After the Skyfall

Chapter 494 Return to Origin
"It seems that we have entered a dark area again."

The further Li Yi walked forward, the deeper the darkness in front of him became. The nearby buildings were all pitch black, without any lights at all. This meant that this area had completely fallen and was occupied by monsters in the darkness. This also meant that it was very risky for him to cross this darkness.

But there was no other way at the moment, he couldn't turn back.

After swallowing a Spirit Blood Pill, he raised his Qi and blood to the peak again. He took a deep breath, and a scarlet auspicious cloud appeared under his feet. Then his speed suddenly increased.

There seemed to be a silver stream of light passing through the darkness, and it disappeared in a flash. The monster hidden in the building had just noticed it when Li Yi had already flown more than ten kilometers away. Before he could chase him, the man had completely disappeared.

Li Yi's judgment at this moment was not wrong. Once exposed to this dark area for a long time, all the monsters would swarm in. By then, even if he was a good fighter, he would be exhausted to death here. The only way was to take a risk, use magic power, perform the cloud-flying technique, and cross the darkness in one breath.

Because at this speed, most monsters are useless.

The only ones capable of stopping him are evil creatures that are much stronger than him.

But Li Yi didn't believe that he would be so unlucky that he would encounter an evil creature stronger than himself while crossing the darkness.

"Boom!"

As the Cloud-Soaring Technique was performed, a deafening roar came from the darkness behind him. The building collapsed, and a black evil corpse appeared. It roared towards Li Yi with extremely terrifying strength. It then chased after him. It was extremely fast, and its huge body did not seem slow, but extremely flexible. It broke the air with just a shake of its body, causing a series of explosions.

Li Yi's eyelids were twitching, and he didn't dare to relax at all. The speed of his Cloud-Flying Technique only increased.

The dark evil corpse chased him for hundreds of kilometers, but it did not understand Taoism and had no way to catch up with the soaring cloud technique. It could only watch Li Yi slip away from under its nose, and finally vented its anger unwillingly in the darkness.

"so close."

Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that the strength of the dark evil corpse was terrifying. Unfortunately, the other party was not alert enough. It seemed that it had been sleeping in the darkness and had not woken up yet. Therefore, it was discovered when he passed by. As a result, the other party did not take action at the first time and missed the opportunity, allowing him to escape safely.

Although some powerful monsters emerged from the darkness, they were not to be feared. They were all left behind by him and could not keep up with his speed.

Sun Fei, who was caught up in the Cloud-Flying Technique, was extremely shocked at this moment. This was the first time he truly felt how terrifying Li Yi's flying speed was when his magic power exploded.

The vision around was blurry and I couldn't see anything clearly. Although it was pitch black all around and I couldn't determine my position, I could still make some judgments from the sounds made by the monsters. The monsters' cries had just sounded next to my ears, but in the blink of an eye they had fallen behind me and could no longer be heard.

Not a moment.

Suddenly, lights appeared in the building ahead.

Then more and more lights appeared in nearby buildings, and the appearance of this phenomenon proved that Li Yi had successfully passed through the dark area.

As soon as he passed the dark area, Li Yi immediately put away his cloud-flying technique and rushed into a building with brighter lights.

He wanted to use the holy corpse in this building to weaken the evil god's curse on himself and shake off the tracking of some powerful evil creatures.

"A powerful adventurer has entered the building."

The guard at the entrance of the passage opened his eyes wide and looked at Li Yi in disbelief as he was standing in front of the holy corpse. He wanted to sound the alarm, but quickly gave up the idea. Then he looked around and found that no one noticed. He simply pretended that nothing had happened to avoid getting into trouble.

Anyway, the person who broke into the building was not a monster.

Li Yi sat next to the holy corpse and took a look at the curse on the back of his hand. It had indeed faded a lot and was almost invisible. He then took out the magic map and began to look at it.

"It's getting close. I'll be back to the building where I started from soon."

He saw that his current location was only about tens of kilometers away from the original point. He would be able to leave here in the next action. At that time, he only needed to find the golden apple to lift the evil god's curse, and this trip would be a perfect end.

Now I just hope Xuan Yuezi can leave this dark world safely.

After closing the map, Li Yi rested for half an hour and then set out on his journey again. He threw a bag of gold coins to the guard in front as a rest fee.

"Sir, where are we going? It seems like we have come a long way." At this moment, Sun Fei asked curiously.

Li Yi identified the direction and then said, "Of course, I need to leave this dark world. I need to find the right building where there is a passage to the outside world. Okay, let's not waste time. I looked at the map and it's not far away. I can reach the destination in one breath without stopping in the middle."

As soon as he finished speaking, he mobilized his energy again, picked up Sun Fei and rushed out.

This operation was very safe because there were relatively few dangers in this area and the lights were on in the nearby buildings. Although it was not as good as the bright area, at least there was no risk of falling.

