novelraw Chapter 91 : Sultry Red Forest
Chapter 91 : Sultry Red Forest
The green mecha appeared quite delicate in front of the huge Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly, but Chen Sui tilted her head, a motion that made the comments' hearts skip a beat.
Xie Chunshi and Puluo, one controlling an energy storm ready to support, the other setting up an energy shield from Chen Sui's distance, ready to respond, their quantum gun and energy-reducing knife controlling Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies missed by the attackers, creating an ideal environment for Chen Sui's output.
The moment wood-attribute energy was mobilized, not just in the meteor tree forest but throughout the Sultry Red Forest, after the violent winds howled past, the trees seemed to change too—leaves turning emerald green, branches becoming more resilient, even growing toward the distance.
At first, only wood-attribute awakeners noticed this change, but soon, other competitors in the energy field also perceived the abnormal energy convergence. Previously only disturbed by the meteor tree forest, now they were truly curious.
"Who's creating such a commotion?"
"Based on watching White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain recordings, I'm guessing Zhu Jing Fu!"
"Damn, wood-attribute energy, that's Chen Sui, right? Ye Kaiyun is earth-attribute, Qi Songhuai is wind-attribute."
"This energy concentration, is she trying to overturn the entire energy field?"
Someone sincerely asked.
But Chen Sui had no such intention. The result of the wood-attribute energy concentration was that in the entire meteor tree forest, Wood-Born Flower's flowers overlapped with the giant tree shadow, like a huge cluster of flowers growing at the base of the tree.
As the giant tree shadow completely solidified, the flower cluster suddenly disappeared, transforming into small flowers blooming in the giant tree's branches and leaves, filled with wind-attribute energy. As the Butterfly King danced and rose, trying to concentrate wind-attribute energy here, countless wind blades formed in the Wood-Born Flower giant tree behind Chen Sui.
Wind blades and the blue-green mecha attacked the Butterfly King simultaneously.
The Butterfly King's screams were incessant, and Chen Sui was getting quite irritated.
Surrounded by green aura, Wood-Born Flower's vines extended through the forest, helping the attackers resolve the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' encirclement.
Meanwhile, her long spear had reached the Butterfly King's eyes. The huge purple pupils flashed with silver-white cold light, then the metal wings blocked the spear's attack. Almost face-to-face with the blue-green mecha, it opened its mouthparts, howling as it threw Chen Sui off.
Forest Envelopment held the spear against the metal wings. The mecha directly rotated 180 degrees, dodging the trajectory of the mouthparts from bottom to top. Chen Sui maintained an inverted posture, retracted her spear, then thrust forward heavily.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly, seeing her attack lighten, thought the attack was effective. Before it could breathe a sigh of relief, it was immediately struck by the long spear.
Its figure leaped several meters, the metal wings flapping violently before barely stopping. The wind flow blocked behind it. As the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly's metal wings fanned, the Butterfly King flew toward Chen Sui, a butterfly and a mecha fighting back and forth in mid-air.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly's wind-attribute energy gradually rose. The energy crystal in the advancement period quickly filled the energy gap. Its wind vortex grew larger, with more and more wind blades.
Chen Sui dodged the oncoming wind blades in a slowly flowing wind.
After several failed attacks, the Butterfly King finally realized that the opponent before it was somewhat tough. Its advancement period was about to end, and there would be a powerful energy storm when meeting the awakened level. The Butterfly King wanted to distance itself from the mecha, waiting for the energy storm to arrive, using it to eliminate these invaders to its territory.
It emitted a rhythmic call, and the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies responded in sequence. Those fighting other people, upon hearing this sound, quickly disengaged, regardless of being hit by energy or cannons, without even looking back, flying directly toward the Butterfly King.
"What's happening?" Just as Zhou Chen's voice sounded, Xie Chunshi's water-attribute energy condensed around. "The Butterfly King's advancement period is about to end."
Chen Sui laughed coldly, retracted her spear, then swung the blade with a whooshing sound. "It thinks it's the only one waiting?"
