Xu Shuangyao's hollow pupils shrank sharply, and a faint light seemed to struggle within the depths of the ashes. Almost instinctively, she raised her trembling hand, and a faint crimson and emerald light flickered at her fingertips, trying to grasp something, but she couldn't even stir a ripple in the air. The aftereffects of the forced overload had completely depleted her strength, and she could only watch helplessly...
Just when the gardener's interference was crushed and Xu Shuangyao was powerless to stop it!
Buzz——!!!
The space above the Throne of Thorns suddenly collapsed inward! A beam of icy energy, composed purely of dark blue zero runes, disregarded spatial distance. Like an invisible hand reaching out from the laws of the universe itself, it instantly shot out from the center of the obelisk's vortex, piercing the cracked dome with uncanny precision, piercing through the thick energy crystals and slag on the throne's surface, and fiercely "piercing" deep into the throne's base!
No explosion, no sound.
There is only one kind... absolute dead silence as existence itself is forcibly stripped away and decomposed!
The dark-gold thorns, liquid metal debris, and energy crystals surrounding the Throne of Thorns, upon contact with the dark blue beam, like sand sculptures plunged into aqua regia, silently disintegrated and dissipated, transforming into a stream of primitive particles! The beam, unhindered, struck the dim, pulsating tricolor energy core!
"Well……"
A barely perceptible whimper of pain, emanating from the depths of his soul, echoed in the abyss of consciousness on the verge of complete annihilation the moment his core was pierced by the beam. Pei Du's last remaining senses were like being plunged into an icy sea of absolute zero, instantly frozen and solidified. Only the ultimate despair remained, the very foundation of his existence being ruthlessly ripped away, completely denied by icy logic.
Immediately afterwards, an irresistible and overwhelming pulling force followed the dark blue beam and acted fiercely on the core pierced by the beam!
Swish——!
The energy core composed of dark green, dark blue, and chaotic silver, which contained the last fragment of Pei Du's consciousness, was like a firefly snatched by an invisible giant hand. It instantly broke away from the remains of the Throne of Thorns that was deeply embedded in the earth, and turned into a dim stream of light. It was forcibly dragged by the cold zero-beam, and flew backwards rapidly towards the dome, towards the cold black spire deep in the space crack, and towards the rotating dark blue vortex!
"Pei...Du..."
An extremely faint fragment of thought, like the last sigh of a candle in the wind before it goes out, struggled to penetrate the barrier of soul connection and was transmitted from Xu Shuangyao's consciousness that was on the verge of collapse. It was swallowed up and annihilated by the blue beam of light in an instant, carrying endless pain and confusion.
The Throne of Thorns completely lost its core, like a body with its soul extracted. The moment Pei Du's core was taken away, it let out a dull whine. The structure, which was already full of cracks, could no longer be maintained and collapsed, turning into a lifeless ruin of metal and thorns covered with energy crystals.
Xu Shuangyao's suspended body trembled violently, the last faint light in her hollow pupils extinguished completely, like a lightbulb without power. Her forced levitation collapsed, and like a puppet with its strings cut, she fell powerlessly from the air, landing heavily on the charred, shattered grass below, sending up a small cloud of foul dust. Her body curled up, motionless, only the faintest hint of life proving that this shell was not yet completely dead.
The gardener's will uttered a long and painful sigh, full of powerlessness and despair.
…
The silence didn't last long.
The ripped dome was like a bloody portal yawning open. Without the temporary suppression of the Creator's Obelisk and the isolation of Xu Shuangyao's data barrier, the destructive forces that had long been lurking outside, like hyenas smelling rotting flesh, instantly found a way in!
Boom boom boom——!!!
On the left, from the direction of "Cradle Shadow"! Countless mechanical tentacles covered with heavy armor and flashing scarlet electronic eyes, like a torrent of steel, rushed in along the huge crack in the dome! They were no longer scattered as before, but under the command of a unified will, they quickly deployed in formation in the air! The muzzles at the ends of some tentacles lit up, and scarlet high-energy rays poured down like a rainstorm on the remaining forests and temple ruins below, carrying out indiscriminate destructive attacks! The other part was like engineering machinery, with huge drills and cutting arms extending from the ends, fiercely chiseling at the crystal temple bases that had not yet collapsed and the relatively intact energy nodes of Eden, trying to forcibly establish outposts and energy extraction devices! The cold mechanical declaration resounded throughout the battlefield:
[Invasion...Continue...Establish...Purification Outpost...]
[Scanning…Eco-core…Energy source…Locate…]
at the same time!
On the right, from the direction of the mother tree's core! Countless filthy roots, covered in pitch-black cuticles, dripping with sticky pus, and with huge sucking mouthparts at the ends, like rotting pythons smelling blood, also madly rushed in through the cracks! Their target was even clearer - the remaining emerald forest area that exuded the pure breath of life, and... Xu Shuangyao, who fell to the ground and lost consciousness! The mother tree's greedy will was like the buzzing of billions of flies, clamoring wildly at the level of consciousness:
【Life...Energy...Pure...Devour...!】
[Container... Source Blood... Container... Find... Her...! ]
【Fusion...Evolution...Becoming...Eternity...!】
Scarlet and dark green, cold and filth, logic and greed, two torrents of destruction, like two mad dragons, almost simultaneously crashed into the newly damaged Pure Land of Eden! Their goals were completely different, yet equally deadly!
A high-energy beam shot from a scarlet mechanical tentacle fiercely slammed into a small patch of uncorrupted emerald forest, instantly igniting it and reducing it to charcoal! Almost simultaneously, several dark green, foul roots, like giant pythons, curled towards the area, their sucking mouthparts open, greedily devouring the life energy and material debris escaping from the burning trees!
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