Chapter 638 The Devil and Despair
In the devil's palace, there is a clock at an angle that only the devil himself can see.
That is a very special clock.
From the angle opposite the devil, that is, from under the throne, it looks like a bonfire used for lighting.
But from the devil's perspective, it appears as an illusory clock.
The clock has no second hand or minute hand, only an arrow that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, rotating on a pile of incomprehensible words.
The devil has been sitting here, on the throne, watching the arrow.
Sometimes he would close his eyes as if he was sleeping.
But as long as he opened his eyes, he would stare at the arrow with an expressionless face, as if he was waiting for some result.
Click.
On the scale that only the devil himself could understand, the needle moved again. It was now at an angle tilted to the left and turning towards the right.
And now, there is only less than one minute left to the mark that normally represents '12'.
Seeing this, the Demon King's breathing seemed to stagnate a little, and his expression, which had been calm until now, finally showed a slight fluctuation.
It was a wave of fear and despair, an expression that should not have appeared on his face.
“Have you… arrived here…?”
The devil was talking to himself in words that no one could understand.
But at the same time, his body was slightly startled, and he raised his head and looked into the distance as if he sensed something.
Even though there was a palace between them and an unknown distance away, the Demon King seemed to be able to see what was happening in the extremely distant holy city.
He raised his hand and tapped his fingers lightly, as if he was about to do something.
But in the end, he let it go dejectedly, and said to himself: "Betrayed or not...it doesn't matter, if you want to betray, then betray. If you want to do anything...just do it, nothing matters anymore."
As he spoke, he closed his eyes again, as if waiting for an impending end.
But the end did not come. What came faster than the "end" was the group of betrayers.
Familiar magical fluctuations appeared in the Demon King's palace, and then the Demon King's familiar figures appeared in front of him one after another.
The white-haired sage, the red-haired blood demon, and the succubus queen with a proud and revealing figure and pink wavy curls.
And after them appeared a human boy whom the demon king was not familiar with at all.
Seeing them appear, the Demon King opened his eyes slightly, and his scarlet pupils stared at everyone present.
He did not speak, not a single syllable was uttered, but just this action made the three people in front of the young man dare not make any move.
Finally, the sage's trembling voice sounded, breaking the silence.
"Sir, I'm afraid that you will still be needed to deal with the Demon King."
The Demon King is stronger than everyone else, and is conservatively estimated to be on the same level as the young god. The sages don't dare to take action, so they can only let the young man do it.
The demon king also looked towards the young man following the voice.
His eyes were still calm, without any sadness or joy, nor any anger of betrayal, he just looked at it calmly.
Under such a gaze, Li Qi also changed his mind about taking action right away.
He asked doubtfully:
"Aren't you going to do anything?"
"Why?" the devil just asked calmly.
Li Qi was even more surprised: "Your subordinates betrayed you, your army has become mine, and I may kill you now, you... don't have anything to say?"
"casual."
The demon king said softly.
Li Qi was stunned, and he looked at the Demon King in surprise.
casual?
What does whatever mean??
Just as he was about to ask, Li Qi heard the Demon King say: "Everything here, my subordinates, my army, and even this whole world, if you want it, then take it all. Even if you want to kill me... that's fine, at least it's better than facing despair yourself."
"……?"
The devil's words shocked Li Qi, and a strong sense of uneasiness rose in his heart.
Li Qi turned to look at the three equally confused Four Heavenly Kings. Seeing that they didn't seem to know what was going on, he asked the Demon King again:
"What do you mean? What do you mean by despair?"
"You can't understand."
The demon king whispered, “People from small worlds won’t understand.”
Small world? He just mentioned the small world, right? He is not from this world! Li Qi instantly understood the other party's identity.
He was not surprised by the Demon King's outsider identity. As mentioned before, this world has been turned into a sieve by soul practitioners, and there will be travelers coming here almost every once in a while.
Li Qi even suspected that the heroes and demon kings of all generations were actually related to the soul travelers, or they were the soul travelers themselves! After all, stirring up the world situation and gaining the world's favor is also a part of plundering the origin of the world.
Therefore, he was not surprised at all when the devil said that he was not from this world.
But to be on the safe side, Li Qi still asked the other party for confirmation: "Are you... from the Soul Realm?"
"Soul World..." When the Demon King heard the name, he first muttered to himself subconsciously, and then a second later, he looked up in surprise.
A second later, his pupils dilated, then shrank, and then he suddenly stood up and took a step forward.
With just one step, his figure appeared in front of Li Qi as if teleporting and grabbed his shoulder!
Li Qi saw his speed and movements clearly, but did not dodge.
