Chapter 258

The third time, the Mastermind changed its approach, no longer using large-scale attacks, but instead using S-class assassins for precise elimination.

After ten months, Wen Jing faced an attack from a group of S-class Awakened and was once again plunged into a life-or-death situation.

However, the same thing happened very quickly, even faster in the realm of the extraordinary than in the realm of technology.

She became immune to all rule-level attacks, mastered rule-level attacks, destroyed the Mastermind's core, and reversed time.

The fourth time, the fifth time, the sixth time...

Each time, the Mastermind tried various new methods of elimination, but each time it failed to kill Wen Jing, making her more resistant and causing her to be unconscious for a shorter time in the next time it rewound.

The last time was what she had previously thought was the first time.

The restrained power that Wen Jing sensed at that time was accumulated from the many rewinds he had experienced earlier.

Therefore, the Mastermind neither attacked seriously nor fled, and even released the Xu Yuan, revealing the truth of the four dimensions and the principle of the causal weapon, all as a prelude to sending her back eighty years.

This is the Mastermind's original modus operandi: if you can't kill it, seal it away.

The only difference is that the sealing location is an entire real world.

"So, after this seal fails, when will the next rewind occur?"

The universe unfolds anew, and time reverses.

The world before Wen Jing had completely changed.

The stars dimmed, their energy was drained, and the entire galaxy descended into chaos.

Galactic dust permeates space, containing fragments of its shattered crust, and on some of these fragments, the remains of civilizations can be seen.

This wasn't the first time she'd seen such a scene. The previous time, when the Mastermind launched the apocalypse to eliminate her, it was a similar scenario.

Now that Wen Jing and the Mastermind's information are synchronized at the same time, it was not an attack launched in advance by the other party.

At this point in time, humanity had just been wiped out by the Mastermind.

Wen Jing's feet lay the Tenth Star, still silvery-white, but its materials were significantly inferior to those he had seen before, clearly indicating that it had not been updated.

With a quick glance, she determined the current time by absorbing the information from the Mastermind.

This occurred 7352 years ago in the original timeline.

This point in time also marks the period in the records of the Alaya Civilization during which the Mastermind experienced a technological explosion.

Almost instantly, Wen Jing's intuition told her that this was the point in time when the Mastermind could use the causal weapon.

Further back, its technology had not yet broken through the fourth dimension of spacetime.

The span between now and the next 70,000 years or so lies the limit of the lever of causality.

Wen Jing's heart tightened.

The fact that it deliberately jumped to this dangerous moment for the Mastermind could not possibly be because it had run out of options and was giving up.

As a Gestalt Consciousness, the Mastermind also possesses a similar ' Constant Self,' enabling it to recognize anomalies in the Xu Yuan and to generate and experience various emotions. However, the inherent will of civilization will not be affected by these anomalies and will inevitably persist until the very last moment.

Sure enough, the next moment, the planet cracked open, and a human figure flew out.

Calling it a figure is inaccurate, because the other party's body is Extreme Speed Disintegration.

Such a scene is not unfamiliar to Wen Jing; it was a similar scene when the clone assassins could not withstand the Disintegration of their Superpower Core.

The figure before them was in even worse condition; its head and legs had turned into specks of light, like ashes scattered by the wind.

The torso disappeared a little slower, but also quickly, leaving only the hands barely maintaining their shape.

Those hands hovered in mid-air, fingers slightly spread at a certain distance, as if they were typing on an invisible keyboard in the void.

The entire universe seemed to freeze in place.

Or rather, everything except those hands was put on pause.

Time has no meaning at this moment.

However, when Wen Jing struck the third time, in a state where the entire universe seemed to freeze, he managed to move forward slightly.

If you can't throw your strength, the only way to stop those hands twenty meters away is to break through them with your body.

By the fifth tap, she had progressed from moving less than half a millimeter to an inch.

The seventh stroke, one meter.

Ninth time, 15 meters.

Those hands were also Disintegration as they struck.

The skin and muscles have disappeared, leaving only the finger bones still moving.

As Wen Jing completed the ninth strike, she mobilized the maximum power within her body and could feel the terrifying power emanating from those hands—[Add information].

Unlike the temporary suppression of Information Touch, this is true information editing.

What level of Awakened is this? S-rank?

No, it's even higher, it absolutely surpasses S-class. The Mastermind has even killed such an Awakened!

The recipient of the information was her.

"Clatter."

The mysterious assassin's thumb bone delivered the final blow.

It took ten taps to complete adding this message.

Time resumed its flow.

