Fu Xiyao lowered her head slightly, her cheeks flushed, and the string of words she had prepared remained unspoken.
In the end, she simply turned around and hugged Li Yu tightly, without saying anything more.
After a brief moment of tenderness, Fu Xiyao still kept the important matter at hand. Knowing Li Yu's importance to Kangcheng and the Seventh Regiment, she looked up and said seriously:
"Li Yu, Ma Yuanbai and the others are waiting for you to come back every day. Go and see them first."
"Understood." Li Yu nodded.
The instant he turned around, a barely perceptible golden glint flashed in the depths of his left eye, and the gentleness on his face quickly faded, replaced by the calm and majesty befitting a ruler.
He turned and walked quickly towards the direction of the Kangcheng Thunder Bureau.
Li Yu arrived suddenly, appearing in the Thunder Bureau courtyard in the blink of an eye.
Almost the instant he landed, Ma Yuanbai and Chen Hai inside the Thunder Bureau keenly sensed Li Yu's unique and powerful aura. The two immediately stopped their discussion and quickly went out to greet him.
As soon as they met, Ma Yuanbai couldn't wait to speak, his tone filled with trust and expectation:
"Li Yu, have you found a way to clear the dense fog?"
Now, Ma Yuanbai has a new understanding of Li Yu's strength and no longer worries about Li Yu's safety during his daily activities, nor is it necessary for him to.
Since Li Yu returned safely, Ma Yuanbai concluded that Li Yu had found a solution.
Li Yu nodded in acknowledgment, then looked behind Ma Yuanbai.
Chen Hai followed her out in a flustered manner, and only after seeing Li Yu return safely did he breathe a long sigh of relief, finally putting his mind at ease.
He had long since placed all of Kangcheng's fate and his own safety on Li Yu's shoulders, and he did not want anything to happen to the new city lord Li Yu, whom he had just pledged allegiance to, otherwise he might not have a place to stay in the entire Central State.
Seeing Li Yu nod, Chen Hai asked incredulously, "Is there really a way to completely solve this?"
"Let's go, let's resolve this completely now." Li Yu said succinctly, without saying much more, and turned to walk towards the Kangcheng Monument, the core area inside Kangcheng where the fog was thickest and a large number of ghosts gathered.
Upon reaching the edge of the dense fog, Chen Hai and Ma Yuanbai stopped near the boundary between the fog and the surrounding area.
Chen Hai's expression was grave. He noticed that the dense fog had spread outwards by several meters in the past few days, and this expansion was unacceptable.
If Li Yu can truly clear the dense fog completely, there will be no more hidden dangers in Kangcheng, and the area of usable land will nearly double.
It's only a matter of time before these new areas develop, and their future development potential is enormous.
Thinking of this, Chen Hai felt a surge of excitement.
Ma Yuanbai and Chen Hai stood at the edge of the fog zone, watching Li Yu disappear alone into the churning fog.
Around the Cannes Monument, countless ghosts remain unconscious, instinctively tearing at and clinging to each other, trying to occupy the top of that cold pillar.
Li Yu's intrusion instantly broke up the ghosts' dispute.
The ghosts all turned to look at them.
"ah--!"
A series of piercing screams broke the silence.
The ghosts, baring their fangs and claws and shrouded in thick fog, surged towards Li Yu like a gray tide bursting its banks!
Li Yu remained calm and spoke softly in his mental sea:
"It's up to you."
After all, the Nightmare Beast had been eyeing these ghosts for a long time and had mentioned it many times; now the time was just right.
"Leave it to me!!"
The Nightmare Beast's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement, its greedy gleam like a hungry wolf locking onto its prey:
"With so much high-quality nutrients, I can finally have a good meal!"
The Nightmare Beast immediately activated its ability, and Li Yu's triple Soul-Devouring Eye in his right eye instantly opened.
"Soul Devouring Slash!"
As the Nightmare Beast's roar exploded in the mental sea, the Triple Soul-Devouring Eye slowly rotated like a black hole vortex, and the space in the thick fog was slightly deformed by this force.
The next second, an extremely eerie scene appeared in the thick fog—
Everything in the thick fog seemed to shift, and all the ghostly spirits that rushed towards them paused at the same time, as if a frozen painting had been misaligned in the middle and split in two.
This attack struck the soul of every single ghost in the thick fog simultaneously.
The ghosts were cleaved in two by an invisible attack, all shifting out of place in the middle.
Before many ghosts could even scream, they were cleaved in two by the slash, disintegrating into a cloud of white mist.
The Nightmare Beast's eyes were full of arrogance; this was a devastating attack specifically designed to target the spiritual body.
"So strong!" Chen Hai, watching from afar, gasped and exclaimed inwardly.
Such a terrifying attack, and it's even area-of-effect! Targeting the very essence of the spiritual body.
This level of efficiency in clearing the area far surpassed that of any spiritual awakener he knew.
Before Chen Hai could even gasp in surprise, an even more astonishing scene unfolded!
A deep black vortex suddenly formed in Li Yu's right eye, generating an irresistible and terrifying suction force!
The lingering white mist, drawn by an invisible force, was forcibly sucked away before it could merge into the thick fog.
Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it surged into the black vortex in Li Yu's right eye.
Even the lingering resentment of ghosts in the air was completely sucked away.
"Good! That's great! That's more like it!!" The Nightmare Beast's satisfied roar echoed in Li Yu's mind, exuding an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.
It had been preparing its belly for this day for a long time, just waiting for this moment of gluttonous feast.
In the thinner part of the fog, three demonic spirits, whose auras were clearly much stronger, barely managed to dodge the devastating slash just now, despite their best efforts.
They looked at Li Yu with suspicion and uncertainty, their souls emanating waves of fear:
"He is an extremely powerful mental-type awakened individual!"
"We can't fight them! Let's go!"
The three ghosts realized that Li Yu was not easy to deal with, and instantly reached a consensus. They transformed into three blurry misty shadows, changed direction without hesitation, and fled rapidly towards the outskirts of Kang City!
Chen Hai stared in shock at everything before him.
He hadn't expected that Li Yu could eliminate such a large number of ghosts with a single strike.
Although Chen Hai was completely impressed by Li Yu's powerful strength, he was not at ease, because they had tried this method of eliminating ghosts before.
Back then, both the Thunder Bureau and Zhongzhou sent Awakened Ones from their headquarters to Kangcheng to forcibly eliminate the ghosts here. They even managed to shatter all the ghost souls with the strength of the military's Awakened Ones.
Even after the ghosts dispersed, the thick fog in Kangcheng remained.
Brute force alone cannot solve the problem at its root.
As long as the thick fog persists, it won't be long before a large number of ghosts gather again in the foggy area.
However, Li Yu's next move made Chen Hai's body tremble.
Suddenly, Li Yu's left eye transformed into a golden pupil, shining with a dazzling golden light.
Countless strands of golden energy, as fine as hair, shot out from the golden eyes, like living tentacles, and burrowed into the thick, dense fog around them.
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