Chapter 362: Fullbring, The Sword That Severs the Heart (3k)

Bai Cangshu looked at the woman's upper body in his hands, lifting her head to meet his gaze.

He did not see a kill notification.

This woman clearly possessed some kind of Regeneration ability, but unfortunately...

Bai Cangshu tapped the woman's forehead lightly, the Senluo Death Intent within his body surging.

Pingye fell from the air, stumbling two steps, a look of fear already on his face.

The rumors were true; Tao Baibai was indeed a Monster with Breaking the Rules level combat power, and neither he nor Meilishanzhuo were any match for him...

If Xiluo hadn't intervened, he likely would have been severely wounded in an instant.

And Xiluo...

Pingye felt a chill in his heart at this moment.

"Tsk, how heartless. Are you the type who intentionally puts on airs and lets your teammates test the enemy's combat Intelligence?"

Pfft!

Just as red light ignited on 【Meilishanzhuo】's body, the Senluo Death Intent erupted from Bai Cangshu's hand; he struck, and a crisp sound of a skull being tapped echoed out.

The red light dissipated instantly.

【You have killed Reincarnator bv67432988】

【You have killed a Reincarnator in a Team Survival Mode world; this kill cannot generate a Scarlet Drop Card】

【Based on the effect of Evil God Omen: Cocoon of Greed, this kill grants 1 Sin Point, forces the generation of a Scarlet Drop Card, and increases rewards by 50%】

Xiluo exhaled a breath of stale air, watching the Blessing of the Lord of Light on Meilishanzhuo extinguish as the space notification popped up at the same time.

His teammate had been taken away once again.

He tilted his head back and sighed, his voice sounding both pained and pleasurable.

"Tao Baibai, you have mastered an 【Instant Death】 type ability; no wonder you could kill a guy like the Thousand-Year Worm..."

He opened his eyes again, intense Spirit Particles gathering within them until his eyes seemed to turn a silvery-white color.

"But you got one thing wrong. I am not that kind of heartless person. On the contrary, I cherish my teammates. No, I love them..."

The man's tone was ethereal, and the Spiritual Pressure Wave on his body grew increasingly intense. Even though Luoka and the others had retreated several hundred meters, they still felt uncomfortable; that heavy sensation was as if a giant boulder were pressing down on their hearts, making it impossible to breathe.

"I don't just treat them as teammates; I treat them as friends, as family, as lovers..."

Bai Cangshu looked at the man in the white suit, whose mental state had clearly fallen into an abnormality, and the corners of his mouth curled up. In this space, ordinary people who were too serious were mostly mediocre; it was often these mentally deranged lunatics who could carve out a special path.

【Xiluo】's tone was rhythmic, as if he were chanting something while speaking of his "love" for his teammates, which suddenly made Pingye, who had already retreated to give up the main battlefield, feel a surge of nausea.

He had keen intuition. Although 【Xiluo】 didn't treat him too badly usually and would save him during missions, and was even a bed partner to the red-robed woman Meilishanzhuo...

But...

Every time they encountered a strong enemy, he always had a strange feeling that Xiluo remained detached from the battlefield.

Although he would always strike first and use his 【Ghost Way】 ability to save them at critical moments, Pingye did not dare to pin his hopes on Xiluo.

The reason this 【5569】 team, despite having a Title-level Reincarnator, hadn't fixed their team name to something with special meaning and instead kept this number was because their personnel were very unstable.

Pingye had joined the team five missions ago; Meilishanzhuo had likely joined a mission or two earlier.

But at this moment, Meilishanzhuo had been killed right in front of Xiluo.

Xiluo slowly drew the black Tachi at his waist, Spirit Particles constantly manifesting from the blade.

Xiluo held the blade vertically between his brows.

"Because of love, there is pain."

"Because of possession, there is loss."

"Therefore, draw the blade..."

Intense Spiritual Pressure lit up from the blade of the black Tachi. In just an instant, the blade in Xiluo's hand seemed to transform into a blue-white Tachi of light.

"Tsk, not a Zanpakuto. And here I was prepared to witness a Zanpakuto Release..."

Bai Cangshu's mouth curved downward, his expression of keen interest turning indifferent.

——

Hongchen was bound in the air by Tatsumaki's Psychokinesis. As the vehicle was roughly intercepted by Bai Cangshu, he spun a few times before being tossed aside along with the vehicle.

He could only try his best to observe the battlefield with the corner of his eye without triggering Tatsumaki's restrictions.

The frontal battlefield was undoubtedly a duel between Tao Baibai and that 【Soul Artificer Xiluo】. Xiluo likely mastered some kind of 【Fullbring】. Judging from the Intelligence from 【Chaos End】, it was probably some troublesome rule-based ability.

Hongchen really disliked fighting such opponents; either the opponent didn't have time to use their ability and was killed by him instantly, or their disgusting abilities made it difficult for him to act freely.

Meanwhile, the other battlefield was quiet. 【Sera】, whose figure had become transparent, was constantly unleashing Psychokinesis impacts, summoning whirlwinds, and using Superpower enhancements like muscle strengthening.

But no matter how you looked at it, it was just bombarding the air.

The 【Heart Demon】 ability was bizarre, and Hongchen didn't know its specific origins, only that most Reincarnators skilled in perception found it difficult to track the 【Heart Demon】 unless it chose to reveal itself.

