"If he finds out you've already killed me, he'll realize he can't do anything to you this time and will definitely choose to evacuate. The threat is extremely high."

"It's just like that..." Li Ming couldn't help but frown, but he didn't doubt Tanus's words too much.

He also had to go to the blood mist core now. The other party's words only added to the necessity and would not have any impact on his choice.

If the other party told him not to go, he would be suspicious, but after a moment's thought, he said, "But I need to continue absorbing the blood mist. He will still be able to spot me if I continue moving forward."

Tanus considered this, "I know, but as long as he doesn't find out I'm dead, he'll still think it's enough to get rid of you."

"So confident..." Li Ming was quite surprised. "How strong is that body?"

"I'm not sure what will happen after evolution," Tanus added, "but it won't be overly powerful. After all, the resources it absorbs are limited. The Abyss Master isn't yet at the stage where he can be highly active, and the Eternal Abyss won't be able to provide much help."

"Will there be any other accidents?" Li Ming asked again.

"There shouldn't be any more," Tanus thought. "Even the Blood Mist Core isn't active enough to support the Abyss Master in sending out more Ultimate Lifeforms."

"Then how did you get out?" Li Ming asked back.

"My situation is special. The Abyss Lord paid a considerable price and even fell silent for a period of time. Once we escape the Eternal Abyss, our minds will quickly become active and we will regain our self-awareness. He will not take such risks again.

Tanus denied it, "If I hadn't been in the main universe for this period of time, I wouldn't have chosen to do this."

"Besides, the blood mist has been absorbed. Without the protective barrier, the Ultimate Lifeform sent out will be severely suppressed by the main universe if the power of the Eternal Abyss is not cleansed from its body."

Li Ming pondered for a moment, then asked, "It is said that Yongyuan's blessing can make your strength reach incredible levels, even capable of shattering ultimate weapons."

In the collision just now, with his strength, he only bent the trident slightly, but each of the Titan relics suffered extremely high damage.

"That's right..." Tanus admitted. "But don't worry. If your level of activity doesn't reach a certain level, the Abyss Master won't be able to bless you."

Li Ming pressed on: "How far should it go at least?"

"High activity, I guess." Tanus thought for a moment, then added, "That's one of the reasons why you need to get rid of that body. Now that he has a carrier in the main universe, his activity will definitely increase even faster."

Tanus doesn't need to emphasize this point again.

"Is Yongyuan's life level above the ultimate?" Li Ming thought about it again.

"You've got one thing wrong..." Tanus explained, "The Eternal Abyss is the Eternal Abyss, and the Abyss Master is the Abyss Master. The Abyss Master is the consciousness born from the Eternal Abyss. There is no level of life because the Eternal Abyss is part of the universe."

"The Eternal Abyss cannot be destroyed unless you can break the universe, but the Abyss Master can."

Li Ming paused. Tanus's words were not difficult to understand. He immediately asked, "How to eliminate it?"

"I don't know." Tanus gave an answer that did not surprise him.

"Then Lord Yuan, besides controlling you, does he have any other means, such as his own body?" Li Ming had a lot of questions as he was too unfamiliar with Yong Yuan.

"I don't know. In the past, we always followed the routine and waited for Yongyuan's activity to increase. At least after I surrendered, I have never seen a situation where the Lord of the Abyss had to take action personally."

Tanus didn't know much, after all, he was just a tool, but he was not disappointed, as it was an unexpected gain.

As he thought about it, he asked one last question: "How many life forms like you are there in the Eternal Abyss?"

"The most evolutionary eras I've seen is thirteen, but I don't know exactly how many there are." Tanus's answer was still vague.

Li Ming nodded thoughtfully and looked at the remains of Tanus. In the time that had been wasted, the genetic essence had been extracted. "Do you have anything else to say?"

Tanus was silent for a moment, realizing what Li Ming was going to do next. His mental fluctuations gradually subsided. Even though he was prepared, he still felt a little unwilling when he really faced it.

After a long time, there was a response, "Don't bring the End with you, you can't control it."

Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. If Tanus didn't remind him of this, his trust in him, which was already little, would be further discounted.

Thinking of this, Li Ming added, "I understand. Any last words?"

