novelraw Chapter 62 : White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain
Chapter 62 : White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain
"F*ck!"
The silver-white Commander let out a slow curse, sighing with some dejection: "What kind of f*cking monsters are they?!"
The analyst nodded meaningfully, watching the green mecha approach from a distance.
Catching sight of the totem mark on her mecha up close, he finally spoke slowly: "It's... Zhu Jing Fu?!"
The Commander was silent for a second, his first reaction actually being to curse the StarNet: "Damn marketing accounts misleading me! Who said Zhu Jing Fu wasn't capable? This analyst could beat several of me!"
The Commander almost wanted to let out a long howl to the sky.
However, seeing Chen Sui approach, assuming she was going to eliminate the red mecha team, he couldn't help but express some sympathy for his former allies.
"Make some room, Mu Chan is about to lie here too."
The analyst, watching Chen Sui put away her artillery, vaguely felt that things might not be as the Commander thought.
Sure enough, the red mecha Commander Mu Chan, seeing her approaching figure, trembled a bit as he held his gun.
The strong attacker peeked over to his side and asked: "Commander, do we fight?"
Mu Chan looked at the three allies lying peacefully to the side, smoking from being bombarded, and unconsciously swallowed.
"Can we win?"
The strong attacker was an honest person who shook his head truthfully: "We can't win, but the livestream is still recording. Should we struggle a little?"
Mu Chan gripped his close combat weapon, his eyes vigilantly watching the tall mecha landing on the ground and walking toward them: "Protect the analyst first. If something goes wrong, head toward the energy body's direction and look for a chance to leave the island."
His expression was cautious, but his mind was clear as he quickly marked the retreat route and gripped his weapon, standing in front of his two teammates.
The sound of the mecha crushing stones echoed in the quiet battlefield, becoming one of the only sounds along with the distant burning of energy fluctuations.
"Don't be nervous."
Seeing the opposing Commander about to rush up to fight, Chen Sui raised her hands, pulling her spear behind her back in a very friendly gesture.
"Since you like alliances so much, how about we form one?"
Mu Chan's brain froze for a second: "Huh?"
Not only did he fail to understand, even the viewers simultaneously watching both Zhu Jing Fu locations didn't understand.
[This analyst really has something.]
[Wait, why is her energy suppression so strong? She's an analyst?! Doesn't anyone think something's off?]
[More importantly, she's an A-level analyst!! This energy body is SS+!! This isn't just about fighting above her level! Is she really A-level?! Even with sky-high resonance, it shouldn't be possible, right?]
[Actually... theoretically, it's possible. If spiritual threshold energy compression reaches a certain level, high-pressure energy can exceed levels, but energy density compression... is really difficult, extremely, extremely, extremely difficult!]
[I just said this analyst is weird!]
[Huh?! She blocked that shot?! How did Zhou Chen know, no wait, how did the analyst know?! Did she calculate the trajectory?]
[No way, this can be calculated too?!]
[Well, three teams, and only three people left in the end]
[An alliance?! Seriously?! You don't eliminate them, what's Zhu Jing Fu after?!]
What was Chen Sui after?
The analyst's rare attribute.
Zhou Chen's high-pressure cannon was aimed at the red mecha.
Mu Chan felt Chen Sui friendly pat on his shoulder.
"Your team of three people, in exchange for your sea domain map and your analyst's help."
Mu Chan was stunned, asking in confusion: "Help?"
"Yes," Chen Sui nodded, her palm still on Mu Chan's shoulder. A flash of green light from her fingertips penetrated through the mecha's gaps. Mu Chan's mecha deterioration had already reached 75%, a little more and he would be eliminated.
"As you can see, my energy will temporarily be stored here. After the analyst helps Zhu Jing Fu get the energy crystal, the energy will dissipate. We'll leave the island and go our separate ways."
After saying this, to show goodwill, Chen Sui also patted the analyst.
Qi Rong trembled with each pat, not daring to breathe.
The husky female voice spoke with some amusement: "Your clarity attribute can counter the energy body's confusion energy, you know that, right?"
Qi Rong shuddered and nodded.
The girl became even happier: "Then I'll be counting on you!"
Even through the mecha, one could imagine her showing her bright white teeth, causing him to mechanically turn to look at the Commander.
"Com-Commander..."
Mu Chan made an "ah" sound and spread his hands: "Do we have a choice?"
Qi Rong shrunk back, looking at Chen Sui. The spear in the mecha's hand gleamed coldly, making him nod instinctively: "You're welcome, I'll do my best."
