Compared to his older brother, Arlan Mercury looked remarkably “young.”

He appeared to be just in his early forties, with only faint wrinkles on his face and only a few strands of white hair, overall still seeming to be in his prime.

In reality, however, Arlan was only two years younger than Alt Mercury—both of them were now in their seventies.

Of course, Lin Yu was not surprised that Arlan’s appearance differed so much… after all, the Sleepless Night Family Head, as the mother of five children, still looked like a little girl.

There is a marked difference in the levels of life between true Chosen Ones and ordinary people. The passage of time and aging can be avoided or slowed in various ways for them.

This also indirectly showed that Arlan Mercury, in order to keep his brother alive, did not possess the exact same full strength as a true Chosen One like the Sleepless Night Family Head.

At least, he still showed some traces of aging.

No matter what, Lin Yu was now forced to face a genuine Chosen One who had come with the intent to kill.

Even if the Mind-Peeping Eyepiece would fail against a big figure like Arlan Mercury, Lin Yu could still read Arlan’s emotions.

It was probably one hundred percent rage and murderous intent.

“Thank goodness I borrowed Old Zheng’s abilities. That still gives me some confidence.”

“And there’s also the support of Sleepless Sky Huo Xing…”

As Lin Yu thought this, he suddenly realized that Sleepless Sky Huo Xing’s figure had disappeared.

A corner tile in the banquet hall floor had been pried up, revealing a deep passageway leading underground.

Lin Yu was momentarily stunned.

“That mouse sure ate a lot; digging tunnels and sneaking off so quickly.”

Of course, that hole might have been dug long ago…

But anyway, Lin Yu discovered he had underestimated Huo Xing’s escape abilities.

Earlier she hid among the dead bodies purely to watch the show.

“All right, I’ll have to do this myself…”

Lin Yu sighed.

The only consolation was that the hall was still filled with phlogiston gas, which would help to some extent in limiting Arlan Mercury’s power.

Lin Yu looked at the enraged head of the Mercury Family, and the other’s gaze locked onto him—after all, at this moment Lin Yu was the only person standing in the hall.

“You sealed this place and tried to kill my brother, didn’t you?”

Arlan said coldly, his eyes sweeping over the noble corpses Lin Yu had killed—among them were people friendly with the Mercury Family.

Yet he seemed not to notice that, and it did not make him any angrier.

Only when he found his brother, sleeping with his life force reduced to a faint whisper, did Arlan speak again.

“Who exactly are you, and why did you try to harm my brother?”

Lin Yu looked at Arlan and replied calmly, “Just following someone’s orders, Mr. Arlan Mercury.”

Arlan grew even angrier at those words.

After all, Lin Yu had effectively admitted to being the “culprit” and did not deny harming Alt Mercury.

So…

Arlan Mercury lashed out!

Rich life energy surged from him, enveloping the head of the Mercury Family.

Although the unstable phlogiston gas would make most people in Sleepless City hesitate to use active alchemical constructs and alchemy, reducing them to primitive close-combat fighters, as the head of the Mercury Family and the Chosen One of the God of Life, Arlan Mercury was only somewhat constrained.

After all, Arlan Mercury could wield Supreme Alchemy!

And the Supreme Alchemy used by a Chosen One had a notable feature: this alchemy was completely controllable.

Compared with the step-by-step, scientifically governed alchemy others used, Supreme Alchemy had one trait: it could be used at will.

It could operate entirely according to the Chosen One’s will.

No matter how unstable the phlogiston gas was, Arlan Mercury could exclude it from the reaction.

At this moment, Arlan Mercury was unleashing all his stored life force—if he were merely a practitioner of a normal Life Lineage alchemy, he would only gain massive physical enhancement, change his body’s shape, or sprout extra controllable limbs.

But as a Chosen One, Arlan would naturally do far more.

That pure life energy was drawn out of his body and, astonishingly, formed a giant composed entirely of pure life energy.

A cyan-green Life Giant rose before Arlan Mercury, and then he coldly looked at Lin Yu.

“Go…bring my brother back.”

Arlan said coldly, and the Life Giant lunged toward Lin Yu.

Watching the giant pounce, Lin Yu sighed.

“Why, even after leaving the Black Marsh world, must I still fight these high-intensity battles?”

Only now had he gone from being the one punching red giants to being the one getting pummeled by a green giant.

Lin Yu thought wryly, feeling it was a kind of karmic cycle, poetic justice.

Of course, Lin Yu could still transform into the red giant, but he hadn’t accumulated enough Belief yet; even if he transformed, he couldn’t maintain it for long.

Besides… a head-on brawl wasn’t the best option.

After all, although he did not know all of Old Zheng’s peak abilities, Lin Yu had seen one of them.

“Sleepless Sky Huo Xing, even if you ran off… your ‘toys’ belong to me now!”

“Old Zheng, can you control these corpses?”

Old Zheng in the hat responded at once.

“Thanks to that noble girl, I really can… She took good care of these bodies, and judging by how neatly she killed them, there’s still a lot of lingering soul residue!”

“Although I made some alchemical modifications, as long as she doesn’t stop or interfere with my control, there’s no problem.” 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Old Zheng said this, then used Lin Yu’s currently surging mental power to extend himself once more.

“In short… leave it to me, boss!”

Then, invisible waves of mental fluctuation spread out, and the beautifully dressed corpses that had fallen to the ground stood up again.

They gathered together like an army, blocking the path between Lin Yu and the Life Giant.

The living, vibrant Life Giant made of pure life energy faced off against the ranks made of corpses. The collision between the two was imminent, and a tug-of-war began right in front of Lin Yu!

Those corpses piled into pyramids to halt the Life Giant’s advance.

The Life Giant crossed its hands over its chest and strained to push those corpses aside.

The scene looked as if the two opposing concepts of “life” and “death” had been materialized and were clashing with each other!