It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Then, Lid's words rang in her ears again:

"I still remember the first time I saw you in Yuxi City, you made yourself look uglier, and you were far less beautiful than you are now. But at that time, you were more or less like a human being, not like you are now."

The next moment, the whites of Shi Yuan's eyes were completely covered in black, and the original pupils turned into blood-red rings. Her ten fingers were bent backwards, the flesh on the palms of her hands broke, and sharp bone spurs grew out of them; her body moved faster than before, and her afterimage was still left where she stood, and she was already in front of Lid.

"You are not worthy of judging me, human."

Reed could read it from her lips.

At the moment of the fight, Lid used both hands to block her thorny hand, hit her face with a headbutt, and then suddenly reached out to grab the stone embedded in her chest. But even Lid did not expect that the stone - to be precise, the crystal formed by Meijiu's blood - would light up red the moment Lid was about to touch it, and then a sharp pain rushed from Lid's fingertips to his brain.

This time, Lid took the initiative to distance himself. He looked at his hand and saw that the flesh and blood on his right hand finger had evaporated out of thin air, and blood kept pouring out.

Shi Yuan still had an unnatural smile on her face. She giggled and walked towards Lid step by step. Bone spurs kept popping out from the vulnerable parts of her body until she turned into a fully armed monster. That face was still as beautiful as before, but her spirit and soul collapsed together and fell into the abyss.

54. Like holding a hundred weapons

The smell of corruption spread around Shi Yuan.

She walked towards Lid step by step, very slowly at first, but she increased her speed to the extreme when Lid took a breath, and her body flashed in front of Lid. Lid ignored the fingers that could not stop the bleeding, and jumped back to avoid the frenzied attack of Shi Yuan - or the almost inhuman monster in front of him.

This attack was rhymeless, but also extremely difficult to dodge, because Shi Yuan's current body structure was significantly different from that of humans, and the skills and experience she had used in fighting humans would become a stumbling block at this moment. The flexible bone spurs on her body were extremely difficult to predict, as if many branches grew from her arms. Each attack seemed to be open and closed, but there were countless changes hidden behind it.

Lid didn't know if her brain had broken down along with her body. After bone spurs grew on her body, Shi Yuan no longer had any effective communication with Lid. She just laughed softly, and that laughter was like a ghost asking for death, which made people palpitate. She also didn't hold back in her attacks, and any mistake could kill Lid.

The air around them gradually became heavy, and at this moment, Shi Yuan heard Reed sigh slightly.

He says:

“Actually, I’ve thought about that…”

The tone did not change much. He had the same tone when he was in Yuxi City. Looking back, in the few conversations between Shiyuan and Lid, his tone seemed to be similar: not particularly aggressive, and even gave people the illusion of being neutral and peaceful, but it contained a kind of confidence and determination.

Take the current scene for example, Reed used a tone of reminiscence, but there was no regret or remorse in his voice.

Of course, Shi Yuan, who was covered with bone spurs, didn't pay much attention to what he was saying. Now the bright red stone on her chest

Dominating her consciousness and body,

She had turned into a deadly evil spirit from the inside out. Reed didn't seem to care whether she could hear him or not, and just kept talking to himself:

"If you reach the tenth level, what will our fight be like? Of course, I always have expectations for young people with secrets, and you are not the only one. The princes of Western Qin and Southern Chu, the last king of Yongtian Kingdom, the leader of the resistance army, etc., in my opinion, you have all kinds of possibilities, and these possibilities will one day shoulder the future of mankind."

Reed landed on the ground and no longer dodged Shi Yuan's attacks, but watched her move left and right.

Shi Yuan seemed to be taking a short breath, but she could launch another round of attack at any time. Lid smiled and continued:

"But I didn't expect it to be like this. There are many things in this world that I don't like, and I don't want to change them one by one. But I have received your kindness, that is, the blood soul you gave me. That thing helped me recover from my injuries and even further helped me consolidate my realm, so I thought about it and I should give you a return gift--"

Before he could finish his words, Shi Yuan leaped forward from more than ten meters in the sky and rushed towards him.

The speed is as fast as a meteor across the sky.

However, as her speed increased to the limit, Lid also raised his arm slightly, pointing his hand diagonally upwards at Shi Yuan, and then Shi Yuan's body, which was falling at high speed, suddenly stopped. A sharp sword energy pierced through her chest, just like a bombardment from the ground that stopped a falling meteor.

