A Terrible Future
The world is in chaos. Lu Li, his figure somewhat ethereal, walks through a dilapidated city, listening to the various shouts around him. Blue flames flicker slightly in his palms. He pushes up his black-rimmed glasses, and blue sparks flash across his body, making Lu Li's form appear more solid.
"Die, you damned reptiles!" A swirling mass crashed into a cracked wall on the other side, which, as expected, collapsed completely, covering the mass.
Then the stones trembled, and the buried things broke through the blockade and began to fight again. The clump of things consisted of two entangled "people," though it was difficult to call them people in reality.
It was a creature covered in black snake scales, its forked tongue flicking from its mouth, with sharp claws and a pistol-like object tucked at its waist, though it didn't have time to draw it now.
On the other side, a tall creature was fiercely fighting with Snake People. This creature was covered in various runes, and pale blue spiritual energy flowed from those runes, providing it with great power. It was called a creature because its head was a pig's head.
"What strange things has this future version of me invented?" Lu Li patted his head and squatted down to observe the battle between the two, but the two "people" ignored Lu Li, who was right in front of them.
The pig-headed man's fat and muscles shuddered, and the black runes carved on them once again burst forth with a large amount of blue spiritual energy sparks. His body suddenly swelled up a size, grabbed the Snake People and twisted it forcefully, breaking all the Snake People's bones. But the pig-headed man still wouldn't let go, holding on tightly with both hands. After a while, he finally threw the Snake People's completely cold corpse aside.
Snake People are incredibly resilient. Even after death, they can still react to their muscles, bite their enemies, and release venom. In the early stages of the battle, many warriors died from this post-mortem reaction.
The pig-headed man shrank, and the black runes slowly disappeared beneath his skin. Finally, he shook his pig head, retracting it into a normal human head, and collapsed to the ground. On his obese belly was a dark mass with a wound in the center and a bullet resembling a venomous fang protruding from the wound.
The pig-headed man quickly extended his left hand, revealing a circle of black runes. Lu Li's expression suddenly turned very strange. If the runes were translated carefully, the first sentence would mean: May the Shadow Lord cover the heavens for eternity!
The following content is the incantation to summon the Shadow Lord's retinue: the Shadow Legion. Activated with spiritual power, it can summon a Shadow Assassin.
A circle of black runes lit up, and a dark shadow was summoned to the pig-headed man's side. A smug voice came from behind. "Bajie, what do you want now? Looking at you, are you going to get bitten by some snake again?"
"Damn it, why did I have to summon you again, you bastard!" the pig-headed man wailed in agony. Of his 100,000 Shadow Legion, why did he have to summon this unreliable guy, twice at once?
"Fine, fine, brother, please have mercy and give me first aid, I'm about to die!" the pig-headed man said in anguish, looking like he had nothing to lose.
"You don't trust me at all? You really believe I'm a professional." Shadow B, wearing a black lab coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, squatted down and placed the stethoscope on the pig's head. "The brain tissue is in good condition. Just a quick rinse with boiling water, and it'll be top-quality pig brain. Should we add salt or sugar later?"
"Hey, that's enough! I just have a stomach poisoning, stop messing with me!" the pig-headed man cried out in despair.
"Alright, alright, it's just stomach poisoning, isn't it?" Shadow B touched his waist, his expression suddenly stiffening. He then turned to the pig-headed man and said in a deep voice, "I forgot to bring the first-aid kit."
"Just kill me already, I don't want to live anymore!" The pig-headed man was utterly desperate, his face filled with despair, and the blackness on his stomach was slowly spreading.
"Should we eat the poisonous pig's stomach or not?" Shadow B wondered, then shook his head with a sigh and turned to the pig-headed man, saying, "I'll go get the first-aid kit. You stay where you are and don't move."
Shadow B vanished instantly. Lu Li glanced pitifully at the pig-headed man who had fallen into a mental breakdown, then his figure disappeared in an instant. In this future, Gresta quickly arrived, using the Shadow Kingdom as a rear base, and dispatched the Shadow Legion, along with the Thousand-Dimensional Eye, Zombie, and cultivators, to resist the greatly increased power of the Snake People Iger.
In a gloomy world, Thousand-Dimensional Eye roam rapidly in the sky, numerous Shadow Assassin drift about, and various humans and Zombie hurry through this world.
However, in the Shadow Kingdom, all the Serpent People turned into stone statues to prevent being controlled by Iger.
"You've come!" Lu Li turned around and saw tentacles descending from the distant sky. A large number of tentacles were connected to the other half of Lu Li's body. The reason for saying "half" is that Lu Li looked as if he had been cleaved in two by a knife, with the other half covered in black tentacles.
"Half of my body was corrupted by Doros, and to avoid being completely controlled, I deliberately severed that half of my existence," Lu Li said. "Because of Gresta's early arrival, Doros and Iger teamed up to trick us, and now we've become the main force."
"I will pass on all the information to you!" Lu Li's face showed a hint of bitterness as a black tentacle reached out towards Lu Li.
A wisp of blue light flickered, and the black tentacles were immediately stopped. Lu Li shook his head. "I didn't expect the future to be this tragic. Even the Shadow Kingdom has been occupied. Are you still trying to deceive me? How should I address you?"
"Gheros!" The expression on the half- Lu Li's face changed, and the entire Shadow Kingdom instantly transformed. Its original dark colors turned into a rusty, brownish-red hue. This being's voice was exceptionally pleasant, as if it possessed the power to bring everything to life.
"What a terrible development!" Lu Li looked around, shook his head, and his body began to blur. "It seems I won't gain much from this future."
"This development isn't so bad, and attributing it to the great Destruction isn't so good either," Gheros said, controlling his new Avatar, Gresta.
"Let all of this return to nothingness!" Lu Li's body completely disappeared, and then the entire world vanished with it. What was certain was the past, what was being determined was the present, and what was yet to be determined was the future.
Lu Li opened his eyes, adjusted his glasses, and muttered to himself, "The thirty-second time, the Shadow Kingdom has been occupied by Gheros."