Faced with the Master-Swallowing Painted Python descending from the heavens, the Abyss consciousness occupying Ye Chen's right half was once again struck dumb with shock.
"Ah—!?"
"That beast is still alive too—!?"
"How is that possible—!?"
Earlier, when the Abyss consciousness interfered with Ye Chen's control over his body and caused him to explode to death, Little Python had clearly turned into a tattoo on the back of Ye Chen's hand. It should have been caught up in it as well!
After the Abyss resurrected Ye Chen's body and claimed it for itself, it had likewise failed to detect Little Python's presence!
Thus, the Abyss consciousness had believed that the Master-Swallowing Painted Python, this Labyrinth Relic, had been destroyed alongside its master!
Yet the enormous beast now descending before its eyes viciously shattered the Abyss consciousness's delusion!
The truth was nothing like what it had imagined!
Not only had the Bloodsmith's personality not vanished.
Even his mount, Little Python, was still tenaciously alive!
And the truth was—
The one who had ordered Little Python to automatically dismiss its giant-python form back then had indeed been the Bloodsmith himself!
After all, even before his clash with Ding Moluo, Ye Chen had already nearly suffered the experience of having his body completely stolen by the Abyss!
Thus, the instant he sensed the Abyss consciousness abruptly meddling in the battle within his mind, Ye Chen immediately understood that he was bound to lose this fight. Yet at the same time, he foresaw that the Abyss consciousness would resurrect his body afterward and repeat its scheme of taking possession of it!
That was why, "before dying," Ye Chen had left behind that final move!
He pretended that his spiritual power had collapsed and that he could no longer sustain Little Python's giant-python form, before