She spat out a mouthful of blood in mid-air, her body arched up as if pierced by a sharp sword, and broken bone spurs fell one after another. The blackened eyes stared at Lid's right hand - he held his hand in the air, with nothing in his palm, but it seemed as if he was holding a long sword connecting heaven and earth. Shi Yuan was very sure that she saw him holding the sword, but she blinked and found that there was nothing there, and then she realized that he didn't even need a sword in his hand to draw the sword.

The best swordsmen can use many things at hand to make swords, such as bamboo, hairpins and even chopsticks. But there are almost no swordsmen who don't use anything. After all, everyone starts to practice swordsmanship with a sword in hand. After practicing to the extreme, other things can be regarded as swords, but if there is nothing to rely on, it is inevitable that you will not know how to exert force.

But Lied didn't.

Not only that, the next moment he clenched his hands behind his back and crossed them between his chest and abdomen. Shi Yuan recognized that as the usual starting move used by those who wield dual swords, but at the moment Li De also had nothing in his hands; before Shi Yuan could think more, Li De seemed to really draw his sword, and the heavy sword wind instantly blew her away dozens of meters.

Shi Yuan almost flipped over as soon as she landed. As her bone spurs swelled, blood oozed from her eyes. It was obvious that she had forced herself to support her body and launched a swift counterattack. To her surprise, at this moment, the positions of both parties had been exchanged. She looked up and saw Lid leaping into the sky with an indifferent look. At this moment, his hands were raised above his head, and his whole body was almost level with the ground. Shi Yuan seemed to see a huge hammer in his hand that could split mountains and break rocks.

When the invisible hammer came down, the clusters of bone spurs were directly blown away, and the tremendous force knocked Shi Yuan into the ground, and a deep pit dozens of meters long and wide was exploded on the ground. Shi Yuan could clearly hear the sound of bones breaking and organs shifting in her body.

Her thinking ability in the monster state is much worse than before. After all, she is not a genuine upper three tribes like Meijiu. Meijiu's blood can certainly transform her body and turn her into a killing machine, but there is a price to pay. A machine is a machine. She has the intuition and instinct of a beast, but she does not have the clear mind of the past.

She couldn't understand what Reed had done.

The serious injury made her scream in pain, but Lid did not give up the attack. Sometimes the battle between masters can last for hundreds of rounds, but a mistake by either side may lead to no chance of recovery. There is no strategic "don't chase the desperate enemy" here, because everyone has been a "destitute enemy" from the beginning. No matter what kind of blood the opponent can burst out in a crisis, no matter what kind of trump card the opponent has hidden, fighting is the only choice at the moment.

Lid raised his hand, clenched his five fingers, and threw it out fiercely, causing Shi Yuan in the deep pit to wail again. In her vision, Lid seemed to have thrown a spear, which pierced through her right shoulder. The broken flesh, tendons, blood, and bone residue were all clearly visible, and she could not see a trace of mercy from Lid. The man repeated the same action until all her limbs were nailed to death.

"I'll kill you, kill you, kill you—"

The beast-like roar gradually changed its tone. Shi Yuan kept roaring, her eyes fixed on Lid's hand. For Shi Yuan now, she was the "superior" who inherited Mei Jiu's blood, and her only goal was to kill Lid who had been making trouble. Therefore, she pushed her power like crazy, until she accidentally saw a trace of pity in Lid's eyes.

She saw Reed jump into the pit and land beside her.

Reed stretched out his hand again, reaching for Shi Yuan's chest. This was not a beautiful scene, because now Shi Yuan's chest was almost empty - it was blasted into a hole by Reed's initial explosive sword.

But the ruby ​​and the blood-red spider web formed with the ruby ​​as the center are still there. To put it in an analogy, it is like an exquisitely packaged electrical appliance that has been completely disassembled, but the exposed circuits are still functioning normally. That's probably how it is.

And now, the most critical component of this appliance, the power source that supports the continued operation of the entire appliance, has been targeted.

Just like last time, the red stone gave off a natural power to resist Lid's outstretched hand. Lid's right hand skin began to peel off from the fingers, and two nails were broken. But he just frowned slightly, and then continued to exert force. In Shi Yuan's horrified eyes, his scarred hand touched the gem and held it in his hand.

Then, Reed pulled hard.

Blood flowed like beads from a broken string, and the red gem fell to the ground, losing its original luster.

