novelraw Chapter 90 : Sultry Red Forest
Chapter 90 : Sultry Red Forest
Outside the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest, the Zhu Jing Fu mechas were surrounded by layers of broad leaves stuck on with special adhesive, like armor on the outside of the mechas.
"Wrapped up like this, when we tear off the outer layer, there won't be any cocoon threads sticking to us."
According to Chen Sui's explanation, after the cocoon threads locate and draw out the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, they would tear off the outer layer of broad leaves. With no location points, the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies naturally wouldn't be able to track them, allowing for a smooth escape.
"My god, so we have to defeat the Butterfly King under the attack of so many energy bodies."
Zhou Chen finally belatedly realized, looking at the meteor trees wrapped in cocoon threads before him. The white threads had already covered the green leaves like snow, laying a deep blanket over the green leaf forest.
Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies rested on the meteor tree trunks, their energy fluctuations rising and falling weakly, clearly in a dormant state.
Chen Sui knew these were just appearances. Once the cocoons were disturbed, the sleeping Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies would instantly awaken and eliminate anything trying to interfere with the Butterfly King.
She answered Zhou Chen's question: "Yes, that's right. The attackers will contain the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies. After dealing with the Butterfly King, the leaderless Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies will follow the cocoon thread locations. We need someone to lead the butterfly swarm away with cocoon threads while we stay to dig up the meteor trees."
Zhou Chen looked at the others' thin two layers of broad leaves, then at his own thick stack. He had thought Chen Sui considered him the core of the team, planning to develop tactics with him as the central figure.
Now... he was indeed central.
A core tactical sandbag.
"That person leading the butterfly swarm away... it's not me, is it?" Zhou Chen asked hopefully.
Chen Sui looked at him with a loving and tolerant gaze. "Don't worry, when I repaired Winter Hawk, I specifically reinforced its damage resistance. The damage level has been repaired, so you won't be eliminated that easily."
Winter Hawk was Zhou Chen's mecha name.
Hearing this didn't make him happy at all. In fact, his mood instantly deflated. He turned to look at his teammates. "Do I really have to play this role?"
Chen Sui patted his shoulder. The five members of Zhu Jing Fu stopped outside the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest, listening to her tell blatant lies over the team channel. "Zhou Chen, think about it—who else could do this job but you? You're the most agile, with the highest concealment, able to navigate through the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' encirclement and avoid other teams. You're absolutely the best choice."
"Who else could be more capable than you?"
Such praise coming from Chen Sui's mouth was an enormous affirmation for Zhou Chen.
His bent back gradually straightened. By the end, his spine was perfectly straight, his expression solemn, his eyes resolute, his hand gripping the Four-sided Mace tightly as he looked earnestly at Chen Sui.
"Little Sui, I didn't realize that's how you thought of me. After what you've said! It seems it has to be me!"
"This job! I'll do it!"
Chen Sui watched Zhou Chen pump himself up, standing valiantly in front of the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest. She secretly turned her head and gave the others an OK gesture.
Puluo immediately caught on, supporting with: "Zhou Chen, you're a real man."
Xie Chunshi calmly added: "As expected of you."
Gu Qinxue saw Chen Sui's gaze turn toward her, shook her head, and reluctantly followed with: "Truly impressive."
Zhou Chen was now completely floating with pride. Let alone leading away the other Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, he felt he could take them all down himself.
The comments, having witnessed the whole process, watched like fools, feeling heartbroken for Zhou Chen who was eager to rush in and prove his teammates' praise right.
[Why does the energy field use sweet talk to deceive teammates]
[Zhou Chen... completely fooled]
[Damn, Chen Sui speaks so smoothly, and the main thing is she sounds so sincere, without a hint of lying]
[She wasn't lying. Zhou Chen is agile, has good concealment, and is least likely to get hurt doing this task, plus he's not easy for other teams to pick off. But she completely avoided mentioning he'll be painfully lashed by the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies hahaha]
[Yes, yes, yes, everything's good except he's going to be a living sandbag]
[Before Chen Sui spoke, Zhou Chen understood. After Chen Sui spoke, Zhou Chen was floating. He doesn't care anymore, now he thinks he's the strongest in the entire Sultry Red Forest]
[This is too perfect. I think if Chen Sui praised me like that, I could directly stomp the Gu family]
[Zhu Jing Fu is truly... I thought they only tricked others, but they trick teammates too]
[Actually, Zhou Chen is a good choice, since he has the divine art and luck buff]
Seeing Zhou Chen already impatient, the five members of Zhu Jing Fu waited outside the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest for a long time, finally waiting until Chen Sui nodded. "It's about to break out of its cocoon."
