MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

Once he had consumed all of his Territory Power, it took a long time to recover. Li Yi hid near the teleportation door for more than three hours before he finally recovered fully.

While he was waiting, he even saw a group of rash players attempt to challenge the Berserk Fifth Demon God. As expected, all of them died to the Demon God.

How could anyone try the alternative strategy against the Twin Demon Gods unless they could kill them with one hit?

Once he had recovered all of his power, Li Yi used Stealth to get within attacking range of his target. He then activated God Mode and Water Clone, summoning Dolly once more.

He used God Mode just in case, and he summoned Dolly as insurance. In any case, Li Yi’s current aim was to strengthen himself as much as possible. If he could not defeat the Demon God in an instant, the Demon God would kill him instead, and that would be awkward.

“Swish! Swish!”

Two Stinger Arrows, enhanced with Territory Power, flew at the Fifth Demon God. This time, Li Yi had poured everything he had into this one attack.

“Pfft! Pfft!”

There was an explosion of damage figures above the Fifth Demon God’s head, and it fell backward. Everything had gone just as expected, and it was dead in an instant!

“Swish! Swish! Swish!”

Three bolts of purple light shot out of the Fifth Demon God and scattered in all directions. It was the equipment the demon had dropped.

Li Yi strode forth quickly and picked up all three pieces of equipment. Without even looking at them, he slipped directly into the teleportation door.

While the Twin Demon Gods were alive, players would not be able to use the teleportation door. The only way to open the teleportation door to the players was to kill both of them.

The instant Li Yi ran into the teleportation door, a red notification began spamming the World Channel.

“The Twin Demon Gods have been slain, and the teleportation door activated.”

Once the news broke, the players began to grow restless again. Recently, many players leveled hard and caught up, but unfortunately, the Twin Demon Gods standing in the way meant that none of them had been able to enter the Demon God Castle map. Now that an opportunity had appeared, how could they possibly let it pass them by?

After Li Yi, at least another few tens of thousands of players leaped into the teleportation door, one after the other.

The Demon God Castle was a very peculiar dimension. There were no large asteroids fighting around; instead, the space inside looked vaguely like an egg.

The Demon God Castle sat in the very center of this egg, and the players who were teleported here stood around the egg. If one was to run around it, it would probably take five days just to complete one lap.

“Roaaar— Roaaar— Arooo— Oooh—”

Li Yi stood at the entrance and listened to the piercing howls.

Inside this egg-shaped space, players did not have to fight demons. Their enemies were Void Creatures unique to Foreignland.

Void Creatures had unlimited lives. Their bodies were made of Void Matter, and when they were killed, this Void Matter would be temporarily scattered. Not long later, however, it would gather again and form another body.

Their unlimited resurrections meant that Void Creatures were very hard to deal with. If one was not powerful enough, it was not nearly as efficient to farm levels here than it was outside.

Li Yi walked around the left and in the meantime, he gave the three pieces of equipment he had just received to Dolly and the Panda Fighter.

The one he gave to Dolly was a Purple Quality Necklace that increased her ATK SPD and Crit Rate by 15%. It had decent Attributes too, so it was perfect for Dolly.

The one he gave the Panda Fighter, on the other hand, was a rare weapon, a pair of Ebonsteel Gauntlets. This was something only the Martial Artist hidden class could equip, so they fit the Panda Fighter perfectly.

The last item was a piece of Demon God Equipment for Warriors that Li Yi was planning to bring back and decompose.

He had barely taken a few steps when two Void Wyverns appeared overhead. Dolly squeaked twice, drew her bow, and let loose an arrow.

“Roaaar—”

The Void Wyverns opened their jaws and spat out some Dragon’s Breath. The damage figures above Li Yi’s head started at 30,000 minimum, and they refreshed every second.

“Smack smack smack smack!”

It was four consecutive Meteors!

“Stinger Arrow!

“True Overlord Arrow!”

Li Yi had not recovered all of his Territory Power, so it was quite difficult for him to take on two Level 180 Void Wyverns at the same time. Thankfully, he had summoned the Panda Fighter in advance, so he worked together with his two pets to finish off the Void Wyverns eventually.

“Squeak!”

Dolly did not seem to think she had done anything wrong, and when she saw the Void Wyverns fall from the sky, she even flew to them excitedly and continued to shoot at the two disintegrating corpses with her Small Bow.

“Come back!”

In order to prevent Dolly from randomly pulling any more monsters, Li Yi dismissed her with a wave of his hand.

“Aah— Hey!”

The Panda Fighter posed on one leg and pointed at the distance with one palm. There were three Void Wraiths wandering around over there.

In the area outside the Demon God Castle, the most challenging enemy was not the Void bosses but the Void Wraiths. The moment a player was caught in a battle with them, they would stick to the player like glue. It was extremely irritating.

Li Yi dismissed the Panda Fighter and transformed into a Lightning Leopard, advancing with Stealth.

He passed by the Void Wraiths casually and was not discovered at all.

He was already at Level 189, so he was guaranteed to succeed when using Stealth in front of a Level 180 monster.

In the past life, Li Yi had come to the Demon God Castle map countless times. He was extremely familiar with the lay of the land here, and he knew better than anyone where there were more monsters, which places had fewer, which were easy to traverse and which others were not too much.

