Artificial Being Bai Cangshu

Boom!

Scarlet light directly engulfed Bai Cangshu.

Bai Cangshu felt the scene before him rapidly distort. The bizarre, kaleidoscopic images reminded him that this was not reality—or rather, not reality in its normal state.

Bai Cangshu instinctively checked the spatial prompts.

You have been affected by Chaos Magic.

A flood of prompts appeared, but before Bai Cangshu’s eyes, they were gradually erased and vanished.

Bai Cangshu raised his eyes. The world had already changed completely.

He found himself in a scenic wilderness. The gentle breeze was not cold, and the sound of waves could faintly be heard. When he turned around, he saw a lush green prairie dotted with flowers of every color.

Farther away, atop the cliffs beyond the grassland, a snow-white house stood like a manor.

Just looking at the scenery, Bai Cangshu seemed able to sense the mood of this world’s owner.

More footsteps sounded. Bai Cangshu turned and saw Captain America Steve, Black Widow, and the others appear one after another. None of them noticed the strangeness of suddenly arriving here.

Everyone instinctively walked into that grassland and sea of flowers. Then, Bai Cangshu strangely saw illusory figures emerge before each of them.

At first, those figures still looked phantom and unreal. But as Steve and the others rushed forward to embrace them, they swiftly solidified into undeniably real beings.

Bai Cangshu could even sense their heartbeats.

Pfft—

Blood once again flowed from Bai Cangshu’s nose and mouth. His figure flickered, as though he were about to disappear.

Bai Cangshu stepped forward, but his qi did not appear. His foot still landed upon that prairie.

"I can’t sense qi anymore…"

Bai Cangshu had also made a point of learning more about Marvel World, including works highly relevant to this world. Therefore, he was not surprised that Wanda could use Chaos Magic to create this kind of illusion.

But he had not expected even his abilities to be affected.

Chaos Magic… altering reality…

Bai Cangshu tested it and discovered that many of his abilities had been affected. Qi, Satsui no Hado, and Magnetic Field Rotation could not be used, but the strength and force granted by his body itself remained.

With his hands clasped behind his back, Bai Cangshu ignored the others’ reactions and walked directly into the grassland and flower sea.

A strange fragrance entered Bai Cangshu’s nose, and his mind seemed to stir of its own accord. Countless scenes continuously flashed before his eyes.

He saw himself at Binhai University, deliberately suppressing his nature and pretending to be a model student. Then he returned to his high school days, sitting at the back of the classroom with a mocking expression as he sneered at everyone. After that came his middle school years, when he looked curiously at those members of society who could not get back on their feet.

Time reversed before his eyes. Those old scenes that had only left behind faint impressions began replaying with crystal clarity, but whenever the figures in each frozen scene were about to take shape, they shattered again.

Bai Cangshu had no knowledge or understanding of those people at all, so he could not construct their existence.

He could not feel anything toward them, and thus could not obtain the corresponding projection.

As Bai Cangshu continued forward, he analyzed the core of Wanda’s reality alteration. She was not creating everything entirely from nothing; rather, she treated every human drawn into it as a "processor core" and a variable.

Every human enriched the reality she created with their own thoughts, memories, and emotions.

But Bai Cangshu had no reality here that could form new connections with him. He was like a false person living in a life of disguise and abstraction.

He walked on without stopping for even a single step.

Finally, just as he was about to leave the flower sea, Bai Cangshu stopped.

He saw a mist-shrouded mountain forest. In its midst were fertile fields and carefully dug irrigation channels. An old man wearing a bamboo hat bent over to wash his hands in one of the channels, only to see a wooden basin drifting downstream with a baby inside.

The baby neither cried nor fussed. It merely gazed calmly at the sky.

Bai Cangshu raised his head as well. In the sky, a brown-haired man in a white robe patterned with black designs stood quietly in the air.

Bai Cangshu frowned. This scene was completely absent from his memories.

That was Aizen Sōsuke. Was this a memory from his infancy?!

But why had he forgotten? Who was that old man?

Bai Cangshu’s thoughts raced. The phantom of Aizen Sōsuke above his head rapidly solidified, and in the next instant, a powerful wave erupted from above Bai Cangshu.

Hum—

Unlike the violent eruption of Conqueror’s Haki, which swept forth like raging waves.

The eruption of Spiritual Pressure was more like heaven and earth suddenly changing color. Unmatched pressure descended upon the heart in an instant, the world becoming incomparably quiet. One could only be crushed to the ground by that heavy soul, struggling in despair as though dying.

As Bai Cangshu’s understanding of Aizen began projecting into this world, a terrifying pressure rapidly erupted above the sea of flowers.

With his back to that terrifying sensation, Bai Cangshu silently walked toward the stone steps by the cliff.

"From the moment you were born, I have watched over you…"

"Bai Cangshu, you are my creation."

The Aizen before him spoke the thoughts within Bai Cangshu’s heart. Behind him, Black Widow, Captain America Steve, and more people drawn into this illusion began to awaken under the terrifying Spiritual Pressure.

That soul-crushing pressure of near death rapidly altered their senses and perception.

Bai Cangshu ascended the long stone steps and arrived at the manor. Beneath a huge parasol, Wanda sat facing him in a red evening gown.

The shaken, broken expression she had worn before was gone. She seemed utterly cold.

Bai Cangshu stepped beneath the parasol, only to see that Vision across from Wanda was still a corpse with his head split open.

She had not actually resurrected Vision within the illusion…

"You’re with those people."

"You also crave the power of the Mind Stone, because you… are merely an artificial being."

Wanda looked at Bai Cangshu. Over the flower sea, everyone sank into the illusion once more, with even more figures appearing around them.

Bai Cangshu lowered his head and allowed Wanda to strike at the emptiness within his heart.

Solomon watched the scarlet mist from the air. He tentatively attacked it once with Dragonfall Spear, but it had no effect.

That space seemed to have become another dimension. Even energy attacks disappeared the moment they entered.

He saw Mercenary Tao swallowed by the red mist, but he was certain Mercenary Tao would not die so easily.

Solomon believed the Mind Stone definitely was not in Ebony Maw’s hands. That gem could buy Scarlet Witch a chance at life.

Now… every obstacle had vanished.

Wanda had begun to mutate, while Mercenary Tao had been drawn into Wanda’s illusion. These two individuals capable of threatening him had effectively taken each other out.

Now was the moment for everything to return to plan.

Boom!

A violent wind suddenly howled. Artoria abruptly turned around and saw the woman whom she had severely wounded with a single sword strike soar through the air from behind.

Above New York, dark clouds gathered. She sensed another fierce storm approaching.

Yun Wujiu, who had frozen himself completely, felt his heart tremble at the sight.

Jifeng had pretended to be injured?

She had not turned against Solomon… In the next moment, he realized another truth.

Xinfeng isn’t dead either!

That bastard… had prepared a contingency long ago!

At the same time, Tree Herder realized this as well. He had already fled into an underground world resembling ruins, but there, he felt an intense chill.