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Ye Mingxiang had been waiting for this moment, waiting for Ed's soul to merge with the "Seven Heirs Worm" and for him to be unable to escape.

He had deliberately pointed out the reason why Ed couldn't use the power of the "Seven Insects," and Jiang Xue had been putting pressure on Ed, all to induce his soul to merge with the "Seven Insects."

The vortex in the abyss had stopped, and Ye Mingxiang had already charged forward with his sword raised, his sword burning with seemingly tangible black flames.

This will be his all-out attack, burning with the power of his life force. He will take advantage of the moment when the "Seven Heirs" are at their weakest, as the ley lines are severed by the "light nails" of the "Mokosh Device," to break the core of the giant serpent of the ruins.

Just then, a whooshing sound suddenly rang out above his head.

An even larger light nail fell from the sky and struck the head of the "Seven Heirs Worm" squarely.

"The Nail of Layered Rock" falls!

A young man dressed in a blue robe landed lightly in front of him, blocking his way.

"Sorry, I'll take this kill," Han Fulai said with a smile.

Chapter 286 Glazed Crystal [4k]

The falling of the "Layered Rock Nail" also caused a violent tremor in the rock hall. Like the "breath of the fleshy lump" caused by the giant serpent of the ruins, this was a tremor powerful enough to shake the entire Layered Rock Abyss.

Despite the earth trembling, the two remained firmly standing in front of the "rock spikes".

One is Han Fulai, and the other is Ye Mingxiang.

Ye Mingxiang's single red eye swept across Han Fulai's face and looked behind him.

Beneath the blue crystal pillar of the "Layered Rock Nail," a large hole was smashed through the head of the Relic Serpent—the very location of the Relic Serpent's energy center and the place where Ed's soul resided.

On the gears of the giant serpent of the ruins, the golden runes gradually dimmed and eventually went out. This mechanical behemoth from five hundred years ago would never move again.

Strands of black energy surged from the hole in the giant serpent's head in the ruins, seemingly forming a blurry human shape, but then encountered the light energy emitted by the "Layered Rock Nail," vanishing without a trace like thin frost under the blazing sun.

Ed, the "Apostle of Fate," an "original apostle" whose history predates even the "Order of the Abyss," ceases to exist anywhere in the world from this moment on.

In the words of the Liyue people, his fate was "utter annihilation of both body and soul".

As Han Fulai said, Ed's head was indeed taken by him.

Ye Mingxiang walked past Han Fulai and headed towards the remains of the giant serpent in the ruins.

Han Fulai's smile remained unchanged as he watched Ye Mingxiang's actions, seemingly awaiting her "inspection."

Ye Mingxiang walked to the remains of the giant serpent in the ruins and stared at the blue light nail in front of her.

The "Layered Rock Nail" suddenly trembled and then rose from the ground.

The giant serpent's head is now a mess; the abyssal energy core that should have been inside was blasted into fragments by the "Layered Rock Nail" attack.

Ye Mingxiang looked up and watched as the "Layered Rock Nail" slowly floated into the air and returned to its original position.

After returning to mid-air, the "Layered Rock Nail" floated quietly and motionless, like a backdrop that had never been moved.

Ye Mingxiang looked around, then bent down and picked up a piece of gravel from the ground.

As everyone knows, "glassy crystal sand" is a specialty of the Layered Rock Abyss, where a large amount of "glassy crystal sand" is buried underground. Just now, during the process of the giant serpent of the ruins "plowing the land", some "glassy crystal sand" ore buried underground was also turned up from the depths of the bottom layer.

The pebbles in Ye Mingxiang's hand were fragments of "glass crystal sand"—or rather, something that should have been called "glass crystal sand".

This piece of gravel was originally a transparent crystal, but now it had a dark blue hue, and within that dark blue was a strange purplish-black impurity.

It is the product of the two great forces that just fought.

Under the dual influence of the azure crystal's radiation and the power of the abyss, strange swirling patterns seemed to appear on this piece of "glassy sand," like the intermingling of light and darkness, black and white, inextricably intertwined.

