With a light raise of his hand, the Music Box scattered among the various junk floated into Li Yu's hand. This dust-covered Music Box looked like it was made of ordinary wood.
So patterns with distinctive Suster Civilization characteristics had sowhat faded and couldn't be seen clearly.
Trying to open the Music Box, Li Yu didn't encounter any obstruction. It was just that this Music Box seed to have so sort of malfunction and didn't emit any sound.
This thing... Li Yu frowned tightly. Right at this mont, Stanley, who had also been watching the Music Box, suddenly frowned. Beside his ear, he heard faint whispers, as if a voice was tempting him to touch the Music Box.
Stanley shuddered all over and hurriedly reported this matter to Li Yu.
"Oh?" Li Yu's interest was piqued. This thing didn't co to bewitch him, but went to bewitch Stanley. Is it bullying the weak and fearing the strong?
However, because of Stanley's report, he roughly understood that this thing should act on the ntal Plane.
Scanning with the Force, sure enough, a layer of ntal Energy Field enveloped the Music Box, like an invisible coating, possessing a certain defensive capability.
Li Yu wanted to see what was inside. He used the Force to form a drill to break through the Music Box's ntal Energy Field. However, the mont the Force ca into contact with the Music Box's body.
He felt a strong suction force. A massive amount of the Force was devoured, vanishing like a clay ox entering the sea, with no further connection.
"Interesting..." Li Yu's interest surged. He had the crowd step back and decided to adopt the most simple and crude thod.
His five fingers abruptly exerted force, directly crushing the hard Music Box into pieces.
"Ah—"
Everyone present sensed that the mont the Music Box shattered, a tyrannical ntal fluctuation suddenly erupted.
The expressions of the rest of the people turned pale. They covered their respective auditory organs, yet it was of no use whatsoever. Ear-piercing screams echoing in their minds dealt them ntal damage.
This ntal shriek echoing in their minds revealed a sense of excitent and thrill, as thrilled as a person imprisoned for many years finally seeing the light of day again!
Whoosh—
As if a storm had ford on the spot, a dim phantom gradually manifested.
It had no facial features or bodily details, just a shadow, but its shape was bizarre and unique.
It looked like a humanoid creature with countless twisted limbs. Its shape was constantly changing, exuding a terrifying aura, like ghosts and gods from the legends of so planetary civilizations.
"Food... Food..."
The ntal fluctuation spread out. There was no language, yet everyone could comprehend the aning of this phantom creature.
An inexplicable sense of terror was born in everyone's heart. Even Stanley and the others couldn't avoid it. Only Li Yu stood in place, unaffected.
"Is it... a Demon Soul!?"
The expressions of Anthony and the others drastically changed, their faces full of horror. None of them knew that a Demon Soul was actually hidden in the Music Box.
Carol finally ca back to his senses and abruptly realized that the situation in front of him had suddenly changed again. When did that monster in midair appear?
Damn... no, it's a f*cking Demon Soul. How could a Demon Soul appear outside the Ancient Starpath!? Carol was startled, not yet understanding what was going on.
Just staring at this phantom made their hearts palpitate. The special fluctuations it emitted made them begin to feel a bout of dizziness, their minds suffering waves of impact.
"Demon Soul?" Li Yu heard the exclamations of Carol and the others. Stanley forcefully suppressed the horror in his heart and transmitted the information he had just purchased at the Serpent's Nest to Li Yu.
Among them was information about this Demon Soul. This was a type of spiritual entity monster that "frequently" appeared in the Ancient Starpath.
This so-called 'frequently' was also in comparison to other cosmic calamities.
This kind of monster would inexplicably appear in spaceships sailing through the Ancient Starpath, and then devour all the active ntal consciousness entities within, leaving behind only empty shells.
Because it was a spiritual entity, it was almost immune to physical attacks. For lower-tier lifeforms, it was simply a dinsionality reduction strike.
However, precisely because of this trait, the Demon Soul was also coveted by many large factions and frequently captured. The ditation Research Institute had published many papers on it.
They listed many uses for this thing, mainly being relatively useful in terms of ntal power. However, most were just hypotheses, and actual research results were not many.
But Demon Souls were difficult to capture. No one knew the pattern of their appearance, making them extrely rare.
The Music Box itself was a sealing container. The Demon Soul had been trapped inside for who knows how long, completely unable to contact the outside world. At this mont, it was very weak and in an extrely hungry state.
As soon as it escaped, it briefly observed its surroundings and then impatiently rushed towards Carol and the others. Its ntal fluctuation transmitted an incomparably thirsty and hungry emotion.
In its eyes, these people were walking delicious als.
