Chapter 1423: Smiling at the Beginning, Smiling at the End

I won.

Looking up at the vast Heart Lake that was churning with huge waves, the corners of the mouth behind the Snow Plover mask couldn't help but curl up slightly, revealing a smile of certainty.

Although he looked down on those True Gods who only knew how to suppress others with force, there was one thing he admitted: in the face of absolute power, no matter how excellent the strategy and calculation, it would completely lose its meaning!

As long as the ripples of the Heart Lake above dissipated, with the help of the authority fed back from the Heart Lake of nearly 100 million living beings, he would possess power equal to, or even surpassing, the Aquarius Director!

Even if they were to fight head-on, he, with superior power, might not be able to solve the Aquarius Director, but the latter's Heart Lake had already been pierced by him, meaning he was full of flaws. So, if manipulated properly, he could even turn him into a puppet in his hands!

And when that time came, two "Zodiac Director-level" powerhouses infinitely close to Pillar Gods would join forces to besiege an ordinary human who had not yet broken through the distinction between man and god; the result would naturally be beyond doubt!

"You're finished!"

Just as the God of Heart Lake turned back and rushed toward the Aquarius Director, preparing to launch another sneak attack, the middle-aged man on the bank of the underground Hot River, whose head was held in the mouth of a black dog and who could see and hear nothing, laughed out loud in the dog's mouth:

"My Heart Lake has been formed! You are about to... *gurgle gurgle*..."

Controlling the black dog to drag the middle-aged man into the river to help him cool down, Hearing Li Ang looked at the 【Nightmare is the Deepest Fear in the Night】 lighting up on his interface and couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Although the Taurus Director had gone offline, the damn sun had finally set!

"Drag your brother up; he doesn't need to soak anymore!"

After reminding the female cleaner, Hearing Li Ang felt his body become incomparably active under the cover of night. He couldn't help but close his eyes with extreme pleasure, looking up toward the dim night sky through the thick ground above.

The effect of the 【Night, Fear, Nightmare】 badge was, to put it bluntly, the three authorities of Nightmare, Night, and Fear mastered by the King of Nightmares.

When in the night, his stamina and energy would be endless; the more people who felt fear toward him, the stronger his own power would become; and when he actively returned to the deepest part of the Dream Realm, he would immediately become the new Lord of Nightmares.

And this was only in the "normal" state.

Having eaten all the cleaners of the Aquarius Branch, he had now broken through the 60-point contamination mark, temporarily becoming a genuine True God, completely gathering the authority and status of a True God.

And in this 60-point contamination "True God" mode, as long as he fully activated these three authorities, it would be equivalent to the living King of Nightmares bypassing the blockade and suppression of the 【Watchtower Palace】, descending into the present world in his prime with near perfection. Then...

You, God of Heart Lake, can do things, why can't I, the King of Nightmares, do them?

What's going on?!

Just as Hearing Li Ang above the Earth River opened his arms, posing to welcome something toward the night sky, the Snow Plover's heart sank suddenly, and he hurriedly looked up.

With the help of the eyes of countless living beings he controlled, the God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake discovered with shock that, as if a bucket of black paint had been kicked over, a dark color deeper than the night sky suddenly splashed out in the night sky after the sun disappeared.

And the brilliant galaxy above, under the unreasonable erosion of the dark color, rapidly changed from brilliant silver to ominous black-red. A surging black river formed by countless nightmares, mixed with endless dream fragments, slammed down toward the vast Heart Lake that had just formed below!

This is... the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls? The King of Nightmares' Black Abyss of Fallen Souls?!!!

Recognizing the source of the change in the night sky, the Snow Plover in the Earth Core Melting Path had his eyes bulge, unable to believe what he was seeing.

According to the intelligence provided by the Rook Crow, not only was the previous King of Nightmares killed by the joint efforts of the Virgo Branch's Blood-Haired Ji and the Scorpio Branch's Puppeteer, but even the new King of Nightmares had been entirely "used up" by the Aquarius Director, dying without a corpse left.

And after losing two successive Lords of Nightmares, the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls should have been severely damaged. According to common sense, it would be impossible to give birth to a new King of Nightmares for at least one or two hundred years. But now...

How does it feel stronger than before?!!!

Watching the black river that slammed down from the night sky and invaded the Heart Lake domineeringly, the Snow Plover, whose entire god-mind was stunned, felt that the power he had been constantly pushing up was suddenly sliding crazily!

In the Snow Plover's powerless gaze, grinning ghosts draped in gray-white mist, headless knights holding spine whips, giant skeleton statues piled up from weak bones, beautiful women in thin clothes walking with wind and snow... one after another, images circulating in stories and nightmares stepped into the Heart Lake along the rolling black river. If it were just a collision between 【Heart Lake】 and 【Nightmare】, the God of Heart Lake, who had gained momentum first, might not have lost, but the nightmares that descended into the world along with the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls were crazily wreaking havoc in the huge Heart Lake that no one was guarding.

These terrifying and powerful nightmares arrogantly robbed the souls of all living beings, then roughly threw the wills of the living beings into the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls while piously chanting the true name of the great Lord of Nightmares...

Hearing Li Ang? Hearing Li Ang Laien? You are the new King of Nightmares?

This time I finally understand why those True Gods are so keen on drilling into the present world.

Feeling the huge power that was rapidly swelling like a balloon, making his soul ache faintly, the pleasant yet painful Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but frown, having to control the nightmares to slow down the speed of robbing wills.

Although the power of the King of Nightmares is not strong among True Gods, the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls he controls, and the near-infinite nightmares within it, are not easy to deal with.

I remember that when the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls descended on the capital last time, the Cleaning Bureau directly called in the sun to burn it remotely, not letting the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls completely overlap with the capital. Plus, the Director opened the scarlet domain of the Slaughtering Blood Hair, blocking a million nightmares alone, which was how they withstood the invasion of the King of Nightmares.

And this time, although the scale of the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls I mobilized is much smaller than that time, without the obstruction of the two high-standard anomalous objects 【Sundial Disk】 and 【Slaughtering Blood Hair】, the momentum caused is even greater than before...

Hmm... stop! Don't bring Mixue Bingcheng over here; if they all come, I can't handle it.

Glancing at the cold and scorching white ice fortress deep in the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls, Hearing Li Ang hurriedly waved his hand at the nightmare messengers on the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls, signaling them to send Mixue Bingcheng back immediately.

If this thing representing the authority of the Lord of Nightmares also came over, it would mean 【Nightmare】 was fully invading reality. The consequences would be more serious than robbing hundreds of millions of nightmares. If he really did that, he would probably be bloated to death by the surging power before killing the God of Heart Lake!

Sigh... it seems being a True God is not that easy.

After letting out a sigh that would make the King-Slaying Society jealous to the point of bleeding from their eyes, Hearing Li Ang glanced at the Heart Lake, which was being washed away by the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls and was estimated to be completely annihilated soon, then hooked his finger at the black dog soaking in the underground Hot River.

"*Pfft*... *cough cough*..."

After spitting out a large amount of river water that had been poured into his mouth, the middle-aged man with dull eyes looked up and glared at Hearing Li Ang, asking a question full of fear and anger on behalf of the Snow Plover.

"What did you do? What exactly do you want to do!!!"

"You."

After pointing his hand at the middle-aged man, Hearing Li Ang looked through his Heart Lake, which was churning to the point of almost tearing apart, toward the Snow Plover's true body in the Earth Core Melting Path, then revealed a smile that only a powerhouse with 69 points of contamination could have.

Just you wait, I'll be there soon!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1424 =====