The powerful force descending from the heavens and the miasma rising from the earth's abyss shaped the originally warm and smooth crystal sand into this form.

That cold touch felt like a warning to mortals.

A strange sense of absurdity lingered in Ye Mingxiang's heart at this moment—his revenge plan, which he had been planning for years and was willing to absorb "karma" to gain the power to deliver the final blow to the "Apostle of Fate," now seemed completely unnecessary.

Ed is indeed dead, but it wasn't Ed himself who killed him, but rather the "Layered Rock Nail" that hung in mid-air like a backdrop, the "Layered Rock Nail" from Sky Island... Such an ending is truly empty.

He took a deep breath and turned to look at Han Fulai.

"The 'Apostle of Fate' is dead, the anomalies in the ley lines have stopped, and it's all over."

Outside the Qingxupu Ruins.

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun manipulated the "Gui Zi Xian Ji" to fight against the attacking legion of the ruins guards.

The strength of the ruins guards lies in their sheer numbers and relentless advance. This so-called "iron torrent" is an overwhelming force that crushes everything in its path.

Although the "Osmanthus Fairy Machine" only has ten fingers, their coordination forms an extremely ingenious defensive line. Under the manipulation of Liuyun Zhenjun's mechanical skills, the ten adorable "little animals" unleashed terrifying combat power, preventing the steel torrent rushing towards the gate of the ruins from advancing an inch.

With this immortal who can "form an army by himself" present, the mere relic guard legion cannot cross the line at all.

In her eyes, the guardians of the ruins were nothing more than mechanical puppets that she had grown tired of seeing a thousand years ago. The guardians of the ruins that Han Fulai and Shen He had seen in the cave of the Minghai Qixia Zhenjun were research materials that Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun had disassembled and reassembled, and later gave to his old friend to be used as gatekeepers of the cave.

She was well aware of the weaknesses of these Kanria war weapons. Once their energy cores were destroyed, the ruin guards, deprived of their power source, would be nothing but a pile of scrap metal—and those large iron blocks were utterly unattractive in appearance, unlike her mechanical creations.

In reality, Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun's thoughts were mostly focused on Dotore, the second seat of the Fools' Executor who had never made a serious move; he was the one she should be wary of.

"Doctor" Doutore rested his chin on his hand, observing the battle unfolding before him with great interest.

He knew, of course, that the guardians of the ruins were powerless against this immortal, but he was very interested in the performance of the "Osmanthus Fairy Machine." He was evaluating the "Osmanthus Fairy Machine's" performance in actual combat and collecting data on it; to him, this battle had become a "real-world experiment."

Dottore wasn't in a hurry at all. Sending a "slice" to Liyue this time was merely a small favor done at the request of his colleague, Pantarone. The Qingxu Pool Ruins were completely irrelevant to him; the experimental data before him was far more important than fighting the Liyue immortals. Opportunities to observe the Liyue immortal mechanisms up close didn't come around often!

Moreover, this "slice" that came to Liyue is none other than Dottore, who studied in Sumeru when he was young, during the age when his thirst for knowledge was at its most intense.

He directed the ruins guards to change their attack methods, as if changing the type of reagent in an experiment, in order to observe the "Osmanthus Fairy Machine's" response.

Just as he was completely immersed in the pleasure of research, a white meteor pierced through Dotole's chest at an indescribable speed!

Frosty blossoms unfold.

Dotore stared in astonishment at the gaping hole in his chest. His body was completely frozen by frost, and to his surprise, he hadn't even sensed the origin of the arrow, nor had the two spikes hovering in the air reacted.

This was an ultra-long-range sniper shot that was beyond his perception range!

...And in Liyue, there is only one person Dottore knows who can do such a thing.

That Liyue "Humanoid Return to the End Machine".

The "slice" of Dottore slowly crumbled and disappeared.

More than a thousand meters away on a cliff, Liyue’s most fearsome archer put away her Amos Bow.

