Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Chapter 835 Ancient God Projection
When he reached the third floor, Lin Yi paused slightly.

The scene before him was extremely luxurious, with the crystal chandelier reflecting brilliant light and the gold lines inlaid on the wall sparkling. However, all of this revealed an indescribable sense of incongruity in his eyes, as if a layer of veil was shrouding reality.

Lin Yi did not hesitate and cast two purification spells on himself in succession.

[Hint: The hunter has gotten rid of the perception misleading. ]

Following the prompt of the Samsara Paradise, the scene before our eyes was like a torn canvas, revealing the truth hidden underneath.

The originally luxurious carpet glowed with an eerie oily sheen under the moonlight, like some kind of bloody fungus carpet.

Where the chandelier should have been hung on the dome, there were now countless umbilical cord-like nerve bundles hanging down. The embryos at the ends had grown human facial features, and their empty eye sockets were staring straight at the captain of the guard.

The other party seemed unaware of all this and continued walking forward.

From Lin Yi's perspective, every time the captain of the guard took a step, a large amount of mycelium would be picked up from the ground. The sticky silk threads floated in the air and then slowly fell back to the ground.

The nerve bundle hanging above his head brushed against the captain's head, but he just reached out and scratched his head, muttering in a low voice: "Why do I suddenly feel a little itchy..."

The captain of the guard stopped in front of a door inlaid with bronze nails with human faces, raised his hand and knocked gently on the door.

"Who? Don't you know it's prayer time now?" Mike's voice came from inside the door, with obvious displeasure in his tone.

"Your Excellency Archbishop, the second floor was attacked just now. I wonder if there is anything unusual on your side?" The captain of the guard's voice trembled a little, and a trace of cold sweat seeped out of his forehead.

His fear of Mike was almost ingrained in his bones, and he even breathed more lightly unconsciously.

In Lin Yi's field of vision, the relief of a human face on the bronze nails on the surface of the door suddenly came to life.

Those originally still faces moved their eyeballs, their empty eye sockets stared straight at Lin Yi, with a strange arc at the corners of their mouths.

"Boom!"

The entire building tilted fifteen degrees without warning, and the captain of the guard was caught off guard and stumbled into the wall.

Before he could stand firmly, the hanging nerve bundles suddenly penetrated his limbs.

The mycelium multiplied wildly along the wound and quickly spread throughout his body.

A gurgling sound of bubbles came from the man's throat, his pupils dilated rapidly, and his eye sockets were filled with strange purple flowers. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a spore puppet, with the last moment's fear still lingering on his face.

"Alas, the warden's toys are becoming less and less original. Anyone can dare to come here and cause trouble."

Mike's voice suddenly came from the ceiling. Lin Yi raised his head suddenly and found that Mike's face appeared above his head.

"Can you see me?"

Lin Yi took two steps back, and the black and white rose appeared in Lin Yi's hand, guarding against the opponent's sneak attack.

"I can't see it, but my spores encountered some kind of obstacle when passing through your area." Mike's eyes were fixed on the place where Lin Yi was standing at the stairs. Although the power of shadow perfectly obscured Lin Yi's figure, the fact that the spores could not invade that area made Mike notice something unusual.

"As for him..." Mike's eyes swept to the captain of the guard who had turned into a spore puppet, and his tone was a little sarcastic, "What I hate most is useless trash. He can't even detect the invaders, so keeping him is a waste of resources."

Before he finished speaking, the purple flowers in the captain's eyes slowly bloomed, emitting an enchanting light.

His loyalty was worthless in Mike's eyes and was even less useful than an obedient puppet.

Lin Yi looked at Archbishop Mike, and the other party's data appeared in Lin Yi's eyes.

[The intelligence attributes of both sides are being compared... The comparison is completed. Our intelligence attributes are 1.03 times that of the enemy's, and we have obtained 100% of the enemy's information. 】

The information is as follows
Name: Mike

Category: Half human, half ancient god's followers

Health: 100%
Ancient God Power: 16300 points

Strength: 101 (true attribute)
Agility: 63
Physical strength: 101 (real attribute)
Intelligence: 100 (true attribute)
Charisma: 2
Skill 1: Body of the Ancient God (Passive LV.48): Health +18000 points, Physical Defense +113 points, Power of the Ancient God +6000 points, All attributes increased by 25 points, Charm reduced by 40 points.

