The Twelve Trials Starting from Zero

As he spoke, the tail fin on his back broke off again, turning into two cannon barrels that rested on his shoulders.

"You can use whatever means you want this time, but I won't give you any more chances."

Before the words were even finished, the cannon exploded in flames, turning the whole world into a burning inferno.

Volume 2 has now entered its later stages, and the next volume is scheduled to be "Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-". Now, I doubt anyone can say they haven't watched the older anime...

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Instant Explosion

boom!!

A flash of light, an explosion of energy, and a tsunami-like wave of fire rushed towards us.

I don't want to be burned for nothing again this time...

Unable to escape, unable to stop, having already understood this, Su Qi, not wanting to suffer in vain any longer, suddenly expanded the armor materialized from his super spirit body. Then, with a loud bang, his entire body exploded instantly, turning into countless pieces of flesh.

This is a new suicide technique he developed to replace the "instant death" method that cannot be used in this world. He uses the wind-controlling ability of his super spirit to increase air pressure and instantly explode, causing people to die before they feel pain. It is called "Instant Explosion".

……

In the pure white space, Su Qi once again got up from the floor.

"In this way, we can reset Ye Wang's memory and use the Black Flame Dragon's roar as a trump card for the next time."

As he mentally calculated his trump cards, he summarized the information he had gained from this death: "Furthermore, it's clear that Ye Wang couldn't be easily defeated using his mother, and his determination to destroy humanity is far stronger than depicted in the original story."

In the original work, Ye Wang, despite being the strongest psychic, was unable to find his mother or see her ghost. The author explained that souls also have different wavelengths. Those with similar wavelengths can be seen, while those with too large a wavelength difference cannot be detected even if they are right in front of you.

Because of this, Ye Wang, whose heart is filled with hatred, is too different from his mother in terms of wavelength. So even with his superb witchcraft, he cannot see his mother's ghost. This setting is not reflected in this derivative world, so Ye Wang's life trajectory is not exactly the same as the original work, and his personality has naturally changed as well.

"Super Witchcraft Formation, Super Spirit Black Chick, Super Powerful Wide-Range Attacks, Manipulation of Flames, Five Elements Transformation, Extremely Keen Intuition, Unwavering Determination to Destroy Humanity... The intelligence gathering is almost complete. With my current strength, it will be difficult to obtain more even if I continue."

After summarizing the information in his mind, Su Qi pondered for a moment and decided not to waste any more rollback attempts on probing battles. He then thought about it again and, after confirming that he had not missed anything, chose to rollback.

……

After reloading the save file, the time is still the evening after the conversation with Anna, and the location is the Asakura house.

"Well, although I'm not going to go head-to-head with Ye Wang again, since I've already put on a show in front of Ye Ming, I should stay one more night and help the Asakura family draw Ye Wang's hatred away."

So Su Qi, who was preparing to return to the Taoist temple, stayed at the Asakura family's house for another night. He only made a sudden escape the next day when Ye Wang was about to arrive.

A moment later, when Ye Wang arrived again, he found the Asakura family home empty, with a mahogany table in the front yard, on which a piece of origami was weighed down by a stone.

He stepped down from the fire spirit's palm, walked to the table, removed the pebbles, took out the paper, unfolded it, and saw the following content written on it:

"Your Excellency Ye Wang respectfully writes: I have read the book, it is acceptable; the shikigami has been slain, it is shameful. If you have any objections to the above evaluation, you are welcome to come and discuss it in person. I am Dao Cheng, and I will be waiting at any time."

In the bottom right corner of the comment, there was a cute, cartoonish portrait of Su sticking out his tongue, which was quite unsightly.

Ye Wang stared at the portrait on the paper, remained silent for a few seconds, then suddenly revealed a smile of interest, "That guy tricked me."

As he spoke, the paper in his hand suddenly burst into flames and turned to ashes.

"Then let's go find that guy and have a word with him."

He divined the location of someone who dared to mock him and found that they were not far away and were moving rapidly towards the Ming Dynasty. He turned around, intending to leave, when he suddenly saw several houses that had been burned to ruins in the distance.

"It wasn't long ago, it was last night. It seems something interesting happened here."

Ye Wang stopped, thought for a moment, and changed his mind, choosing to go see his important other half, Asakura Ye, first.

