Him and their stars.

Chapter 2064 Humble
A "sound" that only a psychic could perceive suddenly pierced the eardrums of the "present" lady.

It was a sharp, wailing sound imbued with sobs, as if solemn incantations were being compressed, twisted, torn apart, and then reassembled, forming a spiritual vortex of a collapsing soul.

Thus, the moment the spatial structure of the entire small world began to wail, everyone's spirits also felt the terrifying impact of impending collapse.

The gray mist enveloping the island churned violently outside the spatial barrier, transforming from desolate gloom into angry thunderclouds. It seemed to have caught the suction force within this solitary little world, accepting its response, preparing to unleash its ferocious face and melt the tiny island into the void of ether.

As for Lady "Now," she felt as if her body had been thrown into a gravitational well between galaxies. Every bone in her body and every bit of her psychic energy was sending her pain.

She gritted her teeth and took a step back, her tearful gaze piercing Yu Lian with a resentful look, her eyes seemingly filled with complaints against the world. Then, she suddenly swung her skirt. As her skirt billowed, a shimmering optical ripple suddenly spread out, as if a fantastical veil had been released from another dimension, instantly enveloping her entirely.

"Now Lady" was thus enveloped by this shimmering barrier, and then seamlessly integrated into the white marble floor tiles beneath her feet, becoming one with them.

Yu Lian wasn't sure if she was crouching with her head in her hands, but her body and mind should have stabilized, at least she wasn't being stretched to the limit by the black hole created by her own spiritual energy.

As expected of the Lord of Time, the Serpent of the World, he has countless items that can be used to save his life.

But what can she do? She's done everything she can, and it seems she can only barely keep herself alive.

"How humble I was before you! I had to exert all my strength just to avoid being mocked. But how long has it been? The tables have turned. Why is that? They say fortunes change every thirty years, but I only took two. Is this my genius or your incompetence?" Yu Lian let out a wanton laugh, making no attempt to hide his arrogance and smugness.

The Seven Sacred Fish, which was dozing in the distance, twitched its magnificent fins and turned its curled-up head to another direction, as if it were blocking out all its sensory organs.

However, the woman remained hidden behind her almost invisible barrier, offering no answer and not even letting out a whisper.

Okay, she's emotionally stable, so she probably won't fall for such a clumsy attempt at provocation.

But what about the rest of the people?

The void suddenly turned dark at that moment, as if the vortex of spiritual particles had suddenly robbed everyone of their sight.

Yes, black holes should be able to devour light.

Yet, despite the sudden darkness dominating the realm of vision, some figures somehow managed to emerge from the blackness. They seemed to have been captured by the swamp, the embodiment of the abyss, and struggled incessantly.

"Ugh!" The snakes that had been lurking in the shadows let out a miserable scream as their figures gradually became clearer.

The illusory psionic energy covering one of them shattered like a fragile eggshell, followed by the nanomechanical armor inside. His body, before the armor completely disintegrated, was already twisted and deformed beyond recognition.

Immediately afterwards, his entire body was slammed to the ground by an invisible force, like a broken sack being hit by a giant hammer, leaving him unable to move, and the sound of his bones shattering could be clearly heard.

As for the other person, although they had activated their psionic shield in advance, the light membrane only lasted for half a second before bursting like a soap bubble.

He wasn't tall; he looked like a rag doll with its strings ripped off, floating in the air as if pulled by an invisible force. The wide gray robe wrapped around his body billowed out, and fragments of his nano-armor cascaded down, faintly exuding a rusty, bloody stench.

However, just before that destructive spiritual gravity was about to tear his body apart completely, a strange change occurred!

The snake head, which was small and resembled a young boy, suddenly regained its balance in mid-air.

Amidst the raging torrent of psionic energy, his spirit forcefully seized a sliver of rhythm. Instantly, his powerful will guided the chaotic spiritual energy back into order!

For such an exceptional psychic, regaining control of themselves is naturally the time to unleash their full potential.

In the next instant, a tiny amount of spiritual energy flowed completely into every cell of his body. Then, he suddenly moved!
Beneath the shattered nano-armor, his body was taut like a fully drawn bow. Though no visible muscles or expanded meridians, the power within him had already transformed him into a gray shadow tearing through space.