Chen Sui lowered her eyes.
Mu Chan still couldn't believe it. He was off the hook?!
"You don't want our mecha points?"
Chen Sui's fingers curled slightly. Outwardly friendly, in reality, the energy in her ice bombs was completely depleted, unable to fire a single shot.
"We're all classmates! How can we always be fighting and killing each other? That's not good. Even in elimination matches, we should show our friendly side!"
Chen Sui patted the analyst, showing no embarrassment about her depleted energy.
Zhou Chen, watching her righteously persuade the other team from a distance, twitched his lips and said in the team channel: "Really, if I didn't know you were out of energy, I would truly think you're a good person."
Chen Sui asked back: "Am I not?"
On the other side, the silver-white mecha, having prepared to welcome the eliminated team, heard Chen Sui's words and, despite his weakened state, raised a powerless question: "Are you serious...?"
If that's really friendship, what was he?
Chen Sui's eyes swept over him as she replied indifferently: "You've already been eliminated. 'Dead people' have no right to speak."
The silver-white Commander suffered another heavy blow. Watching the red mecha team follow Chen Sui away, he muttered: "F*ck, this works too? Why didn't you invite our analyst!"
Their analyst silently agreed beside him.
Yes, just because he didn't have a clarity attribute.
Damn it!
With Chen Sui's energy depleted, she could only use energy seeds as a method to intimidate the red mecha team.
But unexpectedly, the team that could preserve themselves through an alliance was extremely delighted.
After hearing that Chen Sui was low on energy, they even generously gave her two energy pipes.
"Where did you get these energy pipes?"
Qi Rong and Chen Sui were both analysts, and they had quickly become familiar on the way to the forest.
Hearing Chen Sui's question, Qi Rong naively marked on the map they had shared with Zhu Jing Fu, "Ah, at our entry position, there was a scattered treasure box with ten energy pipes."
Chen Sui's advancing steps paused, and everyone looked at her.
They saw her look at the rescue aircraft in the distance, suddenly expressing great regret: "Forgot to extract the energy pipes."
Zhou Chen also seemed to wake from a dream, suddenly cursing, "I forgot too!"
The two looked at each other with remorse.
In the team channel, the other three school team members, who were being entangled by the energy body, transmitted Gu Qinxue's gritted voice: "Energy pipes aren't important, Puluo has been confused, if you don't come soon--I--can't--hold--him--anymore!"
Everyone immediately quickened their pace. Chen Sui's flames led the way, quickly joining the three school team members in the forest clearing.
The forest was filled with green mist carrying subtle energy fluctuations. The gas carried strong confusion energy.
Xie Chunshi had high energy concentration, and Gu Qinxue had energy resistance.
Puluo wasn't so lucky. Because of the energy attracted by his shield, he became the energy body's primary attack target. Surrounded by large amounts of confusion gas, he seemed disoriented.
He swayed around like a roly-poly doll.
As he was about to wobble off the high viewpoint, Gu Qinxue used her thorny whip to wrap around his mecha.
Puluo's arms struggled as the big guy muttered in confusion: "I won't fall, I'm a roly-poly, I can't fall..."
Chen Sui hurriedly installed the energy pipe and came forward to see Xie Chunshi blocking attacking plant branches, with ice spikes flying everywhere, freezing vines in mid-air.
On the other side, Gu Qinxue braced against a huge rock, using it for leverage to pull Puluo. The foot soldier was on the high cliff edge, trying to fall down.
"This is a bit ridiculous."
Chen Sui whispered.
Seeing Gu Qinxue's whip tighten, she frowned, activated her device, and quickly leaped forward.
Coming close to the cliff edge, she jumped and spun.
Her long leg swept powerfully, her knee rising for a knee strike that kicked the mecha trying to fall off the cliff with a thud.
"Hey, the deterioration rate..."
Zhou Chen reached out to try to stop her, but the distance was too far. Before he could even see when Chen Sui had gone out, Puluo had already been kicked away.
As he reached out, Zhou Chen reflected for a second on who the real agile attacker was.
But Chen Sui didn't let anyone worry about the deterioration problem, because as Puluo was kicked flying by her heavy strike, midway, a speeding green figure intercepted him with a horizontal leg behind him.
Chen Sui picked him up, Gu Qinxue retracted her thorny whip, and she brought Puluo's mecha, throwing him in front of Qi Rong.
The analyst, knowing her role, quickly summoned her spiritual body.
