While focusing on Zhu Shi's battlefield, I held Mazao close, constantly evading and defending against the attacks of Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, and frequently launched counterattacks.

Compared to the opponent's overly gigantic body, attacks emphasizing density could not cause damage over a sufficient area, while those emphasizing scale lacked depth. The super-speed regeneration ability supported by Naraku Gospel would restore the accumulated damage inflicted with difficulty back to its original state. Tear, repair, tear, repair... Without this powerful regeneration power, Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs would have been riddled with holes a long time ago. The tug-of-war of contradictions cycled countless times, and victory was still far away.

After Mazao's power increased to the Great Impermanence Domain, she gently patted my arm.

"Zhuang Cheng... leave this enemy to me," she said.

It sounded as if she wanted to resolve the Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs with her own strength.

I decided to trust her and slowly released my grip. She took a deep breath, her body moved, and she disappeared from her original position.

In a flash, she had transferred to the sky above Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, then lowered her head to look at the enormous twisted monster of flesh.

Realizing the presence of a new enemy, Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs let out a thunderous roar, its whole body cracking open, extending countless terrifying bloody arms, entwined with yellow-black mana that seemed capable of corroding everything, reaching straight for Mazao.

Upon seeing this horrifying scene, Mazao's expression remained unshaken, her body motionless, merely overseeing everything. An invisible wave spread outward from her as the center, and those terrifying arms, as they were about to touch Mazao, simultaneously stopped as if encountering great resistance.

The Power of Return at the Great Impermanence Level deeply influenced those arms, causing them to be uncontrollable, unable to advance even an inch, and even tending to retract.

Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs seemed to be enraged, its mountain-sized body soared upward, attempting to pounce on Mazao. Yet, the Power of Return surged out like an unbreakable wall, continuously pushing Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs back.

"Teacher... I can't forgive you."

Staring steadily at Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, Mazao whispered, "You once brought me endless pain and trials, forcing me by various means to kill those who merely sought to survive, deceiving me time and again into committing irreversible crimes without knowing, and cruelly revealing it before me... To test the extent of the planet's natural consciousness's focus on me, you deliberately prompted me to meet new partners, then crafted scenarios where we were all plunged into despair repeatedly...

"However, those sins were all committed by my own hands. Whether it's the people I killed myself or the sins accumulated personally... Even the deaths of past partners were caused by our acquaintance. I won't blame all those misfortunes on you, nor will I escape my past. I will use my actions to compensate for the countless unforgivable mistakes I made in the past. Despite this, teacher, I still can't forgive you.

"But you also taught me personally how to survive in this world, how to discern lies from truth, how to overcome fear with courage, and even taught me what is good and evil... I often can't understand what exactly you're thinking, but if you simply considered me as an insignificant experiment instead of allowing me to form this value system, perhaps I wouldn't have betrayed you later...

"At least there's one thing I'm very clear about. Without you, there wouldn't be the me of today... So I both hate you and thank you immensely."

Upon acquiring the Power of Great Impermanence, Mazao seemingly recovered all her memories from the Evangelical Institute period.

Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs appeared unable to comprehend what Mazao was saying; it merely twisted its horrifying monster body forcefully, attempting to attack the opponent tooth and claw, completely failing to recognize that the girl across was its former direct disciple who it nurtured.

Mazao's silhouette vanished again, and immediately her shadow appeared at the "mountain peak" of Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, her palm pressed against the enormous creature's body.

"——Let me liberate you, teacher." She whispered.

An invisible Power of Return suddenly erupted from her palm, spreading away into endless far reaches. The first to bear the brunt was Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, which experienced the most severe impact. Previously, its body was torn multiple times by my flames and repaired by the super-speed regeneration power, but at this moment, under the effect of the Power of Return, those previously vanished old wounds returned and exploded simultaneously.

Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs immediately became riddled with scars, letting out extremely painful howls. The super-speed regeneration ability that previously worked every time failed to operate again, and massive amounts of blood plasma and body fluid poured uncontrollably from the wounds.

It was rushing towards the abyss of death.

Naraku Gospel seemed to have abandoned it, no longer repairing its body.

This statement might not be entirely accurate. Perhaps Naraku Gospel was still attempting to repair its body, but there might be a priority issue within. The power Mazao was using now was also from Naraku Gospel.

