Broc left the Crystal Valley with his beloved sword that had been "repaired". Although losing the Demon Shield was still a knot in his heart, the repaired "Blood River" finally gave him some compensation and psychological comfort. Of course, due to the need to be undercover, a certain someone's sinister intentions would not be exposed yet. Therefore, there was still some time before "Blood River" would die before her death.
Broc's appearance confirmed the speculation in Chen Rui's heart. Whether it's the Demon Shield or the Blood River, these tricks are just small tricks. What I really need to think about is how to weaken the power of the Crystal Valley or even create and expand the internal cracks. By then, the internal and external forces will naturally succeed. Not only that, Chen Rui also had to find a way to rescue Kia's mother and remove their [Soul Shackles].
Kia's mother was called Freya. She was originally at the Bloody Vine City's stronghold. A few years ago, she was brought to the Devouring Hall in the Crystal Valley by Sabrina and was tortured. This time, she was unfortunately taken away by Sabrina's sworn enemy, Azgalor's other wife, Izola. She hadn't returned yet.
The performance of "repairing" the Blood River and upgrading it to a near-legendary grade equipment made Manu see Chen Rui's "strength", so he valued Chen Rui more. However, there were still many important things outside that Manu couldn't do without, so he didn't stay in the Crystal Valley for long. He left the next day after Broc left.
During this time, apart from going to the crystal dragon to "understand" the magic circles from time to time, Chen Rui spent most of his time behind closed doors. This was also the "common problem" of many mechanic masters.
However, Chen Rui didn't immerse himself in "understanding" the artifact Demon Shield all day long as outsiders imagined. Instead, he put all his attention on the training of Megrez state.
In fact, during the days at the Custer Family, Chen Rui tried many times to train in Megrez state. However, although that "world" was extremely real and just around him, it was actually illusory. He didn't know where to train, so his Experience Value was still zero.
The advancement of the Super System was very strange. It didn't calculate Experience Value entirely based on the strength level, but based on the current training elements. Even if a single strength was trained to the Demon Emperor level, he still couldn't break through to the next realm. In the beginning, there were still traces of Body Refinement and Strength Refinement, but when it came to Heart Refinement, it was a little mysterious. This Refinement Method made him feel like he was trying to bite a hedgehog, but he didn't know where to start.
Using the Realm King Fruit seemed to be the only possible shortcut. In any case, the longest shelf life of a Realm King Fruit was only three months. Now that more than a month had passed, it would automatically wither and disappear if he didn't try it.
The Realm King Fruit was not a real fruit, but the essence born from the Aurora Frost. After consuming it, it could produce an illusory response corresponding to the soul. It could derive a special spiritual imprint according to the consciousness of the user and be absorbed by the user.
This kind of spiritual imprint was the feeling of a "territory". Of course, this kind of territory was only at the primary level, which was the pseudo territory mastered by the Demon Emperor level. However, the pseudo territory was the foundation of the real territory, and it was also the biggest watershed between the Demon Emperor powerhouse and the Great Demon King.
The power gap between the Great Demon King level was actually very big. Although some people had reached the Demon Emperor level in terms of power, they did not master the power of territory, so they were always just Great Demon King. They couldn't be called Demon Emperor.
The "pseudo Demon Emperor" who did not master the power of territory and the real Demon Emperor were worlds apart. This was a qualitative difference.
In the same way, if one understood the power of Megrez state, he should be invincible below the Demon Emperor. If one fully mastered the power of Megrez state, he might be able to compete with the most early stage of the Demon Emperor.
It was just that the power of the Realm King Fruit was too powerful. It could only be withstood by the Demon Emperor level and above. He didn't know if the two modes of [Star Devouring] and [Star Conversion] could be used.
Chen Rui took out the Realm King Fruit. The appearance of this fruit was extremely exquisite like a flawless crystal artwork. It also exuded a faint fragrance. It shouldn't be like eating glass … He raised his head and swallowed the fruit.
The Realm King Fruit was originally a rare treasure produced in the extremely cold environment of Aurora Frost. It felt cold in his hand, but after it entered his stomach, it was like a fire that began to spread quickly throughout his body.
Chen Rui only felt an unbearable pain as the fire began to attack in various parts of his body. His muscles began to swell and twist. He could no longer maintain his cross-legged posture. He fell to the ground, trembling all over as he tried his best to resist this uncomfortable feeling. Fortunately, he had set up the corresponding magic circle near the laboratory, and he strictly forbade anyone to enter and disturb him. The sound and movement would not spread out.
The fiery feeling was dozens of times hotter than the volcano in the training ground. Chen Rui only felt that his bones and flesh were about to be vaporized, and his brain actually began to swell. It had increased several times in an instant as if it was about to burst immediately.
The pain was real, but this swelling was actually an illusion. Since the Realm King Fruit could only be consumed by the Demon Emperor level, Chen Rui's current strength was only equivalent to the Great Demon King level, so he couldn't withstand this power. The trouble was that the expected [Star Devouring] and [Star Conversion] prompts didn't appear, nor was there a prompt for aura conversion.
At that moment, an inexplicable power surged in his body, weakening the feeling of swelling to the point of bursting. This power was the strengthening power from Manu's [Soul Shackles]. Although it was only 1/1000 of the Demon Overlord level, it was an extremely pure power. Regardless of quality or quantity, it was far better than Chen Rui's current level. He couldn't digest it all at once, but it came in handy at that time.
