Abroad.
In a small temple.
Le Le, who previously represented Paradise Lost at the Nine Great Organizations meeting, was now devoutly kneeling on a meditation cushion, staring at the shrine placed on the divine platform, his face full of piety and fervor.
"Great Demon God, your most devout servant has now obeyed your oracle, opened the prison, so why do you still refuse to descend upon the world, to cleanse all filth and sin, but instead show grace to these sinners?"
As Le Le's words fell,
"Whoosh..."
In the gloomy and dark temple, a mournful and eerie wind suddenly rose.
It blew the flames of the few remaining candles in front of the divine platform from a pale yellow to a ghastly green.
An appearance brimming with a ghostly aura.
At that moment, the wind intensified, blowing away the black cloth covering the shrine and revealing a complete skeleton inside.
However, this skeleton was different from the normal pale white color, instead, it was eerily black and purplish, displaying a jade-like sheen.
Then, a voice that only Le Le could hear began resonating in his mind.
"I understand, so in the end, it has still failed, and I must find Xiang Mantang and retrieve the devil's shadow attached to her to succeed? Then I must kill this person!"
Le Le suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with anger and a murderous intent.
Instantly, the skin on his face began to rapidly decompose and fall off; in mere moments, his whole appearance became like that of a living zombie, with scarcely a piece of good flesh on his body.
A putrid smell of decaying flesh began to emanate from him.
And his aura was climbing steadily, becoming more and more horrifying.
If Mu Jinyu and Tathagata-like powerhouses from the God Realm were here, they would definitely notice that Le Le, whose strength wasn't particularly formidable, now possessed the might of the God Realm.
It turns out that in his ordinary human state, Le Le was almost like any other person, but as a Zombie Demon, even Mu Jinyu and the others might not be his match!
"Whoosh..."
At this time, the wind blew again, lifting the black cloth up and then gently placing it back on the shrine, covering the dark skeleton within.
"Yes, your servant takes his leave!"
Le Le seemed to have heard something else and spoke with a trace of sincere fear, then rose from the meditation cushion and walked towards the door.
As he stepped out of the small temple.
"Bang!"
A dull thud of a closing door sounded as the temple doors shut on their own without any wind.
"Garden Owner, this is the newly captured Demon."
At this time, a man dressed in similar attire to Le Le, holding a gold-made safe, showed no concern for Le Le's eerie appearance, and respectfully handed the safe over to him.
"What type of Demon is it?"
Le Le took the safe passed to him by his subordinate without immediately checking it, asking first.
"Temporarily codenamed Ghost Eye, many abilities are still unexplored, and the current threat level is not significant..."
The man spoke respectfully.
"Is that so?"
Le Le did not doubt the words of his subordinate, as they were all like him, absolutely submissive to the black-boned Demon God in the shrine, they were the most loyal, the most reliable servants.
Therefore, without any hesitation, he directly opened the safe in his hand.
The gold-crafted safe was opened, and immediately, a sinister, terrifying aura, like a gas leak, pervaded the air, making one instantly feel a chilling presence spreading.
The respectfully waiting man, feeling this cold presence, couldn't help but shudder, feeling a bit chilled as if he were being watched by some inexplicable eerie entity.
And Le Le was completely unconcerned about the ghostly energy twining around him, staring directly into its source.
Inside the safe, a pair of eyeballs lay silently, covered in bloodshot veins, looking like red eyes.
And at the moment when Le Le's gaze was fixed upon it,
"Swoosh!"
the pair of eyeballs suddenly began to rotate on their own, turning their stare from the talisman inside the safe to look up and meet Le Le's gaze.
"Humming..."
The moment Le Le locked eyes with the ghostly eyeballs, it was as if he saw an endless scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the gold safe he held seemed to turn into a bloody human head.
If it had been an ordinary person, they would have been so frightened that they'd have thrown the safe away at once.
But Le Le was no longer a normal person and naturally wasn't disturbed by the hallucinations created by the Ghost Eye.
He calmly met the Ghost Eye's stare and then reached out, grabbing the pair of eyeballs within.
"Gurgle gurgle!"
As Le Le grasped the eyeballs in his hand, they started to struggle slightly.
Le Le could feel as if sharp needles were pricking his palm, as if the eyeballs were trying to bite through his skin and burrow into his body.
However, Le Le's hand was no longer that of a normal person's; it was pale, dry, and corpse-like. As the Ghost Eye tried to drill into his palm, a faint black glow suddenly burst forth from his hand, enveloping the eyeballs.
Instantly, the eyeballs that had been writhing ceaselessly in his palm quieted down.
It was as if a mouse had met a cat and dared not move.
"Indeed weaker, not the Holy Pupil I wished for most, but given the scarcity of Sacred Body fragments, I'll just make do for now,"
Le Le muttered to himself before lifting his right hand and without any hesitation, extended it toward his own eye socket.
"Sssht!"
With a gentle scoop and dig, Le Le plucked out his own eyeballs, his palm immediately turning blood-soaked.
The man standing respectfully to one side saw this scene without surprise or shock.
Le Le removed his own eyeballs one after the other without a single groan, too much of a tough guy.
Then, he picked up one of the ghostly eyeballs from his hand and tried to stuff it into his hollow, bloody eye socket.
As soon as the Ghost Eye touched the eye socket, it was like a fish in water, a tiger in the forest, instantly breaking free from Le Le's fingers and, with a slick sound, burrowed into his eye socket.
Suddenly, Le Le, who had been blind without his eyes, could see again with his left eye, though it was somewhat hazy and overlaid with a faint red grid, making everything he saw tinged with pale red, devoid of other colors.
Le Le blinked his left eye, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, and then picked up the other eyeball and stuffed it into his right eye socket.
With another slick sound, the last Ghost Eye also burrowed into his eye socket.
Trying to blink his eyes, two trails of blood began flowing down from his eye sockets.
Yet his vision became almost as clear as it had been originally.
Only that faint red grid seemed to have embedded deeply into his eyes, turning everything he saw into shades of red.
If there were people from other organizations present at this moment, they would undoubtedly wish to kill Le Le on the spot.
After exhausting their efforts and sacrificing many lives, they had barely managed to imprison a few demons, just waiting for a suitable Folded Space to seal them again in the future.
And here this guy was, claiming to cooperate with the operation, but in actuality, he was using the remains of demons to replace his body, transforming himself into something neither human nor ghost, all to enhance his strength!
Aside from those like Lucifer from Fallen Splendor who might be willing to try,
ascended beings like Sheng Rulai would absolutely not tolerate Le Le's behavior!
After all, no one could be sure whether his actions might lead to even greater chaos in the world!