No One on Shore, a Free Fish

Life of Silence Seven Seven’s eyes flickered with traces of savagery. After immersing herself in the power of killing intent, her mental defenses had become quite weak. That was also her flaw.

Though Life of Silence in this state possessed immense killing power and still maintained the highest level of strength, having lost her Clear Sword Heart and unique personal style, she was no longer that cold killer capable of controlling the entire situation.

You have been invaded by the special unit Khorne Chosen

Qiqi frantically slashed at every visible unit around her. Judging solely by the destructive power of each strike, she was one of only two people present who could surpass those Outer Scenery-level experts.

Qiqi and Seven Nights Demon Lord stood to the left and right, both having fallen into states of madness as they indiscriminately slashed at everything around them. In nearly an instant, they completely divided the battlefield.

Feeling the pain of his body being cut, Ruofeng Lin immediately began to counterattack after the Moon Demon gained the power of the Slaanesh Chosen.

Several figures flew toward Qiqi at once. Heavy sword qi sent Qiqi reeling back with every slash.

One of them was an expert with slightly graying hair, wielding a broad gray-black sword. His sword style was heavy, but his movements were agile. He had not been completely controlled by the Moon Demon.

However, influenced by the heart of desire, his judgment had gone somewhat awry. He believed there were many evil demons present, and that no matter whom he killed, it was necessary.

Thus, guided by that impulse, he began to prioritize surrounding and killing Qiqi.

Ruofeng Lin also realized that the Moon Demon could now wield the power of his Sequence Potion. This proved that the fusion between himself and the Moon Demon had become complete. Under the power of the Chaos God, the shackles between Reincarnators and the demons of this world were beginning to dissolve.

Ruofeng Lin could not stop it either. The chaos of today’s battlefield had surpassed his imagination. It seemed that although the upper world had undergone some fundamental change, even without intervention from the other shore, stopping a Reincarnator of his caliber was still exceptionally easy.

Moreover, this proved that this world had its own unique mechanism for dealing with outside invasions. Perhaps some great being, or perhaps some Dharma treasure, was specifically responding to this matter.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why Six Paths Reincarnation squads had begun entering as soon as the ritual was activated, with more and more being deployed as the battle worsened.

Ruofeng Lin suddenly felt a pulling force. The Moon Demon’s consciousness churned within his mind, and that endless resentment was like an abyss, swallowing him whole in an instant.

"Little bug, after scheming behind everyone’s backs, you still want to stay out of this?!"

Ruofeng Lin’s consciousness and spiritual radiance rapidly sank. Only his spirit body was still forcibly maintaining his sense of self.

He knew very well that becoming a Slaanesh Chosen was no good thing at all. Without the intervention of power on the level of the Infinite Dimensional Space, an ordinary Fierce-tier Reincarnator corrupted by Chaos would ultimately become a complete demon.

In a sense, the members of these Six Paths Squads were right. They truly were killing demons and defending the righteous path.

Ruofeng Lin gave Qiqi, who had already begun to be surrounded, one final look and sighed.

Sorry, Qiqi. In the end, I only possess a mortal’s wisdom. I could only calculate this far…

His previous plan still lingered in his mind. He would become a Slaanesh Chosen, Qiqi would become a Khorne Chosen, and they would open a Warp passage in this world, drawing the gaze and will of the Chaos Gods from that world into this one.

Then Qiqi would kill him, resolve the knot in her heart, complete her Heart Light Pulse and advance further in strength, while also completing the mission and being retrieved by the Infinite Dimensional Space.

In the end, the overly powerful Celestial Dynasty of the Vault of Heaven would suffer a Swamp-like troublesome attack, delaying this force’s assault on Earth when the dimensional war erupted.

Qiqi, meanwhile, would become one of the most powerful Reincarnators in a single leap, thanks to the vast resources and her complete Heart Light Pulse.

Other than the death of a useless villain like himself, everything would have reached the best possible ending.

Only, unfortunately…

Ruofeng Lin’s spirit body watched Mercenary Tao grow increasingly frenzied as he fought under the siege of four or five Outer Scenery experts. The loss and disappointment in his heart were ultimately buried by curiosity.

That sort of guy… isn’t bad either.

Buzz!

Ruofeng Lin’s spirit body suddenly contracted from outside his body back into it. His consciousness and Star Spirit Body were completely corroded by the power of the evil god and the endless resentment within the Moon Demon’s origin.

Qiqi, in the midst of slaughter, noticed none of it and continued to slash wildly around her.

The swordsman surrounding her had now realized that although the demon before him was immensely powerful, able to unleash swordsmanship beyond the killing power of ordinary Outer Scenery Triple Heaven experts without drawing upon the primordial energy of heaven and earth—

Her weakness was equally obvious. She seemed to lack reason. Though her techniques were skillful, they were still far from worthy of such a realm.

