I'm No Longer Human, Dark River
Four days passed in a flash. Lu Li calmly made his preparations. Slight spatial ripples began to appear near the Candy House, indicating that it would soon disappear from this time and return to Lu Li's own Dreamlands.
Dark River is of no help in this regard. Although he is Lu Li's Avatar and a part of Lu Li, his personality is entirely new. This is a phenomenon among the many believers of the Evil God.
The believers only worship the Avatar, but they do not believe in the Avatar's true form. This is an important point to note. In other words, in the eyes of the believers, Dark River and Lu Li are separate entities. The believers of the Dark River are simply believers of the Dark River, and have little to do with Lu Li.
Even if Lu Li were to Avatar into a mindless monster, Dark River would at most be affected to some extent, and nothing serious would happen. However, Dark River was still slightly worried. "You have to worry. You can lose your mind, but you can't be completely possessed."
"How can you talk like that?" Lu Li laughed and scolded. He understood what Dark River meant. Even if he really lost his mind, he was still Lu Li, or rather Grotesque. But if he was really taken over by the Evil God, then he would be completely finished. Even his Avatar Dark River might not be able to escape the fate of being infected.
Time might stop or flow backwards because of willpower, but that's definitely not something Lu Li can do now. The time for return has finally come. The two dark creatures that look like dwarfs, the old village chief and the old queen—no, they should be called Greed and Pride now—were first taken into the umbrella by Lu Li. On the umbrella surface, two more demonic dwarf-like heads appeared.
Lu Li's umbrella-shaped space can accommodate life forms, but due to the environment inside, it is not friendly to some creatures that enter it. During this time, Lu Li conducted some experiments.
He placed some nearby creatures into the umbrella's interior space to see how they would survive inside. The test subjects included various wild beasts, plants, humans, Wendigo, mask-affiliated creatures, and so on.
The wild beasts would usually die soon due to lack of oxygen or the excessive concentration of Shadow Magic, but strange, unconscious, and incomplete spirits would appear on their remains.
Most plants wither quickly, but there was a type of grass that survived for a relatively long time. Although it eventually died, Lu Li believed that this grass had the potential to be cultivated and would be kept for future, phased cultivation.
Humans who enter the space inside the umbrella will die from lack of oxygen. If there is enough oxygen, they will also inhale too much Shadow Magic with each breath, which will cause their bodies and minds to mutate and they will not live long before they die. Like wild beasts, their remains will give rise to some incomplete spirits, only slightly stronger than wild beasts.
As for these two spiritual entities, Lu Li would conduct further research if he had enough time, but there isn't enough time right now, so like the small-grass stage cultivation experiment, it's temporarily on hold.
Additionally, if the Wendigo are taken into the umbrella space, their symbiotic bodies can hibernate in the dense Shadow Magic environment and undergo certain mutations, seemingly through some mechanism. After a few days, their bodies will wither and die.
The spirit Wendigo will continue to drift within it, as if waiting for an event where its own kind cannibalizes another.
In contrast to the creatures mentioned earlier, the masked creatures of Lu Li, whether Shadow Demon or Shadow Assassin, thrive inside. Therefore, our Snake Woman, Miss Lilith, is currently hibernating inside.
The Twins entered the Candy House. They possessed their own will, and the Dark River had taught them a great deal these past few days, seemingly intending to cultivate them into believers. After all, they had grown up amidst the legends of the Black Mist River since childhood, and now that they had transformed into monsters, becoming believers of the Dark River wasn't entirely unreasonable.
"Then please go inside the umbrella and wait for a while," Lu Li said. These two people's bodies had been reconstructed by Lu Li's curse, and they were no longer simply products of this world. They would also be rejected and sent back by this world. It would be best for them to follow Lu Li to his Dreamlands.
As time officially arrived, the world began to breathe and pulse, causing the two overlapping Dreamlands to separate. The Candy House transformed into vibrant colors and vanished into the air. Afterwards, the new king of the country sent people to search for it, but to no avail, and the matter was left unresolved.
In the pitch-black, lightless Dreamlands, a splash of color suddenly appeared—a colorful Candy House materialized within. As if sensing the Candy House's arrival, the ground outside instantly surged and churned.
Like the surface of a sea rippling with waves, the shadow was constantly writhing, only appearing as if it were rippling with waves because of its enormous size.
The shadow that occupied half of the Dreamlands space was extremely excited, seemingly waiting to merge with its master again and fill the last gap. In the Dreamlands, the three empty spaces in the sky also emitted a faint light.
A broken-horn mask floated out from Lu Li's body and flew into the sky. One of the three empty slots Avatar into Destruction, becoming a huge black sun that illuminated everything.
Then a mask floated out from Lu Li's body. It looked like Lilith's mask. But if you looked closely, you would find that this mask had broken away from Lilith. It was floating in another empty space, representing Hatred, waiting for its future host.
Following him was Dark River, who condensed black mist into a mask, which floated and was inlaid in the empty space, transforming into another perfectly matched sun. Dark River then sensed that he had attained the position of the ruler of this Dreamlands of fear.
Then came the remaining seven masks. The Shadow Assassin, who already had a host unit, appeared in the position of Envy. The mask of the animated creature as the host moved to the position of Sloth. As for the other five masks, they returned to their respective positions, waiting for their units or hosts.
After all the masks returned, the entire Dreamlands gradually became complete. Sensing that the Dreamlands was becoming more and more complete, Lu Li took the initiative to Excitation his original Original Sin Domain, and the seven deadly sins responded in turn under Hatred, Destruction and fear.
Lu Li walked out of the Candy House with his umbrella. Under the Original Sin Domain, Lu Li actually felt the negative emotions churning inside him again. This time it was not an influx of external emotions, but Lu Li truly felt the emotions he lacked.
Tears welled in Lu Li's eyes as he walked on the shadowy, black mud-like surface. The shadow, like tentacles, spread from Lu Li's feet, gradually engulfing and covering him. He turned to look at the Candy House, where Dark River was standing.
The shadow spread across Lu Li, tears streaming down his face for reasons unknown—perhaps a resurgence of past emotions, or perhaps the final sorrow of being human. He forced a smile and said to the Dark River, "I'm not human anymore, Dark River."
The next moment, a shadow resembling black mud completely engulfed Lu Li, leaving only an umbrella, which shimmered with a dim light on the shadow.
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