Xiao Tangqiu took off the mask of the abyss demon, and under the mysterious black mask, a face that was extremely familiar to him was revealed.

At this moment, a storm and waves of turbulent waves rose in his heart. No, it should be said... any words expressing shock could not describe his mood at this moment.

His mind went blank and he could hardly believe his eyes.

After a long, terrifying silence, Xiao Tangqiu called out a name in disbelief: "...Shen Yuan?"

The face beneath the mask, the cold eyebrows, and the teardrop mole under the left corner of the eye were clearly the Shen Yuan who had been with him day and night not long ago.

Even if a meteorite fell and hit him in the face, Xiao Tangqiu wouldn't be surprised at all. He mobilized almost every cell in his body and every thinking nerve in his brain. He was able to barely move his rusty brain and squeeze out a sentence: "...Are you Shen Yuan?"

The Abyss Demon looked at Xiao Tangqiu calmly: "I am the Abyss Demon."

Xiao Tangqiu still had that expression of shock on his face: "You..."

The Abyss Demon continued calmly, "...It's also Shen Yuan."

Xiao Tangqiu took a step back in disbelief: "You are the Abyss Demon, and also Shen Yuan?"

The Abyss Demon... or rather Shen Yuan, he still looked like he had a sword in his chest, but not a drop of blood flowed from the wound. Just like he had just said, the Sword of the God of Light had no effect on him.

"...Since when did it start?" Xiao Tangqiu looked dazed, "Or was it from the very beginning?

From the very beginning, from the moment he first met Shen Yuan in Abyssal City, had Shen Yuan at that time already been an Abyssal Demon in disguise? The Shen Yuan he knew had always been an Abyssal Demon from the beginning to the end?

"Does the real Shen Yuan exist?"

Shen Yuan took the black mask in his hand and chuckled softly, "Since the Shen Yuan you've known from the beginning has already been me, then does the question of whether the real Shen Yuan exists truly matter to you?"

Xiao Tangqiu fell into silence. Yes, maybe Shen Yuan did exist a long time ago, and he later died at the hands of the Abyss Demon, so the Abyss Demon became Shen Yuan from then on. But the Shen Yuan he knew was the Abyss Demon from beginning to end. Does it matter to him whether the real Shen Yuan existed or not?

"You've been lying to us all this time? ...You've been lying to me all this time?"

Shen Yuan slowly took off the black gloves on his hands, saying as he did so, "I didn't lie to you. Before the last instance, I really didn't have any memories of the Abyss Demon. I always truly believed that I was Shen Yuan."

"The last copy?" Xiao Tangqiu was in a trance for a moment, "So after I resurrected you in the last copy, you recovered your memory?" It turned out that he really succeeded in resurrecting Shen Yuan in the last copy, but the Shen Yuan he resurrected not only successfully recovered his lost memories, but also recovered his memory as an abyss demon.

However, once Shen Yuan regained his memory as the Abyss Demon, the person "Shen Yuan" was dead, because there was no Shen Yuan in this world anymore, only the Abyss Demon.

"But... I clearly saw you two appear together... and you were killed by the Abyss Demon..." Xiao Tangqiu still couldn't believe that Shen Yuan was the Abyss Demon, even though he had witnessed this fact with his own eyes.

Shen Yuan chuckled and said, "Yes, I did appear with him, and I did kill myself... What's the problem with that? I am the master of this world, the god of this world. I can do whatever I want."

Xiao Tangqiu's face turned pale: "Why have you been lurking around us pretending to be a human player? What is your purpose?" If the purpose of the Abyss Demon is not to use them to get the Sword of the God of Light that is said to be able to defeat him, then what is the purpose of the Abyss Demon disguising himself as an ordinary human player and lurking around them?