The silver hair that covered the earth was like millions of silver snakes, spreading wildly in all directions, entwining one eerie creature after another, and strangling it to death.
Under Fang Xiu's suppression, the strange disturbances in the Daoist spatial node were quickly suppressed, but this was not the end, but only the beginning. Strange phenomena continued to emerge and increased. At this time, there were only two days left until the end of the world.
He was like a perpetual motion machine, absorbing the strange creatures to restore his spirituality while simultaneously consuming his spirituality to kill them, forming a perfect cycle. Unless the number and strength of the strange creatures suddenly surged, it would be difficult to break this cycle.
The Buddhist spatial node also stabilized. With two sixth-tier powerhouses participating in the battle, plus all the captains at headquarters, their overall strength was definitely superior to Fang Xiu's alone. However, although they were quick to eliminate the strange entities, they lacked stamina and could only rely on a war of attrition, taking turns to rest.
Humanity and the supernatural are locked in a stalemate. It seems that humanity has blocked the spatial node, but everyone knows that this is only temporary. The cracks in the spatial node are widening, the supernatural is increasing, and humanity's strength is being depleted.
The only saving grace is that the gray fog in the spatial node was quickly diluted by the air after invading the real world, and it was not enough to reach a level that would be harmful to the human body in a short period of time. Otherwise, the gray fog alone could have wiped out all humans below the fourth rank.
The gray fog is different from the eerie creatures. The eerie creatures are alive; they smell human flesh and blood and rush into the mortal world. The gray fog, on the other hand, leaks out little by little.
Time passed by second by second, and in the blink of an eye, it was the last day before the end of the world.
Fang Xiu had been in the spatial node for a day and a night, fighting without sleep. With his superhuman physical abilities, this intensity of combat was nothing. The only problem was that the cycle was about to be broken.
As the speed and quality of the strange creatures generated gradually exceeded the limit that the Avici Hell could bear, many escaped from the spatial nodes. Fang Xiu did not pay attention to the low-level strange creatures that escaped, as the million-strong army outside was enough to deal with them. Instead, he tried his best to keep the high-level strange creatures in the spatial nodes.
With the spatial nodes out of control for so long, headquarters had already amassed millions of troops to surround the Taoist and Buddhist spatial nodes, ensuring that no strange entities could escape and enter the city.
In addition to the army wielding spiritual bullets, hundreds of thousands of spirit masters were mobilized.
Everyone knows what will happen once the supernatural enters the city.
Just as Fang Xiu was mechanically repeating the killing spree, a white light broke into the spatial node, and after the white light dissipated, the fat man's disheveled figure was revealed.
"Brother Xiu! Something terrible has happened! The Buddhist spatial node has been completely captured!"
The fat man was pale and covered in bloodstains, clearly having just gone through a fierce battle and severely depleted his spiritual energy.
Fang Xiu frowned slightly: "Even with two sixth-tier experts and all the captains from headquarters mobilized together, they still couldn't block a single spatial node?"
The fat man quickly explained, "Brother Xiu, the brothers fought for a day and a night, even in a relay battle, and their spiritual energy is almost exhausted. They can't recover at all. There are just too many monsters. They're not just millions or tens of millions, but billions or hundreds of billions! Their numbers are far greater than the world's population. The most crucial thing is that a sixth-order monster appeared later. Taking advantage of our weakness, that sixth-order monster escaped from the spatial node and began to slaughter indiscriminately in the outside world. Kong Jian and Wu Wei went to stop it, and the remaining captains could only struggle to hold on in the spatial node. A large number of monsters invaded the real world and began to attack the soldiers."
The area outside the Buddhist spatial node is now completely engulfed in chaos. Hugh, what should we do now? If this continues, the supernatural beings might invade the city.
Sixth rank!
Fang Xiu's eyes flickered slightly. Facing the endless and bizarre snakes and insects, and having to deal with the invading sixth-order creatures, it was indeed very difficult.
When the cracks in the spatial nodes expand to a certain extent, they will be enough to allow a sixth-order being to set foot in the mortal world.
He glanced at the ever-expanding Daoist spatial node and knew very well that it was only a matter of time before the Daoist spatial node fell. Was the only option to shrink the defenses, let the strange creatures enter the cities of Xia Kingdom, and then start fighting in the cities?
This would cause significant casualties, because the majority of people in Xia Kingdom are not spirit masters or soldiers, but ordinary people, who cannot even defeat the lowest-level snakes and insects.
Fang Xiu didn't care about casualties; he had anticipated this. It was impossible for the invasion from the other side to be without casualties. But the problem was that if the situation was allowed to deteriorate like this, no matter how many people died, it wouldn't be able to reverse the situation.
The speed at which the Taotie created these creatures couldn't keep up with the speed at which the strange creatures invaded.
Tens of thousands of Taotie are still too small compared to the size of the other shore. Actually, it makes sense. The real Taotie has been eating the other shore for countless millennia, and it has not been able to empty the other shore. Let alone these Taotie phantoms.
Therefore, the best course of action now is to curb the trend of expansion of cracks at spatial nodes.
When a large hole appears in the bottom of the ship and seawater keeps pouring in, you can't just tell the people on board to fill basins with water and pour it out to slow down the ship's sinking; you can only plug the hole.
With this thought in mind, Fang Xiu had already made up his mind.
"Brother Xiu! What... what are you going to do!?" The fat man stared dumbfounded at Fang Xiu, who was inserting his hand into his heart, clearly terrified.
That's right, Fang Xiu pulled out his own heart.
The Heart That Forbids Deviousness!
The scarlet, vibrant heart beat continuously in his hand, each beat seemingly connecting heaven and earth, causing the heavens and earth to tremble slightly in response.
“The spatial nodes were sealed by the power of the Forbidden Ghosts. Now that the Other Shore has invaded, the cracks in the spatial nodes are getting bigger and bigger. The only way to stop the cracks from expanding is to use more of the power of the Forbidden Ghosts.” Fang Xiu said calmly, his hand on his heart.
"But...but," the fat man said tremulously, "a person will die if they don't have a heart."
"It's alright, I won't die."
As soon as he finished speaking, the blood hole in Fang Xiu's chest healed instantly, but it was still empty inside, without a heart.
With his current strength, a mere fatal wound is hardly a big deal.
"ban!"
Fang Xiu suddenly unleashed the Heart of Forbidden Demons, which flew towards the massive rift deep within the spatial node. Terrifying sealing power erupted from it, and billions of scarlet blood vessels shot out, enveloping the world like a spider web.
Although there was nothing in the void, these blood vessels seemed to be in contact with something real, taking root in the void, like a giant web woven by a spider on a white wall.
The crimson net of blood vessels expanded and contracted with the beating of the Forbidden Heart, as if it were a living thing.
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