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Chapter 244 The Time-Eclipse Witch Who Regretted It to the Bone! (2 words, Update 15)

The words have not yet been spoken!

Om-! ! !
The entire underground space, with its rock walls in all directions, writhed violently as if a pool of decaying corpses had been thrown into it.

Countless thick, dark green vines, as thick as battering rams, were covered with a thick layer of pale bark that exuded a dense aura of death. The mouths at their tips, split open like the gaping maws of an abyss, burst forth with a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, from the darkness all around, from the cracks in the rocks, and even from the collapsed dome overhead.

Their target is neither Fang Qingyu nor Jiang Wei.

Instead, it was the Time Eclipse Witch who was being choked by Fang Qingyu, her body wreathed in lightning and fire, on the verge of collapse.

The appearance of these giant vines carries a mad, all-or-nothing will.

They didn't care what lay ahead, nor the boiling crimson flames and the viscous, eternal darkness.

Puff puff puff puff puff—! ! !
A series of incredibly dense, chilling piercing sounds erupted instantly!
Thick, dark green vines, like the most frenzied suicide squad, fearlessly crashed into the dark red fire domain set up by Jiang Wei!
Chi Chi Chi -!
The ear-piercing burning sound, accompanied by a strong, acrid stench of burning, instantly filled the air.

The moment the giant vine came into contact with the dark red light field, its tip burst into flames and carbonized, crackling and popping. A large amount of dark green sap gushed out like pus and blood, which was instantly evaporated into highly toxic vapor by the high temperature.

However, the giant vines that followed came one after another, seemingly endless!

Using their own burned front halves as shields and stepping stones, they forcefully carved out brief passages in the terrifying dark red light field through sheer numbers and instantaneous sacrifice.

More giant vines, like a swarm of sharks smelling blood, surged towards Fang Qingyu and the witch in his hand from all sorts of tricky angles, ignoring the sluggishness of the Eternal Night Territory.

"Roar!"

Fang Qingyu's vertical pupils, like molten gold, flashed with a cold light.

The dragon claws that had been gripping the witch's throat did not loosen their grip; instead, they unleashed even more terrifying lightning and fire.

Boom!

The other dragon claw, wrapped in boiling crimson tribulation fire, swept across fiercely!

The raging flames slashed forward in a fan shape.

Bang Bang Bang!
Several giant vines that were charging head-on were struck, producing a dull thud. The incredibly tough vines were instantly blasted apart, with dark green sap and burning fragments scattering everywhere.

However, even more giant vines attacked from the sides, behind, and even underfoot.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Several giant vines with huge mandibles splitting at their tips, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, viciously bit towards the joint of Fang Qingyu's arm that was gripping the witch.

"Duh!"

Jiang Wei's cold, childlike voice rang out, and her small figure instantly appeared beside Fang Qingyu, her little hand grasping at the giant vines that were attacking her!
puff!

Those giant vines seemed to be instantly squeezed and crushed by an invisible force.

But just as Jiang Wei made her move, on the other side, several more cunning and faster pale tree branches, like venomous snakes, clung to the blind spots of the ground, bypassing Fang Qingyu's senses, and suddenly wrapped around the waist and legs of the Time Eclipse Witch.

"Ugh!"

The Time Eclipse Witch let out a painful groan as her body was dragged by a tremendous force and suddenly sank!
Fang Qingyu's arm muscles bulged, and the dragon scales rubbed together, producing a piercing sharp sound. He gripped the witch's neck tightly, and his violent strength was about to crush the pale tree branch that had wrapped around her, along with the witch's waist and legs.

Rumble, rumble—! ! !
The entire underground space seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand, shaking and twisting wildly.
Above the dome, massive rocks crashed down like a torrential rain.
The ground undulated violently like waves, tearing open a huge gap.
The three colossal tree-like figures, devouring corpses, let out deafening, agonizing roars. Their massive root systems churned wildly within the collapsing rocks, and the entire space instantly descended into an apocalyptic collapse.
Fang Qingyu's eyes sharpened.

