Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Just as Liu Nian was about to ask a question, the voice of Devouring Sun rang out again, this time with a hint of surprise and doubt: "I've been resurrected. What just happened? I touched that ball again, and then my body went numb, and I was gone."

"Did you see that sphere this time?"

"It's grayish-white, and it looks like it's wrapped with many fine electric arcs. It feels cool to the touch."

Liu Nian felt a chill run down his spine; he seemed to have heard of this somewhere before…

"Don't move," Liu Nian said in a deep voice. "I'll teleport there!"

With a flash of light, he activated the Boundary Breaker and appeared beside the Sun Devourer.

"The Boundary Breaker is useful," Liu Nian said. "This shows that our true coordinates are indeed separate, but our perception has been distorted."

However, after scanning the area, Liu Nian did not find any energy spheres.

Does this mean that this thing won't appear when the two people are together?

After thinking for a moment, he and Devourer of the Sun tried again. He first let Devourer of the Sun go far away, and then he stayed in the same place, keeping an eye on Devourer of the Sun and on each other's coordinates on the map.

The moment Shi Ri left Liu Nian's sight, their positions instantly changed.

Although they appeared to be separated only by a layer of fog, they had actually been transported to a completely different spatial region.

"So vision is key!" Devourer of the Sun concluded.

"That should be the case!" Liu Nian nodded, "But the problem is..."

Before he could finish speaking, his hand suddenly touched something.

Cold. Round. The surface has a slight electric current feel.

Before Liu Nian could react, his hand went numb.

The numbness wasn't an ordinary electric shock; it was a numbing sensation that penetrated to the bone and struck the soul. The next second, his vision began to blur, and his consciousness began to fade. A system notification popped up—

[The equipment effect "Preordained Death" is triggered, granting you immunity to death for 3 seconds.]

Liu Nian was startled and immediately unleashed his boundless rage, then he saw clearly what his hand was touching.

In the mist, a gray energy ball hovered in front of him, wreathed in pale white lightning that slithered like thin snakes.

His heart skipped a beat.

"Holy crap! It's this thing!"

Deathly Silence Orb!!

It's that terrifying god-killing weapon found at the bottom of Lake Eternal Darkness, where Charon fled! Arachne said it's a weapon used to hunt gods, with an instant-kill effect on all living beings, ignoring all resistance and defense. Whoever touches it dies instantly; no amount of health matters!

Taking advantage of the few seconds left of his endless rage, he immediately activated the Boundary Breaker teleportation and arrived beside the Sun Devourer.

Liu Nian gasped for breath, his back instantly soaked with cold sweat.

He looked down at his hands—completely unharmed. But he would never forget the feeling he had just experienced.

125 billion HP, instantly wiped out!

"Damn it," Liu Nian gritted his teeth.

This is troublesome.

These lifeless orbs were hidden in the mist and could not be seen with the naked eye.

He and Sun Eater will lose sight of each other if they can't see each other, and there is a very high probability that they will encounter the Death Sphere... Although the Twin Kings bond allows for infinite resurrection, what if the two of them encounter the sphere at the same time? Wouldn't they both die?

How can we break this deadlock?

As Liu Nian stared at the thick, grayish-white fog in front of him, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"What are you thinking about?" asked the Sun Eater.

"You stay right here and don't move!"

As soon as Liu Nian finished speaking, he immediately activated the Boundary Breaker.

A flash of light, and he vanished from the spot.

The next second, he was back in his room at the Dragon Guild headquarters in Ovitarn, taking out the Heart of Deception.

After the dim light faded, a warm energy instantly flowed throughout his body. Liu Nian felt his skin begin to change; his body temperature dropped, his pulse slowed, and his breathing became barely perceptible. He felt as if he had merged with the surrounding air.

He looked in the mirror.

The person in the mirror was still himself, but there was an indescribable difference. If one had to describe it in words, it would be that he had become "faded." Like a figure in a traditional Chinese ink painting, he was clearly there, yet gave the illusion that he might vanish at any moment.

He is now a level 135 Mistborn, Nigellas.

Liu Nian didn't think much of it and didn't dare let Shi Ri stay alone for too long. After transforming, he activated the Boundary Breaker again and returned to Shi Ri's side.

A flash of light, and he was back in the misty cave.

Then, he froze.

The scene before me was completely different from what I had seen before.

The fog was still there, but it was no longer a chaotic gray-white.

He could clearly see the flow of the mist, the origin and destination of each wisp. More importantly, he could see the real environment around him—he and the Sun Eater were not in some boundless space, but in a cave that wasn't too big.

The cave was about the size of a football field, its walls covered with glowing moss that emitted a faint green light. In the center of the cave, a huge tree stood silently.

The tree was at least fifty meters tall, with a trunk so thick that it would take more than a dozen people to encircle it. Its bark was grayish-white and covered with twisted patterns. The branches stretched out in all directions, but strangely, there wasn't a single leaf on the tree.

Instead, there were numerous corpses hanging from the branches, their necks dangling from dead branches that had bent into loops from the trees, swaying gently in the breeze that seemed to come from nowhere.

The Sun Devourer stood strangely in mid-air, its entire body tilted at a 45° angle, as if gravity had shifted around it.

Liu Nian licked the corner of his mouth.

He seemed to understand what was going on with this space... The space here was like a fold, seemingly walking on the ground, but actually stepping on an unknown medium, walking into the air...

As for the strange god-killing orb, Liu Nian did not see it.

Suddenly, Liu Nian saw a corpse move. The withered branch hanging from its head suddenly extended and silently fell to Shi Ri's side. Then, as if it were alive, the withered branch loosened its grip on the corpse and slowly looped around Shi Ri's neck!

Unaware of what was happening, Devourer of the Sun looked around blankly until the freed corpse grabbed Devourer of the Sun's lower body and pulled it down sharply!

The Sun-Eating Beast's head separated from its body in an instant!

Only then did Shi Ri suddenly realize that something was touching him. He looked down, and Liu Nian could clearly see the panic on Shi Ri's face.

Then...the Sun Eater died.

"So that's how it is!"

The so-called God-Slaying Orb is actually a combination of these corpses and tree branches?

As for why it looked like a magic sphere to him and Shi Ri, Liu Nian couldn't understand. Was it because his head was round?

No, it may simply be a manifestation of power.

So, does that mean the god-killing orbs in Kalon's secret chamber were also a combination of corpses and withered branches?

No wonder he walks so slowly...

At this point, the Twin Kings bond has been triggered, and Sun Eater is resurrected once again.

"Devouring the Sun!" Liu Nian shouted.

Shi Ri looked behind him, as if Liu Nian had appeared behind him: "You're back?"

Liu Nian said, "Don't worry! I know what killed you!"

"Oh? Then I..."

"You follow my orders!"