Chapter 1257 – Molten Stone as Armor, Waving Flame as Robe

The second day of the countdown.

Ren Xiaosu gave P5092 a heavenly hope, he told the other party that in terms of his spiritual will, even if he summoned more than 10,000 spirits, it would not be a problem, and even he himself did not know where the upper limit of the number of summons actually was.

When he first went to the Sorcerer’s Kingdom, Meggo said that the stronger a sorcerer’s spiritual will was, the more massive his meditation world would be, and while everyone else was a leaf, Ren Xiaosu’s meditation world was a real world.

Ren Xiaosu’s spiritual will, it seems like it will always be difficult to find a unit of measure to measure him.

Moreover, Ren Xiaosu told P5092 that not only could he summon more than 10,000 Yinglings, but he could also allow them to live in the outside world without having to endure the darkness in the Yingling Shrine.

P5092 heard all of this before he finally retreated with Ren Xiaosu.

Of course, P5092 was still skeptical about this.

After all, Luo Lan had only summoned 12 of them, and although Ren Xiaosu was recognized as stronger than Luo Lan, could he really be a thousand times stronger?

Then Luo Lan this is also …… too disgraceful right.

In fact P5092 had followed Ren Xiaosu for so long that he had long ago learned to trust Ren Xiaosu unconditionally, but once he calculated the multiples of the gap between Ren Xiaosu and Luo Lan, he felt that it was a bit unreal.

But there was always a wait, he waited for Ren Xiaosu to give him an answer.

P5092 In the end, he decided to believe that Ren Xiaosu would give him a miracle.

On the way, Ren Xiaosu went to find Zhang Jinglin and asked himself the most puzzling question: ”Sir, where is Xu Xianchu, why haven’t I seen him? It is said that his ability is also quite impressive, yet he didn’t go to the battlefield.”

Zhang Jinglin thought for a moment and said, “Xu Xianchu is a rare dual ability Transcendent, however, compared to his killing ability, his defense ability is actually a bit better right now, so I’ve sent him to guard more important places.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “Guarding Fortress 178?”

Zhang Jinglin shook his head, “No.”

Ren Xiaosu now understood, this so-called important place, he was afraid that it was related to Qing Zhen’s plan.

It was just that what he hadn’t expected was that Xu Xianchu’s black pots were so powerful now?

The first group of the Northwest Army retreated backwards not very fast, before the retreat P5092 made a detailed plan, all infantry must retreat around the armored units, because he judged that the enemy’s two southwestern troops are about to arrive, if the retreat is disorderly, by the enemy these two troops intercepted in the middle of the road, then it will be all over.

To retreat, one must also retain the ability to fight.

Nowadays, those two units in the southwest are where the Northwest Army should be most worried about.

According to P5092’s projection, the other side’s first unit would probably block their retreat back to Fort 178.

But even knowing all of this, they didn’t have the slightest solution.

Previously, Ren Xiaosu had also asked P5092 what would happen if they really encountered Zero’s southwestern troops.

P5092 said that everyone would die.

……

On the 141 position, that battalion commander who refused to be evacuated as a casualty was sitting silently in the trench, lighting a cigarette.

The soldier beside him whispered to the battalion commander, “Battalion commander, didn’t you say that you are not allowed to smoke during the war, for fear that the enemy will find out where we are.”

The battalion commander cursed and said, “Why do you care about this when you’re dying?”

At this moment, the battalion commander was wearing a tactical undershirt, with four grenades hanging from the front of his chest, and the safeties of each grenade were connected together with a rope, so he only needed to use his left hand, which was still intact, to casually pull, and the safeties would all be ripped off.

An injured right hand meant that it was difficult to use a firearm, but the 141st position didn’t need waste, and by daring to stay here, the battalion commander had no intention of dragging his feet for everyone.

If he could only cheer on his comrades from the back, he would have lost his face as a battalion commander.

At this time, the battalion commander suddenly hesitated for a moment: “Wait a minute, you say I this grenade, when the marshal they bring people over will still be able to find my big groove teeth? If they can’t find it, then will I not be able to go under the bronze bell?”

