196: Chapter 196 Swallowing Nails

The surface of the umbrella rotated slowly.

That line of white characters hovered above the flower stamen.

"Found you."

The next second.

The light across the entire Inverted Chessboard dimmed by a layer.

The Venerable Xuan's Seat stopped moving.

The Venerable Ming's Seat also stopped moving.

Behind The Name Writer's Seat, that half-section of gray-light wrist even retracted by half an inch.

Li Yan felt his scalp tighten as he watched.

"Is this guy that big of a deal?"

Zero Seven's voice was dry.

"It's not about being a big deal."

"It's suppression of status."

First Lamp Woman stared fixedly at that white umbrella, her expression changing for the first time.

"Jiang Feng."

"Don't let the umbrella open completely."

Jiang Feng looked at the white-clad figure within the black jade afterimage.

"What happens if it opens?"

First Lamp Woman said, "The first layer of the flower stamen will be cut away."

Li Yan was stunned.

"Cut away?"

Zhang Changlin's voice was heavy.

"People and land alike, all deleted."

White-Clad Garden Keeper did not truly step out.

He simply stood deep within the shadow of death, holding the umbrella.

But the tip of the umbrella had already pierced through the black jade fragments, pointing toward the flower stamen.

Click.

A white mark cracked open on the golden flower stamen.

The System prompt popped up instantly.

[Warning: Projection of the Garden Keeper from outside the flower stamen locked on.]

[Detected: White Umbrella Garden Clearing Authority.]

[Function: Clear abnormal invasive species, abnormal growth bodies, and abnormal name-guarding Systems within the flower stamen.]

[Targets: Jiang Feng, Blue Star Home Lamp, Liu Cuilan Ninth Lamp sample, Original Jiang Feng soul seed.]

Over at Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Liu Cuilan exploded.

"He wants to clear me too?"

Jiang Jianguo picked up the ruyi heaven-breaking staff, his face darkening.

"Where is he?"

"I'm going over there to snap his umbrella."

Li Yan immediately chimed in.

"Uncle, count me in."

Dragon Girl held her lunchbox and added very seriously,

"You can't put food on an umbrella."

"It's useless."

Jiang Feng raised his hand, pressing against the crack in the flower stamen.

The white mark tried to burrow into his palm.

The next second.

Colorless divine light pressed down.

[Contact: Outer edge of the White Umbrella Garden Clearing Authority.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng said, "Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Zero-er triggered simultaneously.]

[Clearance judgment erased.]

[Invasive species marker erased.]

[Plundering the outer edge of the White Umbrella Garden Clearing Authority.]

Boom!

The white mark above the flower stamen was forcibly torn off by Jiang Feng.

Like tearing off a parking ticket.

[Gained All Attributes: 3.4 asankhyeya.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 26.06 asankhyeya.]

White-Clad Garden Keeper's umbrella paused.

A cold voice came from beneath the umbrella.

"Things within the flower stamen should not touch the garden rules."

Jiang Feng looked at him.

"You have quite a lot of rules."

He tightened his fingers.

"Continue."

[Plundering the second layer of the White Umbrella Garden Clearing Authority.]

[Stripping the abnormal clearance list from outside the flower stamen.]

[List target: Jiang Feng.]

[List target: Blue Star.]

[List target: Liu Cuilan.]

[List target: Original Jiang Feng.]

[All erased.]

[Gained All Attributes: 4.1 asankhyeya.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 30.16 asankhyeya.]

The outer circle of the Inverted Chessboard was deathly silent.

Behind the Venerable Xuan's Seat, the mysterious light stirred slightly.

"He is devouring the garden rules from outside the flower stamen."

Venerable Ming's voice was low.

"This kid really isn't picky."

Li Yan clapped his hands.

"Even at a funeral feast, no one eats as fast as him."

Dragon Girl corrected him very seriously.

"Master is picky."

"He only eats bad things."

Original Jiang Feng's soul seed lit up within the jade fragments.

His voice was somewhat low.

"That umbrella is the thing that killed you back then."

Jiang Feng said, "I could tell."

Original Jiang Feng was silent for a breath.

"It killed me too."

Jiang Feng looked down at him.

"So you should be looking for it."

Original Jiang Feng said, "I don't have a body right now."

Jiang Feng said, "After I finish dismantling it, I'll find you one."

Original Jiang Feng: "..."

