novelraw Chapter 28 : Awakening
Chapter 28 : Awakening
The small scorpion that had just emerged from the ground was cut in half, its stinger still poised ready to strike.
"Careful, there are still scorpion swarms underground," seeing this, Gu Qinxue turned and informed the others who hadn't yet landed.
The moment Zhou Chen landed, he instinctively swung his lightning whip in front of him. The lightning crackled briefly, and several charred little scorpion bodies fell to the ground.
The sudden attack made Chen Sui notice the energy fluctuations at the lower level.
"Variant branch: earth attribute energy body, form concealment."
No wonder the concealment had also shown a mutation earlier—the energy attributes had mutated together.
Chen Sui quickly scanned the surroundings.
The earth attribute scorpion swarm wasn't most concentrated near them, but where Tong Wei and Xie Chunshi were standing.
The Team Leader stepped forward, and the jumping scorpions instantly became ice sculptures, then shattered one after another.
Chen Sui narrowed her eyes, feeling somewhat relieved.
She swung her long knife and turned, the blade cutting through the irregularly appearing scorpions like a flowing line.
Gu Qinxue and the others were all protected by a layer of energy.
Chen Sui temporarily couldn't mobilize energy; she was mainly there to attract the Fire Scorpion's attention. Now that her purpose was achieved, she quickly handed the battlefield over to the outputs.
The mecha moved like an agile flea. Accompanying the energy storms from the others was the occasional pain of being pierced by the long knife, followed by energy particles covering the wounds, making the Fire Scorpion's regeneration very slow.
In just a few exchanges, one of the Fire Scorpion's pincers had been dismantled.
Chen Sui fought against the scorching flames around her, fireballs locking onto her position.
Among Star Academy Seven's infantry, she was recognized as the first-year champion with the best attack, but few knew that Chen Sui's damage absorption ability was also strong.
The black paint surface was scorched by the fierce fire, leaving red energy marks like paint deliberately poured on the surface. She didn't avoid the Fire Scorpion's attacks, using her mecha body to block the energy directed toward the outputs.
Fourth Ring Sixth Academy's secondary output moved a bit slowly and was almost hit by a fireball released by the Fire Scorpion, but the Star Academy Seven warrior flashed in front of him.
The knife blade was sheathed, the fireball collided with the mecha, creating sizzling sparks.
Yet she acted as if nothing had happened, using the hand holding the knife to grab his arm, quickly moving him away from the scorching space, drawing him in a streamline through mid-air, throwing him at the foot of a side mountain rock.
The Fourth Ring Sixth Academy output was stunned for a long time before coming back to his senses. After being brought into the battle by his companion, he muttered quietly.
"This infantry is so... fierce."
He actually wanted to say that the pressure was intense.
Standing in front of him, Chen Sui seemed to give off more pressure than the fireballs.
His companion watched as each encounter with the mecha resulted in the Fire Scorpion getting one more cut or losing one more leg.
Cang Jing felt an aching sensation in his waist whenever he saw Chen Sui.
Everyone deeply agreed.
Cang Jing shook his head and sighed: "If I were an energy body, I'd have known to rot in the ground rather than come out to suffer like this, tsk~"
The Fire Scorpion chased after the iron lump it hated most, following Chen Sui all the way out of the narrow path.
Without the jumping scorpion swarms on both sides to help, the outputs quickly had free rein. Chen Sui withdrew at this time, rushing into the narrow path to confront the gathered scorpion swarm.
She switched the long knife for an energy burning cannon. Each energy projectile could cause a temperature drop effect, with adjustable ice and fire bombs.
Chen Sui used ice bombs.
For the Fire Scorpion swarm with strong fire resistance, ice bombs could neutralize part of the flame energy.
The outputs began to contain the Fire Scorpion. Tong Wei as the analyst didn't just stay in place; seeing the situation somewhat cleared, she followed the two Star Academy Seven outputs' actions.
Due to the concealment value, her process of capturing the energy crystal was somewhat difficult. During this time, the Fire Scorpion's attacks were blocked by the outputs several times.
As an analyst, Tong Wei possessed a powerful spiritual threshold. The energy of the spiritual threshold was a perfect temptation for energy bodies; as long as she appeared, the energy bodies' main target would inevitably be the analyst.
"Its energy crystal is moving..."
