Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 348 - 323 Great Success Mazao3

Chapter 348: 323 Great Success Mazao3

Being able to maintain someone in a specific extreme psychological state continuously, and not just one person, but the entire town...

This effect may not sound particularly powerful, but upon further reflection, one can imagine many terrifying or awe-inspiring applications. Judging by Mazao’s attitude, the current scale of this seems to be far from her limit.

Moreover, physically retracing the timeline of the entire town, as well as healing all the injured within it, is an outright miracle.

With her extremely potent Mana and extraordinary superpowers, even a Great Success Rank can do many things that mortals would deem the work of Gods, so it’s not too surprising that Mazao is capable of such feats. Whether it’s Yinyue’s summoning of a strategic nuclear bombardment or Chen Long using Shadow Power to keep an entire Human Bureau outpost unharmed from nuclear destruction, those spectacles are more visually powerful than what Mazao is doing right now.

However, with human civilization’s technological prowess, be it strategic nuclear weapons or protective facilities that survive a nuclear blast, they can be recreated with time and resources, meaning they can be reproduced through human effort. The miracles Mazao creates, on the other hand, have surpassed that realm and are truly divine. Even I, now ascended to Impermanence, cannot accomplish this.

No, to think about it calmly, it seems it’s not entirely impossible... not by Flame Power, but by some special abilities I’ve gained after becoming Impermanence. That being said, due to "professional mismatch," my Power of Return might still be less suitable compared to Mazao’s.

Gua Tianshi managed to save Moon Concealing Mountain from Yinyue’s Fatian Xiangdi and other cataclysms, yet he did not intervene during the town’s chaos. Is it because he doesn’t care about such turmoil, or did he foresee Mazao’s intervention? I can no longer sense Gua Tianshi’s presence; he must have left Moon Concealing Mountain City.

After dealing with the chaos in Moon Concealing Mountain City, we turned our attention to our own matters.

Firstly, I shared with Mazao the information related to Zhu Shi I saw in the Yinyue’s Spirit World, and also used Mind-Written Photos to print out Zhu Shi’s appearance for her.

"So you’re saying... Little Bowl and Zhu Shi are the same person?" Mazao was stunned.

Zhu Shi had always treated Mazao as a younger sister, and for Mazao, Little Bowl was a younger sister she needed to look after. Now Mazao seemed to be internally comparing the images of Zhu Shi as a youthful university student and Little Bowl as a young elementary school girl, her face showing both conflict and confusion.

"We’ll go ask the Zhu family after this, and then we should understand a lot more," I said.

Mazao nodded, still at a loss.

I also needed to report information about Changan and Yinyue to the Zhu family. Besides, I had other matters to confront, namely, the issues related to Shan Liangyi and the Vermilion Bird Seed.

Even now as Impermanence, I can’t feel the presence of the Vermilion Bird Seed within my body and soul. Considering that my superpower wasn’t affected even when my body and soul were destroyed by Water Navy Xuanwu, the source of power—the Vermilion Bird Seed—might be in a realm that’s closer to the "True Spirit," which is closer to "me" or "consciousness itself."

The state of "Reincarnation" mastered by Shan Liangyi seems to also relate to the "True Spirit," so it was entirely plausible for the Vermilion Bird Seed to possess similar characteristics.

After Water Navy Xuanwu’s death, his Xuanwu Seed also didn’t appear. I don’t know if it simply vanished or somehow returned to the elusive Shan Liangyi.

While Water Navy Xuanwu wanted to seize the Vermilion Bird Seed in my possession by killing me, it doesn’t mean I could obtain his Xuanwu Seed the same way if I killed him. His premise for stealing other Power Seeds was that he had deciphered parts of the Shan Liangyi ritual, a condition I didn’t possess, so naturally, I can’t expect to obtain the Xuanwu Seed.

Additionally, the "First Gate" and "Second Gate" Water Navy Xuanwu mentioned before dying made me think of the question once posed by Divine Light to the Master of Divine Seal.

Divine Light’s question was whether the Master of Divine Seal could reveal how to open the "Third Gate" and the "Fourth Gate," to which the Master of Divine Seal replied affirmatively. If the "First Gate" corresponds to "Great Success," and the "Second Gate" to "Impermanence," what then are the "Third Gate" and "Fourth Gate"?