"I'm waiting too."
An unidentified crystal and a successfully advanced SSS-level energy crystal—Zhu Jing Fu originally wanted the former, but now Chen Sui wanted the latter.
Hearing her meaning, the four behind Chen Sui watched as the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies surrounded the Butterfly King, with energy being concentrated again.
Xie Chunshi turned his head and asked: "How confident are you?"
"If I can't kill it, I'll bring my head to see you," Chen Sui actually couldn't hear his words clearly, nor could she hear the concern hidden in his tone.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' sharp cries gave her intense tinnitus. She could only piece together Xie Chunshi's meaning through the intermittent sound waves in the team channel.
The echoing tinnitus filled Chen Sui's heart with violence. Hearing was an advance guard's second pair of eyes. She lost her perception of the surroundings, and this loss of control triggered her destructive urge.
Only by destroying all threats to her could she gain a sense of security in an environment where her hearing was impaired.
The moment her words fell, Xie Chunshi and the three members of Zhu Jing Fu quickly made arrangements.
At the same moment the Butterfly King completed its advancement, a wind vortex like the White Sand Sky Pillar swept out from its position.
The gale rose from the ground, rapidly soaring skyward, sweeping everything around, spreading in all directions. The manner was overwhelming, seemingly capable of destroying everything.
Vines extended from the Wood-Born Flower giant tree. The concentrated wood-attribute energy light became the only brightness in the dark dust. The vines wrapped around the other mechas, lightning commanding wind, fire framing wind.
"I want to tear off its wings, this thing is so difficult to fight," Zhou Chen muttered, watching the Butterfly King's wings wave, with endless gales and countless wind knives passing his side, cutting countless small openings in his mecha. The broad-leaf armor was cut to pieces, with only a few remnants left. The mecha damage level rose steadily, making Zhou Chen subtly displeased.
Hearing this, Chen Sui looked at the layers of fierce wind sweeping past. "Of course it's doable."
As she spoke, she looked back at the Commander, as if this action conveyed some information. Xie Chunshi quickly understood: "Alright, Zhou Chen follow the analyst, electrify the Butterfly King's metal wings. Qinxue, prepare to control with the thorny fire whip."
The two attackers couldn't help but look at him, and saw the Commander and soldier standing to one side: "Puluo and I will contain the other energy bodies."
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm was still enormous. Four people containing them became two, and Xie Chunshi's eyes darkened as he lightly raised his hand: "Mist!"
With this command, the air humidity suddenly changed. A mermaid-like shadow surrounded by water mist appeared behind Xie Chunshi. The sea monster had a huge beast head, fins by its ears, and a long winding fishtail. Its body was covered by a layer of water mist, only the general outline visible.
But Chen Sui turned back at the sound and immediately narrowed her pupils.
On top of the sea monster's beast head was a face resembling a human's!
This surprise, accompanied by the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' howls, was noted by Chen Sui. With no time to think, all five members of Zhu Jing Fu's spirit bodies appeared.
Xie Chunshi, showing his spirit body in public for the first time, undoubtedly sparked discussion in the comments and control room, but these words were soon diverted by the battle situation before them.
The water droplets around the sea monster connected into lines, circling the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm, directly separating the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies from the Butterfly King.
Around the Butterfly King, the Four-sided Mace burst with dazzling lightning, with thunder and lightning sounds rumbling. Silver dragons filled the sky, fierce fires patrolled the ground, directly breaking a clear path from the forest, then returning upward, charging directly below the Butterfly King.
The Butterfly King's metal wings swept out wind walls, wrapping layers around itself. Gu Qinxue's mecha held the whip, and with Zhou Chen from Chen Sui's sides, three mechas rushed out.
The blue-green mecha's green light intensified, like an arrow wrapping the long spear. The energy arrow pierced through the wind wall. The thorny fire whip inserted through the gap, under Gu Qinxue's wielding, circling around the Butterfly King's abdominal section.
