162: Chapter 162 Fusion! A New Form! ?

This time.

All the gears on the Stand maintained the exact same rotation speed as the twelve clock markers on Qin Ye's waist.

Every time the soul gem on Qin Ye's chest flashed, a matching light would ignite inside the Stand's chest cavity.

The cracks on the Stand's arms began to heal.

It wasn't a repair.

Those damaged dark gold armors turned into Mental Power, flowing along the palms and into Qin Ye's body. Then, they were reconstructed through the soul gem on her chest, flowing back into the Stand.

The scars vanished.

Qin Ye opened her eyes.

Dark gold.

Her pupils were exactly the same as the Stand's!

"The mental wavelength is completely synchronized!"

Shen Ye gasped.

"The mental wavelength of the original body and the Stand have synchronized!"

Under normal circumstances, no matter how close the connection between the Stand and the original body, there would still be subtle differences.

The original body is the main soul.

The Stand is the mental manifestation.

One is responsible for thinking, the other for execution.

But now.

The difference was gone!

It was as if Qin Ye and the Stand were the same soul, possessing two separate bodies!

Li Qingyue stood up from her seat.

Her crimson eyes reflected the two overlapping figures of Qin Ye and the Stand.

"The Magical Girl grants the soul a stable shell."

"The Stand grants the spirit an independent body."

Her voice was very soft.

"After both are activated simultaneously, Qin Ye's original body also becomes part of the soul manifestation."

"What Stands on the arena now is no longer a Magic Card Master and her Stand."

"It is the same soul—"

"Manifested twice in reality."

A new line of data appeared on the main screen.

[Fusion form confirmed.]

[Dual soul manifestation.]

The comments exploded.

"Magical Girl Stand User?!"

"How the hell can these fuse?!"

"One person with two bodies?!"

"Does Su Bai not follow the basic rules of card crafting? Can different systems evolve by combining?!"

"A 91.7% correlation! These two systems were originally the same family!"

"Who said before that Magical Girl and Stand were two separate blueprints? Su Bai is playing with the underlying framework!"

"So the Stand can wear equipment after the Magical Girl transforms?!"

"The Stand isn't wearing any!"

"Look at its chest! It has a soul gem now!!"

On the arena.

Han Ce was not looking at the comments.

The triple-layered lenses before his eyes had pushed his processing speed to the limit.

Qin Ye's Mental Power had not increased.

It was still 500,000.

But the way Mental Power existed had changed.

Originally, all Mental Power was stored in Qin Ye's soul, and the Stand only accessed it.

Now.

500,000 Mental Power existed simultaneously in both Qin Ye and the Stand.

It wasn't split in two.

Instead, both sides displayed—500,000!

"Impossible!"

Han Ce refreshed the detection data repeatedly.

"Energy cannot increase for no reason! How can the same Mental Power appear at two different coordinates simultaneously?!"

Master Mage Chen Taixu looked up at Qin Ye.

For the first time, an emotion approaching vigilance appeared in those eyes that reflected the starry sky.

"It's not an increase."

"It's a projection."

He gripped his wooden sword.

"The same soul, casting a shadow at two locations simultaneously."

"Cutting off one side is meaningless."

"Unless both are cut at the same time."

The Titan Furnace engine inside Wei Xiaoyu remained at 90,000 RPM.

She gripped her battle axe and assumed a defensive stance.

That strike just now had indeed hit Qin Ye.

But the Qin Ye standing before her now—was no longer the same Qin Ye as before.

Click.

The gear-shaped soul gem on Qin Ye's chest rotated one notch.

A crisp sound spread across the arena.

Immediately after.

The twelve dark gold clock markers behind her expanded outward simultaneously.

One meter.

Ten meters.

One hundred meters!

The dark gold halo swept across the entire arena.

There was no impact.

No damage.

Not even any magical fluctuation.

But the moment the halo passed through his body, the Eye of Omniscience's secondary pupil before Han Ce suddenly lost all color.

Silver-white data.

Red warnings.

Blue mental networks.

All colors faded at the same time.

It wasn't just the lenses.

It was the entire world!

The sky turned gray-white.

The arena turned gray-white.

The audience Stands, the barrier, the commentator's platform, the VIP area—everything turned black and white!

The wind stopped in mid-air.

Sounds became distant and sluggish.

Between everyone's shadow and body, a misalignment of less than half a beat appeared.

On the arena floor.

A massive clock with a diameter of over a thousand meters slowly emerged.

The hour hand and minute hand extended outward from beneath Qin Ye's feet.

Countless gears rotated underground.

Click.

Click.

Click.

Every time it rotated.

The entire world would experience a subtle flicker.

"A Domain?!"

The Purple-Robed Chief slammed his hand onto the railing.

"That's not right! How can a Tier 2 card deploy a Law Domain?!"

"It's not a Domain."

Li Qingyue stared intensely at the arena.

She saw it.

In the black and white world, streaks of color began to appear.

The Eye of Omniscience before Han Ce extended a silver-white beam of light.

The light passed through the air.

Connecting to the brows of the other twenty-two contestants.

That was the mental network!

Between the defensive warriors, there were six thick, earth-yellow bands of light.

That was the damage sharing constructed by [Mountain Fortress] and [Earth Veins]!

Between the Summoner and the Three-Headed Scarlet Lion King, three crimson chains were connected.

That was the summoning contract!

Between the twelve spatial nails, silver-white Spatial Circuits extended.

Between main cards and sub-cards.

Between mages and spells.

Between supporters and the boosted.

Every kind of abstract connection that could originally only be barely touched through mental perception now appeared in reality.

Red.

Blue.

Gold.

Silver.

Countless beams of light were interwoven in the black and white world.

Connecting the twenty-three contestants into a giant spider web covering the arena!

Chief Commentator Lu Ming couldn't understand it.

The hundreds of thousands of audience members couldn't understand it.

But everyone could see it!

"What are those lines?!"

"Why are there lines connected between Han Ce and the others?!"

"Are the red chains on the summoned beast a contract?!"

"The card circuits have been directly manifested?!"

Wei Xiaoyu looked down.

Nine dark gold energy lines extended from the Titan Furnace inside her, connecting to the [Extreme Overload Protocol] card at the end of her battle axe.

Each one was thicker than an arm.

Energy flowed along the lines.

Visible to the naked eye!

The situation around Master Mage Chen Taixu was even more exaggerated.

Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Thunder, Wood, Light, Dark.

The eight elements transformed into eight massive veins covering the entire arena.

Countless tiny tributaries split from the main trunks, connecting to every speck of dust in the air.

This was the way they had captured Qin Ye just moments ago.

But now.

All of this was exposed before Qin Ye!

Qin Ye raised her right hand.

Her five fingers touched a silver-white beam of light extending from before Han Ce's eyes.

Her fingertips did not pass through.

She touched it!

Han Ce's expression changed instantly.

"Sever the mental network!"

His command was transmitted through the mental connection.

However, before the voice could enter the others' minds—the Stand had already appeared beside Qin Ye.

Qin Ye grabbed the silver-white light in reality.

The Stand's right hand, meanwhile, reached into the flickering time interlayer behind the light.

The original body and the Stand.

Each grasped one of the two projections of the same connection existing in reality and time!

Qin Ye looked down at her palm.

The silver-white light vibrated violently between her fingers.

She seemed a little surprised.