Zong Lin traversed the consciousness palace.
After experiencing the fusion of high-dimensional consciousness and soul promotion, it expanded even further, boundless and vast.
All the selves that had already been fused were distributed in rooms of various sizes.
It could be said that as a being who had essentially ascended to Rank One, he was now considered the unified self of all timelines and worldlines.
Of course, what was still recognized and dominant by all consciousnesses was his human ego.
However, there was still a fragment missing before reaching “completion”.
Zong Lin remembered that it should be a fragment that had accidentally split off when his ability had almost lost control many times before, forcibly gathering all the negative thoughts together to suppress and seal them in order to maintain the human consciousness.
Previously, Shen Jie had delved into his consciousness space to stabilize his ability infection value, inadvertently triggering these negative thoughts.
After battling with him, for some reason, the opponent had not shown up, so things had been relatively peaceful the past few days. Following the routes in his memory, Zong Lin flew to a massive white room deep within his consciousness. When he left with Shen Jie a few days ago, he had resealed the room with numerous chains. Now, under his mental control, the chains fell away one by one, revealing an opening into the room. A city, hardly different from reality, unfolded before his eyes. “Pale Nightmare,” the inverted city of the aliens. Zong Lin thought he would have to search inside to find the fragment of consciousness. Unexpectedly, as soon as the opening appeared, he saw a pale figure standing on the central tower of the city, clearly waiting for him. Zong Lin flew straight in.
The Pale King crossed his arms over his chest, his blood-red eyes gazing deeply at him, and coldly said, “You’re here, host.”
Zong Lin looked at him expressionlessly, lifted his spear, almost immediately assuming a combat stance, his aura escalating layer by layer. The formidable power, just one step away from Rank One, caused a slight change in the Pale King’s expression.
Facing the enemy, Zong Lin never wasted words; he simply grasped his spear and launched a strike forward.
“Hold on!” The Pale King hurriedly spoke up, his face, partly covered by a white bone mask, looking somewhat gloomy. “I have something to say!”
Zong Lin’s spear hesitated imperceptibly in midair, but there was no sign of stopping. Instead, it continued to thrust towards the Pale King with the force of thunder—Zong Lin was eager to return to the city after his promotion and take Shen Jie home.
However, his eyes showed a slight hint of confusion.
The Pale King had no choice but to defend himself, lifting his right elbow to connect with the sharp bone spurs protruding from the outside.
In the harsh collision sound, the Pale King was pushed back several steps. It contracted its pupils, somewhat incredulous.
A few days apart, and he had become this powerful?
It gritted its teeth somewhat resentfully and, in a defensive gap, squeezed out a voice from its throat: “Main body, you’ve been deceived!”
However, Zong Lin continued to attack without hesitation, and it could only continue to block with its hand.
In the midst of two fleeting shadows in the air, the continuous clang of dense sounds filled the ears.
The Pale King found that the bone spurs of its two arms had already started to crack under the fierce attack of the long spear.
Damn it.
The Pale King cursed inwardly.
This stubborn mule, in battle, is simply a brute, only knowing how to attack like an automatic rifle, without giving anyone a chance to speak.
After hesitating for a moment, the Pale King became angry. Ignoring the injury, it suddenly grabbed the long spear.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Zong Lin furrowed his brow.
Pale King: “It’s not the human you believed it to be, but an alien. One you detest, reject becoming, and aim to eliminate by any means! It deceived you!”
“Choosing to stick to the human faith for an alien? Consistently protecting this city for a liar?”. The blood-red eyes of the Pale King stared straight at Zong Lin, saying.
“Main body, does your belief and persistence really have any meaning?”
Zong Lin fell silent for a moment, saying, “What evidence do you have for saying all this?”
“Evidence?” the Pale King scoffed, “Do you really think that day, when I forcibly dragged it into the Pale Nightmare, it remained unscathed due to what? The intelligence of the researchers, or the experience of being a companion for many years? No, you’re wrong.”
Speaking of that day, the Pale King’s cold face twisted slightly. “It reached out its hand from the void and personally sealed my consciousness.”
Zong Lin remained silent.
He recalled the scene from before when he found Shen Jie in the alien temple, seated among the alien corpses.
At that time, the killing intent emanating from Shen Jie was even heavier than his own.
How could an ordinary person possess a killing intent heavier than that of a superpower user who had experienced countless killings?
He had never found the opportunity to inquire carefully, and Shen Jie himself had not explained.
He had always felt that these matters could wait until things settled down. The most important thing was for his beloved to return safely.
“Don’t make excuses for it anymore,” the Pale King said.
“There’s no such thing as the human Shen Jie you fell in love with. Just a facade, a mere illusion.”
The Pale King said each word with force, gritting its teeth.
It desired to witness the main body’s bewilderment, shock, and collapse, yet its own anger remained undiminished..
Trapped in the clumsy wooden carving of a fat bird, it often pondered what the monstrous creature in the void, disguised as a human, was truly after.
Watching the beautiful mermaid with black hair floating in the pool, lying in the main body’s embrace, entwined passionately.
The Pale King sneered.
“From beginning to end, it just wants to play with you.”
—-
C Base, temporary camp.
