Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

Chapter 77 Re-entering the Ark
In the branch's lounge, Li Ye looked at the Awakening Potion in his hand.

A mysterious power emanated from the gilded liquid, and if one listened carefully, one could almost hear the faint roar of a dragon.

This is the magic potion. As long as you drink this during your advancement, you will be guaranteed to gain a certain ability. You will no longer have to worry about your appearance.

The trade-off is that psionicists are more likely to become twisted after drinking the potion.

These potions come from various extraordinary beings and possess powers that make it easier for psionicists to become twisted and out of control.

If a psionicist cannot maintain rationality, their body may exhibit many characteristics of supernatural beings, and their personality may be affected, thus becoming distorted.

Therefore, every time he drank the magic potion, it was like passing through the gates of hell.

This is also why Cheese sent a message to Li Yelai after successfully making a breakthrough.

Moreover, for some reason, Li Yelai always felt that this potion was extremely heavy, a psychological burden.
Li Yelai suppressed the inexplicable sadness in his heart and stored the potion away.

He peeked into his own well of souls.

'That's not enough.'

After his encounter with the tattooed man, Li Yelai's Well of Souls underwent a change, expanding deeper and subtly extending outwards. However, it ultimately did not reach a point sufficient for advancement.

It seems that dangerous battles can indeed accelerate the mastery of psionic energy. Little Mad King's theory is correct. But the risk is too great. Even with the curse of inevitably encountering powerful enemies, Li Yelai cannot find enemies at any time.

The only way is through training to enhance psionic abilities.

As Li Yelai pondered this, he felt a chill on his cheek.

He stared in astonishment as a can of iced drink was suddenly placed on his cheek. The coldness of the can sent a shiver down Li Yelai's spine.

The one holding the iced drink was a mascot dressed in a snowman costume.

It was her who could silently neutralize Li Yelai's psionic barrier.

"You're back from the Black Prison?" Li Yelai asked, somewhat surprised.

Previously, Li Yelai was urgently transferred to carry out a siege mission, while the doll was sent to the Black Prison to suppress forbidden objects.

Li Yelai asked her about it, and she replied that she would have to wait a few more days.

The doll seemed to be laughing, and the words on the advertising sign in its hand appeared: [Yeah, you just came out, were you scared? (o▽)o]
Here, have a drink.
The doll sat down next to Li Yelai and offered him a drink.

"Thank you!" Li Yelai replied, taking the drink. "How's the situation in Black Prison?"

[When you began your campaign against the Church of the Embers, some forbidden entities attempted to break containment. They were few in number and not particularly difficult to defeat. (((`^))]
[We still haven't had our midnight snack (′へ`、)]

The doll seemed somewhat dissatisfied, as the plush on its costume was shaking.

"There will be plenty of opportunities. Let's go grab something to eat later," Li Yelai reassured the somewhat agitated doll.

The doll could only nod sullenly; she couldn't very well say that she still wanted to play games with Li Ye at home.
The kind where you learn step-by-step. (ω)

Suppressing her disappointment, she then asked, "[How's Xiaoyan doing lately? (◇)?]"
"She's currently engrossed in studying the theoretical knowledge of psychics," Li Yelai said with a wry smile.

Li Yunyan, who is already on the verge of becoming a psychic, is ultimately destined to become one.

The official advice was to have her learn the relevant knowledge first in order to increase her chances of success as much as possible.

After Li Yunyan has mastered all the theories, she will use the officially formulated stabilizer to become a psionicist.

After all, the official stabilizer is far superior to the inferior stabilizer used by the Church of the Embers, but it still carries the risk of failure. The failure rate is around 30%. Maximizing the success rate is the safest approach.

Even though Li Yunyan had already left school, she was now immersed in a sea of ​​practice problems. Despite having far superior theoretical knowledge than Li Yelai, a psychic, she was still doing practice questions.

The day before yesterday, he said he wanted to awaken the True Martial Path and wanted to use his strength to break through all laws!

Yesterday he said he was going to awaken the Divine Path, and with a single word, "Sword, come, I'll borrow three thousand swords!"

In the morning, when Li Ye came out, she said again that she wanted to awaken the Path of Delirium.

If you can make money with a single word, you'll become a millionaire.

Li Yelai was curious and asked her if she wanted to awaken a Myriad Paths like her brother.

