Chapter 425 444. Cooperation

Although Xu Zhi was angry, she still remained rational. She was rarely easily overwhelmed by anger now, unless she felt that the angry state was more suitable for the current situation and she deliberately let it go.

It would be almost impossible for her to fall into a stage where she loses her mind if she doesn't deliberately indulge her emotions.

Therefore, even though Xu Zhi thought that the woman in front of him should die at this moment, after hearing her words, he still suppressed the urge to kill the person in front of him.

"Stop us from going to Mansu?"

Xu Zhi thought for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly, decisively responded to Mansu's connection with himself in his heart, and tried to step into Mansu.

In the past, she always entered Mansu with her consciousness and could not stay there for a long time because of the limitations of her physical body.

The gate to ascension is in Mansu. If you want to find the gate faster, you must stay in Mansu more.

What's more, the advancement of extraordinary people needs to go through Mansu, and the dissipation and return of the world's energy also have to go through Mansu. There are infinite mysteries in Mansu, and the power that can be obtained is also infinite. Therefore, Xu Zhi has speculated that the so-called "God" is a person who has reached a certain height, comprehended enough rules, and realized the limitations of the physical body, and chooses to abandon the physical body and live in Mansu.

They cannot leave Mansu because they do not have physical bodies that can go to the real world. They can only come briefly through the circuits and prayers of their believers.

Since waking up, Xu Zhi has felt the strong connection between herself and Mansu, as if she could go to Mansu in her physical body at any time as long as she wanted.

But she had some unfinished business in reality, so she did not try to go to Mansu right away.

What's more, she is not too afraid of the so-called blockade. After all, if it really doesn't work, she can still enter Mansu at midnight, where there is no blockade.

But now Xu Zhi needs to confirm the intensity of the blockade and whether there will be any interference at midnight.

After all, Midnight is related to Mansu. If the rules in the sky block all advances into Mansu, Midnight should also be affected.

Xu Zhi was not afraid. After all, Midnight was already hers. She didn't believe that those guys who called themselves gods could completely block her connection with Midnight.

Unless they can separate the Midnight Rules from her flesh and blood, but in that case, they can kill Xu Zhi at will, and Xu Zhi doesn't think they can do it.

It's a temptation, but also a provocation.

When the connection between Xu Zhi and Man Su was established at this moment, and her figure began to gradually become transparent, the rules in the sky that were already watching covetously seemed to have reached their bottom line. Dense golden rule symbols that looked like gears meshing together began to run rapidly, as if golden lightning was flashing in the sky. A huge force of rules emerged from the sky. Even ordinary people without any extraordinary powers would see when they looked up at the sky that there seemed to be light and shadow shining straight down from the sky.

The light and shadow turned into chains, and then into sickles, locking Xu Zhi's ethereal figure and severing her connection with Mansu. The next moment, Xu Zhi's figure solidified again, and the mysterious connection between her and Mansu became weak. The real world seemed to be stuck with a magnet, tightly attracting her into this world.

Xu Zhi raised his brows slightly, looked at the densely packed rules in the sky, thought for a moment, and then asked the woman opposite him, "Tell me, what do you want me to help you with?"

She could continue to try to enter Midnight on her own, but not now. Breaking through the blockade and entering Midnight by force would inevitably take some effort. She didn't want to do this in front of someone who was completely untrustworthy and very dangerous. Who knew if the other party would take the opportunity to stab her?

It would be better to first look at the purpose of these people.

"Of course I want you to help break the blockade."

The woman's answer sounded sincere, but Xu Zhi narrowed his eyes: "Is it that simple?"

"It's that simple."

fraud.

Xu Zhi knew with his feet that the other party's purpose of recruiting him was definitely not simple.

Things have come to this point, and these gods didn't even kill me and take the fragments at the first time, but instead closed the way to Mansu. There can only be one reason.

They believed that prohibiting them from entering Mansu was more important than retrieving the fragments.

There is only one thing that can make the gods so nervous.

Ascension.

This is not difficult to guess, and it is even laid out in the open. However, Xu Zhi doesn't understand whether this woman thinks she is stupid?

