Xu Chen carried a silver lantern and walked alone on a dim mountain road. However, this magical realm seemed to have no daylight, only eternal darkness.
Feeling a bit puzzled, Xu Chen sat on a cold stone and leaned against a withered tree branch to rest. He remembered the early days of his adventures when he used to camp with Izayoi and his sister, Qingyin, and they would squeeze into a warm little tent. Outside, there would be a drizzle of rain in the forest, a small but warm happiness... Tears welled up uncontrollably.
Why is it so difficult for me to live a carefree life with my sisters? I have already fought against the primordial chaos, but still, I couldn't achieve my wish... Although we have had some happy moments, there was always a shadow of unease about the future in our hearts. It couldn't be called true and peaceful happiness...
"Izayoi... Qingyin... Star Dance sister, I miss you!"
"Hey, Your Excellency, who are you calling? Why does it sound so affectionate?" said a voice from the hanging silver lantern, the voice of the small primordial infant.
"Um... sorry for confusing you. I couldn't control my emotions..."
"Huh? Your Excellency, you actually like women?"
"Huh? Of course!" Xu Chen replied inexplicably.
"Oh, I must have been deceived by Your Excellency's appearance. I thought someone as beautiful as a goddess would prefer handsome men!" the infant said.
"Uh, please don't disgust me! This appearance wasn't my intention! In my original world, I was a pure boy, you know!"
"Was the original world a corner of the divine realm? What was it like?" the infant asked.
"Hehe, little primordial infant, you won't understand this. By the way, why did that tall shrine maiden believe that I am the reincarnation of the Ming King? Am I not just an ordinary lost traveler?" Xu Chen asked.
"Hahaha! Your Excellency, you don't know what it was like when you descended. There were terrifying lightning bolts that pierced the sky, even mighty demons dare not come out. A bright meteor fell from the sky after the lightning burst, and it shook the entire Huoshu Kingdom! There was a crater with a radius of ten li and a depth of several hundred meters in the back mountain of the Silver Flower Temple. In the center of the crater, there you lay in a coma. Although your clothes were all torn, your skin was flawless and unharmed! Can such a person who descended in this way be ordinary? I don't know whether you are the Ming King, but someone who has never seen such a scene can also recognize that Your Excellency is definitely an extraordinary person!" the infant said.
"Hehe, I see..." Xu Chen was not surprised by the commotion he caused when he arrived here. He even felt it was too ordinary! What kind of existence was he once? A single breath from him could destroy an eternal world with a diameter of billions of light-years!
"Your Excellency, did you come here to find someone? You always seem contemplative and eager to see the Star Princess, calling out the names of those women," the infant asked.
"Yes, but it's not just an ordinary search..." Xu Chen looked at the night sky and didn't say more.
After resting for a while, Xu Chen saw the scattered stones around him and tried to manipulate them with his mind. Under Xu Chen's control, the stones flew and began to rotate around him.
"Go!"
The stones suddenly flew at an incredible speed towards a withered tree not far away.
"Boom boom boom!!!" The stones and the withered tree were shattered!
"Wow wow wow! Your Excellency is amazing!!! This... What kind of secret method is this? Although it's not surprising to destroy these withered trees, using such ordinary small stones to cause such destruction is incredibly rare!" The voice of the infant came from the swinging silver lantern.
Xu Chen was quite satisfied with the power of the stones, but the accuracy still needed improvement. After all, more practice was needed! With just a fraction of his concentration, Xu Chen made these few moves. If he focused entirely, it was feared that even the friction of the stones flying in the air could ignite them! He didn't use any magical techniques, only relied on the terrifying kinetic energy when the stones flew at high speed, which caused such destructive power!
If he used even stronger objects, the power would be even more terrifying!
Xu Chen continued practicing until he could fly the stones next to him and hit a tree branch behind his back without even looking at it, before stopping."With such proficiency, it should be sufficient for real combat!" Xu Chen thought satisfactorily as he got up and continued down the mountain.
Yemo City is located at the northeastern foot of Fengmo Mountain.
Here, there were ancient, pitch-black city walls. Inside the city walls, various colored lights could be seen, but those flickering lights seemed to give off an ominous feeling.
At the city gate stood two tall Soul Armor Guards, which had the appearance of a huge armor suit. In reality, they were made up of the ancient armor of a general who died on the battlefield millions of years ago. While the body had turned to ashes, the sturdy armor remained and was inhabited by a metal-loving spirit. However, due to the armor absorbing the intense killing intent of its original owner, it gradually eroded the metal-loving spirit. With more and more spirits being attached to the armor, the Soul Armor Guards began to develop a chaotic consciousness that combined the resentment of the attached spirits and the original owner, ultimately turning into Soul Armor.
Of course, the Soul Armor Guards guarding the city were all under special control and would not attack indiscriminately.
When Xu Chen approached the gates, he noticed that there were more and more demons coming and going.
On one side of the road leading to the city gate, there was a cliff. Beneath the cliff was a surging abyss, inside which clusters of people were screaming in pain and being punished by demonic whips. At first glance, this scene seemed to cover the entire vast abyss.
"The dead mortals are punished here to atone for their sins!" a small baby in a silver lantern said.
"Hmm," Xu Chen noticed that there were many mountains and giant pillars in the abyss, connected by iron bridges. Groups of people were walking or carrying things on these bridges, or excavating new roads.
They gave the impression of being closer to ordinary people. Most of them were escorted by demons, either passing through or working hard. Their eyes were distracted, their clothes tattered, and they had no signs of life. However, they were completely different from those who were punished and had a look of pain and resentment.
"These people are known as Sheng Sheng slaves. They are neither alive nor dead. Ordinary people cannot survive in the demonic realm, but they can exist here. They exist between life and death. Most of them are captured or deceived from the mortal world and can only serve the great demons of the demonic realm as laborers forever! Unless they are rescued, they can never escape. In a sense, they are even more miserable than those who have died and come here to suffer!" the small baby in the silver lantern said.
"Mmm..." Xu Chen also felt sorry for these people who would never have a future. However, this was the reality of the world. The existence of the demonic realm had its own reasons. Xu Chen did not have the idea of rescuing these people.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Xu Chen's gaze fell on a huge copper pillar a kilometer away. The copper pillar was a thousand meters high, and on the wooden scaffolding built in the middle of the copper pillar, a group of Sheng Sheng slaves with black iron ankle shackles were slowly carving patterns at a position about four to five hundred meters high.
Among them was a girl wearing a tattered green skirt, a white damaged small shirt, and a beautiful slim figure with long golden hair. She was earnestly carving the patterns on the copper pillar. Upon closer inspection, her golden hair was scattered, but on one side, there was a loosely hanging white hairband stained with dirt, hanging on a ponytail that fell to the side...
"These people have been carving here for five hundred years. If they cannot finish carving this copper pillar within a thousand years, they will..."
However, Xu Chen didn't listen to the small baby speaking at all. His gaze was fixed on the woman, his body trembling with excitement, his slender fingers tightly clenched into a fist, his beautiful pupils contracted in astonishment!
"No...no, no...Izayoi...is it really you...Izayoi?!!!"
