I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 512 - 393 Disequilibrium_1

Chapter 512: Chapter 393 Disequilibrium_1

"Boss, you really took too big of a risk this time!"

In a silent world, Lilith, who maintained a human’s standard height, looked at Zheng Yichen sitting on the ground, "You are very precious!"

"Hahaha—no matter how precious, one must sometimes serve as a brick. Everything is within the plan," Zheng Yichen laughed a few times, patted the icy ground beside him, and motioned for Lilith to sit down, "I need to rest for a bit."

Now, his body was covered with dense wounds, which were healing, but very slowly.

Lilith’s projection sat silently next to Zheng Yichen. When Zheng Yichen rushed into the bombardment zone, the spatial distortion did block some of the attacks, but the bombardment was too intense. Despite using the energy he gained from the Sky Pillar, Zheng Yichen couldn’t withstand the endless artillery bombardment.

The ultra-high-density high-energy bombardment was not something spatial distortion could block. The penetrating turbulent energy flow was lethal enough. Facing such unavoidable attacks, Zheng Yichen enacted his plan.

He used the fishing rod to draw out the Gate of Death and dashed in. What does the bombing of reality matter to the World of Death? This tricked the Firmament Wheel’s firing, and as long as he survived this barrage, those Firmament Wheel cannons were likely to be scrapped.

This was Zheng Yichen’s trick... cough, the plan to deceive the Firmament Wheel’s fire.

In the World of Death, Zheng Yichen felt that the fishing rod was more effective, seemingly strengthened on the basis of being on the Earth, probably due to an additional enhancement from the ’Earth’s Protection’ interacting with the attributes of the fishing rod when in the Netherworld.

It was this enhanced healing that made Zheng Yichen somewhat uncomfortable. His wounds were healing, but at the same time, it seemed that his life force was also ebbing away. It was like continuously using Hellfire, except this loss didn’t make him feel weak, but rather imbued him with a spirit like that of the Undead... This is too much!

"Boss—there’s a problem with the balance of yin and yang in your body," Lilith said after the wounds on Zheng Yichen had healed.

"Hmm? Yin-yang balance? Do you realize how jarring that sounds coming from you?" Zheng Yichen looked at the projection sitting next to him, the black dress, crimson eyes, and white hair, he had to admit these features were just too...

Well, some parts weren’t like this before; these were subtle adjustments made by Lilith later on. However, such adjustments were made on top of the original appearance and were limited mainly to hair and eye color.

And these adjustments didn’t happen right away, they grew over time just like normal human growth, so once he noticed them, he was already used to them.

The tech artificial intelligence now spoke seemingly of metaphysics, making Zheng Yichen unable to resist the urge to continue the sarcasm.

"I have recorded a vast amount of Diviners’ knowledge and conducted an energy monitoring analysis of your body, resulting in the following conclusion."

An image of Zheng Yichen appeared, displaying a simulation of the so-called disruption in yin-yang balance. His body had accumulated a tremendous amount of death’s aura, enough to kill an ordinary person hundreds of times, yet Zheng Yichen was fine as if nothing had happened.

Moreover, this aura of death was very different from the one Zheng Yichen had introduced into his body previously to suppress the curse.

That aura of death was just stuffed into his body and had not affected Zheng Yichen’s life itself unless he died accidentally and those auras of death erupted, causing other problems.

The current situation was that Zheng Yichen’s life bar was unbalanced; the upper limit of life hadn’t changed, but within this range, the life bar had deteriorated due to the imbalance. What was previously a 100% life force health bar, now consisted of 80% life force plus 20% power of death, still totaling a 100% health bar.

"So, am I now essentially a half-undead creature?" Zheng Yichen looked at his palm. His hand was still warm, and he didn’t have the issue of a body temperature of 16.8°.

"Not exactly. Direct collision between life force and power of death would result in an explosion, yet Boss, you are still just fine," Lilith recorded and continued analyzing Zheng Yichen’s condition, which was exceptionally abnormal.

She couldn’t find any comparable information in her records and could only base her simulation calculations on the information available, but to no avail. Her database wasn’t big enough and, as Wise Dragon No. 9 had said, the computing power provided was somewhat short.

Otherwise, she could have simulated many more outcomes.

"Let’s deal with it later, it’s good enough that I’ve recovered for now." Zheng Yichen stood up. After his injuries had healed, the recovery powers related to the Netherworld ceased, although he could still feel an energy enhancing his skin’s resilience while holding the fishing rod.

This enhancement was additive to the protection provided by standing on normal ground.

He grabbed the Sky Pillar roots that were placed on the motorcycle. In less than half an hour in the World of Death, these roots had begun to dim, and with a gentle squeeze, cracks appeared, accelerating their disintegration.