A massive boulder, the size of a small mountain, crashed down upon them with destructive force! The solid ground beneath their feet instantly turned into churning gravel and quicksand!
The opportunity is fleeting!
The pale branches that had bound the witch suddenly unleashed their final power, taking advantage of the chaos and immense force caused by the collapse of space.

Stab it!

Fang Qingyu only felt a slip between his fingers, and the last trace of spacetime ripples and runic skin covering the witch's body was forcibly torn apart.
A few strands of deep purple hair and pieces of torn cloth remained in the scorching dragon claw.

Meanwhile, the Time Eclipse Witch's broken body was instantly wrapped and entangled by countless pale branches, forming a huge, airtight cocoon!
"go!"

Fang Qingyu acted decisively, grabbing Jiang Wei's small arm without hesitation.

boom--! ! !
Lightning exploded beneath his feet, and the Thunder Shadow technique was pushed to its limit.

The two transformed into a destructive bolt of lightning that tore through the darkness and collapse, ignoring the witch's cocoon that had been swept away, and the three howling giant tree ghost faces. They followed the huge passage they had come from, braving the constantly falling boulders and pouring mud and sand, going against the current and rushing straight towards the ground!
The raging lightning, like a drill, instantly pulverized the rocks and remnants of giant trees that blocked its path, leaving behind a deafening roar and a cloud of dark dust that devoured everything.

……

boom! ! !
The scorched earth was torn apart once again by the violent force.

A figure wreathed in purple-blue lightning and dark red calamity flames, trailing a long trail of electric light, burst forth from the depths of the earth like a cannonball, landing steadily on a patch of scorched, ravaged earth.

Fang Qingyu released his hand, and Jiang Wei's small figure floated lightly beside him.

The world before my eyes has been completely changed.

The dark red sea of ​​fire that had recently raged and burned down large swathes of the eerie forest has now been completely extinguished.

All that remained was a scorched, blackened landscape, with wisps of smoke rising from the cracks, and the air filled with the pungent smell of burnt and ashes.

The billowing smoke, like a giant black column of smoke, rose straight up into the leaden-gray sky.

This signifies the devastating fire that has just taken place here.

However, an even more chilling upheaval was unfolding at the edge of our field of vision.

The three strange forests that were originally separated by Jiang Wei's flames and each occupied its own territory are now in a state of incomprehensible madness.

As far as the eye could see, the earth seemed to be groaning in pain.

Countless thick, gnarled roots covered in pale bark, like ancient pythons awakening, tore through the scorched soil, carrying thick, foul-smelling mud, and surged wildly in the same direction.

Shh-shh-shh—splash-splash—!!
Countless leaves, a mix of dark green, pale white, and crimson, were rubbing and howling in the gale.

It was the teeth-grinding sound of countless thick vines and branches, as thick as giant pythons, intertwining and devouring each other in the air.

The forest is "walking"!
Every tree is rising from the ground, its root system like millions of legs, dragging its massive body, crushing scorched earth, smashing rocks, and rushing towards the center without regard for anything else.

They are merging! They are devouring their own kind!
It is undergoing a massive and suffocating aggregation at an incredible speed.

Within the short span of ten breaths that Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei burst out of the ground, the apocalyptic gathering was already nearing its end.

Where are those three forests now, at the edge of the horizon?
Only three!

Three enormous, towering trees, so large they defied the limits of human perception, stood like three dark green demonic mountains rising from the ground and piercing the clouds, atop the scorched earth!

Their trunks are so large that it takes dozens of people to encircle them, and their height reaches a terrifying tens of meters. Their massive canopies block out the sky, completely obscuring the already dim sky and casting a despairing shadow.

Covering the main trunk is a thick, layered, constantly writhing "living armor" that flows with a viscous, dark green liquid.

Three enormous wooden ghost faces were clearly visible on the armor!

The central face is the largest and most ferocious, its lines twisted like engravings in an abyss, occupying most of the width of the tree trunk.

It was those three second-tier tree-like spirits that had devoured the corpses of countless kin and fully revealed their true forms.

