Chapter 175 Chapter 175

Previously, when Xia Muqing participated in the adventurer qualification assessment in District 7, she encountered a blue parrot fighting bird, which possessed a very magical characteristic: exchange.

This was a near-rule-based exchange, capable of ignoring the opponent's defenses to a certain degree, potentially penetrating even spatial barriers. Of course, this also required the performer to possess profound profound strength and a deep understanding and control of the power of space.

As luck would have it, the sword-tailed tiger fully meets the above conditions.

When its rage burned its reason, and it thought it was "plundering" without any side effects, it used all its strength and unreservedly promoted this characteristic -

The "exchange" broke out in an instant, and the power was stimulated to the highest level, like a huge gyroscope, or like a roaring deep-sea whirlpool, unreasonably drawing in everything around it!

Even Yucong and the Jinming Star Beast were caught off guard and were entangled in the thick smoke.

The spiritual network spread by China Unicom instantly became the best bridge for the transmission of white smoke. The researchers felt a buzzing in their heads, their vision went black, and they collapsed to the ground exhausted.

On the spiritual tree, even though Yu Cong reacted very quickly and immediately took off his glasses to cut off the connection, this simple and crude method of disconnection still caused him serious injuries. He felt a sharp pain on both sides of his temples and his eyes were swollen to the point of being torn apart.

"hiss!"

Yu Cong groaned and covered his eyes tightly.

A faint trace of blood oozed out from between his fingers, and his vision was blurred by a blood-red stain.

The beastmaster and the mysterious beast are originally one, and Yucong's spiritual network is also built on the ability of the Golden Nether Star Beast. When he suffered a serious injury, the Golden Nether Star Beast also immediately became weak.

The eight pieces of golden armor retracted and pieced together one by one, no longer presenting an upright posture, but barely protecting himself and the beastmaster.

The other beast kings were not having an easy time either - the sword-tailed tiger was much stronger than the blue parrot fighting bird. It had left spatial imprints on many beast kings before, and at this moment, they had all become accomplices of the "exchange".

Thick smoke surged out from the beast kings, like a collapsed embankment and a dam opening, and the mysterious power flowed out like a flood!

“Ouch!”

“Chirp, chirp, chirp?”

"Coo-coo-coo?"

Panicked screams rang out one after another, and several beast kings looked at the sword-tailed tiger in disbelief.

What's going on, White Tiger? Didn't you promise to absorb the power of human beastmasters and give it back to them?

Could it be that you are too old and your eyes are blurry, and you got the order of the two ends wrong?

The sword-tailed tiger's eyes were wide open, and its pupils were shrunk into needle points.

It was more terrified than the other beast kings. As soon as the "Exchange" feature was activated, it quickly realized that something was wrong and urged its power to sever this connection - but it was to no avail. Even the power it urged, like other profound powers, quickly turned into smoke and poured out!

The promised "swallowing" turned into a meat bun hitting a dog, there is no return!

“Ouch—!!”

The sword-tailed tiger roared loudly, and the sound waves echoed above the spirit tree.

【King You? King You!】

【What's going on? This is different from what we agreed on before! 】

Xia Muqing's eyes narrowed: "King You?"

She suddenly turned her head, her eyes as sharp as torches, passing through the increasingly dense smoke area and falling directly on the shadow of the sword-tailed tiger.

A strange beast, as black as mud and transforming into wisps of black mist in the air, was emerging from there little by little.

"It's hidden here?" Xia Muqing's pupils shrank slightly, and she pursed her lips. "No wonder we couldn't find any trace of it after searching all this time."

"It seems like the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it—from the moment it passed the 'exchange' to the sword-tailed tiger as 'plunder', it was already preparing to become the oriole that came from behind and took over?"

Just as she thought, King You appeared in the air and let out a strange and weird laugh.

While laughing, he opened his huge gluttonous mouth and gulped down the mysterious energy smoke that was sucked out by both sides.