Under the dissolution and buffer of this power, Chen Rui's body gradually returned to normal. Manu's power was also quickly decomposed and integrated into his body. Most importantly, the effect of the Realm King Fruit began to play.
Chen Rui's vision and consciousness gradually blurred. When he tried to regain consciousness, he found that the scenery in front of him had completely changed. It was a familiar scene that he hadn't seen for a long time.
Dusty roads, noisy car horns, cars parked randomly everywhere, people shuttling back and forth, and two girls walking in front of him while eating sugar cane. Behind them was a trail of sugar cane residue. It was a familiar small town. It was backward and messy, but it was his hometown after all.
Did I travel back again?
What about Athena and the others? What about Paglio and the others? That world had become his real fetter. As for this originally familiar world, he felt strange instead.
Chen Rui looked at the phone in his hand. It was a counterfeit without a brand. It even had a camera. No matter how he looked at it, he felt it was familiar. Isn't this the damn phone that appeared with the Super System?
Although there was no life-threatening threat here, nor was there a precarious residence like the Dark Moon City or a dangerous and terrifying enemy nest like the Crystal Valley, he must go back.
Chen Rui immediately pressed the power switch of the counterfeit phone, but a picture of a celebrity's face appeared. There was even a voice that he thought was very magnetic. Welcome to the XXX brand phone!
What's going on? It's not the Super System?
Chen Rui faintly remembered that he took the Realm King Fruit, then he came here. Could this be an illusion? But everything was so realistic. He couldn't help but walk all the way to the old neighborhood where his grandfather lived, but it had become a demolition area.
Chen Rui walked aimlessly on the street, stood, and sat down. This was originally the most familiar world, but now he seemed to have become an outsider, isolated in the endless flow of people around him.
Once upon a time, when he was young, he also had such a feeling.
He felt that time was still, and it was us who passed by. A pale smile, facing every passerby. In fact, he was the real passerby.
It was just loneliness.
He was like a passerby riding a horse, trekking alone in the doomed endless desert. Perhaps one day, he would fall, and that would be the end.
It was just loneliness, that's all.
Like a kite with a broken string, he seemed to be flying in the air carefreely, but how long could this kind of free life last?
It was just loneliness, that's all.
Chen Rui suddenly felt that someone was watching him. He turned his head abruptly and saw a person sitting at the bus stop behind him, showing a strange smile.
Chen Rui was shocked. This person's appearance … is me. No, that evil eyes and smile … is the inner demon that was eliminated in [Refined Mind], or it can be called – Shura!
"Are you surprised to see me?" Shura's voice sounded in his ear, and the surrounding noise was suppressed. "I said that as long as the darkness in your heart still exists, I will never disappear."
Chen Rui had calmed down. After successfully passing the [Refined Mind] test, he had complete confidence and certainty to deal with Shura. He looked at the enemy who was once the most dangerous, "Did you make this illusion?"
Shura shook his head, "This is not an illusion, but the world in your memory. Look there … "
Chen Rui turned his head and heard a cry for help. A woman was shouting "robbery", and a man was running in front of her with a bag in his hand. The people along the way all gave way to him, and no one helped.
Chen Rui was right in front of the man. As he approached, he threw a lightning-fast punch, but at the moment of contact, his fist passed through the man. The man continued to run forward, unaffected. The woman behind him was already out of breath, and she watched as the robber ran further and further away.
Chen Rui was shocked. He tried to touch the pillar beside him, and as expected, he passed through it again. This world is an illusion, or … is he the only illusion?
Not far away, an old man in his sixties accidentally fell to the ground, and he could not get up for a long time. The passersby turned a blind eye to him. A child wanted to go forward to help him, but he was stopped by his mother, who loudly scolded him that he could not afford it. Chen Rui ran over to help him, but he also passed through the old man.
The surrounding characters and events were constantly changing. The official's second generation who hit people with a luxury car, countless people watching a drowning young man with no one to rescue him, officials swallowing the relief of poor students in the name of training, the principal helping the officials to get drunk to help humiliate the female teachers, all kinds of poisonous food and drugs created for profit to harm others and themselves … These were just the beginning. Then, the increasingly dark scenes appeared in front of Chen Rui, making him extremely angry. However, he could only be a bystander at the moment, watching these injustices and crimes happen.
"Although this world is not the Demon Realm, it is more interesting than the Demon Realm," Chen Rui's emotional fluctuations fell into Shura's eyes, and he smiled even more strangely, "Darkness, coldness, selfishness, ruthlessness … In the end, there is only naked desire."
This was indeed not an illusion, but the real world in his memory. Chen Rui was speechless for a while.
Shura continued to play hard to get, "Maybe there are still some stupid people who burn themselves to warm and shine on others, but what's the use of this? After burning out, they will only turn into a pool of cold ashes and be crushed by those indifferent people. "
Chen Rui was silent. At this time, the surrounding environment, including the sun in the sky, had lost its color. It was like a black and white movie, and everything became dim.
Shura stood up, approached him step by step, and reached out his hand, "Obey the desire in your heart, and accept my fusion. It's not occupation, but fusion. You'll obtain incomparably great power. Whether it's in this world or another world, you'll be above everyone else. You'll be like a high and mighty god, able to possess, distort, toy with, or destroy everything. "
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