Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 589 Extremely High Rewards
Li Xia's pupils darted rapidly from side to side, taking in all the information around him.

Those spheres weren't moving very fast, but they persistently pursued their own direction.

It's like it has a life of its own, is it locked?
What should be used for locking?
Aura? Life lock? Mental lock?

But there was no time to think about it now, as the lightsabers had already formed a terrifying rain of swords and rushed towards him.

The orbs of light did not cause any trouble for the lightsaber. In fact, when the lightsaber touched the orbs, it simply strung them onto the blade like candied hawthorns.

It did not cause any movement of the light sphere.

We must first stop this rain of swords.
He gripped the icy hilt of Frostflower once more, holding the glass-like blade horizontally in front of him.

Then, he swung the sword sharply to the side, and Shuanghua shattered into pieces that transformed into hiltless short swords in mid-air.

Li Xia held his left hand in a sword-finger gesture in front of his eyes, his true qi boiling and transforming into a profound power.

The crystal-clear short sword whistled as it flew towards the rain of swords in front of him.
During flight, the short sword suddenly trembled and split into two, then into four, then into eight.
The densely packed short swords formed a massive cloud of swords in mid-air, and the space suddenly fell silent the instant they collided.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang"

The sound of explosions, so dense they were indistinguishable, rang out in mid-air. The orbs of light resembled tiny bombs, each collision generating tremendous impact.

Li Xia's pupils reflected the light of the explosion ahead. Suddenly, he released the spear in his hand, letting it transform into a bolt of lightning and fly around him.

With a flick of his wrist, the Ancient Moon Bow appeared in his hand.

True Qi surged into the ancient bow in his hand like boiling water.

Li Xia's eyes seemed to be filled with moonlight, and a huge, illusory moon slowly appeared behind him.

"Buzz!"

The bowstring vibrated, and an endless rain of moonlight arrows surged toward the opposite side like a torrent before him.

The relationship between Li Xia and the Pale King is like that of a minesweeper and a mine-laying player.

The core issue is the age-old game between skill-based apostles and ranged apostles such as mages.

That is, close-range combat and position control.

Just like before, when Li Xia got close, the Pale King had no way to fight back except to use his magic shield to withstand the attack or to teleport away. Otherwise, he would have been helpless and taken a heavy hit just like before.

Those orbs of light are the Pale King's means of controlling his position, and as is happening now, these orbs will explode upon contact.

Therefore, Li Xia simply used the Ancient Moon Bow, which consumes very little energy, to detonate all the lightning.

But this is just a tactic; in terms of mana, he definitely can't compete with a mage like the Pale King.

The rain of arrows suddenly stopped, and Night Silence whistled through the air, arcing as it hurtled toward the Pale King.

Li Xia's figure disappeared again, grasping Night Silence, who had already forced the Pale King to his feet. Behind him were bursts of light exploding everywhere, and the shockwaves ruffled his black hair.

A smile suddenly appeared on Li Xia's face, and Ye Ji suddenly let out a sharp whistling sound, piercing straight into the chest of the Pale King.

"You ask me, what exactly are you?"

The three little ones were suddenly stunned because their leader actually spoke. From the lower ranks to now, they had almost never seen their leader speak in battle. He even habitually maintained his 'expressionless face'.

It's because legend has it that some powerful individuals in the Hall of Fame can read the combat information they need from 'micro-expressions'.

But now it's actually speaking!

What shocked them most was that the Pale King paused for a moment, clearly listening!

"You are who you are! What you saw has driven you to the brink of madness!"

A translucent, diamond-shaped honeycomb mesh magic shield reappeared. Night's Silence's spear tip pressed against the magic shield, and the diamond-shaped light shield suddenly emitted a dazzling light.

It then rapidly transmitted the light to the surrounding area, causing the entire magic shield to flash wildly.

Li Xia held the spear with one hand, maintaining his thrusting stance, and his true qi surged continuously towards the spear, causing it to light up as well.

"Why did your seven knights seal you away?"

The light on the magic shield flickered faster and faster, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

"Because you will drag the entire hive down with you, and the whole world will be buried with you. The kingdom does not belong to you alone, but to all the insects living here, to every insect that has ever built the hive."

