Containment of 009!

"Chaos Splitter."

At the GOC international conference, a group of people sat around watching a projection.

"A Sword Forger who can forge everything into swords—what principle is this based on?"

"Is this really the time to care about principles?"

"Our country specifically established the Nine-Tailed Fox special response organization to deal with these monsters, but as you can see, there were only a few of them, yet they wiped out thirty thousand of our people."

"With all due respect, if they had been our country's military..."

"Then you would have died even worse."

"Heh. So what did you gain from sacrificing thirty thousand people?"

"We killed Sequence 006."

"What was that?"

"Ahem, I believe your side should disclose all the intelligence you possess."

"What if I refuse?"

"Then that would be a shame. We had originally intended to provide you with a small degree of military assistance."

"No need. We will deal with these monsters ourselves."

"Is that so? I hope your confidence isn't blind."

Within a pitch-black space.

Before him stood a black door. As Chen Ye walked through this place, tiny sparks suddenly ignited across his body.

Then, more and more sparks appeared, directly bursting into flames over his body!

"Urgh... ah!"

Countless souls or consciousnesses drilled into his body. They burned, crazily scorching Chen Ye's half-ethereal form.

This was an unexpected change.

Chen Ye's ability was Causal Death. Once he severed a creature's life thread, that creature would accidentally die for all kinds of reasons.

For example, someone might be walking along and suddenly fall into a sewer, where there happened to be a sharp object.

Or while walking down the street, a billboard or building might suddenly collapse.

This Causal Death could range from man-made disasters to natural calamities.

If someone could initially evade death after death, the scale of the disasters they faced would grow ever greater.

Theoretically, if nothing on Earth could kill them, then Earth itself would directly explode.

If that still could not kill them, it would escalate to the cosmic level. If nothing in the universe could kill them, then the universe itself would directly explode.

But the reason it was only theoretical was because Chen Ye's ability could not yet reach that extent.

Let alone destroying the universe, Chen Ye could not even destroy Earth, because this was merely a half-finished product.

If someone could evade every death event on Earth, then Causal Death would completely break apart. That person would escape Death's pursuit and defy fate.

Chen Ye had severed the life threads of those thirty thousand people, bestowing Causal Death upon them.

Then the Chaos Splitters appeared and wiped out all thirty thousand of them.

This was also part of Causal Death. Even if those Chaos Splitters had not appeared, someone else would have.

Of course, all of that had been expected.

The truly unexpected part was that the souls of those who had died because of Chen Ye would turn into flames and scorch both his soul and body.

A small amount of this fire posed little threat to Chen Ye.

But faced with kindling formed from thirty thousand souls, Chen Ye's soul had nearly been burned to ashes.

"I didn't expect a half-finished product to have such a negative effect."

Chen Ye raised a hand to cover his head. Fortunately, there had only been thirty thousand people. If he had orchestrated the deaths of hundreds of millions...

Then the rage contained within hundreds of millions of souls would directly melt his soul, even though he was immortal.

Immortality usually referred to the body being unable to die.

But a human was composed of both soul and body.

The body could be immortal while the soul could still die. Once the soul died, the immortal body became an empty shell.

This was also one of the drawbacks of Sequence 009's Immortal Body.

After the pain in his soul faded, Chen Ye came before Chu Yang.

At this moment, Chu Yang lay on the ground, his consciousness already unconscious.

Chen Ye unceremoniously drew ten tubes of blood from him.

Come to think of it, the cause of all this was simply that Chen Ye had wanted to draw some of Chu Yang's blood.

He had never expected things to gradually develop into this.

And now, Chen Ye had finally gotten Chu Yang's blood as he wished, but another thing had caught his interest.

Chu Yang had said that someone among them could foresee the future.

Foreseeing the future—this was an unprecedented trait.

Find that person.

With that thought, Chen Ye looked at Chu Yang again.

He reached out and grabbed Chu Yang, and the flames on his skeletal hand immediately spread over Chu Yang's body.

They directly burned his flesh into a spirit body.

"If you reincarnate, who will be the first person you seek out?"

"Your parents, or that person who can foresee the future?"

As Chen Ye spoke, he thrust one hand into the void and tore open a rift, then directly crossed through it with Chu Yang's soul.

He appeared in the sky. The flames on his body slowly faded, while his bones and mist-like flesh returned to a human appearance.

His gaze swept across the land, then he instantly pinpointed a direction and threw Chu Yang's soul out like a baseball.

"Happy rebirth, Chu Yang."

After nightfall, on a badly ruined street in North Ridge City.

The Sequence 009 Splitter stretched his muscles, only for the Ouroboros around his neck to directly strangle his head off.

Bang.

The head fell to the ground and, before long, turned into twelve stones.

At the same time, a new head grew from the Splitter's body.

"What is it this time?"

The Splitter spoke as he bent down to pick up the stones, but a gun was suddenly pressed against his head.

The Splitter raised his head and saw a one-eyed man in a trench coat standing before him.

The Splitter suddenly laughed. "Who are you, Nine-Tailed Fox?"

The man holding the gun pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang!

The bullet instantly pierced through the Splitter's head, but before long, it was squeezed out on its own.

The Splitter shook his head. "That was rather rude."

The man seemed unsurprised by his revival. He bent down and picked up a Monkey-patterned Stone from the ground. "This stone is?"

He pointed the stone at the Splitter in confusion.

"Monkey."

As soon as the word fell, a beam of light suddenly shot from the stone and directly struck the Splitter's body.

The next second, the Splitter's form twisted, and he directly turned into a monkey!

Seeing this, the man suddenly found it rather ironic.

"The things that can kill monsters are dropped by monsters. The abilities that can deal with monsters are granted by monsters. How ironic."

The monkey-transformed Splitter was somewhat surprised. He turned to flee, but the man directly grabbed him.

"Containment of 009 complete..."

A fierce look flashed through the Splitter's eyes as he swung his fingers and flung out a Black Arrow!

The Black Arrow instantly stabbed into the man's body, but his chest suddenly became transparent. The Black Arrow passed through his chest without obstruction, then fell to the ground.

The Black Arrow had hit him, but it had struck nothing but air.

"Close one. Good thing my ability is Phasing. Calling headquarters, this is Spirit Master. Containment of 009 successful."