Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 421 - 392 VS Ying Lingyun

Chapter 421: 392 VS Ying Lingyun

After moving away from the battlefield with Ming Zhuo and the Zodiac duo, I began to observe where Ying Lingyun had fled to.

Ying Lingyun must have escaped with Changan’s body, and within Changan’s body is my thermal energy marker. Unfortunately, the Human Bureau is now filled with forces that cut off my perception of flame and heat, making it impossible to track down Ying Lingyun based on this clue alone. However, such obstacles are not enough to stop me.

I have never received any training in tracking, yet I am still confident in my ability to locate the enemy. Now, I can directly glimpse the traces of fate and causality.

Many demon hunters skilled in divination can use spells and rituals to predict past and future information and see glimpses of fate and causality through these means, using this ability to find missing people and items. But the miracles they must work hard to achieve can be simplified into a very simple "look" for me.

I merely stood in one place, looked in the direction where Ying Lingyun was before, and another place’s scenery emerged in my consciousness.

It seems Ying Lingyun has done a lot of anti-divination measures on himself. The scenery appeared very slowly, and the "resolution" was so low that it made one frown. I could only vaguely see blurry moving figures and scenes, unable to discern much detail. Fortunately, I grasped the direction and location of the opponent clearly, at the very least.

It seems Ying Lingyun lacks true understanding of the Great Impermanence, just like he couldn’t detect the thermal energy marker inside Changan’s body before, and now he is also unable to completely shield against my probing. No matter how talented he is, without a real Great Impermanence as his experimental subject, he still cannot perfectly guard against the abilities of the Great Impermanence.

Stepping in the direction that emerged in my consciousness, I took a step.

I can ignore spatial distances, even without flame transmission, I can instantly reach any place in the Human Bureau’s headquarters. With just that one step, I utterly stepped out of this seemingly infinitely stretching spatial region and appeared in front of Ying Lingyun, releasing my flames without a word.

At this moment, Ying Lingyun is with three Silver Masks, while Changan remains unconscious, naked and wet, placed on the ground. They didn’t react to my appearance until the flames reached them, too late to look at me.

However, there seemed to be some kind of automatic defense mechanism on Ying Lingyun, as the flames appeared, a power of restart similar to Dr. Silver Mask automatically unfolded, like an invisible force field blocking the flames outside.

This force field was far stronger than Dr. Silver Mask’s, even able to rival my current flames. Upon contact with it, the flames automatically rewound as if in a movie rewind. However, the speed of the force field’s expansion was still a half-beat slow, only protecting Ying Lingyun himself. Before the flames rolled back, they touched the three Silver Masks, burning them to ashes.

Once the restart force field expanded, it became an unbreakable wall, with me on one side, and Ying Lingyun and Changan on the other.

Only then did I roughly take a look at my surroundings.

This place appeared to be a room as large as a football field, with walls and floors made of silvery-gray metal all around. Changan was lying on the ground painted with a ritual array drawn with fresh blood, with a style resembling electronic component lines, and surrounded by a variety of electronic devices and equipment, seemingly serving as substitutes for ritual materials.

Beside Ying Lingyun, there was a control panel with many complex dials and buttons of unknown purpose, along with two large levers.

It was evident that Ying Lingyun had already set up the ritual to resurrect Yinyue.

The ritual array was on the other side of the force field wall composed of the power of restart. I had to destroy this force field first.

A large amount of flame began gathering rapidly in my palm.

Before the operation began, observing through the connection with the thermal energy marker, I was still unable to make a complete judgment, but now I could discern that this Ying Lingyun was not a "possibility clone," he was indeed the true Ying Lingyun.

"You actually shook off Weiyang and Mao Rabbit... or, did you rely on Ming Zhuo to hold them back?" Ying Lingyun looked at me coldly, "Destroying my plans again and again... It turns out the final enemy is still you."

"No need to worry about me ruining your plans in the future, because you won’t have any future." I carefully observed Ying Lingyun and the restart force field.

In Ying Lingyun’s heart area, I saw embedded within it a Divine Seal Fragment. It seemed Ying Lingyun was utilizing the power of the Divine Seal Fragment in the same way as Dr. Silver Mask, so why was his power of restart so much stronger?

If nothing unexpected, it was likely a matter of permissions. Dr. Silver Mask was merely a container for the Divine Seal Fragment, the real user was Chen Long; whereas Ying Lingyun was both the container and the user. In a certain sense, the current Ying Lingyun could be viewed as a kind of unorthodox Great Impermanence, his values in various aspects are almost similar to ordinary people, except in the domain of the power of restart, he has the might of a Great Impermanence, and this power was mostly reliant on this special environment of the Human Bureau headquarters.

