Meng Chao's slash had gone too deep.
The mental core of the monster's mastermind had crumbled a little.
Since it had happened in a hurry, the "suturing" was not done in a precise manner.
The two halves of its body were not aligned, and quite a number of its joints were not aligned in their sockets either. They were just haphazardly pieced together in an inverted position.
At that moment, it no longer had the awe-inspiring demon-like presence it had moments ago.
Instead, it looked a little like its creation. Those deformed and ugly sutures were strange.
But the endless stream of blood tattoos and green tides eventually extinguished most of the golden flames.
The wound from its waist to its chest quickly healed.
Only a stubborn golden light shone at the center of its brows.
As the cracking sounds of its bones being pieced together rose, it looked as if it had broken free of invisible shackles and gradually regained its ability to move.
Boom!
Since it was haphazardly pieced together, its legs were of different lengths. When it strode forward, it lost its balance and fell to the ground.
In the end, it decided to bend its limbs one hundred and eighty degrees and use its hands and feet to crawl toward Meng Chao and Lu Siya like a strange crawling creature.
Every time its palms or feet stomped on the ground made of bones, a deafening boom would sound.
It was its anger, and it turned into a visible storm that blew at Meng Chao and Lu Siya so much that they could not open their eyes.
The two of them did not even turn their heads back. They just ran toward the crack on the wall of the karst skeleton cave that shone with golden light.
However, the ground under their feet was extending into the distance without them realizing it, causing the golden crack that was so close to them to become so far away that they could not reach it.
The karst skeleton cave was expanding nonstop.
What was worse was that a large number of blood tattoos and green tides crawled out of the thousands of bones that formed the wall and rushed toward the golden crack.
First, they extinguished the stubborn flames. Then, like surgical sutures, they sewed up the crack and tightened it.
The monster's mastermind was madly repairing the crack in the mind.
The light disappeared inch by inch.
The illusion became airtight and indestructible again.
"No …"
Meng Chao could only watch as his only path of escape closed up again.
He wanted to flap his mind's wings and take Lu Siya into the air.
However, his mental power had been burnt up in the earth-shattering attack just now. His skull and chest were empty, and his legs were as heavy as lead.
The ground squirmed nonstop, and countless sharp bone fragments shot out. They were like grayish-white thorns that wrapped around his and Lu Siya's feet.
Every time they took a step forward, their feet would be torn open by the bone thorns, causing them to bleed profusely.
Just by gritting his teeth and moving forward, he had to use all his strength.
He really did not have any strength left to fly towards the light that was getting further and further away.
Behind them, the skeletal giant let out another low laugh.
When Meng Chao turned his head around to look, he noticed that the skeletal giant's back was pressed against the ground. Its belly was facing the sky, and its head was turned one hundred and eighty degrees. With an incredibly strange expression, it stared at him.
Since his face was upside down, his huge eyes, which were like blood diamonds, were closer to the ground, so he could see Meng Chao even more clearly.
In addition, its head was also twitching, as if it was sniffing something.
"Interesting."
It stared at Meng Chao for a while before it suddenly said, "Your soul is different from the others. It seems to be hiding something that shouldn't belong to a human. What is it?"
It extended its demonic palm to Meng Chao.
Its fingers split apart and turned into countless white venomous snakes.
When Meng Chao observed them closely, he noticed that the venomous snakes were formed by the spines on the skeleton. They were connected from head to tail and were formed by entangling each other.
Countless venomous snakes slithered toward Meng Chao.
Meng Chao's heart sank into a bottomless pit.
The most terrifying thing happened.
The monster's mastermind had noticed his greatest secret.
Once it tore apart his will and devoured his soul, it might absorb his memories of his previous life and even Kindling itself!
Meng Chao did not know how the monster's mastermind would twist Kindling.
He only knew that the monster's mastermind would become even stronger than it was now, and it would be unstoppable.
Perhaps with the help of Meng Chao's previous life's memories, it could really help Dragon City win the Other World war?
Even so, at that time, the one who would rule Dragon City, the Other World, and even the galaxy would definitely not be human civilization, but monster civilization 2.0!
'Could it be that even if I live my life again, I still won't be able to change anything? In fact, I'll just make the future even worse?
'No! Absolutely not!'
Meng Chao would rather have his soul destroyed than see this sort of future.
He stared at the thousands of venomous snakes charging at him and clenched his fists with the strength that could explode crystals.
The crazily dancing bone snakes were about to pierce his soul.
Then, something unexpected happened!
The bone snake charging at the forefront was only one finger away from Meng Chao's eyes.
But an indestructible, transparent barrier seemed to have appeared between its sharp fangs and Meng Chao's fragile eyeball.
No matter how it stabbed, it could not pierce through.
