Free Web NovelChapter 514: Chapter 131: Divine Body and the Savior (11,000-word Mega Chapter)
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Inside the Mist, unknown region.
The sudden appearance of a mysterious entity caused several Well Level beings to feel an immense sense of oppression.
Among the four surviving Well Level entities, only Jing Si remained relatively calm.
On one hand, this was because his connection to the Well was weaker, and his own strength was far beyond that of the other Well Level entities.
On the other hand, no matter whether this causality-defying existence was on the side of humanity or not—
for him, the outcome couldn’t get any worse.
Jing Yi’s objective was to tie down Jing Si.
But now, due to the arrival of some powerful being, a large variable had been introduced.
In Jing Si’s view, if this unforeseen variable sided with the Twisted, then humanity would perish, and the High Tower would be destroyed.
The end result would be the same as Jing Yi holding him back.
Conversely, if this variable stood with humanity, Bai Wu would not die, and it was even very possible—that the body of the source of the Twisted would be further damaged.
The survival of humans fighting alongside him, and the target he wanted to kill growing even more weakened, was undoubtedly good news.
All things considered, Jing Si saw at least the possibility of circumstances improving.
And this possibility was significant.
"It seems that the destruction of the High Tower suddenly has an element of suspense. I can agree to not hinder your assault on the High Tower," said Jing Si, accepting Jing Yi’s condition. Jing Yi attempted to calculate a certain chain of causality.
But it was all too late now, near the High Tower battlefield, a force that isolated everything had emerged.
Even Jing Yi couldn’t have imagined such a force.
The scales of victory and defeat began to shift due to the tremendous variable.
...
...
On the outskirts of the High Tower.
When Nie Chongshan arrived with a beat of wings, everyone felt his extraordinarily powerful aura.
Only Bai Wu knew that Nie Chongshan’s sudden appearance must have been triggered by some event.
[A peerless monster has become the third Evil Fallen to cross the Well Level Threshold. But what should we name it? Nie Chongmu? Liu Chongshan? Hiss, what’s the naming convention for a Super Saiyan fusion? Shall we take a cue from that? I admit, this question has me stumped.]
The teasing from Enhanced Vision seemed devoid of feeling. But perhaps this wasn’t the time to be emotional.
Even as Bai Wu looked at Nie Chongshan, who was shining with the luster of black crystal stone and covered in battle entries, he should have been happy.
Any top-tier force like this should play a significant role in the upcoming battles.
Bai Wu didn’t have particularly deep ties with Liu Mu.
But he still felt a trace of sadness.
Nie Chongshan finally reached the front lines of the battlefield, standing alone to block the offensive path of Evil Fallen City.
And Bai Wu, Wu Jiu, Li You, and Mirror Evil Fallen likewise secured the middle and rear sectors of the battlefield, keeping them safe and sound.
This earned Nie Chongshan’s admiration, but his expression became complicated when he saw Wu Jiu.
Some things are tougher than fighting.
But Nie Chongshan didn’t waste time and briefly recounted what he had seen in Evil Fallen City.
When he mentioned Hei Wu and the giant hand, Bai Wu frowned.
"It seems the worst-case scenario has happened," he said.
"What situation? Do you know that monster?" Nie Chongshan asked, puzzled.
Wu Jiu and Li You also turned their gaze to Bai Wu.
Bai Wu nodded:
"The message I got from the revelation is that the creature sealed inside the High Tower was divided into several parts, and the farm has control over the hand."
"How strong is that monster?" Nie Chongshan asked further.
Bai Wu shook his head:
"Unclear. No frame of reference."
Bai Wu remembered that according to the revelation, Jing Yi was able to contain Jing Si using the creature’s body.
And after the destruction of the High Tower, when the body gained its own soul, its strength increased even more, surpassing Jing Si.
But it still couldn’t kill Jing Si and could only seal him in a new High Tower.
So Bai Wu’s estimation was that even a soulless body, if manipulated properly, might not be as strong as Jing Si but wouldn’t be far off.
If it were only Alpha’s hand, that would be manageable, but according to Nie Chongshan’s description, it might not just be the hand.
The immense black mist might also be concealing other parts of the body.
As for Jing Si...
That was an opponent Bai Wu couldn’t even bring himself to consider at this stage.
A fragment of Jing Si’s body had caused him and the team leader to die over a thousand times.
If it weren’t for Professor Tao’s obsession allowing people in that area to revive infinitely, he and his team leader would have had no chance of defeating Jing Si.
"In short, our chances of winning the next battle are very low," Bai Wu concluded.
Bai Wu didn’t know if the contingency plans he had left behind could stop this creature.
