Basil became the Silver Spirit, and this time he used a different method of substitution.
In one world, he became Yuuji Sakai, and then became the creator god of the Crimson Realm — the Serpent of Ritual.
The power of this world is a power that is extremely close to its essence— the Power of Existence.
Everything possesses power because it exists.
Once something is eaten, it's not simply disappearance or death, but rather that it never existed in this world at all. All related knowledge, understanding, memories, and information (photos, written records, names) will also disappear.
The Power of Existence can be transformed into any matter and energy, and any matter and energy can also be transformed into the Power of Existence.
This time, he seized the existence of the Bright Demon Beast and, using the [Art of Freedom]—the technique of manipulating [the Power of Existence]—perfectly became the Bright Demon Beast.
The remnants he didn't want, the remnants of the Bright Demon Beast, such as the Silver Spirit's own self, were sent to the Death God world for reincarnation, where the Bright Demon Beast would exist as a happy Death God without a lifespan crisis.
In the world he created with the Six Paths and the addition of the Grim Reaper to the Asura's creation, he indeed did not need the power of the Spirit King to reshape his skeleton and could achieve immortality.
So, goodbye, Bright Demon Beast.
Li Lin looked up at Su Nu.
"I am Silver Spirit, and I am not Silver Spirit."
He pulled Dingxiang into his arms, making her forget to bare her teeth at Su Nu.
"I remember Silver Spirit once said that she would take you away, but I never said why."
"I know that the gods are about to wage Civil War, a war that may even reach the human world."
"Ten suns will appear as a result, and they will take away all living things on Dadi."
"I want to help you escape this calamity."
"But now, I don't need to run away anymore."
"I will end this Civil War."
"End the Civil War among the gods?" Su Nu's face turned deathly pale with fright.
Both she and Li Luo were disciples of a sorcerer from the Youqiong Kingdom, a country where a sundial was located.
This country is the origin of sorcerers, and was once the closest place to the gods.
Li Luo could even recognize the divine inscriptions on the weapons of the Four Great Heavens.
Even the Old Ghost who once studied in the divine realm and whose divine status was acknowledged by the god of fire, and Jingwei, the daughter of the Sun God who studied seriously in the divine realm and learned all the divine Jingwei of the Four Great Heavens, could not do this.
This demonstrates the close relationship between the lineage of the sorcerers to which Li Luo belonged and the gods.
Even though the gods had neglected the human world for a thousand years because of the matter of the Sun God Emperor Yan, this lineage and its successor Li Luo still had a firm faith in the gods.
Su Nu was no exception.
Logically speaking, she shouldn't even believe in Civil War among the gods.
Because in the eyes of wizards and mortals, Shendu holy, kind, and caring towards humanity, without the selfish desires of mortals.
But because it was Li Lin's version of Silver Spirit speaking, she chose to accept it all.
Because she received and understood the history of the gods, she was even more worried about Silver Spirit.
Let's run away!
She spoke up instinctively.
Then came surprise, and finally, determination.
Yes, as a disciple of a wizard, she should uphold her faith in the gods and keep the safety of humanity in mind.
But the premise is that Silver Spirit does not suffer any misfortune as a result.
"Coward," Dingxiang mocked, but the next second, "Brother Li, don't be reckless. If we really can't win, we can go back through your magical mirror (referring to the [Great Thousand Divine Mirror], an artifact given by Basil that allows us to travel freely through this Cosmic Cluster)."
"Brother Lin." Xiaoyu blinked her big, worried eyes.
"You no longer care about Li Luo?" Li Lin feigned disappointment. "We met because of the zither. I used to think that you played the zither for me, but later I realized that it was all for Li Luo."
"No, Silver Spirit." Su Nu stepped forward, discarding the zither she once regarded as her second life on the ground. "That was something I didn't understand before. If you are willing, every note I play from now on will be for you."
"My feelings for my senior brother are only those of a brother and sister."
"My senior brother treats me the same way."
Li Lin was naturally aware of this.
In the original timeline, Silver Spirit liked Su Nu, Su Nu liked Li Luo, Li Luo was blind and liked the princess, the princess liked Hou Yi, and Hou Yi liked Jingwei.
The only thing missing is that Jingwei likes Silver Spirit, and then it'll be a complete circle.
Although she eventually won the heart of the beauty, the original Silver Spirit was definitely at the bottom of the food chain.
Of course, things are definitely different now.
"The aura of a god," Li Lin feigned, pretending to have just noticed. "The spiritual power of the Thor and the Sun God."
The distinctive Dotty, firefly-like spiritual energy of the Bright Demon Beast condensed into a mirror in mid-air.
A blond old man in a dragon robe and crown and a little girl appeared in the mirror.
"Is this little girl the Sun God? Well, she's quite cute," Xiaoyu said subconsciously.
