Free Web NovelChapter 506: Chapter 123: Unparalleled Man of the World (10,000-word Grand Chapter)
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, advancing triumphantly, were simply not something that these tentacles could stop.
This Chapter starts here, with some important content.
Suddenly, countless tentacles, as if traversing the barriers of space and time... instantly appeared before Wu Jiu and Bai Wu.
Just when they were only a few hundred meters away from the black blood vessels, Bai Wu’s body was abruptly pierced by numerous bone spurs on the tentacles!
The figure, which was originally too fast for the eyes to follow, finally stopped.
All the densely packed eyes on those tentacles uniformly turned to look at Bai Wu.
In that moment, Bai Wu felt innumerable negative attributes forcibly imposed upon him.
Even with the Well Level’s strong body, which could endure these bone spurs, it was still possible to continue fighting with abounding vitality.
But as these gazes focused, with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of eyes imposing some kind of force upon Bai Wu’s body—it suddenly burst open, turning into dust.
The most crucial point was that the power coming from the monsters all carried a force of rules level or even higher.
Bai Wu was clear that what he faced was not some ordinary Evil Fallen, but rather a part of Jing Si, which had been evolving for seven hundred years.
Even with the overpowering Well Level strength, a slight misstep could lead to death, just like at this moment.
Upon witnessing this scene, Wu Jiu’s figure faltered, his eyes instantly filled with bloodshot!
Wu Jiu roared, his speed actually increasing even further!
White light exploded, and immense fury transformed into a burst of sword light!
Countless tentacles that approached Bai Wu were cleanly cut by Wu Jiu.
But upon seeing Bai Wu finally starting to disintegrate... Wu Jiu’s body still hesitated for a moment.
Soon, he too paid the price for that fatal hesitation—countless gazes were cast upon Wu Jiu.
Far outside the mist, Li You suddenly felt a pang in his chest.
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Minutes later, in Denglin City, within the Science Building.
When Bai Wu and Wu Jiu appeared once more, the expressions on the scientists’ faces became extremely complicated.
Just minutes before, all the scientists believed that Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, like a torrential flood, would break through all obstacles and slay the gigantic monster.
But now, they suddenly smelled a familiar scent.
"The sky... seems darker, look quickly, those tentacles have changed again!" exclaimed a scientist in terror, pointing outside the window.
Everyone, including Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, looked outside.
The tentacles indeed had changed again, evolving with Bai Wu and Wu Jiu’s defeat.
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The fierce sunlight could no longer penetrate the dark city. Denglin City became increasingly dark.
Night fell, the torrential rain was like an invasion, and the high temperatures of the daytime turned into frost at night.
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu still discussed countermeasures, with the monster’s main body three thousand meters away, they grew more distant.
But Bai Wu and Wu Jiu’s attitude remained unchanged.
Eventually, the scientists couldn’t bear the pain any longer, all exchanging death for a new four hours—just as they had for the past seven hundred years.
That day, they experienced hopes they had never known in hundreds of years.
But in the end, those hopes were still extinguished.
Those scientists, striving to live to avoid causing trouble for Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, to prevent the monster from continuing to evolve... were as if their backbones had been pulled out.
They slumped in the Science Building, their eyes looking at Bai Wu and Wu Jiu with extreme complexity.
It was like waiting for someone to die.
In this place of despair, the body never dies, but the soul will.
Not long ago, these people’s souls were alive, but now they had fallen into a deadly situation again.
"Give up... Don’t you realize... the gap between you and that monster is growing ever larger?" Hou Haiyan finally spoke up as he watched Bai Wu and Wu Jiu about to leave.
Fu Lei said nothing.
When Wu Jiu and Bai Wu first arrived, he was the most resistant, fearing the sight of their despair.
But now, at the moment when Wu Jiu and Bai Wu should truly be in despair, something inside Fu Lei slowly rose and ignited.
He silently watched as Hou Haiyan and many scientists expressed their inner collapse and frustration:
"It’s over! It’s all over! You can’t do anything at all! Why do we have to go through such despair with you?"
