Chapter 286: Rotten to Death! [Today 6000, Request Monthly Tickets!]

Divine Eye?

Hearing the old man's words, Fang Can's heart stirred, recalling Luo Yanmo's Mind-Reading Art from before.

Inside the Sacred Sound Precious Temple, the Abbot heard the Third-Cycle's words and chanted a Buddhist name.

"Abbot, how did the Sacred Heart Lineage obtain our temple's Divine Eye?" an elder could not help but ask.

"Because a hundred years ago, the Sacred Heart Lineage came here late at night to request it, so I gave it to him."

The Abbot answered truthfully: "I observed that the one who requested it was an elder of the Sacred Heart Lineage, with immense murderous qi, so I also gifted him several scrolls of Buddhist scriptures to help him subdue his heart demons."

Someone comes to ask, and you just give it?

Even knowing the Abbot had cultivated to the Fourth-Cycle realm with profound Buddhist attainment, to put it nicely he had a pure heart and great love, but to put it poorly he was a blockhead.

Several elders were also speechless; how could there be no defense at all?

An elder warned: "But... giving a divine art so easily might cause great disaster."

"It is this old monk's fault," the Abbot clapped his hands and sighed:

"This old monk originally thought that anyone capable of cultivating a Buddhist divine art must have a pure heart."

"Whoever cultivates a divine art can benefit a region, so in earlier years, whoever came to request one, I gave it freely without charge; upon reflection now, I realize I lacked consideration."

"Now we have formed a great karmic bond with the Sacred Heart Lineage."

"Abbot, do you intend to intervene in the battle?" the elders asked, only to receive the Abbot's veto.

"The Fourth-Cycle experts acted first, and Fang Can retaliated afterward; this is a mundane dispute over fame and profit. As long as it does not involve disaster for the common people, we naturally have no right to interfere."

The Abbot clasped his palms and said: "But since Chi Xiao has cultivated the Divine Eye, he has formed a karmic bond with our Buddhist sect. Plus, his nature is pure. Once the dispute ends, we should guide him into the temple to spend his remaining years in peace."

After the Abbot made his decision, the many elders within the temple clasped their palms and said: "This is only right."

The perspective returned to the battlefield, where the Third-Cycle old man explained with a smile: "The Buddhist Divine Eye requires a pure heart to cultivate; once cultivated, one fears nothing and trembles at nothing."

"Because no matter how terrifying the thing, in the eyes of a cultivator who has mastered the Divine Eye, the image will be harmonized."

"Blood is seen as flowing water, gore is treated as ordinary; in the eyes of Chi Xiao who has activated the Divine Eye, everything is beautiful, so naturally he will not be startled by a jump scare."

'So the eyes come with built-in pixelation and holy light!' Fang Can looked at Chi Xiao, who had been transformed into a human-shaped weapon, and a black line appeared above his head.

Even he had to admit that this Sacred Body was flawless in every aspect, immune to any external information interference.

Eyes with pixelation, ears that create their own profanity system, a body that automatically defends, a mind that distorts reality; where did this turtle-shell inheritance come from?

However... it is not unbeatable...

A thought arose in Fang Can's mind: the Mind-Reading Art can only immunize against simple images, but what about conceptual implantation?

For example... memes?

It seems Li Huowang has a superpower related to memes; this guy is really going to become the MVP.

As Fang Can thought this, regardless of anything, he first had to separate Chi Xiao from Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu.

But that was not too difficult for him.

"Are you ready?" Fang Can asked Li Huowang through the mental link.

"OK, the skill is ready and can be used at any time," Li Huowang replied, his face immediately showing palpitations because this was truly somewhat dangerous.

"Good, teleport now," Fang Can said. As his words fell, Li Huowang vanished directly from his spot.

Within the Dead Zone, listening to the Third-Cycle old man's explanation, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's heart gradually grew joyful.

His Wuming Backflow inheritance feared instant-kill abilities the most; with Chi Xiao's Fifth-Cycle level defense right now, it was a perfect match!

He even wanted to keep Chi Xiao after this battle ended and use him as a human weapon for himself.

However, a doubt immediately rose in his heart.

Why has it been fighting for three or four minutes, and why haven't my subordinates arrived yet?

In reality, using Wuming Backflow once again, he blocked Chi Xiao's body in front of himself, intercepting Ji Donglai's fist.

Accompanied by the blinding light of high-speed explosions ringing out again within a hundred li, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu felt a hand gently press down on his shoulder.

At this moment, in the live broadcast, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's hands were tightly gripping Chi Xiao's body, refusing to let go.

Ji Donglai's right hand was tightly gripping Chi Xiao's head, while behind Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu, a man identical to Ji Donglai in appearance and clothing was gripping Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's figure.

'It's that ability user who can borrow other ability users' powers!' Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu made the judgment in his heart immediately: 'He borrowed Ji Donglai's ability; what is he going to do? Attack me?'

The answer was—teleportation!

It was teleportation used simultaneously by Ji Donglai and Li Huowang!

Before this, teleportation could only move a single whole; since Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu had been holding Chi Xiao, Ji Donglai's teleportation could only take both of them away together.

But what if two people used teleportation simultaneously?

Ji Donglai grabbed Chi Xiao, Li Huowang grabbed Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu, and the two teleported simultaneously in two different directions.

