Published: March 2, 2025
In a short period, Wen Yu couldn't find any problems in the words of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine.
However, intuitively, Wen Yu felt that the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine was trying to fool him.
Although there was the exception of Faceless, in Wen Yu's heart, he believed that the criteria for evaluating tools and living beings by the sovereign should be based on the level of the soul.
Only those with souls could be called living beings, while those without souls could only be called tools!
As for Faceless...
Wen Yu thought of Faceless's first skill.
Human Creation (f-rank, passive skill): This creature, being artificially produced, possesses life characteristics but lacks a soul, retaining only a small amount of instinct! This lifeform can evolve by devouring corpses, but after evolving, it cannot acquire skills! However, it can obtain skills through special channels!
Though it has life characteristics, it does not have a soul...
The attributes of Faceless left Wen Yu's thoughts in disarray.
Strictly speaking, in comparison to the mutated vines, the similarity between the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine and Faceless was greater, yet one belonged to a living being while the other belonged to a tool.
The complexity of this situation left Wen Yu utterly confused.
Moreover, the most crucial point was—if Wen Yu's inference was correct, and the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine itself did not have a soul, then what was the soul inside the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine? Or rather, to whom did it belong?
Heaven-Piercing Immortal Emperor...
This was the only possibility!
Then, according to this inference, had he been caught in the elaborate net woven by the Heaven-Piercing Immortal Emperor for countless millennia from the very beginning?
This thought sent shivers down Wen Yu's spine.
This time, he finally felt powerless...
Not only was his mind insufficient, but now even his strength was lacking...
Wen Yu was not inherently a suspicious person, but after a series of events, he deeply understood that power alone could not resolve everything.
No, one could only say that Wen Yu himself did not possess the power to solve everything.
In this Heavenly Palace Treasure Land, Wen Yu was walking on thin ice; a slight misstep could lead to irreparable consequences, and under such conditions, he had no choice but to think seriously.
Yet, his mind truly wasn't enough...
Especially when facing an ancient monster that had lived for countless millennia, Wen Yu's meager intelligence was ruthlessly crushed.
Even now, Wen Yu didn't know if the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine was truly the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine!
Just as Wen Yu felt dizzy, a light sound of "pop" echoed, and the mental fluctuations of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine returned.
"It’s open, let’s go."
The mental fluctuations transmitted back from the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine contained a calming force that was more pronounced than before.
The gentle mental energy instantly calmed Wen Yu.
Looking at the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine, which was slowly crawling forward like a snake, Wen Yu sighed deeply—at least, judging by the current behavior of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine, this thing really meant no harm to him.
So...
What was he afraid of?
Upon thinking this, Wen Yu couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.
In the past, whenever he wanted to use force to solve all problems, he would inexplicably fall into the pits dug by Lin Haifeng. Yet, when he attempted to think things through and foresee everything before it happened, he found that he truly was not cut out for that!
Reborn as cannon fodder, he fought through to reach Sequence Two and the position of the second strongest among the human race, who was also likely the second strongest on Earth. What had he relied on all along?
Decisiveness, sharpness, and a life-or-death courage!
When he abandoned these and tried to solve problems using unfamiliar methods, what could he be?
Nothing at all.
At least, not the original Wen Yu of Sequence Two!
So...