The Butterfly King's advancement aura was transitioning. After breaking out of its cocoon, it would officially become an SSS-level energy body.
During this period, the breaking-out phase would be when the Butterfly King's energy control was weakest, having left behind the SS+ energy fluctuations and adjusting to the SSS energy level.
Not striking now would be against heavenly principles.
As soon as she sensed this energy change, Chen Sui's eyes immediately became solemn. "Go!!"
As her words fell, Xie Chunshi gestured, and all Zhu Jing Fu members rushed out from the meteor tree forest entrance, directly pouncing toward the expanse of cocoon threads, like prey leaping into a spider web.
Behind Gu Qinxue, the huge figure of the Three-Eyed Rabbit, covered in flame patterns, appeared. The eye between its white brows opened, revealing pupils filled with fierce fire.
Flames ignited and rose from Gu Qinxue, quickly spreading to the surroundings along the cocoon threads, burning away the obstacles blocking Zhu Jing Fu from approaching the Butterfly King.
The moment the cocoon threads met fire, the sleeping Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies in the meteor tree forest "whoosh" opened their eyes!
Metal giant wings fluttered and beat, the cocoon threads in the forest floating and sticking to the Zhu Jing Fu members, but were blocked layer by layer from the mechas by the broad leaves.
As a sharp sonic wave sounded, Zhou Chen, who was leaping at the forefront, covered his ears and shouted very loudly in the team channel: "Why are you screaming?!! I know it's awake, did you have to be so loud!!!"
Chen Sui frowned, flashing forward, her long spear sweeping through, her figure moving like the wind, almost instantly arriving in front of the huge cocoon. The blade tip thrust down, the four-edged spear surface colliding with the energy layer outside the huge cocoon.
A hint of green moved from the long spear, directly colliding, with powerful green waves rippling outward.
A split opened in the huge cocoon.
Gray-white strong light burst forth.
Chen Sui's expression suddenly changed. This wasn't a mark from the spear strike, but a signal of the energy body breaking out of its cocoon.
Countless wind blades exploded from the split, instantly expanding into several-meter-long wind knives upon contact with the air, shooting in all directions.
Chen Sui had raised her vigilance when the split appeared and flashed to the side, directly avoiding the wind knives.
At this moment, the wind around suddenly became stronger. All the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies awakened, numerous deep purple eyes glowing in the dim forest obscured by meteor tree broad leaves.
The giant Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' wings swung as if to cut the tree trunks, with fierce gusts coming face to face, the entire forest filled with shadows.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' eyes looked toward the intruders, their energy levels instantly rising. The detection devices in the mechas began flashing red warnings.
In the control room, watching the five members of Zhu Jing Fu surrounded by layers of Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies yet still trying to break through to the Butterfly King, the three judges all wore somewhat solemn expressions.
Jian Run watched Chen Sui's movements, hearing Mo Qiu'an's somewhat worried words: "Zhu Jing Fu is still a bit reckless. Their plan is indeed reasonable—eliminate the Butterfly King first, and without the King's ascension tendency, the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies can only rely on cocoon threads for positioning. That's not a problem, but in the current situation, as long as the Butterfly King isn't dead, Zhu Jing Fu will have to continuously face so many Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies."
Ji Qing nodded slightly, agreeing with her statement: "This batch of Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies has very high energy fluctuations, and they're all wind-attribute, able to concentrate wind-attribute energy beyond imagination, comparable to the sky pillars in the forest. I don't know how Zhu Jing Fu will handle it."
"I think they have it under control," Jian Run smiled at the two.
In the image, the five members of Zhu Jing Fu quickly reacted. After Chen Sui's attack missed, she immediately withdrew, entering the protection circle of her teammates.
Gu Qinxue's fierce fire spurted out, the surrounding flames soaring like dragons, directly colliding with the wind blades. The energy impact produced a series of explosions.
