It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Seeing Lid, the monster grinned and said:

"I recognize you. You are Lord Lide of Yunyang."

Lid looked at the monster in front of him. This was also the first time he had talked to an intelligent monster in Xi Qin. Lid said calmly:

"I didn't expect my name to be known among you. Or did you actually transform from a human into this ghostly appearance?" The monster continued to laugh and said in a hoarse voice:

"My name is Changye."

Lid shook his head: "I don't know him."

Changye smiled. Compared to Lid, it looked more comfortable:

"Of course you don't know me. Before I evolved, I was just one of the many nobles of Western Qin... But I have chosen the right path. I no longer need to associate with you, but pursue a higher realm. Once I achieve enlightenment, the world will be in our hands. You who were once high and mighty can only look up to me now--"

Before Changye could finish his words, a hole was opened in the middle of his abdomen.

Lid's right palm was facing forward, and his aura was circulating. It was obvious that he was serious about his move. However, Lid was very cautious. He did not choose to get close to him, but directly blasted out his power, piercing Changye's abdomen from a distance. This attack even pierced through all the monsters within a hundred meters behind Changye, but Changye still smiled, and the flesh and blood in his abdomen slowly twisted and reorganized, and returned to its original state in the blink of an eye.

Changye waved his hand, and the corpses that had been strangled by Lide and Yunyang's army retreated to both sides. It was obvious that they were not escaping, but taking advantage of Lide's temporary inability to escape to continue to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder the remaining population of Yongtian Kingdom. From this point, it can be seen that Changye is not as brainless as he looks, he knows how to play every card in his hand well.

Lid glanced at Selaginella, but Selaginella had no intention of chasing after him. On the one hand, there were still a lot of mutant creatures following Changye, and on the other hand, the zombies were raging in several directions, and it was impossible for the Yunyang army to chase them to death with so few people.

Changye exhaled, touched his abdomen which had recovered to normal, and let his saliva drip onto the ground. He said:

"You are still a step behind, Lid. Maybe your previous plan went smoothly and led Yunyang to rise in the west, but ever since you got involved in the affairs of the Abyss Church, you have been a step behind. You can't do anything and you can't save anything. I heard that the Abyss Church once invited you, and you should have joined. Maybe now you are like me, free from the shackles of the mortal body."

Lid stretched his wrist and neck, and said to Alayya behind him: "I'll leave the troublesome things behind to you. Selaginella, bring the troops to support us."

Selaginella nodded, and the next moment Lid disappeared from his original position. When he reappeared, he grabbed Changye's huge head with one hand and threw him to the ground on his back. A huge pit sank into the ground, and Lid exhaled and looked at the palm of his hand.

The palm that had touched Changye's skin turned dark. Lid narrowed his eyes slowly and got ready again. The moment Changye stood up, he did not leave any chance for him and punched him one after another. Now he has reached the tenth level, and every time he punched, it seemed as if there was a

- A crack, a rumbling sound

, a dozen punches directly knocked Changye thousands of meters away.

Changye's face gradually deformed, twisted, and collapsed, and his body fell like a puddle of mud, but his hoarse and ugly laughter kept echoing: "You can't kill me, no one can kill me!"

Lid kicked it and flew it up the mountain. Changye's body was immediately embedded in the rock wall, and blood kept flowing down. Unlike the corpse tide, even though Lid had cut it into small pieces, Changye was still alive. His body was like water, breaking and reorganizing.

When Lid wanted to catch his breath, Changye, who was in a state of disarray, immediately launched a counterattack. His counterattack style was completely different from that of a normal human. The fighting skills that Lid learned in his previous life were of little use in front of it. The mud-like body was very flexible when it moved, and it could even use its characteristics to continuously split and reassemble.

Not only that, Changye's flesh and blood attached to the rocks, it could cause the rocks to collapse and the ground to crack, and when the flesh and blood was buried in the sand, it could turn the sand into a giant puppet. It was like a parasite, parasitic between heaven and earth, and the heaven and earth seemed to be controlled by it.

"My god said that among all the evolutionary branches, I chose the one that is closest to her." The twisted piece of meat transformed into a human again. Changye stroked his abdomen with his fat hand and said:

"She won't lie to me. I will spread my followers throughout the Eternal Kingdom. One day, you will all be my slaves."

13. You are just a chess piece

People always have many beautiful imaginations about "immortality".

People pursuing immortality can be seen everywhere. In his previous life, Lid had seen a civilization that used the human and material resources of the entire planet to support one person. In this life, he also saw the Lord of Zhaochen who was killed by his son because he was devoted to seeking the truth. Dynasties rise and fall like flowing water, but the pursuit of immortality is enduring. Sometimes in the open, sometimes in the dark, the dream of immortality tempts everyone, and the research on longevity has never stopped.

