Hearing the voice by his ear, Xu Zimo was not surprised in the slightest.
Instead, he replied with interest, "Lord of the Dead?"
"That's right. It seems your acting even deceived me," the voice by his ear continued.
"When you ascended to become the Lord of the World, I thought you had completely sunk into it.
"This Death Forest illusion can sketch out the deepest greed within a person's heart and ultimately make them lose themselves in it.
"By the end, you cannot even distinguish reality from illusion.
"Many people will choose to spend their entire lives in an illusory world even when they know something is wrong.
"After all, that is their utopia."
"How did you discover that something was wrong?"
"How did I discover it?" Xu Zimo smiled.
"It was too smooth. Everything along the way was far too smooth.
"Destroying the Sacred Court, slaughtering the heavens, establishing a new world.
"Even I felt as though it were all a dream."
Xu Zimo's gaze deepened, and his grip on Overlord Shadow tightened by several degrees.
He said calmly, "I know what kind of road I am walking—fighting the heavens, fighting the countless living beings.
"But in the illusion, it was as though the entire world revolved around me.
"That was too abnormal.
"You should know that I want to destroy the world. Why would the world revolve around me?"
Hearing this, the Lord of the Dead fell silent for a moment.
"What you seek is no small thing!"
"Of course. Otherwise, I could simply become the overlord of some region. The Heavenly Dao would probably worship me as long as I did not wage war against the heavens," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"Well? Can we meet now?"
"We can," said the Lord of the Dead.
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