"Once the High Tower is destroyed, where will humanity go? Will it be annihilated?"
Nie Chongshan asked this question.
There was no need to hide anything now, Bai Wu said directly:
"The people in the High Tower are almost all moving to the refuges, and the people on the battlefield, if they ever retreat, can head towards the port along the west. The Ark will respond to us."
"As for extinction, that won’t happen because, in Sanchez, there is still a city full of people."
"But according to the revelations, most of humanity will have a piece of their common knowledge erased, and they will hate us, the people from Sheng Country, to the bone."
"Discrimination will also gradually deepen."
Bai Wu paused:
"In short, the future will be terrible. And it will get worse and worse. In all places inside and outside the mist, the distortion will intensify, and the monster’s focus is not on exterminating humanity, but it doesn’t need to lift a finger."
"Because humanity’s living space will be increasingly squeezed by the rules, it is foreseeable that humans will eventually have nowhere to go."
Wu Jiu said:
"We can’t let such a future come."
Nie Chongshan nodded:
"That is to say, if this tower really breaks... everything will be over."
Bai Wu responded seriously:
"Yes, I do not accept such a future."
At noon, the sun was high in the sky.
On the vast battlefield, under the scorching heat, the smell of monster blood lingered everywhere.
Nie Chongshan and Wu Jiu were both prepared to fight to the death.
Bai Wu and Li You, however, had their own ulterior thoughts.
And following Wu Jiu’s messaging, the Human Allied Forces on the other side of the ravine were also gearing up for battle.
Because according to Wu Jiu, the night of hard fighting they had before, and the early morning battle where they were nearly forced to retreat by the sole force of Jing Wu—
Were nothing compared to the upcoming battle.
It was as if everything thus far was a strenuous warm-up exercise.
Wu Jiu wanted everyone to be prepared to fight to the death.
This made everyone tense, unsure of what kind of monsters they would see next.
And those who truly knew Wu Jiu understood that he was not one to exaggerate.
The better you knew Wu Jiu, the more you realized the coming war could be exceptionally brutal.
Lin Wurou, Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, Bai Xiaoyu, Yin Shuang, and the members of the Vanguard Group gathered together.
They were probably exchanging something akin to last words.
"Speaking of which, have you felt like you’re being watched by a pair of eyes?" Bai Xiaoyu said timidly.
Shang Xiaoyi shook his head:
"How are you even more cowardly than I am; who could be watching you?"
Wang Shi was also puzzled, while Lin Wurou said with a laugh:
"Bai Xiaoyu is always like that, like a scared little rabbit, don’t be afraid! Your brother Wang Shi will protect you!"
Wang Shi habitually liked to include Lin Wurou in his statements, aligning her with him in a camp of intelligence.
This rendered Lin Wurou speechless, so she decided to pay him back.
But Wang Shi chuckled:
"Yeah, don’t be scared, none of you be scared; if there really is danger, I’m sure to die before you all."
"You’ve got the mouth of a crow, spit it out." Yin Shuang suddenly spoke up.
Even though she was usually cold and distant, out of the several men in the seventh team, the only ones that caught her eye were the captain and Bai Wu.
But Yin Shuang had always considered Lin Wurou, Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, as her own family.
That’s because she had no family of her own left.
Yin Shuang glanced at Bai Xiaoyu, because she, like Bai Xiaoyu, felt like there were eyes spying on her.
It was obvious though that whoever was watching Bai Xiaoyu was not the same person watching her.
However, Yin Shuang did not voice this out; she just said:
"You all heard the captain’s instructions; Wang Shi, Wurou, Xiaoyi, and you too, Bai Xiaoyu, remember them well."
Everyone sat up straight; without Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, Yin Shuang was the team leader of the seventh team.
"Let the tall ones hold up the sky when it falls. If you want to show off blindly, you’ll only drag those people down. We just need to do what we can."
These words were not particularly motivational, but they were practical.
"If even Bai Wu, even the captain can’t handle them, in the face of these enemies, what we can do is to try to survive."
Yin Shuang said:
"Whether we wait for hope in the refuge, or as the captain said, head to the Ark at the western port to seek shelter, not one of us in the seventh team can be missing."
When had Yin Shuang ever spoken so much? Lin Wurou suddenly realized that the upcoming battle might indeed be very brutal.
Bai Xiaoyu’s eyes widened, her timid demeanor changing:
"Not one of us in the seventh team can be missing!"
"Right! Whether it’s the refuge or the Ark, no matter what the future of humanity holds, the seventh team, not one can be missing!"
Everyone spoke up, each of them, in their hearts, also coming to a realization.
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...
While the seventh team was exchanging their desires, Nie Chongshan had intended to discuss some matters with Wu Jiu.