What would happen to Chi Xiao and Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu, these conjoined beings?

Whoosh—

Almost instantly, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu felt his hand go empty, and the surroundings had changed; he had arrived at a location a thousand li away.

But there was no time to think about these things, because at this moment, his absolutely defended Chi Xiao had vanished.

Moreover, due to the change in location, the Wuming Backflow used him as the origin point.

If time flowed backward 0.3 seconds at this location, Chi Xiao would not return at all, because the opponent was at Guiyun Peak 0.3 seconds ago.

'Damn copycat ability user.'

Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu, full of anger, turned around to strike Li Huowang.

But the other party's figure had already teleported back into a space inside Ji Donglai's body before his attack.

Almost immediately after the teleportation, Li Huowang's figure completely changed his appearance, transforming into an unremarkable middle-aged uncle, borrowing a new superpower.

'Wait!'

Almost in an instant, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's heart shifted from fury to delight.

Because at this moment, Rotten King Li had already exited Ji Donglai's invincible defensive state! Which meant he could be attacked!

【Unknowing Reverse Flow】

Almost in an instant, the entire world once again plunged into a stretch of pitch-black time reversal.

Within the reversed time, Ji Donglai in Rotten King Li's appearance had already retreated back from the space, and now stood before them wearing Ji Donglai's face.

Looking at the Rotten King Li before him, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu was overjoyed — no matter how many schemes they plotted, there was always one slip in a hundred.

'Your only flaw is that, to save time, you switched abilities far too hastily.'

Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's right fist struck Rotten King Li with virtually his full strength, and then he waited at ease for the damage dealt during the Unknowing Reverse Flow to be transmitted to the present.

But after the strike landed, his brow furrowed, and he vaguely sensed that something seemed off.

He'd been pressed for time just now and had no chance to think it through; only now, settling his mind, did it feel rather strange.

All of this… was it just a little too easy?

That Fang Can, who had anticipated nearly everything and countered every move like a fortune-telling immortal… would he really give him this opening?

"Not good! I've fallen for that bastard Fang Can's trap!"

Almost in an instant, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's face changed drastically.

But looking at the Rotten King Li before him whom he had already struck, the fist he'd thrown just now could not be recalled no matter what.

The 0.3 seconds of time swiftly slipped away, and as time returned to the present, the damage dealt during the time reversal was transmitted directly to this moment.

At this moment, within Ji Donglai's space, Rotten King Li didn't even have time to react — his entire body was instantly blasted into fine powder.

Facing a Fourth-Turn strike delivered with full force, a mortal's flesh and blood body couldn't hope to leave even a single remnant behind.

Rotten King Li… he's dead!

Yet nothing at all happened to Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu.

Feeling his body utterly unchanged, he breathed a sigh of relief while secretly wondering — had he simply been overthinking? Had Fang Can truly miscalculated?

As for the reaction from the superpowered side, however, it made Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's heart rise — because it was far too calm.

Fang Can's expression was utterly flat, while F-Superman showed a faint smile and cheered through the mind link that Rotten King Li, that idiot, was finally dead.

"You've noticed something's wrong too, haven't you, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu!" Fang Can said with a smile through mind-speak.

"The ability Rotten King Li exchanged for this time… is Damage Reflection!" (Mentioned in the penultimate fifth paragraph of Chapter 242's Rotten King Li Ability Compendium)

As the words fell, Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's face almost instantly turned ugly.

Fang Can said word by word: "This ability can only be activated once per day, and the damage dealt is applied proportionally to the aggressor's body — even death will trigger it."

"The only restriction on this ability is that the aggressor must learn of the ability before it can activate."

"Now… you can say goodbye to your first life!"

Listening to Fang Can's mind-speak in the livestream, a flash of disbelief crossed Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's face; he then shook his head and said: "Impossible. I'm Fourth-Turn — how could a mere mortal ability below First-Turn possibly…"

"Who ever told you we superpowered folk talk about magnitude? We talk about information depth." Fang Can said with a mocking wave of his hand.

The next instant, as the damage from the utterly, completely dead Rotten King Li reflected back in equal measure—

An invisible force acted upon Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's body, and the invincible Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's Fourth-Turn body instantly exploded apart.

And with Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's explosion, the Sacred Separator almost immediately released the Anti-Magic Domain.

With the Anti-Magic Domain lifted, the fragments of Rotten King Li's body — which had been blasted into powder in the void — also began to piece themselves back together bit by bit.

This was the one-time ability 【Resurrection of the Dead】, generated after Will-Energy King brainwashed a Third-Turn martial artist!

It can only be used once on a single life that meets countless conditions: within a one-meter range, died accidentally from pure physical attack, time of death not exceeding two seconds, cultivation below First-Turn, named Rotten King Li, and appearance differing from cognition… (countless qualifiers omitted) — rewinding the life state to two seconds prior to death.

Resurrection of the dead is a miracle — even for martial artists, the same holds true.

Only after adding countless restrictions and basically limiting it to Rotten King Li personally did this Third-Turn-level ability barely reach a life-saving caliber.

And as Rotten King Li revived as expected, even Fang Can, who had divined that no mishap would occur, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Outside, while waiting for Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu's second life to revive one breath later, the other audience members stared in astonishment at—

Ji Donglai outside the space was rolling around in the mud with Chi Xiao!

(End of chapter)