Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 285 The Law Has a Primordial Spirit
In the first story, Xu Feng observed the source of power for the final boss of this horror movie—the power of faith, mainly the power of women's faith.

The Curse of the Ghost Woman.

The four characters in the title of this movie contain very important information.

The final boss doesn't need a target to believe in it to collect faith power. Women only need to have extreme emotions to become its source of power. For example, jealousy. As long as a woman is extremely jealous of a mistress like the red-clothed ghost in the first story, she will become the target of that unknown entity.

This will also include female reincarnators and female creators.

This is why Xu Feng dared not tell his teammates after discovering the truth. The more truth those female teammates knew, the easier it was for them to become the source of the final BOSS's power and to be controlled by the final BOSS.

In the second story, Xu Feng learns about the core ability of the final boss in this horror movie—reincarnation, which allows him to 'bring back' his target through unorthodox means.

This move is terrifying.

After completing its reincarnation, that BOSS becomes the 'creator' or 'mother' of the reincarnated individual. It can fully understand all the abilities of the reincarnated individual during the reincarnation process and may even take the opportunity to master those abilities.

Those who are not strong enough will be easily killed.

Xu Feng wants to know many things: What is it? Why is it able to do these things? How can it be completely eliminated?

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Currently, the only thing he can be certain of is that the final boss is not human, and its true form is most likely not a 'physical object'.

Such monsters are very troublesome.

It is highly likely that even destroying Earth in Act III and wiping out all life in that world would not be enough to eliminate that being.

Another two hours passed.

Based on the intelligence he had gathered, Xu Feng readjusted the Supreme Throne once again to enhance its defensive capabilities; and he also infused the New Village Rain with a sufficient amount of special true energy.

In just one hour, all three male newcomers had died.

"The third act will be very dangerous, Shoko. You will control the Imperial Arms, the Supreme Throne. It should allow you to wait for my support. Mei, enter the borrowed power state before entering the third act. Don't be impulsive, just wait for me to rescue you." Xu Feng handed the two modified Imperial Arms to the two women.

"Have you found a way to enter the third act?" Xiangzi asked.

"Yes, when I observed the character 'Steel,' I already knew how to enter the third act. It's just that the method was too dangerous, and I spent the rest of my time thinking about how to make that dangerous method safer," Xu Feng nodded.

“If the third act is too dangerous, we can actually stay here longer,” Mei said, her whole body flushed. When she saw Xu Feng again, she felt weak all over and wished she could rush into his arms immediately.

The little witch guessed that Xu Feng rushed into the more dangerous situation because of her and Xiangzi.

But she did not want Xu Feng to act rashly.

"You have a little confidence in me, don't you?" Xu Feng laughed. "This horror movie was indeed very, very difficult for you, but it didn't put too much pressure on me!"

During the conversation, Xu Feng had already extended the Tun Tun Domain hundreds of miles away. Then, the domain precisely covered the monster covered by a sack and moved it to the temporary outpost.

The monster, suddenly encountering this unexpected turn of events, appeared extremely frightened.

It emitted sounds like insect chirping, horse neighing, and pig grunting, exuding an eerie aura.

Xu Feng reached out and placed his hand on the head of the woman in the sack, activating the Swallowing Domain to make the monster fuse with other items.

The woman in the sack struggled and refused to cooperate.

It was covered in sharp iron spikes, attempting to stab Xu Feng.

But it doesn't help.

The difference in strength between it and Xu Feng was too great; those iron spikes simply couldn't pierce the defense constructed with true essence.

As the sack-woman's body rapidly grew larger after merging with ordinary matter, the strange sack also grew larger. However, because the growth rate was far slower than that of the sack-woman herself, cracks soon appeared.

A moment later, the woman in the sack was over a hundred meters tall, her whole body resembling a giant statue, and the cracks were as wide as palace passageways.

— Letting the woman in the sack eat you is the way to pass the level, but being eaten by her is too dangerous. Xu Feng's idea is to enlarge her 'mouth' and 'esophagus' so that she can swallow you whole.

The crack leads to an unknown area.

"Next, entering this passage will allow you to proceed to the next chapter."

Xu Feng gathered the fourteen surviving reincarnators from the East China Sea team, looked around, and then instructed them: "Sanada, you will go in first. Before you go in, I will leave some life-saving items on you."

Xu Feng was quite certain that the passage he had created on the woman in the sack could lead to the third act.

