Chapter 732: High-Level Game
In a thousandth of a second, she had already calculated that if she didn't intercept this punch, but allowed it to strike Water Blue Star, the impact at the intersection of sea and land would trigger an 8.9 magnitude earthquake with a focal depth of zero.
Buildings within a hundred-mile radius would be reduced to rubble by the shockwave, and ten minutes later, colossal tsunami waves, fifty meters high, would sweep inland, destroying everything.
But it no longer mattered. Humans, or any other life forms, had already perished at the hands of the two before them. No disaster, however great, could further increase the death toll.
The biosphere was already annihilated; another destruction would make no difference.
Compared to the crimson giant in the sky, Lun Qin, appearing like an ant, also extended her right hand. The colossal size difference made this scene seem like "an ant trying to shake a tree."
Yet, astonishingly, two fists, differing in size by over ten thousand times, achieved an uncanny balance.
The colossal crimson hand halted abruptly less than a hundred meters from the ground. Its terrifying kinetic energy, unable to impact the surface, was entirely converted into thermal energy during the collision.
Wild heat diffused in all directions. The surrounding air, in mere seconds, was heated to tens of thousands of degrees, transforming into plasma, more terrifying than molten rock.
Scorching air plasma splattered everywhere, creating a crater wherever it landed. The already scarred surface of the earth now completely became a fiery inferno.
Two rings.
Three rings.
...
With Lun Qin as the epicenter, the ground began to regularly indent. Though her absolute position remained unchanged, she appeared to be floating in mid-air.
Then another colossal crimson hand struck.
From the heavens above, a pillar-like scarlet palm, moving at over five Mach, plunged headfirst into the planet's interior, like a bamboo skewer piercing a fishball.
Heaven and earth shook!
After the smoke and dust dispersed, the mountain peak, once nearly a thousand meters high, instantly became a bottomless chasm, its elevation now unknown meters below sea level. A few steaming small hot springs gurgled from the surrounding fissures.
...
"Which side do you think will win?"
In a vast white space, a voice echoed from an unknown source.
"Who wins or loses, isn’t it all just a thought of yours?" a seemingly female voice emanated from a humanoid female entity within the white space.
However, calling her a woman was only possible by vaguely discerning her figure as "she" rather than "he."
For "her" face was a blank, an empty canvas without features.
"I didn’t expect him to be so weak. It’s not good to waste a 'Soul Entanglement Dream' that took so much effort to cast."
Stars twinkled, and a figure draped in a white robe appeared before the faceless person.
"So you completely rewrote the script, turning the entire dream world into a cultivation technique testing ground."
Her featureless face turned toward the strange cube that the white-robed figure was toying with, which occasionally flashed with peculiar light.
The faceless person was Xu Xuanling, who had voluntarily detached herself from the dream world, while the white-robed figure was, naturally, Bai Mo, controlling the entire game.
A few days ago, he had used an ultra-wide-range Soul Entanglement Dream to indiscriminately pull everyone on Water Blue Star, including himself, into the dream, intending to use them as pawns to fight a battle against the Main God in the dream world.
However, he had never expected that the manipulator behind the Main God was merely a six-tier superhuman who hadn't even reached the Celestial Immortal level. This individual had simply sunk into the dream, unable to awaken, convinced they were a part of the dream, completely forgetting about controlling the Main God.
This made Bai Mo, who had intended to fight on his home ground within the dream, feel as if he had punched thin air. Therefore, to maximize the utility of this dream, he altered the script.
...
The "Soul Entanglement Dream" was a killing move he specifically designed, referencing the Reincarnation Tribulation.
Life forms below the Celestial Immortal level, unless they could undergo the Reincarnation Tribulation within the dream world to achieve the seventh stage and awaken their True Spirit, would never see through the illusion that it was merely a dream. They would experience birth, aging, sickness, and death within the dream, their consciousness ultimately perishing within the dream world.
Only beings who had achieved True Immortal status had the chance to escape from the dream, transforming from pawns into players.
And the strange cube in Bai Mo’s hand was precisely the Main God Temple, which, having lost its original master’s control, had fallen into an unmanaged state.
At this moment, the Main God Temple was empty, as the consciousness of all Reincarnators had also been drawn into the dream world by the Soul Entanglement Dream, where they were all killed by several great natural disasters.
Their consciousnesses already believed themselves dead. If no external force awakened them, their bodies in the real world would cease functioning after a period, entering a state of death along with their consciousnesses.
...
"“The 'Stygian Blood Sea Technique' and the 'Eight-Nine Profound Technique' are both cultivation methods for the Martial Path Human Immortal.” Xu Xuanling, who was also beyond the dream, watched the battle in the dream world thoughtfully.
"“Cultivating these step-by-step can lead directly to the great Dao of a seven-stage Human Immortal. If introduced into the Federation, I fear it would cause another storm of blood and strife.”"
She attempted to simulate the different power invocation methods of the two techniques in her mind. Unfortunately, since Xu Xuanling did not ascend to an Immortal through the Martial Path as a Human Immortal, but rather cultivated Spirit Arts as a Myriad-Phase Celestial Immortal, her martial arts realm was genuinely insufficient. She could only vaguely perceive certain things, making it difficult to systematize in the short term.
"“Out of more than twenty six-stage Reincarnators qualified for breakthroughs, only two could reach the final step.” Bai Mo watched the ultimate battle on the large observation screen in the white space with little interest.
"“Two Reincarnators?” Xu Xuanling was somewhat confused. Having watched from beginning to end, she clearly understood that the two individuals fighting earth-shattering battles on the field were merely conscious projections of the person before her; there was no second person at all."
Therefore, she had initially said, "victory or defeat is but a thought away," because this was entirely Bai Mo fighting himself.
"“You know about the Reincarnation Tribulation, right?”"
"“Of course.”"
"“The Reincarnation Tribulation causes one to transmigrate into someone in another dimension. If one can awaken the memories of their former self, discern the boundary between truth and illusion, and construct a True Spirit Barrier, then taking that step is to ascend to Celestial Immortal status in a single stride.
Those two transmigrated into my avatars...”"
"“...” Xu Xuanling’s mental waves were filled with doubt."
She found it impossible to believe that such a coincidence would occur, where someone could transmigrate into his avatar purely by luck. That was even less probable than a pie falling from the sky, let alone a braised durian-flavored one—unless someone had prepared the pie beforehand and smeared it directly onto his face.
...
More than twenty Reincarnators, as the first test subjects, each entered the dream world with a set of cultivation techniques designed by Bai Mo.
After practical testing, only two sets genuinely proved capable of helping one achieve Celestial Immortal status; the others, more or less, contained flaws that needed improvement.
And to collect firsthand tribulation data, Bai Mo even lent out two of his projections, allowing them to transmigrate into the dream.
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