"Hmph...you dare to say such words..." Shimura sneered again, "Are you too confident or don't take us seriously?"

"If you don't take you seriously, you won't say so much to you." Zilin replied, "As for confidence... is it too much? It depends on the result, right?"

"It makes sense." At this moment, Pang Haoye suddenly spoke, "Then let us first see if your words are true."

Before he finished speaking, the surrounding scenery had changed suddenly. In the blink of an eye, the eight of them came to a strange environment.

It looks like a ruin in the desert, and everything turns into black and white at the moment when the scenery changes.

The moon is white, the night is black; the sand is white, the stone is black; the light is white, the shadow is black...

In this weird black and white world, Pang Haoye's energy intensity also increased significantly. He, who was originally a vicious-level ability, exuded the momentum of a mad-level superior here.

"Is this the 'Lingxu'..." Although Zilin did not see this ability like the others, he was calm in the face of this change, "It is indeed a very troublesome ability."

"You know a lot." Pang Haoye stopped hiding when he heard that the other party even reported the name of his ability. "Since that's the case, I'll just say... Unless I take the initiative to remove my ability or die, the 'field' I created will not disappear, and no one or material can freely communicate between the spiritual ruins and the real world; so, you can do whatever you want here, even if you launch an attack that is enough to trigger a tsunami like you did when dealing with Nakanvo, it will not have any impact on the outside world."

"In other words, we can also take action without any scruples, right?" Before Zilin could reply, Shimura was already eager to try.

"Ha... I know a lot, but you seem to know a little less, right?" Unexpectedly, Zi Linri ignored Shimura and said to Pang Haoye, "Mr. Pang, you can't do this. You are already at this level. Have you not even figured out what your own abilities are?"

"What do you mean?" Pang Haoye asked with a frown without understanding the meaning.

"You just said that this is the 'field' you created, right?" Zilin said again.

"Do you want to say not?" Pang Haoye asked back.

"Of course not." Zi Lin said, "You think your ability is to 'create a closed, vast field, and your energy level will be greatly enhanced in that field', right?" He said it was not bad. That's what Pang Haoye understood, "But in fact... the truth of 'Lingxu' is not to create space, but to teleport people in a certain area, including yourself, to a certain space."

"Oh?" Pang Haoye was skeptical, "Then what you mean is... this place is actually just a place that exists in the real world?"

"Not that." Zilin shook his head.

Pang Haoye was a little impatient: "So where is this?"

"This is a long story..." Zilin said, "First of all, I have to ask, do you believe there are angels and demons in this world?"

"You might be trying to tell me that this is purgatory or something?" Pang Haoye said.

"Stop talking nonsense to him. I think he just wants to delay time and wait for his companions to come to save him!" Shimura interrupted again, intending to urge everyone to take action quickly.

"What are you panic? Didn't Mr. Pang say that outsiders can't get into this space?" Zilin continued.

"Okay, even if I believe it, what?" Pang Haoye didn't want to understand Shimura very much, so he immediately brought the topic back.

"Well..." Zilin nodded slightly, "Do you know the name Samar?"

"I have heard of it, but I don't know much about it." Pang Haoye responded.

His understanding is also a common situation for people in the 23rd century of the parallel universe. Although there are no religious organizations in this era, such religions/myths and legends can be easily found online.

"Samael has transformed into many images..." Zilin continued, "He can be a prophet full of wisdom, an archangel who commands the heavenly army, or a fallen angel who symbolizes sin, a member of the seven deadly sins, a demon prince who represents temptation... and sometimes, he can even be a snake, or a person wearing a mirror mask..."

At this point, he paused and said again: "More than a hundred years ago, Samar had come to this world. One day, he tried to take away control of a human ability person's control over his body, but unfortunately he ended in failure. Although this attempt failed, something unexpectedly left behind... A black and white space he used to temporarily imprison the soul or consciousness of the ability person was retained, and in the following century, it gradually expanded and turned into a special space parallel to the real world."

Hearing this, Pang Haoye said again: "Do you want to tell me... this place is the space you are talking about?"

"That's right." Zi Lin said, "Your ability, 'Lingxu', is actually a ability to establish a connection with this black and white space; this is not a unique phenomenon. There are many 'time and space guidance' ability in history. The nature of their ability is to establish connection with a specific space, and there are even people who can directly use their abilities to open the 'underworld rift'.

"But, among these abilities, a considerable number of people were killed by things in the alien space they connected to after they first activated their abilities; and some were like you... connected to a space without biological existence, and then misunderstandings about their abilities."

Pang Haoye thought for a few seconds: "Then how do you explain that my strength will become stronger here?"

"It means that you have a good 'equality' with this space." Zilin said, "Otherwise, why are you connected here?"

"Okay, just pretend that what you said is true." Pang Haoye said, "Then let me ask, how do you know this?"

When Zilin heard this, he smiled...

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January 16, 2219, at noon.

When Clauze walked into the bookstore, his face looked like an old man who was revisiting his hometown.

"You haven't changed." He soon saw Boss Tian sitting behind the desk, and walked towards the other party as he spoke.

"Each of each other." Tianyi was still the same, wearing a casual suit, crossing his legs, and putting a cup of half-drink coffee on his hand.

Although the two have not seen each other for many years, they neither care about their well-being like their old friends nor are they as tense as their enemies; because the two of them have too much understanding of each other, many of their communications have become plain and straightforward.

They first sarcastically talked about each other, then talked about some tea banquet and the lord, and then talked about it...

"What's the situation with that little boy?" Crowze asked while drinking tea, "Did you find yourself a successor?"

"How is it possible..." Tianyi replied, "He doesn't look like me at all, but he has similarities with you..."

Crowze instantly heard some message from this unintentional sentence: "Do you want him to be the leader of the next era?"

"You don't need to talk to me about the word "leader". You and I know it. It's more appropriate to use "emperor"." Tianyi replied.

"So you decided to give up the Federation and return to the Empire?" Crowze asked.

"Ha... what system will the next dynasty be used? How could it be my decision?" Tianyi asked with a smile, "Is the current federal system decided by me?"

Crowze shrugged: "Okay, I decided."

"Will it be over?" Tianyi said, "If you want to be a leader and retire after success, that's your business; Zilin thinks it's better for the world to be an emperor who has been in power for a long time."

"Next, are you going to tell me again that in fact, looking at human history, the imperial regime has a much longer lifespan than the federal system?" Clauze continued.

"If you don't like listening to me, I won't say it." Tianyi also shrugged and smiled and sipped his coffee.

"It doesn't matter, I've been indifferent and don't care anymore." Crowze said, "Just..." He paused for a moment and continued, "I observed it. Zilin seems to be not an ordinary human, right? Not to mention his body, is his mental state really okay?"

"It's okay, he's different from you in this regard." Tianyi replied, "He and his twin brother, they both knew very well from the beginning that they were 'what' they were and had already accepted their destiny."

Crowze's eyes changed slightly and he asked, "What are they?"

"Simply put..." Tianyi replied, "They are humanoid creatures I created from a wisp of embers left after my death, that is, Samar...."
Chapter completed!