As shadows swiftly blanketed heaven and earth, the fourth Ye Chen gradually faded away, and the fifth Ye Chen arrived in his wake.
This was him, three years later!
At this stage of his life, Ye Chen had just gone through an Abyss disaster-clearing commission fraught with peril and brutality. First, he and his companions had slain several thousand Abyss Monsters in succession. Later, in the Cellar of a lost village, they encountered a group of innocent villagers hiding there in a desperate bid to survive.
The Abyss's lackeys had discovered them, yet instead of killing them, they had unknowingly infected them with Abyss seeds. Their aim was for the Holy Light Pure Land's rescuers to bring these infected villagers back, allowing the Abyss to infiltrate the Holy Light Pure Land directly and spread in secret from within.
It could be said that such vile and insidious methods were precisely the Abyss's usual style.
Yet Ye Chen at the time saw through it all at a glance.
Thus, in the end, he had no choice but to make that most brutal decision.
That night, Ye Chen personally executed over a hundred villagers infected by the Abyss.
Men and women alike, young and old alike.
Although Ye Chen had appeared exceptionally calm while doing it, the villagers' screams and wails before their deaths still left his heart feeling as though it were being twisted by knives.
Afterward, Ye Chen's state of mind fell into a slump. He even failed the Hunter Corps' psychological assessment review and was temporarily stripped of his qualification to go out and carry out his next Hunter commission.
"The reason I wanted to grow stronger was only so I could slaughter ugly wretches like the Abyss."
"But look at what I did?"
"These villagers hid in that