"Now, I have three choices."
"First, that thing is my actual body. Some kind of attack forced my soul out of it. If I don't return soon, my soul will die."
"Second, that monster is luring me in, making me mistake that thing for my body."
"If the Ant Queen really exists, its strongest ability has to be possession... Once I get close, even the violet lightning might not save my life."
"Of course, there are other possibilities. That body really might reflect my attacks back onto me. If it dies, I die too."
"Or I've been caught in an illusion so powerful that even my lightning can't break it."
This was a gamble. Choosing wrong meant death.
Zhang Ming hesitated. He even thought about what would happen after he died... Nothing, really. No one on Earth would know he was dead. He would merely have let Little White down, dying almost as soon as he entered the Demon God's Sea. Fortunately, they hadn't traveled too far yet. Little White might still be able to swim back.
As he pondered this, the invisible monster sank its teeth into that body's chest again!
Through the searing pain, Zhang Ming saw his chest torn open, exposing his expanding and contracting lungs.
At the same time, he himself suffered a devastating blow.
Yet there wasn't a single drop of sweat on his forehead. In his soul state, he apparently couldn't sweat...
But he could still feel his heartbeat and the stabbing pain, perhaps because his connection to his body remained intact.
Some instinct was telling him, If I don't return to my body, I really will die here! I really will!
But Old Zhang bared his teeth in another savage grin. Having made up his mind, he sneered, "If you want to kill