I, the Lord of the Fifth Heavenly Throne, flow out of all things!

In Duanmulian's eyes, the other person's eyes were already covered with rotten marks like intertwined flowers, and it could be seen that the other person was unable to see.

The red-haired woman slowly stood up, and her deep and ethereal voice echoed in Duanmulian's ears.

"...I had a long dream."

"The body is like gold, and the blood is like corruption..."

"Countless corpses piled up..."

"Just to wait for that person to come back."

As if she was talking to herself or in a dream, the tall red-haired woman attached the golden prosthetic hand holding a sword on the ground to the remaining limb, and then put on the golden helmet with wings on her head.

The Valkyrie-like woman now had her limbs intact, her tall body standing straight, and began to release a sharp aura that was faintly superior to that of Ashina Isshin before.

She turned to Duanmulian with the sword in hand and walked towards her.

"Feel it...I, Marenia...the reason why I am invincible."

"It's a full sense of déjà vu. Although my soul has not recalled the memories, it deeply remembers the feeling of fighting you!"

Duanmulian also stepped towards the red-haired woman in front of him who was taller than him. After closing a distance between them, he suddenly swung the sword in his hand and slashed towards the other party.

He had no memory of fighting with the woman in front of him, but he knew her origins and identity.

Marlennia is a character from the game Elden Ring.

She is the younger sister of the twin demigods born to Marika and the second king, Vladagon. As such, she has a completely different nature from the demigods and is called a god-man. She possesses the original most sacred Great Rune.

He was born with the law of corruption because the god and the man were in a self-mated relationship. He was born with congenital deformities and defects. He used golden prosthetic limbs to complete his hands and feet and possessed extremely high swordsmanship skills.

Duanmulian of a certain generation had once been to that world and had a battle with the Valkyrie in front of him.

clang———!

Duanmulian and Marlenya collided with each other, their blades slashed against each other, the sharp cold edges rubbed violently, and sparks flew.

But this was only a momentary stalemate.

The next moment, Duan Mulian's arm muscles shook violently, and the huge force was transferred to the sword, directly knocking Marennia away.

The golden armor trembled, and the tall Valkyrie rolled several times in the air before removing the impact from herself. Finally, she landed on the roots of a giant tree and stabilized her body.

Duanmulian's sword had already struck before the opponent could stand firm.

The sword move, the secret Dragon Flash, created a large-scale sharp vacuum wave that flew towards Marlennia like falling rain.

And Marennia paid the price of serious injuries to break out of the encirclement of the slashing wave and launched a desperate counterattack.

Water birds are dancing!

"Cho! Choke! Choke! Choke—"

In an instant, Duanmulian seemed to hear the sharp sound of sharp blades clashing, like the sound of birds singing.

The phantom of a sharp blade that was difficult to see with the naked eye rose up from the body of Malenia and approached Duanmulian like a storm.

The seemingly chaotic and disorderly water birds were dancing wildly, but every blow was deadly, and each one was calmly and ruthlessly slashing at his vital points.

On the other side, Duanmulian, whose cheek had been scratched by the sharp energy, remained expressionless.

Secret Lotus Heart!

He took a step back suddenly, sheathed the knife, and then his right arm holding the knife turned into a blurry phantom.

“Ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!!”

The blades of Duanmulian and Marlennia began to collide violently at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and the storm of sword energy collision also formed a materialized vacuum network between the two.

Put away the sword, draw the sword, put away the sword, draw the sword, put away the sword, draw the sword…

Duanmulian's blurry right arm continued this action, as if it was a slash, but every time the knife was drawn and retracted, countless continuous sword slashes would emerge.

The dense sword lights and sword energy have formed a substantial lotus umbrella-shaped slashing network in front of Duanmulian.

He fought hard against the opponent's water bird, but he also suppressed it fiercely, and finally killed it directly, sending the opponent into the second stage.

This is a sword move adapted from the secret sword technique of Isshin in the Ashina-ryu, and was created by Duanmu Lian imitating Vergil in "Devil May Cry" who used the Yama Sword to quickly draw and slash continuously.

Therefore, the one heart is called the lotus heart.

Malenia's swordsmanship style is completely different from Japanese kendo. For Duanmulian, it is a completely different style of fighting.

Although it is novel, there is no sense of novelty.

The best practice is fighting.

Throw punches, draw swords, hone yourself.

In order to transcend the bondage of eternity.

The nihilist Duanmulian believes that it must be the most meaningful, so he is very positive and motivated!

But looking at countless memories of oneself, that is a very distant goal.

He is challenging the [infinity] beyond human reason.

So no matter how many times I am reborn or die, I still can't see the end.

"I don't have the sense of getting stronger and better, and I feel so empty..."

After finishing the battle with Marennia, Duanmulian walked out of the training space and sighed helplessly.

From an objective point of view, there is no doubt that Duanmulian has become many times stronger than her original self, and is even getting stronger every day.

But so what? Soul-wise and even mentally, what he felt was as it should be.

It didn't seem like he was practicing to become stronger, but rather that he was slowly regaining the power that he should have had.

Duanmulian also knew that this was the sequelae of pre-existing knowledge. After his soul became stronger, he also had some understanding of what he had done in the past.

His current experience of cultivating and becoming stronger is something that many Duanmulians have experienced long ago.

Repeating something thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, trillions of times... anyone would feel nauseous and annoyed.