She extended her hand, and a grayish-brown light flashed. A mountain finch dug out from the soil, about the size of a mecha's palm, swaying left and right as it flew, its tail feathers trailing long energy tails. The bird's chirping sounds rose as waves of energy spread with its cries.
Puluo struggled and moved. Chen Sui stared at him, and when she saw him about to fall, she swept her long leg, kicking him straight.
The foot soldier, whose consciousness had just cleared from the mist, felt a kick to his back just as he was recovering.
The pain made him ignore the swaying movement of falling and being propped up, and he instinctively looked back. The moment he saw the green mecha, he felt somewhat aggrieved: "Suisui?"
Why did she hit him?!
Chen Sui saw he was awake and sighed in relief, "Cover with energy, the surrounding green mist has a confusing effect."
Puluo was stunned for a moment, watching her wave her spear and reach out: "Give me an energy pipe."
She needed to set up her cannon; one energy pipe used halfway might not be enough.
Puluo immediately handed over an energy pipe while setting up his shield. Golden energy enveloped them. Looking at the approaching green vines and the branches that had already enclosed the island in mid-air, he realized what had happened and explained: "My energy can't resist the energy body's invasion."
He had already covered himself with energy earlier, but the confusion energy still broke through the protection.
Chen Sui nodded, indicating for Qi Rong to hide behind the energy shield, "I know, protect the analyst for a bit, and remember to spread your energy later."
The last sentence was directed at Qi Rong.
Hearing her mention the analyst, Puluo instinctively looked at Chen Sui, and only when she pushed Qi Rong toward the energy shield did he realize the analyst meant this red mecha.
The foot soldier's brain froze for a moment as he watched his team's analyst twist her wrist.
Although he had known it would be like this, but still, Chen Sui didn't really consider herself an analyst at all, did she?
Puluo thought blankly.
The barrage comments watching this development were also full of question marks.
[I can't tell who's the analyst for a moment]
[Who says not? Wait, Qi Rong is an analyst, but so are you, sis! What are you doing with that energy pipe!]
Soon they would know what she was doing.
Mu Chan had thought he wouldn't be involved, but then the opposing Commander, who had been freezing vines, retreated, looked at Chen Sui, and then scanned them.
The pressure from this gaze was so strong that Mu Chan unconsciously stood straight, then heard him ask Chen Sui: "Three?"
Chen Sui nodded, glancing at the strong attacker and Mu Chan, "Not enough energy, can't set up cannons."
Xie Chunshi had thought Chen Sui would only keep the analyst and the Commander, but unexpectedly, there was an additional strong attacker.
Chen Sui explained: "There are other teams approaching, with non-low spiritual body fluctuations. We need to hurry."
Non-low spiritual body fluctuations meant it was likely one of the seven schools like them.
Facing one of the seven schools in an elimination match wasn't advantageous.
Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi exchanged a glance, both seeing the intention to avoid battle in each other's eyes.
"Then let's finish quickly."
Xie Chunshi exchanged his quantum cannon back with Puluo, and his other hand drew a long knife.
His weapon was a serrated knife with irregular teeth, each ring fitted with an energy suppression layer that could weaken energy attacks layer by layer. The back of the blade, which actually did the attacking, had been specially treated, with an intense burning sensation and strong attack attributes.
With the Team Leader's word, Gu Qinxue and Zhou Chen also put away their artillery and summoned their spiritual bodies.
"Qi Rong's energy broadcasting range is thirty meters, and the energy body's confusion attribute duration is ten seconds. Remember to return to defense in time."
Chen Sui informed her teammates. Ten seconds was the most intense confusion energy invasion. Apart from special clarity values, all other energy fluctuations would be covered by the confusion attribute, causing mental confusion to awakened individuals.
Xie Chunshi leaped to a high position, observing the location of the energy body's main form in the distance. "The protective vines around are too thick. Qinxue, find a way to blast open a passage."
Gu Qinxue nodded, her thorny whip carrying flames, sweeping as she darted out: "Understood."
"Zhou Chen, assist, don't let the vines restrain her."
"Send the analyst to observe the main body, identify the energy crystal's location."
Xie Chunshi watched all sides, blue light flashing on his hand. He turned to ask Chen Sui: "Can you extract the energy crystal?"
He seemed to have forgotten his initial plan to keep Chen Sui's actions low-key, and he completely disregarded the warnings from the analyst teachers not to let Chen Sui be too aggressive.
At this moment, he was creating the best output environment for Chen Sui.
Chen Sui only hesitated for a second before quickly nodding, "Of course!"
