Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 299 No Escape

Zhao Zhuikong viciously stabbed the second combat doll into its body.

He realized that these human-sized dolls were different from the previous monsters; they had stronger regenerative abilities, exceptional fighting spirit, and extremely high basic attributes... Destroying these combat dolls required smashing every inch of them into pieces.

However, because they possess extraordinary energy and an extremely tough body structure, breaking them is troublesome and requires him to attack them several times.

The second combat doll's fighting strategy is to "trade life for time".

Unleash your full demonic energy to withstand several more attacks, creating opportunities for the other puppets to strike.

When Zhao Zhuikong completely tore the battle puppet to pieces, his shoulder had already been pierced by the first battle puppet.

A large chunk of flesh was sliced ​​off by an incredibly sharp, feather-like dagger.

Zhao Zhuikong ignored everything and turned to finish off the first puppet, which had already been severely injured.

at this time.

A ray of moonlight shone on his face.

Half of the remaining ten combat dolls were providing support and interception, while the other half were attacking the canopy of the jungle. Without the shade of leaves, the moonlight shone on areas that had not been touched for a long time.

After a moment's hesitation, Zhao Zhuikong immediately moved away from there.

The instant he left, a barrage of Gauss bullets covered the entire battlefield, including the location of the combat doll.

When he first saw these battle dolls that were extremely similar to him but had been gender-swapped, he was so enraged that he wasted some time. The battle had barely begun when the technological weapons had already locked onto the area.

In Zhao Zhuikong's experience, the Gauss weapon was just the beginning; if he continued to stay in this area, the subsequent attacks would be even more intense.

Ten seconds later.

The ten combat dolls regenerated their lost flesh and blood; these highly regenerative combat dolls were completely unaffected by attacks from ordinary bullets.

Eight of the combat dolls flapped their wings and chased after Zhao Zhuikong from the dark forest, while two dolls carried the piece of flesh cut from Zhao Zhuikong's body to the teleportation point.

the other side.

As soon as Zhao Zhuikong left the battle area and regained some of his composure, he realized that he had made a big mistake.

You shouldn't have finished them off first!

When the East China Sea team created those counterfeit and shoddy products, they likely used his flesh and blood. Having just lost so much flesh and blood... soon they will likely face even more 'counterfeit and shoddy products'.

He should first completely destroy the flesh and blood he has lost.

"Less than twenty minutes have passed between the time I lost my cells and the appearance of these counterfeit goods. Does that mean that in another twenty minutes at most, I will be facing another batch of counterfeit goods?"

Zhao Zhuikong pondered, utterly exhausted.

He had been fighting continuously for more than three hours, constantly using his spatial abilities throughout the battle, maintaining a high level of intensity.

Previously, destroying the drones didn't require him to exert his full strength, and his stamina wasn't being depleted too quickly; but after the appearance of 360 monsters, he had to attack with all his might, and now these twelve puppets were forcing him to be extremely serious, as he could easily suffer severe injuries if he wasn't careful.

Repairing the wounds inflicted by the 360 ​​monsters and 12 puppets also took a toll on his energy, making him even more exhausted.

Zhao Zhuikong desperately wanted to kill those bastards from the Donghai team as soon as possible, but he had no idea where they were.

He had noticed some teleportation points while fighting the drones, and he even locked onto the direction of another teleportation point from the spacetime fluctuations of the teleportation points.

But just as he was about to search for the East China Sea Team's reincarnators in that direction, he noticed from several teleportation fluctuations that... those bastards from the East China Sea Team didn't just teleport once when they were sending supplies; they were using relay points.

Those relay points are located in all directions of the dark forest.

Without leaving the Dark Forest and spending enough time tracking them, it would be impossible to confirm the location of the East Sea Team's reincarnators through the relay points. Even if the East Sea Team's reincarnators were found, they could easily move to another location due to their overwhelming information advantage.

A sense of powerlessness welled up in Zhao Zhuikong's heart.

Mordor.

After obtaining the substantial piece of flesh, Xu Feng placed a significant portion of it into a petri dish.

The remaining ten combat puppets are still hunting down Zhao Zhuikong. Before all the combat puppets in that batch die, he plans to create combat puppets with higher strength. Therefore, the next batch of combat puppets will not use incomplete spirit technology.

Compared to that kind of technique, he is more skilled in the internal energy cultivation system.

Moreover, during the battle between the twelve combat puppets and Zhao Zhuikong, Xu Feng realized that some of the techniques he possessed were very suitable for compensating for the combat puppets' shortcomings... no, compensating is a bit of an exaggeration, to be precise, it would be to suppress their shortcomings.

