Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Knight Banshui was pressed down on his seat by the mage's spiritual power. He reluctantly turned his head to look at Lin Yi, with a hint of ridicule in his tone, "You've come just in time. Do you want to play a game?"

"Stop it," the wizard girl snorted coldly, and waved the staff in her hand lightly, and the hand of mental power dissipated instantly.

She rolled her eyes at Banshui, her tone filled with disdain, "Don't cheat the new guy. Be careful, or he will block you. Then you won't even be able to take on any missions. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

After saying that, she turned to look at Lin Yi and motioned for him to sit down first.

The game ended so quickly that Banshui didn't even have time to react.

The cooperation between the mage and the assassin is seamless, and the cheating methods are so sophisticated that they are impossible to detect.

Banshui threw down the cards in his hand with a depressed look on his face and muttered, "You two are too rude, aren't you? You're always like this, do you still want to let others play?"

"Who told you that your skills are not good enough?" The wizard girl chuckled and flicked her fingertips lightly. The playing cards in her hand turned over like living things with a hint of teasing.

"Tsk, no more playing," Ban Shui pushed his hands and threw all the remaining playing cards in his hand into the deck, with a bit of resentment in his tone, "If we continue playing, you will cheat us out of the reward for this mission again."

"Ahem, now let us introduce ourselves."

Banshui stood up, and the heavy armor made a low metallic friction sound as he moved.

He patted his breastplate, trying to look serious, but he couldn't hide the cynical smile on the corner of his mouth.

Banshui placed one hand on his chest, bowed slightly, and performed a standard knight's salute. His movements were smooth and graceful, obviously after countless rehearsals.

"Paladin is half water, good at defense and team support."

Lin Yi nodded. Although this so-called "Paladin" seemed to be laughing and joking on the surface, he was able to climb all the way from the low level to the high level in the Samsara Paradise. His strength should not be underestimated.

Who among those who have been able to survive countless missions did not come through mountains of corpses and seas of blood?
"It's my turn." The female wizard stood up, and the playing cards in her hand instantly turned into starlight and dissipated in the air.

"I'm Xingyu, a soul mage who specializes in mind control and soul attack." Her voice was soft and seductive. "Of course, if you need some 'special' help, you can also come to me. But the price... you know."

She was very skilled in controlling her mental power. In the previous game, she almost completely controlled the situation, and Banshui had no power to fight back in front of her. This level of mental power was enough to make any opponent feel apprehensive.

Finally, the assassin slowly stood up, his movements light and silent.

"Shadow Eclipse, an assassin, good at stealth and critical strikes."

"Okay, I've finished introducing myself." Banshui clapped his hands and sat back in his seat. The armor made a dull sound when it collided with the chair.

"You should have received the information about this mission as well."

"Well, I saw it said that the target of this mission is an agricultural planet. It looks like it shouldn't be too difficult." Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at the mission prompt of the Samsara Paradise. The information was concise and clear, and there was no mention of the involvement of other forces.

"Then you are thinking the wrong thing. This planet is not safe at all." Xingyu chuckled and raised her hand to point to a button on the right.

As her fingertips fell, the window inside the spacecraft slowly opened, and the full view of the M-311 agricultural planet instantly appeared in front of Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's gaze passed through the hanging window and fell on the agricultural planet called M-311.

The surface of the planet is covered with large areas of green vegetation, like an emerald inlaid in the dark void, appearing quiet and peaceful.

But this apparent calmness made him feel vaguely uneasy, as if something was watching them in the dark.

"It looks peaceful, doesn't it?" Xingyu's voice was a little teasing, and her fingers tapped lightly on the glass of the hanging window. "Unfortunately, this is just an appearance."

"Appearance?" Lin Yi frowned, his eyes still fixed on the planet.

"That's right. M-311 is an agricultural planet on the surface, but in fact, it is also a relatively dangerous place in the void."

"Danger?" Lin Yi turned his head and looked at Banshui.

"We don't know the details, otherwise Samsara Paradise wouldn't have let us come here to investigate."

Xingyu lightly stroked the window with her fingertips, and a detailed map immediately appeared on the hanging window. The green area represented the agricultural area, while the red area was where the energy fluctuations were the strongest.