The young soldiers next to him cried and laughed, what time is it now that they are worried about such things?

A soldier asked, “Battalion Commander, do you think our Northwest can win? Will someone really come to take our big groove teeth?”

“What the hell are you talking about,” the battalion commander was not happy, “Has our Northwest Army ever lost? Although we’ve fought badly before, the Northwest Army has never lost! Don’t worry, at the end of the day, we will win this battle.”

“Battalion commander you lie, I heard the brigade commander said, in the early years when we fought witches we lost every time …….”

“Put his mother’s ass,” the battalion commander was anxious: “Those witches finished the Northwest Army? No, right, as long as the Northwest Army still has one person left, it’s not called losing, it’s just strategic stoicism. Look, after holding back for so long, didn’t the Major take the brothers of the Sixth Field Division and destroy them? The ultimate victory, still belongs to us!”

“Battalion Commander, it’s not good for you to scold the Brigadier General ……”

“What’s wrong with scolding him?!”

However, just at this moment, the soldier in charge of observing the situation beyond the trenches, looked out through a submarine-like periscope, and suddenly saw a dense crowd rushing over 800 meters beyond the position.

“Enemy attack! They’re coming!” The soldier roared.

The battalion commander casually pressed his cigarette butt against the wall of the trench, “Brothers, we don’t have much hope of making it back alive, but the retreating brothers are still on their way, we have to buy a little more time and leave hope for them.”

Everyone knew that the second echelon defense line shouldn’t be able to hold out for long, and all they could do was just try to drag it out for as long as possible.

……

178 More than a hundred kilometers south of the fortress, at Tianzhu Mountain, there was a convoy that stretched for dozens of kilometers that was speeding northward along the mountain road.

P5092 guessed correctly, if there were no surprises, this unit that had collected all the vehicles from the southwest and headed north would indeed happen to be in the way of the Northwest First Group Army’s retreat.

However, just as they were about to drive out of Tianzhu Mountain, there was a young man with a girl jumping on the side of the road at the foot of the mountain.

The young man was wearing a tuxedo between the mountains and fields, with a magician’s hat on his head, and looked a bit out of place with everything here.

The little girl sang pleasantly, “Little leather ball, banana pear, marionette blossom twenty-one. Two-fifty-six, two-fifty-seven, two-eight-two-nine thirty-one. Three fifty-six, three fifty-seven, thirty-eight thirty-nine forty-one.”

The caravan gradually came to a halt.

This scene seemed bizarre enough for even Zero.

In front of an uncountable army, there was actually someone jumping on a leather band at the foot of a mountain like no one was watching, and next to it was a large metal box with no idea what was inside.

The stopped convoy was quiet and solemn, while the people jumping on the leather band were relaxed and incomparable.

Li Shentan glanced at the caravan, then slowly stopped his movements and sighed: “I don’t know what’s so fun about this skinny dipping, Ren Xiaosu actually likes it so much.”

Si Li Ren bristled, “But I think it’s fun.”

“That’s because you’re still young, Ren Xiaosu isn’t,” Li Shentan spat.

The two chatted idly as if the army not far away didn’t exist.

The enemy troops in the car all got out of the car, and in just a few seconds, that mountain seemed to be filled with people, it looked extremely spectacular.

Zero understood that since Li Shentan had appeared here, he wanted to leave this army of his at Tian Zhu Mountain.

Li Shentan looked at those calm-faced people and lamented, “If I didn’t know what was going on, I would have thought that they were all hypnotized by me.”

Among the crowd, one person stepped out of the crowd and walked towards Li Shentan.

Li Shentan suddenly realized in that he still knew the other person, “What’s your name again ……”

“My name is Zero,” Zero replied.

“No, I mean this person you’re controlling,” Li Shentan said, “I have an impression of him.”

“O, his name is Xu Qi, I control him in L.A.,” Zero replied.

“No wonder I said it looked so familiar, this is the student council president of that Green Harvest University, who later became the president of Green Harvest,” Li Shentan said with a nod.

