Chapter 150 - 149: What’s Coming Cannot Be Avoided

Chapter 150: Chapter 149: What’s Coming Cannot Be Avoided

The goddess of love and justice?

The Earth Goddess Gaia?

You’re dreaming!

You’re the Earth Goddess, and I’m just Gandalf’s disciple. You really think you can walk all over me?

Li Ye was silent for a moment before saying, "You can be the thief who stole the Whip of the God of Love and was exiled to this world by the God of Love.

The God of Love’s punishment for you is that you must sleep with ten thousand men to wash away your sins, help the Spiritual Desire Whip recover its intelligence, and return to your original world.

But the Purifying Cloth has cleansed your body and soul, absolving you of the God of Love’s punishment.

So, on the surface, you’ve been reformed by me and voluntarily follow me to save this world. But deep down, you’re still resentful. You still secretly sneak out to seduce men, trying to restore the Spiritual Desire Whip’s power and use it to break free from the God of Love’s control.

But every time you go out to cheat, I discover you, capture you, and purify you again. In the end, your soul achieves true redemption, and you become the new Saintess of the Holy Guard Sect.

How does this script I’ve written for you sound?"

"..." Fiona was stunned. ’So everything I do is just to highlight your power and benevolence?’

"Agree to it, agree to it," the Little Leather Whip urged anxiously in Fiona’s mind. "This is our only chance to grow. Find an opportunity to strike him with the whip and kill him. Everything he’s created will be yours.

The people of this world will place all their hopes in you. And I, the Spiritual Desire Whip of the God of Love, will become the sole Divine Artifact in this world and grow rapidly.

Don’t worry about not being able to beat the Skeleton Monarch. You can go back in another ten months. I think humanity can hold out for another ten months. When the time comes, we’ll just leave. Who cares if this world lives or dies?"

’That’s right!’

’Why should I fight the Skeleton Monarch?’

’Isn’t it better to just lie low for the year and go back safely?’

’I already know the secret of the fiends and how to become stronger.’

’Go back.’

’As long as I can go back safely, I can become stronger and stronger...’

’Go back. Go back, no matter the cost.’

"Alright," Fiona said. "I never promised not to harm you..."

After blurting out half the sentence, her face suddenly turned pale, and her heart began to pound.

Heavens knew, she had never intended to say that.

’Is it Aragon’s Derived Skill?’

’Does it make me speak the truth involuntarily?’

Fiona felt the world spin and hurriedly explained, "I... I didn’t mean that. I meant, I’ll definitely look for a chance to replace you..."

"Idiot, why are you saying that?" the Little Leather Whip was about to go crazy. "Are you trying to get us both killed?"

"I don’t want to! I can’t help it!" Fiona retorted hysterically.

"Yes, that’s the state," Li Ye said with a smile, nodding at her. "You get into character quickly. It would be perfect if you could just hold back your true thoughts. Lord Ling, let her go."

’A lie!’

’He’s lying!’

Fiona was free again. She looked at Li Ye, who was right in front of her. Even though she knew a light flick of her whip might hit him and fulfill her wish, she just didn’t have the courage.

She was trembling all over. Her previous jealousy and hatred had turned into fear. "Your Highness Aragon, I will cooperate with your act. I will not betray you."

"Of course. Without me, you can’t defeat the Skeleton Monarch, can you?" Li Ye said with a smile. "Let’s go. Find a city and let me see your Spiritual Desire Whip in action."

The difference in power between Fiona and him was too great.

Even face-to-face, her whip couldn’t hit Li Ye, just like in the previous world where Li Ye had to rely on his watch’s Time Acceleration to injure Puppet Silk.

Even with her skills and her fiend, she couldn’t close the enormous gap in power between them.

Li Ye was only interested in her skills.

Li Ye never even considered letting her return to Earth. After all, she knew too many of his secrets. If she let something slip, who could he turn to for recourse?

Li Ye would never place his fate in the hands of a stranger.

...

Fiona demonstrated her skill for Li Ye.

Anyone struck by the whip would instantly fall into a dazed and witless state.

Li Ye was very familiar with that expression; he had often seen it in films. It was the state of a completely blank mind, sweating profusely, lost in the moment.

If struck continuously by the whip, this state of being lost in the moment would persist. They would truly die without even knowing how...

Fiona waved the whip at a corpse, but the corpse had no reaction.

However, a corpse was different from a reanimated Undead. Perhaps they would have to wait until they were on the battlefield to see if Fiona was truly useful. If not, she would just become fodder for the scroll.

...

Through Li Ye’s deliberate machinations, Fiona’s new identity spread quickly.

And, following the script Li Ye had given her, she secretly snuck out to "seduce" men, even using the Spiritual Desire Whip to entice the young men of the Holy Guard Team.

The young men, addicted to Fiona’s beauty and the super-euphoria brought by the Spring of Joy, quickly fell into depravity and became her partners in crime...

And, just as scripted, Li Ye would "discover" Fiona’s secret activities, suppress her with the Purifying Cloth, and conduct a new round of purification. In his words, he would not give up on any living force that could fight the Skeleton Monarch.

