Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

Chapter 116 Changes in Cause and Effect

Under the cover of Captain Moonshadow's raging thunder, Li Yelai broke into the swarm of insects and unleashed the Divine General Dharma Form!
The golden-armored giant brandished his halberd, his fighting spirit soaring, as he unleashed his bloodlust!
It immediately attracted the attention of a large number of humans and insect swarms.

The war insects possess immense defensive and physical strength, and their enormous size is terrifying.

Even the most sturdy chariots can be easily breached by it.

Now, the war insect has met its match, as the golden-armored giant wields a halberd and hacks fiercely at it.

It cleaved the war bugs back and knocked them to the ground, instantly crushing a large number of the swarms that it should have been protecting.

This boosted the morale of many defensive lines that were struggling!

Immediately afterwards, fire support was provided to Li Ye, causing the large swarm of insects that had gathered to besiege Li Ye to be wiped out by concentrated fire.

Li Yelai was testing his new ability; the power of his Divine General Dharma Form was immense, completely on par with the War Insects!
Li Yelai was even able to suppress the war insects due to his physical structure and weapon advantages.

However, it would take Li Ye some effort to break through the war insect's defensive carapace.

Li Yelai raised his hand and unleashed the Single Hand Eighteen Throws - Horseshoe Thunder!
Faxiang wielded his halberd in the same manner, like a warhorse charging forward, the halberd slashing down continuously, like thunderous roars.

However, he could only leave deep wounds on the war insect's body. After continuously suppressing the war insect, Li Yelai finally cleaved through its carapace. The halberd plunged directly into its chest!
"It's very powerful, but if I exploit its weakness, I can break through its armor even faster," Li Yelai thought to himself, pondering his tactics.

In the brief battle, Li Ye saw the characteristics and weaknesses of the Divine General's Dharma Form.

Its defining characteristic is its power; the Dharma Form possesses nearly ten times the power of Li Yelai!

It has already surpassed the Four Awakenings True Martial Path Psionicist, focusing on one force to overcome all laws!

It can kill all high-level Zerg with a single shot, except for Zerg with specialized defenses like the Warbug!
However, since Li Yelai does not follow the True Martial Path, he has no other True Martial abilities to use.

As a result, Li Yelai can only use his Dharma Form for close combat now.

If Li Yelai knew the Zhenwu Path's Shockwave, and released it with his Dharma Form, he could probably kill a whole swarm of insects in one hit!
The internal energy of the True Martial Path, with its tenfold enhanced impact, doesn't even need to break through the war insect's defensive shell; the internal energy alone can attack its internal organs!

This is a limitation in terms of ability.

Li Yelai can only use melee attacks now.

Its weakness is the severe depletion of psionic energy.

The spiritual energy required to activate and maintain a Dharma form is terrifying.

Moreover, the Dharma Form is more like a kind of spiritual energy barrier. After being attacked, Li Yelai will consume spiritual energy to repair the damage to the Dharma Form.

If attacked by a swarm of Dharma-type insects, the spiritual energy alone would drain Li Yelai dry.

So, after discovering that they had been attacked and had consumed far more psionic energy than expected, they...

Li Yelai immediately activated Mimicry: Abyss Dragon Scale!

A warrior's instinct kicks in: stack armor, and you're through!

As long as the swarm of insects cannot penetrate my defenses, my Dharma body will not be damaged, and I will not need to repair it with spiritual energy, thus consuming no spiritual energy!
In an instant, the divine general's image was covered with golden scales, making it appear even more domineering and heroic!

However, this consequence resulted in Li Yelai consuming even more spiritual energy.

Defeating just one war insect consumed 50% of Li Yelai's spiritual energy.

Activating the Abyss Dragon Scales alone consumed 20% of my spiritual energy.

This is simply not a sustainable war!

Li Ye saw his own shortcomings.

Three facial masks: Xiang Yu, Huo Qubing, and Li Yuanba.

In terms of power, the Dharma Image brought by Li Yuanba's mask is naturally the strongest!
However, when it first broke through the armor, it relied entirely on brute force to smash open the shell.

If he were to use Xiang Yu's mask, Li Yelai wouldn't even need to exert much effort to crack the carapace.

At the same time, in terms of speed and defense, Fa Xiang is inferior to Huo Qubing's Shadow Army ability.

Each mask has its own characteristics, but they cannot be used simultaneously.

If you possess both Weakness Insight and Shadow Army, then use Dharma Aspect Enhancement.
"What a pity, I wonder if I'll ever find an opportunity to use the ability to use multiple masks at the same time," Li Yelai thought to himself.

He controlled the Dharma Form to continue facing the second approaching higher Zerg.

