C1631 Refined Blood and Flesh into a Divine Artifact!
"You..."
The Abyssal Leviathan, now appearing as a gaunt old man, fixed its gaze on President Lyi, a sense of fear suddenly welling up in its eyes.
"Stay away from him."
The soulful voice of the Abyssal Leviathan emanated from Yu Yuan's heart, "Something's off with President Lyi. You'd better be cautious and keep your distance."
The puddle beneath his feet rippled, water murmuring and mist rising.
This naturally violent cosmic giant beast was exceedingly wary in the presence of President Lyi, as if it feared a sudden lethal attack.
Yu Yuan was taken aback.
The once amicable bond between the Skyreach Consortium and Boulderdawn had frayed when Yu Zhu assumed Zhu Zhenlin's divine mantle. Despite Taixu's earnest efforts to repair the rift, President Lyi had hastened to the extraterrestrial realms.
Yu Yuan was acutely aware that the loss of President Lyi's divine status was only part of the story.
A greater factor was the resurgence of the Nagas, with Loong Jie, a pure-blooded golden dragon, ascending smoothly to the rank of a tenth level Dragon God.
This tenth level golden dragon presented an insurmountable challenge for President Lyi.
In both the Everlands and the Star River, President Lyi, who had mastered the Path of Metal, would never surpass Loong Jie.
Even Sabonis, the former Golden Shura, had fallen to Loong Jie on this path, let alone President Lyi.
Yu Yuan had previously discussed this matter with Taishi, who seemed unsure of President Lyi's whereabouts or the choices he had made.
To Yu Yuan's surprise, President Lyi had materialized in the Ashlands, exhibiting a somewhat eerie demeanor.
As Yu Yuan gripped the Dragon Slaying Stage, ready to probe further, he noticed droplets of crystalline water springing forth from the puddle at the Abyssal Leviathan's feet.
The glistening droplets approached the rubble near President Lyi and transformed into enchanting aquatic realms.
The water droplets, no larger than a fingertip, expanded millions of times over, enveloping the scattered stones near President Lyi.
Crack, crack!
The stones shattered under the immense gravitational force of the countless water worlds.
Then, Yu Yuan saw numerous deceased bodies, exposed by the fracturing of the stones.
Shuras, towering archdemons of the Everlands, alien beasts from beyond our world, and warriors from the Silverscale Tribe were all present.
The deceased alien beasts and otherworldly creatures were predominantly of the eighth level, with a few ninth-level Shuras and Silverscale Tribe elites among them.
These beings, originally not small in stature, had seemingly been transformed into stone sculptures and were sealed within the rubble.
At a cursory glance, Yu Yuan realized there were nearly a hundred bodies!
Had the stones not been cracked open, he would never have guessed that the rubble floating beside President Lyi was actually composed of the remains of alien beasts and Otherkin.
"You've fallen into demonhood."
The Abyssal Leviathan lamented, "Back when I was in the Embers Sea, you had your ambitions, your dreams. Alas, I never imagined that just as the Skyreach Consortium was on the brink of significant expansion, and you were on the cusp of ascending to the highest level, you would..."
Crack! Crack!
He continued to apply force, attempting to compress the corpses with the power of water. Yet, these remains, tempered by the warriors of various races, had become as unyielding as iron stone and resisted being crushed by the droplets.
The Abyssal Leviathan's face grew increasingly solemn.
Yu Yuan felt a premonition of danger and probed, "I haven't heard from the Consortium recently. Where have you been? President Lyi, what brings you to the Ashlands so suddenly? You didn't inform anyone of your arrival, did you?"
The lifeless bodies of various races that hovered beside President Lyi had lost all scent of flesh and blood. They were infused with black iron, gold, and silver, transformed into cold, metallic remnants.
Yet, there was some inexplicable bond between their souls and that of President Lyi.
Caught off guard at first, President Lyi fell into a deep silence once the Abyssal Leviathan exposed his deeds. He remained speechless for an extended period.
Moreover, the glimmer of humanity in his eyes seemed to be slowly extinguishing.
