Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 827 Dragon Resonance
The anticipated scene of the river overflowing did not occur, leaving Gu Xuan with a feeling of utter despair.

But Gu Xuan soon stopped worrying about the issue.

Even without the river, they still maintain absolute control.

Gu Xuan looked at Xiao Ran: "Young brother, there is still room for reconciliation between us. As long as you help me cut off this tail, I promise I will not entangle you again. From now on, we can go our separate ways, you go your way and I will go mine."

At this point, Gu Xuan tried to soften his tone and wanted to discuss it with Xiao Ran.

However, Xiao Ran did not answer, but simply took out the Dragon Abyss again and held it in her hand.

Clearly, Xiao Ran has never had the habit of letting a tiger return to the mountain.

They wouldn't be so naive as to believe Gu Xuan's words.
Looking at the large knife in Xiao Ran's hand, Gu Xuan sighed: "In the end, you forced me to do this."

The voice was very soft, but it gave off a sense of desperate madness.

After saying that, Gu Xuan suddenly raised his head, and the few remaining mycelia on his body began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye, releasing a viscous, pale golden liquid with a strange metallic luster.

These liquids flowed rapidly, dripping onto the ground, where dense mycelia immediately sprouted wherever the solution touched.

"Gold-melting liquid?!"

Xiao Ran's pupils contracted sharply, and alarm bells rang in her mind. The mycelium generated by the gold-dissolving liquid was completely incomparable in quality to the mycelium on Gu Xuan's body.

However, Gu Xuan rapidly decomposed his own body through a reversal method, obtaining a large amount of gold-dissolving liquid in return. In just an instant, mycelium several meters wide was generated in front of him.

Xiao Ran's Longyuan sword emitted a deep dragon's roar, and the blade light cut through the stagnant air in the tomb. With a flash, he appeared in front of Gu Xuan in an instant.

As the blade flashed like a bolt of lightning, tearing through the air, Xiao Ran was suddenly enveloped in a blinding burst of light.

Even though they were inside an ancient tomb, a halo of sunlight appeared behind Xiao Ran.

"It's noon"

Xiao Ran held back, activating his Executioner skill. Under the sunlight, countless dense mycelia gradually became translucent in Xiao Ran's vision.

At the same time, he saw a blurry outline, which had no specific shape and was like a lump of dough that was being shaped randomly.

At the center of this outline is a crystal that resembles a pearl.

This is Gu Xuan's spiritual body, formless and intangible, and cannot be discerned by the naked eye.

Now, with the arrival of noon, it was completely exposed to Xiao Ran's vision.

Faced with this sudden burst of bright light, Gu Xuan's heart tightened, and a sudden, inexplicable palpitation made his mind tremble violently.

Startled, Gu Xuan felt countless fine, metallic-lustered mycelia grow explosively at an incredible speed, transforming into a shield to block what lay ahead.

A loud "bang!!"

The shield shattered instantly, and the immense force swept across the area, further amplified by Longyuan's unique privilege, [Dragon's Might], which broke through the barriers of all evil.

Even Gu Xuan, an old monster who had lived for thousands of years, felt a chill run down his spine and his scalp tingle.

I thought Xiao Ran's mental strength was already among the best, but I never expected that his true strength would be so terrifying.

Missing his first strike, Xiao Ran continued to slash at Gu Xuan's spiritual core with lightning speed.

Gu Xuan felt his scalp tingle. His spiritual core was a void consciousness, and it was impossible for ordinary eyes, let alone the spiritual eyes of Taoists or the Dharma eyes of Buddhists, to perceive its concrete existence.

However, at this moment, Xiao Ran's attacks were aimed directly at the core, forcing Gu Xuan to use his mental power to withstand them.

For a moment, Xiao Ran was like someone wielding a sword; wherever the sword was swung, muffled sounds echoed in the air.

Xiao Ran's blade was exceptionally swift, each strike powerful and decisive, never hesitant. Although Gu Xuan struggled to parry, he was able to handle the situation with ease thanks to the intangible nature of his spiritual power.

After getting used to Xiao Ran's offensive rhythm, Gu Xuan gradually relaxed, and even prepared himself to kill Xiao Ran with one blow. He said, "Little brother, you can't do anything to me. I'll ask you one more time, are you really unwilling to help me?"

Xiao Ran remained silent, only wielding the Dragon Abyss sword, seemingly oblivious to Gu Xuan's words. Her gaze was fixed intently on the front, while a constant notification sound echoed in her ears.

"If the judgment fails, the success rate increases by 1%."

"If the judgment fails, the success rate increases by 1%."

"If the judgment fails, the success rate increases by 1%."

"boom!!"

The blade slashed through the air, producing a violent clanging sound, which made Gu Xuan completely impatient: "You're asking for death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Xuan's spiritual power spread out instantly, forming an egg-shaped light screen that enveloped Xiao Ran.

"Spirit Storm!!"

As Gu Xuan's mind stirred, Xiao Ran's body suddenly sank, as if several mountains were pressing down at the same time, and Xiao Ran's bones groaned as if they could not bear the weight.

The next second, Xiao Ran's clothes burst open, and a layer of pitch-black dragon armor quickly covered his entire body.

