Chapter 306
Bella's voice shattered and her defense was severely broken. Her poor vocabulary was only enough for her to repeatedly curse: "Olivia—bastard—shameless—you value women over friends—"
It is so sad and miserable, and the lingering sound lingers in the beams.
Robert looked down at the angry Bella. The desert rose turned into white petals and fell down, making the man and the crow look miserable, pitiful and helpless.
Robert: “…”
Faced with the double standards of Olivia Godfather, he was actually a little broken QAQ.
Here, the man and the crow looked at Olivia with tears in her eyes and both broke down. Yu Tu breathed a sigh of relief - after teacher Olivia stopped attacking them, he finally had time to study what the white mist was.
After settling the three friends on flat ground, Yu Tu tried to continue to control the white mist with his consciousness, but found that someone was trying to snatch control of the white mist from him, and the snatcher was even very close to him.
Yu Tu had a bad feeling. He raised his head and met the eyes of Di Changqing, who was dozens of meters away and covered in blood. Although Di Changqing was injured, the words "Huh? Interesting" were clearly written in his eyes.
Yu Tu: “…”
It's like a bolt from the blue!
Di Changqing smiled at him, and took advantage of Yu Tu's stunned moment to quickly snatch control from Yu Tu. Although Yu Tu was shocked, Ma Jia's frequent encounters with danger and cleaning up messes had trained his reaction ability early on, so he immediately fought back without showing any weakness - no matter what the white mist was, he had to get control first!
Because of their fight, the white mist covering the entire Chongming City began to shake. Yu Tu "saw" many familiar people, most of whom were members of the Alien Bureau, but like Teacher Olivia, their eyes were unfocused, and it was obvious that they were immersed in an illusion and had not woken up.
Under the control of the white mist, some of these people who had not yet awakened gathered in strange directions, while others took up weapons face to face, either committing suicide or killing each other.
"Very powerful." Yu Tu heard Di Changqing's voice coming over. He had new wounds on his body, staining the stone he was sitting on red. The fragments of the black gold bell were scattered all over the ground, and the irregular cuts reflected cold light. "Bu Ye Hou actually transferred the control to you?"
Yu Tu: “…what?”
"He didn't tell you?" Di Changqing tilted his head, with a hint of malice in his eyes, "This is 'obsession'."
Powerful creatures are bound to a fixed place and consumed there. The power that overflows after death lingers here, forming a visible mist called "attachment".
The "obedience" of [the barren mountain] is mostly made up of the overflowing power of the Black Tortoise. The Phoenix fell nearby, and part of his power was also integrated with the "obedience" of the barren mountain.
After Di Changqing pointed out the nature of the white mist, Yu Tu suddenly understood that the "obsession" of [Wild Mountain] was mostly composed of the overflowing power of Xuanwu. Although Xuanwu had never seen Buyehou, he was very familiar with him, so the power without consciousness and attributes formed by it would not harm Yu Tu itself.
After walking through [Desolate Mountain], the power that Xuanwu finally exuded contained his soul energy. These soul energies instinctively approached Yu Tu, and Yu Tu's original body and vest shared the same consciousness, so the white mist could naturally be controlled by him.
In the eyes of outsiders, Hou Buye can control "Sheng", and Yu Tu can also control it. The only explanation is that Hou Buye used some unknown method to transfer the control of "Sheng" to Yu Tu.
"Tsk, Zhi is very difficult to control. If you are not careful, it will backfire." Di Zhangqing lightly tried to sow discord. "Senior Buyehou is really willing to do that."
If she didn't care, why would she let him control such a dangerous thing?
"If you can't speak, just shut up." Before Yu Tu could respond, Xie Jianwei instantly cast a wind spell, "My students don't need you to point fingers at them."
The experience of this little tea tree seedling from the Plant Clan is already bizarre, and his personality is shy and sensitive. If someone accidentally listens to him and thinks that Senior Marquis Buye doesn't care about him, wouldn't that be pure trouble?
"You're so angry because I said it right, right?" Di Changqing had a strand of hair cut off by the wind curse. He looked disdainful, "You're just trying to hide it."
Xie Jianwei: "..."
Why do some people have such an annoying mouth!
Yu Tu had heard a lot of unpleasant words while growing up, so he didn't care much about Di Changqing's subtle provocations, not to mention that his provocations were all nonsense - both the pseudonym and the real body were himself, would he dig his own grave?
