Seeing Through Its Death Wish, White Pieces and Black Pieces

At this moment, the Audience Stairway felt unbearably long.

Every time his foot came down, it left a shallow shoe print, foretelling deepening unease in the frozen air.

Regicide!

Since ancient times, it had been taboo, despised by all, an act of utter treason.

At last, he finished the final step and stood before the Eerie Lord of Deception.

This was his first close encounter. Facing it directly, he could truly feel the nearly suffocating pressure of his Sequence Lord!

If the Burial Eerie Lord's pressure was the pressure of death,

then the Eerie Lord of Deception's was the helpless pressure of having everything seen through, of being unable to escape its grasp.

Old Demon Xu had only given Ji Yan a brooch and told him to assassinate the Eerie Lord of Deception without worry, but damn it... could this really work?

He had only said one thing: "Courage is humanity's hymn of praise. Just go for it!"

At this moment, Ji Yan felt like he was riding a tiger and unable to dismount.

"Humans... how insignificant."

"What is laughable is that we, the most vicious beings... need these ants to save us."

The Eerie Lord of Deception's pale skeletal body radiated Eerie Aura, like fiercely burning eerie flames.

As the suffocating silence was torn apart, a bony finger rose and reached toward Ji Yan, who seemed petrified, before finally touching his brow.

A trace of bone-piercing cold tore through his forehead and burrowed into his brain.

At this moment, the Eerie Lord of Deception only needed the slightest malicious thought.

Or if it detected even the faintest sign that something was wrong with Ji Yan, it could crush him to death!

Yet as that calm persisted to the end, the worst outcome did not happen. Instead, Ji Yan received