The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

Gu Ran narrowly avoided them.

However, before Gu Ran could recover, other tentacles flew over.

This time, Gu Ran could no longer avoid it and was completely bound by these tentacles.

The tentacles binding Gu Ran clung tightly to his skin, spreading out countless tiny tentacles like tree roots absorbing water, and piercing into Gu Ran's body.

Then, Gu Ran's mental energy was absorbed at a much faster rate than before.

Gu Ran was not alarmed; his muscles bulged and his veins stood out.

With a sudden burst of strength, he stretched his arms out to the sides, trying to forcefully break free from the restraints of these tentacles.

However, these tentacles were not inanimate objects. When Gu Ran exerted force, they loosened their grip on him in the direction of his exertion.

This rendered Gu Ran unable to exert any effort against them.

But when Gu Ran ran out of strength, they clung to him tightly like maggots clinging to his bones.

They were even more tightly bound than before.

Gu Ran tried to break free twice with brute force, but they both thwarted her efforts using this method.

Gu Ran felt helpless.

He knew that his body had indeed been targeted today; this was a case of using softness to overcome hardness.

Gu Ran immediately changed his mind and started thinking about other ways to solve the problem.

In just a moment, Gu Ran came up with a second method.

These small tentacles extending from the giant tentacles are as flexible as rubber bands, able to withstand any force applied.

It is a method of overcoming strength with gentleness.

But can they withstand sharpness?

Because of his exceptionally strong physique, Gu Ran had always relied on his own body in the past.

But in fact, besides his physical condition, he still has other cards to play.

Gu Ran flexed his muscles once again.

The tentacles loosened their grip.

"It's no use, Gu Ran. Neither your physical body nor your mental power can overcome these touches of the rules."

Xue Yingsong smiled confidently, as if victory was assured.

After the tentacles that bound him like ropes revealed gaps, Gu Ran did try to use his psychic power to materialize them into swords, attempting to cut them apart.

However, once Gu Ran started doing it, he found that it was indeed effective, and the tentacles were indeed decreasing.

But this method is too slow; he doesn't know if it will take decades or centuries to cut a single tentacle.

Xue Yingsong didn't seem surprised; he still had a faint smile on his face.

However, Gu Ran was not discouraged; on the contrary, he was overjoyed.

Because what he had just done was a test of the "hardness" of these tentacles.

The test results were entirely in his favor.

Although the swords he materialized with his telekinesis were slow to cut, they were still efficient, unlike brute force, which was inefficient and a dead end.

Since the swords materialized from telekinesis aren't sharp enough, why not just make telekinesis sharper?

A thought came into my mind.

The "ropes" binding Gu Ran suddenly snapped in two. With a swift movement, he darted out and swam away like a slippery eel.

For the first time, a look of shock appeared in Xue Yingsong's eyes.

"This is... a sword?"

"Gu Ran, when did you start using a sword?"

Gu Ran gripped the sword and unleashed several psychic slashes, shredding the tentacles that were still trying to chase him into dust.

"I just started using it."

Seeing that the sword's attack was indeed effective against the tentacles, Gu Ran felt relieved and replied to Xue Yingsong.

He always kept the sword hanging at his waist.

When his physical and mental powers, which he used to rely on, were no longer effective, Gu Ran immediately thought of this sword that could amplify his mental power.

Just the right time!

"No, that's not right. Even if you use a sword, you shouldn't be able to cut through the Touch of Rules!" Xue Yingsong muttered to himself.

"Why did you succeed?"

There's something wrong with your sword!

Xue Yingsong's eyes widened suddenly as she looked at the sword in Gu Ran's hand.

Where did you get this sword?

"This is... the Reverse Origin Martial Arts Hall, which you obtained from Cheng Caimeng!"

Xue Yingsong glanced at the Niyuan Martial Arts Hall below and understood the general outline of the matter.

After a moment of silence, Xue Yingsong couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly, "Hehe, I never expected it, I never expected that one day I would actually be defeated by a little girl who hasn't even reached the Golden Core stage of martial arts."

"If I had known this day would come, I should have shut down the Reverse Yuan Martial Arts Hall back then."

"However, it's impossible to predict everything. Is this also part of fate?"

Gu Ran looked at Xue Yingsong: "Principal, it's not too late to turn back now. You don't want Xi Ling to see you like this, do you?"

Xue Yingsong shook her head: "It's too late. If I can't save Xiaoling now, I'll never have another chance."

Xue Yingsong knew that Gu Ran was referring to the fact that he had not yet fully integrated into the rules and was still in human form.

But is he the kind of person who would care about his own safety?

All he wanted was for his goals to be achieved.

Gu Ran sighed inwardly and made one last effort.

"Principal, look at what this land that gave you birth and nurtured you has become!"

Both of them possess telekinesis.

With just a little time spent extending my mental power, I can understand the current situation in Azure Dragon City.

At this time, Canglong City no longer possessed the vibrant vitality it once had.

Countless buildings collapsed, black smoke billowed, and flames raged.

Countless corpses lay strewn across the streets, dead from a variety of causes.

But what they had in common was that they died with their eyes wide open in disbelief.

They held weapons in their hands until their deaths.

However, their targets were not the extraterrestrial aliens, but each other, humans, their former companions, and their own families.

There were even quite a few children among the corpses.

They were supposed to be the future of Azure Dragon City, but now they have become cold corpses.

The sounds of clamor, fighting, burning, and other noises blended together to create a symphony called "Madness and Death."

This is the tragedy of Azure Dragon City!

“Principal, don’t you feel anything special seeing this? It all started because of you.”

Even though you made a pact with the Demon General, you still didn't forget to relocate innocent residents, even if it would leave flaws in that performance.

"But now, do you no longer care about the people of Canglong City at all? Even if they die because of you, even if they die like this in front of you, you can be completely unmoved?"

"Principal, have you really changed?"

Gu Ran's words made Xue Yingsong's face turn slightly pale, but her eyes quickly filled with determination again.

"There's no point in saying more, Gu Ran. Just consider me changed. The past is the past."

“Even without me, they would have faced the same thing in the future.”

"The end of the world is inevitable, and so is death."

A surge of anger suddenly rose in Gu Ran's heart.

"Since you can foresee the future, you should also know that the future is not static or unchangeable, so why insist on taking this path?"

Suddenly, Gu Ran sensed a familiar person with his telepathic power. He froze and stopped advising Xue Yingsong.

No, to be precise, it was a familiar corpse, because she was now dead.

That's a little girl.

Judging from the traces at the scene, she was killed by her mother with a kitchen knife.

Gu Ran was familiar with her because the little girl had once given him a flower wreath she had woven herself.

It was shortly after his battle with Lilith, when he still didn't feel a strong sense of belonging to Azure Dragon City, when a little girl called him a hero of Azure Dragon City and gave him a wreath of flowers. Then she skipped home and returned to her mother's side.