But such a dangerous operation with a slim chance of survival should naturally be given a try. Isn't the purpose of painstakingly training teammates for this kind of moment?
This probing mission is extremely dangerous. Whether it's Sanada Haruyuki or Park Chang-ho who goes to test the waters, they will most likely not be able to hold out until he comes to their aid in the third act. Considering their talents, Xu Feng has no choice but to send the less promising Sanada Haruyuki to his death.

Faced with this suicide mission, Sanada Haruno was actually quite eager and nodded repeatedly.

He already knew about Renbang's death... It was too difficult. This senior had clearly struggled with all his might, but still died silently in his room.

He didn't want to stay in this eerie place at all.

Act Three might be more dangerous, but it could also be safer.

"Shoko and Mei followed closely behind."

Xu Feng then instructed, "Park Chang-ho, you decide whether you want to go in. The environment here isn't too dangerous for you, and you can survive even if you stay here."

"As for the others... whether or not you want to enter is up to you."

The situation for these female newcomers and near-veterans is dire, but not without a chance of survival—if Xu Feng can quickly defeat the mastermind behind the scenes, they can luckily endure the dangers in the relatively 'safe' second act until they disappear and return to the Main God Space.

"Captain, when will you enter the third chapter?" Park Chang-ho asked.

When he first entered this world, the South Korean private thought the monsters were nothing special, but after being beaten up by the two different environments, he was completely scared.

He only intended to stick close to Xu Feng and cling to his coattails.

Xu Feng replied, "I will enter the third act with Tifa after Xiangzi."

When the Swallow Fruit was first upgraded to Double A level, it could fuse two lives together. After being further developed, the degree of fusion increased significantly.

The environment is too dangerous now, at least too dangerous for Tifa and the others.

Xu Feng will hide his main body in the Tun Tun factory, leaving his head and arms to form a two-headed, four-armed form with Tifa.

Theoretically, this form can accommodate more people, but the addition of those who are not strong enough will create weaknesses and seriously affect the combat power of this form, and may even reduce Xu Feng's own chances of survival. In the current East China Sea team, only Tifa barely meets the standard of not dragging the team down.

In addition, joining this group may allow them to access data recorded in Xu Feng's giant brain through neural connections. Over time, they will be brainwashed by Xu Feng due to the massive amount of data they receive. Tifa herself is not concerned about this change, and Xu Feng is not concerned about the data that Tifa can access.

This combined attack was his method of protecting Tifa this time.

This is also his best means of protection. Whether it's the Supreme Imperial Arms or Murasame's Descent, they can only rely on a portion of his power, and the strength of their protection is very limited.

In this situation, Tifa will not be in mortal danger until he is in real danger.

After hearing the reply, Park Chang-ho nodded to indicate that he understood.

He would follow closely in Xu Feng's footsteps. A moment later, Sanada Yoji, whose body was covered in golden runes, was the first to enter the passage with his two creations.

After it entered, Xu Feng closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.

"Just as I predicted... They are born in the third act! But after their actual birth, they will return to the 'mother's' embrace and become part of that eerie being!"

"Unfortunately, Sanada Haruno is too weak."

Xu Feng sighed softly.

In those few short seconds, the reincarnated Sanada Hiroyuki had already 'returned to his mother's embrace'.

The Donghai team has lost another player.

Xiangzi glanced at Xu Feng, then entered the cockpit of the Supreme Throne, causing the massive Imperial Arm to lie on its side and fly into the passage.

Mei enters the Divine Descent state and enters it together with him.

After the two entered, Xu Feng didn't dare to delay and went inside as well.

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"The feeling of being crowded... Is my supernatural energy draining away?"

After a very unfriendly spatial teleportation, Xu Feng realized that his current environment was very bad. The pressure from above made it hard for him to breathe—Tifa's weak body was one of the reasons.

Moreover, the surrounding environment is very hot, close to 1,000 degrees Celsius.

"The upper mantle?"

Xu Feng used his Heavenly Eye to observe the surrounding environment and determined his current location: "No wonder the temperature is so high and the pressure is so great!"

If any other member of the Donghai team were to move to that position, they would be instantly crushed into a paste.

Of course, the others don't seem to warrant the final boss using this method against them.

That peculiar power that absorbs extraordinary strength was enough to deal with the rest of the Tokai team; Sanada Yoji was drained of his energy in just a few seconds.

