Heroes Return

Ignoring the monsters and the strange girl in front of him, Thirteen began to walk deeper into the pillar.

"Should I yell something like 'Barbartos' right now?" Thirteen muttered dismissively, continuing his journey deeper into the pillars. Time passed, and though he didn't know how long he walked, Thirteen finally encountered something that truly suffocated him.

Right before Thirteen, a massive white pillar appeared. Unlike other demonic pillars, this one radiated divine power. Furthermore, it was carved with numerous holy angels and various musical instruments capable of producing beautiful sacred music.

Right in the middle of the pillar, a man was sleeping peacefully on it, half of his body embedded in the sleeping pillar, and the other half outside.

However, as Thirteen approached the pillar, he revealed an even more shocked expression.

Because the man on the pillar was none other than the Son of God. To Thirteen's utter surprise, the Son of God had appeared here; logically, he should have been completely destroyed by the Spirit of the End. But for some reason, he appeared within the pillar.

The moment Thirteen appeared, the Son of God on the pillar suddenly opened his eyes.

The moment their eyes met, the sound of a mirror shattering echoed around Thirteen, and the next second Thirteen found himself in a special space.

This was a very eerie and pitch-black tunnel. Also present in the tunnel were Lin Jie, Dao Qizhan, and Xiao Zhan.

"Finally found you." Upon seeing Thirteen, Xiao Zhan asked the crowd with a helpless expression, "What did you all see?"

Upon hearing Xiao Zhan's question, the other three fell silent. For some reason, none of them answered Xiao Zhan's question.

However, it was Dao Qizhan who spoke first.

"That girl, could you help take care of her? Her identity isn't suitable for the Sword Hall; it's more appropriate for her to stay in the mortal realm," Dao Qizhan said calmly to Lin Jie.

"That girl? The girl outside?" Upon hearing the other person's words, Lin Jie couldn't help but think of the girl from the Kunlun Immortal Sect outside.

“She is Xiao Sansheng’s daughter,” Dao Qizhan said calmly to Lin Jie.

"What did you say? That old scoundrel actually has a daughter! Are there really women willing to be with someone like that?" Lin Jie looked shocked upon hearing Dao Qizhan's words. Although Thirteen and Xiao Zhan didn't fully understand what the two were saying, they vaguely guessed what was going on.

At the same time, both of them had a lewd smile on their faces.

"Now, it's time to witness the true Kunlun Mirror!" Seeing that everyone had fallen silent, Dao Qizhan's newly acquired Taiji Eye began to spin continuously. As the Taiji Eye, named Breaking Illusion, spun, cracks appeared in the surrounding space, as if a mirror were shattering. Then, a vast space appeared before everyone's eyes.

The group seemed to be standing in the sky, with countless images appearing around them. The sheer number of these images was overwhelming. Lin Jie and the others were quite surprised.

"This is the true world within the Kunlun Mirror," Dao Qizhan said calmly to Lin Jie and the others. "It contains all the secrets of this world."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhan couldn't help but look at a scene not far away. In the scene, a beautiful woman wearing a bath towel was slowly taking it off: "As expected of an ancient treasure! Truly amazing! This woman looks like the wife of one of our company's employees? It doesn't seem quite right for me to watch my subordinate's wife undress like this?"

After thinking for a moment, a lewd smile crept onto Xiao Zhan's face: "I almost forgot, I gave all my money to Bu Feiwu. So, if that's the case, I'm no longer the company's top manager. Naturally, I'm no longer his superior. From that perspective, there's nothing to hide!"

As Xiao Zhan spoke, he once again admired the images in the video, but he immediately spotted another man in the video. This man was not his former subordinate, but another man he didn't recognize. If he had to say, this man was stronger and younger than his former subordinate.

"Holy crap!" Xiao Zhan exclaimed upon seeing this scene, "I never imagined that one of my former employees would encounter something like this. The world is going to the dogs! No wonder this is considered a secret."

As Xiao Zhan spoke, a strange expression appeared on his face. But it had to be admitted that this was indeed a secret.

