I'm tied to Athena.

"So fast?" Li Yun was a little surprised. He thought Ishtar and the others were still in the north.

But it's okay. The sooner they leave the north, the sooner they can feel at ease. Compared to the stealthiness of the north, the south should be able to act faster. According to conservative estimates, in another month and a half, they will be able to obtain the strongest beast and the strongest goddess of the sky in Mesopotamia.

"In the words of the goddess Ishtar, 'What's going on? The magic power has suddenly increased.'" Leonidas also felt this way. Perhaps it was because the magic power in the Age of Gods was already very strong, so no one would notice if the magic power suddenly increased a little bit.

"Has the magic power increased?" Li Yun and Athena looked at each other. Neither of them noticed this.

Perhaps because they had been fighting monsters the whole time, neither of them noticed the subtle changes in their magic power. When Leonidas said this, they realized that their magic power had really increased.

The increase in magic power is a sign. For example, in the early days of the Age of Gods and the period when the mysteries faded, the magic power in the former was definitely greater than that in the latter. Although this conclusion cannot be drawn with certainty based on such information, under the current circumstances, this conclusion should be the most correct - the times are retreating!

Simply put, the world is slowly returning to its original state!

"It seems that time is running out." Li Yun said to Leonidas, and then took Athena to the underworld. He had to find the old man as soon as possible and bring him into the team!

The two rushed to Kuta City without stopping and immediately entered the underworld.

"What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry to come back?" Ai Lei, who knew nothing about the underworld, looked at Li Yun's somewhat anxious expression and asked puzzledly.

"Ailei, can you control all places in the underworld?"

"Everywhere? Of course that's impossible." Ailei shook her head as a matter of course, "I'm just the God of the Underworld, not the Underworld. How can I possibly know every corner of the Underworld?"

"Then can you tell me who has come into the underworld recently?"

"No, no one else will come to my underworld except you..." Ai Lei seemed to have thought of something, and she said in surprise: "Are you looking for the old man in the mountain?"

"You should just give up on this." Ai Lei's expression suddenly became a little aggrieved. "I've been looking for him here for two months and found nothing."

"Have you already looked for her?" Li Yun thought that Ai Lei was resting in the underworld, but he didn't expect that she had already started looking for the old man in the mountains.

"I searched the underworld from top to bottom, but found nothing."

"Is that so..." Ai Lei's words calmed Li Yun down. This reminder reminded him that the old man in the mountain appeared by himself every time, and when he appeared, even Chaldea, Merlin, and Gilgamesh did not observe him.

From the beginning to the end, the only one who knew about the existence of the Old Man in the Mountain was Gudako.

The reason why Gudako was able to see the old man in the mountains was because she had formed a bond with the old man in the previous singularity, otherwise, Gudako would not be able to see the old man.

"So, you're saying that he knows we're looking for him, but he won't come out to see us?"

"That's not a wrong understanding." Rubbing his head, Li Yun pondered for a while, "Forget it, let's give up the idea of ​​pulling him into the team in advance. He is the only one who can give us hope of winning, so it's better to keep him until the end."

"Anyway, Ishtar's plan is going smoothly. As long as we hold on for another month or two, the scales of victory will tip over to our side."

"Then I came here... for nothing?"

"Well, it's not a wasted trip. In fact, if you think about it carefully, we have achieved our goal." Li Yun smiled, "Jin Gu's attention is completely focused on the north wall. Ishtar and the others don't have to worry about the magic circle being discovered. As long as the time comes, we can take the initiative to attack."

Although he was smiling, Athena and Ailei both noticed that something was wrong with Li Yun. His smile... was very forced.

It would be more accurate to say that he was comforting himself rather than comforting the two of them.

What is he worried about?

Chapter 211 The Age of Gods is really chaotic

In the room in the underworld, Li Yun sat alone by the window, looking at the desolate earth and sighing secretly.

It was already evening when they arrived in Kuta City, so Li Yun and Athena took the opportunity to rest here for a night.

"Isn't everything arranged by you? Why are you still sighing?" Metis came out of the Gorgon Stone. She gently smoothed Li Yun's frown and said, "I still prefer the confident you."

"Confidence and stuff... If it was the original plot that I'm familiar with, then there would definitely be no problem with this arrangement. But the current situation... seems to have changed a little." Li Yun couldn't explain clearly what was going on, but there was always a sense of worry in his heart.

From the day he met Shiyizi and Jin Gu, he felt like someone was watching him...

"Then...I'll go out with you?" Metis took Li Yun's hand, "You are not allowed to refuse."

Looking at the little girl's behavior, Li Yun smiled silently, "Going out for a walk might be a good choice."

The two of them quietly left the house and headed towards the vast underworld.

What they didn't know was that as soon as they walked out the door, Athena and Elle followed them out.

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to do this?" Ai Lei pulled Athena's clothes with some concern, "What if we are discovered?"

"This is the underworld, your territory. As long as you are careful, even they won't be able to find us." Athena calmly used a relatively large stone to hide her figure. "Besides, don't you want to know what happened to him?"