技能2：孢子温床（被动Lv.39）：每当自身半径20米内每存在一名孢子感染者，每秒恢复15点古神之力。当生命值低于30%时，自动引爆场内所有孢子，每个孢子恢复自身0.5%最大生命值。

Skill 3: Touch of Corruption (Active Lv.30): Consumes 600 points of Ancient God Power, extends Ancient God tentacles from the void rifts to pierce the target, causing (Intelligence × 8 + Strength × 5) mixed damage. After hitting, it will forcibly implant 2 layers of "Corruption Spores", continuously weakening the target's abnormal resistance by 12% (can be stacked 3 times), and the cooldown time is 30 seconds.

Skill 4: Spore Confinement·Modified (Active Lv.31): Consumes 800 points of Ancient God Power to spray high-concentration spore clusters to the target area, forming a [Spore Field] with a radius of 17 meters. Enemies in the field will receive neurotoxin damage equal to Intelligence x 6 per second, and their movement speed will be reduced by 50%. During the duration, a traction effect will be applied to all targets in the field every 0.5 seconds, with a cooldown of 3 minutes.

Skill 5: Spore Proliferation (Passive Lv.40): When any enemy unit dies, [Parasitic Spores] will burst out from its corpse. The spores will automatically seek out a new host. Upon successful attachment, the unit will be paralyzed for 0.5 seconds and will be marked with 2 layers of spores.

Skill 6: Spore Cataclysm (Active Lv. 31): Continuously consume the power of the ancient gods to spread purple mist on the battlefield. Friendly units within the mist range will gain a 0.3% maximum health recovery effect per second. Enemy units will stack 10 layer of [Suffocating Spores] every 1 seconds, up to a maximum of ten layers. After ten layers, enemy units will lose 1% of their maximum health per second.

技能7：孢子印记（主动Lv.28）：当目标身上存在5层及以上孢子标记时，可立即引爆所有孢子造成（智力×20+已叠加层数×500）魔法伤害，生成【孢子傀儡】继承目标30%属性持续作战45秒。

Skill 8: Projection (Ultimate Ability Lv.11): Consumes 5000 points of Ancient God Power to summon a projection of the Ancient God.

Archbishop Mike glanced at the captain of the guard who had been corrupted into a spore puppet, and then controlled it to pounce towards where Lin Yi was.

Although the spore puppet's movements were stiff, its speed was incredibly fast. It was obvious that Mike was planning to use it to force Lin Yi out.

Xiaoxue entangled the spore puppet that was rushing towards it, and before the puppet could explode, it was swallowed by Xiaoxue.

Archbishop Mike raised his brows slightly. The connection between him and the spores was completely severed the moment Xiaoxue swallowed the puppet.

"This aura... seems to have some connection with my Lord?" There was a hint of uncertainty in Mike's voice, but more of it was an interest that was hard to conceal.

“Sizzle——”

The bloody and fleshy carpet on the floor suddenly began to twitch, and the embryo above the head cried like a baby at the same time.

The hair on the back of Lin Yi's neck stood up and he instinctively dodged to the side.

The moment he left the place, some invisible object gnawed a hole with a diameter of two meters in the floor. There were traces of corrosion on the edge, and it emitted a pungent fishy smell.

Through the gap, Lin Yi caught a glimpse of the mycelium on the second floor squirming wildly, weaving into a huge organ covering the ribs, and the organ slowly contracted with a rhythm like breathing.

At the same time, the sound of chains coming from the underground laboratory became more and more rapid, as if some imprisoned being was trying to break free.

"Tsk, this never ends." The black and white rose in Lin Yi's hand spun and drew a cross afterimage.

Several sword lights intertwined in the air, like a blooming thorn cage, twisting the three spore puppets that suddenly appeared on the floor into purple mist.

Before the spore puppet could launch an attack, it turned into powder and dissipated into the air.

"Holy Nova."

