Chapter 265: I Won’t Kill You, I’ll Let You Go Back
Leng Feng didn’t hide anything; he laid out all his plans without reservation.
He could only block Dark Star for a limited time; during these brief moments, Dark Star didn’t know what he was doing or saying.
As long as he didn’t try to commit suicide or fight, and didn’t cause any significant fluctuation in Spiritual Power, Dark Star would ignore his minor actions.
At first, he thought Dark Star was confident and assured of victory.
That’s why Dark Star often let him get away with little tricks.
He always believed that, to Dark Star, he was just a dog reared for his own amusement.
As long as he didn’t die, all his plots to overturn Dark Star’s rule wouldn’t even cross Dark Star’s mind.
All his petty moves, to Dark Star, were nothing more than getting bitten once—not worth bothering about.
Like keeping a dog at home—when the dog gets angry and bites you, you might smack it, then go right back to feeding it.
Because to humans, whatever they keep, its life is always in their hands.
If they want it to live, it lives; if they want it to die, it dies.
If someone freaks out just because they got bitten, it only proves they’re afraid—afraid that thing might actually threaten their life.
Leng Feng always felt that Dark Star wasn’t afraid of him.
That’s why he allowed the little tricks.
But it wasn’t until Jiang Che told him Dark Star was hiding out—injured, busy with a string of things—that he realized: Dark Star hadn’t been indifferent to all his small actions.
Dark Star simply didn’t have the energy to deal with him.
With that realization, Leng Feng became even more firm in his resolve to fight Dark Star.
If even when Dark Star is weak, he can do nothing, then what were humanity’s efforts all for?
From the very beginning, he told a colossal lie.
He told people the anomaly was evil spirits invading the human world.
Everyone cluelessly fell into dungeons, becoming evil spirits’ prey.
Until everyone grew stronger, until passageways between evil spirits and humans were opened, until humanity could finally fight back.
To this day, he still believed he’d done nothing wrong.
The first connection between humanity and the evil spirits happened by pure accident—a group of humans fell into an evil spirit lord’s territory.
That time, Dark Star showed up, curious to see them.
He still remembered what Dark Star said that day.
"I’ve glimpsed the path of breakthrough."
Later, he learned Dark Star meant breaking past SSS-level—transcending his current limits.
The hope that Dark Star saw was him himself—those humans who’d stumbled into his territory.
That day, many died in Dark Star’s domain; to carry out his plan quietly, Dark Star killed everyone—everyone except Leng Feng.
Leng Feng only remembered that day: all around him, people stared at the weird-looking evil spirits nearby, curious and scrutinizing them; the evil spirits looked back, equally curious.
From killing at first, to torture, to torment.
He later realized: evil spirits could grow stronger by feeding on human fear.
The more they tortured, the more humans feared.
But back then, they could do nothing—neither him nor anyone close by.
He wasn’t some hero for humanity.
He’d been just an ordinary office worker at the time.
All he could do was stand together with the crowd, shivering, radiating his terror along with theirs.
Back then, Leng Feng was no different—frozen stiff, unable to move, so scared that he couldn’t even scream.
The temperature in the dungeon shifted wildly; Leng Feng only felt his whole body freezing, yet also burning as if inside a furnace.
When everyone except him had died, he thought death was imminent for himself too.
Then, an unusual evil spirit appeared before him.
The spirit stood beside Leng Feng—extended a finger, stabbing it into his neck.
In that instant, Leng Feng felt deadly poison flood his body. Even as he felt relief that his death was easier than the others’, the evil spirit spoke.
And that was what made Leng Feng truly afraid.
The spirit said, "I won’t kill you. I’ll let you go back."
Any living being who clears a dungeon is rewarded with something from it.
But before, in the Evil Spirit Realm, no evil spirit would ever invade another’s dungeon—everyone traveled properly by bus, through official channels.
Any trespassing was always seen as an act of war!
The poison burrowed into his body, the voice sounded inside his mind.
"When you return, you’re going to act as the bridge between the two worlds. I’ll help you open up the passageway, then you arrange for people to enter." Dark Star had wanted to gather people in his territory, kill them, and grow stronger by absorbing their Life Energy.
But after the passage was truly opened, things spun out of control.
The gateways between worlds began to appear randomly; humans started randomly landing in the domains of various Lords.
But he could only control Leng Feng to channel a small part of humanity into his domain—barely a drop in the bucket for his ambitions in Life Energy.
From that day, Dark Star changed his plans as well.
If he could only gather a small group, then he’d just make those people’s Life Energy stronger—problem solved.
So he had Leng Feng transmit seeds for him.
At first, Leng Feng cooperated only to save his skin.
He was just an ordinary man, knew nothing of grand ambitions—he simply wanted to survive.
But as time went by, as more of the world was drowned in terror, as people continued dying in evil spirit dungeons with no survivors,
Humans all over were being pulled into the bizarre world; a rare few managed to escape, then found themselves stronger after getting out.
From that day, humanity began plotting rebellion.
He discovered, after repeatedly entering and exiting Dark Star’s dungeon, he’d become the strongest being alive.
He’d always believed: the less ability you have, the less responsibility.
He assumed there’d always be someone bigger, tougher, shielding everyone—but now he realized: that so-called giant was himself.
Dark Star kept making him send more people.
The strong ones at his command multiplied—before long, they’d become the most powerful organization.
More and more humans survived the evil spirit dungeons—just with ordinary first-level power—now clamoring to slaughter every evil spirit.
In that moment, Leng Feng seemed to understand something.
He didn’t know how to break free from the grip of an evil spirit lord—but he believed the rest of humanity could fight to the very end.
From then on, he began to cooperate with Dark Star—even started actively nurturing some humans himself.
He more or less understood Dark Star’s intentions—he wanted more humans, ones with some real strength.
So when he risked everything to ask Dark Star about dungeon details and survival strategies, Dark Star spoke.