"Let's leave this environment first and find Shoko and Mei. It's hard for them to last long in this special environment."

The Swallow Domain rapidly transformed and expanded, and the spatial imprint of the Imperial Arm Shangri-La appeared hundreds of kilometers above, with Xu Feng's figure moving accordingly.

He felt much better after moving to that location.

After another spatial teleportation, the person returned to the Earth's surface.

"Xiangzi's situation is very bad."

Upon arriving on the surface, Xu Feng sensed a battle taking place thousands of miles away. One side was the Supreme Throne, and the Buddha-like Supreme Throne was causing a great commotion, but it was currently at a disadvantage, with its internal power rapidly dissipating.

There were more than ten more spatial shifts.

The enormous figure of the Supreme Throne, over six hundred meters tall, came into his view.

There were no enemies around it, but it continued to unleash various attacks, bombarding the surrounding environment.

Each punch caused a tremor on the ground equivalent to a magnitude 7 earthquake.

Each blast creates a massive crater, tens of kilometers in diameter and several kilometers deep.

"Master, what's wrong with Miss Xiangzi?"

Tifa asked curiously, "Is she surrounded by enemies we can't see?"

Xu Feng shook his head: "That unknown enemy is influencing her consciousness. This way of letting the Supreme Throne vent its anger is exactly the method that mysterious enemy used to 'devour' the Supreme Throne!"

"So... this time the enemy is the entire world?" Tifa couldn't help but look up at the sky.

"No." Xu Feng shook his head with a complicated expression.

After entering the third chapter, he saw the true face of the final boss of this cycle of reincarnation.

The truth shocked him.

Reality revealed a glimpse of what a true strong person is to Xu Feng, making him realize how vast the gap is between himself and a truly strong person.

After accepting this situation, he became even more excited.

"The target we're facing this time isn't a monster!"

Xu Feng instantly teleported to the shoulder of the Supreme Imperial Arm, stopping Xiangzi's movements and allowing her to connect to him through the mental energy chain to stabilize her mental state.

He reassured Xiangzi while explaining.

"When you are strong enough, you can change the environment with every move. As you all know, my Gluttony Fruit comes from One Piece. In that manga, after Aokiji and Akainu fought for ten days and ten nights, they turned an island into half ice and half fire."

"And when the strength becomes even greater and even more... many times stronger, the spells cast will be as if they have their own will, attacking with extreme precision. The range of its influence on the environment will be much greater, so great that it can affect the entire world or even several worlds, and that influence will be very profound."

"In the world of high magic, this state is often called the primordial spirit of the law."

"The 'Ghost Woman's Curse'... is essentially a 'curse' at the level of a primordial spirit! A 'curse' cast by an extremely powerful being, with just this one move, has made this, no, these three timelines, incredibly chaotic!"

"The 'curse' elemental spirit instinctively absorbs the power of faith to make itself stronger, and all three scenes in the movie are its pathways to absorbing the power of faith!"

Xiangzi opened his mouth.

She could hardly believe that a single 'spell' could throw an entire world into chaos and leave the East China Sea team in such a sorry state!
How strong would a powerful person be to use this move?
"We... are we going to face a powerhouse of that level?" Xiangzi asked nervously.

She had great confidence in Xu Feng, knowing that given enough time, the captain could completely destroy human civilization in the real world.

But she didn't think Xu Feng could defeat such an exaggeratedly strong person at all.

"How can it be?!"

Xu Feng shook his head: "We can't even imagine the strength of the one who cast the 'curse.' If He were to act seriously with malice, He could easily destroy the entire world."

He paused for a moment, then said excitedly, "Theoretically, a powerhouse at that level has extremely refined control. Normally, such a move shouldn't have such a long-lasting effect... So, this is very likely the aftermath of a battle."

"'The Demon Woman's Curse' is very likely a residual effect of a move that was forcibly disrupted by the enemy when that super-strong person was attacking!"

"So, we only need to deal with that one 'curse'?" Xiangzi asked again.

Recalling the scenes from the previous two encounters, and the bizarre ability to extract extraordinary energy, she said, "However, even if it's just a 'curse,' it won't be so easy to deal with, will it?!"

"Of course it's not that easy!" Xu Feng said excitedly, "After all, this is a powerful move that covers three timelines!"

"However... now that I know its true nature, I have quite a few ideas on how to defeat it!"

(End of this chapter)