Yu Tu simply chose to ignore him and concentrate on seizing control of "Execution". Previously, he was so busy escaping from teacher Olivia's pursuit that he had no time to do anything else. Now, after controlling "Execution" and gaining a deeper understanding, he realized that the nightmare array set up by Di Changqing would not make people lose their minds and attack randomly. They should fall into a coma like his little companions, until they wake up by breaking the array with their own strength.
Di Changqing only used the Nightmare Array as a basis and modified part of their perception through the bell as a medium. People in the Nightmare Array illusion saw enemies instead of colleagues. Going to a place where monsters gathered was not seeking death, but in the illusion, that was probably the only chance of survival.
While Yu Tu was trying to seize control, he was also trying to forcibly cut off the connection between Di Changqing and the Nightmare Array Illusion. This was a very difficult task, but thanks to Xie Jianwei's previous tough attack, Di Changqing was unable to split himself, and victory was actually tilting towards Yu Tu. As long as Yu Tu was given enough time...
The seriously injured Di Changqing suddenly smiled.
The corners of his eyes and pupils were a gorgeous red, like burning fireworks, and the scars all over his face were bleeding, giving him a weird and decadent beauty.
His chest was a mess of blood and flesh. That was the result of Xie Jianwei's actions when Olivia was restraining him. Xie Jianwei paid the price of a broken staff and a comminuted fracture of his right arm.
Di Changqing spat out a mouthful of blood. Due to the special nature of the Nightmare Array that covered the entire Chongming City, he was unable to move, so the blood flowing from his body had completely dyed the stone beneath him red.
"You didn't win." Di Zhangqing's fingertips touched the most exquisite and complex black gold bell hanging between his eyebrows. The color of the corners of his eyes became more vivid, but his skin was pale. "I never lose."
Yu Tu, who had taken over the control smoothly, suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. A strong wind came from behind him. Yu Tu subconsciously rolled to the side to avoid it, but was still blown far away——
The three little friends who were quietly unconscious opened their unfocused eyes at this moment.
Yu Tu tried to awaken their consciousness:
"Chi-Chi! Eric! Lily!"
No one answered.
The three of them surrounded Yu Tu in the middle in a triangle formation. This was the way of hunting monsters they had recently trained. On the other side, Olivia, who had been vaguely awake, had cloudy blue eyes, like the deep sea before a storm. He aimed his staff at Xie Jianwei, who had scars on half of his body. At the top of the staff, the water-attributed spiritual power was constantly compressed, and gradually there was a roaring sound.
Di Changqing made a last-ditch effort to change the nightmare formation. His breath almost immediately weakened, but he looked very happy, happier than ever before: "It's really... a good show."
The connection between the Nightmare Array and Di Changqing was strengthened at this moment. Yu Tu, who was fighting with him, was the first to bear the brunt of it. He felt a sharp pain in his consciousness and his head was dizzy. He almost fell to the ground. The whole picture of Chongming City was transmitted into his mind in a chaotic manner. The amount of information was so huge that it was frightening.
He saw Meng Ziqiu's sword on Lu Yayin's neck, with Qin Fei attacking from behind; Bai Shuang of the snake clan turned into a giant python, almost strangling the leopard and tiger; Gu Xingzhu had blood oozing from the wound on his abdomen, and was alone facing a gregarious C-level monster... All the monsters in the circle outside Chongming City rioted, blocking Director Jiang's rescue efforts.
"Zhi" clearly fed back to Yu Tu a terrible inference fact—everyone would die here, including Yu Tu himself.
Di Changqing is a madman who plays with the world. From the moment he took over the Nightmare Array, he had no intention of surviving, nor did he intend to let others survive.
Destruction is always easier than protection.
Yu Tu had never wished so much as he did now that he was the vest itself, the omnipotent Marquis of Buye in everyone's eyes.
The pain in his brain spread to his body. Yu Tu felt dizzy and nauseous. He couldn't even see the trajectory of the attack, but he was more awake than ever.
He never expected himself to be a hero who saves the world, but he hoped that everyone could survive, just as Director Jiang had hoped, that everyone would have a bright and beautiful future.
After reverse deduction of the sacrificial array method he had studied before, Yu Tu did not gain nothing. He happened to have researched a method to increase strength in a short period of time.
The souls of all living beings in the world are a special kind of energy, just like kneaded dough. As long as the person kneading the dough is skillful enough, he can spread the dough into a thin and fine shape, and stretch it to a large enough area, as long as the "dough" can withstand the incomparable pain during the stretching.
The feeling of having his consciousness completely torn apart was extremely painful. Yu Tu gritted his teeth and tasted blood in his mouth. His eyes were blood red. Perhaps the skin somewhere was broken and the blood flowed into his eyes, or perhaps there was something wrong with his eyes.