First it was Weiyang and Mao Rabbit, then it was Ying Lingyun...even relying on the Divine Seal Fragment and special environment, the Human Bureau has indeed acquired Great Impermanence level combat power, it’s truly astonishing.

I don’t even know if this is considered to belong to the Human Bureau or to be Ying Lingyun’s own.

"Eclipse" formed in my hand, and I directly threw it at the wall formed by the power of restart.

Even the Great Impermanence level power of restart could not make "Eclipse" rewind. It’s a black flame that can destroy even time and space, relying solely on the power of time reversal is useless.

However, Ying Lingyun’s power of restart is not merely time reversal, it’s the inexplicable power of the Divine Seal Fragment. "Eclipse" slammed into the restart force field, like a bullet hitting an endless mire. At first, it seemed it could break through in one fell swoop, but it was soon absorbed by the mire, its momentum grew weaker and weaker.

The "Eclipse," supposed to advance at over a hundred times the speed of sound, rapidly decelerated to a few millimeters per second, and soon was unable to maintain even a few millimeters per second, reminiscent of a snail crawling.

I immediately detonated the "Eclipse," black miniature sun flares appeared everywhere, with infinite flames about to erupt. However, even the speed of the explosion became incredibly slow, like slow-motion scenes in movies. If not for me repeatedly inputting the command to explode with all my might, the explosive force might have been rewound into the "Eclipse" by the power of restart.

"Is this your full power?" Ying Lingyun glanced at the scene of the two forces clashing, "I must say, I still underestimated you Great Impermanences. I originally hoped the power of restart could be an invincible amulet, but it turns out this is all it can achieve.

"Your power can break through this layer of the power of restart, but if this is your full power, then it will take more than ten minutes to break through it completely.

"And I... heh... haha..."

Speaking to this point, Ying Lingyun’s spirit seemed to become abnormal again, he couldn’t control himself and let out a laugh, then his voice grew louder and he shouted towards the direction of Changan’s body, "And I’ve already made all the preparations! To resurrect Yinyue...it won’t even take a minute!"

As his joyous roar echoed, the lines on the ritual array surrounding Changan’s body transformed from blood red to a silvery white glow reminiscent of metal.

A large amount of silvery white electric light appeared in the air, forming countless mysterious and esoteric runes.

This is bad!

I hastened to accelerate the breakthrough of the power of restart wall while also making efforts in other directions.

The three Silver Masks that I had burned to ashes... even though they were reduced to ashes, the ashes still had their uses. Ying Lingyun didn’t waste energy resurrecting the three Silver Masks, instead, they fulfilled my purpose. They carried my heat and remained on the other side of the restart force field wall.

The surrounding space was filled with forces hindering my perception through connection with heat, but the connection itself did not disappear and could still be used to transmit power. Although interfered by the restart force field wall, making power transmission extremely strenuous, Ying Lingyun’s perception capacity was at an ordinary level, he could not detect that I was secretly transmitting power and therefore could not specifically interfere with it.

I transmitted power to the other side of the wall bit by bit, without revealing it immediately. The power transmitted was still too little. More accumulation was necessary. I sensed that Ying Lingyun, seemingly out of a cautious mentality, distributed some of the power of restart over the ritual and himself for defense, making an immediate attack incapable of disturbing him.

Just a little more time... just a little, even a minute is unnecessary.

This is a race against time with Ying Lingyun. Whoever is slower by a single second will lose.

And at this critical moment, I had a doubt in my mind.

To resurrect Yinyue requires two conditions: a living sacrifice equivalent to Yinyue herself, and an enormous amount of power, enough to drain at least ten Great Impermanence individuals. The former was Changan, already placed there, but what about the latter?

Where was Ying Lingyun going to obtain a power so vast that it could drain at least ten Great Impermanence individuals?

Clearly, Ying Lingyun couldn’t be unprepared for this.

I saw him forcefully pull down one of the large levers on the control panel.

"All the preparation...was for this day, for this moment!" His expression grew more agitated, "Give me your power!"

Whose power are you asking for?

Just as this thought crossed my mind, a mana fluctuation so immense it left me stunned descended upon this space.

So far, I have encountered various powerful beings, from all kinds of Great Success ranks to the awe-inspiring Great Impermanence... however, the feeling this force gave me was entirely different.

It was as if an ocean was suspended above my head.

This was not just the strength of ten times a Great Impermanence.

In terms of scale, this force was even more than a hundred times greater than mine.