I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

After repeatedly confirming with Yingying, Li understood the general situation.

Inside the Great Library of the Repository, both the books that had been organized and translated, and those forbidden books that had been categorized, were constantly increasing.

They were appearing out of thin air.

Not only the books, but also the bookshelves increased along with the books, gradually filling every corner of the Great Library.

During the process, there were no magical fluctuations, just like a tree that was constantly growing; if you looked at it every day, you wouldn't see it growing, but a casual glance would reveal that it had unknowingly become lush and verdant.

It was also after Yingying and Dandan finished their forced conscription and returned to the city to check on the Copper Spoon's work that they discovered this.

So Yingying inquired with the brain spirits, Mini and Minnie, and even asked Tom, before confirming the anomaly.

This situation could be traced back to the end of the Bone Hammer War, that is, the moment when Skorririk was forgotten by all humans and demons.

Li Yue also saw various newly added books in Yingying's mind, including texts from the Sand Kingdom, recent newspaper reports about the Bone Chariot Sect's expedition…

There was even a hardcover edition of the "Gamma Epic."

This was definitely a problem.

Obviously, these books and newspapers had only recently been made by humans, but why were they appearing in the Repository?

"I have to go back and take a look." Although this anomaly had not yet affected Li Yue's plan, Li Yue felt it was necessary to examine it carefully.

Because this was likely related to the authority of the Repository.

Perhaps finding Budi Bog, the Brain Spirit Lord who was constantly in a state of "escape," would shed some light on the matter.

"Okay, I'll arrange it immediately." Yingying shared these three things with Li Yue to inform him in advance.

Anyway, Li Yue still needed to approach the Colosseum Candle, sign up for the Centennial Slaughter Cup, and while he was at it, he could stuff the warehouse with raw materials and check the Lightning Pool and the Great Library.

"So, you don't plan to let any other souls know about your return this time?" Yingying confirmed with Li Yue.

"Yes, it's not time for me to show my face yet." There were still a few anchor points missing, and Li Yue wanted to maintain this advantage.

"But I could take care of the Mist Marsh and the Ribbon River first?" Li Yue squeezed out a smile—anyway, it would take Yingying some time to clear the Repository, which might be just enough time to resolve the two anchor points near Devil's City.

"Then you'll have to hurry." Nolemore had a high reputation in the Repository; besides secretly arranging for Li Yue to approach the Colosseum Candle, the other matters wouldn't take too much time.

"I'll arrange for you to go to the Ribbon River first, and then pick you up at the Mist Marsh…" Nolemore's shadow spread out from Devil's City, leaping in inconspicuous places, quickly laying out a shadow path.

Due to the existence of Eternal Night, the Ribbon River and the Mist Marsh had already been occupied by shadows, so the efficiency was extremely high and very secretive.

"No problem! Call me when you're ready!" Li Yue suddenly became excited—he didn't expect to be returning so soon.

"What identity will you use to return to the Repository?" Spader circled on the ground, digging in the dirt, creating a picture of a brain, a shadow, and an egg standing side by side.

"Of course, a Brain Spirit?" Li Yue understood and shed Van Helsing's skeleton, leaving only a bare brain.

Yingying and Dandan disappeared.

Li Yue then took out a wooden door from Yinger's shadow space and waited in place.

"Are we going home?" Yinger was unfamiliar with the concept of "home."

After all, she had been kicked to Li's side by Nolemore as soon as she was born, and had never actually been to the Repository; instead, the Underground City and the Abyssal Maw were more familiar places to Yinger.

"Well, it's kind of like home. There's a lot of knowledge there, and a lot of uncles and aunts…" Li Yue thought of his younger siblings and felt even more that he couldn't let them die in the Slaughter Cup.

They hadn't even gotten married yet.

"Knock, knock, knock…" After waiting only a moment, Li Yue heard a knock on the back of the wooden door, knowing that Nolemore must have placed the door at the Ribbon River.

Li Yue immediately deeply expanded his brain, as if taking a deep breath, then opened the door and squeezed in.

Eternal Night.

What greeted Li Yue was Eternal Night.

The Eternal Night of Devil's City had already reached Red Oil Town, so of course it was dark here at the Ribbon River.

Besides the moonlight, some deformed behemoths emitted a hazy light on their surfaces, which was reflected by the water of the Ribbon River and spread over the fractured broken walls and bones…

The earth had collapsed, that was the surface that had been cracked when Bone City fell; to the south, Devil's City had returned to its initial silent state, the city gate facing north, watching the Empire.

The wronged souls produced during the Bone Hammer War wandered aimlessly under the moonlight, occasionally being sucked up by some behemoth, then discharged from the holes in their bodies like exhaling smoke rings, merging into new souls.

There were also scattered demons running from Devil's City to this place, rushing to the outside of Eternal Night, to the colorful world that still belonged to humans, seeking more pleasure.

This place was completely different from the original Ribbon River.

It was like an amusement park outside of Devil's City.

Li Yue floated in the Eternal Night, feeling that these things had no value to sense and did not need to exist in his imaginary continent—if he wanted hell, wasn't it already in Devil's City?

So Li Yue wandered among the wronged souls, lingering near the ruins of the Five Strongholds of the Noose, sensing the emotions and memories of the wronged souls, and slowly recalling the original appearance of the Ribbon River.

Everything that Li Yue sensed became Yinger's material—she spread shadows within a few hundred meters of her father, deconstructing and recreating the Five Strongholds of the Noose.

Looking at everything that had happened in the Five Strongholds of the Noose, Li Yue once again had a feeling of living in the human world.

Although the Imperial Army often had friction with the Holy Path Army at that time, they all firmly believed that the victor of this war would be mankind.

It wasn't their fault, after all, they had gathered the elite of the Imperial Army, the High Tower, the Creation Department, and the Old Church; they had Grand Magi, knights, and creations, it was hard to imagine how they could lose.

But the moment Bone City crashed to the ground, everything they had firmly believed in collapsed, and they experienced a failure with no ability to resist.

Yes, failure, was also an important part of the Imaginary Object stage.

This failure, which was etched in the hearts of the Imperial Army, gave Li Yue a very real feeling.

And from the wronged souls of the Third Stronghold of the Noose, Li Yue not only sensed the Imperial Army's combat readiness, but even heard a trace of Noel Alexander's pre-war meeting.

He understood the relationship between the High Tower, the Imperial Army, and the Creation Department a little better.

After searching for war-related memories, Li Yue then learned from the memories of the local residents the scene when the Ribbon River was a trade area within the scope of the Old Church before that.

Large quantities of goods were shipped to various parts of the Empire, the Sand Kingdom, and the Snow Kingdom, including red oil, salt, holy ore… it was very prosperous.

But this prosperity was too distant and not real, not even as profound as the perception gained from Barren City.

"I'm ready, what about you?" Li Yue gave up sensing those vague memories and asked Yinger.

"I still need to wait a little longer…" Surprisingly, Yinger did not directly respond to Li Yue's hint.

[Seven Rivers… Grand Magus… his relics… I need to deconstruct his relics more… ]

Yinger's reaction was a bit abnormal.

The texture of her shadow was also constantly changing, sometimes like water, sometimes like electricity, flowing on the Ribbon River.