Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 182: Chapter 85: Third Awakening! Mimicry·Abyss Dragon Scale_2

It seemed that He noticed Li Yelai’s gaze and uttered ambiguous words, ”A trade, perhaps?”

Indeed, Mr. Shadow... He was waiting for Li Yelai to make a trade!

All it would take was a trade with Him to escape this peril and successfully advance to the Third Awakening.

But this was only the Third Awakening. To protect more people, Li Yelai would not stop at the Third Awakening.

The Fourth Awakening, the Fifth Sense... and even higher!

Would all those Awakenings depend on Mr. Shadow?

No!

He must not trade until the last moment. Now, he had to rely on his own strength!

Li Yelai steadied his mind and began observing the two conflicting forces struggling for dominance within him.

One of the forces clearly stemmed from the Magic Potion.

It plunged Li Yelai into a state of extreme rage, causing him to grow scales sharp and gradually undergoing Dragonification...

The other force, predictably, originated from the Heart of Slaughter.

Or rather, from a Void Realm Entity related to the Heart of Slaughter. The lingering power left by Him was now drawing Li Yelai into the abyss of slaughter.

Judging from the previous combat in the illusion, the power of the Heart of Slaughter was even stronger.

In the illusion, Li Yelai transformed into an invincible general who fought with bloodied resolve, overpowering the Abyss Giant Dragon.

This signified that the Heart of Slaughter was currently suppressing the power of the Magic Potion.

Neither was easy to deal with; had it been just one, Li Yelai might not have fallen to such a state.

But by the same token, it was the struggle between these two forces that prevented Li Yelai from rapidly entering an irreversible deformation.

If he could maintain the balance between the two opposing forces,

he might avoid losing control and succeed in advancing.

”The first thing to do is to suppress the Heart of Slaughter!” Li Yelai thought, but he had no effective means of repression.

Therefore, he chose physical suppression!

At that moment, Li Yelai was in the form of a Virtual Realm Projection. This state was more like the Spiritual Ability User’s soul form; even if injured, one would not immediately perish.

So, with his right hand already transformed into a claw, he decisively stabbed it into his chest.

Li Yelai endured the intense pain, and with one hand, he grasped his beating heart.

As Li Yelai’s heart was seized, the crimson fissures on his body suddenly dimmed.

At the same time, the invincible aura of the unparalleled general in the illusion visibly weakened.

Li Yelai immediately shifted to the perspective of the Abyss Giant Dragon and took control of the badly wounded beast, mounting a desperate counterattack.

Excellent!

Li Yelai’s body trembled with pain, yet he grinned.

He could feel the two forces within him clashing, and the twisted state of his body was gradually reverting.

It was painful, but the method was not wrong!

Li Yelai looked towards Mr. Shadow, ”This time, the deal is off.”

Mr. Shadow’s gaze fell upon Li Yelai, seemingly letting out a kind of laughter, ”These trifles are of no appeal to me. But humans coveted by Him hardly escape. The more you resist, the more He delights. You will eventually need my power...”

Him?

Seeing Mr. Shadow uncharacteristically talkative, Li Yelai, enduring pain, asked, ”Who is He? Stronger than you?”

Li Yelai had not forgotten his goal of drawing out Mr. Shadow’s strength.

What he most wanted to know was who was stronger between the ark master and Mr. Shadow.

After all, Mr. Shadow still had three chains that might bind his strength. If Mr. Shadow couldn’t beat the Other when it came time to act against the ark, that would be awkward.

However, Mr. Shadow did not respond. Instead, He moved His eye that shone like a star, and at the same time, tentacles that spanned galaxies pointed in a certain direction, ”He is looking this way now.”

Li Yelai’s vision was no longer confined by the narrow scope of the soul well.

Guided by Mr. Shadow’s power, Li Yelai’s gaze reached the battlefield countless light-years away.

On that blood-red throne vast as a galaxy, a figure cast a glance over.

His gaze fell on Mr. Shadow, seemingly a bit perplexed, while Mr. Shadow remained unaffected.

Then His gaze shifted down to Li Yelai.

It was a gaze that spanned countless light-years.

In an instant, Li Yelai’s heart in his chest beat uncontrollably and frenziedly. His body once again showed crimson fissures, and the desire for slaughter soared.

In the illusion, the previously dominant Abyss Giant Dragon was immediately put on the defensive.

Just one gaze destabilized Li Yelai’s previously steady state? Could a mere look distort a Spiritual Ability User? Was this a Divine being?

Did he still need to ask for Mr. Shadow’s help in making a trade?

However, in the next moment, that figure was forced to avert His gaze.

