Chapter 398

Under Bai Ze's protection, Mu Yi finally opened his eyes after a long time.

His eyes were already full of the marks of time's baptism.

"How do you feel?" Bai Ze sized up Mu Yi, his eyes tinged with three parts envy.

Even he couldn't obtain such an opportunity, yet this kid Mu Yi could experience it directly—truly enviable.

"It feels like I've gone through a lot..." Mu Yi felt a bit dazed, but soon sensed the surging power within his body.

"A hundred lifetimes of reincarnation with divine power bestowed..." Bai Ze's tone was extremely complex.

Ordinary people who enter reincarnation basically forget their past lives entirely; even if someone is enlightened, they are ultimately weakened by reincarnation. Even an emperor like Donghuang Emperor, after falling into reincarnation, now finds it hard to recover fully, becoming only Lü Dongbin.

But Mu Yi was directly shoved into reincarnation by Hou Tu, experiencing a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.

During this process, Mu Yi personally experienced true reincarnation, and between the hundred lifetimes he absorbed the divine power granted by Hou Tu's protection.

Although such power, not even worthy of immortals or gods, could be slapped to death by Bai Ze with a single palm, this opportunity of undergoing a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation without any loss is something even Bai Ze, who knows everything, cannot replicate.

"I seem to have grown stronger..." Mu Yi glanced at his Zongwang Panel.

Name: Mu Yi

Biological Level: 34.

Professional Level: General LV10, Lord of Reincarnation LV24

Six Paths Reincarnation: Heavenly Human Path LV4, Human Path LV4, Asura Path LV4, Hell Path LV4, Hungry Ghost Path LV4, Animal Realm LV4.

Not only was it a level increase, but more importantly, Mu Yi gained insight into reincarnation.

"Why not find an opponent to test it?"

Mu Yi nodded; indeed, real combat is the best way to test progress.

White Marsh reached under the Ghost Gate, pulled out a demigod-level ghost king, and threw it to Mu Yi.

The demigod ghost king wanted to flee, but White Marsh threw out a light shield, trapping Mu Yi and the ghost king inside.

The enraged ghost king charged straight at Mu Yi.

Mu Yi precisely pointed at the ghost king's forehead; under White Marsh's twitching-mouth gaze, the ghost king's form continually changed, its strength declining step by step: from demigod to high-level Legend, from high-level Legend to Legend, from Legend to Transcendent...

Finally, it could not even maintain its form, turning into a speck of true spirit that sank into the earth to be reincarnated.

White Marsh waved its claws, then pulled out an even stronger one from below, but Mu Yi still sent it to reincarnation with a single finger.

"Try this move on me!" White Marsh estimated the power of the divine ability and said to Mu Yi.

Mu Yi raised his eyebrows, then, as White Marsh said, applied the great divine ability he had mastered from experiencing a hundred reincarnations onto White Marsh's body.

The divine ability lasted only a moment before White Marsh broke free.

"Holy smokes, you actually cultivated it!" White Marsh exclaimed repeatedly.

He couldn't believe that Mu Yi, an ant he could crush with one hand, had actually cultivated a true great divine ability, comparable to Kong Xuan's five-colored divine light.

"Is this thing really that unbelievable?"

Mu Yi watched White Marsh almost jumping up; it was still the first time he had seen White Marsh like this.

"With your puny strength, this divine ability can even affect me; do you understand what that signifies?" White Marsh lay on the ground, somewhat in pain.

Why make him witness this? Is this Hou Tu Niangniang's punishment for him? Compared to bodily harm, this mental blow left White Marsh listless like a wilted eggplant.

"What effect on you?" Mu Yi looked at White Marsh but couldn't discern any change.

"Just now, my mana regressed by a day's cultivation!" White Marsh didn't want to speak to Mu Yi; he just wanted to find a quiet place.

Mu Yi being able to affect it is no different from an ant using a lever to lift the earth—utterly unimaginable.

"One day?" Mu Yi's mouth twitched; what kind of effect is that?

However, from White Marsh's description, he also understood what the effect of this great divine ability, presumably named "Reincarnation," in its embryonic form actually was.

To make a person undergo reincarnation, thereby positively or negatively weakening the opponent's mana.

You are indeed strong now, but if you had met me in your previous life, you would have suffered greatly.

