This isn't a souls-like game at all.

Among the four decadent kings today, the stagnant and decadent decadent king was defeated by an unknown hero many years ago.

Therefore, now there are only three decadent kings left: the stagnant exorcism, the stagnant prophecy, and the stagnant disaster.

Defeating the Decadent King was originally one of Ye Yiyi's goals, but what does this have to do with his desire to obtain more soul echoes?

After expressing her doubts, the saint sighed slightly and continued to explain.

"Maintaining the seal requires a vast amount of soul resonance, which is no small number. Simply relying on the Heavenly Creator burning his own life to provide it is simply not enough to maintain the seal for ten thousand years..."

"Where does the soul echo that maintains the seal come from?"

Ye Yiyi realized the problem and couldn't help but frown.

"You mean..."

"Yes." The Saint nodded gently.

"The soul resonance that maintains the seal is provided by all the life forms in the borderland.

"When a life form on the border dies, the echo of its remaining soul will be drawn away through the earth veins to maintain the seal of the Temple of Kings.

"In other words, as long as the cycle of reincarnation continues on the border, and life continues to be born and die, the resulting soul echoes will continue to flow, maintaining the seal almost permanently."

"But what?" Ye Yiyi asked with pursed lips.

He knew that when the word "permanent" appeared, things were often about to take a turn.

As expected, the Saint lowered her eyes and continued:

"But... with the existence of the Decayed King and the Cursed Subspecies, the balance has been broken.

"The soul echoes required to maintain the original stagnation curse have further increased. The leylines have been forced to increase the number of soul echoes extracted at the death of life in order to maintain the existence of the seal."

Having said that, Ye Yiyi suddenly understood what the Saint meant when she asked him to hunt down the Decayed King.

"In other words, the soul echoes I gain after defeating the enemy are actually the remaining part of the soul that has already been extracted from the earth veins?"

"That's right." The saint nodded slightly.

"In other words, as long as you, my hero, successfully hunt down the Decayed King and silence the cursed subspecies, thereby reducing the pressure on maintaining the seal, the number of echoes drawn from the leyline will decrease accordingly.

"This way, my hero, after you defeat your enemies, you will be able to gain more soul echoes than before."

"So that's how it is..." Ye Yiyi thought thoughtfully.

Taking Sanzo as an example, when the three Fallen Kings were still around, killing Sanzo could get 5 basic soul echoes.

And after Ye Yiyi kills a Decayed King, the soul echo obtained from killing the Mountain Seat may increase to 10.

Similarly, by the time he kills the two Decayed Kings, the Soul Echo of the Mountain Sea might rise to 20.

That's not a specific number, but what cannot be denied is that the more the Decayed King kills, the more echoes he gets for killing enemies.

To some extent, this can also be regarded as a division of game progress.

After all, if you want to reach the end of the game, you can't avoid the three decadent kings, and they are the bosses that must be defeated.

"I understand."

After sorting out the cause and effect relationship, Ye Yiyi nodded to the saint.

"After things here are finished, I should also go to the location of the first Decayed King."

Hearing this, the Saint hesitated for some reason. "Sir Hero, the Decayed King is an extremely powerful enemy..."

"Don't worry, there's no need to worry about me."

Ye Yiyi suddenly glanced towards the door, then smiled brightly at the saint, waved his hand, turned around and walked towards where he came from.

"A mere decadent king is nothing but a piece of shit to me. Just wait and hear my good news."

Seeing Ye Yiyi's figure disappear, the saint's hand that was stretched out to try to keep her froze in mid-air.

She was silent for a moment, then looked up at the statue of the Creator, knelt down in front of the statue, clasped her hands together and prayed softly.

"Your Highness, please protect the hero..."

Outside the chapel, a gloomy man leaned against the door with his head tilted back and slowly closed his eyes.

"...How dare someone dare to talk about killing the king? It's impossible. There's absolutely no way they can win..."

As soon as he returned to the holy monument in Yanjin Hall, Ye Yiyi felt the ground beneath his feet rumbling and shaking, and a sharp metallic buzzing sound was heard at the same time as the loud bang of a heavy object falling to the ground.

"what's the situation?"

He was startled and subconsciously pulled out the Black Scale Contract from behind him, looking vigilantly in the direction of the sound.

Not far away, Xiaoyu's huge body was hovering in the hall shrouded in nebula mist, its tentacles violently wriggling and twisting outwards, which made people think of Cthulhu or other indescribable things.

"What is it doing? Crazy?"

Ye Yiyi was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted.

"No, it's fighting! Someone's attacking!"

At this moment, a small, dark human-like figure suddenly appeared in the sky above Xiaoyu.

"Is that... the person who tried to assassinate me when I met him in the hall downstairs?" Ye Yiyi's eyes narrowed.

After the first assassination attempt failed, that guy disappeared completely.

Ye Yiyi knew that it had been hiding in the dark, but he relaxed his vigilance until he entered the fog gate and did not encounter his second assassination attempt.

But who knew that it would follow him here and attack the little fish while he was away?

"No matter who you are, you will never get away this time!"

Ye Yiyi curled up the corners of his mouth and showed a sinister smile, but did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, he took out the Moonlight Gun from behind and attacked the revealed figure.

In the deep blue mist of the nebula, a bright red color is extremely conspicuous at this moment.

"Little Fish! Up there!!"

He shouted loudly and launched a magic meteor at the ground in front of him.

The 12 magic crystals wrapped in the meteorite shell fell heavily to the ground, shattered with a "pop" sound, and then turned into a deep red nebula, and 12 magic meteors flew into the sky from it!

“Puff!!”

The little fish became alert upon hearing the sound, and the tentacles on its head emerged one after another and attacked the figure.

