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Chapter 172 Life and Death, A Trio!!! (Updated 45 times out of 2 words)

Ground, temporary camp

Outside the force field entrance, the oppressive atmosphere was like solidified lead.

The soldiers gripped their weapons tightly, their eyes fixed on the transparent force field barrier. Every slight fluctuation tugged at their nerves.

suddenly!

A dark purple streak of light, like a comet tearing through the night sky, suddenly shot out from the viscous force field barrier!

Its speed was so great that it created a piercing sound as it cut through the air!
It then quickly landed on the rocky outskirts of the camp, exploding into a cloud of debris and dust!

"What the hell?!"

The lookout on the camp's watchtower nearly popped his eyes out of their sockets, yelling hoarsely into the communicator: "Attention! Abnormal force field fluctuations! Something's coming out! Repeat, force field anomaly! Something's rushing out!!"

The piercing alarm instantly blared through the already anxious camp's night sky, and the beams of searchlights swept frantically toward that direction like startled pythons.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, a staggering figure rushed out and was instantly locked onto by several bright beams of light.

Wei Banmeng!
When the crowd saw that cold face stained with blood and dust, they stirred again.

"It's Wei Banmeng from Fang Qingyu's team! The one who came from the capital!"

However, at this moment, Wei Banmeng felt like an unprecedented stranger to everyone who knew her.

His face, which was usually as still as a frozen lake, now clearly showed a kind of urgency.

A few strands of her usually meticulously tied-back jet-black hair fell loose, clinging to her pale cheeks.

His eyes, though still sharp, were filled with anxiety.

Her lips were pressed tightly together, and a slight tremor could be seen.

Wei Banmeng couldn't even stand up straight.

The moment it landed, it rushed toward the temporary command post at an extremely fast speed.

Completely ignoring the soldiers and officers who surrounded him, his usually calm voice lost its composure for the first time, becoming hoarse and undeniably penetrating:

"Make way! Top emergency! Zhao Qiming! Where is Deputy Director Zhao Qiming?!"

The crowd was startled by the almost explosive aura emanating from her and her unprecedented loss of composure, and instinctively parted to make way for her.

Upon hearing the sound, Zhao Qiming abruptly stood up from behind the command platform, his ashen face filled with surprise and doubt: "Wei Banmeng?! What's the situation down there? What about Lord Su and the others?"

"The traitor is that Earth-type Chosen One!!" Wei Banmeng rushed forward, her words coming out like a machine gun, each one like a hammer blow to ice. "He betrayed us! Fang Qingyu suspects he's from Creation Technology; he's been manipulating the terrain, blocking passages, and cutting off communications! We suspect that four second-tier powerhouses, including Lord Su, are trapped in the core area by him! And all the communication nodes below, except for our main node, everything I saw along the way has been destroyed! Only bits of flesh remain!"

The last two words were practically squeezed out by Wei Banmeng through gritted teeth.

what does this mean?
This means that the other party was deliberately waiting for people to keep being sent down from above.

So that the snake can eat more meat.

The area around the command post fell into a deathly silence.

The Earth God's Chosen One is a traitor?! All the Node Guardians wiped out?!
Each word was like a bomb, leaving everyone dizzy and cold-handed.

The shadow of the tragedy two days ago has not yet dissipated, and now that the truth has been revealed, it brings even deeper despair and overwhelming anger!
Zhao Qiming's facial muscles twitched violently, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and he slammed his fist on the alloy tabletop with a loud "bang," causing the instruments on the table to buzz.

"Fuck that bastard Creation!"

He roared like a wounded lion, veins bulging on his neck, "The communications soldier! Where the communications soldier is?!"

"To!"

A communications soldier, equally pale-faced, scrambled over.

"Connect me to Beijing! Top-level direct line! Immediately! Right now!!" Zhao Qiming's voice was hoarse like a broken gong, carrying an undeniable, iron-blooded ruthlessness. "Tell Headquarters! Zhao Qiming, Deputy Director of the Songdu Branch, guarantees with his life that the Western Frontier's supporter, the Chosen One 'Pan Yan' Sikong Zhen, has betrayed humanity and intends to overthrow them! Four top-tier beings are trapped in the core of the pit, their lives hanging by a thread! I request—no! I order! Order Beijing to immediately send the highest-level support! Immediately!!"

Zhao Qiming, panting heavily, his eyes filled with a desperate madness, said, "Tell them, the sky is about to collapse in the Songdu sinkhole!"

It's definitely about to collapse.

What if the other four second-tier players all get trapped?
The consequences are self-evident.

Just then, Qin Hui, Qi Hao, and the others rushed over like madmen, pushing through the crowd.

When they saw that Wei Banmeng was alone, their hearts sank to the bottom.

"Banmeng! Where's Qingzi?!" Qin Hui grabbed Wei Banmeng's arm, his eyes wide open, his voice trembling with fear.

Wei Banmeng was pulled and swayed.

His speech was still rapid-fire: "We split into two groups! He went to a deeper area to find Su Wanqing and the others, while I came up to deliver the message."

