In this world, darkness loomed above, darkness treaded below. Any which way they looked all they ever saw was never-ending black.
Monster grew in numbers with time as did the encounters. But to Li Mo, he felt as if these guys were becoming weaker.
He needed a few good hits to kill one at the start, but now one casual swing took a life.
‘What on earth? Wasn’t it supposed to be the other way around, for them to be stronger, not weaker?’
In all honesty, only a freak like Li Mo would think so.
Look at Ye Li, she was armored in gold yet couldn’t last a hit.
In the Dark Hall, the monsters would grow in strength depending on the challenger’s level. A level 50 challenger would bring about level 60 monsters, always ten levels above. It was meant for monsters to always have the power to put pressure on the challenger.
Usually. It wasn’t like all challengers were like Li Mo, standing in the middle of a hoard of monsters for a bit, then switch position and repeat. It all bore down to Li Mo’s stats. They were so outrageously high for his level that the monster’s level advantage couldn’t keep up.
What should’ve been a gauntlet for the players, it now turned into Li Mo pushing the squeeze on the monsters.
Two days later, Ye Li’s vial filled up and changed.
In these two days, the trio ever encountered one type of monster, the mist one.
In the world of darkness, where picking any direction was the same as having not moved at all left the three numb.
Only when the soul vial filled did they realize its secret.
The soul vial jumped out of Ye Li’s hand and hovered in the air.
Endless black energy entered it for what lasted ten minutes. The soul vial then exploded and something came out.
That thing twisted and finally turned into a woman.
Yes, a woman!
With black mist covering her naughty bits, and a face of a model.
The bewitching woman floated for a second before coming down.
In this world, any direction was a good direction, since all they had to do was kill monsters and take their souls to incubate the boss.
Ye Li exclaimed, “No wonder each entry will increase the difficulty. Just killing so many monsters would’ve long since made others fall…”
Li Mo killed as well, but it still took him two days to fill up the vial and summon the boss. If it were a team instead, they’d be utterly powerless to do it.
Li Mo charged with Poison activated. The human woman had a black wheel behind her and when it spun, Li Mo stood in place.
He couldn’t budge a finger.
Thump!
The woman kicked him and took a tenth of his health.
“You’re Sacred Mother Alkaid?”
Li Mo cried in shock.
After the collapse of Heavenly Court, two human factions appeared in the vast universe. One was was in the far Big Dipper, the Alkaid Holy Parish, and the other was the humanity’s primogenitor bloodline on the Primogenitor Planet. They both represented humanity’s final glory.
Alkaid Holy Parish grasped a time secret art, able to slow down time. This was the Alkaid Holy Parish’s unique art. They were the only ones who had it.
The woman looked to have a bewitching beauty and Li Mo recognized her bearing as being far beneath the Sacred Mother Alkaid, but the Time Wheel sacred art she used was identical to Sacred Mother Alkaid’s.
The past Li Mo, bent on learning all the universe’s arts, paid the Alkaid Planet a visit three times. He met with Sacred Mother Alkaid many times and even his prized disciple, Yao Xi, was originally Sacred Maiden Alkaid’s!
If not for taking Yao Xi the third time he visited, then Yao Xi would have become the next Sacred Mother.
Sacred Mother Alkaid, Yao Yi, was Yao Xi’s aunt.
“Are you Yao Yi?” Li Mo shouted.
The woman’s hand flowed and the Time Wheel spun. In a blink she was standing before Li Mo.
Alkaid Holy Parish’s Time Wheel Art could not only slow down time but speed it up as well. This bewitching woman used the same thing to increase her speed.
It went beyond any doubt that this was the same Time Wheel Art.
Li Mo was certain of it!
“Yao Yi!”
Li Mo shouted, but the woman turned a death ear. Her punch had Li Mo skid way back.
“Do you remember Wu Gang? The Avian whose infatuation for you never faltered until his dying breath? “
The woman kept attacking.
She packed a mean punch, striking Li Mo for a minute and bringing his health down to half.
‘Was I wrong?’
‘Is it really not her?’
Li Mo was puzzled…
When Yao Yi was the Sacred Maiden Alkaid she and an Avian called Wu Gang had developed feelings. But as the Alkaid Holy Parish and the Avians were like fire and water, the two never stayed together.
Wu Gang was infatuated with her to such a degree that despite not being able to be with Yao Yi, he built a thatch cottage outside the parish, watching the Holy Land from afar and pinning for her.
When Yao Yi became Sacred Mother Alkaid, their enemy attacked. It was a disaster that almost destroyed the Alkaid Holy Land. But Wu Gang burned his life to bring Yao Yi’s back.
Wu Gang died and was buried outside Alkaid Holy Land. It was then that Wu Gang became Yao Yi’s lifelong regret. Just mentioning his name would have her heart wracked with pain and would hold her crying face. Li Mo managed to take the young Yao Yi away at the time because he exploited Yao Yi’s weakness.
If this woman before him was truly Yao Yi, then saying Wu Gang would’ve had an effect.
‘Maybe…’
A thought flashed through his mind.
An absolutely preposterous possibility.
Li Mo withdrew and barked, “On a mica screen, a candle casts dark shapes; the Milky Way slowly descends, the Morning Star is low. Chang’e must regret stealing the elixir of life; blue sea and blue sky, night after night in her heart.”
The bewitching woman froze…
