So, Lianpeng's mother would tell Lianpeng, and Lianpeng would then tell Lianxin: This is the man deeply loved by Chief Lianyi, a very powerful figure.
However, they knew who the wood carving depicted, but they were unaware that there was more to the wood carving than met the eye.
Now, seeing the large, colorful pythons that often accompanied the wooden carvings following behind Li Shentan, Lianpeng immediately realized that the figures in the wooden carvings had come out!
The other party has always stayed in this village and has never left!
This young man has been protecting this village for the sake of the little girl named 'Lianyi' from back then.
During the final battle of the last AI crisis, Li Shentan was still visiting Zhuzhou.
That year, Clan Chief Lianyi's driving skills were constantly being used to tease Li Shentan's face, but she never actually fed him the Red Heart Gu, nor did she want to restrict his life.
Later, in the darkest hour of battle, Li Shentan sacrificed himself to hold off a million-strong army of omnipotent machines.
Later, Li Shentan died.
The founder of the Hu Clan Intelligence Agency, 'Hu Shuo,' who is also Li Shentan's maternal grandfather, personally delivered this wooden carving and glanced at his future granddaughter-in-law, Lianyi.
Lianyi was heartbroken and cried by the wooden carving for over a month. Hu Shuo couldn't comfort her and could only sigh and leave in the end.
Lianyi devoted her life to the wood carving and never found a partner again. However, what she didn't know was that after Li Shentan lost his body, he accompanied her through her life in another way.
Now, Li Shentan has reappeared, as if a thousand years have left no trace on him.
Zhong Yu sensed the danger and narrowed his eyes. This was an unprecedented sense of crisis, as if death was imminent.
He watched the silver coins tumbling and jumping between the other person's fingers, feeling as if his gaze was being drawn to them.
Zhong Yu calmly asked, "I know who you are, Li Shentan. But what I'm more curious about is that, in my perception, you have already crossed that critical point, yet you are still standing here unharmed. How did you do that?"
Just as there is a threshold between A-level and demigod, there is also a threshold for merging with the world.
Before crossing that threshold, one is a demigod; after crossing it, one enters another realm.
The reason why Li Shentan and Yan Liuyuan are called demigods is because there is no other realm between demigods and gods, so they can only be called demigods.
Therefore, not all demigods are the same.
Li Shentan looked at Zhong Yu with great interest: "You've actually reached the demigod level. That's quite unexpected. When I first started paying attention to you, you were only at the peak of B-rank. How did you suddenly cross that threshold? And for you to leap into demigod status and even reach the critical point is a bit too illogical."
Zhong Yu laughed and said, "There are many illogical things in this world. Just like how you've lived this long, does that make sense? People used to call you the Devil Whisperer, but now you're not evil at all. Does that make sense?"
“The Demon Whisperer from a thousand years ago is long dead. Now, Li Shentan is just Li Shentan, nothing more,” Li Shentan slowly closed his eyes.
"Quiet."
But then the silver coin between his fingers bounced high into the air, its clear, melodious sound like a long sword being drawn from its sheath cutting through the night sky.
The next moment, everyone in the village stared blankly, even Zard was no exception.
Hypnosis!
A thousand years later, the hypnotic arts of the Demon Whisperer reappeared in the world.
Moreover, the terrifying power of Li Shentan's attack far exceeded expectations; even an A-level player like Zard could not escape it, and Zhong Yu's expression showed signs of struggle.
But Zhongyu's eyes kept alternating between black and white, his expression sometimes ferocious, sometimes innocent, and sometimes calm.
Li Shentan went into slumber to preserve his will from being absorbed by the world; only through slumber could he gather his gradually disintegrating will back together.
Every year he remains dormant, Li Shentan has one opportunity to make a move, and now he is using that opportunity against Zhong Yu.
Previously, Zhong Yu used his power to manifest hundreds of scarlet hands, suppressing hundreds of people in the village, including more than twenty A-level golden corpses.
Zhong Yu's victory seemed effortless, but in reality, it was extremely taxing, so he is not at his peak right now.
