Chapter Twenty-Five: A New Beginning

  Water flows downhill, and the same is true for blood. The blood flowing from the scattered limbs and bodies began to flow into the pit created by Chen Yi.

  Chen Yi's final move, Spiral Mind Field, not only wiped out the remaining monks but also left a huge circular pit on the ground.

  Treading on the blood gathered in the pit, Chen Yi drank a bottle of blue medicine. Although the side effects of overdrafting power were minimal, it alleviated the emptiness caused by excessive consumption of power.

  Chen Yi jumped out of the big pit, not daring to hesitate, and continued to rush towards the place where Xī Yóu was. As for the seal, having lost the monk's blessing, it could no longer block Chen Yi.

  On the road ahead, cherry blossoms continued to flutter down, and as they drew closer to Xī Háng Yāo, some pink butterflies had already appeared before Chén Yì's eyes.

  The pink dead butterflies, as soon as they sensed the breath of a living being, flocked to Zhen Yi. Although beautiful, these dead butterflies were entirely formed by the evil aura of death and were not something that a living person could withstand.

  The effect of Nian Beast's possession had not been lifted from Chen Yi, and as soon as the Dead Butterfly approached him, it was immediately evaporated by the blue light screen on his body.

  Although there were many dead butterflies, each one was only formed by a tiny amount of death aura, and naturally had no effect on Chen Yi.

  Although he was not afraid of these dead butterflies, he was very aware of the principle that ants could bite an elephant to death, and he accelerated his speed again.

  The falling cherry blossoms grew more and more, and the ominous feeling in Chen Yi's heart grew stronger. When Chen Yi arrived at Xixing Yao's place, all he saw was the entire sky shrouded in a sea of cherry blossoms.

  Still... came too late.

  Looking at the sorrowful face of Yakumo Yukari lying on the ground, and Yuyuko Saigyou who had lost her life beside Seiga Kaku, Tenshi let out a deep sigh.

  ……

  Afterwards, the soul of Yuyuko Saigyouji, who had arrived later, took over Yuyuko's corpse from Yakumo Yukari and said: "The young mistress had requested that after her death, her body be buried under the tree of the Western Youkai..."

  Looking at Yatsume's sorrowful face, Tatsuki also didn't know what to say.

  Anyway, Youmu will be revived later... no, it shouldn't be called revival, but rather appearing in another form. By then, Yuyuko's condition should improve a lot, thought Tenshi.

  At this time, Chen Yi's state was not much better. Apart from the huge sense of loss in his heart, Chen Yi now, apart from having a strong body, was almost like an ordinary person. The small planet of his soul's core, which belonged to the realm of spiritual energy, had also dimmed.

  When leaving, the soul of Youyao stayed behind, saying that as a guardian of Youyouzi, even if Youyouzi died, she would still guard here.

  Following Bayunlan to a forest path, Chenyi said to Bayunzi who was sitting on Bayunlan's tail.

  "Lord Purple, I think I'll leave for a while and find a secluded place to recover my strength."

  Yakumo Yuko, sitting on the blue tail of Yakumo's cloud, also lost interest in Tenshi's secret due to Yuyuko's passing, nodding her head in agreement.

  "Ah! That's right!" Chen Yi suddenly remembered something and took out a pale red, semi-transparent thing that looked like the eyes of a wild beast.

  Transparent cosmic soul, Chen Yi had discovered it in his inventory a long time ago. In the game, it was just a material to exchange for epic equipment, but in reality, Chen Yi clearly sensed an immense spatial power within it, like the universe itself. How cool is that?

  Sounds like it's very cool, but when you actually get your hands on it, it's both loved and hated. The reason is that the spatial power inside is too stable! That's right, it's too stable, so even if the spatial power inside is released all at once, it won't have any impact on the surroundings. The super-stable spatial power will immediately merge with the surrounding space when released, solidifying the space.

  To put it simply, with this thing around, when encountering spatial cracks and stuff, just throw one nearby, guaranteed to be more effective than Yunnan Baiyao or Jin Gu Die Da Wan and the like, after all those things can only take care of physical wounds.

  And Chen Yi's hand-held cosmic soul, no matter how powerful the spatial rift is, it can be smoothed out.

  Wow! On the premise that you have the ability to break it, the super-stable spatial power also brings a quality of almost eternal wear resistance to this cosmic soul...

  Handing over this transparent cosmos soul to Yakumo Yukari, "I think that in the future, Lady Yukari will be able to make use of this thing."

  Tatsumi's idea is that Yakumo Yuko has the power of the gaps, so it should be possible to use the power of the cosmic soul.

  After watching Yatsume Himekawa take down the Universal Soul, Tatsuya felt that there was nothing more to do and parted ways with Yakumo Shizuka and Yatsume Himekawa, each going their separate ways.

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  "Where to go next? The sky is about to darken, I didn't think the cost of overexerting my strength would be so severe. Not even medicine works, and I can only slowly recover on my own... Ugh, at this rate, it'll take several years to fully recover my strength. It seems I really will have to live as a hermit..."

  Chenyi walked alone, stroking his chin and muttering to himself, as night slowly fell.

