However, those were no longer human eyes!
Instead, they burned with two balls of dark golden flames, pure and cold, devoid of emotion, filled only with destruction and obedience! Deep within his pupils, a trace of extremely subtle yet incredibly clear scarlet mycelium veins twisted and swayed like a living thing! The aura of the Fungus Master and the pressure of the Crown of Thorns perfectly and sinisterly merged within him!
"Command received... destroy... roots..." A cold, sticky voice, a blend of the decayed will of the Fungus Lord and the metallic texture of the Crown of Thorns, emanated from Pei Du's grinning mouth. He stiffly, like a puppet, slowly rose from the ground. His movements were characterized by inhuman coordination and deadly precision. He ignored Xu Shuangyao, who was seriously injured and spewing blood beside him. His eyes, burning with dark gold flames, fixed their gaze on the metal plate engraved with "Civilization Tombstone" at the feet of the Qingluo Avatar—one of the energy ports in the core root system of the World Tree Server!
"Stop him!" Qingluo's illusory figure issued an urgent warning. He tried to gather his strength again, but his figure became more transparent. It was obvious that the previous outburst had consumed a lot of energy!
Xu Shuangyao collapsed in the cold dust, barely regaining consciousness from the excruciating pain and near collapse from being ravaged by the Fungus Master. Her brain felt like pulverized paste, her vision blurry and doubled. She saw Pei Du rise, but he was no longer Pei Du! Those burning dark-gold eyes, that cold, twisted expression, the pressure of the crown mingled with the decaying aura of the Fungus Master... It was like the worst nightmare unfolding!
"Pei...Du..." she called hoarsely, her voice as weak as a mosquito.
Pei Du (or rather, the being occupying his body) remained unresponsive. He slowly raised his hand, covered in searing golden patterns, fingers spread wide, aiming at the metal plate engraved with root patterns! Within his palm, the phantom of a crown of thorns spun and condensed frantically! Countless energy tentacles, interwoven with dark gold and scarlet, like living thorns, gushed forth from his palm! Bursting with destructive energy fluctuations and the rapacious will of the Fungus Master, like millions of venomous snakes, they fiercely stabbed at the metal plate symbolizing the core interface of the World Tree!
"No!!" Xu Shuangyao screamed in despair! She didn't know where the strength came from, perhaps it was the residual power of the Qingluo, or perhaps it was the extreme fear of seeing Pei Du completely devoured. Like a moth to a flame, she dragged her broken body and suddenly jumped up from the ground! Recklessly, she rushed towards Pei Du! At the destructive torrent of energy that was about to erupt!
Her target wasn't Pei Du's hand, or the metal plate, but... Pei Du himself! She wanted to break him! With her body! With everything she had left!
At the moment when the millions of destructive thorns were about to touch the metal plate! At the moment when Xu Shuangyao's body was about to crash into the destructive energy field!
Xu Shuangyao did something that made Qingluo suffocate!
She suddenly opened her arms, not to push or block, but... to hug!
She used all her strength to hug Pei Du's body, covered in burning golden thorn patterns and emitting a destructive aura! Her head was pressed tightly against his violently heaving, scorching chest! The hideous, still bleeding tooth-marked wound on the side of her neck was pressed unreservedly and fiercely against Pei Du's heart - the source of the Crown of Thorns' most violent energy!
"Look at me! Pei Du! Come back!!!" Xu Shuangyao screamed blood-soaked from the depths of her soul! This wasn't an order, but the most primitive and desperate cry! At the same time, she frantically and unreservedly stimulated all the remaining Omega pheromone essences in her glands! It was like lighting the last candle of her life! The cold, fragile scent with the fragrance of plants and trees, mixed with her warm blood, passed through the wound on the side of her neck, like a flood bursting through the dam, madly rushing towards Pei Du's heart! Rushing towards the violent thorn energy core in his body!
This is no longer a key! This is... a sacrifice!
Use her essence, her blood, her life to water the polluted thorns and awaken the deeply buried soul!
Buzz——!!!
A strange resonance occurred the moment their bodies touched!
The thorns of destruction that were about to erupt in Pei Du's palm suddenly froze! The pupils burning with dark gold flames and covered with scarlet mycelium contracted and trembled violently! It was as if something was madly clashing and tearing inside! The scorching golden patterns covering his body were like a branding iron plunged into ice water, emitting a violent "sizzling" sound, flickering unsteadily! The shadow of the Crown of Thorns flickered and twisted wildly between his brows! The cold and sticky roar of the Fungus Master's will intertwined with the painful struggle forcibly awakened in the depths of Pei Du's soul, forming a creepy mental noise!
"Ugh...Ah...Ah--!!!" Pei Du let out an inhuman, beast-like howl of agony from the depths of his throat! His body convulsed and trembled violently from the intense internal conflict! He raised his hand, wanting to tear Xu Shuangyao apart in his arms, but was held tightly by another force!
"Now! Remove the contamination!" Qingluo's incarnation erupted with a final burst of light! His illusory figure instantly transformed into countless streams of emerald green and silver-white data. Like the most sophisticated probe, it ignored Pei Du's violent energy field and pierced with incredible precision deep in the back of his neck, the spot where Xu Shuangyao had locked onto the battlefield of memory, where the "obedient sclerotium" was buried!
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Like the sound of a red-hot iron piercing rotten flesh! A thick, pitch-black, foul energy emitting a strong, rotten stench, like a cancer being forcibly pulled out, followed the data flow probe transformed by the green vein and was forcibly pulled out from the back of Pei Du's neck!
“No——!!!” The Fungus Lord’s roar, filled with rage and disbelief, shook the void!
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