"Exchange" is a process that can be swift or purposefully prolonged. However, at this moment, the sword-tailed tiger was sucked in until its limbs went limp and its vision went black, and it realized that the initiative had never truly passed to it from the beginning.

The so-called characteristic transfer is nothing more than King You temporarily storing his abilities in it.

The one who really starts and controls everything is still the guy behind it.

"……roar!"

The sword-tailed tiger was so angry and regretful that its sharp teeth were almost broken.

No wonder, no wonder after the characteristics were changed, King You repeatedly warned that it was not compatible with the new characteristics and would probably be useless after only one use, so it must be kept at the most critical moment.

Now it seems that it is not that it can only be used once, but it is obvious that they are afraid that it will be exposed if used!

[King You, you—why on earth did you betray me?]

The black smoke dispersed slightly, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes. King You glanced at the surrounding beast kings with ill intent, and hummed triumphantly: "Buzz--"

What betrayal?

"Master Baihu, please don't speak so harshly. I've been playing along with you from the beginning, never truly attached to you. How can you be accused of betrayal?"

Its red eyes pointed upwards, looking like burning flames, or like blood seeping out in reverse. It was eerie no matter how you looked at it: "Buzz."

[You have a plan, humans have a plan, and I just have a plan of my own.]

[And if we really compare, my plan is more perfect and thorough than yours. Your scheme is full of loopholes, and all you want is to deprive a few humans of their profound power so that the Alien Secret Realm can gain a foothold at the top of the Alien Dimension... Haha, your vision is too narrow.]

[I'm different—not only the alternate dimension, but also the foundation of human life, I want it too!]

[We, the Mysterious Beasts, should not only be the masters of Paradise and the Otherworld, but we should also be the sole masters of the entire planet!]

As soon as he finished speaking, King You suddenly spread out the black mist.

It was as if a giant feather suddenly spread out, its momentum fierce and covering the sky. The dense fog, absorbing enough power, swirled in the air, transforming into a serpentine python that reached the sky, tightly wrapping itself around the trunk of the spirit tree!

【Characteristics, possession! 】

Everyone was shocked by King You's outrageous words.

The sword-tailed tiger's eyes were filled with anger: "Roar?"

[“Possession”… This is the Night Soul Bell Grass’s characteristic! So it wasn’t a human beastmaster who attacked it, but you?]

[Damn bastard! Murderer! I actually let a wolf into the house—wait, what on earth are you going to do?!]

The weak beast kings could no longer cling to the branches of the spiritual tree. The poisonous frog was the first to fall from the branch, followed by the strange-striped lynx that fell like dumplings.

The flames on the Flame Bird's feathers were nearly extinguished, and the bird itself was blown away by the strong wind, forcing it to fold its wings, turning into a quail trembling in the wind. Even the Sword-Tailed Tiger was unsteady on its feet, but it continued to stare at King You, the hatred in its eyes so thick that it almost overflowed.

At this moment, a slight "crackling" sound like broken glass suddenly rang in everyone's ears.

Where the spirit tree came into contact with the Ghost King, black and red lines were spreading silently, as evil as ghost fire, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations.

The buzzing sound came from far away in the sky, yet seemed to be right next to the ear, striking the eardrum and brain, and emitting a smug and cunning laugh with ill intentions.

[Characteristic, madness! 】

This is another brand new feature.

The Yiyuan Secret Realm is filled with extremely talented beasts. King You has been among them and has secretly absorbed countless abilities.

Although the "frenzy" characteristic is not rare, its rarity also means that there are many of them. It sucks from here and pecks from there, and when combined together, it adds up to an extremely huge amount of energy.

At this time, King You opened fire at full power, and several times the "frenzy" was superimposed on the spirit tree, and the effect was horrifying!

“Plop, plop!”

