Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 414 Madman
Mu Xiang, whose entire body was bursting with dazzling golden light, was also stunned for a moment. Then he grinned and rushed to the purplish-black soul energy. His golden hand reached in and grabbed it, and a shrill roar rang out.

"No! This isn't me!"

Mu Xiang looked with pity at the ball of light in his palm, which had fallen into chaos and incoherent speech. The ball of light itself had no color, but it carried a purplish-black soul aura...

"I never expected that the enhancement of the Ghost Swordsman series would actually cause my soul to mutate... If it were someone else, they probably would have been fooled by you." Mu Xiang smiled.

"I'm not lying! I didn't know either, ahhhhhh..."

With a slight increase in pressure, Mu Xiang's roar turned into a series of screams.

"I'll ask, you answer, and I promise I won't let you suffer."

Li Xiaoyi's weak voice rang out: "Ask me, ask me..."

"What is Chu Xuan's plan... to have you create a space to trap me so you can escape back?" Mu Xiang's other hand swept through the air, and the attack, which was powerful enough to affect space itself, failed to break through the darkness.

With Mu Xiang's perception, he had already detected the problem... Apart from the soul energy that Li Xiaoyi had unleashed, the rest of the purplish-black energy had vanished. This darkness was completely devoid of any energy fluctuations.

In other words, this darkness is no longer an energy imprisonment, but has truly transformed into an independent space.

"Damn it, how was I supposed to know!" Li Xiaoyi wailed. "I had no idea it would turn out like this!"

Mu Xiang pondered for a moment, then sneered: "That's because you're too stupid, blindly believing in Chu Xuan... There's no power that can be obtained without effort. How could such an externalized array possibly transform your pitiful energy into real space?"

Mu Xiang thought about it and understood... Li Xiaoyi wasn't lying; he had also been fooled. Before this, he had no idea that activating this formation would come at the cost of overloading himself. Using a third-tier character as a consumable could indeed temporarily enhance the confinement skill and formation into an independent space.

It's not surprising that even the main god possesses this skill.

"I've been tricked again..." Mu Xiang smiled amidst a series of prompts from the main god. Only one of these prompts was a point deduction, but his smile remained icy cold. "I had no idea you had spatial abilities before. It turns out he used you as a expendable resource to acquire them, hahaha!"

"Then I..." The ball of light representing Li Xiaoyi's soul flickered nervously.

Mu Xiang glanced down at him: "Don't worry, I won't take it out on you... I said I wouldn't let you suffer, and I won't."

The next moment, the golden hand clenched, and Li Xiaoyi was completely annihilated in his palm without even letting out a scream.

Mu Xiang's smile vanished, his face expressionless as he listened to the God's score notifications. Then, he punched the dark space. A golden dent appeared, and Mu Xiang roared, pouring all his power into it.

Creating a temporary space... that's certainly a grand undertaking, but to think that such an unstable space could truly trap him is a joke. Mu Xiang knew that the Central Continent Team might be about to fall into the trap set by the clone Chu Xuan; under his full-force attack, the space would probably be less than a tenth effective.

After blasting a noticeable dent into the dark space, Mu Xiang stopped his physical attack. He twisted his hands behind his back, seemingly in the starting stance of the Candle-Holding Technique, but the golden light surrounding him actually subsided. The next moment, another beam of golden light surged from his body, but it was tightly bound by his hands.

The energy spirals in his hands became increasingly visible, and as the dent flickered, a blinding golden light shot out and slammed into the dent.

On the other side, the intertwined positive and negative energies were becoming increasingly dazzling on one side and increasingly dim on the other, almost turning into half white and half black. This power, after all, emerged from underground, and although it spread outwards along the remaining Nine-Bend Blood River Array, the most terrifying part was still at the point where the Blazing Heart fell.

Even so, the members of the Central Continent Team were on high alert, not daring to relax in the slightest. Zhang Jie was fully activating his telekinetic power, and the energy impact spread at an incredibly fast speed. He didn't even have the confidence to tell the others to run.

He only had confidence in his telekinesis...

Who can guarantee that there won't be a hidden negative energy core erupting with such an impact on their escape route? If such a surprise attack were to occur, how many people could withstand it? Qi Teng took a deep breath and uttered an ancient syllable.

"Xu!"

The next moment, Zhan Lan felt a large amount of spiritual energy being drawn out of her spiritual dam. To everyone's astonishment, the surging energy fluctuations suddenly stopped. Although the entanglement of the two energies continued, its speed had significantly slowed down!
"Time is only passing at a tenth of its current speed... If you're going to leave, leave now!" Qi Tengyi roared in a low voice, veins bulging on his forehead.

Liu Xi frowned. In the senses of the Three-Eyed Clan, she quickly discovered that the energy fluctuations further away had not slowed down... There, flames mixed with dark red and black erupted, attempting to forcibly suppress the entangled two-colored energy.