“My intuition tells me that Zhao Zhuikong is planning to escape!” Xiangzi said.

"He was heading towards the Darkwood Kingdom... If I'm not mistaken, he probably wanted to gain reward points by killing elves to make up for his negative score."

According to the recollections of a veteran member of the East American team, Zhao Zhuikong received a large number of reward points in the first team battle.

The kill reward and the East America team's positive score reward combined totaled over 40,000 points.

Even the other members of the East America team received more than 10,000 reward points. If they hadn't had so many reward points to make themselves strong enough, some of the reincarnators in the East America team wouldn't have been foolish enough to unite and force Zhao Zhuikong.

From the perspective of those seasoned players, Zhao Zhuikong's expenditures were 100% certain: the reward points deducted for killing a teammate in the second match, the purchase of two memory-wrapping metal wires and a supernatural dagger, which already amounted to 16,000 points.

Zhao Zhuikong will most likely receive some other enhancements.

In total, Zhao Zhui's empty reward points were definitely not enough to make up for the reward points deducted for killing ten teammates and losing ten points.

To survive, he must kill monsters or story characters to earn extra reward points.

The quickest option would be to kill Thranduil, the Elvenking, and Legolas, the Elven prince, in Mirkwood. One of the two elves is of extremely high status, being one of the three Elvenkings of Middle-earth; the other has a significant role in the story, being a member of the Fellowship of the Ring during the War of the Ring.

Xu Feng glanced at Zhao Zhuikong's movement. Due to the entanglement between the drones and the combat puppets, his trajectory was not a straight line, but it was clear that he was indeed heading towards the Elf Kingdom.

The truth may be as Xiangzi guessed, but of course, it cannot be ruled out that Zhao Zhuikong has other ideas.

But none of that matters... Whatever he intends to do, his destination is far from safe. "If he plans to gain reward points by killing elves, he's likely asking for trouble."

Xu Feng said with a smile, "The elves of the Dark Forest are not so easy to kill."

The elves of Middle-earth can be roughly divided into three levels: high elves who have been to Valinor, elves who have not been to Valinor but have been guided by the Maiar, and the most primitive elves.

Most of the male elves are high-ranking elves who have been to Valinor.

Most of the elves in Mirkwood are low-ranking elves, but Thranduil, the Elvenking, is a Sindar elf from Doriath. He was born in the First Age and is over six thousand years old.

Xu Feng speculated that Thranduil and his father had acquired a great deal of knowledge from Dorias.

The palace of the Dark Forest Elf Kingdom is remarkably similar to that of Minnigoth in Doriath.

The Dark Forest Elf Kingdom is surrounded by a magical defense, and any outsider who enters the Magic River Basin will fall into slumber.

In the Lord of the Rings universe, there aren't many barrier-type spells; the most famous is the Beautiful Ring of Doriath.

Considering Thranduil's origins, he may have developed this ability to protect the Elven kingdom of Mirkwood based on the Beautiful Ring of Shield. This could, in a sense, serve as evidence that Thranduil inherited part of the Elven kingdom's legacy from the First Age.

The battle between the East China Sea team and Zhao Zhuikong was very loud, with the sounds of drone bombing and the self-destruction of the Destroyer sub-entities resembling natural disasters.

Thranduil noticed the fighting was normal; in fact, shortly after the first wave of bombardment, mist began to rise from the magical river surrounding the elven kingdom, and the entire kingdom was quickly shrouded in fog.

This is a defensive barrier; entering the mist is like falling into a magical river, silently falling into a deep sleep.

Thranduil was an elf who preferred a simple life. He valued every elf under his command and did not want any elf to die. Even when dark forces invaded Mirkwood, he retreated to protect himself.

At this moment, a group of people were fighting in front of his house. He did not take the initiative to show himself and drive away the enemies. Instead, he set up the defense of the magic river - no matter how fierce your battle is, just don't disturb our lives.

Of course, Xu Feng was certain that the Elf King was also prepared for battle.

Once the invaders cross the magical barrier and enter the elven kingdom, they will inevitably face the most elite elven warriors.

In a world without supernatural powers, elves are not much stronger than ordinary people; they only have a greater advantage in physical strength, the five senses, and combat skills.

However, this world of reincarnation has a supernatural system called battle qi, as well as various magic and enchanted items; under these circumstances, the average strength of the elves, who are thousands of years old, is very high.

A pig that has honed its fighting spirit for thousands of years can become a second-tier pig.

"The mist created by the magic river is perfect for the virtual world to exert its power... If Zhao Zhuikong enters that area, let's give him a sweet dream."