Through the energy fluctuations depicting the crystal's position, it wasn't a specific area but wavy lines. Tong Wei felt something was off.
"It started in the abdominal segment, but the attacks made it feel threatened, so the energy crystal moved to a deeper position. I can't capture the specific location."
The positions of energy body crystals aren't usually fixed. Once the energy crystal is exposed, or when energy particle threats are sensed very close, the energy body will change the crystal's location.
For an unstable crystal, the analyst couldn't determine the exact position. Tong Wei stood far from the Fire Scorpion, frowning as she sensed the surrounding energy.
Chen Sui used ice bombs to block the scorpion swarm at the edge of the narrow path, her figure quickly flashing out. Seeing Tong Wei among the crowd, she was about to head in her direction.
But just as she passed over the Fire Scorpion's body, the Fire Scorpion, which had been fiercely fighting with the outputs, suddenly moved its three side eyes.
A chill instantly ran up her spine.
Chen Sui instinctively turned around. Behind her, countless scorpion swarms filled the narrow path, covering the mountain rocks and sandy soil with dense black insects.
The rustling sound was like sandpaper being rubbed. Concealed scorpion swarms continuously emerged from the ground, moving toward the Fire Scorpion's position from front and back.
There were too many scorpions. Chen Sui stopped in her tracks, setting up an energy ice cannon on the giant rock above the narrow path entrance.
The range of ice bombs was limited, only able to control a small portion of the scorpion swarm. Chen Sui frowned.
Suddenly thinking of something, she put away the energy cannon, drew the long knife from her back, and simultaneously turned to look toward Xie Chunshi's position.
"Team Leader!"
The girl's slightly hoarse voice quickly caught Xie Chunshi's attention.
Seeing the cold light unsheathed from the long knife, Xie Chunshi's eyes flashed.
Chen Sui twirled the blade, nodding slightly to him, "May I borrow some energy?"
"Certainly."
Xie Chunshi responded softly, raising his right hand, a blue light dancing at his fingertips.
The light beam seemed to draw a blue arc, and a blue teardrop appeared in front of Chen Sui.
She backhandedly twirled the knife, slashing diagonally through the blue droplet.
The blue energy particles exploded outward in an instant, quickly covering the narrow path and both sides of the mountain rock with a water film. The surrounding humidity gathered in the narrow path. Chen Sui swiftly retreated, avoiding the stinger thrown down by the Fire Scorpion.
"Zhou Chen, help out!"
She called to the output.
Zhou Chen disengaged from battle, seeing the rolling water in the narrow path, immediately understood and unleashed Black Arrow Hawk: "Little baby, go!"
The black hawk flapped its wings, circling above the narrow path, with streaks of lightning falling from the hawk's flying trajectory.
The lightning entered the water, quickly forming linear electric light under the flowing blue shallow water, exploding into continuous electric sparks.
The crawling scorpion swarm convulsed continuously, each burning to a crisp. When Xie Chunshi withdrew the water flow, what was once a dense swarm crawling toward the narrow path exit became a huge scorpion wall piled in the narrow path, charred scorpions stacked into a small mountain.
The scorched aroma spread, and Chen Sui involuntarily twitched her nose a few times.
No time to complain.
Behind her came rolling heat waves. A rolling flame blade appeared from the sandy soil, its edges burning with flames, directly facing Chen Sui's back.
After sheathing her knife, she quickly jumped around to avoid it.
Gu Qinxue, seeing this from a distance, had a flash of thought. Xuebai immediately raised a wall of fire in front of Chen Sui, blocking the Fire Scorpion's energy attack, allowing Chen Sui to seize the opportunity to leave the attack range.
The mecha propulsion device activated, she continuously flashed her figure in mid-air, almost instantly appearing near the Fire Scorpion.
The Fire Scorpion was whipped by the lightning whip, flipped over completely. Its long tail beat the ground, emitting a reluctant hiss.
The lightning whip wrapped around its various pincers, leaving only the scorpion tail mobile, the stinger continuously poking upward in a threatening display.
Cang Jing, unwilling to be outdone, summoned his wind blade. The wind pressure pushed down the angrily swaying long tail, making the Fire Scorpion completely lose its independent ability, causing it to struggle even more violently.
But the extent of the struggle still couldn't free it from the restraints on its body. The Fire Scorpion let out a piercing cry.