"Seven hundred years ago, we were the same... thinking that everything could change, believing that as long as we kept trying, we could truly drive away the Evil Fallen..."
Hou Haiyan’s tone even carried a hint of pleading:
"Don’t go again, don’t go, to go is to die again and again... growing ever more distant from the goal... What’s the point of such struggle?"
Hou Haiyan’s words probably were what everyone wanted to say.
No matter how hard they tried, hope only grew more distant. Was such effort truly necessary?
"Give up... just resign yourself to fate, and don’t follow in our footsteps."
Wu Jiu, about to leave, stopped in his tracks and turned around:
"It’s precisely because I don’t want to follow in your footsteps that I can’t give up."
The howling wind outside the window and the monster’s tentacles constantly wreaked havoc in the city.
How the scientists wished they could be truly destroyed, but the people in this building could only scrape by, endlessly, amidst despair and fear.
Bai Wu smiled, saying nothing.
They had long forgotten how many times they had challenged the monster.
But no matter how many times, before killing the monster, he would not stop.
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The morning sun steamed away the violence of last night’s storm.
The scientists watched Bai Wu and Wu Jiu come and go, their hearts gradually numb.
Only Fu Lei took care to look into Bai Wu and Wu Jiu’s eyes every time.
"Even the High Tower can’t do this, nor can the most twisted place I’ve been to, the strongest monster I’ve seen."
"Professor Tao’s obsession may have been twisted, but I can feel the original intent within it."
"How powerful must an obsession be to create such a rule?"
"I’ve always believed that he is still waiting for someone to vanquish all the Evil Fallen and stand before him."
"I don’t want to wait for such a person like you do. The curse placed upon me will be broken by my own hands before he appears!"
It was as if a roaring storm suddenly burst into the building; the aura Bai Wu emitted in an instant made the scientists cower in fear.
Eleven days were extremely long compared to endless death.
But the expression in the eyes of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu never changed.
As they were about to depart, Wu Jiu suddenly said:
"I’m rather slow-witted, and it’s hard for me to grasp the true terror of the despair you’ve experienced... You are heroes, but in this world, it’s not just you who are fighting."
"For seven hundred years, those people in your eyes who hid in the High Tower have been fighting too."
"Death may be a release for you, but if given the choice... I believe those who died outside the tower would prefer to live and change the world."
The battle began once more.
The two men swinging blades and greatswords set out again on their journey to slaughter the giant beast.
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A thunderstorm day.
The storm raged, and lightning flashed. In the gloomy sky, countless tentacles writhed.
It was as if a sea monster from the depths churned the ocean.
That day, the scientists who had long lost hope once again stood by the window, watching Bai Wu and Wu Jiu fight.
As they had always believed, such fighting only widened the gap between the two men and the monster and only repeated their failure.
Yet, for some reason... they still stood by the window.
When Bai Wu and Wu Jiu appeared again, the scientists dispersing in silent agreement as if resisting something.
Perhaps the trajectory of life is a circle.
They had gone from possessing courage, losing it, and then resisting it.
The appearance of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu brought them back to the stage of having courage, but the failures of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu also caused them to lose it again, to resist it.
They thought their hearts should have truly given up by then, watching Bai Wu and Wu Jiu’s fight, their hearts should have been undisturbed.
The words of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu from a few days ago shouldn’t have affected them.
Seven hundred years of despair couldn’t be dissolved by mere words.
But ultimately... in their stagnant hearts, a seed had been planted.
They thought they should be indifferent to the battle outside.
But suddenly, an exclamation from Fu Lei once again shocked all the scientists
Between the thunderclaps, the two figures constantly darting around appeared to have finally broken free from the shackles of the past dozens of days!
Fu Lei’s voice trembled:
"Quick... Look! They’ve broken through!"
Day twenty-two.
The thunderstorm had lasted a week, and just minutes before Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, who had just died, stood outside the building in Denglin City, looking at the countless tentacles in the distance:
"Captain... have you noticed, for three times in a row now, its method of killing us hasn’t changed."
