Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 135

Chapter 135 Despair Comes

Legend has it that in the underworld lies a millstone weighing as much as the heavens and earth. If a soul were placed within it, no matter how profound its cultivation, it would be crushed to dust. The Rebirth Millstone Array was based on this legend.

Jiang Li, guiding the siblings in their setup, naturally employed a low-profile version.

The area within the Rebirth Millstone Array seemed a world unto itself, utterly separate from the outside world. Gravity weighed ten times as heavy as the whales, making it difficult for them to even lift their wings.

Relentless ice spikes reappeared in the air, accelerated by the extraordinary force of gravity, reaching such incredible speed that the Yonggu District troops could only see a flash of white light from afar. The whale, nearly breaking free from the ice, was pinned to the ground by a new spike.

This time, the icicles were driven deeper! There was no way the whale could escape!

The insolent whale was like a fish on a chopping board, its tail flapping, unable to turn, and left to its prey.

The upper and lower formations rotated, crushing the whale with a suffocating, terrifying pressure, slowly turning it into dust.

A new formation appeared in the sky, evoked thunder and fire from heaven and earth. Its mighty power was far-reaching, and thunder descended like a volley of artillery, yet its power was even greater than that of artillery fire.

The fourth-tier zombies had thick skin and flesh, impervious to the army’s weapons. But the Yonggu District troops discovered that the flash of thunder and lightning had ripped the whale’s skin and flesh apart!

“Hoo-hoo!” Luo Ying panted. Even at the Foundation Establishment stage, his body was still exhausted, but his eyes shone with energy, and he looked energetic. “Finally

, the formation has been activated.” This was a killing formation designed to kill those at the Nascent Soul stage. While it primarily relied on the spiritual energy within the brain core, it also required cultivators to inject spiritual energy to activate it.

Even so, it nearly drained two cultivators in the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Luo Zhu, though weak, flushed with excitement, a rare flush. Although he didn’t experience the despair of the apocalypse as deeply as his brother, from his description, he could imagine the disaster these zombies would bring to humanity.

Now, the most threatening whale zombie is about to die, and the other threatening zombies have yet to mature. This zombie crisis is over. No more of the separation of families, the separation of families, the purchase of a woman’s virginity with a box of cookies and water, or people living only to wait for death, will happen again

. Being a hero admired by everyone in the apocalypse is wonderful, but in a peaceful era, who would want to live in an apocalypse without games, novels, comics, or TV series?

Even the laymen of the Yonggu District army can see that the whales are powerless against the formation.

Thunder splits the whales’ hides, gravity crushes their bones, and their brain cores are exposed to the air. Already, over a dozen whales have had their brain cores shattered, leaking spiritual energy and increasing the formation’s power.

When dealing with the zombie horde, they have to consider the brain cores, so they can only decapitate the zombies, thus undermining the full potential of the killing formation. And now, the three men have no intention of leaving any brain cores behind.

It is already extremely difficult to kill a whale in the formation. If it covets the brain core and reduces the power of the formation, it will be bad for the whale to escape.

Suddenly, a whale tore its flesh wings and broke free from the restraint of the ice cone. Its huge body was like a fish that accidentally jumped onto the shore. It fluttered and turned over, shaking the earth and cracking into a spider web.

Jiang Li frowned.

The whale rolled to its companion, but did not save it. Instead, it ate its brain core.

It ate a brain core, recovered some strength, rolled to the next companion, and continued to eat brain cores.

“Jiang, Mr. Jiang…” Luo Ying’s heart rose to his throat when he saw this scene, and Luo Zhu also looked at Jiang Li eagerly.

Now the formation is a dead end. Whoever enters will die. Even if the brother and sister try to stop it, they can’t stop the movement of a whale weighing nearly a thousand tons.

The only way to stop this whale was to dismantle the formation and personally destroy its brain core, leaving it without a core to consume. However, many resilient whales remained within the formation, and dismantling the formation would have immediately triggered a counterattack.

This whale was a true outlier, constantly devouring the brain cores of its companions.

The whales that lost their cores died, but no one present was happy.

The more brain cores it devoured, the greater its potential for evolution.

“The thunder is concentrated on this beast.”

The thunder bombarding the whale originated from the second formation—the Demon-Slaying Thunder Formation. It randomly rained thunder in a fixed area, and the siblings could increase the probability of it hitting this whale.

They expended all their spiritual energy to control the Demon-Slaying Thunder Formation.

Boom—

boom—

boom—

the thunder shifted its landing probability, so that roughly half of the thunder that would have hit other whales landed on this whale instead. For a moment, the whale was blindingly bright.

Despite the roar of thunder and the crushing weight of gravity, the whale continued to move. It even rolled over, exposing its belly to the thunder. This way, while the thunder threatened it, it could not immediately threaten its brain core.

It maneuvered its bulky body, continuing to devour its companions’ brain cores.

“Concentrate the thunder on the remaining zombies,” Jiang Li changed his orders. Since he couldn’t kill the whale directly, he would destroy the remaining brain cores.

This was a competition of speed: the thunder destroyed the brain cores faster, and the whale devoured them just as quickly.

“Huh—finally, all the brain cores have been shattered,”

Luo Zhu breathed a sigh of relief. She was about to offer a few words of congratulation to her brother, but she found him and Mr. Jiang frowning at the whale, which had just been so lively and now lay motionless.

“Woo—woo—

” the whale cried, its broken fleshy wings growing back at a visible rate, its body expanding.

It flapped its wings, letting the thunder fall. The formation could no longer hold it back. It fixed its sights on Luo Ying and Luo Zhu, brimming with rage.

The worst had happened.

“…Level five.” Luo Ying’s face was solemn.

No detectors were needed; Luo Ying was all too familiar with this aura. It was the power of the top-tier zombies from the previous life.

Instead of killing the whale zombie, they helped it evolve!

The whales were all about the same strength, leaving them without the opportunity to devour their companions’ brain cores. This time, the formation gave it that opportunity.

A level five zombie represented a force powerful enough to completely annihilate humanity. While there were level five zombies in the previous life, there were also level five enhancers among humans who could barely compete.

Now, Luo Ying and Luo Zhu are humanity’s strongest, yet only at the second level.

The gap is as vast as heaven!

Seeing the zombie flying towards Luo Ying, Luo Ying knew they were doomed this time.

“Mr. Jiang, do you think I still have a chance at rebirth?”

Jiang Li shook his head regretfully. “The energy from the fragments of the Immortal Ladder might not be enough to save you again.”

“Is that so?” Luo Ying wasn’t surprised by the answer. After all, the chance of rebirth is rare; how could one keep on reborn?

He looked at his sister with pity. It was a shame; he had finally saved her, only to find it was all in vain.

Luo Zhu, however, was content. Although her brother didn’t say it explicitly, her presence was never mentioned in his narration. The answer was self-evident: she had died at the beginning of her previous life.

Having lived an extra four months in this one, she was content.

“Don’t be too pessimistic.” Although he couldn’t touch Luo Ying, Jiang Li patted her shoulder.

“From today on, you have a new name: Shadow King Buddha.”

“Huh?”

(End of chapter)