Gap II

"The Illusion Destruction Eye didn't work!" Lin Hui's face was extremely gloomy.

He had already set up the Illusion Destruction Eye in his courtyard before setting off.

But the Illusion Destruction Eye didn't work just now.

To be precise, he actually knew why.

Because the Illusion Destruction Eye doesn't actually activate simultaneously, but rather in an extremely subtle temporal sequence.

The device must first be killed, and then the feedback is transmitted to the Illusion Destruction Eye's main body before the special effect is triggered.

The key point is that he had just been killed and hadn't been able to send feedback back to his eyes. He was simply and forcibly erased without any time to send any feedback back.

He, along with the information from his death, everything about him—all his concepts—was completely obliterated by that guy.

This was something Lin Hui hadn't expected at all.

As for the reason for the current recovery, it's actually because the Fate Reversal has taken effect.

This powerful special effect from the Origin Scene Sword Canon Manual forcibly reversed everything after his death, and its principle clearly involved the realm of space and time. Immediately, Lin Hui dared not linger and quickly teleported away from the spot.

Without stopping for a moment, he continuously shuttled back towards Lei Thunder King Sect.

He flew for more than two hours before sensing the Thunder King Sect's cleanup crew, which meant he had finally returned to the sect's territory. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued his journey back to the sect, from the central square to the Guangxin Hall, until he entered his own courtyard.

Lin Hui finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Even after activating the formation, the Wind Righteous Seal, and the Devil Incense, he still felt a strange unease.

Aside from defying Fate Reversal, it can be said that all of his methods have become ineffective against External Source.

"A rational External Source might refrain from attacking me for some reason. But the mutants know nothing..." Lin Hui sat cross-legged in the courtyard, constantly recalling everything that had just happened, trying to calm his terrified state of mind.

Completely powerless to resist.

From beginning to end, he was enveloped in an isolated space-time the moment they met, and no matter what resistance he made, it was ineffective. In the end, until he was completely annihilated, he never saw the other person a second time.

The difference is enormous.

"I thought I had many trump cards up my sleeve, and that against External Source, I might be able to mount a counterattack, but..."

The harsh reality brought Lin Hui to his senses completely.

The External Source used time-space freeze to forcibly lock him in, preventing him from using any of his trump cards until he was instantly killed.

That's the most terrifying part.

Because any trump card needs time to be activated, but your opponent won't even give you that much time.

In a single encounter... your time is forever controlled by the opponent. Stop, reverse, accelerate—it's all just a matter of a single thought. Time is change, and all change is manipulated, which means that anyone encountering External Source can only withstand all of the opponent's moves in the form they were in at that very moment.

This is simply an impossible task.

What kind of person can withstand all External Source attacks on their own and still be unharmed?

If such a person truly exists, their strength would naturally far surpass that of External Source, and they wouldn't be subject to manipulation of their own spacetime.

After meditating for more than an hour, Lin Hui couldn't find a way to deal with and escape the situation he had just encountered, no matter how hard he tried.

He had replayed the events in his mind countless times, but the only result was always death.

"Now I finally understand why the higher-ups of the Thunder King Sect are so indifferent to geniuses below the External Source..." Lin Hui had never imagined that there would be such a terrifying difference between the Dao of Colloidal Dissociation and the External Source, even though it was only one energy level.

If it weren't for the high level of his Origin Scene Sword Canon and the powerful special effects that defied Fate Reversal, he might have really failed this time.

Once he calmed down, Lin Hui opened the Blood Seal to check the activation status of the Fate Reversal of Fate.

The "Fate Reversal" special effect is part of the Origin Scene Sword Canon; once activated, it will cause information changes.

So what he opened was actually the revised introduction, which might allow him to deduce everything that happened back then.

The Blood Seal opened.

Lin Hui Origin Scene Sword Canon.

"Fate Reversal in use (2/6)"

At the very bottom, two new lines of information appeared.

"1. Due to the Fate Reversal effect, you have gained 40% resistance to the attribute power of the Endless Divine Clan and 60% resistance to ordinary Drought Disaster- level Disaster Energy. You are completely immune to the move 'Spirit-Piercing Bone Kill '."

This was the effect he gained from Fate Reversal when Ping Yun ambushed him. Lin Hui remembered that he had also intended to use this to test his Fate Reversal, and at the same time planned to take the opportunity to lie low and disappear from everyone's sight, so he cooperated with her in staging this scene.

What came next was what I just obtained.

"2- Due to the Fate Reversal effect, you have gained 70% resistance to the Blood Number Evil Dragon's Elemental Power, 30% resistance to External Source Wind Disaster, and 10% resistance to Time Freeze."

Note: Source Disaster powers cannot gain absolute immunity or resistance. Spacetime-type powers, due to their traceless nature, gain very little resistance.

"Not bad... This Blood Number Evil Dragon should be the monster's real name. I also gained 30% resistance to the External Source- level Wind Disaster, and although the time-space freeze only has 10%, if this 10% can make me react and activate my trump card, preventing me from being completely stopped by time, then it will be of great use. "Lin Hui sighed inwardly.

Although Fate Reversal gave him the confidence to be immortal, the absolute powerlessness he felt in the face of External Source made him truly understand just how vast the difference was between Colloidal Dissociation and spacetime distortion.

What made him even more amused and exasperated was that the other party had no interest in the messy items on his body and therefore remained completely unharmed because they were mutants.

