Reverse Universe

Reincarnator GS55512387, Reverse Universe effect activated.

You have gained the Revival effect. All negative statuses on your body have been completely dispelled. Cursed Speech has been lifted. The Edict has been lifted.

Under the effects of Reverse Universe, your Energy · Inner Force has doubled. Current Energy: 64.

You have met the qualifications to compete for multiple space titles. You will be notified before the start of the next cycle. Please check for updates.

Red Dust laughed wildly, his voice making the air churn ceaselessly. Even the weather changed as massive clouds rolled overhead, as though terrifying currents were racing through the sky.

With more than 60 points of Energy converted into power, Red Dust was now no less formidable than another supreme martial arts master. He had fulfilled the cultivation requirements for Di Shitian’s Sacred Heart Art and Seven Absolutes of Despair. As long as he could obtain those techniques from His Excellency later, he could ascend to the top in a single step and become one of the few Title-level experts in the current space!

And… he was free!

He felt more refreshed than ever. It was not merely the Millennium Worm’s Cursed Speech; the other restrictions imposed on him had also vanished along with his death and revival.

Reverse Universe: Revised

Quality: Extremely Rare · Supreme

Description: A miraculous medicine painstakingly developed by the Divine Physician, one of the "Three Gods" of the Wind and Cloud World. It had become even more hidden and mysterious under the Goddess’s divine power.

Effect 1: After taking this medicine, the user would briefly gain a vast amount of cultivation, which would dissipate over time.

Effect 2: After using this medicine, its power would accumulate within the body and activate when the user died or was near death. There was a certain chance of reviving the user and doubling their cultivation. After this effect triggered, the user would lose a great deal of lifespan (30–100 years).

Effect 3: The revival effect could trigger multiple times, but the probability would gradually decrease while the lifespan consumed would gradually increase.

This was the peerless prescription Red Dust had acquired from the Wind and Cloud World. He had spent two B-rank Anomaly Points to have it improved by the Goddess, then expended considerable resources to acquire the ingredients before finally brewing it into a potion and drinking it.

This was the trump card he had hidden within his body, one nobody had ever known about.

He had not rashly tried to force himself into a near-death state in his Private Space just for the doubled cultivation effect. Instead, he had kept this effect in reserve.

He had been waiting for a dangerous mission, planning to deliberately leave the team and use this item to secretly remove the restrictions on himself.

Now that his wish had been fulfilled and his strength had increased dramatically, he had once consumed Dragon Origin. He had no need to worry about his lifespan running out.

"Hey, hey, haven’t you laughed enough already, kid?"

In a flippant tone, the huge man seemed to want to pick his ear, but his thick fingers simply could not fit. He gave up and mockingly teased himself in a bored manner.

Red Dust raised an eyebrow and looked at Mercenary Tao, whose temperament had completely changed.

"This is… split personality?"

"No, it looks more like possession or some kind of transformation ability."

Red Dust shook his head, somewhat disappointed. He had thought Mercenary Tao would be someone as obsessed with martial arts as himself.

Red Dust raised his left hand. The treasured blade that had fallen when he died trembled a few times, flipped upright, and flew into his grasp. With a swipe of his hand, icy blade light flickered. He twirled the blade in his right hand, then casually flung it out.

An ice-blue blade aura erupted from the blade in an instant.

Pff—boom!

Several hundred meters of ground collapsed like tofu in an instant, then exploded as Inner Force burst forth.

"Mercenary Tao, you’re interested in that Limiter too, aren’t you? Why not join my ranks?"

Satoru Gojo sensed the ambition of this red-haired man, which had swelled to the point of disregarding everyone. The other man barely even considered him worthy of notice.

He laughed soundlessly.

"Uchiha bro, you’ve collected enough Chakra by now, right? This guy really thinks nothing of us, huh~"

"Hmph. The glow of a firefly…"

The Sharingan and Six Eyes focused on Red Dust at the same time. One corner of Bai Cangshu’s mouth curled upward in a frivolous smile, while the other tilted downward in cold disdain.

Two arrogant people could least tolerate arrogance from others.

Because he possessed the passive ability of rapid regeneration, Bai Cangshu’s body was not subject to the limitations of Cursed Technique Overload or only being able to use Domain Expansion once per day. Such restrictions were fundamentally manifestations of damage caused by overloading the Cursed Technique Circuits in a Jujutsu Sorcerer’s brain.

But Bai Cangshu’s body could rapidly heal even if his brain was shattered. A burden of this level was nothing to him.

He formed a hand seal and looked at Red Dust.

"Domain Expansion, Infinite…"

Pff!

Blazing blade aura, icy blade intent, a detached and cruel smile. Red Dust held the Snow Drinker Blade diagonally, his strike so fast that it could no longer be seen with the naked eye.

Satoru Gojo looked at the massive blade aura hovering an inch before his finger. The surrounding air had completely crystallized and split apart to either side. His pupils shrank.

The distance between that blade aura and him was wrong. The force contained in that strike had warped space?

Buzz!

He vanished with Teleportation. The enormous blade aura then swept across the ground, instantly carving out a trench thousands of meters long.

Woooo—

Blade energy roared. In an instant, Red Dust seemed to reveal hundreds of afterimages, striking from every angle. The space between heaven and earth was filled with towering blade energy.