For a vanguard, with the output environment in place, she could accomplish all objectives.
Xie Chunshi nodded, and as the barrage frantically questioned why the Commander would go crazy and let an analyst handle the output, his fingertips flashed blue light, and the ice freezing the vines in front of him instantly shattered.
Countless ice fragments fell like stars.
Zhou Chen rushed out fiercely, drawing his four-sided mace. The virtual image of a black arrow hawk descended massively, its shadow covering half the sky.
The four-sided mace opened, and as he swung it, countless steel needles sealed in the center flew toward the surrounding vines.
A beam of lightning lit up from his arm. The black arrow hawk spread its wings, with lightning snaking along its feathers.
"Break!"
Zhou Chen's deep voice sounded, and the black arrow hawk let out a sharp, sky-piercing cry.
On the vast sea surface, thunder clouds rolled. On a leisurely sailing small boat, a mecha looked up, its gaze fixed on the rolling black clouds in the distance. A streak of blue-purple lightning suddenly split the heavy mist clouds.
Zhang Yingjie furrowed his brow, feeling the strong energy fluctuations even from this distance.
Jiang Zhongyu also felt this pressure, unconsciously coughing a few times before saying hoarsely: "The spiritual body fluctuations are very strong, likely one of the seven schools. Lightning attribute—it could be Na Luo River's Lu Ting, Saint Laurent's Noya, Xitisi's Chi Buyu, or Zhu Jing Fu's Zhou Chen."
Whichever it was, it wasn't good news.
"This is a bit troublesome."
Zhang Yingjie unconsciously adjusted his sensor glasses.
Xin Ming pressed her lips. On her mecha's palm, a black seedling slowly appeared, gradually growing. Under the dark thunder clouds, it cast a layer of green light.
"I sense wood-attribute energy converging, very strong wood-attribute."
As the boat sailed in, they could see the tree trunks surrounding the island.
Jiang Zhongyu explained: "It's S-level, no, should be SS+ wood-attribute energy body."
One of the seven schools had encountered this SS+ energy body.
Zhang Yingjie looked at the agile attacker Jipuna who was at the helm.
Energetic music blasted from his cockpit. After the Commander called his name several times through the team channel, he finally turned off the music and responded: "I'm here, Captain Zhang!"
Zhang Yingjie sighed, his first words being: "Turn off your rock music."
Jipuna obediently closed the program.
"Speed up. How long until we reach the island?"
Jipuna had a boat driving license and had volunteered to manually steer instead of using the autopilot. He was very familiar with these things and immediately reported an accurate number.
Xin Ming asked: "Are we going to compete for this energy crystal?"
Zhang Yingjie shook his head: "No need. It's just one energy crystal. We need to know which academy this is. Such strong energy fluctuations are very intense."
An SS+ energy body was enough to make one of the seven schools take it seriously, and it was also a great opportunity for other academies to learn about their opponents' strengths.
Being able to gauge opponents' strength in elimination matches was extremely valuable.
With the intention of reconnaissance, Zhang Yingjie accelerated toward the island.
At this moment, above Zhu Jing Fu, in the heavy clouds, a purple lightning bolt split the dark sky like a sharp chopping knife, illuminating the dim scene, landing in the black arrow hawk's virtual image.
As it spread its wings, fine lightning scattered along the feathers, forming countless electric lights that exploded at the feather tips.
Lightning wrapped around the four-sided mace, with flashing electric light.
As the bamboo-like sections of the four-sided mace extended, layer after layer exploded, sending steel needles in all directions, carrying purple-blue lightning.
They pierced toward the twisting vines.
Lightning struck the vines, with explosions sounding one after another.
The vines were shattered by the lightning, and an electric current spread along them toward the nearby ones, only to be cut off by green energy before reaching the tree's main body.
"Natural lightning-struck wood, essential for exorcism."
Zhou Chen made a joke on the spot.
The surrounding tentacle-like vines were shattered to pieces, with plant juices flowing. The vines, in pain, began to curl back toward the main body. Zhou Chen put away his four-sided mace, set up his artillery, and blasted apart several vines that were coming to attack.
The vine tree in front was suddenly cleared, opening up the view.
Mu Chan and Qi Rong whispered from behind the energy shield.
"Wow, this is what a strong team is like. Amazing, amazing."
Holding the energy shield and hearing them praise his teammates, Puluo silently shrank his body.
Xie Chunshi observed the direction of the vines' movement, capturing the main body's weak point.