Tanus's only remaining eye, which was full of cracks, revealed complex emotions.

Li Ming also found it difficult to explain what the meaning behind it was. He only heard the mental fluctuations coming from it, "It's gone."

Li Ming shrugged. Tanus might be lamenting the era of evolution that was destroyed in his hands, or recalling the betrayal he had suffered in the past.

But he didn't care, even though this guy looked remorseful and changed for the better at the end.

If his strength is not enough, or even equal to his, this guy will still be Yongyuan's loyal lackey.

This may be due to the suppression of his self-awareness, but more importantly, it is his own choice.

Now, he was about to die, and his resentment towards Lord Yuan for controlling him for so many years surfaced again, which led him to backstab him.

Therefore, Li Ming showed no mercy. He raised his gun and shot down, destroying the opponent's last bit of life.

After waiting for a while, in the cosmic environment, Tanus's body began to crystallize and turned into upgrading materials to be absorbed by him.

After dealing with Tanus, Li Ming used the Eternal Holy Throne to maintain the activity of the heart and looked at the trident again.

A team of mechanical bodies walked out of the body. They were not guards, but ordinary S-class mechanical bodies.

He first used the Star of Eternal Silence and the Void Anchor to enclose the trident in a space-time barrier before handing it to one of the S-class machines, asking them to take the trident elsewhere and wait for him to return.

While talking with Tanus along the way, the boundary of the revolving blood mist became clearly visible again.

After Li Ming upgraded the genetic essence he had just absorbed into the evolutionary essence, he adjusted the control object again, rushed into the blood mist, and continued to move towards the core.

Soon, a number of cutting-edge spaceships leaped to the area where Li Ming and Tanus were fighting.

After hovering, Prince Costat, Anduin and others got off the spaceship and looked around with serious expressions.

The void has been almost repaired, but large cracks that extend far can still be seen.

Anduin stretched out his hands and rubbed the air, and several streams of energy converged. His expression changed slightly. "High-intensity energy reaction, a great battle has occurred here. The space-time reaction is inert. The specifications are extremely high. I'm afraid it was a battle between ultimate life forms."

"The Ultimate Lifeform..."

The other x life forms also have their own methods, and they are basically certain of this, their expressions changing constantly.

"Who wins and who loses?"

Alves, who arrived with them, asked the question immediately, but no one could give him an answer.

"Although Qinglong set out before us, we arrived by warp spaceship. Logically, he shouldn't be much faster than us." Anatoly frowned. "How could the battle with the Ultimate Lifeform end so quickly?"

Anduin couldn't help but say, "If His Excellency Qinglong wins, he will definitely continue to move forward."

Alvis said, "Qinglong's strength was fully revealed during the last imperial war. He should not be hiding it, otherwise he would not have let Yongyuan's people leave."

Anduin's expression was gloomy. He understood what Alvis meant. Azure Dragon's strength had its limit, but no one knew where Eternal Abyss's limit was.

"If Qinglong doesn't have confidence, he probably won't go deeper." A mechanically modified body in the crowd spoke. It was Mikhail.

Mikhail continued, "Even when he was besieged last time, he had prepared a response. This time, he already knew Yong Yuan was behind this, so there was no way he would risk coming here."

Anduin's expression softened, and Anatoly nodded. "Yes, that's true, but we..."

The truth is the truth, but it cannot withstand accidents, after all, it is eternal.

Li Ming has confidence, but Yong Yuan doesn't. In the end, it's just a matter of who has more means.

Besides, Li Ming absorbed blood mist all the way, who knows how much damage it caused to himself.

The battle was so short. If Li Ming won, even with Tanus as his opponent, it would be too much of a crushing defeat.

If he wins, he will indeed move on, but if he loses, he will probably be taken back.

"No matter what, we have to find out." Costat looked around at everyone with a serious expression.

There were about fifty or sixty of them in total, but some of them had other ideas.

"Otherwise, we won't even know whether to fight or flee," he emphasized. "But if anyone doesn't want to go, they can leave now."

There was silence all around, everyone's faces changed, they looked at each other, but no one responded.