A pitch-black halo gushed out from Lin Yi's body. Wherever the halo passed, the ground corroded by spores withered instantly. The originally squirming flesh and blood fungal carpet seemed to have been drained of its vitality, and it quickly shriveled and disintegrated.

Under the erosion of the power of the abyss, these byproducts of the power of the ancient gods are simply unable to resist.

"what--!"

Archbishop Mike on the ceiling suddenly let out a painful roar, covered his right eye tightly with his right hand, and dark green mucus seeped out from between his fingers.

The entire villa has become one with Mike after his transformation. At this moment, the erosion of the power of the abyss is tantamount to tearing his flesh and blood directly.

"You... dare!" Mike's voice was filled with suppressed anger and pain. The mucus from his right eye slid down his cheek and dripped onto the floor, making a "hissing" corrosive sound.

Lin Yi ignored Mike's roar. Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was distracted, he raised his hand and stabbed the black and white rose into the floor.

The moment the sword tip sank into the fungal blanket, the power of the abyss poured out like a flood, quickly clearing out the power of the ancient gods around it.

The pitch-black lines spread wildly like ink dropped into clear water. Wherever they passed, the flesh and blood fungal carpets withered and even the hanging nerve bundles were broken.

"boom--!"

The ceiling beneath Archbishop Mike suddenly collapsed, forming a black hole with a diameter of three meters.

The nerve bundles broke one after another with a sound like leather tearing, and the falling embryos hit the ground with a heart-pounding cracking sound.

"How dare you pollute the sanctuary!" Mike's face suddenly cracked into six pieces, revealing the gear-shaped rotating compound eyes inside.

The entire west wall collapsed, revealing not a brick and stone structure, but countless pulsating purple-red tumors.

The surface of the tumors was covered with wriggling blood vessels, and every pulse was accompanied by the splashing of sticky liquid, and the air was filled with a disgusting fishy smell.

At the same time, Mike's face on the ceiling disappeared.

The bronze door not far away opened, revealing Mike's body in human form.

His face was still pale, but his eyes had turned into compound eyes.

"Do you think that you can shake the power of our Lord with this little trick?" Mike's voice was low, and the priest robe behind him exploded, and twelve tentacles broke out of his body.

Lin Yi did not retreat but advanced, and the sword blade wrapped in black mist pierced into the tentacles.

The sword blade accurately pierced through the white weak spot of a tentacle, and the black power of the abyss rushed in through the wound, quickly eroding the internal structure of the tentacle.

The tentacle began to twitch, then drooped down limply, and the spiral mouthparts on the surface also stopped wriggling.

A hint of anger flashed in Mike's compound eyes, and the remaining eleven tentacles suddenly contracted and lashed towards Lin Yi like a whip.

There was a sharp sound of breaking wind in the air, and purple afterimages intertwined into a deadly web, trying to strangle Lin Yi completely.

Lin Yi's figure shuttled through the tentacles. Every time he swung the sword, he would accurately cut off a tentacle. The power of the abyss continued to erode Mike.

"Your struggle is meaningless." There was a hint of sarcasm in Mike's voice, but his movements became more violent.

Obviously, Lin Yi's counterattack had made him feel threatened.

The fungal carpet under Mike's feet suddenly surged, and thousands of spores surrounded him from all directions, like a dense swarm of bees, quickly forming a closed confinement space.

Just as the spore confinement was about to take shape, black lightning flashed around Lin Yi.

The approaching spore mass quickly disintegrated like confetti burned by flames the moment it came into contact with the black lightning, and the fungal carpet under Mike's feet also lost its activity.

"Interesting..." Mike suddenly tore off his left arm, and what gushed out of the broken arm was not blood, but countless spores.

"But how much can you purify?" Mike grinned and threw the broken arm into the air. The broken arm exploded in the air and turned into a huge spore sac with a diameter of ten meters.

Dark purple spores poured down like a rainstorm, and the tentacles sticking out from the void rifts suddenly increased three times in size, with vertical pupils covered with fangs opening at the end of each tentacle.

Mike completely abandoned his human form and began to use his true power.

"Come on, let me see how long you can last." Mike's voice came from all directions, as if he had merged with the entire space.

"Soul Suppression!"

The tentacles summoned by Mike suddenly stopped moving under the suppression of this force, and the vertical pupils at the ends also lost focus.

