Even powerful figures like the demigods Yan Liuyuan and Li Shentan, who orchestrated this time-travel incident, were not exempt.
Yan Liuyuan's reason for remaining in a deep sleep for a long time was to resist the process of being assimilated by the world's will by sealing himself away.
However, today, for Qingchen's sake, Shadow took the initiative to cross that critical line and became the person closest to the gods!
Shadow turned to Qingchen and asked with a smile, "So, your brother is pretty amazing, isn't he?"
Qingchen wiped away her tears: "Amazing, my brother is the most amazing."
“No regrets,” the shadow laughed loudly.
This shadow stands in this wilderness, amidst a vast army.
The heavens and earth revolved around him, their majestic power like a whale's breath, and even the dark clouds in the sky were violently parted.
Shadow turned to look at Lee Byung-hee and Chen Yu.
"Lee Byung-hee, do you want to kill me? You're not worthy."
"Chen Yu, I am an insurmountable mountain in your life. From this day forward, you will feel fear whenever you think of me. Your path of cultivation ends today!"
As they spoke, the clouds in the sky churned and formed a huge vortex.
A mournful sound came from the sky, like a giant whale swimming within it.
The world resounds!
Chen Yu murmured, "God...you've crossed over."
At this moment, Chen Yu and Li Bingxi had lost their previous composure.
They had guessed the Shadow's realm, but they never imagined that... the Shadow could actually take the initiative to cross the insurmountable chasm between demigods and gods!
They are now fighting not mortals, but gods for a quarter of an hour!
It turns out that this was Shadow's biggest trump card, which he had kept hidden for a century, intending to use it to usher in a new era for his younger brother.
"Chen Yu, kill him!" Li Bingxi said in a low voice, but he turned and ran away.
A dignified demigod, yet before the shadow, he was like a stray dog, completely disregarding his dignity as he ran wildly, with all his clones running in twenty-four different directions.
I dare not speak loudly.
It might startle the celestial beings!
But how could the shadow let Lee Byung-hee off the hook? He whispered, "Time!"
The world suddenly slowed down and froze.
Everyone froze, including the demigods.
There are fixed rules for extraordinary individuals in the world. Any force applied to other extraordinary individuals will be resisted by their life force field. For example, Yang Yang can destroy war robots, but she cannot control B-level extraordinary individuals at will.
If the demigods hadn't noticed the Shadow's ability to freeze time, they would have also been frozen in time. For them, time would have been normal; only the Shadow's speed would have been relatively faster.
However, if a demigod senses something, such as a shadow killing someone in front of them, the demigod can resist with their own mental will and break free from the laws of time.
This is also why Shadow never sought to fight demigods in the past.
But things are different now. The Shadow is no longer a demigod; he is a rank higher than all other demigods and is now touching the realm of gods.
Even if he were to die in a quarter of an hour, he would still be a god for that quarter of an hour!
The body is like mountains and seas!
As brilliant as stars!
Therefore, when the force field called 'Time' was unleashed, even the speed of a demigod froze!
The shadow strode towards Lee Byung-hee, casually defeating all twenty-four of Lee Byung-hee's clones one by one.
As Lee Byung-hee's clones shattered one by one, the shadow stood beside Lee Byung-hee's main body, looking at the aged demigod before him. The look of terror on the other's face froze in time.
The shadow chuckled, "I knew you had a forbidden item that could save your life, which is why I dared to come here. The Love Lock, that thing is in your heart, isn't it?"
He had searched for a forbidden item to save Ning Xiu's life, so he knew who the love lock was on.
He already knew.
In fact, both Chen Yu and Li Bingxi, these two demigods, dared to come here because they possessed forbidden items that could save their lives.
Forbidden item ACE-023, a love lock.
"We do not ask to be born on the same day, month, and year, but we ask to die on the same day, month, and year. If one of us dies, the other will take our place. If the husband dies, the wife's body will turn into a cocoon, but it is the husband who emerges from the cocoon, and the wife dies in his place. The husband will return to the physical functions of a 21-year-old. This forbidden item was found on the grave of a superhuman couple who were deeply in love and at odds. To use this forbidden item, one must be a couple who have lived together for more than 21 years."
Lee Byung-hee dared to come because of this taboo item.
Therefore, Lee Byung-hee never intended to exchange his own life for resources; he intended to exchange his wife's life for those resources.
Chen Yu also had one.
The forbidden item ACE-90, the indestructible brooch, is a single-use item. Qingwen obtained it from Qingyi and later gave it to Chenyu by Qingwen's mother, Qingyun.
In this war, the two demigods have four objectives.
The first goal is to wear down the shadow.
Both sides share the same goal: to kill the other demigod. Chen Yu wants to kill Li Bingxi, and Li Bingxi wants to kill Chen Yu. They both possess the world's only forbidden treasures for self-preservation, so they're not afraid of death. This is equivalent to simultaneously exhausting both the shadow and the other demigod, greatly increasing their chances of winning.
