# 196
**Chapter 196: The Rubik’s Cube Reappears**
“Qiye!” When Baili Pangpang saw who had arrived, his eyes lit up and he shouted excitedly.
Lin Qiye’s gaze fell on the two enemies in front of him. He spoke calmly, “Take Shen Qingzhu and go. Leave this to me.”
Shen Qingzhu looked at Lin Qiye, then at the two River Realm enemies not far away. He frowned, about to say something, when Baili Pangpang beneath him decisively bolted off at full speed.
In moments, they had vanished from sight.
“Hey, aren’t you afraid Lin Qiye will die there? Those are two River Realm powerhouses,” Shen Qingzhu asked in a low voice.
“I’m not,” Baili Pangpang said with certainty. “If it were anyone else, they’d definitely die. But he’s Lin Qiye. He won’t die.”
“That’s blind worship.”
“No.” Baili Pangpang shook his head and corrected him seriously, “It’s trust.”
Shen Qingzhu stared at Baili Pangpang in a daze. The image of Li Liang flashed through his mind, and he lowered his head silently…
Once, he had been trusted like this too.
But the one who trusted him had died right in front of his eyes.
Unconsciously, Shen Qingzhu clenched his fists tightly. A rare determination flashed in his slightly red eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Baili Pangpang noticed something off and asked.
“Baili Tuming.” Shen Qingzhu took a deep breath and spoke calmly, “Remember what I say today. If we make it out of here alive, I, Shen Qingzhu, will personally destroy the entire Believers. I’ll make every single one of them pay with their lives for my brother.
If I fail, after I die, seal my ashes in a jar. Don’t bury me, don’t place me in a cemetery, and definitely don’t let me rest in the Night Watch graveyard—just sink me into the sea…”
“Why?” Baili Pangpang was stunned.
“Because I won’t have the face to see him,” Shen Qingzhu said calmly.
Baili Pangpang was silent for a long time, then nodded heavily. “I understand.”
…
On the other side, in the cave.
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes at the two figures in front of him, standing alone in the middle of the path like an immovable mountain.
“Just moments ago, we were saying we might not find you. Now, you’ve delivered yourself to us,” Zhuang Qi sneered.
Lin Qiye said nothing. He simply tightened his grip on the Straight Blade.
He had searched through the maze-like cave for over ten minutes before finally locating Baili Pangpang and Shen Qingzhu. To others, this labyrinth might’ve been disorienting, but for someone who could extend his mental perception over a hundred meters, it was like having X-ray vision.
As he walked through one tunnel, he could clearly sense where the passages above, below, left, and right led. It was thanks to this ability that he could accurately predict the silver man’s attack and smash through the rock from above, descending unexpectedly.
The silver man slightly bent his body. His arms transformed into two long spears, his legs bulging larger than before. He kicked off the ground and shot forward like a silver bolt of lightning through the darkness, aiming straight for Lin Qiye’s face.
Lin Qiye’s Straight Blade rose swiftly, as if he had completely read the silver man’s movements. He precisely blocked the tips of the two spears, but the immense force within the man’s body easily sent him flying backward!
Lin Qiye flipped midair, dispersing some of the force. His black military coat fluttered like butterfly wings as he landed lightly on the cave wall, cracking the surface with the impact.
Strictly speaking, this was Lin Qiye’s first direct confrontation with the silver man.
He wasn’t afraid of enemies like this—those who relied purely on physical attributes and combat techniques. Even if they were a whole realm above him, he could still hold his own using his swordsmanship and the Darkest God’s Ruins.
The real trouble was Zhuang Qi, who could control hunting blade fragments.
Zhuang Qi slowly raised the handle of his hunting blade. The fine fragments first returned to the blade, then shattered again—this time into even smaller pieces. A mist of silver blade fragments swirled around him before surging toward Lin Qiye.
This kind of unreasonable special attack was nearly impossible to counter unless one had a Forbidden Ruins that could specifically restrain it. No matter how skilled you were, if someone stuffed blade fragments into your internal organs, you wouldn’t survive.
Fortunately, Lin Qiye now had a way to deal with him.
Lin Qiye slowly raised his left hand. Brilliant magical light burst from his palm as a massive and magnificent deep-blue magic circle formed in the air, spinning rapidly!
Both Zhuang Qi and the silver man were stunned.
“What is this? The intel didn’t say the Dual God Agent had this kind of ability!” Zhuang Qi muttered in confusion.
The silver man stared at the dazzling array, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart…
The deep-blue magic circle gradually faded, and a silver three-tiered Rubik’s Cube floated above Lin Qiye’s palm. Mysterious spatial ripples emanated from it. On the small square in the top-left corner, a string of tiny numbers was written:
—003.
Asylum of the Gods Caregiver No. 003, Chaos Rubik’s Cube.
Lin Qiye looked at the floating cube in his hand, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
The summoning magic he had learned from Merlin was divided into three types: random summoning magic that could conjure a bunch of miscellaneous items at will, dimensional summoning magic that allowed travel to other planes by offering sacrifices and forming contracts with beings there, and… designated summoning magic.
In this dimension, by coming into contact with a being and obtaining their consent, one could summon them elsewhere. The mental energy cost depended on the distance between them and the life intensity of the summoned being. This type of summoning didn’t require materials as a medium.
The trickiest part of designated summoning magic was the distance limitation. If the target was too far, it would consume a huge amount of mental energy, making it not worth the cost. But for Lin Qiye, this wasn’t an issue.
After all, the asylum was inside his body. The distance between him and the caregivers was essentially zero.
Summoning something from himself to his hand naturally didn’t consume much energy. The only real difficulty was the life intensity of the target.
Lin Qiye was currently in the Pond Realm, while most of his caregivers were in the River Realm. Summoning across realms consumed a large amount of mental energy, so he could only summon one caregiver at a time.
But for the current situation, that was more than enough!
Lin Qiye held the Chaos Rubik’s Cube in his left hand and the Straight Blade in his right. Facing the surging silver blade mist, a smile appeared on his face.
The cube in his hand spun rapidly!
The space around him was instantly divided into countless invisible small cubes. As the cube turned, the space spun wildly—the air in front, the rock wall to the left, the earth above, the passage behind…
The space around Lin Qiye was thrown into complete chaos!
And the silver blade mist controlled by Zhuang Qi was like mahjong tiles tossed into an automatic shuffler, spinning frantically around Lin Qiye.
“What the hell is this? A relic?”
Zhuang Qi clenched his teeth, trying to control the mist to kill Lin Qiye. But every time the mist was about to touch Lin Qiye’s body, the Chaos Rubik’s Cube would teleport it to another space. Though they were clearly close, it was as if they were separated by an entire world…
This was Lin Qiye’s solution—his way to deal with Zhuang Qi.
The Chaos Rubik’s Cube was the perfect counter to this Forbidden Ruins!
The silver man frowned and charged again. Just as he was about to step into the edge of the chaotic space, he suddenly stopped. His right arm transformed into a nearly ten-meter-long bayonet, thrusting straight at Lin Qiye’s throat.
He was smart—he didn’t step into the chaotic space. Instead, he attacked from the outside, using the length of his blade to pierce through the chaotic space and strike Lin Qiye.
He was cautious… but Lin Qiye was even more cunning.
Lin Qiye’s lips curled into a smile. The Chaos Rubik’s Cube in his hand flared with silver light, and the range of the chaotic space around him suddenly doubled—directly pulling the silver man inside!