Flames along the tips of its body blew out lines of fire, like blades, cutting through the sandy soil, bombing indiscriminately around.
Chen Sui had just landed when a line of fire blew toward her. The sharp fire blade parted the wind before her. Feeling the sharp, scorching airflow, she immediately threw the backup metal hook she had on her body.
The dragon claw-like hook caught the Fire Scorpion's twisted long tail.
The tail was the hardest part of the Fire Scorpion, difficult to break, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
When the metal hook pinched a section of the long tail, the Fire Scorpion immediately shook its body frantically.
After hooking it, Chen Sui immediately used the force of the mecha propulsion, quickly leaving her position in the Fire Scorpion's pulling force, avoiding the fire blade attack.
The repeatedly suppressed Fire Scorpion suddenly shook its body like a madman, the movement amplitude too violent, even vaguely breaking free from the outputs' restraint, the entire scorpion standing up from the ground.
Accompanied by sharp hissing, Chen Sui was also continuously thrown around following the Fire Scorpion's movements. Because the hook claw was on the long tail, after the Fire Scorpion's body broke free, it quickly beat its long tail, causing Chen Sui to continuously rotate and swing, swaying back and forth in mid-air, her body unable to find a balance point.
The Fire Scorpion finally broke out of the pressure of the lightning whip and wind cluster, swinging its long tail, trying to find a target to stab with its sharp stinger.
However, Chen Sui, being swung continuously, suppressed the rising nausea.
As the long tail swung, about to throw her out, the mecha's powerful propulsion made her hover in mid-air.
The mecha stood upright in mid-air, posture straight, the metal hand heavily pulling the other end of the metal hook.
"Ugh------"
The violent dizziness suddenly stopped, and Chen Sui couldn't hold back the intense nausea, a vomiting sound escaping.
Gu Qinxue and Zhou Chen just cast a concerned glance her way.
Then they heard Chen Sui, who had already suppressed her discomfort, say in a low, annoyed voice.
"I'm really done with you..."
She shook her head, her short hair bristling with green sprouts at the ends, still growing upward.
Chen Sui raised her hand, the mecha pulling the connecting chain of the metal hook into a taut straight line. The Fire Scorpion's long tail was pulled by the hook claw, its just-raised amplitude immediately pushed down.
Before the Fire Scorpion could continue roaring.
She gritted her teeth, green eyes flashing with fragments of light, her arm suddenly bursting with immense power, grumbling harshly.
"Won't learn what it means to be quiet, huh?"
Her arm suddenly pulled with force.
The metal hook chain visibly tightened, then under the gaze of several pairs of eyes, the Fire Scorpion, about to flare up, starting from its long tail.
Was pulled straight by the hook claw, its entire body lifting off the ground.
The Fire Scorpion was airborne, its black pearl-like middle eye suddenly stopping, its appearance showing some bewilderment.
Looking somewhat innocent.
Before the Fire Scorpion could react, the metal shackle was swung in the air by the mecha arm.
With Chen Sui's position as the center, the Fire Scorpion's long tail connected by the chain, the entire scorpion was continuously swung in circles in the air.
"Smack!"
"Bang!"
"Thwack!"
"Thud------"
Surrounding rocks were shattered, the Fire Scorpion's scale armor dented, scratched with various marks, leaving bloodstains on the mountain wall.
Then with an extremely heavy 'boom.'
It was violently thrown against the mountain rock on the outside of the narrow path.
The mountain peak shook several times, sand and gravel cascading down with a bang.
"Ow......"
The Fire Scorpion whimpered weakly, sliding down the mountain after smashing the rocks, lying at the foot of the mountain, twitching its body a few times.
Looking somewhat pitiful.
Zhou Chen silently shifted his concerned gaze to the Fire Scorpion.
The outputs who were about to help successively stopped their actions.
They moved a small step back with some fear, making room for Chen Sui's combat space.
The Fire Scorpion's pincers scratched the ground a few times, the edges of the scale armor covering its body curling. It tried several times before regathering strength to support its body upright on the ground.
Chen Sui didn't allow it any respite.
The dragon claw hook of the metal hook released, being retracted by her. The mecha figure quickly flashed from its original position. She drew the long knife, its polished surface reflecting the mecha's cold face. The metal long knife was held by the handle, raised high.
