Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 151 Holding the Candle
The deafening roar that tore through space and the sound of struggle in pure darkness rang out almost simultaneously, intertwining and exploding into a chaotic celestial sound that sprayed out from the point of collision between Mu Xiang and Zu Xie Kun.

Mu Xiang shuddered from the celestial sound, and he gritted his teeth, eliminating some of his senses. The Kryptonian energy surging within him erupted from his eyes, ears, and nose, destroying his sight, hearing, and smell amidst the dazzling golden light.

Although caught off guard and in great pain by the sudden sound, Mu Xiang still held tightly to the writhing body of Zhu Xiekun and then burst into wild laughter.

The most strange thing about this world is that it has both the chaotic distortions similar to those in low dimensions and the manifestation of information rules similar to those in high dimensions.

All information takes on a visible form and spreads in various ways... Therefore, everything Mu Xiang saw and heard earlier entered his consciousness. This information both occupied his brain and was highly corrosive. Even with the help of the third-order gene lock, which allowed Mu Xiang to significantly reduce the corrosiveness, he was still overwhelmed by the continuous influx of massive amounts of information.

The celestial sound generated by this collision was larger in scale than any previous piece of information. Caught off guard, Mu Xiang simultaneously absorbed the information carried by the celestial sound through sight, hearing, and even smell and touch.

Every feeling, every unit of information in every moment, carries different content, yet can be pieced together and overlap. This reminded Mu Xiang of the simplest union problem, but the difference was that the amount of information Mu Xiang had to process in an instant was many orders of magnitude greater!

This put even Mu Xiang, who possessed a third-order gene lock and a super brain, under some pressure. The moment the Heavenly Sound hit him, his mental state deteriorated further. So he hurriedly destroyed most of his senses and did the simplest thing—stopped Zhu Xiekun.

This contact also caused the information carried by the curse Xie Kun to continuously flow towards Mu Xiang, which Mu Xiang could not block. But he had no choice but to endure it...

Any information from the Great Old Ones would be enough to drive mortals mad, but Mu Xiang gritted his teeth and laughed wildly as he embraced the pure darkness, then focused the uncontrolled Kryptonian energy as much as possible on Curse Xie Kun.

The moment Mu Xiang encountered Zhu Xiekun, nearly 10% of the energy he had left in his body was reduced by more than 60%. Such energy consumption was almost unimaginable... In the battle with the envoy of the Polar Day Society a few years ago, Mu Xiang probably only used up this much energy by the end of the battle.

Sure enough, someone who sits at the same table as the legends of all races isn't even worthy of carrying the shoes of a powerful Old One.

But Mu Xiang was overjoyed, because as Kryptonian energy accelerated its outflow, Curse Xie Kun's body was also struggling frantically... This speed and scale of information transmission was not its intention!
The body of the cursed Xie Kun is disintegrating because the information supporting it is being lost uncontrollably... If Mu Xiang can absorb the information to strengthen himself, this is practically like devouring the cursed Xie Kun alive.

The pure darkness is colliding and annihilating with the power of the sun within Mu Xiang's body.

Mu Xiang and Zu Xiekun could not hide their thoughts from each other, so they both knew in their hearts that their time was running out!
The collision of ripples and Limitless Sword Qi into the body, while capable of generating high-intensity physical resonance, also inflicts staggering damage on both the body and energy. When Mu Xiang was in this state, not to mention the burst of Kryptonian energy, the mere physical resonance alone could produce terrifying effects.

People with weak bodies don't even need to be touched; just being within a certain range of their body will cause them to be shattered to pieces.

When he experimented with this move in the Ju-on world, Mu Xiang almost died... At that time, his internal energy and physical strength were not yet at their current level, but in the first desert experiment, Mu Xiang directly blew up all the sand within a five-kilometer radius into the sky, which then triggered a sandstorm that lasted for several days.

The most fatal flaw is that once this state is activated, it cannot be stopped until the energy is exhausted; and the damage to the body will continue until the two anti-cyclone energies within the body are completely depleted. Thus, after the first experiment, Mu Xiang was completely exhausted and couldn't be exposed to the sun for a while. He could only forcibly rely on the second-tier gene lock to enhance his body and then squeeze out ripples to support his departure.