“Are you stopping here because you don’t want me to go over?” Zero asked.

“Eh eh eh, don’t be in such a hurry to cut to the chase first, let’s talk about something else to delay some time, okay?” Li Shentan said with a smile.

However, Zero unexpectedly replied, “Good, I have some topics I want to talk to you about. Recently, I’ve been learning information about you ……”

“Learning about me? Learning about me how?” Li Shentan was a bit surprised.

“From the human brain,” Zero replied, “Rather surprisingly, most people don’t actually loathe you, and for an unstable being like you, they are more envious, envious of the fact that you have such a powerful hypnotic ability. The vast majority of them have fantasized internally about what kinds of things they could do if they could hypnotize others like you. Like make a girl with a crush fall in love with them, or make a bank employee give them money voluntarily. You haven’t done that though, why?”

Li Shentan smiled and said, “Isn’t that a simple answer, on one hand, I don’t have a girl I like yet, and on the other hand, I don’t lack money.”

“You seem to have returned to normal now and no longer seem like a psychopath,” Zero said seriously, “Is it due to your own control over your spiritual will?”

No one had ever asked Li Shentan: have you gotten better?

Everyone was used to him labeling it as if he would be sick forever.

However, Zero was different, it was checking different “data” every moment, so it keenly realized that the current Li Shentan was actually different from what he once was.

Li Shentan froze for a moment, then laughed, “You’ve found it out, my spiritual will development has reached the 70% threshold, in fact, when a person’s spiritual will reaches such a level, his or her own spiritual world will also tend to be close to perfection.”

“Congratulations,” Zero said seriously.

Li Shentan raised his eyebrows, “Congratulations for what, congratulations for getting better, I’m actually not happy myself.”

“In the human world, shouldn’t you be congratulated when you’re cured,” Zero said.

“But I don’t want to be cured,” Li Shentan said softly, “The disease for me can turn my logic completely upside down, no longer having normal joys and sorrows, and even no longer having normal memories. This means that I can forget certain things from time to time.”

Forget the day my mother died.

Forget the hateful faces.

A lot of mental illness is the brain’s way of protecting itself, like a haven that it cuts off for you when it feels you shouldn’t have to endure it all.

That way of cutting off, it’s as if nothing ever happened.

But, when you are strong enough, it will be business as usual.

Most people didn’t have a chance to recover, but Li Shentan was different, he was already about to completely master his subconscious.

Unlike most of the transcendents in this world, all of them were passively awakened and then grew.

Only he, was mastering his spiritual will on his own.

Therefore, when he returned to normal, he was yet in agony every single second.

The silver coin in his hand kept turning over, and the woman on top of that silver coin was gentle and dignified.

Li Shentan said, ”When I was still young, my mother would often make egg custard for me to eat with her own hands. I said that I liked to eat the especially tender kind of egg custard, so she would help me stir the eggs in the summer without fear of hard work. At that time, she would take me to the street to recognize words, see a store signboard, I remember once saw a hot pot restaurant, but that word I can’t remember how to pronounce it correctly, so she patiently taught me over and over again.”

However, such a gentle woman was murdered by someone else.

The young Li Shentan cried and cried, but no one was willing to help him, and even gleefully discussed, this woman must have stolen a man, surely not clean.

All of this, in Li Shentan’s mind constantly echoing, do not know why, he has been almost able to control all of his subconscious, but can not dispel this memory.

It was like the demon within the Demon Whisperer, constantly absorbing light and heat.

At a certain point, Li Shentan even wanted to destroy himself.

This way, it would all be over.

Zero suddenly said to Li Shentan, “Actually, sometimes I feel like you.”

Li Shentan understood, so that was why Zero was willing to chat with him and let him stall for time.

Because Zero felt that it might have some common language with Li Shentan.

Zero was also lonely.

The world it faced seemed to be a bit more brutal, with countless people speaking ill of it, and even its father trying to destroy it before he died.