"....Well, although I really want to know, it's not good to follow you like this. And..." Ai Lei, the innocent lady from the underworld, could never do such a thing. Although she could see that Li Yun's behavior was a little too strange, she planned to ask him tomorrow.

"Are you so confident in letting him and Metis go out alone?" Athena glanced at the unsteady Elle and said nonchalantly, "Metis is a wounded woman. Because of this, she will be more proactive than us. If we are not careful, she will be eaten up."

"Ugh!!!" This casual remark made Ai Lei's face turn red immediately.

"No! This is absolutely not possible!" She squatted down quickly, "What should we do?"

"Follow them, it's better to listen carefully to what they are saying."

So, Athena and Ailei began to secretly follow Liyun and Metis. It must be said that it was easy to follow others in one's own territory. After Ailei used her divine power to hide the two of them, she approached within ten meters without Liyun and Metis noticing.

This distance was enough for them to hear the conversation between the two clearly.

"The heart is gone?" Metis' voice sounded with a hint of surprise and doubt.

"Yeah." Li Yun placed a hand on his chest, "Although my heartbeat is still there and I am still alive, but... to use the terminology of the magic world, the concept of my heart is gone."

"The concept of the heart?"

The so-called concept is an expression of human self-cognitive consciousness in the process of cognition, which rises from sensory cognition to rational cognition and abstracts and summarizes the common essential characteristics of perceived things.

This is related to both idealism and materialism. The meaning of this sentence is probably that the heart of matter is here, but the heart of consciousness is gone.

To put it more simply, my soul is missing the heart.

"Is it my fault!?" Metis suddenly became nervous. The knife in the Gorgon Stone happened to cut from the left, and the heart was right on the trajectory of the knife.

"It has nothing to do with you. You have already used your soul to heal all my injuries." Li Yun shook his head. "This feeling appeared a month ago... after meeting Jingu and the others. It should be related to the Gorgon... No, it should be related to Tiamat."

"You mean, your heart went to the goddess Tiamat?" Suddenly, Metis's tone became a little low, "So you want to find Tiamat, right?"

Li Yun found a random rock to sit on and continued, "Although this feels strange, it is very real... within a month, the north wall will be destroyed."

"You must have also sensed how anxious I have been in the past month."

"It is because of this intuition that I can't wait to find a stronger helper."

"But if we can't find it, we can only go to the Gorgon." Li Yun spread his hands and said helplessly, "If I go to negotiate, I should be able to delay it until Ishtar completes the Bull of Heaven Project."

"You'll die if you go! They'll turn you into a child of Tiamat!"

"No." Facing Metis' words, Li Yun suddenly felt firm for some reason, "I will not be infected by Tiamat's primordial sea... Well, that's what the heart that stayed there told me."

"Besides, aren't you still here? As long as you protect my soul, even the Primordial Sea cannot change my will."

"....." Hearing this, Metis suddenly understood, "So you planned to go to the Blood Temple after learning that you couldn't find the old man in the mountain? And you're leaving tonight! And you didn't even tell Athena and Ellie!?"

"If I tell them, they will definitely stop me from going." Li Yun was sure that Ai Lei, who knew how terrifying the Primordial Sea was, would definitely not let Li Yun go there. If he went there, she would lose her husband.

After being a lady in seclusion for tens of millions of years, I finally found a man, but I became a widow before I even reached second base... Bah, it should be said that he was taken away by my own mother. What kind of thing is this?

Speaking of which, after the large-scale Greek family ethics drama ended, the large-scale Mesopotamian family ethics drama is coming again.

According to this situation, there is a high probability that Li Yun became Tiamat's son, and a small probability that he became Tiamat's husband. Although this result is unlikely, considering that the Gorgon and Tiamat share senses, God knows whether the sleeping Tiamat will become like this because of the Gorgon's tolerance of Li Yun.

But whether he is a son or a husband, this ethical drama has emerged.

Tiamat is the creator goddess, An is her child, and An's children are Ishtar and Elei. This means that Tiamat is the grandmother of Ishtar and Elei, and Li Yun, who is now a son, is their uncle, and Li Yun, who is now a husband, is their grandfather.

By the way, the Mesopotamian gods all like to call Tiamat their mother, as do Ishtar and Elei. So... they can also be brother and sister, or father and daughter.

In a word, the Age of Gods is really a mess.

Chapter 212 Li Yun: Jin Gu, get out of the way, I'm looking for your mother

".....It seems that I can't convince you." Metis, sensing Li Yun's firm will, gave up the idea of ​​persuading him, and she was willing to believe him once.

If there is really no other way, she will accompany him to fall into depravity. After all, she restrained her anger because of him. If he went crazy, then what if she accompanied him to go crazy again?

"What are you going to tell Athena and the others?"

"Apologize when you get back." Li Yun touched his head, "I'm ready to be scolded."

"You should know what we are worried about."

"Well, as I say, people in the world have no choice but to do what they want. Someone has to do it." Li Yun stretched and looked at the direction of the house. "I will definitely come back... There are people I care about here."

"You did this just because of a so-called intuition. I don't know whether I should say you are stupid or too sensitive." Metis walked over and took his hand. "But since it is your decision, I can't say anything. But no matter where you go, I will always follow you."