Mu Xiang named this state, or rather, his self-created skill, "Candle-Holding"... Once activated, it's like burning until it's exhausted.

Now, although his powerful physique prevents him from dying from exhaustion, without solar energy, the severe injuries in his body can only be slowly healed by the most basic Kryptonian life energy... During that time, Mu Xiang was probably only slightly better than Superman who had hit Kryptonite, and slightly stronger than an ordinary person, but not by much.

If Mu Xiang were to exhaust his energy here, he would be in for a world of trouble... In his madness, he would be tormented by the Old Ones for who knows how long. So this was truly a life-threatening tactic, and if Mu Xiang hadn't already gone somewhat insane, he might have reconsidered.

However, Mu Xiang's gamble paid off. As a pure dark entity, Zhu Xiekun was also suffering terribly from the endless solar energy surging from his body. Although the gate to the real world had clearly opened, it couldn't pass through for the time being.

There is no such thing as absolute restraint; whoever is larger will restrain whom... This is the simplest and most brutal collision of infinitely diverse energies.

Zhu Xiekun let out a deafening roar, but Mu Xiang remained unmoved. He couldn't hear the sound, and the information that was splashing towards him was directly shattered by the violent energy released in the candle-holding state and the resonance with his physical body, and then drifted away to who knows where.

The sheer size of the collision deterred most of the Old Ones from approaching... A few, oblivious to the danger, were obliterated before they even reached Mu Xiang and Zu Xie Kun.

A twisted crack formed above the concept of Curse Xie Kun, and its intense presence was felt even by Mu Xiang, who was deaf and blind.

It seemed that the cursed Xie Kun had gone completely mad. Its thoughts and ideas could no longer be understood. Countless distorted pieces of information were splashing everywhere, and it was about to enter the crack.

Mu Xiang reached out and covered the crack. He only had 30% of his energy left, and he was like a tiny, glowing ornament on Zhu Xiekun's body. But the crack was actually covered by this negligible glowing hand, and the splashed information was evaporated without a trace by the violent golden light.

But the crack continues to widen, revealing the real world... The entire real world seems to unfold within this crack, and one can go anywhere if one wishes.

Mu Xiang reached out and grabbed Zhu Xiekun's head. Although he couldn't see it, and in fact there were no head-like features in that area, Mu Xiang knew it was a head... The pure darkness dissipated in Mu Xiang's hand. Zhu Xiekun tried to lift his head and rush out, but he couldn't do it at all.

Although the rift's field of vision has unfolded, it is difficult for it to leave... unless it abandons most of itself in this world and only puts a small part into the real world.

But once Mu Xiang grabbed it, even cutting itself became difficult... Both sides knew each other's information; neither could hide anything from the other. After all, Zhu Xiekun wasn't a fifth-tier being, and its body had primary and secondary parts. If it were to cut itself off now, it would be like throwing its head into the real world, leaving its body here no longer belonging to it.

Regardless of how Mu Xiang handles it, the body of Zhu Xiekun, one of the strongest beings, will likely be devoured by the other Great Old Ones...

Mu Xiang was also frantically searching for something, as if he too had become an ancient being eager to descend... He finally saw a familiar figure in the rift, so he pointed the rift at that person...

Suddenly, the latter half of Zhu Xiekun exploded, and the boundless darkness immediately spread out, transforming into a giant black hand that grabbed both Mu Xiang and Zhu Xiekun. Its front half, however, broke free from Mu Xiang's grasp with a push, and most of it darted away.

Mu Xiang's eyes instantly returned to normal, but all he saw was boundless darkness. He couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then the ripples and sword energy within his body swirled even more intensely. Then, an even more dazzling golden light erupted, and Mu Xiang broke through the giant hand of darkness, once again embracing Zhu Xiekun.

He roared at the person in the crack:

"Zheng Zha! Go pick up Zhan Lan and the others!"

(End of this chapter)