Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

Seventy-one psychics from around the world, through a conjunction of soul stars, jointly cast a vicious curse on Li Yelai.

This is one of the methods used by the Rat.

The avatar was made from a large number of rare materials, but it could never unleash the full potential of the original body.

The Soul Star Alignment perfectly achieves this, not only avoiding the impact of mental attacks on the physical body, but also allowing the other seventy-one psionicists to simultaneously unleash a curse. An ordinary powerful individual would likely be severely injured.

Even if you can't kill a champion, you can still cause him endless trouble.

To the regret of the Rat's true form, the clay pot, acting as a decoy, had not prepared a plan to directly confront the 'variable'. The clay pot's mission was merely to gather intelligence.

Although the Celestial Walker intended to intervene militarily to eliminate the 'variable,' he did not want to expose his existence prematurely and thus attract the attention of the human champion.

Therefore, they were unable to prepare more combat methods.

Otherwise, he could bring even more trouble and danger to the 'variable'.

For example, the remains of the Time Worm that came from the cracks of time and exuded an ominous aura.

Once its mark is branded onto a target, it becomes a beacon for summoning the Hounds of Tindalos.

These terrifying hunters, roaming outside of time, can tear open any spacetime rift less than 120 degrees, pounce out suddenly, and launch a relentless cross-timeline ambush against the "variables."

From then on, every moment of rest and every moment of focus for Li Yelai could become the moment when the hunting dog's claws tore through reality, leaving him with no peace.

For example, there's that bottle of Black Source City's specially made incense from the forbidden zone.

Just a touch of it, and that eerie, deep fragrance will seep into your very bones like a living thing, taking half a month to dissipate.

During this period, any living being that smells this fragrance, whether friend or foe, will have its rationality silently eroded and worn away, ultimately becoming a source of madness and chaos.

It was enough to create an unpredictable vortex of chaos around Li Yelai, leaving him constantly torn between protecting and killing.

Furthermore, there is the venom, crafted from the remains of an ancient beast, containing endless resentment.

Once infected, the poisoned person's soul will become extremely sensitive and fragile for a considerable period of time, easily eroded by negative emotions such as resentment and despair, greatly increasing the probability of distortion and deformation. This is tantamount to planting a bomb in Li Yelai's mental world that could explode at any time.

These methods, individually, may not be able to truly end a champion's life, but layer upon layer, are enough to gradually weaken the troublesome fighting power of the 'variable' like a dull knife cutting flesh, dragging him into the quagmire.

This can greatly increase the success rate of those born in the Year of the Goat.

'In the end, it was a bit too hasty... I didn't expect this variable to be burdened with such a curse as encountering both dragons and tigers.' The Rat's true form pondered.

But the next moment, he heard Li Yelai's malicious laughter.

Immediately, a sense of fear spread along the connection between the 'Curse Kill' and the Soul Star Link!
The immense fear of that moment is indescribable; it contained an ominous and malicious intent that spread from cause and effect.

"Cause and effect reversal?" Zi Shu's expression changed drastically.

Meanwhile, around the world, bizarre events are occurring almost simultaneously!
On the polar ice sheet, an old man who was stargazing had white hair and beard, as if he were one with the polar region.

Suddenly, a look of horror appeared on his face.

Before anyone could ask, his brain exploded like fireworks, scattering red and white flesh, brain matter, and bone fragments.

The ice field where he was located caused violent tremors, with glaciers cracking and icebergs collapsing!
In a wooden cabin deep in the rainforest, a shaman stands, adorned with colorful feathers and wielding a bone staff.

Suddenly, he let out a piercing scream, threw down the bone staff, and frantically covered his head with both hands, blood streaming from his seven orifices. Immediately afterward, the wooden house collapsed, and a wildfire broke out.

In an underground laboratory in an abandoned city.

A middle-aged scholar in a white lab coat suddenly froze, then collapsed to the ground, his body convulsing. All the instruments in the room erupted in piercing alarms.

In a stone chamber in a remote, desolate wilderness.

The ascetic monk groaned in agony, blood streaming from his seven orifices, as the mysterious murals he had been studying shattered. Years of research had been wasted.

A villa in a certain megacity suddenly exploded and collapsed.

It buried the office workers whose brains had been destroyed.

At that moment, terrifying and bizarre deaths and madness unfolded simultaneously around the world, like dominoes being toppled!
Seventy-one carefully selected, highly capable Celestial Walkers.

