World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 1198 - 535: The Road to Rebellion and Independence! (Important)_2

Chapter 1198: 535: The Road to Rebellion and Independence! (Important)_2

"Every time I died, I would cut a mark on my arm. In the end, my entire arm couldn’t hold any more." Lanling said, "I climbed very slowly. Sometimes it took me a day or two to die once."

Constantine saw the dense scars and said, "So, you died hundreds of times, thousands of times?"

"Yes." Lanling said, "Therefore, the time I spent there was ten years, not a month."

Instantly, Constantine received an important piece of information.

Lanling had trained for ten years to achieve such a great improvement, not just a month.

Moreover, this improvement came at the cost of countless deaths. Even though it was a Ghost Realm World, where one would be reborn after dying, it was still death.

"What is your current skill level?" Constantine asked.

"Ten-star Demonic Warrior." Lanling said, "Over these ten years, I’ve broken through more than a dozen levels."

This speed was also astonishing, but not unique; Du yan had also broken through more than a dozen levels in ten years, and that was through normal practice, not this hellish training.

Constantine said, "Then ultimately, how did you climb to the top of the Pyramid? Tens of thousands of steps, which is millions of pounds of weight, you couldn’t possibly bear it."

Lanling said, "I kept climbing up and up, but ultimately I didn’t exceed three hundred steps. I felt that even a hundred years wouldn’t get me out, and I had died countless times inside, dying with experience. Every time I was about to die, first my body would be destroyed, then consciousness would darken, soul would extinguish. The soul’s death is always a bit later than the body’s, so at the moment of bodily destruction, I directly used the Spirit Transcendence Skill to detach my soul from the body."

Constantine’s eyes suddenly brightened.

Lanling truly is a genius, this method indeed impressed people because the soul has no weight.

Lanling said, "I succeeded, my soul successfully detached from the body, becoming a beam of light, and then I continued to climb up. I originally thought the soul would have no weight, but surprisingly, it did. Around a few thousand steps, my soul’s light started to compress and dwindled, smaller and smaller, until the last tens of thousands of steps, it condensed into a glowing sphere, but I ultimately reached the top of the Pyramid."

Constantine’s eyes widened, staring intensely at Lanling, asked, "What’s at the top of the Pyramid?"

Lanling said, "It’s a grand hall, countless beauties, endless luxurious feasts, inside it is a flourishing empire. A king several hundred meters high sat on the Golden Throne in the hall, below were thousands of civil and military officials."

"Then what happened?" Constantine urgently asked.

Lanling said, "That king said I was the second person in thousands of years to climb to the top of this Pyramid, so he wanted to appoint me as the empire’s second marshal, with endless glory and wealth inside."

Constantine said, "You didn’t stay?"

Lanling shook his head and said, "No, because I saw the civil and military officials wearing gold armor, silk cloaks. But in a blink, they turned into armor made of twigs and cloaks made of leaves. The luxurious feasts they held, blink of the eye, turned into wild fruits and muddy water. These seemingly majestic and noble civil and military officials turned into emaciated and disheveled Barbarians."

Constantine said, "So everything was fake?"

"Yes, everything was an illusion." Lanling said, "These thousands of Barbarians are people who entered the Ghost Realm World over decades, indulged in the Illusion Realm."

Constantine said, "No, you endured countless hardships climbing to the top of the Pyramid, others might not be able to do it; why are there thousands who reached the top of the Pyramid?"

Lanling said, "Everyone’s illusion after entering is different. If you want to become strong, then it’s the top of the Pyramid; if you want wealth, desire beauties, it’s a different illusion."

Constantine sighed and said, "Understood."

Lanling said, "When I realized this was an illusion, everything around me began to change, the Pyramid disappeared, I found myself on a mountaintop, before me was a natural mirror, as if it was struck by lightning. Then, I went down the mountain and came out."

"You just walked out like that?" Constantine asked.

"Yes." Lanling said.

Constantine nodded, then directly stood up and walked away, pushed open the door and entered the secret chamber at the back.

Sisi, the second lady, sat there.

"Is what he said true?" Constantine asked.

Sisi, the second lady, had a very unique talent, the ability to discern truth; anyone speaking even one false word could immediately be identified by her.

"True." Sisi said, "If I’m not mistaken, that mirror should be a Demonic God Ruins, an ancient Demon God Monarch passed through there, glanced at the mirror, leaving a blurred shadow, which gradually became a powerful spiritual power, capturing those who entered, indulging them. And the reason Lanling was able to see through the illusion and leave was because he saw through worldly prosperity, becoming almost free of desires."

"Free of desires?" Constantine said.

Sisi said, "Having experienced everything, naturally there’s nothing to seek."

Constantine nodded and once again fell into deep thought.