Wu Jiu nodded.
"I was thinking the same thing, I thought it was a coincidence, but it happening three times in a row, it’s probably not a coincidence."
Although the nearly a thousand joint encounters with death were painful, over the course of these twenty days, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, besides constantly summarizing the monster’s battling methods, also improved their teamwork with their comrades.
They didn’t even need eye contact to coordinate; their cooperation was as if they could read each other’s minds—
If tentacles appeared in front of him, Wu Jiu would slash at them with his sword, and Bai Wu would certainly take care of the safety behind him.
And vice versa.
"It has evolved so many times over seven hundred years, it must have no shortage of tricks.
Our deaths indeed provide it with some benefits, but compared to the huge base, these benefits are negligible.
Moreover, some evolutions and benefits are not practical."
"And this monster, it’s very difficult for it to kill us with the same method twice.
Although we keep failing in the process of exploration, now... it’s our turn to strike back!"
The two stepped into the wind and rain.
The sky was dark, the storm was shaking, and it was difficult to see the attacks coming from countless corners in such an environment.
But for Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, after a thousand battles, they couldn’t be more accustomed to it all.
They even formed muscle memory when it came to dodging certain attacks.
As the tentacles attacked from all directions, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu were as familiar with the situation as if they had rehearsed this level thousands of times!
In the midst of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, they kept moving agilely, even able to create barriers with their cooperation that could block the tentacles’ line of sight.
Their skilled tacit understanding was not apparent to the scientists; at first, they didn’t take it seriously.
For Jing Si to awaken, The First Generation’s duel with Jing Si was extremely brutal.
The mask slid off, revealing a face covered with gray spots in front of Jing Si.
The distance between The First Generation and Jing Si was very close, Jing Si could smell the intermingling scent of blood and sweat between them.
"Ah... are you awake? If it were any later, I might not have been able to properly... cough cough, say goodbye to you."
Even with a fatal wound, The First Generation’s tone was still as light and teasing as always, as if all the troubles in the world were merely interesting nuisances.
Watching this scene, Bai Wu felt a faint sadness.
As Bai Yuan said, all the people in this world are defective, perfecting themselves through others.
Lin Rui, a child born on a farm.
All the people around him had handsome faces and from a genetic point of view, they were a group of perfect children.
Only he was born ugly.
Bi Yunxia suddenly knelt down as she spoke, a proud scientist, a person of pride who had chosen to stay in Denglin City, was now kneeling in front of Bai Wu:
"We’ve lost, we concede... I don’t want to stay here, I want to truly die, I don’t want to be human anymore!"
In the entire break room, the emotions of all the scientists burst out with Bi Yunxia’s tearful plea.
Many scientists cried, holding their heads like Hou Haiyan, they didn’t seem like scientists but more like beggars with their spines broken.
Fu Lei covered his face with a file, lying on his back, no one knew Fu Lei’s expression, but they could see that Fu Lei’s fist was tightly clenched.
Bai Wu gently helped Bi Yunxia up and said:
"So the heart of Jing Si filled with evil thoughts ended up in Professor Tao, and Professor Tao turned into a monster... The task he left for you was to use your research to kill the strongest monster."
In such an environment, one should be lonely. There should be some complaints.
But he, influenced by Bai Yuan, laughed heartily, and even if it wasn’t as charming as Bai Yuan’s, it was just as carefree.
In the final showdown with Jing Si, he wanted to laugh, but it was too painful to manage a smile.
Fearful desperation filled Jing Si’s eyes:
"Why... why is this happening... I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!"
Although it wasn’t the first time he had faced this situation, over the years, he had fought against The First Generation many times.
But this was the first time he lost control to the extent that he nearly... or actually, did kill The First Generation.
The First Generation was still alive, but his breathing felt as if he wouldn’t last much longer.
"Jing Si, I don’t have much time left, so save your apologies," The First Generation said, slowly pulling out the blade that was impaling him:
"Denglin City is about to be destroyed... I originally wanted to save those scientists... but now, I can’t do these things anymore."
