I really want to fucking choke this bastard!
Xu Mo cursed in his mind. The way this man spoke felt incredibly pointed, as if it were directed specifically at him.
His tone, his gaze, and the underlying meaning of his words—it felt as though he had completely doxxed Xu Mo.
Hearing Liang Shuguang's words, Bai Feifei merely twitched her eyelids slightly without much of a reaction, likely having grown used to it.
Xu Mo calmed down a bit and realized it probably wasn't what he thought.
No matter how capable Liang Shuguang was, there was no way he could know Xu Mo's true background.
Besides, his whole talk about piecing together corpses had just been a bunch of nonsense from the start. Even if he actually planned to do it now, it had nothing to do with the Old Ones' Awakening.
This was merely an in-game mechanic for assembling bodies; players could assemble their own new characters in the late game. There was no way Liang Shuguang could know about that.
That meant, considering the current state of Dawn City, the man probably wasn't trying to mock him.
Xu Mo's mind raced, and a realization struck him.
Regarding the disaster thirty years ago in Dawn City, Liu Yun had said Liang Shuguang had held the line all by himself, and she had also mentioned that Liang Shuguang was corrupted by the Evil Gods of the Old Days.
Combining that with the fact that there was already more than one Evil God's corpse here...
“You mean...” Xu Mo looked up at Liang Shuguang.
“Thirty years ago, Dawn City was chosen as a resurrection site for an Evil God, and then corpse parts from different Evil Gods were placed here?”
Liang Shuguang gritted his teeth, his lips twitching violently before he gave a slow nod.
“Yes.”
Xu Mo was instantly filled with a sense of awe.
Oh, damn. To think such a thing could happen in a place like this... But how do you know?
Did an Evil God actually tell you or something?
In the next second, for some unknown reason, Liang Shuguang suddenly lost control of his emotions.
Right after he said “Yes,” his eyes suddenly grew wild and chaotic. Just like Liu Yun outside, he threw his head back and began to roar at the sky!
“Dawn City was supposed to be a land of destiny! How beautiful it once was, how many geniuses it produced!”
“And now, it is ruined...”
“Where is Sinking Black?! Why isn't he here?! Why is it only you standing here right now?!”
He roared, his voice echoing violently inside the black cocoon. The dark red glaive in his hand, carrying a world-ending power, swept outward in an explosive slash!
Before Xu Mo could even react, he was sent flying by the force of the strike!
Boom! His body slammed into the inner wall of the black cocoon, crashed onto the ground, and bounced twice.
“Sss...” Xu Mo barely managed to push himself up, grimacing in pain.
He had been mulling over Liang Shuguang's words, wondering if the game's progress should increase a bit more, only for Liang Shuguang to suddenly have a psychotic episode.
Sneak attacking me, are we? And here I thought you had some sportsmanship!
Everything hurts.
“Cough... Cough!” Xu Mo scrambled up from the ground, rolling his numb shoulder as he glared at the crazed man across from him.
“We were having a perfectly good chat, and you suddenly go crazy on me?”
In fact, Bai Feifei was also silently enduring the pain.
The shockwave from Liang Shuguang's slash had caused them both the exact same agonizing pain.
But aside from the pain, she felt a little strange. Since they were currently sharing control of the body, she had been keeping a close eye on the Old-Timer's movements to stay in sync.
Why did she feel like the Old-Timer was actually hurting right now?
Do Evil Gods feel pain too?
She zoned out for a few seconds, unable to think too deeply about it, while Xu Mo was already fuming from the pain.
Dammit!
Since they had already reached this point, there was no longer any use in talking nicely.
He would have to force the man's true power out through sheer strength. If he simply maintained his current state, even with the dual hearts' enhancement, he wouldn't be able to defeat him.
Overwhelmed by anger, Xu Mo made up his mind and glared at Liang Shuguang.
“Fine, looks like I really have to beat some sense into you!”
“Let's change our identities for this conversation then. You're going to die here today anyway...”
A smirk played on Xu Mo's lips. He slowly closed his eyes, and when he snapped his head back up to look at Liang Shuguang, his eyes had turned completely pitch-black.
“I heard you were looking for me?”
“I am Sinking Black!”
The moment those words left his mouth, the crazed Liang Shuguang instantly froze. His face, which had been contorted with madness, actually softened slightly from sheer shock as he stared in a daze.
He opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end, he could only squeeze out a brief, bewildered question.
“...What?”
Xu Mo didn't feel like wasting any more breath on him and spoke directly to Bai Feifei:
“Alright, let's stop playing around with this idiot.”
“Let's go all out and see what kind of interesting effect we get this time.”
Bai Feifei blinked her right eye. It took her a moment to process, but she quickly realized the Old-Timer wanted her to use that Word Soul.
“Alright!” she replied simply.
Then, Xu Mo's left eye widened in fury, his half of the face turning fierce and menacing, while Bai Feifei closed her eye, her half of the face peaceful and serene.
Underneath the starkly divided expressions on a single face, the two chanted their respective Word Souls one after another.
【The dark night gave me eyes to tear through reality!】
【The day gave me sincerity to pierce through falsehood!】
Taking a deep breath in unison, they began to channel the power of their hearts.
One black, one white—two completely different currents of energy surged from the exact same heart, flowing through the body in a starkly divided manner.
The side of the body controlled by Xu Mo was enveloped in a black aura, while the side controlled by Bai Feifei was shrouded in a brilliant white light.
Then, the two forces began to blend and expand.
Pitch-black and blazing white intertwined, locking together like two giant serpents.
Black scales and white battle armor began to weave together, covering the entire body.
The left side was menacing, pitch-black and covered in barbs, while the right side was a sleek, platinum armor wrapped in white wings of light.
Yet they did not exist in isolation; black patterns wound through the white, and specks of white light dotted the black.
The two forces met at the chest, their dividing line distinct yet perfectly aligned, resembling a masterpiece that had been torn apart and seamlessly reassembled.
Finally.
A pair of wings—one black, one white—suddenly unfurled from their back!
On the left was a wing as black as ink, and on the right was a wing of pure, radiant light.
“Oh? I have wings too? Heh... I guess I'm riding on your coattails here,” Xu Mo couldn't help but comment.
The armor radiated both sacred and sinful auras simultaneously, as if a fallen angel had descended upon the mortal realm.
If one had to describe it in a single phrase, it was a perfect fusion of god and demon!
Sharing the same body, Bai Feifei and Xu Mo's consciousnesses achieved perfect synchronization at this moment. Their minds connected, and the feeling of fighting each other for control instantly vanished.
Without the need for explicit communication, they could already sense each other's thoughts and intentions.
Liang Shuguang stood frozen in place, utterly dazed.
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