The bow rests firmly on the rock, the arrow flies like a shooting star. The wind howls swiftly for ten thousand miles, frost blooms and even demons tremble in fear!

Gan Yu had actually arrived at Qingxupu long ago, but instead of meeting with her master and junior sister, she found the best spot for long-range sniping and ambushed them.

As Yelan said, archers should not get too close to the enemy—so when Ganyu makes her move, her enemies can never see her.

For a human archer, Ye Lan's 500-meter sniping distance is already a result of divine insight, but for Gan Yu, a half-immortal with Qilin blood, a thousand meters is merely a matter of an arrow's instantaneous reach. Her archery skills do not follow human common sense—after all, she is not human.

A paper carrier pigeon flew to Shen He's side, and Shen He reached out to stop it.

"Master, Senior Sister said she's gone back to Liyue Harbor to continue working," Shen He relayed Gan Yu's message.

"Hmm, this child... why doesn't she chat with me more after arriving..." True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng shook his head, with a sense of regret that a daughter is no longer meant to stay at home once she grows up.

She manipulated the "Osmanthus Fairy Machine" to begin wiping out the remaining guardians of the ruins.

Without their commander, Dotore, the Ruins Guard Legion is even more vulnerable in the face of Lord Liuyun.

Under his master's protection, Shen He also displayed his skills. Soon, the ruins' guardian legion was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.

Shen He stood atop the last remaining, not-yet-completely-silent, relic guardian, about to pierce its energy core with a single shot, when his master stopped him.

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun conjured several talismans out of thin air with a hand seal, firmly immobilizing the guardian of the ruins. This was Liu Yun Zhenjun's ultimate technique—the "Binding Spirit and Connecting with Truth Seal." Shen He had also used this same immortal talisman taught to him by his master to subdue Ye Lan in the Qingxupu ruins.

"Shen He, help your master dig out the energy core of this relic's guardian."

This Ruin Guardian is the largest in the Ruin Guardian Legion, also known as the "Ruin Heavy Machine," essentially the "Legion Commander" of the legion. Its energy core appears to have been modified by Dotorai, allowing it to quickly self-repair even after being damaged in battle.

Like Dotore, True Lord Liuyun also had a strong thirst for knowledge.

Upon receiving the order, Shen He raised the Disaster Relief Spear and began excavating the core of the energy furnace. The Disaster Relief Spear cut through iron like mud, effortlessly breaking through the layers of iron shell of the relic's heavy machine and heading straight for the core.

As Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun observed Shen He's actions, he suddenly asked, "Shen He, do you remember what I told you about the origin of this Calamity-Suppressing Spear?"

Shen He nodded.

She still remembered her master saying, "This spear was forged from something otherworldly in the Abyss of Layered Rocks. Legend has it that a person who was dispelling evil spirits came to the mouth of the Crystal Sand Abyss and took an ominous, water-colored crystal from its depths. He then asked someone to forge it into a weapon, which he named 'Disaster Relief'."

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun took out a strange crystal from his bosom. It looked similar to "glass crystal sand" in material, but it was blue and purple in color, and there were spiral patterns on it.

Even though Shen He didn't recognize the object, he could still feel a chilling aura emanating from it.

"The material used to make the Disaster Relief Spear is this crystal—formed by forces from outside the world, and called 'Frosty Crystal'."

The "Layered Rock Nail" strike not only pierced the head of the giant serpent but also channeled its power into the earth's veins.

Ultimately, the "Nail of the Rock" exists for this very purpose.

While Ye Mingxiang and Jiang Xue were fighting the "Apostle of Fate", Han Fulai used the "Pulshina Light Nail" to clear the abyssal power remaining in the "Layer Rock Nail", and the "Layer Rock Nail" returned to its full strength to perform its duties.

Of course, this result was within Han Fulai's expectations.

He never joined the battle; instead, he operated the "Pursina Light Nail" on the "Layer Rock Nail" to increase its power, striving to help the "Layer Rock Nail" recover as quickly as possible.

