In the blinding red light, the part of the black tower that hadn't been blocked made a crisp "crack."

Seeing that blocking was useless, Shekh threw Yin Xue into the ruins and pulled away again.

The black tower above Shi Jinzhe broke, and the flames at his location were extinguished instantly.

Defensive formations can only protect people; they are powerless to stop inorganic objects from being destroyed.

Fortunately, only the tower cracked, and everyone was protected.

He made a gesture to Fu Guanzai, and at the same time, he sent out a second golden thread that pulled onto Fu Guanzai's body.

The Tower card in Tarot is personified as a white tower replacing the broken black tower, standing in front of the broken time.

The broken energy tower was reconnected, and seeing the flames ignite, Jiang Ling reacted quickly and forcefully slammed the crystal down!

The thirteen crystals were finally put back in place, and the thirteen recesses where the crystals were placed emitted a beam of light that shot into the sky.

Shi Jinzhe breathed a sigh of relief. He had activated four formations throughout the process and needed to provide energy to three people. If he didn't put them in soon, he really wouldn't be able to squeeze them out.

Congratulations to player...time...passed...!

The system notification sounds were intermittent, and the second half disappeared completely.

Sensing something was wrong, the other six people gathered around, and Zhuang Zexian asked, "Did you hear the system notification sound? It was all crackling sounds from electricity."

Jiang Jin's expression turned serious: "I heard you..."

You don't even need to listen to that; the fact that you weren't teleported after completing the quest and there's no dungeon exit is enough to tell you there's a serious problem.

But everyone had already exhausted themselves, and if any more problems arose, they simply didn't have the energy to deal with them.

Zhuang Zexian ran his hands through his hair: "God, what do we do now? What kind of lousy dungeon is this?! I'm not going to stay here, am I...?"

Shi Jinzhe ignored all of that and continued searching for Shekh.

"Bang!"

Two figures burst out from the rubble outside the square.

Shekh reverted to his human form with a snake tail, his body now protected by a layer of golden light.

His body, stained black with the mist, was covered in dark blood as he rose from the ground.

His body transformed into black particles, like a wisp of smoke, and in just a few movements, he traversed a great distance and arrived at the plaza.

The golden array that had been taken down was activated again, and Shi Jinzhe blocked him outside the protective array.

His expression was not relaxed. The little energy he had just recovered was only enough to activate one defense; any more would require burning his own life force.

Standing at a distance, Shekh could clearly sense that Shi Jinzhe's current power reserves were insufficient to sustain him for long.

She called the system, but received no response.

After several unsuccessful attempts to call her, she knew she couldn't continue like this.

From the moment she saw the wisp of black mist appear, Shehe knew that it had severed the connection between the instance and the system. The system could no longer control this place, and if she and Shi Jinzhe wanted to leave, they had to save themselves.

She muttered a curse under her breath, "Useless thing," and her calls were met with utter devastation.

The golden light array flickered, and as Shi Jinzhe struggled to maintain it, he heard Shehe calling his name.

"Activate the formation, set the defense to the highest level."

Shi Jinzhe immediately understood what she was going to do, but he was helpless in this situation and could only trust Shehe.

With his hands behind his back raised the defense level to the maximum, he asked Yin Xue, who was standing in front of him, "You're the one who made the dungeon exit disappear, aren't you?"

"Of course, I've never encountered such delicious vitality before, you can't leave."

"Is that so? Then try killing me."

Shi Jinzhe stalled for time, borrowed a scepter from Fu Guanzai, and silently tied the gold thread around Jiang Yinxue's wrist.

A breeze blew by, stirring the vast expanse of low-pressure clouds, and the black ribbon that Sher had fastened to her eyes was untied.

She grasped the ribbon fluttering in the wind and slowly opened her eyes.

Her purple eyes emitted a pale purple glow, and the black ribbon in her hand stretched and grew longer and thinner.

When it becomes as thin as a strong string, the purple snake tail raises a third of its length, resembling a heavy, rigid bow.

A thin black string hung on the bow, and the black-gold corrosive liquid in Shekh's hand was rapidly shaping into a long arrow.

