Reversing the Yellow Springs
Chapter 10

Have You Ever Seen Spearmanship Descend from the Heavens Like This?

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Years later, when faced with a calamity capable of overturning the entire giant city,

everyone present would remember that evening.

The afterglow of the setting sun was eventually obscured by the giant city's high walls. Shadows devoured the remaining sunlight, plunging the entire city completely into night.

In the dim light and shadows, they faced a monster like a natural predator.

Everyone was suppressed by instinctive fear, unable to move or make a sound.

They could only watch helplessly as the monster approached the girl step by step, opening its blood-filled maw as if it intended to devour her alive.

Yet in that desperate moment, that person unleashed a towering battle intent that startled the monster, as though an army of thousands had descended upon the scene.

He forcibly drew the monster's attention away from the girl.

His terrifying Double Pupils looked down upon the monster as he spoke words that pierced its heart.

No one knew what he was thinking at that moment. Only the monster's roar echoed throughout the building!

Then, the crimson greatsword became a streak of light and lunged straight at him!

That person was naturally Li Yèlái. Like everyone else present,

he too felt fear when facing that predator-like monster, his entire body stiffening.

It was a monster summoned from the Void Realm through special means. It was even more dangerous than an Awakened Suffering One, a natural enemy of life in the physical world.

But compared to the others, Li Yèlái's situation was much better.

Thinking the mission had already ended, Li Yèlái had reached the doorway in order to leave this nauseating murder scene.

He only needed to take one more step to leave the room.

Compared to the others, he had a greater chance of escape.

But at that moment, he fell into hesitation.

He knew very well that if he left as well,

then, with one fewer psychic user here, everyone would likely be killed by this monster.

At the very least, Cheese, who was already face-to-face with the monster, would be unable to escape that fate.

In truth, Li Yèlái had only known Cheese for two days. He was not particularly familiar with this beautiful senior.

Much less with everyone else, whom he had only met today.

Run!

In a situation like this, even if he ran, no one would blame him. He could survive.

But when he thought of the girl he had failed to save yesterday, as well as Cheese and the others who had been joking around with him just moments ago, Li Yèlái fell silent once more.

Was he really going to run like this? Abandon everything and flee in panic?

Would he let this inhuman monster cause even greater casualties in the city before reinforcements arrived?

Fight! They were not without the strength to fight! They were merely cowed by instinctive fear. If they suppressed that fear and worked together, they could absolutely defeat the monster!

But... he might die.

The monster was too fast, and it had a Psychic Weapon. Hadn't Starfire lost an arm the moment the fight began?

And he... could he truly survive its first attack?

Could he really hold out until the others came to their senses and supported him?

The two choices left Li Yèlái briefly conflicted.

But in the next instant, he decisively wiped a hand across his face!

He activated his ability, Hegemon Facial Mask!

Li Yèlái almost laughed. What was there to hesitate about?

Didn't he still have one trump card?

The risks ahead and any possible death would be paid for by "Black Shadow," Young Master Shadow!

That was right. Li Yèlái had already decided that if he reached the brink of death, he would trade with Black Shadow again!

He would pay with one chain in exchange for saving everyone here, as well as even more lives!

In a daze, Li Yèlái heard laughter.

He did not know whether it was praise or mockery.

But Li Yèlái did not care. He watched the monster charge at him in an instant.

Having cast aside all fear, Li Yèlái laughed loudly as he drew his blade and swung his axe!

The collision between the crimson greatsword and steel axe erupted in dazzling sparks.

Li Yèlái staggered back several steps, but he had blocked the first strike!

He felt searing pain in the web between his right thumb and forefinger, yet without hesitation, the steel blade in his left hand slashed out!

It met the monster's second strike!

He had already spotted several Black Lines on the monster's body. Those were its weak points!

As long as he struck one of those Black Lines, the monster would be crippled even if it did not die!

However, there were not many Black Lines on the Psychic Weapon. It seemed that the idea of severing its weapon in one blow would have to be set aside for now.

That was nothing!

Li Yèlái let out an earth-shaking roar as the steel axe and steel blade in his hands swung rapidly.

It was as if he had returned to the battlefield.

He became The Overlord of Western Chu, wielding a treasured sword as he slaughtered the hundreds of soldiers surrounding him!

His combat skills were rapidly improving!

A light blade to lure the enemy, a heavy axe to break through.

The steel axe defended, the steel blade struck unexpectedly.

His left and right hands worked in tandem, both attacking at once!

In less than three seconds, their weapons clashed violently more than a dozen times.

Blade light and sparks burst forth.

