Shadow Kingdom
It's hard to define what Lu Li is now. Perhaps he is a new species. His origin is the same as that of the great beings in the Man of Light and Shadow, except that the Man of Light and Shadow are 99.999% concentrated, while he is just a scattered point outside.
Aside from that identity, Lu Li was initially no different from an ordinary human. However, during the divine descent ritual in the Man of Light and Shadow, although the descent was interrupted, Lu Li, as the vessel, underwent a fundamental mutation.
Afterwards, Lu Li entered the game Mutation his own shadow, using the shadow to gradually nourish his bloodline, becoming a semi-shadow creature. When he became a completely shadow creature, Lu Li severed his Seven Deadly Sins and deeply merged with a Dreamlands.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Lu Li is actually composed of two parts: one is the shadow body, and the other is the Dreamlands. As for those Avatar, they are Lu Li, yet they are not Lu Li.
Black Mist River, the King of Fear Dark River Black Mist; Lu Li, the Black Heaven Hall; Lu Li, the Human Power User and the Rhythm of Time; and Malygos, the Avatar of Magic and Sorcery—these four Avatar can all be called Lu Li, but they are ultimately themselves.
Even if they die, or Lu Li dies, it won't have much impact on each other. Within Lu Li as a whole, they are one, but as individuals, they are different. In fact, the combination of the Dreamlands and the Shadow Body is not entirely Lu Li. He should perhaps be called Gresta, the Lord of Dreams.
The true Lu Li should actually be the sum of all the Avatar. However, since Gresta is the original form of all the other Avatar, it is perfectly acceptable for Him to call Himself Lu Li.
Not long ago, the Black Mist River, the King of Fear Dark River Black Mist, Avatar into two Avatar. The main Dark River shed its concept of fear and sublimated its concept of the Black Mist River, becoming the Black Mist Dark River.
Meanwhile, the King of Fear also broke away and acquired a new name, Gildes. Gildes is just a transliteration; his true name is no longer readable by humans. In addition to the title of King of Fear, he also Avatar into a character Bluebeard Lord in the Dreamlands Breathing, becoming synonymous with fear.
Lu Li's Shadow Body writhed. Having witnessed the events of the Dark River and the changes in the Divine Mystic Seal, he finally determined the path ahead. Thus, the Heaven-Supporting Snail underwent a separation, splitting from one into two. It was simple, natural, and without any difficulty; the two separated.
The Dreamlands, along with the illusory world, broke away from the Shadow Body. The opposing yet unified reality and illusion were separated, and the dream world was divided from the Shadow Lord, Gresta, becoming the Lord of Dreams Shadow Lord.
The one who mastered the illusory world of Dreamlands became the new Avatar, the Lord of Dreams and Falsehood. His new true name, in simple transliteration, is Angriel, hence the name Angriel, the Lord of Dreams and Falsehood.
His outward appearance is of countless overlapping circles, but in reality, they are overlaps of a false world, while the newly born Gresta is freed from the image of the past that resided in a dream or carried the burden of the world.
In contrast to the fact that the Shadow Lord on the side of truth, has taken the lead and become the initial entity, that is, the face of Lu Li as a whole, his current titles are Shadow Lord, Black Day, Shadow Kingdom Gresta.
Lu Li only severed the Dreamlands, but not space itself. In the underground space, a large amount of soil and ore was devoured by Lu Li's Shadow Body. In the end, Lu Li Avatar into a huge, floating, pitch-black sphere, or perhaps a small planet?
This enormous planet is entirely composed of shadows, and within it lies a vast Shadow Marsh, the Shadow Kingdom, inhabited by numerous shadow creatures, along with the two major clans of the Lu Li, the Serpent People, and the Thousand-Dimensional All-Seeing Eye. Meanwhile, a third clan is emerging.
The ten masks that were originally in the Shadow Dreamlands were separated. Lu Li only kept the Shadow Legion and stripped it of its status of Envy. Therefore, when the Shadow Legion reappears, it will be the third familiar of the Shadow Lord.
A new aspect of Envy will be born, and perhaps Angriel will soon become the Lord of Original Sin, or perhaps the Lord of Original Sin will appear in a new Avatar. But who knows?
The All Living Beast, this Lu Li creation, still chose to Angriel as its master. Along with them, the Dream Raven Clan also left the Shadow Kingdom. The Raven Wizard, who once had the potential to become the new Avatar, ultimately became Malygos after absorbing dragon essence, and his raven attributes were abandoned. This time, the Dream Raven Clan chose Angriel and are expected to become a new familia.
In addition, Lu Li's followers also split, mainly in the Night Spirit Cult led by Adre in the Spirit Weapon World, with some followers who were more inclined towards dreams splitting into the Dreamwalker Cult.
After a period of evaluation, the game determined that Gresta was the main body of the Lu Li, so it ignored Angriel's journey to other worlds through the dream and placed the task on Gresta.
Within the underground space, Lu Li's enormous body, resembling a small planet, floated in the air. After severing his ties with the Dreamlands, he underwent another growth, transforming from an individual into a celestial body, and this growth continued.
Lu Li is now fearless of anything. In the past, when he consumed shadow energy, he would spit out the impure parts as dregs and condense them into shadow crystals. But now, he can eat even soil and sand without any scruples and then transform them into the purest shadow energy.
A pitch-black planet floats on the ground, with some "tiny" tentacles extending from it. They are called tiny, but that's only relative to the Lu Li. In reality, each tentacle is about the size of a mountain range from the outside.
Realizing that it could no longer feed underground, otherwise a large part of the Heavenly Secrets Continent would sink, Lu Li's tentacles wriggled and opened a gap in space, entering the interlayer of the world. Otherwise, its mere existence underground would be enough to cause various effects on the Heavenly Secrets Continent on the surface.
Even when Lu Li entered the interlayered space, some people, due to their special spiritual talents, sensed Lu Li presence. As a result, they went mad. After Lu Li evolved again, it became increasingly difficult for mortals to look directly at him, and his strength gradually became incomprehensible. If we were to comment on him using the evaluation criteria of the Countermeasure Bureau, he did not reach the so-called S-rank.
However, the Countermeasure Bureau itself is merely a human organization. Their assessment levels are based on living beings, specifically humans. How can they define what constitutes a great being? For a lower life form to try to define the level of a higher life form is nothing short of laughable.
If we have to make a comparison, one chooses to develop horizontally, while the other chooses to develop vertically. It's like how an ant, though small, can lift a weight 100 times its own body weight—that's really amazing. Humans, without any other aids, simply cannot do the same thing in terms of strength alone, yet humans can easily crush ants.
Those S-level experts are amazing! They can do things that Lu Li can hardly do, but they can be easily crushed by Lu Li, who is as big as a celestial body. However, it is also possible that the ants cleverly escape or bite humans with their venom.
Although it doesn't perfectly match, Lu Li's current comparison with S-level experts is roughly the same.