As Li Yu's Cosmo ignited, the Absolute Zero Domain around him spread like a blooming ice lotus.
But this time, the white halo collided not with scattered behemoths, but with an overwhelming tide of shadows.
Tens of millions of monsters surged from all corners of the world, their turbid eyeballs on their tumors glinting under the chaotic sky, as if the entire earth had come alive.
"Roar!"
Deafening roars converged into a sound wave, making the air tremble.
The monsters at the forefront plunged into the ice ring, instantly freezing into crystalline statues, but the subsequent monsters charged over the remains of their kin, the crisp sound of shattering ice sculptures intertwining with new roars to form a symphony of despair.
Even more bizarrely, those shattered ice fragments began to writhe the moment they hit the ground, and bones and shadowy flesh emerged from the ice shards, reassembling themselves. In the blink of an eye, the shattered Void Beasts were as good as new, rejoining the charging ranks.
Li Yu's ice-blue Cosmo surged like a tide. He had lost count of how many monsters he had frozen and shattered, knowing only that wherever his gaze fell, there was an endless black torrent.
The boundary between the white halo and the inky beast horde outlined a strange circle on the ground, a spectacle of one human besieged by tens of millions of monsters.
"Is the entire world filled with these things? If this continues, there's no way to obtain divinity. As expected, pioneering a world is far more difficult than eliminating a Fallen Reincarnator."
Li Yu had also tried to communicate with these monsters. He had once thought that these monsters might be the living beings of this world.
But the monsters were utterly irrational, with no possibility of communication.
One must know that Li Yu was a Hunter with the All-World Language module loaded.
If these monsters had even a shred of rationality, Li Yu would have been able to have a simple conversation with them.
Seeing that they couldn't break through the ice ring, many Void Beasts began to frantically devour their own kind.
Smaller monsters were torn apart by slightly larger ones, their inky blood seeping into the sand, while the devourers' bodies expanded at a visible rate—twenty meters, thirty meters... The largest one even grew to fifty meters tall, the tumors on its back merging into a giant single eye. Its resistance to Absolute Zero clearly increased; when the ice ring hit it, the freezing speed slowed by nearly half.
If this continued, an ultimate monster that could ignore the Absolute Zero Domain might emerge. Li Yu was about to activate his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability, transforming into lightning to completely escape these monsters.
In a gap in the beast horde directly ahead, stood a small humanoid creature. Of course, 'small' was in comparison to the overwhelming giant beasts.
A faint, ethereal blue light emanated from the creature's right hand. Li Yu's Absolute Zero Domain, upon approaching within half a meter of him, was like hitting an invisible wall; white ice crystals hung in mid-air, unable to advance any further.
"This is..."
Li Yu's pupils contracted. He had never before encountered an existence that could completely resist Absolute Zero.
His vigilance instantly maxed out, and lightning power surged from his hands. Crackling golden arcs illuminated his stern profile.
"Excuse me, are you a god? Have you come to save us?"
A tender child's voice pierced through the roars of the beast horde, carrying a hint of timid expectation.
Intelligent life?
Li Yu's heart relaxed, and he dispersed the lightning power.
"Who are you? Are there other intelligent beings like you in this world?"
The humanoid creature jogged through the beast horde, and only then did Li Yu get a clear look at him: a delicate, youthful face, with four eyeballs in each eye socket, and translucent, ethereal blue pupils.
The boy looked up at Li Yu's chiseled face, and after a moment, he spoke.
"Yes, Your Excellency God, follow me!"
The boy took Li Yu's hand with his cold left hand and turned to run forward.
The ethereal blue light in his right hand never extinguished. All attacking monsters would abruptly halt when they came within half a meter of them, as if frozen in place by an invisible temporal manipulation, yet Li Yu and the boy could pass through unimpeded.
Passing through layers of beast hordes, the boy led him to a hidden cave entrance, concealed by a giant rock. Without the boy's guidance, it would have been impossible to find.
"This way!"
The boy waved to him and jumped in.
Li Yu didn't hesitate, following closely behind. His intuition told him that this boy was the key to unraveling the world's mystery, and the success or failure of the civilization pioneering mission might depend on him.
The two slid down the winding underground cave. Soon, Li Yu's feet touched solid ground; he had arrived in an underground cavern.
This was a village, with low-slung stone houses built everywhere, and many humanoid creatures busy within them.
Upon seeing Li Yu's arrival, these people stopped their work and looked over.
They were not like the boy, who had only a single pupil... It seemed the boy was a very special existence within their tribe.
A white-haired old man, leaning on a cane, walked over.
"Ad, who have you brought back this time? Are there other human survivors nearby?"
The boy raised Li Yu's right hand and loudly proclaimed.
"He is not human, he is the God sent by the heavens to save us!"
What?
A God?
Hearing the boy's shout, more and more people gathered, looking at Li Yu with curious eyes.
"He doesn't look any different from us!"
"Little De, are you so hungry you're confused? This is clearly just an ordinary human!"
"Stop messing around, hurry up and dig for earthworms and tree roots, otherwise there'll be no dinner again!"
Seeing that no one believed him, the boy grew anxious and flustered. He shouted loudly.
"I'm not lying to you! I saw it with my own eyes, he can emit a white halo, and all monsters that get close to him are frozen into ice!"
"Oh, and he also has the ability to control lightning, golden lightning can gather in his hands!"
He turned to Li Yu, clasped his hands together, and prayed.
"Your Excellency God, please, show them your divine power."
Li Yu smiled and stroked the boy's dark hair. He did not use any abilities; if the Absolute Zero Domain were unleashed, everyone else would die on the spot, except for this mysterious boy.
He turned to the old man and asked.
"Elder, where is this, and what happened to this world?"
The old man looked at Li Yu with a strange expression, then sighed.
"Guest, please follow me... Ad, hurry up and get to work, otherwise there'll be no dinner for you tonight."
The boy was so wronged he almost cried. He pouted and reluctantly joined the work of digging for roots.
Li Yu, meanwhile, followed the old man into a slightly more spacious stone house.
"Guest, please sit."
The old man motioned for Li Yu to sit, then slowly began to speak.
"I don't know where you came from or where you are going, but since you survived the attacks of those Void Beasts outside, I presume you are also a spiritual power user like Ad."
Void Beasts... spiritual power user. Li Yu felt as if something was on the tip of his tongue, but these fragments could not yet form a complete picture.
💎 Power Stone Bonus: Every 100 Power Stones = +1 Extra Chapter
🌟 5-Star Review Bonus: Every 5 (5-Star) Reviews = +2 Extra Chapters
💬 Comment Speed-Up: If any chapter reaches +10 Comments = The Next Chapter Will Be Released Faster!
🔥 Want to Read Ahead? If you want to read advanced chapters, check out my buymeacoffee(.)com/Oyunbozan