"Artillery, attack this position."
Puluo received his order and quickly relayed it to the allied team. Mu Chan and the red mecha strong attacker peered out from behind the shield, setting up cannons half a beat later and firing at the position he had indicated.
The shells carried large amounts of energy.
The energy body seemed to covet this but, sensing the approaching threat, still erupted with a strong green wave that shook the shells away.
Chen Sui fired an ice bomb in mid-air—one freezing energy bomb and the other hitting an explosion. One shot toward the vines, the ice bomb spreading a thin layer of ice, but the vines quickly broke free, not being controlled at all.
This strike couldn't approach its weak point, but the probing motion angered it. As the green energy spread, the green mist became thicker, with confusion attribute energy permeating layer by layer.
"Qi Rong!"
Chen Sui and several others retreated to Qi Rong's energy range, calling her name. A brown energy circle lit up, particularly obvious in the layer of invisible green mist.
Xie Chunshi counted down. As the ten seconds passed, the green mist's density dropped sharply, and he signaled to Gu Qinxue: "Go!"
The strong attacker remembered the position the Commander had reported in the channel. Flames rose from her whip as her mecha leaped up, twirling in mid-air.
The strong energy fluctuations made the energy body agitated again. The surrounding trees grew frantically, with plant stems several meters high suddenly growing from the ground, like sharp wooden spikes piercing toward the mecha wandering in mid-air.
Gu Qinxue's toes landed on the advancing wooden spikes, continuously closing the distance with the energy body.
Behind her, Chen Sui's ice bombs repelled the probing vines. On the other side, Zhou Chen's high-pressure cannon with lightning blasted out. The wood-attribute attacks around the forest were intercepted by the two of them, allowing Gu Qinxue to advance unimpeded, entering within ten meters of the main body.
The closer she got, the stronger the energy pressure.
Gu Qinxue bit her silver teeth, and flames rose from beneath her mecha's feet, enveloping her entirely like a red jewel in the green mist. Fire spread from her, burning back the fine, thread-like energy around her.
Snake-like vines extended from the energy body, quickly twisting toward her position. Gu Qinxue dodged to the side, her fire whip wrapping around the cross-section of a vine. With a forceful pull, the rotating thorns on the whip cut open the vine, with blood-red juice flowing from the cross-section.
Chen Sui arrived a step late and, seeing this, raised an eyebrow.
"Pure blood tree."
"Actually a pure blood tree advancement."
Pure blood trees were special plants in energy fields, rarely mutating into energy bodies, and even when they did, they were mostly low-level energy bodies.
Finding such a high-level pure blood tree, Chen Sui's first thought was: "An SS+ pure blood tree, the pure blood concentration must be very high."
Pure blood trees were incompletely evolved energy bodies. The tree body wouldn't disperse with energy, and after cutting open the tree body, one could obtain pure blood that had been enriched with energy—a raw material for engine fluid, various mecha materials, and analytical instruments, with a high price.
"Then don't burn it, burning it would be a waste."
Hearing Chen Sui's tone, Gu Qinxue knew she had designs on the pure blood and immediately accommodated: "I'll be careful."
Chen Sui smiled slightly, "Thanks in advance!"
Looking at the red liquid splashing everywhere like raindrops, she warned: "Don't touch the pure blood, its confusion energy is very intense."
Gu Qinxue retracted her thorny fire whip, watching the splashing pure blood juice, dodging to avoid being splattered.
"Can you determine the energy crystal's location?"
She distanced herself from Chen Sui. The convergence of their energy would give the pure blood tree a better attack target. By spreading out, the countless vines would move messily in both directions.
The pure blood tree was too timid. The vines built its solid shell, with energy fluctuations so chaotic it was hard to see the energy crystal's position.
But this wasn't a problem.
Chen Sui raised her spear, preparing to act: "I'll break through the weak point. The thorny fire whip's explosion range is too large and might damage the pure blood tree."
What she said in the team channel made Xie Chunshi's ears twitch, prompting him to remind her: "Mind the mecha deterioration."
Chen Sui's mecha had been repaired through maintenance procedures, with current deterioration at 53%.
She nodded, exchanging positions with Gu Qinxue as the strong attacker assisted her attack.
"I know, how long until the next confusion energy spread?"
Xie Chunshi had been counting the energy body's attack rhythm and reported: "Ten minutes."
Chen Sui's expression concentrated. Ten minutes to breakthrough the pure blood tree's outer defenses and extract the energy crystal.
