The man’s charred body seemed to have turned into a fragile eggshell, and what emerged from within was an alien monster far rger than his previous form.

  An ugly and ferocious head resembling that of a Damascus goat, swollen bck muscles fueled by rage, and a towering three-meter-tall body...

  This creature could only be described with the words “demon.”

  It now appeared in the nightclub lounge under the gaze of the people present.

  The petite girl who had been standing behind the massage chair colpsed to the ground in fear.

  Her trembling, childlike voice seemed as if she wanted to scream, yet she unconsciously suppressed it.

  Since she was wearing a rabbit mask, I couldn’t be sure at first, but now I can confirm—this petite girl is likely one of the nightclub workers that Chang'an mentioned, even younger than Jin Yu by seven or eight years.

  However, I have no time to focus on that for now.

  The Oddities has already appeared, and he is my target.

  Even after revealing his combat form, his entire body remains engulfed in fmes, wailing in agony.

  He must be extremely bewildered.

  Enjoying himself in the nightclub one moment, only to suddenly be engulfed in fmes—who could have expected such a thing?

  Earlier, I had eliminated the shadow clones summoned by the man in the bck suit, but it seems the real body was unaware of their destruction.

  As the immortal Oddities had mentioned before, there is no shared perception between the Oddities and his shadow clones.

  The onlookers finally reacted, screaming in terror and fleeing in panic.

  However, the Shadow Swap Oddities did not attack others as they might have feared; instead, he immediately turned his attacks upon himself.

  He transformed his right arm into a bde, aiming to ssh his own throat.

  This was clearly an act of suicide.

  But given his abilities, things were not so simple.

  If he were to die, his shadow swap ability would be passively triggered, causing him to switch pces with one of his clones, whose whereabouts were currently unknown.

  In doing so, he would also transfer the fmes that were tormenting him onto the clone.

  In other words, he was attempting to escape.

  Initially, I had doubted whether he would think of such a tactic, but it seems I underestimated him.

  However, I had already prepared for this.

  The moment I noticed his abnormal actions, I maniputed the fmes entangling him, shaping them into a massive hand that locked him tightly within its grasp.

  His movements were immediately and forcefully restrained, rendering his body immobile.

  In the next instant, the massive fming hand hurled his gigantic form diagonally upward.

  It was as if an iron discus had been thrown with full force inside a house made entirely of fragile gss.

  The Shadow Swap Oddities’s massive body was flung straight through the walls, smashing through them one after another.

  Even after piercing through the nightclub’s walls, his momentum did not slow.

  He crashed through multiple yers of walls and ceilings in succession, soaring out into the night sky beyond the club.

  The enormous fming hand I created possessed immense strength.

  After being thrown out of the nightclub, the Oddities continued to fly horizontally through the air for five to six hundred meters before finally nding in a small grove far from the bustling city center.

  If it were an ordinary human, they would have been reduced to a bloody pulp by now.

  However, this was a Oddities after all—his body was tougher than steel armor.

  He could endure a barrage of bullets head-on, so withstanding a high-altitude fall was hardly an issue.

  Although the impact left him disoriented, he didn’t seem to have sustained any real injuries.

  Thanks to the thermal marker I impnted in his body, I could sense the surroundings within a certain range of him and summon fmes at will within that area.

  In the next second, I conjured a burst of fmes in the distance ahead of him and teleported myself to that location.

  With a blink of my eyes, my view shifted from the bustling street to the desote grove, where the Oddities was struggling to his feet just twenty meters away.

  He lifted his face and caught sight of me.

  Then, his nose twitched noticeably.

  Since his current head resembled that of an animal more than a human, I suspected that not only was he incredibly strong, but his sense of smell was also extremely sharp.

  Perhaps he had identified me through my scent as the "culprit" who secretly attacked him with fmes st night.

  His rage fred instantly, and he let out a guttural roar: "It was you!?"

  "It was me." I deliberately drew his attention while raising my hand to summon a volleyball-sized fireball.

  "You think I'll give you a chance!?"

  Believing that I was about to attack, he immediately lunged at me.

  It seemed he had no intention of escaping for the time being.

  Despite having suffered greatly at my hands, he still wasn’t retreating—no, perhaps it was precisely because of the pain I had inflicted that he wanted to vent his anger on me.

  Whether or not he could actually defeat me might not have even crossed his mind.

  His confidence, without a doubt, stemmed from his shadow swap ability.

  When you think about it, his reasoning was quite understandable.

  His power not only granted him near-immortality but also ensured he could escape from the battlefield at any time.

  With his safety guaranteed, he could afford to be as reckless as he wanted.

  Moreover, since I appeared to be a lone fme user, he became even more brazen.

  His shadow swap ability was the very challenge we needed to overcome.

  Defeating him was easy; the real difficulty y in killing him—especially ensuring that after his death, his brain's information wouldn’t be destroyed by the Seed of Mind.

