Chapter 417 Xia Pingzhou's Death and the Weeping World Tree (20,000 words, please give me a monthly ticket)
The sun was shining brightly, but Xia Pingzhou's face was shrouded in a flickering shadow.
In this game world called "Jurassic", he crossed the barren land and walked into the depths of the jungle alone.
He raised his head and stared silently at Mario on the cliff, and Mario also looked at him silently.
The two looked at each other.
Xia Pingzhou's vision seemed to be blocked by tall bushes, but in fact, he could see everything within a radius of hundreds of meters with his chessboard vision.
After a while, the roar of giant beasts was heard from the shadows of the jungle. Then, dinosaurs from ancient times roared, tore through the trees, and rushed towards him.
The entire jungle was rumbling and shaking, and the ground beneath their feet was trembling violently, as if each Tyrannosaurus Rex's hooves contained lightning, and every time the hooves touched the ground, it would cause a thunderous roar.
Trees broke and wood chips flew everywhere.
Although the true appearance of the beasts was not seen, the wind rose from the end of the jungle, swept over, and blew Xia Pingzhou's hair high!
The next moment, a group of dinosaurs appeared and surrounded Xia Pingzhou from all directions.
Xia Pingzhou raised his eyebrows and silently counted the number of the opponents. There were more than ten "game creatures: Tyrannosaurus Rex" created by Mario, and each Tyrannosaurus Rex had a huge blood bar on its head.
"You're still the same." Xia Pingzhou said tentatively.
"Then I hope you can show me something new," said Mario.
One of them can hear all the sounds on the chessboard through the domain, and the other has the management authority of the game world and can hear everything in the game, so there is no obstacle to communication even though they are far away.
"So you haven't been brainwashed?" Xia Pingzhou asked.
"What are you talking about?" Mario asked coldly.
Xia Pingzhou's face remained calm. He just raised his eyes and quietly looked at the ferocious faces of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. At the same time, he reached out and grabbed the five soldier statues and two knights on the chessboard.
In an instant, soldiers holding shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands gathered in front of him. A knight colossus rode a fierce horse and galloped from the entrance of the jungle with the sound of horse hooves that was enough to drown out the world, and stopped in front of the soldiers.
"Giant God Soldier."
Xia Pingzhou gave the order in a cold voice, and a black and white prompt box popped up in front of him.
[Giant God Soldier: Enlarge your soldier and knight chess pieces. Currently, your spiritual attributes are sufficient to support their expansion to 55 meters.]
The next moment, the figures of the soldier colossus and the knight colossus were shrouded in black and white halos. Mario raised his eyebrows. When he came to his senses, the bodies of the soldiers and knights had turned into towering pillars, comparable to the dinosaurs.
The knights swept their spears, and the soldiers raised their swords high in front of their chests, standing tall in the woods like majestic mountains, and the solemn and murderous atmosphere swept across like a tide.
Looking at this scene, Mario on the cliff in the distance was slightly stunned. His hair was blown up by the gun wind from the Knight Giant's dance, revealing a pair of surprised eyes.
He seemed to have not expected to see such a scene in this battle.
"Exaggerated, it's only been a month..." Mario thought in confusion, "What kind of monster is this?"
He originally thought that only in the Savior Society could he find monsters with more outstanding talents than his own, but he never expected that outside the Savior Society, there were also such monsters.
At this moment, Xia Pingzhou skillfully summoned the giant statue of the king and placed it behind him to prevent enemy attacks.
At the same time, he also summoned two stone statues of artillery carts. However, just as he had arranged the two artillery carts and even before he had finished assembling the cannonballs, he saw two wind god pterosaurs descend from the sky, carrying a strong wind and plummeting towards the artillery carts!
"hiss--!"
The pterosaurs roared, steam erupted from between their scales, and they waved their sickle-like wings, drawing out wind blades that destroyed the artillery carts, and flames shot up into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the two Quetzalcoatl pounced on the King Statue at the same time - Mario had fought with Xia Pingzhou once before, so he naturally understood Xia Pingzhou's weakness.
"Still launching a sneak attack..." Xia Pingzhou turned his head to look at the scene and said to Mario.
"I learned this from playing StarCraft," Mario said. "Do you know how to steal the base?"
At this moment, Xia Pingzhou summoned the first contracted demon, the "Shadow Demon", and pulled the stone statue of the king into the shadow, leaving the two wind pterosaurs empty-handed.
Mario watched this scene silently. He knew that in order to kill Xia Pingzhou, he had to break through the King Statue, so he was not in a hurry.
He kept his troops in place, letting the Tyrannosaurus Rex stop in front of the Giant God Soldiers, and letting the Quetzalcoatlus hang in the air, waiting to launch an attack on the king. The Shadow Demon could not last long.
"This is our second fight," Xia Pingzhou suddenly said, "Now, it only takes me five seconds to kill you."
Mario looked at the giant soldiers standing in the woods and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"It seems you're really different now," he murmured. "I don't understand. A month ago, I let you win, and you could only flee in dismay... But how come you've become so much stronger in just one month?"
Xia Pingzhou did not answer this question, but asked him:
"You haven't been brainwashed, so why are you working for the Savior Society?"
"My companions have been brainwashed... I have to protect them." Mario was silent for a moment and replied, "So I'm sorry, I have to kill you."
"Then I feel relieved." Xia Pingzhou closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you relieved about?"
"I'm Ji Minghuan." Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes. "As long as you stand by me, we can rescue Shang Xiaochi, Sun Changkong and the others. Someone in the brigade can remove the mental imprint in your minds."