Her finger stopped on the red area, and her tone was solemn, "Our target is here."

Lin Yi looked at the map carefully. The red area was located near the equator of the planet and was covered by large tracts of dense forests. There were no signs of any animal activity around, and even the wind seemed to have stagnated.

Obviously, it's not a safe place.

"Okay, prepare to land." Yingxi's voice interrupted Lin Yi's thoughts, "The spacecraft will enter the atmosphere in ten minutes, everyone get ready."

"Don't be too nervous." Ban Shui patted Lin Yi's shoulder, trying to ease the atmosphere. "But you have to be careful. There may be some unfriendly 'natives' hiding on this planet."

"Aborigines?"

"According to intelligence, the plants on Planet M-311 have all mutated and are extremely hostile to invaders. Although we don't know their specific forms and abilities yet, it's best not to provoke them lightly. In this damn place, even a blade of grass could kill you."

Listen to others and eat enough.

Lin Yi didn't say much and directly activated the special authority granted to him by Samsara Paradise during the mission.

Within a second, his breath completely disappeared, as if he was completely wiped out from this world.

The three people of Yingshi were stunned for a moment. Lin Yi's existence had completely disappeared from their perception, but their eyes could still clearly see him standing there.

This huge sense of separation made Xingyu, the soul mage, feel very uncomfortable. Her brows were tightly furrowed and her fingertips trembled unconsciously, as if trying to catch something.

"Well, it looks like we don't have to worry about them anymore." Banshui shook his head, with a bit of helplessness in his tone, "Let's just worry about what we should do next."

Ban Shui then took out a heavy hammer and shook it in his hand.

Most tank professionals after the advanced level will not use bulky shields. The reason is very simple - the shield can easily become a target.

Banshui's current fighting style is more inclined towards field suppression. Once an enemy approaches within a hundred meters of him, he will be suppressed by his field skills and unable to move.

As the spacecraft landed steadily, the hatch slowly opened and a breeze with a scent of earth blew towards us.

Dense clusters of trees came into Lin Yi's sight, and the branches and leaves swayed gently in the breeze, as if welcoming their arrival.

Lin Yi even saw a few rabbit-like creatures jumping in the grass and quickly disappearing into the depths of the woods.

"These trees... are not right." Xingyu's voice came from behind, and the crystal ball in her hand flickered. "I can feel that their soul fluctuations are abnormally active, even... a little violent."

“Violent?” Banshui clenched the heavy hammer in his hand and looked around vigilantly, “Wait, trees also have souls?”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xingyu rolled her eyes at him, with a hint of impatience in her tone, "Be careful next time, everything here doesn't look right."

Lin Yi didn't say much and was the first to get off the spaceship.

With the authority of the Samsara Paradise, his aura was completely hidden and he blended into the environment.

Lin Yi looked up at the sky. Three suns were hanging in the sky, casting warm light and dyeing the entire forest with a layer of golden glow.

If it weren't for the warning in the mission prompt, he would even think that the scenery on this planet was breathtakingly beautiful.

Arriving at the edge of the woods, Lin Yi discovered that the trunks of the trees were covered with fine lines, like the blood vessels of some unknown creature, and dark green liquid could be vaguely seen flowing in them.

These liquids emit a faint fluorescence. The treetops are towering into the clouds, and the branches and leaves are lush, but the edges of their leaves are extremely sharp, like countless miniature blades, and when they sway gently in the wind, they make a slight metal friction sound.

As Xingyu and the other two stepped out of the spaceship, the entire forest suddenly fell into an eerie silence, and the rustling sound of branches and leaves rubbing against each other came to an abrupt end.

"Something's wrong." Ban Shui's Adam's apple rolled, and cold sweat seeped out from the gaps in his armor.

Before he could finish his words, the ground beneath his feet suddenly heaved as if alive. The edges of countless weed leaves glowed coldly like metal, like tens of millions of poisonous snakes standing upright with their heads held high.

The Shadow-Etched dagger turned half a circle in his palm, and the tip of the blade pierced into the first blade of grass that approached.

The severed plant sections actually spurted out green juice, splashing on the armor plate and making a "sizzling" corrosion sound.

