Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The chaos in Zul City was like an unextinguishable fire, burning in every street and every corner.

The rebels of Graystone City rushed in like a tide and fought a desperate battle with the defenders.

The sharp sword blade tore the flesh, the heavy hammer smashed the bones, and the blood flowed freely on the stone road, gathering into dark red streams.

Corpses were piled up in disarray on the street corners, some still clutching weapons, while others were unrecognizable, with only empty eyes staring at the gray sky.

This catastrophe is far more than a fight between the army and rebels, the Pact and the Shadow Council.

Under the shadow of chaos, long-dormant underground forces have bared their fangs, waiting for an opportunity to reap profits.

Thieves sneaked into noble mansions under the cover of night and looted precious works of art and gold and silver treasures; gangsters engaged in bloody fights in narrow alleys, using daggers and crossbows to fight for control of every inch of territory.

The nobles were unwilling to sit idly by and wait for death, so they sent out their elite private armies to join the battle, vowing to defend their wealth and power to the death.

The city of Zul has now become a battlefield. Soldiers, contractors, the Shadow Council, underground forces, and noble private armies are all fighting with all their might in this melee.

Inside the execution facility, Reinhardt's skin had turned a sickly pale color, like a corpse just dug out of a grave - this was a horrible side effect of excessive use of the relic "ashes".

Although the "ashes" can temporarily block the pain, the injuries never truly disappear.

Every use is like overdrawing the embers of life.

At this moment, his body was on the verge of collapse. His muscles were trembling slightly due to excessive load, and his bones could shatter inside this body at any time.

Ironically, this power is destined to make him suffer first before he can pass it on to his enemies.

"As expected of the commander of the execution agency, you are really capable." The middle-aged man stood opposite Reinhardt. His tone was calm, but with a sense of oppression that was hard to ignore.

His face was so ordinary and unremarkable, the type that would be forgotten if you passed by him on the street corner.

Only his eyes - dark and deep - revealed that he was no ordinary person.

"Too bad, you're alone now. You can't win."

This seemingly ordinary middle-aged man is none other than the supreme ruler of the Shadow Council - Speaker "Dark Eclipse".

The purpose of his trip was clear: to break through the defense line and enter the most confidential underground area of ​​the execution agency.

In fact, the fact that "Sin" was able to successfully sneak into the basement was the result of the Shadow Council's secret operation.

It was just a test, a sophisticated test of the executioner's defense system.

And now, Dark Eclipse has personally taken action, which means that the game has entered its final stage.

"Bonnie, get out of here."

Before she finished speaking, Bonnie had already taken action.

She pulled off the heavy curtain fabric beside her and rushed to the floor-to-ceiling window of the office without hesitation.

The height of the third floor is enough to crush an ordinary person to pieces, but for her, it is the only chance of survival.

“Crash!”

Her body shattered the glass, and countless crystal fragments exploded in the sunlight like a sudden diamond rain.

At the moment of falling due to weightlessness, the curtain cloth in Bonnie's hand spread out "swish", and the rough cloth swelled in the strong wind, barely forming a life-saving buffer net.

The moment her toes touched the ground, she bent her knees and rolled over.

A shallow pit was smashed into the dirt ground, and grass clippings mixed with glass shards flew everywhere.

After landing, Bonnie didn't stop for a moment, but immediately stood up and ran away.

The roar coming from the office was still echoing in her ears. It was the sound of a battle between strong men. The aftermath of every energy collision caused visible distortion ripples in the air.

After Bonnie left, Reinhardt took out a silver-white metal device from his blood-stained pocket.

The cold touch made him slightly sober - this device was given to Reinhardt by Lin Yi, and its effect was very simple. This device could actually control several artillery pieces near Zul City to launch super-strong rainfall bombs.

"Om-"

The device emitted a slight buzzing sound, and then a weak signal came out of the device and quickly spread to the sky above Zul City.

A few seconds later, a low roar was heard from the distant sky.

That was the sound of the artillery batteries near Zul City being activated. Several huge artillery launchers slowly adjusted their angles and aimed at the sky.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The whistling sound of the special warhead tearing through the air resounded through the sky.

The rain bomb was precisely detonated at an altitude of 5,000 meters. Tons of aerosol agents spread in the blast, reacting violently with the humid monsoon.

The shells exploded in the air, releasing large amounts of chemicals.

These substances quickly combine with water vapor in the air to form a thick rain cloud.