At the same time, some strange force was influencing the battle,

The swaying ceiling light suddenly fell toward Li Yèlái. Li Yèlái happened to step back with the momentum, while the monster charged forward a step and was struck squarely by the light. Arcs of electricity and sparks flashed across its Psychic Barrier.

The cabinet that had just been knocked into was wobbling precariously. As Li Yèlái passed by, it toppled over, but he sensed it in advance and stepped back again, leaving the monster to take the impact of the wardrobe.

This was Li Yèlái's curse, or rather, Luck E.

After activating his ability, everything around him would trend toward misfortune.

Thus, one coincidence-like accident after another would occur.

If he were on the road, a vehicle that suddenly lost control would probably soon come barreling toward him.

But now, these "accidents" had become tools Li Yèlái could use against the monster!

He had complete confidence in his Luck E. The accidents that might normally happen had now become certainties that absolutely would happen.

All he had to do was sense them beforehand and evade them. The monster chasing him did not have that kind of reaction speed.

Thus, as the monster reacted in surprise and slashed apart the falling wardrobe, Li Yèlái took the opportunity to strike. He hooked the greatsword with his axe, then closed in and swept out with his steel blade.

With a ripping sound, the monster's ear was sliced straight off. It was injured!

For the first time since its birth, the monster felt fear and fury.

It actually abandoned the greatsword it could not pull free, grabbed Li Yèlái's blade-wielding left hand with both hands, and opened its mouth full of sharp fangs to bite down on Li Yèlái's neck.

Li Yèlái's eyes flickered. His right hand pressed the greatsword down with the axe, then he swung hard and smashed the monster in the face, only for the axe to be caught in its jaws.

The axe even twisted and cracked. What terrifying bite force!

One bite would mean certain death!

Yet Li Yèlái calmed down instead. He decisively abandoned the axe and flicked his foot. The greatsword thrown aside by the monster landed in Li Yèlái's grip. It was a long-handled greatsword that could be held with both hands. Yet once Li Yèlái grasped it, it erupted with an unimaginable aura of intimidation.

At that moment, terror appeared in the monster's eyes.

Because when Li Yèlái held the crimson greatsword in one hand, the killing aura around him became even more terrifying.

It felt as though, in the next second, he would pierce straight through its body.

The monster's instincts were correct.

Li Yèlái was currently using the Hegemon Facial Mask, and the weapon The Overlord of Western Chu had always excelled with was a long-handled weapon like a halberd or spear.

With Single-Handed Eighteen Thrusts combined with Double Pupils' ability to see through weaknesses, who could stand against him?

From the very beginning, Li Yèlái had only wanted to seize the monster's weapon.

A streak of crimson stabbed toward the monster's chest. The monster let out a terrified roar and decisively released him, retreating backward.

It was incredibly fast and evaded what should have been a fatal strike. Yet its shoulder was still torn open, foul-smelling blood flowing down.

However, at that very instant, a voice rang out.

"Listen to Me! Cardiac arrest!"

The monster's body swayed, and its pupils blurred.

In the next instant, a huge hammer was shoved directly into its mouth and twisted sharply.

A tremendous force erupted inside its mouth. Crack, crack. More than half of its sharp teeth were shattered!

It was Cheese and Heavy Cavalry. After Li Yèlái made his move, they had finally suppressed their instinctive fear and extended a hand to help him!

"You okay?" Heavy Cavalry stood beside Li Yèlái with twin hammers in hand. Her face was pale, but her gaze remained fixed on the monster.

Cheese, meanwhile, held a dagger and swallowed handfuls of candy as she moved behind Li Yèlái and Heavy Cavalry.

"Thanks," Cheese said softly.

"No big deal." Li Yèlái stroked the Crimson Longsword the monster had dropped, a smile appearing on his face. "Let's finish it together!"

But the monster, which had been sent flying several meters away, instantly came to its senses and rushed straight toward the corpses of the animal-masked men.

It grabbed the corpse of a Horse-headed Masked Man and bit down. It directly crushed the corpse's skull, blood pouring into its mouth.

In the next instant, its wounds began to heal, and sharp teeth grew back one after another. Even its body became increasingly robust, changing from that of a young man into a fully grown adult.

It was originally a Void Realm Creature summoned through a special ritual. As long as it devoured enough flesh and blood, its body would grow rapidly and become even stronger!

The next second, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared on the monster's face and instantly turned into a sea of fire, igniting all the corpses around it.

It was Starfire!

In the distance, he was clutching his severed arm, his eyes bloodshot. Yet he activated his ability without hesitation. "Eat, eat, eat! If you've got the guts, keep eating!"

