It doesn't matter what the lord is.

At least under this assumption, all questions can be answered.

The sixth thing is to think about ways to break the deadlock, assuming that the above inference is true.

Clenus's plan had been set, and he had no other way to go. This was the bottom of the sea. On land, he might have other escape routes, but not here. He could stop and wait for death, but as long as he chose to move forward, he would definitely come to Clenus' side.

In order to break the impasse, he first needed to know how many cards the Lingwu Lord, the woman who was currently considered a comrade-in-arms, had hidden.

Are those advanced living organs like the South China Sea Dragon really necessary to fight? Yes and no. The situation became increasingly dangerous, and except for some of the most valuable materials, most of them were lost on the road. The reason why he tirelessly dragged the Lingwu Lord to fight was to see what other tricks the Lingwu Lord had.

After that, Lingwu Lord did start to show his trump cards. Then the high concentration of magic rolled up countless super ancient magic and natural disasters, and Lingwu Lord used most of his trump cards. The two people were on the verge of death several times, which was not fake. If Lingwu Lord still had some super tricks hidden, he would have used them to save his life long ago.

In the rainstorm, Lingwu Lord took off her coat, and Lid glanced at her with his peripheral vision to confirm that she should not have brought any other magical props. At that time, Lid suddenly had an idea, maybe Lingwu Lord's way of "killing Clenus" was not through physical means, but... erasing the other party's soul.

After all, she was constantly reincarnating in this world, and reincarnation itself was actually taking over the host's body, erasing the host's soul and transferring her own soul into it. If the Spiritual Martial Lord intended to use this method against Clenus, it would be exactly in line with what she said, "trampling time underfoot" and "what she wanted was Clenus himself" - she would live in Clenus's body with a human soul, become the new pillar of immortality, and become one of the three upper tribes believed in by countless people!

Although he didn't know where her confidence came from, Reed was willing to take a chance on it.

When the two men were almost lifted up by the rising rocks and crushed on the barrier above their heads, Reed held the hand of the Lingwu Lord.

They couldn't communicate with words. Surrounded by the magic of Clenus, their conversations would be exposed.

At that moment, the complex pattern on Reed's left arm lit up, and the little ghost acted as the messenger:

"Don't be afraid. The rocks will stop soon. No one will die. It's just a test. Clenus is watching us."

As expected, the danger stopped just within reach. Lord Lingwu looked shocked and did not let go of Lid's hand.

The two of them just lay in the rain, no one spoke, looking like they were enjoying their life after the disaster, but they were passing on all kinds of information privately. In this situation, the Lingwu Lord finally told Lid frankly that his guess was correct, and he did have a way to erase Clenus' soul, although it was a bit cumbersome.

She didn't say where this idea came from, but it can be seen that she was not discouraged at all because she knew that Clenus was very strong.

After talking with her, Reed came up with a plan.

Since it wants to take over someone else's body, Clenus will definitely choose one of the two people. Reed hopes that it will choose the Lingwu Lord.

"Only in this way can there be a glimmer of hope."

Lid said to the Lingwu Lord:

"You will erase its soul... or delay it as much as possible. It would be best if you can kill it, but if not, as long as I delay it for a while, I can take the opportunity to destroy its body. You have mastered the secrets of the soul and are the only one who can threaten it spiritually. I will be responsible for cooperating with your actions in reality. This is the only way for us to survive."

Afterwards, the two had a brief discussion and perfected the plan. Lid pointed out that Clenus would definitely choose the one with better qualifications from the two, and in order to make it choose the Spiritual Warrior Lord, a play had to be put on. So Lid would be injured, weak, and in great pain, and even needed the support of the Spiritual Warrior Lord to walk, and had a splitting headache when approaching Clenus... This was all necessary misleading.

The above is the whole process from Reed entering the secret realm to meeting Clenus.

It turns out that these plans are not useless and may be just one step away from success.

If Clenus had really entered the body of the Spiritual Lord without any defense, he would be in a dilemma. Lid would instantly get rid of his injured and weak posture, bravely step forward, and strangle Clenus' throat with his hand wearing black flame armor.

However, it stopped at the place closest to the Lingwu Lord.

Clenus extended his tentacles and gently stroked Reed's cheek, his voice still ethereal:

"It's good that you can let go of your hatred for her. It's good that you can think beyond the current crisis and think about the long-term. It's good that you can use all the resources at hand and persevere in finding hope for life. It's good that you can deduce so many things without knowing anything about me. It's good."

