He no longer tried to dodge! He no longer tried to block the four disintegration beams!
Instead... he completely and without reservation detonated the thorn sparks burning to the utmost within his body, the power of the Thorn Kingship that had just erupted but was not yet fully controlled, along with his raging will to protect the one in his arms at all costs! He poured them madly... into the palm that grasped Xu Shuangyao's heart!
The goal... is not to destroy the zero core that is about to explode!
But... Protect! Suppress! Guide!
“Freeze… for me—!!!”
boom--!!!
Pei Du's palm, burning with thorny sparks, pressed heavily on Xu Shuangyao's heart! Pressed on the destructive blue that was about to erupt!
Time seemed to be thrown into sticky resin at this moment.
There were no earth-shattering explosions.
There is only one absolute singularity that freezes the soul... a singularity where annihilation and creation are intertwined!
Centered on the point where Pei Du's palm touched Xu Shuangyao's chest, a chaotic ball of light, a mixture of dark gold, dark green, and deep blue, instantly emerged! This ball of light was like a miniature cosmic singularity, roiling with destructive energy turbulence within, yet it was bound and compressed by a violent thorny will!
Swish——!
A piercing sound suddenly erupted, as if the space itself was forcibly torn apart and then stitched together!
Pei Du's arm, covered with dark gold patterns, instantly became transparent! The molten gold blood coursing beneath his skin was like being exposed to a vacuum, emitting a wail on the verge of vaporization! The excruciating pain was like millions of steel knives scraping at his bones, fiercely scraping through every inch of his nerves! But his pressed palm was like a welded steel nail, motionless! The burning thorn sparks were like the strongest cage, tightly imprisoning the destruction that was about to erupt!
Xu Shuangyao's body suddenly arched! As if pierced by an invisible force! From her throat erupted a shriek that was inhuman, a mixture of cold, mechanical sounds and utter agony! The conflicting veins of pale gold and dark green beneath her skin twisted, merged, and mutated like a furnace, stimulated by the dark blue core of destruction and suppressed by Pei Du's thorny sparks. Even extremely subtle dark golden lines, like thorns, began to appear on her body! She seemed to have transformed into an energy furnace on the verge of explosion!
And at the same moment when Pei Du was suppressing and guiding the destructive energy from Xu Shuangyao's heart with all his strength—
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Four teeth-grinding sounds, like a sharp weapon piercing rotten wood, were heard!
The four space dissociation beams that came through the top wall penetrated Pei Du's defenseless limb joints without any hindrance!
No blood splattered. Wherever the beam struck, flesh, bone, even the dark gold lines covering it, were instantly disintegrated and annihilated by an absolute principle of dissociation! Transformed into the most primitive particle stream! Pei Du's arms and legs were wiped away as if by an invisible eraser, from shoulder to knee... vanishing in an instant!
The immense, excruciating pain, beyond his physical limits, mixed with the icy fear of his existence being erased, like the deep chill of the universe, instantly engulfed Pei Du! His body, covered in dark gold patterns, shook violently, and the remaining torso, like a broken flagpole, nearly toppled over!
“Ugh!” Pei Du gritted his teeth, their teeth cracking under the immense force of his bite! The light in his molten gold pupils flickered wildly, almost completely extinguished! The excruciating pain and emptiness brought on by the instantaneous dissociation of his limbs devoured his will and remaining strength like a black hole!
But the only remaining right arm he had pressed against Xu Shuangyao's heart remained welded there like the strongest alloy! Although the burning thorn sparks fluctuated violently and dimmed due to the severe pain and loss of strength, they still burned tenaciously, tightly restraining the roiling ball of chaotic light under his palm!
She couldn't let go! To let go would mean the complete annihilation of her and this area!
Just then!
Buzz——!!!
The ball of chaotic light that was forcibly suppressed in Pei Du's palm by the Thorn Spark lost the support of its limbs and the suppressing force suddenly weakened. The destructive energy that was forcibly restrained inside suddenly... exploded like a ferocious beast breaking free from a cage!
But this time the outbreak is not indiscriminate destruction!
Under the forceful guidance of Pei Du's final will, and the influence of the thorny force of order, this destructive energy did not spread. Instead, like a torrent guided by an invisible giant hand, it flowed upstream along Pei Du's pressed arm! It madly injected into the broken limbs that had been annihilated by the disintegration beam!
Swish——!!!
Indescribable pain instantly overwhelmed Pei Du! The destructive energy was like billions of red-hot steel needles, piercing his remaining torso, frantically washing and tearing every inch of his tissue! This feeling was a hundred times more painful than the annihilation of the disintegration beam! It was as if his entire existence was being completely torn apart from the inside by this violent energy!
“Ughhhhhh!!!” Pei Du let out a scream that was inhuman, his body convulsing and twisting violently like metal thrown into a furnace! The dark gold lines covering his torso instantly lit up to the extreme, like a red-hot iron, frantically resisting the erosion of external energy, but constantly cracking under the violent impact!
However, in the billionth of a second when the destructive energy was madly injected and was about to completely destroy Pei Du's body -
Something strange happened suddenly!
Buzz!
A huge, chaotic, painful torrent of will, yet carrying a call from the same source, like a galaxy bursting its banks, suddenly erupted from the depths of the earth beneath Pei Du's feet - from the chaotic core of the mother tree - and along the tenuous connection between him and this desolate land, it madly poured into his body on the verge of collapse!
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