……

Not long after, behind a nearby shrine, Yoh Asakura was practicing how to materialize a super spirit in a forest when Hao suddenly descended from the sky riding a fire spirit.

boom!

The ground trembled and a blast of air hit him. Caught off guard, Yoh Asakura lost his footing and fell to the ground with a thud.

what is this?

The fire spirit's exaggerated size and appearance astonished him. Just as he was wondering, a voice rang out above him, "Too small."

Asakura Yoh looked up and saw a boy wearing a white cloak, with long, flowing hair and a face that seemed very familiar to him, standing in the palm of the giant super-spirit, coldly looking down at him. "Such insignificant magical power, is it really half of me, King Yoh?"

Ye Wang!?

His pupils contracted, and he finally realized what was happening. The reason the other person's face seemed familiar was because it looked remarkably similar to his own when he looked in the mirror.

Fire Spirit lowered its giant hand, and Ye Wang leaped down, standing in front of Asakura Ye lying on the ground. He continued to look down at him and said coldly, "Ye, you have disappointed me greatly. And the Asakura family too, they actually raised my half into such a weak existence."

"You are Ye Wang, no, you are my brother Asakura, okay?"

Yoh Asakura finally calmed down, stood up, and confronted Yoh without showing any weakness.

"I've made myself perfectly clear, haven't I? My upper body."

"I am Yoh Asakura, not your other half."

"Even if you resist in your heart, you can't change the fact. Yoh Asakura, you are my other half, and sooner or later you will become one with me."

"I won't let you do that!" he said seriously. "Fine, I'll beat you, and I'll make you apologize for what you did!"

"With your insignificance?"

With those icy words, a massive surge of magical power erupted, instantly enveloping Asakura Yoh under immense pressure, crushing his heart and nerves.

"But what about what you did before? And where does your anger come from? I don't remember doing anything to you before, or even being so merciful as to let you stay and grow up in the Asakura family. But now it seems that was a mistake."

"You won't admit it?" Asakura Yoh gritted his teeth, enduring the pressure, and stared intently at the other party. "Wasn't it you who made Daocheng and the others destroy the Asakura family just to force me to become stronger?"

"Me? Let someone else destroy the Asakura family?"

Ye Wang frowned, staring at Asakura Ye. Using his mind-reading ability, he quickly understood the situation and burst into laughter, covering his face. "Good! Well done! That's right, Ye, I sent them out! It was to force out all your potential and make you stronger as quickly as possible!"

"It really was you!!"

"But that's not enough!" Ye Wang stopped laughing, coldly glancing at Asakura Ye, his face filled with a terrifying chill. "Ye, you're still too weak. You need to become stronger! Let's make a promise. I'll come to see you from time to time. If your growth doesn't satisfy me, I'll kill everyone around you one by one!"

"Wait! Why? Why did you go to this extent!?"

"How ridiculous! In your heart, you actually think that I might have had my reasons for becoming like this. You actually want to understand me, change me, and make me abandon evil and do good... What a naive and arrogant idea! Do you think that someone who has lived for thousands of years can be easily influenced by a child like you?"

"You can read my mind?" Yoh Asakura was first taken aback, then said with an unwavering determination, "That's right! You may think I'm stupid and clueless, but this is my true thought, and it won't change because of your ridicule!"

"Hmph, utterly foolish! But it doesn't matter, as long as you become stronger, that's enough."

Having no interest in wasting time talking to a childish kid, Ye Wang turned and stepped onto the Fire Spirit's palm, ascending upwards.

"By the way, Master Gu, if you don't want your current master to be killed by me too soon, try to urge him to become stronger quickly. You should know that I'm not joking."

He left behind a final sentence, then rode his Fire Spirit through the air and quickly disappeared from Asakura Yoh's sight.

"Lord Ye Wang..."

Gu Zong, who had been deliberately hiding, stepped out from behind Asakura Yoru, gazing at the direction Yoru had gone with a complicated expression, remaining silent for a long time.

……

On the other hand, Su made a show of himself and then ran away. With the help of the super spirit, he flew back to Dao City, the headquarters of the Daoist sect, from Japan in just a few hours.

"Master, why have you suddenly returned?"