Xingyu's mental barrier trembled violently, and the juice was evaporated into a fishy mist by an invisible force three inches away from her cheek.

"Realm·Iron Throne!" Banshui roared and smashed the ground with a sledgehammer.

With him as the center, the air within a radius of 100 meters instantly condensed into iron-gray ripples, and all the plants made teeth-grinding cracking sounds under the suppression of the field. However, the crushed grass and leaves were still twisting wildly, as if each broken branch was an independent life form.

The towering ancient tree a hundred meters away suddenly exploded, and the twenty-meter-high tree seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and countless vines carrying the trunk fragments shot out.

Banshui took a step forward to block the crowd, and his sledgehammer left a crescent-shaped afterimage.

With a loud bang, the flying tree trunk fragments turned into powder, but more vines came from all directions.

Yingshi's figure suddenly became blurred, and dozens of cold lights exploded in the vines at the same time. The wounds of the severed plants regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Lin Yi stood aside, observing everything calmly.

Due to the special privileges of Samsara Paradise, he is completely unaffected by these plants.

"These plants are not just mutated." Xingyu whispered. She lightly swiped her fingers and a mental barrier enveloped the three of them. "Their soul fluctuations are mixed with a strong hostility. They seem to be full of hatred for any outsiders."

Xingyu suddenly staggered half a step, and ripples appeared on her mental barrier.

The brand on the back of her neck was getting hot, which was an instinctive warning for a soul mage to sense a high-risk existence.

The half-water hammer suddenly burst out with holy light, melting the attacking vines into charcoal.

Pale golden blood oozed from the gaps in the paladin's armor—the domain overload was tearing his capillaries apart.

"No matter what it is, let's blast a path through it first!" He spat out a mouthful of blood foam and smashed the hammer heavily to the ground.

Spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across a hundred meters, revealing a pulsating network of purple roots underneath.

"Shadow Eclipse, how far is this place from the target location?"

"About seven hundred kilometers." Ying Shi raised his hand and cut off two protruding vines on the ground.

"That should be enough, Banshui, stop turning on your crappy power-saving mode, and finish the task quickly." Xingyu's staff hovered three inches above his palm, and the crystal ball on the tip of the staff emitted a dazzling blue light.

Her pupils had completely turned into azure blue, with fine rune patterns appearing on the whites of her eyes.

An invisible spiritual wave spread out with her as the center. Wherever it passed, the wildly dancing plants collapsed to the ground as if their souls were sucked out.

After being scolded by Xingyu, Banshui sighed and then entered his full form.

The nearby plants were instantly crushed to dust under this force, and even the ground was pressed into spider-web-like cracks. This kind of suppressing force is Banshui's true strength.

"Half a day at most."

A dazzling golden light suddenly burst out from the gaps in Banshui's armor, and the holy chains engraved on the inside of the armor broke into pieces.

"The blue bar of a ninth-level paladin should be nailed to the pillar of shame." Banshui wiped the blood from his nose and cursed. The gust of wind created by the swing of the sledgehammer in his hand directly plowed a hundred-meter-long gully in the forest ahead.

Normally, Banshui always used power saving mode, only activating some domain skills and limiting the range within a controllable range to ensure that his mana consumption and recovery were in a balanced state. But at this moment, he no longer held back.

"I've spent half a day trying to get you back and forth. Stop nagging me and come up here." Xingyu took out a flying carpet from her personal space. The carpet floated in the air as soon as it landed.

After everyone got on the flying carpet, Xingyu controlled it to take off into the air and sped towards the equator.

The flying carpet sped at low altitude, and Xingyu's mental barrier enveloped everyone like a veil.

Lin Yi looked down, and a thrilling plant war was reflected in his pupils.

At the boundary between trees and grasslands, tens of thousands of vines are entangled together, like countless giant pythons fighting a desperate battle.

The scarlet juice spilled like raindrops, dyeing the ground an eerie dark green.

As for animals? After Lin Yi and his companions approached within 300 kilometers of the equator, not to mention animals, they didn't even see the shadow of a flying bird.

This area seemed to have become a forbidden zone for life, with only those violent plants fighting frantically.