Lid only felt the cold suction cups on Clenus' tentacles sticking to his cheeks, and her cold voice reached his ears in the blink of an eye:

"You did good things. But because I am Clenus, all you did... is not enough. I did not start watching you from the Black Mist. I have been observing your every move since the beginning."

48. Possession

Clenus smiled slightly.

At this time, the darkness in the sky outside the tower slowly disappeared, revealing a huge magic circle. The magic circle was composed of countless bright red super-ancient characters, shaped like a huge spindle, with a group of sixteen-pointed stars wrapped in a ring inside that kept flashing and moving, looking like a huge eye.

Kleiner continued:

"I have been watching you, watching your every move, every expression. Including the time when you held her hand and she turned her head to look at the rock... You have thought a lot and done a lot, but in my eyes, there are traces of everything. The disordered breathing when you were lost in thought, the wide eyes when you seemed to understand something, the raised eyebrows when the idea came to you... I saw all of these. By watching, I can understand how far you have gone."

Clenus looked at Reed, and Reed wanted to glare back, but when his eyes met Clenus's, his consciousness instantly became confused.

His eyes became increasingly distracted, and he only heard Clenus say at last:

"What a pity. You were able to use your superb acting skills to trick the people who came with you into letting down their guard and standing by your side to complete this plan together. But what you did was only to prove that you are more worthy of my possession. Human power is limited, and a plan that was so ingenious for you humans has already fallen into a dead end from the very beginning."

Reed could hardly support his body and was about to fall down.

At that moment, Lord Lingwu took advantage of the fact that Clenus was focusing his attention on Reed, stepped forward and attacked fiercely!

She turned her last bit of strength into a desperate attack. The long river of fire wrapped around her body first rushed towards Clenus, but the real killer move was the several winding red lines extending from her toes. Those were highly concentrated fire crystals. Just when Clenus was talking to himself, the Spiritual Warrior Lord had already concentrated all his last bit of magic power under his feet. After lying dormant for a long time, the fire crystals quietly shot out from the blind spot of Clenus's sight.

Not only that, the Lingwu Lord's own body also flashed to the side, and then the cover of the flames went directly around its side.

It didn't matter if Clenus didn't choose to possess her body. If a defensive counterattack didn't work, then just take the initiative and attack!

As long as she put this hand on Clenus's head, she would be able to erase Clenus's soul and take over her own.

However, soon, the Lingwu Lord's forward momentum slowed down for some reason. She felt that she had lost control of her legs in an instant, and her body could not maintain balance normally. She fell to the ground, and her elbows, wrists, and forehead were rubbed and bleeding. She wanted to get up, but then she felt a sharp pain in her legs. She looked closely and found that the two tentacles of Clenus had turned into spikes and pierced her legs. Her already exhausted body was completely unable to move.

The tentacles were now slowly being retracted, and the suction cups on the tentacles were like barbs, scraping off large pieces of flesh and broken bones.

Even someone as tough as the Lingwu Lord couldn't help but gasp in pain in the face of such pain.

The flames and fire crystals were naturally completely dispersed by the tentacles, but many parts of Clenus' tentacles were also burned into a charred brown color, emitting wisps of green smoke.

After all, it is still very weak and it is impossible for it to defend against all the attacks from the Lingwu Lord.

"Zhao Zhao!"

Reed glanced in the direction of the Lingwu Lord, but the next moment his head was forcibly turned back to the front by the tentacles.

Clenus - the little baby returned to the warm bed of meat, looking at him quietly, and forcing him to look at himself.

Of the sixteen tentacles on its body, fourteen rushed towards the Lingwu Lord and tied her up tightly. Then, it opened its mouth and said to the two people in front of it:

"I said I would give you time to resist. But unfortunately, although I can see the will to resist in you, I can't see the ability to resist. By human standards, you have done very well. Death is not a terrible thing. Next, you will lose consciousness forever. Don't worry, it's just like sleeping, except you won't wake up again. And you will be tied up temporarily. After I finish taking over his body, I will use his body to kill you and make you a part of eternal life."

There was no sadness or joy in Clenus' voice, as if he was announcing a perfectly normal, established fact.

The Spiritual Warrior Lord struggled desperately. She could feel that although the restraints of Clenus were tight, they were not impossible to break free of. Clenus was in a weak period, and his physical strength was limited. This kind of violent restraint could naturally be broken by violent struggle... It just took time.

