165: 1st!

But the Stand did not retreat.

Its left hand reached into the flickering time interlayer, grasping the same connection projected in the previous time frame.

The current connection.

The past connection.

Gripped by both hands at once!

The soul gem on Qin Ye's chest lit up.

The Magical Girl's soul stabilization ability operated at full capacity; the mental backlash that was sufficient to tear apart an ordinary person's consciousness was surprisingly dispersed quickly after entering the soul gem, and then re-imported into the black-and-white world through the dual manifestation circuit between the main body and the Stand.

One second.

No.

Not even a tenth of a second.

[The World] crossed its arms.

With a gentle pull.

Snap!

The dark blue light beam snapped.

The fist of the Vast Sea Giant that was swinging toward the top of Qin Ye's head suddenly stopped.

The ferocious look on the young man's face froze.

The magic power inside his body was still there.

The main card was not damaged either.

Even the mental imprint still existed.

But he could no longer transmit his power into the Vast Sea Giant.

The massive water element lost the support of will, and began to collapse from the top of the giant.

The thirty-meter-tall Vast Sea Giant disintegrated with a bang, turning into tens of thousands of tons of seawater crashing onto the arena.

The young man stood on the spot, dazed.

"My card..."

"Why is there no response?"

Qin Ye walked through the overwhelming seawater.

The black and gold boots stepped on the surface of the water, only stirring up a faint ripple.

She did not answer.

[The World] had already grasped the second crimson light beam.

The divine flame spear in the spear-wielding girl's hand was only three meters away from Qin Ye.

She gritted her teeth and forcibly poured in all her magic power.

"Pierce her for me!"

Snap!

The crimson light beam snapped in response.

The flames all over the sky instantly went out.

The spear still existed, but it lost all extraordinary power.

The girl didn't even have time to retract her force; holding an ordinary spear, she rushed past Qin Ye and crashed head-on into the user of the Vast Sea Giant.

The two of them rolled into a ball.

"There are five left."

Qin Ye took a step forward.

[The World] simultaneously extended both hands behind her.

Five fingers spread open.

Four light beams of different colors were grabbed into its palms at the same time!

The ice chains had already wrapped around Qin Ye's legs.

The gravity domain pressed down so hard that the arena cracked inch by inch.

The canopy of ten thousand arrows was less than ten meters away from the top of her head.

The black blade light almost pressed against her neck.

But Qin Ye had no intention of dodging at all.

[The World] clenched its fists.

Crack!

The four light beams snapped simultaneously!

The ice chains turned into ordinary ice blocks, the gravity domain disappeared out of thin air, and the golden arrows all over the sky lost their lock, colliding wildly above Qin Ye's head.

That black blade light was the most straightforward.

It directly made a turn and slashed onto its own people's shield.

Boom!

A violent explosion swept across the arena.

The seven players were blown upside down by their own attacks.

Their cards were all intact.

A few of them even still exuded the powerful aura of Tier 5 S-rank cards.

However, no matter how they urged their Mental Power, those cards seemed to have suddenly lost their souls and no longer responded at all.

"This is impossible!"

Someone shouted in panic:

"She cut off the main card!"

"Our mental imprints are clearly still there, why can't we control the cards?!"

Qin Ye did not explain.

She raised a finger.

[The World] appeared among the seven people, similarly raising a finger.

"Ora."

Bang!

A muffled sound came from the air.

The seven players were hit as if by a mountain flying towards them, their bodies leaving the ground at the same time, flying out of the arena in a neat straight line.

Seven strands of teleportation white light lit up one after another.

Eliminated!

From the moment the seven launched their siege to the moment they collectively flew out of the field, the entire process was not even a second.

The whole audience was dead silent.

The data screen in front of Shen Ye was still lingering on the expected value of mental backlash.

His finger hung in mid-air, failing to fall for a long time.

Main card.

That was a main card bound to the user's soul!

Qin Ye could actually dismantle it!

The disdain on Wei Tianlong's face disappeared.

He slowly turned his head to look at the VIP box where Su Bai was.

The Tier 2 Card Creator who had been ridiculed by him as a crooked path and thought by him to only make people pose in a comical posture was currently leaning on the sofa eating a lollipop.

His expression was as calm as if he had anticipated all of this long ago.

"How on earth does she withstand the mental backlash?"

The Purple-Robed Chief's voice was dry.