"If that's the case, if there's a statistical system in the Kunlun Mirror, wouldn't I instantly know how many men in the world have been cheated on every day?" However, while Xiao Zhan was thinking about this, he didn't notice that Thirteen was silent beside him.

Despite the world's secrets, Thirteen walked forward silently, seemingly oblivious to everything around him. Lin Jie, like Xiao Zhan, was currently watching a beautiful woman undress.

Lin Jie, whose expression had unconsciously bent into a comical shape, was looking at the scenery in front of him with excitement. However, when the girl completely took off the few pieces of clothing she was wearing, Lin Jie's expression changed.

"Holy crap! What a huge python!!!" Lin Jie exclaimed in shock after glancing at the woman's crotch. He instinctively covered his eyes, "So, are men really prettier than women these days?! Ahhhhh! My 24K titanium alloy eyes!!"

"Tch! There are so many secrets here, yet you insist on looking at these secrets with erotic undertones," Xiao Zhan said disdainfully to Lin Jie from the side.

"Does a man who just peeked at his employee's wife have the right to say such things?" Lin Jie said directly to Xiao Zhan after hearing the other party's words.

As they talked, the group walked deeper into the area.

Deep inside, the man with glasses sat calmly somewhere, and in his hand, a mirror formed of flowing light floated peacefully in mid-air.

"This is impossible! Why is this happening! Why can't I control your body anymore?" The owner of the mirror exclaimed in shock as he looked at the bespectacled man holding the Kunlun Mirror.

Just as he was trying to use the Glasses Brother to communicate with the mirror and make the mirror obey the Glasses Brother's body commands, the mirror master was shocked to find that he had indeed successfully established a connection between the Glasses Brother's body and the Kunlun Mirror. However, he was also shocked to find that the Glasses Brother's consciousness had disappeared. At the same time as his consciousness disappeared, the Glasses Brother's body also lost its control.

Of course, this was not the end. What shocked the mirror master even more was that an even stronger will flowed into the Glasses Brother's body through the Kunlun Mirror. It was for this reason that the Glasses Brother's body was controlled by this will.

Although the Mirror Master attempted to regain control of his body within the mental space, he ultimately failed, much to his astonishment. The sheer power of that will was far beyond anything he or his bespectacled friend could match.

……

"Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?" Just as the Mirror Master was trying to reclaim his body, the bespectacled man unexpectedly found himself in a strange world. It wasn't that he wanted to ask such philosophical questions, but he was now forced to. Because within the bespectacled man's consciousness, without realizing it, he couldn't remember who he was!

Chapter 25

Just as the bespectacled man's thoughts sank into that space, right before Lin Jie and the others, he suddenly stood up. With his rise, the surrounding secrets vanished one by one. All the scenes within the space disappeared from everyone's sight at that moment.

Although we don't know exactly what happened, it certainly doesn't seem like a good thing. Fortunately, at least for now, nothing particularly troublesome has occurred. Since the guy with glasses is like a wild monster standing there, nothing unusual has happened as long as no one bothers him.

However, accidents often happen at this time.

"As expected, I can't find the answers I'm looking for here either." The demon's voice suddenly rang in everyone's ears: "What is the purpose of the Heavenly Dao? Why create the world, create life, give life will, and then destroy it! Why do this! Life is endless and cyclical! It's a principle everyone knows! But who decided all of this? Is it the Heavenly Dao? Then what is its purpose? What is the purpose of the universe? Isn't the Kunlun Mirror supposed to know all the secrets of the world? But why? Why can't I know the things I want to know? What is the reason for the existence of this world?"

As he spoke with a hint of disappointment, the demon's figure gradually appeared before everyone. They didn't know when he had arrived in this space. However, because the space was so vast, Lin Jie and the others hadn't noticed his presence at all.

He kept searching for the answer he sought within this mirror. But his relentless search only brought him further disappointment, because he ultimately failed to find the answer he was looking for.

Right in front of everyone, the demon walked directly toward the bespectacled man and the Kunlun Mirror.

"Since even you can't give me the answer I want, what use are you?" With these words, the demon's hand reached out to grab the bespectacled man and the Kunlun Mirror. This grab was enough to destroy everything in front of him.

