The Dust Bridge is the access bridge to all large settlements, including human cities such as Haiyue City. This allows the nightmare survivors of this layer to travel to other places in the least dangerous way. In today's world where demons are rampant and transportation is inconvenient, the Dust Bridge is the most critical super-large building to maintain the human flame.
According to the legends of the Trinitarian Council, the Bridge of Dust was not created by the ancestors, nor was it built by any biological race. Instead, it was formed when the original soul bridge, the Tuomu Bridge, collapsed and fell from the land of souls.
Perhaps because the records were made so long ago, the reasons why the Tuomu Bridge collapsed and caused the world to fall into a nightmare have long been unclear.
The Guqila demon tree that is now entrenched near the Dust Bridge and the Green Ring Eye that is suspected to have swallowed the divinity have not only cut off the transportation hubs between human cities, but are also enough to threaten the basic security of major capitals.
The Third Legion of Haiyuedu has been completely trapped in the forest of demon trees, while Daladu, which is closest to the Bridge of Dust, is facing a catastrophe under the terrifying pressure of the Green Ring Eye.
Daladu is different from Haiyuedu. It is not guarded by a force at the level of the Tri-Parliament Headquarters. It is basically composed of major scientific research institutions that tend to study nightmares. There are only two Disillusionment-level forces among the top forces, and they are also at the weaker level of Disillusionment-level. Not to mention facing the Green Ring Eye, even the Guqila Flower Tree cannot defeat it head-on.
At the important entrance and exit below the Dust Bridge, a giant tree hundreds of meters long is taking root. Around where its roots extend, there are densely packed strange trees, which together form a huge forest covering one-fifth of the area of the Dust Bridge.
Any living creature that enters the Dust Bridge will be completely lost in it, either becoming part of the nightmare or being pulled into the depths of the nightmare below.
This level of nightmare world at least has normal rules, and humans can still retain normal humanity. If you go deeper into the nightmare, it will be the wreckage of a completely collapsed world, and humanity and soul will be completely deprived.
Councilman Dong was shrouded in snow, revealing only a pair of azure eyes. Standing at the entrance to the Dust Bridge, he glanced at the fire still blazing deep in the forest and sighed deeply. "This is the flame of humanity burning, but it's already very weak. It seems the Third Legion is nearly annihilated. Unfortunately, the Speaker hasn't given the order yet, so we can't take action."
Although he is not the direct commander of the Third Legion, he is also a subordinate and citizen of Haiyue City, and the backbone of guarding humanity and clarity. It is really heartbreaking to see such a tragedy happen.
But reason told him that now was not the time to rescue.
If these disillusionment-level councilors unite to attack the Guqila demon tree, the commotion they cause will inevitably attract the attention of the Green Ring Eye deep in the Dust Bridge.
The Guqila Demon Tree is already a nightmare at the peak of the Disillusionment Level. If it is coupled with an Endless Level Green Ring Eye, if the two monsters go crazy at the same time, their entire Triple Council will probably be destroyed here.
"The Third Legion is trapped deep within the Demonic Tree Forest. Given the reproductive capacity of the Guqila Demonic Tree, we must mobilize three or more Disillusionment-level councilors to temporarily penetrate the Demonic Tree Forest and create a closed, safe passage."
"But right now... aside from the two of us observing here, the other council members are working with the Speaker to construct a delay formation, aiming to destroy the Guqila Demon Tree with lightning speed, and to face the enraged Green Ring Eye with minimal casualties."
The seventh councillor next to her, Frey, was a young woman with long red hair casually draped over her shoulders. She wore a pair of single-frame gold-rimmed glasses on her face, and looked very intellectual.
As she spoke, a large amount of data streams passed across the lenses of her glasses, further analyzing the flaws and vulnerabilities of the Guqila Demon Tree.
"What a pity for these soldiers. Under the contamination of the demonic tree, even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will become part of the nightmare. This is really... Hmm? Who?!"
Dong's face looked a little gloomy, but then his eyes flashed, and he and Fulei looked towards a place behind them.
A black-haired girl with a somewhat childish face slowly came over from the hillside, and a faint temple aura lingered around her.
"Foreign knights? Won't the Knights Alliance arrive tomorrow?"
There was a look of vigilance in the eyes of Dong and Fulei as they looked at the black-haired girl who was walking towards them.
As high-ranking officials of the Tri-Parliament, they were no strangers to foreign knights. The council had even made special efforts to research the origins of this group of people.
In the gap between this layer of nightmare and the surface nightmare, there is an unknown ancient temple. Only those outsiders who are dragged into the nightmare for various reasons will be transformed in the temple and become powerful people with extraordinary talents who can fight against nightmares.
There were no examples of native indigenous creatures being transformed into talented individuals by the Temple. The Council had speculated that this was because the native creatures lacked certain potential and thresholds.
However, although the foreign knights are powerful and start out stronger than most local creatures, their strength is limited. Most of them are at the Shifter level and the Inanimate level. There are not many Undead levels, and there are only three Disillusionment levels in the entire Knight Alliance. Although they are not small in scale, they can only be regarded as a second-level force among all the indigenous forces in this nightmare layer. In addition, they have a common enemy, which makes them perfect for winning over and forming an alliance.
"Knight Alliance? Sorry, I'm not one of them."
Xu Xianxian walked up and responded lightly. She ignored the vigilance of the man and woman, but looked quietly at the Guqila Demon Tree, the enemy who had killed her once. An inexplicable luster flashed in her dark pupils.
Her all-seeing eye was constantly rotating, analyzing the source of the flower tree's power and the remaining traces of its divine aura.
"The threat posed by the Guchira Flower Tree is much weaker than the complete form of the Shadowless Corpse, and is no longer a threat. However, it does not carry any divine fragments."
"Traces of divine fragments remain on this bridge of dust, but their source is not this flower tree."
"But within the core of the flower tree is a portal. Surrounding the portal are a large number of resentful souls, including traces of my own death. This may be the gateway to the surface nightmare from which I first entered."
Under the analysis of the All-Seeing Eye, all secrets are exposed. Xu Xianxian already knows that the ruined world she first entered is the surface nightmare, and the woman who deceived her in the basement is a derivative of the demon tree, specifically dragging outsiders who mistakenly enter the surface nightmare into this layer of nightmare, in order to devour more souls and humanity.
Human nature is the food of these nightmares, and the souls of living creatures are the foundation that supports their huge bodies.
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