When Wu Wang was captured, he was actually quite calm.

Although this was different from what had been agreed upon.

But after all, he had weathered many storms before.

As the saying goes, plans can’t keep up with changes; it’s normal for a big shot to have some unexpected moves.

So, on the surface, he was captured, but deep down he remained completely unflustered.

Until… the shadow phantom was brought to Jiang Ye’s side.

Until… the shadow phantom was lifted up and he saw the demon youth trapped in the black vat, looking wretched and terrified.

And standing next to the black vat… was that “Yu Mo”?!

No! Something was off!

That couldn’t possibly be Yu Mo!

So… he was the big boss of Witch Gui!

But! How could this be?! Why was the Witch Gui boss the one who locked the Heavenly Net leader inside the vat?!

Could this also be part of the big shot’s play?

No! This was far too strange!

The terror on the big shot’s face did not look fake!

Therefore…

Wu Wang’s mind raced, and the more he thought, the more panic he felt!

And with the appearance of the giant shadow phantom…

The terror on the demon youth’s face gradually transferred onto Wu Wang’s face.

The demon youth himself seemed like he had seen his savior, a flash of surprise flickering in his eyes.

However, he quickly suppressed his emotions, trying hard to lower his presence.

Afraid that under the shadow phantom’s oppressive aura, Witch Gui might sense danger prematurely and just kill him to run away…

At this moment, Jiang Ye didn’t pay much attention to the demon youth.

He stealthily activated True Sight Eye, trying to probe information about the shadow phantom, but found nothing.

However, the urn of cremains held by the shadow phantom should be the genuine Witch Gui cremains without a doubt.

Then…

This giant shadow phantom should be the mastermind behind stealing Witch Gui’s cremains?

Just as he was thinking this, he saw the shadow phantom raise its massive hand.

The urn of cremains was then thrown toward Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye reacted gracefully, raising his hand and catching the urn steadily.

With a wrist twist, he stored the urn inside the Clone Shared Space.

He raised his brow and looked toward the shadow phantom, speaking casually, “What’s the meaning of this?”

From within the giant shadow phantom came a deep, heavy voice:

“Your cremains have been returned. This immature junior, I will take away.”

Almost simultaneously with this voice, after throwing away the urn, the giant empty hand of the shadow phantom directly grabbed toward the black vat.

The giant hand’s movement looked casual, as if not very fast.

But in less than 0.01 seconds, the black vat containing the demon youth was already inside the shadow phantom’s giant hand!

Jiang Ye was startled, frowning slightly.

Before he could speak, the giant shadow phantom also threw Wu Wang over.

Then, on the giant hand that was free after throwing Wu Wang, a dirty clay doll appeared.

The heavy emotionless voice came again from the shadow phantom:

“This [Prometheus Doll] is to be considered a compensation gift.”

Saying this, the clay doll was also thrown toward Jiang Ye.

This time, Jiang Ye did not catch it.

The clay doll was thrown to the ground but remained perfectly intact.

More precisely, the dirt covering its body didn’t fall off even a little.

Jiang Ye had a premonition that the shadow phantom was going to take the demon youth away.

While he was speaking, he quietly merged some clones that enhanced his spirit attribute.

However, just as he felt his spirit attribute should be sufficient and was about to take action…

He suddenly discovered—

This Witch Gui soul entity could not invade that giant shadow phantom!

Even more astonishing was—

Right after he failed to invade the shadow phantom, the shadow phantom sent a heavy voice to him:

“Don’t you know? Soul entities can only parasitize on physical bodies.”

The implication was…

This shadow phantom was not a physical body.

Therefore, the mastermind behind this shadow phantom either had no physical body or hadn’t personally come here!

So, who exactly was it?

Such a power and method had to be a Permission Player, right?

But why would such an existence insist on saving the demon youth? What was the purpose of stealing Witch Gui’s cremains?

Moreover, with his strength, he shouldn’t have needed any “compensation,” right?

Jiang Ye’s mind filled with various thoughts.

The shadow phantom left one sentence: “We will meet again at the Nine-Day Major Reshuffle.”

Then, the shadow phantom took the black vat containing the demon youth and instantly vanished without a trace.

Jiang Ye couldn’t even tell from where it disappeared.

This method seemed different from the Nomadic Merchant’s spatial rift.

Jiang Ye guessed this might not be a spatial ability.

The shadow phantom was not a physical body but could touch physical objects…

Even carry physical objects and traverse space directly.

And…

“We will meet again at the Nine-Day Major Reshuffle…”

This meant that the shadow phantom, like Eternal Witch Gui, belonged to a special permission identity?

Jiang Ye’s thoughts fluttered wildly.

But soon, his gaze landed on that clay doll.