55. He can replace

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Shi Yuan had a very long dream.

Compared to most people in Yongtian Kingdom, she is an outlier.

If the heaviness of the Lingwu Lord comes from hundreds of years of hard work, then Shi Yuan has gone through decades of life in just over twenty years. The Saint of the Abyss Church sounds like a very powerful title, but she is not the kind-hearted Saint of Nan Chu after all. Sometimes I think about her and feel ironic. I don't know what qualifications a person like her wearing a blood-stained black robe has to be given this title.

Meijiu, who lived in Xiqin, was leisurely carrying out her grand plan of ascending to heaven through her weak flesh and blood, and the Abyss Church scattered in various places could only be managed by Shi Yuan herself. The twelve presidents of the Pontifical Council were loyal to the Twelve Pillars of Kungu respectively, but the Twelve Pillars of Kungu themselves could not be regarded as a united whole.

Take the resurrection of Clenus, the Pillar of Eternity, for example. The opinions within Kungu were ambiguous, and the opinions conveyed were even more arrogant and difficult to understand. Outsiders only knew that the Church of the Abyss had been planning this plan for many years, and whenever they mentioned it, they would laugh at the fact that the forces in the open were obsessed with intrigue and were taken advantage of by the Church of the Abyss. However, they did not know that the pressure on the Church of the Abyss was even greater within the church, and it was all supported by people like Shi Yuan.

People's hearts are fickle everywhere. The faith in Kungu within the Abyss Church is genuine, but even within Kungu, struggles are unavoidable. How can things be any better in the Abyss Church?

She had asked the Almighty Pillar Nyarrat, but Nyarrat did not give her any more answers. As for Mei... Meijiu did not even tell her about the cooperation with the old gods, so that for a long time, Shi Yuan thought that sacrificing Xi Qin was the intention of the Pillar of Dreams Atnak, because the people of Xi Qin were turned into zombies by Atnak.

Since she was born, she was taught to treat others as chess pieces and the world as a chessboard. But in fact, everyone is a chess piece, and no one is superior to anyone else. Mei Jiu is the boss behind the Abyss Church, but she may not have any feelings for this organization. She is colder than the morning rain and dew. Even her own children are nothing in her eyes. Ying Bai, Xiang Hei and Shi Yuan are just playthings to accompany them. When she likes them, she treats them as fun, and when she doesn't like them, she kills them.

But for Shi Yuan, the Abyss Church is almost the entire meaning of her life.

She lives for this. In the past twenty years, she has seen all kinds of strange things in the world. There are not many good things among them, but she has to deal with the bad things with all her heart and soul. The organization hidden in the dark sounds cool, but it is much more difficult than the traditional temple that walks in the sun and cheats people for money. Over the years, she has changed countless identities and faces. As she said, there is not much truth in her life.

The only variable might be Lid.

At that time, he was still the unknown Lord of Yuxi City, but he was able to kill Clenus and destroy the plan of the Abyss Church that had spent countless efforts. And such a person allowed the Abyss Church to exist openly in Yuxi City, which made Shi Yuan confused. She was not unaware of what Lid wanted to do. Lid simply thought that there was no difference between the temple and the church. They were all using the blood of the people to feed those bigwigs above. What he wanted was that the people were not bound by these things. Shi Yuan just couldn't understand where he got such courage to do such a "no benefit" thing in the face of the world's disapproval.

Curiosity is often the first step to get closer, so Shi Yuan was warned by Mei Jiu and withdrew from the cooperation with Yuxi City. Until she met the dragon clan again, Shi Yuan made a decision she shouldn't have made. She wanted to transform Lid's consciousness and make Lid obey her like a puppet, but she didn't expect that her life would become Lid's.

But did she really hate that life? Shi Yuan herself couldn't say.

Reason made her feel that she should die, and death was the best ending for her. But the order that she couldn't commit suicide and the love imprinted in her mind kept torturing her, so during that time she always imagined that Reed strangled her neck and suffocated her little by little. In her opinion, that was the ultimate way of love and liberation.

However, there is another secret here.

There are too many fake lives, and fake emotions have long replaced normal emotions. First, the ability to empathize is lost little by little, and then the ability to love is lost.

This is not the kind of rough emotional removal that the secret guards train assassins to do, but a kind of erosion. Most people have this phenomenon, which usually occurs after many love affairs and getting older. However, Shi Yuan has almost lost this ability because she has never loved anyone.

