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His gaze was fixed on the swirling dark red vortex, then he glanced down at the jade pendant, which was trembling slightly as if urging him on.

"Let's gamble!"

Lu Changsheng gave a low shout and sat down on the spot!

"Brother Lu! What are you doing?!" Cheng Caijun exclaimed in surprise.

He formed an ancient and profound hand seal in front of his chest—the Absorption of Primordial Energy Seal! This was not an offensive or defensive technique, but an extremely dangerous forbidden art that plundered primordial energy from heaven and earth or a specific source to replenish himself!

However, this time he wanted to use this hand gesture to replenish the energy of the jade pendant.

"Heaven and earth are boundless, all rivers flow to the sea! Accept!"

With a low roar, he completed the hand seal, and the jade pendant on his chest suddenly burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant blue light.

Instead of spreading outwards, the azure light formed a powerful suction vortex that rotated inwards, creating a kind of confrontation and struggle with the dark red vortex beneath it!

Om-!

The entire basement shook violently!

"How dare you?!" Li Xingguo was shocked and furious when his sacrificial ceremony was interrupted. He felt the energy of the hub rapidly draining away.

"Plunder the power of the gods? You're courting death!!"

He wanted to control the formation to counterattack, but he had already sacrificed half of his life and was deeply bound to the formation, unable to move. He could only watch helplessly as Lu Changsheng frantically drained energy like a bottomless pit.

Lu Changsheng was also suffering.

A massive influx of malevolent energy surged in, turning the jade pendant into a red-hot iron, scalding his chest and tearing his skin. Even more terrifying were the chaotic wills, the resentment of countless gruesome deaths, and the cold gaze of the evil god that accompanied those energies.

His body trembled violently, and the blood vessels under his skin bulged out dark red, as if they were about to burst at any moment.

But the jade pendant is indeed miraculous; it's like a top-of-the-line vacuum pump, frantically compressing and storing enormous amounts of energy.

The jade pendant's surface shimmers with light, while its interior seems to have been created from the ashes, forming an ever-expanding energy core.

Seeing Lu Changsheng's miserable state, Cheng Caijun was both anxious and frightened. Looking at Li Xingguo, the old man, though unable to move, was still cursing viciously and staring at Lu Changsheng with venomous eyes, seemingly trying to communicate with the array in some way.

"Damn it, it's all your doing, you old sly fox!"

Cheng Caijun, driven by wickedness, looked left and right, then picked up a broken piece of steel bar from the corner of the wall.

He crouched low, using the light of the array and the turbulent energy as cover, and silently circled around to Li Xingguo's side and rear.

Li Xingguo was completely focused on fighting the energy loss and cursing Lu Changsheng, and didn't notice the inconspicuous little fat boy at all.

Cheng Caijun weighed the steel bar in his hand and aimed it at the back of Li Xingguo's head.

"Get out of here!"

He used all his strength to swing it around and smash it down!

boom!

There was a dull thud, not a crisp sound, as if it had hit a dead tree.

Li Xingguo's body stiffened abruptly, and the vicious curse he was uttering abruptly stopped. He turned his head extremely slowly, one frame at a time, his cloudy eyes filled with disbelief and bewilderment.

He opened his mouth but no sound came out. His eyes quickly became unfocused, his body swayed, and then, like a tattered sack with its bones removed, he slumped softly to the ground and completely lost consciousness.

At the same time, the gray-black aura emanating from his body no longer flowed into the formation, but instead began to dissipate.

Holy crap! Physical exorcism?!

[Cheng Ge is awesome! He's truly the best support player; he never lets you down in crucial moments!]

[Simple, direct, but effective! We're just going to use a small throwing stick!]

[Hilarious! The universal law has arrived: villains die from talking too much and being inattentive.]

Cheng Caijun was startled. He looked at the weapon in his hand, then at the unconscious Li Xingguo on the ground, and swallowed hard.

"Brother Lu... I knocked him out, is that... is it done?"

Lu Changsheng was at a critical juncture and could not afford to be distracted to answer. Li Xingguo was unconscious, and his connection with the formation was temporarily severed, causing a momentary disruption and weakening of the energy output of the dark red vortex.

Seizing this fleeting opportunity, the jade pendant increased its suction by three points, and the dark vortex expanded suddenly, almost swallowing the remaining dark red vortex completely. Purer and more massive energy surged in, and the light on the surface of the jade pendant became dazzling, with the sound of wind and thunder faintly emanating from within.

But at the same time, a shrill scream that exceeded the limits of hearing and resounded directly through the soul came from the direction of the main teaching building. It was the proctor who sensed the power fading from his body!

The stable energy channel trembled violently, beginning to draw power in reverse, trying to snatch back the energy stolen from Lu Changsheng's jade pendant.

The two suction forces, with Lu Changsheng and the jade pendant as the battlefield, once again engaged in a frantic tug-of-war!

Lu Changsheng felt as if he had been struck by lightning, spitting out blood and his consciousness began to blur.

The jade pendant's light flickered, and fine cracks appeared on its surface, as if it could not withstand the two-way tearing.

"Brother Lu!" Cheng Caijun cried out in alarm upon seeing the situation. He looked at the shimmering jade pendant, then at the unconscious Li Xingguo on the ground, and then at the flickering evil god's passage and the crimson vortex about to collapse. An extremely bold and absurd idea popped into his head.

"Damn it, I'll risk it!"

He threw down the steel bar in his hand, rushed to Li Xingguo's side, and began to quickly tear off Li Xingguo's blue work jacket.

【? ? ? 】

What kind of operation is this now?!

[While it's hot... oh no, while it's still dizzy?]

[I'm stunned. Stripping an NPC of their clothes in a dungeon? Brother Cheng, how could you do that to someone so old?]

Cheng Caijun hurriedly pulled off Li Xingguo's coat and then pulled a bunch of keys and a wooden box from his pants pocket. He opened the wooden box, which contained a strange symbol token that was clearly not a good thing. Cheng Caijun put the wooden box into his own pocket.

"Didn't you want to transfer energy?"

Cheng Caijun muttered to himself, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter, revealing a sense of resignation.

"Hey kid, I'm delivering a 'package' to you!"

Then, he did something that left everyone in the live stream speechless—

In a few quick movements, he used Li Xingguo's work jacket to tightly bind the unconscious Li Xingguo to the broken but still heavy steel bar, making a makeshift human bundle.

"Brother Lu! Hang in there! I'll give him a reverse sacrifice, a real 'waste utilization'!"

After Cheng Caijun finished shouting, he took a few steps back, took a running start, and then, with all his might, threw the steel bar binding Li Xingguo like a javelin at the flickering hub that was drawing energy in reverse!

"Go! Here you go, your loyal servant!!"

call out--!

The "human bundle" traced a slightly clumsy arc, and under the combined effect of the suction of Lu Changsheng's jade pendant and the suction of the evil god's passage, it slightly adjusted its direction and crashed right into the shimmering entrance of the passage!

The passage suddenly expanded!

It was as if something had been forcibly "stuffed" in, causing some kind of highly unstable blockage.

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