Unlike in the TV series, she remained in her divine form as a child from a thousand years ago in order to wait for her father, and was actually a younger version of Jingwei in human form.
Therefore, Xiaoyu, who looks just like the young Jingwei, feels familiar and cute to me.
"No, this is Jingwei, the daughter of the Dragon King and the Sun God," said Su Nu. "The Thor prefers to be called the Dragon King. He often comes to the human world to play with Jingwei, but why?"
She was just about to ask why Jingwei was still a little girl.
Then, the two people who said they were going to change clothes in the mirror looked completely different.
The Dragon King was alright; he had only changed his clothes.
Jingwei, however, suddenly shot up from less than a meter tall to a great height.
And
"This"
"In another world, you Little Fox Demon are the daughter of the Sun God?"
Su Nu and Dingxiang both looked at Xiao Yu.
"Is this... me?" Xiaoyu stared blankly at Jingwei in the mirror.
One minute later.
The four of them had arrived at the main street and the restaurant.
"Are they really gods?" Dingxiang looked at Su Nu. "A Dragon King is acting like a child, playing and fooling around in the street."
This does not satisfy her image of a deity at all.
In her mind, immortals are a high-end version of chivalrous heroes who go everywhere to save lives.
"Hou Yi, son of the God of War Xing Tian." Li Lin seemed to have just noticed, looking at a young man in hunting attire with reddish-brown hair.
"Three celestial beings came to the mortal realm and met on a street." Su Nu ignored Dingxiang.
Although she had given her whole heart to Li Lin, she still had faith in the gods. Right now, her beautiful eyes, as clear as autumn water, were almost impatiently peering out the window, watching the three figures on the street.
"I think I smell something strange." The Dragon King wrinkled his nose. "Puff—"
His sneeze created a thunderclap out of nowhere on the stone floor.
"Hou Yi must not be discovered by Thor." Basil tapped his fingers on the table.
Hou Yi's existence has been temporarily removed.
The original first meeting between Hou Yi and Jingwei was omitted.
"Why?" Su Nu asked, puzzled.
Although the Temple of the Heavenly Gods now features statues of the Heavenly Emperor Yihe and the God of War Xing Tian and Kuafu have disappeared, their story of 'betraying' the Sun God has not spread to the human world.
But before Li Lin could answer, she quickly said, "Wait, we should go."
She noticed that the Dragon King was walking straight towards the restaurant.
"He's just Thor." Li Lin waved his hand and looked at Wu Bo, Hou Yi's adoptive father, who was also drinking not far away.
In the original timeline, the scent of Hou Yi on him confirmed to the Dragon King that his sneezing earlier was not due to the aroma of wine.
This mortal will later die by mistake at the hands of the Dragon King.
This time, without that Bright Demon Beast deliberately leaking its aura to test Hou Yi and interfere with the Dragon King, the Dragon King would probably have found Hou Yi much sooner.
"Hou Yi should not have died."
In this world, Hou Yi is portrayed as a kind-hearted but somewhat clumsy young man, much like Guo Jing.
Kindness and integrity.
To save a mortal's life, knowing that gods were hunting him down, he still insisted on staying in the Youqiong Kingdom, risking exposure.
In the end, in order to suppress the Spirit of Darkness in the sea, he even gave up the source of power passed down from his father Xing Tian, his primordial spirit— the Holy Spirit Stone, and willingly lost his divinity to become a mortal.
In an era before reincarnation, when mortals had no cultivation methods and the divine realm had no elixirs of immortality (the Yan Emperor Yan, the Leader of the Gods, could only watch his mortal wife die), this was a great and selfless act.
"He is the son of the God of War, so why is he the Dragon King!" Su Nu finally remembered Li Lin's words, "The infighting among the gods... but Hou Yi is just the son of the God of War. Does the fighting among the gods have to continue to their descendants?"
This discovery made her ignore the strange phenomenon that the Dragon King and the others who appeared in the tavern seemed to exist as if their area did not exist, and that nothing they said could be heard.
"Of course." Li Lin nodded. "Even though all the Shendu, including the Sun God, know that I have never harmed humans, they have never given up hunting me down simply because I am Evil Demon."
"It must be said that the current Heavenly Emperor's schemes were truly ingenious, reminiscent of the former Demon-Subduing God."
"With most Shendu possessing the Spirit of the Sun, the God of War, who possesses the Holy Spirit Stone and controls the Yang Power, the Spirit of Chaos, and the Spirit of Darkness, and can forcibly use the magical weapons of other gods, and Kuafu, who controls the Spirit of Chaos and has little relationship with other gods, is the best scapegoat."
It is important to know that magical artifacts are an important part of the power of gods and Evil Demon. Some are even part of their own bodies, housing their souls or even their primordial spirits, and are more intimate than their lovers.
But the God of War could forcibly take away their magical artifacts and use them against their will.
Moreover, his and Kuafu's powers are so unusual.
