Chapter 1155: Shoulders of Predecessors (Thanks to freyjun1552 for two more Silver Alliance donations)

Thump! Thump!

With the intensity of that heartbeat, the struggle of the "Mother Tree of Desire," which resembled a ten-thousand-meter peak, slowed down, as if it had been subjected to some strange attraction or encountered an irresistible force.

Its fusion with the blood-red full moon accelerated once again.

However, the heartbeat from deep within the moon did not last long, quickly returning to calm, as if even its mother body did not want it to continue, to continue beating violently.

It seemed as if that would cause unknown problems, problems that even the mother body did not want to face.

Following the brief echo of the infant's heartbeat, the "Mother Tree of Desire's" momentum of resistance was interrupted. Although it was still struggling and persisting, it was no longer as intense as before, just like a charge in a war that had been blocked, causing morale to begin to decline.

Under these circumstances, failure might arrive in the near future.

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Bottom of the blood-colored ocean.

When Lu Mian removed the dark gold mask and revealed the chaotic vortex face, the head on the "Evil Dragon's" left side let out a terrifying roar.

This caused a "buzzing" sound to echo in Lu Mian's mind body, and his thoughts were briefly lost.

His three necks all felt a sharp pain, as if an invisible force wanted to pull off the corresponding heads, carrying bloody and white spines.

The one least affected was the chaotic vortex face. It turned to the front, maintaining the stability of the body, and continued to "gaze" at that "Evil Dragon."

Accompanying the roar, the "Evil Dragon" attempted to stretch its giant body and fly to the high reaches of the blood-colored ocean, but sounds of clanging came from its body—that came from the iron-black chains that pierced its flesh and soul.

The reliefs on the iron-black chains turned into behemoths one after another, reverting into various evil ghosts.

They pulled the chains with all their might, preventing the "Evil Dragon" from leaving its current position.

Some of these "evil ghosts" quickly surrendered to the "Evil Dragon," while others struggled to support, resisting the power of conquest.

Seeing that the formation composed of "evil ghosts" was about to completely defect, colorless, dark river water surged in along the iron-black chains, making those "evil ghosts" who were still persisting feel as if they had been given an emergency injection, all returning to their original positions and obeying the orders from the sealer.

High-level beings of the "Death" pathway have very strong control and suppression capabilities over low-level beings, and the "River of Eternal Darkness" is something even higher than the "Death" level!

When the "Evil Dragon" was originally sealed, the reason for choosing to carve evil ghosts on the iron-black chains and arrange corresponding formations was because the "evil ghosts" blessed by the "River of Eternal Darkness" and controlled by the Haoli sect leader could resist "conquest" and "charm" to a certain extent, so that the "Evil Dragon" wouldn't just surrender or give up as soon as it struggled, waiting for the subsequent arrangement to be triggered and rescue forces to arrive.

Amidst the teeth-aching sound of metal pulling, the "Evil Dragon" only unfolded a small part of its body and did not fly to the high reaches of the blood-colored ocean, being fixed in its original position.

This was one of the reasons why Klein believed Lu Mian had a chance to accommodate the "City of Calamity" before the "Primordial Demoness" finished fusing with the "Mother Tree of Desire":

Lu Mian was not facing an intact "Evil Dragon," nor the "City of Calamity" in its prime, but a target that had experienced "gathering the power of the world, damaging half of the heroes, and locking the Evil Dragon here"!

The current "Evil Dragon" was sealed, unable to leave its original position, and could not create "mirror substitutes" or sleep in mirrors, like a living target. If Lu Mian didn't have the confidence to defeat, subdue, kill, and fuse with such an "Evil Dragon" in a short time, he wouldn't be worthy of doing this at all.

The successive efforts and trailblazing of the Western Continent practitioners had already cleared half the obstacles to the finish line for him!

He was standing on the shoulders of giants, supported by the Western Continent civilization and the sages of the Western Continent!

This was a relay race of generations; he was just the representative at the end!

Many of the "evil ghosts" on the dragon-locking iron chains were even voluntary transformations of the practitioners who had sacrificed themselves back then. In order to lock this "Evil Dragon," they were willing to suffer eternal torture and willing to fall into the hell of evil ghosts forever.

Today, they were finally going to welcome the final decisive battle; the "Evil Dragon" would be killed, and they would gain liberation.

Success does not have to be in me, but success must have me!

The "evil ghosts" on the iron-black locking chains were ferocious, baring fangs and brandishing claws. The vast majority stabilized at their nodes, standing firm and refusing to retreat, swearing to die rather than surrender.

They pulled the dragon-locking chains, desperately restraining the "Evil Dragon's" actions, preventing it from using its abilities freely, thereby creating opportunities for Lu Mian's attacks.

Lu Mian had just used "Instigation," besides wanting to save time, to also use the "Eye of Calamity" to find the "Evil Dragon's" weaknesses and the tributary of fate leading to its death.

But the "Evil Dragon" had no fatal weaknesses, and there was no tributary of fate representing its true fall.

