Douluo Continent: The Myriad Body of Truth and Falsehood

Chapter 112 Cause and Effect of Killing

Dragon King Legend Timeline

After Bai Xuyi completed a series of necessary actions, he finally awoke. Gradually opening his eyes, he saw Gu Yuena, who looked somewhat disheveled. Clearly, she had also expended a lot of energy in the initial storm.

Her breathing was slightly rapid, and her body was still exhausted, but her eyes remained resolute.

"Awake?" Gu Yuena's slightly tired voice rang out. She turned to look at Bai Xu, a complex expression flashing in her eyes. She led Bai Xu to the edge of a deep pit in the ruins of Shrek Academy. The surroundings were desolate, filled with smoke and the heavy smell of gunpowder permeated the air.

The once magnificent academy is now nothing but scorched earth and crumbling ruins. Her silver hair fluttered in the wind, and her purple pupils stood out starkly against the somber environment, creating a striking contrast with the desolate wasteland.

Bai Xu took a deep breath and sighed softly, gazing at the ruins: "This wretched land..."

His gaze unconsciously swept over the spot where the golden tree that once symbolized Shrek Academy had stood; now, that tree had turned to ashes. With the bombardment of fixed-position soul-guided cannons, Shrek Academy was no longer just a scene of devastation, but had completely vanished from the world, leaving not a trace.

Once a sacred place that countless soul masters yearned for, Seagod Island and Seagod Pavilion have now turned to ashes.

"Don't just stand there, there are still wandering ordinary corpses or magical corpses around." Gu Yuena's expression instantly became alert, and her brows furrowed.

Her gaze swept across her surroundings, each step cautious, clearly showing she was not letting her guard down in the slightest regarding the dangers around her. As Sui Yuan departed, the Dharma Corpse and the Ordinary Corpse, freed from their restraints, began to act on instinct without thinking, and started attacking the living.

"Hey, what a pretty little girl. I wonder if your soul power is as delicious as your appearance. Compared to looks, I value inner qualities more." A strange laugh suddenly came from the sky, and a corpse transformed into a bird or beast, circling in the air.

"Hmm?" The moment the corpse saw Bai Xu again, it was greatly shocked and did not immediately swoop down. This guy was covered in green flames, making his face impossible to see, and he gave people a very unsettling feeling.

Bai Xu gently sensed the surrounding atmosphere, his gaze sweeping across the distant Star Dou Great Forest, where a fierce beast tide seemed to be erupting. Previously, the Punishment of Causality had caused the complete annihilation of all targets that had been causally linked to the Level 9 Fixed-Position Soul Guidance Cannonball, and the Star Dou Fortress was also affected, with most of its inhabitants disappearing without a trace.

At this moment, the fortress's defenses are weak, making it the perfect time to attack.

"You must have a lot of questions to ask." Bai Xu finally broke the silence, his tone calm but filled with a powerful sense of pressure.

"Indeed." Gu Yuena paused slightly before speaking, "Thank you for being able to distort reality and revive all the soul beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform at the Spirit Tower headquarters." A hint of gratitude flashed in her eyes, but more so, worry about the future.

"It's nothing. I'll keep my promise after this is over," Bai Xu replied calmly, his tone devoid of any exaggeration, yet an irresistible pressure still emanated from him.

At this point, Gu Yuena's body trembled, and she hesitated for a moment.

"Chance!"

The magical corpse in the sky suddenly rushed down, heading straight for Bai Xu.

boom!

Bai Xu neither dodged nor evaded, but met the onslaught head-on, his bare body colliding with the unyielding, hardened form of the corpse. The impact produced a dull thud, sending dust flying everywhere.

"Good heavens, that's some tough flesh. Few Soul Masters can match a magic corpse's physical strength." The magic corpse rose into the air again, speaking with surprise, seemingly not expecting Bai Xu to be able to withstand its attack with his bare body. Its voice was filled with doubt, "You're a survivor from Shrek Academy? That's not right. We've been here for over a day. Even if there were survivors, they should have been swallowed up by the horde by now, right?"

However, before he could finish speaking, Bai Xu's figure suddenly vanished. The next moment, he tore open the space in front of him, stepped directly inside, and disappeared without a trace.

In the false world, everything seemed to freeze. The corpse of Dharma remained motionless in the void, its expression one of doubt.

At this moment, Bai Xu floated in the air and gently drifted to the front of the corpse. With a flick of his finger, an invisible killing intent surged forth, and the corpse was instantly cut into dozens of pieces of minced meat, which exploded in the air.

After doing all this, Bai Xu returned to reality, stood still, and his gaze remained as calm as ever.

"Huh? Disappeared and reappeared, what did you do?" The corpse's voice was filled with extreme panic and terror, its eyes widening suddenly. "Causality fluctuation! Not good, retreat!"

It almost instinctively tried to escape, but before it could even move, its body was instantly reduced to minced meat. The shapes of those wounds were exactly the same as what Bai Xu had done in the fake world; this was the inevitable death that Bai Xu had chosen for it.

When Bai Xu activates his innate divine power and it contains killing intent, enemies with causal connections to him will form projections in the false world. Once they engage in battle with Bai Xu, the killing karma emanating from the enemy's causal lines will manifest. Bai Xu can also use his divine power in the false world to select a future of certain death for them and influence reality through projection.

