"Tao Bai Bai, what exactly are you...?"
Even with the Sage's wisdom, the sight he witnessed gave him a great shock.
The Mind Island, which should have been small, not only wasn't submerged or lost its self after being impacted by the Mental Storm and the Collective Unconscious Sea that he triggered.
Instead, it began to undergo strange changes.
Tao Bai Bai's astral spirit body cracked like porcelain, and then a dark aura began to emerge from within, an aura representing other consciousnesses.
Within Tao Bai Bai's body, a vast amount of consciousness existed.
Moreover, those consciousnesses did not belong to Tao Bai Bai himself!
Then, under the Sage's gaze, the so-called Mind Island rapidly expanded at a visible speed, and unfamiliar consciousnesses began to appear in this world.
The space occupied by Tao Bai Bai grew larger and larger, and the consciousness he could control became more and more powerful.
Finally, a true, pitch-black Mind Island actually appeared, and Tao Bai Bai roared at him from atop it.
The next moment, it was as if tens of thousands of consciousnesses roared simultaneously.
In the Sage's eyes, an awareness like a ghostly giant dragon flew from the island, crashing into his consciousness body.
Although he was almost completely becoming a mythical creature, a new Mental Giant Dragon, this impact still affected the Sage.
He was almost directly attacked to the point of falling out of this Collective Unconscious Sea.
But the more terrifying attack was not here, but afterwards.
Not far from the "sea area" where the two were located, the Mind Islands, which had gathered like fireflies, began to be annihilated in swathes.
Terrifying power began to spread in the Mental domain.
It was a kind of resentment that seemed to emanate from the depths of the soul.
Emitted by a monster already powerful enough to shake the world.
Almost instantly, the Sage was hit and wounded.
Bai Cangshu, however, stood amidst the black island, feeling the impact that seemed to want to kill all living beings, his mind trembling.
He felt the consciousness space cracking due to the Sage's attack, and then realized that he might be, to some extent, out of control at this moment.
But power, when controllable, has its controllable uses, and when out of control, it also has its out-of-control uses.
Bai Cangshu had extensive experience losing control of his body; he was not flustered, but rather excited.
Because he felt, for the first time, the terrifying energy intensity within him!
Although it was not something he could use alone, it was no exaggeration to say that the internal energy that Hong Chen unleashed when he came back to life, capable of freezing a thousand miles in one strike, was completely insignificant compared to his current power.
"Ha, haha~"
"Sage, since you want me to go crazy, you'll have to endure it well!"
The next moment, Bai Cangshu's astral spirit body completely turned black.
Boom!
The black ghostly dragon slammed into the Sage in the sky.
The Sage was currently suffering from the Lord of the Spirit Realm's destructive impact on the living world, and in the chaos, he felt countless consciousnesses rushing towards him.
It was as if countless mad souls were gnawing at him.
Those consciousnesses were all-pervasive, all thoughts roaring madly.
They didn't want to die.
They shouldn't die.
If they had to die...
Then they would drag everyone down with them!
These human Yin Spirits, innocently and tragically killed and sacrificed by Baimian, roared madly, continuously impacting the Sage's powerful consciousness, wanting to replace him.
Resurrect, resurrect, resurrect!
This was the consciousness that remained after these Yin Spirits had been soaked in the Yellow Springs for an unknown period, enduring round after round of mutual slaughter and resurrection.
The green giant dragon that the Sage had transformed into was also constantly churning at this moment.
He had given up on using this method to attack Tao Bai Bai.
The Sage took one last look at Tao Bai Bai, who had also transformed into a black spirit body on the black island, and at this moment, he understood something.
He had made a wrong choice.
Tao Bai Bai's compatibility with him was very poor.
Not only was he difficult to hypnotize, but his intuition, which was so keen it could almost be called "abnormal," was his bane.
He had the ability to sign contracts with all those whose cognition he had rewritten, and these Contracts would not be in written form.
Once a Contract was factually signed, he could, upon receiving a fatal injury, have the person with whom he had signed the Contract pay the price on his behalf.