As she approached the Fire Scorpion, the threatening aura made the Fire Scorpion's bristles dance wildly, its three pairs of side eyes and one pair of middle eyes continuously rotating, capturing Chen Sui's position.
The temperature around the Fire Scorpion suddenly increased, the sandy soil becoming hot to the feet, then fire balls gathered on the ground and in mid-air.
The fireballs shot toward Chen Sui's movement trajectory. In an instant, scorching high temperature and falling compression faced her.
A crazy meteor shower of flames descended.
After the fireballs fell, they quickly made a 'bang' sound, exploding into a cluster of red sparks.
Chen Sui moved extremely fast, the falling fireballs slowed down in her eyes.
Her gaze focused on the Fire Scorpion, the black scale armor gradually becoming transparent, a red line climbing along the Fire Scorpion's skeleton.
The line's flow didn't stop, but the next position could be roughly predicted.
A particularly strong sense of guidance arose in her heart.
A point where a red line passed through a certain part of the scorpion tail was particularly noticeable, the energy level slightly higher than other parts on the energy crystal's movement trajectory, allowing Chen Sui to determine where to strike.
She was fully focused on the Fire Scorpion, not anticipating the momentary stunned reaction from the others, especially the outputs.
In the black sandy soil of the crater, green sprouts suddenly emerged like a continuous carpet, with vines connecting between the small sprouts, trying to cover the ground with a layer of green carpet.
Plants surviving in the crater were mostly in the black forest, with very few green plants, not to mention the green light points decorating the green sprouts, clearly energy particles jumping.
Everyone's gaze couldn't help but follow the movement of the light points, finally landing on Chen Sui.
Zhou Chen had been somewhat worried that Chen Sui might not defeat the Fire Scorpion. The lightning whip in his hand swished once, about to step forward to help when Gu Qinxue stopped him.
"Wait," Gu Qinxue watched Chen Sui. In places Chen Sui hadn't seen herself, green energy points surged toward her mecha, gathering into her body. Cloud-like green mist swirled and spread among the mountain rocks, quickly forming a layer of miasma like a green forest.
Gu Qinxue's strong premonition felt this was the opportunity for Chen Sui's energy body to appear.
At this moment, the mecha being watched by everyone prepared to strike with its knife, its figure quickly jumping to avoid fireballs, already appearing above the Fire Scorpion.
The Fire Scorpion's middle eye moved upward, its long tail swung, the stinger targeting Chen Sui's position, about to strike down.
But what it didn't expect was that Chen Sui had been waiting for it to raise its scorpion tail.
Without the long scorpion tail blocking, the connection point determined by Chen Sui was exposed.
She leveraged from the mountain wall with one step, flying out nimbly, avoiding the scorpion tail falling from above, arriving at the Fire Scorpion's right rear.
The mecha friction created a small scratch mark on the sandy soil, then stopped smoothly. Chen Sui swung the long knife, in the brief time before the Fire Scorpion reacted.
"Thwack------"
The long knife penetrated the Fire Scorpion's tail segment.
"Roar------"
The Fire Scorpion began struggling frantically.
Chen Sui thrust the knife blade flat in, the knife entering deeply. She rotated the blade surface, the side edge pointing downward, then gripped the knife handle and pressed down hard.
The Fire Scorpion suddenly screamed sharply.
The long knife entered from the middle of the Fire Scorpion's tail, penetrating over a meter into the tail segment, then cutting downward from the inside. The blade edge pierced through flesh and blood, directly poking out, brownish-black blood flowing down the inclined blade edge, dripping onto the sandy soil.
The long knife completely cut open the Fire Scorpion's tail segment, exposing part of the internal flesh and skeleton.
The Fire Scorpion screamed, raging flames rising around its body. Tongues of fire enveloped the mecha, about to swallow it whole.
But Chen Sui, in the next second after cutting open the Fire Scorpion, escaped from the flame encirclement.
The flames followed her movement, pursuing and approaching. Chen Sui retreated to the mountain rock wall, then stepped on the rock to stand at a higher place. Looking down, she could see the Fire Scorpion raising its body, its tail segment cut open with a meter-long opening, rolling flesh burning with flames. With regeneration, new tissue quickly regenerated, and in less than three seconds, the wound would completely heal.