"Pfft!"

Taking advantage of this moment, the black and white rose in Lin Yi's hand drew a cold arc.

Mike's body, which was cut in half, turned into spore dust and dissipated into the air.

"Hey, do you think this is the end?" Mike's voice came from the ceiling with a hint of sarcasm.

Lin Yi looked up and saw Mike's real body slowly emerging from the ceiling.

His body was even more twisted than before, and sharp bone spurs were growing wildly on the broken surfaces of the tentacles. However, all the new tissues were corroded into ashes by the power of the abyss before they touched Lin Yi, leaving not even a trace of residue.

"There's something wrong with your power... indeed." There was a hint of fear in Mike's voice, but more of excitement.

Two of his compound eyes suddenly exploded, and dark green mucus slid down his cheeks, while the remaining four pupils simultaneously shot out decomposition rays directly at Lin Yi.

"Om-!"

Lin Yi raised his hand and summoned a pale yellow shield to block in front of himself.

Ripples appeared on the surface of the shield, but it was never broken.

Mike retreated quickly, putting some distance between himself and Lin Yi.

This is his home ground, so he won't easily expose his weaknesses.

Just as Lin Yi was about to give chase, the mycelium on the soles of his boots suddenly turned into sharp teeth, biting his ankle hard, trying to drag him into the ground.

Lin Yi leaned back to avoid the tentacles that were sweeping over him, and the tip of his sword slashed out with black sword energy to cut through the mycelium - the mycelium that tried to wrap around his ankles gradually withered under the erosion of the power of the abyss.

"boom--!"

The entire floor suddenly arched up and turned into a huge mouth structure. Sharp teeth protruded from the waves of flesh, trying to devour Lin Yi.

The moment the tip of the sword pierced the drooping nerve bundle, Lin Yi activated [Holy Nova] again.

The pitch-black halo flowed backwards along the umbilical cord-like tube, spreading rapidly like venom.

The originally pulsating nerve bundles quickly withered under the erosion of the power of the abyss, and the embryonic organs connected to them also began to explode.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The embryonic organs exploded one after another, and the splashing amniotic fluid was chopped into pieces by Lin Yi's sword wind before it even hit the ground.

The power of the abyss spread wildly along the nerve bundles, nailing the floor that was trying to close into a collapsed state.

The entire villa let out a painful wail, and the network of blood vessels on the walls twitched violently, as if enduring unbearable torture.

Lin Yi's sword handle had been embedded in the flesh cocoon in the center of the ceiling at some point in time. The power of the abyss spread rapidly like a virus, eroding the spore bed.

Countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the cocoon, as if it would completely collapse in the next second.

"Crack——!"

The tentacles flowing with the power of the ancient gods suddenly spasmed and retracted, leaving deep cracks on the wall that were visible to the bone.

The entire flesh sanctuary began to go berserk, acid rain spewed out from the shattered stained glass windows, and the carved columns twisted into the shape of vertebrae.

Lin Yi stepped on the fallen marble fragments, and the sword tip weaved a spiral vacuum belt in front of him, crushing all the oncoming acid and fragments.

"It's over." Lin Yi slapped the twitching fungal blanket with his left hand.

The condensing spore seedbed was torn apart abruptly, and the scattered fragments were greedily swallowed into Xiaoxue's stomach.

At the same time, Xiaoxue's tentacles stretched out and pulled Mike out of the dome of flesh and blood.

"No! This is impossible!" Mike's voice was filled with despair and anger.

"How dare you pull me out of the nest?" Mike let out an electronically synthesized roar from his torn throat. Seven bone spurs suddenly popped out of his spine, and a beating heart hung at the end of each bone spur.

These hearts pump not blood, but astonishing concentrations of spores.

Xiaoxue smashed the opponent to the ground, and the blade of the Black and White Rose sword accurately cut into the hideous bone spurs.

The moment the sword blade collided with the bone spur, a crisp cracking sound was heard, and the white weak spot that appeared on Mike's body was pierced through by one blow.

"boom!"

Mike's broken tentacles proliferated madly into eyeball-shaped tumors and emitted decomposition rays, but were blocked by the shield summoned by Lin Yi.

