"Ants... dare to steal... my authority..."
This time, Mo Li's voice no longer roared through time and space, but condensed and echoed directly in the space at the core of Guixu. Every word was like a cold law engraved on the soul, so heavy that it seemed to crush everything and freeze time.
Space was wailing. The gray-white energy vortex symbolizing the "Heart of the Gate" was like a dead pool with a boulder thrown into it. It first shrank and collapsed violently, and then expanded violently! In the center of the vortex, the ink-colored shadow as sticky as asphalt surged and boiled, with a disgusting breath of destruction, gathering and shaping madly!
A giant hand covered with flowing ink scales, with a destructive black light that could annihilate the stars lingering on its fingertips, slowly and unstoppably reached out from the deepest part of the vortex!
The scales were not dead things. Each one was like a miniature black hole, greedily devouring light and chaotic energy, with cold geometric spots flowing around the edges. The mere appearance of this hand caused the entire spherical space supported by the bronze roots to groan as if it was about to collapse. The dark blue sparks jumped wildly in the root veins, flickering!
This is no longer a projection of will!
This is the power of Mo Li - truly passing through the "Heart of the Gate", the origin channel of Guixu, crossing the boundary, and forcibly bringing down part of his body - the true body of the "Shadow of Order"!
The terrifying pressure was like billions of icebergs collapsing and pressing down at the same time, and it came down with a bang!
Li Hua was the first to bear the brunt. His body, which was already on the verge of the limit, was hit hard by an invisible giant hammer! As soon as he approached Mei, his slightly calmed breath became violently disordered again, his throat felt sweet, and he "puffed" a large mouthful of dirty blood mixed with ink poison ice crystals and dark blue stardust. The whole person flew out like a kite with a broken string, and hit the knotted bronze roots heavily!
"Bang!"
The dull impact caused the blue sparks on the surface of the roots to dim instantly. Li Hua's eyes went dark, and his consciousness was like a candle in the wind, on the verge of extinguishing under the interweaving of severe pain and pressure.
And Mo Li's black-scaled giant hand didn't even look at Li Hua.
It stretched out its five fingers, like a casual hand of the master of fate, and grabbed directly at Mei!
The goal was clear, without hesitation!
Kill the variables and take back the power!
Before the giant hand came to the body, the pressure of order that froze everything had already enveloped it!
The Nuo mask field that had just been formed around Mei was forcibly squeezed by this pressure like a raging wave hitting the shore! The silver light was like a water surface thrown into a boulder, and it was violently distorted! The Nuo mask on her forehead made a fragile "click" sound, and the silver light was swallowed by the absolute darkness, as if it could collapse at any time!
Mei's body trembled, and the deep silver light in her eyes trembled slightly. She clearly felt that this time, Mo Li was no longer a projection, but a part of his real body - with the original power to rewrite the law, he rushed to kill!
The giant hand came slowly but instantly, like the judgment of a god beyond the perception of time and space!
Five black fingers gathered together, and the world was like a cage!
Death came, cold, absolute, and irresistible!
- At this critical moment!
"Ugh...!"
A suppressed groan of pain came from the distance where Li Hua fell!
He was not unconscious!
At that moment, on the verge of complete collapse under the pressure of Mo Li, the deepest obsession of his soul - hatred for Mo Li, protection of Mei, and the primitive animality in despair, finally exploded at the critical point!
"Don't even think about touching her!!!"
This roar, hoarse and broken, with blood foam and broken meat, was like a sudden sound of a war drum, shocking Guixu!
Li Hua bounced up from the roots, not by strength, but by the residual light of burning will!
The right arm that had been corroded by ink poison and flowed with dirty blood was like a red-hot iron, bursting with dark, chaotic, and almost crazy light!
The fragment mark on the palm of his hand pulsated like a heart beating wildly!
He no longer guided or suppressed!
He burned and detonated the remaining star power, ink poison, and even the last embers of his life, along with the overwhelming hatred and the will to protect!
The target - is not the giant hand!
But - the space in front of Mei that was twisted and frozen by the pressure!
Break it for me - ! !
Li Hua rushed out like a moth to a flame!
His right arm with a tumbling light, like a doomsday comet, slammed hard on the frozen space!
- Boom! ! !
There was no light explosion, no energy collapse, only the savage, heart-wrenching sound of the law being torn apart!
That void was covered with spider web cracks interwoven with dark blue and black!
Mo Li's hand - for the first time, paused!
The originally unshakable "order" was forcibly shaken by the "Guixu fragment power" of the same origin and chaos in Li Hua's body!
It was frozen at this moment!
In Mei's eyes, silver light flashed!
She did not choose to attack the giant hand - she knew it was useless!
She poured all her will and strength into the gap that Li Hua had exchanged for his life!
"Use blood as a guide! Use souls as sacrifices! Nuo domain - open!!!"
