Due to the Moon Metropolis Exposition, coupled with her general aversion to staying in the Celestial Realm and a greater longing for earthly life, the Celestial Emperor seized this opportunity to temporarily reside in the Eientei... Neither Kaguya nor Eirin minded harboring an additional Celestial within the household, so she was allowed to stay. Eirin, operating under the principle of efficiently utilizing available resources, tasked Tenshi with overseeing the weaker yokai and fairies in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.

Reimu mentioned that the Bamboo Forest of the Lost housed a formidable weapon like the Shanhai Scroll, but since the enemy's strength was unknown, having a Earth-rank powerhouse like Tenshi stationed there provided an extra layer of security.

Tenshi had originally remained within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, finding amusement in playing with the yokai, but when the battle at Eientei erupted, the violent fluctuations were instantly perceptible to her. Curiosity compelled her not to stand aside, leading to the scene currently unfolding.

Scarlet Heaven of All Humanity... The destructive power of this technique was not fixed; it varied in strength based on the quality of qi gathered. At this moment, having condensed the qi of everyone present, the attack Tenshi unleashed caused even the Wicked King's expression to change. Facing the rapidly approaching, colossal scarlet magic cannon, evasion was no longer an option.

"You little bastard..." The Wicked King roared with thunderous fury, his eyes piercing chilling light from within his armor. As the shout erupted, his body, standing over three meters tall, expanded instantaneously, followed by a... BOOM!!!

The scarlet magic cannon struck the Wicked King without hesitation, resulting in an explosion akin to a nuclear blast. Yet, despite enduring such an assault, the Wicked King remained utterly unscathed; his physical form had brute-forced the immense magic cannon to a halt.

"This... How is this possible?" Tenshi was completely stunned. After absorbing the qi of Eirin Yagokoro, and the Wicked King 'Lin Luo', she was confident her Scarlet Heaven was more than ten times stronger than before. To have it blocked was utterly unbelievable.

"Little bastard, you try to use my power against me... Wishful thinking!" The Wicked King growled, simultaneously wrenching his hands outward. With a deafening roar, the colossal scarlet magic cannon shattered like tofu, dissolving entirely into mist.

"Who are you calling a little bastard?" Just then, the Wicked King heard a woman's icy voice from above. Instinctively looking up, he saw a fair hand descending toward his head, a black hole exuding terrifying power pressing straight down.

"Damn it!" The Wicked King's face shifted. At such close range, he couldn't possibly evade, so he could only react by extending both hands... With a tearing sound, to everyone’s disbelief, his hands, encased in black demonic armor, managed to arrest the black hole that was dozens of times larger than him!

The most horrifying aspect of a black hole is its gravity; being dragged inside means inescapable doom. While Eirin Yagokoro conjuring a miniature black hole with her bare hands was already an act defying heaven, Lin Luo had some understanding of her abilities and wasn't entirely surprised. But the Wicked King holding the black hole—and resisting the immense suction—was, in his view, simply incredible.

However, it was clear that holding the black hole was not easy for the Wicked King. Under the terrifying force exerted by the black hole, his body visibly trembled, and even the massive demonic armor, only just assembled, was riddled with countless cracks, appearing on the verge of disintegration at any moment.

Lin Luo would naturally not miss such an opportunity, preparing his left hand for a spiraling destructive black flame and his right for the ultimate spear. But before he could launch these killing blows, Eirin Yagokoro moved ahead of him.

Seeing the black hole restrained, Eirin Yagokoro showed no surprise. Since the enemy's demonic spear could return from within a black hole, it was hardly strange for the spear's master to possess a similar capability. However... "A black hole does not merely consume."

Eirin's tone was detached. As her words faded, she had already retreated a hundred meters, her hands flashing through seals. "Explode!"

Boom!

The black hole pressing down on the Wicked King's head detonated. Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, countless spatial currents erupted. The immense shockwave sent even Tenshi, far away, flying, while the center of the blast was ravaged beyond recognition. The very fabric of space groaned, as if unable to withstand the sheer power, teetering on the brink of collapse.

In truth, Eirin Yagokoro had held back. The detonation of a black hole is capable of planetary destruction. Although she had only created a hyper-miniature one, a full-power deployment would, if not destroy the Earth, certainly obliterate Gensokyo. In fact, precisely to prevent Gensokyo from suffering absolute disaster, Eirin had suppressed her strength since the battle began.

The strongest combat unit of Gensokyo—any one of them possesses enough destructive power to obliterate Gensokyo in an instant.

The residual effects of the explosion only subsided after nearly half a minute. At the center of the blast, the Wicked King's figure had vanished, seemingly vaporized by the black hole. But...