The flying carpet flew rapidly at low altitude, and Xingyu's mental barrier protected the few people firmly, preventing them from being attacked by the violent plants below.

"These plants... are simply crazy." Ban Shui frowned, still holding the sledgehammer tightly in his hand. Although they were temporarily safe, he did not dare to let his guard down.

"It's not crazy, but it's being controlled by some kind of force." Xingyu's voice was solemn. Her eyes were still shining with a deep blue light. Her mental power continued to spread, maintaining the flight of the flying carpet and the stability of the barrier. "I can feel that the closer we are to the equator, the stronger the controlling force will be."

"The power of control?" Lin Yi turned his head and looked at Xingyu, "Are you saying that the violent behavior of these plants is man-made?"

"It may not be man-made, but there must be some powerful force affecting them." Xingyu shook her head, her eyes still fixed on the front, with a hint of uncertainty in her tone, "Maybe it's some high-level existence, or the rules of this area have changed. In short, everything here is not normal."

The flying carpet was speeding in the low sky, and the scene below was like purgatory. The fight between the plants had entered a white-hot stage.

Lin Yi even saw that the surface of the vines of some plants had serrated structures similar to fangs, biting the surrounding vines madly.

The vines entwine and strangle like a giant python, making a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound, as if they were chewing the bones of their prey.

The huge leaves cut any approaching enemies like a knife.

The entire forest seemed to have turned into a battlefield. The air was filled with the smell of plant juices and the ground was covered with broken branches and leaves.

"How far is it?" There was a hint of anxiety in Banshui's tone. Although his domain skills were powerful, even he felt a little exhausted from maintaining them at their peak for such a long time.

The energy in the body is drying up little by little like a drained spring.

"Less than 200 kilometers." Xing Yu glanced at the map, "Hold on a little longer, we'll reach our target location soon."

Before he finished speaking, the flying carpet suddenly shook, and Xingyu's mental barrier instantly shattered, turning into countless points of light that dissipated into the air.

"What's going on?!" Banshui roared, and swung the sledgehammer in his hand violently, trying to stabilize the flying carpet with brute force.

"Something is interfering with my mental power!" Xingyu's face turned pale. Her eyes were still shining with a deep blue light, but it was obviously much dimmer than before. Fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead.

"Down below!" came Yingshi's voice, his eyes fixed on the forest below.

Lin Yi looked down and saw that the forest below suddenly fell into an eerie silence. All the vines and branches stopped fighting at the same time and pointed at them in unison.

Immediately afterwards, countless vines sprang up from the ground like poisonous snakes, and rushed towards the flying carpet with sharp sounds of breaking through the air.

"Be careful!" Banshui shouted, activating all his domain skills. Violent energy fluctuations spread out in all directions with him as the center, trying to suppress the vines that were attacking him crazily.

However, the number of vines was too great, and even with the strength of his domain skills, he was unable to completely block them.

"Hold on tight!" Xingyu gritted her teeth and forced her mental power into the flying carpet.

The flying carpet drew a thrilling arc in the air, barely avoiding most of the vine attacks.

However, there were still a few vines entangled around the edge of the flying carpet, and the jagged spikes on the vines were deeply embedded in the surface of the carpet, trying to drag it into the abyss below.

Yingshi's figure instantly appeared at the edge of the flying carpet and cut off the vines that were entangled with the flying carpet.

"We can't go on like this!" Ban Shui's expression turned serious, and veins on his forehead bulged.

"Leave this area as soon as possible, otherwise no one can hold on!"

"No, my mental power is suppressed, and the speed of the flying carpet cannot be increased!" Xingyu's face was as pale as paper, and dense cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

Her mental strength was being consumed by some strange force, as if an invisible hand was tearing her consciousness apart.

"The ultimate halo."

"Undercurrent Thunder."

The pitch-black lightning exploded instantly, transforming into countless tiny lightning snakes that swept towards the vines below.

Following Lin Yi's move, Xingyu suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

She quickly controlled the flying carpet to rise higher. The flying carpet climbed rapidly. Although the vines below were still moving wildly, they could no longer reach them.

"Well done!" Ban Shui breathed a sigh of relief, the heavy hammer in his hand drooped slightly, and his domain skills were slightly restrained. (End of this chapter)