Bai Wu had guessed the cause of this battle.
Prophecies were ultimately lies, and Jing Liu had also left Jing Si for some reason, temporarily.
And with the sealing of the High Tower, Jing Si completely fell into madness.
The heart filled with evil intentions began to twist the entire Denglin City and parasitized Professor Tao’s body.
"Remember everything you did today... I can forgive you on my behalf, I will disappear for a long while, and perhaps you will never see me again... "
"But when you remember me, there’s no need to feel guilty or blame yourself because of me... We are friends."
Tears actually appeared in Jing Si’s eyes.
It was the first time Bai Wu had seen a being of the Well Level with tears.
He suddenly realized that perhaps, at its core, Jing Si’s true nature was an exceedingly kind existence.
It’s just that even Jing Si couldn’t withstand the assault on his will by the influx.
"I’m sorry... I’m sorry..."
The immense sorrow seemed to become something tangible.
Wu Jiu and Bai Wu could both feel that because Jing Si was so powerful, whether it was his memories or emotions, they could actually take on some sort of physical form.
"I accept your apology, but Ddnglin City does not, nor do the scientists trapped in the technology building, and Professor Tao... can never accept it."
Blood spattered as The First Generation pushed Jing Si away and broke free from that blade.
Wu Jiu and Bai Wu could both feel that because Jing Si was so powerful, memories and even emotions could take on a tangible form.
"I accept your apology, but Ddnglin City does not, nor do the scientists trapped in the technology building, and Professor Tao... can never accept it."
He stood with difficulty, his breathing growing more rapid.
Temporal Power tried to repair his body, but both Jing Si’s attack and the weapon itself were forces that transcended the rules.
Temporal Power was unable to restore the wound to its pre-injury state. It could only just manage to maintain the status quo, preventing the wound from worsening.
Temporal Power itself protects its bearer, and as The First Generation was a Semi-Evil Fallen, teetering between life and death, and faced with the tragedy of Ddnglin City, his emotional fluctuations were tremendous.
He could feel the Fusion Disease about to flare up; he placed his hand on Jing Si’s shoulder and issued his final entrustment:
"Save them... Save as many as you can, otherwise... even if I go to hell, I will not forgive you!"
"Finally... my friend once told me that everything I’ve striven for in this life has been a waste of effort..."
"I don’t think so, these past few years, we’ve been struggling against the Twist and have also been trying to keep you lucid..."
"Though you’ve been finding it harder and harder to remain lucid, please remember yourself struggling against the Twisted Will..."
His power surged wildly, and The First Generation disappeared.
In the last moments of his life, this hero didn’t choose to find a place to wait for death.
Instead, he started a legacy of heroism, passing on his power to the next Masked Strange Person.
Under the starry sky, Jing Si knelt on the ground, his eyes filled with self-reproach and sadness.
In front of Jing Si were two oddly-shaped weapons, a knife and a sword.
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Ddnglin City, Grey Mist District.
After the grey mist dissipated, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu both awoke from their memories.
Both lamented the fall of the hero.
In a sense, the fates of The First Generation and those scientists were the same.
Bai Wu clenched his fists, recalling the various experiences of The First Generation.
Wanting to save the world, only to find that no matter what he did, there were more and more Evil Fallen.
Wanting to protect his friends, but in the end, his friends chose to flee this world.
Finally, he found Jing Si and saw the immense power within Jing Si that could influence the world.
For many consecutive years, he had been helping Jing Si become lucid, but Jing Si’s madness had become more and more frequent.
No matter how hard he tried, he was getting further and further away from the hope he wished to achieve!
This might just be the fate of Ddnglin City.
"Do you feel it? This great heartbeat sound, it seems the strongest monster in this city is about to appear," Wu Jiu said, his expression turning cautious as the surroundings grew dimmer.
Bai Wu nodded:
"It’s time to put an end to this cursed city."
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The history was now clear to Bai Wu.
Seven hundred years ago, The First Generation tried to save Jing Si and ended in failure.
The scientists tried to find a way to combat the Evil Fallen and ended in failure.
