When the origin of the Sun broke free from the stars, the charm of the Goddess of Beauty was purified by the golden light. The evil demigods, one after another, shook off the influence of her charm, watching this scene with shock and fury.

Jiu Jiu (舅舅) fled from his successor in a panic, his back view resembling a stray dog, completely lacking gravitas. The divine power of the spatial lightning and wind domain evaporated and dissipated in the golden light.

Shura was also running, but not away from the Sun; instead, he braved the Sun's scorching heat, rushing towards Yuanshi Tianzun (元始天尊).

This was the only chance to kill Yuanshi Tianzun.

At this moment, his divine power evaporated rapidly, and all his skills were in a state of failure, but relying on his powerful physical body, he raced against the Sun, killing his way towards Yuanshi Tianzun.

The Star Lord held up a black round moon in his left hand, releasing wisps of pure black moonlight, draping a black velvet-like robe over Shura.

*Chī chī...*

The black robe continuously evaporated and purified, yet was constantly replenished.

Shura's speed soared.

At the same time, fountain-like starlight surged from the top of the Star Lord's head, forming a high wall stretching hundreds of kilometers, shielding the sleeping demigods from the sunlight, protecting their sleep quality.

Xie Family Old Ancestor snorted coldly, biting his fingertip, drawing a咒文 (zhòuwén - incantation) with golden blood on the Demon Refining Pot, then throwing it out.

The Demon Refining Pot flew across the sky, its lid popping open, enduring the pressure of the Sun's origin, streaking a cyan-golden light in the air, covering Shura's head, the mouth of the pot turning over.

*Boom!*

The Demon Refining Pot, expanded dozens or even hundreds of times, crashed heavily on the ground, covering Shura.

*Dang dang dang...*

Metallic clanging sounds came from inside the Demon Refining Pot. It only lasted for two seconds before the Demon Refining Pot was blasted away by a tremendous force.

Shura reappeared, holding a bronze curved knife, incandescent with rage, but could only watch helplessly as the origin of the Sun crashed into Yuanshi Tianzun's chest.

The golden light illuminating the instance disappeared.

Yuanshi Tianzun shuddered, abruptly raising his head, his eyes shooting out two golden beams of light, soaring straight into the clouds.

Wisps of golden flames overflowed from his body, circling and roaming around it, forming a spherical domain with a diameter of ten meters.

Golden crows emerged from his chest, abdomen, mouth, and ears, circling around him, then diving back in, again and again.

Zhang Yuanqing hung in the domain, maintaining the action of raising his head and arms, remaining motionless for a long time.

He was absorbing the origin of the Sun; he was assimilating with the origin of the Sun.

As a Sun Wanderer who primarily cultivated the Sun, he did not need the Star Lord to neutralize the Sun's power, because primarily cultivating the power of the Sun was in itself enhancing his ability to withstand the Sun.

Of course, the risk would be higher than for the Star Lord.

Shura rushed over, raising the Chiyou Blade, slashing at the spherical domain.

*Boom!*

The moment the blade struck the domain, scorching golden flames erupted, tearing apart the black robe on his body, devouring his figure.

Shura staggered backward, the flesh on his face, chest, abdomen, and thighs almost completely evaporated, revealing half a set of red-hot bones, while the flesh on his back and buttocks remained intact.

Unlike when the Star Lord absorbed the origin of the Sun earlier, the former had the Star Lord to neutralize it, and the origin of the Sun was not so overbearing.

Yuanshi Tianzun was absorbing the Sun with no power to neutralize it. Shura's action was equivalent to cutting the origin of the Sun with a knife. Surviving was proof enough of his strength.

Shura retreated to the Star Lord's side, his flesh growing rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, he regained his appearance with three heads and eight arms. He said in a deep voice, "The origin of the Sun suppresses everything. External forces cannot interfere. Next, we can only watch and pray that he fails to absorb the origin of the Sun."

The Star Lord turned his head to examine him for a moment, and seeing that he was unharmed, he turned his gaze back, looking at Yuanshi Tianzun in the domain.

