This sharp question caused Lu Qingchen to be speechless for a time. The two blades of light flickered indeterminately like a viper flicking its tongue, yet he was unable to make up his mind about exactly how he should face this ferocious beast of darkness that he'd personally released.
"What, my dear nephew Lu, can't you answer?"
The mental devil laughed even more crazily. "What's so great about you being able to control the Fuxi fleet? After I swallow all your data, I will naturally be granted the corresponding permissions, too. By the way, I will also get all your abilities to produce brain viruses, including the legacies that Fuxi left for hundreds of thousands of years. Tsk, tsk, tsk. From the looks of it, you and Fuxi have been swallowing each other until neither of you wins. Thank you very much for your kindness, nephew Lu!"
"You —"
His face pale, Lu Qingchen gnashed his teeth.
"Forget it. I'm not going to play the game of cat and mouse with you anymore. Even if you can come up with an irrefutable reason, there's no need for me to keep you here."
While gnashing its teeth, the mental devil said casually, "You are too dangerous and may backfire at any moment. 'Human beings will never be slaves'. That's what you said to Fuxi just now. Who knows whether or not I will end up the same as Fuxi if I keep you here?
"You don't need to swear to the heavens. I am not Li Yao, who is too softhearted to see blood. I am Li Yao, who knows the dark path of the universe and the truth of human nature. Therefore, I am stronger and have no weaknesses at all! Right now, I can clearly see that you and I are entangled in a fatal chain of suspicion. Either you die, or I die. Otherwise, it can't be cut off! "
While talking, the mental devil waved the tentacles around its body. Every sucking disc expanded and opened, revealing countless coldly shining circular blades as it swam toward Lu Qingchen.
"Wait — Wait!"
Feeling cold all over his body, Lu Qingchen finally stepped back.
"Huh?"
The mental devil was even more aggressive, but its laughter was even more mocking. "What? Scared? Regretful? It's too late! Don't try to struggle. There's no need to struggle at all. Just now, you said that Li Yao was bluffing, but in my opinion, you are the one who is bluffing. What an enormous treasure the data, information, and thinking logic that Fuxi gathered for hundreds of thousands of years is exactly? How can you digest and absorb all of it in such a short time?
"You have been heavily wounded by the self-detonation of your soul twice in a row in only a dozen days, and you have just experienced the mysterious rebirth. Although your 'upper limit' has been improved countless times, your combat ability right now is definitely not at the peak state, right?
"Hehe. Right now, you are like a heavily wounded patient who has just recovered and is extremely weak. You have eaten food that is a hundred times heavier than your body weight because of your appetite. Of course, as long as you can completely digest the food and nourish your nerves, veins, bones, and muscles with their nutrients, you will be able to become a towering giant that can move mountains and oceans. But do you think that I will be so stupid as to be scared by the fancy sound and visual effects that you deliberately created and give you the time to 'digest Fuxi'?
"Therefore —
"Stop resisting, my good nephew. Come on. Be devoured by Uncle Li obediently. Hahahaha!"
The mental devil's wild laughter raised surging tides.
The ocean of data that was at Lu Qingchen's mercy a moment ago was instantly frozen. The entire virtual space was shivering in fear under the mental devil's roars and surges.
The mental devil was not bluffing or threatening. Hardly had it concluded its sentence when its gargantuan body crouched into a ball. Then, it dashed out like a bolt of lightning and charged at Lu Qingchen.
Its bloody mouth was also opened to the maximum. The front half of its body seemed to have been split apart like a chrysanthemum. If it swallowed half of the virtual space, not even its bones would be left.
Seeing that the mental devil was coming at him aggressively, Lu Qingchen was even more shocked and suspicious. For a moment, he seemed to have forgotten how to react and simply stood there in a daze.
The dozens of overlapping rows of sharp teeth in the mental devil's mouth were revolving quickly like a grinder, and Lu Qingchen's every string of life information and every piece of his soul were about to be ripped into smithereens. Suddenly, a deafening explosion burst out from deep inside the mental devil's throat. A golden fireball exploded brutally, blowing the mental devil off course and brushing past Lu Qingchen by a hair's breadth.
When they were closest to each other, there was only one hair — no, one character — between them.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
The mental devil shrieked in excruciating pain and fury. Golden smoke spurted out of the gaps between its interconnected teeth.
The smoke grew longer and longer in midair, turning into almost a hundred streaks of gold brilliance that interweaved into an overwhelming golden net, dragging the enormous and hideous body of the mental devil. The strength of the net was so great that the gold brilliance deeply pierced into the body of the mental devil, leaving black mud behind.
"Qingchen, run now while I still have the last bit of strength to control it!"
