Chapter 449: Shikon Jewel Shard

The nuclear explosion dissipated, and the remains of Qingyun completely transformed into a mass of flesh so deformed it was rotting; Bai Cangshu pointed a finger expressionlessly, and a Dodon Ray instantly blasted the flesh until it completely vanished.

At this moment, Osaka, where Bai Cangshu was located, had completely turned into a wasteland; the shopping street was razed to the ground, leaving only broken ruins of steel and concrete.

Most of the collapsed buildings were completely carbonized, with more than half of their frames still remaining.

Bai Cangshu walked among them; there was not a sound left in this world, and within the perception range of his 【Heart Net】, there was no sign of any life.

This was the price of the Multi-faceted Alien communicating with him once; countless people he had seen and had not seen had all turned to dust.

Oka Hachiro, who could be considered talented in this world, as well as any Reincarnators who might have been hiding somewhere in the city, would all die in this explosion.

Bai Cangshu took one last look at the monsters on the ground that hadn't even left bones behind; feeling somewhat regretful, he took out the 【Ace's Single-Person Boat】, stepped onto it, and lightning surged from beneath his feet.

Because of the effect of 【Imperial Thunder Prison Scripture】 lv1 and the acquisition of the new energy system 【Current Drive】, the lightning Bai Cangshu could now command and control was much more powerful than before.

Using this item to fly was basically considered to have zero consumption.

The Cloud Dial gushed, and Bai Cangshu shot straight into the sky; he crushed the Drop Card of Hyakki, but in his heart, he was thinking about his conversation with the Multi-faceted Alien.

Regarding the 【Observer】, what he could think of was the famous 【Guanzhezhexiaoying】, which roughly describes how the act of observation produces an effect on the observed.

The most intuitive example is in the double-slit interference experiment, where the wave-particle duality of photons changes depending on whether they are observed or not; they manifest as particles when observed, but manifest as waves when not observed.

The fact that such an objective entity can change due to the subjective act of a third party like observation has given rise to many terrifying conjectures.

And the 【Observer】 described by the Multi-faceted Alien is likely such a concept; they believe that there exists a high-dimensional existence that observes the world, the universe, and all things, and it is because of their observation that the world manifests in different appearances and postures.

This level of power is too high, already transcending the scope that Bai Cangshu can currently reach.

But combined with the 【Information】 theory championed by both the Multi-faceted Alien and the Space, Bai Cangshu generated many conjectures.

Then, there is the so-called 【Heart】.

Bai Cangshu knows that the reason the Multi-faceted Alien said his soul weight was extraordinary might be because he was shattered by Saitamu's Serious Punch, and then repaired by Kageyama Shigeo using Golden Soul Fragments he obtained from the Pirate World.

Whether it was Saitamu's conceptual attack or those Golden Soul fragments, they all remained within his soul.

But even if Bai Cangshu activated 【Super Limit Spiral】, he could not capture the influence of this change on himself.

Whether it was actual power or the influence on his thinking and emotions, he perceived absolutely nothing, and neither the Goddess nor the Space displayed any abnormalities.

"Heh, 【Heart】 is truly unfathomable, formless and imageless."

Bai Cangshu raised his head, recalling the 【Black King】 he had met; the other party was indeed unimaginably powerful, and even if he didn't have that overwhelming, completely unmatchable feeling that Saitamu gave him, that dense despair and the feeling that the entire world had merged into one with him made it impossible to feel any possibility of victory.

Does that kind of power have anything to do with 【Heart】...

Bai Cangshu did not even realize himself that all his concern for 【Heart】 was linked to power; he did not care about the heart, what he cared about, in the end, was power.

【You have opened the Drop Card: Demon King Hyakki】

【You have obtained 2500 Dimension Points】

【You have obtained Material: Hyakki Core (Rare and Peerless)】

【You have obtained Item: Shikon Jewel Shard (Purple)】

Bai Cangshu's attention returned due to this quite successful draw, and he also detached from that rare state of contemplation.

