Chapter 490: Leaving Hope (Alliance Leader Bonus: Heavenly Balance Emperor)

Li Yi could have ignored the matters here, but when he was really about to leave, he still couldn't bear to see those sporadic lights extinguish just like that, so he decided to leave a bit of hope. As for whether he could save this area, it depended on fate.

At this moment.

The monsters in the darkness had already poured into this building along the pitch-black passage.

The Holy Corpse's protection was useless.

But this was also the result Li Yi hoped to see.

At this moment, he stood under a huge bone-white skeleton. Silver Qi burned like a raging fire. His vertical pupils shone brightly, and even in the dark environment, he could see everything around him clearly. Those monsters rushing over had nowhere to hide before him.

"Kill!"

Without extra language, Li Yi held the silver giant axe and engaged in fierce battle with these monsters.

Even without using magic power, his strength was still terrifying.

A monster with a sheep's head and human body rushed to Li Yi's front for the first time, but before it could make a move, it had already been cleaved in two by Li Yi's silver giant axe. The corpse fell, blood splashed, and these bloodstains fell on the ground, quickly being drawn by a mysterious power, flowing rapidly toward the Holy Corpse behind him that only had a bone-white skeleton left.

Li Yi fought incessantly, killing toward the second monster again.

That was an evil ghost, presenting an illusory color, standing a full five meters tall, looking eerie and terrifying. But the silver giant axe still cleaved it into two sections, and then he met the third monster...

"Boom!" A powerful force erupted.

In the darkness, a humanoid monster held a greatsword and slashed down. Although the move was simple, the power was astonishing. One strike shattered Li Yi's silver Qi, but then it was punched through the head by him, blood splashing out, becoming nutrients to nourish the Holy Corpse.

Li Yi continued to fight, and the monster corpses around him gradually increased.

A large amount of blood was feeding back to the Holy Corpse.

And this Holy Corpse that only had a skeleton left was reviving at an unimaginable speed. Flesh and blood grew out of thin air on the bones, and the flesh and blood squirmed, beginning to spread rapidly, and re-covering the bones. At the same time, lights began to light up gradually in this building.

The first to light up was the store on the tenth floor.

For a building, the store was the foundation, but the store here had long been closed and was completely out of business.

However, now, with the lighting up of the lights, the store's door opened slowly.

At the same time, many broken walls of the building were also repairing themselves.

These scenes were all very lively, as if the building were not a dead object, but a living one. Although it had been silent and decaying, it could immediately recover once it received the nourishment of monster blood.

"Not enough."

Li Yi took a look, but discovered that the corpse behind him had only grown less than half, and he still had to continue slaughtering.

In just a moment, the first wave of monsters that had rushed into the building had been eliminated by him. And he didn't retreat but advanced, killing his way out of the building again. At this moment, the building had already recovered some vitality and produced a protective effect, and some monsters didn't dare to rush in anymore.

Accompanied by a brilliant blade Qi slashing and destroying the remaining few monsters, Li Yi rushed out of the building alone and stood in the darkness.

But this area was different from other areas; the danger was more than imagined.

Suddenly, a hurried sound of horse hooves came.

In the darkness, a dry corpse wearing armor and riding a war horse killed its way out, emitting black smoke all over. It held a long spear, piercing the darkness, and killed toward Li Yi.

This strike came too suddenly and swiftly.

It hit Li Yi's chest instantly, but was defended by the Flood Dragon Armor on his body. However, the massive power still knocked his entire person backward, and he hit the wall of the building behind him heavily. The building also seemed to shake because of this strike, and large pieces of cracks appeared.

"Good fellow, an extraordinary existence has come." Li Yi immediately reached out and grabbed the long spear, wanting to throw this dry corpse off the war horse.

But then he discovered that this dry corpse and the war horse it sat on had already merged into one, growing together completely, making it impossible to let it detach from the war horse.

At this moment, the war horse neighed and opened its mouth to spray at Li Yi. A dark red hellfire instantly vented, covering a range of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

Hellfire?

Li Yi's pupils shrank. He quickly broke free from the restriction and soared into the sky. Then, a greatsword appeared in his hand. This was the weapon left behind after the Undying Sword King died. He felt that this weapon wouldn't be bad and should be able to be used to defeat the evil creature before him.

Moreover, he wasn't ignorant of sword skills. When he was in the Four Seas and Eight Continents, he had obtained the martial arts inheritance of the Four Great Families, and he was also slightly involved in weapons.

While avoiding the hellfire, he fought with the sword, wanting to slay the evil creature before him at the fastest speed, so as not to have long nights and many dreams.

This knight's strength was indeed extraordinary. Placed on Earth, it could definitely defeat an ordinary Spirit Power Realm Evolver.

Just that mouthful of hellfire was enough to make people retreat.

Li Yi had silver lightning interwoven on his body, the Divine Bloodline was stimulated, he withstood the roasting of the hellfire, and after fighting dozens of moves with this knight, he suppressed it with fist intent, found an opportunity, and cleaved this knight in two with one sword.

Dark blood splashed, falling on the wall of the building behind him. Then, he directly threw this extraordinary monster corpse into the building to feed the Holy Corpse.

