The clash of wills could only be witnessed by followers like Lin Zhongtian or Li Yun and the Crimson Demon.
In Xiao Xigeol's eyes, she could only see dark cracks appearing in the space around her. Then Lin Zhongtian shouted "Get out", and all the dark cracks healed.
Only the largest dark crack was left across Lin Zhongtian.
The deep red abyss that spanned the void was staring quietly at Lin Zhongtian. Countless stars were twinkling in the abyss, and each star seemed to be a universe that returned to nothingness.
Lin Zhongtian looked at the dark crack in front of him with indifference.
The great will that was descending had been expelled by him, and what remained before his eyes was only a projection of the other party's remnants.
The two great beings confronted each other for a moment in this small space.
Afterwards, the dark crack gradually healed, as if it had decided to give in to Lin Zhongtian.
After the crack healed, Lin Zhongtian took a step in front of Li Yun and looked at those lifeless eyes with a frown.
He already knew everything from the Crimson Demon's memory, including the existence of the Crimson Lord and this crazy world.
But these are not what Lin Zhongtian cares about. He only cares about Li Yun’s current condition.
Lin Zhongtian grabbed Li Yun's arm, and with a flash of silver light, he easily took off the pink jade.
According to the memory of the Crimson Demon, this thing is called [Fox Jade], and it is the psychic anomaly that contains [1-017] Gnat Beast.
The user can enter a bizarre inner world through spiritual powers such as divine consciousness, spiritual awareness, and mind power, or by directly using their own body fluids to come into contact with the [Fox Jade].
In this world, all abstract concepts will be materialized, and users can change the concrete form of concepts through physical or mental touch, thereby affecting the corresponding concrete existence.
Take the Gnat as an example. In that other world, a white ball of light will appear above the head of an active Gnat.
As long as the holder of the Fox Jade who enters the spiritual world can smash or extinguish this white light ball in any way, the Iron Gnawer will inevitably fall into the deepest sleep...
It is worth noting that when a living entity holds the Fox Jade for more than three minutes, the Fox Jade will be completely integrated into the body, and can only be removed by entering the bizarre otherworld with the help of the Fox Jade.
But that world is very dangerous, and taking off the fox jade may directly cause the holder to get lost in the other world and never be able to return to reality.
This is also the reason why the Crimson Demon has been playing with the Fox Jade since he got it.
However, for Lin Zhongtian, problems of this magnitude are nothing.
He easily took the fox jade from Li Yun, and then returned to reality without the fox jade.
After opening his eyes, Lin Zhongtian looked at the fox jade in his hand, thought for a moment, and entered the inner world again.
In the archives of the Ninth Category Affairs Company, they refer to this world as the 'concrete spiritual world'.
But the Crimson Demon doesn't think so. He calls this world the 'side of reality', which is the other side of the world parallel to reality.
In this otherworldly world, Lin Zhongtian discovered that the ground beneath his feet had seeped out large amounts of black sticky paint at some point, and the surrounding walls were covered with white spider webs and palm-sized spiders with human faces.
These are all conceptual entities that have been concretized.
Lin Zhongtian raised his hand and waved it, and brilliant silver light instantly filled the entire room, crushing the black paint and spiders into powder.
Thus, the containment room destroyed by Little Siegor began to be restored.
The broken walls, collapsed floors, and matter that had been decomposed into nothingness all quickly recovered to its original state as if time had gone back and returned to where it had originally existed.
Seeing this scene, Lin Zhongtian nodded, confirming his guess.
The black paint, spider webs and human-faced spiders all represent the 'broken' concept of the containment chamber.
As long as he defeats these conceptual entities, the concept of "broken" will disappear and the containment chamber will be restored to its intact state.
...It is indeed an anomaly that even the Crimson Devil has to take seriously.
This [Fox Jade] is indeed an extremely powerful containment object.
No wonder the Crimson Demon was able to use its power to kill Li Yun after his death.
That's right, after being killed at the speed of light by Li Yun, the powerful mental power of the Crimson Demon allowed his soul to successfully escape into the other world, where he materialized his own soul entity.
Afterwards, in this inner world that could not be detected in the real world, the crimson demon surrounded Li Yun and made many attempts.
But Li Yun's body and soul were too strong. No matter how hard the Crimson Demon tried, it was unable to affect his body and soul.
Especially the soul.
In the inner world, Li Yun's soul appears as a blazing star the size of a basketball. Surrounding the star is an extremely thick silver shield, which is the spiritual protection artifact on Li Yun.
In front of his soul and mind protection artifact, all kinds of mind distortion, mind extinction, and mind infection are ineffective.
Li Yun couldn't even notice the attack launched by the crimson demon in the other world.
This shows how strong his soul defense is.
But unfortunately, no matter how strong the fortress is, it is impossible to take all aspects into consideration.
Finally, the Crimson Demon found an effective attack method -
That is soul exile!
Through the ability of the other world to materialize abstract concepts, he successfully materialized the concept of "existence" of Li Yun's soul, and then, at the cost of nearly half his life, he completely severed the connection between Li Yun's soul and this world.
Then, Li Yun's soul, along with the mind protection artifact that was integrated into his soul, disappeared from this world.
