At this moment, his thoughts raced.

The only way out was to throw everything aside, turn around, and rush to the Multivision Association to seek the protection of the Multivision School.

Only by using the power of the Multivision Association could he oppose an existence at the god realm.

Yet according to the information previously revealed by the Direct Vision School, the Multivision Association also did not seem to be anything good. Although this information was only the one-sided claim of the Direct Vision School, Lin Xun had no choice but to make thorough preparations.

The safest method was to defeat the Great Sage, possess its shell, and then go to the Multivision Association. That way, even if they turned on him, he would at least have the capital to flee or even resist.

But if, with his back to the wall, he entered the Multivision Association relying only on the Sage Osborn shell, and the Multivision Great Sage truly harbored malicious intent toward him, the consequences would be unimaginable.

“I must keep the Great Sage here. I must kill the Great Sage. I absolutely cannot let it run away!”

That was what Lin Xun thought, but with all his methods and trump cards exhausted, he simply had no way to stop the Great Sage from teleporting away.

[You watch as the teleportation light covers the entire body of the Direct Vision Great Sage, and you can only stare as its figure is gradually swallowed by the teleportation glow…]

“There is only this one way left. Treat a dead horse as a living horse to cure…”

Lin Xun suddenly opened the Equipment tab and moved a piece of Special Equipment into place.

[You stop attacking and instead take out a lantern made of flesh and blood. That tiny, warm glow is not bright, yet it firmly catches the Great Sage’s eye.]

[It stares fixedly at the Abyss Lantern, and in its heart arises an absurd thought. With the mysterious characters protecting it, it fundamentally does not need to fear you. Right now is the best time to attack you.]

[This inexplicable thought makes it instantly wary. It knows that it must be that strange lantern in your hand causing trouble!]

[At this moment, it is in the middle of teleporting. Even slightly moving would interrupt the teleportation, to say nothing of launching an attack…]

[The Great Sage hurriedly uses its vast Knowledge stat to suppress its desire to attack…]

“I knew it. The effect of the Abyss Lantern can no longer keep up with the progression either…”

The Abyss Lantern could greatly heighten the enemy’s desire to attack. If the enemy already had hostility toward him, then under the influence of the Abyss Lantern, the effect could easily take hold.

But at the top demi-god level, if an enemy did not already have extremely strong hostility toward him, it was very easy for them to suppress their desire to attack.

[You know that physical-layer taunts can no longer affect the enemy at this point. Only a magic-layer provocation can make the enemy lose their reason, and only by launching an attack in a rage and losing their mind can they attack you and thus interrupt the teleportation…]

[You instantly recall the relevant shell memories…]

[While the Great Sage is extinguishing its desire to attack, you suddenly lean close across the mysterious characters. Drawing on the memories remaining in the shell, you smile and quickly say to it…]

[President Lord, at that internal Association banquet a month ago, your good lady left midway for half an hour. Were you not curious where your beloved wife went?]

[The Great Sage is stunned, and you quickly continue…]

[Your good lady secretly slipped up to the rooftop of the Association’s top floor, where she battled intensely with me, who had been waiting there, for half an hour. Tsk, tsk, tsk, who would have thought that though your good lady looks dignified and cold on the surface, in private she actually likes playing the role of a struggling, crying schoolgirl.]

[The Great Sage is struck as if by lightning, its face instantly turning deathly pale. Its wife’s unique preferences are known only to it alone. If you had not been involved with her, there is absolutely no way you could know this secret.]

Lin Xun’s mouth twitched, his head full of black lines. He had not expected Sage Osborn to be a hidden yellow-haired delinquent.

Judging from the Great Sage’s reaction, this business was very likely not a fabrication but the truth.

[The Great Sage’s eyes are bloodshot and veins bulge on its forehead. Under your verbal humiliation and the covert influence of the Abyss Lantern, the Great Sage long ago cast aside thoughts of teleporting. Only one thought remains in its mind… and that is to kill you!]

[It roars in fury and raises its staff high. Densely packed giant dragon lances appear behind it and all fire toward you!]

[It seems that your magic provocation combined with the Abyss Lantern has had excellent effect. In the face of the enormous humiliation and provocation of being cuckolded, even a top demi-god cannot escape…]

[The number of dragon lances condensed this time far surpasses before. The Great Sage is pouring out all the mana it has left, determined to kill you, the subordinate who appears loyal and devoted yet in truth is a shameless scoundrel who dallied with his superior’s wife!]

[At the same time, the teleportation light that had covered the Great Sage’s entire body instantly goes dark and is interrupted!]

[Facing the flood of dragon lances, you casually raise a Knowledge Light Wall and completely block this powerful strike.]

[When the Great Sage sees that even its full power strike cannot inflict the slightest damage on you, its pupils shrink. It realizes it has fallen into your scheme, but by now the teleportation magic formation has already been interrupted, and the sturdy defense of the mysterious characters is about to fade away…]

[It finally regains its calm, but unfortunately its magical items, various trump cards, and killing moves have all been spent. Under the heavy weakening of the marks of vengeance, it no longer even has the power to break your defensive spells…]

[The Great Sage roars again and again, but in the end can only collapse to the ground in despair.]

[Behind you, the Child of Evil consciousness body appears once more. You direct the consciousness body to walk up to the Great Sage and raise the Scarlet King’s Sword.]

[With its mana exhausted, the Great Sage closes its eyes in despair and slowly says that though it fell into your scheme just now in a fit of madness, it knows that its wife would never… forget it. Before it dies, it wants to entrust you with one thing.]

[The Great Prophet has foretold that the True God’s Envoy is the source of the apocalypse. If you truly are as you say, here to save the world and not to destroy it…]

[Then you must never go to the Multivision Association!]

[You do not answer. The Child of Evil lightly swings the sword, and the Great Sage falls into a pool of blood…]

[You have defeated the Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Branch Association Great Sage. Experience skyrockets!]

[The power within the shell begins to boil. The shell level of Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Branch Association Sage increases. Current shell level: 133 (+2)]

[You have obtained Transcendent-World Fading Chunk Spirit Essence x1]

[You have obtained Resplendent Forging Crystal Chunk x1]

[You have obtained Direct Vision Branch Association President Badge (item)]

[You have obtained Mana Source Stone Essence (Special Item)]

[You have obtained Knowledge Sea Magic Formation Main Controller (Special Item)]

[You have obtained Petrification Beast Jargorgon’s Eyeball (mythic+ grade item)]

[You have obtained Direct Vision Great Prophet’s Book of Prophecy (Document)]

[You look at the corpse of the Great Sage lying in a pool of blood…]

[Shell of Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Branch Association Great Sage: President Lord of Notos’s Blackwater Prison’s Direct Vision Branch Association in the auxiliary capital, possessing top demi-god level strength as a Great Sage. The highest leader of the Direct Vision School’s Branch Association… Compatibility: 125% (+65%)]

[Do you wish to possess this shell?]

Lin Xun took a deep breath and pressed the ‘Yes’ option.

He was just about to open the panel to check his stats when the game text suddenly began to scroll rapidly.

[From within the mist comes the sound of many carriages approaching. You look toward the sound and see over a dozen Refined Copper Carriages burst through the fog and halt in front of you…]

[The carriage doors open, and numerous scholars step out. Their faces, and even the skin exposed outside their robes, are covered in densely packed eyes.]

[There are also many eyes inscribed on the emblems on the chests of their robes.]

[The newcomers are precisely the scholars of the Multivision School!]