Light Fortress
Chapter 213 - 198 Reverse Flow

Chapter 213: Chapter 198 Reverse Flow

Gu Shen and Song Ci, one on each side, were supporting Madam as they had just left Freedom Hall.

"Beep!"

A warning alert sounded in Deep Sea’s channel.

"Warning!"

"Warning!"

"Illegal intrusion, location coordinates Y489, E321, illegal intrusion, location coordinates..."

The three-dimensional image was transmitted immediately—it was the abandoned building where Chen Mei was detained!

The special investigation team’s private channel had always maintained a link and had never been disconnected.

Gu Shen spoke quietly, "Teacher... someone has made a transcendent intrusion!"

The voice of the old fellow on the other side of the channel was unusually calm.

"Hmm."

"???"

What kind of response was that.

Chen Mei was an important member of the special investigation team and was forcibly detained by the Judgement Institute in the name of "protection." Should any mishap occur... South Bay would have to go directly to the Judgement Institute for settlement!

And upon hearing this ominous message of an intruder... Zhou Jiren could actually reply so calmly with a "message received"?

"That..."

Zhou Jiren paused for a moment, then issued an order.

"Nan Jin, why don’t you accompany Gu Shen in looking after Madam? I’ll take care of the follow-up here at the hall."

"???" Gu Shen fell silent once again.

"Deep Sea’s response is slower than I imagined... As expected, ’Xiao’ was able to borrow some of Deep Sea’s authority," the old man muttered in the private channel. "Three minutes ago, the [Holy Wood] was already damaged."

Lu Nanjin, who had hurried to meet at the entrance of the hall, exchanged a look with Gu Shen, and both fell silent.

The Holy Wood being damaged meant that this was a "jailbreak"!

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes; Xiao indeed had more than one plan for tonight... Hypnotizing Freedom Hall, repairing the [Dissolving Dream], and taking his own body were only some of them.

The ball tonight was extremely important; almost every high-ranking member had come to Freedom Hall, and all of Da Du’s attention was focused here.

And correspondingly... other places seemed dull and unimportant.

To dazzle in the noisy crowd.

To stealthily advance in deserted places.

Such a masterful stroke...

"Alert canceled, alert canceled..."

Deep Sea’s transmission sounded again.

This nonchalant voice signified that all crises had been resolved as if a light breeze had brushed them away... but hearing this sound did not bring peace to the heart; instead, it evoked eeriness and unfathomable thoughts.

All of this had happened without warning.

And then ended without warning.

Through the voice communication, one couldn’t see Zhou Jiren’s expression at that moment, but Gu Shen had already felt the Old Fox’s terrifying nature. The reason they could relax at Freedom Hall tonight... must be because precautions had been taken in advance.

That old building where Chen Mei was detained must have had a big trap laid out!

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"Damn..."

It was hard to imagine that such a crude word could come from Ye Ningqiu’s mouth.

Her forehead was covered in a fine sweat as she looked at the empty wilderness in front of her.

Just a moment of distraction.

Or maybe it started from the last syllable of the elder’s ending... The world within her field of vision was enveloped by a great rule, with countless blades of grass pulsating with [Reverse Flow].

The tornado expanding in mid-air, not even having time to wail, was immediately dissipated, reinserted into the ground.

It was as if someone had hit the rewind button.

And so... time truly reversed.

There was no way she could think of to bring a dead person back to life.

But now she was witnessing it.

Time reversal.

"*Burp*..."

The wine bottle was flung to the floor, and Mr. Bai gave a slow belch. The curly-haired young man who had been in front of him had vanished... And at that moment, Ye Ningqiu’s spiritual power, which had been spreading far and wide, faintly sensed a familiar presence.

It was Chen Mei’s presence.

In...the very first old building.

At this moment, the woman’s face truly began to turn a shade whiter than snow, realizing that this was an entity she absolutely could not contend with... If there really were "gods" in this world, would this old fellow count as one?

She had yet to see the rumored True God, invincible with the fire in hand.

But the drunken drunkard in front of her had definitely transcended the category of "human"!

Run!

Ye Ningqiu began to sprint, racing back the way she had come like a madwoman. Fortunately, the elements here obeyed her intuition, and a storm of leaves howled; in a mere second, she had glided hundreds of meters.

But the next moment.

She was back where she started.

It was an eerie, disordered scene, completely unspliceable on the timeline because both cause and effect had been snapped... She inexplicably felt a suffocating pain, her spiritual power still immersed in flight, while her material world experience had returned to the moment before the "start" of the escape.

This kind of scene.

Only appeared in "Dreams".

"You seem to really enjoy ’plundering’... Invading a body, then commandeering some special Extraordinary Ability," Bai Shu said, looking at the woman. His eyes pierced through that shell, staring directly at the thread of spirit in the woman’s mind that had plummeted into madness.

Was this thread of spirit finding it difficult to withstand the muddle brought about by Reverse Flow?

Bai Shu spread his arms, chuckled softly, and in a gentle voice invited, "Why not try... to seize ’my flesh’? If you take this ability, you could beat anyone in today’s East Continent, perhaps even challenge a True God."

Ye Ningqiu roared.

She no longer fled but charged directly at Bai Shu.

From her forehead, a thread of blood-red flame seeped out. She opened her lips, as if to devour food, and bit violently into Bai Shu’s shoulder.

But the next instant.

Reverse Flow!

She was back where she started.

Confused for a moment, "Ye Ningqiu" lunged forward again.

Reverse Flow.

With each iteration of Reverse Flow, the delicate spirit had to endure immense pain, struggling to discern between reality and illusion... Bai Shu’s power of Reverse Flow was even more ferocious than Zhou Yu’s Dissolving Dream.

Every activation overturned cognition.

In Yuan Dan Street’s "Point of Order Collapse," an Extraordinary Ability called "Time Reset" was born... Across the five continents, almost no Transcendents could fully develop this kind of power.

And Bai Shu... was an exceptional case.

Complete, Great Success Reverse Flow, perhaps because of age... was no longer at its peak.

But it was a power that Xiao could not resist or escape from; that thread of spirit neared collapse with each Reverse Flow. This scene mirrored the earlier one where "Ye Ningqiu" killed Chen Mei—a case of different means to the same end.

If Xiao could remotely grasp and manipulate the "flesh" of a Transcendent as his own vessel.

Then there are only two ways to kill him.

Either, find his flesh directly.

Or, directly obliterate his spirit.

Bai Shu chose the latter.

In torment through successive Reverse Flows, the thread of Blood Fire finally fell into a frenzied state of uncontrollable madness. It emerged from "Ye Ningqiu’s" forehead and crashed towards Bai Shu.

The old man, on the other hand, stretched out his palm and effortlessly caught the thread of blood-red flame.

He looked down at the Blood Fire, his voice aged but supremely authoritative.

Like an emperor high above, gazing down on a rebellious traitor.

The thread of Blood Fire struggled wildly, desperately trying to break free of its bonds, and within the flames, face after face condensed—angry, pain-ridden, crying, presenting a myriad of mortal expressions. Each face was a "face" refined by the use of Xiao’s power.

Bai Shu, expressionless, spoke to the master of Blood Fire far away.

He only said two words.

"Kneel down."

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