The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 216: Entering the City, Inspection, and Control
Strengthened by the immortal cells, the octopus evolved to level five. The most terrifying thing is that the octopus awakened the Yin attribute chakra and gained the ability to control the five senses.

Unlike the illusion of the Mangekyō Sharingan, the Mangekyō Sharingan uses the power of the pupils to interfere with the chakra or infectious power in the enemy's body, causing hallucinations to appear in the enemy's mind.

However, the control of the five senses changes the enemy's cognition, just like a mirage and the refraction of the water surface. What you see, think and do are all distorted.

Huo Ying thought about it and looked at Zhang Yuqi beside him.

Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying curiously, then turned her head and exclaimed.

scare.

"And the octopus?"

The giant octopus stood in front of the two people with its head lowered, but Zhang Yuqi ignored it and looked surprised.

Flowers in the mirror and moon in the water.

Huo Ying secretly ordered the octopus to cast the Mirror Flower and Water Moon. Zhang Yuqi's five senses were modified. She could not smell the fishy smell from the river on the octopus, and her vision could not receive the light reflected back by the octopus.

It was like standing in a parallel space. The octopus's densely packed pupils smiled at Zhang Yuqi eerily, but Zhang Yuqi was separated from the octopus by a world and had no idea where the octopus was.

“Is this the ability of an octopus?”

Zhang Yuqi curiously stretched out her hand, wanting to touch forward, but subconsciously, she watched herself reaching out to her side.

Upside down and confused.

It is still an ability controlled by the five senses.

Zhang Yuqi's sense of direction was modified. Every time she made an action, she would randomly choose a direction. When she stretched out her hand forward, she might turn right, or left, or she might really stretch her hand forward. The chaotic five senses had no regular pattern, and Zhang Yuqi was so scared that she immediately stood still and dared not move.

The octopus demonstrated its abilities and then lifted the illusion. Zhang Yuqi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the giant octopus appear in front of her.

"Even a level 3 peak infected person can be infected without noticing, and there is no way to remove it. This ability is really terrifying." Zhang Yuqi said leisurely: "I am so lucky that this ability is yours, otherwise I would be worried about what to do if the enemy is so strong."

After being hit by the illusion, Zhang Yuqi secretly used the purification absorbed from Liang Yao, but purification only works on infectious power. It has no effect on chakra.

"Let's go, we can go to XN City."

Zhang Yuqi drove the pickup truck again, traveling through the ruined wilderness, along the abandoned highway in Dongling Town, and headed towards XN City.

It was getting late, and the faint setting sun was like cut flesh and blood, sprinkling on the ground, making the outline of the mountains blurred. A gust of wind had just passed, and a damp and cold smell filled the air.

Zhang Yuqi glanced at the rearview mirror and couldn't help asking, "This damp and cold breath, is it a level 5 octopus following my pickup truck?"

The octopus used its huge tentacles as hands and feet and crawled closely behind the pickup truck. After hearing what Zhang Yuqi said, it grinned.

Under Huo Ying's order, the level 5 octopus did not take the water route, but used its five senses to hide itself and changed Zhang Yuqi's vision, allowing Zhang Yuqi to ignore the fog.

The ability of the strange fog is to obscure the five senses, but the fog is obviously lower than the level 5 octopus in terms of life level. As long as the octopus is around to protect you, the strange fog will lose its effect.

The sky gradually darkened.

Black fog and flying insects suddenly broke through the space and flew all over the world.

The giant octopus moved closer to the pickup truck, and the black fog and flying insects subconsciously avoided the pickup truck.

In the previous life, the fish-man controlled by the octopus had the ability to disperse flying insects. The fish scale armor made by Huo Ying could prevent the flying insects from getting close. Today, the octopus himself was guarding the law, and it seemed that he hated the smell of sea water on the octopus. The flying insects and black fog dispersed, and a vacuum appeared wherever the pickup truck drove.

The pickup truck's engine made a low roar as it drove into the edge of XN City. Several abandoned factories and dilapidated buildings came into view. In the distance, the center of the city flickered with a faint light, which was the flames of poplar wood and the red-baked Yangshi city wall.

"We're here." Zhang Yuqi said softly, and her fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened slightly.

"Wait a moment, let's go into the city tomorrow morning." Huo Ying gave an order, and Zhang Yuqi immediately turned off the car lights.

