Netherworld Retrograde

Capítulo 1147: Chapter 561: Blood-Soaked Night (Part 2)

On the ground battlefield, all the demons were slaughtered.

With the Dragon Head Demon King, the Overlord, gone, the remaining demons were no match for even one of Ye Lai and Dawn’s generals. Not to mention, an Overlord-level assassin had made a move, none of them were able to escape.

When Li Ye returned to the ground, the three Little Mad Kings were treating the Spiritual Ability User who had his limbs severed.

Extraordinary Medicine was injected into his body, barely preserving the life of the Spiritual Ability User, but his limbs were beyond saving…

Unless stronger pharmaceuticals were used to regrow the limbs. Or by undergoing prosthetic modification.

“Don’t bother, I’m just a Fifth Sense, not worth so much medicine.”

This Spiritual Ability User was a Processor of the Ba Shu Mountain City, codenamed ‘Iron Arm.’

Iron Arm looked at the ghostly scene and said in a low voice, “Thank you…for avenging our people…”

This was originally a shelter that could accommodate over ten thousand people.

But the Disaster Fog appeared too swiftly.

The population and troops that were transferred here weren’t many.

The Spiritual Ability Strong People stationed here was a captain.

When the Demon King personally led the attack, the shelter was forcibly breached.

The captain desperately delayed, allowing part of the forces to break through, but many people were still captured by the demons.

Then, there was this nightmare-like scenario…until the arrival of Li Ye and others.

Among the two thousand captured, less than three hundred survived. Their spirits and bodies had suffered torment, and their condition was very poor.

“How to accommodate them?” Dawn asked, “Your ‘You Must Meet Strong Enemies’ is still triggering, perhaps new enemies will appear soon.”

“Yes, I know.”

Li Ye could not move with the people for the time being. If too many enemies arrived, Li Ye would not be able to take care of these people.

Therefore, Li Ye looked at the Silver Mecha: “Where is the nearest human shelter?”

Silver Mecha was a creation of the Demon of Fear·Forging General.

Forging General is a Smart AI.

The Primordial was a high-tech civilization that appeared in certain Disaster Fog, mastering technology stronger than humans.

It always gathered materials, forging Mecha to assist each path of Horror Demons, or trading with other Horror Demons.

And Li Ye activated the Mechanical God Core, directly awakening its Mechanical Soul, causing it to betray the Forging General and becoming a Mechanical Soul loyal to humans.

This also allowed Li Ye to obtain more Horror Demon intelligence from it, naturally also human-related intelligence.

The Quantum Eye of the Silver Mecha flickered [the nearest human shelter is located forty kilometers away, guarded by a human Overlord. According to the intelligence, apart from the Demon King, there should be no other Horror Demon forces nearby]

“Fortunately, it’s not very far.”

Li Ye scattered a handful of golden beans, and over a hundred Imitative Heavenly Soldiers emerged, among them a Divine Mimic Sky Soldier.

“After escorting them to the shelter, stay in the shelter to guard and provide intelligence on the side of the Horror Demons,” Li Ye said.

The Silver Mecha bowed.

Then, together with the Imitative Heavenly Soldiers, they either carried or held the people and quickly evacuated.

Their steps were light and steady, rapidly disappearing down the street.

“You simultaneously used the Mythical Mimic and the Divine General Dharma Image, your consumption of Spiritual Energy is somewhat fast,” Dawn said, watching them leave.

Zhu Ye remained silent, merely spitting out a mouthful of flames, burning this hellish scene.

Li Ye could indeed quickly recover Spiritual Energy, but it required a sufficient number of enemies and Li Ye to activate the Jile Chosen Face.

Just now, the Spiritual Energy gained from the Dragon Head Demon King was not enough compared to the consumption.

“I should have put it on the wall just now. Let it endure enough pain so you could recover enough Spiritual Energy,” Dawn said, “You let it die too simply.”

“I was too angry, didn’t think about that at all,” Li Ye shook his head, just wanting to tear the Demon King apart, nothing else crossed his mind.

“Then see how many enemies come in the next wave.”