Meijiu was very satisfied with this matter. Perhaps in Meijiu's eyes, this was like a little female cat completing her sexual life before puberty. She didn't have to worry about her meowing and disobeying discipline, nor did she have to worry about her resentment after losing her. As for whether it was fair to the parties involved, what did it have to do with her? What she had to do was to prevent this ability from resurfacing, so she kept Shiyuan as far away from Yuxi City as possible.

Probably she had never thought about it when Reed had imprinted his love on her mind in the dragon's territory.

To other people, this behavior is like robbing someone's money and taking it for yourself, which is a completely hateful behavior. But to Shi Yuan, she was originally penniless, and Lide gave her a hundred yuan, although this money can only be spent on Lide himself. Force will bring hatred, but when giving and force coexist, love and hate often become very complicated.

Of course, Shi Yuan doesn't seem to have to consider these things.

She was like a tool, used casually by Meijiu at first, then her master was briefly replaced by Lid, and then taken back by Meijiu. This time, Meijiu did not give her any chance to breathe, but took away everything from her, leaving her only an empty shell.

Making her kill her former lover in the form of a monster might be Meijiu's bad taste. Meijiu was not obsessed with the ending of this farce, but just wanted to think of it as a happy thing in the future. It was like a child fighting insects, winning or losing didn't really matter, and it would be forgotten in a few days.

Shi Yuan's heart had been pierced by Mei Jiu, and she was no longer human from the moment her heart was pierced. Mei Jiu's blood coagulated into a gem that replaced her heart, allowing her to continue to maintain her physiological functions. To put it nicely, she might be considered a dependent, but to put it bluntly, she was a puppet.

When the gems disappeared, the people died. Death is like the extinguishing of a light, and this might be a good thing for her.

Life came to an end in the blink of an eye. The long dream collapsed in an instant, and the same Dilong Ming still looked distracted. The bone spurs on Shi Yuan's body collapsed, and the black tide in her eyes receded, returning to her human form, but her beautiful peach blossom eyes were still distracted.

When she woke up from the dream, she was about to fall into eternal sleep.

But at this moment, her body, which was still unconscious, suddenly regained some temperature. She could feel as if liquid was falling on her body, as hot as magma gushing out from the ground. Her peach blossom eyes were still dazed, and the only remaining consciousness made her tilt her head.

In order to tear off the red stone from her chest, Lid's right hand was covered with scars, with almost no good flesh. And now, instead of treating it, he let the blood fall on Shi Yuan's empty chest.

"Damn it, that woman can do it, but I can't? Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species? She can replace them." She heard the person in front of her mumbling, but her blurred consciousness made it impossible for her to think about what he was doing.

After a long time, she heard Lid speak calmly. It was a voice full of majesty and coldness that she had never heard before: "Come on, Big Eyes of the Void, let's talk."

56. The Void Has Its Own Answer

Most of Reed's knowledge about the void comes from Shi Yuan.

Blessed by the Pillar of Almighty, Shi Yuan sometimes had some special dreams. One time, she dreamed that Lid was lying on the ground with wounds all over his body, and the space above his body suddenly tore apart, revealing a huge eye. Then purple liquid wrapped him in it, and when his injuries recovered, the liquid flowed back into the torn space, leaving no trace of evidence in the world.

After taking the life-saving pill and being hypnotized by Lid, all these things naturally fell into Lid's ears. - "You are the child left by the void in the human world..."

Reed didn't know the meaning behind this sentence. The Void was the most mysterious race, but literally it was easy to explain and it was very consistent with the information Reed had already obtained: he was not the descendant of the previous Lord Yunyang, so Lord Yunyang had always disliked him. No one knew what happened on that rainy night, and the birth of this body had always been a mystery.

From the information that Reed had gathered, this body was more like an ownerless thing before he was born. Most people around him would describe it as "stupid and foolish". In fact, it has a human form but no personality. Reed initially thought that the reincarnated goddess had made a container for him, but later found out that it was not. After learning that this body was related to the void, the whole thing became even more confusing.

Putting aside the rest, Reed had a guess about this body.

Since this body is related to the void, it is impossible that the reincarnation goddess made a container for him. There seems to be only one possibility. This container was made by the void, perhaps for someone in the void, but the reincarnation goddess used her power to occupy the nest and force Lid's soul into it.