Kuafu is alright, but the Spirit of Chaos are just rare.
The Spirit of Darkness is directly the power of Evil Demon.
If it weren't for the fact that the Holy Spirit Stone, which can absorb all the spiritual energy in the world, was a remnant left by Nuwa Mends the Heavens, the goddess of the Dadi, when she mended the sky, he would probably have been regarded Evil Demon long ago.
"They even dared to launch a sneak attack on the Sun God Emperor Yan when their own strength was far inferior to that of Emperor Yan."
"Furthermore, he thought of how to use the spiritual power in the [Sun Mirror] to strengthen himself and dominate the Three Realms when his own strength was insufficient."
"The Heavenly Emperor is a villain!" Su Nu quickly covered her mouth, noticing the Dragon King.
"Don't worry," Dingxiang waved her hand. "He's just a drunkard. I can pull his beard and he won't even notice."
"This is Brother Lin's power," Xiaoyu corrected.
"So your power really is even greater than that of the gods." Su Nu was relieved.
"The Heavenly Yihe is indeed a villain," Li Lin said. "He likes the Wind Goddess Queen Mother, but the Wind Goddess likes the Emperor Yan."
"Moreover, he looked down on humans, considering them to be nothing more than ants. Although he was the Demon-Subduing God and his magic weapon, the Demon -Demon Subduing Umbrella, destroyed countless Evil Demons in the Thousand-Year War, he did not think it was necessary."
"What happened to the Sun God?" Su Nu asked with great concern.
The shamans of their lineage lived in the Temple of the Gods, where they could see the sundial bestowed upon them by the Sun God every day.
Their loyalty to the Sun God was ingrained in their very bones.
"The Blue Spirit Pearl is the magic weapon of the strongest Earth Demon Beast among the Ten Great Evil Demon. He refined it using the Spirit of Darkness Spring."
"After defeating the Earth Demon Beast, he fell into the hands of the Emperor Yan, who was exhausted after the millennium war."
"He was bewitched by the power of the Blue Spirit Pearl."
"Kuafu and Xing Tian discovered this."
"They fought with Emperor Yan."
"This also serves as strong evidence of their betrayal of Emperor Yan."
"Then there was Yihe, who ambushed Emperor Yan and suppressed him in the poisonous fire of Yan Valley."
"He even sacrificed half of his body for this— the Demon Subduing Umbrella transformed into the strongest seal in the divine realm— the Demon Suppressing Stone. Unless the [Gate of Heaven] is closed, the Sun God will perish in the poisonous fire of the Flame Valley."
"Now is the last year before Emperor Yan is completely destroyed, body and soul."
"Poisonous fire?" Su Nu asked incredulously. "That's the Sun God."
"That poisonous fire was created before heaven and earth. The combination of the Spirit of Darkness and the innate fire's spiritual power is called the Three Flavors True Fire, a rare phenomenon. Even the God of Fire would perish within it," Li Lin said. "The fact that he could persist for a thousand years is already quite remarkable."
"But that's normal. His magic weapon, the Sun God Mirror, is the Gate of Heaven, which maintains the balance of the three realms."
"It is precisely for this reason that he was able to become the Sun God who makes all things grow."
"Yihe obtains it, he will draw upon the Power of Heaven and the spiritual energy of the sun to refine the Golden Crow."
"The ten dragon birds that pulled Emperor Yan's chariot were used as raw materials."
"It's a real pity about the Chariot God General. If he were still a celestial being instead of being bewitched by the Blue Spirit Pearl and becoming the Evil Demon White Emperor, he might have indirectly possessed the power of the Golden Crow thanks to his connection with the Dragon Bird."
The reason why the Chariot God General was able to serve as the charioteer of Emperor Yan and drive those ten powerful but mentally confused dragon birds was because he was a sibling of the dragon birds.
"Speaking of which, my Stone Boat is still in the hands of the Earth Demon Beast."
"You're going to Leize?" Su Nu shook her head. "That's the Dragon King's territory. Although he's nothing to you, Silver Spirit, the Heavenly Net Formation there is composed of the spiritual power of the Four Great Heavens."
"The divine weapons of the Four Great Heavens can sense each other, and the thoughts of the Four Great Heavens are also the same."
"It's not time to retrieve my Stone Boat yet," Li Lin said. "Although I'm not afraid of the so-called Four Great Heavens."
"By the way, the God of Fire is one of the Heavenly Emperor's men, and his flames are one of the raw materials for refining the Golden Crow."
"The Water God has always stayed in the Northern Sea, waiting for Kuafu."
"If I really go to Raize, my only opponents will be the Thor and the Wind God."
When Fengshen was mentioned, Li Lin curled his lip in disdain.
"What I need to retrieve first is the [Blue Spirit Pearl], that moving source of dark power."
Dotty of fluorescence spread around him.
In his outstretched palm, a spirit orb shimmering with a deep blue light appeared.