The fire dragon followed along the thorny fire whip, along with Wood-Born Flower's vines, directly tearing open the wind wall. Zhou Chen's figure moved toward the back. As the Butterfly King's wings fanned out a gale, Wood-Born Flower's vines circled the mechas, firmly anchoring the three in place, until Zhou Chen drew his Four-sided Mace.
Lightning swept horizontally, the heavy mace chopped down with force, directly piercing the Butterfly King's metal wings.
In an instant, lightning crawled, covering the Butterfly King's metal wing surface, instantly flashing and exploding. The violent energy burst from the Four-sided Mace. The Butterfly King's body twitched uncontrollably, and the surrounding wind vortex became increasingly urgent and hurried, frantically tearing at the mechas, trying to annihilate the iron blocks completely.
Chen Sui swung her spear, directly penetrating its abdomen. Fire and lightning pulled at the Butterfly King. The moment it was pierced, it emitted a violent shriek, facing a green shadow.
"Zhou Chen!"
Chen Sui called his name. The Four-sided Mace controlling lightning whipped out, striking simultaneously with the blue-green mecha.
"Rip—"
"Swoosh—"
Two sounds rang out simultaneously.
The Butterfly King's metal wings were cut down by lightning. The black and gold mecha's hands tore, provoking an angry roar. That cry hadn't fully emerged when Chen Sui uttered lowly: "You really! Stop yelling!"
After speaking, her hands followed the trajectory pierced by the long spear, directly stabbing into the Butterfly King's body. Blood flowed copiously. This scene, recorded by the live broadcast, was somewhat bloody. The green mecha's hands tore, directly ripping the Butterfly King in half, evenly.
Chen Sui kicked the dismembered corpse backward, gripped her spear, and retreated. Seeing this, Gu Qinxue pulled on the thorny fire whip.
"Boom!!"
A huge explosion burst above the forest, with fire splattering like blooming fireworks.
The Butterfly King's body was consumed by fierce fire, and the surrounding wind vortex circled to a stop.
The howling wind suddenly ceased, the swaying broad leaves stopped their movement.
As the Butterfly King's flesh pieces exploded, the meteor tree forest fell into a second of silence.
[No, a bit brutal, sis]
[I thought she'd use the spear to pry, but she went straight for manual extraction]
[That's the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly King, an SSS-level energy body with a very solid body, and she just stabbed right in...]
[Damn, hand-tearing an SSS-level, folks, I've lived to see it]
The Four-sided Mace's lightning continued to flash, the thorny fire whip's fierce fire still burned. Chen Sui's retreating figure was intercepted by Wood-Born Flower's tree net. She stood on the huge vine, standing in mid-air.
This scene was reflected in everyone's eyes.
At the same time, the energy fluctuation level plummeted.
The anomalies in the Sultry Red Forest subsided. The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, having lost the Butterfly King's control, anxiously turned their purple pupils, beginning to gather toward the strongest position following the cocoon threads' location.
"Zhou Chen, confirm the route," Xie Chunshi sealed off the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies.
Zhou Chen put away his Four-sided Mace. "Route confirmed."
As soon as his words fell, all four members of Zhu Jing Fu tore off their broad-leaf armor. Gu Qinxue's fire dragon pounced toward them, with fire walls passing by, the fire instantly burning the cocoon threads. As they burned, all the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies turned toward Zhou Chen, who was covered in cocoon threads.
"I'm off first, friends!" He jubilantly spun, treating the explosion behind him as a completely ordinary scene. The butterfly wings in his hand were tossed and caught by Gu Qinxue in the distance.
The Zhu Jing Fu members landed from mid-air and began systematically processing the meteor trees.
Meanwhile, Zhou Chen, with the butterfly swarm behind him, moved from the meteor tree forest, all the way toward the route drawn by Xie Chunshi.
At this time, outside the Silent Monument Forest, Jacques Delot, who had completed repairs, was about to advance toward the place of Zhu Jing Fu's energy explosion. Analyst Ye Kaiyun suddenly sensed approaching energy fluctuations and stopped: "Abnormal energy fluctuations."