He paused, "Mario, I need your help... It's difficult to suppress Shang Xiaochi with just the fighting power of this group of people."
"Ji... Minghuan?"
Mario froze and murmured silently.
Then, he said hurriedly: "Shang Xiaochi is in the core of the World Tree, one thousand meters away. We can go there to save her..."
But before he finished speaking, just the next second, his eyes suddenly became deep and empty, his face turned pale and his expression was stern.
The boy in the hospital gown seemed like a different person, with a slight grin on his face.
Xia Pingzhou's expression changed slightly.
"I knew it was you..." Mario began, adjusting his glasses and speaking in a mentor's tone, "I knew it was you... Ji Minghuan, you really don't just have Black Pupa as your puppet. My guess was correct."
tutor.
Xia Pingzhou instantly understood who was controlling Mario's body. He had actually guessed this a long time ago. It was too difficult to exploit the instructor's loopholes, but he still tried to take a chance.
"Struggle, I'll give you the chance to struggle." The mentor smiled slightly and said using Mario's body.
"I'll reply with my own words." Xia Pingzhou said coldly.
After a while, the playful expression on Mario's face disappeared, and his whole body became numb and cold. He lowered his head and operated the game console like a machine. Ten Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly stood up, roaring and charging towards the Giant God Soldiers.
Xia Pingzhou lowered his head, his hair covering his eyes.
"Then... there's nothing we can do." He murmured, and then ordered the two Knight Titans:
"charge."
[Charge: The knight statue charges forward at full speed, dragging enemies along the way to the end.]
At this moment, two knight giants rode forward on horseback.
Their figures were gradually covered with a dark halo. They were like two dark floods, crushing the huge grass and trees, plowing two bottomless gullies on the barren land, and then slamming head-on into the running Tyrannosaurus Rex!
In just a moment, the stream of light transformed by the Knight Titan was like an unstoppable river, washing the bodies of the dinosaurs into the interior of the cliff.
The entire cliff was shaking, and even Mario on the cliff was slightly stunned.
But the two knight colossi couldn't resist for long. Their spear tips were quickly crushed by their claws, and the ten Tyrannosaurus Rexes counterattacked. But then, the soldier colossi arrived.
They first rushed forward, smashing the dinosaurs' bodies with their shields, then wielded their mountain-like heavy swords, stabbing forward with all their might, forcing the dinosaurs back.
At this moment, Mario suddenly lowered his head, selected the third icon on the handheld interface, and pressed the "OK" button.
[Used one-time props: "Big rocks falling from the sky" x3 ("three" big rocks will fall at the location you choose).]
The prompt box quickly disappeared, and then the handheld console presented a map from a bird's-eye view.
There was a shadow of a huge rock on the map. Mario used the joystick to adjust the position of the rock and placed it on top of the King's Statue and Xia Pingzhou, making sure that the shadow of the rock covered both of them at the same time.
Then he pressed the "OK" button in the "Confirm Delivery" column.
At this moment, above Xia Pingzhou's head, three huge rocks with a radius of dozens of meters fell from the sky. They overlapped with each other, and the kinetic energy generated was infinitely doubled, and the atmosphere roared violently.
The shadow spread out and covered Xia Pingzhou's cheek.
Xia Pingzhou remained calm and walked forward calmly in the shadows.
Then he opened his mouth slightly and recited in a low voice:
"Black and White King Flash."
Just as he finished speaking, behind him, the stone statue of the king suddenly raised the scepter high up, and the black and white halo merged into a dancing light spot, expanding, converging, and then turning into a surging galaxy, bursting out with a roar.
"boom--!!!"
In just a moment, the Black and White King Flash crushed the meteorite into thousands of pieces, turning it into a light rain of stone chips, which fell down and hit the ground.
As a sacrifice, Xia Pingzhou gave three giant soldier gods that were almost disabled by the Tyrannosaurus Rex as the price to activate the Black and White King Flash.
Mario looked at this scene with no expression on his face, but he still had an absolute trump card.
That is the golden finger "limited time counterattack system" - this cheating system allows him to put a target object into a rebound attack state within 10 seconds.
He decided to use this system to save the last dinosaur left on the field.
So I shook the joystick, selected the second icon on the handheld interface, and pressed the "OK" button.
Immediately afterwards, a black prompt box popped up in front of him.
[Cheat code activated: "Limited-time counterattack system" (within ten seconds, damage and control effects received by a target will automatically rebound towards the source of the damage).]
The next moment, a Tyrannosaurus Rex covered in golden light rushed out from the pit of the cliff, launched a dying counterattack, and bit the knights with unstoppable force.
It first shattered the knights' spear tips, then overturned the wild horses with its tail, knocking the knights off their horses, and then shook the soldiers' shields away and pounced on them.
However, every time the soldier giants swung their giant swords at it, they hurt themselves. Thousands of cracks appeared on their armor, and a huge hole was torn in their chest.
Blood poured down like a long river, dyeing large areas of the jungle red.
"Boom..."
Soldiers fell one after another, like a collapsed mountain, embedded deeply into the ground, buried in the magnificent forest of giant trees, unable to rise again.
Mario looked down at the scene from above, thinking to himself, "As long as I use the last Tyrannosaurus Rex to hold back these 'soldiers' and 'knights', and then use the Quetzalcoatlus to get rid of his 'king', then I will win..."
"By the way, where is my Quetzalcoatl?" Mario suddenly thought of it the next moment.
At this moment, he looked at the interface of the handheld game console, and realized belatedly that the two pterosaurs that had been guarding the top of the king, waiting for the shadow demon to fade away, had turned into two bloody corpses and collapsed on the ground.
