The Last Sentinel

A fake duel between masters—even if it means death, one must stand tall!

In a true duel between masters, if you can't win, you immediately kowtow and surrender. What's face compared to your life!

Faced with the carbon-based cosmic bully, Buddha directly removed his disguise and reverted to his original form.

The Buddha of Honnoji Temple was once a ten-foot-tall golden statue, resembling Shakyamuni. Its radiant light illuminated the entire universe, and all the gods who smelled its fragrance were filled with pure hearts. All spirits worshipped it, and it remained untainted by the dust of the world.

Now, the Buddha's blessings have all vanished, and the five signs of decay of gods and humans have all manifested on his golden body. His holiness has crumbled into filth, and his compassion has rotted into grotesqueness. Visible streams of foul stench condense and drip from his body, like black, filthy droplets of water falling to the ground with a hissing, corrosive sound.

"Gentlemen, spare my life! I have crucial intelligence concerning the safety of the Carbon-Based Space Sentinel!"

Ye Feng sat on the roof beam, his golden Leo Saint Cloth radiating pale golden ripples. "You'd better have something that interests me, or your end will be quite undignified."

The Buddha looked up, his face covered in black and red tattoos, fangs and fierce eyes, and said in a panic, "Of course, rest assured, my lord, this information is absolutely reliable. To be honest, the main reason I was able to come to the carbon-based universe is that I participated in the highest-level operational meeting against you. As an exponential 2.0 mutated satellite-level space warrior of the bizarre universe, I am very clear about all your plans and layouts, including the attack on the fourth wall... Ah!"

Charlie kicked out, and a huge, transparent footprint landed directly on the Buddha's face. The Buddha screamed and rolled on the ground like a dead dog.

"Enough with the nonsense!" Charlie said. "If you keep keeping me in suspense, I'll eat you up!"

The Buddha hurriedly said, "The myriad realms initially had two plans for dealing with Sentinel Ye Feng, the current carbon-based cosmic powerhouse. The attack on the fourth wall was just Plan A! There was also Plan B, which was the ultimate weapon against the Sentinel! It could completely seal the Sentinel and make him disappear!"

Ye Feng frowned, leaning forward. "Plan B? Make me disappear? What's the plan?"

The Buddha looked at Ye Feng and said, "Plan B was proposed by a powerful being in the realm of the Law of Cause and Effect. Unlike Plan A, which used your hair to deduce your past and future, thus blocking your cultivation and preventing you from advancing, Plan B is more insane and has a higher chance of success!"

Charlie said with great interest, "If that's the case, why not just use Plan B from the beginning? Why bother with Plan A, which allowed Ye Feng to turn the tables and cast an ominous shadow over all the worlds?"

The Buddha said, "That's because Plan B is uncontrollable. Plan B can only make the Sentinels disappear, but even the implementers themselves cannot be sure what happens after they disappear. There are too many uncertainties in dealing with powerful beings like the Sentinels, so they dare not take the risk and instead use Plan A to test the waters."

"If Plan A could succeed, that would be the best outcome. But now it seems that Lord Sentinel is going all out, even with his own ominous signs of infection, he's dragging all the worlds down with him. Plan A has clearly failed."

"Plan B became their only option!"

Ye Feng asked with concern, "How exactly does Plan B work?"

The Buddha said, "Plan B's full name is 'Life Reset.' The operation is very simple, with three steps: First, find Ye Feng's parents. Second, using Ye Feng's parents as anchor points, reverse time to the moment Ye Feng was abandoned, allowing his parents to continue raising him, thus changing Ye Feng's current life as a failed time traveler due to becoming an orphan. Third, when Ye Feng's parents continue to raise him instead of abandoning him, the first and only law of the true universe will activate, and the current Sentinel Ye Feng will be forcibly erased!"

Upon hearing the details of Plan B, bald Charlie couldn't help but burst into laughter. His gorilla-like mouth split open, revealing gleaming fangs, and he chuckled, "Ye Feng, Ye Feng, you've finally met your match! Hahaha! Back then, you stood in front of my mother and mocked me relentlessly, and now you're being manipulated and killed with the knife of family ties! Hahaha—"

Looking at Ye Feng again, Ye Feng rested his chin on one hand, turned around and looked at Charlie Darwin with a complex look of mockery and relief, "Charlie, you bastard, you finally admitted that the chimpanzee is your mother. I am really relieved. I see a glimmer of humanity in you, this heretic."

