From the end of the world

Chapter 436: Subdued on the Spot
Using the power released by the "Zhuang Cheng" rune to attack me is essentially trying to make me fight myself. I can stand still and eat it without any problem, and even the schoolmate Xiao Qiao beside me will not be hurt. And now I don't need to speak to cancel it all, I can do it with just a thought.

If I just did that, the other party might not be able to tell why the flame went out, so I just did this simple and clear action.

Even so, the "Preacher" still showed an expression of incomprehension of reality. As if he wanted to reaffirm his own strength, he waved the "Zhuang Cheng Blade" in his hand again, intending to summon the flaming sword energy and the sea of ​​fire again. This time, the special weapon did not show any miracles.

"What did you do?!"

He asked in astonishment while backing away. Faced with an incomprehensible situation, he seemed to retreat immediately. When in an advantageous position, he would beat the enemy hard, and when in a disadvantageous position, he would retreat bravely. This might also be an excellent quality that a demon hunter must have.

"I just extinguished my own power." I stretched out my hand, "I will confiscate the weapon in your hand first."

Although the distance between us was more than 15 meters, I still ignored the space and grabbed the big knife in his hand. He once said this to Xiao Qiao, just as the weak will submit to the strong, the weak soul will also unconsciously submit to the strong soul. There is a reason for this sentence. I just grabbed it, and his muscles unconsciously gave up the resistance, and the big hand with protruding bones and muscles obediently let go of his most important weapon.

I looked at the sword with my name engraved on it. This weapon made me feel a little shy, but also made me feel that my existence was affirmed in a different way. Perhaps in the future, I will get used to my deeds and name being mentioned and used by countless people on various occasions, and I will also get used to being exposed to the eyes of countless people. At this stage, I still think that this weapon has some commemorative significance, so I put it into my own flame.

"As for you..." I looked at the Preacher again.

The latter was a little slow to realize that his weapon had been taken away, and immediately revealed a horrified expression: "Is this... a spatial ability? But why is there no mana fluctuation...

"Wait, you just said that you only extinguished your own power, could it be that... No, this is impossible!"

He said it was impossible, but his body was very honest. He immediately turned around and fled like the Impermanence just now, trying to hide in the nearest shadow. At the same time, the shadows around him surged violently, changing into countless black javelins like flying rain, attacking me and everyone present, as if to delay my possible next move a little.

“—Stop.”

I made a sound again. This time, I was not just showing my presence, but really using the power of the Great Impermanence. The Preacher was immediately unable to control his limbs as if his joints were locked, and the shadow portal that was ready and waiting for him to enter quickly turned into an ordinary shadow on the ground, causing him to fall flat on his face. The black shadow javelins in the sky disappeared like an illusion.

Thus ended the battle with the Preacher—if it could be called a battle.

The Preacher lay motionless on the ground as if he were dead. Xiao Qiao stared at him for a long while before muttering incredulously, "Win... win?"

"Yes. It's over."

This sentence was not said by me, but by Zhu Shi.

She appeared on this floor of the unfinished building, without the black guitar case on her back. Just like when we first met, she was wearing a brown-black raincoat and a hat of the same color, holding the sheathed Yama Sword in her hand, like a majestic knight from an ancient martial arts drama, and walked towards Xiao Qiao step by step.

We haven't acted together for a long time, and her outfit made me miss it. I guess she dressed up like this in order to better confess her true feelings to Xiao Qiao.

At the same time, this scene itself gave me a sense of déjà vu. Previously, I used my superpowers to save Chang'an from the weirdo's shadow clone, and revealed my identity to Chang'an together with Zhu Shi, who was wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat; and now a similar thing happened again, and I had to reveal my identity to Xiao Qiao, who was Zhu Shi's friend, and even the enemy was a weirdo.

"Xiao Zhu..." Junior schoolmate Xiao Qiao looked at her as if she was meeting Zhu Shi for the first time.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Qiao. I will explain it to you."

Zhu Shi made a soft sound, closed one of his eyes, and consciously made a cute expression.

