Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

What exactly is thinking?

In Lin Qingyu's view, thinking refers to the entire process by which the brain understands, summarizes, judges, and reacts to external information after it has been inputted.

It is a predetermined decision made based on the information already acquired and with the help of past knowledge and experience.

The entire process involves multiple aspects such as one's memory, cognition, personality, habits, and will.

The mind invasion of the Holy Beast Bee Queen is a distortion of this process in order to achieve assimilation.

This is not a simple slave contract, not a noose around your neck that will hang you if you disobey.

Because of this inefficient control and threat, even the most cowardly person might not be able to control it completely.

It's more like having one's thoughts branded on them.

Whether you were originally a pioneer striving for the continuous prosperity of the Chinese nation, or a pragmatist working hard for your own wealth and glory.

Or perhaps it's a soldier fighting monsters for the safety of the people, or a villain who slaughters innocent people to satisfy his own evil desires.

Good or evil, clever or simple-minded.

You are still the same person, because your body, memories, and soul have not been replaced.

Talent remains unchanged, strength remains unchanged, wisdom does not increase, and rationality does not decrease.

You are no longer the same person you used to be, because your thinking has been distorted.

No matter how noble your previous ideals or how grand your dreams were, they will now become: for the sake of the queen bee.

If your heart is set on justice, then the queen bee is the greatest justice; if you yearn for evil, then the queen bee is the greatest evil.

There were no threats, no coercion, it came from the heart, and it was completely voluntary.

Just like... believing in the queen bee, becoming the queen bee.

For Lin Qingyu, he was originally a Chinese soldier with principles and beliefs, a guardian of humanity against the invasion of monsters.

However, after being invaded by the mind, the offensive and defensive strategies were reversed, and faith and perseverance became the Queen Bee's. Thus, Lin Qingyu naturally became the Queen Bee's mole in the Chinese military.

Three years after three years, even after Wo Cheng became the division commander of the Tianfu Army and a candidate for marshal of the Tianfu Army, Lin Qingyu still had to break with the Tianfu Army under the will of the Bee Queen.

Mind invasion does not alter memories, so Lin Qingyu still retains his feelings for the Tianfu Army.

However, Lin Qingyu still sold Tianfu Army without hesitation, because under the influence of mind invasion, Bee Queen was the most correct.

That day, the Tianfu Army was wiped out, and the blood debt of 100,000 was etched into our hearts.

The pain transformed into a cup of bloody poison, which Lin Qingyu drank in one gulp, corroding his already riddled soul.

But it cannot bring distorted thinking back to its original state.

It turns out that when a person is in extreme pain... they can only be in extreme pain for a short period of time.

Power does not grow according to an individual's emotions or will.

Lin Qingyu continued to work for the Queen Bee, but he was unwilling to step into the human world again.

Furthermore, he painstakingly devised a plan to seal the Star Gate.

Search for the 'bridge' and 'world' level Star Gate connecting China, and send magical beasts to guard this side of the magical world to prevent other magical beasts from accidentally entering.

Then, they sent even smarter, soon-to-be-advanced mid-level and high-level magical beasts to infiltrate and secretly advance their ranks.

With just a command, they can appear and slaughter all the demonic beasts in the passage between the two worlds, while preventing any demonic beasts outside the passage from entering.

Completely cut off China's supply of magic crystals.

In just a few decades, the number of mages in China will decline due to a shortage of magic crystals, and their strength will weaken.

However, a monster is always a monster. Even though the Holy Beast Bee Queen possesses intelligence no less than that of humans, it still looks down on such a time-consuming method.

It prefers to use a more direct approach, with greater force, to break through human defenses head-on.

Thus, the Bee Queen embarked on a journey to subdue and recruit more sacred beasts and magical beasts.

Of course, the Queen Bee also understands the importance of knowing yourself and your enemy, and through the Underworld organization, she keeps a close eye on the power of the human world.

As for Lin Qingyu, the Bee Queen simply assigned some magical beast subordinates to Lin Qingyu to do whatever he wanted.

At the same time, Lin Qingyu absorbed the secondary clone, becoming a blood bag for the Underworld organization, providing them with various human crystal magic.

This ensures that this overt force has sufficient self-defense capabilities to prevent it from being eliminated by humans.

Humans and monsters returned to their former peace.

Although Lin Qingyu's plan was greatly slowed down without the full support of the Queen Bee, he proceeded with it slowly and patiently.

Until one day, Lin Qingyu comprehended a strange rule.

Soul proliferation

Perhaps the poisoned wine we drank back then planted the seed for the rule of [Soul Proliferation].

When Lin Qingyu was testing the rules, he shattered his own soul.

Then the newborn soul... actually regained Lin Qingyu's original thoughts.