Before his death, The First Generation awakened Jing Si’s sense of responsibility, and Jing Si also wanted to save the city he had cursed.
Especially the leader of the scientists—Professor Tao.
But just the same, it ended in failure.
Jing Si had two hearts.
Both were highly twisted creations, one in Xuanhui City, where the scientists in Xuanhui City were protected by that heart.
The other had become the monster before them.
The towering skyscrapers began to collapse one by one, with only the science and technology building of Denglin City still standing.
Wu Jiu and Bai Wu hid atop a building that had yet to fall, and from their high vantage point, they finally saw the changes that had befallen the city.
The terrifying sound of a heartbeat was like thunder hidden in dark clouds, and countless gigantic tentacles emerged.
These tentacles were covered in bone spikes, blood-red blossoms, and things similar to Leviathan’s Eye; each tentacle was hundreds of meters long.
And such tentacles were everywhere, dense and numerous.
They were like chains capable of connecting heaven and earth, suddenly seeping out from the depths of the ground.
Wu Jiu marveled at the size of the monster; he had thought that the tentacle entwined around the science and technology building of Denglin City, even if not its whole body, must constitute a considerable portion of it.
Nevertheless, the opponent was part of Jing Si, and although it couldn’t compare with Jing Si, it was certainly not on the same level as the Evil Fallen they had faced before.
The countless eyes growing on the tentacles suddenly opened!
At that moment, the tentacles launched an attack, a step ahead of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu!
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu didn’t know what being watched by the eyes would entail, but they were very experienced fighters and simultaneously burst forth with their fastest speed.
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Wielding dual blades, Wu Jiu, who had activated Instant Shadow, became a streak of lightning, tracing beautiful arcs in the air!
Bai Wu also fully unleashed the power of his Well Level body, slashing out with ferocious sword energy!
The distance to the most special tentacle, entwined with black blood vessels, was still three thousand three hundred meters.
In that three thousand three hundred meters, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu charged forward instantaneously, and these two strongest members of the Investigation Corps managed to sever a dozen huge tentacles.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Scientists in Denglin City, utterly shocked by the scene, endured the torment of their mutations, clenching their fists tightly, filled with tension.
The heartbeat of the monster reverberated throughout the city, but what they heard was their own hearts beating.
The curse of seven hundred years! They finally saw hope!
The massive tentacles slid off from the cut and fell; the powerful slashes by Bai Wu and Wu Jiu seemed capable of splitting all things in two with a single stroke!
The landing of the tentacles, each weighing tens of thousands of tons, made the tremors in the entire city even more severe!
"Charge! Charge!"
Bi Yunxia, Hou Haiyan, including Fu Lei, every scientist, was suddenly inspired with conviction by the two of them—
Charge! Sever this pitiful fate completely!
That’s what they were thinking, and even Bai Wu was filled with the same desire!
The accumulated despair in this city over seven hundred years was too great; he had no intent to save the world, but at least...
He wanted to accomplish what The First Generation and Jing Si had left unfinished!
Countless black substances materialized between heaven and earth, thick and numerous, as if the sky had suddenly begun to pour down black rain.
Red Karmic Fire instantly enveloped Bai Wu, boiling away the terrifying Karmic Fire as it evaporated the black rain.
A white flash continued; Wu Jiu, dual blades in hand, moved through the black rain and remained completely dry!
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu were like a beam of light in the darkness, charging toward the darkest depths!
The scientists began to tremble excitedly!
In seven hundred years, no one had ever been able to awaken that monster! And no one had ever been able to keep moving forward under the monster’s immense pressure!
Although darkness shrouded the world, everyone’s heart lit up!
But at that moment, Fu Lei suddenly felt his heartbeat skip.
He couldn’t see what was happening in the darkness ahead.
As countless tentacles suddenly sprang up from underground like ground spikes...
His heart was suddenly engulfed by fear.
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Lightning twined around the tentacles, creating the impression that anyone who approached would be struck by a massive electric current.
