Gu Shen and Song Ci supported Madam on either side as they left the Liberty Auditorium.

"Ding!"

An alert sounded from Deep Sea's channel.

"Warning!"

"Warning!"

"Illegal intrusion detected at coordinates y489, e321. Illegal intrusion detected at coordinates..."

A three-dimensional image was immediately transmitted: the abandoned old building where Chen Mei was being held!

The Special Investigations Team's private channel remained connected, unbroken.

Gu Shen said in a low voice, "Teacher... someone's intruding!"

The old man's voice on the other end of the channel was unusually calm.

"Mm."

"???"

What kind of reply was that?

Chen Mei was an important member of the Special Investigations Team, forcibly detained by the Tribunal under the guise of "protection." If anything went wrong... Nanwan would hold the Tribunal directly accountable!

Yet, upon hearing this alarming news of a break-in, Zhou Jiren calmly replied with an "acknowledged"?

"Um..."

Zhou Jiren paused and issued an order.

"Nan Jin, accompany Gu Shen to take care of Madam. I'll handle the aftermath here at the auditorium."

"???" Gu Shen was speechless again.

"Deep Sea's reaction is slower than I expected... 'Xiao' has indeed managed to borrow some of Deep Sea's authority." The old man murmured in the private channel, "The Holy Wood was destroyed three minutes ago."

Lu Nan Jin, who had rushed to meet them at the auditorium entrance, exchanged a look with Gu Shen, and both fell silent.

The destruction of the Holy Wood meant someone was staging a "jailbreak"!

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. Xiao had more than one plan tonight... hypnotizing the Liberty Auditorium, repairing Oblivion Dream, seizing his body, were only parts of it.

Tonight's ball was extremely important, with almost all high-ranking figures present at the Liberty Auditorium, focusing the capital's attention here.

Correspondingly... other places appeared dim and insignificant.

Attracting attention in the bustling crowd.

Carrying out clandestine activities in the shadows.

What a brilliant scheme...

"Alert canceled, alert canceled..."

Deep Sea's transmission sounded again.

This understated voice indicated that all crises had been resolved effortlessly... but hearing it brought no peace of mind, only a sense of unease and incredulity.

Everything had happened without warning.

And then ended without warning.

Separated by a voice call, Gu Shen couldn't see Zhou Jiren's expression, but he already sensed the old fox's terrifying nature. The reason they could rest easy at the Liberty Auditorium tonight... must be because he had been prepared all along.

The old building where Chen Mei was held must have a huge trap laid out!

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"Fuck..."

It was hard to imagine such a vulgar word coming from Ye Ningqiu's mouth.

Fine beads of cold sweat dotted her forehead as she looked at the empty wilderness before her.

In just a moment of distraction.

Perhaps starting from the last syllable of the old man's words... the world within her field of vision was enveloped by a massive rule, and countless blades of grass swayed, undergoing a "Reverse Flow."

The tornado that had spread and expanded in the air didn't even have time to wail before it was dispersed in an instant and reinserted back into the ground.

It was as if someone had pressed the rewind button.

And so... time actually reversed.

What method could revive a dead man? She couldn't imagine it.

But now she had witnessed it firsthand.

Time Reversal.

"Hic..."

A wine bottle was thrown to the ground, and Mr. Bai Shu let out a slow hiccup. The curly-haired young man in front of him had disappeared... and Ye Ningqiu's mental force, which had been spreading far and wide, faintly sensed a familiar aura at this moment.

It was Chen Mei's aura.

In... the original old building.

At this moment, the woman's expression truly turned snow-white and ghastly. She realized that this was an existence she could never contend with... If there truly were "gods" in this world, wouldn't this old man qualify?

She had yet to see the legendary true god who wielded the Fire Seed, was invincible, and could not be defeated.

But this drunken bum had definitely transcended the realm of "human"!

Escape!

"Ye Ningqiu" began to run wildly, fleeing madly in the direction she had come from. Fortunately, the elements here obeyed her senses, and countless leaves howled. In just one second, she glided hundreds of meters away.

But the next moment.

She was back where she started.

It was a bizarre, chaotic scene, completely impossible to piece together on the timeline, because both the cause and effect had been severed... She inexplicably felt a sense of stagnation and pain. Her mental force was still immersed in the escape, while her physical experience had returned to the moment before the "start."

This kind of scene.

Only appeared in "dreams."

"You seem to be very fond of 'plundering'... invading a body and then borrowing some special supernatural ability." Bai Shu looked at the woman, his eyes penetrating this skin and staring directly at the strand of spirit in the woman's mind that had fallen into chaos.

This strand of spirit found it difficult to withstand the chaos brought by "Reverse Flow"?

Bai Shu spread his arms, smiled softly, and invited in a gentle voice, "Want to try... seizing my 'body'? If you obtain this ability, it could allow you to dominate the current Eastern Continent, perhaps even challenge the true gods."

Ye Ningqiu roared.

She no longer fled, but pounced directly at Bai Shu.

At her brow, a strand of blood-colored flame permeated out. She opened her lips, as if wanting to devour food, and her teeth bit down fiercely on Bai Shu's shoulder.

But in the next instant.

Reverse Flow!

She returned to her original spot.

After a moment of confusion, "Ye Ningqiu" pounced again.

Reverse Flow.

Each time that slender strand of spirit underwent "Reverse Flow," it had to endure immense pain, trying to distinguish between reality and illusion... Bai Shu's Reverse Flow ability was even more violent than Zhou Yu's Oblivion Dream.

Each activation was a subversion of cognition.

At the "Collapse Point of Order" in Yuandan Street, a supernatural ability of "Time Reset" had been born... Among the five major continents, there were almost zero transcendents who could fully develop this power.

And Bai Shu... was a maverick exception.

Complete, fully realized Reverse Flow, perhaps no longer at its peak due to age...

But this was an ability that Xiao simply could not resist or escape. The strand of spirit approached collapse in one Reverse Flow after another. This scene was similar to "Ye Ningqiu" killing Chen Mei earlier, but with a different approach but same goal.

If Xiao could remotely control and manipulate a transcendent's "body" as his vessel.

Then there were only two ways to kill him...

Either find his physical body directly.

Or annihilate his spirit directly.

Bai Shu chose the latter.

In the torment of one Reverse Flow after another, the strand of blood fire finally fell into a frenzied, uncontrolled state. It broke away from "Ye Ningqiu's" brow and crashed into Bai Shu.

The old man then reached out his palm and easily grasped the strand of blood-colored flame.

He looked down at the blood fire, his voice old but incomparably majestic.

Like a high and mighty emperor, overlooking rebellious subjects.

The strand of blood fire struggled frantically, desperately trying to break through the restraints. Faces constantly condensed in the flames, angry, pained, weeping, presenting a myriad of aspects of sentient beings. Each face was a "face" that Xiao had refined using his ability.

Bai Shu spoke expressionlessly to the owner of the blood fire, who was ten thousand miles away.

He spoke only two words.

"Kneel."

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