Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

Based on the information currently available, the Heartless Fruit seems to be virtually unsolvable.

Once any organism in the region is parasitized, it will spread throughout the entire ecosystem in a very short time.

Especially for lower-level supernatural beings, the Heartless Fruit in its fruit form can tempt and lure them into eating it, making them their first-generation host.

This will become the largest and initial link in the spread of the Heartless Fruit.

After that, it spiraled out of control. When even the strongest beings were parasitized, even if an emperor-level powerhouse were born among humanity, they could only watch helplessly as the world order was destroyed.

This has nothing to do with strength; it's entirely due to the restraint of the Heartless Fruit's mechanism.

This is the malice that the chaotic gods harbor towards the physical world.

Now, both Jucheng and Champion Team One are thinking of completely shutting down Wanlong Lake!

From a physical perspective, the transmission route of the fruit without a heart should be completely cut off.

Their thinking was ruthless, but also rational.

If teams one and five kill all the other hosts on the second level and then self-destruct, they can completely destroy the Heartless Fruit.

Regardless of life or death, they will never leave Wanlong Lake.
Previously, when they were talking to Li Yelai, both Zhishi and Liuyun had a detached death in their eyes.

Cheese and the others were all prepared to make a sacrifice.

This is also why Li Ye came to the ark in such a hurry. He didn't want these comrades to die.
There must be other ways!
"The Heartless Fruit is an evil creation of the Lord of Pleasure. The dark emotions in the hearts of those it parasitizes will be amplified and distorted." Yun Yue pondered for a moment and said, "Each parasitized person will bring about countless conflicts and contradictions. And with the emergence of war, they will begin to spread rapidly. The first thing to do is to stop the spread. Completely seal off the Wanlong Lake you mentioned."

“But that would mean sacrificing many people!” Li Yelai said. “Given your status, do you know the methods to eradicate the Heartless Fruit?”

As the chosen one of the Azure Flame Gods, Yun Yue should possess a great deal of knowledge about the creation of chaos.

The Chaos factions are all hostile to each other, so they should be aware of the deadly weapon, the Heartless Fruit.

Of course, in terms of identity, Li Yelai is also a Chosen One of Chaos, and a Chosen One of Two Gods, so he should know more.

But now, he has no way to contact the Blood God and the Immortal Faction. He cannot access the records within either faction.

“Eradicate it.” Yun Yue said after thinking for a moment. “It’s difficult. From what I understand, the Heartless Fruit is intelligent. In order to parasitize a stronger creature, it will actively bewitch or stimulate the host.”

"If the host develops feelings for the target, the Heartless Fruit will make the host become parasitic and twisted in order to parasitize that target. It is precisely because of this self-awareness that the Heartless Fruit is extremely terrifying."

"It also has self-awareness?" Li Yelai's heart sank; that would be even more troublesome.

If they can also cooperate with the Bliss faction, the harm will be even greater.
"But it is precisely because it has wisdom that it can make choices, and what it fears when it falls victim to the Heartless Fruit is that it will be completely destroyed, or that it will be difficult to parasitize and spread again due to some circumstances."

"For example, when a host that is mingling in a crowd is discovered and monitored, making it difficult to spread again, it will abandon the current host, absorb the host's life force in advance, condense new fruit, and go to find a new host to start spreading again."

The others nodded silently, understanding what he meant.

If there is only one host, it is impossible to spread parasites under supervision.

The Heartless Fruit had no choice but to find another way: to reform its fruit and escape its control, finding another host.
For example, luring rats or other urban animals to parasitize.

Driven by its own impulse, the rat ran onto the road. It was run over by a car, and the driver was then parasitized.
"If we can act on it the instant it bears fruit, we can completely remove the Heartless Fruit."

Yun Yue said, "But this is very difficult. And if we can't pull out all the parasitic Heartless Fruits in one go, it will become wary and won't give us another chance."

"Moreover, this is only true before the Heartless Fruit has fully spread. If it has enough hosts, it won't care about the fate of individual hosts. At that time, it will have too many choices. If individual hosts are discovered, it can still spread and parasitize other hosts."

"Right now, how many people over there have been parasitized?"

Li Yelai remained silent for several seconds: "More than two hundred people. And there are even more natives and extraordinary creatures. Roughly estimated, several thousand, or even tens of thousands, and the number is still growing."

Everyone fell silent. With the Heartless Fruit now freed from its restrictions, this method was probably useless.

"Make sure you don't get parasitized and leave that place," Chu He said.