The originally clear sky was instantly covered by dark clouds, thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed in the clouds.

“Wow—”

In the pouring rain, the city of Zul is experiencing a strange baptism.

White smoke rose from the burning buildings, and the blood flowing freely on the streets was washed into a light pink color.

At this moment, Reinhardt's aura became even more terrifying.

Dark Eclipse, whose face was originally very calm, finally revealed a solemn look at this moment. Although Reinhardt's ability just now was tricky, it was just tricky. As long as he hid in this body, lightning could not harm his real body.

But it’s different now. The threat Reinhardt poses to Dark Eclipse is so strong that he seems like a different person.

Reinhardt stood in front of the broken window, rain dripping down his hair and wetting his collar.

"What on earth are you doing?" Dark Eclipse's voice fluctuated for the first time.

Reinhardt answered him by slowly raising his arm. The wet fabric of his uniform shattered into pieces under the force of lightning, revealing his arm covered with lightning burn marks.

The moment his fingertips pointed at the dark eclipse, the entire sky trembled.

The clouds were spinning madly as if being torn apart by a giant, and a thunderstorm vortex with a diameter of more than a kilometer formed above the execution ground.

Blue-purple plasma flowed among the clouds, illuminating the entire city like an overexposed film.

A particularly thick bolt of lightning suddenly struck behind Reinhardt, and the burst of strong light cast a dazzling halo around his outline.

"boom--!"

The first lightning bolt hit the location of the dark erosion accurately. The three-meter-diameter lightning column directly penetrated the three-story building. The high temperature melted the granite foundation into glass-like crystals.

But this was just the beginning. Immediately afterwards, the second and third lightning bolts formed a cage of light consisting of twelve bolts in total, blocking the entire block.

Citizens several kilometers away saw that the execution agency headquarters had turned into a forest of lightning in the heavy rain.

Lightning bolts with a diameter of more than two meters continued to bombard the same area, and the shock waves they produced even shattered all the window glass in the adjacent blocks.

"Has Reinhardt been forced to this point?" Lin Yi looked up at the sky. If Reinhardt even used rain bombs, it would prove that the situation in the execution agency was far more critical than here. It seemed that Lin Yi had to go over to provide support quickly.

"Hehe. What are you looking at?" A creepily sweet whisper suddenly hit the eardrum, and the soul-breaking voice suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's ears.

In the moment when Lin Yi was distracted, the Soul Splitter had already rushed in front of Lin Yi.

Although the opponent is large in size, due to its structure, it makes almost no noise when moving.

Black fog emerged near Lin Yi's body. All of this black fog was liquidized power of the abyss. Just by getting close to this black fog, Liehun felt a slight pain in his body.

Lin Yi disappeared on the spot. When he appeared again, he was already above Liehun's head, with the black and white rose in his hand piercing down vertically with a dark glow.

"Om-"

The high-frequency vibrating sound waves created a transparent barrier visible to the naked eye above Liehun's head, and ripples like water appeared in the air, trying to block Lin Yi's attack.

However, Black and White Rose did not stop. The sword tip was like a black lightning, piercing through the sound wave barrier and making a crisp "crack" sound, as if a mirror was shattered.

The sword blade pierced through Soul-Splitting's head without any hindrance, but strangely, no blood flowed from the wound. Instead, countless cracks spread out with the sword blade as the center.

Fine cracks spread rapidly with the wound as the center, and in a blink of an eye they covered the entire body of the Broken Soul.

With a slight sound, the three-meter-tall body peeled off piece by piece like a low-quality plaster statue, and the peeled white shell turned into ash before hitting the ground.

Five steps away, a new Soul Splitter slowly took shape from the shadows.

It tilted its head and tapped its temple with its knuckles, making a teeth-grinding "dong dong" sound.

"What a fascinating weapon." Liehun grinned, his scarlet eyes fixed on Lin Yi, his voice mixed with fear and twisted desire.

For it, the stronger the prey is, the greater the harvest will be after parasitism.

What was chopped off just now was just an insignificant outer shell, but even so, the strange energy wrapped around the sword and the power of the abyss surging in Lin Yi's body made it feel painful.

——Almost.

If it hadn't embedded the [Skin Shedding] technique in its body in advance, the sword attack just now would have really hurt its core. Losing a layer of skin was just a trivial price for it, and it was just a way to test Lin Yi's strength.

"Sonic Cage."

