Chapter 1863 – Now, You’re Not
After agonizing for a long time, No. 22 still had his heart crossed, gripped the end of that cut-off [King’s Scepter], and forcefully pulled it out of himself!
Forget it, take a gamble!
If you want power, how can you not take a risk?
The Gate of Truth was something that came from outside this universe, and it was a Three Pillar God level existence, so it wouldn’t be so bad as to lie to itself about a human artifact, right?
With the tearing sound of blood and flesh separating, the [Scepter of the King] was held tightly in No. 22’s hand, a hideous bloodstained scar running through his chest, but as the bloated skin continued to squirm, more and more blood and flesh filled it, restoring the injury.
Holding the bloodstained scepter in his hand, No.22 took a deep breath and passed it towards the starlight tentacle ……
Whoosh–!
Just at the moment when the Starlight Tentacle was about to receive the scepter, a gray shadow swept in front of No. 22 like lightning, and in the next moment, his palm was already empty.
No. 22 froze.
He subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a huge gray-skinned rat holding the [King’s Scepter] in its mouth, quietly looking at him from afar.
With a flash of lightning, the gray-skinned rat gradually stood up and transformed into a gray-robed silhouette, with dense arcs of electricity spreading around it, and a pair of “One” characters were clearly visible in the pair of blood-colored pupils.
Fish One!
Seeing this scene, 22’s pupils suddenly contracted!
”Give me back the scepter!!!” He roared, and his bloated figure violently stepped on the ground, like a ferocious beast with uncoordinated limbs rushing in the direction of Fish One.
At the same time, Fish One’s temperament rapidly changed, the original “One” character in the pupils of his eyes gradually disappeared, and his gray robes were dyed pitch black, and as a scar surfaced at the corner of his forehead, An Qingyu’s soul had already been transferred across the sky.
An Qingyu holds the [King’s Scepter] in one hand, a faint mist disperses from under the robe, and the pair of gray eyes between the haze is indifferent and mysterious.
A residual shadow swept across the earth, No. 22’s fierce face had already flashed to his body, a fist covered with scars and sutures whistled and swung out, swirling with a gust of wind and smashed into An Qingyu’s face!
The wind whipped up his black robes, An Qingyu’s eyes narrowed slightly, gently sidestepping the blow, the wind from his fist swept up the tips of his hair, and the next moment, his fingertips were precise and accurate.
In the next moment, his fingertips accurately pointed at No.22’s chest!
Dang–!
A water tank-like hole of blood exploded out of thin air, and No.22’s bloated body felt like it had been chiseled open with a hammer, violently spewing out a mouthful of blood and rolling down to the ground like mud.
The blood quickly stained the earth, No.22 supported his body with both hands, gritted his teeth and tried to stand up from the ground, a path of blood and flesh regenerated from that stitched up body, continuously filling the vacancy of the central blood hole.
”Who the hell are you ……?!” No. 22 stared at An Qingyu dead in the face and spoke hoarsely.
”Who am I, does it matter?” An Qingyu faintly opened her mouth, “I had thought that walking here would not be a difficult task for you guys, but I didn’t expect that all of you, which were almost reunited in the depths of the labyrinth …… [God’s Desire Paradise], are really a bunch of rabble.”
Hearing these words, No. 22 looked like he understood something, and his eyes contracted slightly:
”It’s you? The one who delivered the information about the Gate of Truth to us was you? You deliberately lured us here?”
No. 22’s thoughts were like electricity, as he looked at the [King’s Scepter] in An Qingyu’s hand, everything seemed to become clear, “So, there was no such thing as an equal exchange for the Gate of Truth? You tricked us into coming here just to snatch the [King’s Scepter] from my hands?!”
”You think too highly of yourself.” An Qingyu’s voice was calm and incomparable, “[Scepter of the King], killing you will naturally lead to your hand, even if it means slaughtering all of [God’s Desire Paradise], it won’t be a difficult task for me.”
An Qingyu’s voice did not contain the slightest emotion, but to No. 22’s ears, these words sounded like they were slapping him in the face.
The other party’s inadvertent revelation of contempt caused No. 22, who had already saved up a bellyful of anger, to ignite directly, and his body gradually stood up straight, a pink halo of divine power swirling at his feet!
”If you were a supreme god, I would have endured it if you said so …… but you are just a main god, what are you pretending here?!”
No. 22 cursed angrily, and at the rib position of his bloated torso, a pair of arms violently broke out from it, four palms pinched out a bizarre handprint out of thin air, and countless pink-colored imaginary snakes that seemed to be entwined with each other’s jade fingers broke out from underneath An Qingyu’s feet!
These imaginary snakes surrounded An Qingyu’s body, constantly spitting out red letters, but what came out was not the sound of snakes spitting out letters, but a groan that was evocative.
An Qingyu stood between the countless vaporous snakes in her black clothes, and walked outward with an expressionless face.
The densely-packed pink virtual snakes wrapped around his arms and legs, coiled up to his ears, and continuously licked his earlobes, as if a churning ocean was drowning him in it!
Just as No. 22 grunted coldly, a crisp cracking sound came out from the sea of snakes!
Ka-!
A gray aura flashed across the nothingness, and thousands of pink vaporous snakes suddenly came to a standstill, then crumbled inch by inch like glass!
All the groans turned into mournful hisses, which only lasted for a split second before dissolving without a trace, as a black shadow stepped through the nothingness, instantly arriving in front of No. 22…
No.22’s pupils suddenly shrunk, his figure was about to retreat, when the extreme cold ice froze half of his body, like half an ice coffin blocking him in, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move a single bit.
”This is impossible …… As long as you are a human, you will definitely have desires! Why aren’t you affected?!” An inexplicable chill seeped out from the bottom of his heart when No. 22 saw An Qingyu’s dead-water eyes, “What kind of monster are you?!”
”Monster?” An Qingyu paused for a moment, “You’re right …… perhaps, I can no longer be considered a complete ‘human’.”
He stood in front of the frozen 22, a pitch-black scalpel falling between his palms, those eyes constantly scrutinizing the 22’s body as if parsing something.
”Shoddy stitching means …… Is this the way you relied on to usurp the body of the Goddess of Desire and obtain her power?”
Under An Qingyu’s gaze, for some reason, the coldness in No. 22’s heart grew thicker and thicker.
His aura was no longer as tough as before, and his voice took on a hint of supplication, “What do you want to do? You can’t kill me …… You want to use the [King’s Scepter], I can help you! I’m the only one in this world who can use it!”
”The only person who can use it?”
An Qingyu’s eyebrows rose slightly, and in the next moment, the scalpel between his palms slashed accurately at the corner of No. 22’s heart, slicing a writhing fragment from it!
No. 22’s miserable scream resounded through the clouds!
An Qingyu placed this fragment between his palms and scrutinized it for a moment, then rubbed his fingers together and wiped it directly into flying dust …… Immediately afterward, his palms simulated exuding an aura that was exactly the same as that piece of heart!
He rested his palm on the [King’s Scepter], and a shimmering light lit up from the top of the scepter, and
”Now, you’re not.” He said faintly.