Time is exactly what they lack most at the moment.

When Clenus' eyes turned completely into a deep purple-black color, the Spiritual Lord stopped struggling.

She knew it was too late.

Lid was different from her. Hundreds of years ago, she had obtained the secret method of soul reincarnation in an unknown secret place and practiced it day and night. Although her soul became riddled with holes in reincarnation, the remaining part was extremely tough and had the ability to compete with Clenus. But Lid didn't have that. She didn't know much about him, but no matter how strong Lid was, from the perspective of the soul, he was probably just an ordinary person.

"Thank you for coming. You filled the final gap for my resurrection."

The baby girl's last sound echoed in the empty tower.

When a dark shadow suddenly emerged from Clenus' body and crashed into Lid's body like a storm, Lid's body slowly fell backwards. The dark top of the tower passed through his vision, but the vision became darker and darker, and finally nothing was left. The scenery in front of him faded away, the suffocating oppression of Clenus faded away, and the desperate cry of the Spiritual Lord also faded away.

His left arm, the little ghost stood up and emitted the last ray of light, but was instantly swallowed by the black fog and fell silent.

In its heyday, it would have been captured by Clenus, but now it is no match for Clenus.

Reed fell backwards, his back hitting the hard ground, but he no longer felt the pain.

It was useless to feel unwilling, angry, regretful, remorseful or self-blaming. From now on, this prosperous world had nothing to do with him anymore.

Lid slowly closed his eyes.

The Lingwu Lord punched the ground and blood gushed out.

This was not Lid's failure alone. The current situation also meant that her hundreds of years of hard work had gone to waste. Lingwu Lord did not regret coming here, because she had no other choice from the beginning. Her soul was becoming more and more broken, and the day of disintegration was not far away. One day she would fall down on an empty chair. What would happen to Lingwu Territory then? What about the beautiful mountains and rivers of Yongtian Kingdom that she had always dreamed of?

She knew better than anyone that the deformed power structure required her to sit in the center and issue orders all the time, but this road had come to an end. After countless reincarnations, she finally reached her own end. What else could she do but give it a try?

Lord Lingwu gritted his teeth, and his messy black hair stung his eyes.

So much so that she didn't actually see it.

The moment Reed fainted, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

49. You can relax

The Lingwu Lord quietly waited for Clenus to come and kill her.

Of course she didn't want to lose, but when she was sure there was no hope of winning, she hoped that she could at least die with dignity.

Last year, in the first letter that Reed wrote to her, he warned her that "the eighty thousand cavalry are majestic and awe-inspiring, the one hundred and fifty thousand armored soldiers look down on the common people, but behind them is the bitter cold land where every family is in mourning." He implied that she was levying heavy taxes and extortions, and that behind her powerful civil and military achievements were the people suffering.

How could Lord Lingwu not know this?

But what can we do if we know this? If Lingwu Territory had not followed the current path, it would have been eaten up by the giants and other territories long ago! Life was tough, and if you wanted to survive, you had to eat people. The Lingwu lord at least gave them the means to earn their own lives, and led them to find a way to survive in the cold and frozen outside the Great Wall.

She doesn't think of herself as a hero who saves people from suffering, but she has always had a clear conscience.

There was no other way. She could only blame the giants for repeatedly going south, blame the other territories of Yongtian Kingdom for never actively supporting the northern defense line with supplies, and blame Ji Yingtian and his useless descendants for treating her like a dog from the beginning! When she wanted to buy food, the royal family secretly suppressed her; when she wanted to buy weapons and equipment, the royal family secretly suppressed her; even when the momentum of the giants' invasion slowed down in the severe winter, someone would immediately come to persuade her to disband part of the army in exchange for the trust of the royal family...

Why?

She had thought that death was like the extinguishing of a light, and that she should let go of the hatred that should be let go. But she had survived all these years, countless nights of sleeping on straw and eating bitter food, countless days of heartache, she had survived. She felt that except for the mistake she made when she was young, she had always been doing the right thing, living uprightly like a queen, and naturally she should die uprightly like a queen.