The journey of dozens of kilometers was over quickly.

soon.

Li Yi found the familiar building.

There was a kerosene lamp at the end of the corridor of the building, and the person in charge of guarding it was a man named Liu Ming. In addition, there were many other corridors in other parts of the building. No one knew where those corridors were connected to, and not all buildings had such corridors.

He had observed many buildings, and only a few buildings had such special passages. "This is it." Li Yi walked into the building. He was not in a hurry to leave, but wanted to confirm Xuan Yuezi's news.

now.

When the guard Liu Ming heard the noise, he immediately looked towards the passage. When he saw Li Yi, he showed some joy on his face: "It's you? You've come back after taking the risk?"

For him, Li Yi was only away for a day or two, which was a very short time, so he left a deep impression on him.

"I did go out for a walk, and luckily I came back safely. I brought a companion with me, his name is Sun Fei." Li Yi said; "By the way, has Liu Ming been guarding here these two days?"

"Of course, I have to work for a month before a new security guard will be selected to take over my job next month." Liu Ming said, "But I can also spend some gold coins to hire someone to replace me, but I don't want to waste the money."

Li Yi asked, "Did you see the woman who was with me come back during your shift?"

He consulted Xuan Yuezi for information.

It shouldn't be difficult to return here with Xuan Yuezi's ability.

"I did not see it."

However, Liu Ming shook his head. "It has been very peaceful these two days since you left last time. No one has entered this building. What happened? Did you get separated from your companions? This is not easy to deal with. If you get separated in the dark world, it is difficult to get together again without some special methods."

Li Yi frowned at this moment.

With his ability to move around and even coming back, it shouldn't be possible for a Taoist master like Xuan Yuezi who has reached the Three Flowers Realm to get lost in the dark world.

She is not a child. If she can't find the way, she will naturally ask people and find out information about this world.

If she wasn't lost, then there was only one possibility: she encountered danger, and a great danger at that, which forced her, a master of cultivation, to waste time.

"Sir, I suggest that we wait here for a few more days. With that lady's ability, she should be able to return safely." Sun Fei suggested.

"That makes sense. You go to the store and rent two rooms. We'll stay here for a while and find a way to get rid of the evil god's curse. When my companions arrive, I'll take you away from here." Li Yi nodded and handed him a bag of gold coins.

Sun Fei took the gold coin and nodded, then immediately rushed to the store on the tenth floor.

The layout of the building is the same, and anyone who has lived here will be familiar with the building.

Soon, Sun Fei got the keys to the two rooms on the first floor.

After paying the gold coins, the lights in the two rooms on the first floor automatically lit up, indicating that someone had moved in.

However, the lower the floor, the more dangerous it is to live in, so most people still prefer to live in high-rise buildings.

But correspondingly, there are also problems for high-rise buildings. If they encounter danger, it is not easy to escape and they are easily trapped in the building. There are pros and cons to each, so it depends on how to make a choice.

Sun Fei had great confidence in Li Yi's strong strength, so he chose two rooms on the first floor so that he could keep an eye on the situation outside the building.

At the same time, he spent two gold coins and asked two women in the building to clean the room, remove some garbage, and buy some daily necessities.

Only after he finished everything did he hand the key to Li Yi.

"Sir, the room is ready and can be used at any time." Sun Fei said respectfully.

Li Yi asked: "How much do you know about other passages outside the building?"

"Those passages leading to mysterious places?" Sun Fei said, "I know about this. The appearance of those passages is not fixed. Some buildings have them, and some don't. Adventurers can go through those passages to adventure in some secret places, explore the unknown, fight monsters to get treasures, and go to other buildings through the passages."

"I heard that someone went to a forest through the passage and obtained the Fountain of Youth. I also heard that there is a sword in the stone in the passage, waiting for a powerful adventurer to pull it out. I have also been to the passage, but I entered a cave and encountered many monsters. In the end, I just hurriedly picked up a few gems and exchanged them for a few hundred gold coins."

Liu Ming on the side said in surprise: "You want to go to the tunnel to take risks? You have to be careful. Although there are many treasures in it, as far as I can remember, no adventurer has successfully brought back the treasures in the tunnel."

He is a native here and is very familiar with the passage outside the building.

"But it's okay as long as you still have the golden rat skin. You can try to go into the room and get the treasure." Liu Ming suddenly thought of something and reminded Li Yi again to use the golden rat skin.

Because the Golden Rat Skin is a rare monster with special abilities.

This is information unique to this building, and even an adventurer like Sun Fei who travels frequently does not know it.

Li Yi thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I know. Thank you for your reminder, but there is no rush now. I will take a day off and take action tomorrow."

As he said that, he took the key and walked towards the room closest to the holy corpse.

(End of this chapter)