"Quick! The Demon Soul is coming!"
Carol, Stanley, and the others tightened their expressions. They hurriedly grabbed their weapons and hurled all sorts of attacks at the Demon Soul.
However, when these attacks hit the Demon Soul, the effect was very limited.
Most of the attacks penetrated right through its body. Only the attacks of Stanley and the others, which had the Force attached, could deal limited damage to it.
Enduring a massive amount of attacks, the Demon Soul was basically unscathed. Twisting its bizarre body, it swiftly approached Carol.
Seeing that the eerie Demon Soul was about to stick to him, Carol's expression drastically changed, and he frantically retreated.
Swish!
Right at this mont, Golden Chains suddenly pierced through the Demon Soul from behind. The Demon Soul imdiately stopped and began to tremble violently.
A massive amount of Golden Runes scattered from Li Yu's hand and ford the Golden Chains, piercing through the Demon Soul.
Although the other party was an A-Rank Spiritual Entity, he was a genuine Deity.
Possessing A-grade ntal Power only ant possessing the foundation to beco a Deity.
To beco a true Deity still required a lot of effort. Li Yu was also able to beco a Deity through various coincidences.
The Golden Runes continuously spread within the Demon Soul's body. Carol and the others saw that the Demon Soul, which couldn't be hard despite enduring their attacks, was heavily injured by a thin beam of light. It trembled violently, seemingly struggling madly, like a fish that had been skewered but wasn't dead yet.
The frequency of the ntal fluctuation emitted by the Demon Soul revealed intense despair and unwillingness, making everyone's hearts infected with this emotion as well. It was as if they saw a beast at the end of its rope wailing and roaring, and they couldn't help but feel sorrow for it.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire... This is too unlucky!
"Deity... Deity... You are a Deity!" The Demon Soul let out a miserable howl. This ntal fluctuation allowed everyone to clearly understand its aning.
The Demon Soul possessed extrely high intelligence. In fact, it was very difficult for a creature of this level not to possess intelligence.
Deity? Carol and the others couldn't help but cast horrified gazes at that Masked Man. They had been active in the Ancient Starpath within the Athyst Civilization all year round.
They were too far away from the Radiant Council, so the term 'Deity' was very unfamiliar to them.
"Spare ... I am willing to beco your Subordinate Deity!?" The Demon Soul begged for rcy. The painful ntal fluctuation was simultaneously transmitted into the minds of the rest of the people, making them couldn't help but sympathize.
Looking at the unmoving Li Yu, they had a montary illusion that the Masked Man was the big boss, and the Demon Soul was just a victim.
Spiritual entity big brother, fighting, you must succeed!
These baffling thoughts were dispelled by the crowd. This was only because of the ntal infection passively emitted by the Demon Soul that made them feel this way.
"Subordinate Deity?" Li Yu paused for a mont in his heart, then sized up the Demon Soul from top to bottom. This thing was pitch-black and didn't look very presentable.
He had always been sowhat resistant to things with a poor appearance.
However, if he killed this thing, he also didn't know what use it would have. He wasn't a professional either; he couldn't just carry this thing and go look for the ditation Research Institute.
If he let it beco his Subordinate Deity, he could pick up an A-Tier combat power for free. This bit of flaw in appearance was also acceptable.
However, Li Yu was a half-baked Deity. He fundantally didn't know how to convert a Subordinate Deity. But in front of the Demon Soul, he certainly couldn't let the other party know, avoiding leaving any hidden dangers.
His eyes shifted slightly. He maintained his posture, the Golden Runes suppressing the Demon Soul, and said in a deep voice: "Show your sincerity!"
Under a life-and-death crisis, the Demon Soul fundantally didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest, imdiately transmitting a ntal fluctuation: "Please tell your Divine Na. I am willing to open my ntal defenses and let you leave your Divine Imprint!"
Through this sentence, Li Yu roughly knew how to turn the other party into his Subordinate Deity.
The most important thing to beco a Subordinate Deity was not the thod, but whether the other party was willing.
A Subordinate Deity wasn't a believer. Their main function wasn't to provide Faith, but combat power.
After being told his Divine Na, the Demon Soul also began to open its ntal defenses, revealing its ntal Core.
This was the product of the physical manifestation of ntal power after reaching an A-Rank Spiritual Entity. What a Deity displayed was what Li Yu called the Divinity Core.
The so-called Divine Imprint, for Li Yu, should be the Allspark Runes.
A massive amount of Golden Runes rged into the other party's ntal Core. The Demon Soul let out a miserable howl again, and its ntal fluctuation continuously dissipated, forcing Stanley and the others to retreat once more.