Using the broad body of his sword, sometimes tilting it and sometimes knocking her blade aside, he continuously blocked those terrifying slashes. He steadily closed in on that body resembling a blood dragon.

The demon’s body appeared to be composed entirely of blood. It was impossible to tell where flesh and blood truly lay, but an ability sufficient to leave most Opening Apertures stage experts helpless was no longer invincible at the Outer Scenery level.

His heart tightened. As his breathing rhythm changed, his heavy sword intent pressed down upon Qiqi little by little, while two more people attacked from behind her.

One of them possessed extraordinary hard-body cultivation. His body seemed forged from gold. Each time he was struck, he merely trembled, with no sign that his golden body could be broken.

This level of defense had already reached the realm of the Golden Bell Shield.

The old man remained steady. The lewd sounds by his ears grew increasingly intense, yet his heart grew calmer and calmer. He had a feeling that he might earn an immense amount of good karma today.

After returning, perhaps he would even be able to study the secret supreme sword arts of those great sects.

Just as his heart burned with excitement, a line of blood suddenly stretched across heaven and earth.

The old man felt a chill. He immediately raised the broad blade in his hands, intending to use the opponent’s abrupt and decisive sword momentum to deflect it again.

But this time, his hands felt strangely light.

Pfft!

Another blood line flashed through his vision. Heaven and earth seemed to have been divided into four by the two lines of blood. He turned his head and saw the gray-robed man using the golden body technique frozen in place, his face filled with terror.

Pfft!

The blood line swept across the other man’s golden body. Blood sprayed out, the golden body shattered in an instant, and that head seemingly cast from gold spun as it flew into the sky.

The old man’s heart sank. He turned back and looked at the blood lines across his hands, sword, and body. Terror rose within him, but before he could cry out, he heard a mad roar.

"Skull for the skull throne!"

Bang!

A figure, carrying an unimaginable force field and energy, crashed across the sky like a falling star. The scorching air completely warped his vision.

The lewd sounds by his ears vanished in an instant.

Boom!

Excruciating pain erupted from his body, and his vision immediately spun as it flew into the sky.

He watched with his own eyes as his body was smashed into pieces by that demon. The demon still held several heads in his hands, every one of them bloodied and wearing an expression of deathly unwillingness.

Pfft!

Bai Cangshu casually swung his side fist, and a powerful shockwave instantly blasted the falling heads in the air to pieces.

He no longer had time to collect more heads.

But this battle was truly exhilarating. Every enemy was capable of resisting him. No—more accurately, these people were immensely powerful. Every one of them was a genuine Fierce-tier enemy.

Unlike Reincarnators, who merely relied on a certain enhancement to raise their destructive power by a level, these cultivators had already reached extremely high levels in combat awareness, cultivation concepts, bodily control, and even spiritual cultivation before obtaining destructive power to match.

That allowed them to continue fighting despite the Chaos influence imposed by two newly born Chosen of the Gods.

Among ordinary Reincarnators, aside from those specialized in mental attributes, everyone else would likely have been severely affected.

Even the constantly appearing immunity check notifications were enough to make those with insufficiently steadfast combat awareness abandon the fight and flee.

"Good!"

Bai Cangshu roared again. As the shockwave exploded, he threw himself at the group that had just teleported in. His savage will swept over them indiscriminately.

The group had only just appeared and had not even recovered their senses when the savage will struck them. It was like a fear aura. In that brief daze, a fist wrapped in golden qi had already blown them apart in midair into a mist of blood.

"Hahaha!"

Amid his mad laughter, the intensity of the battle here became impossible to control as it spread in every direction.

After all, every participant possessed the ability to alter the terrain across dozens, even hundreds, of kilometers.

The terrifying slashes of Seven Nights Demon Lord and Qiqi had long since cut apart the surrounding mountain ranges. Whenever Bai Cangshu savagely hurled a defeated Six Paths Squad member into the deep mountains, terrifying tremors and shockwaves erupted.

The demons in the mountains began to flee in collapse. Fortunately, the Great Gan Dynasty had long since fallen and been corrupted to the extreme. Even around the Imperial City, there were not many living people left.

Otherwise, one might have seen humans racing alongside demons at this moment.

Bai Cangshu’s mad slaughter, like that of a perpetual-motion machine, also made these Outer Scenery-level experts somewhat fearful.

At this moment, nearly all of them were forcibly enduring the intense Mental Shock as they faced this terrifying demon charging about recklessly.

"This demon’s physical body is astonishingly strong! We must find a way to restrict his movement technique, then join forces and kill him!"

Someone shouted loudly, beginning to attempt cooperation with other squads.