  For that, Zhu Shi was indispensable.

  At the exact moment when the Shadow Swap Oddities's attention was entirely focused on me, Zhu Shi, cd in a straw raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat, silently appeared behind him, gripping her sharp sword.

  Her eyes glowed with an icy ke-blue hue.

  Meanwhile, Ma Zao also emerged from another direction, having removed her cat-whisker mask and was now sprinting toward us from afar.

  This small grove was a battleground we had deliberately chosen in advance.

  Zhu Shi and Ma Zao had been lying in ambush nearby.

  That said, I couldn’t control the parabo of the monster's flight with absolute precision, and there was a significant margin of error in his nding point.

  Fortunately, we had pnned for this in advance, positioning them in different parts of the grove.

  This ensured that, no matter where the monster nded, at least one of them would be retively close.

  As it turned out, Zhu Shi was the closer of the two.

  As she approached, she immediately swung her sword in a precise ssh aimed at the back of the Shadow Swap Oddities neck.

  At the same time, the Oddities seemed to sense her killing intent and suddenly turned his head to look.

  Zhu Shi’s lethal strike ultimately failed to cim the life of the Shadow Swap Oddities.

  Just as she was about to succeed, a dark arm inexplicably sprouted from her shoulder, grabbing her sword-wielding wrist.

  Despite the distance, my thermal perception allowed me to clearly see the shocking truth behind this sudden change.

  It was an arm formed from shadows—controlled by the Shadow Swap Oddities to thwart Zhu Shi’s ssh.

  When it comes to shadows, people usually imagine them crawling along the ground, but shadows can form anywhere.

  They might be cast on walls or even appear on a person’s body.

  If my guess is correct, it was likely the shade of the trees that had cast a shadow on Zhu Shi, which the Oddities then maniputed.

  More shadowy matter emerged from Zhu Shi’s body, transforming into sharp bdes aimed at their host.

  However, in the next instant, a burst of silver sword light erupted around Zhu Shi, swirling and fshing chaotically, shredding all the shadow matter to pieces.

  It turned out that she had swiftly switched her sword to her left hand and, with a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, eliminated all the shadowy threats on her body.

  The Shadow Swap Oddities did not pursue Zhu Shi further but instead continued charging toward me.

  To him, eliminating me—the enemy with the greatest firepower—was likely the top priority.

  Compared to the previous immortal oddities, this one was clearly far superior in both shadow manipution and combat strategy.

  That’s fine with me.

  I was eager to see if I could overcome his Shadow Swap ability with my own power.

  Using the brief moment Zhu Shi had bought me, I swiftly spped the fireball onto my chest, igniting my entire body.

  I entered my fire elemental form.

  In this state, I was free from many of the inconveniences of my normal form.

  My thought processes accelerated to an extraordinary degree, making the passage of time appear almost frozen to me.

  The falling leaves seemed to hang motionless in midair, the surrounding sounds stretched and distorted, and the Oddities, who had been charging at me like an arrow, now appeared to be crawling toward me as slowly as an earthworm.

  It even seemed like I could push my mental speed even further.

  Zhu Shi, having dealt with the shadow matter, was now catching up.

  Although in my perception her movements appeared slow as well, she was visibly faster than the Shadow Swap Oddities.

  Considering that I might fail ter and wanted to give her a chance to participate, I patiently waited for her to close the distance before unching my attack.

  I extended my right hand toward the Shadow Swap Oddities, and just like pressing down on an ant with a finger, a several-meter-wide pilr of fire descended from the sky, engulfing the unprepared Oddities.

  Under the baptism of fmes, the Oddities body was instantly vaporized.

  Of course, I had controlled the intensity with precision.

  I deliberately ensured that only everything below his neck was annihited, while his head remained completely intact—not even a single strand of hair was singed.

  At my current accelerated mental state, the severed head appeared as if it were floating in midair.

  In reality, it was simply in the process of falling but hadn't reached the ground yet.

  The next step, however, was the real challenge.

  Through the fmes surrounding the head, I once again experienced the same uncanny sensation as st night—something indescribable by size or shape, an abstract, metaphysical entity, had emerged and was attempting to flee rapidly from my fire.

  Perhaps this was what Zhu Shi had referred to as "causality."

  The Shadow Swap ability was trying to swap the existence of the original body with the decoy—symbolizing the escape of the Oddities causal link.

  Last time, I was caught off guard and could only watch helplessly as this entity fled; but this time, I was fully prepared and had already entered my most powerful fire elemental form.

  I no longer had any issues with reaction speed.

  In my perception, the activation of the Shadow Swap ability now appeared sluggish.

  I had ample time to observe and analyze it.

  The question was—could I now directly interfere with causality itself?

  Closely observing this causal entity, I quickly arrived at a conclusion.

  I could indeed interfere with it using my power.

  However, this interference did not seem to align with what I had hoped for.

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