Looking closely, they were covered with countless dark knife marks and blood was flowing like waterfalls.
"Who did this?"
Mario was slightly startled, a hint of surprise passing across his expressionless face.
He didn't understand, Xia Pingzhou's giant soldiers were fighting against his Tyrannosaurus Rex, who could instantly kill the two pterosaurs he had placed on the king's head in such a short time.
At this moment, he suddenly recalled the scene of his fight with Xia Pingzhou a month ago;
Compared to the battle back then, Xia Pingzhou had a crucial chess move that hadn't been revealed in this battle:
——Queen’s stone statue!
The next moment, Mario turned his head sharply.
A noble and arrogant figure was seen soaring across the sky above the forest. She climbed up one huge branch after another, and finally approached Mario like lightning.
He had already used his "golden finger" - "ten-second rebound" on the dinosaur. At this moment, he had no means of self-defense. The queen slashed at his neck with a knife, and his eyes went black and he fainted.
At this moment, the surrounding environment collapsed like a broken mirror.
With a crackling sound, the scorching sun in the sky shattered, and then the jungle and the river disappeared together. The endless wasteland turned into glaciers, and a touch of moonlight sprinkled down from the sky.
At the other corner of the Hofs Glacier, Rukawa Chiba looked up at the sky, and the hacker on the phone was also stunned.
"It's amazing." Rukawa Chiba exclaimed.
"Are we back now?" the hacker said blankly. "The Little Kitten Lover is really good at this. He's even spanking the kids from the Salvation Society."
He transformed into a stream of data and entered Qi Yuanli's phone, asking him, "Captain, should we retreat..."
"Retreat." Qi Yuanli shook his head and said calmly, "There's no need to engage in a fight with the World Tree. Its mobility seems average, and it shouldn't be able to catch up to us."
"That's true. That thing doesn't look like it can be won."
An Luns on the side shrugged and said with emotion.
But at the moment they retreated, their bodies suddenly seemed to hit an invisible wall of air.
Immediately afterwards, a game panel popped up in front of me, and the blood-red text on it was incredible.
[The final order left by the game administrator "Mario": If the final boss, "World Tree", cannot be killed, the players will not be able to leave the game space.]
Looking at this scene, a trace of shock and fear flashed across the eyes of almost everyone present.
Except during summer daytime.
Because he had no intention of avoiding the fight, at this moment he and the queen statue left the jungle together and walked towards Rukawa Chiba and the hacker step by step.
The Queen statue held the unconscious Mario in its arms and handed him over to Rukawa Chiba.
At the same time, Xia Pingzhou passed by Rukawa Chiba. Without even turning his head, he instructed the doctor, "Keep an eye on him, doctor... and remember to remove the mental imprint in his brain. I'll pick him up when you're done."
Xia Pingzhou glanced at the boy in jumpsuit on his phone out of the corner of his eye.
"Also, hackers..."
He paused and said, "Please help me this time and protect the doctor and this child. Only you can help them resist the attack of the World Tree."
Hearing this, the hacker was silent for a moment, then turned into a stream of data and entered Xia Pingzhou's phone.
"I might not even help this kid," the hacker said. "I don't even know him."
"I believe you." Xia Pingzhou said.
"Haha... You're obviously a traitor, yet you dare to say such things." After saying that, the hacker returned to Rukawa Chiba's phone.
"Xia Pingzhou, you are still so interesting..."
Rukawa Chiba's mouth curled up into a high grin. He simply adjusted his glasses, took a few steps back holding the unconscious Mario, and silently watched Xia Pingzhou's back as he left.
Xia Pingzhou didn't even look back as he and the queen rushed to the other side of the glacier.
In a corner thousands of meters away, two huge wolves were fighting and killing each other in the polar region.
One of the wolves had white cataracts in its pupils, while the other wolf's whites of its eyes were completely swallowed by black. Its grayish-white fur was seeping with strands of pitch-black night, making it look evil and dangerous.
The white light and the black light intertwined together, they almost ran out of time, and soon they collided dozens of times.
In this battle of pure savagery, the snow-capped mountains above the glaciers collapsed and turned into thousands of volcanic rock fragments, which flew away in the snow mist, but were immediately covered by the bloody rain.
"Captain... help me." Bai Tanlang was beaten back by Firion, so he struggled to get up from the ground, turned his head to look at Qi Yuanli and An Luns, and said hoarsely.
"Who wouldn't help you? Old Wolf, I'm just waiting for you to speak..."
As An Luns said this with a smile, he had already summoned the slot machine, put on gambler's gloves, and pulled down the joystick.
The pattern on the slot machine began to rotate at high speed, and finally stopped above three "money" patterns.
The next moment, there was a roar in the sky, followed by a heavy rain of money falling from the sky without any warning.
It was like a golden ocean, submerging Firion's figure.
It was pressed against the surface of the glacier, with the sea of money filling every one of its skeletons. An ordinary person would have been crushed countless times.
Originally, Firion's speed was so astonishing that Qi Yuanli had no chance to find an opportunity. But at this moment, Qi Yuanli seized the opportunity and grabbed the Tonggu Compass.
“Boom——!!!” The Nine Dragon Cauldron fell from the sky and briefly suppressed Firion.
At the same time, Qi Yuanli poured out the playing cards in his hand. The points of the four playing cards were 4, 7, 8, and 3 respectively. Although the points were not high, they were enough to cause a large-scale explosion when put together, and the air wave could easily submerge a high-rise building.
Firion's figure was ravaged by the flames of the explosion, every inch of his fur was burning fiercely, and the rain of money around him turned into the most ferocious burning.