It seemed as if he couldn't breathe into his chest, and his body was as heavy as a stone, but his consciousness was light and boundless. The surging power allowed Yu Tu to seize full control of "execution" in a short period of time. Although it was only for a brief moment, it was completely enough.
Yu Tu simply and roughly cut off all the living, dead, and seriously injured people - regardless of friend or foe. At this moment, everyone was temporarily disconnected from the Nightmare Array and pushed out of the coverage of Yu Tu's "Execution".
At this moment, his body could not bear the surging power of consciousness, and Yu Tu became a bloody man.
Di Changqing, as the core of the nightmare array, was the only one who did not escape except Yu Tu. The two bloody people stared at each other from a distance. Di Changqing, who had all his strength drained away by the black gold bell between his eyebrows, collapsed on the stone, laughing so hard that his whole body trembled: "So, you are a madman like me... Interesting..."
Yu Tu couldn't hear clearly what he was saying. He could no longer feel the existence of his body. It seemed that what was carrying him forward was not his body, but the almost solid "attachment" that surrounded him.
The simplest and most brutal way to break all formations in this world is the same: when the person who sets up the formation dies, the formation will be broken.
There was only one thought left in Yu Tu's confused mind - to kill Di Changqing.
Kill Di Changqing and put an end to all this.
Yu Tu didn't know how he died, he just felt warm blood all over his face and couldn't tell whether it was Di Changqing's or his.
The blood-soaked stone under Di Changqing emitted a white light, and all the "attachment" poured into the light, while the white mist in the sky dissipated inch by inch.
In a trance, everyone heard a slight vibration in their ears, like a stone rolling down a cliff, like dewdrops dripping at night, like a sigh in the chest when waking up in the morning, and finally all of them were obliterated in the world.
The stone lit up with a light as bright as the sun.
There was a highlight item in that unprecedented auction. It looked like an ordinary big stone. The auction introduced it like this:
[Stone of Destiny]
Maybe one day someone will step on it and it will roar, which may be recognition or not.
Note: In the torrent of fate, it is just a stone. 】
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Yu Tu woke up in the white light.
The severe pain of the extended consciousness eased a little, and Yu Tu slowly opened his eyes. The hand blocking his eyes was white and slender. It belonged to Ma Jia's hand.
Yu Tu did not see Di Changqing, nor did he see the real body. He only saw a dark void with a few flashes of light occasionally in the void, like elusive shooting stars.
Yu Tu was sure that he had never been here before, but he knew the name of this place accurately in his mind—
【Gap in time and space】.
Anyone who enters this place is neither alive nor dead, it is like entering a prison with no end.
Yu Tu could not sense the situation of his original body now, because all his consciousness was completely gathered in the vest. To be more precise, it was half of the intact consciousness and the other half of the consciousness that was torn like a fishing net, and the two halves were barely sewn together.
There is no place to stand in the void, and people cannot walk in it, they can only go with the flow. Yu Tu briefly caught a meteor in the void, and he squeezed himself into the meteor.
The meteor seemed to be a fragment of a certain period of time, but the fragments were covered with cracks. Yu Tu only saw two figures, one big and one small, in it, and was immediately repelled.
The severe pain of consciousness challenged Yu Tu's endurance all the time. He held his forehead and realized a very serious problem. It was known that Ma Jia was in the Endless Sea with Cang Long and Gu Hongying before, so the three of them should have entered the [Time and Space Rift] together. To find the two of them in the endless and borderless nothingness, the difficulty would probably be no less than distinguishing a drop of water with different components in the ocean.
Yu Tu was trapped here and at a loss, so he was forced to try to repair the half of his consciousness that was in a mess. During the repair process, he kept dreaming, but he was too drowsy to remember what he dreamed about.
In nothingness, there is no concept of time and space.
As the recovery progressed, Yu Tu had more and more frequent dreams, which were bizarre and strange, like a stream passing by. Yu Tu dreamed of the door that he couldn't open in the snow when he was young, the light that was extinguished in the teahouse, and he dreamed of walking in a street full of pedestrians and couldn't find the way home. Then he dreamed of opening the door and seeing Gu Hongying and Sanqing outside...
Yu Tu dreams about many past events, which are full of jumps and have no logic. He even dreams about people and things that he rarely comes into contact with, such as the "Qilin" in the Kunlun Forbidden Land.
He dreamed of those eyes that were as bright as the sun, and dreamed of the questions he asked at that time—
【Why was I chosen? 】
[Future, present, past.] Yu Tu heard His answer again, [You chose yourself.]