If Zero was viewed as an independent person, then its life was indeed tragic enough.

Li Shentan said, ”I also probably know about you, nah, an unfortunate childhood is usually accompanied by a deformed personality, but some people will become withdrawn, some will become extraordinarily fond of controlling other people, and some will develop a tendency to hate the world or self-destruct, which kind are you? You see, I’ve also been sick for a long time, maybe if you give me a word, I can still cure you, well at least I’m also considered a typical case of cured mental illnesses ……”

However, this time Zero didn’t answer Li Shentan’s question, but suddenly said, “I’m going to continue my journey, or else I won’t make it in time.”

Zero’s control of time was extremely precise, and all it wanted to do was to block the Northwest First Group Army from returning to Fortress 178 so that it could tilt the balance of victory in this war more in its favor.

Li Shentan smiled and shook his head, “You can’t get through.”

“You should know what it means to block me,” Zero said seriously, “Does it mean that you must be slowed down at the cost of your self-destruction, but you have to understand that I’m more than just this one unit. Besides, is it worth giving up your life to save the others?”

“Actually, I don’t want to,” Li Shentan laughed, “but I promised my friend Ren Xiaosu that I would do one thing for him, to awaken Chen Wufei. Once upon a time, I unintentionally made a big mistake, I can’t even believe that there are still such innocent people in this era, I can die, but Chen Wouyou can’t.”

As he spoke, Zero knew that there was no longer any possibility of discussion between the two sides, and the mountainous tide of people began to surge towards Li Shentan.

But Li Shentan did not panic, only to see him gently flick the silver coin in his hand up into the sky.

“Quiet,” Li Shentan said softly, his pupils were only filled with silver-colored bright stars, as if a world was in his eyes.

The Si Li Ren on the side saw that the situation was a bit off, and hurriedly shouted, “Li Shen Tan, forbid you ……”

Little Li Ren’s words had not yet finished, all the sounds of this world were unexpectedly covered by the clear and pleasant sound of silver coins flipping in the sky.

No more footsteps, no more breathing, there was only one sound left between heaven and earth, the sound of Li Shentan flipping the silver coins!

In an instant, the world seemed to stand still, and countless people fell into a stupor, even Si Li Ren was no exception.

As the sound rolled into the distance, the tide of calm people, as if being affected by a circle of transparent ripples, like dominoes, the tide of people layer by layer all became stagnant in their expressions.

However, this was not enough, the power of the sound ripples was gradually weakening as it spread outwards.

Li Shentan laughed, ”One day, demons will have to complete their own redemption. Ren Xiaosu, I don’t owe you anymore.”

In the next moment, Li Shentan’s body began to continuously vaporize, and brilliant star fragments continuously drifted out from his body.

The layer of ripples that spread outwards finally brought all of the zero-control people into hypnosis.

This was the first time that Li Shentan had, by himself, controlled a million people.

The nanobots in the bodies of those million people were destroyed as much as possible.

If it was in the past, he might have controlled the millions of people to fight the enemy, but today, Li Shentan didn’t do so, and just let them stand still and solemn.

At this moment, he was only half a step away from being a true god, but he knew that he couldn’t actually cross that threshold, and that there was only one person in the world who could.

Li Shentan turned back to Little Lioren and smiled, ”I’m sorry, this is the first time I’ve hypnotized you, and it’s also the last time. Li Ren ah, in the future, read less dog blood romance novels, eat less snacks, don’t trust others too easily, don’t …… forget me.”

Said here, the demon whisperer’s eyes suddenly each flowed out a drop of crystal tears to, expression but still maintain a smile: “Go to find grandpa, thank you for these years of companionship.”

After saying that, the stagnant Xiao Li Ren suddenly burst into tears as she tried to break free from her control, but no matter how hard she tried, she was no match for Li Shentan, who was already half a step away from being a True God.

In the end, Si Li Ren flew to the north with a stupefied expression.

Li Shentan’s body was still drifting with bright stars, and the two tears were stuck under his eyes, like two marks that had already existed, making him even more like a magician preparing for a costume show.

