However, Zhong Yu suddenly saw a smile on Li Shentan's lips. The magician said with a smile, "Have you forgotten? I was once a demon too... Back then, my name as a demon was much more famous than yours."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Shentan ignored the Lian people and instead took out a deck of cards from his pocket and scattered them into the sky.
Playing cards rained down from the sky, making it seem as if a deck of cards consisted of 54,000, rather than 54. They fell like a curtain of rain, and swirled around the central feathers in the air like a tornado.
Zhongyu stood in the center of the tornado, enveloped by low pressure.
He ripped his shirt, revealing his well-defined muscles and scars: "Open!"
The crimson hand reappeared in the night. Zhongyu tried his best to shatter the tornadoes of playing cards surrounding him, but found that the crimson hand passed through the playing cards, which seemed to be empty and imaginary.
"This isn't real! It's an illusion!" Zhongyu exclaimed in surprise.
He finally realized a very cruel reality: he had never truly escaped hypnosis from beginning to end.
He had thought he had broken free, but that was only breaking free of the first layer.
And now, everything he sees is what Li Shentan wants him to see!
Li Shentan said with a smile, "I don't even know how many years I've been asleep. My integration with the world has dropped to 84% now, which is enough to deal with you, so... don't underestimate me, senior!"
The next moment, the tornado of playing cards next to Zhong Yu dissipated, and Li Shentan floated in front of Zhong Yu.
In the night sky, the two demigods stood only half a meter apart, their tailcoats swaying in the moonlight like elegant harp strings.
Those silver-white hairs shone brightly.
Nobody knows how he appeared in front of Zhong Yu!
However, Li Shentan did not take this opportunity to kill Zhong Yu in one blow. Instead, he gently hugged Zhong Yu and said softly, "Don't be nervous."
Under the moonlight, the magician, dressed in a magnificent tuxedo, gently embraced the real devil.
Li Shentan whispered in Zhong Yu's ear, "Quiet."
And so, the world truly became quiet.
This is the level above demigod.
Even more bizarrely, the nanobots that made up Li Shentan's body quickly infiltrated Zhong Yu's body.
The magician vanished as if he had melted away in the moonlight.
Zhong Yu's eyes went from ferocious to calm, and then to blank. He was the only one left in the air.
Li Shentan's bizarre body has merged with Zhong Yu's, and within this body, neurons are constantly being connected, constantly identifying the consciousness!
Zhong Yu's expression changed again, from ferocious to innocent, and from innocent to calm.
It's as if every second is a different life and personality.
Zard was initially worried that Li Shentan would kill Huanyu, leading to the deaths of Xiaoyu and Dayu, but now it seems that the magician from a thousand years ago never intended to kill anyone in the first place.
But the question is... what is the other party doing?
Before Zard could figure it out, he saw nanobots seep out from behind Huan Yu, reforming the shape of Li Shen Tan, and gently landing on the ground.
It was as if Li Shentan had gently 'passed by' Huan Yu's body.
His silver hair was sometimes black and sometimes white, and Li Shentan's face repeatedly showed Zhong Yu's ferocious appearance.
Zard asked in disbelief, "You extracted his consciousness?!"
Li Shentan smiled and said, "That's right."
"How did you do that?" Zard was utterly astonished!
Li Shentan's eyes curved into crescent shapes: "Guess."
At this moment, red energy still swirled around his body, constantly moving and colliding on its surface.
Not only was Zhongyu stripped away, but the Chixin Gu was also stripped away!
Previously, Zhong Yu had tried to pull the Crimson Heart Gu himself, but had failed.
However, Li Shentan accomplished this through an extremely mysterious means.
In an instant, Li Shentan's face suddenly transformed into Zhong Yu's appearance, and he asked in confusion, "Huh, why is your body so strange?! How did you separate me from me?"
As he spoke, he ran toward Huan Yu's body, wanting to return to that body.
But before he could get close, his face changed back to Li Shentan's, and he said with a smile, "Don't struggle, it's pointless."
As he spoke, Li Shentan raised his voice and called out with a smile, "Liu Yuan, Liu Yuan, calling for Yan Liu Yuan!"
Zard looked around in surprise and doubt. Could there be a big shot hiding here?!
But Yan Liuyuan did not leave the village; instead, he opened a portal to the void next to Li Shentan.
Yan Liuyuan, who was forever young, stepped forward, holding a black Eye of True Sight in his hand. His features were exquisite, and his long hair was tied back, making him look exceptionally elegant and otherworldly: "What do you want?"
It was only then that Zard realized that demigods of this level could actually sense when someone called their name.
How is this different from the legendary gods?
Li Shentan said with a smile, "Didn't you say a while ago that you wanted to find a target that could merge with the will of the world? Today is your birthday, and your brother isn't here, so I'm giving you a birthday present on his behalf."
"Hmm?" Yan Liuyuan raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean?"