After a quick glance, she immediately threw out the metal hook, the dragon claw wrapping around the Fire Scorpion's newly grown pincer, then quickly left her position.
The mecha pulled the metal hook, its figure drawing a smooth crescent curve in mid-air.
Her arm yanked the metal shackle with tremendous force.
The metal shackle twisted and rotated with her force, pulling the dragon claw hook and the hooked Fire Scorpion along with it.
The Fire Scorpion was pulled up, swaying in mid-air, rotating half a circle.
It was thrown from the foot of the mountain rock to a further place.
Landing on its back, the cut wound on its tail segment, not yet healed, was exposed to the air.
The flames on its body burned more and more vigorously, especially at the tail segment, with the flames turning white-hot. The high temperature made the scale armor seem reforged, glowing with a layer of light.
The exposed wound made the Fire Scorpion call out anxiously a few times. Soon, the flames formed several concentric protective circles around it. Only when surrounded by energy did it have some sense of security.
The Fire Scorpion's weak whimpering hadn't stopped when a fierce wind suddenly blew, a black mecha figure swooshing forward, charging headfirst into the fierce fire.
The flames scorched the metal structure, the mecha sensors faithfully transmitting the burning pain.
Under the burning, Chen Sui only slightly frowned, rapidly approaching the Fire Scorpion in the flames, breaking through the outer fire to reach the inner flame center. The tail segment wound had already healed a layer, but the cut, everted flesh wasn't completely closed.
She swung the long knife, a silver-white line passing through the center of the cold, sharp blade edge, with several cracks appearing in the knife blade's structure.
Chen Sui stomped on the ground and rose, her figure leaping several meters high. While in mid-air, she gripped the knife and thrust down hard.
"Thwack------"
The long knife pierced the healing flesh again, the depth of the two cuts reaching exactly the position she had locked onto.
The Fire Scorpion suddenly began to frantically shake its body. It was flipped over, lying on its back on the sandy soil, and began twisting its body.
The scorpion tail stabbed indiscriminately at the ventral surface, the flames burning more and more fiercely. The mecha's metal edges showed signs of melting, the sharp, pointed areas becoming blunt and rounded.
Chen Sui paid no attention. Blue veins crawled up from the back of her right hand, her teeth clenched tightly, a slightly thick, pale blue blood vessel protruding from her neck, and a twisted line bulging on her forehead.
The subtle 'squelch' sound indicated penetration through deep layers of flesh.
The blade reached the position where the red line inside the Fire Scorpion's body formed an intersection.
The red crystal collided with the blade, a crisp collision sound merging with the surrounding burning sand sound and various noises, difficult for human ears to capture.
But Chen Sui, almost at the same time the red crystal approached, changed the shape of the knife's tip. The top of the long knife formed a hook structure along the cracks, firmly securing the crystal.
The Fire Scorpion felt its life crystal being pulled, its roars and flames becoming incredibly violent. Fire snakes traveled through the soil, the burning area constantly expanding outward, the flames burning frantically.
Even those far from the battlefield felt their cheeks stinging from the scorching fire.
But Chen Sui seemed unaffected.
In the raging flames, the infantry placed one foot on the Fire Scorpion's pincer, her arm exerting force, leveraging the Fire Scorpion's resisting push, pulling the long knife.
"Swoosh------"
As the long knife was pulled from the Fire Scorpion's body, the Fire Scorpion's twitching amplitude became weak, the temperature of the flames dropping rapidly, the flames gradually disappearing from outside to inside.
"Thud......"
The Fire Scorpion's long tail fell limply, beating the ground.
Its limbs twitched a few more times, then completely ceased movement.
The trembling black pearl eyes also lost their light.
As the flames receded, the temperature around Chen Sui completely dropped.
With the fire withdrawing, the figure standing on the Fire Scorpion's corpse appeared, one foot stepping on the Fire Scorpion's abdominal segment cut.
Holding a long knife half the height of a mecha, inserted into the Fire Scorpion's abdomen, the sharp blade's light making it impossible to look at directly.
The Fourth Ring Sixth Academy output, watching the entire process, looked at each other in surprise, their eyes somewhat trembling.
Standing next to Zhou Chen, Cang Jing couldn't help but elbow him.
"When did your Star Academy Seven find such an infantry?"