She said that having two Wanxiang stores would make Fu Rui Kong (a brand of goods) ecstatic, so let's just forget about Wanxiang.

So, the Path of All Things represents kemonomimi (animal-eared girls)? That's outrageous! Even a tough guy like Captain Furnace would be furious enough to cry.

Women's hearts are truly unfathomable, like needles at the bottom of the sea.

Li Yelai had absolutely no idea what was going on in her little head.

After giving my little sister a good dressing down.

Li Yelai mentioned that he had obtained the Third Awakening Elixir and expressed his desire to hone his psionic skills.

Promotions cannot be rushed, and an overly obsessive pursuit of power will, over time, affect your character. Ultimately, you may become a victim of someone who resorts to any means to pursue power. ⊙﹏⊙∥
[However, if you're just looking to improve your psionic control through training, I can help! ()]
"Help with training?" Li Yelai scratched his head. "I know you're powerful, but you probably don't have a way to help psychics improve their psychic skills, right?"

The doll is a psionicist with the Five Senses Divine Path, so her strength goes without saying. Coupled with her powerful curse, she is considered a captain-level powerhouse.

He is far more powerful than Li Yelai.

The power level of a psychic will gradually increase with each awakening. The improvement in psychic abilities and physical strength will also become greater.

When Li Yelai was awakened, he was able to hold his own against a spear knight with the strength of a second awakening.

When Li Ye, who had reached the second awakening stage, was fighting the tattooed man who had reached the third awakening stage, he already felt the strain. In the end, he had to use his curse to make the tattooed man eat the Pioneer Machine before he could severely injure and defeat him.

The tattooed man, who was a headache for Li Yelai, couldn't withstand even one move from the doll.

In terms of strength, the doll is undoubtedly powerful.

But helping with training shouldn't be possible, right? Otherwise, all the processors would be asking the dolls for help.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yelai felt his body become heavy.

The air around us began to sink.

Li Yelai raised his arm in surprise, but it seemed to be a bit difficult.

It felt as if I had been trapped in gelatinous air.

Is this an ability or a psionic barrier?

“This is…” Li Yelai said.

But then I saw a doll holding up an advertising sign.

[One of my abilities is air manipulation, which allows me to control all gases within a certain range. Currently, the air in the entire training room has been gelled up by me. You'll need to strengthen your psionic barrier to neutralize the psionic energy in the air in order to reduce some of the resistance and move.]
Li Yelai obediently did as instructed, as his own psionic barrier strengthened.

The pressure Li Yelai felt had lessened considerably, but his movements were still extremely difficult. He had to expend a lot of spiritual energy and strength to move around in the gelled air.

It's fortunate that the doll has some airflow, otherwise it would be easy to suffocate if you stayed here.

This also demonstrates the doll's power; if she truly harbors hostility towards someone, she will suffocate them with an even denser, gelatinous mass of air!
This was the training assistance the doll had mentioned. With her own abilities, she allowed Li Ye to train in this space, achieving a rapid improvement in his control over spiritual energy. No wonder no one had asked the doll for help.

Because this is a specially designed training ground created by the doll using its own spiritual energy.

It can also be a burden for dolls.

"Aren't you too tired?" Li Yelai asked with some concern. "Isn't this very taxing?"

[It's okay, I can last about an hour ψ(｀ー)ψ]
[As long as you maintain this psionic barrier and train under this resistance, the results should be pretty good ヾ(ｏω)]
"Thank you so much!" Li Yelai expressed his sincere gratitude. He then picked up his training weapon and spent the next half hour training diligently in the space. Each swing of the weapon brought him immense resistance, and his psionic barrier rapidly depleted and slowly recovered.

Half an hour later, Li Yelai, completely exhausted of his spiritual energy, was covered in sweat, and even his enhanced physique felt weak. He was more tired than if he had trained all day before.

Upon noticing Li Yelai's condition, the doll immediately released its air-gelled state and rushed forward to support him.

Are you alright? Did I lose control? (_)
"It's nothing, it's nothing," Li Yelai quickly waved his hand. Then, he meditated and looked at his Soul Well. Although it wasn't very obvious, the Soul Well had indeed expanded somewhat.

This method really works!

However, it was too much of a drain on Li Yelai, and he couldn't continue training.

So much so that, a dozen minutes later...