He would use the Purifying Cloth to thoroughly cleanse Fiona’s "filthy" soul...

...

A new version of the story of Jigong redeeming the fallen woman played out in the Otherworld.

The reputations of the scroll and the Little Leather Whip rose in tandem. The appearance of Aragon and the Whip of the God of Love made people believe that the Divine Spirits had not abandoned them and would eventually return to save them.

In this farce, it was the scroll that ultimately benefited more. After all, it was always the Purifying Cloth that suppressed the Spiritual Desire Whip.

Fiona had once tried to seize an opportunity during their "act" to gamble on her fate. It was that very time that she truly experienced the immense gap in power between herself and Li Ye.

Even face-to-face with Li Ye, and with him not using the Purifying Cloth, she still couldn’t land a single lash on him.

Li Ye was like he could use Instant Teleportation, easily passing through layers of whip shadows to get close to her.

And his power was so great that a single punch could have shattered all her internal organs, forcing the whip to release a large amount of Demon Qi to heal her.

After that, Fiona completely extinguished any thought of fighting Li Ye and focused wholeheartedly on cooperating with his act.

’Aragon is a monster. He definitely has more than one skill.’

’I’m afraid that even Levin and Zane, the two strongest Time Travelers from Pandora Headquarters, wouldn’t be his match if they teamed up.’

...

Li Ye spent a month traveling the entire world with Fiona, boosting the reputation of Aragon and the Purifying Cloth everywhere they went.

He finally confirmed that there was no other trace of Demon Qi within the territory of the Tri-Race Alliance.

During this month, Elf Philry, one of the Twelve Saintesses, found a second Angel’s Heart for Li Ye in the forbidden lands of the Elf Race, helping him further increase his Divine Power.

Meanwhile, urgent battle reports from the front lines arrived one after another before Li Ye.

「Half a month ago.」

The Undead Army suddenly launched round after round of attacks on Longgu Fortress.

Marshal Luo Ao Neil was killed in action.

The Wind Forbidden Mage Peter King was killed in action.

The Elf Divine Archer Shabei was killed in action.

The Beastman High Priest Rufar was killed in action.

Longgu Fortress was breached. The Undead Army was temporarily halted at the Tri-Race Alliance’s second line of defense, Hoshan Canyon.

But because Hoshan Canyon was not as defensible as Longgu Fortress, and because many of the Tri-Race Alliance’s top combatants had fallen in battle, the newly appointed marshal, Elf Geser, estimated that they could hold out for ten days at most before Hoshan Canyon fell.

The third line of defense, Jiading Highland, was humanity’s last hope. Once Jiading Highland was conquered by the Undead, humanity would have no more defensible positions, and the Undead Army would advance unopposed.

And like Hoshan Canyon, this third line of defense could only hold for half a month at most...

Panic spread throughout the human world. More and more people placed their hopes in the Savior, Aragon, hoping he would step forward to save the world.

...

Sigh.

’What’s coming can’t be avoided, after all!’

By the time he received the news, Li Ye had already crossed the Giant Beast Wasteland and arrived at the seaside.

He was considering whether he should take the Chaotic Heaven Silk, jump into the sea for a bath like Nezha, and see if he could activate a new Derived Skill.

The seas of this world were rich in resources.

But neither the Elves nor the Beastmen had ever explored the ocean due to their natural fear of water.

The surface of the sea was shrouded in a toxic mist, and powerful forbidden creatures lived within it.

Even powerful Forbidden Mages who ventured deep into the mist would meet a mysterious and untimely end.

Therefore, the ocean was a true forbidden zone for the people of this world.

However, according to surviving records from the Ancient Era, intelligent life existed in the ocean...

The ocean was much larger than the land. Li Ye enveloped himself in Divine Power and Magic Elements and ventured deep into the mist to explore the sea.

But after his Divine Sense perceived many terrifying behemoths, he decisively retreated.

He didn’t know if those behemoths were remnants of the ancient cataclysm or mutated sea creatures.

With the help of the scroll, Li Ye might have been able to fight them, but he didn’t want to provoke those things. There was no need.

Unless he couldn’t defeat the Skeleton Monarch, then he could hide in the mist for refuge.

Li Ye suspected that a fragment of Michael’s Angel’s Heart was very likely inside the mist and had already been absorbed by one of the creatures within. Perhaps the other trace of Demon Qi was also in the mist, having become one of those monsters, instead of being obtained by the Skeleton Monarch.

But no matter what, the waters of this world ran a bit deep...

Knowing of the mysterious creatures in the mist, Li Ye gave up on the idea of stirring up the sea with the Chaotic Heaven Silk and turned his attention to dealing with the Skeleton Monarch.

Compared to the behemoths in the mist, the Skeleton Monarch was clearly an easier opponent.

He had to stay in this world for at least another ten months. Humanity was his power base, and he had to protect it if he could.

Li Ye calculated the timing. The Undead Army’s sudden outbreak and attack on Longgu Fortress coincided exactly with the moment the Purifying Cloth’s reputation in the human world reached its peak.

It seemed there were Undead spies in the human world. The Skeleton Monarch was no longer willing to let him continue to grow stronger.