Then, under everyone's gaze, those Golden Runes began to spread along the Demon Soul's ferocious and twisted body, seemingly undergoing so kind of special modification.
Wisps of black mist drifted away. The Demon Soul's body actually stopped twisting and instead began to emit a sense of holiness.
The surrounding chanical parts trembled and humd, rushing into the Demon Soul's body from all directions, then dissolving into liquid and beginning to form a new body.
This lasted for about half an hour. The tal of the entire Serpent's Nest had been completely consud, and this place had thoroughly beco a flat piece of land.
The Demon Soul's brand-new body was born. Its appearance was humanoid, about the sa height as Li Yu, with a white-gold tal color sche. The chanical structures at the joints interlocked with each other, and its streamlined limbs were perfectly crafted according to the golden ratio.
It looked sowhat blankly at its new body, then looked towards Li Yu not far away. Kneeling on one knee, it respectfully said: "Great Primordial Celestial Sovereign, please bestow upon a new na."
Although the Demon Soul beca Li Yu's Subordinate Deity, it didn't beco fanatical. It still retained its own thoughts. The greatest significance of a Subordinate Deity to a Chief God lies in combat, not in providing Faith.
Li Yu pondered for a mont, then grinned and said: "Then you shall be called Soul-Shaking Heaven."
The Demon Soul raised its head and said in a deep voice: "From now on, my na is Soul-Shaking Heaven!"
A surging aura swept out, announcing its rebirth. As Li Yu's Subordinate Deity, relying on the Allspark Runes, it completed a tamorphosis and once again possessed a physical body, albeit a chanical Body.
Carol, Stanley, Anthony, and the others looked dumbfounded at the unimaginable scene before them.
How did that ferocious and twisted Soul-Shaking Heaven from before turn into this appearance?
With their status, they couldn't reach the level of a Deity at all, completely not understanding what Li Yu was doing.
Although Soul-Shaking Heaven had a chanized body, its combat power was mainly still concentrated in the aspect of ntal power.
If one didn't have a way to counter ntal power, they would probably suffer a great loss facing it.
Since the Demon Soul had beco one of his own, Li Yu pondered for a mont and inquired: "Are you from the Suster Civilization?"
"Suster... such a familiar na..." Soul-Shaking Heaven was sowhat confused. If he was from the Suster Civilization, then he had existed for over 100,000 years.
For a spiritual entity without a physical body to attach to, this was already a very long ti.
"...I don't know where I ca from either, but I seem to rember the Suster Civilization." Soul-Shaking Heaven explained:
"A civilization that didn't know the imnsity of heaven and earth, attempting to create a Level Nine ntal Entity."
"Level Nine ntal Entity..." Li Yu slightly narrowed his eyes. The Tiered ntal Strength Classification was passed down from the Titan Civilization.
Li Yu was currently only a Level Five ntal Entity. Apart from slowly increasing ntal power through Faith, Li Yu still didn't have a regularized thod to increase ntal power.
As for Stanley, Anthony, and the others, they were even more confused.
"I don't know the specific details either. Anyway, the price paid for it was the demise of the entire civilization." Soul-Shaking Heaven shook his head. Then his chanical brows furrowed tightly, and he hesitated: "Spiritual entities of our form seem to have been born because of this."
He rembered so more mory fragnts. They were indeed from the Suster Civilization, but they weren't transford from the spiritual entities of biological creatures after death.
They seed to contain so kind of immortal trait to be able to exist for so long, but this also caused their consciousness to twist, becoming one of the calamities of the Ancient Starpath.
The original location of the Suster Civilization was not within the Ancient Starpath.
But for so unknown reason, tens of thousands of years after its demise, so inexplicable ruins actually appeared in the Ancient Starpath.
The Demon Soul even beca one of the quite famous calamities among them.
Li Yu pondered for a mont. I'm afraid those large civilizations also know the origins of the Demon Soul clearly, and perhaps even grasp more intelligence.
Because of Soul-Shaking Heaven's devouring, all the obstructions around the Serpent's Nest had disappeared.
The battle here just now had already attracted quite a few evildoers in Lant Hub to gather over. They stretched their heads out, wanting to see exactly what had happened and whether there was any opportunity to pick up scraps.
Li Yu scanned his surroundings and instructed: "Take the people and leave here first."
Receiving the order, Stanley imdiately escorted Carol, Anthony, and the others to leave along with Olena.
Under Li Yu's powerful strength, they naturally didn't dare to resist.
Carol sighed and groaned, not knowing how the situation had turned out like this.
Anthony lowered his head, his snake pupils shrinking from ti to ti, not knowing what he was considering.
(End of this chapter)
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