Bai Wu stood up:
"I didn’t expect the weapons to return too, that is a silver lining amidst this misfortune."
Wu Jiu was still somewhat confused:
"I thought we were dead..."
"Once we enter this building, death is no longer death, but a nourishment that strengthens the monsters," said Fu Lei.
Fu Lei stood at the doorway leading out of the building:
"You guys... failed, didn’t you?"
Although the answer was obvious, all the scientists still looked toward Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, hoping to hear a response that could sustain their hope.
Bai Wu was calm, and so was Wu Jiu.
"Captain, if I die next time, don’t stop, don’t change the pace because of me."
"I’ll try my best," Wu Jiu said, not immediately agreeing.
Watching his subordinates die in front of him, it was only after entering this building that he could not transform into Evil Fallen.
Otherwise, he would have surpassed his anger limit long ago.
"Then, the monster seems to have become more troublesome, but have you noticed that the tentacle wrapped with black blood vessels has no bone spurs, no eyes with negative attributes, and no weird flowers?" Bai Wu said.
Wu Jiu suddenly realized:
"Are you saying that it’s the other tentacles that have evolved, and not itself?"
It was the memory of The First Generation being seriously wounded by Jing Si and entering a near-death state.
"Captain, let’s do it."
"Okay."
Without any suspense, under the joint attack of Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, the shadow was easily killed.
The final battle of The First Generation unfolded in Bai Wu’s mind.
At the same time, as all the shadows died, cracks began to appear on the ground of Denglin City.
The Grey Mist dissipated, but the entire city was enveloped in Hei Wu.
Wu Jiu, ever since entering the city, felt the enormous heartbeat sound becoming clearer.
In their memories, even before Wu Jiu and Bai Wu regained consciousness, they entered some kind of defensive state unconsciously due to a strong sense of crisis.
"Why has the sky suddenly darkened?"
The scientists had been in Denglin City for seven hundred years but had never seen such a scene.
The black fog shrouded the entire city, and on the gigantic tentacles that entwined around the Denglin City Tech Building, blood-red eyes opened one after another.
All the Evil Fallen that had gathered because they smelled humans dispersed.
The scientists didn’t understand what was going on, Fu Lei’s face was pale:
"Tao... no, Jing Si has awakened."
"Yes, so we don’t need to kill these tentacles. This time, let’s try to be even faster!"
"Good! This time, we at least touch its real body."
Bai Wu raised the greatsword again, and Wu Jiu grasped his twin blades tightly once more.
"Sorry, we don’t have time to answer your questions now."
After this sentence, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu no longer paid attention to the scientists.
The atmosphere became strange.
Watching Bai Wu and Wu Jiu hurriedly leave, the scientists felt a sense of déjà vu.
"Many years ago... we were like them, right?"
A scientist in the corner suddenly spoke up, and once the words were said, everyone fell silent.
Yes, many years ago, they were the same.
When they experienced failure, they would sum up the reasons for their failure and think of ways to overcome it.
They would comfort each other.
"Could they... be like us? If they keep failing... will they eventually lose their edge?" Hou Haiyan looked towards Fu Lei.
Fu Lei didn’t know either; he didn’t respond, simply walking back to the window to look into the distance again.
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The second battle began.
As Bai Wu and Wu Jiu advanced, they could clearly feel the numbing sensation brought on by the lightning.
Their speed was thus reduced.
This time, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu’s plan fell through.
They had originally intended to bypass these tentacles and break through at the fastest speed, but because their speed was reduced by the numbness from the lightning...
The two of them were caught in a bitter fight.
Facing countless eyes, they had to maintain a speed that couldn’t be caught by gazes.
But as the tentacles continued to gather, the space left for Bai Wu and Wu Jiu to combat became smaller and smaller.
Countless tentacles stretched out from the ground, and countless others descended from the sky!
They were like a cage, tightly trapping Wu Jiu and Bai Wu.
This time, they were one thousand one hundred meters away from the real body.
In terms of distance, it was actually worse than the last time.
In the end, Wu Jiu was strangled by the tentacles, while Bai Wu was devoured by the giant flower on the tentacles.
