The Quest didn't give me a reward but fulfilling it made my Qi purer. mm.. perhaps the Death Core needs to be awakened...

"System, compare my previous Qi and the Qi I have now,"

[Ding! Density increased, purity higher, estimating a 10% increase of Qi power]

'I almost ceased to exist two times, but it was worth a trip.' I laughed in my mind.

'Oh! Crap poor Li Qi'

Li Qi must have finished his enlightenment, I guess I had interfered with it by absorbing all the Death Aura around him. Now that the Death Aura was gone the darkness of the city was also gone, the city was so old that there were not many buildings standing. I still don't understand things properly, the Death Aura was also mixed with darkness attribute. Li Qi attribute is related to the Light that is an antagonist of darkness and something related to life. Will this count as having passed the test? I did destroy the test I guess it can count...

The puppet Old Man appeared before me, one of his eyes was gone, now I could see his other eye was white.

"Since I was created there was no one who could complete the Death Game. Let alone destroy it."

We got teleported we appeared before Li Qi he was still in an enlightened state. 'How can this be?' I was confused. I destroyed the Death Aura his enlightening should have been stopped by the environment change. Why is he still getting enlightening and getting a deeper compression? I turned my head to look at this old puppet.

"It seems you are still too young. This Death Game was originally created for the purpose of training Light and Darkness cultivators, the precious reward from this test was not pass through it, it was the chance to get enlightened."

"But I didn't get any darkness enlightening moment... yet Li Qi enlightening is getting stronger."

"You still don't understand. Death maintained the darkness in the city and from the darkness of this city the light gathered and condensed. You guys were the life powering it, providing a reason for the death aura to extinguish, everything was in a balance. This test would never cease to exist. That was until a guy got enlightened in something above light and darkness and broke the balance of the test. You broke the test, the death, and thus the darkness was gone, so logically your friend's enlightenment state got even better without the opposite attribute bothering him."

"I get it now. Who would have known that I actually helped him? So that's the reason why your eye is gone."

"Not only my eye. I was the core of the game. The Light boy is absorbing the Light, when his enlightening ends, this test shall never appear in the Ancient Ruins."

I could see his other eye getting more and more lifeless. Li Qi was getting stronger with each passing second. He's about to breakthrough. He opened his 9th meridian. It may be due to his element or his enlightening state but it was as if I could see the meridians in his body, they were shining. A little white ball passed near me and merged with Li Qi's body. During a brief instant, I saw a 10th meridian shining. This time Li Qi earned big.

"Congratulations," I said with a wide smile on my face.

Li Qi had awakened from his enlightenment state. I could see it from the mixed emotions on his face. As Li Qi was opening his mouth, I waved my hand to stop him.

"Let your secrets be secrets."

I could see his face change. He nodded his head. A man must be always careful, you wouldn't know how many people in this world would hunt you down and betray you for your secrets. So, it's better to bury them with you.

"Congratulations on both of you. I will teleport you out. Keep working hard and you will have a bright future."

The old man puppet was decaying, its body parts were deteriorating at a fast speed. Before we could see him turn into dust. The old man waved its hands, and we got teleported.

...

We appeared in a big room, each wall had different colors it so it was quite a weird sight. The one who designed this room must have been out of his mind. It was too ugly. Li Qi and I were surrounded by hundreds of people. 'Okay... bad place to be teleported. There are lots of people missing, many people have died. Bad luck if they picked the death side...'

Thanks to my soul I spotted Chu Xian, Xiao Wu, and You Ye. The three of them were together. Li Qi and I passed through the crowd of youths to reach the place where they were. Everyone was looking at us with a hateful and vengeful gaze. A young tall and muscular man stopped me with a commanding voice.

"Stop right there! You aren't allowed to approach Lu Xin! You are only a country bumkin from that trashy country."

"Huh?! Who's willing to approach that idiot. Get out of my sight or I'm going to crush your skull and feed it to the dogs."

The man remained silent with a mocking smile on his face, he was truly looking down on me.

"Brother Ye, this doesn't suit..." Li Qi advised me.

"Are you moving or not! You are pissing me off." The man was still looking down on me, I could see everyone mocking me like a dumb kid.

"Fuck all of you! You are going to die! I'm going to erase every one of you from this continent"

"Stop! Brother Ye!!!!" The voice of You Ye rang near my ears but it was too late, I was already punching the imbecile I had in front of me.

*BOOM*

He wasn't the one only one who was sent flying, I was also sent flying by some force. The moment I punched him, I could feel the strength that should have killed him was partially rebounded to me.

"You are an idiot," it was Lu Xin's voice. The crowd was laughing at me who was on the floor...

*COUGH*

The man who I just punched started coughing blood, he was almost at death's door. The crowd was stunned, Lu Xin trembled. Hissing could be heard as the laughing was abruptly stopped.

"Brother Ye, are you ok?" Xiao Wu's warm voice helped me to calm down a little.

"This isn't good. Brother Ye, they were provoking you on purpose. In this room, when hitting another person, a force of equal strength hits you and the other person bears more or less only 90% of the damage you do. In this room, no one can kill another without being seriously hurt..."

You Ye's voice was interrupted by my laugh. I was enjoying myself laughing.

"You are all going to die"