The Jacques Delot members stopped. Just as they were about to exit the Silent Monument Forest, a black and gold mecha jumped from the treetops in the distance, cheerfully greeting them:
"Hi! Brothers! Make way, I'm passing through!"
Zhou Chen's vision revealed several mechas. Recognizing the dark yellow mecha color, he immediately knew it was Jacques Delot and hurriedly opened the team channel.
"Brothers, how much longer? I think we can still fight for this batch of Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies!"
At this time, Chen Sui, who was digging up meteor trees, was stunned, watching her digging trees by hand. Gu Qinxue had just been shocked, then heard Zhou Chen's words.
"What, did the Stele Mushrooms show mercy?"
She recalled the meteor tree smashed to pieces by the Stele Mushrooms, thinking, could the Stele Mushrooms leave a Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly wing?
Zhou Chen: "No!"
"I encountered Jacques Delot, they're so enthusiastic, actively helping us fight the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies..."
After saying this, his trailing voice shouted: "Xisier, don't point your cannon at me!"
"Attack the Stele Mushrooms, not me!"
"Hey hey! These Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies belong to us, Zhu Jing Fu. Butterfly wings! Don't hurt my Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly wings—"
Hearing this, Chen Sui frowned. She stood up holding her waist, raising her head to look.
The meteor tree forest was wide open, with few living meteor trees left, either cut by the Butterfly King's wind knives or uprooted by Zhu Jing Fu.
[Meteor tree: Meeting you is my misfortune]
[This meteor tree forest is so clean]
[Folks, this is before Zhu Jing Fu arrived (lush meteor tree forest image), and this is after Zhu Jing Fu arrived (meteor trees dug up leaving only big holes)]
[The previous fire nitrate mine was the same]
[I saw them tired from fighting the Butterfly King, I thought they would rest, but they immediately started pulling up trees vigorously]
[That's nothing, over there Zhou Chen, seeing Jacques Delot, eagerly following]
[Jacques Delot, meeting your Zhu Jing Fu, is really a great misfortune]
[Laughing to death, Jacques Delot seeing Zhou Chen, initially had some joy, planning to fight him, but he directly rushed up, ran into the Silent Monument Forest, Jacques Delot directly hit the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies called, the Stele Mushrooms went berserk, Zhou Chen patted his butt and ran out, Jacques Delot was busy as hell, Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies in front, Stele Mushrooms behind]
[They had already walked out, but were fanned back by the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, I'm dying of laughter hahaha]
"You encountered Jacques Delot in the Stele Forest," Xie Chunshi understood his unfinished meaning, processing it somewhat helplessly.
This was truly an unintended blessing.
"We'll be right over, hold on," Chen Sui said.
She quickly collected the meteor trees, looking at her teammates, "Well, what is this, killing two birds with one stone?"
Puluo: "If we arrive late, won't Zhou Chen be beaten up by Jacques Delot?"
"First worry about whether Jacques Delot will be beaten up by the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies and Stele Mushrooms," Chen Sui quietly added. She cleaned Puluo's long scythes and threw the weapons to him, activating mecha propulsion.
The four members of Zhu Jing Fu, having collected a space full of meteor trees, converged toward the Silent Monument Forest.
In the Silent Monument Forest, dozens of Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies poured in.
The piercing sonic booms awakened the Stele Mushrooms growing quietly in the dark environment. The Stele Mushrooms' tentacles began to float and sway.
Jacques Delot, having already exited the Stele Forest, face-to-face with the black and gold mecha, before they could engage with Zhou Chen, saw the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly swarm flying closely behind him.
Analyst Ye Kaiyun detected this abnormal fluctuation and immediately sounded the alarm.
However, what Jacques Delot didn't expect was that Zhou Chen would directly pounce toward the dark yellow mecha group.
Like a long-lost good brother, he first crashed into Xisier's arms, directly giving him a warm embrace: "Xisier, I've truly admired you for a long time, good brother, thank you!"
