Ye Ling noticed that the garbled code had permeated his past and realized the seriousness of the situation.
"So the key to the Sin Slayers lies in their otherworldly origins. It seems the beings of the Void Dark Side truly enjoy tampering with the past. I wonder how many past lives of Sin have fallen victim to this?"
Having identified the source of his unease, Ye Ling did not panic. Instead, he proceeded methodically to activate his Future Customization.
Ye Ling had developed a mature response protocol for the Void Dark Side's attacks on the past.
Since the garbled code appeared in every corner of his memory, he would use Future Customization to alter his past and eliminate the garbled code one by one.
As Ye Ling operated Future Customization, the traces of garbled code in his past were continuously erased, and his sense of unease weakened.
However, after Ye Ling cleared the garbled code from his past, the unease that had just subsided surged back!
"What is this!"
A sense of unease welled up within him again. Ye Ling's pupils contracted slightly. He immediately recalled his past and discovered that the garbled code, which should have been erased by him, had reappeared in other places in his memory!
Ye Ling was now like a computer infected with a virus. No matter how he used Future Customization, his antivirus program, he could not eradicate the virus.
"This is the first time Future Customization has proven ineffective. This matter is likely more serious than I imagined."
Ye Ling looked at the increasing amount of garbled code in his memory and could only temporarily use Future Customization to erase it.
Although Ye Ling's method was treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, if he didn't even treat the symptoms now, once the garbled code completely invaded Ye Ling's past and altered his cognition, it would be equivalent to his death, even if he was physiologically alive.
The Sickle Beast in the Mirror Domain of Causality also noticed the problem and asked Ye Ling with concern, "Master, are you alright? Do you need our help?"
"No need to mind me," Ye Ling said, turning to the Sickle Beast. "You take Xiao Yu and leave the Star Devouring Abyss to rendezvous with Long Yu. I will handle this alone."
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, the Sickle Beast, which had initially wanted to insist on staying to help, was startled when it saw an unnatural red light emanating from Ye Ling's body. Its desire to stay vanished instantly.
Ye Ling was clearly in some kind of predicament. With his current strength, staying would only be a hindrance and might even cost him his life.
"Master, please be careful. I will take Xiao Yu and leave now."
The Sickle Beast did not hesitate. It bowed to Ye Ling and then, taking Xiao Yu with him, flew upwards, leaving the Star Devouring Abyss.
Ye Ling watched the receding figures of the Sickle Beast and Xiao Yu. After confirming they had both left, he took a deep breath and descended into the depths of the Star Devouring Abyss.
Soon, Ye Ling caught up with the headless corpse designated as number 057. He activated his world to completely decompose number 057 for research into its structure.
After all, the garbled code in his memory was contracted in number 057's mind. To completely resolve the strange garbled code, he first needed to thoroughly study number 057.
"This artificial life form seems to be a hybrid of mechanical and flesh structures. Although they possess independent personality and consciousness, their genes are pre-programmed. Rather than calling this thing a biological organism, it's more like an AI that has awakened consciousness."
"The garbled code injected into this fellow by the otherworldly beings is the activation of the self-destruct program within his genes. This is not difficult to understand, but how did this garbled code attack my past? Was it because I occupied his body with the World Demon Heart? But the World Demon Heart only transferred my consciousness. I merely saw that segment of garbled code; it shouldn't have affected me."
After examining the body structure of number 057, Ye Ling also stripped away all of number 057's genes. Then, based on number 057's genes and body structure, he recreated a number 057 using his power of creation.
Although the otherworldly beings had already cleared all information from number 057's mind, as long as Ye Ling extracted number 057's genes, it was not a problem to create an identical number 057.
Soon, a brand new number 057 appeared before Ye Ling.
As soon as number 057 was created, a large amount of data flickered in its pupils, as if it were scanning Ye Ling.
"Scan complete. Target confirmed as the reincarnation of Sin. Preparing to record data."
As number 057 spoke, it directly attacked Ye Ling.
"Did this otherworldly realm embed the mission to eliminate Sin into the genes of the Sin Slayers?"
Seeing that number 057 attacked him as soon as it was created, Ye Ling was quite speechless. He directly used the Original Text to freeze number 057.
"It seems impossible to make these Sin Slayers my own. I should honestly treat them as experimental subjects."
Ye Ling looked at the frozen number 057 and sighed slightly. Then, he directly injected the segment of garbled code from his memory into number 057's mind.
As the garbled code entered number 057's mind, it began to clear all information within.
Ye Ling, who had been monitoring number 057's genes, successfully intercepted a segment of affected gene sequence from number 057 after injecting the garbled code into its mind!
"This is it!"
Ye Ling immediately memorized that gene sequence, his eyes lighting up. At the same moment Ye Ling found the gene sequence, number 057 experienced an explosion once again!
The number 057 created by Ye Ling also met its death.
However, Ye Ling's objective had been achieved. He separately extracted that gene sequence from number 057 and then compared it with his own genes.
Soon, Ye Ling found a part of his own genes that was similar to that gene sequence from number 057.
Moreover, like number 057, his segment of gene sequence was also affected by the garbled code.
"As expected... my guess was not wrong. That otherworldly realm must possess all information about Sin, and these so-called Sin Slayers are created based on Sin's information, with Sin's genes implanted... That's why I, like the Sin Slayers, am affected by that garbled code."
Ye Ling's experiment on number 057 helped him find the root cause of his being affected by the garbled code, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
He now thoroughly understood why the artificial life forms of that otherworldly realm were called Sin Slayers.
As long as they found Sin, regardless of whether they were Sin's opponent, if they were killed by Sin, that otherworldly realm would use that garbled code to make the Sin Slayers perish together with Sin!
Ye Ling looked at the affected gene sequence within his body and murmured, "How much hatred does the 'Venerable' of this otherworldly realm have for Sin? To come up with such a method?"