"Firio——!" Bai Tanlang shouted.
"I somehow had a collaboration with the team leader." An Luns smiled.
As Firion struggled to rise from the sea of fire, he saw a formation of eighteen bronze men advancing towards him. The eighteen bronze men simultaneously raised their weapons, and a burst of golden light erupted, pinning Firion to the ground once again.
The sound of Buddhist chanting filled his ears. At that moment, Firion roared to the heavens, completely losing consciousness. The black layer in his pupils slowly faded.
Bai Tanlang stared at the scene in a daze, turned back into human form, stumbled over, and picked up Firion.
Suddenly, Qi Yuanyuan in the distance was startled. The earth suddenly rumbled and the branches of the World Tree broke through the ground and spread towards them like thorns.
"Attack from underground?"
The moment this thought appeared in Qi Yuanli's mind, he lowered his face, suddenly stretched out his hand and placed it on An Luns' shoulder.
Amidst the sound of "rustling", the flock of crows flew over them and carried them away from their original place.
But Bai Tanlang could not escape the disaster.
“Uh ...
He roared. It was too late to transform in such a short time, so his back shattered and a pair of huge bone wings unfolded, but in the end, the branches still pierced through his body.
His internal organs were crushed.
Bai Tanlang lowered his head, blood spitting out of his mouth. His whole body was nailed to the ground. Blood dripped down, staining Firion's cheeks red.
After a while, Bai Tanlang exhaled a deep breath of white air.
He looked down and saw that Firion, curled up in his arms, had narrowly avoided the branches of the World Tree, only a foot away.
Firion opened his eyes and looked at the bloody face so close to him.
"...Dad?" he murmured in a daze.
"I… never blamed you. Ever."
After Bai Tanlang finished speaking, he slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head to rest on Firion's neck.
Not far away, Qi Yuanli watched the scene silently, and An Luns also slightly restrained the smile on his face.
The moment he rushed over from a distance, Xia Pingzhou was slightly stunned.
In the dead silence, he stared at Bai Tanlang's body for a while, then lowered his head, ordered the queen statue to pick up the unconscious Firion, and then silently looked away.
The cold wind from the glacier slapped against his face, and Xia Pingzhou's cloak rustled. He turned his head and looked towards the distance where the roar continued to come from.
At this moment, in another corner of the Hofs Glacier, Yagubaru, César, Ayase Origami, and the Bloodline were trying their best to attract the attack of the World Tree and delay time for others.
César rode on a Christmas sleigh, running wildly under the night sky, his figure as bright as the aurora.
The Phoenix was now flying beside César, spreading as much fire as possible, trying to burn all the branches that spread over it. However, the raging fire was extinguished in an instant by the sweep of thorns.
Seeing that Xizel was about to be caught up, Yagubaru roared forward, causing a flood to block all the branches from falling.
The Bloodborn flapped its dragon wings, soaring over the glacier like a black and red bat, dodging the thorns that surrounded it from all directions. But soon, it reached a point where it could no longer hide.
"How annoying."
Blood oozes from her fingertips, creating a giant mandala flower. The mandala flower spins violently, the crazy blood-red color shattering the ends of the branches.
"Agabaru!"
César roared and rushed forward with the sled, turning into a blizzard. From a distance, he looked like a giant snow-white python, smashing through a tidal wave of thorns.
Ayase Origami used the Endless Manuscript to create a huge paper storm, sweeping away branches one after another.
But no matter how hard they struggled, the branches of the World Tree were still unable to resist, just like a heavy rain falling, and they used cardboard to block some of the rain. The rain continued to fall, but the cardboard was wet and could not be used a second time.
In this guerrilla war, Yagubaru attracted the most firepower.
It rushed to the front, opened its bloody mouth, and used its "Dark Teeth" to bite the branches that were stabbing towards it. The next moment, its dorsal fin suddenly emitted a dark light.
The huge body spun around, and the dorsal fin was like a black knife, immediately cutting through a large area of thorny jungle.
[Death Fin: Transform your dorsal fin into a sharp black blade capable of cutting through anything in the world.]
But no matter how many times, whether it was biting the spreading thorns or using its dorsal fin to chop off the branches that came towards it, the ten-thousand-meter-tall tree would always launch an attack again.
It seemed endless. Its five hundred-meter-long body seemed so small and powerless in front of this towering tree that was thousands of meters tall.
If this continues, even if we fight to exhaustion, this giant tree will still stand tall.
"Tsunami."
Yagubaru suddenly roared in anger. Then a strange scene appeared on the wasteland.
Suddenly, a vast black wave surged up from the end of the horizon, forming a flood that violently swept towards the World Tree in the center of the wasteland.
At this moment, the oncoming branches were briefly submerged in the flood, giving everyone a chance to breathe.
"This shark blocked the mythical level by itself? Is that true?" The Blood Clan vibrated its dragon wings and hung in the air. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Yagubaru in disbelief.
"Good job, Yagubaru." Cesare shouted while sitting on the sled.
Ayase Origami remained silent. She tilted her head and looked at Xia Pingzhou in the distance casually.
But after a while, the flood receded and the World Tree remained standing.
Once again, long and sharp thorns fell from the sky, and the dark branches densely covered the entire sky, like a black rain falling.
"Hide under me!"
Yagubaru was slightly startled, then roared at the people around him, blocking the black tide in mid-air, using his body to resist the branches to protect everyone.
"Agubaru!" Césaire shouted.
After a while, Yagubaru's scales and body were pierced by thorns, and the branches were stirring inside its 500-meter-long body, as if it was churning in a sea of blood, crushing its internal organs.
