Crack! Crack! Crack!
Crack! Li Yao's neck bones cracked. He turned around inch by inch, only to see an equally unpredictable shadow floating not far away. Who else could it be if not Wuying Qi?
However, Wuying Qi at this moment was like a completely different person from a moment ago. His vibe had undergone drastic changes.
He was wearing a white robe, and the brutality, cruelty, and dominance on his face were all gone. He stared at himself in his youth and the thugs who threw him into the crater thoughtfully. His eyes, however, were indescribably clear and penetrating. He even seemed to be enlightened and immortal-like.
He was floating in the smoke and dust above the volcano in the void. Even in the smoke and fire, there was a sense of transcendence, as if he did not belong to this world, but also as if he had complete control of the entire strange memory palace.
The feeling that he gave to Li Yao was similar to the feeling that Li Linghai gave to Li Yao. Both of them were as transparent as crystal.
On second thought, it did make sense. He was sort of Li Linghai's half-teacher. So, it was Li Linghai who was imitating him, not Li Linghai. Such an image was a different section of his mind in the first place.
For some reason, Li Yao was not vigilant at all when faced with such a Wuying Qi. He did not sense any danger at all.
Even so, Li Yao was still completely mad. "Are you kidding me, brother? Why can't you die even after you die? What phase of your transformation is this? Which one of us is the cockroach? Why are you so tough? "
Faced with Li Yao's aggression, Wuying Qi simply smiled casually and said casually, "Li Yao, listen to me —"
Before he said "explanation", his shadow had been completely minced by Li Yao's shadow.
"I'm not listening! I'm not listening! I'm not listening!"
Li Yao shrieked, "You're still trying to stall for time at this point? You can beat me or even kill me, but you can't insult my intelligence like this!"
However, no matter how his shadow swept and tore apart Wuying Qi's shadow again and again, it could not cause any substantial damage to Wuying Qi. Wuying Qi's shadow was condensed in the spreading ripples again and again, and he stared at Li Yao calmly.
In the memory palace, the battle between the two shadows would never end.
"Impossible!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded. "W-What is this place? What is this ability? What am I doing? What are you trying to do, you bastard?!"
"Don't waste your precious strength and time. You can't kill me in this place, because I'm already dead, or rather, I'm in the process of dying. Even someone as strong as Blackstar the Great cannot die twice."
Wuying Qi smiled casually. "This is me, no, deep inside your brain. I poured part of my memories into your head with the last bit of my soul power. What you are perceiving right now is nothing more than a series of data between illusionary and real. How can you completely kill a series of data?
"I've sealed this space for now. This is the last thing that I do after I burn up my soul in the Divinity Branching Stage. How can it be broken by you so easily? However, you don't need to worry too much. The seal won't last long. When the time is up, it will collapse automatically as my soul is completely obliterated.
"I don't mean any harm. I have indeed lost the competition of beliefs. My last struggle will only be a joke. What's the point of dying together with you? I'm burning the last bit of my soul only because I want to talk to you without being disturbed. I want to thank you and give you something so that you can inherit my last legacy. "
"Well …"
Li Yao blinked quickly and scanned Wuying Qi's body that was almost transparent. "Is it your IQ that suddenly dropped, or is it mine? Was this really not some kind of reincarnation, reincarnation, soul devouring, or stalling for time or something like that?
"You said that you were about to die. If my memory serves me right, you were killed by my singing. Then, you want to thank me and give me … Blackstar the Great's legacy? Hey, that's too illogical, brother! "
"When one learns the truth in the morning, one can die without regrets in the evening. Right now, I have grasped the real truth. The momentary epiphany is enough to make my life complete. Does it matter even if I perish among the stars in 0.1 seconds?"
Wuying Qi smiled and looked at Li Yao like two trickles of water. "My epiphany, on the other hand, was all thanks to you. You also helped me get rid of Wuying Qi. Naturally, I should thank you properly.
"Besides, my life is just an insignificant matter. However, my destiny has not been accomplished yet. I still need to find someone who can inherit my belief. Who else can it be but you?"
"Wait —"
Li Yao was rather stunned. Even if Wuying Qi was really stalling for time and trying to possess him, he would accept it. After all, he was scared of nothing but possession. He simply followed Wuying Qi's idea and asked, "What did you say just now? You said that I helped you get rid of Wuying Qi? Aren't you Wuying Qi? "
"Yes."
Wuying Qi nodded. "Of course I am Wuying Qi."
"You are Wuying Qi, but I helped you get rid of Wuying Qi, and you are thanking me?"
Li Yao was completely confused. "How many Wuying Qis are there exactly?"
"At least three."