In an instant, regret, guilt, rage, hatred, and endless negative emotions almost devoured Lin Qingyu's reason and crushed his broken body.

But after a moment, Lin Qingyu calmed down.

Regret over the past won't change the current situation; the solution is to find a way to deal with the queen bee.

Having had his thinking twisted for so many years, Lin Qingyu naturally knew the strangeness and terror of the rules of the Sacred Beast Bee Queen.

This rule does not harm the physical body or the soul; it only distorts abstract things like thought, which are almost impossible to defend against.

Even the most powerful forbidden mages and sacred beasts can be controlled by the Queen Bee.

Only through special rules can they resist one or two such situations.

Yes, it's not defense, it's resistance.

Just like Lin Qingyu now, his newly formed soul has temporarily escaped this state of distorted thinking, but the root of the Queen Bee's mental invasion is still in Lin Qingyu's soul, so this distortion is still happening.

Seeing that the newborn soul was about to follow in the footsteps of the twisted mind, Lin Qingyu had no choice but to destroy himself once again.

From then on, mind invasion became a tug-of-war that Lin Qingyu was destined to lose.

Fortunately, Lin Qingyu has now obtained the right to cheat. When the newly born soul gradually begins to give up and is distorted to a certain extent by the Queen Bee's thinking and loses, he decisively chooses to die and reset the game.

From a single-elimination match to best-of-three, best-of-five, best-of-seven...

Lin Qingyu kept losing, but he also kept getting extra matches.

Initially, Lin Qingyu, who had just mastered the rules, was unable to continuously generate new souls, just as Wang Yi's current Nirvana also has its limits.

Fortunately, Lin Qingyu quickly found a new method. Just as his thoughts were about to become distorted, he deleted his memories of his conscious state, leaving only one sentence etched into his memory:

The only way to strengthen the rules is to constantly train by using them.

This is a perfectly normal statement, so even if Lin Qingyu is twisted again, after a period of recuperation, he will choose to destroy his soul to forge the rules.

Even if one's thinking is distorted, the desire to become stronger will not change.

In this way, the newly born soul can once again briefly escape distorted thinking and return to normal.

After reliving the negative emotions, the same conclusion is drawn again. One continues to stay clear-headed, and when one can no longer hold on, the memory is deleted, and the cycle repeats itself.

Until one day, Lin Qingyu's rules will be completely complete, allowing souls to be reborn forever.

In this way, he could be considered to have indirectly broken free from the queen bee's control, maintained a distorted sense of self, and thus found a way to kill the queen bee.

During this period, Lin Qingyu also tried many other changes, including altering the personality, cognition, and habits of the newborn soul.

It's like you're launching a DDoS attack on yourself, allowing newly born souls, without altering your original memories and will, to confuse and delay the rate at which your thoughts are distorted, thus increasing your time of clarity.

This method is indeed effective, but the price is that Lin Qingyu has become a mentally ill person, as if his soul has been split apart.

However, Lin Qingyu didn't care. Ever since he was invaded by the Queen Bee's mind, he was no longer the original Lin Qingyu.

After experiencing the destruction and rebirth of his soul, he was nothing more than a monster who inherited Lin Qingyu's name, body, strength, memories, and will.

So what difference does it make if there's another label of mental illness?

However, as the [Soul Proliferation] grew stronger, Lin Qingyu realized that he was wrong, terribly wrong.

The rules for [Soul Proliferation] have long since reached the critical point of completeness, yet they can never take the final step to truly become complete.

With his talent, he shouldn't have this constraint. It's clearly a mental intrusion that prevents him from truly becoming a forbidden mage.

Lin Qingyu's heart died once again.

An incomplete "soul proliferation" cannot possibly contend with a complete "eternal mind."

This means that the so-called balance that Lin Qingyu is currently barely maintaining can be easily distorted again by the Queen Bee with just a little more effort.

After that, the Queen Bee only needs to issue an order that "no more souls may be broken" to make Lin Qingyu, who has just stepped onto the shore, fall back into the abyss and sink into eternal damnation.

Perhaps the queen bee had already realized that he was out of control, but was just too busy amassing troops to care.

Or perhaps they find Lin Qingyu ridiculous and want to see him gain hope only to lose it again.

This situation once gave Lin Qingyu a strong urge to self-destruct.

Perhaps rushing into China and dying at the hands of a forbidden mage wouldn't be such a bad ending.

Before dying, he was able to give his dying words of information about the queen bee.

Although Lin Qingyu did not believe that China had a way to deal with the Bee Queen just because it knew about her.

However, the poisoned wine he had drunk back then still left Lin Qingyu feeling resentful.