Yagubaru's body was completely shattered into a bloody mist.
Xizel stared at the scene in a daze, speechless.
But the next moment, countless dark blue particles suddenly condensed in mid-air and turned into a huge body.
[Ability: Death Reconstruction (When your body is broken, it will quickly die and reconstruct) (disappears after resurrection) - from the devoured generational fragment "Royal Court Palace".]
Yagubaru's body fell heavily from mid-air and landed on the glacier, creating a cold lake with a roar, and his whole body was soaked in cold water.
At this moment, the rain of thorns fell from above again, chasing closely.
It was as if the god of death turned into a dark cloud and descended from the sky, and the breath of death tightly embraced every figure.
“Get out of here—!”
Xizel roared, his hair blown by the strong wind.
He crushed a generation-level wonder, and an orange light pattern passed by.
The thunderous roar sounded again, and this time it was the Tower of Babel that rose from the ground. The broken tower body protected them in front and temporarily blocked the branches.
Then, the Tower of Babel collapsed with a loud bang, embedding itself deeply into the earth and creating a cliff-like ravine.
"I still have to go see 1001, how can I die here?" The blood descendant said as he raised his hands high. The thick blood turned into an ocean that covered the sky and briefly blocked the overwhelming branches that were falling.
"Captain, if we continue like this, we will be wiped out." said An Luns.
Qi Yuanyuan remained silent.
The entire Hofs Glacier was shaking. Cesare crushed generation-level wonders one after another and created the "Loch Ness Monster", buying time for the resurrected Yagubaru to escape.
"Agubaru, run!" Xizel shouted almost in tears.
But Yagubaru's body was still weak, and every particle in his body seemed to be jumping restlessly. He lay listlessly on the ice, looking up at the thousands of thorns falling like a rainstorm.
"Agubaru——!" Xizel roared.
"The Black Sun Demon."
At this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded from the distant glacier.
That was Xia Pingzhou giving the order.
He stared at the World Tree in the distance that reached up to the sky, and suddenly reached out and grabbed a demon chess piece on the ring road.
This was the calamity-level demon he defeated in Lijing, and it was also the only calamity-level demon chess piece he had.
Immediately afterwards, a black sun hung high in the sky, and the black sunlight enveloped the earth, swallowing up the aurora that spanned the sky.
"The Bridge of Humans and Demons."
The moment Xia Pingzhou finished speaking, the shadow of a bridge appeared above the glacier, connecting the figures of the Queen's stone statue and the Black Sun Demon. Their shadows moved up and down, slowly overlapping.
Finally, it transformed into a charming and bright figure.
[Hint: Through the skill "Bridge of Man and Demon", the "Queen Colossus" and the "Black Sun Demon" were successfully fused, and a new chess type - "Black Sun Queen" was born.
[The abilities of the "Black Sun Queen" are as follows: Hand of Shadow.]
"The final sacrifice." Xia Pingzhou said as he summoned the stone statue of the bishop.
The stone statue of the bishop appeared in response, flipping the heavy scriptures in his hands.
[Final Sacrifice: Sacrifice one of your "Chess" pieces and add its attribute values to another piece.]
At this moment, the bishop statue sacrificed a soldier colossus transformed from a giant god.
The Giant God Soldier transformed into a flood of black and white light and injected into the body of the Queen Colossus.
As if sensing something was wrong, huge tree roots broke through the ice from the bottom of the glacier and entangled the giant statue of the bishop and the stone statue of the king. Both were instantly crushed into a bloody mist by the branches.
But the World Tree's actions were too late.
It destroyed the bishop and the king, but could not prevent the birth of the Queen of the Black Sun.
The queen stood high in the sky, stepping on a curved sun. She stretched out her right hand, and an arm made of countless shadows immediately extended out, blocking the thousands of thick branches that were spreading towards her.
Just at this moment, Xia Pingzhou took out the last event card on him.
Event Card Name: No Light in the World
[Event Card Number: Lijing No. ①⑤]
[Event Card Effect: Allows you or your summoned creature to instantly absorb all surrounding light sources, plunging the world into darkness for a short period of time.]
With a "click", Xia Pingzhou crushed the card and said, "Target: Queen of the Black Sun."
In an instant, a deep darkness spread out with the Black Sun Queen's body as the center, covering the sky and the earth.
She sucked away all the light sources, and Hofs Glacier was suddenly shrouded in shadow.
At this moment, the queen truly became the focus of the whole world.
It was like a strange and cold sun, hanging high above the Hofsglacier.
At the same time, under the amplification of "Final Sacrifice", "No Light in the World" and "Bridge between Humans and Demons", the shadow power of the Queen of the Black Sun reached a peak.
There was even a faint tendency to shake the World Tree. In this dim and lightless world, she controlled thousands of shadow arms and blocked all the branches of the World Tree head-on.
At this moment, Yagubaru, who was resurrected from the dead using "Death Reconstruction", finally had a chance to breathe.
"This is... Mr. Chess Player?"
Xizel was stunned at first when he saw the branch blocked by the hand of shadow, and then he swooped down rapidly on the sled and landed on the shark back of Yagubaru.
"Agabaru, I will heal you."
He murmured as he controlled the phoenix to rain down a rain of fire, and he was so anxious that tears were about to fall.
After a while, the 500-meter-long giant shark visibly regained its vitality, and its deep blue pupils once again sparkled, as bright as the sea.
Yagubaru opened his bloody mouth and roared with a voice that could shatter a glacier:
"The World Tree's weak point is in its roots, a thousand meters away. If we penetrate that root, we can find that child! Only by finding that child can we stop the World Tree—!"