In the air, invisible ripples piled up and turned into transparent shackles, tightly imprisoning every inch of Lin Yi's joints.

This is a high-frequency vibration that can even crush steel, but at this moment it is only used to block his movements.

The next moment, the figure of Liehun suddenly approached! His claws were covered with a layer of blue light, and with the might of tearing everything apart, he went straight to Lin Yi's chest.

“Crack!”

Along with the crisp sound of crystal shattering, the sharp claws of the Soul-Splitter tore open the [Hercules Shield] in front of Lin Yi.

A trace of astonishment flashed across Liehun's face. He obviously did not expect that Lin Yi also had similar defensive abilities.

"Pfft!"

Two blood arrows shot out in an interlaced pattern in the rain.

Lin Yi's sharp blade had pierced through Liehun's collarbone at some point, and when the tip of the sword came out from his back, it brought out a string of black blood.

The Soul-Splitter's sharp claws completely pierced Lin Yi's right arm, and three of the five pale nails were broken directly into the arm bones.

Lin Yi pinched the broken nail in the wound with his left hand. With a teeth-grinding sound of "sizzle", the nail covered with blood and flesh was pulled out along with the nerves and tendons.

With the wound as the center, the skin quickly turned an unnatural blue-black color - there was an unknown toxin on Soul Breaker's nails that was corroding his body.

Just when Liehun was preparing to slowly wear Lin Yi to death with poison, [Healing Spell] and [Purification Spell] took effect at the same time. The wound on Lin Yi's arm healed and the poison was completely removed.

After a brief trial, he had figured out Soul Splitter's melee combat capabilities - or rather, Soul Splitter's performance in melee combat was not outstanding.

In fact, most of the monsters that Lin Yi encountered were like this.

Most of them are energy organisms, and their body structure is completely different from that of carbon-based organisms.

This essential difference makes them more inclined to develop spell attacks or hard-to-defend against mental erosion, and few demons will focus on melee combat in the direction of evolution.

Of course, there are always exceptions - such as the bone demon he encountered before.

Just as Lin Yi was preparing to counterattack, the scene in front of his eyes began to spin, and the whole world seemed to be thrown into a violent vortex.

What was even more terrifying was that he felt his internal organs were shaking violently. It felt like he was instantly thrown from the solid ground into a deep sea ten thousand meters deep, under terrifying pressure from all directions.

This sudden change caught Lin Yi off guard, and his original offensive suddenly came to a halt.

Soul Splitter raised his claws, and dozens of invisible sound waves formed invisible spikes in front of him.

Now Liehun has made up his mind that he will not engage in close combat with Lin Yi if he can avoid it. The opponent's attack is too fierce for Liehun, and it is possible that Liehun will be dead after two or three sword strikes.

Because Lin Yi is in an abnormal state now, with his five senses disordered and his limbs paralyzed, he has no way to dodge the overwhelming attack.

"Pfft——"

As the sonic spikes pierced into his body, Lin Yi unexpectedly discovered that the terrifying pressure that was raging among his internal organs had found an outlet for venting.

Blood gushed out from the wound on his chest like a fountain, staining the torn clothes red.

This seemingly fatal injury actually alleviated his dizziness a little, and his chaotic thoughts gradually became clearer.

Taking advantage of the moment when he was able to control himself, a purification spell appeared above Lin Yi's head again, eliminating the negative state on Lin Yi.

Lin Yi took the opportunity to step back two steps, grabbed in the air with his right hand, and took out a pair of uniquely shaped black headphones from his personal storage space - this was noise reduction equipment specially made for the Samsara Paradise, and its sound insulation effect was strong enough to completely isolate all external sound waves.

He originally bought it just to enjoy music in his spare time, but he never expected it would come in handy in a life-and-death battle.

The reason why Lin Yi felt dizzy just now was actually very simple, because Liehun launched an infrasonic attack towards Lin Yi. This was also the reason why Lin Yi suddenly fell to the ground without feeling anything unusual.

The average human ear can only receive sound waves between 20 and 20000 Hz, but the infrasound waves controlled by Soul Breaker just avoid this range and act directly on his internal organs like an invisible ghost.

Even more deadly is that this special frequency of sound waves will resonate with human organs. The pain of having one's internal organs shattered just now came from this.

As Lin Yi put on the earplugs, the whole world seemed to be muted.

The sounds of heavy rain, howling wind, and even my own rapid breathing all disappeared.

