# 1568
Chapter 1568: Physiological Deconstruction
At the sight of that half-black coffin, An Qingyu's heart spasmed violently.
He stared at Lucifer in silence for a long moment, then used both hands to prop himself up and slowly drag his body toward the massive demon's maw ahead.
"You can't go!" The幽灵 Jiang Er blocked An Qingyu's path, speaking resolutely.
"It's useless, Jiang Er." An Qingyu shook his head. "Even if He didn't use your body to threaten me, we couldn't escape this place. Rather than that, let's make things simpler—there might still be a sliver of hope."
Lucifer was on an entirely different level from them. Faced with a thousand Migos, perhaps there might have been a chance to escape through cunning, but against absolute power, they had no hope of victory.
He could only try to repeat his old trick, or surrender unconditionally.
An Qingyu passed through Jiang Er's ethereal body, pushed off with both hands, and fell into the air demon's gaping maw.
Everything spun around him as a powerful force locked onto his form, suspending him in the air and bringing him before Lucifer.
Seeing how sensible An Qingyu was being, Lucifer's lips curved into a smile.
"Good, you're quite intelligent."
Temporal disturbances swirled around An Qingyu. He narrowed his eyes at Lucifer and said in a low voice, "I'll go with you. You can let her go now."
Lucifer raised an eyebrow, the smile at his lips growing more pronounced. "Alright."
His left palm loosened, and the half-black coffin plummeted downward. Jiang Er's magnetic field remotely caught it, preparing to fly away from Lucifer's vicinity—then the surrounding air twisted violently!
A狰狞 demon's face opened its maw wide, biting down on the half-black coffin. The already battered coffin instantly shattered!
Crunch, crunch—
Ear-splitting tearing sounds rang through the air. An Qingyu's pupils contracted violently. Countless black coffin fragments mixed with模糊 flesh were being尽情 chewed and shredded by the demon. The狰狞 face twisted madly, as if laughing in silence.
Not far away, the 幽灵 Jiang Er shuddered. She looked down at her gradually fading body, her lips pressed tight together...
"You want to die?!!!" The demon's chewing sounds seemed to tear An Qingyu's heart into pieces. He whirled around to glare at Lucifer, and those eyes that had always been calm and peaceful erupted with unprecedented fury!
"I let her go. She just couldn't get away in time." Lucifer seemed to savor An Qingyu's pain and rage. He greedily inhaled a few breaths and said with a轻笑,
"Didn't you know? Making deals with demons never ends well."
Lucifer's words pierced An Qingyu's heartstrings. His eyes turned crimson. As the air demon finished devouring the coffin and Jiang Er's body, an unprecedented fire seemed to ignite in his chest, threatening to explode his entire being!
Seemingly sensing An Qingyu's murderous gaze, Lucifer's eyes flickered with mockery. He spoke unhurriedly,
"Don't look at me like that. You're an important tool for awakening the Key to the Gate. I won't kill you... but if you provoke me, I'll make you wish you were dead. Since you have regenerative abilities, it shouldn't be hard to imagine what I could do."
Lucifer waved casually. An air demon materialized behind An Qingyu, bit down on him, its sharp fangs like thorns piercing through his body, trapping him死死 in its jaws like a dog carrying prey.
Intense pain flooded An Qingyu's senses. His limbs and torso were all skewered by the fangs, leaving him completely immobilized. But it was as if he couldn't feel the pain at all—he glared at Lucifer's back with burning eyes.
"LU CIFER——!!" Scarlet blood dripped from the corner of An Qingyu's mouth as he rasped out the words.
Squeal—! A fang pierced through An Qingyu's lung. His entire body wheezed like a broken bellows, unable to form any more words. A normal person would have died from injuries this severe, but thanks to An Qingyu's regenerative abilities, he still wasn't in mortal danger.
Lucifer, his jet-black wings spread wide, glanced back at him and said indifferently, "If the Key to the Gate were here, I'd submit. But you're merely a lackey of the Gate of Truth—our status isn't all that different...
You, a pathetic human, presume to speak my name?"
An Qingyu was pinned on the demon's fangs, unable to utter a single word. He could only stare死死 at Lucifer, his vision gradually turning red.
"Qingyu!!" When the 幽灵 Jiang Er witnessed this scene, unprecedented killing intent blazed in her eyes. Completely disregarding the powerful aura emanating from Lucifer, she rushed toward His body!
"Just a lingering magnetic field... You think I can't crush you?" Lucifer's eyes narrowed slightly. He raised a finger and pointed forward into the air.
Boom—!!
A dull, heavy sound echoed through the sky. The next instant, a slender, thread-like arc of涟漪 rippled outward at high speed.
Lucifer's outstretched finger suddenly froze mid-motion. He spun his head around sharply—only to see that the air demon that had been clutching An Qingyu had already dissolved into scattered blood mist. An indescribable aura radiated from within.
It was like a savage who had just crawled out of an underground cave suddenly gazing upon an infinite starfield. It was a panic born of confronting grandeur and the unknown. In that moment, He suddenly felt as if His very existence had been diminished by Infinity to the size of a grain of sand.
"Gate of Truth...?" Lucifer seemed to recall something, His expression turning grim.
From within the drifting blood mist, a red figure stumbled upright. Behind him, time and space churned violently. In the blurred distance, the corner of a gate shrouded in mist flickered in and out of sight.
On that bloodstained face, An Qingyu's eyes slowly opened. His left eye had already turned into a lifeless, ashen gray.
The instant that left eye came into view, Lucifer's head throbbed with pain, as if an entire solar system's worth of existence had been compressed into that gaze, frantically pouring into His mind. The terrifying knowledge and truth nearly tore His sanity to shreds.
Lucifer hastily averted his gaze, refusing to look directly into An Qingyu's eyes. His brow furrowed tightly as he coldly said,
"You've merely channeled a fragment of the Gate of Truth's power... You think this can defeat me?"
An Qingyu's face was deathly pale. He said nothing. Instead, he unsteadily raised his right hand and pressed it through the air toward Lucifer...
In that instant, countless intricate patterns exploded outward from An Qingyu's palm, spreading madly into the surrounding void. As his palm rotated, a mysterious force descended from nowhere, instantly wrapping around Lucifer's body!
Lucifer's brow creased. Just as He was about to act, the world before His eyes诡异地颠倒错乱起来.
If He could have seen His own body, He would have discovered that at this moment, He was like a scrambled Rubik's cube. His head had been rotated to His left shoulder, His right leg twisted to where His head had been, one eye relocated to the sole of His foot, while the other eye had shrunk directly into His abdomen...
Hands, feet, six black wings, ten fingers, internal organs... It was as if an invisible giant hand had deconstructed and reorganized His original physiology. Within those brief seconds, He transformed into a completely twisted, grotesque ball of flesh.