Reaching XN City through the darkness would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble. Huo Ying needed to find the location of the fetal girl without alerting the angel. In order to avoid trouble, it would be best to enter the city early tomorrow morning.

Zhang Yuqi nodded, silently adjusted the position of her seat, and glanced at the surrounding ruins. Through the car window glass, her sight seemed to be able to penetrate those old buildings and see the inner city.

"Can you feel the layer of foul air covering the city?" Zhang Yuqi had imagined many ways to enter XN City, but she never expected that Huo Ying would accompany her.

“This is the end of the world.”

"I know this is the end of the world, and you know it too, but what are you going to do on the end of the world?" Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying: "The road ahead must be very dangerous, right? Now that you are awake and have such strong abilities, we can live well even if we do nothing."

"Huo Ying, if..." Zhang Yuqi said seriously, "If, we, no, the four of us, live a good life together and don't do those dangerous things, wouldn't that be good?"

Huo Ying looked at Zhang Yuqi. In her previous life, she dared to fulfill her wish and even found herself increasing her strength by killing the infected and deliberately acting as her own sacrifice. Perhaps, because she had never seen hope in her previous life, she was not afraid of anything.

Now, there is a possibility that her life will change, but Zhang Yuqi is actually afraid.

What I fear is losing.

"You still forgot that it's the end of the world." Huo Ying's eyes were cold: "The end of the world, if you don't fight, others will. Backing off is no different from suicide. But don't worry, the end of the world is coming soon."

Gradually, the night passed and the sun rose.

Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi did not rush to act. They waited until some people left and returned to the gate of XN City before Zhang Yuqi started the car and slowly drove towards the gate.

The huge level 5 octopus was still following the pickup truck. Relying on the ability to control the five senses, people below level 5 could not detect the existence of the octopus. As the infectious power in its body turned into fairy chakra, the Yang Stone of XN City had no effect on the octopus. The octopus arrived at the city gate before the pickup truck, attached itself to the city wall, and quietly watched Huo Ying's vehicles line up to enter the city.

The gate of XN City was heavily guarded. Several guards in armor stood on the roadside. They looked alert, holding weapons in their hands and scanning the passing vehicles. Zhang Yuqi stepped on the brakes and the car stopped steadily in front of the gate. A tall and burly guard came over and stared at the two people in the pickup truck. His eyes passed over Huo Ying. The guard waved his hand indifferently, signaling the pickup truck to pass, but found that the driver was a woman. The guard was suddenly startled, and a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. His eyes swept across Zhang Yuqi's face, lingering on her delicate features and cold temperament, and a greedy look flashed in his eyes.

"Stop for a moment." The guard said gruffly, "Miss, could you please get out of the car and be checked?"

Zhang Yuqi raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at him with eyes so cold that they could almost freeze the air: "What inspection?"

The burly man from the escort team reached out and grabbed the car door: "You came from outside. Nowadays, people are dying all the time. Who knows if you have come into contact with corpses? What if you have infectious diseases?"

"Don't worry, if there is no infectious disease, I will let you go."

The sturdy man was obviously the captain of this inspection team. Several team members behind him knew that what he did was against the rules, but no one said anything. They just turned a deaf ear and pretended not to see anything. One of them even secretly looked at Zhang Yuqi, and his eyes clearly showed that he was jealous that the sturdy man could play with such a beautiful woman.

"XN City is like this?" Zhang Yuqi glanced at Huo Ying and found that Huo Ying did not give any hints, so she started the engine and said, "Forget it, I don't want to go into the city."

"Haha." The guard sneered, revealing a row of yellow teeth. "You think XN City is owned by your family, you can come and go as you please. When you arrive in XN City, you must obey the rules of XN City. XN City has the obligation to protect humans. Even if you want to go somewhere else, we have to make sure you don't have an infectious disease before we let you go."

He glanced at Zhang Yuqi's figure with an obscene look in his eyes: "But don't worry, the inspection process will definitely not let you down."

Zhang Yuqi's face darkened, and she clenched her fingers slightly, ready to reach out.

The guard's eyes were still wandering on Zhang Yuqi, not taking Zhang Yuqi and Huo Ying seriously at all. "Why, you want to attack me? Think about it, if you attack me, you can only become an exile. Even if you are a level 3 infected person, you have to be checked by me after passing this threshold. What XN City needs is a level 3 infected person who knows the rules. Do you understand what this sentence means?"

