Exhausting the Pond!

"Die?"

Li Qingshan raised an eyebrow, his gaze falling on Jin Gui's laughing projection before shifting to the ten giant pythons charging at him.

The throne's might spread outward, tainting the Stellar Sea into vast stretches of filthy mire wherever it passed. It did indeed look dangerous.

But...

Li Qingshan lowered his head and looked at his somewhat illusory body, then at the rings on his fingers.

At this moment, he was not his true body. He could not even be considered a True Spirit. He was merely a True Spirit Projection that had followed his gaze along the throne's trace upon the rings.

"So..."

Li Qingshan raised an eyebrow and looked at the smugly laughing Jin Gui, suddenly realizing.

"You intend to capture this projection, then follow the vine to pull out the melon and seize my True Spirit as well?"

"You only realized it now? Too late!"

Jin Gui spat the words viciously, as if he wanted to vent all the resentment from his earlier disgraceful flight. His pair of golden eyes stared coldly at the rings on the young man's fingers.

"Corruption is already entwined with you. Since you dared put on those rings, don't even think about escaping the throne's erosion!"

"Erosion..."

Li Qingshan's gaze shifted, and an illusory Status Panel silently appeared.

At this moment, the available time column was rapidly ticking down at a rate of 100 million per second.

Seeing this, he finally understood why he had suddenly "woken up."

The Corruption was too dense—so dense that he had instinctively activated the Status Panel's shielding function, shielding even "Greed" along with it.

And such intense Corruption was merely the lingering aftershock from the formation of those ten giant pythons...

The young man slowly raised his head and looked at the ten giant pythons