Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

As a result, the core of the machine god ceased to function.

The Zhou Ding, located inside Titan's body, exploded with a deafening roar.

His already dilapidated body had been forcibly maintained by the Titans. After losing the Titans' power, his body completely collapsed, and his brain shattered.

Its well of souls is like a fleeting firework blooming in the void.

Before he died, countless images flashed through Zhou Ding's mind, finally settling on Zi Yu's beautiful smiling face.

He cursed, he cursed the 'Purple Feather' who had deceived him.

Only at the very last moment of his life did he finally realize that he was nothing more than a pawn, walking step by step into the trap woven by Zi Yu.

"Purple Feather, I'll be waiting for you in hell!" he uttered his final curse, dying with intense anger and resentment.

Meanwhile, amidst the evacuating crowd, a young woman holding a child's hand had a glint in her eye.

A slight, almost imperceptible smile appeared on her lips.

'What a pity, even death cannot bring us together again,' the woman thought to herself with a smirk.

As a chosen one of the unorthodox paths, she wouldn't die; at most, she'd be banished back to the Void Realm. Indeed, she wouldn't be able to see Zhou Ding again.

However, while the performance was spectacular, there were still some uncertainties.

The two champions appeared one after the other, and they both happened to be nearby.
The ninth-generation champion, in particular, collided directly with the Titan at the first moment, forcefully halting the Titan's repair process.

This can be considered the direct cause of Titan's defeat; it had neither the time nor the opportunity to recover its fighting strength.

The ninth champion, the strongest captain doll, and the official elite Night Watchers all appeared too quickly.

'A champion of his stature, bringing official elites to be hired by a family. How strange.' Zi Yu smiled kindly after handing the child back to his mother.

But in his heart he was thinking: "It seems that someone is playing a cameo role in the performance I arranged, either my 'dear' compatriot or...something else?"

The performance was excellent, with a climax featuring two champions simultaneously attacking the Annihilation Titan. However, it still didn't meet Zi Yu's expectations.

There were too many unforeseen circumstances.

The premature appearance of the ninth champion and the doll, and the sudden stop of the Titan near the high wall, brought what should have been a much grander story to an abrupt halt. The performance was merely excellent.
Those who can interfere with her performance are either fellow chosen ones of the unorthodox path, or beings or forces equally proficient in this art.

Was it that person or force that lured the ninth champion here?

"How rude of them to participate in my performance like that?" Zi Yu thought to herself as she disappeared into the crowd.

Meanwhile, in the center of the battlefield on the other side, Li Yelai removed his mask and left the Titan's wreckage.

He didn't rejoin his teammates immediately. His curse of bad luck would continue for a while after the mask was removed, and he couldn't let it affect his teammates.

Meanwhile, the assembled official powerhouses continued to eliminate the rioting machine spirits.

The death of Titan enraged the machine spirit, causing it to enter an overclocked state and attack humans at the cost of its own lifespan. However, this riot was quickly suppressed by human psionicists. No matter how powerful the vehicle, psionicists could destroy it before it even got close.

As for the artillery machine spirits located on the high wall, they were indeed somewhat dangerous. However, they were destroyed in an instant by the military psionicists on the high wall.

Just in case, all the machinery here must be destroyed.

The Zhou family is going to suffer a huge loss this time, as they tried to salvage their family's genius, Zhou Ding, who died a twisted death.

The lost forbidden item caused significant economic losses. They bear considerable responsibility.

This caused many members of the Zhou family to feel as if they had lost their parents.

At the same time, a large number of researchers also entered the site, this monster that called itself the Annihilation Titan.

They possess extremely advanced technology. If humans could also build Titans, it would be a powerful tool for conquering forbidden zones!
Especially those metal arms, the terrifying power of their rays made the research team members' eyes light up.

They were eager to extract useful technology from the Titan's wreckage.

Only after confirming that the curse on his body had dissipated did Li Yelai reunite with Yang Chen and the others.

"Captain, you arrived quickly," Li Yelai said.

Captain Yang Chen's appearance was indeed unexpectedly fast.

Titan's ability is to activate and forcibly control the machine spirits; even if there are some loyal machine spirits, their numbers will be very small.

In that situation, even notifying the branch was difficult. The puppets communicated and requested help through fireworks displayed by night watchmen.

After all, all the communicators within range were rendered useless. Even the billboards advertising the dolls were abandoned.

It was indeed surprising that Yang Chen was able to arrive so quickly.