But he was interrupted by Zheng Yue.
And when Nie Chongshan was about to explain to Bai Wu, Bai Wu went to find Cain instead.
In the midst of the battlefield, Bai Wu said:
"No matter what, after this battle everything will come to an end, Cain. Being a disciple of Spades K, is there anything about Spades K that you want to tell me?"
"Also, is there something you are hiding from me?"
"Among all your disciples originally, what was the one thing that Elijah mentioned which you desired to destroy no matter what?"
"If you don’t speak now, you might never get the chance."
Cain was somewhat surprised:
"If the upcoming battle is one of life and death, your talking to me here is indeed unexpected, but why should I tell you anything?"
The one who spoke was Cain’s own body, but in order for him to more skillfully control the three bodies, the second sentence was spoken by the body of Liu Long:
"My secrets are not for you to know. You only need to know that the deeds of my master, they’re no less than those of the Spades K."
Bai Wu didn’t quite understand, and in fact, Cain didn’t quite understand either. He certainly knew a bit more than Bai Wu regarding Spades Ten.
But that was very limited, and Cain was very aware that compared to Spades K, he had only learned the superficial parts.
"How did you obtain your Sequence, The Deceiver?"
"This is not for you to know. As for me, you don’t need to worry. Whether the High Tower is destroyed or not, I will survive."
After a brief pause, Cain continued with the body of Pang Li:
"Only the living deserve to know so much."
Bai Wu actually wanted to ask more questions because there was something that always puzzled him.
The First Generation, Bai Yuan, Xiaoyugan, Spades K.
As part of the farm’s Golden Generation, it could be said that The First Generation, Bai Yuan, Xiaoyugan all achieved great things.
Even Bai Yuan, whom Bai Wu liked the least, had deep schemes.
Bai Wu’s journey to this day could be said to be closely related to these three individuals.
But what about Spades Ten?
Upon reflection, Bai Yuan spoke of Spades Ten as a respectable adversary.
But how difficult was it for Bai Yuan to praise someone? He considered me deficient.
He saw Jing Wu as a defective product.
Perhaps Spades Ten was just deemed a worthy opponent by Bai Yuan based on his talent alone.
But the more it was so, shouldn’t such a person have achieved even more?
What were his accomplishments? Was it just that he sent himself to a different world with a bullet?
Or was it... training Cain?
I always feel that all of this is just a front, and I sense that Spades Ten is also a key figure.
Even according to Jing Liu’s words, Spades Ten is crucial to me.
Previously, I thought ’crucial’ meant that Spades Ten brought me here.
But now Bai Wu feels that these four words carry too much weight.
The deeds of Spades Ten should not end there.
He wanted to understand more, but at that moment, a staff officer with Enhanced Vision who was holding a pair of binoculars exclaimed:
"They’re here! The monsters are coming!"
Following the staff officer’s exclamation, as the momentum to wipe out everything approached...
All human communication had to be interrupted.
From that moment on, they began their final defense of their homeland.
Everyone picked up their weapons, fully on guard.
Qin Zong loudly directed the battlefield, assigning tasks to everyone in the front, middle, and rear.
And Nie Chongshan, Wu Jiu, Bai Wu, Li You, and the Mirror Evil Fallen, the five strongest beings, were outside the ravine.
They were prepared to intercept all Evil Fallen at all costs, outside the ravine.
At the same time, they would try to eliminate the enemy’s leader.
...
...
In the distance of the High Tower.
A massive Hei Wu that looked like it was spilling from the Milky Way formed a cascading waterfall or perhaps a hanging curtain.
Below the Hei Wu, countless Evil Fallen, maniacal in demeanor, charged toward the High Tower.
Compared to the Evil Fallen who had attacked previously, they seemed to have lost much of their reason, becoming even more frenzied.
And within the Hei Wu, a giant arm embedded with numerous "mouths" burst forth from the mist.
On the outside of the ravine.
The immense sense of oppression approached, and Li You felt a certain fear for the first time.
This was the natural suppression of Evil Fallen by the Twisted Master.
This fear was not something Bai Wu or Wu Jiu felt.
[I cannot assess its strength. This thing is even more troublesome than Well Level, it is the embodiment of distortion.
But what I can tell you is, it doesn’t have its own consciousness; something else is controlling this embodiment of distortion right now.]
"I’m not sure," Bai Wu mused, "if locating this existence and cutting off its connection with the Twisted Construct will stop it, but perhaps this is the only way?"
The information was almost nothing to speak of, extremely limited.
However, Bai Wu was not unfamiliar with this scene.
According to the revelations, Jing Yi controlled the Twisted Construct to battle with Jing Si.