“If… they dare to come again…”

‘You Must Meet Strong Enemies’ is indeed powerful, but it also has limits.

If the enemies do not step within the range, there is no way to forcibly pull them in.

And in this vast space, the Mobius Ring Map’s ability, besides allowing the streets to stagger, had no more effect.

From the sky, they still departed.

Now, Li Ye and the other four had consecutively slain four waves of Horror Demons, and the Horror Demon side likely wouldn’t send more forces to die.

Especially with the demise of the Insect Master, this late-game development type of Horror Demon, being shattered so early.

They probably felt heartache to death.

Of course, the other side had already invested so much sunk cost.

They might also calculate that Li Ye’s remaining Spiritual Energy is low, intending to encircle and eliminate this unsettling factor once and for all.

They did not know that Li Ye had freeloaded off Jile, allowing him to quickly recover Spiritual Energy.

This information disparity could let the Horror Demon side continue investing combat power, being further consumed by Li Ye.

While Li Ye was considering, after the effect of ‘You Must Meet Strong Enemies’ ended, catching up with the team to go to the shelter together.

A space rift unfolded in the distance.

‘So they indeed still came?’

Li Ye and the others coldly laughed in their hearts. If the arrival was an Overlord, they would swarm and crush him, then smear him on the wall to recover Spiritual Energy.

If the arrival was a Supreme, let him face the Biomimetic Tear Drop of the Old Mad King!

However, beyond Li Ye’s expectations.

What appeared from the rift was a Sacrificial Mask, seemingly wooden.

Li Ye frowned but suddenly felt his Soul Well was shaking, the originally solid Soul Well was now peculiarly twisted.

Simultaneously, the roar of the Champion Cloak echoed in Li Ye’s mind.

‘Be careful!’

At that moment, the Sacrificial Mask shattered loudly, and the mask fragments reformed into an eyeball-shaped crystal, the pupils swirling with nine layers of blood-red threads. The moment Li Ye’s gaze met it, strange writhing patterns were etched on his retina.

Countless overlapping roars exploded deep in his brain.

He saw the heads of the demons he had slain growing faces of his comrades.

The gravestones of fallen comrades oozed black bile.

The blood pool just purified surged again.

The souls of the babies who had been exorcised grew the tusks of the Dragon Head Demon King in the vortex.

In the cycle’s images, the comrades he buried, the human warriors who perished before him.

Kept repeating the ashes-scattered process, every death erupted into a blood mist that congealed into new demons.

All deaths were reenacting, all worsening.

‘Boom’

Li Ye felt as if a nuclear bomb exploded in his mind, countless negative emotions inundated.

‘Why, after we paid so much to kill the enemy, can they make comebacks again and again!’

‘I personally slaughtered my family and friends, buried them! Why must I face this ending after persevering until now?’

‘No! Humans will not lose!’

The reality dimension began collapsing, the right arm Li Ye wielded his knife with grew moldy tendrils.

The ground beneath him transformed into countless mouths opening and closing, chewing his shadow on the ground.

The sky split open with viscous fissures, the descending blood rain carrying teeth and nails.

Twisting, he was twisting!

He saw Zhu Ye’s body swell in an instant, a wound on his neck turned into sharp teeth, roaring.

Dawn’s skin sprouted spikes, each spike impaling a human head.

Little Mad King…he couldn’t see Little Mad King. Had he already vanished into the shadows?

“Damn, it’s Shang!” Zhu Ye ignored the twisting on his neck, growling, “Keep your mind steady, it’s not the original body!”

Shang? Is this…the monster hidden under the Champion Destiny?

Heh heh…

Li Ye didn’t know whether what he was seeing now was real or fake, but it seemed to have hit the muzzle.

Li Ye raised his already tooth-growing arm, brushing against his cheek.

Activating the Face, Blood God Chosen Face, Eternal Chosen Face.

In that instant.

In the Supreme Heaven, watching the endless war in the Scarlet Wilderness, the Blood God cast his gaze.

In a corrupted yet vibrant garden somewhere. The plump but kindly Father of Plague, stopped his hand from stirring the thick soup.