Inside the branch lounge exclusively for dolls.

Li Yelai found it somewhat difficult to even pick up chopsticks at the dinner table.

'I guess I overdid it a bit during training.' Li Yelai thought to himself as he watched the chopsticks slip from his hand. 'Next time I should at least save some energy.'

Beside him, the doll, having shed its snowman costume, donned a women's trench coat, making it appear even taller and more alluring.

But her expression showed some hesitation.

'Is he too tired to hold the chopsticks?'

'Can I feed him then?'

'But won't he get scared away? He seemed a bit resistant when we played games last time (T﹏T)ノ｜'

As she hesitated, she saw Li Yelai pick up a spoon and start quickly shoveling food into the bowl.

"Can't pick up chopsticks? That's no problem for me!" Li Yelai thought to himself, it's not like he's never suffered before.

Little did he know that his actions caused the doll beside him to purse its lips.

Three days after the special training ended, Li Yelai had fully recovered. He then got into Captain Yin Huo's car.

Today is November 15th, the day we once again embark on the Ark.

The official stance is that Ark is of great importance.

At the same time, Li Yelai's role as an undercover agent was kept highly confidential.

As a result, the location for entering the Ark this time was not the crowded headquarters, but a safe house that the authorities had set up in the suburbs of the new city.

It was a villa with a considerable area. From the outside, it looked quite ordinary.

This is to guard against possible spies within the giant city.

This was also to prevent other Ark voters from placing any tracking devices on the items Li Yelai was trading.

If they really had tracking methods and tracked them here, they wouldn't have exposed Li Yelai's identity as a mole.

Li Yelai and Yin Huo entered the safe zone located on the mountainside and went into its basement.

And once again, we saw the Ark voter 'Golden Armor', bound and unable to live or die.

He was still submerged in the life support pod, chains and metal spikes embedded in his body. Unconscious, he appeared to be undergoing some kind of torture, his brow furrowed and his face contorted in pain.

How could it not hurt? My skull is practically smashed!

Li Yelai didn't care at all. He had no pity for this beast who had killed so many people and so many colleagues!

If he weren't still useful alive, the authorities would probably have reduced 'Golden Armor' to ashes.

Then, Li Yelai also saw a magnificent horse.

It was an exceptionally handsome four-hoofed horse, its body covered in bluish-green scales, and its silvery-white mane made it appear even more sacred.

But it was a corpse. A spear had pierced its skull.

This is the corpse of the Thunder-Treading Dragon Steed that Li Yelai needed.

As part of this transaction, the official team has already prepared everything for him.

"What intelligence do I need to gather this time?" Li Yelai asked.

“There’s no need to deliberately probe. Just communicate normally with the Ark’s chosen ones,” Yin Huo said. “If there’s any information that interests you, you can choose for yourself. We can exchange your Facebook profile or our crackdown on the church’s branch for it. But remember, don’t reveal your secrets.”

Li Yelai nodded slightly, then asked, "How am I supposed to get the horse's carcass inside?"

“Don’t worry about that. When you enter the Ark, hold onto the carcass of this dragon steed. It will enter the Ark with you, and the Ark will retrieve it for you when you need it,” Yin Huo replied. “Be careful, don’t rush to pry into those guys’ information.”

The guys Yin Huo was referring to were actually the masterminds behind the Fantasy Band back then.

'Star', 'Phantom', and 'Wolf' are the three guys that the processors dream of killing.

However, given Li Yelai's current status, he cannot rush to gather information about them. Otherwise, he might reveal a flaw in his plan.

Li Yelai nodded, changed into a suit, put on a bronze mask, picked up the boat ticket, and reached out to press down on the corpse of the dragon horse.

Yin Huo checked the countermeasures and, after confirming that everything was in order, nodded and said, "Activate."

Soon, an operator manipulated the unconscious 'Golden Armor' to point a finger.

Li Yelai then felt that long-lost feeling of weightlessness, and a white light appeared in front of him.

A few seconds later, the feeling of weightlessness and the white light disappeared.

Li Yelai had already arrived inside the magnificent ark.

Compared to last time, there seem to be a few more seats, so there must be some new members.

Li Yelai observed his surroundings and easily found his seat.

Compared to the tension last time, Li Yelai was much calmer this time.

Soon, the mysterious voice rang out.

"Begin, voters."

(End of this chapter)