At the top of the largest tree in the center, whose aura had risen to the middle stage of the second tier.

A dark purple figure staggered to its feet.

It was the Time Eclipse Witch who had just been forcibly rescued from underground.

She looked extremely disheveled at that moment.

Her magnificent deep purple dress had long since been reduced to tattered strips, barely clinging to her body, while her once smooth, deep purple hair was now disheveled and unkempt.

That face, a blend of youthful innocence and world-weariness, was covered with charred marks and fine, bloody gashes, and one amber eye was dull and lifeless.

Only that dark purple pupil
She locked her gaze on the tiny yet terrifying figure on the ground.

Utter humiliation, deep-seated resentment, and a hint of fear—a fear she herself was unwilling to acknowledge—threw within her.
All elegance, all mystery, all composure were utterly shattered in the agony of being smashed like a tattered sack and burned by lightning!
"Kill him!!!"

A hysterical, piercing roar, like that of a female beast with its throat torn apart, burst from the mouth of the Time Eclipse Witch.

The voice, filled with irreconcilable hatred, carried far and wide, echoing across the desolate, scorched battlefield.

It also clearly reached the ears of Su Wanqing and the others, who had just broken through the ground from other directions and were shocked by the apocalyptic scene before them.

That venomous roar seemed to ignite the final fuse!
boom! boom! boom!
The three towering trees' demonic bodies trembled violently at the same time.

Above the tree canopy, countless massive branches, as thick as siege crossbows and with jagged mandibles splitting at their tips, resembled a horde of enraged dragons, their terrifying howls tearing through the air as they blotted out the sky and instantly covered the entire sky above Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei.

The dark green shadow of death, like a collapsing sky, crashed down!
However, at this critical moment, when danger lurked everywhere.

Standing atop the central giant tree, the Time Eclipse Witch roared "Kill him!" and a flash of madness and venom appeared in her dark purple eyes before she stopped without pausing.
She turned around abruptly and clutched the dimly lit book, "Entropy of Time," tightly in her arms.

Without even glancing at the impending cataclysmic collision below, his figure transformed into a dark purple streak of light, fleeing desperately towards the massive energy field at the edge of the battlefield, a field that seemed to separate the inner and outer worlds.
escape!
Use all your strength to escape, regardless of the consequences.

All the dignity of a ghost, the majesty of a sacred object, and the pleasure of revenge became pale and laughable in the face of that terrifying experience of near annihilation.

that man
The man who could tear apart the spacetime barrier with his bare hands and smash her to the brink of collapse with the most violent physical force.
That was something she simply couldn't contend with!
The power of "Entropy of Time" seemed so powerless in front of him!
Survive! Only by surviving can we have a chance to make a comeback.

Her movements were as swift as a ghost, and the deep purple light shot rapidly toward the edge of the force field under the cover of the massive tree canopy.

on the ground.

Fang Qingyu's molten gold vertical pupils clearly reflected the countless deathly giant branches pressing down from the sky, and also captured the deep purple stream of light that was desperately fleeing under the shadow of the tree canopy.

So he didn't even look at the impending catastrophe overhead.

He tilted his head slightly, his gaze falling on the small figure floating beside him.

“Xiao Jiang,” Fang Qingyu’s voice was as calm as if he were talking about the weather, “you hold them off for a bit.”

Then, turning his gaze back to the fleeing purple light, he added, "I'll be right back."

The moment the words left his mouth, Fang Qingyu's figure had already disappeared.

Jiang Wei's clear red eyes held no surprise or worry, only a cold focus. The moment Fang Qingyu disappeared, her small body floated lightly several meters upwards.

Facing the countless giant tree branch guns that blotted out the sky and crashed down like a cataclysmic punishment, she slowly raised her delicate white hands.

"Ah."

A soft response rang out clearly amidst the raging wind pressure.

boom--! ! !
A dark red light, viscous like lava and as deep as a blood abyss in hell, suddenly erupted from Jiang Wei's small body.

The light expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a huge dark red pillar of light with a diameter of tens of meters, shooting into the sky.