Perhaps Xu Zhi's displeasure was too obvious, for he paused before continuing, "We can't waste too much energy here. They can't get out, so we can only use this method to restrain them. If we fight them alone, we may not be able to gain the upper hand."

"Besides, even if they succeed in getting in, they will definitely try to kill us first. Why don't we cooperate first, and then we can each do what we can do next."

What she said was not very clear, but Xu Zhi confirmed the information he wanted to know from it.

The road to ascension is hidden in Mansu, but the gods do not want them to enter Mansu. Obviously, it is because the gods think that if they enter Mansu, they will be qualified to "ascend"!

The gods cannot take this qualification away from them in advance, they can only stop them.

Based on various evidences and speculations, Xu Zhi believes that the biggest difference between them and gods is their physical body.

"So, you've been planning for this long just for this body?"

Xu Zhi didn't dare to make a conclusion directly, so he asked tentatively.

When the woman heard this, her eyes, which seemed to be made of blood, turned straight to Xu Zhi. She didn't need to blink, and no emotion could be seen in her eyes. When she stared at a person, it seemed as if a surging sea of ​​blood was rushing towards that person.

If it were an ordinary extraordinary person, this one glance would be enough to drive him crazy.

But Xu Zhi was not afraid. In fact, she was sure of one thing from the woman's reaction: she had hit the point.

It seems that the physical body is the key thing.

"You've been planning for so long, using the flesh and blood of everyone in Lotus City, as well as those extraordinary people and agents from the outside world, all for this current body."

The woman didn't refute, but suddenly smiled: "Xiao Zhi is really smart."

Xu Zhi shook his head: "No, this is something that anyone who has reached this stage and knows these things can easily guess."

It's just that no one else can reach this stage except her.

The gods of each attribute firmly control the extraordinary path belonging to that attribute, so that the extraordinary people who walk on it can only become so-called "agents" at most.

Compared to the [Cup], other attributes seem to be very free, but in fact, they are just a hopeless road whose end is controlled by others.

Only Xu Zhi did not follow the usual path and was beyond the control of these gods.

They also concealed what they did and their ambitions, but when the extraordinary level reached a similar distance to them, these secrets could no longer deceive Xu Zhi.

However, simply preventing others from approaching Them is of no use.

Even though they have achieved the ultimate on this path, they still cannot ascend. For thousands of years, perhaps they have tried many methods, until one day, they realized that they have all been on the wrong path.

"How to cooperate?"

Xu Zhi thought for a while and decided to temporarily cooperate with this woman who dared to deceive her, because she also knew that now that the gods of other attributes had formed a camp, it was impossible for her to stand with them.

Although cooperating with the woman in front of him is also seeking the skin of a tiger, it is not certain who will be the final tiger.

"I will go to a crowded place and try to enter Mansu. They will try to stop me. I need you to shatter them at that time, when the rules of the sky are shaken."

It sounds simple, but Xu Zhi is already starting to have a headache.

Break the rules?

"Crushing them? That's not an easy task."

She had seen the rules broken and had done something similar at midnight, but that was with the help of Midnight's ability. Now, if she wanted to do it again, just looking at the scale of the rules in the sky, she knew it would not be easy and would definitely consume a lot of her power of rules. This was not what Xu Zhi wanted to see.

"Don't worry. They're trying to stop me from entering Mansu, so they're using a lot of rules. Man-made rules are hard to perfect. There will be traces of human intervention between the symbols, just like a welding spot. If we find that spot, we can break these rules more easily."

The strength of man-made rules and naturally formed rules, or rules forged by glow, is not certain, and Xu Zhi also knows this.

The cage carefully built by the gods to imprison the glow fragments collapsed quickly under the impact of the midnight rules.

However, when she mastered the power of midnight, she was no longer midnight. The rules of midnight that she used had to go through her innate circuits before they could be used. Naturally, the power was much weaker than when Midnight used it herself.

Even if it is the "natural" rules that are mastered, extraordinary people have to go through their own circuits when applying them.

