"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
Neither Whitebeard nor Ling Yi took a single step back, but both spat out a mouthful of blood at the same time.
"Impressive, brat, but this old man is no slouch either! Haha!"
That head-on clash of fists had left Whitebeard seriously injured.
Ling Yi's mouthful of blood, however, was an act. He wielded the power of laws, and his body had long since transformed into a body of laws. Though Whitebeard was strong, he was still no match for Ling Yi.
These were powers on different levels, utterly incomparable.
"You're strong, but an enforcer never backs down." Ling Yi wanted to convince these people that he was stubborn, that he possessed an enforcer's pride and unwavering conviction, giving them the illusion that this was a fight to the death.
As Ling Yi spoke, he swung his fist again...
Whitebeard felt helpless inside. He admired the young man's persistence, but they were enemies. Since the battle had begun, it would only end when one of them fell.
"Boom! Crack!"
Terrifying forces collided. The earth shook violently, even the clouds overhead were scattered, and spiderweb cracks spread in every direction.
"Pfft..."
Both spat blood again. This time, both were sent flying backward.
"Again!" Ling Yi staggered to his feet, speaking as he coughed up blood. His right hand already hung limp, seemingly crippled, yet he stubbornly swung his left fist and launched a third attack.
Whitebeard's enormous body was also on the verge of collapse. By now, his heart was filled with bitterness. The brat's willfulness and persistence even sent a chill through him.
But he could only meet the attack.
"Boom..."
"Crack!"
"Pfft! Pfft!"
They traded punch after punch, falling again and again in evenly matched exchanges.
When their hands were crippled, they used their legs. When their legs were crippled, they rammed with their heads.
They were like madmen. More precisely, Ling Yi was more like a madman.
In the distance, Lin Feng had already redeemed Senzu Beans from the group shop with points, restoring both Vegeta and Zhang Sanfeng.
Watching Ling Yi and Whitebeard fight, everyone felt their hearts pound with fear.
"If we don't eliminate an enemy like this, I'm afraid we'll never have a peaceful day again. He's terrifying," Cao Mengde said, trembling.
"Is this really human strength?" Tony murmured, swallowing.
"If they keep attacking like this, they'll probably die together. Whitebeard is our companion. We can't let anything happen to him. Vegeta, you're second only to Whitebeard in strength here. Give him a Senzu Bean. As long as Whitebeard eats it, we win."
Though Vegeta was a tsundere, he was not as rigid as Kakarot. Knowing this was no time to worry about fairness, he grabbed the Senzu Bean Lin Feng gave him and flew toward the battlefield.
At that moment, Ling Yi and Whitebeard really did look as though both had suffered grievous injuries.
After more than a dozen head-on exchanges, both seemed to be running out of steam and lay on the ground recovering their strength.
Vegeta landed beside Whitebeard. Seeing the two drenched in blood, he was deeply shaken. Such a collision of absolute strength, a head-on clash without any fancy tricks, was truly hard to imagine.
He did not attack Ling Yi. Instead, he stuffed the Senzu Bean into Whitebeard's mouth, looked at Ling Yi for a moment, then flew back to Lin Feng and the others.
Seeing Whitebeard stand up again, Ling Yi's face filled with unwillingness. "You're straying farther and farther down the wrong path. I will be back."
As Ling Yi's words faded, his figure gradually grew faint before vanishing before everyone's eyes.
Whitebeard scratched his chin and gave a helpless, bitter chuckle.
Seeing Ling Yi disappear, everyone's expression turned rather grim.
"This is trouble. That guy's too hard to deal with. I never expected him to be able to escape whenever he wanted." Everyone gathered beside Whitebeard, looking at the devastated ground. Xiao Huohuo was the first to speak.
"What do we do now?" Tony asked.
"Can you find him?" Lin Feng asked Tony.
Tony shook his head. "I tried earlier. No luck at all. It seems that once he disappears, he's no longer in this world. He probably returned to that Time-Space Administration Bureau of his."
"The group system just sent me a message. Since this team battle mission is unusual and the opponent is too powerful, we can purchase items costing no more than ten thousand points from the points shop on credit."
Everyone froze at Lin Feng's words. The system was actually this generous?
