Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

#688 - Go to Liuzhen

A massive, terrifying spider demon loomed over Willow Town, its mere presence exuding intense pressure.

Not just Lin Yu, but the other players as well, stared at the gigantic spider, momentarily at a loss for how to defeat such a colossal creature.

"So, it's literally like a mountain, huh? I was expecting something in the tens, maybe hundreds of meters at most, but now it seems,"

Seagull looked up, gesturing with his hand, "This thing feels like it's a kilometer or two."

Snowy Owl nodded, "Roughly—so the question is, does anyone have a strike capable of covering two kilometers?"

Clearly, none of the players possessed that level of firepower.

Lin Yu sighed softly, "Isn't this approach a bit too brute-force? It's like 'When in doubt, L'Hôpital's Rule'… There's no need to solve it with such violence."

"We also have a professional who's studied this guy for decades—Senior Xuan Yunzi. Such a massive demonic body, even if it just lay there and let us kill it, it would probably take a long time… Since you came in, and even considered coming in alone, you must have a way."

As Lin Yu asked, Xuan Yunzi's expression turned solemn.

"Indeed, there is a way. The Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord's 'Causal Threads' are extremely terrifying. In fact, even if you truly 'destroy' its main body, it won't truly die."

"I said before, as long as its 'Causal Threads' remain, it can be reborn again—and it has already become entangled with the past of Willow Town's million residents, its Causal Threads having already formed a massive network."

"But precisely because of this, there is a shortcut to killing it," Xuan Yunzi said softly, "That is to kill the 'source' of the Causal Threads it currently possesses, which is its identity as 'Zhu Qiansi.'"

"Although some of its Causal Threads have occasionally strayed outside, they haven't matured into a 'network'… According to my deduction, its Causal Threads can only truly grant it the ability to be immortal and indestructible through Causal Threads after reaching a certain scale and closed loop, forming a 'network' within a certain area."

"This is the killing move that the Ancestor truly prepared for her—after a hundred years of imprisonment, the 'causality' associated with it is only the already-vanished 'Willow Town!'"

Lin Yu understood Xuan Yunzi's meaning.

"I get it. So, the idea is to use the side effects of its own means of multiple resurrections to completely erase its existence, right?"

To ensure that it wouldn't be killed by righteous sects, the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord had潜伏潜伏 in Willow Town over three hundred years ago,炼炼 the lives of seventy to eighty percent of Willow Town's residents into its life-saving "trump card"—as the most prosperous town, those people would continuously expand outward, so the net formed by the Causal Threads would naturally grow larger and larger until it completely covered most of the Prison Mountain Realm, naturally making it truly immortal.

But it probably didn't expect that the Ancestor of the Taiqing Sect was a decisive expert who could even be called "ruthless" by righteous figures, directly sinking the entire Willow Town underground as a burial, sealing it in this place.

Therefore, as three hundred years passed and Willow Town was gradually forgotten, the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord's 자랑 자랑 "Causal Threads" became a hindrance instead.

This is why the puppet was so eager to use Xie Chong's corpse to stir up trouble, because it desperately needed a new "net."

And now, the new net hasn't formed yet, and the old net is trapped underground and dilapidated…

Compared to "physically" knocking down a mountain-like demon, acting from the "causal" level seems to be the truly best choice?

"So, here comes the question," Li Nian, who had also heard Xuan Yunzi's words, pointed out the most crucial problem of this plan, "How do we erase its identity as 'Zhu Qiansi' from the 'causal level?'"

Lin Yu didn't answer. Although he felt like he could try using the 'Trickster' ability, and had even thought of a few possible plans… he didn't want to reveal too much information about his 'class.'

Moreover, for the same reason: Xuan Yunzi must have a prepared solution.

If there's a ready-made one, why not use it?

Lin Yu could also vaguely guess what Xuan Yunzi was thinking.

"I think, Daoist Priest, you're planning to use the spider demon's 'Causal Threads' ability, right?"

"That's right, little friend, you have great comprehension," Xuan Yunzi nodded, "After that demon used 'Causal Threads' to scheme against me, and I successfully counter-schemed using 'Qi Transformation External Body,' I already knew… Although 'Causal Threads' are that demon's innate ability, such a great ability to manipulate causality is definitely not something that demon can fully control at will."

"Therefore, if it wants to reappear by modifying its past, it must use the 'Willow Town' net it has already formed. The Willow Town puppet said before that the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord stores everyone's past and consciousness with 'Causal Threads.'"

Speaking of this, the old Daoist Xuan Yunzi smiled brightly: "Of course, even if it sees through the old Daoist's calculations and would rather give up this opportunity, it's useless."

"Because it planted 'Causal Threads' in the old Daoist's original body before… Therefore, the initiative is not only in its hands now."

Old Daoist Xuan Yunzi looked at the six players.

"Everyone, please prepare yourselves…"

"We're going to Willow Town!"