Chapter 553: The True Face of the Demon Venerable

The mask fragments fell from the air, revealing the Demon Venerable's true face.

And when they saw the Demon Venerable's true face, all the living creatures watching the battle, whether demon or human, were incomparably horrified.

Because the face under the mask was actually a face exactly the same as Ye Lin's!

No, looking closely, one would find that the Demon Venerable's eyes, hair, and eyebrows were all a strange deep purple.

While Ye Lin's were pitch black.

Apart from this point, there was no other difference between the two; they looked like they had been printed from the same mold.

"Old man Student Zhuge, what is the situation? Why are there two Ye Lins? Or rather, why does the Demon Venerable look exactly like Ye Lin?" Ji Wubing felt his head was about to explode.

"Yeah! Isn't it said that you Student Zhuge family people are god-like in your calculations? What's going on?" Jiang Tiandao also couldn't help but ask repeatedly.

Student Zhuge Yi's face was also turning blue and white at this moment.

"I don't know, let me calculate!"

Student Zhuge Yi had a tortoise shell and copper coins in his left hand, and tarot cards in his right.

While shaking the tortoise shell, tarot cards danced at his fingertips.

A crystal clear crystal ball also rose at this moment, the scenes inside changing continuously.

When the copper coins in the tortoise shell fell to the ground, all the copper coins stood up!

Cold sweat began to seep from Student Zhuge Yi's forehead.

At this time, the tarot cards in his right hand began to self-ignite, burning up completely, and the crystal ball before him also exploded into a pile of fragments.

Student Zhuge Yi's pupils shrank suddenly.

He gritted his teeth and made the boldest decision of his life, taking out two holy cups and throwing them on the ground.

But at this time, those two holy cups, like the copper coins, stood up.

It was as if there was an invisible giant hand supporting them.

"Hiss......"

Student Zhuge Yi widened his eyes, immediately put everything away, closed his mouth, and remained silent.

He knew very well what the result would be if he continued to calculate.

The divination hexagrams all stood up; heaven sent down a killing intent!

If he dared to calculate, heaven would dare to punish!

He wasn't Student Zhuge Qianxing, so naturally, he couldn't risk his own life.

Seeing Student Zhuge Yi's appearance, Jiang Tiandao and Ji Wubing also understood that this old guy had triggered his life-saving passive.

They didn't try to get any more information from Student Zhuge Yi, but locked their gazes on Ye Lin and the Demon Venerable, urgently wanting to seek an answer.

Little did they know that Ye Lin was also filled with shock at this moment.

"Someone is imitating my face, and someone is imitating my face?"

Looking at this face exactly the same as his own, an indescribable, bizarre feeling surfaced in Ye Lin's heart.

Could it be that what Ye Xueqing gave birth to back then was actually twins?

"You shouldn't have destroyed my mask."

The Demon Venerable said indifferently.

"Originally, after I won against you, I could have used your identity to continue living in your place, so your friends and family wouldn't be too sad."

"But now, not only are you going to die, but the people around you won't be able to live either."

Ye Lin narrowed his eyes slightly.

"So, can you tell me why you look exactly like me?"

"Very simple, because I am you, and you are me."

The Demon Venerable looked down at the sword in his hand and muttered in a low voice.

"Your Dragon Bloodline should be stuck at the last thread, unable to advance any further, right?"

Ye Lin's pupils shrank suddenly; he suddenly had a bold guess.

"So..."

"Not bad, what you are missing is the dragon soul, the other half of the dragon soul."

The Demon Venerable raised his deep purple eyes.

"You are the good soul, I am the evil soul; you and I are one body."

The Demon Venerable's words made Ye Lin's expression become incomparably solemn.

He suddenly remembered the words the golden spirit of the Eternal Balance said to him in the Shan Hai Realm.

"Master! You have always been the master of the Eternal Balance, born as a dragon; even if you have broken your fangs, cracked your scales, blinded your eyes, broken your claws, and fallen into the shallows, a dragon is still a dragon!"

"May I live to see you rule the world again!"

Ye Lin had thought the golden spirit meant to praise him as a dragon among men.

Now it seemed that those words were just literal meaning; he was truly a dragon?

"That dragon corpse under the Underworld Demon River......"

Ye Lin looked at the Demon Venerable.

"That is the corpse of our previous life, and also the source of this world's power."

"Haven't you discovered it yet?"

"The demon race and demonic beasts rely on absorbing demonic energy to improve their strength, while humans rely on slaughtering the demon race and demonic beasts to improve their strength; the source of power for both the human and demon races is actually demonic energy, which is that dragon corpse."

Ye Lin nodded; he had thought about this a long time ago, but he had never had a definite answer.

"So... the true enemy... is that so-called God?" Ye Lin asked.

The Demon Venerable was silent for a while, then nodded slowly.

"Not brother, since that's the case, why don't we join forces to fight the enemy, instead of killing each other? Don't you think?" Ye Lin blinked his eyes sincerely.

"Because you will stab me in the back, and I will also find an opportunity to kill you."

The Demon Venerable said without hesitation.

"There is no difference between us; we are both selfish people, therefore, we cannot coexist."

"Instead of having to guard against you later, it's better for me to kill you first now, once and for all."

Ye Lin fell silent.

He indeed couldn't tolerate the existence of another "self."

Whether it was "one breath turning into three purities" or "one thought creating twins," in essence, there was only one consciousness of Ye Lin.

Those clones were just extensions of Ye Lin's body, not extensions of consciousness, sharing the same brain.

And the Demon Venerable before him was an existence with a truly independent consciousness.

"One last question, why wait for me to break through to the Divine Domain Realm before making a move?" Ye Lin asked suddenly.

"Because I made a bet with your teacher, Student Zhuge Qianxing."

The Demon Venerable raised his sword again, killing intent surging on the blade.

"I bet with him, who can go further: someone like me who is a loner and discards any emotional ties?"

"Or someone like you who is indecisive, can't be a saintly savior, and isn't evil enough?" ===== CHAPTER 554 =====