Li Shentan pointed to his chest: "There is a consciousness here that is about to merge with the world. It has never used its power properly after gaining it, and I have captured it. Didn't you say before that you wanted to separate someone from the world consciousness? The world consciousness is not so easy to deal with. Now that you want to separate someone, you have to exchange someone with it."
Yan Liuyuan looked at Li Shentan thoughtfully. At this moment, half of the face opposite him was Li Shentan's, and the other half was Zhong Yu's.
He seemed to understand something: "The time is not right yet. If we want him to integrate into the world, we need a better opportunity, but... leave it to me."
With that, he turned around and walked back behind the Gate of Nothingness, retrieved a sealed black box, and said to Li Shentan, "Come on."
Li Shentan walked to the black box and stepped inside: "After this operation, I'm afraid I'll fall into a deep sleep again. By the way, why hasn't your brother returned yet, after searching for a way to control the world's will?"
Yan Liuyuan calmly said, "Aren't you afraid that the World Will will hear you saying that?"
"What's there to be afraid of?" Li Shentan replied with a nonchalant smile.
His eyes were closed, but his body, dressed in a tuxedo, gradually melted away, returning to its liquid nanobot form.
Trapped within the nanobots, Zhong Yu suddenly burst forth from the silver liquid with a roar: "I will destroy the world along with you!"
Zhong Yu's face was contorted with rage. At this moment, Li Shentan had chosen to format his consciousness in this body, thus allowing Zhong Yu to regain control of the body.
He will use the heart of a nuclear-powered machine as his core to reshape his body and fight against Yan Liuyuan.
But Yan Liuyuan just sighed softly, "Where did this hothead come from... Let's go back."
The moment the word "go back" landed, it was as if a rule, once spoken, became law, binding Zhong Yu firmly within the box, rendering him completely immobile!
Yan Liuyuan said, "Don't worry, I'll take you to a fun place."
He closed the black box, shutting out all the roaring sounds.
Inside that black box, only Zhong Yu remained, imprisoned in utter darkness.
Yan Liuyuan glanced at Zard and the others, then, holding the Black Eye of True Sight, stepped into the Gate of Nothingness, disappearing without a trace.
Return countdown 00:30:00.
Zard quickly ran to Huanyu's side and hugged her tightly, saying, "Wake up, Huanyu, wake up!"
Huan Yu opened her eyes, looked indifferently at Zard, then at her own naked upper body, being held in Zard's arms: "Get lost."
Zard was speechless; it was Da Yu who woke up...
“Wait a minute,” Zard pointed at Lianhua, “What do you think of this girl? Do you like her?”
Da Yu dusted himself off and stood up, puzzled. "What do you mean, 'what'? Why would I like her?"
Zard breathed a long sigh of relief. The Crimson Heart Gu had been completely eradicated by Li Shentan. It was a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune!
Da Yu said coldly, "Tell me what happened. While I was asleep, I felt like I was being pulled back and forth on a cliff. This is not normal."
At this moment, Lianxin suddenly rushed over and examined Zard's body from head to toe: "How are your injuries?"
Zard said honestly, "I'm fine... Are you worried about me?"
Seeing how resilient he was, Lianxin originally wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but when she thought of how Zard had protected her just now, she couldn't say anything: "I am a little worried."
Zard said with emotion, "Having you is my blessing."
Da Yu: "I'm truly impressed by you. What's going on between you two?!"
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Inside Blackwater City on the Western Continent.
Yan Liuyuan, with his long hair combed back, suddenly appeared in front of the camera. He glanced at the ubiquitous cameras on the long street and nonchalantly put down the black box in his hand.
Perhaps due to his multiple space travels, or perhaps because he traveled too far this time, the ends of his hair began to show signs of disintegration, and his black hair was gradually turning into stardust.
Yan Liuyuan did not stay there for long. He simply opened the black box and turned to leave before Zhong Yu could react.
This is the fun place he told Zhongyu about.
Inside the black box, silver liquid nanobots, enveloping the mechanical heart, quickly stood up and sculpted the likeness of Zhong Yu.
The city's alarms had sounded, and the automatic crime detection command had been issued. The city guards quickly organized their forces to surround Zhongyu.
Zhong Yu surveyed his surroundings with a cold expression. Had that Yan Liuyuan placed him in the Western Continent?
What are they trying to do?!
Chapter 814, The Chaotic Blackwater City, a Time Bomb, Zhongyu!
A buzzing sound came from the sky above Blackwater City.
Black airships sped down from the massive aerial fortress.
The drones weave through the holographic neon lights, like ancient pterosaurs traversing a steel forest.
This scene startled pedestrians on the street, who knelt down and placed their hands on their chests in strange gestures in prayer, as if the airships in the sky were not a product of technology, but a gift from God.
Above Blackwater City, a pure black aerial fortress stands like an island, where believers kneel and pray for divine protection.
The Blackwater Duke's lineage is called the Divine Disciples, who are said to be able to absorb the power of faith to strengthen themselves. Therefore, this place is the city of faith in the Western Continent, where the Divine Disciples sow the seeds of faith.