Almost simultaneously, Wen Jing's ability to Information Perception, which he had been unable to regain during these dozens of time reversals, returned.

And unlike in the past when it was limited by spirit and energy, it has now become a passive ability like the other senses.

Because she finally encountered an attack from the information level.

The very next moment, before Wen Jing could destroy the core of the Mastermind below, the entire world collapsed.

The law of causality is activated.

But this time, the start isn't about rewinding, it's about moving forward.

The Mastermind, which can see the 'time trajectory' in four-dimensional spacetime, sees the universe, which was originally only able to move at the speed of light, as if it were a slingshot bouncing back, breaking through the speed of light and moving forward in a state that defies its understanding.

Hundreds of years, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years...

It came to a precise stop after 7352 years.

[Error! Search error!]

The Mastermind's intelligent network continuously searches, and its instructions are clearly --

"Limiter, right?"

Wen Jing did not actually enter the fourth dimension, but he transmitted information to the fourth dimension.

Information can transcend dimensions.

"Mastermind, if it weren't for this trip, I might never have known what my true superpower is."

She looked at the panel that had reappeared in her consciousness and said.

At the last moment, Wen Jing had a chance to stop the bone hand from pressing down, but he didn't continue.

It was because she 'saw' the added information that she was able to complete the entire puzzle.

What was previously thought to be her cheat code, the Evolution Panel, was actually the Mastermind reversing cause and effect, using information from Super S-Class Awakened to tamper with and impose the Limiter.

From the genetic limits of humans before awakening, to the fact that after awakening there are no species level restrictions, but Skill Points are still required to complete evolution, these are all limitations imposed on Wen Jing.

Because her true characteristics are not her original bullet tail, nor her ability to evolve.

Instead, it encounters any external force, initially gets injured, then becomes immune, and finally completely masters and replicates it.

There is no upper limit, no end.

This is a fundamental and unsolvable... Infinite Adaptability.

In the previous twenty-odd time rewinds, the Mastermind faced Wen Jing without her control panel, which was actually her true, fully unlocked state.

She adapted to all forms of attack from the material universe, even to death itself, leaving the Mastermind with no choice but to seal her away.

But the seal couldn't hold her back, because she began to recall the 'non-existent memories' that arose during the regression, which was her way of adapting to the blows of causality.

If this happens a few more times, the time reversal might become ineffective for her, or she might even be controlled by it instead.

The four-dimensional Mastermind realized this, so in a final, desperate move, it rewound to a point in time when it could still use its Super S-Class power to execute its last measure—

By imposing restrictions on her abilities, it becomes possible to kill her.

Unfortunately, by the time Wen Jing realized that the panel was Limiter, he had already adapted to it.

To be precise, this happened even earlier. Back in the original Blue Flame Altar, without the Fire of Civilization, she forcibly Xu Yuan ??? Devouring, which was actually breaking through the Limiter's restrictions and achieving initial adaptation.

Therefore, Wen Jing now uses the panel as an anchor point and employs his own causal law-based attack to perform reverse backtracking.

The universe unfolds again from its collapse.

Birth, Panel, Awakening, Teacher, Separation, Exile, Return, Victory...

The occurrence of 'time reversal,' which was originally impossible under the objective rules of both three-dimensional and four-dimensional space, has become an unchangeable predetermined event!

On Mystic Radiance Star, everything in the universe returned to the moment when the Mastermind core was destroyed, and Xie Ming's anxious voice rang out again:

"Wen Jing, did you win...?"

This time, Wen Jing turned to him, smiled, and nodded.

Chapter 258

For Wen Jing, the second battle with the Mastermind had occurred many times over the past 70,000 years, but for all beings on the original timeline, none of it existed.

The world has been running since the moment she first destroyed the Mastermind's core.

In her mind, the Evolution Panel had disappeared, replaced by a Fire of Civilization.

The Limiter had been restricting her fundamental superpowers in the past, but it wasn't all bad.

Because the panel actually transformed her passive adaptation to evolution into an evolution she chose herself—of course, from another perspective, this ability is also a result of her adapting to the Limiter.

In conclusion, Wen Jing now possesses both the ability to passively adapt to evolution and the ability to actively evolve using the Fire of Civilization.

"The most important thing left is to gather the Fire of Civilization... to revive our teacher."

In the previous battle against the S-class assassins, Wen Jing consumed a lot of Fire of Civilization, but he also obtained new Level 3 technology from the Mastermind, which he could use to exchange for the Holy Spirit's resurrection ability after Digestion.