In other words, the power summoned by Qi Tengyi did not accelerate their perception or speed, but actually slowed down time in this area!
Even if such power came from an A-level enhancer, it would be terrifying enough... and the burden of such a large impact was borne by Qi Tengyi. If it weren't for the mental dam sharing the load, and the fact that Qi Tengyi had also enhanced his Bloodline of the Ghoul Clan, he probably would have collapsed first.

Zhao Yingkong's expression was also stern. With a sway of her body, she created three mirror images, which, together with herself, directly grabbed at the four team members.

Zhang Jie took a deep breath, and an exaggeratedly large blade appeared. He then casually stuck the blade into the ground, making it a new source of telekinesis.

Without any command, the Overlord roared and transformed into a giant werewolf, landing on all fours while the pre-controlled characters jumped onto his back. Zhang Heng, who had been unconscious, was also lifted onto the Overlord's back by a telekinetic force.

Qi Tengyi didn't leave. He frowned, looking at the still rampant energy fluctuations in the distance. He saw that Zheng Zha hadn't gained any advantage after the battle. He hardened his heart, pressed his hands together in front of him, and silently chanted. Two ancient runes came out of his mouth. There were no deafening syllables, but the power they carried made Zhang Jie take notice.

The two runes, one above the other, one merging into the void and the other into the ground, represent the trigrams Li and Zhen respectively. This is a power that Qi Tengyi usually dares not use, because the cost is immeasurable and depends almost entirely on the object it faces.

Qi Tengyi is not a cultivator, but as a form of writing, he can use the most direct way to manifest the true meaning of this power!
"No!" Zhan Lan was being dragged away by Zhao Yingkong at an extremely fast speed, but she still cried out when she sensed the surging of the mental dam. Unfortunately, with the slowing of time, the acceleration of the flashing spirit, and the spatial distortion brought about by the true sense vision, her voice could not be heard at all... She even forgot to use the mind chain.

Zhang Jie sighed, then reached out and struck Qi Tengyi on the neck. The palm strike, carrying a terrifying surge of mental energy, knocked Qi Tengyi unconscious, and the manifestation of this terrifying power ceased. A telekinetic channel burst forth, distorting and sending Qi Tengyi toward a side of space.

"Zheng Zha, I'm here to help you!" Zhang Jie roared. After seeing off the other team members, he no longer needed to be distracted. He reached out and pulled up Kuiqi, then took a step forward, using layers of telekinesis to reach a place outside of time slowing. Looking at Hong Yan not far away, Zhang Jie laughed and used his telekinesis to switch from defense to offense without regard for cost, causing his body to suddenly explode.

However, no point deduction notification sounded; instead, the telekinetic power became even more ferocious, suppressing the energy clash point below.

In the distance, golden light tore through space, and the next moment, a figure appeared in the east, isolating all energy fluctuations in front of it. Then, a giant hand formed of golden light slammed down towards the center of the energy eruption.

"You finally came out..." Zhang Jie's voice echoed in Mu Xiang's mind.

Mu Xiang's face was devoid of a smile. He shook his head and said, "We were still outmaneuvered, and we suffered casualties... You will be responsible for compiling the statistics on the casualties later."

Under the forceful suppression of golden light, crimson flames, and a massive amount of telekinetic energy, the two-colored energy spreading outward along the Nine-Bend Blood River Formation was forcibly suppressed into a very small area. Nevertheless, the energy fluctuations still blazed wildly into the sky.

“It’s better to guide than to block… If we continue to suppress it, a direct outbreak would be even more dangerous.” Zhang Jie appeared beside him, though his figure was somewhat illusory. “How about I leave my telekinetic power here and create an energy release channel?”

Zheng Zha also appeared on the other side. With a wave of his hand, dark red flames merged into the telekinetic conduit. His face was somewhat pale. He looked at Zhang Jie, then at Mu Xiang, but said nothing.

Mu Xiang nodded: "Let's leave it at that... That madman was indeed planning this. I guessed he would use his own captain to do this kind of thing, but I really didn't expect him to be able to hide the energy source like this, and even deceive our senses."

"So what's next?" Zhang Jie shrugged. He was in soul form at the moment, so even this movement seemed a bit unsteady.

A sinister glint appeared on Mu Xiang's face: "Of course, we need to find that madman and have a good talk with him... He can't escape." The next moment, Mu Xiang's figure pierced the night sky, disappearing almost instantly in the northern sky. In the dimly lit horizon, only a barely perceptible afterimage remained.

The distance of over a hundred kilometers shortened dramatically, and the Black Gate Bridge soon came into Mu Xiang's view. And there stood a familiar figure at the bridgehead… Sure enough, he hadn't completed his mission and couldn't leave the city!

(End of this chapter)