Seeing that all his methods have failed, Mike knows that he must use his last resort.

"My Lord, please give me your glory and judge these sinners!"

His body began to twist violently, and the flesh and blood beneath his skin kept surging like boiling mud.

A strange purple light fell from the sky and projected accurately above the villa.

Without hesitation, Mike stabbed the tentacle into his heart with his backhand.

His body disintegrated in an instant, turning into a huge spore bed. Countless spores floated in the air, emitting a suffocating stench.

This mushroom bed is like an altar, ready to welcome the terrifying power from ancient times.

The sky was torn apart by some invisible giant hand, and a sticky purple slurry gushed out from the cracks, pouring down like the blood of a giant beast.

The sky of the entire Red Sky Continent began to ooze out asphalt-like mucus, and the air was filled with a sickening, fishy-sweet smell.

The ground also began to change, with greasy black substances oozing out from the cracks, as if the earth itself was rotting.

Within a three-kilometer radius of the villa area, the rock formations suddenly began to undulate like the diaphragm of a living organism, as if the land had come alive and was breathing.

Every rise and fall is accompanied by a low roar.

On the ground, the contaminated monsters were crawling on the ground.

This is the resonance between flesh and blood and a higher being, and the instinctive submission of lower life forms to the ancient gods.

Contaminated by the power of the ancient gods, they became the followers of the ancient gods and the extension of his will.

The concentration of ancient god power in the air of the villa area suddenly rose, but due to Xiaoxue's protection and the help of the sword master, the ancient god power could not invade Lin Yi's body for the time being.

Lin Yi understood that if he did not interrupt Mike's ritual of summoning the ancient god's projection as soon as possible, the consequences would be disastrous.

Lin Yi stretched his perception, only to find that Mike's breath had completely disappeared and merged into the entire house.

There was no other way, Lin Yi had to use his ultimate move.

'Deep Shadow, Slashing the Sun.'

As Lin Yi's fingertips brushed across the sword's spine, countless sword energies condensed out of thin air and transformed into a huge sword blade, hanging in the sky.

The giant sword slowly fell down, and the air made a sharp whistle wherever the sword passed.

The moment the sword blade touched the ground, countless tiny sword energies burst out like a rainstorm, covering the entire villa area.

The spore bed that Mike transformed into was instantly torn into pieces by the raging sword energy.

Those corrupt spores were reduced to ashes in the sword light, without even a trace of residue left.

As Mike's ritual was forcibly interrupted, the projection of the ancient god was also forced to be interrupted.

The sky of the Red Sky Continent was like a canvas wiped with an eraser; the asphalt-like cracks quickly faded away as if they had never existed.

The remaining seedling bed on the ground turned into a human form again and grabbed the sword blade. The last madness flowed in the hexagonal pupils: "Do you think you can stop the projection of my Lord?"

The hyphae clinging to the blade of the black and white rose sword were fissioning at a frequency of three times per second, and the remaining left half of Mike's face revealed ganglion synapses.

The next moment, Mike's body suddenly swelled up and turned into a flesh bud with a diameter of 20 meters, covered with wriggling blood vessels and pustules on the surface.

Black mycelium suddenly emerged from the skin of Lin Yi's right arm where he was holding the sword, trying to invade his body.

The moment these hyphae came into contact with the power of the abyss, they quickly withered as if they were burned by flames.

Lin Yi turned his wrist, gripped the hilt of the sword in reverse, pulled the sword horizontally, and a circular sword energy cut off the attacking tentacles one by one.

"Pfft!"

The sword energy accurately cut off Archbishop Mike's neck and shattered a crystal core hidden inside.

The moment the crystal core shattered, the health bar above Archbishop Mike's head returned to zero.

The wriggling of flesh and blood around it also stopped. The tentacles and tumors that had been proliferating wildly quickly withered and turned into balls of black ash that drifted away with the wind.

The smell of corruption in the air gradually dissipated, replaced by deathly silence.

[You killed Archbishop Mike and obtained 3.8% of the Origin of the World. You now have 61.9% of the Origin of the World.]

[You get an epic treasure chest (18%). ]

(End of this chapter)