As An Qingyu finished speaking, the remaining blood of the twelve divine beasts that remained on the surface of the Gate of Truth immediately seeped into the inside of the gate and disappeared without a trace.
The next moment, countless tentacles flowing with starlight extended out from the cracks in the Gate of Truth.
No one knew what these tentacles were made of. They seemed like a concentration of the boundless universe, magnificent and vast. They passed through the thick fog and slowly stretched out towards An Qingyu, who was under the door.
An Qingyu just stood there quietly, with no intention of dodging, allowing these starlight tentacles to wrap around him.
These tentacles surrounded him, and endless whispers filled the world. One of the smallest starlight tentacles slowly swept downward from the top of An Qingyu's head...
It first paused for a moment at An Qingyu's brow, and then moved to the front of the pair of gray eyes. The tip of its sharp tentacles pressed against the surface of the eyeballs. If it moved a little further, it would be able to dig out the eyes.
The shadow of the tentacles was clearly reflected in his grey eyes, without revealing the slightest fear. An Qingyu was like a stone sculpture, motionless.
But the tentacle hesitated for a moment, and still did not dig out the eyes, but continued to move downwards...
Ears, nose, mouth, throat,
Perhaps because it felt the price was not enough, or for some other reason, the tentacle circled around An Qingyu's body and returned to his forehead.
As the tip of the tentacle lightly touched the center of the eyebrows, an ethereal soul was drawn out.
The moment the soul appeared, the other tentacles immediately coiled around it. An Qingyu's body shook violently and his face turned extremely pale.
"The price is 'emotion'..."
An Qingyu's face finally showed some emotion. He frowned and seemed to be hesitating.
But in the end, he made up his mind.
"Okay, deal."
As the words fell, the tentacles that were entwined on his soul body suddenly began to suck hard, as if something was being sucked out of the soul body and flowing along the tentacles into the towering portal.
A look of pain appeared on An Qingyu's face.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye's face changed slightly and he said in a deep voice:
"The Gate of Truth is not something from this world. Are you sure the price it offers is reasonable?"
"Nothing is closer to absolute fairness than the Gate of Truth." Yu Er replied.
"But even if you can win Jiang Er back by giving your love... by then, you will not feel the existence of love. Have you ever thought about what would happen if she really came back to life and saw you like this?"
Yu Er and Yu Si fell silent at the same time. After an unknown amount of time, Yu Si slowly said:
"This is not something you need to worry about."
Lin Qiye frowned and was about to say something when a muffled groan came from the air.
The starlight tentacles wrapped around the soul body basically dispersed, and the translucent soul body fell back into An Qingyu's body weakly. The latter opened his eyes, revealing unprecedented emptiness and fatigue.
An Qingyu looked down at his hands, his pale face full of unfamiliarity, as if he was seeing his own body for the first time.
"Losing emotions... So this is what it feels like." An Qingyu murmured to himself.
He looked up at the Gate of Truth. At this moment, the starlight tentacles that had devoured An Qingyu's emotions still did not leave, but continued to linger around him.
They seemed to be examining An Qingyu, wanting to see if there was anything valuable on him.
An Qingyu's brows furrowed more and more tightly.
"Taking away the emotions is not enough? What else do you want?"
One of the tentacles raised up and pointed at the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth of the Anqing fish...
An Qingyu narrowed his eyes slightly. It was only then that he realized the true intention of those tentacles crawling over his face in the first place.
From the very beginning, they were not thinking about which part to take as the price, but were weighing whether all these things added together were enough to pay the price.
In their opinion, if they want to revive Jiang Er, who turned into a magnetic field and died four years ago, "emotion" alone is far from enough.
An Qingyu stared at the starlight tentacles in front of him, clenched his fists, and after a moment, slowly released them.
Now he has lost all his emotions, and I don’t know if he would be angry at the tentacles in front of him if he still had emotions!
This time, he remained silent for dozens of seconds.
Finally, I closed my eyes again.
"You can take the rest if you want, but remember to leave your life to me... I still have some things to do."
With An Qingyu's permission, those starlight tentacles suddenly became active again and swarmed towards An Qingyu's body!
Just when they were about to touch An Qingyu, a crisp sound of a knife was heard!
Clang——!!
A flash of blade light pierced through the void and accurately slashed the ends of the tentacles in the front, cutting off a large section of them!
Mysterious starlight flowed from the wounds of the tentacles. After the knife was slashed, all the tentacles turned at the same time and locked onto the deep red figure at the edge of Erhai Lake.
Lin Qiye held [Zhanbai] in his hand and stared at the tentacles in the air, his eyes filled with anger.
Yu Er and Yu Si seemed to have not expected Lin Qiye to suddenly attack. Only then did they react. The lightning around them lit up again, and they joined forces to rush towards Lin Qiye who was holding a knife!
Lin Qiye had no intention of getting entangled with them. A glimmer of light flashed across the blade of the [Zhanbai] sword, and the latter immediately decomposed into a mysterious purple light and was absorbed into his body.
[Hand of Royal Power]!
Before the two artificial gods could touch Lin Qiye, he penetrated the space and disappeared on the spot.
When he reappeared, he had already arrived above An Qingyu. The magnificent Gate of Truth stood in front of him. Countless starlight tentacles were gathering together angrily, as if they wanted to teach this guy who interfered with the "exchange" a lesson.
An Qingyu looked up at him and said calmly:
"Why did you interrupt me?"
"What's the difference between you and the fish on the felt board?" Lin Qiye said in a deep voice, "It wanted to take away your emotions in the beginning, just to deprive you of your anger. Only in this way can it smoothly eat away everything you have step by step..."
"You don't understand." An Qingyu shook his head. "The Gate of Truth is an absolutely fair and neutral existence. The price it demands is equivalent to the target of the exchange."
"Does it tell you where the upper limit of this cost is?"
"……What's the meaning?"
"It told you that the price was not enough after it took away your emotions, didn't it?" Lin Qiye asked back, "If you give it everything except your life now, and it tells you that the price is not enough...what should you do?
But at that time, you have already lost everything. Do you want to pay it with your remaining life? What if it is still not enough? You die, but the exchange is not completed. Who do you think will be the beneficiary in the end?
Even if the price it asks for is absolutely fair, how is the way it exchanges the price different from a scam? "
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The fever has gone down to below 38 degrees... I feel like I'm half dead (?_?), my eyes are so swollen from the fever for almost four days, if I feel better tomorrow I'll resume updating twice a day~
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