If the Construct itself had no consciousness, then by finding the controller, they might be able to dissolve this crisis.
"No matter how powerful the enemy, we must strike first! Nie Chongshan, Li You, Mirror, the three of you are responsible for holding the defensive line, don’t let any Evil Fallen cross the ravine!"
Li You didn’t like being ordered around, but for the sake of the bigger picture, she had to accept Bai Wu’s arrangements.
Wu Jiu asked,
"What do we do?"
"Remember what we did in Denglin City? Now, we need to break through, keep breaking through. Captain, I need you to keep activating Instant Shadow to bring me close to that hand!"
Wu Jiu looked at the hand appearing out of the black mist. Although he did not feel fear like an Evil Fallen would, the oppressive might, as if a great evil deity had descended upon them, was palpable.
"No problem!"
In an instant, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu vanished.
Li You too forcefully suppressed her fear, spreading out her divine consciousness,
and the moment Wu Jiu and Bai Wu reappeared, ice pillars suddenly formed beneath their feet.
But this was not the enemy’s doing, rather it was Li You’s own doing.
Using the ice pillars under their feet, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu exerted force once more, leaping a second and a third time!
Each jump covered an immense distance.
Together, they were like a rocket.
Wu Jiu took on the role of propulsion, while Bai Wu acted as the destructive warhead.
In the instant the advance concluded—
Bai Wu held the Knight’s Sword Pride in one hand, the Envy Greatsword in the other, and bit down on the Greedy Dagger, ready to launch the strongest assault on that hand.
At that moment, countless Evil Fallen tried to fly into the sky to protect the hand.
But Li You’s technique unfolded as if it were specifically to surround Bai Wu.
As she and Wu Jiu kept on slaughtering, Li You’s power had greatly increased, absorbing a number of peculiar techniques.
Li You once again transformed behind Bai Wu, morphing into a massive killing machine.
An uncountable barrage of terrifying bombardments densely emerged in front of Bai Wu, precisely clearing the path for him.
Bai Wu grew ever closer to that hand!
But at that very moment, within the black mist, the other end of the Twisted Hand—Jing Yu’s body seemed as if it had already fused with the Twisted Hand.
He suddenly opened his eyes:
"What do you think you’re up against? You want to strike first?"
Jing Yu sneered.
Just as Bai Wu was about to reach his destination—at the instant he touched the back of the Twisted Hand, a huge circular array appeared above the clouds, like a reflection in the ocean sky.
In that instant, a massive distortion... caused Bai Wu to vanish.
And at the same time, this vast array threw the entire battlefield into disarray, like a jigsaw puzzle knocked askew.
Legend-level Mutation Entry—Twisted Chessboard.
It made the area enveloped by the array into a domain, within which, anyone could decide their position within any location.
If Yan Zizai’s Bipolar Transposition was to swap positions with the opponent—
Then this was the ultimate evolution of the Bipolar Transposition’s power. Instantly, Jing Yu twisted space, making everyone appear where he desired.
In just an instant, Bai Wu suddenly appeared behind the High Tower.
The Mirror Evil Fallen, who had spread out a massive barrier, appeared one thousand five hundred meters in the sky.
Wu Jiu and Li You were beneath the ravine, while Nie Chongshan found himself in the middle of the battlefield.
And the frail humans—
suddenly found themselves exposed on the outside of the ravine.
The chessboard was thrown into chaos.
Qin Zong’s originally minimally-casualty strategy suddenly faced its most tragic moment.
All of the charging Evil Fallen, instead of facing the five powerful guardians, now faced... countless weak and delectable prey.
Before the arrival of the Twisted Hand, humankind could say it had almost made no sacrifices.
But now... an unstoppable massacre unfolded.
Bai Wu, and everyone else for that matter, had not expected... the opponent to be so formidable.
The most powerful Evil Fallen were positioned right next to the weakest humans.
Jing Yu looked down upon the many being torn apart by the Evil Fallen below the giant hand, emitting a maniacal laughter.
In just an instant... due to the battlefield’s disrupted chessboard, the humans suffered heavy casualties.
Around Yin Shuang, healers were being impaled through the chest by Evil Fallen, or they were being directly torn apart and stuffed into their maws.
"Save... save... me..."
Not long ago, a girl who was praying with her hands clasped, hopeful for a human victory, hopeful that the five people outside the ravine could hold back the Evil Fallen, had half of her head sheared off by a deadly claw.
Enormous fear kept her from dying instantly, and she desperately cried out for help.
The next second, Yin Shuang witnessed the girl, barely in her twenties, who had come to the battlefield because she was awakened as a healer, being devoured whole.
