MCL CH81

Chapter 81: You are, my reverse scale

As if sensing the movement from this side, the person in the sea of fire slowly turned to look over.

The gold in the right heterochromatic eye had already turned completely blood-red. The vertical pupil made the already handsome face look uncannily non-human. The black vines spreading from the depths of his neck had almost occupied his entire side profile. Set against a backdrop of vibrant red hair, the sinister and perverse smile did not change in the slightest due to the arrival of these uninvited guests. Instead, the curve of his lips lifted even more bizarrely.

He slowly opened his hands. In that instant, the sea of fire that had already painted the scene red spread once again, wantonly threatening to completely invade the entire inner world of this rift at any moment.

That scene, falling into one’s eyes, was like a purgatorial Asura climbing out from the depths of hell.

“This is…”

Samuel subconsciously took a step forward but was stopped by a hand that appeared in front of him. He looked up at the man beside him, his face momentarily devoid of any trace of jest: “Is he, really?”

Yan Xingzhou did not answer.

After a moment of silence, he only left a single sentence: “Watch over them.”

With that, he strode forward to meet him.

“Don’t be reckless! It’s dangerous!” Yan Xingzhou’s brief silence was enough to give Samuel his answer. Although he didn’t know the specifics, the unprecedented feeling of his hair standing on end was enough to alert him. Facing a Lin Xi who was now completely detached from a human form, his first reaction was to grab Yan Xingzhou, but he was ultimately a step too slow.

The moment he reached out, his fingertips only managed to brush against the sleeve that moved past.

Yan Xingzhou rushed straight for Lin Xi almost without hesitation. However, before he could get close, Abyss suddenly appeared before him, blocking his path.

In the torn void, a huge eyeball was faintly visible, right before his eyes: “I didn’t expect that there would be someone among humans who knows His identity.”

Although the familiar voice was filled with intense fatigue compared to the beginning, Yan Xingzhou instantly recognized it: “You are the master of this rift. What did you do to him?”

Abyss was not at all concerned about its identity being exposed. It just stared straight at Yan Xingzhou, as if hearing the funniest joke: “What did I do to Him? You have it backwards. It should be what He did to me!”

As the end of its sentence tightened, its words were also filled with unwillingness: “As expected, there are lunatics among you humans. To actually rather release Calamity than complete that deal with me. Yes, I proposed that as long as He was willing to stay, I would let the rest of you leave safely, and I even promised to give the human world outside the rift a chance to breathe. Originally, you all should have left here safely by now, but He, just like that, refused without hesitation.”

It suddenly leaned forward, its eyeball almost touching Yan Xingzhou’s face, smiling with a chilling coldness: “The Him right now doesn’t care about your lives at all.”

The bottomless abyss was right at Yan Xingzhou’s feet. He did not retreat a single step. Only upon hearing these words and capturing the details within the information did a slight fluctuation appear in his expression.

So now, Calamity has been released?

Then Lin Xi…

When he looked up again, Yan Xingzhou’s eyes were already a sea of calm: “So why did you bring us here? The negotiation failed and someone flipped the table on you, so you’re gasping for your last breath, seeking new cooperation? Have you ever thought that someone might flip the table on you a second time?”

As his voice fell, Abyss had already sensed that something was wrong.

However, before it could pull away the ground from under its feet, a bridge had already materialized out of thin air, steadily holding Yan Xingzhou up in the vast sky.

Just as a dense volley of arrows was about to pierce through its body, all the arrowheads and shafts seemed to be severed by an invisible force. Shattering into two pieces, they clattered into the endless chasm below.

Abyss’s huge eyeball turned silently, its tone sinking to the extreme: “Do you know what you have refused?”

“I don’t,” Yan Xingzhou replied. As he spoke, the ability fluctuations around him instantly became sharp and cold. “But I know that I will never, ever make a move against him.”

Abyss obviously didn’t expect Yan Xingzhou to be so firm. Before it could speak, it was hit by several more waves of attacks.

The offensive brought by the materialization ability was almost impossible to avoid. Each wave was narrowly dodged by using spatial displacement. At the same time, its counterattacks were blocked by Yan Xingzhou several times, making it finally regret the choice it had made. After all, it had thought it could use the humans’ hatred for contaminants to restrain Lin Xi a little, but it never expected this development. Of course, it also never expected that among the human ability users, besides Lin Xi’s [Devour], there was also this monster in front of it with an equally troublesome ability.

The twisted and torn space was steadily blocked by a formless protective barrier. The space Yan Xingzhou materialized gradually became a completely independent new world within the inner world of this rift.

A huge longsword stood behind him. With just a casual swing downwards, it would slash at the master of the rift standing right opposite.

