My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Those demons that just left in black smoke were clearly skilled in shadow magic, able to move silently using shadow energy that doesn't reflect light or make a sound. Xia Zuo had to be extremely cautious.

The energy pipeline changed its direction from horizontal to vertical downwards. After drifting downwards for nearly 3 minutes, a faint light appeared at the end of the pipeline.

The blood element servants clung to the tube wall, observing the energy center below.

Several plumes of black smoke were swirling around the large sphere.

Each of them stopped on a specific energy pipeline, transformed into a long black line, and drilled into the wall along the pipeline. Several tens of seconds later, the black line retracted from the wall, transformed back into black smoke, and moved to the next energy pipeline.

Xia Zuo judged that they were shutting down the energy hub connected to the energy pipeline, which meant cutting off the power.

Half an hour has passed.

The plumes of black smoke completed their task of adjusting the energy center, shutting down all energy pipelines except for the ceremonial plaza. All the energy gushing from the large sphere flowed into the thickest energy pipeline, concentrating its power on the shriveled blood vessels.

After that, the black smoke rose straight up, entered the energy pipeline on the top of the large sphere, and returned to the ritual square along the path that the blood element servants had walked, joining the ranks of those who were praising the devotion.

Xia Zuo's blood-element servants followed them back to the ritual plaza, and after confirming that the demons had entered a state of worship, they returned to the energy center.

The roadmap provided by Rexol was drawn according to the standard template of the explosives branch of weapons alchemy. Its core purpose was to minimize the disruption of energy pipelines, offset the shock wave caused by the explosion, and concentrate the shock wave on the large sphere as much as possible.

To do this, Shazo needs to find 33 detonation sites and mark them with blood dots.

...

The cave where Rexor is located.

Christo's curly-haired cat walked in, meowed, and woke up the bald man who was resting with his eyes closed.

"The detonator is ready." The curly-haired cat used its furry paws to untie the cloth bundle tied to its back.

Rexor opened his eyes, picked up the cloth bundle, opened it, and looked inside. There were dozens of small black square boxes with thin metal needles attached.

After putting the package into his bag, Rexor asked, "Is Sereth in position?"

“He’s ready.” The curly-haired cat pointed in a direction. “165 high-purity sticky bombs are all on that hill over there. I’ll take you there.”

“Alright, let’s go.” Rexor stood up and looked down at the little man in the red vest, saying, “Shazo, prepare to transport the bomb.”

“Received, Master,” Xia Zuo replied with a red thread. “The detonation point has also been found.”

“Very good.” Rexol sneered. “Hey, if the explosion goes smoothly and the energy core isn’t as solid as it looks, then we’ve made a fortune on this deal.”

He picked up the curly-haired cat from the ground, put it in his bag, walked out of the cave, pushed his mountain bike out of the bushes, and headed straight for the hill where Ceres was amidst the roar of the engine.

Shazo's hundred blood-elemental servants were also heading in that direction, arriving before Serites at almost the same time as Rexor.

A white, sticky explosive with a long, narrow shape, resembling a rice cake, is neatly arranged in a sealed glass box, which is then placed on a sturdy wooden stake.

When Rexor arrived, he gently removed an explosive from the glass box, inserted the thin metal needle of the detonator into it, and left the small black box connected to the needle exposed.

Whenever Baldy assembled a bomb, Xia Zuo would send out three Blood Element Servants to wrap it up, and then control the Blood Element Servants to rise into the sky and hover below the flesh wall.

The Blood Element servants at this moment appear quite bizarre.

The blood servants, imbued with the mind seal, transmitted images of pristine white walls and glass pipes through which clear water flowed.

The Blood Elemental servants without the Mind Mark are depicted as filthy chunks of flesh and writhing veins.

The stark visual contrast made Xia Zuo feel somewhat uncomfortable, but more than anything, it made him marvel at the Mind Seal.

The work of moving the bomb under the flesh wall lasted for more than three hours.

During this time, the Blood Element servant with the Mind Mark arrived outside the flesh wall. It went back and forth inside and outside the flesh wall dozens of times, placing the bomb in the designated location.

Just as the shriveled blood vessels reached 99% of their charging progress, all the bombs were installed.

Rexor and Ceretus returned to their stronghold. Shazor's more than one hundred blood-elemental servants split into two groups and attached themselves to the two men, hiding inside their red vests.