But when the assassin saw that he was exposed, he threw down a round stone without any hesitation, and then disappeared into the air.

The little fish missed its target, and the round stone fell into the gap between the tentacles and exploded.

"Clang clang clang!!"

A sharp metallic whistling sound was heard, and the atmosphere seemed to be cut by an invisible blade, and a large number of sharp vacuum cuts were strangled in the air out of thin air.

The little fish had no time to retract its tentacles and fell into the endless array of cutting and strangling, leaving a large number of deep scratches on its tentacles and nebulae and mist flying around.

“Puff!!”

The small fish let out a sharp and angry scream, quickly retracted its injured tentacles, and coiled them around its body, squirming wildly.

Seeing that the little fish returned empty-handed, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but look solemn.

"That kind of attack..."

The move of creating cuts in the air out of thin air reminded him of the combat skill attached to the Suki Double Scissors Greatsword, the Sky Cut.

Although the other party did this with the help of props, Ye Yiyi still had doubts.

"Could it be that it wasn't just a past apparition of the Divine Knight? And it was related to the Gardener?"

He thought about it and raised the Moonlight Spear, causing 12 magic meteors to circle around his body. He looked around the hall and finally found the red outline in the darkness in the corner.

The other party reacted very quickly. When he noticed Ye Yiyi looking at him, his figure turned into mist again and disappeared on the spot.

“Such high vigilance!”

Ye Yiyi raised his brows slightly, looked around the metal hall again, and finally found the other person's figure in the dark corner of the ceiling.

"Disappeared again."

Just like before, when Ye noticed it, he disappeared on the spot without any hesitation.

"This guy... is such a scoundrel!"

Ye Yiyi suddenly felt a little unhappy. This guy was even more difficult to deal with than Lupel back then. Even if he just looked at him, he would teleport away, leaving Ye Yiyi no chance to attack.

"Looks like I'll have to use the same tactics I used against Lupel. Use wide-area attacks that are impossible to dodge, leaving him nowhere to escape!

"Or use non-projectile, unpredictable attacks, and then use the color lock to attack directly!

"Of course, the easiest way is to use that trick..."

Without worrying about how to deal with the opponent, Ye Yiyi used the characteristics of coloring to set the figure with a bright red outline as a locked target, driving the magic meteor to fly slowly, constantly harassing and driving away.

Then he came to the little fish, which looked like a kitten with its fur standing on end, and looked up.

"Puff! Puff!"

Seeing Ye Yiyi finally arrive, and seeing the magic meteor chasing the assassin's phantom that kept flashing back and forth, the little fish's stress reaction finally eased, and then it waved its tentacles continuously to tell him about its grievances and sadness.

If the phantom hadn't still been there, the little fish would have wrapped its tentacles around it and asked for a hug and comfort.

Ye Yiyi listened to its complaints for a while, and her expression suddenly became a little strange.

"Since it keeps attacking you, why don't you hide in the void? If you're there, it won't be able to attack you, right?"

"Pfft!"

After hearing Xiaoyu's answer, Ye Yiyi's expression became even weirder. He felt a little amused and helpless, and also a little distressed.

"No, I told you to stay here and wait for me, but I didn't say you couldn't enter the void. You were beaten up, yet you still stubbornly stayed where you are. Are you stupid?"

"Pfft..."

The little fish's waving tentacles suddenly wilt, and it seems even more sad.

"Okay, don't feel bad anymore, I know you listen to me and you're good, I'll avenge you, okay..."

Ye Yiyi held the little fish's tentacles with heartache, stroked the deep cut with her fingertips, and comforted the other party in a tone like coaxing a child.

After finally coaxing the little fish into submission, he took out the Moonlight Spear and filled it with vitality before watching it dive into the void and disappear in the hall.

"This is really..."

He sighed helplessly. There was nothing he could do. The little fish's character was just like that, stubborn and simple. It would do whatever Ye Yiyi told it to do without any flexibility.

Although this kind of personality is very likable, it is easy to suffer losses when Ye Yiyi is not around, like now.

"Xingxing's education problem cannot be ignored! It is urgent!!"

He sighed and looked back at the corner of the hall. At the moment, the phantom was playing hide-and-seek with the magic meteor, and his eyes became increasingly dangerous.

What a courageous dog!

While I was away, he bullied Xiaoyu!

I’ll skin you alive!

While the holy monument is here, I'll let you see the assassination method of the turret magician!

Standing within the coverage of the holy monument's halo, Ye Yiyi raised the Moonlight Spear and began to cast magic - the invisible magic arrow.

This is the concealment magic obtained from the Scroll of Concealment to Stop the War, which can shoot transparent, invisible magic arrows to attack the enemy.

In the game, magic such as invisible magic arrows cannot be discovered by the enemy and cannot be read by the command, so it is extremely effective against enemies with serious command reading.

But in reality, it was the first time that Ye Yiyi tried to use this kind of magic.

Relying on the infinite mana bar supported by the holy tablet, and with the idea of ​​testing his own limits, he continuously released three consecutive invisible magic arrows, making them circle around his body.

Soon, more than 30 completely invisible magic arrows were circling around him.

"The effect of this magic seems to be even more powerful than I imagined."

If he hadn't cast and controlled it himself, even he probably wouldn't have been able to directly detect the existence of those magic arrows.

"It's worthy of being the magic used by the Hidden Palace magicians to assassinate their colleagues!"

He continued to cast magic until the number of magic arrows exceeded 70, then he felt his head vaguely dizzy and unable to concentrate, as if he had reached a bottleneck.

"72 in total, double the 36 tracking magic arrows I used to control to the limit when dealing with Ezana!

"After careful consideration, the attribute that affects my fine manipulation of magic should be concentration, because my current concentration of 30 is almost double what it was then!"