…
"Sir? Sir?"
Yu Tu heard the calling as if it was from very far away. His eyelids felt heavy as if they were filled with lead. When his vision slowly came into focus, Yu Tu saw a dirty child.
The child had a pair of small green antlers on his head and a short fat tail behind him. The tail was covered with dried and caked soil, and in the peeling soil, light green, shiny scales could be seen.
Yu Tu lowered his head. The dirty child was squatting on the ground and pulling at the hem of his clothes with a tiny pulling force.
"Sir." The dirty child slowly raised his head. He had a pair of beautiful eyes, but after staring at them for a long time, he actually felt a little scared. "Does your previous promise... count?"
Even if his face was covered with mud it couldn't hide his good looks. Once you have seen him, you will never forget him. But when Yu Tu looked at his face, he felt strange and even a little disgusted.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Yu Tu slowly pulled the hem of his clothes out of his hands, "I don't know you."
Yu Tu saw the fat tail behind the child tremble, and the tail quietly stretched out and tried to wrap around Yu Tu's ankles, but in the end it just paused in the air and then slowly retracted, looking a little pitiful.
It was not very polite to treat a child so coldly, but when this thought came to his mind, Yu Tu felt upset.
How strange, he thought.
"Are you angry with me?" the dirty child raised his head and asked again. He repeated, "Does it really not count?"
Yu Tu didn't say anything else, he just took a step back.
He doesn't even know the child, so how can he make such a promise?
Perhaps his action of taking a step back revealed his meaning too obviously, and the dirty child blinked and also took a step back.
"I know." He sighed with a smile, his voice light and cold, "You have made your choice."
He patted the hem of his clothes vigorously, as if this would shake off all the dried dirt on them, making them clean and dry without any marks.
"I actually knew this a long time ago, but I still had extravagant hopes." A strange black light appeared on his body. "It's been ten thousand years, and I still can't learn my lesson."
In the black light, the dirty child's face gradually blurred. His figure quickly grew tall and slender, and his chubby cheeks gradually took on the outline of an adult. He still had antlers on his head, but the fat tail behind him had become much thinner, and his lines were smooth and natural, but they had changed from green to ink black.
Yu Tu said: "Canglong."
"It's me..." A sword appeared in Canglong's hand. The sword was surrounded by flames, and it looked like a strangely shaped, blazing torch. "Sir."
He pointed the sword in his hand in the direction of Yu Tu, and the burning fire was reflected in his dark eyes, like an ambition that would never be extinguished: "I will not show mercy to your men anymore."
The surrounding scenery spun and twisted, like spilled paint flowing, all the colorful things finally returned to pure black, and they returned to nothingness.
But this time the nothingness seemed different from before. Yu Tu vaguely felt the breath of the consciousness of heaven and earth, flashing through the cracks in the nothingness.
The iron rule that seemed to be engraved in one's consciousness, "You cannot walk in nothingness", seemed to be completely ineffective at this moment. In just a few breaths, Yu Tu had already fought with Canglong several times.
The soft green vines coiled around Yu Tu's palm and turned into a light green sword with branches and leaves. There were some charred marks on the sword, which were the marks left by Canglong's previous attack.
"Your swordsmanship remains the same as always." Canglong's low voice seemed to contain nostalgia, "Never changed."
The expression on Yu Tu's face was still indifferent, making it impossible to guess his true thoughts. He did not have much talent in swordsmanship and only used the most common sword moves. He was able to dodge in time only thanks to his half-broken consciousness that had not yet been repaired.
Yu Tu was not interested in what Canglong said about the past. He only knew that he could not die in this void. If he must perish in the void, he must at least take away the disaster of Canglong. If he walked out of the crack of time and space alive, he would definitely bring disaster to the world again.
After absorbing a large amount of energy and subsequently replenishing himself with an endless supply of energy, the strength of Yu Tu's vest was briefly raised to an extremely high level, so his fight with Canglong could actually cause void waves to appear in the cracks of time and space, creating one crack after another. In the cracks, Yu Tu could feel the existence of the consciousness of heaven and earth more and more clearly.
He is “watching” them.
Canglong's power is rising steadily. He is using the void waves to steal the power belonging to the Heavenly Dao. His consciousness can suppress the stolen power and temporarily use it for himself, but the energy replenishment that Yu Tu received is already difficult to control with his current consciousness strength - he has not experienced ten thousand years of sedimentation and tempering. His consciousness is young and fresh, not even a fraction of Canglong's age.