The higher the level of the circuit, the greater the ability it can exert.

This is also why low-level extraordinary people are absolutely unable to master the power of rules. Their circuits are too narrow and cannot withstand this level of power running on them.

"But why go to a crowded place?"

After Xu Zhi asked this question, he saw the expression on the woman's face become subtle, as if mixed with some sarcasm.

"Being considered a god by humans, they began to truly believe they were gods. Over time, certain rules emerged."

"So, it's better not to say those high-sounding words that don't really mean it. Otherwise, if they come true one day, you'll be the one who suffers."

Xu Zhi tilted his head slightly, probably understanding what he heard.

The gods regard themselves as "gods". In human cognition, gods will protect humans. So over time, the rule that "gods will protect humans" came into being. The "gods" who were originally just talk or a persona really shouldered an unshirkable responsibility.

As a god who protects all living things, he naturally cannot use the power of rules to slaughter humans. The [Cup] chooses a place where there are many people, which is a restriction on the power of the rules of the sky.

This is really your own fault.

"Then let's get started."

"When the rules are broken, you can enter Mansu. However, remember to be careful, they are waiting in Mansu."

For some unknown reason, the woman suddenly said this before leaving.

Xu Zhi had a blank expression on his face and did not respond at all, as if he had not heard anything.

The cooperation between them was originally a temporary measure, and this woman had no control over when she would enter Mansu.

Who knows if she was pretending to care, but actually tricking her into entering Mansu first?

When the woman's figure disappeared, Xu Zhi looked up at the rules in the sky.

She could clearly see the movement of these rules, like running chains, but she couldn't see the "welding points" of the woman's mouth yet.

About ten seconds later, the rules of the sky suddenly accelerated again, as if a machine started from standby mode, and its target was naturally anyone who tried to cross the boundary it guarded.

Xu Zhi knew that the woman had started to act, but she was not in a hurry and continued to calmly observe the trajectory of these rules.

In Xu Zhi's eyes, the sky was almost golden, which was the light emitted by the rapidly running regular symbols.

When they reached a certain stage, bursts of arc light like lightning appeared in the sky. However, the arc light seemed to be afraid of something, and did not turn into powerful golden spears and throw them to the earth as before, but could only make bursts of hissing in the sky.

Lingzhou city center.

A large number of citizens and extraordinary people gather here. As the most prosperous city, the population density is undoubtedly exaggerated.

At this moment, there was a woman with a very eye-catching appearance standing in the crowd, but the people around her seemed to be completely blind to her and walked straight past her.

The woman's face was serious at the moment. The chain made of golden symbols on her ankle was constantly tightening, even rubbing her ankle. Blood was constantly flowing out of her ankle. The wound had just healed, but it was rubbed again. Because it healed too quickly, in just ten seconds, the chain had already penetrated under the skin and was constantly chewing up the flesh and fascia inside. However, due to its powerful self-healing ability, the surface of her ankle seemed to be intact.

The golden symbol on the ankle was like a lightning rod, allowing the huge energy generated from the sky to fall accurately on the woman. However, no matter how accurate it was, the force was too huge. Once it landed, her surroundings would also be affected.

She knew that the group of "gods", her colleagues, were watching all this and manipulating the rules.

They were wary of her position, but soon, a bolt of lightning struck the woman. Although it did not cause any harm to her, it frightened the dense crowd around her. The crowd saw this "bolt from the blue sky" and heard the thunder in the sky getting louder and louder, and they scattered away in fear.

This is actually a useless move. No matter how fast a person runs, how can he be as fast as the cup?

But the woman did not sneer at this "childish" behavior, but looked up at the sky more seriously.

Sure enough, the next moment, the energy that had been accumulated in the sky for a long time gathered together, and even formed a huge vortex in the air that should not have appeared!

Then, a giant golden palm stretched out from the vortex, aiming directly at the [Cup].

The people whose attention was drawn by the thunder naturally noticed this scene as well, and they all screamed and ran away in fear. Only [Cup] was fixed in place by the chain at his ankle and could not escape.