The blood-element servant bearing the mind's mark returned to the sky above the church headquarters ceremony site, patiently waiting for the best moment to detonate the bomb.

"Xia Zuo, remember, detonate the bomb only when you hear my command."

Rexor stared wide-eyed at the stone floor of the cave in front of him. “If I am unable to move when the planes merge, or if I am instantly crushed by the power of the planes, then you should detonate the bomb when this stone surface in front of me is completely eroded by the shadow energy of the dark room.”

“Yes, Master.” Xia Zuo replied with words written in red thread, appearing calm and restrained, showing no sign of nervousness whatsoever.

In fact, his heart was already pounding.

The detection spell was continuously released, constantly updating the detection results of the shriveled blood vessels. The percentage of energy charging progress slowly and irreversibly advanced from 01% to 99%.

Just as the charging progress reached 99.99%, Xia Zuomo sighed, "I'm sorry, Master."

He brought up the Blood Element Servant management interface in his mind and quickly selected a dozen Blood Element Servants that had turned into little red vests.

Chapter 76 Fighting Alone

The red vests worn by the Temple infiltrators showed an unusual feature, but it was so slight that it did not arouse the wearer's suspicion.

This is because Xia Zuo did not want the Blood Element servants to behave too roughly or savagely, causing a disturbance among the highly stressed infiltrators and disrupting their efforts to deal with the plane fusion.

For example, the red vests worn by Ceres and Rexor have a nearly transparent light red "fabric" that extends upwards from the back of their necks at an extremely slow speed, spreading from the base of their necks to the back of their heads, and then gradually moving towards their ears.

Throughout the entire process, the light red "fabric" never came into contact with the wearer's skin.

The Demon Hunters might be able to sense this non-contact anomaly, but at the moment the plane began, they obviously couldn't spare any more attention and were completely unaware of the changes in their red vests.

The "fabric" extending from the red vest had already reached the back of the ear, waiting only for Xia Zuo's command to allow it to quickly and swiftly slip into the target's ear via the shortest path.

At that moment, the shriveled blood vessels reached 100% energy replenishment.

"Hoo~~" With Nukalofa's long exhale, the worshipping demons stopped singing.

Nukoalov summoned a purplish-black rift and exchanged a few words with the person on the other side of the rift.

Then, he lifted it up, raising the purplish-black rift directly above the large square.

"Vasaksat's followers!" Nukoalov whirled around and shouted at the otherworldly beings below the platform:

"The moment of radiant light to dispel darkness has arrived! The Elemental Temple will surely pay the price for its sins! It is time to judge those humans whose faith has been twisted and who have turned their backs on the path of Saguma!"

Nukoalov raised his hands, “Let us together pour energy into the rift in the Dark Chamber! Let our unwavering faith become an indestructible beacon of the great fusion between the Dark Chamber dimension and nature!”

Nukalofa, with his palms facing upwards, shot out two purplish-black beams of light, which entered the purplish-black crack suspended in the ceiling.

The demons, their faces contorted with fervor, raised their arms and unleashed their energy into the purplish-black rift.

About half of the Otherworldly demons unleashed dark red energy beams, the hybrid mage pouring out his blood runes. A small number of otherworldly demons, like Nukoalov, released purplish-black energy. A few otherworldly demons projected dark golden energy; Shazo used his detection spell to examine it and confirmed it was the otherworldly demons' unique psychic energy.

A surge of energy rushed into the crack in the dark chamber, and the edges of the crack quickly became clearer. The shape of the crack also changed from its original flat shape to a perfect circle.

The circular crack expanded outwards, spreading towards the outer edge of the square at a visible speed.

The energy conduit where the Blood Element servants were located was just two or three meters below the crack in the dark chamber.

Xia Zuo could already clearly see what was inside the crack.

It was an extremely bizarre, purplish-black sky. Countless tentacles hung down from the sky, each with a teardrop-shaped, transparent fleshy ball at its end, inside which floated some grayish-white, olive-shaped object.

Xia Zuo squinted at the unknown thing inside the fleshy ball and suddenly realized that it was a bone sac.

He shifted the perspective of the Blood Element servants a few times, looking in all directions of the purplish-black sky. Everywhere he looked, the sky was filled with these tentacles with bone sacs.

This must be the incubation site for the Otherworldly Demons that the Otherworldly Demon Church secretly built.