Using the Lightning Leopard’s Stealth, Li Yi avoided all of the Void Creatures and advanced very quickly.

After more than three hours on the road, Li Yi saw a wave of players ahead.

When the Fluttering Snow Alliance first defeated the Twin Demon Gods, many players had surged into the Demon God Castle. It had been several months since then, but these players insisted on staying here and had not returned ever since.

They were not the only ones. Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut was here too, having skipped the Throne Wars completely and stayed here leveling instead.

Li Yi saw the words “Assembled Gods Continent” above their heads, which meant that they were all Assembled Gods Continent players. Li Yi had no intention of killing them, so he took a huge detour and circled around them.

There was a minimum requirement for killing the Third Demon God. The player had to be at least Level 190, or they would never succeed.

Li Yi was now at Level 189, and he was one level away from being able to challenge the Third Demon God. He had only come here in advance because he could not gain too much EXP if he trained outside anymore.

When his level was higher than the monster’s, he would not get as much EXP from killing it. If Li Yi was still leveling outside, it would take him at least another 7 to 8 days. If he farmed here, in the Demon God Castle, it would definitely take him less than two days.

Li Yi knew there was a place in the Demon God Castle map known as the Shattered Bonewood. A monster known as the Void Eye lived there, and it had low HP and DEF but granted extremely high EXP rewards. It respawned very quickly too, making its home the best place to level from 180 to 200.

That was where Li Yi wanted to go.

As he was heading towards the Shattered Bonewood, Li Yi bumped into a few more groups of players along the way. They numbered in the thousands at the most and in the hundreds at the least, but there was one thing they had in common. Without exception, they were all Assembled Gods Continent players.

Li Yi immediately understood why. When Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut obtained the first kill of the Twin Demon Gods, the first players to enter the Demon God Castle map were undoubtedly the Fluttering Snow Alliance players. After all, they made it first, so after they had a few months to clear out the rest, Li Yi figured everyone remaining had to be from the Assembled Gods Continent.

However, of the players Li Yi bumped into, he did not even see a trace of Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut.

Where was that little girl leveling, then?

Li Yi took out the Divine Looking Glass and keyed in “Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut” before pressing search.

[Cannot find this target…]

This stupid thing was malfunctioning again…

Five hours later, Li Yi successfully made it to the Shattered Bonewood.

Demons had long lives, and powerful demons could even come back from the dead. However, nothing was impossible. The powerful demons were not as immortal as they liked to claim either, because even they could not escape old age and death.

The Shattered Bonewood was filled with bones. This was a demon cemetery, and countless heroic demons slept here. There were several hundred times more Void Wraiths floating around the Bonewood than there were in other areas.

Li Yi stood before the Shattered Bonewood and cast his gaze about. Everything before him was pitch-black, and the road had been completely blocked by the Void Wraiths. A tough estimate told him that there were at least several million Void Wraiths gathering ahead.

Void Wraiths were very stubborn, and when their bodies were destroyed, they could put themselves back together again in less than 10 seconds. They also cast Possession Curses on players, which would stick to the players and attack them constantly. If one fell target to these guys, a mere three of them could easily take down a main tank with more than a million HP.

“Come out, Freya.”

Li Yi waved and summoned the Mermaid Queen. Freya could not do much against bosses, but she was indispensable against endless mobs.

“Lalaa… Lalaa… Lalaa…”

Just a simple hum was enough to rile up the millions of Void Wraiths ahead of him. The mermaid’s song reached straight to the heart, so even Void Creatures would be attracted to it.

“Awooo— Awooo—”

“Awooo— Awooo—”

Millions of Void Wraiths pounced at once, and Li Yi could feel that bone-chilling wind even though he was so far away. It made him very uncomfortable.

“Beast’s Soul Possession— Lightning Leopard!”

“Poof!”

Li Yi transformed into a leopard and vanished using Stealth.

When the Void Wraiths pounced at the Mermaid Queen, Freya, Li Yi had gone the other way, threading through the mob of Void Wraiths easily and reaching the inner recesses of the Shattered Bonewood.

There were no Void Wraiths inside the Bonewood, only Void Eyes!

Li Yi was safe for now.

“Dismiss!”

The Mermaid Queen disappeared.

“Arooooooo—”

Without the mesmerizing music, the millions of Void Wraiths flew up and down, darting madly everywhere.

Li Yi summoned Dolly and began to kill the nearby Void Eyes.

The Void Eyes could appear anywhere, and players could only see and attack them when their eyes were open. In other words, when they closed their eyes, they would disappear completely, and they could not be attacked.

“Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!”

Li Yi shot them very quickly, shooting three consecutive arrows with both hands and hitting three Void Eyes.

“Squeak?” Dolly held her Small Bow and tried to shoot with both hands as Li Yi did, but even after a long time, she could not even manage to hit one. Dolly tried a few more but it still did not work, and that was when she gave up. She threw her Small Bow aside and rubbed her eyes with her chubby hands, so mad that she actually ended up crying…

“Waaaah…”

“Bzzt bzzt bzzt…”

There was a soft buzz like an electric hum coming from around them, and several dozen Void Eyes appeared around them at once.

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