The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"My friends, you can't just give up! If you don't think about protecting me, the power of the Light of the Sky can't be unleashed."

Song Gua explained it to them with emotion and moved them with reason.

The clones responded with words.

"Isn't there anything you want to protect?"

"Exactly, isn't protecting yourself a form of protection too?"

"You're a seasoned thief now. You need to learn to protect yourself and stop relying on your fathers all the time."

The Song hexagram reads: "WDNMD".

It's not that Song Gua doesn't work hard.

He is also trying to give himself a sense of conviction.

I must protect myself, and I must protect the empire I fought so hard to build.

You know what, it really works.

Skylight's judgment in this regard is not so rigid. It seems that protecting my property is also a kind of protection, not necessarily for others or for the world, that kind of selfless protection.

However, it is clearly impossible for one person's belief in the Song Gua to be as strong as tens of thousands of overlapping clones at present.

For someone to have such a strong belief in "I protect myself," they must be incredibly narcissistic.

The Poison Ancestor attacked again.

Song Gua borrowed full strength to deal with him.

The cannon fodder group is losing members.

The clones saw this and realized it wouldn't work.

The old thief has suffered too many casualties. If things continue like this, sooner or later he'll be the one to take the fall.

"Let's go protect that old thief."

"We can't get involved in Poison Ancestor's one-on-one fight with Old Thief."

"Yeah, their current stats are all '?' when I checked them. They're way ahead of us. We can't even keep up with their movements, how can we help?"

"Then let's protect that old thief in our hearts."

"Will this work?"

"Give it a try."

So, all the bandits sang a song together.

"♫As long as the blue sky exists, the wind carries time..."

♫As long as courage exists, dreams can surely come true.

……

♫No one can compare, nothing can compare.

♫I just want to protect you!

♫No matter when, no matter where

♫I just want to protect you!

... "

Seeing the bandits who weren't going to help but were instead singing in unison in the distance, Qian Chongxue felt her worldview shatter.

She wasn't unfamiliar with bandits.

She also knew that bandits were a rather abstract concept.

But I didn't expect it to be so abstract!

What song are they singing?

A bandit who had been hiding suddenly spoke to her.

"I Just Want to Protect You" is a very nice song.

Qian Chongxue was startled and quickly retreated to create distance.

"No, why sing? Is this the right occasion to sing?"

The hidden bandit countered with a question.

"Isn't that right?"

Qian Chongxue was speechless. The bandit's tone was so self-righteous that it made her seem very stupid.

Wang Miao, on the other side, was unsurprised.

No matter how much Qian Chongxue studies the bandits, it's all just theoretical knowledge.

Wang Miao was the one who genuinely had frequent contact with bandits.

The bandits sang with genuine emotion, and at the height of their feelings, they even shed tears.

It's clear they really want to protect the old thief, especially in battles where the cannon fodder group is likely to suffer casualties.

As a result, a whole host of attributes started to jump up on Song Gua's panel.

"Beep beep beep beep—"

Song Gua clenched his fist and threw a punch, the force of which was so great that it knocked the Poison Ancestor to the ground from a distance.

"Haha!! I'm doing it again!"

Poison Ancestor was stunned again!

I had already pressed the dice and rolled them.

How come all of a sudden, he's torturing himself again?

The dice are here.

too fast!

Poison Ancestor discovered that even in his Nascent Soul state, he couldn't see his movements clearly.

*Smack!*

A loud, resounding slap landed on Poison Ancestor's face.

The Poison Ancestor was sent flying, crashing to the ground and plowing ten acres of land.

Poison Ancestor lay on the ground, stiff for two seconds.

He was questioning the meaning of life.

There was no time for Poison Ancestor to question his existence. Song Gua, wielding a greatsword in one hand and a Dragon Roar Spear in the other, aimed for Poison Ancestor's head with one strike and for his heart with the other, ready to take his life.

"A poisonous heart!"

The Poison Ancestor's body transformed into a poisonous mist, causing Song Gua's attack to miss, only tilting the entire Sky City by ten degrees.

Yes, this is essentially a small world floating above the clouds.

It was deflected by Song Gua's all-out attack!

In the ancient city, everyone standing on the ground can feel that the ground beneath their feet is tilting in one direction.

Soon, a deafening roar came from afar, along with clouds of dust billowing into the sky.

Even from this far away, we can see such a big commotion.

The shock felt by the Poison Ancestor, who was in the midst of it, can be imagined.

"this……"

He can no longer speak.

Poison Ancestor's mind works very quickly.

Judging from Song Gua's performance just now, he felt that if he didn't go all out, the question today wouldn't be whether he could seize the light source or not.

He's going to die here!

Song Gua's offensive showed no signs of slowing down.

Having failed to land his first attack, he immediately used a large number of control skills to block off all directions.

Like a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, the Poison Ancestor transformed his body into poisonous mist.

But that doesn't mean Song Gua can't control him.

As long as we borrow the Western fantasy external force system of Nanfeng and Xuezige, we can defeat magic with magic!

"You old poisoner! Go to hell!!"

Song Gua thrust forward with his spear, accompanied by layers of skill effects and a source power pressure comparable to that of a Spirit Phantom.

"Po-ying-"

A strange chanting sound suddenly appeared.

At the same time, a huge beam of light descended from the sky and smashed into the Poison Ancestor.

Song Gua charged headlong into the beam of light, and all the attacks were deflected by it.

Moreover, the light emanating from the beam also completely dismantled Song Gua's sealing measures.

"What? There's an expert here?"

Song Gua used ranged skills and casually threw out dozens of skills.

It was useless; the Poison Ancestor, bathed in that beam of light, was completely invincible.

The light did not last long.

The Poison Ancestor emerged from within.

He's gone crazy again.

He was dressed in dark green armor, wielding a long-handled black umbrella weapon, and wearing a mask engraved with abstract symbols.

This symbol looks like writing, but Song Gua doesn't indicate which script it is.

Without saying a word, Poison Ancestor took a step forward and instantly teleported in front of Song Gua.

This is true teleportation.

The Song hexagram confirmed that he had not taken any action in between.

Stepping forward, releasing the umbrella, striking the Song hexagram—all in one fluid motion.

One of the cannon fodder units was killed in a split.

Song Gua was sent flying backward, but quickly regained his balance.

The source of the sky's light intensified once again.

This is because the bandits saw that the enemy was getting stronger and were worried that Song Gua would not be able to defeat them, so their desire to protect the enemy intensified.

"So, this is your third stage? Damn... I hope all ten patriarchs are like this. You guys are going to be really tough to beat."

The Poison Ancestor remained silent. He attacked again, this time using teleportation.

He appeared above Song Gua's head, opened the black umbrella in his hand, and several streams of green poisonous gas flew out from the umbrella ribs. As if they were sentient, they circled around Song Gua, waiting for an opportunity to attack him.

Song Gua counterattacks.

But Poison Ancestor's teleportation was as free as it could be; he used it at will.

Song Gua couldn't hit him at all.

The poisonous air currents around him seized the opportunity to cling to him.

poisoned.

This is not a good thing.

Because the poisoning is ongoing.

This means that unless the poison is purified, the clones will continue to die in place of the original.

Song Gua immediately used a large number of purification and negative status removal skills, but he could only barely shorten the poisoning time and could not remove the poison immediately.