And based on the 【Heart Demon】's past actions, it was highly likely that it also mastered some kind of rule-based ability, and one related to various curses.

Hongchen watched as 【Sera】 kept bombarding the air while moving further and further away from the battlefield. He knew this "mass-produced" Title-level was afraid and preparing to flee.

But in this kind of battle, once you felt fear, the fight was basically over.

Sure enough, the next moment, he saw Sera slowly deactivate his invisibility, standing on the asphalt road with a pale, greenish complexion.

He seemed to see some terrifying scene; his eyes began to bulge, becoming more and more prominent, until finally, both eyes fell directly out of their sockets.

The whole person began to wail.

That scene was quite comical.

"Hahaha..."

Hongchen laughed out loud. He couldn't escape at the moment, but precisely because of Tatsumaki's restrictions, he wasn't afraid of anyone attacking him.

Whether he died or not was one thing, but attacking him now would inevitably alert Tatsumaki.

Once the Monster that was Tatsumaki was dragged into the battle between these Reincarnators, no one could bear the consequences.

Clap, clap, clap.

Crisp applause rang out; Hongchen instinctively wanted to clap his hands, only to find he could not move at all.

His body stiffened, and ignoring that the restriction would only tighten with his movements, he turned his head to look behind him.

There, a man draped in an expensive coat leaned leisurely against an overturned black sedan; seeing Hongchen turn back, the man revealed a chilling smile.

"Hongchen, I heard you betrayed me and have been leading them to find me..."

The man reached out and tapped the center of Hongchen's brow; Hongchen felt as if the spot being touched were splitting open, a burning, stinging pain.

That was not any sort of ability, but his own fear...

He had begun to feel fear simply because he was touched by the other party.

The carefree smile on Hongchen's face slowly vanished; his expression shifted several times, and he turned his head with effort to continue scanning his surroundings. The surrounding Psychokinesis tightened further, and the blood in his body began to circulate poorly.

But Hongchen still looked around, searching for the others who were hiding.

"Hongchen, you are still the same, always using a carefree exterior to hide your own little schemes."

"Pretending to join the 【Chaos Sage】 while actually wanting to kill me to avenge your friends."

"Secretly consuming the 【Reverse Universe】 but not daring to take the initiative to challenge a strong enemy and expose yourself, deliberately bringing up Tao Baibai following the Flower Immortal's words so that I would logically arrange for you to go."

"At this moment, you are again pretending to observe the enemy's situation, while actually wanting to use this restriction to kill yourself, gambling your hope on the Three Turns of the 【Reverse Universe】, and probably still harboring the hope that Tatsumaki will sense the change in the restriction and rush back to kill me?"

The man shook his head, and Hongchen's face was already ashen; all his little schemes could not escape the calculations of the 【Sage】.

The Sage opened his hands and wiped them across the space behind him; as if a scroll were being torn open, the surroundings were not a wilderness road at all, but a massive city less than ten kilometers from this battlefield.

In that sky, a giant black humanoid creature was confronting Tatsumaki, who was radiating green light, from across the air. Both sides seemed to control all space; the city was completely distorted, beginning to disintegrate from the center, and large blocks of streets rose into the air as if they had lost gravity.

The Sage watched this scene and reached out to press his hand on Hongchen's head.

"Look, even Tatsumaki is not invincible. Plot Characters are just Plot Characters; Reincarnators are the true 【Players】..."

The Sage began to apply force with his hand, and he spoke, his voice seemingly echoing in the air.

"I say, after you die this time, the 【Reverse Universe】 will no longer have any effect."

Hongchen shuddered, and a certain panic suddenly arose in his heart; had the effect of 【Reverse Universe】 been stripped away?

Or was the 【Sage】 just intimidating him?

Facing a Sage capable of modifying 【Cognition】, Hongchen could not capture any real information at all.

The amusement in the Sage's eyes grew more mischievous; he lightly patted Hongchen's head and said regretfully,

"What a pity, I had originally planned to keep playing the 'enduring humiliation to seek revenge' drama with you for a while longer~"

Ring!

A massive blue-white blade light flared.

The Sage also sensed the power of this sword and turned his head back.

"Xiluo's Fullbring can transform his pain into power. He did not lie; he truly loves his teammates pathologically, but it is precisely because of love that he wants to feel the pain of his loved ones dying more deeply..."

"This is a sword that can sever all love, joy, and bonds in a person's heart. Even a beast like Tao Baibai must have things that cannot be cut away, right? Hongchen, before you die, you must also want to see the beast howling, right..."

Pfft!

Bai Cangshu Wind-Turning and leaped two kilometers away in an instant, but Xiluo ignored it and slashed straight down.

"It's useless, Tao Baibai. You killed Meilishanzhuo; you have karma with this sword... you cannot hide from it."

Pfft!

Fresh blood instantly gushed from Bai Cangshu's chest, and a sharp pain followed.

But the next moment, Bai Cangshu's muscles tightened, the wound stopped bleeding instantly, granulation tissue pulsed, and the wound healed in an instant.

Bai Cangshu frowned, looked down at his body, and then looked at the space panel.

He seemed... indeed to have not been affected at all.

"What effect did you say... this sword of yours had?"

(End of chapter)