Rumble~
White contrails stretched across the sky, like a supersonic fighter jet streaking through the heavens.
Lily Threesection Staff, eyes red, stumbled desperately towards Fubuki, completely oblivious to the scene in the sky.
Lilith, who had collapsed in despair, saw it. She had no demon eyes or special pupils, so she couldn't clearly see who was up there.
But she could see the origin of that white contrail, which was precisely where the brutal battle had just erupted.
She clutched her neck, her consciousness blurring, and finally slowly fell to the ground, muttering,
"Mr. Tao Bai Bai, please... kill..."
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"What... exactly do you want to do?!"
In his rapid flight, the Sage could barely breathe. The intense wind pressure was like a wall, and he was being pressed against it by pure brute force, sliding for an unknown distance.
So far that even his tough dragon scales began to shatter piece by piece from the friction, and in the bloody mess, large amounts of shredded flesh fell from the sky.
The white contrail also began to turn red.
He roared in pain and anger, but perhaps realizing his own ability, Tao Bai Bai no longer gave him any response, thus preventing him from activating his Cognitive Demon ability.
At the same time, since he couldn't observe Tao Bai Bai's Mental Body at that moment, he also couldn't use his Manipulator ability to find Tao Bai Bai's Mental weaknesses.
He had never imagined that his undefeated combination of abilities, which had allowed him to dominate various mission worlds for so long, would be broken by this Tao Bai Bai in such an unreasonable manner.
It was as if he had created a self-consistent and powerful cycle of rules, only for the other party to kick over the table and declare, 'To hell with your rules, my fists are the only rules.'
This kind of power overriding rules usually only occurred when there was a fundamental difference in power levels between Reincarnators.
But he was already a Reincarnator at the peak of the third tier, so how could Tao Bai Bai crush him?!
He couldn't understand it, absolutely couldn't understand it.
The Sage's furious roar now was more because he knew Tao Bai Bai couldn't kill him!
"Cognitive Demon (Native Demon, Higher Demon, Hell-spawn): A special powerful demon cultivated by a higher existence. It modifies cognition, devours cognition, and parasitizes cognition. All beings whose cognition is influenced by you will sign a contract with you. At the same time, you must regularly supply a large amount of distorted cognition as food, otherwise you will also be devoured by the Cognitive Demon."
The Sage had long followed that Crowned One, and upon entering this world, he had conducted widespread cognitive intervention, distorting the concept of heroes and successfully introducing "Professional Heroes."
And by leveraging Saitama's defeat of the God, that Crowned One distorted the future, ending the birth of monsters in this world, thereby completely twisting the necessity of the concept of "Hero."
Ultimately, this world, centered around "Heroes," gradually saw the concept of "Hero" lost.
This was the Sage's proudest work, and because of it, he acted quite unrestrainedly in this world.
Because he knew very well that even a monster like Tatsumaki wouldn't find it easy to kill him. No, to be arrogant, even Saitama, whether he could kill him was an unknown.
His life was already completely linked to the lives of hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more people in this world.
The Sage's expression was distorted as his flesh was constantly being abraded and torn. He could no longer maintain that calm demeanor, leisurely sipping tea while watching Tatsumaki and the "???" brutally destroy a city in an instant.
"If it's you, you must have already thought of it!"
"All the ordinary people in this world who are influenced by the cognition of 'Professional Heroes' are my contractors!"
"To kill me means to kill all of them first!"
Pfft!
His mandible, along with a large chunk of flesh, was abraded away. In extreme pain, blood and flesh flew everywhere. Although the Sage, due to the existence of the Cognitive Demon, was in a sense immortal, his ability could not exempt him from the pain of death.
This was the fundamental reason he had always used "Virtual Personalities" to manipulate others into impersonating him in combat; he didn't want to experience the pain of death.
The Cognitive Demon is a higher-level demon that touches the conceptual and causal planes, a high-tier power that ordinary Reincarnators could never access until their deaths.