He was silent for a few seconds, as if accepting this ending, and then looked at the Void Demigod, uttering words that made the faces of the evil demigods change greatly: "Yuanshi Tianzun is the Demon Lord."

The Fear King abruptly looked at Yuanshi Tianzun, stunned.

The two Illusion Gods of the Nihility Sect, the Gu Dragon of the Psionic Society, and the Xie Family Old Ancestor all showed expressions that said, "Has the Star Lord gone mad, or are we hearing things?"

With the status and experience of demigods, they could not immediately accept the Star Lord's words.

The Void Demigod shrugged, changing his previous impotent rage, returning to a carefree posture, and even wanted to break into a rap, smiling and saying, "Everyone says that the Star Lord calculates all the affairs of the world; did you only realize it now?"

He had an air of petty triumph.

The Star Lord was silent for a few seconds, and slowly said, "No wonder you and the Goddess of Beauty were determined to support Yuanshi Tianzun, regardless of the actual situation, and not hesitating to break with the orderly camp. You knew from the beginning that the Demon Lord, no, Yuanshi Tianzun, was already half the Lord of the Sun. As long as he entered the instance, and merged with the soul fragments that had merged with the origin of the Sun, he could restore his status."

The Void Demigod smiled, "After the Demon Lord account was ruined, the Goddess of Beauty and I were in anxiety. Yuanshi, in October of last year, chose to exchange the fragment of the Taiyin origin and perish together with Cai Qinhe, and the Goddess of Beauty and I became even more anxious—I actually suspected that Yuanshi's death also had something to do with you, but there has been no evidence."

Because the Star and Taiyin returned, the opening of the Sun instance entered a countdown. But at that time, he was just a Saint.

"After that, you and Ling Tuo secretly promoted the contradictions between the two camps, concealing the Merit List and designing to let the Wind and Thunder Gods engage in infighting to besiege and kill the Sea Emperor... All of this was to force the orderly camp to use the fragments of the Radiance Compass and open the Sun instance."

"The time left for us was too short."

"Speaking of which, I have to thank Ling Tuo. If he hadn't sent the Dan recipe for the Three Talents Pill, Yuanshi would not be able to advance to level nine now and obtain the qualification to absorb the Sun."

"However, the Dan recipe is the Dan recipe. The problem of the difficulty of finding the main medicine still plagues me. Therefore, when you convened the demigod meeting and forced the Goddess of Beauty and me, I keenly seized the opportunity, which was to send Ling Tuo into the Sun instance."

"Without his protection, the Night Rose Law Protector in reality would not be difficult to find. Heh, this kid deserves to be my successor. Without me teaching him, he knows how to use the power of the Knight profession."

The Goddess of Beauty interjected with a smile, "Then, the Void and I were waiting for him to advance to level nine, waiting for him to descend into the instance."

The Star Lord looked at Yuanshi Tianzun, who was concentrating on absorbing the origin of the Sun, his voice layered and magnificent, "If I'm not mistaken, he is Zhang Zizhen's offspring, right?"

The Void Demigod clapped his hands, "As expected of the Star Lord, as insightful as a god, as insightful as a god."

"You gave the fragment of the Taiyin origin to the Demon Lord, and the core fragment of the Radiance Compass was also given to him. If it weren't for kinship, how could you be so frank and sincere. I always thought that the core fragment of the Radiance Compass was in your hands and was your greatest reliance in supporting Yuanshi Tianzun. I didn't expect that it had already merged into the origin of the Sun." The Star Lord's face was without joy or sorrow, his starry eyes gazing, "I consider my art of deduction unparalleled in the world, with the past and future vivid before me, but I didn't discover your secret conspiracy. The Demon Lord had indeed perished in body and soul that day. Void, how did you hide it from me?"

The Void Demigod waited for Yuanshi Tianzun to absorb the origin of the Sun while saying, "This is a long story. The support plan for the Lord of the Sun did not actually start with me, but was formulated by Zhang Zizhen."