On another side of the battlefield, Wang Shi was shouting loudly:
"Xiaoyi! Wurou! Bai Xiaoyu! Where are you guys!"
His eyes bloodshot, faced with these powerful Evil Fallen fusions, even equipped with the Xie Family’s technological gear, even after chasing the captain’s and Bai Wu’s footsteps for over a year...
Wang Shi still couldn’t contend with monsters of this level.
Especially since... there were so many of them.
He felt his life was about to end, but at least, he wanted to fulfill his promise before he died.
But he couldn’t find Lin Wurou, nor Shang Xiaoyi. Not long ago, they’d made a vow to stay together as Team Seven; now, they were scattered across different parts of the battlefield.
Seeing his companions being gutted one by one, Wang Shi’s fighting spirit flared up. Gripped by grief and anger, he fought desperately against the Evil Fallen.
Earlier.
Zheng Yue, who initially was at the rear of the battlefield, had made his way to the front.
He had entered a state of semi-consciousness and unfolded the Mirror Flower, Water Moon Domain.
He continuously expanded the domain, pulling all within it, friend or foe, into a dream state.
The chaotic battlefield must now be brought back to order.
Wang Su repeatedly unleashed Void Lashes while transforming into a hawk.
Cain, observing the extreme chaos, exclaimed:
"Truly worthy of being called the source of the Twisted. Just one tactic plunged the whole battlefield into complete distortion and chaos, hahahahaha..."
Cain remained in the center of the battlefield, except that due to the front lines advancing, he moved from the middle to inside a ravine.
The enormous ravine seemed like a dividing line between justice and evil, light and darkness, order and chaos.
Standing at the edge of this boundary, he belonged neither to black nor white, simply laughing out loud as he watched humans and Evil Fallen dying one after another.
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...
Later, Bai Wu noticed something—
Despite the battlefield being in utter disarray, as if someone had scrambled a chessboard, the position of that hand had not changed.
The distant Hei Wu and that hand were still slowly advancing.
"It seems it can change the position of others, but not its own."
The current situation was dire. Li You, Nie Chongshan, and Wu Jiu, due to the change of positions on the battlefield, found all their plans disrupted.
They could no longer protect humanity and could only save whoever they could from the surrounding Evil Fallen.
Bai Wu’s mind was clear; he saw that the chaos wasn’t just chaos but an intentional move by the enemy.
To make humanity’s weaker side face the strongest monsters.
It also meant that if they could control this person, they could solve everything at the root.
So, Bai Wu launched his attack once again!
But just as Bai Wu was about to perform a surprise attack, planning to capture the king and overcome the enemy, he suddenly realized he had landed on the back of the Twisted Concrete form’s hand.
This was high up, kilometers above ground, the giant hand like an airship, and at its other end was endless Hei Wu.
From the Hei Wu side, a child’s voice came through:
"Nice to meet you, I’m called Jing Yu. Through the Divine Body, I sensed an aura in you very close to that of the Divine Body. And your appearance seems to confirm my guess, you are Bai Yuan’s son."
The Hei Wu parted slightly, revealing Jing Yu at its end.
The eyes quickly provided a hint:
[If it’s the original body, I can’t observe it, but this is a Split Body~ As everyone knows, Evil Fallen cannot reproduce, but for Xiaoyugan, whose mental splits can spawn entities, all one needs to do is build a personality in her mind and infuse a part of their essence, and this annoying little brat could be spawned.
I really dislike him, and if possible, you better kill him. But I must warn you, he is very strong.]
Bai Wu disliked the child too; even without the notes, his intuition caused him to feel resentment.
This was a very evil child, despite seeming innocent and childlike, possessing the youth of a child, Bai Wu could see through it all at a glance—it was all a facade.
"In some sense, I am the son of the person you call the farmer; I have a special status on the farm, known as ’Sir.’"
Bai Wu didn’t speak, focusing all his energy, looking for a chance to kill Jing Yu in one fell swoop.
However, Jing Yu’s body quickly became blurry and distorted:
"Do you think that killing me will stop this war? But you see—my life force has now fused with the Divine Body."
"I advise you to give up your delusions."
There were no flaws to exploit; Bai Wu could feel that Jing Yu might also be capable of causing distortion.
Around Jing Yu, there was a familiar aura.
This aura made Bai Wu too wary to act rashly.
Distortion.
Although drinking the Well Water granted Bai Wu Origin Level abilities, and he had been making swift progress with each use,
one could say he was an absolute genius.
But compared to those who created these tactics, or rather, those who naturally had such abilities from birth, Bai Wu’s power was still insignificant.
