Chapter 1949 - 1948: Reversal! Pointing a Deer as a Horse! (Major - )

"How can it be, how can the mechanical actions be so fast?" The Holy Master looked at the thunder roaring in the firmament, then lowered his head and glanced at the two Talent Sequences in front of him.

At this moment, the Holy Master had already let go, and He Ao had kept his promise. The Prophet Talent Sequence fell towards He Ao, while the Dreamer Talent Sequence also fell towards the Holy Master.

At this time, He Ao seemed to still be in a certain shock, just coming back to his senses.

The Holy Master suddenly raised his hand, and brilliant radiance burst from his hand, rushing towards He Ao.

He Ao was slightly stunned, immediately dodged to the side, and at the same time grabbed the Prophet’s Talent Sequence towards his own palm.

But the moment he dodged, countless rays of light burst from the surrounding void, piercing through his body and firmly fixing him in the sky.

Intense, bone-penetrating pain surged again from deep within his body.

But he ignored these rays and reached out to grab the Prophet Talent Sequence.

At this moment, the Talent Sequence had already reached in front of him. As long as he moved slightly forward, he could directly grab this Talent Sequence.

But at this moment, rays of light pierced through his palm, fixing his arm in the sky.

The Holy Master took a step forward and instantly appeared in front of He Ao, reaching out to grasp the gray radiance in the air.

He looked at He Ao and sighed slightly, "This time, I kept my promise, but it seems your luck is bad."

The world was rapidly stabilizing, and a terrifying pressure was descending from beyond time and space. The Divine Beings high in the firmament finally seemed able to free their hands.

"The mechanical operations are still somewhat interesting," the Holy Master lowered his head, looking at the wide-eyed He Ao who was gazing at him resentfully,

"He actually completed the final setup step in advance. I thought he would need some time to finish that troublesome step, but he completed it instantly and caught me off guard. I can only say that one should never underestimate any Divine Being, even if He is young."

As he spoke, his gaze lifted, sweeping over the gradually stabilizing void filled with surging power, finally returning to He Ao’s face, "The mechanical has already completed the final exchange. This timeline has already replaced your original timeline. Now, you are a homeless person,"

He sighed softly, "In these long years, you are one of the few younger ones who have made me feel troublesome. Since that’s the case,"

His hand lifted, hovering above He Ao’s head, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth, "Although letting the mechanical handle it would work, He might still spend some effort stabilizing the timeline. To avoid long delays bringing problems, let me send you off instead."

Brilliant radiance gathered in his hand, and countless gray rays surged from all directions, a terrifying and twisted pressure transmitted from beyond the void.

This pressure, in an instant, even overshadowed the oppressive feeling spreading from the God of Machinery in the sky.

The Holy Master raised his gaze, looking at He Ao, his faint eyes filled with gray radiance, he smiled at He Ao, "Farewell."

The world was silent for a moment.

Boom—

Then came the piercing sound of the void being torn apart, thundering booms.

Brilliant radiance exploded from within He Ao’s body in an instant, sweeping over the sky, the earth, everything visible, with devouring light.

The vast earth, thick clouds, along with the atmosphere covering the planet, were obliterated and vanished at this moment.

Everything in sight was completely gone, leaving only a bottomless crater.

The elderly figure consumed by the light also disappeared at that moment.

"Cough—"

As the light and shadows dissipated, at the bottom of the crater, where the molten earth seeped through, the battered He Ao slowly climbed up.

But before his body could stabilize, slender rays once again pierced through his body.

"Undying Lotus," an ancient voice smiled in He Ao’s ear, "When you took this thing, I was actually beside you."

He Ao raised his head, looking at the elderly figure before him, his body tensed slightly, gritting his teeth, "Holy Master!"

"I have always had a habit," the Holy Master grasped the gray-purple radiance in his hand, looking at He Ao, shook his head slightly, "Even when killing small insects, I kill them thoroughly."

He lifted his hand, making a slight grasp in the void.

At that instant, He Ao’s heart and soul seemed to be gripped by a mighty force, his entire breath suddenly halted.

A certain terrifying and invisible pressure surged from all directions, choking He Ao’s throat.