This was her first time confronting an SS+ energy body, and her palms unconsciously tensed with nervousness.
But her face remained steady, calm yet filled with battle spirit.
"Understood."
Chen Sui's steady voice sounded.
Xie Chunshi and Zhou Chen cleared away the wood-attribute plants in the distance that were supporting the pure blood tree, preventing it from strengthening its defensive layer.
Gu Qinxue set up her energy cannon, aiming.
The pure blood tree was dozens of meters tall, its surrounding vines like pillars, layer upon layer wrapping around it, turning the trunk that was only about five meters wide into a massive space.
The tree branches were almost invisible to the naked eye, completely covered by the intertwining vines of surrounding plants.
Countless branches like tentacles would regenerate after being broken. Chen Sui's ice bombs froze the branches near the pure blood tree's weak point. Her spear thrust from above into the vine barrier surrounding the tree, exerting force from the top, tearing open the trunk's blockade. Shattered wood chips flew, and the scent of plants permeated the air.
As the vines were torn open, the pure blood tree suddenly became frenzied. The surrounding trees grew wildly, with various branches twisting on the ground and in mid-air, swinging without pattern, wrapping around any mecha they touched.
Chen Sui was surrounded by a net from all directions. Her mecha's foot was entwined by a tree, which suddenly pulled and spun her in the sky, directly throwing her toward the distance.
"Suisui!"
Gu Qinxue watched her being thrown toward the tree net from afar and instinctively fired an energy cannon forward, clearing the tree trunks heading toward Chen Sui.
When the sensation of her ankle being pulled came, Chen Sui immediately summoned her summoning body. Flames spread from her mecha, burning through the vines binding her. The mecha spun three times in the air, the propulsion device exerting force, allowing her to suddenly stop just before being enveloped by the tree net, reverse direction, and fly out. The tree net closed, catching nothing.
Chen Sui sped toward the pure blood tree.
"I'm fine, there are too many vines. Commander, how much can the artillery control?"
Xie Chunshi was controlling the field from a distance. Seeing her escape the tree net, the blue energy flashing in his hand dissipated. Hearing her, his gaze swept over everyone's artillery as he replied to Chen Sui: "Only seventy percent."
Gu Qinxue swept her fire whip, cutting through the regenerating vines, seeing Chen Sui step on the vines and leap up: "The wood-attribute energy is rich around here, too advantageous for the pure blood tree. Once it accumulates, all wood-attribute will be stimulated to grow."
These vines and branches were truly annoying. Once entangled, one would be completely bound by the pure blood tree's net.
Chen Sui put away her artillery, her spiritual domain energy shifting.
She stood tall at a high point, with huge branches forming a vine cover above her head, enveloping the entire island. As far as the eye could see, green mist pervaded.
"Wood-attribute isn't exclusive to the pure blood tree."
She said softly in the team channel.
Xie Chunshi's eyes moved, knowing she would use her spiritual body, and only asked: "Is your core crystal deterioration still okay?"
Chen Sui made an affirmative sound: "10%, ten minutes, enough for me to kill it."
She swept her long spear, her eyes cold and solemn.
Xie Chunshi corrected her: "Less than five minutes. Qi Rong says the confusion energy fluctuations are stronger and will come earlier."
Adding one more piece of bad news.
Chen Sui nodded, "Understood, I'll be as quick as possible."
"Enter the clarity circle after five minutes."
Gu Qinxue put away her artillery, her fire whip sweeping fiercely: "Understood, I'll assist Sui."
Chen Sui watched the vines extending outward. The pure blood tree was like an octopus with countless tentacles, its main body indistinguishable, showing only large patches of green. The surrounding branches crawled on the ground, entwining everything they could.
Wood-attribute energy converged toward Chen Sui.
Her eyes flashed with green light.
Behind her appeared a giant tree shadow. The lush tree, like a divine presence, came forth with immense pressure. Powerful energy fluctuations rippled out like water.
The air currents swept past the clarity circle centered on Puluo's energy shield.
Mu Chan peeked out to look, seeing only the massive tree shadow glowing with green light, with energy levels rapidly increasing as it surged toward it.
Qi Rong's heart pounded wildly. Though she couldn't see the scene, the fluctuations she sensed made her curl up in fear.
"Such strong energy fluctuations!"
Hearing her murmur, Commander Mu Chan nodded in agreement: "This must be SSS-level, right?"
Puluo, who remained silent, glanced at the suddenly descending giant tree and silently thought, it's not.
Their analyst was only A.
A both times.