Of course, there were many things that Li De still couldn't understand, such as why he could live well even though he had occupied the magpie's nest; and why Xu Kong had to heal his wounds on several critical occasions, and why he had to keep these secrets strictly, and even wiped out the previous Lord of Yunyang in front of him.

When Shi Yuan mentioned this to him, it was in the "Isolation of All Laws" barrier. Perhaps this barrier was indeed effective, otherwise Shi Yuan should have been killed like the previous Lord of Yunyang. Afterwards, Lid did not mention the matter of the void to anyone, because he was worried that Shi Yuan would be implicated, but now there was no need to worry about this, because he had encountered a problem that he could not solve. If he could not solve it, Shi Yuan would leave this world forever.

Since he was going to die anyway, Reid felt that there was no need for him to be shy about anything.

After his voice fell, the air was silent for a moment. This silence was not complete silence, but it was as if time had been suspended, as if something extremely terrifying, extremely mysterious, and extremely tall had briefly thought about it. Then the space behind Lid began to gradually collapse, and a huge eye slowly opened in the dark content.

Lid didn't look back. He just said calmly: "The blood won't clot."

Shi Yuan had "died" once, this was an indisputable fact, from the moment Mei Jiu's limbs pierced her heart, she was already dead, and what moved afterwards was just a puppet made of Mei Jiu's blood - the blood of the upper three tribes. But the concept of "alive" was extremely difficult to define, in Lid's eyes, being able to think and make choices was considered alive, so he planned to use his own blood to repeat the same thing, but he did not plan to make Shi Yuan a puppet, but to give her freedom.

According to his speculation, his body was a container of the void, and naturally the blood of the three upper tribes flowed in it. Although he had never felt that he was any different from humans over the years, the ability to judge space after being promoted to the tenth level reminded him that his body was indeed different from that of ordinary humans.

Lid dripped his blood onto Shi Yuan's chest, but his blood could not form a bright red gem. Lid could only choose to talk to the void.

This is not the best time to negotiate.

However, Reid had other reasons for keeping Shi Yuan alive, so he didn't pick it.

The huge eyes did not respond to Reed, but just silently examined Reed's back.

Void had helped Lid heal his injuries before, but this was the first time they met when Lid was conscious. During this meeting, Lid did not ask about his life experience, nor did he ask Void what he wanted to do. He just acted in a businesslike manner: The blood cannot clot, I need your help.

Another two or three seconds passed, and the huge eyes looked to Reed's side.

Then, a man covered in a dark cloak appeared beside Reed.

Almost the moment that person appeared, Lid had a familiar feeling. He did not look in the direction of that person, but he had already made a conclusion in his heart.

When the previous Lord of Yunyang, his cheap father, was about to reveal his life story, he died in front of him in a very strange way. At that time, there was also a black shadow flashing by, but Lid was still in the ninth level of perfection at that time, and he had lost it when he chased out.

The person now may not be the same person as the black shadow at the beginning, but they are definitely the same type of person.

Lid made a judgment in his mind. He was now at the tenth level, and his perception of spatial changes had become much sharper. He could roughly guess how the other party came and went invisibly.

The shadow didn't say anything, but just squatted down and calmly stretched out his hand, with his palm facing the direction of Shi Yuan. Lid could see from the corner of his eye that it was a pair of human hands. At least it looked very much like human hands.

As a cluster of pale light lit up, the blood that Reed had dripped quickly condensed into a deep purple gem. This gem was not as bright as the one left by Mei Jiu, but it had a calming feeling. The gem also extended spider-web-like lines. Shi Yuan spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and the flesh on her chest was quickly repaired. During this period, purple liquid also flowed out of the space crack behind Reed, wrapping around Reed's right hand, and soon his scarred hand was restored to its original state.

Perhaps thinking he had done what he was supposed to do, the cloaked man stood up and left without saying a word. Reed knew that he would disappear again the next moment, as if he had never been there.

After a brief hesitation, Reed opened his mouth.

He did not ask about the body's secrets, nor did he ask about the other party's purpose. What he asked was a seemingly abrupt question:

"Have we met before?"

The cloaked man paused, and before he could say anything, he heard Reed calmly add:

"Forget it. Even if I ask you, you probably won't tell me. I've already guessed from the reincarnation goddess that you are a bunch of riddlers. Damn it, go ahead and plan whatever you want. Anyway, I don't have the habit of following other people's plans."