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Denglin City Science and Technology Building.
When Bai Wu and Wu Jiu reappeared, the expressions of the scientists had already darkened.
However, Bai Wu didn’t pay attention to them and continued to discuss in a low voice with Wu Jiu:
"There’s no change in appearance, the evolution isn’t visible."
Wu Jiu said:
"Tentacles will pierce up from the ground, which I can now avoid through sensation of vibrations, but I can’t avoid the tentacles that fall from the sky."
"The most critical issue is the gaze, although those eyes are not comparable to Leviathan’s Eye, with only one negative attribute implanting at a time, but the key issue is that there are too many of them. The tentacles are covered in eyes, and someone with trypophobia might die on the spot," Bai Wu said, frowning.
Wu Jiu suggested:
"How about this, I’ll take the lead and attract as many gazes as possible, and you’ll approach the monster’s body through other routes."
"Okay, we can try that."
After agreeing on the plan, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu once again took action.
No one spoke, no one held them back.
The scientists still had hope in their hearts, but fear and despair were slowly eating away at that hope.
This time, they could see clearly that the distance traveled by Wu Jiu and Bai Wu was even less than before.
Everyone couldn’t shake off a certain thought—the curse had begun again.
The curse where the harder you try, the further you are from the goal... No one who set foot in this city could avoid it.
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In their third battle, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu could distinctly feel that the gravitational parameters of space had changed.
It was probably an evolution of the rules, or possibly a term that didn’t have any physical features...
Although Wu Jiu’s speed was still imperceptible to the naked eye, the physical drain had increased.
Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, one leading and one following. This time Wu Jiu was tasked with drawing fire, while Bai Wu attempted to circumvent from different angles.
But when they were 1,500 meters away from the monster, a mutated tentacle suddenly struck, its speed incomparably faster than the others’.
And once it emerged, the scenery around Wu Jiu transformed.
Illusions, phantasms.
Even with Li You’s assistance, the brief moment of stagnation without Bai Wu’s cover was fatal for Wu Jiu.
When Bai Wu sensed his captain’s weakening presence from afar, it was already too late.
Under the scrutiny of countless gazes... Wu Jiu’s body completely disintegrated into dust.
And following Wu Jiu’s demise, the pressure on Bai Wu also surged suddenly.
Distance... 1,400 meters.
The third attempt of Wu Jiu and Bai Wu concluded in failure.
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Initial success, followed by decline, and then total exhaustion.
Inside the Denglin City Science and Technology Building—
When Wu Jiu and Bai Wu failed for the third time, the scientists somewhat expected Bai Wu and Wu Jiu to show some reaction.
But there was none, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu were still figuring out how to deal with the monster.
"It seems that the first time, it deliberately went easy on us to figure out our capabilities," Bai Wu said.
"Although it evolves too, it has evolved countless times in seven hundred years; the evolution caused by our failures is almost negligible for it."
"The increasing distance only proves that it hasn’t even exerted its full strength."
Wu Jiu agreed with Bai Wu’s analysis:
"So we continue?"
"Continue!"
The fourth offensive commenced!
About ten minutes later.
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu reappeared in the Denglin City Science and Technology Building.
The colossal monster that entwined the entire city once again demonstrated its formidable capabilities.
Yet Bai Wu and Wu Jiu just silently took note, briefly discussed how to circumvent the issue, and then launched their fifth attack.
In the fifth attempt, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu died amidst absolute zero temperatures.
In the sixth, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu were caught in the explosion of a "mother-and-child dart" that suddenly burst into countless tiny tentacles.
In the seventh, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu’s spatial sense became severely disordered, and they collided head-on with a bone spike while moving.
In the eighth attempt, many split bodies resembling Bai Wu and Wu Jiu in shape and abilities emerged from within the tentacles.
By the ninth, tenth, eleventh times... The split bodies were becoming more numerous and, with the continuous deaths of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, their abilities grew stronger.
On the thirteenth time, while facing a certain tentacle, a scientist in Denglin City’s Science and Technology Building committed suicide in desperation.