Ten thousand points could buy plenty of good things. Right now, they could only earn one point a day by checking in and had no other way to obtain points.
This team battle mission was also the first other way of earning points they had encountered.
"But the system told me we have to kill the target before we can return to our own worlds. Otherwise, we'll be trapped in this world," Lin Feng said helplessly.
He was only the group owner, not the system's true controller. The system had a consciousness of its own, something Lin Feng had known for a long time.
Meanwhile, Ling Yi had already returned to the Ling Realm and was staring at the system interface in astonishment.
The law analysis progress had actually jumped from its original 2% to 10%.
The number of laws had also risen from 1,362 to 1,528, an increase of nearly two hundred.
And an "unknown powerhouse's consciousness" had appeared in the Passive Hostility Aura's target list.
This unknown powerhouse's consciousness was clearly the true controller of the Protagonist Chat Group System.
But now, Ling Yi was more concerned about the law analysis progress.
Ling Yi knew very well that his power came from laws. If every battle could increase his law analysis progress, that would actually be far more valuable than controlling that unknown powerhouse's consciousness.
But whether that was actually the case would have to wait until his next test.
Ling Yi decided to rest in the Ling Realm for a week. He had to give those people some time to improve their strength. Perhaps the stronger they became, the more his law analysis progress would increase?
Besides, Ling Yi also needed to give them the illusion that he needed to recover his strength.
Inside the Ling Realm...
The galaxy before him had originally been the Resident Evil world. Ever since merging into the Ling Realm, it had already undergone considerable changes.
Ling Yi had named the galaxy formed after this Resident Evil world merged into the Ling Realm the Resident Evil Galaxy.
Raccoon City had now become the largest human settlement on Earth in the Resident Evil Galaxy.
Alice, Jill, and the others had managed this planet very well.
But because time in the Ling Realm passed much faster than outside, the Resident Evil Galaxy had actually spent two hundred years within the Ling Realm.
Over those two hundred years, Alice and the others had developed technology to the limits of their current planet. One more step would allow them to leave the planet and develop a galactic civilization.
Because of the Resident Evil world's exceptional bonuses to genetics and cloning technology, Dr. Charles Ashford had developed a genetic virus that could help humans evolve safely more than a hundred years ago.
Now, even ordinary people on this planet possessed formidable combat strength, extraordinarily long lives, and greater evolutionary potential...
He believed that, in the future, this Resident Evil Galaxy would bring Ling Yi quite a few surprises.
The existence of the Resident Evil Galaxy would also inevitably have a considerable influence on the Ling Realm in the future.
At that moment, Ling Yi sat on the edge of a tall building, gazing blankly at the entire city, which brimmed with life.
Just then, two figures, one red and one blue, descended from the sky and landed beside Ling Yi.
"It really is Ling!" Alice said in delighted surprise.
"You! It's been almost two hundred years. I thought you weren't coming back," Jill said with a hint of resentment.
"I came back to take a look. I didn't expect you to develop this planet so well."
Far from aging at all, Alice and Jill had become even more beautiful. This was the change brought about by the sublimation and evolution of life.
Compared with the other galaxy, the Busan Galaxy-the galaxy formed after the Train to Busan World merged into the Ling Realm-the Resident Evil Galaxy's evolution was not much slower, and it was more diverse.
Ling Yi had intervened more in the Busan Galaxy, and the surviving humans' evolutionary direction was relatively uniform.
"Take a walk with me," Ling Yi said to the two women...
A week later, Ling Yi left the Ling Realm and appeared once again in the desert where the previous battle had taken place.
The moment Ling Yi appeared this time, he unleashed his imposing presence, instantly drawing attention from multiple parties.
A ring of light with welding-like effects appeared, and Master Ancient One stepped out of it with a grave expression.
"I didn't expect you to be the first to appear, voyeur of time."
"What is your purpose?" Ancient One asked bluntly.
"To set this world's future right and erase this branching timeline. You should know this is no longer the original timeline."
"But I saw a better future." Ancient One actually also disliked people who disrupted time, but because of Tony Stark's changes, this world's future had been developing toward a better future, until Ling Yi appeared...