In this absolute silence, Lin Yi raised the blood-stained sword, with the tip of the sword pointing directly at the Soul Breaker.

At this moment, Lin Yi stepped into a mysterious realm.

His consciousness extended infinitely, creating a wonderful resonance with the surrounding rain, the howling wind, and even every inch of space.

The whole person seems to have merged into the world and entered a mysterious state that is close to "harmony between man and nature".

Although Liehun knew nothing about the techniques, he could feel the change in Lin Yi's momentum.

Lin Yi's figure turned into an afterimage and passed through the dense rain curtain. The strange thing was that the falling raindrops were not disturbed at all, as if his entire body had turned into nothingness.

The Soul-Splitting Queen retreated, trying to create a safe distance again.

But the speed Lin Yi displayed at this moment was far beyond its cognition.

In desperation, it hurriedly built a sonic barrier in front of it.

The world in Lin Yi's eyes suddenly lost all colors, leaving only pure black and white.

And in this gloomy vision, only a strange green light was flashing near the heart of Liehun's chest.

When Liehun looked at Lin Yi, he couldn't help but feel scared. The other party looked at him as if he was looking at a piece of food.

Under Lin Yi's control, the sword blade pierced through a white spot in the center of the sonic barrier. The sword blade pierced through the barrier without any hindrance, just like piercing a balloon, and then pierced into Liehun's chest.

"How is this possible?" Liehun slowly lowered his head, looking at the sword that had pierced his chest in disbelief.

With a crisp "crack" sound, the body of the Soul-Breaking began to disintegrate like broken porcelain.

But just when it was about to turn to ashes, the raindrops all over the sky suddenly and strangely stopped in the air. The next second, the figure of the Soul-Splitting Soul condensed and took shape again not far away.

The rain slid down the hideous face of Liehun. At this moment, the previous playfulness and calmness were no longer on its face, and instead there was fear after surviving a disaster.

If the sword had been half a second faster, it would have died.

What made it even more frightened was that in order to escape from this fatal blow, it had to use up two consecutive chances to die.

Combined with the previous consumption, its three chances to save its life have all been used up.

This means that in the next battle, it will not tolerate any mistakes - every confrontation will be a true fight of life and death.

Liehun stared at the opponent in front of him who was completely different from himself, and for the first time he began to feel like retreating.

At this moment, Lin Yi exuded an aura that made it shudder - that was definitely not the temperament that a human should have. Instead, he was more like a high-level demon that had just emerged from its cocoon.

It had only experienced that kind of absolute disregard for life in its own newborns.

Just as Liehun was hesitating, Lin Yi paused, and with a wave of ripples, Lin Yi's figure appeared silently behind Liehun.

The pupils of Liehun constricted, and the demon's instinct made it stab behind it without thinking.

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of bones breaking was extremely harsh. Before the Soul-Splitter's sharp claws even touched the corner of Lin Yi's clothes, his wrist was crushed by a pair of pliers-like hands.

Black blood spurted out from the twisted joints, forming strange patterns in the rain.

"You...!" There was a slight tremor in the Soul-Splitting's voice. It tried to break free from Lin Yi's grip, but Lin Yi's hand was like iron and did not move at all.

"ended."

The three short words were like the sentence of the god of death. The blade of the black and white rose tore through the air and pierced through the body of the Soul-Splitting Blade with a heart-pounding buzzing sound.

“No——!” Soul Splitter let out a shrill roar, his voice filled with despair and unwillingness.

The moment the sword passed through his body, Liehun's body cracked like a broken mirror.

Countless black fragments drifted in the rain and eventually turned into wisps of black smoke and disappeared between heaven and earth.

[Hint: The Hunter has killed Soul Breaker and obtained 9.5% of the Origin of the World, and a total of 35.8% of the Origin of the World. ]

[You obtain the Secret Book Soul Breaker (a treasure chest item that can be embedded into the Secret Book).]

[Yes/No to embed the Secret Book Soul Breaker into the Secret Book. If the embedding is completed, the hunter can obtain 120 Secret Book merit points. ]

[You obtain the Secret Codex Councillor (a treasure chest item that can be embedded in the Secret Codex).]

[Yes/No to embed the "Secret Codex Councillor" into the Secret Codex. If the embedding is completed, the hunter can obtain 100 Secret Codex merit points. ]

The reminder sound of Samsara Paradise sounded in Lin Yi's mind, awakening him from that mysterious state. (End of this chapter)