True Sight Eye scanned it, directly retrieving information:

[Prometheus Doll]

[Effect: Provides a vessel for soul entities to parasitize, and grants the unique SSS-rank talent “Fire Theft.”]

[Fire Theft (SSS): You can steal others’ abilities (including but not limited to: ultimate skills, talents, abilities, and Glyph Pattern Abilities).]

[PS: If the same ability is stolen for more than 2 hours within 24 hours, the doll may mutate; over 5 hours, it may devour its owner; over 10 hours, it may generate an autonomous soul entity.]

Oh my!

This…

At first, Jiang Ye was quite annoyed that the shadow phantom took the demon youth away directly.

But after seeing this “compensation,” he was stunned!

An SSS-rank talent!

And a unique special one at that!

The key was this talent was really awesome!

Stealing others’ abilities!

From the literal meaning, “stealing” was much stronger than “copying”!

If it was just copying, the one who copied would get the ability without affecting the original owner.

But “stealing” meant forcibly taking others’ abilities away.

The stolen person would lose that ability!

Of course, the stolen time couldn’t exceed 2 hours.

In other words, it had to be returned within 2 hours…

But even so, this ability was still ridiculously overpowered!

The key point was, it was an SSS-rank ability!

So, even SSS-rank abilities could be stolen!

For example, Chen Cang’s SSS-rank [Divine Assistance], what would happen if stolen?

Or Lu Fang’s [Rune Mastery], could he try stealing that?

Or Lin Ling’s ability, could he try experiencing it too?

Of course, an SSS-rank talent was awesome but Jiang Ye was more concerned about…

This thing was, after all, just an item.

And it was a free gift from someone else.

Having suffered the traps from Lin Ling’s [Life Stone], the Mask Master’s [Mimic Mask], the Card Grandmaster’s [Time-Limited Instant Kill], and the defective [Clone Replica Mirror]…

Jiang Ye had grown wary of various items.

No matter how overpowered this [Prometheus Doll] was, if he wanted to use it, he had to weigh it carefully.

What if the shadow phantom destroyed his cremains on purpose and used this doll to harm his soul entity by letting the doll’s autonomous soul devour his?

Although according to Witch Gui’s trait, if the cremains don’t perish, Witch Gui won’t die.

But previously, the Witch Gui soul entity had been directly replaced by Jiang Ye’s soul.

In other words, this replacement was not true death.

What if the autonomous soul generated by this doll could also replace Jiang Ye’s soul entity?

In short, this doll item was overpowered, but the risk of use was too high.

However, as Jiang Ye picked up the dirty clay doll, he once again reviewed the information about “Prometheus” in his mind.

Previously, Lin Ling had mentioned “Olympus” in a secret code given to Jiang Ye’s light clone.

And Prometheus was somewhat related to Olympus.

Prometheus was not one of the twelve main gods of Olympus.

However, during the battle between Zeus and the Titans, he was a Titan god who sided with the Olympian gods.

Later, he was favored by Zeus and stayed on Mount Olympus.

Regarding Prometheus, two well-known deeds were creating humans and stealing fire.

According to Greek mythology, the prophet god Prometheus and the goddess of wisdom Athena jointly created humans.

Prometheus molded human “bodies” out of clay;

Athena breathed life and soul into the clay figures.

Athena bestowed wisdom upon humans, while Prometheus brought the fire to the world.

So the doll’s [Fire Theft] talent perfectly matched the myth.

What Jiang Ye cared more about was…

The myth’s setting that Prometheus created human “bodies,” and Athena injected the “soul.”

This coincided with his previous thoughts about “containers.”

If the “body” in mythology corresponded to what he understood as the “container” in Doomsday Apartment,

Then what kind of existence would the “Prometheus” of the entire Doomsday Apartment be?

With this in mind, Jiang Ye suddenly had many thoughts about this Prometheus who was not an Olympian main god.

To be honest, he had read Greek mythology before.

But it had been a long time ago.

Plus, those mythological names were not easy for him to recognize when he was young.

So most of his memories about Greek myths were vague and confused, with many events and characters mismatched.

But for some reason, right now, he smoothly recalled more information about Prometheus.

First, he remembered that when Prometheus created humans, he molded the clay figure based on his own body.

Also, after stealing fire, the angry Zeus severely punished Prometheus.

He was bound with unbreakable iron chains on a steep cliff of Mount Caucasus.

Special nails were hammered into his chest.

Eagles were arranged to peck at his liver every day.

During the day, the liver was eaten; at night, it would regrow.

Thus, day after day, he endured the torment of the eagle pecking at his liver.

Speaking frankly, Jiang Ye might have been a bit twisted as a child; he even thought this punishment was not very cruel.

If it were him, he would definitely come up with more brutal ideas…

Ahem, of course, as a human, he naturally stood on Prometheus’s side, the creator of humans.

