People from Capital Province

Not long after Hei Shi returned to the battlefield, he saw a little Bone Demon sent by Alashu rolling and scrambling over, its joints clattering wildly across the rocky ground.

When its skull accidentally fell to the ground, it stretched out a pair of ghastly white skeletal hands and groped around for it for quite a while. In the end, Hei Shi picked it up for the little Bone Demon and pressed it back onto its broken neck.

By the time it stepped over the corpses of countless Spinel Dragon Lizards and reached the center of the battlefield, the leaders holding the highest command over the various races of the expeditionary force had already formed a circle.

Imitating the Longwind City council they had once seen from afar, they each found a flat rock to sit on, backs ramrod straight and expressions solemn and earnest, looking somewhat comical.

"Hei Shi, you're finally back! Come look at what we found," Alashu shouted. Among all the Lords, he was the largest, and he had spotted Hei Shi approaching from far away without concealing himself.

"What happened?" Hei Shi asked as he approached, bewildered.

"Let me show you something good!"

As he spoke, Alashu held out a fruit wreathed in a gentle white glow before Hei Shi.

The fruit was not large, yet a soft life energy spread outward from it like rippling water.

The fine black mist drifting through the surrounding air scattered as soon as it touched that energy. Before such dense life force, even the power of darkness had to retreat.

Hei Shi was startled. His pointed ears twitched, and an incredulous light burst from his eyes.

"A Life Fruit?!"

Even in the vast Abyssal World, a Life Fruit was an exceedingly rare heavenly treasure, something that could make numerous