They were originally nodes in the Soul Star Link, and the weavers of the Cursed Killing Web.

However, at this moment, they became the first prey to be captured and torn apart in this giant net!
It could be a direct brain explosion, bleeding from all seven orifices, loss of psychic energy, or some inexplicable 'accident' in the area.

This will be a mysterious case that will never be solved anywhere.

At this moment, even the rat itself was in excruciating pain.

He coughed up blood, and even the Well of Souls was shaken by it.

As a supreme being, as a mysterious Celestial Evolutionary, he successfully suppressed the terrifying counterattack.

However, it was also sensed that almost all the other nodes of the Soul Star Link were disconnected.

This caused him to vomit a mouthful of blood, and his liver and gallbladder felt like they were about to burst!
So many travelers. Could it be that all of them...
"Cause and effect counteraction. And such a powerful cause and effect counteraction at that?" Zi Shu couldn't believe it.

Is this the level of retaliation they're talking about? If someone throws a brick at you, you retaliate with a road roller?
What exactly is the force that follows cause and effect?
"Damn it!"

Zi Shu shook his head in anguish. The Soul Star Link he had prepared for many years was completely ruined, and the Traveler he had carefully cultivated also suffered a heavy loss.

How could this be? Besides the "encountering a dragon and a tiger" phenomenon, is there some other force at play?
He shouldn't have used the Soul Star Link for the curse; this action maximized his losses.

This sudden loss also shook the Tianyan Walker organization, with many walkers discovering that their companions had suddenly gone missing.

Many plans for intervention and advancement related to destiny, whether in progress or already underway, were directly interrupted. This included even several Starwalkers.

"what happened?"

"what happened?"

"Where did the attack originate?"

"Quickly notify the messenger!"

Even the person holding the book was alarmed, staring in shock at the report before him.

Nearly seventy travelers from thirty-seven regions have encountered mishaps.

The fate-driving plans they were in charge of or observing were thus thrown into chaos.

For example, a genius might be born in a desolate, primeval jungle. Travelers will guide their character through crucial events, leading them to make certain choices and guiding them out of the jungle to encounter caravans. They will face bandits, befriend psionicists within the caravans, and ultimately become psionicists themselves, rising through the ranks. Alternatively, a disaster might force a good-for-nothing heir to become ruthless and unscrupulous in their pursuit of power. Travelers will be responsible for ensuring that family is present at the site of the disaster. This is a trial, the price of which is the death of their family and the misfortune they themselves will suffer.

However, with the sudden death of these travelers, some problems will arise in the original plan.

"Quickly, immediately mobilize the travelers and repair the original path as soon as possible!" the book-holder roared. "Especially those stepping stones and the geniuses in the first tier, their destinies must not be misguided again!"

While geniuses are important, so are certain strong individuals who inevitably become stepping stones.

They possess immense talent and astonishing combat prowess. However, they are not qualified to be the ultimate prodigies who will reach the final stage.

They will become nourishment, the ladder for those true geniuses to climb to the ultimate!
He Lan was like that in the past.

He possessed immense power and was bound by the Heavenly Cage, having seized several precious abilities. These included beings from forbidden zones, a king's young son, powerful humans, and even wandering knights.
But he was still not the one who would reach the end. In the end, he would die at the hands of the Ashes, thus granting the Ashes the power to reach the ends of the earth.

Ye Han's mission was the same; his task was to revive the Queen of Fear, and then complete the remaining parts of the Divine Demon Stele. Finally, he would deliver the Divine Demon Stele to a certain genius.

This 'stepping stone' is also extremely important.

There can be no mistakes whatsoever!
If the 'stepping stone' escapes the calculation, it will cause a lot of trouble!

"What's going on?" The book-holder stared at the sky. It was still daytime in his time zone, but his eyes could still see the starry sky and use the stars to contact his companions all over the world.

"It's the Rat! Those who had the accident were all travelers who had performed the Soul Star Link with him!"

"What happened to him? These travelers are scattered all over the world, so why were they found so precisely?"

"Psychic attack?"

Upon receiving these messages, the book holder withdrew his gaze, his expression somewhat grave.

Beside him, a traveler asked, "How is it?"

"A total of forty-seven travelers from the Earthly Fiends, Heavenly Gangs, and Constellations have been confirmed dead, and the number may increase. The remaining travelers are all seriously injured," the person holding the book replied.

