# 400
**Chapter 400 – Look Into My Eyes**
Thick purple mist churned as the bisected Bell Cranel drifted down from the sky, landing softly on the cracked asphalt.
Lin Qiye bent down, picked up the corpse, and tucked it into his pocket. His body swayed, nearly collapsing. He steadied himself with his Straight Blade, standing unsteadily.
A warm current flowed from the hilt into his body. Only then did Lin Qiye finally relax.
Bell Cranel’s soul had been absorbed into the Asylum of the Gods—this time, it was truly dead.
The purple mist slowly dissipated, but Lin Qiye’s mental state showed no signs of improvement. He had inhaled too much mental contamination. His consciousness was now a blur, and an indescribable, alien sensation surged through him.
When the mind is tainted, the effects vary from person to person. Some become deranged, others dull, and some turn violently aggressive. While Bell Cranel was alive, it could control the minds of the contaminated. But now that it was dead, the tainted minds were left without a controller, and the symptoms would manifest differently depending on the individual.
Just as Lin Qiye was about to collapse, a thick branch wrapped around his waist and lifted him from the center of the dense mist, gently placing him in an area where the fog was thinner.
Though Bell Cranel was dead, the mist covering over a dozen kilometers wouldn’t vanish instantly—it would slowly disperse with the wind.
“Thanks…”
Lin Qiye sat weakly against the wall. His mind too clouded to maintain the two summons, he waved his hand lightly. A magical light flashed over the Chaotic Cube and the Ancient Tree Demon, and both vanished.
He breathed deeply, resisting the contamination in his mind, struggling to pull his consciousness back to reality.
He knew clearly that Bell Cranel’s death didn’t mean this was over. The time An Qingyu could stall the “Infinite” realm man was limited. The commotion from their fight must have drawn attention—soon, the man would find this place.
If he lost consciousness here, he would fall into the hands of the Church of the Ancient Gods.
But in his current state, he couldn’t move quickly. The man was likely already on his way. Time was running out.
“I’ll have to take a gamble.” Lin Qiye took a deep breath. A reverse summoning array opened beneath him.
With a flash of light, his figure vanished.
Half a minute later.
A torrent of sand surged into the street. The tower-like man materialized mid-air. His eyes swept the area, seeing the purple mist dissipating at a visible rate, his expression darkening.
“Damn it…”
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Office Building.
*Crackle—!*
A spark flared in the light fixture. The crimson glow in the elevator flickered and dimmed.
“Hehehehe…”
With a sinister laugh, black fiendish flames surged outward. Cao Yuan, wearing the Sha Wujing mask, moved like a ghost through the flickering elevator, Straight Blade in hand.
Each time he shifted, the snake woman’s figure appeared behind him. Her bladeless dagger clashed with his black-flame-wreathed Straight Blade, sending Cao Yuan flying through a wall before he came to a stop.
“Don’t look at her eyes, don’t look at her eyes, don’t look at her eyes…”
Baili Pangpang shielded his face with one hand, peeking through his fingers to track the snake woman. He swung his Thousand Transformations Sword, unleashing a storm of blades that covered the entire fan-shaped area ahead. Windows shattered and rained down from the sky.
But the snake woman’s movements were too erratic—she flickered between the thousands of snake eyes covering the floor, faster than afterimages could fade.
At one point, four snake women appeared around Baili Pangpang simultaneously!
*Zzz—!!*
The bladeless dagger slashed toward Baili Pangpang, only to be blocked by a blazing net of fire just before touching his skin. The snake woman frowned and vanished. The next moment, Baili Pangpang’s sword light swallowed her afterimage!
“Damn, how is she so fast?!” Baili Pangpang cursed through his fingers.
Molly gripped her greatsword, eyes locked on the chaotic battlefield, her expression growing grimmer.
It wasn’t that Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang weren’t strong—it was the snake woman’s Forbidden Ruins, the Snake Eyes, that was too bizarre. With thousands of eyes covering the floor, any one of them could be her next position. Hitting her was nearly impossible.
Her gaze swept the area. Suddenly, as if struck by an idea, she drove her greatsword into the floor.
*Boom—!!!!*
A visible shockwave erupted from her body, traveling through the blade into the floor. The entire level shook violently, cracks spreading beneath their feet.
Baili Pangpang blinked, then grinned and gave Molly a thumbs-up!
“Sis Jialan, protect the injured—we’re going down!” he shouted toward the corner.
*Crash—!!*
Under the violent tremor, the floor between the 23rd and 22nd levels shattered. A massive hole opened in the elevator area, and the group plummeted into the 22nd floor.
Baili Pangpang coughed and stood from the rubble, glancing around. His eyes lit up.
This floor had no snake eyes!
The snake woman emerged from the smoke, staring at the girl gripping her greatsword, her vertical pupils narrowing.
“Using the floor collapse to shift the battlefield and weaken my God’s Ruins… clever.” She smirked coldly. “But you underestimated how fast I can create snake eyes.”
Her eerie snake eyes contracted, and countless new eyes began spreading outward from her.
“Hehehehe…”
A black-flame-wreathed figure dropped from above. A massive fiendish blade arc slashed down, engulfing the still-forming snake eyes in black fire.
Amid the rolling black flames, the snake woman blocked the strike with her bladeless dagger. She stared into Cao Yuan’s grinning Sha Wujing mask and leaned in close.
“Look into my eyes…”