The third objective is to kill Qing Chen, thus wiping out the Knights' lineage. While the Knights' advancement is perilous, the process is shorter than that of other demigods. They all fear that two demigods might coexist within the Knights; if that were to happen, none of the conglomerate leaders would have peace of mind!
The fourth resource exchange involves Lee Byung-hee needing the resources held by the Kyung family.
The shadow sighed, "Lee Byung-hee, Lee Byung-hee, your wife will die with you today. If it weren't for you, I would never have killed a kind-hearted old woman. You deserve to die."
As he spoke, Shadow gently traced Lee Byung-hee's throat with his finger, severing all of Lee's life force.
A dignified demigod died like a coward in front of a shadow.
He touched Lee Byung-hee's body and took out a scalpel from the other's sleeve: "Huh, the forbidden substance ACE-043 is actually on you. It belongs to my brother now."
The shadow turned around and came to Chen Yu again, laughing, "I know I can't kill you today. That damn indestructible brooch is really strange. I went to your house but couldn't find where it was hidden. It must be kept by the person you trust the most."
As he spoke, Shadow used the scalpel he had just acquired to sever Chen Yu's neck.
No one in the world had ever imagined that someone could kill a demigod as easily as slaughtering a dog!
But then Chen Yu's body turned into smoke and flew south; that was Chen Yu's soul, summoned by the undying brooch.
"What a pity," the shadow said with a smile, "but your Dao heart has been broken. Just wait for my brother to come and kill you."
The shadow walked back to Qingchen and placed the scalpel he had just received into Qingchen's hand. He stared at it, calculating every second.
Then, this deity gently wiped away the tears from Qingchen's eyes.
He studied him for a moment, gently embraced his equally frozen younger brother, and then let go.
"Xiao Chen, this is the end of the road I can walk with you."
"Run, run with a speed that even despair cannot catch. Slay all your enemies, stand on my shoulders, and see the world that should have been yours."
The six suns in the sky have been extinguished because of Chen Yu's 'death'.
The shadow opened the door to darkness and entered the dimly lit hut in the Ginkgo Manor.
He looked at his father, who still had his back to him, slowly knelt down, and kowtowed: "Father, I beg you for my brother's sake. Let us be father and son again in the next life."
After saying this, the shadow placed the necklace around its neck on the ground, its body completely disintegrated, and turned into a handful of stars that flew into the sky.
A tear fell to the ground in front of the old man.
There will never be another Qingzhun in this world.
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In a corner of the northern city No. 25.
Qingye looked at the old woman imprisoned in the iron cage in front of him. She had been poisoned and was unable to speak.
This is Lee Byung-hee's first wife, imprisoned here by him, awaiting her fate of death.
As Qingye's shadow troops were finishing up their work, he called Ginkgo Manor: "Master, we've just found Lee Byung-hee's wife..."
A cold voice came from the other end of the phone: "Kill him."
Qingye hung up the phone, looked at the old woman, and sighed, "I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to kill you. Lee Byung-hee is dead. If you have any grudges, go find him on the road to the underworld."
When the old woman heard Qingye say that Li Bingxi was dead, her gaze towards him was no longer filled with despair, but rather with gratitude.
Qingye seemed to understand something, raised his hand and pulled the trigger, the bullet hitting the old woman precisely between the eyebrows.
On the southern battlefield, after a brief moment of being frozen by the shadow, Chen Yu disappeared without a trace. Li Bingxi covered his neck, struggled for a moment, transformed into a mandarin duck, flew into the sky, and then turned into pink light and shadow.
Zard exclaimed, "Wow, the special effects for this forbidden item are so beautiful."
At this moment, Qing Chen was still surrounded by the Chen family's army.
He felt as if he had just had a long dream.
That period of time, though it seemed to pass quickly, felt like an eternity.
Qing Chen looked at the scalpel in his hand and couldn't help but burst into tears. The next moment, the lightning magma in his body erupted and surged continuously.
But his eyes were like gold, and even his tears turned golden. When they fell to the ground, each tear even sparked countless arcs of electricity.
Qingchen looked at Yangyang and said, "I don't have a brother anymore."
On this day, the shadow allowed Qingchen to witness his own death.
This was the last gift he gave to his younger brother, helping him awaken to A-level.
Chapter 647, The Battle Continues
People often define the battle in which Kamishiro Chika fell as the battle of the century, simply because all five demigods participated in that battle: Li Shutong, Kamishiro Chika, Li Bingxi, Chen Yu, and Shadow.
But in that battle, the only one who could actually kill was Shadow, yet he didn't kill anyone.
It's simply because he hasn't found Lee Byung-hee's first wife yet, nor has he found Chen Yu's indestructible brooch.
It's simply because he hasn't properly handed over the power he holds to Qing Chen yet.
This time it's different; the shadow is here to kill the demigod.