But the swarming monsters and the constantly collapsing platform will not give him the time!
"Help me... fight for ten breaths!" Pei Du's icy voice echoed through Xu Shuangyao's consciousness, carrying an unquestionable command. His left hand, covered in dark gold patterns, abruptly retracted, no longer attacking the oncoming aberration. Instead, he clenched his fingers like knives, his fingertips swirling with an extremely restrained, yet radiating a pitch-black force of the end that distorted even space! He wanted to forcibly sever the woman's final connection to the detonating energy node beneath her feet! This was the most direct, yet also the most dangerous, method! Failure, or provoking even more intense resistance from her, would have disastrous consequences!
Xu Shuangyao looked at Pei Du's resolute profile, then at the spatial distortions surging below like a tide. Ten breaths... normally a mere breath, now felt like an eternity. A flicker of determination crossed her pale face, and the golden flame mark between her brows erupted with a radiance beyond its limit!
"Okay!" No hesitation, only trust!
She suddenly withdrew some of the power maintaining the Wall of Thorns! The resilient vine barrier instantly became precarious under the aberration's frenzied attacks! At the same time, she unreservedly injected the withdrawn power, along with her own already depleted life essence, into the vines maintaining the purifying holy light and the edge of the control platform!
The purifying holy light instantly blazed brighter, like a tangible golden liquid, surging even more violently through the silver-haired woman's chaotic soul, suppressing the icy energy raging within her! Meanwhile, the vines at the edge of the platform, attacked by the aberrations, erupted in a final burst of emerald green light, like a giant python at its last gasp, tightly wrapping around the advancing aberrations, even if it meant being torn apart, to drag them into the abyss and perish together!
The price was that Xu Shuangyao's body shook violently, and pale golden blood flowed out of her mouth again. The light of the golden flame mark between her eyebrows dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye! Maintaining such high-intensity double consumption, her soul was like a candle in the wind!
An indescribable wave flashed through the depths of Pei Du's molten gold pupils. He no longer hesitated! His left palm blade, imbued with the power of the End, was like a blade of judgment that tore through space. With absolute determination to annihilate all connections, it fiercely slashed at the invisible energy connection between the silver-haired woman's bloody hands and the energy node at her feet, which shone with an unstable blue light!
This slash was fast, fierce, and accurate! It gambled Xu Shuangyao's safety and the survival of the City of Thorns!
"No——!" The silver-haired woman seemed to have sensed a fatal threat, and her chaotic blue eyes burst into a final burst of madness. The cold energy in her body recoiled desperately, trying to resist!
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A light sound that seemed to cut the soul!
Pei Du's palm blade, which condensed the origin of the end, was like a red-hot table knife cutting into solidified grease, and it cut off the invisible connection channel composed of cold and chaotic energy with incredible precision!
Buzz——!
The blue energy node beneath the silver-haired woman's feet dimmed and extinguished as if its last spark had been snuffed out the moment its connection was severed! The icy energy reverberating violently within her body seemed to have lost its target, instantly falling into a state of chaos and stagnation! The madness in her eyes receded like a tide, replaced by a vast emptiness and bewilderment. Her body trembled violently, and she whimpered like a young animal before collapsing limply onto the cold metal platform, completely unable to resist.
The connection was severed! The source of the explosion was extinguished!
However, this does not mean the disaster is over!
Without the constant stimulation of the detonator, the terrifying spatial rift in the Rift City Abyss didn't close immediately! It simply stopped its frantic expansion! The violent spatial turbulence and cold corrosive energy within it continued to rage! The terrifying suction force below still existed! The entire metal platform's structure was on the verge of collapse under the previous impact and the continuous suction! After Xu Shuangyao withdrew most of his strength, the swarming spatial aberrations broke through the crumbling thorn wall. Like wolves smelling blood, their sharp claws flashed with cold light as they madly pounced on the silver-haired woman on the platform who had lost her ability to resist and Pei Du who was withdrawing his strength!
To make matters worse, Pei Du's forceful attack, severing the connection, seemed to have triggered something deeper within the silver-haired woman! A vast, chaotic torrent of memories, tinged with a cold, desperate aura, surged like a floodgate forced open, flowing through Pei Du's still-unretracted power of the end, fiercely pouring back into the core of his consciousness!
Cold cage… Endless stripping… Formatting… Codename… G-7… Origin Key… Error… Must be destroyed… Hate… Destroy everything… Coordinates… Cradle…
Countless shattered images, painful screams, and cold commands… mixed with deep-seated hatred, they madly assaulted Pei Du's will! His molten-gold pupils were instantly flooded with chaotic fragments of memory! His movements inevitably slowed down again!
The fastest space deformer, which looked like a metal mantis, tore through the last few blocking vines. Its forelimbs, flashing with the cold light of tearing space, chopped fiercely at the head of the defenseless silver-haired woman who was lying on the ground like the scythe of the god of death!
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