My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

"No! You lunatic, I’ll be devoured by Immortality’s backlash—don’t tell me you won’t be devoured by the Void’s backlash too?"

"Even if your resistance to the Void is higher than mine, so what? At this rate, you really think you can live through this? You’ll die in the Void, and in a way far worse than me!"

The Eighth Apostle’s final, hysterical roar rang out.

He truly hadn’t expected that just this tiny flicker of greed—marking this guy with Eternal Slavery, turning him into his own dependent—just the birth of that one thought would lead to his own Death.

It was like you’re eating hotpot, singing songs, when someone suddenly rushes in with bombs strapped all over their body, eager to play suicide bombing with you.

It was the first time he had seen such a deranged monster, and the problem was, the target this insane monster wanted to blow up was himself!

Immortality launched one last frenzy of extracting his soul, branding Eternal Slavery into Xue Dili’s mind; all the soul fragments he had spread outside, all the Witch Demon Kings, were drained dry by Immortality’s backlash.

In the end, even his soul origin was completely sucked clean by the power of this authority, transforming into that Engraving called "Eternal Slavery" within Xue Dili’s soul.

This was originally the Technique that had made him the supreme calamity of the Cosmos; clearly, with this authority and Technique in hand, he should have been the hardest being to kill in the entire Cosmos, yet in the end he died in a place so laughable.

The monster who used the power of Immortality to enslave others ultimately died to the very mark he himself had developed.

The Void entity was like an inexhaustible butcher; no matter where Xue Dili fled, it would pierce every barrier to chase him down, then devour him. This time, a twisted, horrific rift once again opened up behind him, and that amorphous, warped Void entity crawled out of the fissure, opening its great maw.

Weird laughter surged in from all directions. In the Eighth Apostle’s vision, countless afterimages remained—sometimes twisted humanoid outlines, sometimes a void vortex full of fangs.

"To step into the Void together with the Apostles, I’ve got no complaints." For the last time, Xue Dili leaned back and fell, his whole body sinking into the Void entity’s mouth, plummeting down that bottomless throat. His skin peeled away in flakes like stripped wallpaper, and just before he fell into eternal Void, he heard the sound of his bones being dismantled into dust.

The Void entity seemed as if it hadn’t eaten its fill at all. It finally turned its gaze toward the entire Subspace where the Eighth Apostle had coiled himself, and everything within.

The entire sky was replaced by the vast void maw it pried open, like a downgraded starry sky. In the end, everything belonging to the Eighth Apostle was dragged down into that void and completely devoured by the Void entity.

Whether it was the Eighth Apostle, his soul, or the Subspace he had occupied—everything, everything, at the end of the Void, turned into pure "nothing."

Then, the Void entity finally seemed full. It receded back into the deepest depths, once more going into hibernation, awaiting its next gluttonous feast.

...

"Brother Li..."

"Come back!"

The soul fragments remaining in Susu’s Pure Land were restored and completed. In that moment, Xue Dili, returning once more in the form of a Heroic Spirit, no longer had to consider reopening the Great Void of the Void.

Even though his soul was still branded with the power of Immortality, at this time the owner of that power had already completely become part of the nothing inside the Great Void of the Void, so this masterless authority and "Eternal Slavery" no longer had any effect on him.

"It’s all over, Susu, we’ve won!" Xue Dili laughed, and in the next instant, Susu, who was gradually exiting her Margaret state, immediately fainted and fell into Xue Dili’s arms.

In this plan, Xue Dili had placed the split-off core of his soul in the Pure Land. Every round of Summoning of Heroic Spirits required Susu to help him complete the remaining portion of his soul, and then split it again.

This process, whether for Xue Dili or for Susu, was a form of torment; it’s just that the first one who couldn’t endure it was the Eighth Apostle.

You could only say, if the Eighth Apostle had really steeled himself and kept fully enforcing the authority of Immortality to gamble his life with Xue Dili, then the final outcome might have been that Xue Dili was the one who couldn’t hold on. Before he could completely drain the Eighth Apostle’s soul, Xue Dili would have been utterly devoured by the Void entity.

But the Eighth Apostle got scared. Previously, Xue Dili’s "explanation" wasn’t just giving intel; it was also putting psychological pressure on him.

This pressure would push the Eighth Apostle to betray Immortality, and thus welcome Immortality’s backlash. That meant Xue Dili only had to worry about fighting the Void, while the Eighth Apostle had to simultaneously face the devouring of both the Void and Immortality—two authorities at once.

So in the end, he died.

Xue Dili instantly scooped up the completely exhausted Susu. Only with the support of the Earth Consciousness could she manifest Margaret form, but even so, it still left her utterly drained, as if she had completely passed out.

Although having Earth Mother carry out the Summoning of Heroic Spirits would also work, Susu was indeed the best medium, because in her pupils there was one of Xue Dili’s eyes. It was precisely this eye that served as the anchor point for Xue Dili, becoming the original piece that completed the Summoning of Heroic Spirits.

Only then could Xue Dili endure the Void’s devouring for a longer time.

Now, the Void entity had finally eaten its fill once again, even feeling more sated and satisfied than after devouring the Twelfth Apostle last time. Perhaps for a long while to come, Xue Dili wouldn’t need to worry about the influence of the Void.