At that moment, almost everyone and every mysterious beast could hear their own heartbeats accelerating. It was as if something was bursting out from the depths of their hearts, carrying with it long-accumulated resentment and hatred, transforming into tangled black vines.

Entangle their hearts tightly!

“…Ouch!”

Lord Fengluo was the first to realize that the situation was not good. His "danger perception" ability gave him a premonition. In an instant, the white hair on his body stood up, and a second before the strange wave dissipated, he quickly carried Xia Muqing and dodged downwards.

But even when it was close to the ground, the wave that seemed to stir up sin in people's hearts did not disappear. Instead, it became stronger and stronger, gradually turning into pure malice.

And soon, Xia Muqing saw a heart-wrenching scene——

I saw vines surging on the ground, and the roots of the spiritual trees drilled out of the soil like snakes. There were black and red lines flowing on each root, twisting and intertwining together, which was chilling at first glance.

Ji Hong was far away from the beginning, and luckily he was not involved in it at this moment. He fell rapidly with the rainbow light and stars.

She looked at the surging tree roots on the ground, carefully examined them for a moment, and shouted in surprise, "Are those all green vines?"

"Oh my god, could it be that this giant spiritual tree is actually composed of thousands of green end vines?"

Xia Muqing was also shocked by this scene: "This is really..."

Should we sigh that this is the power of nature?

She knew that when the green vines gathered together, they could exert several times the power of their own, but she only thought that the protective shell of the Alien Secret Realm was made up of them. She didn't expect that even the core pillars supporting the Alien Secret Realm were the embodiment of their gathering!

But now, under the malicious instigation of King You, all the green vines are "going crazy".

They were originally special plants that had no self-awareness and were between mysterious beasts and ordinary plants. But now they seemed to have come alive, with branches turning into tentacles and roots like loaches, frantically attacking everything around them.

If it can hook the mysterious beast, it will attack it; if it can't hook it, it will attack the vegetation and soil, and even dig the ground like an excavator, stirring up and down in the soil, as if it has some deep hatred for this land.

It was truly a scene of chaos and chaos.

“Clatter, clatter, clatter—”

The fluctuations were spreading, and "madness" was contagious. Xia Muqing watched helplessly as the green vine, with the spirit tree as the center, dragged the entire paradise into a manic quagmire.

Large tracts of trees were destroyed, rocks collapsed and rolled down, and vines sprouted from the towering cliffs, instantly covering the smooth stone walls tightly.

One by one, high-level mysterious beasts were forced out from their habitats. While they were still in a daze, they were suddenly wrapped up by vines. The next second, mysterious patterns spread over their bodies like will-o'-the-wisp. The pitch-black patterns flashed a few times and were silently engraved on the position of their hearts.

"roar!!"

The mysterious beast, which had been relatively normal, suddenly went berserk, raising its head and roaring shrilly towards the sky, its blood boiling, its head buzzing, and its eyes red as blood.

Their minds were clouded, their bodies were controlled by evil, and they, who were originally able to communicate, seemed to have their most primitive wildness activated, transforming into pure beasts driven by instinct.

No, they were more than just beasts—several Blood Leopards leaped to the top of the cliff in quick succession, opening their mouths and unleashing several "Blood Shock Waves" into the distance. Originally a mere ordinary skill, "Blood Shock Wave" was now dozens of times more powerful under this state of excitement and frenzy, destroying a distant mountaintop in one fell swoop!

“……!”

Xia Muqing's scalp tingled as she watched, and she was about to call on Lord Feng Luo to dodge, but at this moment, a clearer sound of shattering came from high above.

“—Crack!”

It was like a muffled thunder exploding, the earth trembled, and the few people who were still awake were startled.

Following this loud noise, a long and narrow crack suddenly appeared in the sky with the spirit tree as the center, like an upside-down rift valley.

At the deepest part of the crack, what is faintly projected is not the deep night sky.

Instead, it is a city with majestic buildings looming in the distance.