Could it be that his and Captain Pale's mission location is also nearby?

Meanwhile, the pale captain's colleagues asked him the same question.

She and Captain Yang Chen arrived at the battlefield one after the other. They were the first reinforcements to arrive, besides Li Yelai and the others.

The two of them were probably just together.

The pale-faced captain looked somewhat shy in the face of his colleagues' teasing and gossipy gazes.

Her originally pale skin regained some color. She was so embarrassed.
Tonight, with the help of many 'strategists,' she found an opportunity to take Yang Chen back to her hometown for dinner.

After a satisfying meal, following the advice of the 'doll' guide, I dragged Yang Chen to see a movie.

At the peak of the atmosphere, when success seemed imminent.

Suddenly, a Titan jumped out, startling them all.

This infuriated her. If Titan hadn't already been killed, she probably would have gone up and given it another beating.

I've been waiting for this opportunity for so long, and you just ruined it like this? Damn it, you're dead!

"It's not far. Pale and I happen to be in the South District, which is her hometown." Yang Chen's expression seemed to change slightly, and his tone carried a hint of unnaturalness.

"I heard from the head of the medical team that you had a classified mission. Have you handled it?" Li Yelai asked.

"Uh, there's no mission. Just having a meal." Yang Chen coughed lightly, trying to cover up his embarrassment.

Li Yelai nodded upon hearing this, without giving it much thought.

Yang Chen looked away and changed the subject, saying, "But you guys will be fighting Titans even earlier than me."

"The detective invited me to take on a side job, and considering his bad luck, I came to check it out," Li Yelai explained.

"There's definitely something to it about your side job partnership with the detective. Next time you have side jobs, let more teammates know in advance. If all else fails, call me."

"That's going too far. Are two champions really being involved in a private job?"

"Judging from your combination with the detective, two champions are needed," Yang Chen retorted.

“It’s his problem,” Li Yelai grinned.

Then, Yang Chen looked towards the high wall: "Can you feel it?"

"Hmm." Li Yelai nodded slightly.

When they fought the Titans, they did indeed feel the immense pressure emanating from the high walls. It was that pressure that forced the Titans to stop, allowing them to catch up.

"Was that... a teardrop?" Li Yelai squinted at the high wall. Now, the figure on the wall had vanished.

"Old Mad King probably wanted to test the strength of the bionic teardrop. But he won't have the chance now," Yang Chen said in a low voice.

"Alright, the bio-tear is still unknown to the outside world, let's keep it hidden. We'll show the forbidden zone what's what later."

The two champions whispered to each other.

Subsequently, the group removed the forbidden object, the Mech God Core, from Titan's body.

The once dangerous and forbidden object now showed no signs of spiritual energy fluctuations, appearing just like an ordinary mechanical part.

No wonder the Zhou family never discovered this forbidden item; when not triggered, it truly had no special characteristics whatsoever.

But now, no one can underestimate this forbidden object. Its abilities are unique; it can awaken machine spirits, posing a great threat to humanity.

And the cost of it getting out of control.
A five-sense psychic who has been bewitched is actually able to unleash such harm.

If a sixth-sense great spiritual power user, or even a hegemon-level powerhouse, were to use such a forbidden item.

Even if the champion comes, it probably won't make much difference.

Of course, a psychic of that level wouldn't be easily swayed.

Judging from Zhou Ding's behavior, he must have been bewitched by some kind of force, considering that he gradually unlocked the core of the Machine God, which requires a lot of knowledge to activate.

The authorities strongly suspected that those who had misled and deceived him were followers of cults.

Through some kind of instruction, or rather, reward, it granted Zhou Ding a great deal of knowledge and protection, and enhanced his spiritual energy.

This allowed Zhou Ding to complete the planned steps one by one.

And finally, the activation of Titan was completed.

If Li Yelai hadn't unexpectedly participated in this operation, it would have prevented Zhou Ding from fulfilling certain conditions and thus failing to advance to the sixth level of enlightenment.

Titan was suppressed immediately, which will inevitably give it more computing power and allow it to unleash even greater power.

At that time, the imitation teardrop could no longer be hidden.

A higher level of battle is breaking out inside the giant city; just thinking about it is terrifying.
It seems I'll have to be careful about my side jobs from now on.

"Just now, the last thing the Titan called out to was Immortal Lord Chang Le?"

"That's exactly what they say."

"Could it be that Titan was ultimately outmaneuvered by Immortal Lord Chang Le?"