Since Sky Island deployed the "Layered Rock Nails" as a seal to suppress the exit of the Abyss, it must have corresponding responsibilities and the ability to perform those responsibilities.

If someone had come down to help it two years ago, perhaps the anomaly of the Layered Rock Abyss would have been resolved long ago.

During the treatment of the "Layered Rock Nail", Han Fulai also continuously communicated with the "Wishing Stone".

As a trusted confidant of the court who worked for Sky Island, he learned a considerable amount of information from the Wishing Stone.

The earthquake caused by the "Layered Rock Nail" was not merely the impact of its fall from mid-air to the ground. In fact, the commotion caused by the giant serpent digging underground was also insufficient to trigger an earthquake. Earthquakes originate from changes in the earth's ley lines, and only changes affecting the earth's ley lines could cause the Layered Rock Abyss to tremble so violently.

The giant nail that fell from the sky severed the local earth veins, not because it was aimed at the ancient human civilization living there.

If we compare the earth's veins to the blood vessels of the earth, and the black mud produced by the abnormal changes in the earth's veins to the toxins in the blood vessels, then the "nails of the layered rocks" are the "scalpels".

It's like a patient being bitten by a venomous snake, the toxin flowing into their bloodstream, and the doctor on Sky Island's treatment plan is—amputation, cutting off wherever the poison is.

As for whether the patient will bleed to death after amputation, and whether humans living there will be affected after the earth's veins are severed...

—Heaven's justice is indifferent.

Of course, we don't need to care about the laws of nature, because the earth's veins actually have a self-repairing function.

A considerable amount of time passed between the destruction of the ancient civilization ruins in the Layered Rock Abyss and its subsequent use as a mining area by the people of Liyue. During that time, the severed ley lines also repaired themselves.

Five hundred years ago, during the Calamity of Kanria, the ley lines underwent another anomaly. At that time, the Liyue Asgardians and the Thousand Rock Army joined forces to suppress the anomaly, with the "Layered Rock Nails" playing a crucial role. However, the Geo Archon was far away in Kanria and did not come here. The lingering effects of the anomaly have persisted to this day; the contamination of the "Layered Rock Nails" has gradually worsened over the past five hundred years, leading to the events of two years ago.

Now, the anomaly has finally been resolved.

Chapter 287 Haftar's Worm [4k]

The earth's veins were temporarily severed by the "rock nails," and the anomaly subsided.

Ye Mingxiang, as the leader of "Dark Shell," felt this matter most directly.

Ye Mingxiang looked around.

Those "dark shells" that were previously clearing out the Abyss Mages on the periphery are now all gone.

Some of them were lost in battle, and some were lost in the earthquake caused by the giant serpent of the ruins, but there should have been quite a few left.

But now not even a "dark, empty shell" exists.

The “Dark Shell” was originally a “projection of history” summoned with black mud as its base. With the change of the earth veins subsiding, no new black mud will be produced in the layered rock abyss. Those “Dark Shells” that were produced from the change and had black mud as their source will naturally disappear.

“You’ve done what you needed to do, you can leave now,” he said to Han Fulai.

Han Fulai came to resolve the geological anomaly. Now that the anomaly has been resolved, his work is theoretically complete.

“But I’m not done with what I have to do yet,” another voice joined the conversation.

Jiang Xue returned to the center of the square and stood beside Han Fulai. The Thousand Rocks Ancient Sword in his hand pointed at Ye Mingxiang.

"We still need to settle things once and for all."

These two brothers, who had just joined forces to fight the enemy, are now once again on opposing sides, drawing their swords against each other.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, but if the common enemy no longer exists, the cooperation will naturally end.

There's still a score to settle between them.

"Very well." Ye Mingxiang also raised his greatsword, his single red eye fixed on his only junior brother, or rather, his only disciple.

The atmosphere became heavy again.

Just then, Han Fulai suddenly stepped between the two.