Although Duanmulian did not feel nauseous or annoyed, she also felt the emptiness of having no achievements in her efforts and no sense of reality.

"There's nothing we can do about it. You can only be patient at this stage."

In response to Duanmulian's reaction, Darien sat on a magic book with her legs crossed and shrugged her shoulders to show that she was helpless.

In the past, his soul was not big enough and he couldn't perceive the sense of knowing at all. Now that Duanmulian has strong capital, he should be happy about it.

No, or maybe Duanmu Lian has already been happy.

This feeling was not the first time that Duanmu Lian had experienced it, so he could not experience that unique feeling.

"That's right...Darian, now that I have completed this stage of training, I have to choose which path to take. I am somewhat inclined towards the spiritual martial arts path."

After a day of practice, Duanmulian began to practice while eating according to the schedule arranged by Darien.

That is the food ethics training from the Shokurinji Temple in the world of "Gourmet Prisoner".

Duanmu Lian held the bowl and chopsticks and ate the rice with rice-wrapped egg. This kind of rice is very special. Each grain of rice is a small egg, which will become rice-wrapped boiled egg after being cooked.

However, because the eggs inside are too small and too easy to break, it is best to carefully pick them out one by one with chopsticks.

Of course, if you are skilled at it, you can eat it in big mouthfuls without damaging a single egg.

If you accidentally break one of the rice grains, the surrounding rice grains will also break in a chain reaction and affect the overall taste.

Nowadays, Duanmulian’s control over his body is enough to allow him to eat in big mouthfuls.

"The spiritual martial arts path..."

Hearing that Duan Mulian preferred this path and did not choose the path of magic, Darien was not disappointed at all. Instead, she lowered her head and pondered for a while, then continued:

"Your 'predecessors' have walked a path that is neither long nor short. The relevant knowledge they have accumulated also means that you don't have to start from scratch. This path can be extended in many directions."

The reason why Duanmulian chose this path is because human hearts occupy a very important position in the world of the throne of God.

It has also been mentioned repeatedly by the First Lord of the Throne, the True Self.

Everything is the color woven by the human heart...

The desire in the world of God's throne is what people want.

For example, the third level of Eternal Destruction: Creation.

That is to materialize one's own desires, fanaticism, and obsessions, and transform them into a "different world" with completely different rules. This is the prototype of tyranny.

To transform oneself into an independent and different world within oneself and create is to seek the truth.

The kind of path you will achieve is determined by your own wishes and obsessions.

Therefore, no matter which one, it requires extremely extreme and strong [self] and [persistence].

The concept of mind possesses all of these.

"Have I ever tried to walk the path of desire before?"

After finishing her meal, Duanmulian looked at the densely numbered records in the [Universal Records], and while reading her past memories, she asked Darien.

His memories are so many and so vast, and each one is different.

There is a self who has a technological and superpowered path, a self who has followed the path of martial arts, a self who has followed the path of the soul... The life in these memories is truly wonderful and long-lasting, and even more dazzling.

If Duanmulian were to absorb these memories recklessly, there is a great possibility that she would lose herself.

"'Lian' once told me that there are... but compared to all the Duanmu lotuses, there are very few."

Darien pondered for a moment, then nodded and confirmed Duanmulian's question.

In the girl's reminiscence, the previous demon god Lian mentioned this matter to her.

Most Duanmulians did not choose to follow the power system of the Shenzuo Wanxiang worldview for the following reasons.

1. He didn’t know if he could become a god.

After all, in the plot of the Day of God's Wrath, those who can become gods are either born gods or have a relationship with gods.

Reinhardt can be said to be the other half of Mercury Serpent, because he is the embodiment of Mercury Serpent's desire for destruction, that is, the self-destruction factor.

And Fujii Ren is the son created by Mercury Snake himself, and he used his own relics and blood to make the scabbard for Margaret.

what?

You mean eternal destruction?

That system can indeed make you stronger by killing people and devouring their souls, but if your own soul is not qualified enough and you don’t have divinity, no matter how strong you are, you are just an ant in front of God.

2. Monochrome tyranny itself is a flawed way.

The God of Tyranny is undoubtedly very powerful, but his various flaws are also clearly visible.

Uncertainty and instability are quite high.

3. Duanmu Lian felt that the system that turned from a single entity to multiple entities upon enlightenment was not suitable for him.

Everything requires one to understand one's own desires, and everything requires one to rely on one's own obsession. This is a bit too much for Duanmulian, who has worked hard and down-to-earth to get to where she is today.

You can tell this by looking at the number of times he has died and been reborn.

He has never considered himself as the protagonist. After all, in the world view of God's Wrath, the condition for becoming the protagonist is to be God's toy.

How ironic and ridiculous.

4. Duan Mulian’s situation does not allow and is not suitable.

He knew that his soul qualifications were not like those who were born with gods and relationships with gods, so he did not focus on this aspect at the beginning.

By the time Duanmulian had the capital to take that path, he had already embarked on another system, so it was impossible for him to give up halfway.

"I see......."

After listening to Darien's description, Duanmulian also expressed her understanding of the situation at that time.

Thanks to the efforts of countless Duanmulians, there are now many ways for him to become stronger.

For the time being, there is really not much need to cling to the seeking and domineering power system.

"You've been in the training space for a long time. Do you want to have a real combat adventure? And upgrade your equipment at the same time."