"Cough, cough—pfft!"

Flower Immortal’s clothes were in tatters, and her lovely body and face were covered in scorched marks.

Green life energy flickered over her body. The Millennium Worm’s self-destruction attack just now had covered far too wide an area and had caught her in it as well. Fortunately, she had been far enough away and was only hit by the aftermath, so it was not a serious injury.

However, the cactus constructs she had used for surveillance had all been destroyed. She could no longer see what happened in the subsequent battle between the strangely revived Mercenary Tao and the Millennium Worm.

But she was already scared out of her wits. She had never imagined that Red Dust would be killed, much less by the Millennium Worm.

At that moment, a voice finally appeared in her mind. It was an ability similar to telepathy. Every reincarnator who joined the Chaos Sage would have a certain technique inscribed within their bodies by the Sage, allowing everyone to communicate across spaces.

Of course, this technique could be removed by the Goddess, but choosing to remove it meant betraying the Sage, even betraying His Excellency Eternal Destiny.

"Red Dust is dead?"

There was not much anger in the Sage’s voice. Instead, he sounded puzzled.

"Yes. When he was fighting Mercenary Tao fiercely, Blackwater’s Millennium Worm deployed an unknown Domain. When the Domain was lifted, I saw the notification that Red Dust had died. But Mercenary Tao seemed to have been immune to the Domain’s attack…"

As Flower Immortal gave a brief report, she took out a seed and threw it to the ground. Soon, a huge treant rose from the earth and carried her on its shoulder.

She was already preparing to retreat. No matter how the battle between the Millennium Worm and Mercenary Tao ended, with Red Dust dead, she no longer had the confidence to get involved.

"Flower Immortal, I have a task for you now."

Flower Immortal froze.

"I want you to find Red Dust’s body and bring it back. At the very least, bring back his head."

Flower Immortal was naturally quick-witted. She immediately realized that the Sage believed Red Dust had faked his death, but the space had clearly already announced his death.

Revival?!

Within Infinite Dimensional Space, there truly were a tiny number of Special Items that could revive their users after death, but they were all extremely rare items with exorbitant costs.

As thoughts raced through Flower Immortal’s mind, she hesitated and said,

"My strength is insufficient. Even if Red Dust has revived and betrayed us, I’m afraid I won’t be able to…"

The Sage’s voice immediately turned cold.

"Go. Confirm whether Red Dust is truly dead."

Flower Immortal’s body shuddered. A powerful force instantly rewrote her will, and the treant beneath her changed direction, walking toward the place where Red Dust had died.

"Hee hee, relying on someone like the Sage… you really are stupid, Flower Immortal~"

A giggling voice came from behind her. Flower Immortal froze and turned around, only to discover that someone had appeared atop the treant at some point. The newcomer wore a black cloak that concealed her face, and her figure was petite.

Whoosh.

At the same time, a valiant young man with his eyes closed teleported onto the treant. A faint smile rested on his face as he spoke.

"Miss Midnight Watch, the order from our superior seemed to be for us to persuade Tatsumaki the Terror to join Claw. So right now, we are…"

The Heart Demon codenamed Midnight Watch looked at Shimazaki Ryo, who was still agonizing over that suicidal mission, and said irritably,

"Shimazaki Ryo, there are two choices now."

"First, go find Tatsumaki the Terror, who may be even more terrifying than that ??? who beat your Boss Suzuki until he fled in disgrace, and see what kind of mood she’s in. Whether she kneads you into a ball or crushes you directly into dust."

"Then I’ll choose the second one, Miss Midnight Watch…"

Shimazaki Ryo, who always wore a smile, had his smile fade slightly. With psychic powers such as Super Perception and Teleportation, almost nothing could escape his senses.

Therefore, Midnight Watch, whose existence even he often failed to detect, was one of the few people he respected. He could tell that she was not lying. Miss Midnight Watch, whom his boss considered a threat nearly equal to Katsuya Serizawa, once the strongest of the Five Supers, genuinely feared Tatsumaki the Terror.

Then, even as someone who loved a challenge, he should not face such a person.

Seeing that Shimazaki Ryo knew when to back down, the Heart Demon’s newly kindled killing intent eased somewhat. She remained seated, but Flower Immortal began to tremble all over, her face pale and bluish. A large amount of water seeped from her hair and body, as if she were being soaked in water.

"Flower Immortal, could you tell me where that Sage fellow is and what mission he’s doing?"

"I was trying to find Tang Sanzang with Mercenary Tao, but after that guy came into contact with the Sage, he disappeared…"

Midnight Watch rested her head on Flower Immortal’s shoulder and gently tugged at her soaking wet hair, her voice soft.

"Could the Sage have killed him? Tell me, what should we do if someone steals our prey? Ah… what a headache!"

Rip!

Midnight Watch suddenly exerted force, tearing off Flower Immortal’s hair along with her scalp. Yet even under such agonizing pain, Flower Immortal could only tremble all over, unable to move.

"Mercenary Tao… Mercenary Tao is up ahead…"

In Flower Immortal’s vision, she was submerged in a well full of corpses. The icy water kept rising, about to drown her, but none of her abilities would work. She was so desperate she was nearly suffocating.

But upon hearing that they had joined forces with Mercenary Tao, she still rapidly offered up her intelligence as though clutching at a lifeline.