Upon hearing this, Qin Hui turned and left without saying a word.

Upon seeing this, Wei Banmeng quickly stepped forward and pulled the group back.

"Where are you going?! Qingzi said you have to leave Songdu City immediately!"

"withdraw?!"

Qin Hui abruptly shook off his hand, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.

He looked around at the hellish camp and the traces left by his fallen comrades, and a surge of patriotic fervor rushed to his head.

He grinned, revealing a smile that looked even uglier than a grimace.

"Withdraw my ass! I promised Captain Lin I'd die before that kid."

"Rat, Old Joe, Lü Chen! Grab your weapons! Let's go down and get them out!"

"Qingzi saved both Lao Lü's and my lives."

Seeing that Wei Banmeng was still in a daze, Lao Qiao smiled and explained, then immediately followed Qin Hui's footsteps.

Qi Hao smiled too.

“If I don’t take him back, my dad will beat me.”

Watching their retreating figures, Wei Banmeng remained silent for less than a second before tidying up her hair behind her ear, tying it into a ponytail, and quickly following after them.

Underground, the lair of the dead.

The dust from the shattered dark red cage had not yet settled.

Su Wanqing's body surged with holy white light, like the dawn breaking. She immediately locked onto the huge crack where Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei had fallen and rushed over to rescue them with lightning speed!
"Miss Su, you're making a mistake because you're worried."

A voice with a hint of laziness and mockery suddenly rang out.

He was a man in a sharp suit.

The impeccably tailored dark gray suit exuded an indescribable coldness and eeriness under the dim phosphorescent light.

He appeared out of thin air, strolling leisurely, and stood precisely in the blood-red open space between Su Wanqing and the Lord of the Corrupted Nest, a space plowed open by blade energy and flames.

His hands remained casually in his trouser pockets, a faint smile playing on his lips, as if he were merely blocking the path of an old friend. However, not far behind him...

The Corrupted Nest Monarch, who had just suffered a devastating blow from Fang Qingyu's "Heavenly Meteor," had charred knife marks left on his scarlet tumor.

Its massive body undulated slightly, and its enormous blood-moon vertical pupils coldly swept over the four people who had escaped, but it did not show any obvious hostility towards Sikong Zhen's appearance. Instead, it had an eerie calmness!
This unspoken understanding is more impactful than any words!
"Sikong Zhen!!" Grandmaster Zheng Xiaohai, his hair and beard bristling, roared as the illusory waves surrounding him surged forth like a raging deep sea. He took a step forward, his unparalleled aura pressing down on his opponent, his voice booming like thunder, "You dare to collude with this beast?! Have you forgotten that you are a chosen one of humanity?!"

Facing the overwhelming rage and terrifying pressure of the four top experts, Sikong Zhen's smile became even more pronounced, even carrying a hint of playful mockery.

He tilted his head slightly, as if admiring something interesting:

"A traitor to humanity?" Sikong Zhen repeated with a light laugh, his tone as casual as if discussing the weather. "In your eyes, haven't I already been one? What's wrong with cooperating with 'Lord Monarch' and getting what we need? Do you expect me to be like you stubborn old fogies, clinging to that laughable 'human glory' and waiting to die?"

Then Sikong Zhen spread his hands, his posture elegant yet revealing extreme indifference: "Times have changed, everyone. A new 'god' is about to be born. Only those who understand the times will be heroes."

The moment the words fell.

The massive blood-moon vertical pupil of the Corrupted Nest Monarch suddenly lit up with a dazzling red light, and a terrifying force field, far more violent than before and with the dual effects of mental pollution and physical annihilation, erupted, like a blood-red tsunami, and slammed down on Su Wanqing and the other three!

As Sikong Zhen moved, the power of the earth surged silently around him, and the hard rock beneath his feet softened and rose up as if it were alive, forming a series of ferocious rock spikes that blocked all their escape routes!

No probing, no nonsense!
The fangs of the traitor and the wrath of the lord of hell collided with a deafening roar at this moment!
And deeper beneath them.

Fang Qingyu gently put Jiang Wei, whose face was slightly pale from the impact of the fall, down into his arms. His movements were gentle yet as steady as a rock.

He stretched his neck, which was stiff from forcibly releasing the force, and a series of faint cracking sounds came from his bones.

The cold hilt of the Dragon Sparrow Slash was tightly gripped by long, strong fingers, and blue veins bulged slightly on the back of the hand beside the blade.

Fang Qingyu's eyes were as calm as a bottomless ice abyss.

Yet, in that deepest, stillness, two balls of crimson-gold flames, powerful enough to start a prairie fire, ignited.

The snake that was about to appear had arrived earlier than he had expected.

Fang Qingyu originally planned to use the resources to break through to the Tongxuan realm, and then find an opportunity to kill this beast.

But there are no "what ifs" in life.
Accidents always happen unexpectedly.

This beast in front of me is different from the ice-type chosen one I met last time.

The chosen ones are still human after all.