Wuying Qi pointed at the young man who was thrown into the crater and said, "The first one is Wuying Qi, who spent his adolescence in the Martial Meritocrats Sector hundreds of years ago. He believed in the ideas of the Cultivators passionately and even set up the 'Equal Committee', which eventually led to a civil war between the Cultivators and the ordinary people. Let's call him 'Wuying Qi 1.0' for now. Do you understand?"
Li Yao rolled his eyes and nodded his head.
"The second one is Wuying Qi, who witnessed the destruction of the Martial Meritocrats civilization, was thrown into the crater, and narrowly escaped death. He also accepted the heritage of the Mad Armageddon in the depths of the sea of stars and eventually usurped the supreme power of the Star Ocean Republic as' Blackstar the Great 'and established the Imperium of True Human Beings."
Wuying Qi said, "He is the Wuying Qi who tried everything to take back the supreme power under the guise of the 'Next Sun Plan', hoping to rule all mankind forever. Once he failed, he decided to die together with the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector. The Wuying Qi who couldn't have been more dark and evil. Let's call him 'Wuying Qi 2.0' for now. Is that alright?"
"About that, yes."
Although the guy's words were rather awkward, Li Yao still understood what he meant.
With the destruction of the Martial Meritocrats civilization and the rebirth deep inside the volcano as the boundary, Wuying Qi's two lives had indeed been completely reborn. They were two personalities that had gone to extremes.
The former was an absolute fundamentalist Cultivator, and the latter was a super Immortal Cultivator who had completely slipped into the abyss and been swallowed by darkness.
However, what was the third Wuying Qi, or Wuying Qi's third personality, exactly?
"The third one is the Wuying Qi 3.0 who firmly believes in the 'Next Sun Plan' and believes that he is really fighting for all mankind. Once he realizes that his crazy actions will harm the interests of all mankind, he will repent and stop in time. He will even try his best to stop 'Wuying Qi 2.0'."
Wuying Qi smiled. "That's me, the purest, most selfless, and most noble Wuying Qi who has just been born."
Li Yao stared at him for a long time, dumbfounded.
"Well, it's not that I don't want to believe you."
Li Yao found it hard to believe, "But the 'repenting and turning over a new leaf' trick is too cliché and unbelievable. How much water did I pour into my head to believe that such a shameless, unpardonable scumbag as Wuying Qi could produce a kind and noble personality? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. Fine, I did, because it's impossible! "
"It's alright. Nobody will believe in a third personality, because 'Wuying Qi 2.0' is indeed an unpardonable, unrepentant animal just like you said."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said peacefully, "When he escaped from the Martial Meritocrats Sector, his mind was swallowed by hatred, and he turned into a selfish fiend who hated the civilization of mankind.
"Then, he encountered the Mad Armageddon, who was of the same nature as him but was even more evil than him. How could the two demons raise a savior who fought for the civilization when they were together?
"Both the renewal of the Imperium and the Next Sun Plan were pretexts for him to reclaim his power and rule over the universe forever. They were excuses and tools that could be discarded at any moment. He had never believed in them for one second.
"So, this third personality of mine wasn't naturally formed by his conscience. It was artificially created."
"Huh?"
Li Yao's mouth was wide open. "What do you mean 'artificially created', brother?"
"It means that Wuying Qi 2.0 has mastered the methods of large-scale brainwashing, but in order to brainwash other people, he has to convince them that he's sincere. So, he has to brainwash himself first and engrave his confidence in the Next Sun Plan and his selfless love for mankind in his head."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "Like you said earlier, the best liars have to deceive themselves first. If they don't believe themselves, how can they convince other people? Therefore, Wuying Qi purposely opened up a small area deep inside his soul and planted an ineffaceable mark, planning to trigger the Next Sun Plan with the mark.
"He thought that he could control the mark area and seal or even completely erase it after everything was done. But he was wrong. He underestimated the power of the Enlightenment Technology, and a new personality was created by him by accident. That personality is me, Wuying Qi 3.0."
Li Yao was somewhat dumbfounded. He thought hard for a long time and managed to figure out what was going on. "Wait. Wait. My brain is not enough. Let me sort it out in a more common language.
"Are you suggesting that the extremely evil Wuying Qi intended to fool everybody in the world, and in order to fool other people, he had to fool himself and convince himself that he was really a great man who was going to save the world? But he went too far when he was fooling himself and fooled himself into coming out?"
"Although your theory is indeed vulgar, it's not wrong."
Wuying Qi 3.0 nodded solemnly. "That's right. I'm not him. I'm not the unpardonable, selfish, shameless, and pitiful devil. I'm the ultimate Wuying Qi who has seen the most extreme kindness and created the most extreme evil after a thousand years of trials and tribulations. I've been enlightened, and my belief is indestructible!"
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