Embraced fully, covered with fine threads, Xisier still had his cannon mounted on his shoulder, not expecting that Zhu Jing Fu always started like this. He hurriedly peeled off Zhou Chen's arms, distancing himself: "What are you doing? We're fighting, don't try to get close!"
Bai Ruohua's expression was serious, seeing the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies chasing behind Zhou Chen, his face instantly darkened: "How did you provoke them!"
Zhou Chen, innocently thrown off by Xisier, turned and was about to rush into the Silent Monument Forest, his voice drifting from afar: "Who provoked them? We just wanted some butterfly wings, these butterflies are so stingy, won't even give their wings—"
Bai Ruohua listened with a head full of question marks.
No, you're the robber but you're right?
You forcibly tear off their wings, how can they give them to you?
It's a Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly, not a masochist!
But before Bai Ruohua's internal complaints ended, he saw the black and gold mecha rush into the Stele Forest, the seemingly fleeing figure paused, directly kicking a Stele Mushroom's cap.
Bai Ruohua reacted a beat late, seeing his action, suddenly realizing: "What are you doing! Don't tell me you still want to tear off the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly wings?"
Damn, is Zhu Jing Fu crazy? Just one mecha, yet wanting to fight a group of Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies?!
Given Zhou Chen's frenzy, he seemed to want the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies and Stele Mushrooms to fight.
This was truly not fearing death.
The problem was, he wasn't afraid, but Jacques Delot was still here!
"Stop him, he's gone mad!" Bai Ruohua said to his teammates. Zhou Chen was directly shuttling between the Stele Mushrooms. This disruptive behavior toward the Stele Mushrooms was too obvious, causing Jacques Delot's expression to change.
However, before they could act, the rapidly approaching Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies drew near. From the Silent Monument Forest, a lightning bolt like a white rainbow pierced toward the butterfly swarm.
Lightning struck, and the butterfly swarm immediately fanned their huge metal wings, stirring up gusts of wind.
The wind was urgent, directly blowing all of Jacques Delot's mechas into the Silent Monument Forest.
Then the gale rose, directly rushing into the Stele Forest.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies flew from outside the forest into it, toward the gathering place of several mechas, emitting an urgent, sharp cry!
With rustling sounds, the Stele Mushrooms' tentacles instantly moved.
At the sound, the Stele Mushrooms extended toward the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, their dangling tentacles carrying mucus, directly slapping the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' bodies, causing streaks of blue-red corrosion.
Jacques Delot, just blown away by the gale, found themselves back in the Stele Forest. Their freshly repaired mechas' damage levels hadn't been severely injured yet. Watching the Stele Mushrooms and Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies fight internally, it seemed they had a chance to escape unscathed.
Bai Ruohua commanded his teammates to retreat from another direction through the team channel, not knowing that Zhou Chen's mecha leaped to their vicinity. This guy, without even a greeting, directly raised his cannon.
"Boom—"
"Brothers, give me a hand, everyone can take energy crystals, but the butterfly wings, we, Zhu Jing Fu, will gladly accept!"
The first half of the sentence was obscured by the cannon fire. Jacques Delot members heard him fire a shot in the center of their team.
The rumbling provoked the Stele Mushrooms' tentacles to swing frantically toward Jacques Delot's standing position, immediately darkening their view.
Immediately after, they heard Zhou Chen's words.
Bai Ruohua's anger rose, "You drag us down, and want to take all the spoils. Your Zhu Jing Fu is really unethical!"
Analyst Ye Kaiyun was also a discerning person. There weren't many analysts who didn't recognize Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, let alone these mutated Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies with high energy purity and good-quality butterfly wings, making excellent analytical instruments.
He immediately summoned his spirit body, Sand Lotus. The ground instantly turned to quicksand, directly engulfing the Stele Mushrooms' tentacles, dragging them underground.
"Only your Zhu Jing Fu wants them? Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly wings, we, Jacques Delot, want them too. You can't let us contribute for nothing!"