Abyss’s voice was slightly cold: “You can’t kill me.”

Yan Xingzhou replied: “I know. But at least, I can make you get out of my way.”

Abyss hid in the rift torn open in mid-air and said, unwilling to give up: “No matter what your relationship with that Lin Xi was before, you should face reality. He is no longer human. So what if he could still blend into the human world before? He himself knows it too. Once that door to the contamination world is opened, there’s no going back. Not to mention whether the Him now can even remember you. You people have already seen his true form. Even if he can escape from me, the humans outside will never tolerate him! Accept reality. At least compared to me, the existence of Calamity is the biggest nightmare for you humans. Are you sure you want to let go of the best opportunity to eliminate this nightmare?”

Yan Xingzhou: “I’m sure.”

Abyss was completely speechless: “…”

But Yan Xingzhou didn’t give it another glance and continued to walk forward as if no one else was there: “And I am also sure that I will not let anyone touch him again.”

As he raised his arm, the giant sword standing in the air suddenly stabbed down from above Abyss’s head.

“You will regret this!”

As the curse-like words fell, the space where Abyss was located closed. The giant sword, having lost its target, plunged heavily into the abyss below.

Boom—!

Boom boom—!!!

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, countless airwaves swept through.

The hem of Yan Xingzhou’s clothes flew up. Unobstructed, he flew directly towards that figure.

It was unknown whether it had been waiting for his arrival all along. Since a while ago, the figure in the sea of fire had stopped its work of destroying this world and just stood there, staring fixedly in Yan Xingzhou’s direction.

Until it saw the figure approach. Before he could get close, a wall of flames suddenly rose, like a roaming giant snake, and surrounded him, stopping him in his tracks.

Yan Xingzhou’s momentum paused, his gaze fixed on the familiar yet completely strange face before him.

No one spoke for a moment. Finally, it was “Lin Xi” who chuckled first, a hint of playfulness in his tone: “I thought you would agree to Abyss’s damn cooperation, but I didn’t expect you to refuse in the end. If this kind of plot were in a TV series, you would probably be scolded by the bullet comments as a silly, sweet fool who lets emotions get in the way, right?”

A few seconds later, Yan Xingzhou finally spoke in a deep voice: “Calamity.”

“Hee hee hee, what a nostalgic name. As expected, Director Yan, your eyes are the sharpest.” “Lin Xi” looked at Yan Xingzhou in the sea of fire with great interest. “But your reaction is calmer than I expected. Are you really not worried at all that I will completely possess this body from now on?”

Yan Xingzhou’s gaze was fixed on that face: “I’m not worried.”

Before Calamity could ask, he continued slowly: “He never makes a choice he’s not sure of.”

“Such unconditional trust. Sometimes, even I feel a little envious.” Lin Xi laughed out loud. “But what if, by chance, an ‘accident’ happens?”

It looked down at its arm, which had been completely covered by black patterns at some point, and the fanaticism in its eyes grew stronger bit by bit: “It’s been a long time since I’ve felt such powerful strength. Even I didn’t expect that the combination of human and contaminant power could be this strong. It’s really addictive, I don’t want to let go at all.”

When it looked up again, its slightly widened pupils became even more excited when looking at Yan Xingzhou: “Actually, I also admit that Director Lin’s spiritual world is so solid that it’s almost impossible for me to get a foothold. Even being released this time was a completely unexpected gain. Originally, I was really troubled about how to make this person’s spiritual world completely collapse. And now, this problem seems to have been solved with your appearance.”

Lin Xi licked the corner of his lips and chuckled silently: “If you were to die—”

Yan Xingzhou vaguely realized the meaning behind the words, his eyes turning grave.

Lin Xi looked at him with a smile: “It seems you also know what I want to do.”

As his voice fell, the flames surrounding Yan Xingzhou began to roam, silently darting with every word spoken: “Personally killing the one you love most, there’s probably nothing more devastating than that, don’t you think?”

Yan Xingzhou did not answer.

His eyes narrowed slightly after glimpsing something in his peripheral vision. Seeing a tongue of fire flash past, he managed to dodge quickly, but it still left a faint trace on his cheek: “…”

Lin Xi raised an eyebrow: “It seems that even at a time like this, you still refuse to make a move against him. Then let me contin—”

The rest of his words were cut short. As if feeling an unprecedented pain, his body swayed slightly. The blood vessels all over his body seemed on the verge of bursting under the clash of the two forces, causing him to press his hands tightly against his head. A whimper escaped from his extremely tense voice: “How could this be… how can you wake up so… ugh—!!!”

Yan Xingzhou didn’t even hear the words that were almost muttered to himself. He didn’t even care about the flames that had burned through his protective shield and onto his body. In an instant, he rushed straight up.

