Chapter 241: Chapter 207: Counteracting the Backlash, a Deity Plundered as Medicine
"Please, show mercy!! The Heaven-Reaching Lodge is willing to submit to you and follow your guidance. We only ask that you leave this Barrier intact! Myself included, we will all be at your disposal!"
"We also have a wealth of inherited knowledge related to the Deities. It will surely be of use to you!"
Hei Mu Hezi shouted, slightly raising her head to look up at the figure before her.
Tall and powerful, wreathed in Demon Flame, he was more oppressive than any Deity!
Her very soul couldn’t help but tremble.
At this moment, her once-haughty face was stained with tears, and the tip of her delicate, porcelain-like nose was red from crying.
It had to be said, the woman was stunningly beautiful, so exquisite she seemed almost unreal. Especially from this angle, looking up with a tear-streaked face, she could stir the desire to both conquer and protect in almost any man.
Besides her talent and power, beauty was also one of her sharpest weapons.
However, she had clearly pleaded with the wrong person.
She saw no change in the man’s expression—no pity, no appreciation, no desire. All that was there was indifference and an unshakable resolve.
WHOOSH!!
A fierce wind howled. In her eyes, a shadow rapidly grew, like a mountain or the sky itself, blotting out her entire field of vision.
It was a giant palm.
BAM!!
The palm struck her body as casually as swatting a fly.
An unimaginable, terrifying power washed over her. Hei Mu Hezi had never imagined her body could feel so light, moving at such an incredible speed.
BOOM!!
She flew back more than twenty meters and slammed heavily into the wooden wall of a building, blasting a large hole through it. She was embedded in the wall in a deeply unsightly position, her body limp, her status between life and death unknown.
The others, who had just turned to leave, heard the massive commotion and couldn’t help but look back. The sight left every one of them feeling as if they were suffocating.
But Yi Beidou simply retracted his palm as if he had just done something trivial, and continued what he was doing.
Seven consecutive punches. A powerful magnetic field plunged into the earth like seven pillars. Yi Beidou had applied the technique of the Demon-Suppressing Seven-Star Needle to deal with the earth’s ley lines.
The ley lines were suppressed, and the Barrier’s Spell in the sky suddenly collapsed, leaving no trace of the phenomenon.
Bright sunlight from the clear sky shone down upon the land, illuminating the ruins.
The Heaven-Reaching Lodge—its very foundation had been utterly destroyed by him.
Yi Beidou looked up at the sky. The light of his Demon Flame flared violently, and then he vanished from everyone’s sight, just like that.
"He’s... he’s gone..."
Muraoka Rui collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion, drenched in sweat as if he had been pulled from water, feeling the relief of having survived a catastrophe.
Just a moment ago, he had been almost certain that Yi Beidou was going to kill them all.
Glancing at Tsuchimikado Kazai lying on the ground, and then at Hei Mu Hezi embedded in the wall, Muraoka Rui couldn’t help but swallow hard.
To be so ruthless even to a woman as beautiful as Ms. Hezi... he was truly a man like a Demon King.
The live broadcast was cut off. He had no idea what kind of chaos was erupting back home right now.
But none of that was his concern anymore.
Muraoka Rui took a few deep breaths, feeling that the air had never been so fresh.
’It’s so wonderful to be alive.’
「Elsewhere」
Yi Beidou wasn’t concerned about the state of Japan’s populace after this battle, because he had more pressing matters to attend to.
The duration of his Secret Technique was coming to an end, and what awaited him was a terrifying backlash.
He was currently in a foreign country during a sensitive time; he couldn’t afford to let himself be put in a vulnerable position.
He sat down cross-legged somewhere in the forest.
The reversed magnetic field within his body had reached its limit. Next, his Life Magnetic Field would naturally correct itself according to the inertia of life.
But anyone who has ever created an "artificial whirlpool" in a basin of water knows what happens when a vortex spinning in one direction is suddenly stirred the other way.
The currents collide, and water splashes everywhere.
Reversing the Life Magnetic Field from its normal state was an active process under Yi Beidou’s control. It was like controlling the speed and force used to reverse a spinning whirlpool, thereby managing the height of the "splash" to keep it from spilling out of the basin.
And this "splash of power" was the strength amplification brought about by Celestial Demon Dissolution.
