Hearing Chen Luo's statement, the system panel could only pause slightly to express its shock.
Having never engaged in the highest difficulty game before, even the system hadn't anticipated that an individual imbued with the world's destiny would grow so rapidly.
Coupled with the highest difficulty game's bonuses, Chen Luo had consistently received rewards that were beyond expectations. Consequently, Chen Luo now possessed the ability to guide the entire world out of the game's progression.
Of course, this still required a slight assist from Great Source power.
The text on the system panel flickered continuously, attempting to identify more favorable conditions to entice Chen Luo and the world to continue playing the Doomsday Game.
After all, guiding civilization to the game's conclusion was one of the very purposes for the Doomsday Game's existence.
However, the Doomsday Game was not like some arbitrary Great Lord; it had been established with various rules from its inception.
Due to these rules, it could not forcibly compel Chen Luo to continue playing. After all, the power he had gained was entirely within the game's rules, and he had even paid a price of over a thousand Great Source power for it.
But it was also because of these rules that it could be exploited by the Great Lords to become a harvester of Great Source.
Chen Luo, looking at the unresponsive panel, shook his head and began to ponder whether to return home first or to seize the initiative and accept the next mission directly.
After all, having just ascended to a new level of strength, Chen Luo, while missing his family back home, also felt a bit antsy for action!
Just as Chen Luo was deliberating, the system's prompt suddenly boomed in his ears:
[WARNING! RETURN TO THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY!!!!]
Chen Luo's heart leaped. Although he didn't understand the reason for the system's urgency, he immediately focused his thoughts and activated the second effect of "Fang Cun Zhi Guo."
Chen Luo's figure instantly blurred. In the next instant, he was about to return directly to the game world, to his own territory.
But!
An instant was far too long!
Within the void, two crimson eyes, as vast as suns, lit up. From the depths of the void, a dragon's head, the size of a planetary system, violently emerged:
"In the name of the Great Lord! Time here is reversed!"
A voice filled with malice echoed throughout the seemingly boundless void.
And Chen Luo, who was supposed to be blurring, reverted to his state before using the skill as the voice fell.
As the monster appeared behind him, Chen Luo sensed a palpable aura of death, and his thoughts began to race:
"Damn it! It's the main body! How did it track me down in such a vast void?!"
"No, I have to activate my teleportation skill to return to the world! The mother world is still protected by the game, the Great Lords can't act directly!"
His thoughts racing, Fang Cun Zhi Guo was activated once more.
However, an undeniable sense of déjà vu caused Chen Luo to instinctively look up.
But as Chen Luo looked up, a bead of cold sweat trickled down his temple.
When the Great Lord's main body descended, Chen Luo could not perceive the reversed time; this was a complete suppression of status.
But as Chen Luo looked up, the pale blue system panel in front of him faithfully recorded all the combat information.
[WARNING! RETURN TO THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY!!!!]
[You activated "Fang Cun Zhi Guo"! Great Lord Long Jiu reversed the time of this place, and your skill release failed!]
[The Great Lord stares menacingly at you as you attempt to escape! You are devoured by the Great Lord! In endless agony, you die!]
[The Great Lord reversed time!]
[You activated "Fang Cun Zhi Guo"! Great Lord Long Jiu reversed the time of this place, and your skill release failed!]
[The Great Lord stares playfully at you as you attempt to escape! You are devoured by the Great Lord! In endless agony, you die!]
[The Great Lord reversed time!]
...
...
[You activated "Fang Cun Zhi Guo"! Great Lord Long Jiu reversed the time of this place, and your skill release failed!]
[The Great Lord stares at you with boredom! You are devoured by the Great Lord! In endless agony, you die!]
[The Great Lord is considering whether to completely absorb your abilities! To destroy your true spirit!]
[The Great Lord reversed time!]
The same information refreshed over a hundred times! The only change was the variation in Long Jiu's gaze.
In the instant he saw it, Chen Luo gained an understanding: in his perception, not even a fraction of a second had passed.
But after the main body of Long Jiu descended, he had in fact been killed by it over a hundred times!
Moreover, each time he was killed, this lunatic, out of revenge, reversed time again and again,
causing the unaware him, as he attempted to escape, to repeatedly fall into the ultimate end of death after experiencing extreme pain.
The system also automatically answered one of Chen Luo's doubts:
[Detected the fact that the void record was interpreted, Great Lord Long Jiu cannot track the system's teleportation of you. However, the void record truthfully records your existence outside the world.]
[It is recommended that for your next teleportation, you choose to teleport directly into a world possessing Great Source. Although this will expose you directly to the impact of the world's Great Source, it will prevent the void from recording your location. If you have a next time.]
As if sensing Chen Luo's change, watching Chen Luo, who should have fled again, pause in place, Long Jiu's voice directly sounded in Chen Luo's mind:
"Little mouse, you've discovered it?"
"Heh heh, that's right. After a True Transformation Domain cultivator's time has been reversed so many times, they should gain a sense of déjà vu."
"And for a purely concentrated True Transformer, even a sliver of déjà vu is enough for you to detect the anomaly in time."
"So, keep running. Perhaps this time you can escape? As long as you escape back to that world, I wouldn't dare to directly attack a world protected by the game!"
"Come on! Run! Run!!"
"Hurry and run!!! You rat!!!"
"I can't wait to taste you again!!!"
As the voice echoed in his mind, a smoldering black fire suddenly ignited in Chen Luo's consciousness space.
This was the natural pollution from a higher being. Clearly, Long Jiu had no intention of holding back.
The pain of his spiritual world being polluted caused Chen Luo's forehead to bulge with veins.
But he had no time to care about this pain, only frantically running his thoughts, trying to find a way to survive!
"Great Source power? Not enough! Hundreds of units of Great Source power cannot contend with the main body of a Great Lord, it's barely enough to escape!"
"A last-minute burst? Impossible! If I unfold my True Transformation body now, it's just adding a meal for it!"
"I must find something that can counter it!"
His domain, situated between reality and illusion, could not be deployed at all. Chen Luo could currently sense a sense of anxiety emanating from within the domain. It seemed that even a low-tier world's Great Source of the third tier was feeling Chen Luo's predicament.
But unfortunately, as long as the Great Lord behind him willed it, a mere low-tier world's Great Source would be utterly useless!
And the mother world in the distance also seemed to show signs of awakening, but Chen Luo, outside the world, could not wait for her rescue!
Chen Luo, at this moment, had fallen into a dead end!
In his sea of consciousness, a vast golden ocean was being burned by black fire, and black blood flowed from Chen Luo's nostrils.
The Great Lord's main body behind him watched the desperate Chen Luo with great interest. It could feel it.
Compared to the previous hundred instances of instantaneous, unperceived devouring, and the subsequent feedback from prolonged torment.
Chen Luo, now aware of the truth, was generating slivers of despair.
This black and gray despair was an excellent seasoning for the Great Lord. It was somewhat reluctant to completely devour Chen Luo's everything.
After all, once Chen Luo's abilities were completely devoured, the system would permanently certify the current time, and then the Great Lord would no longer be able to reverse time to the point before Chen Luo's death.
In Great Lord Long Jiu's view, black and gray despair was constantly rising from Chen Luo's body.
But it did not see, in the depths of Chen Luo's dark pupils, facing away from it, the never-abandoned light of hope:
"That's right! The only existence truly unaffected by the Great Lords!"
"It's you! The Doomsday Game!!!"
"System! I want to conduct a world judgment! Teleport me immediately and directly to the target world!!!"