No, it was not just this bone snake.
Instead, all the venomous spinal snakes and even the skeletal giant sensed a strange, hot, and surging power coming from their bodies!
"This is …"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya watched in dumbfounded silence as the wound at the center of the skeletal giant's brows grew larger.
The wound, which Meng Chao had left by burning his soul, had already healed by 99%.
From its waist to its throat to the tip of its nose, it was covered by dense blood tattoos and the green tide.
Only a hole the size of a sesame seed was left at the center of its brows.
The light that gushed out of the hole was like a candle in the wind. It was incredibly dim.
But now, the light's brightness and intensity had increased by one hundred times.
From a dying candle, it turned into the most intense eruption of lava.
Whoosh!
The skeletal giant's entire head was set on fire.
The golden wound at the center of its brows that was about to heal tore open again, and its head was cut in half.
The golden flames turned into a dazzling torch that illuminated the entire carcass cave. It also lit up the final hope in Meng Chao and Lu Siya's hearts.
In fact, the lava that gushed out of the skeletal giant's mind stabbed into the wall of the carcass cave like a golden blade. It blocked the escape path Meng Chao had just opened.
It temporarily stopped the crack from closing up.
The blood tattoos and the green tide that surged at him burned and vanished.
"Just what is this power? It seems like it's helping us … open the exit of the illusion?"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other. They could not believe their eyes.
This strange power came from the depths of the monster's mastermind's mind.
But it did not seem like the mastermind's own power.
Not only did it help the two humans open the exit of the illusion, it also burned the skeletal giant's head.
It even burned the Skeletal Giant's head, causing the Skeletal Giant to scream in agony. It hugged its head that had been split in two and rolled around in pain.
The golden flames burned even more fiercely.
In the depths of the flames, a mysterious power gathered together to form an indistinct corporeal form. It was like a phoenix that had been reborn in fire. It spread its brilliant wings and widened the escape path for the two humans.
At the center of the flames were wisps of golden flames that intersected with each other to form a huge face that was smiling faintly.
"This is …"
Lu Siya cried out. "Jin Qianxi?"
Meng Chao's eyes went wide.
The face formed by Kindling that gushed out of the core of the monster's mastermind's mind was that of a heroic girl. It was the Jin Qianxi he had seen many times in the memories of the microcomputer. She was the female human warrior who had fought against the monster's mastermind for decades on the invisible battlefront with her own strength!
In an instant, Jin Qianxi's smile illuminated Meng Chao's mind, and he understood everything.
'So, after I returned to the past, I didn't change anything.
'I might not have been able to stop the monster mastermind's sinister plan to infiltrate Dragon City and turn human civilization into monster civilization 2.0.
'But my hard work forced the monster mastermind to detonate its plan a few years ahead of time.
'Right now, it's not too far away from devouring Senior Jin Qianxi's final soul fragment.
'In my previous life, it would have needed a few more years to completely digest and absorb Senior Jin Qianxi's soul.
'In this life, it hasn't finished digesting and absorbing her soul.
'In the deepest parts of its mind, Senior Jin Qianxi's final bit of free will is still around!
'At the same time, due to my return to the past, I created Queen Bee Lu Siya. She's one of the best superhumans among the new generation in Dragon City, and she also became the monster mastermind's target.
'But it made a mistake in choosing a puppet.
'That's right. Big Sis Ya might have been ambitious and had a really strong desire for power and control, so she didn't really care about the lives of normal people.
'But it was precisely this great ambition and desire for power that made her unwilling to become the monster mastermind or any other monster's puppet.
'In the monster mastermind's most perfect plan, it should have continued lurking around and used a few years to slowly whittle down Senior Jin Qianxi's soul fragment. Then, it would slowly cook it and slowly influence Big Sis Ya so that she would unknowingly turn into its puppet and think that everything was because of her own will.
'But at that moment, I saw through its plan and forced it to reveal its true face ahead of time. In fact, it even launched a mind attack and sucked Big Sis Ya and my consciousness into its mind.
'Our minds were naturally unable to fight against an old monster that had been asleep for billions of years.
"However, the so-called 'Mastermind of Monsters' can't be completely equated with the 'Matrix' during the Primordial War. It only grew to its current state by devouring the remnant soul of the female human warrior, Jin Qianxi.
"I burned my Divine Soul for the final slash, but I didn't manage to completely destroy the spiritual core of the monster's mastermind.
'But I managed to awaken Senior Jin Qianxi's final bit of free will!'
Countless thoughts exploded in the depths of his mind like dancing golden snakes.
He stared at Jin Qianxi at the center of the golden flames with mixed feelings.
He noticed that the senior who had been fighting against the monster mastermind for decades was looking at him with a gratified and encouraging gaze.
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