Butterfly Effect

Should he slip away?

Gu You gazed at the gigantic monster in the distance and fell into thought. Should he bear the Butterfly Effect he had caused?

Perhaps if he had never existed, this accident would never have happened.

"Cause and effect come full circle. Even if I try to run, I can't escape." Gu You shook his head, then leaped toward the distance.

"General, there's a message from the Skyward Eye. Please take a look." A young soldier handed over a tiny card.

Soul Power surged through Qiong Shiyu's left hand, and the card gently floated up. Lines of encrypted letters appeared before his eyes, and Qiong Shiyu's expression grew visibly more shocked.

"General, did something happen?" the soldier asked cautiously.

"Assemble the Sixth Mech Regiment. Come with me..." Qiong Shiyu vanished from the spot.

The young soldier froze. The general was a Super Douluo, possessing a complete Three-Word Battle Armor. At full power, he wielded the strength of a Limit Douluo. Why was he so anxious? And why was he assembling the Sixth Mech Regiment? The regiment alone had one Titled Douluo and seven Soul Douluos.

"It looks like something huge really has happened." The soldier did not linger and hurried away.

"Captain, we got through! We got through!! Reinforcements will be here soon..." Before the person on the other end could finish, Jiang Xing heard a sharp rip, like flesh being torn apart.

"Damn it!" Jiang Xing weakly slapped his legs. Once they lost the artillery's suppression, even if their three Soul Douluos could hold the enemy back for a while, the odds of even one person in the entire team surviving were practically zero.

But he had heard hope as well. They had gotten through...

They had to hold on.

Jiang Xing roared inwardly.

"Insects! Insects! What meaning is there in resisting?" the Evil God roared. A massive vortex hung in the sky, and streams of black flames fell to the ground.

They were then surrounded by vines, forming one black-eyed monster after another.

"Kill!" the Evil God ordered.

Countless monsters surged forward and charged at the Mech Vanguard.

"Let's do this!" A Soul Douluo piloted his mech, gripping a spear in both hands. Continuous light fire support poured from behind his mech, and with his strength alone, he slaughtered the monsters until they could not advance an inch.

But what was the point of doing this?

"Captain... tell me honestly. Can we still make it out alive?" A weak voice came through the communicator.

"We can! Why wouldn't we?" Jiang Xing said encouragingly, though he knew the truth himself. Could they really escape alive?

"Everyone... should know already, right? Even if we escape, what will we have left? We might as well... burn our lives."

"What are you talking about?" Jiang Xing said in disbelief.

"I said... burn our lives!!" A mech shot out from the group, carrying three tons of missile explosives. Inside was a Soul King powerhouse. He detonated himself at the monster's leg, leaving behind a pile of scrap metal.

A crack was blasted open in the Evil God's lower leg, but it quickly fused shut again.

Everyone was stirred by the sight. That was right. Against a monster that called itself a god, one whose strength might already have reached that of a Limit Douluo, what could they use to fight? There was only one thing left—their lives!!

Life was tiny, but its greatness was beyond description. You, Evil God, looked down on life, believing yourself to stand above all else. You toyed with us like ants and did not kill us outright. Then she was wrong! Completely wrong!!

No one could regard life as insignificant, and no one had the right to command life.

"You see us as insects, but you have to admit that insects have never truly been destroyed."

One mech after another soared into the sky. They burned their lives.

"You!" Fear entered the Evil God's voice. No matter how powerful her self-regeneration was, with so many explosions coming so quickly, even she could not repair herself in time.

"Good thing I wasn't too late." Gu You stood atop a tall building, touching his chest. "Go!" Countless glimmers spilled from his mind and descended densely below the building.

Soul Beasts! Dense swarms of Soul Beasts!!

There were more than a hundred of them, their cultivation levels varying wildly.

"You woke this king up. What happened? Huh! How did I get out here?" The Ice Emperor Scorpion looked around, then was startled upon seeing the enormous monster.

Jiji Ba was unfamiliar with its surroundings. A small purple scale stood atop its head, and every muscle in its body was tensed as it roared at the Evil God in the distance.

"What the hell?" Jiang Xing froze. What had he just seen? So many Soul Beasts had suddenly emerged from a human teenager's mind. He knew that Soul Spirits could appear in reality to fight, but surely all of these could not be that boy's Soul Spirits?

"So it was you! You stole my collectible." The Evil God stared at Gu You.

"Pah, pah, pah! Who's your collectible? Little ones, get her!!" Before Gu You could speak, the Ice Emperor Scorpion became enraged. Calling it a collectible? That was asking for trouble.

Gu You did not stop them. These Soul Beasts could not die. He had studied it before: as long as they were injured or struck, they would instantly return to his mind. It could be understood as costless expenditure.

"Arrogant!" A strange magic formation appeared behind the Evil God. Power continuously gathered within it before finally bursting forth and blasting toward Gu You.

"You monster who calls yourself a god, let me show you! What a true Divine Skill is!!"

A Divine Wheel began floating behind Gu You, while three Soul Rings slowly rose around him.

The Divine Wheel glimmered faintly, and an immense aura spread into the surroundings.

Annihilation!

The designated target's attributes were reduced by fifty percent across the board, skill power dropped by twenty percent, and the user was simultaneously refunded Soul Power equal to the percentage reduced.

A Divine Skill! It was simply broken. What did a fifty percent reduction at the same level mean? It practically made him invincible.

The surrounding aura became chaotic. Gu You's entire body was covered by his Martial Soul. The Dragon Scales on his hand spread slightly outward before closing again. The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring lit up, activating the second Soul Skill it granted.

Dragon God's Wrath!

A massive sphere of destruction continuously condensed within the dragon phantom behind Gu You. The Ice and Snow Domain spread out as well, with traces of extreme ice power mixed into the sphere of destruction.

Go!

The sphere of destruction collided with the beam of light, and the force field created by their clash enveloped everything around them.

Jiang Xing's vision was obscured by the domain. He was now too stunned for words. A Soul Elder with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his third ring, and possibly even dual domain skills—what family's genius was this? Why had he never heard of him before?

"Captain, what should we do now?" the few remaining people asked through the communicator.

"What should we do?! Of course we fight! Are you planning to let a three-ringed child save you?" Jiang Xing snapped. He still had a trump card: an eighth-grade Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, classified for targeted destruction. It was equivalent to a ninth-grade Fixed Soul Cannon Shell. Its explosive power could directly destroy a city and raise a mushroom cloud a thousand meters high—a full-powered strike from a Super Douluo. This was not like the ninth-grade Fixed Soul Cannon Shells from the second era, which could not even kill a few Soul Emperors or Soul Sages. After years of development, bombs of every attribute now existed. In short, the times had changed.