150: Ghost-Faced Girl, Mark of Reincarnation

When the ancient voice of the Tower Spirit announced that the record of the "Youth Battle Emperor" had been broken, the entire area outside the guixu pagoda had already fallen into a pilgrimage-like, absolute silence.

Surpassing the War Emperor!

This youth, with an undeniable, crushing posture, carved his name onto the historical peak of this ancient trial tower!

He was already... the first of all time!

However, before everyone could recover from the shock that was enough to overturn their entire worldview...

The ancient voice of the Tower Spirit once again sounded, devoid of any emotion, dragging them into a deeper, unknown mist.

"Hidden Trial, Final Stage—"

"Ninth Floor, activated."

...Inside the tower, the pure white space.

Lin Tian calmly watched the slowly dissipating "Youth Battle Emperor" phantom opposite him, the trace of excitement and Battle Intent that had just ignited in his pure golden eyes gradually subsiding.

"A good opponent," he commented indifferently.

Just then, the scene before his eyes changed again.

The pure white space, like a faded scroll, slowly disappeared. In its place was an endless... dark Void Realm that seemed to swallow even light.

In the center of this Void Realm, was an ancient, long river, paved with countless shattered, shimmering "time fragments," leading to an unknown end.

And at the end of this long river, from within a dense mist that seemed capable of devouring all Souls, a petite figure slowly emerged.

It was a... girl.

A mysterious girl who looked a few years younger than Lin Tian, dressed in a tattered, seemingly burnt-out black long dress.

On her face, she wore an ancient, expressionless bronze Ghost-Faced Mask, upon which were carved mysterious runes like tear stains, filled with ominousness and the aura of Reincarnation.

Her aura was not particularly powerful, not even comparable to the "Youth Battle Emperor" from before.

But, the moment he saw her, Lin Tian's god-like state of mind, which had long been as still as an ancient well, for the first time, uncontrollably stirred up monstrous waves!

Danger!

An unprecedented, deadly sense of absolute danger, emanating from the deepest part of his Soul!

It was as if he was facing not a living being, but an even more ancient, more Advanced, more unnamable... "natural enemy"!

Even more bizarrely, besides the sense of danger, he also felt a trace of... inexplicable familiarity from beneath that bronze Ghost-Faced Mask, as if it had spanned countless ages of Reincarnation.

"Who are you?" Lin Tian asked for the first time, his voice extremely solemn.

The Ghost-Faced Girl did not answer.

She merely tilted her head, as if curiously observing the "stranger" before her.

Then, she moved.

She simply pointed a single finger at Lin Tian.

That finger did not stir any energy, nor did it contain any Law.

But Lin Tian felt as if he had been completely locked down by the "past" of the entire Universe!

Without thinking, he pushed the Pangu Opens Heaven Fist to its limit, and a golden fist-print, powerful enough to cleave heaven and earth, slammed out fiercely!

However, what happened next completely subverted his understanding!

His terrifying fist-print, which was powerful enough to directly defeat the "Youth Battle Emperor," at the moment it was about to strike the Ghost-Faced Girl, strangely and uncontrollably "rewound" along its original trajectory, frame by frame, at high speed, like a video on "rewind"!

Finally, it retreated back into his fist, as if... he had never thrown that punch!

Time... reset?!

Lin Tian's pure golden eyes instantly contracted to the size of a needlepoint!

He refused to believe it; Dimensional Slash, Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon... various terrifying killing moves that could make even demigods change color, were unleashed by him without reservation, in a frenzy!

But the result was the same!

No matter how powerful or bizarre his attacks were, as soon as they approached within three feet of the Ghost-Faced Girl, they would be as if caught in a quagmire called "past," forcibly "reset" to their pre-attack state by an irresistible, utterly unreasonable, bizarre Law!

He was caught in an unprecedented... bitter struggle!

An absolute bitter struggle where no matter how he attacked, he could not harm the enemy in the slightest!

Just as Lin Tian's mind was reeling, trying to analyze this bizarre "Time Law."

The Ghost-Faced Girl suddenly stopped her attack.

She tilted her head again, and from beneath the cold bronze Ghost-Faced Mask, a girl's voice, like a silver bell, filled with innocence, confusion, and a hint of faint sadness, emerged.

"Brother..."

"...Don't you recognize me anymore?"

Brother?!

Lin Tian's whole body trembled, and in his mind, it was as if billions of thunderbolts exploded!

"Have you forgotten... the promise of the 'Other Shore Flower'?"

Other Shore Flower?!

This word, like the most ancient key, instantly triggered a forbidden memory, sealed for billions of years, in the deepest part of his Soul!

Before he could recover from this extreme shock...

The Ghost-Faced Girl seemed to feel a hint of "unhappiness" because of his "forgetfulness."

She pointed a finger again!

This time, it was no longer a simple "reset," but a more Advanced, more "final"... "Reincarnation"!

Lin Tian felt that the space-time around him was completely chaotic in that instant! He seemed to see his past, present, and future forcibly twisted into a closed loop by this one finger! He was about to fall into an endless... time Reincarnation, trapped in "this second"!

"Interesting..."

At the brink of life and death, Lin Tian's face showed no fear at all; instead, a smile full of madness and excitement appeared!

"Finally... it's no longer just a simple clash of power!"

"Since conventional attacks are ineffective, then..."

With a thought, he no longer held back!

He completely revealed the true, strongest... ultimate trump card he had obtained after his seclusion!

"—Then let's use 'Rules' to counter 'Rules'!

Boom—!!!"

Within him, the ancestral dragon gene core, which had already completely merged with him, was fully activated at this moment!

A terrifying aura, a Fusion of primeval savagery and future technology, filled with supreme majesty and absolute power, erupted from his body!

A full-body biological armor: azure dragon, composed of countless dark golden Dragon scale-like particles, full of streamlined beauty and explosive power, instantly emerged, extended, and combined from his body!

Helmet, breastplate, armguards, battle boots... In just one second, Lin Tian's figure was completely enveloped by this incredibly cool, dark golden Dragon God Battle Armor, like a second skin!

biological armor: azure dragon!

—Equip!

With the completion of the armor, Lin Tian's aura surged wildly again on top of its original foundation! A pure domineering power, belonging to "Dragon" and "Strength," capable of rivaling that bizarre "Reincarnation" Law, descended with a roar!

He raised his head, his electronic eyes, glowing crimson beneath the Dragon-shaped helmet, locked onto the Ghost-Faced Girl opposite him.

"Now..."

"...it's my turn."