Bai Wu had to admit, though he had sufficiently regarded his opponent, the Alpha’s body... was more powerful than he had anticipated.
"I brought you here because I’m confident you cannot harm me; you need to understand something. Perhaps you’ve crossed a certain threshold, but to fight against a god, you are still too weak right now."
"What I want to tell you is this: gods are omnipotent. To disrupt the chessboard is just the first step in an irregular game. Next comes the second step."
In that instant, Bai Wu finally spotted a tiny flaw and struck with the fastest surprise attack he could muster,
As there was no one else around, Pride began to exert its power.
Bai Wu’s strength and speed were further amplified!
But Jing Yu didn’t dodge, instead allowing Bai Wu to make a slashing cut.
A flash of white light, and Greed sliced through Jing Yu’s throat, while Pride pierced Jing Yu’s chest.
But laughter came from all around:
"Since when have you been under the illusion that I am the real body?"
"I’ve told you, I have become one with the gods."
The Jing Yu before them crumbled apart like mud.
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"My creator was outsmarted by your father. Now that your father is dead, this debt falls on you. I will make you see the gap between us!"
The detestable tone, the detestable laughter.
Bai Wu wanted to launch an attack on the Twisted Hand. If it wasn’t possible to find Jing Yu, then the hand would be utterly destroyed...
But setting aside whether he could accomplish it, just as he intended to do so, the chessboard shifted once again.
Bai Wu returned to his original position.
The massive hand in the distance was still slowly moving, approaching the High Tower.
It was like a colossal battleship, slowly nearing the island, ready to land and greet the supreme king.
Everything seemed unchanged, yet everything had changed.
The battlefield, originally brutal... suddenly became even more so.
The first array in the sky was the Twisted Chessboard.
And the second array in the sky also held legendary power—
Legendary Mutation Entry·Twisted Shadow.
The two arrays overlapped like two huge, sun-blocking disks.
Due to the overlap of the two disks, the sun was obscured, and the entire land was shrouded in shadows.
Shadows beneath everyone’s feet... began to act strangely.
They writhed continuously, breaking out from a two-dimensional space into three dimensions!
What were once mere shadows slowly gained substance!
It was as if monsters were crawling out from the shadows.
In front of Bai Wu, another Bai Wu appeared.
Wu Jiu, who was constantly saving people and slaying foes, now had another Wu Jiu behind him.
Li You, transformed into a war machine, endlessly destroying the Evil Fallen, now faced another Li You at his flank.
The demon unrivaled in battle, meeting an identical opponent.
Lin Wurou, facing a shadow that looked exactly like her yet bore an evil smile, suddenly felt fear.
"Don’t be afraid, I am you."
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...
The situation on the battlefield changed once again, with the original Twisted Chessboard already causing the human forces to lose nearly a third of their number in a short time.
But thanks to the efforts of a few generals, the situation was slowly improving.
Yet now, just as the situation seemed better, it became tense again.
Everyone realized there was a person beside them who looked exactly like themselves.
Only this person’s aura was extremely evil.
These beings seemed like shadows made flesh, though they wore a layer of dull color.
"Hmph, they’re just shadows, an inferior trick!"
Nie Chongshan turned around and launched an attack on his shadow instantly.
As the battle raged on, his various Entries had already brought him a significant boost in strength!
In this moment, Nie Chongshan was even a match for Li You!
But just as Nie Chongshan’s fist was about to hit shadow Nie Chongshan...
The shadow suddenly caught Nie Chongshan’s punch with a demon’s claw.
What followed was a contest of strength.
Nie Chongshan had thought the shadow weak, but unexpectedly... in this clash of power, he found himself at a disadvantage.
"You’re always calling others trash, but in reality, aren’t you the trash?"
Shadow Nie Chongshan, while withstanding Nie Chongshan’s punch, still managed to taunt him composedly.
Nie Chongshan was shaken to the core.
The strength of the shadow was not any weaker than his own.
Such a shock was experienced elsewhere too.
Li You found that no matter what method she used to attack shadow Li You, the shadow could always dissolve it using a counteracting force.
If she used flames, the opponent used torrents.
If she used frost, the opponent used flames.
On the battlefield, Li You had absorbed many abilities, but regardless of which power she deployed, shadow Li You would either intercept with counteracting forces or respond with perfectly matching methods, resulting in extreme negation.
"Hah, do you know what I’m thinking? I’ll kill you, turn you into my shadow, and then, toy with that Little Dwarf."
Shadow Li You sneered contemptuously at Li You, sending her blood pressure through the roof in an instant.
She transformed into Wu Jiu’s form and activated Instant Shadow, but shadow Li You did the same.