By distorting cognition, making the opponent mistakenly believe that one can decide life and death with a single word, as long as the opponent accepts this concept, then one can decide the opponent's life and death with a single word;
By distorting causality, by inverting the concepts of "cause" and "effect" in conventional cognition, one can achieve an attack form of "reversing effect for cause." When punching with the premise of hitting the target, regardless of the opponent's evasion ability or defensive power, the "effect" of the opponent being hit will first be generated, and then a reasonable "cause" will be produced.
"In this world... I am invincible... Ugh!"
Pfft!
As his head and upper body exploded, another corpse fell. Bai Cangshu was currently under 128 times acceleration from Sevenfold Instant, a speed that would normally be unbearable for his body.
However, with his Transcendent Helix talent activated, Bai Cangshu's understanding of his body was extraordinary. Even the raging, almost uncontrollable Killing Intent Ripple at LV5 was tamed in his palm.
Bai Cangshu was in the sky, sensing the surrounding auras. This place was far from the uncomfortable dark power of the "???." He was in the process of killing the Sage, searching for the true treasure of this world—the Limiter!
More precisely, Bai Cangshu was preparing to comprehend more powerful strength in this state, and killing the Sage was merely a diversion in this process.
After all, so many Reincarnators had died, yet Bai Cangshu hadn't gotten many scarlet drop cards. Although there was a promise from Luo Xi that he should receive a good return for causing so many casualties to the Chaos Sage's side,
Bai Cangshu possessed a greed that far exceeded common sense for everything.
The Sage must die~
The Sage had just used the Cognitive Demon's contract to distort his own death cognition, replacing it with the outcome of someone else dying in his stead, but before he could even see his surroundings,
A large hand once again pressed down on his head. The Sage's heart was startled, and from the corner of his eye, he saw that the tips of the other party's dark hair seemed to be turning white.
A glimmer of hope suddenly rose in his heart.
This state of his opponent has a time limit?!
Perhaps I...
Pop!
The speed increased again, and the sharply contracting sonic boom cloud overlapped in front of the two. Bai Cangshu, expressionless, pressed the Sage's head and slammed it into the cloud.
Dragon scales, skull, brain matter, blood—all sorts of things erupted simultaneously in the air.
The Sage's Mental state was strained by the terrifying pain of death. He barely had time to use his abilities to soothe his nerves before being resurrected again by distorted cognition.
"Damn it, do you want to kill everyone, Tao Bai Bai?!"
"Are you going to kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people?!"
A thought suddenly occurred to the Sage. Precisely because this conjecture was so absurd, he initially didn't believe anyone would do it.
But if someone truly did so at the cost of killing hundreds of thousands or even millions of people... then he would die...
The concept of "death" once it appears, triggers immense fear, a fear of the cessation of one's own "existence" that should be present in any intelligent being.
"Do you really know what the consequences of that would be!"
Bai Cangshu lowered his head, his eyes showing surprise and curiosity.
"Didn't you say these people were just NPCs, not real people at all..."
"You're not one of those idiots from Azure Sky, are you? Heh, good, neither am I."
In his faintly glowing eyes, there was no cruelty in his smile, but it made Sage Yu Huaxin even more terrified.
Most Reincarnators, when speaking of plot characters in mission worlds as NPCs, often have a condescending attitude, a clear proof that they believe their existence is nobler than those plot characters.
But this Tao Bai Bai, his eyes held only indifference.
As if to him, that was just how things were supposed to be.
Or more extremely, he didn't consider anyone else besides himself to be his own kind...
Suddenly, Bai Cangshu's gaze shifted, looking down. In a city below, two magnificent fist intents intertwined, and terrifying power erupted inch by inch.
A terrifying impact erupted thousands of meters below, then shattered the entire atmosphere.
Bai Cangshu's figure moved like a nimble snake, instantly appearing behind the Sage, using the opponent's dragon-scaled body as a shield in front of him. At the same time, his body completely relaxed, and Six Styles: Paper Arts unfolded instinctively.
Explosive Spirit Sky-Rending Fist!
The explosive fist intent blasted upwards from the ground, and the Sage's body instantly exploded like rotten meat.