Charlie's smile vanished abruptly, his expression turning hostile as he roared, "Think more about your impending doom! Your fate will be a million times worse than mine!"

Inside the main hall, golden light arced through the air as Ye Feng landed lightly.

The golden metal combat boots landed in the thick, black, decaying fog, hissing and spreading golden ripples.

"To be honest," Ye Feng said, pacing back and forth, his voice filled with emotion, "I really want to know who my parents are!"

"When we conquered the Perfect Continent, I was the one who made the greatest contribution. In order to reward me, the Human Alliance secretly formed a super team to find my parents, intending to bring them to the Human Alliance to be supported and enjoy the glory together."

"But the Human Alliance dispatched its most elite team, and still they have no clues. They couldn't even find the kindergarten I used to attend."

"My existence is like a singularity event; it's as if I sprang from a stone."

"After that, nothing more happened."

"Furthermore, the tenth-level [Crimson Wilderness Gu] of the Perfect Continent was successfully refined."

"I once thought I was a god, that I was omnipotent and omniscient."

"I used my own strength to investigate my life, hoping to find my parents."

"Unfortunately, every time I look back on my life, it ends abruptly when I'm three years old and starting kindergarten!"

"In fact, when I recall fragments of kindergarten, I can hardly remember any of my classmates from the orphanage. I can only vaguely remember the kindergarten buildings. My four years in the orphanage are as if they never existed."

"I'm really hoping you can help me find my parents!"

"It feels like someone who owes money to online lenders is hoping that the debt collectors will help them find their long-lost parents!"

"You must try your best, you must persevere, even if it's just to kill me, please, you must find my parents!"

The evil Buddha looked into the sincere eyes of the golden-armored youth before him and was momentarily bewildered.

No, no, this isn't what I expected!

You should be scared when you hear this news, so why are you now encouraging me to succeed?

No, are all the geniuses of carbon-based life forms this abstract?

Two parents who are as insignificant as ants can seal away a super-exponential star warrior like you who traverses the galaxy. You should feel terrified, frustrated, and ashamed. Why are you feeling grateful and thankful?

Charlie muttered from the side, "This evil Buddha threatened us before, saying that if we killed him, Plan B would be activated, and Ye Feng, you really want to know who your parents are! How about this, we'll perform some kind of ritual to send this guy to the afterlife now, what do you say?"

"Good idea!" Ye Feng raised his hand and placed it on the evil Buddha's shoulder. "Fellow Daoist, I apologize for letting you see your parents again!"

The evil Buddha's face was full of fear. He saw bald Charlie appear to his right, and Charlie's other hand was on his other shoulder.

To be fair, as an exponentially growing cosmic warrior, within the 2.0 satellite level, he is a mutated existence!

But when an exponential warrior is surrounded by two exponential warriors, one of whom already possesses the strength to break through the exponential level and enter the boundless level.

It's a lie for the evil Buddha to say he wasn't worried.

At this moment, the Evil Buddha trembled uncontrollably. "My lord, why must you do this? Killing me will also cause you to disappear. You will lose control of the current battle, and if the carbon-based universe suffers a crushing defeat, your foundation will be destroyed!"

"No." Ye Feng pressed on the evil Buddha's shoulder and said earnestly, "Everyone's destiny should be in their own hands. Only by giving up the desire to help others can you be yourself again. I have never put myself in the position of a savior of humanity. I am not an emperor, nor do I want to be one. I just want to see what my parents look like and ask them why they abandoned me. Is that wrong?"

Charlie's voice was like a devil's whisper, "Is it wrong for a child to just want to see their parents?"

The next moment, a silent golden-white light and a black-red light tore apart the entire Great Buddha Hall, engulfing Honno-ji Temple and everything within it. The body of the evil Buddha was frantically torn apart by the two powerful forces. A visible white crack slowly appeared on his tattooed face. As Ye Feng and Charlie exerted their frantic efforts, the crack rapidly spread downwards from between his eyebrows. Cracks began to appear on the floor of the Great Buddha Hall. These cracks shot out of Honno-ji Temple and spread towards the barrier space-time where the Tokugawa Shogunate was located. Everything began to crack...

"open!"

"kill!"

Boom—

The ground shook!

A dignified, exponentially mutated 2.0 satellite-level cosmic warrior was torn apart!

At the same time, the evil Buddha's true form—this star field spacetime beneath his feet—was also completely torn in two!