Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Will you be controlled, swallowed, and melted by me?”

The will of the planet found it hard to believe. “What an unexpected tactic. You are quite confident in your computational ability!”

“It is not a matter of confidence, but because we have no other options. The ‘Earth’ that the ‘Vulture Plan’ refers to is too strong. According to conventional strategies and tactics, it is impossible for us to win the war. Therefore, we have to take the initiative and try our best!

“If we want to survive in the darkness of an impossible forest, we must weaken ‘Earth’ as much as possible. Only Li Yao’s personality can do that!

“What do you mean?”

The will of the earth mumbled, “Are you trying to weaken me by… controlling me?”

“That’s right. ‘Controlled by you’ means to stand on the same side as you, doesn’t it?

The Red Pole Star said, “Did you know? During our adventures in the Pangu Universe, we observed a very interesting phenomenon. Every time Li Yao showed up, the difficulty of the mission would be increased by ten times. The smooth sailing of the mission suddenly took a turn. The kind-looking man suddenly turned into the black hand behind the scenes. The man behind the scenes, who was about to be defeated, suddenly grasped the ability to transform into the second or even the third phase of the transformation. The guy is simply a professional of sabotaging his teammates!

“Once or twice. Maybe it was a coincidence, but it has happened time and time again. We can’t help but wonder whether or not there is something wrong with the guy. For example, his soul was deformed, and he was doomed to be alone. He must’ve used up all his luck during the space jump. Or, to explain it in a more scientific way, when he teleported to the edge of the universe from the center of the universe, he added some mass energy to the edge of the universe out of thin air and partly broke the ‘constitutional law of mass energy’. Therefore, he suffered the backlash of the law!

“In short, the principle is not important. What is important is that the fact does exist and that it is an undeniable truth!

“The ultimate war against ‘Earth’ is a hundred times more difficult than any adventure in the past. The odds of survival are already very slim. If the ‘Li Yao personality’ has to be tied up with all the rebels and increase the difficulty of the mission by ten times, what’s the point of fighting? Just wash your ass and wait to be savaged!

“Our only chance is to find a way to get ‘Li Yao’s personality’ to join the Earth’s side. Chances are that we will be able to do the opposite. Instead of making the rebels resist, we will increase the difficulty of ‘Earth’ by ten times, which means reducing the difficulty of our side to one tenth. The dawn of victory will then appear!”

“…What is it?”

“The shocking idea was proposed by the ‘Li Yao personality’ himself. Although it sounds like a joke, on second thought, it does make sense.

“According to you, you are the real you, and the ‘Li Yao personality’ is just an out-of-control clone,” Red Pole Star said. “But doesn’t the real me have to pay any price if I want to meld with the clone? Besides, the ‘Li Yao personality’ has been modified by the lightning creatures and contains the information of the foreign life forms. It is not that easy to swallow and control.

“Maybe hundreds of years ago, when you let the heroic spirit named Li Yao escape from the prison of reincarnation on purpose, you knew everything about him like the back of your hand and could swallow his soul effortlessly. But human beings all grow and change. The most brilliant part of life is also ‘change’. After going through so many adventures in the Pangu Universe, training in the world of mortals, and receiving the blessings of countless friends and compatriots, Li Yao, who has embarked on his final journey, is no longer the Li Yao of yesterday!

“I believe in the ‘Li Yao personality’. All our other personalities, including everyone who knows Li Yao, firmly believe that this is a guy who is as tough as an iron cockroach in a toilet. He can run, fly, and drill a hole in a hopeless situation where he is certain to die. Even an unparalleled existence such as yourself will have to pay a high price if you want to completely suppress and digest him. Even so, you might not be able to kill him. If you are not careful, if you are not, he will jump out of a dark corner, shake his tentacles and flagella, and dance in front of you to show off!

“Leaving the ‘Li Yao personality’ aside, the ‘Bloody Demon Persona’ and the ‘Li Yao personality’ will benefit a lot if they fight on their own. Ever since the soul of the ‘Bloody Demon Persona’ grew stronger without the dragging of the ‘Li Yao personality’, its computational ability improved, and its logical thinking ability and combat ability soared at an unbelievable speed. It was as if an atom had been torn in half by brute force and released tremendous energy!

Controlling ‘Li Yao”s’ body, the will of the planet put on an inexplicable expression.