For Reed, this is an extremely boring proposition.

There are many fun things in the world, and decades seem to be not enough, so greed drives everyone to pursue more. But having said that, the threshold of people's perception of happiness is constantly rising. As we grow older, many of the expectations we once had will become dispensable. There is endless happiness in the world, but the journey of enjoyment will always end one day.

Lid noticed this a long time ago, because he was smart enough and had learned all kinds of knowledge and skills very early, so he went out to adventure with his dream. But as he experienced more and more things, the cost of happiness was also increasing. After realizing this, Lid lost interest in "immortality". In his previous life, he had the opportunity to achieve immortality, but after contacting a blonde vampire lady, he chose to give up this idea.

Now looking at Changye, whose face was ugly but whose eyes were bright, Lid actually felt a little pity for a moment.

Changye recognized this compassion very quickly, perhaps because he was very sensitive to other people's gazes. So he flew into a rage, and took a heavy step forward with his mountain-like body. The blood on his body fell to the ground, turning the ground into continuously extending spikes, stabbing Lid from all directions.

Lid waved his hand to break all the thorns, and said to him deliberately:

"Changye, I'll tell you a secret. Women all love beauty. When you see that you have evolved into such an ugly appearance, you should realize that your evolutionary direction is completely different from hers. Because no woman would go to great lengths to evolve into your current appearance."

Lid pointed to his face and continued:

"They care more about their appearance than maintaining this look forever."

Just now, Lid had beaten him completely to pieces several times, but Changye didn't show any pain. But after a few short sentences, his face twisted into a ball, and his body began to tremble. He roared, and pressed towards Lid at an extremely fast speed. Lid punched Changye through, but he couldn't avoid being knocked dozens of meters away by his huge body.

Just like before, the skin that came into contact with Changye quickly turned black.

It was like some kind of strong acid, or like corpse poison. Lide spat out the blood foam in his mouth and slowly moved his wrist. He was a little worried about Yu Qingzhao. After all, from Changye's point of view, the abilities of these "evolvers" were indeed not low. Lide was now a genuine tenth level, but Yu Qingzhao was still a little short.

A slight difference on the battlefield can often mean the difference between life and death.

Lide turned his attention back to Changye. The fight just now was not in vain. He already had a countermeasure in his mind. However, rather than how to deal with Changye, he wanted to find out some information about the instigator through Changye. From the current point of view, Changye should be considered a high-level among these disaster legions, and Lide needed the information in his mind.

Then Lid smashed the deformed head on his neck with a punch and continued:

"I have seen real undead. They live by sucking human blood. They are powerful and beautiful, completely different from you."

The flesh and blood on Changye's neck surged, and a new head gradually grew out. Before the head was fully formed, the semi-finished mouth opened and spoke:

"How could you have seen it? You couldn't have! This is the realm of God, a reward I earned with all I had. When you knew nothing about the Church of the Abyss, I gave them everything I had and contacted various nobles to support their activities in secret. I am a unique hero to them, and this immortal body is a symbol of glory."

Lid exchanged more than ten moves with him in a row, and each move hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt himself by eight hundred.

Changye's body collapsed and reorganized, reborn again and again, but Lid's body had more and more black scars. Changye saw that his injuries could not be completely healed, and the smile from his throat became more and more fierce:

“Look, look! You are just jealous! No matter what I become, I will not die. I will let the tide of corpses rush to every place, destroy the whole world, and turn everyone into a part of me—”

Lid cut his body in half, nodded and said:

"I see. In other words, the power you need to maintain your immortality comes from the lives that the zombies have plundered for you."

Changye choked briefly, and seemed to be annoyed at himself for being too talkative. But he quickly said:

"That's right. The blood and souls plundered by the zombies will become the foundation of my immortality. But even if I knew, what would it matter? I already carry the lives of tens of millions of people in my body. No one can kill me."

Changye looked at Lid, rushed towards him while laughing, and said loudly:

"You are indeed very strong. No wonder the gods say you are the most difficult one to deal with. But so what? We are both at the tenth level. Can you kill me dozens of times, hundreds of times, or millions of times? My strength is still increasing. The blood and souls supplied by the corpse tide are endless. Whether it is Tiancheng or Yunyang, no territory can stop my followers."

Lid dodged to the side and kicked Changye's leg, causing his huge body to fall heavily to the ground, while crushing his head for the umpteenth time. Changye's body turned into a pool of blood and merged into the ground. A huge sand giant then rose from Lid's feet. Lid stabilized his balance after a brief shake, stood on the giant's shoulder, and said bluntly:

"Don't you suspect that woman is lying to you? If she really values ​​you so much, she wouldn't have sent you to delay time for me. The giant's voice echoed between heaven and earth:

"You don't understand. Eternal Heaven is no longer valuable to her, so she gave it to me. When she wakes up from the Immaculate Tree, the whole world will be in our hands. We will become a new race, on par with the top three races."

