Sentry: The guide who's getting extra help is very busy today.

"Will they reproduce?"

"That's not reproduction, that's fission. But a defective product is a defective product. Its fission speed is incredibly slow. However, it can become stronger by devouring each other."

"Aren't you going to die?"

If the circle disappears one day, the Verenaz race will come out and have plenty to eat.

Shuzao signaled the sentries to stop and save their strength; the story wasn't over yet, and Zhu wouldn't make a move.

"You want to kill me?"

Shu Zao calmly replied, "You can't kill him; you're just ignorant."

"I see. The nobles of Verenas are not easy to kill. If we don't find their weakness, we will live forever."

"Okay, I understand. You can continue."

Zhu was very excited about what was about to be said, and a strange smile distorted his face.

"Do you know? The sentries and guides back then were incredibly strong and fought with all their might. They were fearless and would self-destruct if they couldn't win. They would take as many as they could with them. We didn't even have time to corrupt and destroy their bodies."

It really does smell good.

Now, only the Iris of the Oriole still seems to have a faint 'fragrance' about it.

"...Later, the Sentinels and Guides somehow created circles, and the unkillable Verenaz race was circled one by one..."

Zhu explained it very well, but it was too short; there wasn't enough time for her to refresh her ultimate move.

There was no other way, so Shu Zao found another "nutritious" question instead of asking some irrelevant things.

It's not like it's made of idiots; you can't just fool it.

"Who are you talking about?"

"I don't know. The prophecy in the innermost layer says that she can end all of this, and when we see her, we will know it is her."

The only way to see it, even when it's deliberately hidden, is through this strange guide.

Xingyao and the others were able to see it because of the shared senses after Shuzao activated his ultimate ability; later, when the time limit was reached, it appeared automatically.

"I'm so tired. Saying so much at once, how do you want to die?"

"Wait, how did you know she was born? Can you communicate with others in the inner circle?"

"Su gave a rough timeframe; this is the last hundred years. Since you won't choose, I'll choose your way of dying."

Yuanli and Shuzao exchanged glances and immediately took action without hesitation. Zhu made no move, but the disdain in its eyes betrayed its emotions, and its body disappeared in front of them.

"Hmph, you're the only one I can't beat, Yuanli."

Yuanli didn't speak. After not being able to see Zhu, she unhesitatingly activated the spiritual power that Shuzao and Lingxi had requested. Zhu reappeared, and Yuanli took advantage of her unpreparedness to kill Zhu.

It seems that 'invisibility' is also one of Tsukumo's abilities.

Fortunately, she was thick-skinned and asked Lingxi for some more.

After killing Zhu's clone, they rushed toward the main body without stopping for a moment.

During this time, Shu Zao unleashed another powerful attack, and they arrived before the main body, covered in wounds.

The stored spiritual energy that Lingxi had asked for had also been used up.

"What are you using? It's amazing." Zhu didn't run away; he stood still and waited for them.

"Domain Replacement".

With his powers activated, Fu Yuan's body inside the White Tower began to convulse.

"They've run into each other." Xian Yue'an gripped Mo Shu's hand nervously, her fingers as cold as a dead guide.

Mo Shu embraced Xuan Yue'an: "Yue'an, trust them, or rather, trust Shu Zao."

Shu Zao killed the original body relatively easily, but she was uneasy. Soon she found out why.

Because Zhu has reappeared.

"Hahaha, I've already said it, even the sentries and guides who were so strong in the past couldn't do anything to me, let alone you guys."

As long as all the pollutants in this circle don't die, it won't die; they will 'resurrect' their original form.

"Shu Zao, you killed its true form." Xing Yao came to Shu Zao's side, wanting to be as close to her as possible, even in death.

He failed to identify the weakness, which harmed everyone.

"Nothing is unkillable; all living things die. I didn't kill the right one; it was just strange. Don't blame yourself."

"Hold on and observe it."

After struggling for three minutes, Shu Zao felt the pain.

Shuzao: ? ? ? Wasn't it numb from the pain? How come it still hurts?

There's no time left; even Boyou's ability to buy time isn't enough.

Where should we kill them?

Don't panic, don't panic, you must have forgotten something.

Shuzao began to recall every detail of meeting Zhu and Xingyao's talk of shared origins.

Something flashed through her mind, and she realized it.

It can't get out!

Shu Zao wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. She was too lazy to stop the blood gushing from her body; she didn't have enough hands.

"Kill all the contaminants in the circle, and I don't believe you won't die."

She killed all the pollutants in the enclosure; let's see how it survives!

Either way, it's a lose-lose situation, so let's take a big gamble.

"Xiyu, cover this entire area, clean it thoroughly, leave nothing behind."

"Our territory isn't that big."

"Don't worry about whether I live or die."

"That's something we can try."

They opened up again at the edge of the next circle, only to find that they hadn't become stronger.

Looks like my luck isn't so good.

Xiyu didn't dare to extend its branches into the next circle, instead frantically encroaching on the space within the circle.

At the same time, Fu Yuan was covered in blood, his flesh burst open, splattering Xian Yue An and the others with blood.

"Stop the bleeding, quick, stop Fu Yuan's wound."

Tiris touched Fu Yuan's bones. "His bones are broken in several places, and they're still breaking."

The sentries on the 88th floor were in a flurry of activity. In the heavily contaminated zone, Shu Zao's eyes were in so much pain that he could see and not see.

My brain was spinning, my hands and feet were unresponsive, and I was staggering.

Two-thirds of the territory in the circle has been occupied by Xiyu, and Zhu is in a panic.

"Don't you want to live anymore?"

Shu killed it early.

"I'll let you out, and you can have your hair back."

If only these words had been said sooner, whether Shu Zao believed them or not is another matter. Now that she has lost consciousness, she is only clinging to one obsession: to kill all the pollutants in this circle.

Zhu kept retreating, and Boyou's hair was half white. In order to alleviate Shuzao's pain, he overused too much of his ability.

It's at its last gasp.

Zhou Miao wasn't in much better shape; she had been making shields for them for a while, and all the color had drained from her face.

"Huh? Zhu, are you going to die?" The one who spoke was the Verenaz species from the next layer.

But Zhu couldn't hear its voice.

"What a huge tree! I really want to break off a branch to decorate my home! But I can't go out."

It only needs to extend a tiny branch in, and it can pull them all in.

Without a medium, I can't do anything, which is frustrating.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Shu Zao bled from all seven orifices, and not a single bone in his body was intact—all of them were shattered; his mental state was deteriorating.

Fortunately, Chikushin couldn't hold on any longer before she died.

Without the ring, the circle disappeared and turned into a jade bracelet, which automatically slipped onto Shu Zaozhen's soft, boneless wrist.

The sentries stumbled and staggered toward Shuzao's direction, and the mental images of the sentries who had been linked together showed signs of collapse.

They knew what it meant: they had won, but Shu was already dead.

Does this count as a win?

It's a case of mutual destruction.

"Shuzao." Etheris, who was closer, took Shuzao from Boyou's hands and hugged her, crying.

Why did it turn out this way?!

Someone please save Shuzao!!!

"You haven't lost your way, have you?" Shu Zao asked weakly, having withdrawn her powers and regained her senses.

Yuanli's voice was devoid of emotion: "No, Zhu is dead, and the circle here has disappeared too."

"That's good."