At that very moment, a figure slowly materialized in front of the two children.
He lightly tapped the void with his index finger, and faint ripples appeared in the air. The massive mutated python before him suddenly froze in place, its serpentine pupils filled with terror and desperation.
But before it could make any move, a strange black sphere emerged in space and rapidly expanded. Faint black arcs of electricity could be seen churning within it, and even the surrounding magnetic field began to warp, distorting space itself.
“Whimper…”
The next instant, accompanied by a pitiful whine, the giant white python’s body began to shatter and disintegrate, eventually splattering into countless chunks of flesh across the ground, while a rain of blood scattered down from the sky.
Bai Xuan’s expression remained calm, indifferent to the havoc he had caused. Instead, his gaze fell upon the little boy who was holding his sister protectively in his arms.
“A rich affinity for gold-element talent, and even when faced with danger, his first thought is to protect his little sister.”
“He’s a lot like him.”
He retrieved the Snow Mastiff Summoner and a crystal from his spatial ring and placed them into the boy’s hands, who looked up at him with confused eyes.
“Don’t squander its power.”
“Grow up as quickly as you can—the future world won’t be a peaceful one.”
After saying this, Bai Xuan glanced briefly at the little girl behind her brother. Her water-element talent was every bit as remarkable as her brother’s gold-element affinity—no wonder the mutated white python had been so covetous.
Humans could speed up their evolution by consuming the flesh of mutated beasts, and conversely, mutated beasts could enhance their own strength by feasting on human flesh.
While only a small fraction of beasts had mutated, nearly all humans had awakened supernatural abilities—the only difference being the strength of those abilities.
Thus, in the eyes of mutated beasts, every human was a spiritually rich meal—some tastier than others.
Such a powerful water-element talent would naturally be an incredibly delicious delicacy for the mutated white python, which was itself water-attributed. It might even have the potential to trigger a transformation in the python’s own abilities.
And yet, with such talent, she hadn’t earned the recognition of the Black Rhino Armor—was it because of her mindset?
Perhaps. Compared to her brother, she was still somewhat fragile inside.
But that kind of vulnerability is exactly what you’d expect from a child her age. If anything, her brother’s temperament was unusually outstanding.
No wonder he had been chosen by the Snow Mastiff Summoner at such a young age.
However, the Snow Mastiff Armor isn’t the Emperor Armor—no one will fight in his place. At this age, he can’t even sustain the transformation. It will take a long time for him to grow, and the future waits for no one.
Shaking his head, a black hole appeared in front of Bai Xuan. With a single step, his figure vanished completely from everyone’s sight.
He had come here solely for that one person—after all, he was the one chosen by the Snow Mastiff Armor. It would have been a pity if he died so soon.
But this would be the only time.
Next time, the boy would have to rely on himself.
With the death of the mutated white python and Bai Xuan’s departure, the fleeing pedestrians and the members of the Spiritual Energy Bureau nearby were all left dumbfounded.
“Wait… was that… the White Emperor, Bai Xuan?”
“Dragon Emperor, Ice Emperor, Flame Emperor, White Emperor—these were the four powerhouses officially recognized back in the day. Among them, White Emperor’s strength was accepted the strongest, because even the other three Emperors and the official authorities have all said that his power is beyond their imagination.”
“I didn’t believe it at first, since in the videos he didn’t seem that much stronger than the others. But now I’m convinced. If I’m not mistaken, White Emperor just extended a single finger, right? And that was enough to kill the mutated white python?”
“And that black hole he opened when he left—could his ability be space-type?”
“Is nobody paying attention to the thing White Emperor gave that little boy at the end? It might be because I was too far away to see clearly, but it really looked like the Snow Mastiff Summoner from that old show Armor Hero.”
“I’ve heard that Dragon Emperor Qin Tian from the capital was wearing a set of armor almost identical to the Flame Dragon Armor when he repelled the beast tide in the capital. And these past few days, more than one person online has claimed that Devil Fruits have appeared in the real world, and that they were lucky enough to eat one.”
“Dimensions breaking through into reality… Could it be…?”
Many people stared intently at the Snow Mastiff Summoner in the little boy’s hand, but by then, the Spiritual Energy Bureau members had already formed a protective circle around the two children. No matter how many ideas crossed their minds, they wouldn’t dare to act on them.
“Xiao Zhao! Bingbing! Wuwuwu…”
From the crowd, a middle-aged couple rushed forward after the Spiritual Energy Bureau verified their identities, pulling the two children into their arms as tears streamed down their faces.
The middle-aged man also wore an expression of relief. The crowd earlier had been too chaotic, causing the two children to get separated from them. If anything had happened to them, he truly didn’t know how he could go on living.
“Mom…”
Xiao Zhao patted his mother’s shoulder, as if comforting her, but his eyes were fixed on the direction Bai Xuan had vanished, then glanced down at the Snow Mastiff Summoner in his hand.
That big brother just now… he felt so warm.
Bai Xuan’s intervention didn’t just catch the attention of the public—the Hangzhou Spiritual Energy Bureau immediately relayed the footage to the headquarters in the capital.
“Whoa… he took down that white python in one move?”
“It’d be weird if he didn’t one-shot it. Don’t forget what his ability is.”
“This mutated white python is decent, but both Comrade Qin Tian and Comrade Huo Yu could handle it easily enough. One-shotting it isn’t anything special.”
“To be honest, what we should really be focusing on isn’t his strength, but the reason he intervened in the first place.”
A stern-faced man in military uniform addressed his subordinates gravely.
“Bai Xuan is a god—or rather, since awakening the ‘Natural Authority,’ he has begun his transformation from human to divine. His thinking, his power, his very state of being are all ascending to a higher level.”
“He has access to a magnificent platform that can connect to countless worlds, an unknown existence that can contact, communicate with, and even trade with characters from anime, and the inconceivable ability to materialize objects from those fictional worlds.”
“Comrade Qin Tian’s Flame Dragon Armor, Comrade Huo Yu’s Mera Mera no Mi, Comrade Chen Bing’s Demon God Manifestation – Demon Extract, Comrade Wang Ming’s Divine Hand, and even the Snow Mastiff Summoner that Bai Xuan gifted to that little boy in the video…”
“And those creatures called Pokémon—with their pure personalities, powerful electrical abilities, and even their art style, which is different from ours—I think no one should still be doubting the accuracy of the information Bai Xuan has shared with us.”
He looked at the people below and said with utmost seriousness:
“In the vast multiverse, there are too many impossibilities that are actually possible.”
“The anime created by our world may be a world in itself, but that doesn’t mean those worlds are merely fictional.”