He communicated in a whisper, but it didn't hide the shock and admiration in his eyes.
"Hand-to-hand combat with an S-class energy body, what kind of monster is this?! Can you give others a chance to live?"
Cang Jing's exclamation was so heartfelt that Zhou Chen quickly transitioned from surprise to pride.
Please, Chen Sui was his teammate now.
"Look on the bright side," Zhou Chen politely patted him, "We're directly qualified for the Star Ring selection, you can still compete."
Cang Jing's mouth twitched several times.
So what if you're directly qualified?
Damn!
It really is a big deal, he also wanted to be directly qualified.
He looked at Chen Sui with trembling eyes.
She pulled out the long knife, the mecha's device half destroyed by the flames, the propulsion device ineffective. She could only carry the long knife, jumping down from the Fire Scorpion's ventral surface.
As she walked toward the school team, her hand swung the long knife in the air in a streamline, the red crystal reflecting brilliant light.
Her right hand holding the knife handle, the blade inverted, her left hand taking the crystal from the blade edge.
She was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when she looked up and saw green energy pervading the air.
"Hmm?"
"What's going on------" with this?
The sentence was caught in her throat, the flowing wind surging from behind.
Chen Sui's steps paused, her pupils contracted.
Tong Wei, about to speak to her, sensed something unusual, her expression changing as she anxiously stepped forward, raising her voice to warn her: "Suisui! Be careful behind you!"
Unfortunately, her warning came a second too late.
Chen Sui had no time to turn around, only able to see a vague outline through the blurry shadow reflected in the sandy soil.
A scorpion-shaped creature jumped out of the sandy soil with a 'swoosh,' the soil thrown open into a large pit. Its scorpion tail aimed at Chen Sui's position, the surrounding sand rotating in circles, quickly forming a circle of sand thorn walls around her, the earth walls covered with sharp long spikes.
Attacked from all four sides.
Chen Sui only had time to use the not-yet-sheathed long knife's back to shield her front, resisting the oncoming sand thorns.
But her back was exposed, with the scorpion tail raised high, aimed directly at the mecha for stabbing.
Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue's faces flashed with panic. Cang Jing waved his hand to raise a swirling gale, all their energy particles converging toward Chen Sui.
But all too late.
The stinger had already touched the mecha's surface, the corrosive liquid at its tip visibly eating away at the mecha's metal.
The surrounding sand walls blocked other people's energy particles. The school team rushing over to support was hindered by scorpions continuously jumping out from under the sand.
The mecha damaged, internal devices emitting piercing alarms.
"Alert! Unknown attack!"
"Alert, damage level reaches 70%! Please repair as soon as possible!!"
Chen Sui frowned tightly, her ears incredibly noisy, trying to calmly analyze in the brief time available.
Propulsion device ineffective, she must now find every possible way to leave this surrounded environment.
The long knife resisted the surrounding sand walls, but the stinger at her back was vaguely about to corrode through the entire metal layer.
The school team approaching this direction became increasingly irritated, energy particles exploding on the ground, stirring the sandy soil, cursing the scorpion swarm, their gaze fixed on Chen Sui.
At this moment, outside the energy field, Yan Mingyu, who had watched the entire process, also frowned, a trace of concern crossing her brow, her fingers holding the chair armrests turning white from pressure.
While everyone was holding their breath, Chen Sui's body suddenly stiffened.
A feeling of losing control surged up.
As the energy attack penetrated the mecha, about to pierce her body, the energy particles bypassed the scorpion tail, flowing into her body.
Green cloud mist surged toward her position. Enveloped by the green cloud mist, Chen Sui gradually lost her senses of the surroundings.
She couldn't hear the hissing of moving sand, nor the calls of her companions, her nose losing the hot, dry air brought by the sand-blown wind.
Before her eyes, the dim crater was replaced by clear daylight.
The bare sandy soil was covered with a carpet of verdant green grass, the black forest becoming lush, extending continuously with no end in sight.
Vines connected between various trees, in the center of the forest, flowers surrounded a wooden cabin in a tree.
Giant flower branches wound into a staircase.
In the deepest part of the forest, a giant tree rose from the ground, its branches almost penetrating the entire forest, exuding endless vitality.
It was the scene she had dreamed of again.
The green cloud mist gathered behind Chen Sui into a palm-sized light cluster.