This is the information Xia Pingzhou got from Mario.
And now, he took advantage of the time gained by the Queen of Black Sun and the World Tree in their head-on confrontation, and used Yagubaru's voice to pass this information to everyone on the battlefield.
"At one thousand meters?"
Qi Yuanli raised his eyebrows, muttered, and looked at the trunk of the World Tree one thousand meters away.
Just as Yagubaru had said, there was a huge tree hole, pitch black, but the outside of the tree hole was covered with a thick layer of thorns and branches.
"It's easy to say, but how do we attack a place one thousand meters high..." An Luns also scratched his head in distress.
"Isn't it just a matter of giving it a try?" The Bloodline vibrated his dragon wings and landed beside the two of them. He grinned and said, "Otherwise, sooner or later we'll all be killed by this broken tree."
On the ice dome, the Queen of Black Sun is still single-handedly resisting the attack of the World Tree.
But this situation cannot last long.
Soon, the fusion between the Queen Statue and the Black Sun Demon will be dissolved.
So at this moment, Xia Pingzhou stared at the tree hole a thousand meters away from the World Tree.
He understood that as long as they tried their best to drill a hole in the tree, they would be able to see Shang Xiaochi hiding in the heart of the tree. Only by defeating Shang Xiaochi could they end this battle.
But at this moment, Xia Pingzhou's expression suddenly changed slightly, and his attention was immediately diverted to other places.
“That’s—!”
He jerked his head sideways. A moment earlier, using the chessboard perspective, he'd observed tree roots emerging from the bottom of the glacier once again. This wasn't the first time the World Tree had used this underhanded tactic.
The next moment, pitch-black tree roots broke through the ice, and Ayase Origami in the distance was surrounded by branches.
Seeing this scene through the chessboard's perspective, Xia Pingzhou's pupils shrank slightly. In that instant, the branches of the World Tree fell from the sky like sickles, crashing down towards Ayase Origami's body.
He knew that he couldn't get the Queen of Black Sun to withdraw her hand to protect Ayase Origami, otherwise the frontal battlefield would collapse in an instant and everyone would die.
However, the stone statues of the king and the bishop had also been destroyed by the World Tree. If he rushed out rashly, there would likely be irreversible consequences.
It’s too late…
It's too late...
Xia Pingzhou gasped for breath, his pupils shrinking. He stared blankly at the kimono-clad girl surrounded by branches and thorns, knowing he had to leave. If he was any later, there would be no chance.
In that moment of total silence, almost subconsciously, he took off running. Like a mad dog, he stomped across the snowy plains and ran frantically towards Ayase Origami.
The next moment, thorns that emerged from the bottom of the ice came towards him like a guillotine in the hands of an executioner.
However, Xia Pingzhou suddenly raised his hand and used the ultimate skill of the "Soul" branch - "Hand of Repulsion".
“Bang!!!!”
Instantly, a halo of black and white light burst forth from his palm, crushing all the branches that came his way. However, a dangerous jungle of branches still blocked his way ahead.
So while running forward, Xia Pingzhou summoned the third contracted demon - the "Furious Demon".
In an instant, the demon on the cross appeared above his head. It transformed into a huge bone shield, lying across Xia Pingzhou's side, resisting the fierce bombardment of the branches of the World Tree.
But soon, cracks began to appear on the surface of the angry demon.
The enraged demon groaned, "Boy, I can't hold out much longer."
Xia Pingzhou could no longer hear anything.
He didn't respond.
Just running around desperately.
While rushing towards Ayase Origami, he released the Black King Domain.
In an instant, a black and white circle spread forward, like a huge palm, or like a retaining tide, continuously spreading towards Ayase Origami.
At the same time, the branches of the World Tree broke through the paper and slashed towards Ayase Origami's head like the scythe of the god of death.
At this moment, time almost stood still in Xia Pingzhou's eyes.
The figure of the girl in kimono was reflected in his dark pupils.
Hurry up...
Faster...
Just a little bit is enough.
He prayed silently in his heart, and the black and white circle continued to extend towards the girl in kimono.
Like an outstretched hand.
But at this moment, Xia Pingzhou looked at the thorns shooting from above his head. He knew he had to shrink his territory, otherwise he would be pierced by the branches of the World Tree in the next second.
He had no other means of saving his life. However, he did not stop. From beginning to end, he did not look up, his eyes fixed on the lonely girl in kimono.
The next moment, blood spurted out from Xia Pingzhou's eyes, staining his cheeks red.
Suddenly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
This is.
His own blood.
In an instant, the dark branches pierced his heart from behind.
At the same time, in this fleeting second, the black and white circle finally spread to Ayase Origami's side.
Ayase Origami stared at the scene in a daze.
In an instant, the ring wrapped around Xia Ping Hiru and Ayase Origami and tightened.
After a while, as the ring disappeared above the pole, the two figures entered the Black King's territory.
With a thud, Xia Pingzhou fell to his knees on the black and white chessboard. He was gasping for breath, and with every breath, blood would spit out of his throat.
Xia Pingzhou lowered his eyes and silently watched the blood flowing out from the wound on his chest.
His chest was empty, with no internal organs, no bones, only blood flowing out.
At this moment, the only stone statue of the bishop with healing abilities has been destroyed by the World Tree.
It was too late, no one could save him.
He groaned heavily, coughed up a mouthful of blood, then supported himself on the ground with his hands and struggled to crawl towards Ayase Origami.
About ten meters away, Ayase Origami was looking at him blankly with her head tilted to the side.
Xia Pingzhou slowly approached, stretched out his bloody palm, and gently pressed it against her cheek, leaving a bloody mark.