But when the Secret Technique ended, the process was passive. Yi Beidou had no control over it. The inertia of life showed no restraint; it would instantly unleash its original rotational force.
At that point, the splash created by the collision of the two currents would be uncontrollable, bursting and scattering in all directions.
The faster Yi Beidou reversed the magnetic field, the more violent the "splash" would be when the technique ended. It could even shatter the container itself.
This was the principle behind the First to Sixth Layer of Reverse Chaos. Above the Sixth Layer, the collision of the two forces would almost certainly result in the death of the physical body.
Even at just the Sixth Layer, once the Secret Technique wore off, his injuries would likely leave him with only a single breath left.
This was also why, although Yi Beidou had developed this use for Celestial Demon Dissolution, he only categorized it as a branch of Celestial Demon Chaotic Star. He didn’t consider it a true "Technique," nor did he believe his fundamental strength had truly broken through to a new level.
It was merely a tool, one that offered no real benefit to his body’s actual power.
However, the reason he had used Celestial Demon Dissolution so recklessly this time was because he had already devised a countermeasure.
The "Deity" he had suppressed within his body was his method for dealing with the backlash.
His consciousness sank into his body, where he saw the mass of magnetic field pierced by seven Demon Flame spikes.
The next moment—BAM!! He manipulated his Demon Flame, and the Demon-Suppressing Seven-Star Needle piercing the "Deity’s" body ignited with blue-white fire. The mass of magnetic field began to struggle violently.
Its form grew more and more distorted, becoming increasingly illusory as its power seemed to wane.
Its power wasn’t vanishing into thin air; it was being refined by Yi Beidou’s Demon Flame and fed back into his own body.
Through the Refinement of a magnetic field, he could nourish his own body, stimulating it to a certain degree and gaining power. But the ability of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Flame was not without its limits.
The refined magnetic field could not directly increase Yi Beidou’s fundamental strength.
It was like how a person who eats a tiger wouldn’t suddenly see their strength skyrocket or their Physical Ability rise to the level of a tiger.
Therefore, in Yi Beidou’s plan, the best use for this Deity was to help him withstand the "backlash."
When Celestial Demon Dissolution ended, the two opposing currents would collide, and the resulting "splash" would exceed the limits of Yi Beidou’s Life Magnetic Field. However, by reinforcing and raising the walls of the "bucket" for a short time, he could avoid most of the damage.
Right now, by extensively refining the Deity’s Magnetic Field Power and feeding it back into himself, he was reinforcing his own Life Magnetic Field, allowing it to withstand the impact.
Soon, the state of the Secret Technique reached its end.
BOOM!!
Yi Beidou felt a tempestuous wave erupt within his body, but his expression remained calm. Instead, it was the Deity in his Dantian that shrieked incessantly, its form growing ever more illusory and faint.
It was as if the backlash from Yi Beidou’s Secret Technique had been transferred to it.
About a quarter of an hour later.
Blood trickled from Yi Beidou’s seven orifices. His Life Magnetic Field had returned to its original state. Although his body was still damaged, the injuries were within an acceptable range and had not harmed his foundation.
He focused his consciousness on his Dantian and saw that the "Deity" had shrunk drastically. It was motionless, seemingly having entered a state of quiescence.
However, it had not dispersed completely. A characteristic of Deities was their ability to draw Magnetic Field Power from the Void to repair themselves. The fact that it had been able to reform after he had blasted it apart with a single palm strike was the best proof of this.
But the power of that one palm strike was nothing compared to the toll taken by counteracting the backlash of the Secret Technique.
Even a Divine Body would need a very long time to have any chance of recovering.
But with Tsuchimikado Kazai dead in battle and the Deity devoured by Yi Beidou, its recovery would likely be extremely slow. Although its essence was connected to the national fate of Japan, allowing it to draw Magnetic Field Power from it, the lack of worshipers would severely hamper this process.
’I wonder if it would disperse completely if it had to withstand the backlash of the Secret Technique one more time?’
Yi Beidou had no intention of using the Deity’s power for combat, but he didn’t mind keeping it as a sort of reusable medicinal ingredient, which led him to this train of thought.
’After all, it’s a rare specimen. It still has plenty of use and research value.’
’It would be a pity if it broke so easily.’