His Younger sister, Shadowflow, and Detective stood before him with pale faces, staring fixedly at the monster.

The other psychic users had joined the battle!

The monster immediately dropped the corpse and leaped out of the flames, looking warily at everyone.

Li Yèlái, however, swung the crimson greatsword and strode forward. This greatsword felt exceptionally good in his hand!

It was time to show this thing what Single-Handed Eighteen Thrusts really meant!

After entering battle, Li Yèlái's combat skills had grown at an astonishing rate.

The echo of Xiang Yu's final battle allowed him to rapidly grasp techniques he had not been proficient in before.

If he continued fighting, he might soon comprehend the true Single-Handed Eighteen Thrusts.

Seeing Li Yèlái approach, the monster, now even more robust, began retreating instead.

The fear Li Yèlái inspired in it was growing stronger. Its instincts were urging it to flee immediately.

Thus, when Li Yèlái and Heavy Cavalry closed to within less than ten meters of it, it suddenly sprang forward and rammed its head into the nearest window.

It actually intended to break through the window and escape!

As the psychic users froze in shock, they immediately launched their attacks.

Starfire directly controlled the flames to seal off the window.

"Listen to Me! Cardiac arrest!" Cheese shouted at once as well, but the monster merely swayed before charging into the flames, smashing through the window, and escaping the room.

When everyone rushed to the window, they saw only the monster, wrapped in flames, accelerating again and again in midair like a meteor as it shot toward the apartment building opposite.

Many pedestrians on the street saw the scene and looked up at the flames in the air in stunned confusion.

"Damn it!" Cheese was horrified. If that kind of monster rushed into the crowd,

who knew how many victims there would be? And with its ability to grow by devouring flesh and blood, the monster would become unimaginably powerful!

Normally, it would have been enough for the handlers to chase after it and surround it.

But the psychic users present were all newcomers, and they had not yet mastered the psychic technique of Sky Stepping.

At the scene, Cheese was the only one who could pursue it.

But what use would it be if she went after it alone?

"Damn it, I should've taught them Sky Stepping first!"

Just as Cheese climbed out the window and prepared to pursue it,

she saw Li Yèlái step onto the windowsill. Then he took a deep breath and jumped!

"What are you trying to kill yourself for?" Cheese's face turned white with fright. She had only taught Li Yèlái how to use Sky Stepping; he had not even trained in it yet! How could he just jump like that? Even a psychic user would die from a fall at this height!

But in the next second, her expression froze.

On the other side, beneath the apartment building, the instructor was already in a wretched state. Even the longsword in his hand had broken.

Yet he still drove the broken sword into the Goat-Headed Man's chest, then twisted it, snapping the Goat-Headed Man's cervical vertebrae and completely destroying his fighting ability.

"You really are strong, but... what can you change? Up there is probably already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. You can have this body of mine." The Goat-Headed Man laughed.

The instructor's heart sank. The Goat-Headed Man before him was merely a body controlled by the other party.

Its true body was still lurking in some corner, coldly observing everything.

They were both on the Divine Control Path. The instructor could remotely control flying swords, but the Goat-Headed Man could control prepared corpses. Fighting without finding its true body put him at too great a disadvantage.

Moreover, the aura from above was extremely strange. Cheese and the others were still in danger. He could not let this fellow delay him any longer.

The only good news was that reinforcements were almost here. Their Sky Stepping figures could already be seen in the distance.

However, in the next second, the Goat-Headed Man's laughter abruptly stopped. Its voice was filled with disbelief. "How is this possible?"

After kicking its neck apart, the instructor abruptly looked up as well.

He saw an eerie sight.

A flaming meteor flew out from the apartment building.

Behind it, someone wielding a greatsword took seven steps through the air.

He caught up to that flaming meteor, then brought the greatsword down!

In the next second, the meteor fell, crashing heavily into a black SUV not far from the instructor.

The terrifying red-skinned, fanged monster let out an inhuman roar and struggled to climb down from the vehicle.

Then a voice rang out from midair.

"Have you ever seen a spear technique that falls from the heavens?"

In an instant, a figure descended from the sky. The Crimson Longsword plunged down viciously, piercing through the monster's head and the off-road vehicle in a single strike!

The monster's howl came to an abrupt stop.

What the instructor and the handlers who had come to provide support saw was this:

A figure emerging from the blazing flames, standing atop the monster's corpse with the Crimson Longsword in hand. His terrifying Double Pupils calmly swept over the black off-road vehicle, now completely wrecked.

He could not help but suck in a sharp breath.

"Holy shit, that's Cheese's new car!"

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