Apocalypse Forecast

Huai Shi couldn’t bear to watch it anymore at the end.

"How about we take a break?" he tentatively asked.

Peppa, who had reincarnated directly in the core, couldn’t be bothered to pay him any attention and just raised a middle finger.

Continue.

Meanwhile, the four Ultraman brothers had started playing mahjong.

Huai Shi sighed, scratching his disheveled hair like a chicken’s nest, and turned to the skeleton, "What went wrong this time?"

"The first half was fine, but the second half felt off."

The skeleton rubbed its chin with its bony fingers, pinpointing the mistake Huai Shi had just made, but couldn’t quite say exactly why it was wrong.

Don’t ask, if you ask, it just felt off.

This is the instinct of a Great Grandmaster, unrelated to experience or anything else.

Just like how a bank teller frowns when they touch counterfeit money, having handled real money too many times, this perception has been ingrained into their bones.

Though it’s hard to explain what’s wrong, wrong is wrong.

Each time the problem spot is different.

Sometimes there’s too much Source Substance operation, sometimes too little, sometimes too early, sometimes too late.

And yet, he could give two entirely different answers to the same problem at the same spot consecutively.

The same operation, what was right a moment ago, is suddenly wrong now.

In short, it’s just wrong, don’t ask me where it’s wrong, I don’t know either.

"Feeling, do you get the feeling?"

The skeleton scratched its head, more anxious than Huai Shi, "Each time it’s different, you have to immerse yourself in it..."

Huai Shi was completely stunned.

Feeling as if he was back to when he was a child first learning the cello, no matter how he played, it never felt right, and that tune just wasn’t matching the original feeling.

Ironically, the concept of ’feeling’ is quite elusive.

If it were the cello, Huai Shi would have already gotten it by now, but this Performance Method is something else entirely, it can be used to play music or to fight, but it certainly can’t extend its reach to Alchemy, right?

The control of the Alchemy Fire had no visible errors, yet it was still wrong.

The feeling is off.

Screw the feeling...

Even Huai Shi’s usual patience was wearing thin under the countless failures’ frustration, restraining his anger, he took out the Book of Fate, revisiting the records from the Town of Dusk.

The endless mysteries and the sense of everything being under control demonstrated by the Sun Caster as they performed their casting.

Every revisit allowed him to discern new things and new directions.

This is a showcase encompassing all the top techniques of the Kings of Casting, presented without reservations. Like Luo Lao’s drummer, it seems simple, but it’s filled with endless charm and potential no matter how you look at it.

After experiencing it once more.

He closed the book.

I’ve got it!

Five seconds later, Peppa became an ax man. Yep, his head completely morphed into the shape of an axe, the kind that attacks by headbutting...

After staring at his reflection for a long time, humiliated, he immediately committed suicide.

Reborn, he laid numbly in the core.

Silently shedding tears.

Huai Shi couldn’t help but grit his teeth, this time it really was just a hair’s breadth away! The most dangerous Source Material Transformation had already been completed, the Axe of Anger’s completion was just about to surpass the Sorrow of Index combined with the Border Relic.

Yet in the end, it exploded mysteriously again.

This is not scientific!

But that’s how unscientific Alchemy is...

And this is even with a cheat, otherwise, Peppa’s deaths today would stack up as high as the Eternal Frozen Heart.

"Big bro, just let it go."

"He’s still young, doesn’t know better."

"Don’t hold it against him..."

The four Ultraman circled around Huai Shi, earnestly persuading, yet between the lines, they were thinking about when they could finish dinner, leaving Huai Shi utterly enraged.

"I just can’t believe it!"

He rolled up his sleeves, pushing aside several event records, stepping forward to the Mystic Ritual once more, biting his teeth with determination: "Either you die today, or I perish!"

After all, it’s himself dying, who fears whom?!

Cast again!

In the matrix, the skeleton lifted its head in confusion.

It seems, maybe, perhaps... this is the feeling?

In that instant, the Alchemy Fire within the furnace trembled, transforming into a bloody hue, igniting Huai Shi’s eyes red.

As if an invisible bridge had reconnected at this moment.

Huai Shi could feel it, his soul incessantly flooding with anger, guiding it through the Alchemy Fire, endlessly driving towards Peppa’s Axe of Anger!

"Oh!!!"

Inside the furnace, Peppa’s eyes lit up: "I am heating up!!!"

The Source Material Transformation was completed in an instant, but that wasn’t all, the evolution of the Mystic Ritual continued, driven by countless insights from the Sun Caster’s instincts led Huai Shi’s right arm’s Casting Furnace off his original plan, entering an unforeseen new state.

Feeling.

Feeling here needs to be this way, feeling there needs to be that way, feeling it should be so, feeling it should continue... feeling it can evolve even further.

An intuitive insight surfaced from Huai Shi’s chest.

As if entering meditation while playing the cello, painting without deliberate control, letting the instinct take over the body, naturally progressing downward, the correct result is inevitable.

No need to think, everything was destined from the beginning.

What he had to do was just to recreate it from the depths of the unknown!

This time it’ll succeed!

Unprecedented confidence surged from Huai Shi’s heart, but soon, he sensed... his anger was dissipating, increasingly unable to sustain under the strain of the casting!

No matter how he thought of things that incite anger, his heart remained calm, as if the emotion of anger had been entirely drained away.

In a moment of emergency, he hastily turned around, yelling at the four bystander Ultraman brothers: "Quick, think of something infuriating, the kind that makes you angry, the angrier the better!"

"Angry?" Cyber was puzzled, "I’m not angry."

Jack nodded, "Yeah, yeah, why get angry over nothing?"

Sophie agreed, "Moreover, getting mad just because you told me to doesn’t give me face, right?"

"Useless, can’t even get angry!"

Peppa shouted anxiously from within the furnace, yelling at the other event records: "Your salary is gone! Qin Bai cheated! That Bastard Wang Ba definitely held hands with Fu Yi secretly..."

"Are you human?!"

In an instant, the Ultraman brothers shouted red-eyed in anger, "That’s your good brother! How can good brothers marry each other?!"

Peppa cried, "He’s been getting cozy with Ai Qing! I’ve died so many times, I saw it all in the Book of Fate!"

"Bastard, drop dead!" The ’Huai Shi’s erupted in fury, "Aren’t you something! Picking on even the disabled!"

"Also Lily!"

Peppa continued to accuse, "And the senior sister! After all, they’re all pretty girls! Oh and there’s Yuan Yuan, there’s Amber, and Lihua in the back... He’s flirted with so many girls!"

So the records got even angrier: "Hah! Damn scumbag, how could I be associated with such a scum!"

Huai Shi was dumbfounded.

Yet, there was an endless flood of anger emerging from the event records, being transferred to him, he didn’t know whether to stop it or to argue.

"There’s more darkness yet!"

Peppa raised a finger at Huai Shi, exclaiming, "Tong Ji even sent him benefits!"

As soon as those words were out, Huai Shi felt an unspeakable fury erupting, surging into the furnace, turning its Alchemy Fire pitch black.

Following that, a massive bang.

After devouring all those angers like a bottomless pit, both Huai Shi and all his summons entered a heart-at-peace Sage State.

After holding on and gritting his teeth until now, it finally ended.

He collapsed to the ground, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, glancing over to the furnace core.

Seeing a seemingly bewildered Peppa.

After pondering for a moment, Huai Shi tentatively asked: "Do you... feel anything?"

"..."

Peppa thought for a long time, earnestly saying: "I think... I’m pretty pissed."

At that moment, a cracking sound echoed.