“All in all, this was our strategy in the beginning. The mission of the ‘Li Yao personality’ was to be discovered by you actively and do everything possible to drag you down so that there would be room for the ‘Bloody Demon personality’ to sneak around. The Bloody Demon personality erased almost all the information about his life. The only thing that remained in his mind was his pride as a human being and his infinite desire for freedom. There was also a ‘spell’, which was ‘Never trust Li Yao’. Other than that, he was free to do whatever he wanted.

The Red Pole Star burst into laughter and shouted, “‘Never trust Li Yao’. This sentence has appeared countless times in the reincarnation of the mental devil. In the beginning, he naturally didn’t know what the ‘spell’ meant because he had almost forgotten everything. But as the soul fragments attracted each other, when he devoured a lot of them and gradually awakened his memories, the ‘spell’ became very useful!

“The ‘spell’ pointed out the tactics that you are most likely to adopt. Not only will the ‘Bloody Demon Persona’ be prepared in advance, you will also be forced into our designated arena!

The will of the earth was gloomy and did not say anything.

Veins were bulging on the back of his right hand, which was controlling ‘Li Yao’. He curled his fingers as if he were holding a nonexistent gear.

“That explains a lot. The ‘Bloody Demon Persona’ saw through my tactics a long time ago. Was it in this life, the previous life, or even the previous reincarnation?”

The will of the planet asked slowly, “Why didn’t you attack?”

“We only have one chance. Of course, we have to be prudent.

Red Pole Star narrowed his eyes and extended three fingers. “In the previous reincarnation, the battle in the ‘cosmic battleground’ was not as intense. Besides, we didn’t establish a reliable connection with our comrades outside of the prison. We didn’t know what was going on there.

“Also, you haven’t consumed enough strength in the battlefield of the universe. You still have a lot of fresh soldiers and reserves. Maybe you can seize the time and concentrate all your strength to eliminate us before you deal with the enemies outside.

“More importantly, the ‘absolutely unbelieving’ ‘Li Yao personality’ still hasn’t shown up, which means that you haven’t exposed your fatal weakness yet. How can we throw out the ‘winner’s hand’ so easily?

“But right now…”

At this point, two dazzling sparks suddenly flashed in Red Pole’s eyes.

Blue electric arcs jumped out of the fingers of ‘Li Yao”s’ right hand, which was controlled by the will of the earth, and interrupted the gestures that he was making in secret.

“You—”

The will of the earth narrowed its eyes and looked at its right hand, where its fingernails were broken and its fingertips were torn apart.

“What is that?”

The Red Pole Star grinned. “A certain technique that can alter matter, manipulate time, or simply obliterate the soul. There’s no need to hide it. You must have a similar technique, just like the super permissions that the managers of the online games have.

“Don’t be so surprised. In the past few reincarnations, we’ve confronted each other so many times just to find out whether or not you have similar permissions. The truth is, you must have and have used them many times. They are very useful, aren’t they?

“However, I highly doubt that even the super permissions of a game manager can be used unlimitedly. Otherwise, the entire game will collapse quickly. Otherwise, you could’ve killed me with your super permissions. Why would you bother to play the trick of ‘target drugs’?

“Let me see where the problem of this kind of super permissions comes from. Either it consumes too much energy to use it once, or the cooldown time is too long and it has only been used once not long ago, so it can’t be used again immediately, or it is a combination of both. If you want to use the super permissions twice in a row in a short period of time, you will have to pay a huge price, and you can’t guarantee the success rate. You might even drag down your deployment in the great battlefield of the universe with all kinds of unbearable consequences, right?

“It’s a pity that, if my guess is correct, you must’ve used similar permissions in the military camp of the port in the storm of Southeast Asia, when Dream Traveler brought ‘College Student Li Yao’ back to the reincarnation memories. Otherwise, you would’ve never passed the test of Dream Traveler.

“Right. ‘College student Li Yao’ mentioned a very weird sound of glass bouncing. Similar things are happening all over the world, but nobody has ever asked for the real reason. Hehe. Do you think that nobody wants to know the answer or even knows the answer?

“All in all, the real purpose of the ‘Bloody Demon Personality’ sending Dream Traveler to test ‘College Student Li Yao’ was not to test ‘College Student Li Yao’s’ loyalty and reliability at all. Whether or not ‘College Student Li Yao’ passes the test, the ‘Bloody Demon Personality’ will never believe him and will only consider him as the first suspect.

“On the contrary, the Dream Traveler was sent to test ‘College Student Li Yao’ in order to lure you into activating your super permissions so that one of your sharpest weapons would be wasted!”