Li Shentan's move didn't even give Zhong Yu a chance to retaliate.
But at this moment, Zard, who was not Li Shentan's main target, opened his eyes by his own will: "If you kill him, Xiaoyu will die too!"
Li Shentan looked at Zard in surprise, never expecting that this unconventional lunatic possessed the potential to break free from his hypnosis.
Although he attacked indiscriminately and did not target Zard, how many people in this world can break free from his hypnosis?
Moreover, breaking free from his hypnosis comes at a price.
Li Shentan asked with great interest, "You went to great lengths to break free from my hypnosis, suffering severe damage to your mental and physical strength, all to protect that Xiaoyu?"
“Hmm,” Zard said, his spirits noticeably dampened. “I’d like to ask, what is the principle behind your hypnosis?”
Li Shentan thought for a moment and explained, "It's been a long time since I've explained this kind of thing to anyone. The true essence of hypnosis is to get the other person to entrust their subconscious to your hands."
Zard earnestly asked, "Then could you seal Zhongyu separately and hypnotize him forever?"
“No,” Li Shentan shook his head with a smile: “He is a demigod-level superhuman. Even if I have Ren Xiaosu’s mental will, I can’t hypnotize him ‘forever’. The seal will eventually loosen.”
"Then can we kill him alone?" Zard asked again.
Li Shentan shook his head: "No need to kill him, I still have a use for him."
In an instant, the three souls that had been pulled apart by the Crimson Hand were pulled apart again by Li Shentan through hypnosis.
Three silver phantoms entangled and swirled around Huan Yu's body. Only Zhong Yu struggled, while the other two silently endured it.
Li Shentan exclaimed, "I see... No wonder you were able to reach this level so quickly. I was curious before, such a genius, I have only seen one person like Qing Zhun in the past thousand years, and even that was only possible because Yan Liuyuan had the blessing of luck. Your talent is not as good as Qing Zhun's, so you shouldn't be able to do it."
Zard paused for a moment, then asked, "What do you mean?"
“The reason that hideous and evil soul possesses extraordinary potential is entirely because it plundered the spiritual will of that young and innocent soul,” Li Shentan lamented. “It was like a parasite, clinging to that body and constantly devouring the little guy’s spiritual will.”
Zard was completely stunned by those words.
He had thought that as long as Zhongyu continued to sleep, they would live in peace.
But now it seems that if Zhongyu continues to live, Xiaoyu and Dayu will probably be 'eaten' by Zhongyu sooner or later!
After Zhongyu and Dayu reached an agreement, Zhongyu fell into a deep sleep. On the surface, Zhongyu was going to give his body to Xiaoyu and Dayu, but this agreement was just a way for him to buy himself time; he wanted to 'devour' Xiaoyu first!
No wonder Xiaoyu's awakening time is always shorter than Dayu's, because Xiaoyu's mental and physical strength is already very weak.
If the souls within his body consisted only of Xiaoyu and Zhongyu, then Zhongyu's ultimate fate would be to merge with the will of the world. However, after the arrival of Dayu, his ambition began to swell.
Zhongyu hopes that Dayu will continue to grow. When Dayu grows to a certain stage, he will then absorb Dayu to complete 100% world fusion and become the second god in this world!
Zard said in a daze, "But he used to cherish Xiaoyu a lot, and he often talked about Xiaoyu."
Li Shentan laughed out loud: "Aren't there enough liars in this world? You can't believe a single word from gamblers, drug addicts, politicians, or conspirators. You're just like a friend of mine, so naive that it makes people feel sorry for you."
Zard said in a low voice, "What do we do now..."
Li Shentan pondered for a moment and said, "We'll only know after we try."
Actually, the best way now is to kill Lianhua directly, so that Huanyu will die along with Lianhua.
But justice is a unique shackle, and neither Li Shentan nor Zard are willing to sacrifice Xiaoyu, Dayu, and Lianhua to punish an evil soul.
Just then, Huan Yu's eyes turned pure black again: "What a strange experience, as if I've slept for a long century. As expected of the Demon Whisperer, so powerful... But why didn't you take the opportunity to kill me? Was it because you didn't want to, or because your body couldn't fully bear your terrifying mental will, so you couldn't?"