The crack in the dark room grew larger and larger, and soon it reached the vicinity of the wall at the edge of the large square.

Ignoring the wall's obstruction, the crack pierced straight through the wall in a manner similar to clipping through a mold, and continued to extend outward.

A drizzle of purplish-black rain fell from the purplish-black sky.

Like the cracks in the dark room, the rainwater ignored the building's obstruction and flowed down through the floor of the church headquarters.

The cave where Rexor is located.

An eerie drizzle of purplish-black rain fell on the stone ground in front of Rexor. The raindrops burst open upon impact with the stone, splashing water everywhere and turning the ground purplish-black.

The next second, the purplish-black began to contend with the stone's original gray. The purplish-black water patterns on the stone ground were constantly squeezed and torn by the gray, and then rebounded with the support of the next wave of purplish-black drizzle, regaining lost ground.

This is a battle to defend nature. The various settings of physical and chemical phenomena in nature are being altered by shadow energy flowing from the cracks in the dark chamber.

"Master, shall we detonate the bomb?" Xia Zuo asked, weaving words with red thread.

“No, wait a little longer.” Rexor’s expression was grave as he stared intently at the rapidly changing purplish-black and gray hues on the ground, like a gambler who had placed a large bet watching a fierce match. “The more severely nature is corrupted by shadow energy, the stronger the resistance will be. The best time for us to act will be when nature is about to be completely corrupted.”

The battle between the secondary plane and the primary plane is gradually entering a heated phase.

The shadow energy released from the dark chamber dimension increased, and the rain changed from a light drizzle to a light rain, a moderate rain, a heavy rain, and finally turned into countless purplish-black water columns falling from the sky, like countless purplish-black hairs sticking to the ground.

The tenacity of nature is on full display.

No matter how intense the shadow energy was, the purplish-black water stains on the stone ground could never completely dispel the gray stone surface.

Compared to rocks, which lack any signs of life, the various organisms that require water and air to survive are quite pathetic.

When the shadow energy was still manifesting as a light drizzle, Xia Zuo checked the condition of each of the red vests.

Whenever a certain amount of shadow energy seeps into the red vest, the vest will randomly acquire a negative effect, the most common of which is physical damage, such as bleeding, festering, dizziness, etc.

Initially, these negative effects lasted only a few seconds to a dozen seconds. As the rain intensified, the negative effects occurred more frequently and lasted longer.

Although Rexor and Ceretus cannot use magic to resist these negative effects, their bodies, modified by Witcher alchemy, still possess a certain degree of resistance.

While ordinary people in the anti-magic field collapsed helplessly on the ground, watching their bodies being dissolved by shadow energy, unable even to cry out in pain, the members of the Temple's infiltrator team could barely survive thanks to the protection of their red vests.

It is worth mentioning that this dark purple rainstorm, which fell from the sky and took away life and hope, was an indiscriminate attack.

Those humans who pledged their loyalty to the Church of the Otherworldly Demons were not treated well. Both the Otherworldly Corporation and the Mishima Corporation were corrupted by the purplish-black rain.

When the sky was filled with purple-black water columns, all the ordinary people living in the magic-suppressing field had already died.

The life force orbs of light from living beings were absorbed by the shriveled blood vessels, and not a single drop was left, all of it went to the headquarters of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons.

The shriveled blood vessels changed from a flat position to a vertical position.

The lower opening draws the life force orb into the body, while the upper opening extends into the crack in the dark chamber, spraying a light green mist rich in life force onto the tentacles that hang from the bone sac.

The magic-free field was completely silent—the area where the purple-black water column was located no longer had air, and the water column itself was not composed of water or other liquids; it was merely a manifestation of shadow energy and did not possess the ability to create or propagate sound.

The air was thin in the anti-magic field—purple-black water columns covered the natural matter at the same spatial coordinates, directly replacing the air, dust, microorganisms, and everything else there with shadow energy.

There is no hope within the anti-magic field—even if the dimensional fusion were to stop now, the survivors would only be left with a naturally formed, riddled landscape. Beneath the ground lie countless cavities eroded by shadow energy, and even the slightest severe tremor could trigger a violent earthquake.

By now, the cave where Rexor was located had become a dilapidated space. Streams of purplish-black water, like sharp nails, relentlessly pierced his legs and arms—the parts not covered by his red vest.