And his demonic ability itself was very good at counterfeiting and deceiving the cognition of others, coupled with the Fantasist sequence potion produced in the Lord of Mysteries world, he was almost invincible in all mission worlds.
Most Reincarnators had contracts planted on them before knowing his abilities, and ultimately died powerlessly in battle.
A very few Reincarnators who were difficult to influence would also be killed by him after he found a flaw in their abilities, as they could not kill him.
The battle between high-tier Reincarnators was a battle of information and rules.
In this field, he was extremely powerful.
But someone like Tao Bai Bai should perhaps be left to Tang Sanzang to deal with.
The Sage frowned, took one last look at Tao Bai Bai's abnormal mind, and withdrew from the Collective Unconscious Sea.
He watched as, after his astral spirit body left, those frantic consciousnesses, unable to find a target, rushed back to Tao Bai Bai and began to gnaw at him.
His eyes were cold; as he expected, this ability to conceal so many consciousnesses and souls within one's body must be unstable and have significant negative effects.
Watching Tao Bai Bai's consciousness begin to be gnawed away, the Sage's eyes shifted, and he finally left completely.
Due to his abilities, he was very sensitive to factors like "coincidence" and "accident."
For ordinary people, it was normal for there to be errors in battle arrangements, or for oneself to subconsciously find a target with very poor compatibility to fight.
But for the Sage, such "coincidences" and "accidents" often had deeper meanings.
Tao Bai Bai's abnormalities, in his view, were already quite numerous.
Abnormal physical abilities, abnormal thinking abilities, an abnormal mind, and this abnormal "strong luck."
However, it was regrettable that no matter how unique a person was, if they were too unrestrained before growing up, they would inevitably encounter powerful enemies they couldn't handle and perish prematurely.
"I will remember you, Tao Bai Bai."
...
The Sage opened his eyes, then felt his body completely frozen; the next moment, his body disappeared, appearing outside the ice.
The figure inside the ice had become Short Hair, who was already severely wounded and on the verge of death.
This poor fellow, the moment he felt the cold, opened his eyes and only managed to convey a thought with his Mental power before being frozen to death in the ice.
The massive ice block flew into the black void due to inertia.
Lilith heard the voice in her ear, her heart panicked, and tears already welled up in her eyes.
"Coward, run!"
Short Hair's voice contained only powerlessness and sadness.
She had always disliked being called a coward by Loka and Short Hair, but from then on, there would be no one else who would call her a "coward" while protecting her.
Those two ordinary, kind-hearted good-for-nothings were already dead...
Even though... they did nothing.
Drip.
Large tears fell.
Fubuki turned her head and saw the man in the black priest's robe standing behind them, hands clasped behind his back.
"Go!"
Fubuki's heart jolted; her psychic powers barely managed to lift Lilith and the unconscious Lily Threesection Staff, throwing them far away, but she herself was too weak to fly.
Hong Chen stood in the distance, seeing the Sage escape, and fear had already appeared in her eyes.
It's no good, there's no chance, these two monsters... simply cannot be killed...
Hong Chen gripped the Snow Drinker Blade tightly, with such force that the hilt made creaking sounds.
The dark Yin Spirits standing all around, the next moment, simultaneously turned their heads and looked at the Sage.
The Sage's eyes were cold as he looked at Tao Bai Bai, who was constantly spewing out various Yin Spirits as if "leaking gas," and spoke,
"Has his consciousness collapsed so much that he can't control any Yin Spirit within him...?"
"What a pathetic way to die."
Tens of thousands of Yin Spirits, though terrifying to others, did not scare the Sage.
Moo!
The closest black Cursed Spirit to Bai Cangshu suddenly shrieked, and the next moment, with a bang.
The Cursed Spirit's body exploded.
Then the next one.
Bang, bang, bang, bang...
The Yin Spirits exploded one after another, and terrifying spiritual power began to surge back.
The massive figure enveloped within the Greed Cocoon suddenly moved.
"Hoo~"
A huge breathing sound emerged from within the Greed Cocoon, and scarlet mist appeared from within the ice; the next moment, the ice directly cracked and shattered with a bang.
The giant figure landed on the ground.
"Sage... how could those fools, whom I've killed countless times, resist me...?"