"Do you really intend to start all the way back from scratch, cultivating your skills step by step?"
Yaoyao, lamenting that Leo's aura had completely vanished, and he would need to spend thousands of years cultivating. Having enjoyed the conveniences of a high level, she really didn't want to start all over again.
Fortunately, Leo was not born as an infant, but was born as an adult.
Otherwise, he would have to take care of the baby for a while, since there are no wet nurses in the Shadow World.
"Of course, we have to cultivate back step by step. There are no shortcuts in this world," Leo replied with a smile.
Where did that black plate go?
The golden light was so intense that Yaoyao covered her eyes with her paws and didn't see how the black panel disappeared.
"I have already integrated into the Shadow World, creating the foundation for the evolution of life within it, and serving as the bridge connecting me to the Shadow World Shadow World."
Yaoyao shook her head, not understanding what Leo was saying. How did she end up in the Shadow World and become a bridge?
"Okay, I'll show you."
Leo held the World Tree's soul seal form in one hand, and stretched out the other.
At this moment, Leo's palm seemed to become the center of Shadow World, with countless black, twisted shadows converging towards Leo hand.
Before Yaoyao's wide eyes, a black book appeared in Leo's palm amidst countless distorted black rays of light.
"Huh? Isn't this the Little Boss's projection? Or the projection of the Seven Little Ones combined?"
Yaoyao turned to Leo and asked her question: the black panel was a combination of the seven small ones. Leo found the projection of the Little Bookworm No. 001, but there were still six missing.
But I was startled when I turned my head.
"You... how did you suddenly get promoted?"
Yaoyao the blink of an eye, Leo had completed a level-one advancement from an ordinary person with no aura at all.
"Don't make a fuss. Didn't I just say I would advance 'step by step'? I've taken one step now, so of course I've advanced one level."
Yaoyao looked down and saw that Leo had actually taken a step.
"When you said 'step by step' to get promoted back, did you mean it literally?" Yaoyao stretched out her little paws, wanting to leave a few marks on Leo's face.
"That's right, it means exactly what it says, one step at a time."
Leo looked around, a nostalgic look in his eyes.
Yaoyao followed Leo's gaze and realized that the two of them were no longer in their previous positions.
He didn't even perceive the change in his position in the Shadow World, which only shows that Leo's Shadow Talent was stronger than his and his compatibility with the Shadow World was higher, allowing him to teleport without him even noticing.
Yaoyao glanced around a few times, feeling a sense of familiarity, but mostly a sense of strangeness.
It was clear that this was a simple, secret room, and a figure was cultivating inside.
The shadows rotated, scrolling across the shadow plane before them like a comic strip, from the beginning of their seclusion to the end of their advancement, showing every projection, just like watching a black and white silent film.
Leo's eyes flickered slightly, and the projection in front of him instantly froze at the moment after the promotion was completed.
Before Yaoyao ask, Leo explained what was happening before him, "This is a projection mark I left in the Shadow World when I advanced to the next level."
"At that time, I completed my Body Refinement Wizard training under the tutelage of Teacher Gru, and was granted a Star Core by the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, which allowed me to advance to the next level."
Leo slapped the World Tree's soul seal onto his chest, and the seal immediately merged into his chest, leaving a tattoo in the shape of the World Tree World Tree.
With his free hand, he grabbed at the flat projection in front of him, and his palm instantly disappeared into the image, pulling out Leo, who had just advanced a level.
Originally a two-dimensional humanoid projection, it transformed into a three-dimensional body after being captured by Leo. It had its own body, appearance, and limbs, with every detail perfectly replicated.
In Leo's hands, the Leo seemed to come alive, no longer a passive, planar shadow that couldn't move on its own in the projection.
He struggled, trying to break free from Leo's grasp. He even opened his mouth wide, as if trying to ask Leo who he was and why he was holding him.
He couldn't make a sound; he could only keep his mouth open.
How did you do that?
Yaoyao stared at the struggling projection in Leo's hand and asked Leo incredulously.
Leo he couldn't do something like that.
"Isn't this something anyone can do? Don't you know how?"
Leo stared at Yaoyao with a surprised look, as if asking Yaoyao why she couldn't do it.
"I..."
Yaoyao is angry. If he could do that, he wouldn't need to ask Leo.
They'll do it if they have hands, right? Aren't they just taking advantage of the fact that he has cute little paws but no hands?