The magic shield shattered with a crash, and the Pale King let out a shrill scream. Its form suddenly transformed into a beam of light, vanished instantly, and then coalesced in the distance.

The light spheres we had seen before coalesced again, and countless tiny light spheres densely filled the entire space.

But Li Xia had already discovered the secret of the small balls chasing him. These small balls of light were like ball lightning. They were made of photons, had no mass, and were attracted by the subtle changes in airflow and movement.

Even the slightest disturbance in the airflow will affect these massless photons.

However, the Pale King did not use its full strength; it was entirely on the defensive.

"You think that if insects chase the light, they will become livestock raised by higher beings. You are desperate, you are sad, and you don't want to see insects being raised and slaughtered."

Rings of airflow surged outwards around Li Xia's body, pushing away the surrounding photons.

"But you dare not resist. You are afraid, you are afraid of those higher beings. But why are you afraid? You should be the strongest being in this world. You should know that those higher beings are no match for you."

The Pale King suddenly stopped moving.

"So... you resisted? You attacked their location, found something there that drove you mad."

The Pale King remained silent, its dark eyes seemingly shifting subtly. Beneath its pure white exterior, beneath that extreme white light, seemed to lie hidden specks of a completely opposite radiance.

A dense black light seeped from beneath the light like ink, as if ink had been dropped into water, quickly spreading and staining the original clear water black.

Thick black smoke spread across its surface, and its body gradually changed, becoming slender and full of power.

Its soft exterior is also imbued with the luster of metal.

The Pale King stretched out his arm, which had become human-like, and held a jet-black sphere in his palm.

"I discovered this. In the sphere, I saw an inescapable fate, a power beyond my imagination, the destruction of all things, and the end of the world."

Since we're all destined to end this anyway, I might as well destroy it myself!

The Pale King suddenly stuffed the sphere into its mouth, bent over violently, let out a painful roar, and then arched its body backward.

A terrifying power emanated from its body, and the entire pure white space seemed to be polluted by this power, turning into an unsettling gray.

Only the ground beneath their feet remained white, but no longer emitted any light.

Li Xia twirled his spear, pointing it diagonally at the ground. His expression gradually returned to calm as he looked at the completely transformed Pale King and nodded.
"That's right." The prompt from the Hall of Light popped up impatiently.

[Executioner, an Apostle of Utopia has been discovered!!]

[Executioner, please kill the Apostle of the Void Abyss immediately and protect the Tree of Origin!]

Li Xia seemed not to have seen the prompt, and instead said decisively:
"You have to pay more!"

The Temple of Light reacted just as quickly.

[Special Mission: Eliminate the Apostle of the Void - The Pale King - Supreme Origin Light]

[Mission Rewards: Executioner Star Rating Upgrade, Illusion Selection Pack *3, Time-Space Silver Coins *3, Attribute Points *5]

It seems that the World of Light and the Tree of Origin are indeed very important to the Temple of Light, and this reward is quite generous.

It was even quite generous.

It was worth it to expose the Pale King's hidden secret.

Li Xia lowered his body again, raising his gun, his eyes fixed on the Pale King in front of him—no, now it should be the Dark King.

However, a mage suddenly started engaging in melee combat with him, and even abandoned the special abilities brought by the Supreme Source Light.

As expected, the apostles of Xuyuan are all not very bright!
I'm not alone!

"Awooo, release the little knight!"

Because the situation on the field changed so quickly, the three little ones, who were completely unaware of what was happening, immediately released the little knight who had been unable to contain himself after hearing Li Xia's detailed explanation.

The small body darted over like a streak of light and stopped beside Li Xia.

Seeing Li Xia nod at him, a hazy light suddenly shone from the little knight's body, and a shadow slowly condensed.

The shadow Li Xia seemed to emerge from the void and stood side by side with Li Xia.

The Supreme Source Light, which was about to charge forward, had stopped in place and seemed to be retreating.

"Oh!"

The shockwave spread, and the three figures rushed towards the already somewhat stiff Supreme Origin Light in three different directions.