"Back then, after learning the secrets of the Spirit Realm, he realized that Ling Tuo's fall was inevitable and could not be stopped, so he began to formulate the support plan for the Lord of the Sun. The first step was to tear off the fragment of the Taiyin origin from Ling Tuo, who had returned from resurrection."

"The secret of the Taiyin is the core part of the plan. Without the protection of the secret, all the schemes, in your and Ling Tuo's eyes, would be a public farce of clowns."

"He was polluted by the invaders and cursed by Ling Tuo with the Taiyin origin, knowing that he would surely die, so he lurked for several years and gave birth to offspring. He decided to support his child to become the Lord of the Sun, so he left the 'fragment of the Taiyin origin' and the 'core fragment of the Radiance Compass' to his offspring, which is the Demon Lord."

After a pause, the Void Demigod looked at Yuanshi Tianzun, who was surrounded by golden crows and whose body had large areas of carbonization, and suddenly sighed, "Speaking of which, you may not believe it, the birth of the Demon Lord was an accident. I knew that he, who had the core fragment of the Radiance Compass sealed in his body, would definitely obtain a character card, but the distribution of character cards in the Spirit Realm is random and at any time."

"He obtained the character card four years ago, but there was a small accident. He was controlled by the Fallen Ones in the Public Security Bureau arranged by the Ghoul Eye Judge and drank the liquid in the Fallen Grail, becoming the servant of the Ghoul Eye Judge."

"From then on, it was almost impossible for him to develop quietly. In order not to have you deduce the Demon Lord's identity and origins, thereby locking me and Zhang Zizhen, I could only give him the Taiyin fragment in advance and have him make a separation from his real identity."

"Then, I contacted him as a mysterious investor, guiding him step by step to level up, teaching him how to purify the pollution of the Fallen Grail, and also introduced him to the Goddess of Beauty."

The Goddess of Beauty took over the conversation, saying, "The battle a year ago was, on the surface, Ling Tuo stifling the threat of the Demon Lord and reclaiming the Taiyin fragment, but in fact, it was our hunt for Ling Tuo, luring him out, killing him, helping the Demon Lord become the Lord of the Taiyin, and then using the core fragment of the Radiance Compass to open the Sun instance, using the core fragment as a medium to absorb the Sun and purify the pollution of the Fallen Grail."

"Unfortunately, you suddenly intervened, causing the Demon Lord to perish. We could only change the plan. The Demon Lord cut his soul into three parts, one remnant soul contained all the memories after becoming The Way of the Extraordinary, attached to the core fragment of the Compass, and then entered the Sun instance with the characteristics of the core fragment, hidden in the origin of the Sun."

"A remnant soul was given to the Void President, concealed by the Taiyin fragment, and the last soul was the Demon Lord, who in your eyes, had perished in body and soul."

"Besides the part of the soul that died, two remnant souls, one hidden in the Sun and one protected by the Taiyin origin fragment, your deduction could not see them. In your eyes, the Demon Lord naturally died cleanly."

The Goddess of Beauty's voice was soft and moving, "Now it seems that the original plan was bound to fail. We only counted on Ling Tuo and did not count on you. However, it was because of this matter that the Void and I became suspicious of you."

The Star Lord was silent for a moment and said, "Full of loopholes. It is reasonable for the Demon Lord's remnant soul to maintain its immortality in the origin of the Sun by relying on the core fragment of the Compass. However, the core fragment of the Compass cannot open the Sun instance. Otherwise, Zhang Zizhen would have directly thrown Ling Tuo into the Sun instance to purify the pollution with the origin of the Sun."

"Even if I hadn't intervened in the battle last year, Ling Tuo would still have Shura to assist him. With just the two of you and the Fear King, it would be a fool's dream to kill Ling Tuo."

The Void President chuckled and did not explain. He grabbed a black miniature speaker from the void.

He patted the top of the speaker, "Explain it to our Star Lord."

All the demigods' eyes were focused on the Mao Wang speaker.