His death granted the monster another evolution, dealing a heavy blow to Bai Wu and Wu Jiu who had just found a breakthrough.
The fourteenth time.
The fifteenth time.
Time sixteen, seventeen, eighteen...
Time twenty, twenty-five, thirty...
Countless tentacles formed walls on all sides, trying to squeeze the living space of Wu Jiu and Bai Wu!
But Wu Jiu and Bai Wu still easily broke through, just like the scene in the Causal Phone Booth where they had slain the Hydra with Gu Hailin—
The giant tentacles tried to summon countless split bodies again, but this time, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu didn’t give the tentacle any chance.
With the explosion of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Bai Wu seemed like the god of fire descending to earth! Swinging the Envy Greatsword, waves of crimson tide instantly submerged the tentacle hundreds of meters high!
Seven hundred meters.
Five hundred meters.
Three hundred meters.
Even more concentrated attacks appeared in front of the two, but when they once again faced the giant mass wrapped in countless black veins...
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu showed not the slightest hint of panic!
"Captain!"
"Understood!"
Facing an overwhelming dense onslaught, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu vanished simultaneously, Instant Shadow activated—
With precise teleportation, Wu Jiu carried Bai Wu, continuously closing in! They launched their final charge, which was also the longest Instant Shadow that Wu Jiu had ever executed!
The essence of Instant Shadow was actually about the control of spatial power within temporal power.
Excessive use of any power could impose a burden on the body that was beyond imagination, especially the power of rules.
High in the sky, crossing over countless tentacles, Wu Jiu used his last bit of strength to push Bai Wu forward:
"My mission is complete, Bai Wu... now it’s up to you!"
In the high sky, as Wu Jiu’s body fell into the abyss with the pouring rain, what awaited him... was inevitably agony and death.
But Wu Jiu had no hesitation; the Instant Shadow he had just executed beyond his limits was the most satisfying one in his life.
Now, all Bai Wu needed was to bring a perfect ending to all this!
Bai Wu did not look back at this scene.
Lightning continuously struck down, the world alternating between light and darkness.
All the scientists clenched their fists at this moment!
Fu Lei, who had always watched this world with cold eyes for seven hundred years, cried out desperately:
"We must win! We absolutely must win!"
This shout seemed more powerful than thunder, echoing in the souls of every scientist.
Some faces were suddenly streaked with tears. Time seemed to flow backward at this moment, as if they saw the days when they had struggled together, constantly trying, failing, and then trying again... for the future of humanity!
Seventy meters.
A cold blue light emitted from within Bai Wu.
Blue and red forces intertwined. Seven hundred meters above in the sky, Bai Wu held the greatsword aloft with both hands and slashed down!
The trajectory formed by the Karmic Fire and cold light was like a scar engraved between heaven and earth!
The powerful strike finally allowed Bai Wu to penetrate the layers of barriers and rush in front of the huge tentacle.
All along, Bai Wu had not used the Power of Twist, as he was worried about revealing this power too early, which might prepare the monster.
But now, he had no hesitations.
King and king had met! With the captain’s help, he had broken through the thousands of troops and horses!
In the approaching moment, Bai Wu activated the Twist! The Well Domain started!
This was a power of origin that transcended rules! Bai Wu did not forget that this monster, according to the eye’s hint, possessed temporal power.
But no matter what kind of power it was, in the Well Domain, it would be completely twisted!
Everything unfolded just as Bai Wu had anticipated. Golden temporal power surged out from the gaps between the countless black veins!
What malicious intent this was.
If someone, after great difficulty, finally made it in front of the monster, only to be teleported back to the start by temporal power...
All hope would once again be shattered, utterly crushing their will.
But Bai Wu had foreseen this scene! Twenty-two days before, in the first battle Bai Wu experienced, he had thought of this moment.
The golden energy struck Bai Wu’s body but was torn apart by the twisted domain!
On the great black tentacle, numerous fine black veins were ruthlessly torn layer by layer by the furious Envy Greatsword.