The spirit bodies of the others also fully appeared, with even Xie Chunshi surrounded by visible water flow.
The five's positioning was also extremely orderly, with attackers Gu Qinxue and Zhou Chen on the outermost sides, their offensive sealing off the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' attacks.
Puluo was in the center, the metal mushroom deploying powerful defense. Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi, one seizing opportunities to break through, one guarding the rear, made the center impenetrable.
Though seemingly surrounded by Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, the concentrated wind-attribute energy already had many of Zhu Jing Fu's energy attacks mixed in.
Jian Run narrowed his eyes, watching Chen Sui's movements. The cocoon threads concealed the Butterfly King, and after breaking out, it would become a complete SSS-level body with stronger control over the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, reducing Zhu Jing Fu's chances of victory.
Could Chen Sui kill the Butterfly King without seeing the energy body, with advancement disrupting the energy fluctuations?
This was what Jian Run was extremely curious about.
At this moment, on Wisteria Star, White Crane Street.
Under the floating Kite Tree, a middle-aged man sitting in a wheelchair, with a somewhat weathered face but clear and sharp eyes.
Seeing the energy storm spreading from the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest, his gaze locked onto the split in the cocoon. Song Xingzhang thought, this was the attack point left by the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly for itself, as well as the breakthrough point for Zhu Jing Fu.
The energy suppressing the Butterfly King could, through this split, kill the Butterfly King.
But—could this analyst do it?
Concentrate enough energy from a lower level to match an SSS-level, and in an extremely short time, find the Butterfly King's newly born energy crystal.
He watched the blue-green mecha.
Chen Sui was seen gripping her long spear tightly, a layer of green light rippling out, making the meteor tree branches more lush, shadowing the forest. In the dim forest, wind blades swept through, everywhere.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' metal wings fully spread, their swinging stirring up several-meter-high wind vortexes, sweeping toward the five members of Zhu Jing Fu.
Zhou Chen swung his Four-sided Mace, lightning streaking like whips. Gu Qinxue's flames burned from the other side, directly raising several-meter-high fire walls. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies crashed into them, leaping over, the phosphor powder on their metal wings catching fire, trailing extremely long traces of flame.
This energy fluctuation was too strong. The huge cocoon in the center, sensing the aggressive energy, high-level energy body's dominance driving the surrounding Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm directly toward Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue.
With the pressure on Chen Sui in the center lessened, Puluo looked back at her, seeing the analyst swing her spear, ready to strike. He immediately opened the metal mushroom's energy barrier from the center.
"Little Sui, how long will it take? Is ten minutes enough?"
Zhou Chen was already leaping up and down among the surrounding meteor trees, his movements perfectly synchronized with the Black Arrow Eagle, both rapidly traversing through the forest, almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, fast as a meteor, only the tree branches still vibrating from his footsteps visible.
Lightning followed the mecha, gradually left on the cocoon threads. As they pursued, the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies were constantly shocked by the electricity.
The huge wind vortexes chased Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue, yet he still found time to chat with Chen Sui through the team channel.
Hearing this, Chen Sui's eyes showed a somewhat helpless smile, her grip on the spear tightening: "What can be done in ten minutes? It'll take at least half an hour."
She joked.
On the other side, Zhou Chen exclaimed exaggeratedly: "What kind of energy body takes our analyst half an hour to deal with."
As he spoke, he let out a stifled groan. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly's wind pierced directly hit the mecha's rear, causing Zhou Chen to howl: "Damn, this guy is so dishonorable. In battle, one doesn't hit the face or stab the butt. No fighting ethics."
"Talk less," Gu Qinxue, annoyed by the noise in her ears, couldn't help but open her mic. On her side, fierce fire directly burned the meteor trees, with half the forest ablaze, black smoke rushing skyward.
Zhou Chen was hurriedly evading. As black smoke dispersed from above the meteor tree forest, thunder clouds filled the sky. The commotion and energy concentration were so great that even teams very far away noticed.
"Damn, what's going on over there, fighting so intensely?"
"Is this teams fighting or battling energy bodies? For energy bodies, I'm afraid the level must be high."
"It's not strong teams, is it? I hope it's the Seven Schools fighting internally."