In Lin Zhongtian's understanding, Li Yun's soul was exiled into the endless void by the [Fox Jade].
He tried to use the power of the Fox Jade to retrieve Li Yun's soul, but the connection between Li Yun's soul and this world had completely disappeared, and even in the other world, no trace of it could be seen.
Lin Zhongtian actually anticipated this.
The existence of the containment object is too outrageous and does not fit in with his understanding of the universe.
Therefore, there is only one existence that can create such a thing, and that is the true creator of this multiverse.
Even the supreme creator can only make such outrageous rules take effect in the world he created.
Once entering other worlds, such as the world of God next door, the objects created by this Creator must abide by the rules that God created for the world.
So, to some extent, all containment objects are only effective in this world.
Once you leave this world, those outrageous rules that are not universal will disappear.
[Fox Jade] can banish Li Yun's soul from this world, but it cannot bring him back.
The same is true for Xiao Xigeol. Her reality-distorting power cannot affect the exiled soul of Li Yun.
For the people in this world, "soul exile" is the most unsolvable one-way ticket.
But Lin Zhongtian is different. He has reached the level where he can travel in the void.
It was not difficult for him to find Li Yun's soul, it was just a little troublesome.
"...Alas, I have to travel to the Endless Void again."
"Li Yun, Li Yun, can't you let me be more careful?"
Lin Zhongtian rubbed his temples with a headache, and at the same time, he felt a little regretful.
If he had known that Li Yun could recreate the world in the book, he would not have risked entering the endless void...
After learning that Li Yun had lost contact, Lin Zhongtian immediately rushed to the world in the book, only to find that the world had been destroyed and everything around it was being swallowed by the endless void.
But fortunately, that world is a subsidiary world of the 'containment world' after all.
The distance between the two was not far. Even in the endless void, Lin Zhongtian could still vaguely sense Li Yun's presence.
So, he stepped into the void maze, and evolved the earth, fire, wind and water with his amazing power. Then, as God and Hongmeng had instructed, he opened up a road called "world" in the void maze and headed towards the world of the contained objects.
As a result, when he ran for a distance, the world in the book was born again.
Lin Zhongtian immediately turned back, but because he did not expend his energy to maintain the "road", the road he originally created gradually collapsed under the influence of the endless void.
There was no other choice, so Lin Zhongtian had to open up a new "road" and rush back to the world in the book.
But at this time, he had been delayed for a while, which led to a dramatic change in Li Yun's situation...
As for why the power of 1-189 can be effective in the endless void, it is because its ability is not as outrageous as that of [Fox Jade]. The birth and evolution process of the world in the book conforms to the rules of creation, so it will not be ineffective in the void.
After a little thought, Lin Zhongtian raised his hand to revive the frightened Crimson Demon, then locked it in a black crystal ball and said calmly: "It's too easy for you to die. I'd rather lock you in the [Cage of Despair] and spend endless time in the endless darkness!"
After doing all this, Lin Zhongtian put away Li Yun's body, then turned to look at the tearful little Xigor.
"Are you Siegal?"
Lin Zhongtian said softly: "My name is Lin Zhongtian. Has Li Yun ever mentioned me to you?"
Xiao Xigeer nodded heavily, and then asked timidly: "Li...how is he?"
Lin Zhongtian smiled and said, "Don't worry, he just fell asleep like you. I will find a way to wake him up."
As he spoke, Lin Zhongtian stretched out his hand, and a gentle smile appeared on his handsome face.
Little Xigor looked at him hesitantly, hesitated for a moment, and finally stretched out her little hand.
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On the other side, at the bottom of the deep sea, Li Yun's clone was looking at the iron-gnawing beast below with a frown.
At this time, he had discovered that the ability of the Iron Gnawer was not as simple as absorbing metal. All the metal swallowed by it would have its characteristics simultaneously appear on every part of the metal in its body.
In other words, by absorbing just a small piece of metal, the Irongnath can gain all of its abilities.
Today, the Iron Gnat has devoured countless types of metals and has long possessed abilities such as "healing".
So, just splitting it open won't kill it.
But if every part of its body were to be annihilated, it would inevitably cause the containment to become ineffective.
Just as Li Yun was hesitating, the three-kilometer-long body of the iron-gnawing beast below suddenly exploded.
A figure that was completely impossible to ignore rose up from it, attracting everyone's attention like the sun.
Li Yun turned his head and looked, and then his face was full of surprise: "Boss Lin!"
Before he finished speaking, a handsome black-haired young man teleported in front of him with a little blonde girl, raised his hand and slapped him on the head, then looked at him with a frown and said:
"Your original soul has been exiled, and you, a clone, haven't realized it yet?"
Li Yun was slightly startled, then frowned and explained: "Many anomalies in this world have powerful psychic abilities. Some can even bypass psychic protection and directly affect my soul from the root."
"So, when the divine consciousness was divided, I cut off our connection to prevent the effects of the mind distortion from spreading."
Lin Zhongtian nodded and said, "I know that. Your original soul has already entered the world beyond. After we have dealt with things here, you will follow me to the endless void and retrieve your original soul..."