Reed did not hide the irony in his laughter:

"The upper three tribes? Although I don't like them, I don't think you can become them. After all, you have the power of millions of people in your hands, but you still can't kill me." Lid punched the sand giant's head fiercely. After about three seconds of silence, the giant began to crack from the head, and the cracks gradually extended to the whole body of the giant. The giant, which was dozens of meters tall, turned into a pile of broken sand in an instant. The broken sand fell, and Changye's irregular body began to reappear. Lid landed lightly and said to him:

"You are just a sacrifice. No matter how much you boast about your strength, you can't cover up this fact. And among all the sacrifices, you are the most useless one. The beast tide heading north still has hope of breaking through Lingwu's defenses, and you have been just a pawn used by that woman to test me from the beginning."

14. Falling asleep and waking up

Real damage is the most real damage in this world.

Every word of Lid was like a sword, stabbing Changye's heart. On the one hand, it was because Lid's words made him doubt, and on the other hand, it was because Changye himself was suspicious and inferior.

When Changye was still a noble, his family was only of the second rank. In other places, it would have been considered a noble. Unfortunately, the Western Qin began to reform at the same time as the Western Qin lord, and introduced a new policy: if the nobles had no civil or military achievements for more than three generations, the hereditary power would be abolished.

When the policy was first introduced, Changye's grandfathers discussed it and thought that the grace of a gentleman would be cut off after three generations. They knew what kind of people their descendants were. If they really followed this rule, their huge family business would be gone in no time. If they wanted to solve the problem once and for all, they would have to make some great contributions.

Like the merits of following the dragon. Those who followed Ji Yingtian to found the Yongtian Kingdom, their descendants are still the lords of one side after thousands of years.

Some merits can indeed continue to benefit future generations.

At this time, Changye's grandparents didn't know that their lord had already contacted the Abyss Church. However, if the Abyss Church wanted to operate in the West Qin territory, it was not enough to have the support of the West Qin lord. They had to contact various nobles to block the traditional temples' overt and covert investigations. When the Abyss Church found Changye's grandparents, these clear-headed nobles quickly realized that this was an opportunity, so they spent all their wealth to support the Abyss Church.

Chang Ye didn't know these things when he was a child. He only knew that he was often laughed at by the noble children around him. They laughed at Chang Ye for not being able to inherit the family business and that Chang Ye's family would soon be disbanded. Even those children whose families were not as well off as Chang Ye could laugh at him at will, but Chang Ye couldn't think of any words to refute him.

Changye's elders kept a low profile to conceal their true intentions. Sometimes Changye couldn't help but fight and scold the other party, but Changye's elders would not care about anything and just hold Changye's head to apologize to him to calm the situation down. The elders were thinking about important things, but Changye gradually developed an inferiority complex in such an environment.

Later, before his death, Changye's father held Changye's hand and told him the truth.

Changye was surprised and delighted to learn that his family had such a large "property". He changed his previous inferiority complex and became extremely arrogant and irritable. Especially after he became a Taoist, he thought that the hardships he had suffered before were all signs of "great responsibilities from heaven". However, the character he developed in his childhood could not be changed overnight, so he became a character with both inferiority and arrogance.

After hearing what Lide said, Changye was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Well, you are worthy of being the Lord of Yunyang, well said!"

On that ugly head, two completely black eyes stared at Lid. Changye suddenly stopped laughing and said coldly:

"I see. You know you can't kill me, so you want to turn me against you, make me give up attacking Yunyang and turn to doubt the Lord God! But you can't succeed, no one can use me as a pawn. When the Lord God wakes up, I will have turned the entire Yongtian Kingdom into a dead place. By then, I will have endless followers and I will have infinite life. No one can kill me, not even the Lord God!"

Changye's face showed a smug look. Since he was sure that Lide was trying to incite him to revolt, his inner arrogance and disdain were revealed again. He thought that Lide's words just now were just lies to incite him to revolt. At this time, he was not nervous at all, and even had the leisure to tell Lide some of his real plans.

In Changye's eyes, as long as he turned all the living people in Yongtian Kingdom into a tide of corpses and took all the vitality into himself, he would be invincible. This is also the reason why he is so keen on conquering cities and territories. Only the power in his own hands can make him feel at ease.

Reed looked at him and smiled, with even more pity in his eyes.

Lid's body was covered with black wounds, and he gradually realized that this was a poison that could turn a person into a corpse. The poison was painless and itchy, but the blackened flesh and blood gradually lost consciousness. His control over his body was declining, just like the character in the game began to react slowly when the delay was high.

Although he felt a little guilty under Lid's pitying gaze, Changye's face also showed joy as he saw more and more black parts on Lid's body. His life was almost endless, but Lid only had one life, so Changye could make countless mistakes, but every mistake made by Lid was fatal.

