Heart Source Demon Palace.
In the first-floor hall, Fusheng, frozen into a crystal Fusheng, lazily yawned, then sighed, looking out the window at the various scenes flowing through the purple mist.
This is the only thing he can do here.
Click.
Suddenly, the gate slowly opened, and a familiar figure slowly entered, dressed in white with a black sword—it was Lin Hui, who had just left the human realm.
"Long time no see, Fusheng." Lin Hui smiled, and the door closed automatically behind him as he entered.
He casually found a chair, pulled it over, and sat down.
"You look somewhat different than before." Fusheng's thoughts emanated from the crystal pillar.
He remembered Lin Hui; he wasn't originally in this body.
"These are all irrelevant. Speaking of which, Fusheng, have you ever seen a Calamity Fusionist before?"
Lin Hui came back for one of his purposes: to have a good talk with Fusheng.
" The Fusion Faction... I've seen them before, there are quite a few in every world. What? You... no, aren't you one of them?" Fusheng suddenly remembered the Wind Disaster Rift that Lin Hui had summoned with a wave of his hand. He understood immediately.
"How?"
Lin Hui gently beckoned the Liangyi Divine Sword from the wall not far away, grasped it, and gently placed it on his lap.
"But I'd like to ask, does the Fusion Faction necessarily have to devour and hunt the world?"
"This..." Fusheng chuckled awkwardly. These so-called Fusion Faction are starting to feign kindness and compassion?
For a moment, he didn't know if Lin Hui was pretending or just acting.
"Actually, not all Fusion Faction are evil; there are quite a few good people and good people among them."
"What do you mean?" Lin Hui quickly looked at him.
"Choose a sufficiently strong world, cultivate resources, harvest naturally and regularly, actively replenish them, maintain the world's cycle, and balance input and output. This kind of Fusion Faction is actually not bad," Fusheng quickly replied.
"Harvesting? Isn't it the same?"
"Naturally, it's different. A world has a huge population base, and the number of highly intelligent beings who die naturally is countless. That alone is enough for you to maintain yourself. In fact, the larger and more prosperous the world is, the more beings there are, and the more beings will die naturally, making it easier for you to maintain yourself," Fusheng said.
"Don't those top-tier, powerful Fusion Faction know how to do this? Why don't they?" Lin Hui was not so easily fooled.
"Because... because..." Fusheng couldn't continue...
"Because the stronger they are, the more the calamity will erode them. In this world, strength always generates more, wider, and heavier entanglements. The stronger they are, the greater their influence will naturally be. The more entanglements and connections they have, the stronger the calamity will erode them."
Suddenly, another aged voice reverberated from within the Demon Palace space.
"!?" Lin Hui was slightly startled, looked up in the direction of the sound, and slowly stood up, grasping the Two Principles.
Fusheng's expression changed slightly, just like his, clearly recognizing the voice. Inside the crystal pillar, he tried to turn his head and move to look at the entrance to the second-floor corridor.
At the entrance of the building, a figure in a black cloak silently floated down and hovered in mid-air, not approaching, but maintaining a distance from Lin Hui.
" The Heart Source Demon Emperor... a senior from the previous generation?" Lin Hui narrowed his eyes and guessed the other party's identity.
"I was already extinguished, but you summoned me back to life. I owe you a debt of gratitude," the previous Demon Emperor said. "Since that's the case, I'll let you know in advance. You've embarked on the path of Fusion Faction, and you will inevitably become like that old monster of Wind Disaster behind you. There's no turning back on this path."
"Why? As far as I know, there are ancient star spirits who have suppressed many calamities with their own power," Lin Hui retorted. This information was mentioned in the memories of the Star Breath Sword Classic he inherited.
"That is the Star Spirit King, the strongest Star God. Are you?" the previous Demon Emperor retorted.
"No. But that represents a possibility. If you haven't walked it, how do you know it can't be walked?" Lin Hui countered.
"Heh... you little rascal... you've got some determination." The previous Demon Emperor chuckled. "Since you're so sure, why did you come here to ask?"
This time, Lin Hui fell silent.
"I don't know how you acquired those powerful inheritances; you must have had your own destiny. In fact, no one who reaches our level is without their own destiny. However, I have never seen anyone forge a path outside the Fusion Faction," said the previous Demon Emperor. "If you choose to leave now, you might still have a chance to start over."
"If I were to break away, it would be a denial of all the choices I've made. It would be a denial of myself," Lin Hui said calmly. "The path I've chosen, I must walk alone. Whether it's right or wrong, the future will judge."
"That's ambitious. Since you're so determined, then... I'll lend you one last helping hand," the previous Demon Emperor laughed.
He raised his hand and gently tapped Lin Hui.
A flash of black light passed through his fingertips and quickly went out.
"I left you something you need on the third floor. It's the most precious and strongest item in my Heart Source Demon Palace. What the future holds, and what path you will take, depends on yourself..."