Xu Feng said with a smile, "However, it will take him some time to completely destroy those ten combat puppets. Before that, I should be able to prepare two more 'henchmen' with decent strength."

"Hopefully he can beat those two 'thugs'."

The first 'henchman' that Hsu Feng mentioned was himself—a self-constructed fantasy.

It is not a disposable consumable constructed purely from true energy, but a fantastical construct with a physical body that can be recharged and reused repeatedly.

Its core material is the spider monster Hilob, a descendant of Ugoliant.

Ugglianth was a spider monster whose power was comparable to that of the Valar. At the end of the Age of the Two Trees, Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, joined forces with this spider monster to destroy the Two Trees that illuminated the entire Arda.

After the evil god and the spider monster completed their mission to destroy the two sacred trees, they started fighting over the spoils.

Morgoth was no match for Uggriant and had to hand over all his treasures except the Silmarils to save his life. If it weren't for Gothmog, the Balrog, arriving with a group of Balrogs to rescue him, the first Dark Lord probably wouldn't have been able to keep even the three Silmarils.

Ugoliant reproduced many offspring, but most of them were eaten by it.

Helob was its youngest offspring.

This female spider dwells in the mountains near Mordor, hunting elves, humans, and dwarves in the area.

Even Zoro respects his strength.

Frodo, the future Ringbearer, encountered this spider monster when he entered Mordor. If the light of Eyarndil had not been strong enough to repel the spider, Frodo would most likely have become Hilob's food.

Xu Feng set his sights on this spider after arriving in Mordor; Ugoliant has the instinct to devour everything, and it is said that this god-level monster eventually died from self-devouring. As a descendant of Ugoliant, Hilob has a very strong appetite, and the energy stone that he condensed in his body based on this characteristic is very suitable for the Devour-Devour Fruit.

Hilob is quite strong.

This monster, which is over three meters tall, is even stronger than the Cold Dragon. The spider web it weaves is incredibly strong, extremely sticky, and has a paralyzing and hypnotic effect.

But it's not even in the same league as Xu Feng... Xu Feng, hundreds of kilometers away, stretched out his giant hand and grabbed the spider, putting it into the furnace of Doomsday Volcano and turning it into biological material.

The first imagined 'thug' quickly took shape.

In order to maintain the absolute peak state of his original body, Xu Feng did not invest too much true energy into this 'self'. Its strength is less than one-tenth of the original body's strength, and its main ability is the Swallow-Swallow Fruit.

The second 'thug' created by fantasy took some time—it was Zhao Zhuikong, who was proliferated from that whole piece of flesh and blood.

Aside from its spatial teleportation ability, it basically possesses all of Zhao Zhuikong's basic attributes.

To be precise, its basic attributes are stronger than Zhao Zhuikong's.

This thug possesses a complete internal energy system, and the meridian circuits within his body are... the "Bodhi Enlightenment Divine Skill"!
Yes, it is not the S-level practice of the "Sixteen Contemplations Sutra of Pure Land".

There is a function in "Bodhi Proof of Dharma Divine Skill" that Xu Feng has always overlooked—it can suppress demonic possession.

The reason for ignoring this function is simple: the seventh contemplation in the Sixteen Contemplations of Pure Land Sutra, the "Hua Zuo Contemplation," also contains this function. Moreover, the effect of the Hua Zuo Contemplation is more thorough and comprehensive. The practice of the seventh contemplation is the process of cutting off afflictions, and there are as many as 84,000 methods to liberate oneself from afflictions.

However, the "Sixteen Contemplations Sutra of Pure Land" is a very advanced practice. The first contemplation is relatively easy to learn; one only needs to visualize the sun according to the practice. Even those with poor aptitude will gain something from it. Even Sakurai Yuzuki, a creator, cultivated profound internal strength through sun contemplation. The second contemplation requires aptitude. Under normal circumstances, only monks with good talent like Renbang can master it relatively quickly. Xiangzi's ability to establish his foundation was entirely due to Xu Feng's extensive assistance.

Starting from the third contemplation, the true visualization of the Pure Land in the Sixteen Contemplations Sutra requires an extremely high level of aptitude... Xu Feng was able to master it because he received direct initiation from the main god, and the entire cultivation process was without any bottlenecks; Tifa was able to master it because she relied on the power of faith provided by hundreds of millions of people.

The difficulty of cultivating the sixth and seventh realms is vastly different; even Tifa, with the power of faith, could not cultivate the seventh realm.

In comparison, although the "Bodhi Enlightenment Divine Skill" is also quite difficult, it is nothing compared to cultivating the "Sixteen Contemplations Sutra of Pure Land" to the seventh contemplation.

(End of this chapter)