Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 568 Nothing more than that
After releasing his grip, Zhang Jie made a half-hearted gesture with his hands, and those two hands, which were powerful enough to destroy any data partition, simply blurred and disappeared into the void of the network.

The next moment, Zhang Jie roared and pulled upwards. His hands, which had disappeared for a moment, reappeared, but this time, they held a surging stream of data!

If anyone behind Adam could see Zhang Jie's actions, they would be terrified... because Zhang Jie was forcibly pulling out data streams from beneath cyberspace! Whether it was data constituting a network void or a data partition, or data being transmitted and passing through this area, all of it was seized by Zhang Jie and forcibly pulled out!

Several gray cubes in the distance began to crumble piece by piece. As a manifestation of storage media in cyberspace, their internal data had disappeared, so there was no need for them to appear. But as Zhang Jie pulled, these gray remnants, resembling garbage data, also appeared in the torrent of data in his hand.

"Heart-Shaped Thunder - Heavenly Guidance Technique!"

Zhang Jie flipped his hands, and a roaring torrent of data engulfed the compressed lightning ball. Then, amidst the dazzling data and lightning, an even more terrifying roar erupted.

The torrent of data engulfed the lightning spheres, but the data itself disappeared, as if it wasn't the data that swallowed the lightning spheres, but rather the lightning spheres that devoured them... Then, countless lightning spheres burst forth from the point where they had just converged, their target being Adam, who was modifying his form in the distance!

Zhang Jie knew that this data deletion entity most likely didn't have a spirit, but it did possess considerable intelligence... Its previous display of combat awareness had slightly surprised Zhang Jie.

"But... that's all there is to it."

Zhang Jie's low laughter echoed behind Adam. At that moment, the enormous form twisted its countless arms, seemingly transforming into a cybernetic octopus, sweeping away one data-generated lightning sphere after another. Although its form suggested that it logically considered these densely packed lightning spheres a huge threat, using data deletion to deal with those generated lightning spheres was quite reasonable.

However… Zhang Jie had long since moved beyond the stage of making meaningless moves. Another Zhang Jie of normal size appeared behind Adam, wielding a bizarrely shaped giant blade even longer than Adam's. One might argue that this giant blade seemed more suited to the hand of the being with the Heavenly and Earthly Body?
Zhang Jie gripped the gigantic Zanpakuto, but made no move to raise his hand... The reason was simple: in front of him, Adam's body had opened at an angle, with most of his body sliding into the void.

He had already delivered the decisive blow.

Theoretically speaking, such an existence living in the data space shouldn't have only one life. Those who are called judges but are actually the rulers of the world's shadows can be resurrected after being killed using data storage, let alone this data creation that is clearly far superior to contemporary technology?

However, whether he is reborn with his previous memories or has lost them depends on Zhang Jie's own thoughts...

As Adam collapsed, the gigantic Zhang Jie opposite it also quietly vanished. No one stipulated that the Dharma Body must have a physical body to control it, and Zhang Jie certainly wouldn't restrict himself. Having pulled this stunt, he tossed the gigantic Zanpakuto in his hand into the void of the network, where it disappeared along with the Dharma Body.

Although Adam cannot be deceived by mental power, this tactic has nothing to do with mental power itself. As long as it's a fight, there is no such thing as immunity.

Zhang Jie sighed, "I thought you were something special, but it seems you're nothing special. The secret probably lies in these runes, right?" Many aspects of the cultivation-like soul system are described as deceiving the real thing, using the methods of the soul to induce various phenomena and interfere with the enemy. The power can easily reach incredible levels, but if one's foundation is insufficient, it can easily become a mere trick.

According to the scriptures in Zhang Jie's consciousness, some unscientific cultivation techniques for the soul can easily achieve the effects of capturing stars and seizing the moon, or stealing the sky and changing the sun. However, to break them, all that is needed is the blood and killing intent of a group of mortal soldiers. This is entering into delusion and only makes one feel deceived.

However, Zhang Jie's foundation was already extremely formidable. He might be the first person who was already a fourth-order mental power controller and had also practiced a soul cultivation technique similar to immortality cultivation... Therefore, he was quite confident in his new abilities.

As it turned out, this data deletion entity actually exhibited some abilities beyond his expectations. Since it wasn't Zhang Jie's ability that was faulty, it must be due to the mystery of the rune.

Zhang Jie chuckled, reached out, and an invisible force firmly imprisoned the runes within the gray core. The runes themselves, their carriers, and the connection between them were all fixed in place by Zhang Jie. A complex rune flickered on the back of his hand, a newly acquired runic ability.

With this rune that fixes the soul, Zhang Jie is now much more adept at using telekinesis and mental restraint... If he encounters items of divinity or godhood again, he shouldn't need to use telekinesis to isolate them and forcibly stuff them into storage items, as he did in the Dream Realm.

With a flick of his fingers, the rune appeared in Zhang Jie's hand, while Adam's remaining gray core, along with the data still flowing within it, scattered and collapsed.

"Want to leave? No way." Zhang Jie chuckled. "Even if we meet again, you'll be a greenhorn again."

His other hand clenched, freezing the data streams that had been scattering in all directions, before they vanished abruptly. The crucial string of code was now in Zhang Jie's hands; the rest of the deception had simply disappeared.

"Hiss..." Zhang Jie hid the rune in his hand, then looked at the still glowing data code. After looking at it for a while, he had to admit that he still couldn't understand it.

"However... I just blocked out all the sights here. Does that mean I can disguise myself as this thing and go back to its lair? It seems the secrets behind it are even more impressive than these lackeys."

Zhang Jie laughed heartily, and his data body suddenly shattered, then expanded uncontrollably, transforming into a space shrouded in mist and clouds on the outside, containing a data space on the inside. The code that originally carried this battle record and was supposed to return to its lair according to the instructions became the compass of this fake data deletion entity, leading him in another direction.

From Zhang Jie's perspective, another high-priority tracking trail still flickers, extending into the network void and between countless data partitions. The target partition also seems to be migrating frantically, but Zhang Jie will soon tell them that all this isolation, escape, and resistance is futile.

(End of this chapter)