Knowing pain and fear gives humans a primal instinct for survival.
And before us lies an ancient, ferocious beast that has been abused for a long time.

It's clear that they've been suppressed to the extreme.

In this situation, both sides only care about one thing.
It's a fight to the death!!!

"Xiao Jiang."

"This time, we really have to fight with our lives on the line."

Fang Qingyu's extremely deep voice rang out in the absolute silence, without hesitation or fear, only a resolute determination forged through countless trials surging and boiling in his blood.

The sound reached Jiang Wei's ears clearly.

"Ah."

Jiang Wei nodded her head forcefully, and all the childishness on her face was instantly covered by a maturity that was inconsistent with her age, almost divine.

A silent burst of orange-red light erupted from its tiny body!
Crimson lines spread rapidly across her bare skin.

The flames, like living armor, carried her body and floated slowly backward several meters, hovering in mid-air behind Fang Qingyu, like a fire deity bathed in divine flames.

"this time."

The little girl's clear voice, carrying a chilling and undeniable quality like the clanging of metal, echoed at the bottom of the abyss: "I will help you."

Hearing this promise-like declaration.

Fang Qingyu's lips curled up into a sharp, almost imperceptible arc.

No grand pronouncements are needed, no further words are required.

next moment!
“Buzz——!!!”

The Crimson Jade Scripture, now at its perfect state, was circulated to its limit within the body. The Jade Scripture in the dantian, pulsating like a live volcano, instantly erupted with a scorching torrent powerful enough to burn the scripture and temper the meridians!

Beneath the skin, the dark red lava patterns instantly shone like a branding iron, radiating a suffocatingly high temperature!
Om-! ! !
Deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Nine Heavens Primordial Chaos Visualization Method was operating at full power!

The silvery-blue liquid star core rotates at high speed, as if drawing the surrounding space into a viscous and sluggish state!
The dazzling starlight descended from the void, surging wildly along an enigmatic trajectory!
A deep blue light flowed through his meridians like tangible mercury!
"Eternal Night."

Fang Qingyu silently chanted in his heart, as if issuing a summons to the bottomless abyss!

hum-

A deeper, purer darkness suddenly spread from the deepest part of Fang Qingyu's soul without warning!
The pitch-black fog, like a living curtain, expanded outward from Fang Qingyu's center in an instant! Ten meters! Twenty meters! Fifty meters! In the blink of an eye, an absolute dark domain with a radius of one hundred meters appeared.

The curtain of eternal night suddenly descended!

The biting cold and deathly silence eroded everything, even the churning purplish-black miasma and the lingering stench and heat of the Peng snake were instantly "swallowed up"!
The perception of all external sounds, colors, and smells was drastically reduced by half!
It was like falling into a silent abyss, isolated from the world!

"Roar?!"

For the first time, a very slight instinctive look of surprise flashed clearly across Peng She's cold, dark gold vertical pupils!

Its perception was instantly blocked, as if separated by an impenetrable frosted glass wall. Fang Qingyu's image became blurry and his aura became erratic!

This forced reduction of 50% of perception is a fatal disruption to any predator that relies on its senses!
Next!

"Blazing Armor!"

Fang Qingyu's thoughts fell like a steel knife.

The darkness surging within the curtain of eternal night suddenly reversed.

Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, they violently converged and condensed around him.

Pure darkness liquefies and compresses rapidly under some incomprehensible rules.

Thick, ink-like, and bone-chilling black flames suddenly ignited on Fang Qingyu's body!

These liquid black flames flowed and shaped rapidly as if they were alive, covering every inch of Fang Qingyu's body!
Clang!
Like black iron rubbing together, a suit of armor forged entirely from flowing liquid black flames instantly took shape!

Closely following Fang Qingyu's physique, it was both sleek and ferocious, with sharp black flame spikes extending from its joints. Underneath the mask, only two pupils burning with a mixture of crimson gold and silver-blue light were visible!

Cold and deathly silent, yet it harbors a world-destroying ferocity!
At this moment, Fang Qingyu was walking on the edge of destruction and order!
On the left side of his body, the dark red lava patterns beneath his skin shone like a branding iron; on the right side of his body, the flowing silver-blue starlight was as cold as the moonlight in winter.

And the whole body!
The "Eternal Night Blazing Armor" constructed from liquid black flames covered everything, forcibly enveloping the crimson calamity fire and the ghostly blue starlight within it!
A world of contrasts: ice and fire! Light and darkness coexisting!
A sharp pain instantly swept through my entire body!

Fang Qingyu's gaze, looking through the cold black flame mask, revealed only a calm and madness burning to the extreme!

It was as if the excruciating pain, enough to make a martial arts master explode and die in seconds, was merely the kindling to ignite their will!
A low, cold word escaped Fang Qingyu's lips, which were covered by a dragon-head mask, and echoed clearly in the deathly silence of the abyss:
"It's on."

Eternal night as armor! Sparks ignite the world!
The hunter in the darkness swung his blade, capable of cleaving through a cage, at the behemoth that devoured the light!
(End of this chapter)