However, this grab ultimately did not land on Glasses Brother or Kunlun Mirror. Because just as the grab was about to strike Kunlun Mirror, the demon's grab was caught by someone else.

"It was you?" The demon, realizing that his attack had been blocked, looked at Lin Jie with a questioning gaze once again.

“We meet again. Although I don’t know what you’re so angry about, this idiot is still my friend. So I absolutely can’t let you kill him.” Lin Jie’s hand was gripping the demon’s hand tightly at this moment.

"Who says you can't touch your friends? Today I'm going to touch them." As the demon spoke, he reached for the bespectacled man with his other hand once again.

This time, even the Demon King didn't touch the Kunlun Mirror; his target became Brother Glasses.

At this moment, Lin Jie also faced the demon's attack head-on, and with his other hand, he clenched his fist and punched the demon.

The collision erupted at that moment, two sonic booms blasting into everyone's ears, and then right before their eyes. The clash between Lin Jie and the demon had begun.

Each explosion brought the purest sounds of flesh colliding, without any unnecessary words or verbal sparring. Lin Jie and the demon exchanged hundreds of blows in the blink of an eye.

In the end, amidst all the attacks, Lin Jie grabbed the demon's wrist and flung it away a distance that was invisible to the naked eye. Just as the demon stood still in mid-air, Lin Jie appeared in front of it. However, this time the demon was not facing Lin Jie's fist, but the Radiant Immortal Execution Sword.

Without any unnecessary words, Lin Jie slashed the Immortal Execution Sword directly at the demon.

However, this time the demon still managed to dodge it; the Immortal Slaying Sword Qi, which possessed the ability to always hit, was once again bypassed by the demon.

At this point, Lin Jie understood that laws were utterly meaningless to demons. Therefore, he simply abandoned any attempt to control the laws and instead unleashed a brutal attack with the most brute force.

In an instant, the sky was filled with flashing sword light.

"Is this all you've got?" After fighting for a while, the demon finally showed an impatient expression. Just as Lin Jie's sword light continued to attack, the demon's fist also emitted a dark aura.

This time, the demon didn't dodge at all. He simply threw a punch forward, which collided directly with the oncoming Immortal Execution Sword Qi. Incredibly, the demon shattered the Immortal Execution Sword Qi. But this wasn't the end. He immediately followed up with a series of punches, continuously annihilating the surrounding Immortal Execution Sword Qi with his fists.

Correspondingly, the Immortal Execution Sword continued to tremble with resentment. However, Lin Jie remained expressionless, continuing his battle with the demon.

"Four Forms - True Martial Hundred Battles!"

Similar to the black aura on the demon's body, it was undoubtedly the black aura on Lin Jie's body. Accompanying the burst of black aura from various ancient ferocious beasts was Lin Jie's attack.

Without any unnecessary words, Lin Jie's weapon shot directly at the distant enemy. Faced with this sight, even the demon's eyes lit up.

Almost simultaneously, a blood-red light tinged with black shone forth. The sky had inexplicably turned completely blood-red, with countless skeletal remains churning within its crimson hue. On the ground, boundless killing intent seemed to solidify, and countless black auras appeared before Lin Jie's eyes.

A crimson-black aura rose from the demon's body. Two chains had appeared in his hands, seemingly out of nowhere. These chains were not his own, nor were they forged by any living being in the world; they were created by the Heavenly Sword to bind him. Yet, he ultimately broke free of their restraints.

Wielding iron chains, in this incredibly awe-inspiring moment, the demon's chains met Lin Jie, who was covered in terrifying black energy, and the Immortal Execution Sword in Lin Jie's hand.

The longsword clashed with the iron chain, the sound of the impact echoing continuously.

Fortunately, this collision between the two didn't occur in a city. Otherwise, their constant clashes would have been enough to destroy the city.

The clash of forces continued frantically, and the fighting spirit of the Immortal Execution Sword grew ever stronger.

The enemy before me is not a god, yet is undeniably powerful; the enemy before me is not a saint, yet is equally immortal; the enemy before me possesses no merit, yet is neither dead nor indestructible. This is the demon!

