My rules are the rules.

After suffering a heavy blow from Him, Kindheart activated his bizarre possession ability at the nick of time, instantly turning the wall extremely soft just as he was about to collide with it. Otherwise, he was certain he would have been reduced to a puddle of mud upon impact.

Even though he had softened his own body at the moment of impact, the sheer, off-the-charts force with which the entity struck him left his entire body aching and sore, embedded in the wall now without even the strength to raise an arm.

Yet his attention was not focused on his own condition; instead, his eyes were wide as he stared ahead at Qi Chen, who was currently in a state of anomaly integration.

An anomaly aura, completely distinct from Overlord's, slowly emanated from Qi Chen. Two completely different anomalous powers were actually coexisting within Qi Chen!

Could this kid possess multiple anomaly types?

With a somewhat dizzy consciousness, Kindheart quickly dismissed this guess. Even for a multiple-type anomaly, the aura emitted must be identical because the root is the same.

Yet if he was not a multiple-type anomaly, why had a second anomaly aura appeared on Qi Chen?

Kindheart thought of a rather despairing possibility: an external anomaly had invaded Qi Chen's psyche. Only in this way could different anomaly powers manifest within the same anomaly walker.

"His mental fortitude... This shouldn't be possible," Kindheart forced his body back to normal, wanting to pull himself down from the wall, but suddenly caught sight of Qi Chen's raised face.

A phantom of a white facial mask, one he had never seen before, covered Qi Chen's face, exuding a sinister aura.

Qi Chen seemed unaffected; instead, he slowly rose from a semi-crouched position.

In that very instant just now, Qi Chen had finally beheld the true appearance of the white mask within his own consciousness!

Within the mask chamber, the image presented by the white mask had merely been a disguise. Last time, peering through the nearly dissipating mist, the white mask had a white base, embellished with black around the eyes and mouth, with a striking red dot right between the eyebrows.

Yet when the white mask truly awakened, it did not look like that at all. Instead, it was a pure, stark white face, adorned with only a few sparse black stripes.

"So it's Sima Yi..." This time, Qi Chen quickly recalled whom this mask corresponded to. It was also an entity of considerable renown, though unlike Overlord, whose reputation was largely laudable, sentiments directed toward Sima Yi were far more derogatory.

"Finally, free..."

The phantom of the Sima Yi mask, overlaying the Overlord, twisted on its own, emitting an aged and vicious voice. The altered, stark-white face was filled with the ecstasy of gaining freedom.

This fellow did not recognize and accept Qi Chen the way Overlord had.

Whoosh—

An abrupt surge of violent anomalous power flooded the space once more. He had not yet abandoned the punishment of Qi Chen and Kindheart for defying the rules. A powerful anomalous spirit condensed into an unimaginable shockwave, sweeping through the corridor and howling like a gale!

Kindheart hurriedly searched around him for something to fend it off, but standing at the end of the corridor, there was nothing left that could allow him to utilize his warm-hearted ability.

Yet a furious roar that shattered the heavens exploded like thunder. Qi Chen, extraordinarily burly after merging with Overlord, turned himself into a solid shield. His powerful physique stood before Overlord, using his very chest to meet that violent mental shock directly!

Simultaneously, a terrifying light burst from Qi Chen's eyes, and he gritted his teeth, saying fiercely:

"Didn't you want to come out? Now that you're out, get to work!"

When he had first become an anomaly walker, Qi Chen certainly would not have spoken to his anomaly this way. However, having fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Overlord for so long, his personality had indeed been subtly influenced by Overlord to a great extent.

He showed not an ounce of politeness to Sima Yi, who had newly emerged within his body, opening his mouth to curse outright.

Sima Yi chuckled insidiously, his eyes rolling to stare straight ahead down the corridor. Then, his mask detached from Qi Chen's face, floated to his side, and instantaneously formed an anomaly draped in white robes resembling mourning attire.

"Kid, speaking to me like that will make me unhappy." Sima Yi took a bystander's stance, narrowing his eyes as he coldly watched Qi Chen resist the torrential shockwave released by Him.

Yet hearing Sima Yi's heavily mocking words, Qi Chen merely turned his head, casting a cold, emotionless glance at him. The distinct black-and-white mask of Overlord on his face seemed even more ferocious.

"If I die, can you live?" Qi Chen said, a low growl rumbling from his throat as his powerful arms swung forward fiercely, shattering the anomalous shock imprinted upon his body with a thunderous blast.

The idea of heading to the sixth floor was his own to begin with. Although the white mask had also uttered seductive words in his mind at the time, he had never pinned all his hopes on this new anomaly.

Neither he nor Overlord was a pushover.

"Roar!"

A furious roar erupted, and the terrifying aura climbed step by step. Qi Chen's build expanded sharply once more, his current state approaching infinitely close to the appearance he had when he blasted apart the Joy Candy Tree—the state of nearly total release, embracing Overlord completely!

Behind Qi Chen, Kindheart felt such a powerful aura and finally understood how the Joy Candy Tree had been dealt with by Qi Chen single-handedly back then.

In a daze, Kindheart wondered whether Qi Chen was even human or some sort of humanoid anomaly.

With combat of this intensity, he and Warm-hearted could simply not intervene. Even though he possessed anomaly integration as well, he estimated that the effect of him meddling would not be very good.

The fluctuations of battle rolled in once more. Qi Chen, whose head practically touched the ceiling, emitted heavy, ragged roars from his throat, his fists clenched tight as he blasted forward wave after wave of fierce punches.

An equally unyielding mental shock surged from the invisible opposite side.

The two massive forces clashed intensely. Endless shockwaves collided everywhere in the narrow corridor, and the compartments on both sides had long been reduced to a shambles under this impact, the wax figures inside shattered to pieces!

For a brief moment, Kindheart believed that Qi Chen might actually be able to defeat that invisible Him in this manner.

Yet accompanied by a booming crash, Qi Chen's micro-giant physique was heavily batted away, smashing into the wall at the end and raining down a shower of rubble.

Even with the activation of Overlord's anomaly domain, which could inflict double damage on anomalies, facing Him—whose existence level seemed to surpass that of anomalies—still failed to yield any obvious results.

This was because they still could not capture where His traces were, nor did they know the form in which He existed.

With blood-red eyes, Qi Chen ignored the intense pain in his body, glared viciously at Sima Yi who was floating along beside him, and demanded:

"Have you seen enough?"

Sima Yi's stark-white face revealed an uncomfortable smile, but at last, he had no intention of remaining a bystander any longer.

"To deal with such an entity, you lot are utterly useless without me."

With that, Sima Yi's figure twisted and then shot straight into Qi Chen's body with a snap.

Instantly, the mask belonging to Overlord on Qi Chen's face struggled violently, slowly yielding half the space. In the blink of an eye, the masks of both Overlord and Sima Yi coexisted on Qi Chen's face!

Half-black, half-white.

At the same time, Qi Chen learned of Sima Yi's ability from him. The corners of his mouth twitched as he softly said:

"The rules of a rule-based anomaly? My rules are the rules!"