Chapter 836: Descent

The whole world seemed to become grayish-white, and even the near-cyan flames on Te Wanake's body solidified into stone.

Lu Mian's first reaction was to insert his right hand into the "Traveler's Bag" to take out the "Mirror Brooch," utilizing the opportunity that "0-01" was destroying the barrier of this Mirror World and infiltrating power, while Zhu Li was too busy to take care of things, to directly escape the mirror and return to the real mausoleum to avoid the subsequent God War.

He could see that Zhu Li had been praying for descent just now.

And now, a bit of the "Primordial Demoness's" power had descended!

Lu Mian inevitably was affected, his body also stained with grayish-white, becoming stiff. Relying on the intense burning pain brought by the residual aura of the "Blood Emperor" in the palm of his right hand, he could barely drive his arm, letting it sluggishly and slowly reach into the "Traveler's Bag" and grasp the glass-like cufflink.

He had just retracted his hand and hadn't had time to activate the "Mirror Brooch" when he saw Zhu Li, whose hair was floating in mid-air, turn her body and look at himself.

The hair color of this "Demoness" had turned pitch black at some point, like one long, thick poisonous snake after another, and her pupils were azure, crystal-clear and beautiful.

Lu Mian and Zhu Li just looked at each other like this, and he instantly lost control of his body.

He saw with his peripheral vision that the grayish-white color in the vicinity became rich, extending rapidly from his feet upward, and every inch of skin and flesh turned into real stone.

"Why is the first target of attack me?

"There are more dangerous Te Wanake and Albus here, and the 'Abscessed Hand' that doesn't seem to be completely dead, why target the weakest me?

"Shouldn't it have affected me incidentally during the range attack?

"That way I would have had the opportunity to escape this Mirror World and wait for the descent time to end!"

Facing such a desperate situation where he was completely unable to resist, Lu Mian, as a "Monk," couldn't help but surge with strong unwillingness and anger.

During this process, he didn't give up struggling. In a situation where his hands and feet had turned into stone and he couldn't make more movements, he tried to spread his spirituality to activate the grayish-white palm-held "Mirror Brooch" and the various contract marks on his body.

But his spirituality had just approached the rich grayish-white spreading upward when it suddenly solidified, turned into stone chips, and fell toward the ground like rain.

Lu Mian's neck turned into stone accordingly, and his face and brain also began to turn grayish-white.

He finally managed to turn his eyeballs and looked at the position where Albus Medici was.

That wilderness was empty.

That descendant of the "Red Angel" was gone!

He didn't know when he had disappeared or escaped!

"Sow-raised..." Lu Mian couldn't help but curse.

The next second, even his thoughts seemed to become stone.

In his grayish-white pupils, Zhu Li, whose appearance had changed quite a bit and whose charm was so strong that even the stones turned toward her, had flown into mid-air and was burning with black flames.

This Demoness fell like a giant bird, dragging a black flame that could cover half the sky behind her. The ends of those black flames were twisted and branched, just like countless snakes entwining each other high above, their long tails swaying lightly.

Silently, this Mirror World began to collapse, and the dark void mixed with black flames constantly collapsed inward, swallowing the "Abscessed Hand" that was still in the skeleton state, swallowing Te Wanake who couldn't break free, swallowing Lu Mian who had turned into a stone statue...

The end of this place had arrived.

Dead, silent darkness without any thoughts filled all the blanks.

I don't know how long it had been, when a violent, invisible firelight jumped out, illuminating Lu Mian's mind.

Lu Mian instantly felt the burning pain of his right palm and the cold rot, feeling the scorching heat on his left chest.

He opened his eyes violently and saw the hundred-meter-high mountain of corpses and skeletons.

"Am I, am I still alive?" Lu Mian was very confused.

His last memory stopped at him turning into a statue and Zhu Li letting that Mirror World fall into overall destruction and darkness.

He instinctively lowered his head and saw the grayish-white on his body fading rapidly.

This showed that everything just now wasn't a nightmare, nor was it an illusion.

"Then how did I survive?

"Did any existence provide help?"

Lu Mian didn't believe he could survive in such an apocalypse.

Just at this moment, Albus Medici's voice with a smile rang in his ear:

"So you can also traverse the 'Mirror World,' completely synchronized with my escape plan, and you completed it in a state of preliminary petrification. I admire, I admire.

"Did you rely on that cufflink in your hand?"

Lu Mian turned his body rapidly and saw Albus, whose black-bottomed red-patterned jacket was tattered and whose wrist was wrapped with a crystal necklace.

At this time, Albus Medici had his eyes tightly closed, but there were multiple undead soldiers wearing iron-black armor clustered around him, and the eyes of these soldiers were burning with pale or dark red flames.

Lu Mian was stunned for a moment before remembering that he should also close his eyes.

This was likely the real area around the mountain of corpses. If he opened his eyes, it was highly likely that he would be replaced by a "Mirror Person" silently!