"Junior Brother Lin, why are you back?" Hongyu Chun's voice could be faintly heard from outside the courtyard.

Lin Hui quickly turned off the Devil Incense and instantly left the courtyard.

Seeing Hongyu Chun floating in mid-air, its enormous body like a mountain, it stood out starkly against the surrounding buildings. Compared to it, most of the surrounding houses looked as small and delicate as toy boxes.

"Senior Brother Hong, I encountered danger halfway... Alas, I died and had to return." Lin Hui sighed, recounting his experience, omitting the part about Immortal Lord Qingyang.

"The Blood Number Evil Dragon!? You actually encountered it!! No wonder... no wonder... you're really unlucky..." Hongyu Chun's expression changed slightly. "Brother, you know that guy too?"

"How could I not know? There's only one Blood Number Evil Dragon in this entire courtyard. There aren't many monsters from External Source, and it's one of the most troublesome. Several of my sect's hall masters have suffered at its hands."

Hongyu Chun paused for a moment, then explained.

"This Blood Number Evil Dragon was not actually born as a physical being, but rather conceived from a cursed number proposed by a powerful civilization. Its essence lies in attracting a large number of character concepts with that cursed number. This makes its whereabouts extremely mysterious, gathering and dispersing with the wind, and it can appear anywhere within this courtyard. It can gather and disperse at will."

"Including the sect?"

"It does, but because it has already mutated and merged into the Wind Disaster, it generally Sect Master seek trouble unless we encounter it head-on. After all, we are all Fusionist, belonging to the same category," Hongyu Chun explained.

Now Lin Hui roughly understood why he had been beaten.

Either you were unlucky enough to run into them face-to-face, or the other person noticed something about you.

"Forget it, you're just unlucky to run into someone like that. Anyway, the operation to intercept Myriad Stars Tower was a great success, even though everyone died an average of three times. But at least the result was good," Hongyu Chun laughed. "They're already on their way back. I just received a notice to go to the teacher's place to help distribute the rewards and check the credits. I was passing by and was surprised to see you here, so I called out to you."

"Then you go ahead, senior brother, I'll be there shortly." Lin Hui clasped his hands in a fist salute.

"Okay." Hongyu Chun nodded, and her figure vanished in an instant.

Lin Hui was left with no choice but to return to the courtyard.

"This cannot continue... I must improve my cultivation as soon as possible." With the Supreme Omniscience Seal, he will be able to master those two techniques in at most twenty years: the Supreme Celestial Authority Formula and the Sentient Fangsheng Art.

And the Origin Scene Sword Canon should also be further improved using hand seals.

This time, it was only thanks to the Fate Reversal that it worked; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Furthermore, the problem discovered this time is that Wind Energy conversion is no longer keeping up with the opponents I'm facing now. The Yin-Time Self-Origin Art has reached its limit and can no longer evolve, but the Immortal Fire can continue. Therefore..."

Lin Hui opened his protective gear, closed his eyes, and focused his attention on the Immortal Fire.

However, there are no evolution options after the Immortal Fire.

Unwilling to give up, he turned his attention to the source of the Immortal Fire: the Immortal Perpetual Motion Mechanism.

However, this one also had no evolutionary branches, so he had no choice but to switch again and return to the original source—the Ever-Burning Contemplation.

This time, he found an evolutionary branch in the back.

Evolvable branch: 3.

Click to open it quickly.

"1. The Primordial Yin-Yang Contemplation: All things have Yin and Yang; the undying Yang fire corresponds to the undying Yin fire. Yin and Yang generate and restrain each other, evolving all things and being the source of everything. After evolution, one can obtain a Genesis Duality Purifying Flame, which can purify all things."

Note: Purification requires first defining the concepts of dirty and clean. Once defined, these concepts cannot be changed.

Required resources: 5 million in reserve energy, 5 million in reserve mental energy.

Having grown accustomed to consuming tens or hundreds of millions of Existence Force, Lin Hui was momentarily surprised to see that this was only in the five million range, even finding it somewhat cheap.

Fortunately, he managed to regain his composure and moved on to the next step.

"2. The Life-Death Contemplation: Everything is subject to birth and death. Birth is existence, and death is annihilation. Even the void that contains everything is subject to birth and death. Birth and death cycle endlessly, giving rise to everything. After evolution, one can obtain the Hand of Life and the Hand of Death. One can control life and death, but each use requires an additional replacement price. Required resources: 10 million reserve energy, 10 million reserve mental energy."

Lin Hui shook his head inwardly. This wasn't very useful. What he wanted was an effect that could amplify the speed of Wind Energy conversion, not this so-called ability to control life and death. At this point, life and death were already very difficult to encounter with the Illusion Destruction Eye.

Next, the third item.

"3. Chaos True Order: A unified worldview built on chaos and order. All systems will move from order to chaos, which is the core principle of all. After evolution, the Eternal True Order Essence can be obtained."

Required resources: 100 million in reserve of energy, and 100 million in reserve of mental energy.

Time required: 100 million years.

This consumption...

Lin Hui looked at the thousand-odd fish eyes he still had. He was far from enough.

Although members of Clear Jade Mountain would come to him every now and then to trade fish eyes in exchange for Wind Energy replenishment, it was still far from 100 million... Adhering to the principle that the more expensive the better, he focused on the last and third item.

"It seems that being an undercover agent for Myriad Stars Tower isn't without its advantages..." Many of the Star Butterfly Fish have ended up in Myriad Stars Tower's territory, which is perfect.