Facing the Demon King who was almost a body length taller than him, Li Qi raised his head and looked at him, only to see that the Demon King, who was originally calm, was now full of excitement in his eyes: "You know the Soul Realm?! Which world are you from?! Cangxuan Realm? Wanxing Realm? God Realm?! Or Savage Realm?! How did you get here?! Did you use a special traction method--"
"I am from the Ten Thousand Stars Realm, currently in the Cang Xuan Realm. I came to this world using the methods of your Soul Realm."
Li Qi simply talked to the Demon King.
The two communicated in the common language of the Soul World. The people nearby couldn't understand what they were saying at all, so there was no need to worry about information leaking.
The devil's body trembled slightly, and his expression finally became rich, with excitement, joy, sadness, and all kinds of emotions mixed together.
He grabbed Li Qi's shoulders tightly and said to him: "No matter which world you are in, as long as it is far away from the soul world! Now, no matter what you are doing, go back immediately! Tell them... Tell everyone!! Danger is coming!!"
"Danger...? What danger? Can you explain it more clearly?"
The Demon King's nervousness did not seem fake. Li Qi sensed that the other party's soul power was of the same level as his own, and he did not think that such a strong man would deliberately pretend to be like this to deceive him.
It's just... dangerous? What kind of danger could make a cultivator from one of the seven realms so excited and frightened?
"Collapse!!!" The devil almost shouted in Li Qi's ear: "The world sea is collapsing!! If you don't find a solution, you...all of you! All the worlds! Will die!!!"
"…What?"
Li Qi failed to understand what the devil meant for a moment. He raised his head in a daze and looked into the devil's eyes.
Seeing that Li Qi still didn't understand, the Demon King said bluntly: "It's faster to see than to talk!"
After he finished speaking, a stream of soul power flew out from between his eyebrows and landed directly on Li Qi's eyebrows.
The soul power that penetrated into Li Qi's brow instantly formed a picture in Li Qi's mind after entering it.
That is the memory of the Demon King.
The memory is from a third-person perspective, and the shadow of the Demon King also appears in the memory. He looks at himself in the memory, the ray of light that escaped from the soul world, and then raises his finger and points behind himself in the memory.
"Look over there."
This is... the World Sea?
Li Qicai figured out the environment here, this is the world sea.
A colorful world spread out before his eyes, but in the direction where the devil pointed his finger, there were countless lights and countless souls fleeing in a special way.
Li Qi recognized that it was a 'Soul Power Array'. They were using the Soul Power Array to travel to other worlds in the form of soul descent.
Logically speaking, they should be able to quickly reach the world they want to go to just by opening and closing their eyes.
But now they seemed to have lost this ability and just kept running away, running towards farther places.
The powerful ones quickly sank into the depths of the World Sea, while the weaker souls could only allow their own souls to enter the nearby world.
There was no way. The soul power formation was pulling them back. People with too weak soul power couldn't run too far.
After taking a quick look at all these, Li Qi looked in the direction the Demon King mentioned.
Then his eyes widened instantly and even his breathing stopped.
At the place pointed by the Demon King, the huge world bubble representing the soul world was being "swallowed" by something at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Behind the soul world that devoured it was a vast void where nothing could be seen.
It seemed to be moving forward slowly, devouring all parts of the Soul Realm bit by bit. The medium-sized worlds beside the Soul Realm that were responsible for protecting the Soul Realm could not even stop it and were swallowed up by the void as soon as they came into contact with it.
Only the Soul Realm is still resisting with its huge size, giving the creatures within it more time to escape.
The soul world was shattered, countless creatures were fleeing, and looking at the soul world that was gradually "falling" into nothingness, Li Qi finally understood what the Demon King meant by "collapse".
Visually, the soul world is indeed collapsing.
Collapsing towards an unknown nothingness.
But if it was just a collapse, Li Qi would not be so shocked. What really shocked Li Qi was that he saw a ninth-level strongman trying to escape in the back of the soul world! Ninth-level... or tenth-level? Li Qi could not tell the difference based on the memory of the Demon King alone.
But those people are very strong anyway, at least they have the strength of the ninth level.
But these big shots who usually act high and mighty are now like refugees fleeing, fleeing towards the deeper parts of the world's sea.
They did not use the power of space displacement, but simply escaped at a speed that reached the limit of the world sea rules.
However, that speed was countless times faster than light, but it was simply not enough to escape the collapse behind them.
Li Qi watched helplessly as the collapse engulfed them, and along with the soul world, it became nothingness.
This is also the last scene in the Demon King’s memory.
(End of this chapter)
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