As a monster combining its own soul with the post-mortem world, Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs likely also inherited Naraku Gospel's chaotic urge to kill all humans once Naraku Gospel took over the post-mortem world. That frantic attitude of killing me and Mazao at all costs was identical to those Doomsday Demons. The power it was using now probably existed to kill all humans.

On the other hand, Mazao was wielding the Power of Salvation from Naraku Gospel, which aimed to rectify all errors in the New World and to settle all the strange powers and demon hunters.

The power of Naraku Gospel is both on sides; it shouldn't cause conflict. Moreover, those using their power are mighty demon hunters symbolizing the world's errors; perhaps Naraku Gospel Power itself should never have descended upon these two people. However, Naraku Gospel does not possess the high integration like human souls; its existence is inherently chaotic, making such self-contradiction and division phenomena quite normal.

As for the matters of "restoring the world" and "extincting humanity," it's obvious where Naraku Gospel leans more. The latter, to Naraku Gospel, is merely a means to achieve the former. Meanwhile, as for specific executors, Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs is likely just one of the many tools for humanity's extinction in Naraku Gospel's view, incomparable to the uniqueness of Mazao.

Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, this twisted and grotesque flesh monster, perhaps should have collapsed and died long ago; the numerous decaying necrotic parts of its body seem to suggest this, but it maintains its survival by relying on super-speed regeneration ability. Now encountering the Power of Return which can cancel the super-speed regeneration state, its body seems to have entered an irreversible collapse process.

No... this is far more than just canceling the super-speed regeneration state.

Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs is still trying to use its yellow-black mana to maintain and repair its decaying body, but upon encountering the invisible Power of Return, the yellow-black mana dissolves and disappears instantly like a foul object meeting fresh water.

In the past, Mazao has used her Power of Return to nullify the supernatural powers displayed by enemies. But now, it's completely different; the power of the strange seems to be negated in its very existence, vanishing from this world.

The massive flesh monster continuously struggles, seemingly trying to throw Mazao off its back, while Mazao remains unchanged, pressing her palm against the monster's body.

She slowly recites ancient scriptures.

"All action skills are like dreams and illusions, like dewdrops or lightning, thus should one observe—"

The intensity of the Power of Return rises another major step; this time, not only does the collapse of Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs accelerate, but even the space-time in this area gradually repairs. The surrounding space-time storm is weakened and disturbed, even torn apart by the Power of Return, revealing faint cracks.

The space-time storm, too, is a kind of power of the strange, a target of the Power of Return's reckoning.

The Power of Salvation, manifests here.

And one of the cracks torn open leads directly to the battlefield of Ming Zhuo and Jian Feixian.

"Zhuang Cheng, go!" Mazao shouted.

I rushed into the crack without hesitation.

Ming Zhuo was intensely focused on the changes here, and upon observing the space-time storm being torn, he showed a nasty expression.

"Damn...!"

He raised his hand as if intending to repair the crack that appeared in the distance.

Jian Feixian seized the moment of his distraction and sent a Sword Qi to slash off his head.

Fortune's wheel turns; last time, Ming Zhuo acted to prevent Jian Feixian from slicing open the space-time storm, this time, Jian Feixian acted to prevent Ming Zhuo from repairing the space-time storm.

Although this sword can't truly kill Ming Zhuo, it is enough to halt his current action. Seizing this great opportunity, I instantly passed through the crack of the space-time storm, arriving at the space-time layer where these two people were.

Ming Zhuo, too, revived instantly on the spot. Before he could utter a word, I fired a Flame Light Cannon toward him, while he immediately manipulated the space-time storm again, astonishingly using it as a defensive means to envelop himself.

The space-time storm once more partitioned space-time, turning the place where Ming Zhuo and I stand into two layers unable to interfere with each other; the Flame Light Cannon pierced through him like passing through Mirror Flowers and Water Moon.

But before Ming Zhuo could breathe a sigh of relief, a part of my flame penetrated the space-time barrier, creating a through-hole in his chest.

This region is filled with Mazao's Power of Salvation and Return; the partitions formed by the space-time storm begin to show numerous flaws.

Ming Zhuo immediately fell into severe injury, retreating in haste while smashing his own head, reviving at the spot wholly.

"Jian Feixian, you should go to Fa Zheng first." I said, "I'll take care of killing Ming Zhuo."