Amidst this conflicted state of mind, Lin Qingyu discovered Wang Yi's existence.

A mid-level mage who is immune to the mental domain of high-level magical beasts, and also possesses a powerful physique capable of tearing high-level magical beasts apart.

It was incredibly bizarre and illogical.

But it gave Lin Qingyu a renewed sense of hope and showed him another possibility.

So Lin Qingyu's clone, which had been used to send human crystals to the underworld organization and bring back intelligence, began to take action.

Prior to this, Lin Qingyu had already used his clone to imprison King Qin Guang, keeping him alive but powerless to resist.

He originally planned to rush into China to commit suicide, and at the same time, have the underworld organization accompany him in death.

Now that there's a new plan, the underworld organization can survive a little longer and make the most of its resources.

Lin Qingyu began to use the power of the Underworld organization to investigate the outstanding mid-to-high-level mages in China and find this illogical guy.

Unfortunately, the underworld organization was too incompetent, and in the end, all they gave him was a bunch of names.

So Lin Qingyu started using his clones to search through the list one by one.

Fortunately, Wang Yi was found when the list was only halfway through.

A mid-level mage, yet he has already awakened the soul power that only extraordinary mages possess.

The Queen Bee must be very interested; he is a more suitable puppet than Lin Qingyu.

During the battle, Lin Qingyu fabricated the identity of a coroner named Wang and discovered more strange things about Wang Yi.

Besides having a physical body stronger than other magical beasts of the same level and possessing a transformation magic similar to that of the Flame Dragon, it also has a distinctive skeleton unique to the Jade Tiger and a phoenix-like rebirth.

Having spent so many years in the magical world, Lin Qingyu's unique advantages have given him a deeper understanding of magical beast magic than most professional researchers.

He knew many of the magical spells of monsters that human mages could not absorb.

In the human world, this kind of magic is called "bloodline magic".

However, Lin Qingyu himself was able to absorb some bloodline magic, so he knew that the so-called 'bloodline magic' was not absolute.

Some magical beasts possess even more exotic magic that he cannot absorb.

Even these spells don't require magic power to cast.

The most typical example is the phoenix's rebirth. How can it release magic and be reborn after it has died?

Unless a rebirth spell is cast in advance.

However, Lin Qingyu had killed the Fire Phoenix several times. Even if the Fire Phoenix was not given a chance to release its magic and was killed quickly again after being reborn from the ashes, it could still complete its rebirth.

When Lin Qingyu finally grasped the rules, he guessed that these unique spells might be related to those rules.

Because the rule of the Fire Phoenix is ​​rebirth from the ashes.

So, does the fact that this unusual guy can absorb these magics mean that once he becomes extraordinary or forbidden, he will be able to absorb the rules?

This idea gave Lin Qingyu more confidence in his plan.

Therefore, even if Wang Yi didn't actively ask for the Super Queen Bee's magic crystal, Lin Qingyu would still find a reason to give it to Wang Yi.

Only in this way can Wang Yi have a stronger resistance to the Queen Bee's mental invasion.

Lin Qingyu's plan was to bring Wang Yi to the Holy Beast Bee Queen and have the Holy Beast Bee Queen invade Wang Yi's mind.

After studying mind intrusion for so long, Lin Qingyu roughly guessed that the so-called mind intrusion is actually the queen bee implanting fragments of her own mind into the other person's soul.

There is a limit to the number of such thought fragments, because the Queen Bee's own thoughts have a limited total amount. Otherwise, if the Queen Bee's thoughts were infinite, all the magical beasts and humans would have long since become her puppets.

If Wang Yi can withstand the first wave of mental invasion, the Queen Bee will inevitably gather more fragments of thought to accelerate the erosion of Wang Yi's soul.

If Wang Yi could hold out long enough, the Queen Bee would even extract the fragments of thought from Lin Qingyu's soul and inject them into Wang Yi's soul.

In this way, Lin Qingyu can instantly complete the final step, completely advance to the level of a forbidden mage, and achieve infinite [proliferation].

That's why Lin Qingyu sent his clone to the human world to kill all the mages who had been invaded by the mind of the Holy Beast Bee Queen.

This ensures that if the Queen Bee wants to retrieve more fragments of thought, she can only do so from Lin Qingyu.

The probability of this is very high.

Firstly, Wang Yi's talent and strength are far superior to Lin Qingyu's.

The fact that it can absorb the rules, in particular, would probably drive the queen bee crazy with joy.

Getting one Wang Yi is worth more than a thousand or ten thousand Lin Qingyus.

Secondly, if the queen bee doesn't quickly control Wang Yi, she might really die at his hands.

However, Lin Qingyu never expected that Wang Yi would be defeated in the first wave of the Queen Bee's mental invasion.