"Under normal circumstances, forcibly cutting off the main card connection should impact herself."

Li Qingyue looked at the flashing soul gem on Qin Ye's chest, faintly understood.

"Because the one bearing the backlash is not just Qin Ye."

"The Magical Girl form gives her soul a stable shell, and the Stand is the second manifestation of her soul. After the backlash enters her body, it is dispersed into four parts: the main body, the soul gem, the Stand, and the black-and-white world."

"For others, the backlash is enough to tear the soul apart, but for her, she only needs to bear a quarter of it."

"No."

Shen Ye suddenly spoke.

He stared fixedly at the data screen, his expression even uglier than before.

"It's not a quarter."

"Her soul gem is converting part of the impact into energy to maintain the black-and-white world."

"In other words..."

Shen Ye couldn't continue.

The Purple-Robed Chief finished the second half of the sentence for him:

"The more others resist, the more stable her ability becomes."

Li Qingyue fell silent.

The Empress did not speak either.

The masters in the VIP area who were just analyzing Qin Ye's weaknesses collectively looked at Su Bai at this moment.

At this moment, they finally realized one thing.

Qin Ye's truly terrifying ability is neither time pause, nor the materialization of Mental Power, let alone smashing abstract connections with fists.

Her most terrifying aspect lies in the almost shameless mutual compensation between the two cards.

The Stand's attack connection will suffer mental backlash.

The Magical Girl stabilizes the soul and bears the backlash.

When the magic power consumption of the Magical Girl's body is too large, the Stand converts the enemy's counterattack into the energy of the black-and-white world.

Take any card out alone, and there are flaws that can be targeted.

But when they are combined together, the original flaws all become fuel for another system!

"Su Bai knew from the very beginning that they could fuse."

Li Qingyue muttered to herself.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to have a bottom-level correlation as high as 91.7 percent.

The Magical Girl and the Stand seem to be two completely different armaments.

One relies on wishes.

One relies on spirit.

One changes the physical body.

One manifests the soul.

But from their inception, they were two branches built on the same soul manifestation framework!

Su Bai first designed the underlying layer.

Then on top of the underlying layer, he casually split out two combat systems enough to change the world!

"When on earth did he finish it?"

Li Qingyue turned her head to look at Su Bai.

She is Su Bai's master.

She is also a Tier 9 spacetime supreme, one of the most powerful Card Creators in the world.

But even she didn't know when her disciple had hidden such a thing.

The Empress also looked at Su Bai.

"Minister Su."

Su Bai took the lollipop out of his mouth.

"Your Majesty?"

"Did you know long ago that these two cards could produce a fused form?"

"I knew a little bit."

"How much is a little bit?"

Su Bai thought about it.

"I knew the underlying circuits were compatible."

"As for what abilities will appear after fusion, it's also my first time seeing it."

The Empress stared at him.

"Your first time seeing it?"

"Right."

Su Bai nodded.

"However, judging from the results, it's fairly stable."

Fairly stable?

Everyone around fell into silence simultaneously.

After two Tier 2 cards merge, they can drag the connection between the main card and the soul into reality, and even convert the enemy's mental backlash into their own energy.

Is this called fairly stable?

Then in Su Bai's eyes, what counts as strong?

Making all cards in the world collectively fail directly?!

On the arena, the remaining players also heard the conversation in the VIP area.

Everyone's face changed.

Qin Ye herself didn't know what abilities she would acquire after fusion.

Su Bai, the Card Creator, only saw the actual combat effect for the first time.

In other words, this system is far from being developed to its limit.

The power Qin Ye showed right now is likely just the most basic application!

"Don't give her a chance to strike again!"

Han Ce endured the dizziness brought by the mental backlash and shouted again:

"Every time she cuts off the main card, she needs to lock onto the connection!"

"Attack simultaneously!"

The remaining players could no longer care about their guard against each other.

Ten figures rushed towards Qin Ye at the same time.

This time, they didn't use any long-range skills.

Nor did they activate any card abilities that would produce obvious circuits.

Everyone chose the most direct close combat!

As long as they don't give Qin Ye a chance to observe the connections, she won't be able to continue dismantling cards!

Qin Ye stood in place without moving.

Ten prodigies approached from ten directions.

The fastest person had already rushed in front of her, and the fist covered in rock armor went straight for Qin Ye's face.

Qin Ye blinked her eyes.

"Za Warudo."