For in the midst of the battlefield, an arrow of Green Fire bright enough to illuminate the entire Void Realm streaked through the starry sky, aiming straight at the blood-red throne!

To this, Mr. Shadow seemed not surprised, ”An internal war of Chaos... Hah.”

Li Yelai had no time to rejoice or consider what an internal war of Chaos meant.

As his gaze shifted away, Yang Chen struggled to suppress his restive Heart of Slaughter once more.

And, controlling the giant dragon, he bit the invincible fierce general to pieces!

At the same time, the fierce general’s long spear pierced the dragon’s heart.

Both were gravely injured!

This was what he had been waiting for!

Both forces were suppressed!

Li Yelai’s twisted form dissipated from his body and, following that, he briskly stepped over the Soul Well!

In the physical world, Yang Chen and the others’ expressions changed.

They felt Li Yelai’s action of crossing the Spiritual Power Well.

They immediately entered the Void Realm and guarded around Li Yelai’s Spiritual Power Well,

To prevent any Void Realm Creatures from coming forward to pick a fight!

”The last step, the last step! Hang in there!” Yang Chen shouted in the Void Realm.

Meanwhile, as Li Yelai burst out of the Soul Well, he clearly felt a force from within the Void Realm pouring into his body and brain.

Spiritual Energy permeated his muscles, meridians, and bones, and once again, his physique was strengthened.

Unlike the last time when he gained abilities randomly from starlight falling,

This time, the Abyss Giant Dragon and invincible fierce general both turned into light points, gathering starlight and flowing into Li Yelai’s body.

He gained a specific ability, Mimicry·Scale Armor!

...

In the physical world, within the subdivision’s Awakening Room.

The Scale Armor on Li Yelai’s body all fell off, and the crimson cracks spreading to his cheeks healed instantly. Surging Spiritual Energy burst forth.

As if the non-human monster that had roared before was not him at all.

The great contrast made everyone pause.

After a brief silence, a civilian staff member exclaimed,

”All indicators have returned to normal!”

”The power of the Magic Potion has been completely absorbed!”

”The Heart of Slaughter has also been completely suppressed!”

”It’s a success!”

”The Night General has achieved the Third Awakening!”

Yang Chen let out a sigh of relief, casually tossing aside the guardrail he had bent into a steel ball.

Cheese was exhausted and frightened, but finally showed a smile, ”You really don’t make things easy, do you, kid.”

The Doll also sniffled, raising a sign that read ”Yay, congratulations

In the room, Li Yelai opened his eyes.

This Awakening had indeed shown him a lot.

The battlefields in the distant Void Realm, the wars between Divines...

But all of these were still too far from him.

Looking at his cheering colleagues outside, Li Yelai smiled.

For now, he just wanted to strengthen himself and protect everything he had.

He rose from his seat and said to everyone with a smile, ”I’m sorry to have worried you all.”

”It’s alright, as long as you’re okay,” Yang Chen smiled and said, ”How is your new ability?”

He didn’t know which ability Li Yelai would get, since no one had ever made a Magic Potion with the power of the Black Dragon Armor.

”Very strong!” Li Yelai smiled in response, quite pleased with his gains.

Then, they all headed to the training ground.

Li Yelai said to Cheese, ”Don’t hold back, Cheese. Attack me with your Speech Spirit! Let them see my Mimetic Scale Armor!”

Cheese raised an eyebrow, ”Any attack will do?”

”Uh, no Earth Spur!” Li Yelai replied seriously. He remembered all too well how Cheese had killed an enemy with a single Earth Spur. It was too gruesome a death.

”Then be careful, I will attack your left arm,” Cheese nodded, and then spoke, ”Speech Spirit·Bursting Flame!”

In an instant, a flash of fire burst forth, and Li Yelai’s left arm exploded.

However, Li Yelai’s body revealed a suit of fitted black Scale Armor which remained unharmed in the explosion. Only a few scales from his left arm fell off.

”What strong defense! An attack of the Speech Spirit at the Third Awakening can’t even harm his main body?” Ye Boshou said, surprised.

”No,” Yang Chen, however, smiled and said, ”It’s not just that.”

At that moment, golden lines moved along the gaps between the scales on the black Scale Armor of Li Yelai’s left arm and traveled up to his left hand.

Then, all of Li Yelai’s Scale Armor fell off, and at the same time, he threw a punch with such powerful wind pressure that it alarmed everyone.

This was certainly not a force a Wanxiang Spirit User could unleash!

”While enhancing defense, it absorbed part of the Blast Flame’s impact, turning it into his own strength. Releasing built-up power the moment the armor was shed!” Yang Chen, with his keen insight, immediately laughed and said, ”Mimicry·Abyss Dragon Scale!”