Changye rushed towards Lide again. This time, Lide did not dodge or avoid. He looked at Changye's face that was swaying in the wind and said with a smile: "You just said that I wanted to turn you against me."

Reed exhaled, and the complex markings on his arms began to glow.

The little ghost passed through Changye's body, and the next moment Changye's feet slipped and he fell to the ground. His eyes were empty, looking at Lid's feet, but he seemed to be looking at nothing.

Lid said calmly:

"You're wrong. I don't want to. There's no use to me in persuading you to defect. Even if I'm going to keep a pet, I'd like to pick a cute one." The little ghost floated beside Reed holding a sign and stuck out his tongue at Changye who was lying on the ground.

Changye has many lives, which means he has accumulated millions of resurrection coins. Although Lid can consider killing him millions of times, he won't be able to finish killing him by next year at the current efficiency. But it doesn't matter, he can let Changye keep his resurrection coins, but each death will become extremely long.

The higher the creature, the faster it will die after the brain is shot. But Changye's head has been chopped off many times, and he can be resurrected calmly every time, and he can still think and communicate normally during the resurrection. Lid guessed that his body structure is completely different from that of humans. His brain is integrated with his body, and he can be said to be a piece of thinking meat.

In this case, let's sink him into the little ghost's fantasy world. Since Changye has the idea of ​​immortality, let him achieve immortality in the fantasy world. The little ghost flew around Changye, returned to Lide, and said to Lide:

"I can let him stay in the illusion as long as possible, but I don't have that much magic power to maintain this illusion forever. And if I really let the zombies continue to plunder lives, it will continue to evolve and one day it will get out of control. [(w―;)

Lid shook his head and said with a smile:

"I don't plan to solve the problem once and for all. Let him stay here for a while, and someone will deal with the zombie tide." The little ghost rubbed his head with the sign, wondering who else could solve the zombie tide that was sweeping across Yongtian Kingdom.

……

Lingyun City, Yunyang Lord’s Mansion.

A house in the backyard had not been opened for who knows how long. Now, with a bang, the wooden door suddenly opened outwards, startling several maids passing by.

A hand was pressed against the door and a yawn was heard in the dark room.

A moment later, under the horrified gaze of the maids, a wet blonde woman stepped over the threshold and walked out of the darkness. She was naked, with her breasts sticking out in public, seemingly without any sense of shame. While rubbing her sleepy eyes, she looked at the maids and said lazily:

"Wow... How long have I slept? Where is that kid Lid?"

Several maids cried out "Ah" and scattered. They saw clearly that when the blonde woman appeared in the sunlight, the sunlight quietly passed through her body. Although she looked like a human at first glance, her body was actually translucent.

15. He just doesn’t want you to change

At the dining table, the blonde woman tapped her feet on the table, shaking them constantly, without any sense of elegance.

She crossed her hands behind her head, half lying there with the support of a table and a chair. She had been forced to wear a spare maid outfit by the head maid who had hurried over, but compared to those respectful maids, she obviously had no service spirit at all, and even acted like she was the boss. This outfit looked very out of place on her.

Considering that most of the officials of the Yunyang faction were in the capital, the blonde woman in front of her only saw Liu Shi rushing over from the forging room. Liu Shi put the hammer on the table and looked at her, as if he wanted to hear what she was going to say.

"This king has already reached the tenth level."

The little slime, whose identity can be seen from his habit of speaking, spoke in a condescending manner. Liu Shi still had his dead fish eyes open, with a dark circle around his eyes, and said without much interest:

"so what?"

The little slime laughed like a barbell and said seriously: "Do you know what this means?"

Liu Shi thought for a moment and replied:

"It means you have one more level than the ninth level, and one less level than the eleventh level."

The little slime nodded seriously, then waved his hand violently and said dissatisfiedly:

"Wow... what a mess. What I want to say is that Lid is only at the tenth level, right?" She suddenly raised her head and laughed wildly, her jelly-like chest shaking:

"Over the years, he has made me suffer so much. I remember it clearly! He used me as bait, as jellyfish salad, as a bouncy ball, as fake breasts, as air, as a fool, as a pet. I remember all of this! Now I just need to give him a gentle pinch--"

She put her hand in front of Liushi's eyes, grasped it a few times, and continued:

"His life is gone. Wow... But I will not let him go so easily. I will pay him back double for everything he did to me. Use him as bait, as jellyfish salad, as a pet... I will play with him thoroughly and then swallow him into my stomach."

Liu Shi said, "Oh!" and then said:

"Are you okay? If you are, I'm leaving."

He picked up the hammer from the table, turned around and walked out of the house. The little slime suddenly got anxious and rushed forward to grab his sleeve.