Its only weakness was created by the dragon-locking chains and those "evil ghosts," but it wasn't fatal; it just limited its actions and weakened its strength.

Therefore, Lu Mian removed the dark gold mask; he wanted to use the chaotic vortex face to borrow the "All-Knowing Eye" ability of the "White Tower" pathway.

This time, he was no longer looking for weaknesses or death, but problems.

On the chaotic face in the center of the head on his left shoulder, the vortex had already begun to rotate. In the deepest part, it seemed as if an eye had appeared, illuminating the two dragon bodies of the "Evil Dragon" coiled together, illuminating the "Evil Dragon's" three heads.

In an instant, Lu Mian saw the "Evil Dragon's" problem.

A scene suddenly emerged in his mind:

The phantom images on the "Evil Dragon" that did not belong to it but had a temperament very similar to it were stripped away under a specific mental storm.

Some of those phantoms were generals sitting alone in their tents, some were beauties singing and dancing under the tents, some were conquerors standing in front of giant mounds of heads, some were concubines dancing lightly in the palms, some were emperors ascending the altar to heaven alone, some were favorite queens revealing smiles upon seeing the beacon fire rise...

They were high-level beings who believed in the "City of Calamity" and had "merged with the Dao" here for generations. They were mixed together, little by little giving the "Evil Dragon" a certain consciousness, certain ideas, and tendencies in certain aspects.

The scene Lu Mian was imagining now was using the authority of the mind, using a specific mental plague, to temporarily strip away this part of the external consciousness, spirit, and tendencies, or repel them to the edge, allowing the "Evil Dragon" to return to its most "true" and "original" "appearance."

In this way, the "Evil Dragon" would be a pure symbol of calamity, a walking destruction, unable to even control its own instincts.

This was something that could be utilized.

Following the emergence of the scene in Lu Mian's mind, the "Evil Dragon," which was struggling to break free from the iron-black chains, suddenly froze, separating one phantom image after another.

【Author's note: Look at it one by one!】

The iron-black eyes of the head on its left side instantly stained with a little blood color, the expression of the beauty head on the right side became crazy, and even the chaotic head that had been chiseled with a few holes sprayed out all colors that contained everything.

"Visionary," the future it claims will surely be staged!

The next second, the entire blood-colored ocean shook violently, and an indescribable aura of destruction and crazy intent descended here, causing the "evil ghosts" on the iron-black chains to tremble uncontrollably, and causing the heads on Lu Mian's right and middle to be unable to resist bending their necks.

On the head corresponding to the "Evil Dragon's" snow-white body, the crazy azure eyes rapidly reflected Lu Mian's body, seeing the fragility of the balance, seeing the trigger point of the disaster.

It had no hesitation, directly letting its long body shoot forward, directly letting the Lu Mian reflected in its eyes begin to explode from the inside, appearing to collapse.

"Disaster" descends!

This was an attack launched against Lu Mian's biggest problem and most fatal weakness at present.

For the "Evil Dragon" that had fallen into an instinctual state, it didn't care what would happen or what the result would be if Lu Mian lost his balance and suffered a catastrophic collapse.

It only wanted destruction, only wanted all things to return to chaos.

Lu Mian's figure suddenly shattered, actively turning into a mirror.

But even though he had used the "Mirror Substitute" in advance, that kind of "disaster" spread to his body along the connection between the mirror substitute and the main body.

This was the "City of Calamity."

As long as there is a connection, it can be cursed, affected, and implicated!

After Lu Mian's body, half female and half male, was outlined in a corner of the blood-colored ocean, both sides writhed, as if wanting to devour each other, and his middle head suddenly lost the sensing and control of the head on his right and the head on his left shoulder.

The "Primordial Demoness" uniqueness, "Red Priest" uniqueness, "Demoness of Apocalypse" Beyonder characteristic, and "Conqueror" Beyonder characteristic in his body occurred in a fierce conflict, all wanting to end the current balance that was hard to distinguish between victory and defeat, and where you had me and I had you.

A virtual sound of shattering rang out, and the formless objects connecting various things in Lu Mian's body were forcibly torn apart by the "disaster."

But this was not the fragile balance of Lu Mian's body being broken, but the protection added to this balance being shattered.

"Grafting"!

That kind of protection was "Grafting"!

Not long after Lu Mian became a True God of the dual pathways, he asked Mr. "Fool" to "graft" the uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics in his body together, allowing them to exist stably as a whole in a strange way—when he went to deal with the "Primordial Demoness," he actually had similar preparations.

Now, "Grafting" helped him block a catastrophic balance collapse, but it could only block it this once. After that, "Lord of the Mysteries" Klein could no longer intervene in what happened here.

Lu Mian's three heads did not stabilize because of this; they turned separately, looking at different places.

If not for the adjustment of his own state and the further stability of his spirit and mind over the past month, Lu Mian, who had escaped a disaster by relying on "Grafting," would still have headed toward the loss of balance, just not a catastrophic collapse.

As the three heads turned separately, Lu Mian barely controlled Cheek's face and raised an arm on the right side.

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