"Here again?"
Upon hearing Yin Guo's warning, Ye Ling's pupils contracted. He immediately looked at the giant he had decomposed into text using Mo Zhi Jian and discovered that while the giant's body was still there, the text forming the giant had undergone significant changes.
Seeing the text in Mo Zhi Jian change, a flash of inspiration struck Ye Ling's mind.
"I understand!"
Ye Ling exclaimed, and then the giant wielding a massive axe appeared behind him, bringing the axe down.
The giant, which should have lost its body, became whole again at this moment.
Because Ye Ling was prepared, he narrowly avoided the giant's sneak attack and created distance between himself and the giant.
Concurrently, the giant's husk, which had been decomposed into text by Mo Zhi Jian, slowly vanished.
After hearing Ye Ling, Yin Guo asked, "Master, what do you understand?"
Ye Ling replied, "Just now, I decomposed that giant with Mo Zhi Jian and glimpsed some of its information. However, after the bell rang, all the text decomposed from the giant turned out to be false..."
"Turned out to be false?" Yin Guo was stunned. "How come I didn't understand?"
Ye Ling explained, "Simply put, the giant fighting us was originally real. But after we captured him, he would become a false existence, and then his true form would appear elsewhere to attack us again!"
"That guy... likely possesses the ability to freely switch between reality and falsehood. This is also the fundamental reason why my future prediction ability, and what I see and hear, are showing errors. He can turn what truly happened into falsehood, and turn imagined scenarios that never occurred into reality!"
Yin Guo: "Freely switching between reality and falsehood... How should we deal with him? Master, can you do it with Customize Future?"
Ye Ling: "Theoretically, Customize Future can deal with him, but this is not the Primal Chaos. Using Customize Future consumes too much energy. Even if you and I join forces, we might not be able to perfectly unleash its power. Therefore, unless it's absolutely necessary, it's best not to use that move."
Yin Guo: "Then, besides Customize Future, do we have any other ways to deal with him? Even if we capture him, he can turn from real to false. We are completely helpless against him."
Ye Ling: "Actually, according to my estimation, his ability is indeed unsolvable. Mo Zhi Jian is already considered one of my strongest killing moves, yet it still can't do anything to him."
Yin Guo: "Master, then we are finished! Customize Future consumes too much energy, and Absolute Divine Speed is currently with the Primal Chaos King. We can't even escape now!"
Ye Ling: "Don't be so pessimistic. Look at the giant again. His axe is almost shattered, and his body has many wounds. This indicates that even if he can freely switch between reality and falsehood, he cannot completely negate the damage he sustains. As long as we continuously heavily injure him, we will definitely be able to defeat him!"
With that, Ye Ling's attacks were no longer hesitant. He immediately charged towards the giant wielding the massive axe!
A black shadow flashed by. Ye Ling, holding a rune longsword, directly bisected the giant at the waist before the giant could react!
However, after the giant was cut in half, he vanished once more.
Yin Guo sensed the crisis approaching again and immediately said, "Master, to your right!"
"Got it!"
Although Ye Ling sensed a crisis approaching from his left, he completely ignored his own senses at this moment and immediately swung his sword towards his right!
The axe-wielding giant appeared to Ye Ling's right as expected, and at this moment, there was still an unhealed sword mark on his waist.
Ye Ling's preemptive strike with his sword completely caught the giant off guard. The giant couldn't dodge in time, and his throat was severed by the sword energy Ye Ling unleashed!
The next moment, the axe-wielding giant vanished again.
"Master, this time it's above you!"
"Got it!"
...
In this manner, with Yin Guo's help, Ye Ling tirelessly battered the axe-wielding giant. As Ye Ling inflicted more and more heavy injuries on the giant, the giant's strength grew weaker and weaker.
Initially, Ye Ling needed Yin Guo's help to distinguish the real danger. Later... Ye Ling didn't even need help; he could distinguish between reality and falsehood on his own.
The axe-wielding giant no longer posed a threat to Ye Ling.
"It's about time... This fellow is so weak that he can no longer continue switching between reality and falsehood," Ye Ling said calmly, once again chopping off the giant's head in front of him.
He could no longer remember how many tens of thousands of times he had severed the giant's head.
In the prolonged battle, Ye Ling had already secured victory.
Bang!
After Ye Ling decapitated the giant this time, the heavily wounded giant did not vanish. Instead, he fell heavily onto the ground.
Ye Ling once again used Mo Zhi Jian to decompose the giant's corpse into text and examine the giant's attributes.
Yin Guo also yawned and said, "Finally, it's over. If it continued any longer, my perception of danger would have become numb!"
Although Yin Guo hadn't made any moves in this battle, his spirit had been constantly tense, and his senses were always in danger, with no moment of relaxation!
If the battle had lasted any longer, Yin Guo felt that the string that had been constantly taut within him would have snapped!
"You've worked hard this time. You can rest for a bit. I'll handle things here. There's still a fierce battle ahead."
"Right! I almost forgot, there's still the Primal Chaos King lurking outside! No, I need to catch a quick nap. I really can't hold on any longer!"
Yin Guo said quickly, then fell silent and quickly fell into a deep sleep to recover his energy.
Ye Ling, however, did not relax. While guarding his surroundings, he examined the text of the axe-wielding giant, trying to ascertain its origin.
"Huh? This axe-wielding giant seems to have no thoughts of its own. In its attributes, I couldn't find any information about the bell or the switching between reality and falsehood?"
As Ye Ling scanned the textual information decomposed by Mo Zhi Jian, the more he looked, the more he felt that this axe-wielding giant was merely a puppet of something else!
"If this guy is truly just a puppet..."
Sweat beaded on Ye Ling's forehead. He quickly scanned the textual information of the axe-wielding giant, trying to find information about the mastermind controlling the giant.
In the vast emptiness, the atmosphere, which had just relaxed, became oppressive again.
Yin Guo was still fast asleep. Ye Ling's gaze swept over the text decomposed from the axe-wielding giant. The surroundings were deathly quiet.
Suddenly, the sound of a bell echoed through the heavens and earth once more.
"Again?"
Hearing the bell sound again, Ye Ling felt his scalp tingle.
However, before Ye Ling could wake the sleeping Yin Guo, he saw the world around him undergo a massive change.
The terrain, which had been altered by the battle between him and the axe-wielding giant, was restored to its original state at this moment. The axe-wielding giant, killed by Ye Ling, also vanished before his eyes. Then, a giant, with its limbs chained by celestial chains, reappeared in the center of the land.
This place...
It was as if everything had been reset.
Ye Ling stood on the desolate land, looking at the unharmed giant, and felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head!
"That guy... is truly just a puppet!"