"You haven't been taken over by the Origin Deity, have you?"
Yu Yuan's face paled, sensing something profoundly wrong with President Lyi before him.
A figure as formidable as President Lyi couldn't be manipulated by just anyone. Only a being at the level of the Origin Deity, adept at ensnaring hearts, could potentially influence him.
"No," President Lyi finally murmured in response.
In a flash, the corpses he had transformed into Sunsilver puppets morphed into swords, ice blades, and spears, tearing through the water world and hurtling towards the Abyssal Leviathan at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Each water droplet burst, and it seemed as though billions of lives were extinguished in an instant. As President Lyi acted, Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit sensed the tiny life forms within the miraculous water worlds created by those droplets.
But in just a short time, those nascent lives, not yet evolved into intelligent beings, were obliterated by President Lyi.
"You truly have descended into darkness," the Abyssal Leviathan remarked, its tone icy. It did not assume its giant beast form but countered the oncoming skeletal assault with a palm strike.
Huala!
In an instant, a massive, misty emerald wall materialized. Within this wall, Yu Yuan glimpsed lakes from distant stars, vast oceans, and innumerable sea creatures. Meandering rivers, brimming with the water laws of the cosmos, continued to foster marine life.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
The Otherkin corpses, now Divine Weapons, forged by President Lyi, failed to penetrate the emerald barrier.
"You've spent so much time, yet you've still not recovered. You're just as weak as you always were," President Lyi's eyes, now as bizarre as the Abyssal Leviathan's, shifted unsettlingly between gold, silver, copper, and iron, exuding a chilling indifference.
"Break!"
With his command, the corpse of a Golden Shura, refined into a beam of silver-white lightning, managed to pierce the emerald wall conjured by the Abyssal Leviathan.
As the barrier shattered, the Abyssal Leviathan's brow furrowed, and it instantly manifested its giant beast form. The green Abyssal Leviathan, now a colossal fish, transformed its scales into shields to deflect the silver-white lightning.
Yet more Sunsilver corpses seized the chance to invade the Water Domain, aiming for the unprotected vital areas of its neck, eyes, and abdomen.
"With your current level of power, venturing into the depths of the Ashlands would be fatal," President Lyi stated icily. "Since death is inevitable, why not perish at my hand and let me extract your heart?"
Whoosh!
While observing the battle, Yu Yuan was taken aback when, in the blink of an eye, President Lyi materialized before him.
President Lyi's eyes, which had been shifting between hues, settled into one gold and one silver, as if he had spent millennia refining two majestic mountains of gold and silver, integrating them into his very being, transforming them into lethal weapons.
"It's all because of you," President Lyi stated flatly to Yu Yuan. "Your return, the anomaly at the Dragon Slaying Stage—it shattered the Everlands' seal over the Nagas. Your assistance enabled Loong Jie to secure a divine throne, ushering in a new era of splendor for the Nagas."
"Loong Jie's ascension to Dragon God status has severed my sacred way, obliterating any glimmer of hope for me."
"Therefore, I have no choice but to forge a new path."
"A path untrodden, unknown to anyone before—a path of extraordinary nature."
"I shall transform my flesh and blood into a Divine Artifact!"
With a tearing sound, President Lyi's body abruptly morphed into a spear adorned with gold and silver patterns. As Yu Yuan watched in horror, the spear thrust through his midsection.
As the spear penetrated, billions of particles of gold, silver, copper, fine gold, and Sunsilver infiltrated the wound, filling his waist with their essence.
In that moment, Yu Yuan sensed his transformation from a living creature into an inanimate object, his rich life essence rapidly draining away.
With a single, unexpected strike, President Lyi delivered a harsh lesson.
Meanwhile, the Sunsilver, now under President Lyi's command, had been crafted into a heavenly artifact by the Artifact Sect. Its sheer numbers put the Abyssal Leviathan at a disadvantage.
President Lyi, having broken free from the extraterrestrial realm, was now single-handedly battling both Yu Yuan and the Abyssal Leviathan, intent on annihilating them both.