Yu Tu sighed lightly and made a decision very quickly. The other half of his intact consciousness stretched out like dough and was torn apart finely. The more energy he replenished, the finer his consciousness was torn apart.
The pain brought by the backlash of the sacrificial array before was nothing compared to what it is now, and was not worth mentioning.
After another attack, Canglong finally realized that the gentleman was no longer the gentleman from ten thousand years ago, and he was no longer the him from ten thousand years ago. The world has changed dramatically, and there is nothing eternal and unchanging in the world.
The mountain that seemed like it would never be surmountable, the mountain that he would always have to look up at and chase, might not be as tall as he had imagined. It was time that blocked the way to climb and blinded his eyes time and time again.
Canglong felt a little regretful, although he didn't know what this fleeting regret represented.
Time is the sharpest and most ruthless weapon in the world.
"Why don't you admit defeat?" he wondered. "Isn't it a good thing for me to take His place?"
He wanted to replace the Way of Heaven, and he had been preparing for this moment for many years.
"Heaven's Way becomes a 'human'..." Yu Tu's face turned pale, and he looked like he was about to fall down at any moment. "It's not a good thing."
"You can't stop me." Canglong suddenly realized something. He swung his sword to the side. Amid the clanging of the fine iron, Gu Hongying fell out of the crack in a wolfish manner. "...Gu Hongying?"
Gu Hongying's arm was numbed by the blow. When he woke up, he was in nothingness. A voice from the dark guided him from the crack to here and launched this attack.
There was a slanted bloody wound on the back of Canglong's hand. Blood flowed out and dyed the back of his hand red. The Kunwu Sword, which was tempered with the blood of the fox, was the only weapon in the world that could hurt him.
Gu Hongying clenched the sword in his hand. He was actually unsure in his heart, but he knew that he could not let Canglong walk out of the crack in time and space, whether for himself, for his relatives and friends, or for the millions of ordinary people in this world.
The clanging sounds of the clash echoed almost thousands of times in the void. Canglong's swordsmanship was only average compared to Gu Hongying's, but the gap in strength caused by a long period of time could not be made up by the top swordsmanship.
After being injured again, when the sword in Gu Hongying's hand was about to slip out, a hand held his back, and someone helped him to withstand the subsequent attacks like a storm.
Gu Hongying turned his head to the side, and in the dangerous nothingness, he saw the stern expression of Buyehou. He held Gu Hongying's hand, which was shaking constantly due to using the sword. The base of Gu Hongying's hand had been cracked a long time ago, and the sticky blood covered the sword.
Buyehou whispered, "Give me the sword."
The natal sword is equivalent to half of a sword practitioner's body. A sword practitioner will never abandon the sword at any time. But at this moment, Gu Hongying was in a trance and actually let go of his hand.
Everything happened in a flash, and Buyehou replaced Gu Hongying.
Gu Hongying heard a light "puff" sound, as if a sharp object had pierced into a soft human body, and hot blood splashed onto him—it was not his.
The strange, torch-like sword in Canglong's hand pierced into Buyehou's chest, while the Kunwu sword held in Buyehou's hand steadily pierced into Canglong's heart.
In such great pain, Buyehou's hands were terrifyingly steady. He held the blood-stained sword and pressed it back little by little. The only weapon in the world that could hurt Canglong made a teeth-grinding creaking sound at this moment. The Kunwu sword trembled as if it would break at any time.
Yu Tu stretched out his other hand and grasped the torch-shaped sword that pierced his chest. In the overwhelming pain that could not be described in words, Yu Tu suddenly felt that fate was indeed a mysterious thing.
The flames on the Canglong Sword burned his chest, passed through his beating heart and came out from his back, like a fire that ignited his flesh and blood.
In the Western legend of the inner world, once the Sword of Light is unsheathed, no one can escape, but the one who uses the sword will surely die under the sword.
Life for life, both sides suffer losses.
The void began to shake, as if making some kind of judgment. Terrifying cracks were created in the void waves. Different scenes of time and space could be vaguely seen in these terrifying cracks.
If death was inevitable, Yu Tu hoped that Gu Hongying could survive. He seized the opportunity and pushed Gu Hongying with his last bit of energy in great pain.
Gu Hongying, who was shocked by the sudden change, had no power to resist. Wrapped in energy, he fell into the crack caused by the void waves. The last thing he saw was the blood-stained back of Buyehou.
Just like that day in the depths of the endless sea, a gentle and familiar voice passed through the chaotic time and awakened him from his nightmare—
"Survive, Gu Hongying."
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