The environment was plundering the power extracted by these Sky Pillar roots from this world.

Seeing this, Zheng Yichen started to munch on them directly. The brittle Sky Pillar roots made eating them feel not like chewing stone, but soil, and the weakened Sky Pillar’s energy could not restore him to his previous state that resembled a warrior of light.

After eating, at least he began to glow again.

After getting ready, Zheng Yichen swiped at the air beside him, and the Gate of Death opened. Through the slightly distorted Gate of Death, he saw an unfamiliar environment outside, "Huh? Why is it different from last time?"

He remembered that in Liu Hongzhao’s world, when entering Hell through the Gate of Death, the position he returned to was fixed, it was just that the location of entry into Hell was random.

But this time he ended up in an unfamiliar environment.

"It might be due to the overly intense attacks that destroyed the remaining traces," Lilith analyzed. "Boss, when you opened the Gate of Death in reality, it neared collapse due to the external attacks."

"Well, this isn’t too bad, at least we won’t be bombarded by a new round of attacks when we go back." Having left Hell, Zheng Yichen felt a wonderful sensation, as if he had come back to life, but the situation of "Yin-Yang Imbalance" described by Lilith still hadn’t dissipated.

After leaving Hell, Zheng Yichen also felt some discomfort, as if part of his body had undergone mechanical enhancement, although he’d never experienced such an enhancement.

He took out his mobile phone to check the offline map of the Dusk version and confirmed his location. All in all, it wasn’t bad; the deviation this time was not far, and he could make it back in half a day at most.

Having set out again, when Zheng Yichen saw the Devouring Sky Pillar once more, he also glimpsed the devastated earth, which made the corner of his mouth twitch involuntarily.

"I’ve always wondered if, in those worlds with extremely high energy levels, would the continental shelves collapse due to the battles of the powerful without any special protection for the earth?" Looking at the cracked ground ahead, Zheng Yichen felt somewhat emotional.

The massive crack could easily swallow a small city, and there were many such cracks. However, in this world drained by the Sky Pillar, even with the giant cracks, no magma spewed out. Zheng Yichen could see flowing lava below some of the cracks, but it seemed the lava had lost its temperature.

Some Sky Pillar roots had fallen into the lava, which then quickly cooled and solidified.

Lilith replied, "Unable to analyze."

"We might see it if we have the chance in the future, but now... kill everyone who can survive in this environment!"

He had nothing good to communicate with the Devourers. Perhaps some of the Devourers still had a conscience, but as long as they were part of the actions of the Devouring World, it meant that they carried a massive burden of life.

Zheng Yichen couldn’t be bothered to sift through those people, he would kill everyone he encountered.

"High-speed moving target approaching—be careful..." A Devourer with widened eyes watched the distortion tens of kilometers away, and just as he shouted a warning, he saw a long streak of distortion arrive in an instant, which turned him into a mist of blood on the spot, and the trace of distortion kept advancing forward.

Subsequent explosions and shrieks drew all nearby Devourers into it. The shrieking carried a vicious curse that caused those affected to fall into a painful illusion they couldn’t break free from.

In the raging wind, there were faint, chaotic spatial distortions that tore apart some of the Devourers’ protective gear. The fragile bodies exposed to the wild wind turned to mist at that instant.

The remaining Devourers were unable to escape the illusions brought about by the noise, mixed with strong cursing powers, unable to resist or dispel such power. Even a brief moment of clarity would pull them back into a new illusion, leaving them powerless to resist as Zheng Yichen finished them off.

At this moment, the blood mist yet to disperse in the environment was swept up by the wind and drawn into the black spear in Zheng Yichen’s hand. The new blood absorbed reduced the icy sensation of mechanical parts clogging his body slightly.

Indeed, this imbalance could be restored.

Picking up the noise pistol planted in the ground, Zheng Yichen hung the weapon inside his cloak, "This thing is more useful than I thought, I just didn’t enhance it with the Sky Pillar’s energy last time."

If it had been enhanced with the Sky Pillar’s energy, he could have directly used the energy he obtained to empower the weapon and then thrown it. Without that enhancement, doing so would likely have turned the weapon into a one-time consumable.

"Note has been added."

Casually pulling out a Sky Pillar root from the ground, he broke it off and hung it on the motorcycle. He nibbled at a section of it in his mouth like sugarcane. After breaking through the blockade on this side, he headed straight for the area below the Sky Pillar. As for the damage to the Firmament Wheel Sniper?

Gone.

From afar, he could see the collapsed Firmament Wheel and the huge abyssal rift created by the bombing. The continental cracks capable of swallowing cities spread out from that area as the center.