The kimono-clad girl's face was incredibly pale, a touch of blood like red beans falling on paper. Her pupils trembled, reflecting the corners of Xia Pingzhou's lips, stained red with blood.
"Don't die..." His lips moved slightly, "You are... the most important person to me."
In the silence, the hoarse voice slowly fell, and then Xia Pingzhou's right hand slowly slid down. He lost all his strength and fell into Ayase Origami's arms.
It was quiet all around.
The girl in kimono held the gradually cooling body in her arms, sitting in a pool of blood in a daze.
The next moment, the Black King's domain collapsed, and the entire world continued to shrink. Soon, the two returned to the glacier.
Ayase Origami's body was still trembling. She lowered her head, hunched her back, and pressed her cheek against his, saying hoarsely again and again:
"Don't go... don't... leave me..."
At this moment, the Endless Manuscript moved without wind, and the pink pages suddenly faded and turned into the purest gray-black, flying wildly in the air.
The World Tree beneath the clouds was completely shrouded in gray-black paper, with not a single branch able to break free. The thorns covering the surface of the World Tree faded away layer by layer under the exploitation of the paper.
Just at this moment, the Queen of Black Sun had reached the fusion time limit and slowly returned to her original form, but Ayase Origami took her place and suppressed the World Tree tightly.
Everyone looked at the kimono girl in shock, wondering how she had done it. But then they saw the bloody figure in her arms.
"Xia Pingzhou..." The blood descendant was stunned and blurted out subconsciously.
"How did the little cat lover become like this..." The hacker also widened his eyes.
"It's not a good situation," said Anluns.
Qi Yuanli remained silent, with no expression on his face.
"Copy the devil..." Suddenly, Xia Pingzhou moved his lips and murmured.
As soon as he finished speaking, the second contracted demon, the "Copy Demon", a little paper man, appeared tremblingly on Xia Pingzhou's shoulder. He jumped down while sobbing and turned into a clone of the king, standing on the glacier.
"Sacrifice, Knight Titan, Soldier Colossus..." Xia Pingzhou ordered hoarsely, "Black and White King Flash."
The next moment, the clone king raised his scepter high towards the World Tree in the distance.
The black and white light spots converged at one point, expanded, converged, and burst out.
The place he was aiming at was the core of the World Tree, one thousand meters away.
Under the pressure of the paper storm, the World Tree entered a defensive state. Countless branches that were spreading outward were retracted and turned into an indestructible barrier, which protected the outer layer of the tree and completely blocked Xia Pingzhou's "Black and White King Flash".
That is a defensive power that is almost despairing.
Even Xia Pingzhou's Black and White King Flash only managed to chip away at a thin layer of the thorn barrier. No one could imagine how to break through the World Tree's core and injure the girl.
Everyone watched this scene, and an emotion called "despair" quietly spread.
Xia Pingzhou's eyes slowly closed, just like the black color fading from the tip of the king's stone statue's scepter.
Everyone knew that he was dead.
"No way..." The blood descendant's eyes dimmed slightly, and the shock on his face had not faded.
The paper storm is still roaring, but the world is silent at this moment.
But at this moment of absolute silence, a hysterical roar suddenly shattered the sky above the ice dome, breaking the desperate silence.
“Dragon Tail——!”
They looked in the direction of the sound and saw Yagubaru roaring, rushing forward with a black tide.
[The inherited skill "Dragon Tail" from the generational fragment "Red Dragon Wales" has been unlocked.]
Like a moth to a flame, it flew through the storm of dark pages, its tail raised high. At that moment, its tail seemed to have transformed into a sharp blade, carrying the blazing dragon flame.
Then, he slapped the surface of the World Tree with all his might.
“BOOM——!!!”
Dragon flame erupted, sweeping out in uncontrollable anger.
The entire towering tree was shaking violently, and the flames climbed up and down the trunk, shattering the glaciers rooted at the bottom.
The night sky was dyed into daylight for a moment by the dragon flames rising into the sky!
"Titanic--!" César's attack followed one after another. He soared in on a Christmas sleigh, and the phoenix's rain of fire opened a path for him in the out-of-control paper tornado.
Then, he crushed the generational card in his hand, and the shadow of a steamship fell from the sky. Amidst the overwhelming sound of whistles, the Titanic crossed the storm and rushed forward, smashing into the surface of the World Tree with all its might!
"Boom--!!!" Another loud noise was heard, waking up everyone's soul.
Qiliyuan watched the scene silently, grasped the Tonggu compass, and summoned a pair of lacquered gold drums.
Instantly, the drum surface vibrated, as if an invisible giant was beating it vigorously. Immediately afterwards, a mighty thunderbolt shot out from the center of the Wind God Thunder Drum.
Suddenly, that beam of lightning tore through the night sky and shot straight to the center of the World Tree, piercing through it and making a hole.
At the same time, Qi Yuanli controlled the flock of crows, grabbed five playing cards of different rank, and flew hysterically towards the World Tree through the storm.
Finally, the poker card in the crows' mouths tore apart and turned into the brightest fireworks that exploded across the wasteland.
“Boom——!!!” The entire snowfield was dyed a violent scarlet.
In an instant, the barrier surrounding the core of the World Tree completely collapsed.
It was not until this moment that the Blood Descendant took her eyes off Xia Pingzhou. She flapped her dragon wings, her face grim, and she hung in the air like a blood-colored crescent moon.
He then mobilized all the dragon blood in his body and gathered it into an unprecedentedly huge spear.
"A thousand-meter tree trunk, right? No need to look for it, the captain has already marked the place for us." She thought so, her eyes fixed on the tree pit that was blasted by Qi Yuanyuan.