"Three Seven Schools, I'm crying. I now also hope they're fighting internally."
"Fighting so intensely, some must be eliminated. Just thinking about three mountains eyeing us, I dare not even leave my hiding place."
However, Jacques Delot, who had already gathered near the Silent Monument Forest, saw analyst Ye Kaiyun look toward the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest, his brow showing several traces of concern.
"What's wrong?" Bai Ruohua, seeing him continuously staring in one direction, also looked over.
Ye Kaiyun had a somewhat ominous premonition: "Such strong energy fluctuations. The energy level over there suddenly increased several times just now, and it hasn't decreased."
Hearing this, Bai Ruohua's gaze unconsciously turned toward the damaged meteor tree on the side. He pondered for a moment: "Zhu Jing Fu."
Hearing the Commander's certain voice, Ye Kaiyun's expression flashed with surprise: "Are you sure?"
"This energy fluctuation is definitely at SSS level."
Bai Ruohua affirmed, with a very strong feeling inside: "Only they, Zhu Jing Fu, like energy field resources, high-level energy crystals included, and only they would directly engage upon discovering high-level energy crystals."
As he spoke, he pointed to the meteor tree behind: "Of course, they might have unluckily encountered it, but from the Silent Monument Forest to there, there's definitely enough time."
If Zhu Jing Fu had encountered high-level energy bodies, then they should be in the midst of a tough battle now.
Strong attacker Xisier, arriving late, immediately rushed forward: "Commander, shall we go over? That Zhu Jing Fu has good taste. Whatever they're fighting must not be cheap."
As soon as Xisier finished, Harper behind him directly slapped him: "No backbone. Why not take this opportunity to eliminate Zhu Jing Fu?"
Bai Ruohua considered these two suggestions, but Jacques Delot's mecha damage situation wasn't good. He hesitated: "Let's repair the mecha damage first. In our current state, encountering either Zhu Jing Fu or high-level energy bodies wouldn't be good."
Jacques Delot quietly sat down near the Silent Monument Forest and began repairing their mechas.
At this moment, in the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest, Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue, rapidly moving through the entire forest, relying on strong energy fluctuations to attract the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' attacks, had not yet noticed that the Commander had marked an energy body luring route on the map that directly traversed the Silent Monument Forest.
The meteor tree parasitized by Fierce Fire Star Stone could be beaten like this by the frenzied Stele Mushrooms, and the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, which would emit sharp sonic booms, should be no exception.
Only, they would need to remind Zhou Chen to keep quiet.
Xie Chunshi thought.
He rapidly condensed energy in his palm. The ice wall instantly transformed into ice bullets, colliding with wind blades, immediately freezing them. That energy level was enough to seal the space in front, instantly extinguishing the wind blades' offensive.
The split on the Butterfly King's huge cocoon grew larger and larger, with more and more energy overflowing from within.
Chen Sui saw that the SS+ Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies surrounding them had been lured away by the attackers, and the remaining butterfly swarm could be broken through.
Therefore, she quickly nodded to Puluo, indicating their readiness. The long-standing tacit understanding between the two made the soldier respond quickly.
The golden light barrier opened like a door in the center, with the surrounding wind howling toward the blue-green mecha rushing out.
Puluo's dual scythes spun out to Chen Sui's sides, with metal-attribute energy wrapping the scythes. As they swung out, they cut through the surrounding cocoon threads. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies screamed, their metal wings beating against the scythes, their surface cut with a white mark by the sharp blade edge, then quickly spinning away.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, enraged by this action, with winds fanning, roared violently toward the mecha's position, not noticing that in the moment their metal wings opened, a blue-green mecha quickly flashed below the butterfly swarm.
Xie Chunshi's ice spikes cleared the way in front of Chen Sui, the rapid water-attribute waves breaking the cocoon threads, continuously pushing Chen Sui to the front of the huge cocoon. Just as the blue-green mecha approached the Butterfly King's huge cocoon, a green light bright enough to illuminate the entire Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest suddenly exploded!
From afar, one could see the bright green filling the sky, agitating the entire Sultry Red Forest, with broad leaves swaying and branches growing frantically.