Mu Chan watched Chen Sui first summon her spiritual body to establish resonance, wondering for a moment.
Zhu Jing Fu's strength seemed to have been underestimated by the StarNet.
"Wood-Born Flower."
Chen Sui called out in a husky voice.
The giant tree solidified, establishing resonance with her, transmitting wood-attribute fluctuations from all around.
"Vine Birth!"
Chen Sui's thought moved, and more vines with sharp thorns emerged from the soil. As soon as they appeared, they grew rapidly, twining toward the surrounding branches and vines.
The newly born, glowing green vines pierced through the branches flailing in mid-air, pinning them to the ground. Countless green lights scattered from around Wood-Born Flower, surging toward the pure blood tree.
Chen Sui slowly descended onto the vines produced by Wood-Born Flower, swinging her long spear as she saw the vines attacking the pure blood tree and quickly followed.
The energy of Wood-Born Flower tore open the wrapping around the pure blood tree, green light like a knife slicing through the hard plant shell, creating a crack. Chen Sui followed closely, her long spear finding the gap and thrusting into the pure blood tree like a long rainbow penetrating the sun.
The sound of breaking wood was like the pure blood tree's scream.
The vines pinned to the ground suddenly twisted violently, and the green mist grew thicker layer by layer.
Sensing the abnormal energy levels around, Qi Rong's expression panicked. She unconsciously looked forward, her fingers moving toward the Commander who had erected an ice wall in front of her.
"The pure blood tree is going berserk! The confusion energy is erupting!"
Xie Chunshi turned to look at her, seeing the analyst stand up in alarm, her gaze filled with worry as she looked toward Chen Sui's position.
Zhou Chen's lightning followed his water flow, electrifying the crawling vines on the ground to charcoal. Lightning nets sped out, clearing the surrounding attacks.
Xie Chunshi retracted his energy, informing teammates through the team channel: "The confusion attribute has erupted."
Gu Qinxue raised flames around her, burning the approaching green mist.
"Almost!"
Chen Sui's voice was strained as she exerted force, her words coming with difficulty.
"Wait for me to kill it."
The analyst's language was too crude, surprising Zhou Chen, who glanced forward.
Wood-Born Flower's shadow was covered by green mist, its green glow somewhat weaker, but in mid-air, there was no shadow of a swinging vine—the branches pinned to the ground were being firmly suppressed.
No matter how they struggled, they couldn't move.
And the pure blood tree, pierced in the trunk by Chen Sui, had red juice flowing down the crack, forming a small channel. Green light scattered from its body in circles.
Chen Sui gripped the shaft of her long spear, her arm's veins slightly bulging.
She drove the silver shaft deeper inside.
"You didn't think that just because you can play with vines, I'd have no way to deal with you, did you?"
She watched the pure blood tree's hanging branches begin to sway as the entire tree began to move violently. Tree roots from deep in the soil broke through the ground, growing long tendrils.
Seeing its self-destructive behavior, Chen Sui's eyes suddenly darkened.
Energy bodies could survive away from soil, but pure blood had to be harvested fresh.
She wanted the energy crystal!
She also wanted the pure blood!
Wood-Born Flower seemed to brighten a few more degrees.
At the moment Chen Sui strengthened the resonance, a streak of green energy flowed from her palm, through the long spear. The green energy shot like an arrow from Wood-Born Flower, piercing through Chen Sui's body, along the spear, and through the pure blood tree's trunk.
The green light penetrated through the pure blood tree's back, breaking through the unbroken barrier and striking the ground, forming a circular green spot.
After the green light penetrated, the pure blood tree seemed to quiet for a second.
The surrounding plants also stopped moving, the struggling vines gradually weakening, collapsing toward the ground.
The stimulated branches slowly dropped, hanging from the treetops.
Green mist moved slowly through the air.
It seemed a fresh breeze was coming.
Gu Qinxue's footsteps landed on a huge rock in the jungle, and the vines under her feet suddenly visibly yellowed. Their toughness decreased, and as she landed on the rock surface, they were crushed by her mecha's foot, making a crisp cracking sound.
This seemed to be a signal.
The green light that had penetrated the pure blood tree suddenly burst with dazzling light, and Wood-Born Flower's giant shadow brightened a few more degrees.
Within the green light, countless vines like spikes suddenly grew violently toward the surroundings, piercing everything.
From the pure blood tree's waist, countless sharp spikes penetrated the trunk. The biological entities stimulated by the pure blood tree began to change toward yellow and withered.