That's a hunting bug!
Li Yelai was not the strongest or most conspicuous psychic on the battlefield. The divine general's avatar appeared huge and heroic, but it was not particularly noticeable in the overall battlefield.

Some psionic beings create small tornadoes to sweep away swarms of insects, while others unleash heavenly fire and fire phoenixes to ignite prairie fires.

But some force guided this insectoid creature to him.

A formidable foe is about to be encountered.

The hunting insects swiftly pounced on the Dharma Image. However, a thick bolt of lightning struck down.

It cleaved the killing insect directly down from mid-air!
It was none other than Captain Moonshadow who made the move. The prey had taken the bait, so the hunt began!

Meanwhile, Jing Lin, leaning against the cover, stared wide-eyed in astonishment at the golden-armored giant that appeared on Li Yelai's body.

"This is... the Dharma Image of a Divine General!"

Jing Lin's voice trembled, filled with disbelief: "This is Night General's new ability? He can even mimic this!"

He had some contact with Li Yelai, and they got along quite well.

Although he didn't ask directly, Li Yelai had revealed some things, so he knew more or less that Li Yelai had two faces.

Rare abilities derived from the Spirit Eye Path and the Netherworld Path, respectively.

Especially that weakness was exposed!
Under the double pupils, any defense will be broken!
Jing Lin, being a Spirit Eye Path user, was naturally very envious. Which Spirit Eye Path user wouldn't want such an ability?
But it was just envy; he already knew about Li Yelai's special status.

But now, after seeing Li Yelai's third mask, he was somewhat overwhelmed!

"Oh ho, you actually know that? Not bad." Not far away, Moonshadow, who was observing the battlefield, said while unleashing lightning to eliminate the high-level insectoids attracted by Li Yelai.

“Of course! My great-grandfather was a True Martial Path Psionicist who possessed this ability!” Jing Lin replied through gritted teeth.

His great-grandfather was the Jing family's eighth-sense psychic.

Although not a king, his strength should not be underestimated; he is a force that even the forbidden zones would not easily provoke.

Eighth-level psychic beings are often called supreme beings; as long as a king does not appear, they are invincible!

My great-grandfather's most awe-inspiring ability was his divine general appearance.

That was a powerful ability that my great-grandfather acquired during his seventh awakening.

That hundred-meter-tall golden Dharma image is enough to intimidate any force that dares to challenge the authority of the Jing family!
Now, Li Yelai, a third-level psychic, has acquired this ability through a mask. How could Jing Lin not be astonished?
Although, due to Li Yelai's spiritual energy level, his Dharma form was only about ten meters tall, far less than that of his great-grandfather.

But Jing Lin knew that if Li Ye were allowed to grow up, not to mention the fifth or sixth sense, he would be in great danger.

It's like having a captain with powerful abilities across multiple paths!
"Your Giant City has truly found a promising talent! But you'd better be careful; his abilities are so unique that some people don't want him to grow up alive," Jing Lin said. His resolve to recruit Li Yelai only strengthened. Yueying didn't respond further, instead focusing on killing the fifth high-level insectoid spawned by Li Yelai. She then instructed Li Yelai to move the battlefield, drawing out and eliminating any remaining hidden high-level insectoids nearby; this way, they would eventually reel in a big fish.

Li Yelai naturally had no objections. He immediately switched his mask, activated the Abyss Dragon Scale, and unleashed the Shadow Army's 'Thunder' to crash into the swarm of insects!

Watching Li Yelai weave through the gunfire, Jing Lin suddenly thought of the mysterious book-bearer on the Ark.

The holder of the book once said that humanity's fate is sealed. Millions of humans will perish, but brilliant stars will be born.

"Could it be that Night General is one of the stars that will rise from this calamity? Will I be among them?" Jing Lin couldn't help but wonder.

At this moment, he was unaware that the mysterious and powerful book-holder was not in a good mood.

The war between humans and the insectoid swarm reached a fever pitch from the very beginning.

The all-pervasive swarm of insects nearly destroyed all the defenses that humans had set up around their shelters.

As the war bugs were thrown, more and more hunting bugs entered the defensive line, some even threatening the underground bunkers.

This led to a bloody street battle between the Zerg swarm and humans within the defenses that humanity had originally built.

Every room, every corridor, every inch of land became a battleground for humans and insect swarms.

Zhao Ling, a soldier in the city's defense forces, was one of the warriors defending this area.

Zhao Ling was a very brave city defense soldier.

He was born in a settlement in the wilderness.

His parents died in the local riots, leaving him an orphan.

He was adopted by guards of a passing caravan when he was young and brought back to the city to be raised.

