"Bring the heart demon back?"
Upon hearing Ye Ling's request, Shan was taken aback. "Are you sure you only want this reward?"
Ye Ling replied, "As I am now, I can obtain anything I desire. I have no other great aspirations, but this matter of the heart demon has always been a hurdle in my heart."
Shan looked deeply at Ye Ling, then said, "Ye Ling, though some words may not be pleasant to hear, I must remind you. While your heart demon has become an independent entity and has always been on the same side as you, as long as you and your heart demon exist together, either of you can possess everything of the other by devouring them.
"Just because your heart demon is of one mind with you now doesn't mean he won't change in the future... the existence of your heart demon is a hidden danger for you."
Ye Ling replied, "I know this, but one must always be vigilant. Now that the pollution in the Pure White has been resolved, it doesn't mean there won't be other crises in the future. If I indulge in comfort, then when a crisis descends, it will be too late for regret."
"My desire to save my heart demon is not only out of friendship, but also because his existence can spur me to constantly become stronger."
"Although the Pure White was purified this time, I have also realized the vast gap between myself, you, Master, and Evil."
"Evil wasn't using his full strength just now, was he?"
Shan chuckled, "You noticed?"
Ye Ling nodded slightly, "Yes... I could feel that he was holding back. Purifying the Pure White might not have been his ultimate goal..."
Shan laughed heartily, "Hahaha! I like you more and more, kid. But we'll talk about Evil later. Let's focus on celebrating now. You've worked hard for a long time."
"Let me confirm with you again, are you sure you want to revive the heart demon, even if your power will be halved?"
Ye Ling nodded, "Yes, I'm sure."
"Good kid, you have ambition!"
Shan patted Ye Ling's shoulder and then poured his creation power into Ye Ling's body.
Ye Ling felt a tingling sensation all over his body, and then his own power began to drain away.
The next moment, infinite creation power condensed in front of Ye Ling, finally taking the form of the heart demon.
The heart demon regained consciousness and, upon seeing Ye Ling before him, a hint of confusion flickered in his eyes. "How am I still alive?"
Seeing the heart demon appear, Ye Ling's lips curved slightly. "I couldn't use your power, so I asked Master Shan to separate you from my body."
"A severed heart demon can still be revived?" The heart demon's lips twitched upon hearing Ye Ling's words, and a storm surged in his heart.
However, he quickly realized that Shan was still present and, disregarding Ye Ling, immediately bowed to Shan. "Thank you, Shan, for saving my life!"
Shan smiled at the heart demon, "You and Ye Ling are two sides of the same coin, both originating from the same source. Since I am Ye Ling's master, you can also call me Master."
Hearing Shan's words, the heart demon was overjoyed and immediately called out, "Yes, Master Shan."
Shan waved his hand, "Alright, your friends are waiting for you in the Primordial Chaos. Go celebrate with them first. As for the aftermath, we'll discuss it later."
"Okay."
Ye Ling and the heart demon replied in unison, and then both transformed into two beams of light, directly entering the void-filled book.
Shan looked at the book floating before him, smiled slightly, and solemnly brought it to the Hall of Ten Thousand Realms, placing it alongside an ancient book entwined with black and white energy.
Afterward, Shan walked to the deepest part of the Hall of Ten Thousand Realms, approaching the semi-transparent Book of Origin and placing his hand on the barrier outside it.
The next moment, the semi-transparent Book of Origin transformed into a security door commonly seen in modern cities.
Shan pushed the door open and entered a simply furnished, ordinary room.
In this room, Evil was sitting on the sofa in casual clothes, enthusiastically playing a PS5, while on the other side of the room, a short-haired young man wearing glasses was frantically writing code at his computer desk.
"Yo! You're here!" Evil glanced at Shan entering, then returned his gaze to the large television screen.
Shan ignored Evil, who was playing games, and walked to the side of the short-haired young man, patting his shoulder.
The short-haired young man flinched and looked at the gentle-faced Shan with sweat beading on his forehead, smiling, "You... you're back?"
Shan pulled up a chair and sat in front of the short-haired young man. He glanced at the program running on the computer screen and asked, "Did Evil make some kind of agreement with you behind my back?"
The short-haired young man wiped the sweat from his brow, his eyes darting around. "N-no... I've been using this program to run novel plots lately. This program encountered so many bugs just creating the void, I really didn't dare to mess around!"
Evil chimed in at this moment, "I think, Shan, you're just too suspicious. I've racked my brains to help fix the program bugs! Now that the bugs are fixed, the computer virus has been killed, the void has been successfully constructed, and Ye Ling's story is complete. Everything is perfect!"
Shan continued to ignore Evil and looked directly into the short-haired young man's eyes, smiling, "Did Evil threaten you? Don't worry, with me here, he wouldn't dare do anything to you. Just tell me the truth honestly."
"After all, we are all characters in your writing. You should have a thorough understanding of us. Even if I let him use one hand, he still couldn't beat me."
The short-haired young man muttered, "It's precisely because I have a thorough understanding of you that I dare not speak..."
"Hmm?" Shan raised an eyebrow slightly, a flash of red light in his eyes.
The short-haired young man trembled all over, almost crying in distress. "Brother, I'm just a third-rate novel writer. Please spare me, you two. I really don't have the ability to construct a complete worldview!"
"You've seen Ye Ling's story. When the void worldview was run through the program, the resulting story was full of loopholes and bugs everywhere, endless to fix, I'm losing all my hair!"
"Please, you two great deities, give this little brother a way to survive. It was purely by accident that I wrote you two gods. Bai Yue has already failed, and Ye Ling probably won't be able to come out..."
"This small Earth is truly not enough for you two to mess with. I beg you to return to the book! I sincerely beg you! The world within the book is so vast, and the real world is really quite boring!"
Hearing the short-haired young man's words, Shan shook his head and smiled, "Why are you so worried? Although Evil and I have stepped out of the book, we cannot leave your room. We can only travel through the stories and programs you write, and we won't..."
At this point, Shan paused, then realized something. He stared at the short-haired young man and asked, "Could it be... Evil has found a way to leave this room?"
The short-haired young man trembled all over and immediately shut his mouth, looking to Evil for help.
Evil, on the other side, put down his game controller and whistled nonchalantly.
Seeing the reactions of the short-haired young man and Evil, Shan immediately sat down at the computer, minimized the program running the void, and then opened the backend of the website where the short-haired young man published his novels. He saw that on the list of subscribers, twisted scarlet garbled characters appeared one after another.
Seeing those scarlet garbled characters, Shan narrowed his eyes slightly and turned to the short-haired young man, "What are these?"