496: Chapter 496 The Power of the Array Core

The answer is very simple!

Because Hua Liuli has no other choice!

Because she must hold on!

Because if she falls, the power of the array eye will completely dissipate and merge into the body of anyone in the world!

What if that person is a heinous outlaw? What then?

Therefore, she has no way back!

That is why she never sheds tears!

Chen Yi clenched his fists.

"But now, you have me."

He raised his head and continued moving forward.

No matter how many memories ZERO uses to trap him, he will not stop.

Because every memory is a part of Hua Liuli.

He wants to understand all of her, accept all of her, and then rescue her from this cage of thousand-year loneliness!

He did not know how long he had walked, but the maze suddenly disappeared.

The scenery around him changed again.

Chen Yi found himself standing in an endless darkness.

Beneath his feet was nothingness, above his head was nothingness, and in all directions was nothingness.

Only in the distance was there a faint light.

In that light, there was a figure.

Hua Liuli.

Chen Yi walked quickly toward that light.

But no matter how fast he walked, that light always kept its distance from him.

He started running, and that light also retreated;

He chose to sprint, but the light remained unreachable!

And just then, a voice rang out in the darkness.

It was Hua Liuli's voice.

But that voice was crying.

"Chen Yi—"

"Chen Yi—where are you—"

"I am so scared—"

"Why won't you come find me—"

Chen Yi's heart tightened violently!

"Liuli!"

But the voice did not respond, only continued to cry and call out.

"I am so lonely—"

"It has been thousands of years, and I have always been alone—"

"Emilia does not understand me at all, the Demon Emperors I created also have their own lives, and those subordinates all have their own agendas—"

"I thought that finally, someone was willing to accompany me—"

"But where are you—"

"Are you also going to abandon me..."

Chen Yi immediately clenched his fists.

"I have not abandoned you!"

"I have come to find you!"

"Wait for me!"

But no matter how he shouted, the voice did not respond.

That light remained unreachable.

Chen Yi stopped in his tracks.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

This is probably the trial created by ZERO, right?

It is utilizing the deepest fear within Hua Liuli—being abandoned, being forgotten, and being forever lonely!

These fears have been magnified, distorted, and projected into this space!

If he is influenced by these voices and swayed by these emotions, he will be trapped here forever!

He will never be able to get close to that light!

He will never be able to find the real Hua Liuli!

Chen Yi closed his eyes.

He recalled Hua Liuli's smile, recalled the way she slept peacefully in his arms.

That was not a disguise!

That was the real her!

The her who gets scared, who is fragile, and who wants to rely on others!

The her who has not dared to truly love anyone for three hundred years, but who shed all her disguises in front of him!

"Liuli!"

"I know you are scared!"

"I know you are afraid that I will leave, afraid that I will abandon you, afraid that I will be like the others, just a passerby in your life!"

"But I tell you, I am not a passerby!"

Chen Yi lifted his foot and continued forward.

This time, he did not run or sprint; he just walked steadily forward.

With every step, he walked steadily.

He was not in a hurry; rather, he was slowly accepting all of this!

And that light seemed to be slowly drawing closer.

"Thousands of years of loneliness is enough!"

"From now on, you will never have to be alone again!"

"From now on, I will bear this world together with you!"

He reached out his hand.

His fingertips finally touched that light.

The next second.

The light instantly expanded!

The surrounding darkness instantly receded!

Chen Yi found himself standing in a pure white space.

In the center of the space, Hua Liuli was floating there.

She had her eyes closed, her brows tightly knitted, as if she were having a nightmare.

And beside her, a writhing shadow was enveloping her body!

It was draining her power, devouring her memories, and eroding her Soul!

"Chen Yi!"

"You have finally come!"

"I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

The shadow let out a mocking laugh.

"Let her go!"

Chen Yi's eyes became even colder.

This was merely a remnant of ZERO's Soul, and it had no hope of survival!

Yet it still wanted to cause trouble!

Even though it had already lost, it was still unwilling to give up and wanted to drag others down with it!

It is truly worthy of being the world malice!

However, upon hearing this, ZERO burst into wild laughter.

"Hahaha! Let her go? On what grounds?"

"I am now intertwined with her Soul core!"

"If you kill me, she will die too!"

"If you don't kill me, I will slowly devour her!"

"You choose! Chen Yi! Choose!"

Chen Yi did not speak.

He just quietly watched the shadow, watched those shadows enveloping Hua Liuli.

Then, he smiled.

"ZERO! Did you think I would dare to infiltrate with my Divine Soul without any preparation?"

"You—what do you mean?"

Chen Yi raised his hand.

In his palm, a golden rune appeared.

The aura of that rune was exactly the power of Hua Liuli's array eye!

ZERO's laughter came to an abrupt halt, looking completely dumbfounded.

"How is that possible?"

"How could you have her array eye power?"

"That is her Soul core; how could you possess it?"

Chen Yi did not answer ZERO.

Instead, he looked at Hua Liuli and said earnestly, "Liuli!"

"From the moment I understood your past, I have been prepared!"

"No matter what you face, I will accompany you through it!"

"Until the end of this world!"

The light of the rune grew brighter and brighter!

ZERO's shadow began to tremble violently!

"No! Impossible!"

"This is just your one-sided emotion; how could it trigger the resonance of the array eye?"

"Damn it! Chen Yi, you scoundrel, you—must you go to such lengths?"

Chen Yi raised his head and immediately laughed out loud.

"This is the promise between her and me!"

"ZERO, I know about the Void Realm!"

"Since you are a wraith from there, let me be the one to end everything!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the rune instantly erupted with brilliant light!

Under the shining of the light, the shadow enveloping Hua Liuli began to gradually dissipate.

ZERO let out a shrill scream!

"Aaaah—"

Its shadow struggled frantically, wanting to wrap around her again!

But the barrier formed by the light stood firmly between it and Hua Liuli!

Chen Yi walked toward ZERO step by step!

With every step he took, the rune in his hand grew brighter!

With every step he took, ZERO's shadow shrank by a fraction!

"ZERO! You have lived for tens of thousands of years and absorbed the resentment of countless dead! But have you ever thought that there are some things you will never be able to understand!"

"What can I not understand?"

Chen Yi smiled slightly.

"For someone who has been lonely for thousands of years, once she finds someone willing to accept all of her!"

"That obsession is much stronger than you imagine!"

"Just a servant like you, yet you still dare to harbor delusions of occupying her?"