A giant tree suddenly broke through from the distant forest. The huge tree shadow could only be vaguely discerned, with branches spanning the sky, visible even to Jacques Delot near the Silent Monument.
"This is—Chen Sui's spirit body?!"
Bai Ruohua's voice was full of shock: "Her spirit body has changed so much. In the White Sand Sea Domain, it didn't have such powerful energy concentration!"
"It's resonance," analyst Ye Kaiyun explained the reason, his voice full of apprehension: "Too frightening. In just one short off-season, her resonance with her spirit body has strengthened so much."
In the control room, seeing this scene, Ji Qing, noticing the comments filled with shock, also nodded: "Zhu Jing Fu's analyst's progress is astonishing."
He thought of what Chen Sui had said when she came to him for spirit awakening. Could it really be because of enhanced resonance?
If after that, her resonance with her spirit body continued to strengthen, would her level change again?
This situation was too bizarre.
Ji Qing suppressed his speculation in his heart, his gaze returning to Zhu Jing Fu's scene.
Chen Sui, who had directly summoned her spirit body in front of the huge cocoon, had her powerful energy concentration attracting the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm's attention. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, restrained by other mechas, finally realized the Butterfly King was in danger and began screaming in unison, their cries echoing through the forest, noisy and piercing.
Chen Sui impatiently swung her spear. In front was the teammate's towering fire light, the mecha wielding a thorny fire whip through the flames. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' retreat was blocked by the fire whip, and as the thorns danced, the huge butterflies were whipped into the distance.
Behind was lightning and electricity. The metal wings opened to attract lightning, covering the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies entirely with thunder, layers of electricity sweeping over, causing group spasms.
Chen Sui's body was covered with blue energy. From beneath the huge cocoon, she used the meteor tree branches to leap up. The trees grew frantically, directly forming an extending ladder upward for her. The blue-green mecha rapidly leaped, the silver-white cold light directly withstanding the wind pressure, thrusting toward the top of the huge cocoon.
"Damn, this Butterfly King is really afraid of death."
Zhou Chen, hastily fleeing, took a glance and saw Chen Sui's spear breaking through layers of wind blades, but being blocked by an extremely thick energy layer outside the cocoon.
Just as he finished speaking, the surrounding green aura flowed like clouds and mist toward Chen Sui's position.
Vines extended toward the huge cocoon, climbing along and cutting all connections between the cocoon and surrounding threads. Light flashed within the huge cocoon, with the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies crying incessantly.
The piercing cries were so miserable that not only did Chen Sui's head throb with pain, but even Zhou Chen, who could joke at first, couldn't help but cover his ears while quickly dodging the metal wings swinging behind him.
Xie Chunshi and Puluo were nearby, ready to support, intercepting the surrounding Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' attacks.
Zhu Jing Fu seemed chaotic, but the center had cleared a few meters of space for Chen Sui and the Butterfly King's energy contest.
In the control room, Mo Qiu'an nodded with satisfaction: "Zhu Jing Fu's attackers and soldier are quite supportive, able to hold off enemies and give teammates time. The Commander can calculate the energy body routes in all directions, and the soldier's damage resistance is not low at all. Most importantly—"
"Their analyst is indeed very intimidating," Jian Run completed Mo Qiu'an's sentence, watching Chen Sui locked in a standoff with the Butterfly King.
The high praise from the three in the control room stunned the comments for a moment before people gradually commented.
[What does this mean, does Zhu Jing Fu actually have a chance to win?]
[From the tone, it seems the analyst is impressive]
[I really feel like Chen Sui's style is very strong attack, but different from the hyped strong attack flow. My feeling is, either don't get targeted by her, or don't give her a chance, otherwise there's only one outcome]
[When the energy crystal is exposed, the energy body will fall under my sword]
[Colonel Vina, I'm crying]
The wind pressure around the Butterfly King was extremely high. After sensing the cocoon threads being cut, layers of air currents surrounded the huge cocoon, gradually gathering on the outside, forming a huge tornado.
The vines trying to penetrate inside were shredded by the sharp wind knives, broken branches thrown out, meteor tree leaves and trunks flattened like a bulldozer, the entire tree uprooted, with roots tearing up the ground, soil turning over, and dead leaves flying.