"He's really alive? He even left the Celestial Palace and came to the Giant City?"

"Is this riot related to Immortal Lord Chang Le?"

"It shouldn't be. Although Immortal Lord Chang Le is a person and immortal of pleasure, he shouldn't be hostile to humans."

Immortal Lord Chang Le, an immortal from the ancient Heavenly Court, once left behind a precious 'Divine Treasury' within the space of the Divine Treasury Palace.

Li Yelai's 'Rainbow Piercing the Sun' blessing, as well as the sun-shooting golden arrow that he had already used, were obtained from the treasure vault.

According to Heavenly records, he had an eccentric personality and enjoyed playing pranks on other immortals. Many immortals would tighten their purses when they saw him, fearing that he might steal their belongings or put something else in their pockets.

As a result, many palace gates are inscribed with mysterious and ancient characters.

The officials initially thought it was a message from a deity and specially copied it down for study.

It turned out that "Entry is not permitted in Chang Le" (a local custom).

They've truly reached the point where everyone hates them.

The ancient Heavenly Court was such a powerful civilization that it captured immortal beings from the Void Realm to refine medicines and artifacts.

It takes real skill for someone to survive and thrive despite being universally disliked.

In the Immortal Palace battlefield, when the official forces faced the Scaled Skeleton Civilization, the immortals briefly revived, partly due to the contingency plan of Immortal Lord Chang Le.

Afterwards, the powerful divine beings he had preserved in his treasure vault revived one by one, joining the immortals to seal the time rift.

From this point alone, it can be seen that Immortal Lord Chang Le has no hostility towards humans.

Later, someone witnessed a figure resembling an immortal appearing and disappearing from the gate of the celestial palace.

The authorities had considered that one of the methods of the Immortal Lord Chang Le might have already entered human society.

I never expected him to show up under these circumstances.

"The followers of the treacherous path bewitched Zhou Ding, making him mistakenly believe he had a cheat system or something similar. Then, they revived that so-called Annihilation Titan. But in the end, the Annihilation Titan was tricked by Immortal Lord Chang Le?" An official comrade analyzed: "Is it a battle between entertainers?"

"It's hard to say for sure. All we can do right now is continue to study the core of the Machine God and reverse engineer Titan's technology." Another comrade shook his head.

On the other side, Li Yelai saw Zhou Yuan, Zhou Hao, and the detective and others.

Zhou Yuan clasped his hands in thanks to Li Yelai: "Thank you for your help, Champion. Otherwise, our Zhou family would have been guilty of heinous crimes in this incident."

This made Zhou Yuan somewhat fearful. An enemy like Titan, which developed so rapidly, was indeed beyond the Zhou family's capabilities. If Li Ye hadn't unexpectedly intervened, who knows how many more people would have been lost.

"It's good that you're alright. There's no need to thank me; go thank the detective, he's the one who invited me," Li Yelai replied.

This caused the other middlemen and hired psionicists to glance at the detective.

Damn, this middleman is too awesome, he even managed to bring in the champion and the strongest captain!
What's the point of this competition? Once this news gets out, I bet all the psionic families will hire detectives as intermediaries.

If you're lucky, you might draw the ninth champion, or even the eighth champion, the strongest captain doll, or even the entire champion team.

Who wouldn't be envious of such connections?
"The extra fee I mentioned before still stands. It will be paid to you soon," Zhou Hao said with a complicated expression.

He never imagined that a single hiring would bring him a champion. He had now fought alongside a human champion.

"It's alright. Let's deal with the compensation for this incident first," Li Yelai replied. "I can put this aside for now."

After exchanging a few words with them.

Li Yelai walked to the place not far away, where his doll and cheese were waiting.

Cheese leaned against the wall, his face pale and seemingly weak.

The doll was supporting her.

"Are you alright?" Li Ye came closer and reached out to help the cheese.

"As expected, your partnership with the detective always manages to produce something interesting. And yet another overlord-level powerhouse has appeared," Cheese muttered under his breath. Then, after glancing at the doll, he leaned against Li Yelai and whispered, "I'm a little tired. Stopping so many units so many times has taken a toll. Take me home."

Seeing Cheese nestled in Li Yelai's arms, the doll looked a little aggrieved.

'That little dwarf is so mean!'(_)
Especially after learning that it was past midnight and Saturday, she felt even more aggrieved.

So she leaned against Li Yelai, and her whisper came from inside the helmet.

"I'm exhausted too." (End of Chapter)