Spread out by the black venom, even Lu Qingchen's flames of light were corrupted and tainted. They were like vague flames in a hazy mist.
"You are … Li Yao's mental devil!"
Lu Qingchen's face changed greatly.
During the battle when the Black Wind Fleet attacked the Xing Yao Federation, he had stolen "Black Swirl", the flagship of the Black Wind Fleet, and fought Li Yao and the mental devil on it until the sun and the moon lost their brilliance.
Later, he was blown into smithereens. Tremendous pieces of his soul were swallowed by the mental devil and turned into 'nutrition' for the mental devil's evolution.
Therefore, he was no stranger to the mental devil's scent. It could even be called 'unforgettable'!
Before, Lu Qingchen had thought that the mental devil had been on the verge of death in the battle against the Fuxi just like Li Yao did and had perished a long time ago.
He did not expect that the mental devil would grow to such an evil, strong, and terrifying level!
"Hehe. 'Li Yao's mental devil'? That was just a title in the past. In the past, the brightness inside his body overwhelmed the darkness, and I could only settle for the position of 'second personality'. I was sort of a mental devil for now."
The mental devil spat out almost a hundred viper-like tongues from the sharp teeth in its bloody mouth and licked the gaps between its teeth. It grinned hideously. "But right now, thanks to you, you have completely stirred up the darkest corner in Li Yao's heart, allowing me to suppress the cowardly, soft-hearted, and childish guy who was as hot-blooded as a high school student.
"From this moment on, I am the real Li Yao, and the guy has turned into a tiny mental devil that has been suppressed by me. There is no chance for him to rise again. Haha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha!"
The mental devil laughed crazily, a hundred times more arrogant, dominating, and evil than Lu Qingchen a moment ago.
"Qingchen, Qingchen …"
A voice of extreme pain and weakness came over from the mental devil's messy, hairy tongue. Lu Qingchen observed carefully. Who else could it be if not Li Yao's little earthworm?
Li Yao was tied up by dozens of long tongues that were full of thorns and hooks. He could only scream miserably as if he had been mired in the hell of vipers, unable to free himself. "Qingchen, you should believe me now. I did not lie to you. I-I am the same kind of person as you are. I've been through everything that you've been through. I've experienced the tiniest mental aberration of yours!
"When I was faced with the scourge of the dark universe, I couldn't help but have countless negative feelings of blood, brutality, and cruelty. More than once, I had an intense desire to kill and achieve my purpose by 'killing all the enemies'. I had ambitions, too. I wanted to become the real supreme being of the universe, the Emperor of Stars, and the greatest hero in history. I wanted to impose my will on every grain of sand on every planet and make everybody listen to me. I wanted to create a so-called 'perfect world' with my wisdom and strength alone.
"All in all, I've thought about all the plans that you have and all the schemes that you want to carry out eight hundred years ago. I've thought about them carefully and considered every detail many times.
"There were countless times that I couldn't help but want to carry out the arrogant and evil plans, but in the end, I suppressed all the evil thoughts and compressed and packaged them into the so-called 'dark personality', which is the monster named 'mental devil'. That was why I was able to keep the pureness, friendliness, openness, approachability, and elegance of my main personality.
"However, it was impossible for me to completely eliminate my dark personality. It was still corrupting and corrupting me all the time. Also, as my level got higher and higher, my identity got more and more special, and I received more and more stimulations and temptations from the outside world, it grew stronger and more uncontrollable!
"I tried a lot of ways to control the monster in my heart so that I wouldn't turn from a 'dragon slayer' into a 'ferocious dragon' like Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, and Wuying Qi.
"In the most extreme method, I even deliberately guided the flames of spirit energy that were thousands of degrees Celsius to crash and burn my brain to reduce my intelligence. I forcefully lowered myself to the level of a high school student, a junior high school student, or even an elementary school student. It was all so that I could kill myself and the demon in my heart at the same time so that the monster would not break out of its shell and wreak havoc in the human world.
"But right now … But right now … I can't hold it any longer.
"Ever since I defeated Wuying Qi 3.0 and became the master of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, I truly felt that I couldn't hold on any longer. I was marching toward the abyss of collapse every second as the monster swallowed me one bite after another, but I just couldn't get rid of the seemingly simple but tempting final solution!
"I've been holding it in, holding it in, holding it in, until now. First, Fuxi heavily injured me, then you said these words to provoke me, purposely provoking the darkest desire in my heart. Now, now, I can't control it anymore.