His arms were tightly tucked behind his back, but it didn't seem like a retreat. Instead, he concentrated all his strength, fighting spirit, and the little spiritual energy he had acquired into a small space. His tucked arms looked full of flaws, but weren't they also hiding a myriad of phenomena, concealing a world-destroying thunderbolt?

This is a kind of "concealing one's strength." This is what is meant by "striking after the opponent has made their move." This is also what is meant by "reversal is the movement of the Tao."

Such actions, so profound, truly possess the spirit of our Spiritual Research Society's Daoist principle of following nature!

Very well, based on that alone, he must be far more troublesome than "Lady Past" in direct combat, at least.

So, is it that newcomer, "Miss Past"?

Yu Lian quickly dismissed this guess.

The other party's actions were enough to prove his identity. He possessed a special ability to neutralize the effects of psionic techniques; in game terms, it would be like having maximum magic resistance.

Needless to say, it's the one who holds the title of "Lawbreaker," the true Double Flower Red Stick of the Serpent of the World for many years, and the chief among the Thirteen Faces.

It's said that he's the true spokesperson for the "future." Of course, this claim is something I heard from a snake-handling expert in the Bracer Guild in my past life, so I can't really guarantee its accuracy.

Yu Lian revealed a wildly arrogant smile, while Su Zhan's brows seemed to suddenly unleash a bloodthirsty ferocity.

He certainly admired this unruly enemy. Having reached the demigod realm, he hadn't yet had a serious battle with a true master. He was still quite unsatisfied.

The golden energy blade, which had been held horizontally, transformed into a forward-leaning, charged attack, suddenly bursting forth as thousands of dazzling flames! At the same time, the dimensional sword pellets, which had been faintly visible within his spiritual domain, also silently unfolded and formed a menacing array.

Completely excited, Commander Yu now genuinely hopes that the other party can hold on for a while longer, at least to let him have his fill.

Come on! I hope you can hold on a little longer!
However, in the very instant that the two forces were intertwined, the gray shadow that had gathered all its strength and fighting spirit, the one that seemed to unleash a powerful attack from a bow, and the hidden edge that contained endless variations and boundless power, instantly dissolved the moment it came into contact with Yu Lian's senses.

No, even if you threw a shard of ice into the blazing summer afternoon sun, it wouldn't melt so quickly. All the chill, all the boiling, all the sharpness vanished in an instant.

Even the blurry "gray shadow" around his body, created by the high-speed movement and the surge of psionic energy, completely disappeared. He simply stopped two meters away from Yu Lian, and before the atomic light spear and Dawn tore his body apart, he extended two fair hands from behind his tattered robe, then clasped them together above his head, and bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I really didn't mean any harm!" he pleaded loudly, his voice carrying the unique tone of a young boy.

At that moment, apart from his voice, the entire Lonely Realm Island fell silent. Even the churning gray mist and the lingering echoes of the spatial structures seemed to freeze.

Yu Lian's ferocity and madness froze on his face, like cement instantly frozen in time.

He remained in the forward thrusting posture, the golden blade of light, wrapped in a disintegrating force field, hovering above the boy's head, almost an inch closer to striking him.

Very well, if I didn't know better, I would have thought you caught my blade bare-handed.

Yu Lian vaguely sensed a kind of surreal absurdity, and for a moment he laughed instead of getting angry, and the murderous aura around him seemed to be subtly weakening little by little.

The lawbreaker, of course, was very perceptive to this and felt that his chances of survival had suddenly increased significantly.

"Please have mercy! We are truly not enemies. There may have been some misunderstandings before, but not now, and certainly not in the future. I swear in the name of the 'future'."

Only then did Yu Lian get a clear look at the other person's face.

This is a boy who looks only fourteen or fifteen years old, with a delicate, even somewhat childlike, face. His skin is fair, his eyes clear, even carrying a touch of innocent naiveté; he's clearly a young master from a wealthy family. Furthermore, due to his short stature, with a little makeup, he could even pull off a Lolita-esque look.

Yu Lian frowned and stared directly into the other person's eyes.

Those were, of course, a pair of harmless, doe-like brown eyes, innocent and naive, with long eyelashes that even had a touch of femininity. From those swollen eyes, Yu Lian didn't see any lion, nor did he discern any fleeting emotional patterns or anything like that.

