AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 969 - 450 Deconstruct Ashes_2

Chapter 969: Chapter 450 Deconstruct Ashes_2

"Forget it, why think so much? If the Convenience Store Owner is really dead set on messing with me, even if I buried myself in the school district, I’d still be dug up!"

A sudden absurd and ridiculous emotion rose in Lin Yi’s heart, truly making a mountain out of a molehill.

"I should just focus on breaking through the current predicament first!"

Lin Yi felt that this was the most real, lest he imagined for so long that the Convenience Store Owner was an enemy, only for the guy to see him and react like seeing a mouse caught on a glue trap.

That would just feel abrupt and awkward!

As for the Convenience Store Owner’s situation, the ancients actually mentioned it long ago, as the saying goes—

"If you’re already here, just go with it."

So, he adjusted his state a bit, then released his perception towards the ashes...

To unravel the crisis, the first step is to deconstruct the crisis, or rather, deconstruct... the ashes.

If he could understand what the ashes were made of, then it would be easy.

Before he became the "Ashen Apostle," he could never have imagined his body could bear the ashes, nor could he have imagined that one day he would attempt to deconstruct such a terrifying substance.

What was even more absurd was that it had been less than 24 hours since he had eliminated the ashes.

Yet now, his "task level" had already been upgraded from "eliminating ashes" to "deconstructing ashes," and from the current situation, it seemed this was a do-or-die "task."

Moreover, he had another hypothesis... so he had no choice but to brace himself and take the risk to deconstruct the ashes.

Thus, his consciousness seeped out from his body, condensing into countless invisible perception tendrils, slowly spreading towards the portion of ashes behind him.

However, as soon as his perception touched the ashes, an indescribable stabbing pain seeped through the tendrils into his consciousness.

Lin Yi’s pupils slightly dilated, and in a trance, he seemed to see a realm of blazing fire, where a giant crimson snake extended its large tongue towards him.

"Boom—"

In reality, from within the ashes, a giant wave of fire surged back, like a massive mouth ready to swallow him.

"Oh no!"

Lin Yi inwardly exclaimed, quickly taking off his backpack and holding it as far away as possible, to avoid being engulfed by the flames of the ashes.

In the next moment, the ashes swept over his body with the force of a city on fire.

"Boom—"

Because Lin Yi’s body was already capable of bearing ashes, he wasn’t burned immediately, but the current ashes weren’t normal ashes—they were reignited flames!

Under the burning of the ash flames, Lin Yi’s body began to turn red at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming like a red-hot iron brand in just a few breaths.

His body became increasingly crimson, gradually transparent as if you could see the veins, muscles, and even the bone framework inside.

His perception also seemed to be ignited, with a strong burning pain permeating his consciousness, reaching deep into his spirit, making him feel like his soul was extracted from his body and thrown into Avici Hell.

This burning sensation was akin to sticking a hand into fire, but if that were all, it wouldn’t be as bad—the key was that he wasn’t just putting his hand into the fire; he was dismantling iron blocks inside it!

"Deconstruct the ashes! Must deconstruct the ashes!!"

Lin Yi’s heart roared incessantly, as the burning perception tendrils struggled within the ashes, desperately capturing any trace of supernatural power.

Ashes should be some exceedingly high-level supernatural power!

Theoretically, any energy could be deconstructed!

Yet, no matter how hard he tried to capture any trace of supernatural power within the ashes, the burning ashes were as splendid as fireworks, making his perception tendrils unable to get close, incinerated as soon as they touched the ashes.

"This approach is like a drop in the ocean, my perception isn’t enough for the ashes to burn!"

Lin Yi gritted his teeth tightly, his face flushed red, beads of sweat the size of soybeans oozing from his forehead as his school uniform became soaked.

Why is there no logic?!

Supernatural... even supernatural power shouldn’t be illogical!

Even "Qi" must have its source and trajectory!

"’Source’?! That’s it! The source!!"

"Wait... wait!"

At a critical moment, Lin Yi’s mind seemed to recall what Tian Bufan had once said—understand the rules, abide by the rules, become the rules, and then... transcend the rules!

"To deconstruct ashes, I must first become ashes!"

"Become ’ashes’!"

"That’s it! That’s it!!"

If external deconstruction is impossible, then slowly feel it from the inside!

He then retracted the perception tendrils, ceasing futile struggles, instead guiding the ashes into his own body, merging them with the portion of ashes he was carrying inside...

The fusion process was by no means comfortable; it was ultimately a form of alternative carrying, in which Lin Yi essentially directly attracted that part of the burning ashes into his body.

As a result, his flesh was nearly burned into ashes within these flames, leaving only a golden skeleton wrapping his organs and head, standing firm in the fire.

Like a Naked clothes Evil Spirit Knight, or perhaps a... "Husband Bai Gui."

His flesh indeed couldn’t bear the burning ashes, but his Bone Golden Body, having been tempered and polished by the high-level Extraordinary Creation—the Quantum giant clock "Holy Hall," was now unafraid of such flames.

Rather than him bearing the burning ashes, it was more accurate to say his bones were tough enough not to be burned.

At this point, Lin Yi knew well the next step—recreate a body!

Except this time, he needed to mix the burning ashes into the "raw materials" together!

He began to reshape his body...

While reshaping, he sensed the volatile and destructive breath within the burning ashes.

Gradually, the initial flesh started to grow on his surface, each strand of muscle fiber spreading like ancient tree roots breaking through the cracked earth, eventually covering the entire exterior.

Nonetheless, the growth process emitted an eerie visual, with a kind of crimson-gold brilliance flowing within the muscle fibers, the light and heat of burning ashes.

As the flesh continuously regenerated, Lin Yi’s surface began to exhibit a bizarre, diamond-like dazzling radiance.

From afar, his body seemed like a humanoid silhouette pieced together with countless shards of glass...

"This... I...?"

Lin Yi raised his arm in front of him, repeatedly observing the glass and diamond-like texture of the flesh under burning ashes, filled with indescribable terror and astonishment.

Because he had seen such an image before, on that "Ashen Apostle," that "Conceptual level sculpture"!

"This, how could this...?"

At this moment, a familiar yet unfamiliar whistling noise, like a train speeding through a tunnel, suddenly rang by his ears.

"Clang clang clang...!!"

"Clang clang clang...!!"

Unlike before, this time, the sound was more intense and rapid than ever.

His spirit blurred, and a mirage appeared before his eyes, feeling like he was thrown into a sunroom filled with chaotic mirrors and glass, countless disordered lights and shadows arranged in front of him...

He became oblivious to gravity and sound, the world quiet as though leaving only the sound of breathing.

"Hoo, hoo, hoo..."

He felt like he was moving in some corridor...

But there were no footsteps, at least, he couldn’t hear his own footsteps.

In this chaotic world, he drifted forward, ultimately stopping before a door.

He looked at the room number.

"Group B, Class 2."