"Why would this happen? The wandering knights shouldn't have such methods! Witnesses can only obscure our precise calculations about them, they can't deliver this kind of blow."

"The Rat has clashed with the variables," the book-holder said quietly.

"They've already exchanged blows?"

"How could Zi Shu, a supreme being, end up like this?"

"No, the Rat wouldn't be so reckless. He's not the strongest of the twelve Earthly Branches, but he's the most cautious. He would never risk a direct confrontation with variables. Using deception, guidance, and ambush is his style."

Each of the twelve Earthly Branches has a different fighting style. The Rat is not as strong as the Dragon or Tiger, but its cunning and ruthlessness surpasses all the other Earthly Branches.

"Hmph." The one holding the book replied, "You're right, he was indeed cautious. He used a fake body to lead the Champion Team, where the variable lies, into battle against the Duke of the Returned's territory. He wanted to obtain intelligence, but unexpected events occurred one after another. The Returned escaped, and his fake body was discovered. The variable's curse is to encounter dragons and tigers!"

"It's a causal curse of this magnitude! No wonder the variable appeared on the battlefield where the fighting was most intense. The enemy will find him on his own, as fate would have it!"

"How could someone with such a curse still be alive?"

"But since it's a prosthesis..."

"It's a causal attack!" the book holder responded. "Variables have a very strong causal counterattack effect. The Rat used a curse to kill, but was countered instead."

"How could a single causal strike kill so many practitioners? What kind of power is that?"

“A variable,” the book-holder said in a deep voice. “We absolutely cannot let him get away with this any longer. We must crush him in this operation. The Sixth Sense is already this troublesome; even the Rat suffered a great loss. If he advances any further, we'll be in an even more passive position!”

"Now that we know the curse of the variable is encountering the Dragon and the Tiger, let's use that as our breakthrough point!"

"Go forth and guide more powerful individuals to the place of opportunity!"

"Fate will bring all these formidable enemies before him!"

"What will kill him will be his curse!"

“He is the champion of humanity,” one of the travelers said. “In a way, he is also doing it for humanity.”

"If it was truly for humanity's sake, then let him die peacefully! I don't deny his role in humanity; he can be considered a hero! But wrong is wrong! Without him, humanity can move towards a better future!" The book-holder said firmly, "Because of him, too many geniuses have been tarnished. Especially the Queen of Fear! For that alone, he cannot be allowed to live!"

The travelers nodded silently and went their separate ways.

The one holding the book approached the Book of Destiny, looked at the disrupted path of fate, and took a deep breath. He then began another round of deduction and reorganization.

On the other side, in the fragmented ghost realm.

Li Yelai, standing on the end of his halberd, looked down at the now completely silent earthenware jar and let out a cold laugh.

Causal attack? Very well, I was just looking for a place to attack your true form.

I hope something happens to him!
Immediately, Li Yelai switched to the mask of Yi the Archer, and unleashed a devastating attack that pierced the heavens and pierced the sun!

The halberd was covered in jet-black patterns, an instant-death enhancement!
Then, Li Yelai delivered the final blow, channeling the power of imminent death into the already tattered body of the clay jar, confirming its complete demise before approaching to examine it.

Looking at the dim bead between his eyebrows, Li Yelai used his halberd to poke it out.

Li Yelai pondered: 'Was it this kind of thing that launched a causal attack against me? Some kind of interconnected treasure?'

'The equipment department needs to study this. Even if we don't go for a replica, we should at least use methods similar to those of the Heavenly Evolution Walkers.'

'My karmic retribution should have killed quite a few. I need to keep an eye out for the places inside and outside the giant city where the incident occurred at this time. Perhaps it's related to the Traveler! I wonder if I can use this clue to trace back to him.'

Then, looking at the corpse that had turned into a pile of minced meat, Li Yelai said, "You've come to the right person to use causal attack on me."

On the other side, Grand Duke Yu Huo was extremely weak, and after repeatedly splitting the Ghost Realm, he was no longer able to maintain his form.

The only way to suppress the ghostly realm was to compress it to the extreme and hide it in an inconspicuous space within a ring.

He used almost all his strength to escape.

In the end, he fell helplessly onto the wilderness, hoping that his army of ghostly soldiers would find him.
Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that the ghost soldiers remain loyal to him.

Some time later, a passing caravan discovered the ring.

One of the boys picked up the thumb ring and examined the patterns on it.

"Hmm, this should be a good thing." (End of Chapter)