Lingwu Lord opened her eyes, waiting for the man who had fought side by side with her to turn over and sit up, so that he could pierce her heart. Fourteen tentacles bound her tightly, leaving no loopholes. Even if there were loopholes, she would not have had time to resist. Her legs with two bloody holes were even paler than usual, and a pool of blood had already appeared on the ground. Lingwu Lord shuddered, and suddenly recalled that day hundreds of years ago, when she watched countless people die in front of her. At that time, she was as cold as she is now.

Time passes second by second.

Lord Lingwu's heart slowly calmed down.

At a certain moment, a flash of lightning suddenly broke through the sky outside the tower, and the wind from nowhere blew up her hair. The mist on the charred tentacles condensed into water droplets and fell quietly. The moment it touched the ground, the Lingwu Lord's unfocused eyes suddenly showed a ray of light.

wrong……

Something wrong happened!!

She raised her head suddenly. At least several seconds had passed since Clenus crashed into Reed's body, and Reed's body was still lying quietly on the ground.

A few seconds might sound short, less than the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, but it was already the limit she had expected.

Being hit by Clenus's huge soul, the existence of "Lid" should have been wiped out in an instant. But now he still maintained the posture of falling down, without even moving a finger, which meant that Clenus had not yet been able to gain control of that body. At that moment, thousands of possibilities flashed through the mind of the Spiritual Martial Lord, and countless questions surged into his heart.

Perhaps, like her, Lied also hid some last resort;

Perhaps he had already considered the current situation in his plan;

Or maybe, that man who was a few years younger than she was in this life, was about to do something that no one dared to imagine—

But that's not the point!

The Lingwu Lord gritted his teeth and tore the tentacles on his body with all his might, trying to break free from the restraints bit by bit.

It didn't matter what Lid was thinking or whether he was sure. What mattered was that he had indeed held back Clenus and done what the Spiritual Lord should do. Then there was only one way for the Spiritual Lord. As long as she broke free from the tentacles and approached the baby girl lying on the bed, she could transfer her soul into the body without any effort. At that time, no matter who got control of the body between Clenus and Lid, she would be invincible.

The baby girl was temporarily cut off from her soul, but her body still had some instinctive reactions. The Lingwu Lord wanted to break free, but the tentacles were tightening little by little.

Lingwu Lord stretched out her arms, her ulna and radius cracked, and her entire forearm was about to be crushed into a ball. The pain from all over her body hit her brain again and again, and the string of consciousness was on the verge of breaking. But she still tried her best to tear the tentacles on her body. After all, this was her last chance.

Many places could have been slowly dissolved with clever strength, but the Spiritual Martial Lord simply grabbed the tentacles and violently tore them off. The suction cups scraped large pieces of flesh and blood off her flawless skin, destroying her originally beautiful figure.

She didn't know how long Reed could hold her back, and the sense of crisis urged her to move forward regardless of the consequences.

Finally, the Spiritual Warrior Lord emerged from the tentacles. In fact, she couldn't untie so many tentacles at all, so she could only pry open a hole in the weakest part as much as possible, and slowly emerged like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. When she succeeded, she was covered in blood, with only her two eyes reflecting a cold light.

She couldn't stand up anymore. The two tentacles that pierced her thighs first crushed her tendons and bones, and the remaining parts were also in danger of slowly necrotizing. It was impossible to recover in a short period of time, but the Lingwu Lord used his hands and feet to crawl towards the baby girl on the warm bed with such a broken body.

Slowly, getting closer.

She raised her hands, and her bloodstained hands seemed to be grasping the universe.

Then, when he was about to touch the baby, his fingertips touched an invisible barrier.

Lightning flashed, and the nerves at the fingertips were directly transmitted to her whole body. As the saying goes, the ten fingers are connected to the heart. After a cry of pain, the Lingwu Lord's arm was slightly charred. She panted hard, climbed up the tentacles, and then punched hard on the cold barrier.

The lightning once again illuminated the dark tower.

……

At the same time, in Reed's body.

The green fields stretched out beyond sight, and the gurgling streams flowed quietly. Many sheep were eating grass happily, the breeze was blowing the white clouds in the sky, and the afternoon sun was just right. Under the blue sky, a strange octopus emitting black mist lay on the grass, its two strange eyes half-closed, looking a little listless, and its sixteen tentacles spread out on the grass, as if stretching lazily.

Clenus, whose soul remained in its original form, quietly watched the flow of white clouds, his whole body enveloped in a comfortable atmosphere.

Feeling lazy and lacking in energy.

strangeness……

Why here?

What did you originally want to do?