Such arrangements were rare in Six Paths Space missions, but they were not unheard of. When facing enemies that were too powerful, they could only unite against them.

They simply had not expected that after reaching the Outer Scenery level and becoming first-rate martial world experts, they would still encounter something like this.

The Netherworld was not especially mysterious. They had been teleported here before, but they had never encountered anything resembling an ancient Great Demon.

Of course, no one believed Bai Cangshu was truly unbeatable. At most, he was still merely an Outer Scenery-level enemy.

He could not even reach the Grandmaster Realm, Outer Scenery’s seventh, eighth, and ninth heavens. That was why the group had not scattered and still chose to fight.

Naturally, the Lord of the Six Paths Reincarnation had never deployed missions that guaranteed death. Everyone knew that a large-scale mission like this would inevitably draw out those true experts in the end.

For example, the legendary teams of Immortal Traces and Myth. Rumor had it that there were experts at the Dharma Body realm among them. When that time came, these demons would be nothing more than chickens and dogs.

Meng Qi frowned deeply. The group did not dare move too far from the battlefield. Something felt very wrong to him. More precisely, since some unknown point, many things had begun to feel wrong.

At times, he even had peculiar dreams, but he had not told anyone about them.

As a transmigrator, a man from Earth living his second life after his soul crossed over, Meng Qi’s mind was far more complicated and calculating than he appeared. That was why Shaolin had initially only allowed him to serve as a menial laborer.

He was too calculating!

How could an adult who weighed gains and losses not be calculating?

After entering the Six Paths Reincarnation Space, Meng Qi had gone from initial panic to rapidly developing calmness. He had long known that abilities from certain works he had once read were also included by the Lord of the Six Paths Reincarnation.

They could be exchanged for. They could be learned.

That meant those things were not entirely illusory.

Yet the mission worlds they had been sent to had always only borne some resemblance to the stories he knew. That had allowed Meng Qi to believe that his world was real, without those bizarre notions of brains in vats.

But this time was different. He was certain that the things he had just encountered came from the Warhammer World setting he had occasionally read about in his previous life.

That fellow’s cries of "skull for the skull throne, blood for the Blood God" were simply too obvious—so obvious that they did not resemble something a Plot Character would do at all. It was more like a similarly calculating transmigrator shouting those words deliberately.

"Or perhaps he isn’t a transmigrator."

Meng Qi sat beside a boulder. Jiang Zhiwei stood atop it, keeping watch over the distant battle together with Zhang Yuanshan and Qi Zhengyan.

Whenever terrifying aftershocks of attacks came their way, the three of them used their supreme arts to block them.

"Young Monk, what are you talking about?"

Jiang Zhiwei cared deeply for this young monk whom she had almost watched grow up. She never ignored others’ opinions simply because she was the strongest member of the team.

On the contrary, outside of battle, Jiang Zhiwei was usually willing to listen to Young Monk and Senior Brother Zhang.

Meng Qi’s face was deathly pale. He suddenly felt that he might be inside an Infinite Flow story.

Though he had been selected by the Lord of the Six Paths Reincarnation and become a Reincarnator, his Space was clearly not orthodox enough. It contained only cultivation techniques.

Those people—the so-called demons—were the true Reincarnators!

Reincarnators enhanced with the power systems of the Warhammer World and… the qi of the Dragon Ball World had entered this world and become his enemies?!

Meng Qi suddenly felt dazed, as though he was no longer himself. He feared that his existence was not real, that he was merely a character fabricated by someone else.

Because of this, the look in his eyes as he gazed at the beautiful sword-wielding woman became bleak and lifeless.

If he was only something written by another, then nothing belonged to him. Everything had been written by someone else…

Ding ding dong~

Melodious zither music began to play. The youngest member, Ruan Yushu, dressed in white, plucked the strings, while Qi Xia, who had been serving as a scout farther away, happened to return at that moment.

Meng Qi remembered that in his dreams, Miss Qi Xia should have ignored their warnings after their first mission and revealed the matter of the Lord of the Six Paths Reincarnation before the leaders of the great sects, only to be immediately erased.

Yet now, she was clearly alive and well…

A sense of disillusionment washed over him.

In the unseen depths, Meng Qi once again saw an illusory surface of water and something above it. There was nothing there—only a withered fishing rod left behind. On the shore… no one existed.

Ding ding dong dong~

The zither music grew increasingly intense. Ruan Yushu seemed immersed in some emotion, and the illusion before Meng Qi’s eyes changed violently as well.

A sigh sounded at that moment, and the group suddenly became alert. Jiang Zhiwei raised her sword before her, only to see a woman in purple robes appear leisurely.

"Little Zi?!"

Gu Xiaosang looked at Meng Qi with a strange expression.

"So it’s you… You are the key to this mission…"