Aftermath I

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In the outer areas of the Drought Disaster, Zhu Li and Xima, who had just returned, along with the other members of the Heart Exchange Gate who were already on the outskirts and hadn't made it back, were stunned as they watched the enormous, boundless shadow smash the entire Heart Exchange Gate's base with a single blow.

Everyone's thoughts were frozen, completely unable to think.

This settlement, which many of them had been accustomed to for millions of years or even longer, was so easily and casually destroyed by that Giant Hand with a single blow.

Zhu Li and Xima, in particular, sensed from afar that the giant humanoid figure was none other than Lin Hui, whom they had intercepted earlier.

The two were emotionally devastated.

Xima bit her lower lip, remained silent for a few seconds, then turned and left. In the blink of an eye, she flew away from the entire area and disappeared.

He never wanted to go back here again; the decline and destruction of the Heart Exchange Gate was inevitable.

There's nothing to miss; he joined here simply to acquire more knowledge more easily.

He left, leaving Zhu Li alone, floating blankly in mid-air.

"No... it's not real!! This can't be real!?"

He kept retreating, his inner shock clashing with his pride as a top genius.

Shock brought panic, but pride wouldn't allow him to back down in the face of a formidable foe.

Such conflict ultimately leads to disbelief.

"It must be a coincidence of names! It must just be an accident. What merit does a mere guy who has only cultivated for nine hundred years have...?!

He murmured to himself, his face pale, as he slowly retreated. A few breaths later, he turned around and fled towards the direction of the God Clan.

As long as people are still alive, there is always hope. We must find a way! I can't let too many die! We must preserve our potential!

But the next moment, his body stiffened, and while he was still flying and shuttling, he was like an insect frozen in amber, completely unable to move.

An unimaginably terrifying divine soul forcefully locked him into the Drought Disaster's Disaster Energy.

"Impossible... You are clearly Wind Disaster... Why, why doesn't even the Drought Disaster Energy reject you?! You..." Zhu Li only then realized the problem.

Normally, when they go to areas affected by Wind Disaster, they will experience significant suppression, rejection, and depletion due to the different nature of the disasters.

But at this moment, the other party seemed to be completely accepted by the Drought Disaster, just like them, the Fusion Faction, without any rejection reaction.

At this moment, Lin Hui only managed to temporarily control him with a sliver of his divine soul.

He still focused most of his attention on Ling Feixin, the leader of the Heart Exchange Gate.

External Source, especially those External Source to the Dao-aligned calamities, are not so easy to kill. If it were so easy to completely eliminate the enemy, the Resistance Army would have been invincible long ago.

Just like right now.

The pale golden space he had just destroyed seemed to reappear in its original location as if it had appeared out of thin air.

The transition from the virtual to the real is like a printing copy; the newly created space is exactly the same as the previous one, without any difference.

Ling Feixin, the leader of the Heart Exchange Gate, also revived and appeared in the space.

He glared and opened his mouth as if to roar something, but the next moment, he was crushed by the Giant Hand again.

Repeat this process ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.

Gradually, as Ling Feixin's expression continued to recover, it became increasingly dull and numb.

Until the 2457th time.

The last trace of anger on his face vanished, and he, along with the pale golden space, became completely still.

No longer making a sound, no longer resisting, she lost herself completely for the last time, floating there like a puppet.

"Is this the limit?" Lin Hui's figure rapidly dissipated, returning to his original normal human form.

Spending too much time in the Heartless Belt Stagnant Storm zone, I only realized upon emerging that such a weak External Source could actually become a dominant force in the outside world.

That makes sense, though, since this is just the outer perimeter.

Seeing Ling Feixin and the pale golden space around her completely fade and disappear automatically, confirming from the Gray Dimension that she was unconscious and had become a calamity's henchman, Lin Hui turned and rushed towards the outer perimeter.

There are still many fish that have slipped through the net; we need to catch them all in one fell swoop.

The best way to deal with the Fusion Faction is to kill them repeatedly until they completely lose their senses.

Therefore, he guarded Ling Feixin's Dao Integration Site and kept killing her. Because the Dao Integration Site caused Ling Feixin to revive after death, she would only appear there indefinitely.

However, the other Fusionist below the Dao Integration level are not so easy to deal with. They are weak, and after they die, their resurrection sites may be scattered everywhere, making them impossible to locate.

Unless Lin Hui fully comprehends the concept of tense, he cannot reverse time and repeatedly freeze people in the same spot to kill them.

In reality, most of the experts who are masters of the Dao Fusion Faction rely on the exclusivity of their own calamity to act as a natural protective array for the Dao Integration Land.

But no one could have imagined that Lin Hui had evolved the Yin-Time Self-Origin Art and the Immortal Fire, which allowed him to indiscriminately disguise himself as any Calamity Fusionist.

This rendered their strongest defenses ineffective.

After sweeping through a large area, Lin Hui captured another group of fusion experts from the Heart Exchange Gate, preventing them from committing suicide, intending to use them to practice the Sentient Fangsheng Art.

Only then did he understand how valuable the Heavenly Father Seal truly was.

The original Heavenly Father Seal forbade suicide; it allowed only mental activity, with the body completely unresponsive. Now it seems it was clearly developed specifically for those Fusionist with the Heavenly Father.

What the Fusionist fear most is being unable to die or move.