Nourished by the corpse of such a powerful monster, the Holy Corpse in this building squirmed again, and its body had recovered seven or eight out of ten.

Then, Li Yi used himself as bait, fished for two more powerful monsters, and after killing them, he stopped while he was ahead and withdrew into the building.

"Sir, these are the only remaining building guests in the building. They are all here." Sun Fei brought a dozen people to the first floor at this moment. Seeing Li Yi return, he was overjoyed.

However, he had also encountered some dangers, and he was quite disheveled, with several fatal wounds on his clothes. If it weren't for the inner armor he was wearing, he would have likely met with misfortune. But fortunately, his luck was good, and he survived.

Li Yi was carrying a huge monster corpse at this moment. He threw it on the ground casually, then took a look at these people.

Among the dozen people, most were women and children, and there were two or three old people. They seemed to have been abandoned here, or the strong young people had already died fighting in the darkness.

Facing Li Yi's scanning, these people appeared cautious and nervous.

Only a girl of about fifteen years old, wearing simple leather armor and holding a broken magic bow and arrow, stood in front with a firm expression.

"Sir, she is the last adventurer in this building. Her name is Xiao Jing." Sun Fei said.

Rather than an adventurer, it would be better to say she was the only young person who still had some ability to act.

"Your name is Xiao Jing?" Li Yi asked.

"Yes." Xiao Jing nodded hurriedly.

Li Yi looked at the weapon in her hand: "Your weapon is already damaged and has almost no lethality. Holding it, you can't do anything, and it can only bring you a bit of spiritual comfort. But you should know that in the dark world, this bit of comfort has no effect."

"I know, but this is the best weapon I can find." Xiao Jing lowered her head slightly, somewhat sad.

"Where did the other adventurers go?" Li Yi asked.

"They all died, died in the battle with the monsters." Xiao Jing bit her lip and said, enduring the grief: "The last one to die in battle was my brother. Seven days ago, he was killed by the monsters in the building to protect me. My brother said that if he died, I had to pick up the weapon and continue fighting. Only in this way would there be hope of survival."

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A short sentence depicted the despair and cruelty here.

"Hatred and despair will breed powerful strength." Li Yi said with a calm expression: "I won't stay here for too long, so I want to select one person to help me complete a mission, and that is to rescue all the survivors in the buildings in this area, and then lead them to live on in the dark world."

"You might be a good candidate."

"Sir, is this a bit casual? She is still a child." Sun Fei realized something and said immediately: "Perhaps there are better candidates in the next building."

Li Yi said: "Since fate let me meet her, then listen to fate's arrangement."

As he spoke, he asked again: "Xiao Jing, can you complete this mission?"

"I can't do it." Xiao Jing said: "I am too weak. But I can try. After all, this building has already recovered its vitality. If I can find a way to contact people in other buildings and gather everyone together, perhaps I can change something."

She had a very clear understanding of herself, and at the same time, she had a kind of stubbornness and strength.

"Very good, worthy of being an adventurer tempered." After Li Yi finished speaking, he threw the treasure sword before this Xiao Jing.

The sharp treasure sword sank three points into the ground as soon as it left his hand, exceptionally sharp.

Then, he took out a set of blood-red armor.

"I wandered in the dark world and hunted a legendary-level monster. This is the weapon and armor on its body. In addition..." Li Yi said this, but suddenly there was a Golden Heart in his hand.

The heart was beating, full of vitality and vigor.

"This is the heart of that dead monster. It is said that after eating this heart, one can obtain the power of the monster before it died. However

"As expected," Sun Fei thought to himself.

He had guessed that Li Yi intended to give away the Undying Sword King's golden heart.

He just hadn't expected Li Yi to be so casual about it.

Li Yi's thinking was very simple: he did not want to take this power away from this world; facing this darkness, he was willing to leave this power here to become a beacon of hope.

Xiao Jing was stunned; she looked at the golden heart in disbelief. Although she was not old, she had grown up listening to various adventure stories about the dark world, so she knew a thing or two about such matters.

"I, I..." she stammered, panicked and at a loss.

But Li Yi did not give her time to hesitate; he walked over directly and stuffed it into her mouth: "You have no choice."

The golden heart acted like a living thing, immediately sliding down her esophagus and into her stomach.

In an instant.

Strong, powerful heartbeats emanated from Xiao Jing's body; she widened her eyes, frozen in place.

But with every heartbeat, she felt her whole body filling with strength, and a powerful aura gradually began to radiate from her.

That was the aura of the Undying Sword King.

Only at this moment, the Undying Sword King was no longer a monster, but the obscure young girl before them.

"Remember your mission, do not forget to fight the darkness; from this day forward, you are the new Undying Sword King." Li Yi left these words behind, then turned and left the building with Sun Fei, continuing on the path home.

"Sir, are we just leaving like this?" Sun Fei asked, very surprised.

Li Yi looked at the dark building before him and said, "Leaving hope behind is enough; what else can be done? Let her save those scattered survivors; I have a clear conscience."

Sun Fei nodded without a word.

The two had not yet walked far.

Suddenly, a young girl's shout came from the building with the brightest lights.

The voice was full of power, echoing in the darkness as if announcing the birth of a powerful adventurer.

(End of chapter)