Chen Sui held her spear in the wind waves. As fluffy green energy gathered from her mecha to the long spear, when the spear flashed a hint of green light, the surrounding gale suddenly paused for a second.
Only a crisp breaking sound was heard.
Outside the huge cocoon, the long spear suddenly penetrated a millimeter, with an extremely thin crack extending from the energy layer!
"Crack—"
"Crack—"
"Crack—"
The long spear, inch by inch, the entire spear tip sinking into the energy layer.
Green light like an arrow!
Directly along the long spear, through the crack in the energy layer, shot into the split in the huge cocoon.
A beam of light, just like the day penetrating the Pure Blood Tree, rose in the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly forest.
The light beam slanted through, illuminating half the sky.
All teams that sensed it looked up, the green light brightening half the sky.
"What energy fluctuation is this."
"Such strong wood-attribute energy—"
Wood-attribute awakeners were very sensitive to this, their spirit bodies becoming restless, as if receiving high-ranking suppression, the threat making their spirit bodies very uneasy.
The long spear penetrated the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly's energy layer, directly along the split, stabbing into the huge cocoon.
"Zing—"
Metal collision, clear and resonant!
Chen Sui felt the long spear's trajectory obstructed. Her eyes lifted, seeing through the split the flashing metal wings. The surrounding wind-attribute energy gathered toward the center, this energy concentration no less than Wood-Born Flower.
Among the thunder and fire, a very small crack sound should have been covered.
But when the crack across the huge cocoon grew larger and larger, Zhou Chen suddenly drew his Four-sided Mace, saying in a frivolous tone: "Little Sui, looks like it can't be taken down."
Gu Qinxue, with thorny fire whip surrounding her, quickly disengaged from the center of the fire whip. As she left, she pulled the long whip, directly causing a fierce fire explosion, the flames burning the meteor tree leaves, looking from afar like a vast expanse of fire clouds.
Just in the interval of Zhou Chen speaking, all five members of Zhu Jing Fu looked toward the huge cocoon.
The wood-attribute light beam had already shone into the huge cocoon, the split opening, the view becoming larger, the long spear through the opening directly pressing against the Butterfly King's metal wings.
Two metal wings crossed, blocking in front of the Butterfly King. The silver-white long spear struck where the metal wings overlapped, phosphorescence flickering.
Chen Sui's pupils flashed, seeing the huge cocoon detach from the Butterfly King's body, its antennae slowly rising, wind-attribute energy drawing closer, the air flow speed becoming slow and viscous.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm, lured away by Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue, suddenly turned back as the Butterfly King's antennae swayed.
Regardless of the lightning strikes and fierce fire burning, they frantically gathered toward the Butterfly King, each like a moth to a flame, directly crashing into the huge tornado around the huge cocoon.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies were torn apart by the tornado, their metal wings instantly becoming fragments, falling like down.
"Holy shit, has this Butterfly King gone crazy?!" Zhou Chen exclaimed in surprise.
Chen Sui quickly explained: "Its advancement isn't complete yet. It's using its kind's energy to prematurely fill the energy crystal gap. Stop it! Once enough Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies are sacrificed, the Butterfly King will complete its advancement!"
Hearing this, Zhou Chen's expression became stern: "Doesn't it realize that we, Zhu Jing Fu, want these Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies? Daring to steal our energy crystals and butterfly wings, Little Sui! Get it!"
Chen Sui: ?
As the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' bodies were torn apart by the tornado, converging into a large amount of wind-attribute energy flowing toward the Butterfly King.
Just as the wind-attribute energy concentration strengthened, Chen Sui felt the huge cocoon completely swept open by a force, with a strong wind coming face to face. The long spear was violently thrown aside, and if Chen Sui hadn't grabbed it in time, it would have instantly flown from her hand.
But her figure didn't stay in front of the Butterfly King for a few seconds because, as the Butterfly King's tentacles swayed, it suddenly raised its head, its huge oral apparatus extending, emitting a sharp cry.
The howl was extremely piercing, like several-meter waves rising from flat ground. The shrill, whistling sound waves carried a violent gale, instantly sweeping all five mechas away!
The Butterfly King's metal wings suddenly opened, swinging outward, directly throwing Chen Sui, person, spear, and mecha, toward the outside of the meteor tree forest.