Of course, Mu Yi cannot currently make people undergo reverse reincarnation directly, but he can make them grow younger.

A forty-year-old you is invincible under heaven, but I will directly turn you back to a three-year-old you; how would you cope?

"By the way, a reminder: this thing's effect is greatly reduced on those with firm will, and it's useless against those with invulnerable great divine abilities; at least it's useless on you now!"

White Marsh looked at the contemplative Mu Yi and gave a reminder.

"Thanks!" Mu Yi, hearing this, solemnly bowed; with White Marsh's judgment, he saved himself the verification time.

"Hurry up and get stronger; the reason Hou Tu Niangniang has never formally taken you as a disciple is that you're too weak to bear this karma!"

"It's best not to involve yourself in Jiuzhou affairs until you have strength matching your heavenly sovereign; the waters there are too deep for you to handle!"

White Marsh didn't know what state of mind he was in, and he gave Mu Yi two instructions.

After waiting for Mu Yi to thank him and leave, White Marsh narrowed his eyes, stared at the place where Mu Yi had gone, and fell into contemplation.

He knew too much, had experienced too much, so he sensed a hint of something unusual.

"Hopefully I'm overthinking it..."

White Marsh turned his head to look behind him at the Ghost Gate; vaguely, he felt he had been placed here, as if from the start it had been a scheme.

However, this scheme, on one hand, kicks out this uncertain factor—himself—and on the other hand, also protects himself.

At least in this Underworld, with Hou Tu Niangniang presiding, it's absolutely impossible for anyone to harm him.

"Knowing too much is also a trouble!"

White Marsh closed his eyes and lay down again before the Ghost Gate.

"But what does this have to do with me?"

"I'm just a lonely prison guard!"

……

Returning to his own world, Mu Yi's heart lingered on White Marsh's words.

Although his strength had clearly increased, for some reason Mu Yi felt a tension in his heart, an extremely uneasy feeling.

"Someone wants to deal with me?"

After experiencing a hundred cycles of reincarnation, Mu Yi's perception had become quite powerful; this omen‑like warning is also an ability granted by his perception.

"Can't stop moving!"

Mu Yi made a direct choice, selecting a massive battle world within the network and diving into it.

The best way to advance, naturally, is to fight, to wage war.

Jiuzhou offers many opportunities, but also many risks; White Marsh's reminder made him think of much, and for him, nothing was more important than continuing to improve his strength.

【Universal Locust Plague】

Battle scene: Super‑Giant

Battle minimum level restriction: Level 1

Battle recommended challenge levels: 10–40

Mission description: Life originates from an Instinctual desire to reproduce.

The old overlord perished in the disaster, and a new era arrived.

Dinosaurs were erased by the calamity, the age of insects was replaced by mammals, and now the primates' end will come after several thousand years.

Amid this annihilation, the fate of 【Breeding】 emerges; swarms of insects rush into the cosmos, beginning to devour everything.

Defeat the swarms, or be swallowed by them.

PS: This battle will encounter an extremely large number of opponents; proceed with caution.

Even from the description alone, one can feel endless war unfolding within this battle world.

Mu Yi naturally chose this world as his first stop for advancement.

A gloomy sky poured down unpleasant rain, while a continuous screeching thunder rumbled; all this made one think the sky was weeping, shedding a sea of tears.

Within the pitch‑black clouds, it seemed as if the spirits of the dead drifted, blurred in the twisted rain curtain; that strange gray made one feel, after staring for a while, as if being drawn in.

Beside the chaotic, muddy road, a flicker in the void appeared, and someone who did not belong to this world emerged.

The instant Mu Yi appeared, the pouring rain suddenly paused for a moment, as if an illusion.

The hazy vapor twisted the rain curtain, rising ethereally like an unreal illusion, blurring his figure.

The filth on the ground, repelled by an unknown force, flowed outward; amid the torrential rain, a space without any trace of water appeared.

Mu Yi held up a barrier and looked around, seeing a ruined scene, as if the entire world were heading toward destruction.

Suddenly, sensing something, he lifted his head, gazing puzzled at the dark clouds above; his sight seemed able to pierce the black clouds and reach some far‑away place.

In an instant, his gaze passed through the hazy rain, the black clouds, the restless atmosphere, and pierced into the vacuum of an endless abyss.

