I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Charge!"

Although Li Yue didn't know how to break Seven Rivers' magic, Yingying had already obtained Oogway's information, so there was no need to stay here and fight to the death with the Great Archmage. Escaping was the priority.

However, before escaping, he had to quickly retrieve the melted bone fragments, particles, and shadows—according to Yingying, those were the souls of the three sons of the devil.

Li Yue released the Demon Ribbon's imposition, accelerating his descent to the ground under the weight of Egg; Yingying immediately stretched out, hiding in the shadows on the surface, tugging her body towards the direction of Demon King City…

Precisely to conceal the existence of this shadow line, Li Yue used the Staff of Deception, opening Seven Rivers' web of thoughts, forcibly tainting it with a trace…

The remaining source of faith quickly depleted, and Seven Rivers did not notice Yingying's actions.

The sight of Egg falling caught Seven Rivers' eye, making his fire face particularly ferocious, seeming delighted to see the demon smash into the ground.

Scales grew on Seven Rivers' fire face.

Yingying instantly flashed out of the range of the acid rain, leaving only a line connected to Li Yue.

Although Li Yue didn't directly attack Seven Rivers, his mind had been probing his condition.

"How to fight?"

It's all messed up.

The skull that had been split in half smacked its lips but spoke; Li Yue learned of Egg's words through the wriggling shadows of Brain Spirit.

…

It wasn't easy to develop some sense of identity in Demon King City; Li Yue didn't want to just transfer to Norewmore like that.

It was just that in that ruin, everything was pure white, everything was connected by shadows—pure white angels, a pure white sun, pure white priests, were silently dancing.

Of course, more importantly, Seven Rivers was not a demon and hadn't fallen.

Sensing the joy on Seven Rivers' face, Li Yue restarted the Demon Ribbon before hitting the ground, floating one meter above the ground like a lithe dancer.

"Is it some kind of… demonic relic?" Seven Rivers was stunned, looking towards the eternally dark Demon King City in the south, then looking at—

The lie that had been troubling Seven Rivers was exposed, and he noticed the shadow line cracking on the ground, picking up a piece of holy light from under his feet to cut it off, but it was already too late.

"We switched bodies," Yingying announced the answer with Egg's particles.

Moreover, this exchange wasn't without gains; at least he found some ways to resist several elements. With just a little more understanding of dark element magic, perhaps he could truly fight Seven Rivers head-on without being at a disadvantage.

"I originally planned to deconstruct it almost perfectly, to give you a surprise…" Even outside Egg's body, Yingying seemed a little shy, the particles scattered and swaying.

Li Yue followed Yingying's train of thought, his shadow body constantly changing shape, suddenly realizing that this was a very precious opportunity.

Li Yue recalled his two encounters with Seven Rivers, inexplicably feeling that his fighting style was very suitable for the battlefield. Using him to smash the other eight would be a bit of overkill; wiping the walls of Demon King City would be just right.

"Understand?" Yingying was still arranging everything she had "deconstructed" during that time.

A chaotic mass of demons instantly flashed out of Seven Rivers' sight.

The shadow line hidden in the ground tightened, just as it had done in the Forbidden Forest, Yingying pulling Li Yue and Egg out of the acid rain and shadows.

Immediately afterward, Li Yue understood that he had just been talking to himself.

"I'll teach you, but it will take some time."

From the start, Li Yue and Yingying had no intention of fighting Seven Rivers to the death.

With a thought, he scooped up the bone fragments, particles, and shadows on the ground, transmitting to Yingying before they dissipated.

Really switched.

Although borrowing shadows to operate could barely be done, it was very clumsy.

"Why run, and fight him to the death? The two of them haven't recovered yet. Let alone whether we can beat him, even if we can really twist him to death or hammer him to death, what good will it do us?"

"Just now, our souls were torn apart by dark magic, and before they could recover, I pulled them here again, so anything could happen." Yingying used particles to form Demonic words, the font looking more dashing than ever before.

Even if they killed Seven Rivers, the Tas Empire still had Four Rivers, Five Rivers waiting. Fighting too fiercely here would only help Demon King City reduce the pressure.

"Huh?"

