Infernal Artist

The world of practice.

Xue Yu is practicing alone in a remote mountain col.

She suddenly felt something and stood up from the ground.

"What happened? Why am I suddenly so excited and even filled with the desire to kill?"

She walked back and forth a few times, then suddenly stretched out her hand into the void and grasped a long pale bone.

"What is this? Why does it feel so familiar to me..."

Xueyu said in a sleepy tone.

She slowly pulled back——

The big flag, which was completely condensed with black blood, was pulled out and waved endlessly in the wind.

Waves of strange fluctuations emanated from the flag and spread into the endless void.

The flag of the changing era.

Xueyu's expression was in a trance, and his eyes were sometimes confused and sometimes clear.

"I remembered...I am the Flag Bearer."

She looked at the black blood flag in her hand.

One after another, ferocious silhouettes gradually appeared on the flag.

And the memories before and after reincarnation all appeared in her mind, connected with each other, revealing the truth of everything that happened in the past.

Xueyu's expression was sometimes ferocious, sometimes confused, and sometimes angry. Countless emotions appeared on her beautiful face, making her look as if she was in some kind of deep suffering.

"ah……"

She let out a sound that was both a whimper and a roar, and fell to her knees, grabbing her chest hard as if she wanted to cut her heart out.

suddenly.

Another face quietly appeared on the black-blooded flag, looking down at her and saying: "It's really incredible that there are sentient beings who can give birth to humanity in our flag-bearer..."

"It's up to us."

"Come and destroy this final place."

Xueyu gasped and stood up, his expression no longer resembled that of a human being.

It held the bone flagpole and gritted its teeth and said: "No, I am the flag that conquers all sentient beings. I... will end everything and find my lost demonic nature."

On the black blood banner, ferocious faces looked at it quietly.

finally.

They disappeared into the flag one after another.

Only one sentence came out of the black blood, floating in the wind:

"You have one last chance."

…

"The current scene is full."

"In the uncanny acting method, you gain the ability of a 'dramatist'."

"Explanation: By activating this ability, all real things can be turned into falsehood. This effect can also be canceled at any time."

"Using this ability requires drawing power from real cards."

All the small burning characters are suspended in mid-air.

Real cards——

What are real cards?

Liu Ping was a little confused, and a voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"Finally, among the endless ruins, I saw the first ray of light."

Liu Ping had a thought in his mind.

The visor of the huge armor immediately opened, and he walked out and ordered: "Wait here."

"Yes, Master."

The huge armor responded.

——It's quite strange. This armor has supreme power, but it cannot be put away. It can only be allowed to float in the void.

Liu Ping's figure flashed and kept moving in a certain direction.

At his speed, he flew for about a quarter of an hour, and finally saw the person who made the sound.

-That's a lady.

She was wearing an ancient and simple dress, a top hat, holding a scepter, and looked at Liu Ping quietly.

She is the master of mystery.

"Are you waiting for me?" Liu Ping asked.

"I can know the details of all powers, so when you have that ability, I will feel it." Ms. Mystery said.

"I see, but I just have something to ask you." Liu Ping said.

"What?" Ms. Mystery asked.

"When I wore that armor, my strength increased countless times, so I had the ability to observe all the laws of the void - I found that time didn't seem to exist." Liu Ping said.

Ms. Mystery stretched out her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.

A card suddenly appeared in her hand, emitting layers of endless mist.

This card showed a pale gray color, without any power fluctuations, only a strong sense of death that almost burst out of the card.

Cracks appeared on the card.

Ms. Mystery didn't dare to touch it much, so she could only let it float in the air carefully, for fear that it would be completely broken if she was not careful.

Liu Ping narrowed his eyes and looked at the front of the card.

There was a black and white clock painted on the front of the card, but the entire clock seemed to have been destroyed by something. It fell to the ground, and all the hands stopped moving.

Lines of burning small words appeared from the void above the card:

"time."

"One of the Law decks."

"Destroyed."

——Time has been destroyed.

Even though he already knew the result, Liu Ping still felt nervous and couldn't help but ask:

"The man sitting in the bar spinning the coins - he has been helping me, he gave me a day and night tour - that is the power of time."