"The Pale King must have been furious when he discovered that his people were being treated like livestock, so he led seven knights to raid the slaughterhouse."

Li Xia sat on the terrace of the White Palace, overlooking the City of Tears shrouded in drizzle. At the end of the corridor behind him, the throne that once sealed the Pale King had collapsed.

The three little ones huddled around him, their eyes wide, listening intently without daring to miss a single word.

"It's somewhat like a puzzle game, deducing the truth based on known information. Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the turtle soup I used to play in the real world."

Li Xia looked at the crystal-clear gem lying in her palm, which resembled a water droplet.

Tears of Regret

[Synopsis: These are the tears shed by the Pale King before he utterly fell into darkness.]

"I never really understood it because I was missing the most crucial thing, the thing that connects everything, until I sensed a familiar aura from the Pale King, that black smoke."

Li Xia wiped away her tears and sat down on the steps with the three little ones and the little knight, quietly watching the scenery.

"I thought for a while and finally remembered what it was. It was the aura of the Void Abyss. The small spheres placed by the apostles were condensations of the aura of the Void Abyss."

The aura of the Void Abyss is something even more loathed by the world than the aura of the Old Gods. If the Old Gods are like a chronic disease, slowly leading the world toward death.

The Void Abyss is an acute illness with an extremely high mortality rate. Therefore, upon sensing the aura of the Void Abyss, the Tree of Origin will instinctively mobilize its power to eliminate the 'virus'.

This power is the pure primordial light, which the apostles used to mass-produce 'Pale Spirits', and then, taking advantage of their weakened state after transformation, they killed and dissected them.

Dawn is not equipment; it's more like an organ, a kind of stone that inevitably forms within the body.

As the three little ones listened, their expressions grew serious. They gradually understood what Li Xia was saying.

"The Pale King launched a surprise attack on them and seized a sphere. It wants to study what this thing is."

As for why no sunlight descended to destroy the sphere, it's likely that the Pale King used his power to conceal the sphere's presence.

Li Xia's voice was calm and even, as if she were telling a story from a yellowed storybook covered in dust.

Aowu and Heitan sighed softly. Was the aura of the Void Abyss easy to study?

Didn't you see that after Li Xia killed the Apostle of the Void Abyss, the Hall of Light immediately destroyed the corpse, not allowing even a trace of its aura to escape?

Without a doubt, the Pale King went mad after merely probing the aura of the Void Abyss; it neither exploded nor transformed into an indescribable monster.

It was only thanks to its supreme source light, possessing low-level divinity, and the extremely rare aura of the Void Abyss, that it merely went mad.

The mad Pale King believed that the only way to save the insects was to destroy the entire world, so that without the insects, the apostles would no longer come.

The Seven Knights are normal; of course they'd think the King has a problem with his head. Shouldn't the correct approach be to kill every apostle they find until they're too scared to come near?

So they joined forces to seal away the Pale King, and Li Xia had no idea what happened next.

However, the Pale Spirits underestimated the power of the Apostle of the Void. Even when sealed, it could still spread its aura and destroy the entire world.

So the insects fell into a deep sleep—

Awoo's eyes widened.

"Letting the insects die peacefully in their sleep is probably the last act of mercy this once great White King showed them."

Li Xia looked at the little knight. He finally understood why the little knight was born. The Apostle of the Void was the source of destruction of a world, which was why the little knight came to fight the mad White King.

"But boss, if we discover the Apostle of the Void Abyss, given how much the Hall of Light values ​​the Tree of Origin..."

"if."

Li Xia suddenly switched to the team channel and said meaningfully:
"Has the message transmitted by the Tree of Origin been tampered with or intercepted?"

He stood up, looking at the desolate City of Tears, his curiosity about what had happened in the Temple of Light growing stronger.

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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

After much deliberation, I've decided to leave it blank. Li Xia + Shadow Li Xia + Little Knight, this lineup is a bit too easy to beat a Tier 4 Void Abyss melee Apostle, especially one that converts magic to melee.

Let's save the ink and brush for the final challenge.
(End of this chapter)