At the edge of the beam of light, the air was distorted and boiled by the extreme heat, emitting a piercing wail.

The pillar of light, as if it were a living thing, suddenly surged upwards and outwards under the absolute control of Jiang Wei's will!

Chichichichichi——!!!
Like a red-hot iron plunged into ice water.

The countless massive tree branches, slamming down with destructive force, emitted a terrifying, scorching sound the instant they touched the edge of the expanded dark red light domain.

The incredibly tough, dark green giant branch, at a speed visible to the naked eye, instantly turned black and carbonized, disintegrating.

Like withered grass thrown into a furnace of purgatory.

A strong, nauseating stench of burning flesh accompanied billowing black smoke into the sky.

Within the reach of the light, the rain of death was frozen in place and burned away, forming an absolute incineration barrier that separated life from death.

"Roar!!!"

The three second-tier tree demons let out earth-shattering roars of pain. Their massive demonic bodies trembled violently as their attacks were blocked. Their canopies danced wildly, and more giant branches, carrying even more violent power, crashed into the seemingly thin but indestructible dark red light domain one after another, like a swarm of crazed pythons.

boom! boom! boom!
The enormous impact sounded like a series of muffled thunderclaps! The surface of the dark red light field rippled violently, yet remained completely still!

Jiang Wei hovered in the center of the pillar of light, her small figure like a pillar of strength, her red eyes cold, her hands steadily maintaining the shape of the light domain, firmly blocking this deathly inferno.

……

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!!"

As the Time Eclipse Witch fled for her life, she cursed wildly in her heart, regret gnawing at her heart like a venomous snake.

Why did you shout that?

Why reveal your location and intentions?

That man, that monster, he's not human at all!
She clutched the "Entropy of Time" tightly in her arms, the deep purple light propelling her speed to its limit, drawing ever closer to the massive energy field that isolated the battlefield.

Just get out. Just get out...
Om-! ! !
A chilling, violent aura, carrying an absolute will to destroy, swept in from behind her in an instant, locking her firmly in place.

The speed of that breath was so fast that it exceeded the limits of her mental reaction!
The hairs on the Time Eclipse Witch's entire body stood on end instantly.

The dark purple pupil shrank to the size of a pinhead due to extreme fear.

She didn't even have time to turn around!

"Do not--!!!"

A desperate scream had just escaped his throat.

A hand covered in dark gold dragon scales and wrapped with tiny yet deadly arcs of purple-blue electricity appeared without warning in front of her neck, like the claw of death that pierced through the barrier of space!

Cold! Hard!
It possesses absolute power to crush everything.

Click!

The five dragon fingers, like the strongest alloy shackles, closed instantly, completely choking her delicate and fragile throat.

All her unuttered screams and pleas were abruptly cut off in her trachea.

"Eh ho ho"

The Time Eclipse Witch's body stiffened and tensed up suddenly, as if a venomous snake had been gripped at its vital point.

The deep purple light dissipated instantly.

She tried to scratch at the iron-like dragon claw with both hands in vain, her nails scraping against the hard dragon scales with a harsh sound, but she couldn't even leave a white mark.

Fang Qingyu's figure solidified beside her like a ghost.

The molten gold vertical pupils coldly looked down at her face, which was contorted and turned purple with suffocation and fear, with the same gaze as looking at an ant struggling futilely in the palm of one's hand.

"Flipping through a book?" Fang Qingyu's deep, hoarse voice carried an undisguised mockery, like the friction of ice. "You couldn't trap me when you were so close just now, let alone now?"

His words were like a final verdict.

hum!
The "Entropy of Time" in the Time Eclipse Witch's arms sensed its master's extreme crisis. The pages moved without wind, bursting forth with a final, intense dark golden light.

A concentrated force of time-space stagnation instantly enveloped Fang Qingyu!

However, this power had just touched the faint, yet terrifying, dark golden aura of blood and qi on Fang Qingyu's body surface, which contained the roar of dragons and howls of tigers.

Like a fragile wave crashing against a reef, it dissipates instantly without even causing a ripple.

"Roar--!!!"