"He's still alive!" Lin Luo's eyes sharpened, and he spoke gravely. Determining whether a Walker was truly dead was simple: one only needed to check for the dropping of a 'Heart Relic'; currently, there was no Heart Relic!

"How is that possible? Is he a monster?" Hearing this, Tenshi, who had been flung far away, cried out in shock. That was a black hole explosion! If she had been the target, even an undying Celestial would be utterly atomized. No matter how powerful this supremely enhanced human was, he shouldn't have survived.

Tenshi remained fixed in her perspective that Celestials inherently surpassed humans; anything Celestials couldn't achieve, humans surely couldn't either. (Of course, this held true in common sense, as Celestials were humanity's ultimate evolutionary form.) But Gensokyo defied common sense, and more importantly, the Walkers were non-human!

"I... I can still feel his presence..." With Eirin Yagokoro's wisdom, no one could know better than she whether her own attack had killed the enemy. Although the strike had undeniably hit and pulverized his body, the core essence of his being remained intact.

Immortality!

That was the first thought that crossed Eirin Yagokoro's mind. In Gensokyo, creatures possessing immortality were far from rare.

"If he has immortality, this gets troublesome..." Lin Luo couldn't help but frown, his gaze locked forward as the search of his Seventh Consciousness spread across heaven and earth. Although he had initially opposed Kaguya's plan, looking at the current situation, Kaguya's decision was indeed correct.

"Hmm?!" Just as he thought this, Lin Luo suddenly sensed a subtle ripple in the surrounding space. Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Luo's gaze snapped to a point beside him, and the Ultimate Spear shot out like lightning.

Sssshhh!

The Ultimate Spear moved with the speed of light, but before it could strike, a faint black spot materialized in the space ahead. In the blink of an eye, the black spot expanded, and a pitch-black long spear stabbed out, fiercely clashing against the Ultimate Spear—Clang!—sending sparks scattering.

Then, from the scattering sparks, countless black shadows shot out with a speed that "lightning fast" failed to capture. They instantly closed in on Lin Luo, the spear tips erupting with terrifying ripping power, aimed directly at Lin Luo's heart... It was the Wicked King, wielding the Death Curse Spear!

The moment he saw it, Lin Luo’s expression changed; he realized the Wicked King was completely unharmed. Worse still, the Wicked King’s attack seemed to utilize five-dimensional power, momentarily paralyzing Lin Luo, leaving him helpless as the demonic spear hurtled toward him.

Slap!

Just as the spear tip was less than three centimeters from Lin Luo, close enough for him to feel the invasive demonic energy, a hand suddenly reached out from the side, gripping the shaft of the spear tightly. The hand then slid upward, and a micro black hole manifested in the palm, which was then slammed against the Wicked King's chest with a thud.

The Wicked King cried out in agony and was immediately blasted backward before being sucked into a black space, vanishing once more.

"Be careful, he's targeting you," Eirin Yagokoro said gravely, standing beside Lin Luo.

Lin Luo nodded; if she hadn't intervened just then, the consequences would have been dire. He had some insight into the Wicked King's strategy: the enemy likely wanted to avoid a direct confrontation with Eirin Yagokoro. Although the Wicked King was powerful, he was slightly inferior to Gensokyo's strongest combat unit. Hence, he employed this assassin-style approach, focusing his main assault on Lin Luo.

However, what Lin Luo couldn't grasp was how the Wicked King emerged utterly unscathed from the black hole's explosion. Logically, no matter how strong he was, he should have sustained injuries from such an attack, but why did it feel like... wait!

Suddenly, Lin Luo's eyes lit up; he had conceived a possibility.

"Did you figure it out too?" Noticing the change in Lin Luo's expression, Eirin Yagokoro suddenly asked.

"It's that, isn't it," Lin Luo confirmed with a nod.

Eirin Yagokoro inclined her head slightly. "I was puzzled too, but thinking it through carefully, there's no other explanation... That fellow has multiple selves!" The Wicked King didn't possess simple immortality. In this fight, he had died at least twice: first, trapped by Eirin's talismans and destroyed by Lin Luo's black flame; second, disintegrated by the black hole explosion. The reason he hadn't perished yet... The current Wicked King was Wicked King No. 3!

The reason Lin Luo suspected this wasn't because he had definitively seen through it, but because he recognized a similar phenomenon. The Nasuverse's Touko Aozaki could create dolls identical to herself in both appearance and ability. If the original self died, its memories would transfer to a standby doll, resurrecting not as a copy, but as herself—every doll was her.

The Wicked King possessed a similar ability!

If there was a difference, it was that the Wicked King stored his backup bodies in other dimensional spaces. Once the original self perished, he would vanish briefly, and then a new version would emerge from a higher dimension...

In a sense, this was truly invincible!