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Chapter 785 Freeze Frame
Those resurrected by "Li Sansi" will die right before Li Sansi's eyes.

Dark eye sockets stared in that direction, eyes overflowing with malice yet unable to shed tears or sorrow. At this moment, Gao Ming and Li Sansi, two souls with completely opposite personalities, had the same thought—to save her, to save their mother.

The body standing in the darkness did not obey Gao Ming and Li Sansi's will. By the time the two realized what was happening, their legs had already stepped out.

"Li Sansi, do you want your mother to die in front of you again?"

"How despicable! You saved my mother just for this moment, just to use the only light in my life to threaten me. I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"

The plan was meticulously crafted, with each step linked to the next. Killing the Mountain Lord required Li Sansi's cooperation, but Li Sansi was determined not to let Gao Ming get away with it so easily. How could the person chosen by the Dark Shrine possibly help an outsider kill the will of God?
Gao Ming wanted to untangle this knot, so he searched through Li Sansi's past and finally discovered Li Sansi's weakness, or rather, what Li Sansi cared about in the end.

This world brought extreme evil to Li Sansi. His life was bleak and hopeless. He liked to photograph loneliness, misfortune, and death. He hid in the black box and photographed countless people, but not his mother. That most precious memory was not in the black box, but in his heart, always accompanying him.

"Don't you want to completely merge with me? Give me all your malice, and you will truly become me."

The collision of their thoughts was completed in the blink of an eye. Li Sansi's sinful soul dispersed its defenses, and an exaggeratedly intense evil thought emerged from the bottom of his heart, like countless black tails connecting heaven and earth.

The Blood City tattoo was embedded in Li Sansi's heart, completely occupying that space. Gao Ming did not break his promise, directing all his malice toward his eyes.

Just as An Luan possessed astonishing combat prowess in martial arts, Li Sansi also had his own unique abilities, which were a microcosm of his life and his obsession.

Li Sansi's mother was still missing. Shan Jun's fist tore her skin apart. That punch, which could shatter mountains, was only a few meters away from her. The evil thoughts behind Li Sansi turned into countless threads that enveloped Shan Jun and half of the restricted area. As Li Sansi and Gao Ming raised and lowered their hands, as if pressing a camera shutter, the area enveloped by Li Sansi's evil thoughts completely froze, like a photograph that had frozen time and memories.

"Ten seconds, no, five seconds."

Compared to Li Sansi, Gao Ming had far more combat experience; the moment the mountain lord froze, he had already darted out.

He rapidly approached, closing in on the Mountain Lord within the area where only he could move. In his palm was a lit birthday candle, forged from his own flesh and blood. This candle was the strongest move that the Flesh and Blood Demon and the Wish Demon could use in the shrine world. It was no longer an attack on the level of power, but a modification of the rules of the shrine.

Following the wound on the mountain lord's ribs, which had been cursed by the nine night guards, Gao Ming inserted a burning blood candle. The flickering flame contained endless wish power and karma, and the candle itself also contained the flesh and blood rules of the flesh and blood immortal. The two erupted within the mountain lord's body.

Gao Ming dodged while holding onto Li Sansi's mother; five seconds passed in the blink of an eye.

They had just dodged when they heard the mountain lord's roar. His flesh and blood began to rapidly mutate from the inside out, and dense divine patterns covered every wound. A candle flame burned in his heart.

An incredibly terrifying thought tried to connect with the shrine, but was blocked by the first forbidden zone. The Mountain Lord's body continued to expand, and he went mad. Gao Ming snatched the forbidden bottle, pushed Li Sansi's mother aside, and used his last strength to get closer.

An Luan, standing beside him, did not retreat either, clinging tightly to the mountain lord until Gao Ming poured the withered little hand from the forbidden bottle into the mountain lord's mouth.

Goodness and kindness are the most terrifying poison in the world to the mountain lord, the greatest obstacle on the path of cultivation. The ravenous tiger formed from rolling malice fades, and the illusory image of flesh and blood ghosts seizes the opportunity to escape, guided by flesh and blood, and burrows into the mountain lord's body through its wounds. "I have memorized your appearance. As long as the shrine remains, as long as the darkness that shrouds the city does not dissipate, I will not disappear. Darkness is eternal."

The bizarre humanoid tattoos and mutated flesh on the mountain lord's body exploded together, unleashing a terrifying storm of willpower that shook the entire city.

The two dream ghosts, along with An Luan, Li Sansi, and Li Sansi's mother who had been resurrected, formed a powerful force that, with the advantage of location and manpower, managed to kill the Mountain Lord in a dramatic turn of events thanks to Gao Ming's scheming.

"Dead?" An Luan was closest to the mountain lord. He was blown up, leaving only his head. Scattered flesh and blood crawled towards him. He had become an accomplice in killing himself.

“It won’t reappear in the short term, but if we don’t destroy the Dark Shrine and this city as soon as possible, the will of God will surely return, and then he will possess another pitiful person.” Gao Ming gave a bitter smile: “For example, me.”

In order to kill the mountain king, Gao Ming had completely merged with Li Sansi. He could feel himself slowly losing control of his body, constantly forgetting his memories, and gradually becoming the real Li Sansi.

In fact, this was the shrine master's open scheme. The more Gao Ming used his power, the deeper his bond with Li Sansi became. He didn't care what Gao Ming did to the shrine world. Even if Gao Ming killed everyone, he would eventually be reborn in Gao Ming's body.

“If the mountain king is blown to pieces, it should be a sufficient deterrent to Tzu Chi. It’s just a pity that the existence of the treacherous wish probably can’t be hidden from them.” Gao Ming picked up the bronze mask full of cracks on the ground and leaned against Li Sansi’s mother: “If we delay, things will change. I need to leave as soon as possible to maintain the situation.”

"Take your hand away and stay away from my mom." Li Sansi's voice suddenly rang out, and then Gao Ming's hand moved backward, causing him to fall to the ground.

Li Sansi gained partial control of the body. Gao Ming didn't say anything on the surface, but his eyes narrowed slightly.

"An Luan, escort me out of the restricted area."

"But I only have one head left."

Under the manipulation of Guiyuan, a flesh worm sends Gao Ming back to the entrance of a subway station in the second district, where he meets Bai E Hou, who has been lying in ambush.

“Contact the kind bishop and tell the Tzu Chi Foundation and all the gangs in the Second District that the mountain king is dead.”

The few simple words seemed to explode like thunder in Bai E Hou's ears. He looked incredulously at the bronze mask that Gao Ming was stepping on under his shoes.

There's no mistake, that's the mask of the mountain king!
Bai'e Hou knew better than anyone the terror of the Mountain King—a power that was simply impossible to resist—yet now someone had killed the Mountain King!

"I've avenged half of Wansheng's grudge for you. You'll probably have to handle the municipal council matter on your own now." Gao Ming helped the white-browed marquis, who was about to kneel, up: "Don't waste my time, go quickly."

(End of this chapter)