His adoptive father was very strict, but kind to him. However, his adoptive father died when he was a teenager.

To fulfill his adoptive father's wish, Zhao Ling joined the city defense army after reaching adulthood, thanks to his excellent physical qualities and academic performance.

He became a glorious city defense soldier!
During the Fantasy Band incident, he was influenced by the song and unexpectedly became a psionicist.

However, he did not join the Calamity Management Bureau, but instead remained in the military, becoming a Legion psionicist.

He might become the political commissar of his legion someday.

He has just led a squad of human warriors to kill a hunting bug. A remarkable achievement!

It's important to know that the Hunting Insects are adept at stealth and ambush, and even a Level 3 Awakened Psionicist can fall victim to them.

Now, however, he, a psionicist, led several human warriors to eliminate them, a rare victory of the weak over the strong.

But now he was panting heavily, his eyes bloodshot.

Because, just now, in order to eliminate that hunting insect, he had sacrificed several of his comrades.

There were simply too many insect swarms, and a large number of soldiers on his defensive line had been killed.

He watched helplessly as a building fell into the hands of the Zerg swarm, and the last human warrior detonated the explosives, burying the entire building and the Zerg swarm together.

This filled Zhao Ling with grief and indignation. Now, he could only carry his wounded comrade and desperately rush toward the rear defense line.

Looking at the corpses of his comrades being devoured by insects by the roadside, Zhao Ling felt powerless.

He could only keep moving forward, keep moving forward!

However, his comrades behind him were no longer breathing.

This caused Zhao Ling even greater pain; tears and blood streamed down his face, and his psychic well swelled even more, seemingly on the verge of a second awakening.

But he paid no heed to his own Well of Souls; instead, carrying his comrade's corpse, he continued his charge. He had to at least protect his comrade's body from being desecrated by the swarm of insects.

However, when the ground suddenly shattered not far away, a giant abyss worm suddenly poked its head out from the crack.

This drove Zhao Ling completely mad. He picked up his pistol and started firing wildly at the worms.

At the same time, a series of hateful voices echoed in his mind: hatred, revenge, glory, blood sacrifice. These voices were pulling him into the abyss.

Zhao Ling knew what it was. Although he hadn't joined the Calamity Management Department, he had received official psionic training.

It was clear to him that it was the power within the illusory realm that was meant to corrupt psionicists.

But he didn't want to refuse.

He would use this power to avenge his comrades and wipe out these aliens! To take their heads...
Even if he falls into the abyss and ultimately becomes a victim, being wiped out by his comrades and the authorities, he will not hesitate!

However, just as he was desperately trying to succumb to corruption and gain power...

The abyss worm not far away abandoned its plan to crush him, and instead suddenly turned its head, moving its massive body in another direction.

Zhao Ling was startled, and then saw what appeared to be a psionicist charging out of the swarm in that direction. He was clad in armor, with phantom dragon scales appearing on his body, and wielding a long halberd, he was wreaking havoc among the insects. He had just run into an abyssal worm!

"Run! Run!" Zhao Ling shouted frantically, trying to warn the official psychic to escape! Every life counts!
"Run!"

However, he heard the other party shouting, the same words being shouted by two different people.

The monster is on your face! Why are you telling me to run?!
Zhao Ling was anxious to shout, but just as the figure was being swallowed by the abyss worm, it yelled, "I fucking got in!"

Then it was swallowed whole by the abyssal worm.

"Aaaaaah!!!!" Zhao Ling let out a desperate scream.

But then they saw golden light burst forth from the mouth of the abyss worm, and then the enormous abyss worm began to writhe in agony.

Zhao Ling was utterly astonished. At that moment, soldiers who came to meet him from the defensive line immediately carried him back to the defensive line.

This accident changed the course of his life, which should have led him to the abyss.

Meanwhile, in a corner of the world, the holder of the book watched helplessly as Zhao Ling's fate changed. The new generation of human powerhouses who was originally destined to rise from the fog of disaster was now one of those on the list.

Now, however, the path of my growth has been suddenly changed.

This filled the book holder with both anger and fear.

He and his organization, following the clues of the Book of Destiny, orchestrated a bloody conflict in a certain settlement, resulting in the deaths of Zhao Ling's parents and successfully leading to his adoption. They also guided him to join the city defense forces, participate in the Illusion Band incident, and become a psionicist.

Why did things go wrong at this most crucial step?

Not only Zhao Ling, but also more than a dozen other people on the list had their routes changed to varying degrees!
Who is it?

What exactly is disrupting fate?

A chaotic god? Or... something far more terrifying—cause and effect?

(End of this chapter)