No More Face

Qi Yuan leapt through the window under everyone's gaze.

The others looked at each other, bewildered.

Someone went ahead to scout the path for them, which should have been a joyous thing, yet they couldn't help but feel something was off...

But what exactly was off...

As everyone was confused,

the moment Qi Yuan entered the Phantom Gate Shadow, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have unintentionally pulled off a shitcoin operation.

The deputy chairperson had just told them to all go straight in, not caring about their safety anymore.

But he took away the only key that could get them out of the illusion...

Hmm...

Qi Yuan looked at the key in his hand and fell into thought.

If he said it wasn't on purpose, would anyone really believe him?

The abrupt change of scenery interrupted his random thoughts. Qi Yuan gathered his thoughts and focused all his attention on dealing with the biggest crisis in his life.

An endless plain, with endless flames burning on the scorched earth.

Fierce flames sprouted from the cracks on the charred ground like weeds, waves of heat rushing toward the face.

Qi Yuan looked straight ahead with his bright golden Eyes of Time,

with a monster glaring at him from front, back, left and right.

"It's a trap as expected."

"Is an inferior human like you worth being so careful?"

"Golden eyes, what's his ability? Lack of data, let those two fools go first."

"Just one inferior human..."

Voices echoed from all sides. At this moment, Qi Yuan's mood was like being fucked by a dog, extremely depressed.

Weren't the strong supposed to be lonely kings? Why are you ganging up on me?

They were S-class monsters, even ambushing A-class superhumans. Have they no shame?

The A-class superhumans watching him from the huge illusion in the sky shared his sentiments. The moment they found Qi Yuan, they sucked in a breath of cold air.

Four S-class monsters lying in ambush to catch them in their net. This little brother was in grave danger.

Luckily someone went ahead to scout for them. Otherwise the dead ones would have been them.

Yi Shi clenched his fist and banged on the windowsill, worried for Qi Yuan.

Hurry, use the key and come back!

Unfortunately, the illusion had no sound and they couldn't see subtle movements from this distance.

They had no way of knowing the conversation between Qi Yuan and the monsters.

"Tsk, miscalculation."

The plump female monster with light purple skin raised her brows. Except for her skin, eyes and some other minor differences, she looked no different from a human externally.

The male mummy monster wrapped in white bandages slowly approached Qi Yuan while chatting.

"I didn't expect inferior humans to still think of trying to probe at a time like this. It seems I still don't understand them well enough."

"Hahaha! One inferior human dares to come here to die. Have you run out of people?"

The flaming human-shaped figure in front of Qi Yuan laughed arrogantly, showing its mood.

"Fight?"

The three-meter tall giant with rocky patterns on its skin put its hand behind its head and asked its companions.

They had lain in ambush for superhumans here, but an inferior human was beyond their expectations.

No matter which superhuman entered the door, they would only be teleported here.

They had failed to trick the humans with the deliberately created illusion of random teleportation spots, leaving the two self-proclaimed masterminds very unhappy.

Of course Qi Yuan dared to go first relying on more than just his pathetic bluffing skills.

Hmm...

More than just his deceptive appearance too.

His Eyes of Time, which had always been difficult to use well due to insufficient superhuman energy, could finally utilize some of its power after he reached A-rank.

Superhuman ability activation - Eyes of Time.

With a clear and vast field of view, axes of time emerged on their bodies.

These four monsters were all S-rank, so the effect of his ability on them was negligible.

However...

His target was not these monsters anyway.

Qi Yuan's eyes locked onto the time axis on himself as he started peeking into his own future.

Although peeking into his own future consumed as much as peeking into an A-rank superhuman's, his success rate was guaranteed since he would not resist his own peeking.

He could foresee what would happen to himself in the next ten seconds.

Together with his Telepathic Sensing ability, he had ample time to dodge attacks.

Outwardly, Qi Yuan remained calm watching them spew threats, while constantly calculating his escape route.

The plump purple-skinned female pouted her dark purple lips and said lazily in a gentle and charming tone, "Just one inferior human. I don't want to get my hands dirty. You guys go ahead."

「This inferior human dared to come alone, he must have something to rely on. Let the two fools go test him out first.」

"I'll leave the showing off to you guys. I'm the civilized one."

The mummy hung his hands by his sides, preferring to watch from the sidelines.

「His aura is not that of an ordinary man. Perhaps he has something to rely on.」

"Hey hey hey! Are you scared now?"

The flaming human was dissatisfied. It had a fiery temper and enjoyed burning enemies. But it was no fool either.

Obviously they wanted to use it as a blunt weapon. Did they think it was a dumb rock giant?

Just as it thought this,

the rock giant suddenly smashed the ground with a fist and let out an angry roar, "For master!"

Its hard body was its best weapon.

On the hot, dry ground burned by the flames, the rock giant stomped down. Countless rubble flew as numerous cracks spread outward from under its feet, as if the ground structure had been destroyed.

Large chunks of land started caving in as if the entire region was about to shatter.

"You fool! How dare you get us involved!"

The plump purple-skinned female was forced to elongate her body, sprouting pairs of legs and turning into a half-human-half-centipede creature.

It nimbly traversed the uneven terrain.

The flaming human and mummy floated mid-air, keeping their eyes on Qi Yuan's every move.

They saw Qi Yuan calmly take two steps forward. The flying rubble was decomposed and restructured by him. He took a step left to dodge a ground crack, then took a step back to avoid the collapsing earth.

He moved like a tightrope dancer, timing every step perfectly without any extraneous motions.

The flaming human's mouth curved up as its eyes filled with fighting spirit.

「What a formidable opponent. No wonder he remains unfazed facing the four of us.」

The dozens-of-meters-long centipede beauty narrowed her eyes slightly and murmured to herself, "To think an inferior human actually has an S-rank superhuman backing him. How unexpected."

「A psychic ability? By enhancing his mental power to hypercompute the results? Or is it precognition? 」

「Hypercomputation is more likely. He seemed to have used an ability earlier to decompose the rubble. Psychic fluctuations are invisible to the naked eye, which matches up.」

The eye-visible part of the mummy wrapped in white bandages tightened its grip on the papyrus in its hand.

Its gaze underwent subtle changes as it attached greater importance to its opponent, quickly analyzing the information in its mind.

「A psychic ability? No, psychic abilities enhance the brain, not the eyes.」

「Still lack of information. I need to try recording his ability before I can analyze it.」

"Hey! Let's attack together. This man is not to be underestimated."

The flaming human's gaze hardened as it suggested to the other two.

"Of course."

"I know."

The centipede female and mummy vigilantly surrounded Qi Yuan without letting their guard down one bit.