At that moment, the voice under the Nuo mask was clear and solemn, with a tragic divine pressure!
Silver light suddenly bloomed!
Thousands of silver threads of light woven by blood and will burst out from the edge of the Nuo mask!
They pierced the cracked and twisted space accurately!
——Sizzle!
The space trembled, like boiling water falling on iron!
The crack torn by Li Hua had a violent chain reaction under Mei's guidance!
——Boom! ! !
The space collapsed! A space gap with unstable silver light, dark blue and black spots flashing on the edge suddenly formed under Mo Li's giant hand!
That was——the passage leading to the deeper core of Guixu!
"Go——!"
Mei did not hesitate, the silver light rolled up Li Hua's broken body, and the Nuo domain turned into a meteor, shooting through the air!
Mo Li's giant hand tried to stop it, but was dragged by the sudden turbulence and the rupture of the law!
——Swoosh!!
The silver light penetrated the gap and disappeared in the depths of the vortex!
The next moment!
——Boom!!!
The giant hand closed! Space collapsed! Chaos surged! The silver light disappeared, and the gap was annihilated!
And there was nothing in Mo Li's giant hand that covered the sky.
Only a few remnants of silver light and dark blue aura were left, which were immediately swallowed up and wiped out by the absolute order.
…
Mei and Li Hua fell into the deeper layers of the Guixu.
The moment they passed through the gap, it was like falling into an icy sea, and the space was torn as if it was cutting flesh and bones, and Li Hua's body seemed to completely disintegrate…
…
Consciousness floated repeatedly between stripping and reorganization, as if falling into an endless nightmare.
Li Hua felt like a burning ember thrown into the abyss of eternity, sinking endlessly and landing nowhere. Surrounded by the noisy and deadly void, without light or sound, only the excruciating pain of tearing the soul like a poisonous fire burning at the nerve endings.
He finally "fell to the ground".
Or rather, he was taken over by something cold and sticky.
There was a heavy muffled sound.
It was not like soil, nor like rock, but... a broken hollow skeleton?
With a faint light of consciousness flickering, he slowly opened his eyes.
In front of him was a sea of corpses.
Countless fragmented, dull bones were stacked and interlaced, densely packed, and spread to the end of the field of vision like waves - some were as huge as dragon skeletons, with cold bone blades; some were as small as ants, but had triple spines and nine claws; and some were simply unable to tell what kind of creature they belonged to, with only a weird and disgusting structure of debris and unnatural twisted spines.
"Where is this...?"
His lips were cracked, and he almost gritted his teeth to utter a sound.
The moment the sound landed, it was swallowed up by the dead silence around him, like a drop in the ocean.
He wanted to move.
But his body seemed to be sealed by a heavy weight, and every nerve, every inch of flesh and blood, and even every spiritual vein was on the verge of screaming and breaking.
"Mei..."
The only clear thought in his mind supported him to move his arm at a millimeter speed.
"I... can't stop... she..."
His fingers touched the cold object beside him with difficulty.
He turned his head - it was Mei.
At this moment, she was lying quietly among a pile of broken bones, her silver-white hair was stained with ink, blood and dust, and her face was pale and transparent, as if it would be blown away by the wind at any time.
Her Nuo mask was broken, the silver light faded, and only a shallow silver mark remained, winding from the center of her eyebrows to the corner of her lips, like a withered oath.
"Mei!"
Li Hua was shocked and forced to mobilize his exhausted spiritual breath. A mouthful of blood rushed to his throat, but he swallowed it tightly.
He used up his last bit of strength and stretched out his trembling hand to her, and his fingertips touched the back of the cold hand.
She did not respond.
Heartbeat - almost inaudible.
Spiritual breath - ethereal, as if it would return to the void in the next moment.
"No... No..."
He hugged her, his voice so hoarse that it almost sounded like crying: "We haven't reached the end yet... You can't give up now..."
He held her in his arms with a trembling voice, his back twitching constantly due to the severe pain, but he held on motionlessly.
The wind blew in the sea of bones, chilling the bones to the bone.
Something seemed to be staring at him in the dark -
From the deepest "realm" of this Guixu, the "real realm" without light and time.
Suddenly.
"Drip."
Warm.
Li Hua lowered his head.
A drop of blood and tears slowly slid down the corner of Mei's eyes.
She - is still alive!
Although like a candle in the wind, that drop of blood and tears is better than thousands of words!
She heard it.
She replied to him.
Li Hua slowly raised his head, and a new light ignited in his eyes!
It was not the anger of revenge, nor the struggle for survival.
That is the clarity that penetrates despair, the determination to rebuild from the broken!
"Even if the entire Guixu is against me, I will never let you...stand alone again."
He cast his eyes into the depths of the endless sea of bones.
Guixu·True Realm.
Since it has come to this point——let's go to the end!
——No matter the cost!