Nothing happened... Sure enough, as I expected, I am now Te Wanake's companion, the same kind as dangers, a puppet of "0-01," and don't need to fear certain taboo rules... It's a pity, I didn't react in time, and I was still in the shock and confusion of not dying, otherwise I could have grabbed the opportunity before Albus looked over to close my eyes again and pit him at the critical moment... Lu Mian regretted it, but also roughly understood how Albus had escaped the "Primordial Demoness" descent:

He had the same train of thought as himself, wanting to take advantage of the opportunity that "0-01" was destroying the barrier of that Mirror World and infiltrating power, while Zhu Li, who was praying for descent, was too busy to take care of things, to rely on an item that could complete "Mirror Traversal" to escape back to the real mausoleum.

The only difference was that Zhu Li, whose descent hadn't been completely completed, had already targeted Lu Mian, while ignoring Albus. Therefore, one ran away, and one didn't.

"What were you looking at me for at that time? You should have put your attention on sealing the whole world, that way not one would have escaped!" Lu Mian complained about Zhu Li, feeling that he should have activated the "Mirror Brooch" just before his thoughts completely turned to stone, which was why he survived.

But he checked slightly and found something wrong.

The "Mirror Brooch" could still be used twice!

He hadn't used this Beyonder item at all just now!

This... Could it be that Archbishop Madame Hela Berg helped me secretly? After all, gods also have to rely on special arrangements to descend a bit of power into the underground mausoleum of Morora. It's unlikely that some external existence suddenly intervened... It couldn't be that Zhu Li remembered my good as her boss and pushed me at the last moment, pushing me out of that Mirror World, right? Lu Mian decided to stop considering this aspect for now.

Now is not a good time to seek the truth!

The current situation is still full of crises!

He glanced at Albus and found that this descendant of the "Red Angel" was thoughtfully looking at himself with the help of the undead soldiers around him.

"Sure enough, Albus didn't attack me at the opportunity just now, not because he didn't want to, but because he had concerns. He should feel that my performance exceeded his expectations, and the fact that I could escape is full of mysteries. He is worried that if he moves rashly, he will step into a trap..." Lu Mian had just flashed these thoughts when the high sky suddenly changed.

Zhu Li's figure in the slit dress emerged from the high sky illuminated by the firelight.

Lu Mian instantly felt his scalp go numb:

She's not dead yet, and still in a state of descent?

Lu Mian immediately discovered that Zhu Li's figure was exceptionally transparent, and the sapphire ring on her left hand was gone.

Phew... he heard Albus Medici breathe a long sigh of relief.

Zhu Li lowered her head and cast her gaze toward the top of the mountain of corpses.

Lu Mian followed her gaze and saw the two or three-meter-high iron-black metal pole, saw the charred flag hanging at the top of the pole, and on that flag, there were many blood spots that were either dark red or black, and traces of blood.

Just by looking at it like this, Lu Mian felt a trance, his neck felt inexplicably stinging, and blood smell seeped out from different places on his brow and face.

"0-01"? "Salinger Blood Flag"? My pollution has deepened significantly... It seems I don't need to finish reading the remaining books. Learning the current one should be enough... I can't rely on such direct pollution to save time anymore; it's very easy to exceed the critical point... Lu Mian quickly withdrew his gaze and swept to Céleste, who was standing not far from that flag.

This "Demoness" was wearing a black robe, looking down at the part where the iron-black metal flagpole was inserted into the top of the mountain of corpses.

The next second, she sensed something, raised her head, and looked at Zhu Li in the high sky.

Zhu Li's corners of her mouth curled up, revealing a beautiful and brilliant smile.

She opened her moist lips, as if saying "It's up to you."

In the blink of an eye, Lu Mian saw Zhu Li's figure rapidly fade and shrink, turning into a pool of dirty blood.

That dirty blood was only the size of a palm, falling straight down.

The direction it fell was the charred flag of "0-01," seeming to want to become one of the many blood spots and traces on it.

Céleste finally came back to her senses and shouted painfully:

"Zhu Li!"

At this moment, Albus's expression changed slightly, and he transformed directly into a long spear of roaring, searing white-and-cyan flames, hurling himself into mid-air, toward the top of the flag labeled "0—01."

He seemed very unwilling to see that pool of dirty blood of Zhu Li's stain the charred flag.

You finally started to exert effort... Lu Mian muttered, not rushing to follow Albus to the top of the mountain of corpses to find an opportunity to leave a mark or stop Albus and Céleste from doing so.

He intended to wait for Albus and Céleste to fight fiercely for a period of time before "joining"!

Of course, Lu Mian could see that Albus valued that pool of dirty blood of Zhu Li's and didn't want it to become a trace on the flag of "0-01." If Albus didn't perform well and failed to stop that pool of dirty blood from falling to the predetermined position, he would "teleport" over in time to help.

Seizing this rare opportunity, Lu Mian took out an item from the "Traveler's Bag."

That wasn't the "Sword of Courage," but the "Demon's Whisper" bone ring originating from "Ciso."

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