  Yokai also prey on each other, so naturally, Chen Yi, who was walking alone in the forest at night, became a target.

  A few red lights lit up in the dark woods.

  For a demon, if it can eat the flesh and blood of other powerful demons, its power will naturally be greatly enhanced.

  And as for Chen Yi, who was emitting a strong aura but didn't have much power fluctuation, he naturally became the target of other monsters' hunting action, thinking that he had been seriously injured. A hunt to kill Chen Yi slowly unfolded.

  The monster lurking in the woods stared at Chen Yi with greedy eyes, constantly surrounding him as its center.

  Chen Yi furrowed his brow slightly, and as for the monster lurking in the woods, Chen Yi naturally saw its every move clearly.

  This is also too arrogant, damn it! You really think I'm a soft persimmon, easy to bully!

  After thoroughly surrounding Chen Yi, a monster could no longer suppress its inner greed and pounced on Chen Yi with drooling mouth.

  Several bright sword lights tore through the night sky and pounced on the monster that was attacking Chen Yi, which didn't even have time to let out a miserable cry before it was cut into several pieces.

  Holding the Meteor Knife, Chen Yi swept his gaze around him.

  Although Chen Yi can't use any power now, the weapon skills brought by swordsmanship mostly don't need to be driven by any power, and they can be done with just physical strength.

  The profound implications of this passive skill bring Chen Yi unimaginable mastery over his weapons, and any cold weapon in his hands will be instantly grasped with precision.

  For the low-level demons surrounding him, Chen Yi was completely confident that he could leave them all behind unscathed with his physical strength alone!

  Watching the monsters lurking in the forest one by one reveal their figures, Chen Yi couldn't help but curl his lips.

  "Cut! Are the male demons here really this pathetic?" Looking around at the many demons surrounding him, each one tall and large, resembling evil spirits, but with low strength, and not even human-like, they were scary when paired up.

  As they surrounded Chen Yi, the monsters around them began to speak...

  "It's actually a male monster too!"

  "Damn it! How can he possibly look so close to a human like that female demon?!"

  "What tremendous power!"

  "How detestable! I hate him so much! Kill him!! Definitely kill him!"

  Is this jealousy? Looking at the group of male demons who fell into a kind of frenzy, Chen Yi was speechless.

  However... looking at the male demons rushing up one after another, Chen Yi's eyes flashed with light, and even in their frenzy, they couldn't escape the fate of being cannon fodder!

  The bright blade light cut through the night sky again, and the monster's proud flesh was simply unable to withstand a single blow in front of Chen Yi. Every time he swung his sword, Chen Yi's blade had a faint blue glow, relying on his physical strength to create a sword aura, and naturally, Chen Yi used the Ghost Sword Technique from the sword technique system.

  In front of the sharp blade, Chen Yi's every swing would definitely bring down a monster. As the slaughter continued, the Flowing Star Knife in his hand gradually heated up.

  What is this? The weapon in his hand was getting hotter and hotter, and a layer of fiery red light appeared on the blade.

  How could that be? Chen Yi leaped high, his weapon heavily chopping down, the red light on the blade immediately dispersing, and a small meteorite shadow appeared in the air, quickly materializing, pulling a long tail of flames into the monster group.

  BOOM!!

  The brilliance of the meteorite's explosion illuminated the surrounding environment, and the remaining monsters were also engulfed in it, leaving no bones behind.

  "Good grief!?" Chen Yi looked at the crater on the ground that was still smoking.

  "This is too powerful!!" Chen Yi looked at the weapon in his hand with a surprised expression, "I was wondering why I couldn't trigger the Meteor Knife's effect all this time. It turns out that you have to cut someone first before summoning a meteorite."

  The crater continued to emit hot air and smoke, Chen Yi tried to find the meteorite in the pit, but couldn't find it no matter what. After careful consideration, even if the Flowing Light Meteor Knife was incredibly powerful, it wouldn't be able to bring out a real meteorite. The meteorite from earlier was just an illusion.

  After the commotion just now, some of the weaker monsters didn't dare to have any ideas about Chen Yi again. The slightly stronger monsters didn't have the confidence either, and they didn't dare to rush up recklessly. What if they got killed? That would let other monsters take advantage of the situation.

  And so it was until Chen Yi walked out of the forest, he didn't encounter another monster.

  "Where are we going?" Chen Yi sat on the ground, leaning against the weapon inserted into the ground behind him, muttering to himself after walking all night.

  If Chen Yi were to live in seclusion alone, he would definitely not be able to bear it and could not accept it.

  Why don't you go find Little Red Carbon and brush up on your good feelings?

  It seemed that there was only one place to go, so Zhen Yi got up, took out the map, confirmed the direction, and set off again.

  Tatsumi came to Fujiwara's sister Akane's place for the third time, praying in his heart that Akane would not move away.

  Looking at the cave in front of him, Chen Yi couldn't help but say another sentence: "......it's been a long time, Cave Lord."

  Don't let me down, with a nervous heart, Chen Yi walked in and saw a girl staring at the cracked doll in her hand, Chen Yi also breathed a sigh of relief.

  "Hey girl! Don't mind me bothering you for a bit, okay..."