The golden net turned out to be the illusion of the little earthworm that was Li Yao. Such a high-intensity burning of the soul also pushed Li Yao to the brink of death. He revealed his tiny head in front of the golden net and roared at Lu Qingchen desperately, "Run now! We can fight for our beliefs later. Right now, before I die, run! Run! Run now!"
"You want to run? Not so fast! Last time, after I swallowed the soul fragments of you as the 'extraterrestrial devil of the Spiritual Nexus', my Cultivation soared and evolved to an unbelievable level. This time, what kind of amazing changes will happen after I swallow all your remaining life information? I'm really looking forward to it. Hahahaha. Hehehehe! "
The mental devil cackled creepily. Its body that was embedded in the golden net suddenly expanded. The black venom and the bloody mist spurting out corroded the golden net like acid.
Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! In the middle of Li Yao's screams, the giant golden net was broken into pieces inch by inch, like a small earthworm that had been stretched to the limit being slashed into hundreds of pieces. The word 'miserable' was more than enough to describe it!
"Qingchen, this … is … the best I can do … for you …"
Countless pieces of Li Yao's soul laughed weakly.
In the next second, they were swept by the overwhelming flames of the mental devil and completely swallowed.
After swallowing Li Yao, the mental devil was still not satisfied. Instead, its brutality that was rumbling with hunger was triggered. Its speed was a hundred times higher than before, and it charged at Lu Qingchen like a stream of furiously burning black magma.
Lu Qingchen had witnessed the formidability and horror of the mental devil with his own eyes. By logic, as long as he had the last bit of rationality left, he should've fled and made further plans.
But he seemed to have truly been scared out of his wits. His face was gloomy, and his eyes were flashing nonstop. His lips and his eyelids were cramping at the same time. The billions of telepathic thoughts that constituted the giant of light were flickering in ten thousand colors and patterns, too.
Right when the mental devil accelerated its speed to the highest, like an arrow that had just been released from the bow, and there was no turning back anymore, Lu Qingchen finally made up his mind.
He — not only did he not run away, he also condensed all the streaks of brilliance around him into an indestructible light blade that could cut through anything!
"Ahhh!"
In the middle of the light blade, Lu Qingchen's eyes were bloodshot, with the craziest desperation beaming out of them!
"Huh?"
An uncanny shriek echoed from the black streak of brilliance that the mental devil turned into, which was entirely different from the savage, brutal, and dominating voice a moment ago.
BOOM!
Two streams of information that seemed equally powerful crashed into each other brutally, raising blasts that covered the entire virtual space. Then, they were separated by the blasts.
When the swirls calmed down and the dust settled, the mental devil was still at the center of the ocean of data like a glutton, and Lu Qingchen turned from a light blade into a giant of light again.
At first glance, the two 'unparalleled devils' did not change at all. They had merely exchanged their positions.
Furthermore, Lu Qingchen's soul had been seriously damaged. Not only was it significantly smaller in size, but its flames were also dimmer than before. He seemed to have suffered great losses.
However, Lu Qingchen's lips curled into a vague smile, and the mental devil that looked like a Taotie was … shivering in fear.
"Chi —"
The mental devil tried to maintain its arrogance, dominance, and brutality, but it persisted for no more than three seconds before all the sucking discs and wrinkles on its body spurted out useless garbage data nonstop. It shriveled and shrank like a balloon that had lost all its air. It was even rolling here and there in the ocean of data because of the recoil of the air currents. It couldn't have looked more pathetic.
There was no telling how much garbage data the guy had stuffed into the framework of its own soul to keep up its appearance. It was almost an idiot whose stomach was full of straws. After all the garbage data was vomited out, the guy shrank to about the same size as Li Yao a moment ago, too. The vibe of a 'glutton', a 'primeval beast', a 'nightmarish beast', and a 'dark devil' was nowhere to be seen.
No, not 'almost'. It was almost a copy of itself in a mirror. Right now, it was floating in front of Lu Qingchen's eyes, wriggling and wriggling into two little earthworms, one gold and the other red. Both of the earthworms waved their sparse flagella and looked at him innocently. Although they had lost their faces, the smile spreading out of their bodies was still as awkward and flattering as before.
Everything was very clear now.
It was true that Lu Qingchen had not completely recovered from the damage caused by the two self-detonations of his soul. Having just been reborn, he was like a newborn baby who had just swallowed 'food' that was far beyond his digestive limits. Naturally, he could not carry out his full combat ability and had to bluff with dazzling sound and visual effects.
However, there were limits to his bluff. The best he could do was to brag that thirty percent of his strength was ten percent. In other words, even though he had completely fallen to the dark side, Lu Qingchen still had his boundaries and his pride.
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