Grade D Cursed Item: [Dragon Armor - Paper Craftsman]

Privilege 1: Dragon Armor

The soft armor will cover your entire body, making you immune to D-level negative curses and D-level mental curses.

Duration: 5 minutes
Cooldown time: 24 hours
Privilege 2: Dragon Appearance

After activating Privilege 1, this passive privilege will be activated, granting you the Dragon Form. In this form, you will possess the power of a dragon.

Duration: 5 minutes
Cooldown: 24 hours. Black scales instantly covered Xiao Ran's entire body, spreading across him like living things. This time, the transformation of the [Dragon Armor] far surpassed anything before!

Hard dragon horns pierced from the top of its forehead, curved and ferocious, while the five fingers of its hands grew out and extended, covered with jet-black scales, and the fingertips transformed into sharp claws.

What surprised Xiao Ran the most was that a strong, powerful, jet-black dragon tail tore through the fabric of his trousers, whistling through the air as it landed on the stone slabs with a heavy thud.

At this moment, Xiao Ran's appearance had transformed into that of a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex.

This change came as a great surprise to Xiao Ran.

Originally, he was only forced to activate this soft armor under pressure from Gu Xuan.

Unexpectedly, the changes were so astonishing.

In particular, the privilege of "Dragon Appearance" is due to the characteristics of the paper craftsman, which evolved into a unique dragon aura on the body of the Nine-Lives Dragon.

Xiao Ran was instantly freed from the immense pressure exerted by the "Spiritual Storm"!

But what Xiao Ran didn't expect was yet to come.

The Dragon Abyss in his hand emitted a series of buzzing sounds, and a wisp of dragon energy surged into the dragon armor.

The dragon's power and might.

The two cursed objects miraculously resonated with each other at that moment.

"Roar!"

A low, inhuman roar, mixed with the power of a dragon's cry, emanated uncontrollably from Xiao Ran's dragon armor.

This change was completely beyond Xiao Ran's expectations. While she was shocked, she couldn't help but feel secretly grateful to Master Song from Donglongfang.

This [Dragon Armor] was made by Xiao Ran using the scales of a Nine-Lives Dragon, with the help of Old Song from Donglongfang.

As a C-level [Soul Forging Master], Elder Song knew very well that he was not capable of truly unleashing the effects of the dragon scales.

So Mr. Song used a very simple and clumsy method, simply inserting the scales into the soft rubber without actually forging it.

Although this soft armor is not of a high grade, it retains the potential and effects of dragon scales.

This is what allows the two cursed objects to resonate simultaneously at this moment.

Dragon's might and dragon's power.

At this moment, Xiao Ran truly resembled a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex, his cold eyes locking onto Gu Xuan, who was in the core of his mental state.

"What's this??"

Gu Xuan panicked completely. An unprecedented sense of panic caused all his mental energy to freeze in that instant.

Its claws, covered in black scales, slammed into the ground, and with a "crack," the hard floor tiles shattered instantly.

Xiao Ran's figure transformed into a raging black wind carrying a dragon-shaped outline, its speed more than twice as fast as before!
The Dragon Abyss Blade was swung once more, and this time the dragon eyes on the blade opened wide, instantly locking onto Gu Xuan's spiritual core.

"Privilege - Execution, judgment successful!"

The cold notification sound came at the same time, which was icing on the cake for Xiao Ran, but a disaster for Gu Xuan.

Although he was no longer a beginner, under the special judgment of the executioner, Gu Xuan was horrified to find that his enormous mental power was completely immobilized.

He could only watch helplessly as the blade in Xiao Ran's hand swept past him, and at that moment, a deafening dragon's roar filled the air.

"Click!!"

With the sound of his spiritual core shattering, Gu Xuan's consciousness suddenly exploded into countless fragments.

These scattered fragments did not completely dissipate, but rather resembled a form devoid of subjective consciousness, a kind of pure spiritual force.

At this moment, Gu Xuan no longer exists in this world; instead, there are tens of thousands of fungal people parasitizing the mycelium on the ground.

But it's not absolute.

At this moment, Xiao Ran suddenly felt that her depleted mental energy was rapidly recovering at an extremely fast speed.

At the same time, a burning sensation came from my wrist.

Xiao Ran put away the Dragon Abyss and deactivated the Dragon Form state. She raised her wrist and saw that the five golden dragons on the Five Dragon Bracelet seemed to be alive, opening their mouths wide and continuously swallowing Gu Xuan's shattered spiritual power.

And these devoured spiritual energies are now constantly enhancing their own spirit.

This must be part of the ritual.

Xiao Ran stared at the bracelet, her gaze growing cold.

He could sense that the bracelet seemed to have undergone a slight change at this moment. The things rooted in his body seemed to have become more active. Xiao Ran didn't know whether to call these changes good or bad.

But he was certain of one thing.

These are merely part of the ritual. If he cannot continue to complete the ritual, his fate may not be much better than Li Jingqi's.

"It seems I'll eventually have to go to Northeast China."

Xiao Ran sighed, knowing that the only way to find the solution to all these problems was probably to go to Northeast China.

(End of this chapter)