The medical tent was bustling with activity. The aura of the Rank Two “Soul” alien disappeared, and the infected humans were suppressed by the ability users who came to assist. Batches of infected and wounded were brought into the tent.
Su Shiyu walked among the stretchers, one hand in the pocket of his white coat, while the other emitted healing white light, enveloping the infected patients’ brains for treatment.
The infection of the “Eye of the Unborn” was extremely concealed, with no outward symptoms. It was difficult to eradicate the infection unless the brain was excised, leaving all accompanying doctors helpless.
Only Su Shiyu’s ability could save people. Therefore, this place had almost become his personal battlefield.
The infected were not docile, bound and tied to stretchers, struggling incessantly like zombies.
Su Shiyu remained calm, one hand treating and holding down the patient’s head for treatment, while the other hand in the pocket of his white coat held an alien crystal core for continuous absorption—
This was the alien crystal core that he instructed Wu Yan to send over. He took advantage of the chaos at C Base, successfully completing the handover while all the ability users were dispatched to various locations to suppress the situation.
Su Shiyu could sense that the “Feather of Creation” was growing at an astonishing rate. In a short period, it had already broken through several levels.
However, although absorbing the alien crystal core accelerated the stage advancement, the infection he received was several times that of simply absorbing the patient’s infection.
This was also why the system initially did not inform him of this upgrading method.
If his soul strength were not sufficient, his consciousness would probably have long been submerged in the vast alien power, falling into corruption.
But even with this rate of advancement, there was still a long way to go before he could heal Zong Lin.
Another patient woke up from the chaos, and the doctors and nurses onlookers applauded, one calling it a “medical miracle” while another praised “Mr. Su’s awesomeness,” accompanied by enthusiastic cries of “666.”
Su Shiyu rubbed his forehead wearily.
Reflecting on a few days ago, he was just a pedestrian in the research institute who only needed to lie down, applaud occasionally, and shout “666.”
What exactly caused him to be working overtime now?
Su Shiyu couldn’t figure it out, so he decided not to dwell on it.
He needed to upgrade quickly. Before some things happened.
—-
Shen Jie stood by the window, gazing at the night sky, feeling the aura from the southeast rising higher and higher.
Finally, it surpassed a critical point.
In this world, a new Rank was born.
Shen Jie couldn’t help but tug at his lips, revealing a smile.
The fingertips that had been constantly fidgeting came to a halt.
It seemed he wouldn’t need to intervene… hopefully.
—-
C Base. Watchtower.
The observers who were chatting and joking suddenly stiffened, raising trembling fingers to point towards the distance.
“W-what is that?”
In the distance, a dark mass of aliens was moving towards the city, almost occupying the entire horizon.
Not just the horizon. Also the sky.
In their field of vision, dragons of various sizes filled the entire airspace. Leading the pack was a gigantic ghostly bone dragon that seemed as large as an island. Standing on the skull of the bone dragon was a “person.”
They called it a person because it had the human form and appearance. It looked like an extremely handsome young man.
“It’s the aliens! The aliens are invading!”
The observers panicked.
Shen An stepped off the bone dragon and arrived at the city.
The enormous purple vortex of the Rank One advancement was located in the northwest direction of the city.
The white-haired man had already emerged from his cocoon, his wings expanded several times larger than when he was at Rank Two, with intricate silver patterns appearing on them. He had his eyes closed, as if he had not yet awakened from the depths of his consciousness.
– Rank One “Lord of Souls”.
Shen An, dressed in a suit, stared at the man who had become his brother’s partner with black eyes.
He looked left and right, but saw nothing special.
He chuckled and raised his left hand.
The human hand turned into a black flame shadow, wildly oscillating, emanating destructive waves from its origin and spreading outward.
Grass withered, everything turned to ashes.
The man’s eyes suddenly opened.
His eyes were still as blood-red as before, but around the pupils, a ring of silver appeared. That was the ability of the ‘Soul’ Rank One, the light that shone into the mortal world.
Zong Lin looked at Shen An.
With his current strength, he could see through the soul of the young alien hidden beneath this body at a glance.
The long spear condensed inch by inch in his hand.
Zong Lin: “Who gave you… permission to casually use Xiao Jie’s appearance?”
Husband is mad (o\ – /o)
Can this be considered as zong lin’s first time “meeting the family”? Lol
I don’t think he’s making a very good first impression.
Lmao
ROFL. I know it won’t happen but I wish Shen An would be slapped across the face and his true face would pop out
Omgggg I’ve put his novel on hold after shen jie got brought to the alien world so that I can stockpile some chapters and hopefully not land on a cliffy. But now I have faceplanted on the very edge of the cliff in agony as I can’t wait for more (つд⊂)
Thanks for the chapter
Hahaha…
I think every chapter here is a cliffhanger 😂
Thanks for the chapter
Thank you for the chapters!!!!🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
:DDDDDD
Thank you for the chapters, this is sooo good! ❤💜
since it seems like zong lin can sees the soul inside a living body now… what will he sees when he goes back to shen jie?? i’m so curious
I’m wondering the same thing
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapterrr!! 💖💖💖
I can’t help but think about Bleach the anime when reading about Zong Lin and Pale King. They’re like Ichigo and his hollow 😁.