"I'll teach you a spell to find people. If Si has been here, you'll be able to see her footsteps, making it easier to track—With the rhythmic chant, pierce through the profound mysteries, auspicious clouds rise beneath your feet, as the Buddha's lion roams ahead...]
In front of him was a twisted space; from Li Changzhou's perspective, the golden footprints on the other side seemed to go upwards.
If he couldn't stop the space and destroy the 'Flesh Space River,' which acted as an edge line, this small step before him would be the gap between a primitive and a Moon dweller.
A black hand grabbed, pulled, and connected the two spaces. The previously upward-moving golden footprints, like a drawbridge being lowered, flattened out again.
After tearing apart twelve edge lines and defeating five Flesh warrior sneak attacks, Li Changzhou encountered a living person.
Not Li Qianxia.
Amid a field of flesh corpses, the individual sat on a rock, ripping apart a limb from a Flesh Beast with his teeth, frantically feeding.
"This person is... the fallen Abby?]
Abby was an alien resembling humans in appearance, but definitely not human, for as a bona fide Earth-born human, Li Changzhou saw him as though looking at a skeleton.
To be precise, Abby appeared like a human put under an X-ray, his body transparent, with a skeletal frame dancing.
Abby looked up, his hand moving toward the dagger on his back.
"Don't get agitated." Li Changzhou descended slowly.
After looking at him for three seconds, Abby withdrew his hand from the dagger and continued to gnaw at the limb of the Flesh Beast.
Li Changzhou's gaze followed the food, as it traveled down Abby's esophagus into his stomach, then his gaze moved back to Abby's face.
"Your signal disappeared," he said.
"Surprising," Abby, like gnawing on a sugarcane, broke off a piece from the limb with his teeth, "besides the Flower Fairy, there are others who can walk in Chaotic Space."
"A little trick," Li Changzhou said, "I'm not very familiar with your technology, but your equipment shows you are dead. What's that about?"
"A little trick to avoid death, and then, my retinal display device broke." Abby pointed at his eyes—Li Changzhou could only see the holes in his skull.
Li Changzhou nodded.
"Wait for me to finish this piece, then we'll act together." Abby accelerated his feeding pace.
His shattered bones, along with his eating, slowly started to heal.
The ability to heal wounds by eating, in the eyes of Earth-born Li Changzhou, was not remarkable; he once had a similar C-rank skill.
The black hand tightened, seizing Abby in its grip.
"Ah!" Abby let out a heart-wrenching wail.
As if a hot hand was covering an ice cube, Abby's body dissolved inch by inch into the black mist.
[I was about to remind you]
"In a place without network connection, the Divine Will Great Wall still specifically equips soldiers with retinal display devices, it's unlikely for fun," he said.
The black hand brought Abby in front of Li Changzhou, and Li Changzhou's own hand pressed on Abby's head.
Abby's screams stopped abruptly, his mouth wide open, unable to make a sound.
Memories bubbled up tumultuously, and as the bubbles burst, countless images fluttered about.
"Flesh possession? Somewhat similar to my black mist takeover, on the scale of the universe, the abilities of the black mist really are street vendor level."
Li Changzhou released the twitching Abby; his brain had been read and burned by the ruthless memory reading spell.
Without a brain, the Flesh that had taken residence in his body lost the ability to think, becoming vegetative.
The black hand clenched forcefully, then released, and Abby's body disappeared as if by magic.
OKIS carried Li Changzhou aloft, continuing to follow the golden footprints of Li Qianxia.
A glance revealed that, in the retina, the red light wrapping around Si had dimmed slightly, evidently she had weathered the perilous moment, but her life force was much weaker.
Not just Si, besides Li Changzhou, nearly everyone's information bar was surrounded by red light, varying only in brightness.
Whoosh!
Li Changzhou became a death line, like a black lightning bolt, the space before him not yet completely stabilized, a hint of the 'Flesh Space River' barely materializing before it was smashed and turned to ashes by the death line.
He increased his speed.
With each 'Flesh Space River' the death line shattered, a little bit of the black mana inside his body diminished.
The more familiar the object, the less mana the death line consumed. For instance, the Immortal who was killed by Li Changzhou, an Immortal achieved by a human, even if not recognized at first glance, just needed a serious look to become familiar, like the lines on the palm, overlooked normally, but clear as day upon inspection.
The converse was true for unfamiliar objects; the death line consumed a great deal of mana.
As for time, space, dimensions, those omnipresent yet intangible entities, the death line couldn't touch them.