The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

The purplish-black magic circle slowly unfolded.

Unlike the teleportation magic she used to escape before, this time Rachel used soul magic.

"Soul magic usually requires a magical material that can protect and stabilize the soul's state at crucial moments, and your golden apple just happens to have this effect."

Following Rachel's instructions, Li Zhen placed the golden apple in the center of the magic circle.

Then he returned to stand opposite Rachel.

The girl raised her hands, spread her fingers, and aimed her palms at Li Zhen.

"Back in Acharath, my magic teacher taught me about the magic of soul conflict, and your soul is currently experiencing this."

As the magic circle was continuously established and improved, Rachel slowly described the problems with Li Zhen's soul.

"The past you've been hiding is dull and mundane, which makes you feel a strong aversion when you're forced to absorb Wittrum's cultural spirit."

"Due to an excessively intense conflict of beliefs, and the emotions that one forces oneself to suppress in order to survive."

"Your soul has become separated from a part of your spiritual power."

Li Zhen's eyes darted around in their sockets as she watched the purplish-black magical smoke pierce her head like tentacles, and she shook her head uncomfortably.

"Uh, you mean I have schizophrenia?"

"Don't interrupt!"

Rachel snapped at him coldly, then denied Li Zhen's question.

"I don't know how medicine on Earth defines it, but you don't suffer from schizophrenia; rather, you suffer from a split in your soul."

"To protect yourself from being driven mad by that hellish environment, your soul slowly split into two parts starting from the age of three when you became a Witrum."

"One is Li Zhen, an ordinary person, who yearns for a stable life;"

"The other is Lee Jung from Witrum, who lacks emotion and adapts to Witrum's culture and rules in order to protect her past memories, and even actively participates in the competition."

The girl was silent for a moment, seemingly thinking of the boy with empty and dejected eyes in her memory.

"Because of your previous experience, you easily mastered Witrum's survival rules. You know that the better you perform, the safer you are, and the greater your chances of successfully escaping in the future."

"But in the process of becoming excellent, everything you need to accomplish will cause your original soul more and more pain."

As if the magic had reached a crucial moment, Rachel suddenly shut her mouth.

Her ten fingers moved intently, her expression like that of a surgeon performing a difficult suture.

Rachel had one more thing she didn't say.

Originally, Li Zhen's soul could very well have been completely split into two entirely different souls under this continuous separation.

At that point, I guess I would have truly developed a split personality.

Wittrum's Lee Jung will likely no longer identify with her past self and will try to kill her past self from the mental level.

But when Li Zhen was ten years old, she suffered a mental breakdown and had an outburst.

This resulted in his soul not being completely split. From a magical perspective, a blood-red boy with only half a face, an indifferent expression, and a strong ape scent floated on Li Zhen's back.

As the soul magic was stitched together, that soul gradually sank into Li Zhen's body, merging with Li Zhen's original soul.

A few beads of sweat appeared on Rachel's forehead, as if the surgery had reached its most crucial stage.

Li Zhen wasn't having an easy time either; her brows were furrowed, as if her mind was enduring some kind of pain.

He gradually rediscovered the emotions he had lost for over a decade.

Kill other 'unqualified' young Witrumians.

Destroy any "inferior products" that are less than one month old.

Those who failed to fully achieve the training objectives were punished by having more than ten bones crushed by the instructors.

Travel to other planets to complete conquest missions with the aim of annihilating their races.

Years of pent-up negative emotions were released all at once into Li Zhen's initial soul, which yearned for peace.

Li Zhen's face was flushed, and steam rose from his head; his brains were boiling in extreme pain.

"Ugh—"

This pain on a spiritual level was different from the physical injuries he had suffered in the past, to the point that he couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Meanwhile, in outer space, a ring gleaming with a dazzling yellow light is hurtling toward Earth at high speed.

A certain tremor was constantly screaming in a mechanical voice that could only be heard at the level of the soul.

"Intelligent life has been locked on: Jeant Trigger from the Virgo Supercluster. You possess the ability to instill immense fear in others!"

Rachel's gaze sharpened, and the golden apple placed in the center of the magic circle leaped into the air. The artifact, which Li Zhen's unconscious grip could not leave a mark before, now seemed to have been juiced, extracting golden liquid.

The liquid tumbled in the air, eventually transforming into a ten-meter-long golden thread that disappeared into Li Zhen's brow.

The next second, the sudden coolness that enveloped her soul and brain made Li Zhen breathe a sigh of relief.

Rachel also breathed a sigh of relief, lowered her hands, and looked again at Li Zhen's current soul state.

The black, malevolent energy was rapidly diminishing, and the blood-red soul was no longer mottled, but had become pure and transparent.

A golden rhombus-shaped gem, like the one on Rachel's head, gradually took shape between Li Zhen's eyebrows.

Suddenly, Li Zhen let out a muffled groan that was difficult to decipher.

The itching sensation from three days ago returned, and it was more intense than ever before.

The yellow light ring, which had already broken through the atmosphere, gradually slowed down, and the "recruitment broadcast" became intermittent, as if it had lost its target.

But the power of the spectrum of fear still briefly radiated throughout Li Zhen's body.

Rachel's expression changed.

"How could this happen?"

From the magical perspective, Li Zhen's soul, its crimson hue, was rapidly disintegrating.

Even the golden gem between her brows seemed to be melting like ice cream in the sunlight.

Inside Seaside City, Hal Jordan, who had been warned by Batman not to approach Gotham City for the time being, couldn't sit still any longer.

The yellow light ring was now floating thousands of meters above Gotham City, which was far too provocative to his profession and expertise.

A streak of green light shot into the sky, and Hal Jordan flew toward the yellow light ring with gritted teeth.

"Get out! There's no one on this planet you're looking for!"

Green and yellow lights converged above Gotham City.

As the green light ring, at full power, shone brightly above Gotham City, Li Zhen couldn't help but let out another muffled groan, but this time the tone seemed quite pleasant.

So the Bat Cave was also blown up.

The Dark Knight watched as the various mixed energy curves on the screen fluctuated continuously, while the Vitrum particles inside the observation chamber began to evolve rapidly once again.

Batman dislikes this feeling of being out of control.

With a flick of his black cape, he didn't choose to activate the Batmobile to fly high into the sky and question Hal Jordan, because the sudden arrival of the yellow light ring was indeed unavoidable; the other party was simply doing his job.

The jet-black Batmobile engine emitted a deep hum, transforming into a sharp arrow that hurtled towards Nightwing's location.

Tell me you've found Lee Jung!

Nightwing, who had spent a long time finding Li Zhen and Rachel, was now dressed as a superhero and was quietly lying on the roof of the abandoned factory, peering through a rusted hole.

Suddenly I heard a noise in my earpiece, and then I looked up to look at the yellow-green light flashing in the night sky.

Nightwing carefully shifted his body, keeping his voice extremely low.

"Yes, I observed almost the entire process."

"How is Li Zhen doing now?"

"How could I possibly understand magic! But judging from his expression, it seems like it's a good thing?"

Rachel looked at Lee Jung with a tense expression, who was undergoing changes she couldn't understand. Seeing that Lee Jung's expression finally calmed down, she couldn't help but ask.

"What's wrong with you?"

Li Zhen looked down at herself and clenched her fist in surprise.

"I don't know what's affecting me, but it seems like I've evolved?"

Rachel was taken aback.

"Is this what they call evolution?"

"Do you know what's happening to you from a magical perspective right now?"

"Your soul, the power and magic of the golden apple, have all been absorbed by your body!"