So according to the myth, there seemed to be someone, whose name Jiang Ye couldn’t recall, who found Prometheus during the search for golden apples.

This person shot the eagle, destroyed the chains, and rescued Prometheus.

From the human perspective, Prometheus was a very important mythological figure.

After all, he and Athena together created humans, basically the Greek equivalent of Nüwa.

And if some settings in Doomsday Apartment corresponded specifically with Greek mythology…

Then the character corresponding to Prometheus in the apartment should also be quite important.

In Doomsday Apartment, there was the Moon Phase Clock bound by iron chains;

In the Reincarnation Graveyard, there was the Cross-shaped Tombstone bound by iron chains;

In the underground graveyard’s tombstone area, there was a mysterious imprisoned existence;

Also, there was a secret hidden deep in the Abyss Restricted Zone…

Among these, could there be an imprisoned existence corresponding to Prometheus?

If there was,

Jiang Ye leaned toward excluding the “Moon Phase Clock” and “Abyss Restricted Zone” first.

After all, what the Moon Phase Clock imprisoned seemed to be time, which might not be related to living beings;

The secret in the Abyss Restricted Zone was probably related to the early days of Doomsday Apartment, the Light Emperor, and the Dark Emperor;

Left were the Cross-shaped Tombstone in the 4444 Apartment Reincarnation Graveyard and the tombstone area in the underground graveyard…

Actually, Jiang Ye wasn’t sure if the special existence in the tombstone area was related to the Cross-shaped Tombstone in the Reincarnation Graveyard.

However, after thinking deeply about these,

His gaze returned to the [Prometheus Doll], and he suddenly had a bold idea…

I mean, if this doll really gave birth to an autonomous soul entity, so what?

Jiang Ye even looked forward a bit to whether the autonomous soul generated by the doll could bring him more information.

But if conditions allowed, he of course hoped to thoroughly deal with that shadow phantom first before trying to let the doll generate an autonomous soul entity.

Otherwise, what if the generated autonomous soul was a trap set for him?

However, since he didn’t even know who the shadow phantom really was, it was probably hard to resolve it in the short term.

Jiang Ye sighed lightly and put away the dirty-looking clay doll.

Then, he casually glanced at Wu Wang.

At this moment, Wu Wang’s entire body was stiff, and he looked like he was about to collapse as if the sky was falling.

Jiang Ye snorted and waved his hand.

A black vat suddenly appeared on the ground.

He poured some poison into the black vat.

Then he took out an ordinary doll and placed it in an ornate chair.

With a flicker of thought, the Witch Gui soul entity transferred from Yu Mo onto the ordinary doll.

With a thought, the ordinary doll transformed into the demon youth’s previous appearance.

He stuffed Yu Mo back into the black vat.

Then, in the demon youth’s form, he sat back in the ornate chair.

With three “Duang Duang Duang” kicks on the black vat, he woke Yu Mo up.

Yu Mo had been unconscious before, but now he slowly opened his eyes, somewhat confused.

The first thing he saw was Wu Wang standing next to the black vat.

But he was unsure whether this Wu Wang was the real one or the one possessed by Witch Gui.

What he could confirm was that the person in the ornate chair was his cousin Tao Sheng.

So…

Where had this drama reached?

No matter how far it had gone, whether Witch Gui was present or not, he cautiously showed a terrified and fearful expression toward the demon youth.

At the same time, in his heart, he frantically called out to Witch Gui: “Big boss! Boss! Help me!!”

Disguised as the demon youth, Jiang Ye naturally heard his plea for help directed at the heart demon’s lair.

However, he gave no response, only meaningfully glanced at Wu Wang.

Wu Wang, able to rise to the leadership of the Hundred Ghosts Alliance, naturally had some skills.

He reacted almost instantly.

One second he was terrified as if the sky was falling; the next second he switched to smooth acting.

He kicked the black vat fiercely and shouted angrily:

“Useless fool! I’m right here!”

Hearing this, Yu Mo understood the situation—

Witch Gui big shot was possessing Wu Wang;

And his cousin’s relaxed and arrogant posture must mean he had a hold on him.

His heart relaxed, but his face still showed panic as he shouted toward Wu Wang: “Big boss! Help! This guy searched my soul; I’m worried he…”

Before he finished, Wu Wang, with a complicated expression and expressionless face, interrupted: “You don’t have to worry about that…”

“My cremains have already been stolen by him. Look at the broken cremains urn on the ground…”

“…What?!” Yu Mo was even more terrified, his face turning pale. “H-How could this happen?!”

At this moment, Jiang Ye crossed his legs and snorted: “How could it not happen? You’ve seen my strength.”

Then he snorted again at Wu Wang: “Now, honorable Witch Gui, what do you think?”

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