingency plan. I had preset instructions for the Fire Sea that I created; even if I were so grievously injured that I could no longer consciously control the flames, the Fire Sea would automatically restore my soul to its complete state. This outcome is more or less as expected.

Moreover, I’m not only alive, but the flame strike that immediately followed the Moonlight Bombardment wasn’t interrupted and was as ferocious as a dragon consuming everything in its path. To be honest, I was even scared by the power of this attack.

This uncharged attack surpassed even the "Miniature Star" that I had previously condensed with all my strength. Although it indeed was my full effort, this "full effort" truly exceeded my imagination. But perhaps this is to be expected.

Within the illusion Yinyue conjured, I underwent a death experience and a near-death experience. Although I couldn’t feel my superpower at the time, its intensity undoubtedly soared throughout this process. Yinyue’s strike, which made me doubt if it could really kill me, brought me to a new realm.

Ancients linked death with sleep, and in Greek mythology, Death God Thanatos and Sleep God Hypnos were even twin brothers. However, having experienced both death and near-death, I did not feel sleepy or groggy. On the contrary, I feel more awake than ever.

Even I have this feeling: my past self had been always asleep, using my powers as if sleepwalking, while my current self is finally truly awake. Yinyue’s description of my power growing stronger as an "awakening" is apt.

I have finally awakened.

Perhaps it was because I emerged unscathed, or perhaps it was because of the dreadful might of my strike, Yinyue showed a look of astonishment.

Then the flame dragon mercilessly devoured her, causing a momentary halt before erupting into a mushroom cloud like that from a small nuclear explosion, and continued roaring forward, blasting to over thirty kilometers away in a second, with its rumbling not ceasing. Thereafter, there were no explosions along its path; any material vaporized the instant it came into contact with the flames.

It’s also unnecessary to worry that this attack would hit towns and buildings causing casualties once leaving the forest. Due to the curvature of the Earth, starting from a few kilometers, the flame dragon departed from the ground and roared into the sky, then dwindled and vanished like a faucet being turned off.

The mushroom cloud enveloped me as well, shrouding everything in darkness, and the wild rushing heat was so intense that for a moment, even I struggled to use it as a medium for perception.

Meanwhile, Yinyue’s mana fluctuations dwindled sharply amidst the blinding dust, and at last, finally ceased entirely.

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