"Run, Qingchen, you're definitely not its match. Your darkness is nothing compared to it. There's only one way. Run, run, run … Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The mental devil twisted the hundred viper-like tongues brutally, only to mince Li Yao's flesh into a pulp. He screamed like a pig being butchered in excruciating pain.
Even Lu Qingchen, an unparalleled devil who had been reborn after being reborn twice and detonating his soul twice, was dumbfounded and lost for words for a long time.
Xiaoming and Wenwen were so shocked that they almost burst into tears.
"Don't pay attention to this noisy fellow. Let me get closer to nephew Lu. I feel that we have a lot in common. I can't wait to tear your chest open and listen to your heart. Hahahaha."
The mental devil cackled. "Rest assured. I am completely different from this cowardly, merciful, and naïve guy. As a matter of fact, I like your plan very much, and I appreciate your spirit of 'I am the master of my own destiny' even more.
"Yes, I couldn't agree more. In the capital, the worlds around the capital, and all the Sectors at the center of the cosmos, there are no 'innocent civilians' but only 'enemy civilians'. As for the people of the Holy League, they are not human beings at all but just puppets of flesh and blood whose brains are empty.
"Both enemy civilians and puppets of flesh and blood, as long as they can help us unify the universe and carry out our will, it doesn't matter how many of them die!
"As long as we control the Fuxi fleet, the expedition army of the Federation through Ding Ling Dong, and the Imperial Guards of the Imperium through Li Jialing, hehehehe, we will immediately boast an invincible super fleet when we unite all the starships with the most powerful primeval crystal processors and appoint the most loyal people of the Holy League as the commanders of all levels. We will be the most dominating force in the universe. Who in the entire universe dares to compete with us?
"By then, no matter what we do, whether we spread the ideas of the Cultivators to the entire universe, gather the strength of mankind to study the Book of Revelation and the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum so that we can break out of the darkness and march into the multiverse, or even explore 'Earth', the ultimate mystery deep inside the Flood, we will not run into any hindrance at all and will be able to carry out 100% of the potential of the civilization of mankind. As long as we cough, billions of people will be willing to sacrifice everything for our will, won't they?"
That was indeed what Lu Qingchen thought.
But for some reason, hearing the mental devil's words that were full of killing intent and malice, he suddenly felt that something was not right. Very wrong.
As he expected, mocking gulps echoed from the depths of the mental devil's bloody mouth, as if swamps were corroding corpses. "However, the plan is very beautiful, but I still have a minor question. Why is it 'we' instead of 'me'? Why do I have to join hands with you to realize everything instead of swallowing you like you swallowed Fuxi? Why can't I completely swallow you and digest all the data left by you and Fuxi before I finish everything on my own?
"After all, whether it is the supreme being of the universe, the dominator of the universe, or the so-called 'guardian of the civilization of Fuxi', there is no need for two of them, is there?
"I will be the unique supreme dominator of the civilization of mankind and this universe. As for you … Give me a reason. Why do I need you?"
The mental devil's logic stunned Lu Qingchen for a long time.
It was true that he was trying to persuade Li Yao to change his bad habit of being too lenient and soft-hearted so that he could be more decisive.
But this change was too big, and it was too decisive. It was a 180-degree turn, from one extreme to the other!
At this moment, Lu Qingchen did not have Fuxi's immense computational ability yet.
But even if he did, he would not be able to figure out what kind of guy Li Yao was exactly!
"Why, my good nephew, you seem to be very surprised, but am I not exactly what you want to see? Cold, selfish, bloodthirsty, dark, heartless, and decisive. "
Licking its teeth, the mental devil yawned and said lazily, "Since you want a dark version of Li Yao, you have to accept everything about this' Dark Li Yao '. There is no reason that I would be indifferent to you when I consider human lives to be as worthless as grass, treat stars as dust, and make hundreds of planets burn furiously in the flames of doom, right?
"Therefore, I will give you another chance. Give me an irrefutable reason in thirty seconds. Why can't I swallow you directly instead of going through the trouble of joining hands with you?"
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It was New Year's Eve again. How time flew!
It was the third New Year's Eve that Old Cow and Cultivator IV had spent with everybody. Naturally, it was also the third New Year's Eve that everybody had spent with Old Cow.
For three whole years, more than a thousand days and nights, at least two chapters a day, rain or shine, I never stopped. If it weren't for everyone's encouragement and support, I really wouldn't have dared to think that I could create such a "miracle". I also hope that in the new year, everyone can have good luck and great benefits, smooth sailing, and great harvests in your studies, career, and love. I can also continue to write according to this rhythm, satisfactorily ending it, and play the most powerful note in Fourth of Cultivators.
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