Outside Xie Chunshi's ice wall, the vines weakly drooped, curled up, and were finally penetrated by breaking ice spikes, completely splitting open.
The green mist density decreased, and air visibility returned.
On the dome above, the vines surrounding the island still formed a structure. Though withered in color, the framework stood firm.
The branches in Chen Sui's hair contracted, returning to normal, and her eyes flashing with green light settled down.
Wood-Born Flower's virtual image retracted into the spiritual domain, energy filling the core crystal.
She used force at the wrist, and the long spear easily pierced through the pure blood tree's withered trunk. The silver spearhead penetrated the trunk, popping out a green energy crystal at the end.
Gu Qinxue's thorny fire whip coiled around the falling crystal's trajectory, collecting it.
Chen Sui gripped the long spear, tearing open the pure blood tree trunk from the waist down.
A very deep mark was carved into the trunk, with red juice gurgling out.
Chen Sui skillfully took out instruments to collect it.
In the surrounding silence, only the sound of pure blood flowing could be heard.
Xie Chunshi and Zhou Chen arrived a step late with Mu Chan's group, and seeing Chen Sui busy collecting pure blood, they quickly came to help.
"Wow, there's pure blood trees all around."
Chen Sui finished filling one container after another, with more and more marks on the pure blood tree trunk. She handed the containers filled with pure blood to others, "Yes, but this one has the highest purity. The others are a bit inferior."
She tapped the energy body of the pure blood tree from which the energy crystal had been extracted.
Xie Chunshi took the instrument, not sparing even Mu Chan's group. All eight people present began collecting pure blood amid the ruins of vines.
The barrage comments were just recovering from the intense battle.
[Does no one else think something's wrong?]
[From the strong attacker assisting the analyst, I knew something wasn't quite right]
[The light was too dim, I couldn't see clearly. How did the pure blood tree energy body die? Does anyone have a recording?]
[I only saw a flash of green light, then it was over]
[Did anyone see Chen Sui's spiritual body? I only saw a blurry green mass]
[Not that, this pure blood tree, it advanced and then surrounded the island so tightly that not even light could get through. Can't it let me watch the competition properly?!]
[@Competition Committee, requesting infrared high exposure!! When it goes dark, I can't see anything, sob]
[@Competition Committee, can the holographic permissions be opened? sob]
[Holographic permissions can't be opened, this is an energy field, it would damage spiritual power]
[Then do the infrared!! I really want to see who killed the pure blood tree?!]
[Zhu Jing Fu, no, wait, among the eight people present, only one has a wood-attribute spiritual body. Face reality]
[Indeed, StarNet has been cursing the analyst as useless for so long, now it's time to face the slap]
[Since the analyst started setting up cannons, I knew there was something unusual about her]
[Honestly, it's not marketing or hype, I really think this analyst's style is very familiar!!]
[Familiar or not, I just want to know if they're trying to drain the pure blood dry?]
[Who taught Xie Chunshi to use water energy like this?]
[Wait, bro, you only had ice walls and ice spikes during the energy body fight, now you know how to control water, but using water control to force all the pure blood out? Don't you think it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?]
[I've realized that there aren't many normal people in Zhu Jing Fu. Their strong attacker and analyst are using mecha weapons to cut incisions. Do you really not care about deterioration rate?]
[Can you stop collecting pure blood? Ink Hills is already at the island's shore!!]
Chen Sui stored the pure blood in her spatial button and looked up at the densely packed, sunlight-blocking dome of the island.
She turned to look at Xie Chunshi, waiting for the Commander's signal: "There's a team approaching, high-level spiritual body fluctuations."
Xie Chunshi nodded and separated from Mu Chan's three: "Cooperation over. Commander Mu, you might want to consider an exit route from the island."
Mu Chan was stunned for a moment, instinctively looking at Qi Rong, who was staring at Chen Sui.
Chen Sui stepped on the ground, her foot crushing the withered branch remnants: "I'll clear the blockade, hurry to leave the island."
There was nothing left to utilize on this island.
Zhu Jing Fu had taken the supply point resources.
Zhu Jing Fu had also taken the energy crystal.
Mu Chan belatedly realized this and couldn't help but shrink back.
He still had mecha points to offer.
Qi Rong was quite calm, even waving goodbye to Chen Sui.
The three left early, heading in another direction, waiting for Chen Sui to clear the blockade so they could immediately leave the island.
In the Zhu Jing Fu team channel, Chen Sui marked the position of the approaching spiritual bodies.
"Should we fight them?"