Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

When Kirie and Amano Tsukiko woke up, the two women had arrived at a well that Kirie found familiar.

That was the old well where Goro persistently threw stones.

Even now, the gaunt-faced Goro still stands on the flesh and blood carpet of the Aberration II, taking stones handed to him by several intact people, including Tomie Aberration I, and throwing them into the well.

The stone spiraled downwards, falling in an eerie arc, like wriggling worms burrowing into maggot-infested bread.

"Return to the Dao - The Art of Reincarnation and Rebirth," Shen Jue's voice rang out.

Kirie and Tsukiko, who had been in a daze, were brought back to their senses as their mental timeline was rewound.

Upon seeing that they were still lying on the flesh and blood carpet of the people's Tomie Aberration Type II, the two women rolled their eyes and were about to faint again.

Shen Jue's Great Sun Magic flashed, and the golden-red radiance shone on the two women, revitalizing their spirits and giving them some resistance to the appearance of the Aberration Type II that challenged human psychological defenses.

"I said, is it really that scary?"

"I'm feeding biomass to mutant type II organisms, not human remains or severed limbs."

"Lord Shen Jue! Please be sure to explain the strange things we're supposed to see in the future!" Tong Hui finally exclaimed, rubbing her face. "If this continues, I'll die following you!"

"Oh dear," Shen Jue sighed, "what a pity, Tong Hui."

You need to have eyes that are good at discovering beauty.

Amano Tsukiko remained silent, only pursing her lips with a pale expression.

"Then what I'm about to do will make you cry and try to stop me," Shen Jue said with a smile.

"What?!" Kirie asked, her question tumbling out.

Shen Jue remained silent, only smiling.

Just hours later, a global live stream began.

Every electronic screen in the world was lit up at the same instant.

There is no flicker, no snow noise, and no trace of that rough black and white line rolling across the middle of the screen when the signal switches.

The previous screen was still playing the news, GG.

The next instant, Shen Jue's face appeared there.

Smooth, quiet, like a coin turned over.

Shen Jue sat in a chair that had no distinguishing features, with a slightly undulating fleshy wall behind him. Light poured down from an unseen source, illuminating his clean and sharp features.

Shen Jue was wearing a minimalist dark-colored top with no patterns, no badges, and no symbols that could be categorized or labeled.

His posture was relaxed; his back was neither deliberately straightened nor slumped. His right leg was crossed over his left knee, and his hands were casually folded over his knees.

Kirie and Tsukiko, who were clearly dressed up carefully, stood behind Shen Jue with pale faces.

Then, amidst the doubts, confusion, and fear of people all over the world, Shen Jue smiled.

That smile wasn't exaggerated.

The curve of his lips was so precise it looked as if it had been measured with a ruler, just enough to reveal a sliver of white on his upper teeth; his eyes were slightly narrowed, but his pupils were still clearly visible.

The temperature of those pupils was like that of a cold, burning sun.

"Hello everyone," Shen Jue said with a smile.

Shen Jue's language was translated into the official languages ​​of various countries through live broadcast signals.

His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, without any deliberate chest resonance or the meticulously designed intonation of a speech.

Shen Jue spoke as if he were chatting with an old friend, only this casual conversation happened to be overheard by the whole world.

"The images you are seeing now are being broadcast simultaneously on every screen on this planet."

"Mobile phones, televisions, computers, large screens on the exterior of shopping malls, flight information displays at airports, and GG light boxes in subway tunnels."

"All the electronic screens that emit light were forcibly switched to my live stream."

Shen Jue tilted his head slightly. The smile didn't disappear, but it deepened a little, as if he was thinking about how to say the next sentence so that people all over the world wouldn't misunderstand.

"I know what you're waiting for me to say," Shen Jue continued.

"You are waiting for me to announce my demands."

"Overthrow a government?"

"Release some prisoners?"

"Demanding an astronomical ransom?"

"Or, to put it more conventionally: claiming to be the incarnation of a deity and demanding that you build a golden statue?"

Shen Jue gently shook her head. The movement was small, but the word "no" was expressed clearly.

"No, I'm not a clown."

"These are all your dark speculations."

"What I'm about to do goes beyond this scope."

Shen Jue loosened his clasped hands, raised his right hand from his knee, and casually drew a small circle in the air, as if gently brushing something aside.

"I will rule the whole world."

When Shen Jue said this, his tone was exactly the same as when he said "Hello everyone" earlier.

There was no emphasis on a single word, no pauses to create suspense, and no waiting for the audience to gasp.

It was as if he wasn't making a declaration of conquest, but rather a weather forecast: "It will rain tomorrow, remember to bring an umbrella."

"And what you have to do," Shen Jue continued, his eyes seemingly fixed on everyone watching through the camera lens.

"It means submission, bowing down at my feet."

Shen Jue paused for a moment, but not for long, about two seconds.

Then Shen Jue's smile expanded a millimeter to each side from the corners of his mouth, so much so that it was almost unnoticeable unless you looked closely.

"Now, before your fears have a chance to fester into anger, let me say the second thing."

Shen Jue stood up, the movement was smooth and natural, without any unnecessary support, and it took her less than a second to change from a sitting to a standing position.

"I want to rule over humanity because humanity as it is now is unable to solve the problems that lie ahead on its own."

Shen Jue turned to the side, casually putting his left hand into his pocket, while his right hand stretched out towards the fleshy wall behind him.

"The flesh and blood you see are my weapons, and also humanity's answer."

"And I am the one who sows hope and spreads the answers."

"I've broken the curse of the human-headed balloon and the landing of the mechanical-legged monster fish."

"And now, all I have to do is stop another catastrophe from ending the world."

Shen Jue's right hand stopped in mid-air, his five fingers naturally spread out, as if catching an invisible falling leaf.

"Hellstar is approaching this planet."

After saying this, Shen Jue paused for a moment, observing the camera as if looking through the lens at the faces in front of the screen whose expressions were beginning to change.

"I know what you're thinking. As a human who looks just like you, what can I do in the face of a terrifying being on the scale of a celestial body?"

"Look!" Shen Jue exclaimed. "A living planet, 1.5 times the diameter of Earth, is devouring other planets as it heads toward Earth."

"All of humanity's nuclear weapons are probably nothing more than fireworks to an adversary of this scale."

Shen Jue's gaze seemed to pierce through the studio walls, looking towards a distant direction, at a terrifying and bizarre living planet with eyes and a tongue, hundreds of millions of kilometers away, that was constantly approaching.

"It doesn't matter, I'll take care of it," Shen Jue said.

Shen Jue pronounced these words very softly, so softly that they sounded like a sigh.

But Shen Jue's smile didn't fade; instead, it became even more composed, so composed that it seemed he had already read the last page of the entire script from the very beginning.