"It is indeed the power of time, but it was simulated by me. After all, I am the master of the mystery and know the true meaning of all powers." The woman said softly.

"Is he really dead?" Liu Ping asked.

Ms. Mystery sighed and said, "Really."

"When did it happen?" Liu Ping asked.

"It's been a long time. He was already dead before everything happened here." Ms. Mystery said.

Liu Ping's eyes fell on the card again.

"Saving time will be beneficial to us. Frankly speaking, he is my lover and I hope you save him." Ms. Mystery said.

"Now?" Liu Ping said.

"No, we need to face the imminent danger first - your previous consideration was right. Instead of facing other evil demons, it is better to face the bloody rain that has become extremely weak." Ms. Mystery said.

"Why not resurrect time first? If he is alive, he will probably be a powerful help to us." Liu Ping asked puzzledly.

"Because it's not suitable now -" Ms. Mystery sighed, "now I can actually tell you when time died."

She pointed at the floating gray card and whispered:

"Evil demons destroyed all worlds, ended the previous era, and opened their own era. Time was besieged by billions of evil demons, and then fell into destruction. From then on, everything has no past or future, and everything comes to an end."

The prison-suppressing knife on Liu Ping's waist suddenly vibrated.

Ms. Mystery also raised her scepter and swung it towards the surrounding void, as if she was striking something.

Two lines of small burning characters appeared:

"The 'silence' of the prison scabbard is working."

"With the cooperation of Ms. Mystery, the current secret has been completely suppressed and will not be known to any other being."

Liu Ping remained calm and said calmly: "Even if you can simulate time, you cannot allow me to travel through the long river of time so many times and do so many things that can affect cause and effect in the endless past and future."

"You may not understand yet, I just simulated time - time no longer exists, it has been destroyed." Ms. Mystery said.

"What about the other laws?"

"All dead."

"and you……"

"Only me, I simulated all the laws."

"Then what are the past, present and future that I have seen?" Liu Ping said in confusion.

"The past is not available, the present is not available, and the future is not available, because... the place we are in can exist without time and other laws. It is the last place to fight against evil spirits." Ms. Mystery said.

"You're talking about Purgatory and the Pillar of Eternal Night, aren't you?" Liu Ping asked.

"Purgatory and Eternal Night are the most peculiar divine pillars. The second half punishes all sinful spirits, and the first half subdues all dead heroic spirits... It exists in this place and carries the last trace of all eras. Hope." Ms. Mystery said.

Liu Ping was stunned.

The second half punishes all sinful spirits...

its not right!

This description should be the Purgatory Divine Pillar, which is clearly in the first half, and the Void Divine Pillar above it has already produced the birthplace of souls.

As for "conquering all the dead heroic spirits in the first half", this obviously refers to the Pillar of Eternal Night.

Could it be——

The world is upside down?

"Is the world upside down? How could it be? Time does not exist, and the world is upside down. So what is this 'place' you are talking about? Why has it not been captured by evil spirits?" Liu Ping asked.

"Evil demons don't use the thinking of sentient beings to figure out the world, so they can't find it here, except for the flag bearer - the power of the era change will forcefully send it in." Ms. Mystery said.

Liu Ping didn't speak, just looked at each other and said softly: "Are all the friends around me fake?"

"No." Ms. Mystery said.

"Then they-" Liu Ping hesitated.

"Let me put it bluntly, every partner around you, except for the gods of the Four Holy Pillars, doesn't live a realistic life, right?"

Ms. Mystery looked at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping said nothing.

"Except for the entire goblin race, everything around you is a heroic spirit."

Ms. Mystery continued: "The souls of your companions are sleeping in the eternal night, and the reason why they can come to you and fight with you is because of this 'place'."

An idea suddenly appeared in Liu Ping's mind.

This idea was so crazy that even though he deduced the result, he still couldn't believe it.

He could only stare at Ms. Mystery.

Ms. Mystery nodded and said softly: "Yes, this is the dream world."

"you and me--"

"We are in the dreamland of all dead souls."