The reason why the guards are so rampant is essentially because the top leaders of XN City condone them. Level 3 infected people are very strong, so they need to be screened, especially foreign level 3 infected people. If they rely on their abilities to be unruly, it will be more difficult for XN City to manage them.

Therefore, the city gate is a screening process. If you tolerate it once, you will get used to it when something more excessive happens next time. After all, you have tolerated it once. If you cannot tolerate it next time, all your tolerance before will have been in vain.

As for those who can’t bear it even once, XN City doesn’t care. Such people should just leave XN City.

"This world is no longer what you imagined. Once you enter XN City, everyone has to be obedient, especially strangers like you. You are lucky to be alive." Hu Weidao chuckled a few times, then looked down at Zhang Yuqi and said, "Don't be so pretentious. I've seen many people like you. How can you survive if you don't climb into someone else's bed?"

Zhang Yuqi's eyes were as cold as a knife. Just as she was about to resist, her hand was held by Huo Ying.

"Haha, hahaha."

The sturdy man laughed, very satisfied with Huo Ying's admission of weakness. Several team members behind him also laughed.

"So..." The sturdy man was about to say something, but suddenly he felt a murderous aura rising from behind him.

boom!
There was a crisp gunshot. It was a Yangshi bullet. The strong man's head exploded instantly. His brain nerves were destroyed by the power of the sun. He fell to the ground with empty eyes and died with his eyes open.

Behind the sturdy man, the smoke from the muzzle of the gun had not yet dissipated, and the team member who was full of jealousy was looking at the fallen body with indifference.

"This shameless guy is really bringing shame to XN City!"

The team member's pupils turned scarlet, and his voice was like coming from the abyss, spreading coldly all around. He turned to the other guards, still holding the gun in his hand: "If anyone dares to be like him again, I promise to make him suffer worse than him."

"Crazy, crazy, he actually sneak attacked and killed the captain."

For a moment, all the guards were silent and no one dared to say another word.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood and tension, as if the entire gate of XN City was shocked by the gunshot.

Seeing that the other members of the escort team were afraid of him, the man who fired the gun was excited: "You treat human lives as a joke, and think that anyone can trample on them at will? You are just a bunch of beasts in human skin! I have long been fed up with you, and you are not worthy of using the name of human to excuse yourselves. You are just using your fists to oppress those who are weaker than you, and the so-called rules are just your excuses!"

He looked down at the corpse and said coldly, "If this is your rule, then I would rather be a person who doesn't follow the rules."

Bang bang bang.

Gunshots rang out one after another, and the remaining guard members had their limbs broken one by one.

"You two, go in. I will report their crimes truthfully to the city of Chang'an." The shooter took out the pass from the captain's body, stamped it, and handed it to Huo Ying.

Huo Ying patted Zhang Yuqi's hand and signaled Zhang Yuqi to start the car.

Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying in surprise. She knew that it was Huo Ying who did something, but she never expected that Huo Ying's illusion was so powerful that he could even modify the mind of an infected person without anyone noticing.

The watchdogs of XN City must be birds of a feather. Zhang Yuqi just noticed the jealousy in the eyes of the shooter. How could this guy say such righteous words?

What kind of illusion could change a person's personality in an instant?

The car started, Huo Ying looked up, and the level 5 octopus attached to the wall indicated that it had received the message.

Hearing the gunshots, a large number of guards and investigation team members rushed over. The shooter did not resist and allowed himself to be captured.

After learning what happened, the captain of the escort team in charge of the arrest was shocked and said, "You are crazy!"

The shooter raised his head and glared at the new captain with scarlet eyes: "So, you are that kind of person too?"

boom!
The shooter exploded instantly. It was a grenade mixed with Yangshi fragments, which blew the shooter into pieces.

The captain dodged in embarrassment: "Impossible, he had a grenade on him, why didn't I see it?"

"By the way, who was the person who was embarrassed just now?!"

The captain turned his head and looked in the direction of the city gate. He had just run over in a hurry and didn't even notice whether there were any cars passing by.

The level 5 octopus slowly extended its tentacles and drilled into XN City.

(End of this chapter)