As the blue-green mecha was blasted away, while airborne, the giant tree's shadow solidified in the meteor tree forest. A thick vine extended out, first catching the mecha from mid-air, then other branches catching the other airborne mechas.
The blue-green mecha's waist was caught by the vine. From this angle, Chen Sui swung her long spear, her figure leaping in the air. The mecha stood upright as she looked ahead.
The Butterfly King had thrown off the huge cocoon, its metal wings spreading to the surroundings, stirring up violent gales. Wind blades cut off meteor tree branches, blew off meteor tree broad leaves, and visibility in the forest became higher and higher.
Chen Sui's face suddenly darkened.
"Is it sick? Fighting is fighting, why destroy my meteor trees?"
Zhou Chen, his flying body intercepted by vines, hurriedly drew his cannon and Four-sided Mace after landing, aiming at the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly and charging energy. Seeing its cruel treatment of the meteor trees, he finally couldn't help but open his mic to curse.
And coincidentally, the Butterfly King, seeing the intruders had not been expelled, with alien energy fluctuations still present, couldn't help but emit an irritated roar. The shrill sound rang out again.
"Roar—"
As a long, sharp sonic wave transmitted, throughout the Sultry Red Forest, the amplitude of plants swaying in the wind suddenly changed. Sunlight was obscured, clouds covered the sky, gales rose from the ground, trees swayed and collided, branches shaking violently, a sign of impending storm.
In the meteor tree forest, hearing the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly's cries, watching it frantically stirring the meteor tree branches and leaves, Zhu Jing Fu's expressions all darkened.
"It's really infuriating!"
Seeing Chen Sui blown away, Gu Qinxue's expression suddenly cooled. The thorny fire whip swayed around her body in a circle, her gaze toward the Butterfly King unfriendly.
"Is Ah Sui okay?" she asked in the team channel.
Chen Sui, assisted by Wood-Born Flower's vines, landed from mid-air. She turned her head to look at the tall Wood-Born Flower giant tree.
"I'm fine, can still fight," getting Chen Sui's reply, Gu Qinxue took out her energy cannon. "I'll assist you."
"Good."
Chen Sui looked at Wood-Born Flower, which had acted without any resonance signal. In the mecha cockpit, she suddenly smiled.
A barely audible sigh sounded: "You're quite loyal."
No one in the team channel heard this sentence, only hearing a brief silence from Chen Sui's end, followed by her shout: "Little Flower!"
The Wood-Born Flower giant tree flashed green light for a second, then the entire tree quickly contracted, slowly becoming the shape of a wooden stump.
Cute little stump flowers growing on the top, seeing Chen Sui already rushing back into the forest, hurriedly followed behind her. "Master!!!"
As Chen Sui passed by, her long arm swept around, directly hugging the wooden stump in her arms. The other four members of Zhu Jing Fu, seeing this, all followed behind her. The Black Arrow Eagle let out a long cry to the sky, and the Droopy-Eared Rabbit leaped through the forest.
"Zhou Xiaoguai!"
"Xubai!"
The attackers quickly followed from Chen Sui's sides, each calling out their spirit body's name. In an instant, wind and thunder moved, earth and fire rose!
"Can't let the Butterfly King complete its advancement."
Xie Chunshi's voice sounded: "Attackers clear the way, analyst seize the opportunity, Zhou Chen, the retreat route is in the team channel, head toward the Silent Monument."
"Understood!" Zhou Chen nodded solemnly, with the Black Arrow Eagle stopping on his shoulder, fleeing with him.
Lightning and fire shot out from both sides of Chen Sui's leaping figure. The lightning dragon flashed with huge electric light, the fire dragon carrying intense high temperature, both crashing toward the Purple Lightning and fire shot out from both sides of Chen Sui's leaping figure. The lightning dragon flashed with huge electric light, the fire dragon carrying intense high temperature, both crashing toward the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies surrounding the Butterfly King.
The energy broke through the tornado's absolute sealed environment, directly tearing open a huge gap on both sides, allowing Chen Sui's figure to rush in through the opening.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies were gathered by the two attackers' energy dragons, lightning from left to right, fire from right to left. The moment the two combined, fierce fire and lightning simultaneously exploded.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies emitted miserable screams, then their metal wings fanned open, breaking free from the electric fire, and began charging toward the energy sources.