It could be considered facing each other face to face.

Pure white and lustrous, a shadow hand.

"Then… is there no way to switch back?" Qi Chan was certainly very unaccustomed.

To be precise, it was himself speaking with Yingying's body, while Egg was responding with Brain Spirit and Sköllreik's skull.

"Understood." Li Yue picked up the soft body, propped it up, and unfolded it into the ruins of the holy city of Sindram.

"Bite your demon butt…" Li Yue checked the Demon Illustrated Book as soon as possible, and only felt relieved after finding that it was still there.

He couldn't turn back now and find Seven Rivers for another round, right?

It was just that with the reduced perception, Qi Chan could no longer drive the Self-Healing Bone and other sensory objects as smoothly as when using her own body.

"What are you saying? I can't hear you." Yingying tried to arrange the particles into a bowl shape, but still couldn't understand Egg's mumbled nonsense.

This was his own punishment.

"It's so itchy…" Egg broke open Sköllreik's skull, pulled out the binding threads and dominoes inside, and threw them on the ground, "Why do you stuff so much stuff in your head? Isn't it crowded?"

If there were no accidents, the authority of the Library should be on Brain Spirit, or rather, Egg. If it came to follow the Library, then the Library would inevitably be full of thunder pools and magma…

"It's enough to get Oogway's information. A 9th-tier Great Archmage… let him use his elemental magic to wash the walls of Demon King City."

Now, Li Yue was in Yingying's body, Egg was in Brain Spirit's body, and Yingying's soul was fused with Egg's.

"I'm sorry! I'm useless! They escaped again!" Seven Rivers revealed his true form but did not dissipate the flames, ice shards, holy light, and cracks on his body… simultaneously enduring the ravages of multiple elements.

Immediately afterward, the ruins of the holy city collapsed, reorganizing into Cleft Gold Mountain King Tent, Red Oil Town, Low Mountain… until the white rain of the Ribbon River reappeared.

"Damn it! If it wasn't for that dead zombie…" Seven Rivers seemed to have suffered some injuries in the process of killing Isaac, affecting his judgment of the eight sons of the devil.

"You guys have said enough, no one will care about my feelings." The rotten-faced skeleton shook its head while speaking, dropping bone fragments all over the ground.

What about the sensory objects?

It was just that compared to last time, Li Yue, Egg, and the shattered shadows were entangled in a ball, like a piece of rotten cloth, or a freakish puzzle.

Qi Chan didn't even have a brain this time, but her head hurt even more.

"Why…?" Li Yue subconsciously pulled the shadows into a question mark.

Especially since Stil's baby's half foot was still stuck in the shadow space, Li Yue felt like he had turned into a pile of mud that lacked the ability to shape.

These were all places and objects that Yingying had once deconstructed.

What about the authority?

Although Shadow Demons were low-level, Li Yue was very sentimental.

"It's okay, whether it's a lightning bath, a lava bath, or an ice pool bath… our Library has them all, I'll take you to soak…" Li Yue was about to reach out to comfort Egg, when he suddenly realized that the hand wasn't his, but Yingying's.

"Don't rush, stay inside me for a while, it will be very helpful to you." Yingying drew pictures with particles, drawing Oogway, tables and chairs, the townspeople of Red Oil Town…

Li Yue hugged him, smoothing out the chaotic particles.

Before, when Li Yue used his mind to sense, it was piercing through from the outside in. Now that he had switched to Yingying's body, it was building from the inside out. Whether it was for future soaking or imagination, it would have a better, more profound effect.

【Go…】

"Yes, it depends on shadows, or rather, you." Yingying continued to write, "Shadows are a part of the soul, and you, and I, may have the ability to piece our souls back together…"

"How long?" Li Yue immediately went limp—Seven Rivers was about to attack Demon King City, seizing the time to kill Oogway and snatch the authority of the Fighting Arena was the priority, why did he have to wait again?

"Why run?"

As for the Ribbon River, it was already fragmented and incomplete. The acid rain stopped abruptly, and a huge cave was etched out of the ground, mixed with mud and river water, forming a swamp where various elements constantly collided and exploded.

What about the Staff of Deception?