If it weren't for the demigod's intuition already capturing a profound and vast psionic model, he might have also thought that this was a perfect template for a handsome school heartthrob in a lighthearted high school romance comedy.

"...A lawbreaker?"

"Yes, yes, it is I." He forced a docile smile, and even his voice became a little strained.

Yu Lian forced a smile, his face hardening as he said, "We're talking about serious business, be serious."

"Yes, I was frivolous. I will sit up straight immediately." He quickly straightened his back, and despite his ugly face, he managed to squeeze out a few dignified and solemn features.

So, a person's charm isn't just about looks, but also about their charisma. But to be able to seamlessly switch between different charisma like that person must require centuries of cultivation.

Yu Lian scrutinized the other person from head to toe, confirming that it was a face he had never seen before, and of course, a pair of eyes he had never seen before as well. However, through those eyes with long eyelashes, he was able to vaguely catch a glimpse of a similar soul and spiritual fluctuations.

“We should have met,” Yu Lian said.

"Yes, it was in the snake's den. Your fierce might is still fresh in my memory. At that time, although you were not yet in a divine position as you are today, you had a will that was not afraid of death. I can only admire a great man like you."

"But you shouldn't have looked like this back then." Of course he still remembered that the "Spellbreaker" he had met in the snake's lair last time should have looked like an ordinary, unremarkable man.

"I, uh, I am skilled at shapeshifting because I had a strange dream when I was a child: to experience many, many lives. With the help of my lord, I finally have a new identity and body."

"A biological vessel similar to the Thorn Witch?" Yu Lian suddenly became more interested.

"In this respect, I am always more harmonious than that witch. To nurture a gifted child as a vessel, only to devour her after she awakens her spiritual power and gains her own life and memories, and to let the vessel's karma drive her own evolution—this kind of behavior is against the natural order and is not my style, nor does it conform to my lord's righteousness."

These mere terrorists actually dare to spout nonsense about "heavenly harmony" and "righteousness"!

Yu Lian felt that this guy, with a Lolita-like face but a world-weary, shrewd soul, was better suited for a host club. He'd definitely become a top-notch younger male host, leaving even the shrewish Sakura with her lion-like eyes far behind.

He added, "This body was also created through genes; it grew out of a petri dish."

"Can the soul and memories be seamlessly transferred within the cultivated body?" Yu Lian became even more interested.

"It's generally possible, even psionic energy can be transferred. Adaptation to the new limbs will only take a short time."

Yu Lian clicked his tongue in amazement, but also felt sorry for his beloved friends and family who had gone to heaven: "Flores Wanda worked hard all her life, always wanting to surpass her teacher, the Thorn Witch. But all her research in the world failed to achieve this. Yet, the truth she was pursuing was in the hands of her own colleague. How tragic!"

At this point, he suddenly realized that he hadn't truly cherished the memory of his beloved family and friends for a long time, and a sense of guilt filled him.

The Breaker of the Law also showed a look of guilt and even nostalgia: "We did not grasp the truth, but only a relic similar to that of the Enlightened One. However, if it were Mr. Wanda, perhaps he could help us unlock His secrets and turn the truth into a power that we can control. He is actually an excellent researcher with great imagination and execution, and his forte is not in the mysticism, but in science. We originally intended to share these materials with him completely after he became the Thirteenth Face."

Yu Lian lowered his eyes sadly and let out a heavy sigh: "Is that so? That's truly a pity! He ultimately didn't live to see that day, which is undoubtedly a regret of our times!"

One of these two was the culprit who drove Wanda to the brink of despair, and the other was one of the instigators who implanted the curse of corruption in him, but these are just some unromantic details.

At least at this moment, they are truly deeply mourning the passing of that outstanding scientist and the incompetent cult leader.

The seven sacred fish on the distant mountaintop finally poked their heads out of their bodies, their amethyst-like eyes faintly reflecting deep sorrow, and then they sighed very expressively.

"Your Excellency used to value Master Wanda highly." The woman's voice came from beneath the gap in the invisible high-dimensional veil, but she quickly covered herself up the moment Yu Lian's gaze drifted over it.