Chapter 813, Above Demigod
In the history of the Federation, Li Shentan died in the catastrophe a thousand years ago.
He has been missing for so long that no one has a clear idea of his fighting ability and can only guess.
“I don’t know where your body came from, but the history recorded within the Chen family is not wrong. The physical body of Li Shentan, the Demon Whisperer, was annihilated a thousand years ago,” Zhong Yu analyzed slowly. “So, since this body is a substitute, you shouldn’t be able to exert your full strength.”
Li Shentan listened with a smile, without refuting, "Go on."
Zhongyu: "Besides, you should also be facing the crisis of assimilation into the world, right? You've already made your move once, so you probably don't dare to make another one now, right? Hehe."
Li Shentan asked with interest, "So, you can underestimate a senior who has achieved 85% assimilation with the world based on these guesses? You've guessed my strength, now let me guess yours... I guess after you forcibly devoured your younger brother's spiritual will, you were forced into a deep sleep and didn't have time to familiarize yourself with the power you gained, right?"
The next moment, the magician from a thousand years ago took off his top hat, and with a slight flick of his wrist, a rustling sound rang out.
From that magical top hat, hundreds of white doves flew out one after another, flapping their wings and flying towards Zhongyu.
Strangely, those white doves had bloodshot eyes and jet-black tails, unlike the doves in the hands of a normal magician, which were unusually fierce.
A scarlet hand appeared in the night, trying to crush the eerie flock of white doves.
But just as seven or eight scarlet hands appeared, the flock of white doves suddenly scattered, causing all the scarlet hands to miss their mark!
This Li Shentan was precisely controlling the white doves, displaying powerful micro-management like a swarm of drones. No matter how strong your strength was, it was easily neutralized by this control ability.
White doves circled and sprinted in the air, disappearing without a trace in the mist.
With a loud bang, hundreds of white doves crashed into Zhong Yu and exploded into clouds of white gas, blasting Zhong Yu more than ten meters away.
Zhongyu caught himself with a scarlet hand as he flew backwards, and stood on the giant hand as he rose into the air.
But his clothes were tattered and he was covered in blood, yet his expression suddenly became excited.
"Is this what a demigod who has lived for a thousand years looks like? Nothing special, hehe," Zhong Yu said with a laugh.
However, despite saying this, he did not choose to attack Li Shentan head-on. Instead, he used the scarlet hands that were controlling the Lian people to suddenly clench his fist!
Some of the stronger members of the Lian tribe suddenly suffered internal organ bleeding due to compression, while some of the weaker members of the Lian tribe died on the spot.
Along with those golden corpses, their entire bodies were being squeezed so tightly that they creaked and groaned.
In a short moment, more than half of the Lian clan members were killed or wounded, and more than twenty golden corpses were powerless against this newly promoted demigod.
Zhongyu laughed as he spoke into the Crimson Hand, "Are you going to rescue someone first, or come and fight me first? Hehe."
The Crimson Hand can't hit Lee Shentan, but it can hit others!
A demon who claims to care for his younger brother but devours his spirit and will will not consider whether his methods are righteous or not; he only cares about maximizing his own interests!
Zhong Yu believes that Li Shentan will not have many more opportunities to make a move. He only needs to stall for a little longer before Li Shentan will have to fall asleep again.
He understands the critical point; he has his own judgment.
At this moment, Zard shouted to Chen Jiazhang, "Help!"
Chen Jiazhang suddenly woke up from the hypnosis and immediately ran towards Lianpeng.
A scarlet hand reached out to grab him, but he met it head-on without flinching, smashing the scarlet hand with his own body and continuing to run towards Lianpeng.
Lianpeng struggled and said, "Get out of here, I don't need your help."
Chen Jiazhang laughed bitterly, "What the hell does it have to do with you if I want to save you?"
Zard also wanted to save people, but the crimson hand that materialized in the air slapped him away early on. Zhong Yu sneered, "Li Shentan, are you going to save these people first, or fight me first?"