A majestic and boundless roar, as if from the primordial era, exploded within Fang Qingyu's body without warning.

Dragon Sparrow Slaying Blade, draw your sword!
choke--!!!
The clear, resonant sound of the blade drowned out all the noise of the battlefield, reaching straight to the heavens.

The long, narrow, dark gold blade, held in Fang Qingyu's hand with one hand, transformed into an arc of light.

On the blade, purple-blue lightning patterns and dark red tribulation flames instantly boiled and intertwined, roaring!

A decree from Yuanyue!

The sword is drawn, and the decree is issued!
The imperial edict commands the enemy before us to die!
The moment the blade separated from its edge, it swelled in the wind.

In an instant, it transformed into a solidified, tangible phantom of a giant dragon with flying scales and claws, entwined with purple-blue lightning and dark red tribulation flames.

The dragon's eyes widened in anger, reflecting the image of Fang Qingyu's molten gold vertical pupils.

With supreme majesty that commands all things, it devoured the Time Eclipse Witch, who was being held by the throat and unable to move.

"Do not--!!!"

In the dark purple pupils of the Time Eclipse Witch, the all-consuming death dragon was reflected. Her last line of mental defense collapsed completely, and she let out a desperate howl before annihilation.

However, the sound abruptly stopped.

laugh--!
Like a red-hot knife slicing through solidified butter.

The condensed, dark gold dragon-shaped blade energy pierced through the Time Eclipse Witch's battered body without any hindrance.

It cuts down diagonally from below her choked neck, sweeping across her waist and abdomen.

Time seems to freeze at this moment.

The extreme fear and resentment on the Time Eclipse Witch's face froze in that instant.

All bodily movements, struggling hands, and attempts to activate the "Entropy of Time" came to a standstill.

A straight crack, shimmering with dark gold and reddish-purple light, quietly appeared on her waist and abdomen.

next moment.

puff--! ! !
A large amount of blood and shattered internal organs, shimmering with an eerie dark golden luster, sprayed violently from the cracks like berries that had been violently crushed.

The Time Eclipse Witch's tattered body silently split into two parts along the smooth, mirror-like cut.

The dark purple eye stared intently at Fang Qingyu, who was standing inches away. The last glimmer of light in the pupil quickly dimmed and went out, leaving only endless emptiness and incredulous bewilderment.

It seems that he could never understand why he would end up in this way, so easily, until his death.

Wow
The heavy ancient book "Entropy of Time," which she held tightly in her arms, seemed to lose its last remaining strength the moment her body broke. The gears, hourglass, and broken chain emblems on the dark gold cover suddenly dimmed.

The entire book, like a sand sculpture weathered over millions of years, silently disintegrated, turning into countless shimmering golden dust particles that quickly dispersed and vanished in the scorching wind, leaving no trace.

[The Time Eclipse Witch has been added to your team; you will receive 5 skill points as a reward.]

The cold, impersonal message appeared clearly in Fang Qingyu's mental map.

Fang Qingyu didn't even glance at the drifting light dust. The few drops of dark gold blood on the Dragon Sparrow Slaying Blade evaporated instantly amidst the leaping lightning and fire.

With a flick of his wrist, the longsword emitted a clear, resonant hum, shook off the remaining blood, and clattered back into its sheath.

Only then did the witch's severed body, as if stripped of all support, fall helplessly from the sky, crashing heavily onto the scorched earth below, kicking up a cloud of dust.
They were then quickly charred and carbonized in the remaining aura of thunder and fire, eventually turning into two small, inconspicuous piles of ashes, which were scattered by the wind.

Fang Qingyu's gaze swept over the place where the witch had been completely annihilated, pausing for a moment at the spot where the book "Entropy of Time" had vanished, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.

As expected, it was untouchable.

It seems that this book is not something I can currently control.

Then, without further hesitation, he slowly turned around, and the dark gold dragon scales receded quietly like a tide.

His tall and upright figure returned to normal.

Fang Qingyu's gaze passed over the billowing smoke and dust, landing on the boiling core battlefield.

(End of this chapter)