"Would you abandon your companions and run away alone?" Li Yelai asked rhetorically.

“But now that things have come to this, you have no other choice,” Chu He said. “If you are also parasitized, you will be able to live in that Wanlong Lake forever, and you will never be able to leave.”

"Can a causal-level divine aberration counter the Heartless Fruit?" Li Yelai asked.

"Copper face," Jing Lin whispered a reminder.

The captain might find out about this from here.

But at this moment, Li Yelai no longer cared about the captain's existence.

"A divine abomination... at the causal level?" Chu He exclaimed in surprise, "You have such a rare item?"

Yun Yue was also extremely surprised. When she left Jucheng, Li Yelai had not yet gone to the Hong family for the test, so she did not know about this news.

"Yes, from a certain perspective, that's true. It's a causal divine apocalypse with a powerful counterattack effect." Li Yelai didn't continue.

Yun Yue understood now; no wonder the Yunling civilization's causal attack had stopped back then. If the causal attack had continued, humanity's elite forces wouldn't have been able to reach the rift at all.

'Was that because of Li Yelai's counterattack? He truly is a divine being of the causal level!'

After pondering for a moment, Yun Yue said, "If it is truly a divine abomination at the level of cause and effect, perhaps it can be dealt with by the parasitism of the Heartless Fruit."

Li Yelai's heart skipped a beat, but Yun Yue continued, "But I suspect that this can only protect oneself from being parasitized."

"If it is merely parasitism, then the effect of a counterattack may only be this."

With the simultaneous use of the facial mask and the Divine Demon Tablet, Li Yelai is indeed a divine abomination. The amplified curse has transformed into a powerful divine abomination capable of causal reversal.

However, countermeasures are only effective when the other party launches a causal attack.

Like the causal attack of the Yunling civilization, Li Yelai's counterattack directly destroyed a large number of enemies.

However, when Li Yelai removed the divinity from Hong Lan's legs, a similar effect did not occur.

Therefore, this cause-and-effect countermeasure is actually a passive one.

Li Yelai couldn't use it on his own. Otherwise, he should have used causal force to strike!

Someone else fired a shot in the cause-and-effect relationship, and Li Yelai, in turn, fired a cannon in the cause-and-effect relationship. This wouldn't have the effect of launching a nuclear bomb.

While the parasitic nature of the Heartless Fruit can be countered, it can no longer cause greater harm.

Unless the Heartless Fruit undergoes a major causal conflict, and Li Ye counters, perhaps he can completely kill it. "Moreover, you only have one chance. Once the opponent discovers your counter-attack ability, even if they don't try to parasitize you, they will use other hosts to eliminate you," Yun Yue warned.

Li Yelai fell into deep thought, realizing that he still had to be careful and not let himself be parasitized.

And how can one make the Unintentional Fruit attack oneself in terms of cause and effect?

“However, in this way, it won’t dare to parasitize you at will,” Yunyue said. “Otherwise, every time it parasitizes you, it will be an attack on it.”

“But this is also the worst outcome; I will completely lose any chance to retaliate against the Heartless Fruit,” Li Yelai pondered.

If Team One knew about this, they would probably make Li Ye the one to finish off the enemy.
That is, they will be buried by those who are parasitized.

This is something a team would actually do.
After hesitating for a moment, Yunyue said, "Where is Wanlong Lake located? Let me see if my companions and I can go and help. I also have causal-level attacks, so perhaps... perhaps we can help relieve some of the pressure on you."

Li Yelai's eyes lit up. That's right! The Heartless Fruit is considered a causal-level evil creation, and the Wilderness Ranger's unique causal-level arrows... wouldn't they also be able to harm the Heartless Fruit?

The Lord of Azure Flames will bestow blessings upon the wandering knights who have made great contributions, one of which is the Azure Flame Arrow!

Even if the user is not very strong, if they successfully activate the Azure Flame Arrow, even a supreme being would have to be wary.

If it weren't for the fact that only rangers could use it, and that its quantity was extremely limited, even major cities would want to purchase it.
"Don't get your hopes up too high. That item is extremely rare. I only have two right now, and besides, it's mainly for killing enemies, not for saving everyone," Yunyue said, pouring cold water on the idea once again.

This made Jing Lin sigh: "Li Ming, every time you open your mouth you bring some good news and give some hope. Then, the next sentence extinguishes that hope again."

"Is that so?" Yun Yue shook her head and said, "But I'm just telling the truth. There can't be any loopholes."

"Is it too late? I remember you returned to the South Asian region," Li Yelai said.

