The Last Sentinel

Rewind one hour.

Honnoji Temple, inside the Main Hall.

Charlie Darwin ripped off half of the demonized Buddha's remains, and then the ape opened its mouth wide and swallowed it whole, skin and bones!

The crisp sound of gleaming teeth crushing bones echoed throughout the hall. The demonized Buddha's bones, cultivation, Dao essence, opportunities, ties, karma... were all chewed up alive and slowly merged into Charlie's body.

"That's why it's always been heresy."

Even if a glimmer of humanity occasionally appears in him, he is still a beast most of the time.

Ye Feng's words reached Charlie's ears.

Charlie waved his hand dismissively and said, "Say what you will, this Buddha's essence tastes really good! The abundance of this half-body essence far exceeds my expectations."

At this point, Charlie stared longingly at the half-Buddha fragment in Ye Feng's hand, "Are you going to eat this half or not? If not, give it to me, don't waste it!"

Ye Feng casually tossed away the remaining half of the Buddha's remains.

Charlie hurriedly caught it, expressing his immense gratitude, "You're so loyal! To be honest, Ye Feng, you're really good at handling people. If it weren't for the fact that you killed my whole family, I would really like to be your friend!"

"Come on!" Ye Feng said, "Our relationship is already abnormal enough, it doesn't need to get any more abnormal."

Charlie chewed as he spoke, "Yeah, if word got out about our current relationship, people would probably call us perverts. The Human Alliance would say you betrayed humanity, that you're associating with heretics. Then, haha, the next generation of archivists could use our relationship as a reason to accuse you of betraying humanity and get rid of you! Just like you'll kill Zhao Changcheng soon! The position of Chairman of the Human Alliance is really interesting; every chairman dies a violent death, killed by their own people!"

"Shut up!" Ye Feng said unhappily. "Just eat, don't spew nonsense! I have something to tell you. Go back and help me with this. It'll be a way for you to give an explanation to the powerful figures behind you."

Charlie devoured the food, nodding repeatedly.

Ye Feng paced back and forth, saying, "Those big shots behind you have been tainted by the ominous red-haired curse because of a single hair of mine. They're terrified of dying now, aren't they?"

“That’s right!” Charlie said. “They think you have a way to control yourself! Now that you don’t have a single red hair, it seems you really do have a way to control yourself.”

Ye Feng nodded and said, "That's right, I have it!"

Charlie asked suspiciously, "Really?"

To be honest, Ye Feng didn't. Even Ye Tiandi, the Great Perfection Saint Body of the Human Race, was powerless against the ominous signs of the Red Hair Curse. How could Ye Feng possibly lift the curse?

Ye Feng is capable of lying.

Ye Feng awakened the Eye of Entropy, which allows him to observe entropy values, determine low-entropy and high-entropy entities, and even guide the flow of entropy.

Entropy, as something that transcends the laws of time, is the foundation of everything in the current universe and the most fundamental element of thermodynamics.

As long as the flow of entropy is induced and the moment of lowest entropy decay is fixed, it is equivalent to fixing a certain state at a certain anchor point in time. At this anchor point, the flow of time is very slow, which, in a sense, means eternal youth and immortality.

Just like Ye Feng's current teenage form, if Ye Feng grows up or regresses by even one more day, he will turn into the red-haired monster himself!

Ye Feng looked at Charlie and said, "You and your boss want a definite answer, and I can give you a definite answer too."

Charlie hurriedly wiped his mouth and said, "Stop talking nonsense! Give me a treatment plan so I can go back and report!"

Ye Feng sneered, "I have conditions!"

"Of course! If you don't have any conditions, I wouldn't dare accept your treatment plan!" Charlie said. "Conditions? Name whatever you want, it's not like I'm paying for it! These old fogies are very wealthy, you can name anything you want: energy resources, magical treasures, divine weapons!"

Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "I don't want these resources, magical treasures, or divine weapons."

Charlie asked, "So what do you want?"

Ye Feng thought for a moment and said, "Back then, they ambushed me under the Fourth Wall and took a single hair from my head. I deeply resent this behavior. Logically speaking, if they wanted to kill me, I should kill them too—that's fair. But the problem is they're playing dirty and trying to force a draw. Well then, I won't make things difficult for them. Tell them a draw is fine, but they must willingly spread the ominous signs of the red-haired curse on their bodies to at least one hundred strong individuals of their level, or even one more powerful being above their level!"

"If they can pass on the Red-Haired Curse to one hundred experts of the same level, or to one expert of a higher level, fulfilling either of these two conditions, I will help them remove the ominous signs of the Red-Haired Curse!"

Upon hearing this, Charlie, who had been frantically showing off his food, stopped abruptly and stared intently at Ye Feng. "Sentinel, isn't your intention a bit too malicious! One person infecting a hundred of the same level, or even one higher level, is needed to break the curse. Why don't you just let the powerful beings of all realms slit their own throats for a quicker relief?"

Ye Feng pointed at the Buddha's remains on the ground and said irritably, "Knowing each other is one thing, but I'll still sue you for defamation if you talk nonsense! You, a demon who devours the remains of cultivators, actually say I have malicious intentions? So it's wrong of me to seek revenge? I should have been the one who was ambushed by them, and then I smiled and apologized to them?"

Charlie said, "But, but your conditions are too harsh. I doubt the big shots behind you will agree!"

"They won't agree!" Ye Feng said. "My method for lifting the curse has limitations; not everyone can be lifted. For example, there's a one-month interval between the first and second batches of those whose curses have been lifted, a hundred-year interval between the second and third batches, and a ten-thousand-year interval between the third and fourth batches. And so on. Those further down the queue should carefully consider whether they can live to see the day I lift the curse!"

Charlie grinned, gasping for breath, "Ruthless!"

"It's not over yet!" Ye Feng said. "I offer a bidding system for removing the curse. In other words, the infection threshold I provide—one hundred experts of the same level and one expert of a higher level—is the minimum. If they do better and spread the curse to one thousand or ten thousand experts of the same level, or even to a group of a dozen or so experts of a higher level, then they can jump the queue and have the curse removed ahead of time!"

Charlie said, "The way you're doing this is tantamount to completely throwing all the heavens and the myriad worlds into chaos!"

"Otherwise what?" Ye Feng spread his hands. "Do you expect me to make some great contribution to the myriad realms? You don't think I'm a saint, do you?"

Charlie had already devoured the remnant soul of Buddha. He stood up and faced outside, saying, "I will tell them everything. As for their choice, you'll just have to wait and see."

"There's one more thing," Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "Tell them that Plan B [Life Reset] has been activated. I think I'll be disappearing soon. If they don't seize the opportunity and don't work hard enough in the first batch, then even if they spread the word enough times, I won't have the power to lift the curse once I'm assigned to the Life Reset instance. They'd better act quickly. As long as the number reaches the target, I'll immediately lift the curse for them. I'll be waiting for them at the Sword Qi Great Wall!"

Charlie looked at Ye Feng suspiciously: "Speaking of which, how can you be sure they haven't infected enough people? What if they're lying to you?"

"You don't need to worry about that," Ye Feng chuckled. "I have my own methods to determine the true number of infections!"

"Understood!" Charlie turned and walked outside. "Wait for my news!"