Just as Lin Xi was about to fall, he steadily caught him in his arms.

As if sensing something, Lin Xi reached out and grabbed Yan Xingzhou’s arm. Under the impact of his body’s cells continuously tearing apart, his curled fingertips tensed to the extreme. He squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: “Stay, away from me…”

Yan Xingzhou’s movement paused slightly, but he had no intention of leaving. Instead, he held him even tighter in his arms: “Don’t worry, it’s okay.”

Lin Xi’s fingers dug deeply into Yan Xingzhou’s flesh. Under the struggle of the two invisible forces, dense sweat continuously seeped from his forehead, as if he was struggling to suppress the tremors that were constantly rising throughout his body.

He clearly wanted to push Yan Xingzhou away, but he also felt an extreme sense of attachment in this familiar aura. As he unconsciously leaned towards that body, an intense contamination value continuously poured out from his own. The surrounding flames, powerful and intense, threatened to pierce the sky, surrounding the two of them in circles.

Flames that could melt almost anything could leap onto his body at any moment, yet Yan Xingzhou did not move from beginning to end.

He could feel the person in his arms struggling invisibly.

Finally, an intense contamination radiation mixed with a strong ability fluctuation burst out. A huge amount of energy exploded from under their feet and spread to the surroundings, instantly rushing to every corner of the entire inner world.

Silently, the countless world fragments that made up this place completely shattered.

The huge impact almost tore Yan Xingzhou’s flesh and bones apart at the same time. Even the barrier he was barely maintaining around them was unknowingly covered with dense cracks. He didn’t dare to release too much of his ability to interfere with Lin Xi. Under the strain, just as his vision was about to be stripped away, he only felt a soft touch silently on his lips, a hot and intense kiss falling between his pried-open lips and teeth.

Yan Xingzhou looked up and met a pair of smiling eyes: “Director Yan, you’re really not afraid I’ll kill you, huh…”

“…”

When Yan Xingzhou opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was also incredibly hoarse from the extreme tension. “You won’t.”

In the sea of fire, Lin Xi looked down at the man in front of him. After a short silence, a smile also appeared on his face: “Indeed, those low-intelligence contaminants always make stupid choices. I was just taking a temporary break, and it actually thought it could take the opportunity to touch you, so I could only temporarily make it completely quiet.”

He reached out, placed his hand on Yan Xingzhou’s jaw, and brought it up, then took a bite as if tasting wine: “You see, you are—my reverse scale.”

Yan Xingzhou responded cooperatively, his gaze still fixed on Lin Xi’s non-human vertical pupils, and replied slowly: “You are the same to me.”

A hint of a smile appeared in Lin Xi’s eyes, and only then did he reluctantly let Yan Xingzhou go.

He was still a bit shaky when he got up. He casually steadied himself on Yan Xingzhou’s body and looked up at the surroundings: “But just now, there was one thing it said that was right. This is also the first time I’ve felt such powerful strength.”

All the cells in his body seemed to be completely ignited. An uncontrollably huge force crashed against his internal organs. Under the seemingly calm surface, countless desires and thoughts that were enough to drive a person completely mad constantly bombarded his mind. At any moment, there was a sense of madness that could transcend this world.

Wanting to control everything, wanting to possess everything, and also wanting to destroy everything.

In short, it was a very special but also very interesting feeling.

A calm yet crazed smile gradually appeared in Lin Xi’s eyes.

How pathetic. To think that for a fleeting moment, he had actually let that trash contaminant, Calamity, seize an opportunity.

If it weren’t for Yan Xingzhou’s appearance…

But now, everything here should truly come to an end.

Lin Xi slowly raised his hand, his eyes filled with a faint sense of anticipation. It was unknown whether he was talking to himself or to Yan Xingzhou, like a devout inquiry into a philosophical question: “So, what does it feel like to destroy a world?”

As his voice fell, a huge force erupted from his hand.

All the flames scattered around seemed to sense it and gathered together feverishly. After a pillar of fire shot up into the clouds, it exploded with a boom.

The dense falling flames were like a magnificent meteor shower. The entire inner world of the rift completely disintegrated in this grand scene. The scattered firelight illuminated half of Lin Xi’s face, making his already fanatical eyes burn even brighter.

The previous question was answered in the most direct way without a word.

This is the feeling of destroying a world.

For some reason, it made one’s blood boil.

The fleeting thought ended in the suddenly darkened vision.

A huge hand gently blocked out the view in this scene, leaving only Yan Xingzhou’s close murmur as he leaned over by his ear, silently pulling his thoughts back for a moment: “Don’t look.”

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