"That was originally the case, but halfway there they discovered their comrade who had been murdered, and in order to track down the killer, they turned back."

"So, are you going to give up on hunting down that murderer?" Li Yelai asked.

“There are priorities. Besides, I’m only tracking him right now; I haven’t found him yet.” Yunyue asked, “What area is Wanlong Lake in?”

Wanlong Lake is a newly discovered mysterious area, and she really doesn't know its location yet.

"Southwest of Qianzhou".

"Qianzhou?" Yun Yue was clearly stunned for a moment: "It seems that I don't need to change my route."

"The murderer also came to Wanlong Lake?"

"Judging from the direction he's heading, this is highly likely," Yun Yue replied after some thought. "Wanlong Lake and Qianzhou are very likely part of Blissful Paradise's territory. It seems that guy is planning to defect to Blissful Paradise. What a beast!"

Yunyue truly felt deep regret and hatred towards the murderer.

That guy is extremely talented.

In the fragment of the future that Yunyue saw, he was supposed to be a reliable comrade-in-arms for both of them.

His parents were wilderness rangers who died fighting for humanity.

He was adopted by a wandering knight and was supposed to become a wilderness knight, continuing to fight for humanity.

However, he went astray, not only killing his father's comrades-in-arms but also defecting to the enemy.
This left Yunyue with extremely mixed feelings.
Under the control of the Book of Destiny, the fates of countless wilderness wanderers have been altered.

This is yet another person whose fate has been changed.

Moreover, they have stood on the opposite side of humanity!
We must clean house!
"So, there might be another formidable enemy in Wanlong Lake?" Li Yelai asked. "What's his strength?"

"Peak of the Sixth Awakening. Perhaps, he has already stepped into the realm of overlord," Yunyue said.

That's really bad news.
But they can still take down one team. With so many elite troops, they can easily surround and kill a newcomer who has just entered the ranks of overlords.

After chatting for a while longer, the four of them went their separate ways.

In a wilderness in Southeast Asia, Yunyue opened her eyes.

Then, the Ranger Coin was used.

"I have found the murderer. Come with me to Wanlong Lake!"

“Very good!” several rangers responded.

Meanwhile, at the Blood God faction's headquarters in the Qinling Mountains.

A chaotic army is marching out in full force.

When news of Baiya arrived, both the headquarters and the Chosen of the Gods were shocked.

The Bliss faction is actually this powerful? They've trapped the elite troops of the Great City, personally led by the champion? Shall we open it?

Or perhaps the supreme ruler or king of the Bliss faction has finally been unable to hide his identity?
But what shocked them even more was that the Chosen Emperor himself led a team to support the champion team.
This made them nervous, and the worst thing still happened!

"Emperor Fall, you really are a jinx!" Zhu Tu cursed, "I took out the Sacred Wood Mandala to repair his Soul Well, not to send him to his death again! Can't he just stay quietly in the Giant City?"

"Damn it, the First Legion and the Fifth Legion are moving out! Move out! Protect the Emperor's Fall for me! Damn it!"

A similar scene also occurred at one of the immortal faction's bases.

"My lord just praised him, and now he's being dragged off to his death? My brother!" Rhodo's chosen one felt a chill run down his spine, furious.

The Immortal Palace battlefield had only just ended, and the Emperor's Fall sent the intelligence, only to head to that damned Wanlong Lake shortly afterward.
Isn't this too unlucky?

"Deploy the Plague Knights to cause some trouble for Bliss without revealing the Emperor's Fall!" After some thought, Rhodo gave the order. "Also, go to the Doomsday Forest and pay respects to the Supreme Lord of the Nether Lamp. If anything happens, we'll need his intervention."

"Emperor Fall, Emperor Fall. My brother, you must seize the opportunity and escape!"

At this moment, the chaotic forces seemed to have a surprisingly unified goal: the Wilderness Rangers, the Blood God faction, and the Eternal Life Cult were all approaching Wanlong Lake.

Meanwhile, inside the cave, Li Yelai opened his eyes.

But suddenly I smelled toothpaste.
For some reason, Cheese changed her clothes and was wearing a thin white vest.

In her hand, she was holding a toothbrush and a toothpaste cup. It seemed she had just brushed her teeth.
Cheese put down the toothbrush cup, exhaled, and after realizing there was no taste, said, "You're back? It's been quite a while."

"Why are you suddenly brushing your teeth?" Li Yelai asked, getting up.

"You know about my curse, so I'd better take good care of my teeth," Cheese chuckled in response. (End of Chapter)