Ignoring the struggle of the projection he had once held in his hand, Leo shoved it directly into the book in his other hand.
When the primary projection of Leo merged with the book in his hand...
In the Shadow World, all the projections of Leo at level one in other scenes disappeared, leaving only the projection of an empty secret room, as if Leo had never existed, and as if no one had ever existed in that secret room.
Yaoyao didn't understand why Leo did this. Not only could she not understand his current actions, but she also couldn't understand many of his actions since Leo was resurrected.
Even if Yaoyao wanted to use her soul connection ability to examine Leo's memories, she couldn't find his current memory content.
It's as if Leo only exists in front of us, in our sight, but not in the real environment.
If it weren't for the connection between their souls, Yaoyao would have seriously doubted whether she was hallucinating and that all her experiences over this period of time were fake.
Leo seemed not to see Yaoyao's confused face, and took his second step.
At this moment, Yaoyao quickly banished all other distracting thoughts and stared intently at Leo, watching what exactly happened when Leo took that step.
As Leo's footsteps landed, their location instantly changed, and the entire Shadow World distorted. A thin shadow was cast into Leo's hand, and the second book projection appeared.
At the same time, Leo's aura instantly rose to level two, advancing to level two without any warning.
The location changed, the second book appeared, and the level increased. All three things happened simultaneously and silently, completed in an instant.
"I understand you less and less. I really don't know if the Shadow World gave you special treatment when you were reborn. How come your affinity with the Shadow World is higher than mine, and your abilities are so much stronger than mine?"
Yaoyao couldn't understand why Leo could advance in an instant, but he was certain that the Shadow World had definitely played a part in it.
He used to be the undisputed boss in the Shadow World, so Leo didn't dare to wander off.
Now things are really messed up; he can't understand any of Leo's moves, and he's been demoted from the top position to second place.
He'll never have another chance to show off in front of Leo!
Why bother with all this? What's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine. Why should we distinguish between us?
Leo moved his fingers, and the projection plane in front of him rotated rapidly. When it reached a certain point, Leo's fingers suddenly stopped.
Yaoyao could see it clearly; the scene before her was Leo advancing to level two in the Tower of Elements, and he was already there at that time.
He reached out and grabbed his former level-two projection, then threw it into the second book before it could struggle.
As the projection merged into the book, the projections of Leo, the second-level character, disappeared from the countless images in the Shadow World before their eyes.
Just like when he was at level one, Leo erased the projection of his level two self.
Only then did Yaoyao have time to look at the book, which was a projection of the Little Bookworm No. 002, also known as the Fate Wizard Book.
After two attempts, Yaoyao understood Leo's strategy: find all the projections of her past promotions and throw them into Little Bookworm's projection book.
I just don't understand why they did that.
Take the third step.
The location instantly changed, and they arrived at the projection of Leo's advancement to the third level, which was the former Purple Flame Academy.
His aura has improved, reaching level three.
The third book materialized in his hands; it was a projection of the Little Bookworm No. 003.
Similarly, he pulled out the image of himself from the screen and stuffed it into the book, erasing all traces of Leo's past experiences with adult films.
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
After Leo inserted his former level six projection into the Hundred-Page World projection book, his level returned to level six.
This was the highest level he reached in the real world, and also the level he reached before his death.
The six books in his hands condensed into one again, but it was no longer the black block that no one could understand before; instead, it was a single book held firmly in Leo's hand.
A black light flickered continuously on the book, proclaiming its extraordinary nature.
"You are ready to ascend to the Supreme Lord."
Within six steps, Yaoyao understood some things.
Leo erased all traces of his past.
Erasing the projection also means erasing your former self.
This must be the price he paid for being born in the Shadow World.
He is no longer Leo of the real world, but a new life born in the Shadow World.
As for the book formed by the seven small projections, Yaoyao still couldn't understand it.
"It's time to advance to the Supreme Lord," Leo said.
He lifted his foot and took a light step forward. Before his foot even landed, the seven small books in his hand, formed from condensed energy, were flipped through wildly. An invisible force was released from the books, connecting them with the entire Shadow World.
In Yaoyao's real vision, it seemed as if countless black threads shot out from the book, reaching every part of the Shadow World and binding themselves with all the shadows.
"Bang"
When Leo's foot landed, the entire Shadow World seemed to echo with a tremendous roar, as if it weren't just a foot that had landed.
Instead...
One world!!!