The light cluster formed a jade-green barrier in all four directions, the barrier moving outward, rising from Chen Sui.
The energy wall forced the stinger out of the mecha's shell, moving it further away.
Tremendous energy fluctuations emanated from the green light cluster, making the Earth Scorpion's limbs tremble involuntarily.
At this moment, as green light flashed in Chen Sui's eyes.
Everything before her returned to normal.
A green film appeared in front of her, pushing sand thorns and earth walls away.
Everything seemed to be in slow motion.
Further away, the green film covered the sandy soil.
As scorpion swarms jumped out, they were enveloped by the green film, forming a vesicle containing the Earth Scorpions.
Then adhering to the film's surface.
The others, about to attack, paused their movements. The energy in the energy field was suddenly heavily absorbed, the level too low, causing everyone's attacks to weaken.
The lightning whip's light receded.
Xuebai's flames extinguished.
Cang Jing's swirling wind cluster rotated smaller and smaller.
Everyone's gaze concentrated on the central green light cluster.
Chen Sui felt her thoughts connected by a line to a mass of energy. With a thought, the green light cluster began to change.
Almost instinctively, upon realizing it, Chen Sui resonated with the green light, extending countless lines toward the surroundings. By the time she could control her body to turn around.
The green light cluster solidified.
Vine birth!
A thought flashed through Chen Sui's mind.
Arm-thick vines emerged from the green cluster, like moving snakes, quickly heading toward the Earth Scorpion.
The vine tips were sharp energy spikes.
The vines coiled around the Earth Scorpion's limbs, lifting it from the ground, followed by countless vines piercing through the Earth Scorpion's body.
The Fire Scorpion screamed sharply, but its body was skewered by the penetrating vines.
Other vine branches moved slowly under the sandy soil cover, emerging from the sand, precisely capturing the scorpion swarms wrapped in the green film, directly piercing them one by one.
Some vines even emerged with small scorpions already on their tips.
The ground was perforated with countless holes by the vines.
The Earth Scorpion was also torn to pieces by the vines. The vines penetrated its scale armor, pierced through blood vessels, mangled flesh, its entire body like shattered glass.
Its regeneration ability forced wounds to continuously heal, but the vines still penetrated. The Earth Scorpion's voice gradually changed from sharp to miserable, finally becoming an extremely weak whimper.
The vines grew countless branches, sharp thorns tearing open its body. The dense green branches spread throughout the Earth Scorpion's body, newly grown branches sensing energy, moving toward the energy crystal's position.
The tip circled around the crystal, then 'swoosh,' pierced out from the Earth Scorpion's body.
The Earth Scorpion, stabbed like a porcupine, had completely lost the ability to struggle or resist. After losing its energy crystal, it quickly lost vitality, becoming completely motionless.
The Earth Scorpion penetrated by vines left only a pile of rotten meat when it fell.
Everyone present involuntarily shuddered.
Dead scorpion swarms littered the ground.
The surrounding sandy soil was completely quiet.
The rustling sounds had all disappeared, only the sound of Cang Jing's small wind cluster, insufficient to maintain itself, blowing.
In the absolutely serene atmosphere, he instinctively retracted his wind cluster to avoid making noise himself.
Cang Jing anxiously moved toward Zhou Chen's position, thinking to himself that he would definitely learn to be quiet.
The wind cluster disappeared, complete silence descended.
In the absolute quiet, the vines began to drag on the ground.
Chen Sui watched this scene before her.
The vines were being recalled to the light cluster. Brown blood trails were dragged out on the ground, making her imperceptibly frown, watching as the light cluster absorbed the green energy that the vines had become.
The light cluster solidified.
The surrounding green cloud mist and green film gradually became transparent, then disappeared.
The light cluster condensed into a stump-like creature.
As soon as it appeared, it fell to the ground, letting out several exclamations.
"Ouch!"
Chen Sui narrowed her eyes.
A question mark rose above her head.
She looked down at this suddenly appearing creature.
Like a tree stump, its skin a smooth green with a clear, moist luster.
On the top surface, visibly growing green, lush slender leaf blades of grass, the trace of annual rings hidden by the grass clumps, slender stemmed flower buds peeping from the grass clumps, drooping around.
A name instantly flashed in Chen Sui's mind.
—Wood gives birth to flowers.