Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

”Bang!”

The torch slammed heavily onto the body of the Manipulator’s puppet, but its limb joints suddenly bent backward at extremely unnatural angles, like a character model glitching in a game with an unrealistic physics engine. It flew backward in a bizarre, twitching manner!

This unexpected move meant that while the Manipulator’s body was struck, it was only a ”light touch.” Most of the force was deflected, and the flames hadn’t even had time to ignite its body.

Lin Yu immediately got up to pursue, but the martial artist puppets around him lunged forward like water ghosts dragging someone down!

Even ordinary farmers who knew nothing about martial arts, at this distance, could subdue someone just by relying on their physique and numerical advantage.

Let alone...

At this moment, these were martial artists far stronger than farmers, fully versed in all kinds of grappling techniques!

In an instant, Lin Yu felt several powerful hands latch onto his joints and acupoints, firmly restricting his movements.

At this moment, Lin Yu felt as if he’d been dragged into some quagmire or locked into a restraint device—completely unable to move or break free!

Even the highest martial arts master of the Prison Mountain Realm would struggle to escape from this situation.

After all, with his acupoints and joints seized, there was hardly any room to exert force.

But...

Fortunately, Lin Yu was not a native of the Prison Mountain Realm.

He had methods from other worlds—methods that could be called devious by Prison Mountain standards.

The ordinary layer of clothing on his body overlapped the [Asylum Patient Gown], the [Intermediate Protective Suit], and...

The newly obtained [GPWW Specialized Combat Suit]!

[GPWW Specialized Combat Suit: After equipping, can analyze the morphological structure and life fluctuations of combat targets during battle. Consumes vitality to temporarily transform any body part’s form into the morphological structure of any analyzed creature.]

And Lin Yu had already gathered plenty of data from fighting those demons in the Prison Mountain Realm.

Especially those spider demons that covered the mountains and plains.

Although they were demons, they were still ”living creatures,” meeting the analysis criteria of the [GPWW Specialized Combat Suit].

Thus, Lin Yu activated this function of the [GPWW Specialized Combat Suit].

The life energy within his body surged, starting to take effect in the form of alchemy.

It was a relatively strange sensation—the intangible power within him welled up, and under the stimulation of the alchemical circuits etched into the clothing clinging to his skin, the structural form of his body began to undergo peculiar changes.

Soon, Lin Yu found that his hands and feet, under his will, had transformed into the shape of spider legs.

And spider legs were, of course, completely different from human limbs in terms of thickness, joint positions, and acupoints!

What’s more, even though his form had changed, because the [GPWW Specialized Combat Suit] had already collected enough data on the morphology and movement patterns of those spider demons, Lin Yu, even though this was his first time having spider limbs, was incredibly adept.

As if he’d been a spider in his past life!

”Swish!”

Before the martial artists could react, Lin Yu swiftly withdrew his hands and feet, transforming them back to normal!

Then, Lin Yu swung the torch in a wide arc, driving back the surrounding martial artists, before chasing after the fleeing ”Manipulator” once more.

With that delay, the guy had already escaped into the protective circle of another group of martial artists—and this time, fully prepared, he had even mobilized the remaining five Twelve-String martial artists to guard his perimeter.

Even so, the Manipulator looked at Lin Yu and still didn’t dare to be careless.

”Excellent methods... Not only did you see through my true body, but you also broke free from those martial artists’ grip in an instant,” he said loudly, then looked at Lin Yu. ”And... if I’m not mistaken, you seemed to transform briefly just now...”

Lin Yu grinned widely. ”Yes, I’m also a spider demon. Technically speaking, I’m actually Zhu Qiansi’s sister.”

Then he looked the other up and down—although dressed in martial artist attire, his face wasn’t old, just a young man.

And from his appearance and demeanor, he looked like the most common type of young man from a mountain village or small town—a woodcutter’s or hunter’s son.

”From your attitude toward her and this appearance of yours, back in Willow Town, you must have been something like Zhu Qiansi’s junior. Come on, call me ’aunt’!”

Lin Yu’s lies came easily.

The young Manipulator was stunned for a moment, but he didn’t believe Lin Yu at all. He snorted coldly, ”Nonsense. You outsiders are indeed unreliable.”

Seeing that the guy hadn’t taken the bait, Lin Yu didn’t keep pushing the fraud, nor did he correct himself. Instead, he just said, ”So, it seems you really were some little brat who admired Zhu Qiansi back then.”

”Killing you should be a heavy loss for that spider demon, right?”

The Manipulator sneered again.

”You’d have to actually kill me first... This body of mine is nothing but a product of ’Causality Silk.’ And unlike those shoddy ones, my ’Causality Silk’ is stored in Willow Town. Even if you destroy this body, it’s just a loss of vitality!”

”And even setting that aside, do you really think you can break through the defenses of these martial artists?” the Manipulator said arrogantly. ”No matter how strange your methods, stalling you is hardly difficult for me!”

”And as long as I’m not dead, reinforcements in the form of puppets will come endlessly!”

As he spoke, new puppets emerged from the mountains behind him, one after another.

Lin Yu looked at the Manipulator but suddenly burst out laughing.

”Hahahahaha, truly young... Even after living a few hundred years as a ’demon puppet,’ your mind is still stuck in that moment back then.”

”I say a few things, and you just fall for it?”

Lin Yu squinted his eyes with a smile. With Zhu Ming’s delicate features, his grin looked thoroughly cunning and mischievous.

”The one who needs to buy time has always been me, you forgot?”

His words landed lightly, and the Manipulator’s expression shifted.

”Not good!”

From the Taoist Temple behind him, Mystic Cloud Master’s joyful voice rang out.

”It’s done! This old Daoist has done it!”

”A disciple of the Taiqing sect, I humbly kowtow to the Heavenly Venerable above, praying for the Taiqing decree to manifest great divine power to vanquish demons and banish evil!”

”Lords of the four directions, two mountain gods, a thousand miles of ley lines, ten thousand inches of spiritual essence! Now that demons have appeared in the mortal world, the Taiqing Heavenly Venerable issues an urgent decree! You all, come quickly to assist, let no evil disrupt peace! All generals under my command reveal your true forms, strength-bearers move mountains and split the earth...”

A brilliant blue light erupted from within the Taoist Temple. The old Daoist’s chanting rang out as talismans flew out, forming a grand formation in the air, then expanding outward!

Then...

The earth trembled, mountain peaks crumbled!

This scene was exactly like the famous line from the *Huangdi Yinfu Jing*:

”The earth stirs with murderous intent, dragons and snakes rise from the land!”