She drew back the bowstring, the heavy black-gold arrow stretched out, and the purple fluorescence in her eyes grew brighter and brighter, forming a purple halo around her pupils. Then, in an instant, she tightened her grip on the target and decisively released the bowstring.

An arrow pierced the sky, its whistling sound shattering the thick, within reach of the clouds.

When Yin Xue finally realized what was happening and turned around, all he could see was an enlarged black and gold arrow.

The giant arrow struck its target squarely, shattering his body into dust. But the destruction didn't stop there; the black-gold arrow exploded behind him, instantly filling the sky and earth.

The blood-red city looked as if it had been splashed with large ink blots, the black and gold colors spreading rapidly, and the ever-expanding corrosive liquid devouring everything in its path.

They connected, merged, and absorbed the already collapsed city until nothing was left.

The ground collapsed, and the seven people protected within the defensive formation stood on the ice, watching the golden protective shield tremble under the impact. They dared not breathe, fearing that even one more breath would break this only protective shield, especially since Shi Jinzhe was clearly overloading the defense.

His body's abilities were rapidly extracted, and Shi Jinzhe followed the pull of [Order Reconstruction] to search for Shekh.

The energy over there is very unstable, seemingly entering some kind of chaotic and uncontrolled state.

Shekh's ribbon cannot be removed casually. Last time, she only managed to part it for a moment and had to drink her own blood. Now that he is not here, she must get to Shekh quickly.

The body, already depleted of energy, was forced to unleash its skills by the Time-Ending Fist, like pumping water from a dried-up swamp. With each pressurization of the heart, the constricted blood vessels were forced to squeeze out the last remaining energy.

All of this energy was transferred to Shekh through the connection of [order reconstruction].

Jiang looked at his hair and turned her head away without feeling sorry for him.

The system kept reminding her that the current world was collapsing, the instance anchor point had disappeared, and she was about to be teleported. But it was as if something was stopping it. Every time she felt the weightlessness of being teleported away, she was suddenly interrupted.

Looking into the vast darkness, she was glad that she had chosen to take the initiative to reconcile with these two people in the first place.

The world boss, which was so difficult for them to defeat, was shattered by a single blow when Shekh got serious.

Fu Guan sighed from the side, "I thought she was a warrior, but I didn't expect her to be a ranged mage."

This power is too great; the world is collapsing. Even though the world was already on the verge of collapse, it still accelerated its collapse. What kind of super humanoid artifact is this that combines physical and magical abilities?

The reason why Shi Jinzhe dared to kill so many people without any worry about clearing the dungeon was actually due to Shehe.

He certainly has the confidence to destroy the dungeon if he can't clear it.

Hu looked around. The City of Building Blocks was gone, but the black and gold color was still spreading. It frantically assimilated outwards, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a void under Sheh's feet.

The blackness born of sin contains repression and madness; it is the endless malice brought by calamity, drawing people to constantly recall their most painful past events.

Yet the hidden golden glimmers seem like the only hope one can grasp in despair, the last glimmer of life.

The purple fluorescence in Shekh’s eyes continued to glow, and a powerful energy was surging wildly within her body, as if it had nowhere to go and could only rush into her heart without any buffer.

She tried to reach the black ribbon with her body, but her trembling fingers missed it by just a hair's breadth, and the ribbon was swept away by the turbulent currents around her.

The force was still surging into her body. She pressed her head, feeling as if her body was about to burst, and her insides were in complete chaos.

She let out a muffled groan from her throat, unable to suppress the pain. The more she suffered, the faster the calamity spread.

However, her body was soon enveloped in a layer of golden light.

The sense of confusion subsided, and her mind and body were calmed down from the frenzy.

The world is like a shattered jigsaw puzzle; sometimes, in the only glimmer of light, one can find Sher's figure.

He left the ice, jumped onto that spot, and hurried to her.

Shekh immediately turned around and closed his eyes, "Eyes..."

Shi Jinzhe straightened her shoulders: "The ribbon is with me, it's okay, it's okay."

He brushed aside Shekh's hair, his fingers trembling. Shekh kept his eyes closed and didn't notice that his hair, which had been bent over, had turned completely white due to the side effects of burning his life force.