Those who cursed Gu Mingyue had long forgotten that it was they who first suggested using Gu Mingyue and her companion as cannon fodder.
Now the tables have turned, and it's their turn to fall on hard times.
Gu Mingyue had memories of her past life and was well-prepared. In the Golden City, the armor on the golden monsters was easier to remove, and the wounds from cutting flesh after removing the armor would heal quickly. She didn't use these bombs.
It had been kept secret, reserved specifically for the fully armed Golden Knights. The main city entrance was only a hundred meters away from the Golden Tower.
Gu Mingyue recklessly threw smoke bombs and bombs containing meteorite fragments.
The golden knights stood guard at the entrance of the golden tower, shouting in unison.
"Protect my lord, and fight to the death against the invaders."
"Protect our Lord! We swear to fight to the death against the invaders!"
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The dense, penetrating shouts made people's scalps tingle and their ears sting.
Gu Mingyue shut down her hearing and relied entirely on mental detection to avoid the swords swung down by the golden knights.
Even after their crystal cores were extracted, the other Golden Knights showed no sign of backing down. Gu Mingyue even saw a fearless loyalty in the eyes of these monsters.
However, an adversary is an adversary, and Gu Mingyue had no intention of being soft-hearted. She used the meteorite blade in her hand to slash at their golden longswords, splitting open their armor, picking out the crystal core, and immediately absorbing it.
Soon, her golden hair began to sway behind her, a sign that she was entering level four.
The monsters looked at her flowing golden waves of hair and a look of confusion crossed their eyes. They seemed to be wondering how a human could control their nails and hair so freely as they could.
As Gu Mingyue's ability level increased, Xinghe's spatial ability also rose to a new level, and he gathered power in his hands.
His clear eyes sparkled with starlight as he painstakingly pushed aside the group of golden knights blocking the tower's entrance, revealing the tower's even more luxurious golden structure.
As soon as Gu Mingyue saw the tower gate appear, she rushed inside in one swift step.
One foot stepped onto the golden floor tiles engraved with strange patterns.
Xinghe followed closely behind, entering the Golden Tower before the Golden Knights could break through the spatial barrier.
After the two entered the tower, a loud crash resounded as the two golden doors slammed shut, blocking the Golden Knight and the others from entering.
Gu Mingyue led Xinghe up the golden escalator and climbed towards the top of the tower.
The patterned floor tiles on the ground all came to life, twisting and contorting.
Unlike the monster patterns in the Golden City, the eerie patterns in the main city are coiled golden skull arms.
There were also terrifying big eyes growing in the palm of his hand, and those eyes were full of hatred.
Driven by the desire to drag the living into hell, they fiercely and densely climbed the stairs, their eyes fixed on the limbs of Gu Mingyue and her companion.
Gu Mingyue quickened her pace. These golden skull arms had the ability to strip away flesh. In her previous life, she had seen others climb the tower and be lightly touched by these arms.
Those people's limbs and torsos were gently broken off like unassembled dolls, and not even a drop of blood flowed from the broken ends.
What's terrifying is that many people don't even realize it when they're touched by them.
It wasn't until it discovered its missing arm that it realized it had lost an arm. When only its head remained, it could still blink and watch as its severed arm was reattached to its body by a long dragon of arms with eyes.
There were so many long lines of arms that several of them quickly got ahead of Gu Mingyue, blocking the escalator between the fourth and fifth floors and preventing them from continuing to the sixth floor.
Having no other choice, Gu Mingyue had to grit her teeth and raise the meteorite sword to fight.
Her meteorite sword sliced through the golden skull arms with a loud clang, severing the foremost hand.
However, the long arm was connected to thousands of other arms, which opened their eyes and stretched out together to grab the back of Gu Mingyue's knife, working together to stop Gu Mingyue from cutting downwards.
Other long-armed dragons stared with hateful eyes, poised to strike. Gu Mingyue tried to pull her hand away, but found she couldn't. Helpless, she could only let go just before the long-armed dragons attacked.
Then he quickly jumped back a big step.
Xinghe caught Gu Mingyue as she jumped down, and then raised a spatial shield to enclose the two of them. However, the true form of those strange hands seemed to be at least level four.
They pounded on the space shield of the Milky Way with all their might, thousands upon thousands of strange hands striking it together, and the space shield at the very top was already showing signs of breaking.
If the spatial shield shatters and those strange hands break in, Gu Mingyue and Xinghe will only be able to watch helplessly as their arms are ripped off and made into part of them.
“Master, I’m going to rush out. You follow behind me.” Xinghe’s handsome face was resolute.
If it were anyone else, they would be filled with fear in the face of these monstrous hands with terrifying deprivation abilities, and would never dare to sacrifice themselves. However, Xinghe did not consider his own safety at all. He only thought about how to safely bring Gu Mingyue to the sixth floor and try his best to realize his master's wishes.
"No need." Gu Mingyue refused Xinghe with an unusually cold face.
He continued to pull out bombs containing meteorite fragments from his backpack, saw an arm crawling into the spatial rift, and threw it forcefully at the eye on the palm.
Countless meteorite particles were embedded in its eyes, causing crimson blood to flow out. Pain spread through its arms, and a long, dragon-like arm began to writhe wildly like an earthworm being teased by a human.
Those sharp, skeletal fingers twisted and turned, forcefully digging towards the eyeball in the center of the palm, and blood gushed out like a pillar from the entire long arm.
Seeing a small gap appear ahead, Gu Mingyue quickly absorbed another gold-type crystal core, then looked into Xinghe's bright eyes and said, "Xinghe, let's rush through now."
Feeling his body energy replenished once more, Xinghe grabbed Gu Mingyue's hand, enveloped them in a spatial shield, and rushed forward.
Reaching the gap, Gu Mingyue threw out another bomb, injuring more of the monster's hands. At the same time, she and Xinghe took out four meteorite blades from their spatial storage and forcefully tore the opening open, breaking through.
Up to the fifth floor, Xinghe's spatial shield broke, and several long arms that hadn't been injured by the bombs climbed over, trying to hold onto the penultimate floor. They pierced through the spatial shield and lunged straight at the back of Gu Mingyue's head.
Gu Mingyue was struggling with a long-armed dragon. Her mental detection had already detected the dragon approaching, but there were two more long-armed dragons lurking around her, leaving her with almost no good defensive positions.
In the end, Gu Mingyue decided to sacrifice her left arm in exchange for a chance to survive.
Xinghe guessed Gu Mingyue's thoughts, his eyes flashing with calculation. Finally, he planned the safest path, quickly teleporting to Gu Mingyue's side like a ghost. He grabbed her slender yet powerful waist and carried her out of the twisting monster's encirclement in various postures that exceeded the limits of human flexibility.
Before the last long arm of the dragon caught up and completely broke through his spatial shield, he forcefully pushed Gu Mingyue up to the sixth floor.
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