Since there exists a force like the divine seal that transcends Impermanence, and a being like the Master of Divine Seal who wields such a force, it doesn’t seem strange that there are higher realms above Impermanence. Even discounting the Master of Divine Seal, there is still the Immortal Shan Liangyi whose presence seems slightly greater than Impermanence, and even King Zhuanlun, said to be a victim of his Power Seeds.

But honestly, being Impermanence now, it’s hard to imagine what sort of demons and Devils lie above it.

Judging from Divine Light’s reaction upon receiving an answer from the Master of Divine Seal back then, it’s apparent that Divine Light not only didn’t know how to break through the "Fourth Gate" but wasn’t even sure of its existence. In other words, even with Divine Light’s knowledge as an Impermanence being, it’s unlikely that anyone has ever breached the "Fourth Gate." It might be a stage no one has ever reached.

Accordingly, it’s quite possible that someone has already broken through the "Third Gate." There are already two candidates in my mind: one naturally is Shan Liangyi, whose reincarnation whereabouts are currently unknown, and the other is the Old Fist God of Luo Mountain, the strongest Impermanence known to have killed Shan Liangyi.

As for Xuanming, although he is indeed very powerful and has even killed Impermanence Fu Hongchen and severely injured Impermanence Ming Zhuo, he feels even stronger to me than both Divine Light and Ming Zhuo, but not so overpowering that he is beyond a whole rank.

"By the way, Mazao, there’s an item I need your help to take a look at," I remembered something.

Mazao temporarily shrugged off the confusion and eagerly asked, "What is it?"

I took out the item.

It was a stone necklace, an item left behind by the Ancient Moon God after I burned him to death.

This item should be the same one Yinyue used to bind the Ancient Moon God within the white fog. Even when burning the Ancient Moon God to ashes with formidable flames, this stone necklace was only slightly charred. If I were to burn it again with my current power, I’m sure the stone necklace would turn to dust as well, but there’s no doubt about its incredible durability.

I handed it to Mazao to examine, not because I planned to use it for anything, but rather to see if it could provide clues related to saving Changan.

How could an artifact used to bind the Ancient Moon God be related to the task of saving Changan? I didn’t know, but now I was eager to explore in any direction. Past experiences in investigating bizarre incidents told me that reality is not like a well-crafted detective story. It is often not the case that there’s a clear direction of investigation followed by clues, but rather the need to collect as many seemingly unrelated bits of information first, no matter whether they might be useful or not, and to integrate them before arriving at a clear direction of investigation.

This time, I seemed to have really stumbled upon some useful clues.

After just a few glances, Mazao nodded and said, "— Alright."

"So, I’ll leave it to you then..." I said.

"No, I mean... I’ve already done the investigation," she said.

"That quick?" I was surprised.

Based on past experiences, it would take at least a whole night for Mazao to thoroughly investigate the historical information within a target, sometimes even several days and nights. And now, she was done after just a few glances? Even with the restoration of her Great Success rank power, isn’t this speed a bit too fast?

"Could it be that there’s not much historical information inside?" I asked.

"No, there’s quite a lot of information inside, though not much of it is useful," she said. "Now, I can summon countless parts of my consciousness computing power from history and stack them all onto myself at the same time, which allows me to read a vast amount of information in a very short period."

"You can do such a thing?" I didn’t know what kind of expression I should have.

"Actually, I’ve done something similar in the past."

She summoned her Illusionary Curved Blade and said, "This weapon was a Magic Artifact I obtained during the Doomsday Era, similar to Luo Mountain’s Evil Sword, which can enhance one’s physical abilities.

"And I can summon the weapon’s effect from history many times over, repeatedly stacking it to strengthen my own physical abilities. Thanks to that, I was able to engage in close combat with those enemies in the past.

"The summoning and stacking of consciousness computing power weren’t completely impossible before, but due to the presence of soul trauma, such practice that imposes a tremendous burden on the soul would easily cause me to faint and worsen my injury."

Hearing about the burden, I almost reflexively asked, "So there’re no problems now? Since you’ve said that it would impose a tremendous burden on the soul..."

"Now, I can use the Power of Return to stack the enhancement of consciousness computing power while resetting all the accumulated burden on the soul," she said.

—Isn’t that basically a perpetual motion machine?

For a moment, I could not tell who between Mazao and me was more of a cheat.

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