Li Yan stroked his chin.

"Does this count as after-sales service?"

Zhang Changlin said, "It counts as witness protection."

White-Clad Garden Keeper finally raised the umbrella.

The ribs of the umbrella opened one by one.

Hanging from every rib of the umbrella was a fragment of a world.

In some fragments, cities were folded like paper.

In some fragments, gods knelt outside the flower fields.

In other fragments, children were erased by white light before they were even born.

Zero Seven's face turned pale.

"Those are the worlds that were cleared from the garden."

"They didn't lose in battle."

"They were simply judged as not supposed to exist."

White-Clad Garden Keeper spoke.

"There is order outside the flower stamen."

"One must not cross the boundary within the flower stamen."

"Jiang Feng, you escaped from death into the flower stamen."

"You have committed the first garden prohibition."

The tip of the umbrella descended.

A white chess spike shot out from the Void Realm, heading straight for Jiang Feng's chest.

First Lamp Woman shouted urgently, "Dodge!"

"That's the spike that nailed you to death back then!"

Jiang Feng didn't dodge.

He raised his hand, catching the white spike between two fingers.

Click.

The white spike stopped three inches in front of his chest.

The System prompt exploded.

[Contact: White Chess Spike from outside the flower stamen.]

[Function: Spike and kill fugitives from outside the flower stamen, fix death Karma, prohibit re-entry into the game.]

[Residual record: One of the main causes of the host's death before Transmigration.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng's gaze grew colder.

"So it was you."

The white spike vibrated violently.

White-Clad Garden Keeper said, "Let go."

Jiang Feng said, "Your words don't carry as much weight as my mother's."

Liu Cuilan immediately followed up.

"Xiao Feng, don't let go."

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Mm."

He closed his five fingers.

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Divine Right: Self-Suppression activated.]

[Self-Sustaining Origin activated.]

[Zero-er triggered.]

[Death fixed Karma erased.]

[Re-entry prohibition erased.]

[Plundering the White Chess Spike from outside the flower stamen.]

Boom!

The white spike shattered into powder.

The powder did not disperse; it was all absorbed into Jiang Feng's palm.

[Gained All Attributes: 5.6 asankhyeya.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 35.76 asankhyeya.]

[Gained Special Authority Fragment: Reverse Death Re-entry.]

[Effect: External death Karma, game-sealing spikes, and entry bans cannot forcibly judge the host as dead or unable to enter the game.]

Huaxia Command Center.

The technician's throat was almost raw from shouting.

"Commander!"

"A new resistance has appeared in the Name-Guarding System!"

Xiao Zhenjiang stared at the screen.

"Report."

"Death Archive Countermeasure!"

"From now on, if a Blue Star professional is judged by external rules as 'dead and cannot be resurrected,' the new Awakening Array will automatically compete for the right of local judgment once!"

Li Yan's eyes lit up.

"Resurrection armor?"

Zero Seven corrected him, "It's not resurrection armor."

"It's preventing others from signing your death certificate for you."

Li Yan nodded.

"Got it."

"Before the King of Hell stamps it, it has to go through the Huaxia window."

Dragon Girl asked quietly, "Does the window have meal subsidies?"

Li Yan glanced at her.

"You really are thinking about food."

On the Inverted Chessboard.

A fine crack appeared on the surface of White-Clad Garden Keeper's umbrella.

For the first time.

There was a pause in his voice.

"You swallowed the white spike."

Jiang Feng looked at him.

"Any more?"

White-Clad Garden Keeper did not answer.

He opened the umbrella completely.

Beneath the umbrella, it was no longer darkness.

It was a garden gate.

There was no name on the gate.

Only a line of white engraved characters.

[Forbidden Garden Outside the flower stamen.]

Footsteps came from behind the garden gate.

One step.

Two steps.

Each step caused the flower stamen to collapse by an inch.

First Lamp Woman's face turned pale.

"He is going to open the garden gate."

"Jiang Feng, you cannot let the gate connect to the flower stamen!"

Jiang Feng asked, "Can I plunder it?"

The System prompt popped up immediately.

[Detected: Gate Shadow of the Forbidden Garden Outside the flower stamen.]

[Function: Connects to the garden-keeping grounds outside the flower stamen layer, deploys clearers.]

[Status: Core flower stamen external System.]

[Current State: Gate Shadow, not the main body.]

[Partially plunderable.]