The sounds of battle echoed in our ears.
Li Chen and his companions stood in the center, watching the war unfold as if it were a dream.
Countless Sequence User shouted on that battlefield.
"Kill! For our homeland, for Human Race!"
"Brothers, help me find a decent coffin after I die!!"
"A completely undeserved disaster; even the Eerie Monsters are nothing more than this, haha."
Li Chen watched this scene in silence.
That's the reality of the world: Eerie Monsters want to invade their beautiful world, but humanity has no choice.
The only way to ensure peace and safety is through the sacrifice of human lives.
Su Zhe was no longer the carefree person he used to be; instead, he looked at the Sequence User were falling to the ground on the battlefield, his hands trembling slightly.
These dead people were their predecessors, the ones they chose to be proud of as Sequence User!
But now they are recklessly charging into those endless Eerie Monsters, just to seize that sliver of hope for survival.
"Sacrifice is inevitable." Jianping's expression was very calm, but his hands seemed to have been used too much force and were turning white, with the bones still cracking.
A faint sadness flashed in the eyes of both Luo Lin and Meng Xi; they naturally understood why these Sequence User were doing this.
Everything was for these younger generations!
In order to buy them time, and to hope that one day someone will appear who can dispel the Black Mist and allow humanity to return to a peaceful and safe world to thrive, someone who will break through the heavens will appear.
"Let's go." Li Chen pursed his lips and said.
They've already seen it, so there's no point in them expressing their feelings anymore. Their only goal now is to improve their own strength.
After taking one last deep look, the group headed towards the door that was emitting a faint light.
Walking on those roads littered with countless pieces of flesh and blood.
The corpses piled up like wild grass, forming mountains.
The blood flowed endlessly across the ground like water.
"So this is what you call dying in battle?" Li Chen recalled the scene when he received his parents' ashes.
He didn't understand how terrifying that border was.
It is so terrifying, yet why are so many people determined to go there?
At that moment, he understood.
"I misunderstood you."
But he had long since grown accustomed to loneliness.
Li Chen walked at the very front of the group, facing the Eerie Monsters surging from the Black Mist, and murmured, "There will come a day when I will go back to the place you once risked your lives to protect."
Stepping through the faint light gate, they had passed the second hurdle and were now very close to the summit.
It was all an illusion, but it evoked many, even profound, feelings in them.
They were all just trainees, newly appointed Sequence User, and had no idea that there was such a group of people on the border.
I never realized how terrifying this world could be. I never knew that things were so peaceful and carefree; it was just that someone was bearing the burden for them.
But now only they have clearly seen it; many trainees have never known these things.
Stepping out of the faint light portal, the group found themselves in another space.
However, there were already quite a few people in this space, all of whom had climbed up.
It seemed that Su Xian, Ji Shao, and their group had already arrived at this space and were waiting.
They didn't seem to notice the group, instead resting cross-legged on the ground.
It looks like we just went through a big battle.
Su Zhe looked at the group of people with some surprise and asked, "What's going on? Why are you all waiting here?"
"Is it impossible to get up there?"
Li Chen frowned, looking around at the illusory space, somewhat puzzled.
But he still stepped forward, and instantly an old voice slowly rang out.
"Team Five has entered the third checkpoint; the second wave of Eerie Monsters is about to attack."
Eerie Monsters!!
In an instant, the entire space seemed to be enveloped in Black Mist, obscuring all vision. Regardless of which team had been there, everyone had already stood up.
Roar~
Roars began to echo from all directions.
"What the hell?! This is special treatment?!" Su Zhe shouted, picking up the hammer.
Li Chen's body began to condense black energy, with the blades swirling around him.
He hadn't expected the Heart-Questioning Road to be Eerie Monsters, but he roughly guessed that it was an illusion created by itself.
The question is whether the actual strength is as impressive as it appears.
However, this seems to be simulating an environment.
Jianping, gripping the Demon Blade, exclaimed, "It's the environment of that war I witnessed before!!"
Before they could react, countless Eerie Monsters pounced on them.
With a slight lift of his finger, Li Chen unleashed a blade of light that pierced through the air, like a series of intersecting sword shadows.
Empty~
The sound of something cutting through the air echoed throughout.
But at this moment, Li Chen frowned, because his attack seemed to pierce through thin air.
Illusory and real, these Eerie Monsters are born from illusions; their true form is like nothingness!
Roar~
But those Eerie Monsters showed no mercy, roaring as they pounced on Li Chen and his companions.
At this moment, Meng Xi's lips curled up slightly, and a faint light appeared on her palm.
"Dreams are no weaker than illusions, come out."
Beams of dreamlike light began to coalesce, and surprisingly, humanoid creatures resembling knights began to appear.
They had no faces, only illusory bodies.
Bang!
The Eerie Monsters lunged forward, only to be stopped by the knights.
Meng Xi was secretly delighted; finally, she had some fighting power.
But the good times didn't last long.
There were countless illusions Eerie Monsters, and they did not move forward within the Black Mist, waiting as if guided by principle.
They were using a rotation strategy, trying to completely exhaust the group's stamina.
Li Chen gazed at the scene before him, lost in thought.
If the blade is useless, then the energy bomb should be useful, right?
After saying that, he began to absorb the surrounding energy with his palm.
Coagulation and compression.
He has now reached the Looking River Realm, not the Dripping Water Realm he once was, and he doesn't know how powerful this bomb really is.
Since there's no other way, let's just blow it up.
But his every move is being watched silently somewhere.
Yu Qingnian's lips twitched as he looked at the energy that Li Chen was constantly gathering in his hand within the illusion, as if he were praying.
"It shouldn't destroy Cang Lao's illusion, right?"
But he couldn't guarantee it, and he couldn't intervene on the field, since it was a test for their teams.
Finally, he adjusted his earpiece and dialed Cang Lao's number.
Li Chen's team wasn't the only one in the illusion.
Other teams are also dealing with that deadly Eerie Monsters.
Ji Shao's team was handling these monsters with ease.
The little girl's eyes gleamed with a faint golden light, and she pointed somewhat nervously in a direction shrouded in Black Mist.
"Shao-jie, there's a ball of energy gathering over there!!"
I feel like I'm about to explode!