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"Remember, at your current level, calamity will not spare you. The price of gaining unlimited power and indestructibility is constant erosion, the loss of memory and sanity. Until one day, you yourself will no longer know whether you are in a state of sanity or chaos, and you will even forget whether you have ever lost your memory... At that time, you will no longer be yourself."
The voice of the previous Demon Emperor gradually faded, and he himself slowly faded away and disappeared.
... Lin Hui watched him quietly as he gradually disappeared.
Only after the other party had completely disappeared did he stride to the second-floor stairwell, where a large bun suddenly jumped out and sat on his right shoulder—it was the Heavenly Demon.
The guy was still half asleep and seemed completely unaware of what had just happened.
Lin Hui ignored it and went straight up to the second floor without stopping, arriving directly at the stairwell leading to the third floor.
He was stopped here last time because his strength level was insufficient.
And now...
He lifted his foot and stepped onto the first step.
The notification never appeared again.
Step by step, Lin Hui quickly reached the third floor.
The third floor is a small circular hall, only a dozen square meters in size.
Inside the small hall, the floor and walls were covered with intricate, pale purple inscriptions and array patterns. All the arrays and inscriptions revolved and shimmered around a magnificent, dark purple crown at the very center.
The crown was inlaid with many fine, dark red, branch-shaped crystals, forming a ring that slowly rotated at the back.
At the center of the ring, a faint golden light appears and disappears intermittently.
The moment Lin Hui saw the crown, it was as if the other person also saw him.
Whoosh!
The crown disappeared, and when it reappeared, it was already on Lin Hui's head, slowly descending.
Click.
The crown fit his forehead perfectly, worn just right.
As the device was put on, a massive amount of information flowed into Lin Hui's mind.
" The Heart Complete Crown, the personal treasure of the previous Heart Source Demon Emperor... It possesses only one ability: the True Source Incense..."
The Heart Source Demon Palace's heritage contains three types of Devil Incense: Jiuyou, Cold Palace, and Formless.
These three are the inheritances of all the Heart Source Demon Emperor. After the previous Heart Source Demon Emperor mastered these techniques to the extreme, he also created a brand new Devil Incense called True Source.
Lin Hui closed his eyes and carefully experienced the effects.
Over time, his stamina gradually increases... greatly enhancing his concealment abilities, allowing him to perfectly hide himself instantly in any realm. He also acquires a self-repairing Demon Emperor's Cloak that never wears out.
He reached out and gently shook hands.
Suddenly, large, dark purple veins extended from the crown on his forehead, covering his entire body and instantly forming a thick, wide, jet-black cloak over him.
The cloak completely concealed his body and face.
Only in the darkness of her face could two faintly be seen eyes shimmering with silver starlight.
However, these are all bonuses. The truly powerful ability is the first one: enhanced energy.
This is clearly a new function that the previous Demon Emperor specially modified and designed for him.
Lin Hui immediately felt the change after putting it on.
A massive, chilling power was being rapidly extracted from the outside world by the crown and integrated into its body.
At the same time, as this cold and sinister power merged with his own, the total amount of energy within his body also began to expand rapidly.
Lin Hui immediately activated the Blood Seal and checked the evolution time on it.
As expected, the Blood Seal's duration, which originally had over 180 years remaining, was rapidly reduced to 170 days due to the injection of this immense power.
Then it's 150.
100.
80.
50.
0.
Finally, completely clear it.
In an instant, the Blood Seal evolved, and an even larger amount of information flowed into Lin Hui's mind—information belonging to the special organ Illusion Destruction Eye.
In an instant, Lin Hui's eyes shone brightly, and countless golden lines automatically appeared in the surrounding void, connecting to the edges of his eyes, as if injecting some kind of substance into them.
He stood there, and his entire body began to slowly fade, becoming translucent, and finally, in less than a few seconds, he completely disappeared into the air.
All that remained were those two starlight eyes, connected by countless golden threads, suspended in mid-air.
This strange phenomenon lasted for more than ten minutes before slowly disappearing, and the body condensed again and reappeared.
" The Illusion Destruction Eye... All things are illusions... Only the Holy Night Eye connects to the only reality..." Lin Hui closed his eyes as he read through the vast stream of information about the Illusion Destruction Eye.
These eyes, the most powerful eyes that only existed in the legends of the Holy Night Church, were now embedded in his eye sockets.
He could feel that the intensity of his eyes had been amplified to a terrifying level in just over ten minutes, an intensity that even Wish-Fulfilling could not match.
He even had the illusion that even if he drew his sword with all his might and attacked his own eyes, he wouldn't be able to damage them.
"I really don't know how such a strange and powerful organ was strengthened..." Lin Hui himself was somewhat impressed.
The intensity of his eyes had reached a level he himself could not comprehend; the material they possessed seemed to transcend the realm of mere physical structure, and their density was at a level beyond his comprehension.
I might try it out sometime in the future to see how it goes, but hopefully I'll never need to use it.
Lin Hui sighed inwardly; the Blood Seal was finally free.
He casually examined his own eyes.