Chapter 2107: Real Horror (1/2)

“I’m sure you don’t only want to know about this unknown world, but you’re certainly not the only one in history. However, few could do it, regardless of their power.” The girl said.

“It’s true that I want to go there. A rumor alone isn’t worth my time to research.” Li Qiye said flatly.

“What is your goal? Treasures, escaping, or other purposes?” She looked at him in response: “You don’t look like you’re running for your life because you wouldn’t wait till now.”

“I could ask the same about your father.” He smiled: “He didn’t do it to escape either, then why did he go to that world? That’s an arduous task and your father, powerful he may be, must have paid a great price. Across the long trek of history, very few people could truly go there. For our epoch, some of the beings called dark overlords can’t do it either.”

The girl pondered for a bit before replying: “I don’t know what my father was thinking, but since he came back, it should be out of love for the living beings.”

“That makes sense.” Li Qiye agreed: “Those with other intents wouldn’t come back at all, since returning was death.”

“Well, if you are doing this to save your epoch, I’m afraid you will be disappointed. That place won’t be like your imagination and won’t have the things that you want. Otherwise, my father wouldn’t have come back empty-handed and my world destroyed!”

“That’s your father, not me. Plus, who says I’m doing it to save my world and the living beings?” He shook his head.

“Then for what?” She didn’t think he was doing it to escape since there were other ways.

“For myself.” Li Qiye said with a pensive tone: “I am only an ordinary man with no great ambitions. I fight for myself because I am me, not a savior or a devil! I fight in order to find the answer to the question looming in my mind.”

“An answer to what?” She asked.

He smiled without answering, continuing to stare at the horizon.

“If you want something like immortality, hmph, you should just drop that thought.” She speculated.

“Immortality?” Li Qiye shook his head: “I’m not the bravest man in the world, but death is not scary at all. Many things are much worse.”

He sighed and continued: “One day, I will pierce through the sky and fight to the very end without looking back.”

“The end of the world is beyond your imagination.” The girl said coldly. Her father was at the very apex of his epoch so she knew many things.

“I have experienced worse, it won’t be that special.” He chuckled.

“Then what do you think is scary? The final battle, or the Ancient Ming?” She asked.

“That’s an interesting comment. The Ancient Ming probably wasn’t there in your epoch but you know about them and even bring them up in this conversation.” He couldn’t help but smile.

“I know their origin.” She uttered.

“You didn’t meet them during your epoch and you were sealed in the cloth after. I don’t know what happened then.” He said.

“Right, I still know of them. The Ancient Ming wasn’t the one who told me.”  The girl said.

“Your father then, or some people who relied on the darkness and came to you?” Li Qiye said flatly.