"Do you really have the heart to strike?" the shadow that had become Wu Jiu, Li You, dodged with ease before caressing his own cheek and looking toward Li You.
On the other side.
Two drowsy Zheng Yues began their duel, realizing that entering the Mirror Flower, Water Moon domain seemed pointless.
So it turned into hand-to-hand combat.
The battle between Wang Su and her shadow was very similar to Li You’s.
When one turned into a certain animal, the other transformed into its natural predator.
The fight between Wu Jiu and his shadow was also extremely strange.
Wu Jiu didn’t want to fight; he just wanted to save people, but no matter what, he couldn’t shake off his shadow.
And several times, when Wu Jiu slew the Evil Fallen and saved his teammates, his shadow would show no mercy and swiftly deliver another blow.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, don’t look at me with such an expression. I am the righteous Qingyu, after all. I’ve been righteous for so long, what’s wrong with killing a few teammates?"
"Their lives were all given by me, what’s wrong with taking them back?"
"I must really thank you. I’ve smelled an unprecedented delicacy. Until their last breath, these people couldn’t believe that it was their captain who killed them. That fear and despair, they’re just too delicious."
Enraged, Wu Jiu turned into a streak of light, drawing his sword and slashing towards his shadow.
The shadow Wu Jiu burst into wild laughter:
"That’s the expression! Come on! Let’s fight to the death!"
...
...
Last part.
The shadow Bai Wu didn’t show as many emotions as the other shadows.
He coldly looked at Bai Wu:
"You’ve lost. The future that I can see, you can see too, can’t you?"
"Whether it’s the weak humans who are dying continuously or those core elites who are entangled by my kind, none can change the outcome of the war."
Bai Wu didn’t speak, because everything was as the shadow Bai Wu had said.
All was lost.
He had seen many fragments of the future, employing both rage and sorrow.
But the shadow could use them too, and he couldn’t escape it.
The Twisted Shadow was an ability even more troublesome than the Myriad Forms Doomsday Shape.
While the Myriad Forms Doomsday Shape focused more on the strength of an individual, the Twisted Shadow was better at dealing with many powerful beings simultaneously.
In some sense, defeating the caster could lift the Twisted Shadow.
In this regard, the Myriad Forms Doomsday Shape was stronger than the Twisted Shadow.
But the crux of the problem was... he couldn’t touch Jing Yu.
The current situation seemed as if Jing Yu had used distortion to create a myriad of things.
Even if one could reach the opponent, the power of the Origin Level Mutation, no matter how strong, couldn’t change anything.
What was most critical was that Jing Yu possessed the same power as well.
The shadow Bai Wu didn’t make a move:
"Theoretically, I should kill you, but I also have those eyes, and I don’t want to fight you—it’s too exhausting."
"Just watch slowly, Bai Wu. The future you resist is coming little by little."
There was not a word to refute.
The shadow legion created by the Twisted Shadow snuffed out the last glimmer of hope for humanity.
The essence of the shadow legion was actually Evil Fallen, but within the Array, they could wield the power of "their corresponding person," even if that power was not originally theirs to wield.
If it was just about dealing with the immediate enemy, Bai Wu could do it, but he remained still.
His gaze fell upon the Hei Wu outside the High Tower in the distance.
The shadow Bai Wu said:
"No matter what you’re scheming, it’s useless. My eyes can see through cause and effect. We both know there would be no chance for the battlefield to change."
...
...
Everyone was caught in a fierce battle.
Wu Jiu ultimately got injured, and so did Li You.
The peerless Nie Chongshan suddenly found that there was an equal to his power, and he was the most severely wounded.
Several times, ignoring his own safety, Nie Chongshan forced his way into Wu Jiu’s battle.
He probably wanted to repay a favor.
Time and again, risking his life like a shield, Nie Chongshan stood in front of Wu Jiu. His enemy changed from shadow Nie Chongshan to both shadow Nie Chongshan and shadow Wu Jiu.
Wu Jiu’s eyes were filled with tears. He was very clear that this was not Nie Chongshan’s character.
And he was well aware of why Nie Chongshan would do such a thing, why Liu Mu hadn’t come back.
But in war, who doesn’t die?
On the human side, all the powerful elites were tied up and gradually losing ground.
And those not so strong were each facing a deadly situation.
When Lin Wurou fell to the ground, someone’s blood smeared his handsome face with a layer of filth.
Everything within his vision seemed to turn red.
At this moment, Lin Wurou felt he was on the verge of becoming an Evil Fallen.
Shadows had pierced his knees, leaving him unable to stand straight.
He tried desperately not to feel fear, but he couldn’t help trembling uncontrollably.