"How could you possess the supernatural power of causality, and have even mastered it?" The corpse's last words were filled with shock, and before the words were finished, its life force was completely extinguished.

Having dealt with the magic corpses, Bai Xu cleaned up the surrounding battlefield, quickly eliminating the ordinary and magic corpses roaming near Shrek Academy.

When he returned to Gu Yuena's side, he saw that she looked uneasy, her face showing obvious tension and anxiety. He sighed and slowly said, "Tang Hao has already discovered your identity; it's no longer appropriate for you to stay here."

"What should I do?" Gu Yuena asked in a low voice, her brows furrowed, clearly filled with confusion about the future.

"Let's go back to Starry Sky," Bai Xu said calmly. "Haven't you always wanted to fight against humanity for living space? If not now, when?"

In the war of cause and effect, the Douluo Continent gathered the top combat forces of various major powers, along with level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannons, yet they were still no match for Wan Ye, and were instead annihilated by the punishment of the law of cause and effect. Although the combat forces at the Limit Douluo level survived, they were all severely injured, and humanity's vitality was greatly depleted.

Bai Xu approached Gu Yuena, patted her shoulder lightly, and sighed, "The tense and exciting first battle of cause and effect is over. Now, let the soul beasts start the second battle of cause and effect."

Gu Yuena's pupils contracted slightly, her face filled with shock. "You can still descend in the rank of Wanye?"

Bai Xu smiled slightly, a barely perceptible glint in his eyes: "Of course, from this moment on, I am truly immortal."

Gu Yuena was slightly taken aback, looking at the Shrek Academy disciples who were slowly appearing around her. They were outer court students who had survived the shelter, and her eyes were filled with disbelief. Bai Xu's appearance had helped them escape the zombie horde's predicament. Without him, the consequences of the zombies rushing into the shelter were unimaginable.

When Gu Yuena saw the hopeful look in their eyes as they looked at Bai Xu, she finally understood—from beginning to end, Douluo Continent had no chance of winning.

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Star Fortress

Di Tian and his horde of ferocious beasts stood high in the sky, looking down at the churning beast tide below. Dark clouds filled the sky, and thunder roared, as if the heavens and earth themselves trembled with impending destruction.

This beast tide was comparable in scale to the attack on Shrek Academy launched by Di Tian himself ten thousand years ago, and even more intense. Every soul beast's eyes burned with a raging fire, filled with a desire to destroy everything. Their roars were deafening, like thunder, seemingly intent on utterly destroying this fortress, a symbol of human power, and pulverizing it into fragments.

All the soul beasts seemed to have fallen into an uncontrollable frenzy, their violent aura filling the air. They no longer cared about anything around them; their sole objective was to tear apart the steel-forged city walls. Without human control, this once impregnable Star Dou Fortress now appeared incredibly fragile. The surrounding defensive lines had long since crumbled, and the iron walls rumbled incessantly, teetering on the verge of collapse.

"boom--"

The beast tides from both inside and outside intertwined, surging towards the fortress like a giant net, trapping it tightly. Whether they were colossal beasts descending from the sky or ferocious creatures emerging from the ground, they were all pouring out in full force.

Amidst the horde of ferocious beasts, Di Tian stood atop the Star Dou Fortress, his figure tall and imposing. His gaze swept across the fortress before him, coldly fixed on the area submerged by the beast tide. Behind him, numerous powerful and ferocious soul beasts surrounded him, their auras as oppressive as a mountain torrent, suffocating all who beheld them.

However, behind this group of ferocious beasts, the figure of a three-eyed golden lion faintly appeared. A faint golden light flashed in her third eye, the light dancing back and forth in her eye, as if touching some distant memory.

Di Tian's gaze shifted, instantly catching her change. He frowned slightly, a hint of inquiry in his expression, but quickly relaxed, as if he had realized something. He gently waved his hand, gesturing for her to step forward, and whispered, "Perhaps, I should call you Wang Qiu'er."

Wang Qiu'er's figure jolted, as if pulled back to reality from deep thought. She raised her head, her eyes filled with confusion, "Ah? Beast God... I..." Her tone was full of bewilderment, as if she was trying to recall something, but everything seemed so blurry.

"What's wrong with you?" Di Tian asked softly, his tone not so much of a reproach, but rather more of a concern and inquiry.

Wang Qiu'er paused, then slowly spoke, "I feel like I should be living in the Star Dou Great Forest, but for some reason, I only remember taking a nap and waking up here." She looked down at her hands, which had taken human form, her expression filled with confusion and loss. "Now I realize... I was resurrected from the dead?"

Wang Qiu'er's words revealed a deep sense of confusion and surprise, and a hint of astonishment flashed in her eyes, as if she had not yet fully understood the changes that had occurred to her and was still processing the sudden truth.

"You haven't become a corpse." Di Tian looked into her eyes, a mixture of relief and complexity in his gaze. "This is a miracle."

Wang Qiu'er remained silent for a moment, seemingly processing Di Tian's words. Her gaze was blank as she stared at the distant beast tide, her mind a jumble of confusion. She couldn't understand why she had been reborn.

Di Tian sighed softly, his eyes becoming profound. "No matter what, I will tell you the story of you and Lingbing Douluo Huo Yuhao from ten thousand years ago. Whether you stay or leave is up to you."

(End of this chapter)