Infinite: Starting from Infiltrating Other Spaces

"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 fought back? 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... then 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 need 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... is the source of destruction of a world, which is why the little knight came to fight the insane 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.

Chapter 28 The Final Main Quest

The idea that the message the Tree of Origin was sending to the Hall of Light was tampered with or intercepted seems absurd, and may even be just a conjecture by Li Xia.

Just like what Li Xia told the three little ones, it was also just Li Xia's conjecture based on all the information he knew. He didn't know whether it was true or not, but it was undoubtedly the most logical.

The birth of the Little Knight is undoubtedly related to the Pale King. Li Xia also witnessed the Pale King transform into an Apostle of the Void. In fact, even without the Little Knight, Li Xia felt that he could easily defeat the Pale King.

His apostle-like power over mages was simply too overwhelming. His energy resistance and demigod-like status made spells feel like mere tickles. As for the Pale King transforming into an apostle of the Void...

It actually switched its specialty, from mage to melee. Has the Pale King ever wielded a greatsword? No!

The attributes have improved slightly, but the melee experience is almost zero...

The three children found it hard to recall the battle scene—it was a massacre.

"But no matter what..."

After pondering for a while, Aowu realized that this was indeed the explanation that made sense for everything. He sighed and recalled the scenes he had seen in his dream:

"These apostles are really amazing, they actually came up with the idea of ​​creating a 'Pale Spirit'!"

"Isn't this a huge profit?"

They really made a killing. How common are avatars at the fourth tier? Almost everyone has one. Even the weaker apostles will get a low-level avatar with a coefficient of 0.8.

The avatar objectively greatly enhances the survivability of fourth-tier apostles, but it also weakens them.

Li Xia was quite certain that the mage had definitely become weaker. In the arena, the mage actually dared to stand still without dodging, relying on his avatar to try and take the hits head-on. That's how brave he was.

But once their avatars break, they go from being extremely brave to extremely timid, becoming hesitant and fearful, completely different from their lower-level state, where most of the lower-level apostles truly fight using their brains.

Li Xia's brows furrowed more and more. Those who could achieve this level in the Seeking Light World must be the Eight Greats, and it's very likely that all eight of them were involved. There's really nothing more to say about that.

The 'breeding' and 'slaughtering' that drove the Pale King to his demise had no psychological burden on the apostles.

The Apostles are like the Trisolarans; to them, the inhabitants of the Hive Kingdom are truly just 'insects'.

Forget about them mass-producing 'Pale Spirits' by catching insects; even if they actually destroyed the insects, these apostles would only coldly remark: 'What does destroying you have to do with you?'

But what Li Xia cared about even more was that to accomplish something like this, such as removing the part about the Void Abyss from the information given to the Hall of Light from the Tree of Origin, there must have been agents behind them doing it.

So the question is—why would someone act as a proxy to do such a thing?

While selling 'Dawn' at the fourth tier is a lucrative business, allowing one to amass a large number of Hall Points, the market size at the fourth tier is limited, relying solely on fourth-tier apostles who have advanced to the next tier to purchase it.

Or perhaps it's about upgrading and changing the avatar; with such a small pie, how much can you possibly divide?

Even if you spend hundreds of millions on a temple, is it useful to act as a proxy?

Absolutely not!

Just like the platform for reserve officers to communicate, the hunters above the ninth rank provide intelligence to the fifth-ranked Blackfire who is about to advance. Is there a regular currency unit for the transactions between the two parties?

They used divine power crystals!

In other words, the Hall Points have no trading value in the eyes of these high-ranking apostles, let alone their proxy status.

unless----

"Boss, there are so many secrets in this world... Could it be related to the schemes of those agents?"

In the team chat, Awoo whispered:

"The input and output are completely disproportionate, unless there are things involved that the agent cares about?"

"Yes, that's what I think too, there's a problem."

Li Xia nodded. Since it involves the agents, it's best not to touch it for now, since the agents of the Hall of Light are really bad!

"Let's put that aside for now and focus on completing the mission."

Li Xia stood up and brought up the task panel.

[Executioner, you have obtained 'Tears of Regret']

The third round of main quests has been completed.