Artificial Protagonist Halo Plan
Everything was proceeding according to plan. Lu Li huddled inside the gem, disguising himself as an ordinary Fate Beast monster to avoid being discovered by certain beings. Otherwise, with his own strength, even if he were just a manufactured gem, these seals would not have been able to imprison him for ten years.
"Looking back now, my actions of abnormally injecting the Shadow Essence into this world were also problematic." Lu Li Libao's presence flickered within the room. "Is anyone hoping that I will explore this world?"
"Nyar, what are you pushing me forward for?" Lu Li's thoughts flashed, and then he turned the page on this matter. These things were simply unimaginable. He and Nyar were not even on the same level. The other party had a much broader perspective, and there was a serious asymmetry in information.
In this situation, the only option is to strive to improve oneself. Only when one reaches a similar level to the other party will one have the initiative. "Those two beings are underground. As long as I don't actively jump out, they will have difficulty discovering me in the current situation."
"So the focus is still on Li Mo." Lu Li turned his attention to the protagonist he had created. "If I want to move freely in this world, I must have an identity in this world. Only someone with the ability can become my hidden Avatar in this world."
At this moment, Li Mo had finished disseminating his cultivation method and had fallen into a deep sleep. The Black Day on his chest was slightly rotating, undergoing some subtle adjustments. This mark of the Black Day was Lu Li's main research product during this period: the artificial protagonist halo.
Lu Li had witnessed the protagonist's halo in the Martial Arts World and had done some research on it. Later, he learned about the existence of the Existence Factor. Subsequently, his true form traveled through the starry sky of the Starshine World, often capturing Star Calamity monsters as experimental subjects to study the Existence Factor.
After initially utilizing the existence factors, Lu Li combined his previous research on the protagonist's halo with his understanding of factors such as faith and legends. Most importantly, he had two relatively ideal experimental subjects to work with: Zhao Yifan and Nangong Liuli.
In the Martial Arts World, Nangong Liuli, as a loser, had her protagonist aura shattered. Most of it was absorbed by Zhao Yifan, and a small portion was transformed into a token of luck. Although some of it remained in Qi Ye's body, it wasn't much.
After the surgery, she was sacrificed by Zhao Yifan to Lu Li Lu Li, who then Extraction the Snake Woman attribute from her body and gave it to Lilith. Later, with the mindset of making use of waste, he left her in the Shadow Dreamlands. However, living in this environment has driven her completely insane, but she is still quite qualified as an experimental subject.
As for the other one, Zhao Yifan, as the former protagonist of the Martial Arts World, his later years should have been particularly tragic. After defeating other opponents and becoming the true protagonist, he developed the Black Heaven Hall to a new level. However, for the progress of the world, for the spread of knowledge, and for the next protagonist Ye Fanxiao, Zhao Yifan seemed to have an ending after becoming the protagonist.
Most works don't treat the former protagonists well. The better ones get to become senior figures or elders, the worse ones become the new generation's demon king boss's transport captain, and the worst ones just become background characters.
According to the original trajectory of fate, Zhao Yifan, the protagonist who was about to expire, would not have a good ending either. In the later stages of the Black Heaven Hall, he would make a series of blunders, sending his subordinates to gradually give experience to the new protagonist Ye Fanxiao of the Black Heaven Hall Golden Sand Island. In the end, the Black Heaven Hall would be destroyed, a large number of secret manuals would be leaked, and the martial arts world would flourish.
However, it was clear that Zhao Yifan had been well-trained by the Black Heaven Hall. After realizing that the temporary decline of the Black Heaven Hall was inevitable, he immediately broke through the void and fled to the Shadow Dreamlands, becoming a general under the Black Heaven Hall.
Of course, this could also be the actual controller of the Martial Arts World, the Bloated Woman Nyar. Her tentacles had no effect in stopping him. In any case, Zhao Yifan escaped the fate of a protagonist who had already passed away, but his protagonist aura collapsed and was stripped of most of it before he left.
Even so, Zhao Yifan was still a good experimental subject. As a former protagonist, he allowed Lu Li to better understand the existence of the protagonist's halo. Of course, because the other party was a general under the Black Heaven Hall, and because it involved his own Avatar, Lu Li showed some mercy and did not go too far.
As a result, Lu Li had three fairly good experimental products. The first and worst artificial protagonist halo Lu Li given to the High Priest. It was because of that halo that she was able to rebuild the Shadow Cult. However, since it was a practice project, the quality of that halo was not very good, it had many side effects, and its connection with the user was not strong.
The second artificial protagonist halo was given to Ke Su by Lu Li. However, due to Lu Li's inexperience and some unexpected events, Ke Su deviated from the protagonist path that Lu Li had arranged for him, devoted himself to good, and even sealed the halo on his chest.
Having no other choice, Lu Li had to use the protagonist's halo to pay his wages. At the original price... he had no Ke Su but to make use of Ke Su, which affected the protagonist Lu Li had chosen: Li Mo, and bestowed upon him the third artificial protagonist halo, which was also the best protagonist halo Lu Li had created so far.
As Lu Li's painstaking efforts paid off, Li Mo finally embarked on the tragic protagonist path that Lu Li had arranged for him. And so far, the protagonist's halo seems pretty good. On Li Mo's chest, within that circle of Black Day, Nangong Liuli's presence let out a frantic roar.
Everyone in the Shadow Cult had a touch of purplish-red on their heads. If it weren't for the protagonist's halo, Li Mo, this greenhorn, despite having real benefits, might not have been able to control everyone.
As for other effects, human memory is unreliable. Over time, what people think they can remember for a lifetime will actually be completely different in their memory. Therefore, it is not so difficult to make someone mistake another person for someone else.
The person in Yao Ge's memory had been replaced by Li Mo without her even realizing it. In addition, the two did have similar personalities, and she could "never" forget that person, so she was replaced by Li Mo.
"The moonlight is truly beautiful tonight." Lu Li sat on Gem Mountain, gazing at the moonlight outside the ancient pagoda. The sealing was nothing special after all. Then, Lu Li looked up at the girl on the other side, who had completed the ritual and was sitting atop Holy Sight Mountain, lost in thought and longing for someone, "So, how about we stir up some more trouble?"
Meanwhile, Lu Zhu, his head adorned with a crimson hue, paced back and forth in his tent, contemplating how to deal with Li Mo. He considered sending assassins, continuing the poisoning, luring the team into danger, killing members and framing them—these thoughts flashed through Lu Zhu mind, but he quickly dismissed them all. "I want to be the leader," he thought, "How can I continue using underhanded tactics? If I'm going to use anything, it has to be a fair and square strategy."
Under the moonlight, the crimson purplish hue on Lu Zhu's head appeared even more pronounced.