Wu Liugen withdrew his hand from beneath Timir, holding a blood-stained golden dagger.
With a flick of the blade, a pool of blood and some other things fell, but the blade itself was not stained with a drop of blood.
He had removed the root of Timir’s祸根 (huò gēn - calamity/disaster).
Timir’s body slid down the wall, his consciousness gradually fading. He had just experienced three minutes that felt like a nightmare!
Yes, with an absolute advantage in his own strength, Timir had barely held on for three minutes.
He knew Wu Liugen's ability was to control the five senses, and he had paid special attention to this aspect. Yet, the more they fought, the weaker he felt, eventually collapsing onto the ground, feeling his life rapidly draining away.
"Why... why?"
Wu Liugen stepped on Timir's head, a grim smile appearing on his face. He then crushed it, golden blood spilling across the nearby ground.
He didn't want Timir to die as a clueless ghost, nor did he want anyone to know about his past.
Afterward, Wu Liugen clapped his hands. Because Timir had reminded him of his past, his fighting style had become slightly more volatile.
This was not good. He was just a monk now. For his original obsessions, it was enough to remove the "root."
In fact, when Wu Liugen first encountered Timir in the state of Little Ming King, he had already harbored suspicions.
Upon seeing the golden Mo Yang, Wu Liugen immediately determined Timir's origin, for Wu Liugen himself came from the same place!
Wu Liugen had long known that there was no such thing as reincarnation or naturally born living Buddhas with innate power and wisdom.
Only the seventeen gods under the冥主 (Míng Zhǔ - Lord of the Underworld) possessed similar divine authority.
If this authority were complete, it would be enough to shape a Celestial God, but when divided among seventeen, the power became somewhat weak.
The Wu Liugen of the past also held one-seventeenth of this authority, capable of resurrecting a dying soul in a corner of the universe. Where it would be reborn was entirely uncontrollable.
Yugmoth, who governed the Death Star, did not originally possess this authority. It was only after Wu Liugen was born in the real world that this authority was transferred to Yugmoth's management.
As for why Wu Liugen chose to do this, that was a rather melodramatic story.
At that time, he was a fierce and evil demon god, nicknamed the God of Root Severing.
Wu Liugen's habit of targeting 祸根 (huò gēn) was developed back then.
He descended upon a planet in the Inner World, wanting to find something to destroy a group that was causing trouble. But upon landing, he was immediately ambushed by a group of Star Gods and severely wounded, near death.
While recovering, he needed to play the subservient role, to avoid attracting the attention of other Star Gods on this planet.
So, he concealed his appearance and played the subordinate here, not daring to do anything out of line to attract attention.
In the village where he hid, everyone was very good to him. Influenced by these people, his state of mind changed greatly. He even married a girl from the village.
After his injuries healed, a Star God came to his door. That battle was exhilarating, and Wu Liugen emerged victorious, reducing the Star God to dust.
To celebrate his victory, he casually destroyed the village that had been so important to him, leaving no one alive...
The moment he stopped, he realized what he had done, for it had all been done casually, entirely on instinct.
If it were any other evil god, they might have laughed it off and become even more frenzied afterward.
But Wu Liugen did not. He stood in the center of the village and began to reflect.
He recalled many things, remembering what his personality was like at birth.
He remembered his parents and relatives.
He remembered how he had ended up on this path.
After his reflection, Wu Liugen himself found a neutral deity and endured punishment for a thousand years.
After the punishment ended, he abandoned the hard-won divinity and divine power, cast aside the authority he wielded, and ended himself!
After that, he was reborn on Earth and decided to be a good person in this life, at least not an evil god!
When Wu Liugen was just born, he met an old monk.
The old monk saw that his soul was inherently evil and defiled, but he did not kill Wu Liugen. Instead, he brought Wu Liugen back to the temple, raised him, and educated him diligently.
Under this subtle influence, Wu Liugen modified the single piece of unpolluted, pure power he had brought with him into an ability that aligned with Buddhist teachings and solidified it.
The old monk passed away within a few years. Wu Liugen, who had possessed wisdom and shown divine signs from a young age, thus became a young living Buddha of Buddhism...
And the power used to reincarnate Timir was the authority that Wu Liugen had abandoned!
Although Wu Liugen's connection to that authority was not as strong as Yugmoth, who truly wielded it, it was enough to return Timir's soul to where it belonged!
Before Wu Liugen could feel smug, he saw Wen Wen's body tremble violently.
Wu Liugen frowned. Despite Wang Duobao's prophecy, if the situation turned unfavorable, he would still have to kill Wen Wen.
Then there was a loud bang, and a grayish-black energy shot out from Wen Wen's body, forming the complete Plague in the ground.
Plague had gambled everything on taking over a body, which was why it had paid a huge price to secure Yugmoth's personal soul protection!
It had thought that with soul protection, victory was assured, but it had not expected to encounter a monster like the man in black, who acted without regard for reason.
It was like sending an entire special forces unit to assassinate an ordinary person, only to discover that the ordinary person was a Kryptonian.
Plague straightened up, saw Timir's corpse, and spat.
"Trash."
Even with augmentation, he could still be killed by some weakling, and die so indignantly. His opinion of Timir was indeed correct. Sultan Novel Network
Then Plague instantly appeared beside Timir, kicked Wu Liugen away, and took Timir's spatial ring.
In his view, besides Wen Wen, only one other person present posed a threat to him.
Therefore, to deal with that person, he needed something from Timir's spatial ring.
And since Wen Wen hadn't killed him in the mental space, he was not a threat for now.
When leaving Wen Wen's body, he had taken a portion of Wen Wen's flesh, blood, and energy, and digested the residual energy of the soul protection, restoring his complete body. At least, he had recovered his True Order level of strength, and his abilities in this space could be further amplified.
As for Wen Wen...
Upon waking, Wen Wen let out a wry chuckle.
When Plague detached from his body, he had made some minor arrangements, so Wen Wen was temporarily unable to fight. With his current physical condition, he was definitely no match for Plague.
Therefore, to deal with Plague, he could only rely on the Central Administrator.
Fortunately, he had already made arrangements with them beforehand. Someone would come to assist in this battle, and Iliya, who was outside, could also be brought back...
But before Wen Wen could plan his move, two people had already acted!