"Goodbye, young one." The Holy Master shook his head slightly, clenching his hand.

He Ao felt his soul and flesh being grasped tightly at that moment, and his body, fixed by the light, suddenly exploded again, bursting into countless scattered blood mist.

"To let you enjoy eternal peace," the Holy Master shook his head, stepping into the pervasive blood mist, "I will make a small move to help you obliterate your soul as well."

His body gradually passed through the blood mist, the surroundings slowly lighting up with purple radiance.

The brilliance above the firmament had completely quieted, the world’s exchange seemed to have finally settled.

The Holy Master raised his hand, brilliant light gathered in his palm, bringing a certain terrifying whisper, seemingly intending to obliterate all surrounding souls.

Bang—

And just at the moment the light was about to burst forth, a hand reached out from the blood mist, grasping his wrist.

The pervasive blood mist receded like radiance, redrawing the outline of a human figure.

The outline of a blood-covered young man.

The Holy Master lifted his head, looking at the young man before him, pausing slightly, then suddenly paused, his entire body transformed into a segment of radiance retreating backward, breaking free his wrist from He Ao’s grasp.

Boom boom boom—

But at that moment, the howling wind suddenly sounded in the sky, the earth suddenly cracked with countless fine marks, endless brilliance ignited in the firmament, like bizarre blades scraping the sky, tearing open fragmented cracks.

Simultaneously, brilliant light suddenly surged from the depths of the earth, piercing through the Holy Master’s back from behind, emerging from his chest.

The pervasive power spread over his entire body, making his whole being freeze at that moment.

He Ao gazed at the elder before him, staggering forward, approaching his front.

The already exchanged world was rapidly separating, the connections on the ground severing at a speed visible to the naked eye, the tumultuous world beneath returning to tranquility.

He Ao reached out, taking the purple and gray radiance from his hand.

At that moment, brilliant radiance suddenly erupted from the void, piercing through He Ao’s body.

At the same time, gray rays leap from the two Talent Sequences in He Ao’s hands, attempting to break free from He Ao’s control.

The Holy Master lifted his hand, trying to regain the two Talent Sequences from He Ao.

Rumble, rumble, rumble——

Enormous void cracks traversed the entire sky, flames burst forth from the ground’s openings, bringing searing heat waves, cleansing the entire sky.

This vast world was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A terrifying force surged once again from the depths of the earth, piercing the body of the Holy Master, fixing him in place.

And those beams of light piercing through He Ao’s body also collapsed simultaneously due to the world’s crumble, scattering into a sky full of radiance.

He Ao withdrew his hand, grasping the two Talent Sequences in his hands, instantly dispelling the gray radiance within them.

Above the firmament, that vast pressure seemed to be caught in a momentary hesitation at this moment.

And the Holy Master standing in front of He Ao looked at He Ao in some confusion, "This world is collapsing?!"

Then, it seemed he swept his gaze over the world’s base, lowered his head, and gazed at He Ao, saying, "Mechanical failure? He exchanged the wrong timeline, moved it around, letting the original timeline return to its original position, interesting, what did you do?"

He was not transmitting these words directly through speaking but through some kind of soul technique, allowing He Ao to understand his meaning in an instant.

The words transmitted through this technique still felt like they carried expressions and tone, only time was infinitely compressed.

"Have you ever heard of an idiom," He Ao reached out his hand, "called, ’pointing a deer as a horse.’"

He Ao likewise replicated this technique, responding to his words.

The Holy Master instantly reacted, gazing at He Ao, "You’ve modified the world core’s architecture, marking the original normal timeline as abnormal, marking the normal timeline as abnormal, mechanically laboring tirelessly, realistically just placing what was disguised as the abnormal timeline back in its original position, hahahahaha, interesting,"

He looked at He Ao, "But, deceiving the divine isn’t easy, how did you manage it? Clearly, you’ve always been here competing with me for the Talent Sequences."

"Indeed," He Ao sighed slightly, "I was meant to be here vying with you for these two Talent Sequences."

He slightly opened his palm, and the Barrier Wood returned to his hand.

——

Main World

The fierce waves calmed on the earth, heavy clouds retreated from the firmament, and bright sunlight shone once more upon the undulating waters, illuminating the waves of the tide.