Then he used all his strength to throw the red and black spear in his hand.
Like throwing out the mythical Spear of Kungunir, the blood-red spear tore through the sky and shot straight into the notch opened by the Thunder Drum of the Wind God.
“Bang!”
The blood-red giant spear pierced through the thorns and the storm of paper pages, and carved a bottomless hole in the tree trunk.
At this moment, a figure in a purple suit crossed the wasteland alone and approached the World Tree.
Like a madman who was not afraid of death, Anluns ran on the surface of the World Tree holding a slot machine, climbing up on thorns and branches.
He laughed wildly, ignoring the branches that kept sprouting up behind him, and crossed over thousands of thorns.
Finally, they arrived at the core of the World Tree, one thousand meters away. The combined attack of the others had turned this place into a red and black hole that looked like lava flowing.
"I didn't expect that I would die like this in the end..." An Lunsi stared at the cave entrance that was about to collapse, and realized that this was his goal. He curled his lips and said softly:
"Forget it, have a good sleep."
At the moment before being pierced by thousands of thorns, he gathered all his strength and threw the slot machine into the hole.
The next moment, the slot machine fell into the red and black deep pit located a thousand meters away from the World Tree. An Luns closed his eyelids and his body fell rapidly from mid-air.
But at this moment, he suddenly heard the hoarse cry of a crow, and suddenly opened his eyes.
"Captain..."
At this moment, Qi Yuanli appeared beside him.
He reached out and embraced An Lunsi's body. The thorns shot out and instantly pierced Qi Yuanli's shoulder, and blood spread along his black swallowtail windbreaker.
But at the same time, a beautiful painting slowly opened up around him!
——Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
It is like a circle that accommodates everything, taking in all the thorns that sweep in from all directions.
The next second, a flock of crows flew over the two of them. Qi Yuanli and An Lunsi disappeared from the perimeter of the World Tree and returned to the distant glacier.
At the same time, the slot machine that was thrown into the sky suddenly exploded, and then turned into a crimson flame that shot up into the sky.
With overwhelming force, it completely burned away the thickest layer of branches in the tree hole, creating an unprecedented hole.
At this moment, the Queen Colossus in the distance has recovered from the fusion and returned to its original state.
She was no longer the lonely, proud black sun. Now, she was just a mortal.
She approached Ayase Origami step by step, lowered her eyes, and knelt down in front of the corpse in the arms of the kimono girl.
At that moment, the Queen's statue suddenly trembled slightly. She saw Xia Pingzhou's blood-stained lips move slightly. The two of them were in tune with each other, so she understood what he was saying:
"Go...Shigagul."
The stone statue of the queen stared at him blankly. Shigagul, that was the name he gave her...
He said it was just a name picked up randomly from Norse mythology.
But to her, it was a unique name, the only thing given to her in this world.
"Yes, sir."
Shigagul spoke softly, closed his eyes slightly, then picked up the dagger inserted into the ice and stood up again.
At this moment, Shigagul opened her eyes.
A cold blue flame burned in her pupils again, and her figure rushed out like lightning, stepping on one huge thorn after another that spread towards her, and her figure leaped in the air like a seagull flying over the waves.
The Queen launched a final assault on the World Tree.
The gray-black paper storm was still raging on the surface of the World Tree, and the flames from the slot machine explosion had opened an unprecedented large hole on the surface of the World Tree.
The dying blows of the others opened the way for her, and Shigagul's transformation into nothingness could only last for two seconds.
However, in these two seconds, her body was like a transparent falcon, passing through thousands of thorns in an instant and crossing hundreds of meters in an instant.
She crossed the world made of black and red, with pages filling the sky, fiery red flames clinging to the surface of the world tree, and countless thorns and branches covering her body.
She is still moving forward.
One hundred meters.
Five hundred meters.
One thousand meters.
Two thousand meters.
Finally, when the layer of transparency faded from its surface, the Queen Colossus saw the heart of the World Tree. In the cave made of thorns and flowers, she saw a girl, a naked girl.
Shang Xiaochi closed his eyes, his body was entangled by thorns, and his face was full of pain.
If it weren't for the help of others, Shijiagur would never have had the chance to come here and meet Shang Xiaochi. The moment she approached the core of the World Tree, she would have been pierced by thorns.
But she did it.
It was a fleeting second. Before being overwhelmed by the sea of flowers and thorns, Shijiagur leaped towards Shang Xiaochi who was embedded in the tree trunk, stabbed her chest with a dagger, and crushed her heart.
Like uprooting a tree, Shigagul cut off her head with another dagger.
"Puff!" Blood splattered, as dazzling as a red tide.
Shang Xiaochi is dead.
In the silence, Shigagul slowly closed her eyes.
A dazzling red light burst out from the chest of the headless body. The fragments of mythology shattered at this moment. Countless thorns entangled Shigagul's body, crushing her into a blurry blood mist.
Then, huge trees thousands of meters, even tens of thousands of meters long, gradually collapsed in the southern part of the Hofsglacier, causing an unprecedented avalanche.
Snow……
The snow covered the ground.
Like a flood, the extreme snow color covered the entire world in an instant.
At the same time, the same prompt panel was reflected in everyone's pupils.
[The game ends. The winner is the "Player" and the Administrator loses.]
【About to return to the real world.】
The world was white and hazy, like a painting washed by water.
The kimono-clad girl lowered her head, tightly hugging a cold corpse, tears of blood streaming from the corners of her eyes. Soon, the two figures were buried in the snow.
The snow is still falling.
The world is silent.
(End of this chapter)
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