Chapter 105 - 79: Star Gate
Lin Yi’s brow was tightly knit.
While efficiently harvesting the Pigmen surging before him, he cast his gaze beyond the city walls at the seemingly endless black tide.
"Go!"
With a flicker of thought,
the invisible Mosquito Avatar immediately and silently detached from the city wall.
Its tiny body weaved through the chaotic torrent of energy and waves of blood-scented air like a phantom,
ignoring the monster army surging below like a tide.
It transformed into a streak of light, so fast it was invisible to the naked eye.
Without a second thought, it shot toward the deepest part of the black tide—toward the source of the Pigman army!
Twenty li!
The Mosquito Avatar crossed a full twenty li of the bloody battlefield at astonishing speed!
Finally,
through their shared vision,
Lin Yi saw the source of the Pigman army!
In a stretch of wasteland,
space itself seemed to have been viciously torn open by an invisible, giant hand!
A massive portal was brutally rooted in the earth!
This portal wasn’t made of steel or Giant Stone.
Instead, it was formed from a mysterious, deep-blue light that flowed like a liquid!
It was a gate of light!
It was over twenty meters high and more than ten meters wide, radiating cold, profound, and unsettling energy fluctuations.
At this moment, a ceaseless army of Pigmen was pouring out of this gate of light.
They shrieked and roared, converging into destructive torrents, their target the distant Yang City, which was struggling to hold on at the horizon!
’A spatial rift?’
On the city wall, Lin Yi’s pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints. His heart felt as if it had been viciously seized by a great, invisible hand, and it nearly forgot to beat!
He stared intently at the shocking, deep-blue gate of light in the mosquito’s field of vision.
His mind was in turmoil!
’An "Invasion of the Ten Thousand Races" instance?!’
The name of a trope he had seen countless times in the web novels of his past life instantly popped into his head.
High-fantasy martial arts worlds, Alien Race invasions, planar wars...
These elements were clichés in novels.
However, when it actually and so abruptly appeared before his very eyes, the impact was beyond what words could describe!
’Perhaps... this is the ’Star Gate’ that connects the myriad heavens and the Ten Thousand Realms, the worlds of countless Alien Races?’
Lin Yi stared at the cold gate of light, his thoughts churning.
But...
The Red Moon had descended a full three hundred years ago.
’Why now, of all times?’
’What catalyst caused this Star Gate, this connection to the myriad heavens and Ten Thousand Realms, to suddenly manifest here?’
He had no time to ponder the earth-shattering secret behind it.
The thought merely flashed through his mind, followed by a deeper chill.
’This world... is ten thousand times more dangerous than the ones depicted in those novels!’
The Red Moon has fallen, the apocalypse is nigh, Demon Beasts run rampant, and now even the legendary invasion of the Ten Thousand Races has become a reality!
For humanity... to struggle to survive in such a desperate situation, the path ahead was suffocatingly difficult!
Lin Yi forcefully suppressed his worries about the future.
His gaze refocused on the present.
He looked at the Pigman army below the wall, which still blotted out the sky and covered the earth, seeming to want to drown everything.
The hint of worry in his eyes was instantly replaced by a near-maniacal fervor!
’So many Pigmen... so many... walking bags of Qi and Blood!’
An indescribable wave of excitement rushed to his head.
’Tonight, I can suck them dry!’
His thoughts shifted again!
「Deep in the wasteland.」
The Mosquito Avatar instantly locked onto a sturdy Pigman.
Its sharp, needle-like proboscis, glinting with a cold, metallic light, pierced through the creature’s tough, coarse skin without any resistance, burying itself deep inside!
[Blood Sucking] skill, activated!
BZZZT!
A warm stream of Qi and Blood essence was instantly extracted!
[Experience Points +1!]
[Paralysis Proficiency +1!]
[Flight Proficiency +1!]
[Tracking Experience +1!]
[Qi and Blood +1!]
[Qi and Blood +1!]
[...]
On the city wall, the cold system notifications echoed in Lin Yi’s mind, one after another like a dense drumbeat!
At the same time,
torrents of pure, scalding Qi and Blood crossed the distance of space, instantly feeding back into his body from the Mosquito Avatar’s location!
His Qi and Blood, which had been mostly depleted from the continuous high-intensity battle and had left him feeling somewhat empty, was instantly replenished, even to the point of feeling slightly bloated!
His fatigue vanished.
Strength once again filled his limbs!
PFFT!
Lin Yi’s long spear moved like a dragon, precisely skewering another Pigman that was climbing the wall, then flinging it back down.
Feeling the surging Qi and Blood Power within him,
a sharp pang of regret flashed through his mind:
’What a pity... such a pity!’
He had to guard this section of the wall without taking a single step away, enduring wave after wave of monster attacks. He simply couldn’t find a safe, quiet place to circulate his Bone Tempering Skill for deep Cultivation.
Otherwise,
with the vast and endless Qi and Blood being fed back from the Pigman army by his Mosquito Avatar, how many bones could he have tempered in a single night of this frenzy?
How much would his strength have skyrocketed?
If the battle lasted a little longer,
he could have even cultivated all the way to a Second-Grade Martial Artist!
There were just too many Pigmen, an inexhaustible supply of Qi and Blood essence to absorb!
’It’s a shame. I have to miss this golden opportunity for cultivation.’
It was truly a situation where he couldn’t have his cake and eat it too.
Cultivating the Bone Tempering Skill required maintaining specific stances, high concentration, and guiding Qi and Blood to continuously impact and temper the bones.
Up on the city wall, with battle cries shaking the heavens and monsters ready to pounce at any moment, how could he possibly quiet his mind?
Moreover, military orders were as absolute as mountains!
He couldn’t just abandon his post and leave on his own.