It was the first time for me to see her do such a playful move, while Xiao Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, showing a relaxed smile and said, "I know... Don't worry about me, I'll wait for you." Zhu Shi nodded, then looked at me and said, "I've seen what happened just now..."

As she spoke, she turned her head away and let out a laugh that sounded like a sneeze. Then she turned her head again, tightened her face, and said seriously: "Thank you for protecting Xiao Qiao, and you also worked hard to protect the people around you... Huh... Puff..."

"You don't have to hold it back, just laugh if you want to," I said.

After receiving the authorization, Zhu Shi immediately laughed happily, and squatted on the ground holding his stomach. While laughing, he said intermittently: "Zhuang Cheng...Zhuang Cheng's Blade...Brother Zhuang's Blade...What kind of strange name is this?
"Brother Zhuang, are you really not going to give yourself a code name? Didn't you ask Fa Zheng Da Wu Chang to help you come up with a code name called 'Dawn' last time? If you had accepted it at that time, this weapon might not be called 'Zhuang Cheng's Blade', but 'Dawn's Blade'... Although it's not very novel, at least it wouldn't be so weird."

"Everyone already knows my name anyway. It feels weird to change it to a code name and ask others to call me that." I chose to ignore her laughter. "Also, let me confirm... Is he the Wuchang you mentioned yesterday?"

I pointed at the Mingzhu believer Wuchang who was lying unconscious in the distance, and Zhu Shi, who had watched the opponent's battle from beginning to end, nodded without hesitation, put away his teasing smile, and said, "Yes."

"Then - let's 'recover'." I used the power of words again.

Mysterious power fluctuations swept the entire place. The target of recovery was not only the Impermanence, but also the ordinary people lying on the ground. It was still very difficult for me to use the power of fire directly to achieve the healing effect, but the power of the spirit could do a lot of things and help make up for some of my shortcomings, and healing was one of them.

As for how to use the power of fire to achieve a healing effect, in my opinion, burning off the cause and effect related to "injury" is one direction.

But things like cause and effect cannot be destroyed at will. From a metaphysical point of view, all objects in the material world are aggregates of causal concepts one after another. Deleting one of them at will is likely to cause a chain reaction, just like removing one of the blocks in a pile will cause the whole to collapse.

To put it in terms that ordinary people can understand, cause and effect are like code. If you change it arbitrarily, the software may not run.

This method can be used as an attack method, but it has very high requirements as a treatment method. In addition, because I am not good at reading "codes", most of the time, I can't see through all the events that this person has experienced in the past and may experience in the future through cause and effect by just looking at someone. That is the area where Gua Tianshi is good at. At most, I can only grasp some vague temperament from the overall situation.

Maybe as long as I become more proficient in observing cause and effect, even if I can't predict the future as far as the fortune teller, I can naturally do something like Ma Zao, and be able to investigate the "historical records" of the object and analyze the past long ago.

And now, what kind of revelation and fateful meaning the unexpected intrusion of impermanence into this place has for me, I cannot see for the time being, I can only tentatively confirm that it exists.

Their injuries all recovered quickly. Among them, the one who was impermanent was injured by the magic power with the attribute of life turbidity, which was not so easy to heal. However, it may be because I have the ability to restrain the magic power of life turbidity and the special place I was in, so the injury suffered by the impermanence healed quickly.

Some people woke up after being cured, but I used the power of the Word Spirit to make them fall asleep again. They were more inclined to the people of Taoyuan Township in their stance, and this was also to avoid any noise that would distract our attention.

Strictly speaking, they were not actually brainwashed. They just wanted to enter the sweet dream world so much that they even lost their reason.

The "Preacher" didn't get any treatment from me, but he wasn't seriously injured anyway. I came to his side, stretched out my foot, and turned him over while he was lying on the ground. Zhu Shi also came to my side, and Xiao Qiao, a junior schoolmate, followed closely behind Zhu Shi.

"You...are you really that Zhuang Cheng? The Great Impermanence Zhuang Cheng?"

The "Preacher" seems unable to accept his defeat until now, as if he would rather accept that all this is just an absurd nightmare.

"Why...how is this possible? How could you appear in a place like this..." He muttered incoherently.

(End of this chapter)