Things too far away did not have much meaning for Bai Cangshu; he greedily wanted to obtain the power of the 【Black King】 and 【Saitamu】, but he was not sure how much of that power was composed of something like 【Heart】 that he could not understand at all.

That was why he explored, and why he communicated with the Multi-faceted Alien.

But in the end, only the power held in one's hand is the true, undeniable power!

【Shikon Jewel Shard (Small)】

【Quality: Rare and Peerless】

【Description: A jewel shard condensed from the pure soul of a great priestess from an era of monsters and the souls of many great demons】

【Usage Requirement: Possess Demon Power or possess spirit-related abilities】

【Effect 1: After equipping, gain low-level Demon Power resistance and low-level Demon Power enhancement Tese】

【Effect 2: Devouring this item or implanting it into the body will greatly amplify attributes such as spiritual power and Demon Power, but at the same time, you will be influenced by the souls within the jewel】

【Effect 3: This shard can be fused with other shards; with each fusion, the effect will be amplified until it becomes a complete state】

This Shikon Jewel Shard was likely of the smallest category, only the size of a corner of a lens, but Bai Cangshu could indeed feel a quite intense power from it.

If this thing did not essentially belong to a different system than the Hyakki of this world, it could indeed produce a significant amplification for him.

Bai Cangshu looked at Effect 2 of this Shikon Jewel, at the clearly marked negative effect, and he actually had an impulse to try it.

If he could really introduce the souls of the great priestess Cuizi and the great demons and dragons of that era into his body, it would be a great enhancement for him.

Bai Cangshu had just fully experienced the power of Gojo Satoru's Limitless in the nuclear explosion; with his current Constitution, suffering a nuclear explosion at close range would originally have had a certain probability of being completely inactivated and turning into charcoal.

But with Limitless, even his Armament Haki was not completely shattered.

This rule-based Cursed Technique allowed him to completely avoid the shockwave, flames, and other damage of a close-range nuclear explosion.

Therefore, Bai Cangshu looked forward even more to accommodating more and more powerful souls, and then completely accommodating and simulating the power of these souls; by then, Bai Cangshu could completely be called the Reincarnator with the most diverse abilities.

And, there would be no need to spend resources to cultivate and upgrade these abilities.

【Scavenger ex051, about to start the third coordinate broadcast for you】

The Space did not mark Bai Cangshu as a target for elimination, nor did it intend to deploy a new Scavenger, directly starting the third round of coordinate broadcasting.

A large amount of coordinate information immediately appeared in Bai Cangshu's brain, accompanied by the current images of those coordinates.

What surprised Bai Cangshu was that the coordinates where the Reincarnators were most concentrated were in Tokyo.

And at this moment, Tokyo had not been destroyed by the nuclear explosion.

Bai Cangshu counted the number of coordinates, there were as many as seven; except for one target far away in Deguo, all other Reincarnators in this world were completely concentrated in Tokyo.

"In other words, one of the two targets that must be purged has already been teleported to Tokyo by the Multi-faceted Alien..."

Bai Cangshu associated this with the agreement the Multi-faceted Alien reached with him without speaking; the other party likely placed it on this purge target.

Thinking of this, the corners of Bai Cangshu's mouth curled up; he was very curious, in the eyes of a high-dimensional race like the Multi-faceted Alien, what kind of bargaining chip they thought he would accept without needing to communicate with him.

He understood this point when he returned to the sky above Tokyo and watched the monsters crashing into the city below; at the same time, he also knew why the nuclear explosion did not destroy Tokyo.

A monster covered in scales, with several huge spikes standing on its back, extremely similar to Godzilla in film and television works, was rampaging in the urban area of Dongjing Shi.

Shibuya had completely fallen, with a large number of armed helicopters hovering above the city, and Bai Cangshu could also see many members of the Black Ball Squad appearing on the roofs of various high-rise buildings; presumably, those Japan financial conglomerates had issued new missions.

But Bai Cangshu knew very well that this monster, shaped like Godzilla, was a gift given to him by the Multi-faceted Alien, and it was one of the... Reincarnators he had to eliminate.

(End of this chapter)