A wave rolled a slender figure ashore, tossing it onto the beach.

The figure lay on the sand, gazing at the sunlight above.

Warm radiance poured over his body, dispelling a bit of the cold damp of the seawater.

This was He Ao’s ’clone’, a clone remaining in the Main World.

What He Ao did was actually quite simple.

Ever since the Well Shadow revealed that the world core was the key to timeline exchange, he’d actually been working on transforming the world core.

The method was indeed just as the Holy Master said: disguising the real Main World as an abnormal timeline, disguising the destroyed abnormal timeline’s Main World as the real Main World.

Simply put, it’s ’pointing a deer as a horse.’

The God of Machinery wanted to exchange the position of ’deer’ and ’horse,’ so He Ao put the deer’s skin on the horse, and the horse’s skin on the deer.

Of course, in principle, it’s mostly simple, but to achieve it requires a ’little bit’ of difficulty.

The Sound of the Star Sea can forcibly control the world core, allowing He Ao’s main body in the abnormal timeline to manipulate and modify the broken world core of the abnormal timeline.

But as for the Main World, it’s not so easily done.

However, when the two worlds fused, He Ao could sense the existence of the clone, which gave him the opportunity for dual operation.

The passage established by the Historical Contract could transmit the Dreamer Talent Sequence over, so naturally, it could also transmit the Barrier Wood back.

After the clone obtained the Barrier Wood, the first thing he did was use the Barrier Wood to strengthen the connection with He Ao’s ’way,’ through the wisp of soul linked to the clone connect with the Main World, and gained the support of the Main World.

This step was a bit difficult because the clone was really too weak, but fortunately, the Barrier Wood was very cooperative, allowing He Ao to connect with the Main World at a very small cost.

And the Main World had no doubts about He Ao’s plan because by then the God of Machinery had already begun the fusion, and the Main World had no other choice.

The Main World supplied the clone with a large amount of energy to support the clone in using the Barrier Wood, descending to the bottom of the world.

And at the world’s depths, the cores of the two worlds were actually together and even maintained a high degree of fusion for a period of time.

Then He Ao, taking advantage of the two worlds not yet fully intersected, used the power of the Barrier Wood to briefly conceal the changes in the cores of the two worlds.

Yet He Ao didn’t know which were the indicators of the world core, which were the key elements the God of Machinery used to differentiate worlds.

When he thought of this plan, there wasn’t much time left, and naturally, he didn’t have time to study these closely.

However, the Main World knew, and the Main World was actually more anxious than He Ao, because the God of Machinery intended to destroy the Main World.

With the Main World’s cooperation and guidance, combined with the Secret Wizard’s insight, He Ao quickly found those core indicator spots.

Then, through mirroring, he found similar issues in the abnormal timeline here.

But after solving these, there was still one problem—He Ao was still too weak.

Relying just on the Barrier Wood, as long as the God of Machinery paid a little bit of attention, he could see through the Barrier Wood’s cover, piercing He Ao’s plan.

So, at this time, the Holy Master’s appearance was needed.

When writing on white paper, a drop of red ink falls on the center, and no matter where you write, one is always a little distracted by that red ink.

And the Holy Master, was that drop of red ink.

He Ao deliberately took out the Dreamer, attempting a promotion, mainly to bait, to lure out the Holy Master.

And he knew that the Holy Master would absolutely not appear when the God of Machinery had a free hand initially, so he first consumed the Dreamer Talent Sequence and began experimenting with fusion mastery.

Once the world exchange reached the most urgent point, when the God of Machinery couldn’t spare a hand, the Holy Master should have appeared.

At that time, the Dreamer Talent Sequence had already somewhat integrated with He Ao, and for the Holy Master to strip the Dreamer Talent Sequence away, he would need to spend some time and means.

This way, He Ao could stall the Holy Master in the Main World of the abnormal timeline.

For the God of Machinery, in the world arranged by him, an especially formidable suspected Divine Incarnation suddenly appeared; even if he couldn’t spare a hand, he would focus on it.

And as long as the Holy Master could hold the God of Machinery’s attention, the chance of He Ao’s modification at the world’s base being discovered would be greatly reduced.