Even Costat was a little surprised. These guys are old foxes and would not feel embarrassed.

This indirectly proves that everyone still has hope, even if the opponent involves Yongyuan, which is essentially a firm confidence in Li Ming.

After all, the very existence of this guy is incredible enough.

Kostart didn't say much, and everyone set sail again, bypassing this unstable void and re-entering the jump state.

…

The blood mist rolled back faster and faster, even though Li Ming used the [Heart of Talos] to convert it into nearly a thousand times the speed, and even used the Void Anchor for assistance.

But after two months, it still fell behind the speed of its retraction and was forced to stop absorbing the blood mist.

"72%... I guess the blood mist I absorbed is only a small part." Li Ming felt his development progress and couldn't help feeling a little reluctant. This time he absorbed it really well, at least it saved him nearly ten years.

If it weren't for the fact that the rewind speed was too fast in the later stage, and he had no choice but to switch the evolution system to increase the conversion speed, which led to a serious reduction in the absorption of blood mist, the production of alchemical source material and the stimulation speed, there would be more.

"If you want to absorb it again, you can only try another method."

Li Ming opened the control page, found an X-level [Jump Engine], released its power, and entered the jump state.

Compared with physical crossing, jump navigation is infinitely faster, and essentially takes place in a deeper void dimension.

Although it was faster, he couldn't absorb the blood mist, so he didn't use it until he needed to hurry on his way.

Under normal circumstances, due to severe interference, it is impossible to perform jump navigation within the range covered by the blood mist, but he used his control ability and could ignore this.

Therefore, you can catch up with the returning blood mist at a faster speed, and then absorb some of it by taking advantage of the time difference. Although this is time-consuming, it is much more interesting than the boring development process.

With this method, in the next month and a half, the development progress barely advanced by 3%, reaching 75% overall.

And he was only one step away from the core.

The blood mist had completely shrunk, and the sky was clearer than ever before. What appeared before Li Ming was a translucent sphere with amber flowing all over it.

Its surface is covered with fine golden lines, pulsating regularly like leaf veins, and every once in a while a milky white halo bursts out from the core.

A figure can be vaguely seen in the depths of the halo, with an energy umbilical cord spirally wrapped around the sphere. The texture of the surface constantly changes with the "heartbeat", taking on the luster of liquid metal when contracting and turning into a frosted crystal-like mist when expanding.

"This style of painting..." Li Ming's face looked strange. He thought he would see a bloody and hideous scene, but it turned out to be so sacred.

The more you lack something, the more you want it. This also applies to the Lord of the Abyss.

As if sensing his arrival, the sphere stopped pulsating the moment he appeared, then shrank and completely merged into the figure inside it.

It floats among the stars, its entire body enveloped in a pale golden halo like the morning light. Although it evolved from Levenback, it has no facial features and its body is slender and narrow.

There are three gradient halos suspended behind the head. The outermost layer is as white as molten gold, the middle layer is tinged with aurora purple, and the inner layer is as deep and dark as the universe, with a faint ominous aura.

The wings behind him extended, composed of pure light particles, and the scattered sparks on the edges dragged out comet-like streams of light in the vacuum.

Even without facial features, Li Ming still felt an extremely strong sense of being watched, strange yet familiar.

"Sure enough, Tanus betrayed me." A vast spiritual wave came from the void.

At the same time, a tank guard appeared on Li Ming's body and activated [Possession] immediately.

The reason for doing this is to avoid suffering from high-intensity mental attacks.

The Abyss Lord's gaze fell on the black heart beside Li Ming. He didn't seem surprised, and spoke with a calm and indifferent expression, "Since you dare to betray me, but don't dare to face me, do you think you can escape? Are you really going to pin your hopes on you?"

This was exactly what Tanus wanted, to make Lord Yuan think that the reason he did not show up was due to other reasons, rather than being beaten to death by Li Ming.

"Did you know that Tanus would betray you?" Li Ming's heart moved slightly, and he also wanted to get more information, so he did not act rashly.

The Abyss Lord did not respond to his words, but continued, "Submit to me, tell me your secret, and I will allow you to witness the destruction of countless evolutionary eras with me, and achieve immortality."

(End of this chapter)