The Mao Wang speaker seemed to have crashed and did not move for a long time. The Void President slapped it, "Don't be怂 (sǒng - be a coward)!"

The Mao Wang speaker still did not respond, looking like it was dead.

The Void President shrugged, "It seems that it doesn't dare to say."

The Star Lord was silent again. After a few seconds, he said, "How did the Demon Lord summon the fragment of the origin of the Sun in that battle?"

The Void President shrugged, "I don't know either. Why don't you ask him yourself?"

He looked at Yuanshi Tianzun, who was surrounded by golden crows.

......

Zhang Yuanqing's soul seemed to be trapped in a sea of fire. The pain of being burned by the fire tormented him every moment.

But it also allowed him to retain his sanity in the surging spiritual shock, enduring the impact of those past memories.

He remembered, remembered everything.

After Bing Ge (兵哥) was admitted to Hangzhou University, in order to celebrate his successful admission to college and to experience the city where he would be living for four years, Bing Ge took him to Hangzhou for tourism during the summer vacation.

They both obtained character cards at Hidden Buddha Temple and entered their respective instances.

After leaving the instance, the two of them anxiously went to the nearest Public Security Bureau to report the case. The Public Security Bureau transferred the incident to the Hangzhou branch, and the person in charge was the servant of the Ghoul Eye Judge......

As new The Way of the Extraordinary, they were lured by the servant of the Ghoul Eye Judge to drink the liquid of the Fallen Grail, and from then on, they suffered the pollution of the Fallen Grail, which the Spirit Realm world talked about with fear.

In the next three years, he and Bing Ge wandered in the shadows, struggling in pain, being wanted by the official, being discriminated against by evil professions. His extremist personality became more and more extreme, more and more crazy.

He dared not go home again and worked hard to constantly complete the tasks of the Ghoul Eye Judge; otherwise, the Ghoul Eye Judge would use the Fallen Grail to let them know what extreme pain was.

He also remembered more things. After completing the trial task, the second instance he entered was the Sheling Tunnel.

That was a must-die instance. It was a spatial passage that suddenly cracked open that allowed him to escape the instance.

He didn't understand this bug for a long time, and it was only later that he realized that Jiu Jiu (舅舅) had secretly helped him escape the instance, the cost of which was clearing his experience points. Of course, at that time, he had just become The Way of the Extraordinary and didn't have much experience points anyway.

In the Sheling Tunnel instance, the sentence in the Red High-Heel dialog box was:。

It wasn't that it recognized the Demon Lord character card in his body, but that it recognized him!

Past events flashed by, from 2019 to 2023. The end of the memory fragments was pitch black, and footsteps came from the darkness.

The footsteps were empty and light, as if from the depths of his heart, from that longing, that reluctance.

He heard the footsteps stop at the door, turn the doorknob, and then stop beside his ear.

A gentle and familiar voice sounded in his ear, "Yuanzi (元子), you will wake up in fifteen minutes, at 7:30 in the morning. When you wake up, you will be a freshman studying at Songhai University. You had headaches when you were in high school, and your mother, Chen Shu (陈淑), took you to see all the major hospitals in the country to treat you, and finally found a medicine to treat your headaches abroad. The medicine is in the drawer of the bedside table......"

"After three times, you must remember my words and believe them without a doubt......" Then, he woke up in the midst of a headache and received the character card sent by Bing Ge!

Character card restarted, restarted......

The memories connected.

He never had headaches. The so-called headache was because his soul was too powerful and his body could not contain it. It was because his remnant soul and the pure soul in the puppet body were incompatible after being stitched together.

As his status improved, his body was gradually able to contain his powerful soul, and the headache never recurred.

No wonder his memory recall could never return to his high school days; it stopped on the day Bing Ge sent the character card.

Because that was the first day of his resurrection.

Life is like a big dream!

A big dream!

Zhang Yuanqing murmured, "The Demon Lord is me; I am the Demon Lord......"

The birth of the Lord of the Sun!