When he suddenly appeared before Dao Run, she was sitting in her newly built, modern office reviewing the financial statements of the Taoist businesses. Over the past year, under Su Qi's deliberate (and lazy) cultivation, she had become the true core figure in managing the Taoist businesses.

Of course, Dao Run is still young and clearly lacks the ability to manage such a large Taoist sect. But with enough money, he can hire a professional manager, and with the ability to use the power of spiritual mediums to seek help from ghosts skilled in this art, this is not a problem at all.

"Daorun, put down your work for now and take a spontaneous trip."

"Huh? A trip? Why do you suddenly want to go on a trip?"

“None of that matters.” Su Qi walked behind his desk, pulled Dao Run along, and said, “What matters is that you must learn the spell-binding meditation as soon as possible, and you also need to die a few times to increase your witch power. There are people chasing me right now, we’ll talk about the specifics as we walk.”

"But……"

"There are no buts. Taoism is my territory now, and of course you have to listen to me on my turf."

"Lord Daocheng, may I ask where you wish to take Miss Daorun?"

Seeing this, Li Bailong, dressed in a suit and acting as a bodyguard, couldn't help but step forward to stop him. Then... bang, Su Qi manifested his super spirit body, directly carrying Dao Run through the roof and soaring into the sky, leaving him standing there dumbfounded.

……

Professor Dao Run's matter went smoothly. Because she herself was quite talented, had studied medicine, had a great understanding of human anatomy, and was also a psychic skilled at manipulating zombies, she had a high compatibility with Zhou Jin Cun Si.

As for the problem of insufficient magical power, Dao Run died more than ten times and underwent hellish cultivation for a period of time, which enabled him to reach the level where he could use spells and incantations.

Afterwards, Su Qi found another opportunity to bring Dao Run back to Dao City and put her in charge of receiving the bodies of Dao and Dao Lian in Japan. Then he began to focus on playing hide-and-seek with Ye Wang, who was chasing after him.

Although his strength was inferior, his super spirit body was faster than Ye Wang's fire spirit. So, while he couldn't win, he could easily escape if he wanted to. However, because Ye Wang was proficient in divination, even if he could escape, he could never shake Ye Wang off.

Thus, their game of "hide-and-seek" lasted for more than a year.

Chapter Forty: The Curtain Is About to Rise

At first, Su Qi thought that Ye Wang would give up after wasting some time and returning empty-handed, but he did not expect the latter to be so persistent. He pursued Ye Wang for more than a year and still did not give up.

During this period, after his initial recruitment attempt was rejected, Ye Wang relentlessly pursued Su Qi. While controlling his super spirit body in pursuit, he used divination to pinpoint Su Qi's location and employed various remote-cast curses and spells to interfere with him, constantly trying to close the distance. However, each time, the latter managed to evade and escape using various methods.

Su Qi was no pushover either. While being attacked by Ye Wang, he retaliated with various underhanded tactics, such as witchcraft and sorcery. He even issued bounties in the underworld, attracting many international assassins skilled in killing to use various methods to ambush Ye Wang. Sometimes, he deliberately lured Ye Wang into perilous places such as volcanoes and deep seas, having various traps laid in advance, hoping to use the power of nature to kill Ye Wang, but all of these attempts failed.

Just as he had predicted, Ye Wang had no flaws whatsoever.

In light of this, Su Qi even considered luring Ye Wang to kill high-ranking government officials, showcasing his power to ordinary people around the world, and turning him into the world's number one terrorist, hated by all humanity, attacked by various countries, and becoming a public enemy of the world.

But doing so would inevitably expose the world of psychics to the public, with immeasurable consequences and many people likely to be implicated and killed. The system's moral rating would probably plummet... But considering that the current situation wasn't that bad yet, he abandoned this crazy idea.

And so, the two of them played hide-and-seek for more than a year, chasing and fleeing each other.

This situation continued until February 1999.

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and in the Himalayas, white ice peaks stretch endlessly, and countless stars shine brightly in the pristine night sky, seemingly within reach.

"Ye Wang, come and chase me. If you catch me, I'll let you... hehe... hehe..."

What should have been an inescapable predicament for humans was instead filled with a flamboyant voice echoing atop the mountain, accompanied by a streak of white light piercing the night sky.

"You'll stop eventually."

A moment later, another voice rang out in mid-air, followed closely by a red light.

"As a man, I am very confident in my stamina."