In the final clash, the Zhuxian Sword unleashed its most powerful aura ever.

A massive sword light pierced the entire sky, splitting the Blood River in two, and countless undead skeletons vanished from the vast expanse of space. The surrounding scenery returned to the world reflected in the Kunlun Mirror, but just as the battle ended, the chains in the demon's hand finally bound the Immortal Execution Sword in Lin Jie's grasp.

As the Zhuxian Sword vibrated in Lin Jie's hand, the chains tightened further. The Heavenly Lock and Heavenly Chains—how could they possibly break free so easily?

Faced with this situation, the demon's gaze finally turned to Lin Jie opposite him: "You are very strong! Strong enough to defy the heavens! But you are also very weak, so weak that you bore me! Your self-proclaimed righteous rules have been binding you like these iron chains! You clearly had the hope of seeing a scene I had never seen before, but you were bound and unable to move forward."

"Move forward? I'm already very happy, why should I keep moving forward! I'm already content with this life, there's no need for so much trouble. I'm more curious about the purpose of the universe, why do you think so much about such things? Since you're a demon, isn't it enough to just live happily?"

"You're right! Why should I think so much? Since I'm a demon, all I need to do is be happy and do whatever I want! Hahahaha! But! I can't truly be happy and do whatever I want until I understand this problem!!" Hearing Lin Jie's words, the demon calmly replied, "Those who walk different paths cannot work together. Since you dare to block my way, then go to hell!"

As the demon spoke, the iron chains in his hands once again unleashed terrifying power, winding around Lin Jie along the Zhuxian Sword. But the next second, his eyes finally revealed a look of shock.

Almost instinctively, the demon took a step back and jumped away.

But then, the demon's pupils contracted again, and it instinctively tried to block once more. However, nothing happened in the end. Just before the demon's eyes, the chains binding Lin Jie had already been removed. The Immortal Execution Sword, with a resentful tremor, vanished from Lin Jie's hand.

Just then, a massive sword, as enormous as a galaxy, hovered above the demon's head. Almost the instant the demon instinctively tried to dodge, the sword was pressed against his face. In that next moment, as he instinctively raised his hand to defend, he realized the sword wasn't actually in front of him at all.

This sword is everywhere, yet it is nowhere.

In fact, this sword exists in a higher dimension, outside the universe!

"I misjudged you!" Seeing this, the demon's face finally hardened with a serious expression: "You are not some law-abiding citizen of Heaven! You are the greatest traitor in the world! Hahahaha! Interesting! Absolutely fascinating! I never imagined that when I woke up again, this world would have become so interesting! Let's fight again! Let me see what this power of yours truly is?"

Now, directly opposite the demon, Lin Jie's darkness had completely dissipated, and he appeared to be bathed in sunlight, calmly observing the demon.

His hand had already tightened its grip on that omnipresent yet nonexistent longsword!

P.S.: Happy New Year to everyone! There will be a second update today.

Chapter 26

Just as Lin Jie was battling the demon, the bespectacled man beside him also underwent a change. As if sensing the terrifying killing intent emanating from the demon, his expression changed dramatically. Right before Xiao Zhan and the others, mirrors appeared in the eyes of everyone present.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Xiao Zhan, Shisan, and Dao Qizhan were surrounded by countless mirrors.

Dao Qizhan didn't say much, but calmly drew his longsword. He looked in the direction of the bespectacled man, as if he would mercilessly slash him to death on the spot in the next second.

"Wait a minute! If you attack directly like this, Glasses Bro will be finished!!" Seeing Dao Qizhan's reaction, Xiao Zhan stepped in front of Dao Qizhan: "They are my brothers, so just leave them to me."

"He is no longer your brother." Dao Qizhan said calmly, "With his will, he should never be able to come back."

"What a joke! Glasses Bro is just being controlled. As long as we take off his glasses, there won't be any problems." Xiao Zhan disagreed with Dao Qizhan's words at this moment.

“His glasses can no longer control him.” Dao Qizhan’s tone remained as calm as ever: “What’s controlling him now isn’t the glasses on his face, but the mirror in his hand.”