‘Zi Jiu! After Leng Xiaoyu joins the main cast, I’ll find a way to set Lin Zhen and Zi Jiu together!’
No matter how passionate the feelings, they eventually cannot withstand the relentless wear of time.
From the third season onward, the time gap only grows larger. A full five years have passed since the first season’s storyline.
By then, Lin Zhen’s feelings for her would probably be nothing but an obsession.
So if she starts cultivating his relationship with Zi Jiu now, and later finds an opportunity to fulfill his vague obsession of saving her and rescuing her from the Saint hand society…
Then this nearly out-of-control chess piece will be completely revitalized.
‘With that thought, I am truly evil.’
Yun Ruoxi let out a soft, self-deprecating laugh in her heart.
In her previous life, what she hated most were green tea women who played with men’s feelings. But she never expected that after being reborn, she would become the very thing she despised, and even surpassed it.
She was no longer just playing with men’s emotions, but with everyone’s feelings and intentions around her.
After a brief moment of reflection, Yun Ruoxi quickly pulled her attention back to the present.
She had long prepared herself to bear all the sins, so she wouldn’t let such a small matter sink her into sentimentality.
“This battle is far from over. The halftime break is over; it’s time for the second half.”
Yun Ruoxi narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze sharp as she looked toward the direction where Lin Zhen had been blasted away.
Pulling the wayward protagonist back onto the right track would be long and arduous, and one misstep could lead to failure.
But as long as her own strength was great enough, Lin Zhen would never escape her control before he was fully corrected.
No matter how much he changed.
‘Let me show you now the true, insurmountable gap between us, like a chasm!’
The boss’s second phase… was about to begin!
A milky white halo of telekinesis once again steadily enveloped her body, and a blurry white afterimage flashed across the sky.
One second later, the deafening sound of air being torn finally arrived with a belated roar.
Whoosh!
Her peripheral vision caught the virtual window in the upper right corner. Yun Ruoxi stared intently at Lin Zhen in the distance.
The distance between them was shrinking at an alarming speed.
Lin Zhen, who had just assembled his flight device and barely stabilized himself, heard the series of sonic booms. He looked up and saw Dark Dust had recovered her combat power and was closing in. His pupils immediately contracted.
‘How can it be this fast!’
That dagger was no ordinary weapon.
A special product derived from a powerful star core, he had spent a considerable favor to obtain it from a senior.
It was called [Blood Stain].
It could pollute a Star Energy Bloodline, forcibly interfering with the star energy circulation within a star energy user’s body, temporarily preventing them from using star energy.
He had tested it on himself and his friends.
As long as Blood Stain successfully pierced the body, it could forcibly block star energy circulation for at least half a minute.
If the wound was near the heart, it could even last two minutes.
That strike had hit the chest, mainly fatty tissue, but there were many blood vessels there, and it was very close to the heart.
Even if the enemy was a three-star energy user, they shouldn’t be able to defy the powerful force of a star core!
She had recovered her combat power this fast…
A flicker of fear passed through Lin Zhen’s eyes, and he secretly rejoiced.
Good thing Dark Dust had blasted him away, or he would have thought to take her down during the window when her star energy was locked.
Then it would have been really over.
“Reasonable suspicion: it’s the power of big breasts.”
“He tested it on himself and his friends? Being Lin Zhen’s friend must really suck.”
“If breasts aren’t big, how can you gather people’s hearts?”
“Heretic! Flat is justice.”
Block the Star Energy Bloodline…
Yun Ruoxi’s eyes showed a hint of understanding. She roughly knew why [Blood Stain] had failed on her.
In addition to her A-grade Star Energy Bloodline, her body also flowed with a more powerful and mysterious celestial eye clan royal bloodline.
Even if [Blood Stain] could block an A-grade bloodline, it couldn’t block the celestial eye clan’s royal bloodline.
Lin Zhen spread his arms. The flight device mounted on his back—a pair of mechanical wings with a wingspan of over twenty meters, shaped like a falcon’s feathers—suddenly snapped shut with a click, forming a ‘W’ shape.
The three vector nozzles at the tips of the wings burst into a deep blue glow, and fine gray particles streamed rapidly backward.
His flight speed instantly surged, actually catching up to Dark Dust’s speed and matching it.
“Holy crap, Wind-Thunder Wings!”
“Lin Zhen is really Doraemon, with all that gear.”
“Dora-crotch, HSO.”
“This guy is really well-prepared for himself.”
Yun Ruoxi reasonably suspected that this flight device was also prepared by Lin Zhen to capture her.
She ground her teeth secretly and increased her own flight speed.
But if it was just this, thinking he could shake her off was still too optimistic…
Then she reached out her right hand forward.
Her vast telekinesis instantly transformed into a tough rope, extending over a thousand meters forward, precisely and accurately binding Lin Zhen tightly.
But Lin Zhen seemed to have anticipated it. The moment the telekinesis rope wrapped around his body, clusters of silver flames again erupted from within him, burning away the telekinetic bonds completely.
“A second time! What the hell is this flame?!”
Yun Ruoxi couldn’t help but frown.
This flame could actually burn intangible telekinesis as fuel, truly bizarre.
In the five years she had been doing missions, she had seen a lot, but she had never seen anything like this.
‘Could it be another one of the protagonist’s lucky encounters?’
Just as she was curious, the anime screen suddenly played Lin Zhen’s internal monologue, explaining the origin of the flames to the audience.
[Spark of the Stars].
This flame turned out to be an A-grade star energy secret art that Lin Zhen had chosen from the Imperial Institute of Technology’s secret vault after winning the prize for replicating biometal.
This flame does not burn any physical matter, only using star energy as fuel, thereby forcibly destroying most supernatural powers. Its effect is extremely powerful, even reaching the standard of an S-grade secret art.
However, because the flame’s power depends entirely on the spark.
And the spark needs to be hidden in the star energy central control and continuously nurtured, consuming star energy all the time.
For an ordinary star energy user, this is basically a round-the-clock negative DEBUFF that reduces star energy, so it was ultimately rated as A-grade.
But thanks to Dr. Forefinger.
This huge flaw meant nothing to Lin Zhen at all.
The star energy full-cycle network in his body provided just enough star energy to nurture the spark.
But the main reason he exchanged for this secret art was not because he was perfectly suited for it.
It was for…
Yun Ruoxi.
Telekinesis is energy formed by combining star energy and spirit power.
When star energy is burned away, leaving only pure spirit power, it naturally fails.
Telekinesis also falls within the destruction range of [Spark of the Stars].
So even if he couldn’t circumvent the flaw of this secret art, he would definitely learn it.
I feel like everyone hates Lin when for being so annoying to MC at this point