Chen Sui flashed past the Butterfly King's front.
In the control room, watching Zhu Jing Fu's coordination, all three judges couldn't help but sit up straight. Even Jian Run leaned forward a bit.
"The Butterfly King has already completed its advancement," Jian Run sighed. It was just short by a little. If the speed of piercing the split had been faster, they could have preemptively eliminated the danger. "Just a little more, it's really a pity."
Ji Qing gave him a strange look: "Not a pity. Don't forget, Chen Sui is only S+ level."
These words hit Jian Run like a heavy hammer, directly awakening his thoughts.
Following that, the man's peach blossom eyes smiled slightly, suddenly realizing: "Indeed!"
"Sometimes Chen Sui's performance really makes people forget she's only S+ level. I even assumed she could battle an SSS-level."
"Although her level isn't high, she may not be incapable of fighting one," Mo Qiu'an watched Chen Sui's performance, her eyes full of admiration. "This student is somewhat beyond expectations. I think treating her as SSS-level wouldn't be problematic at all."
Because Chen Sui had already closed the distance with the Butterfly King, the Wood-Born Flower stump in her arms was thrown out with a spin: "Little Flower, devour!"
Following the command, Wood-Born Flower's childlike face suddenly showed an expression of exertion. Then the small flowers in the grass on top of the stump began to grow rapidly, quickly extending long stems from the stump.
The flowers grew increasingly swollen and huge. The moment Wood-Born Flower landed, it immediately buried into the ground, extending a huge cluster of flowers. The flowers bloomed layer by layer, with very ordinary stamen resembling plants commonly found in the energy field.
At first glance, it always felt like something seen before.
But the blooming flowers continued to enlarge, and as the stump began to rotate, green energy surrounded it like halos, layer upon layer. Surrounding energy rapidly gathered toward where the flowers were growing.
These flowers were like bottomless abysses, absorbing more energy, making the petals more vivid, blooming more extensively. The tornado moved toward the flowers, but its size became smaller and its force weaker as it approached.
"This is—devour attribute?!" Ji Qing suddenly exclaimed in surprise in the control room.
"Devouring so much?" Jian Run watched Wood-Born Flower continuously absorb wind-attribute energy, the flowers in the cluster turning into a saturated, almost rotten red.
"Can her mental threshold support so much energy? This is simply reckless!"
Watching Chen Sui seemingly endlessly driving Wood-Born Flower to devour energy, all three judges in the control room unanimously frowned.
Devour attribute was a rare attribute of spirit bodies, able to absorb surrounding energy into the mental threshold for storage.
The process was no less than actively accepting energy invading the mental threshold, requiring very high control over energy. One mistake could cause extremely severe trauma to the operator's mental threshold.
The consequences of invading the mental threshold were evident at the Competition Committee's medical center, where Cheng Wei was fortunate to be discharged after spiritual healing. Unfortunately, analyst Chang Haiqi, whose mental threshold was invaded by Chen Sui, suffered permanent trauma, with his mental threshold severely damaged, core crystal ruined, and spiritual healing unable to save him.
For Chen Sui to devour so much energy, she risked energy turmoil!
Even Ji Qing's expression was grave, feeling she was truly bold.
As soon as the three in the control room spoke, the comments immediately felt Zhu Jing Fu was too desperate.
However, Chen Sui, who was devouring the Butterfly King's energy, didn't have these feelings. In fact, the energy filling her mental threshold even relieved some of her fatigue from the long battle, making her grip the spear more firmly, her eyes sharper.
As Wood-Born Flower devoured the tornado, the Butterfly King seemed to sense that the energy concentration difference was reversing, making it extremely anxious, emitting howls. One screech, then shrill cries, and the other Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, restrained by the attackers, joined in the cries.
These piercing sounds made Chen Sui somewhat irritable. Seeing Wood-Born Flower had absorbed enough wind-attribute energy, Chen Sui began to mobilize wood-attribute energy concentration.
Want to advance, huh?
Destroyed her meteor trees, destroyed her energy crystals, and still wanted to advance?
Fine, advancement was acceptable, but the SSS-level energy crystal—she would take it!