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Chapter 998 - 970 Cherie

Chapter 998: Chapter 970 Cherie

"Where am I? Why is it so dark? Have I... died?"

In the darkness, Li Chen’s consciousness gradually woke up.

He found himself in a dark starry sky.

This was not the starry sky he stepped into when he crossed the Earth Level threshold earlier. Here, there was nothing but eternal darkness.

"Is this... the Star Sea?" Li Chen looked around confusedly in the Star Sea, but he couldn’t find the bright points and stars like before. It seemed something had happened; there was no sign of the abiding existence from before.

Here, only a constant silence and endless darkness existed, akin to a cold cosmos.

"Has even my Star Sea dried up? Looks like I truly died." As if recalling something, Li Chen smiled bitterly in the Star Sea.

However, he hadn’t noticed that his body was emanating a radiant glow like a rainbow.

He couldn’t see himself, nor was he aware of his existence.

"Wait!" Suddenly, a doubt emerged in Li Chen’s mind.

If he had truly died, even his Soul Energy would dissipate quickly between Heaven and Earth. Yet, he still maintained a complete consciousness. If he were dead, even within the Star Sea, his consciousness could not remain so intact.

"Could it be..."

A doubt rose in Li Chen’s heart, and he then sat cross-legged in the starry sky.

He began searching.

What he sought was none other than his own body.

If... just if he wasn’t dead?

"It’s really still there!" Suddenly, Li Chen’s eyes opened, and joy erupted within them.

He felt a faint connection.

It was the connection between his soul and body!

With this faint connection, Li Chen’s soul quivered violently, and with a flicker, vanished from this space.

The space plunged into dead silence once again.

There were no longer any points of light around, but if Li Chen had searched carefully earlier, he would certainly have found traces of those "stars" once existing in the Star Sea.

It seemed something had happened, causing the "stars" to be completely devoured in a short period.

"Ah..."

When Li Chen’s consciousness returned to his body, an unimaginable pain erupted all over him.

The terrifying pain caused even him to break out in a cold sweat and moan softly.

But Li Chen helplessly found that even though his soul had returned to his body, he couldn’t even open his eyes.

Perhaps because he was unconscious for too long, his soul left his body, causing his whole body to be paralyzed.

Coupled with the pain, before long, the consciousness that had just returned to his body fell into coma once more.

Before losing consciousness, Li Chen faintly heard a girl’s exclamation.

"Cherie, you really brought this man back?"

"Yes, seeing him lying alone by the river seemed pitiful, so I brought him back," the girl named Cherie said softly.

"Why did you bring such a man back? Everyone in Kalin Village is working hard; food is scarce. Can you manage to take care of this guy?"

"No problem." Cherie’s voice carried a hint of laughter.

This is what Li Chen heard when he woke up once again.

"Cherie... huh?" A sense of realization arose in Li Chen’s heart; he must have been rescued.

But he was puzzled as to why the Nether Army hadn’t brought him back.

"Could it be that something unusual happened?"

Though he temporarily couldn’t regain physical movement, Li Chen’s mind was active.

Faintly, Li Chen began to recall.

At the beginning, he had carried the self-destructive Luo Kai into the sky.

And indeed, Luo Kai seemed to have self-destructed.

But at that distance, even he didn’t know why he survived.

Trying hard to recall, Li Chen felt he had missed some crucial details.

What he could remember was only the last scene. As for the battle in between, he had completely lost memory.

At that time, he lost all sense.

It wasn’t until Luo Kai was about to self-destruct that he regained a trace of consciousness.

It was because he recovered that trace of consciousness that he chose to take Luo Kai into the sky, not wanting to affect others.

In the end, Luo Kai still self-destructed.

"But what exactly saved me..." Li Chen tried hard to recall.

After a long time, a light flashed in Li Chen’s mind.

He finally remembered.

"Could it be... it!"

Li Chen vaguely remembered that at the last moment, there seemed to be a black light flashing on his body.

That light was something like a Bead he had recently acquired but had not yet thoroughly researched its functions!

Unfortunately, Li Chen now couldn’t practice, nor even control his own body; otherwise, he would really like to take out the Black Pearl and study it thoroughly.

"Sigh~~ who exactly are you?" Beside Li Chen, came the girl’s crisp voice.

Li Chen could almost imagine a somewhat distressed young girl, resting her chin and staring at him.

"Sometimes I really want to be like you, just lie down and sleep. There are so many things in the village!" Cherie complained somewhat.

Li Chen was stunned.

He realized the girl might indeed be speaking to him, although she was only speaking to someone who hadn’t woken up.

Time passed slowly, and Li Chen gradually could let True Qi flow within his body. After two days, he finally regained partial control over his body.

Of course, this control was only at the level of opening his eyes and mouth, not even sitting up.

Unsure of his surroundings, Li Chen only secretly opened his eyes when the girl left, not intending to communicate with her.

Of course, even if he wanted to communicate, he was completely unable to.

Because presently, he couldn’t even control the muscles in his throat to speak.

And the girl Cherie seemed to have started to get used to this life, frequently visiting Li Chen and often sharing some stories with him.

Stories, from around her.

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