"Ah."

"Hey! Athena! Are we just going to watch them leave?" Elle, who was squatting behind a rock and watching the two people leave, pulled Athena's clothes anxiously, "They are leaving soon!"

"I saw it." Looking at the anxious Ai Lei, Athena remained calm, and this calm expression brought Ai Lei's complaints: "Aren't you anxious? Li Yun wants to go to the Primordial Sea! He wants to see his mother!"

"I heard it all. There's no need for you to repeat it twice." Well, Athena is still so calm.

“Aren’t you worried? No one can resist Mother’s Primordial Sea. Even we, the third generation gods, cannot resist Mother’s Primordial Sea. Li Yun will never come back!” Looking at Athena who was still indifferent, Ai Lei gritted her teeth secretly, “I’ll go stop him!”

"It's useless." Athena held Ailei back, "The child will not change his mind because of anyone. This is a necessary step to achieve victory."

Li Yun's arrangement was actually perfect. As long as they preserved the combat power of the North Wall until the Bull of Heaven was completed, they could launch a counterattack. They would first deal with the Gorgon, then deal with Tima. This much combat power was enough to make up for the underworld protection of Elly.

However, Li Yun now feels that the North Wall will be defeated by the Gorgon's monster army in less than a month. In order to protect the North Wall's defense line, he plans to sacrifice himself... bah, to buy time alone.

"Even if we want to buy time, we don't have to do this! I can just move the Underworld over there and swallow up the Gorgon's Blood Temple directly."

"Moving the underworld to the Persian Gulf is already your limit." Athena patted Ailei's shoulder, "Believe in that child, he has never let us down, right?"

"But this time..." Ailei rubbed her soft golden hair irritably under Athena's gaze, "Ahhh! What on earth did he do to make his mother fall in love with him!!"

In this way, Li Yun left the underworld without telling anyone and began to move towards the Temple of Blood.

He did not hide his whereabouts, and many monsters saw him on the way to the Blood Temple. However, as before, they did nothing but stare at him fiercely.

The monsters continued to behave like this until he arrived outside the Blood Temple.

The door of the temple was opened and Jingu walked out.

Looking at Li Yun standing outside the door, the eldest son of Tiamat showed a hint of sarcasm, "What a rare guest! Our game is not over yet. What are you doing here?"

"Negotiate." Li Yun stood at the gate and negotiated with Jingu, "Tiamat is going to be resurrected, right?"

The understatement of these words made Jingu narrow his eyes immediately, and his green pupils turned red, "You really do know about mother!"

"Ah, the grievance of the Gorgon made me see Tiamat." After a brief explanation, Li Yun told his purpose, "Even if you win this game, I can promise you to enter the Primordial Sea, but you must promise me to give humans two months."

Because one and a half months was a bit unsafe, Li Yun said two months. After two months, the Bull of Heaven should also appear.

"Hmm...it seems you still have some self-awareness. Not to mention that I regret not being able to appreciate your painful expression, your expression now..." Although Li Yun took the initiative to say that he lost, Jin Gu narrowed his eyes. The expression of the black-haired boy was as if he had won.

He was unhappy.

"That means you agree, right?" Li Yun said as he was about to walk into the Blood Temple, but Jin Gu blocked his way with his hand. "I didn't say anything. I don't like people who talk to themselves."

"Really..." He scratched his head pretending to be distressed, "Even if you stop me here, I still have to go in, right?"

"I thought about it when you came to me that day. Gorgon... or Tiamat wanted to see me, right? You wouldn't kill me, and likewise, you wouldn't stop me from going in."

"If you intend to take me in by force without agreeing to my request, I will resist to the end. It is not impossible that I will die here by accident."

Li Yun had considered it carefully on the way here. The Sea of ​​Origin needed living people, not dead people. If the corpses were thrown down, the resurrected people would not be considered the original people. Therefore, Jin Gu would definitely not fight him, which was one of the reasons why he was fearless.

"Even if it's just a pretense, you will definitely agree to my request."

"Aren't you afraid that I will destroy the north wall right after I agree to your request?"

"You won't!" His tone was so firm that even Jingu was stunned by Li Yun's firm tone.

"You don't hate humans. For you, you can destroy humans at any time, no matter how many months you stay. It's a good deal to exchange my self-entrapment for a promise." The black-haired boy turned to look at the green-haired boy, "Jin Gu, you have already agreed to this deal in your heart."

Jin Gu will only attack those who pose a threat, and he will ignore those who do not pose a threat.

Why did Gudako and the others survive? Wasn't it because Kingu thought they were not a threat, so he didn't attack them right away? If he had started fighting right away, Gudako and the others would have been defeated right from the start.

"Humph! You are such a self-talking guy! I really can't get along with you!" Having said that, Jin Gu still put down his arms and said, "Go in, mother is in the depths!

Chapter 213 Li Yun: No goddess can escape my instigation

The last time, Li Yun was brought down directly from the top of the temple by the Gorgon, but this time, he went in directly through the main gate.

Passing through the gate of the Blood Temple, he entered a passage that was completely different from the forest outside, as if it were two different worlds.