The shadowy Lin Wurou ridiculed and humiliated him relentlessly, and he was unable to respond.
This, something Lin Wurou was best at, was now hindered by his fear, causing even his speech to falter.
But just when Lin Wurou felt he was reaching his limit, a strong hand appeared, and in that moment, tears welled up in his eyes.
Wang Shi hoisted Lin Wurou onto his back:
"Brother, don’t be afraid!"
"Wang Shi... are we going to die... "
Around Wang Shi, many had fallen, and those standing were the shadows of their former teammates.
Wang Shi’s eyes also reddened:
"Seventh Squad, not one less. Wurou, don’t be afraid, I will take you out of here! A man’s word is his bond!"
His eyes bloodshot, the clumsy man erupted with an astonishing presence,
He wished to be like Liu Mu, to be a shield in front of his captain.
He could not achieve this, but at the very least, he could be a shield for the other members of the Seventh Squad.
Wang Shi roared loudly.
In his ears was the voice of Commander Qin Zong giving the order to retreat.
The appearance of Jing Yu, the two powerful moves; even without Twisted Hand joining the battlefield... humanity could see no chance of victory.
Before everyone was completely annihilated, humans finally decided to retreat. This also meant the complete defeat in this war.
Their only task now was to keep moving westward.
Wang Shi, carrying Lin Wurou on his back, sprinted frantically.
He wanted to rescue Yin Shuang, save Xiaoyi, save Bai Xiaoyu, but now Wang Shi could not care about anything else.
Because of the situation on the battlefield, it was every man for himself. All he could do was to try his best to get Lin Wurou out.
The command to retreat quickly spread.
Not only the little characters like Lin Wurou, but even the big shots like Zheng Yue, Wang Su, and Qin Zong had no choice but to retreat.
But the path was still arduous.
The canyon was filled with the bodies of humans; retreating along the way, more people fell into despair and became Evil Fallen due to fear.
Some intelligent beings shed hot tears after turning into Evil Fallen, no longer choosing to retreat but instead returning to the battlefield to buy time for other humans.
Many Evil Fallen, lacking wisdom, were completely lost to the twists.
Sorrow, fear, rage, all emotions permeated the battlefield.
The black mist encroached, and that massive hand finally, at a slow pace, crossed the canyon—drawing closer to the High Tower.
Watching all this, Nie Chongshan, Wu Jiu, Li You, and the others, battered and wounded, fighting till the very end, felt an immense despair in their hearts.
The mirror of Evil Fallen shattered again, and seeing the corpses scattered behind him, a great sorrow rose in his heart.
Not long ago, he was the center of attention, but now those who once set their sights on him... were dead on the battlefield.
"My comrades... they’re dead!" the Evil Fallen Mirror wept uncontrollably.
No matter how strong they were, legendary or fabled, all they could do now was to cover others’ retreats as much as possible.
Then watch helplessly... as the High Tower is destroyed.
Time seemed to warp, every second unbearable after the realization of impending failure.
Finally— that darkest moment arrived.
An endless black mist shrouded the entire battlefield.
Faintly, Bai Wu, Wu Jiu, Li You, Evil Fallen Mirror, Nie Chongshan, they all saw the gigantic hand of the monster... merely a hundred meters away from the High Tower.
As if in the next second, the High Tower, which humans had relied on for seven hundred years, would be destroyed!
Jing Yu basked in the despair of those humans, gazing at the clearer Sequence characters etched on the outer wall of the High Tower... his expression turned solemn.
"Oh, great God! I am here to welcome Your descent!"
The massive Twisted Hand suddenly shook violently. The trembling was so intense, as if resonating with the excitement within.
Jing Yu wore a thrilled smile, thinking it was the Divine Body sensing the Soul, like the Divine Body celebrating!
But his smile quickly froze.
For no matter how he drove the Twisted Hand, it simply shook fiercely, but never... took one step forward.
Then, suddenly, there was light in the darkness.
A golden light.
The endless black mist instantly began to thin, as if dissipating under the shine of the golden light, and the world began to visibly brighten!
Jing Yu finally realized that the trembling of the Divine Body was not out of excitement, but—
Fear.
A powerful golden radiance, once dimmed by the black mist, brightened the world again.
Jing Yu turned around abruptly, as a dazzling colossal beam of light, like thunder descending from the heavens, cut through the Array, piercing straight into the earth’s depths.
Under the blinding golden light, a figure in a suit adjusted the tie clip at his chest:
"I’m not too late, am I?"
(According to the cringeworthy statement, there will be a 10,000-word Chapter today, and it will continue tomorrow, although tomorrow might also have two 5,000-word Chapters, in any case, the quantity will not decrease~)