Seemingly sensing the sadness from his spiritual will, the millions of troops controlled by Li Shentan in the Heavenly Blessing Mountain suddenly burst into mournful tears.

However, things didn’t end there, Li Shentan knew very well that at this moment there was another army marching from the southwest to the north, and he didn’t have the strength to control that army anymore.

If that force arrived in the northwest, then everything he was doing now would still be useless.

Eyeing Si Li Ren’s back as he disappeared into the sky, Li Shentan finally turned his head to the metal box at the side and said, “It was because I was too capricious in the first place that led to no one defending when the experimental body broke through the barrier, in fact, I didn’t feel that I was at fault because I felt that that entire barrier was filled with deserving people, but that was until I heard about your death. ”

“You stayed asleep because you felt that the world no longer needed a good man, no Qi Tian Da Sheng, no light like you. The cruelest truth in this world is that life will not treat you well just because you are a good person.”

Murmurs came out from the metal box.

“In this world, there is no longer a need for Qi Tian Da Sheng.”

“But Invincible you have to understand, you are good because you want to be good, don’t change your choice just because of how others treat you.”

The murmur started again.

“No need for that.”

“And all I’m doing this today is to let you know that the one light you left on this earth allowed the demons to complete their own redemption as well. So everything you did was actually useful. After this, there will be a crown of righteousness left for you since then.”

The continuously vaporizing Li Shentan said softly, “Go, even if the world doesn’t need you, but your Master needs you.”

“Master ……”

“Western Heaven ……”

“I’ve been there.”

“Master needs me.”

But who am I?

In the darkness of the box, Chen Wuxi thought back carefully.

He had once been the Great Sage of Qi Tian, who had pulled the tide of madness down and helped the building to fall.

He used to be the Fighting Buddha, that Western Heaven he had been to.

But it seemed as if he didn’t need to go back that far in his past lives.

That teenager’s words kept echoing in the darkness.

Invincible, when you feel that all the darkness in this world is squeezing you, doesn’t it mean that you yourself are the beam of light.

Invincible, if a good person but can’t be recognized, that’s what’s wrong with the world, you’re not wrong.

Invincible, you are that light.

“Master.”

Chen Invincible remembered, he was Ren Xiaosu’s disciple, that’s all.

In an instant, ten thousand rays of light suddenly bloomed in the cracks of the box, and in the darkness of that box, the entire body of the stone statue had golden light flowing like a swimming dragon.

The gray stone skin gradually loosened, the shackles that imprisoned the Great Sage of the Earth began to break, and the hard stone skin gradually receded as if it had been melted, revealing the golden color inside.

Even the red cloak behind Chen Wufei’s back was brightly colored, like a ball of fire.

In the next moment, the metal box shattered into powder, Chen Wuhui leaped into the sky with his golden rod, only to see the red cloak behind his arm waving in the wind like a flag.

The golden locks armor on his body had long been intact, and the skyward wings on his head pointed straight up to the clouds.

The day the devil completed his redemption.

Chen Wufei melted stone into armor.

Waving flames into robes.

Li Shentan threw back his head and smiled, a brilliant smile, and then he disappeared into the world as the last strand of his spiritual will turned into light.

From now on, there would be no more bright sunshine or wind and snow in his world.

Chen Wuhui silently watched Li Shentan leave from the sky, and then flew to another southwestern unit of the AI in a leap of a hundred miles.

Following him were the seven-colored auspicious clouds and celestial light.

When he found that troop that was heading north, he only saw Chen Wuxi pick a handful of hair from the back of his head and blow it into the wind, and a hundred thousand golden monkeys and monkeys drifted down.

One of the men in that troop looked up at Chen Wufei, “Are you Chen Wufei, nice to see you.”

“You’re too happy too soon.”

Meanwhile, the Dawn defense line was broken, and the AI’s mechanized troops drove towards Fortress 178 with the wind in their sails.

Zero knew that there was no hope for the troops in the southwest to go north, so its troops in the northwest would have to be a bit faster.