He surged forward, toward the distant direction, and finally a pitch‑black celestial body loomed close before his eyes.

It was the sun.

Mu Yi's pupils shed the black and pallor, turning into a terrifying brilliance; the Thousand-Mile Eye Divine Ability was pushed to its limit.

I behold a ladle of water containing forty‑eight thousand insects, gazing at the ten‑direction world as if viewing patterns from a palm.

In Mu Yi's sight, the burning celestial body still churned, as if after long suppression it were about to erupt wildly.

Yet the surrounding black, oppressive matter encircled the sun, snatching away all its light.

Instinctively, he sensed that what surrounded the sun was extremely dangerous.

The next moment, he saw clearly.

They were insects.

Yes, insects.

The sun's surface heat is enough to incinerate everything, yet an endless swarm of insects greedily encircles the sun, devouring its light and heat, then engaging in relentless breeding.

These countless insects made him perceive an almost unmistakable malice within them.

Yes, malice.

The perception that connects heaven and earth told Mu Yi that these insects had no other emotions, only the most primal breeding, and this breeding even twisted everything around.

In other words, these insects are breeding with the sun through this twisted power, their numbers increasing ceaselessly.

"Such a scene is probably playing out in every corner of the galaxy, right?"

Mu Yi's complexion turned faintly unpleasant; although he had estimated the swarm's numbers, seeing a quantity capable of devouring the sun still left him with an incomprehensible feeling.

"Bzzzz!"

A buzzing wing‑beat sounded as a massive insect flew toward Mu Yi, dozens of its compound eyes flashing with light.

Mu Yi read the insect's thought.

【Breeding…】

Thus, its sharp proboscis darted swiftly toward Mu Yi's body.

The next moment, the insect was seized by Mu Yi, unable to move.

Mu Yi solidified the space around the insect.

"Very weak..."

After observing for a moment, Mu Yi casually crushed the insect.

Undoubtedly, this insect was very weak, so weak that an ordinary human could eliminate it with a weapon.

But the real danger was that this insect emitted a strange vibration; if an ordinary person were exposed to it, they would gradually be assimilated by the vibration.

First, they would become obsessed with breeding, then their bloodlines would be twisted, and finally they would become the insect's host, birthing insects and serving as nourishment for the insects' propagation.

"A hopeless world!"

Mu Yi felt a chill through his whole body; he could not be sure what a human gathering point in this world might now look like.

A single insect's influence is indeed slight, but these insects lack nothing in quantity.

Moreover, their numbers are constantly increasing.

Mu Yi raised his head and looked toward the direction of the sun…

"Buzz—"

After Mu Yi crushed the first worm, the nearby swarm, as if having received some signal, began to gather toward Mu Yi's direction.

Moreover, within the swarm, there were some huge worms exuding even greater power.

These worms, as large as trucks, stirred up a torrent; their massive bodies, with incongruous agility and speed, surged forward instantly, spewing viscous digestive fluid from their mouthparts, corroding the ground into foul-smelling depressions.

In a silent roar, the ground again bulged with small mounds; hundreds of worms leapt out of the earth, then surrounded Mu Yi at the center, launching an attack with the intent to devour him.

"Worms everywhere!"

Mu Yi opened the Asura Path; a Blood Sea surged forth from the void, washing away all the worms surrounding him completely.

They are numerous, but extremely fragile; even those worms the size of trucks are no exception.

According to Mu Yi's estimate, an ordinary Legend could slaughter these worms completely.

"But… is it my imagination? Why do I feel that these worms grow stronger when they gather together?"

Mu Yi pondered, reaching out to summon the soul of a worm; even as it became a remnant soul, the soul still murmured with the desire to reproduce.

"Even if the body is destroyed, the thought of reproduction is etched into the soul—truly a terrifying thing!"

Mu Yi cast it into the Hell Path to be burned; if he were to throw these worms' souls straight into the Animal Realm without processing, it would likely affect the entire Reincarnation Barrier.

"Buzz……"

A sky‑covering swarm of worms flew toward Mu Yi to attack.

"Now there's something to kill!"

The Blood Sea surged, devouring the sky‑covering worms; all their flesh and blood would become nourishment for the Blood Sea, and all their souls would become fuel for the flames.

(End of chapter)