After dealing with the Heart Exchange Gate, Lin Hui did not return to the Nine Heavens Gate, but went directly to the Black Domain Void where the three races were located.

It took more than ten minutes to get back.

However, they discovered that in the entire Black Domain void, only the human race's massive world sphere remained motionless, still suspended there.

The God Clan, dragons, Stone Swallow Clan, and the world sphere all vanished without a trace.

Lin Hui briefly sensed the spatial traces. After entering the void state, he was now extremely sensitive to many extremely subtle spatial remnants.

They quickly pinpointed the direction in which the world sphere of the Endless Divine Clan had departed.

The other two had clearly been gone for a long time, except for the God Clan, whose movements were recent.

Zhu Li... that's quite interesting. Does he consider the entire clan as his own place of cultivation?

Sensing the state of the God Clan World Sphere, Lin Hui immediately understood Zhu Li's plan.

The entire God Clan world sphere resembled a massive, Black Domain spaceship, rapidly flying away into the distance.

Inside, Zhu Li's unique divine soul aura emanated from various places.

Clearly, he was using a method similar to that of the Burning Shadow to merge himself with the entire clan's territory.

This guy's idea was clever, attempting to use this shortcut to leapfrog the Dao Integration Realm in one fell swoop, but unfortunately...

Lin Hui flashed and appeared directly in front of the entire God Clan World Sphere, blocking their path.

Swish!

Zhu Li also appeared just in time, standing in front of Lin Hui, staring at him with a distorted expression.

"Why! Why won't you leave me alone even after I've already backed down?!"

"Actually, I have many reasons to give," Lin Hui said calmly. "But the truth is actually..."

"Because you are weak."

He reached out again and gently grasped the hilt of the Golden Crow Sword.

Click.

The hilt of the sword faced upwards, revealing a sliver of gold.

Laugh!!

In an instant, the entire God Clan world sphere exploded like a broken watermelon, scattering in all directions.

Countless members of the God Clan scattered like golden quicksand, all crushed and decomposed by the terrifying Wind Energy, turning into basic Wind Energy particles that merged with it.

As a transformative force similar to Wind Disaster, Wind Energy also possesses the characteristic of decomposing and then absorbing the opponent to strengthen itself.

It's just not as domineering as the Source Disaster, which has the Source Disaster core driving its invasion.

But even now, with Lin Hui's help, it only took a few breaths to completely annihilate the entire Endless Divine Clan.

Only Zhu Li and a few other powerful members of the God Clan remained, floating blankly in the void, their faces completely expressionless.

"Any last words?" Lin Hui asked Zhu Li.

This guy was actually the culprit behind the repeated deaths of Teacher Black Elder. From the memories of the other members of the Heart Exchange Gate, he learned that if Zhu Li hadn't offered to offer Lin Hui's Disaster Energy Conversion Secret Technique, the Heart Exchange Gate would never have targeted the Nine Heavens Gate.

Therefore, the cause of everything lies with Zhu Li.

"You can't kill me!!" Zhu Li finally realized what was happening. Instead of advancing, he retreated. Despite his desperate roar, he tore through space and fled frantically into the distant void.

But after only two tears, he was horrified to discover that the surrounding space was as if it were cast from steel, and his own strength was as weak as that of an ordinary human.

It's no longer possible to easily tear through and traverse through them.

The next instant, he froze, completely locked in place by Lin Hui's immense divine soul, unable to move.

Immediately afterwards, his body and soul began to decompose and weather away at an alarming rate.

It only stopped when only a head remained, enveloped in Wind Energy, and placed in the Black Token.

Lin Hui used the Sentient Fangsheng Art to forcibly and continuously extract the thought of self-destruction from him, and directly and randomly shattered his memories into a chaotic mess.

This deprived him of the will to self-destruct.

Any thought of self-destruction or suicide requires the support and impetus of numerous shared memories and beliefs. Even those Fusionist are afraid of death.

Therefore, by directly muddling through memories, the primary premise becomes not self-destruction, but rather the organization of memories.

This is the unique method Lin Hui discovered for temporarily dealing with Fusionist.

Having dealt with the God Clan, the knot in his heart was finally cleared away. Only then did he turn around and head back towards the Nine Heavens Gate of Wind and Wind Disaster.

He had only flown a short distance when a faint sound suddenly entered his soul.

Please wait a moment.

Lin Hui paused, then turned to look at a certain spot in the void.

A patch of red foam quickly appeared there, and the foam combined to form a human shape, which was a slender, fair-skinned woman with a huge black bird's head.

"I am Silent Stone Swallow, the garrison commander of the Resistance Faction Allied Army here. Since you, senior, have attacked the Heart Exchange Gate of the Fusion Faction, you will obviously be targeted by Fusion Faction sooner or later. Why not come and have a chat with my alliance? We and the Fusion Faction are natural adversaries. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my ally, senior..."

Silent Stone Swallow spoke, it suddenly seemed increasingly familiar to the person it was looking at.

No matter how much a person changes, their fundamental spiritual essence remains the same. It's like a string of extremely complex numerical symbols with a very rigorous and complete self-structure; even if some changes are made, the core essence still remains.

So at first, judging from the immense external power, Silent Stone Swallow did not recognize Lin Hui. But as she sensed him for longer, he became more and more familiar to her. Finally, she realized that the guy in front of her was none other than Lin Hui, the little fellow from the Nine Heavens Gate whom she had invited nine hundred years ago!