Chapter 1283: The Savagery You Seek
"How many times have I told you, don't rely on brute force for everything. Barbarism is the most useless means in front of a higher civilization." The Jade Emperor glanced at Lin Shen. His radiant silhouette, as brilliant as the sun, turned into a mere painting in mid-air before even reaching the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor reached out and grasped the scroll, looking at the picture of Lin Shen with a posture ready to pounce like a fierce tiger, and was about to roll up the scroll.
However, as he rolled it up and when it was about to press against Lin Shen's image, it simply wouldn't move.
Boom!
The painting suddenly burst into flames, the image burning fiercely as if gasoline had been poured on it. A fist made of flesh and blood shattered the painting and punched the Jade Emperor in the chest, sending his body flying horizontally through the air. He slid through light-years, crashing through planets one after another until he finally stopped.
Lin Shen burst out from the painting, his eyes blazing like the sun, his entire body erupting with a force more intense than fire, as if burning his life force. In an instant, he caught up with the Jade Emperor and his fists crazily pounded on him.
The Jade Emperor's eyes fixed on him, watching as Lin Shen's body continuously transformed as he swung his fists towards him.
Tiger, lion, motorcycle, mop, broom, chick, elevator, toilet, tablet, ant—in just a moment, Lin Shen's body transformed into countless forms.
Eventually, when Lin Shen was in front of the Jade Emperor, his body had turned into an ant, an ant made of paper.
Boom!
The paper ant's fist still struck the Jade Emperor's face, forcefully sending his body flying at the speed of light to one side.
Lin Shen's ever-transforming form followed alongside, turning into a tablet and slapping the Jade Emperor, transforming into a toilet and slamming the lid on his head, turning into a chick and pecking at his eyes.
In an instant, there were thousands of transformations, yet none could stop Lin Shen's attack.
Lin Shen didn't care what he was, no matter what form the attack took, it resulted in terrifying destructive power.
The Jade Emperor's body swayed and twisted in the air into various shapes.
He was evidently not very accustomed to this state of not being All-Knowing and All-Powerful, unable to predict Lin Shen's behavioral patterns.
This surprised the Jade Emperor. The power of the Reverse World was stronger than he had previously calculated, actually causing his cognition to decline, and declining severely. It might not take long before, like Lin Shen, he became as witless as an idiot.
He hadn't engaged in a fight with anyone in a long time, his last memory of combat belonged to the Emperor Tianshu's avatar. Thus, when Lin Shen attacked, he subconsciously did not resist, thinking he could settle it with his will alone.
This was clearly a negative effect of diminished intelligence; the Jade Emperor in his normal state would never react this way.
The Jade Emperor reached out to block, but always a beat too slow, unable to stop or avoid Lin Shen's attacks.
"Hasn't anyone ever told you that civilization is built under the shadow of barbarism?" Lin Shen relentlessly tormented the Jade Emperor until he revealed his true form, all his power explosively hammering the Jade Emperor's chest, directly disrupting time and space, like a Shattered Void, crashing through layers of glass-like space, and colliding into a Black Hole.
Boom!
The Black Hole was directly shattered, countless particles and celestial bodies erupting from within, the Jade Emperor's body twisting in mid-air, spewed out along with those celestial bodies, drifting in the cosmic wave.
Watching the Jade Emperor hanging motionless in the void like a corpse, even as particles struck him, there was no reaction.
Lin Shen was just about to approach when he saw the Jade Emperor stand up, his face showing the standard expression of the Emperor Tianshu: "This is truly a novel experience. Ever since I was created by humans, even during the transmigrations of avartars, I have never had such an experience."
The Jade Emperor touched his face: "So this is what it feels like to be hit, this is what resentment feels like. This is damn interesting!"
As he spoke, the Jade Emperor suddenly moved, his body seeming to become a shadow, arriving in front of Lin Shen, attacking with a frenzy akin to Lin Shen's previous assault.
Lin Shen swung his fists to block, yet found the Jade Emperor's attack to be endless, impossible to fully defend or avoid, as if it would never stop.
Boom boom!
The sounds of fists clashing were unending. Although the power of both individuals was extremely contained, the resulting energy from their collision was still enough to nearly demolish the Stellar Graveyard.
"You're right, civilization is built upon the foundation of barbarism. Since you reject civilization, then try my barbarism." Clearly affected by the diminished intelligence, the Jade Emperor no longer concerned himself with so much, even wilder than Lin Shen earlier.
Lin Shen found that his Reverse World power was no match for the Jade Emperor's Justice World power.
The Jade Emperor's techniques became fewer, yet Lin Shen felt increasing pressure, as if the Reverse World's power was about to be overwhelmed.
Suddenly, Lin Shen felt as if it were an ancient conflict between states; starting with reasoning didn't work, leading to warfare, until they resorted to using atomic bombs, realizing reasoning was better after all.
Of course, Lin Shen was not entirely powerless. The Reverse World's power could indeed counterbalance the Jade Emperor's Justice World power.
But Lin Shen could feel the Jade Emperor's strength growing amidst the battle, while his own was weakening.
"How can this be? The world's forces are the same, so why does the Justice World's power grow stronger while the Reverse World weakens?" Lin Shen couldn't rationalize it.
"Want to know why you're weakening? Because your world is false, there's no vitality, no life, just an empty shell." While attacking madly, the Jade Emperor explained, "An empty shell world can never compete with my world, so you can only fail, never having a chance to win."
Listening to this, Lin Shen realized the flaw.
His connection with the Reverse World was indeed only through the Order Chain, apart from which he felt no sense of the Reverse World's presence.
"You've never been to the Reverse World. How do you know there's no vitality? Just because you can't feel it." Lin Shen desperately activated the Heaven Defying Bone's power, resisting the Jade Emperor's attacks.
"I don't need to go; I still know, because this universe simply has no Reverse World. I am the sole sovereign, also the sole protagonist." The Jade Emperor's cognition had declined drastically, having grown manic, as a punch came down, clashing with Lin Shen's fist. The carapace formed by the Reverse World's Order Chain on Lin Shen's fist was shattered, his entire body flew backward like a meteor.