As soon as Ye Kaiyun finished, Xisier immediately reacted, raising his cannon, firing toward Zhou Chen's surroundings, preparing to learn from his method,
Activating the Stele Mushrooms to direct them toward Zhou Chen.
Suddenly, the silence in the Silent Monument Forest was completely gone, with Jacques Delot, Stele Mushrooms, Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, and Zhou Chen in a four-way battle. Cannons and energy fluctuations rose and fell.
The Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' huge metal wings became treasures in the competitors' eyes. Zhou Chen not only had to guard against Jacques Delot bringing Stele Mushroom attacks on himself but also had to protect Zhu Jing Fu's prey: the Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly wings.
When Chen Sui's four arrived, Zhou Chen was already busy enough to wish he could split into two people.
The Four-sided Mace swung from the front, repelling the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies. His mecha flashed, dodging Jacques Delot's strong attacker's cannon, immediately changing position to prevent the Stele Mushroom tentacles from touching him.
Basically not staying in the same position for more than two seconds.
Seeing the black and gold mecha appear from afar, Zhou Chen's face showed delight. Just then, Xie Chunshi spoke in the team channel: "Zhou Chen, first repel Jacques Delot."
Zhou Chen's movement toward his teammates paused, and he immediately turned, with cannons and lightning shooting out, directly throwing them fiercely at Jacques Delot's five members.
Jacques Delot's four members, seeing this, flashed behind soldier Zhuo Yun. A black dog figure stood behind Zhuo Yun.
On the sleek, glossy black fur, electricity flashed, with a lightning net standing in front, the energy shield hard-blocking Zhou Chen's cannon bombardment.
"Damn, this guy suddenly exerted himself?" Xisier complained.
Bai Ruohua's heart skipped: "Not good!"
As these words came out, he looked up from behind the shield.
Sure enough, four mechas rapidly approached from afar.
The first to enter view was a fire dragon, its majestic beast head directly charging into the Stele Forest. Fire licked the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' metal wings, the intense high temperature causing the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies to continuously scream, triggering a chain reaction of Stele Mushroom frenzy.
In these shrill screams, the Stele Mushrooms were too busy to care about Zhou Chen's cannon fire, all turning to pierce the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies.
Zhu Jing Fu took advantage of Jacques Delot's delayed reaction, directly charging into the butterfly swarm. Before the Stele Mushrooms could crush the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' energy crystals, with the excellent eyesight and hand speed developed from days of mining, all five were quickly tearing off the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' wings from behind.
The Stele Mushrooms entangled the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, Zhu Jing Fu's mechas tore off wings, Zhu Jing Fu swept the ground, picking up energy crystals thrown out by the Stele Mushrooms.
This assembly-line scene instantly brought Jacques Delot members back to the To-Water Fish Bone scene in the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain.
Suddenly, Jacques Delot and Saint Laurent members had a new understanding of Zhu Jing Fu.
"They really are robbers, aren't they?"
Xisier watched with his jaw dropped.
Bai Ruohua covered his forehead for a moment, then said solemnly: "We've encountered Zhu Jing Fu. After finishing the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, it's our turn to fight."
With these words, Jacques Delot's expressions immediately became serious. The Commander looked back: "Let's retreat first."
Bai Ruohua watched Zhu Jing Fu and the Stele Mushrooms "cooperate" so "tacitly".
If he didn't know that Stele Mushrooms locate by sound, he would have thought they were Zhu Jing Fu's external personnel, truly diligently controlling the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies for Zhu Jing Fu.
Without the Stele Mushrooms' help, Zhu Jing Fu wouldn't have gotten the butterfly wings so easily.
He didn't want to fight Zhu Jing Fu while also worrying about Stele Mushroom attacks.
He didn't have Zhu Jing Fu's good control abilities over Stele Mushrooms. It was best from the beginning not to let Stele Mushrooms interfere in the battlefield.
Seeing Jacques Delot retreating from the Stele Forest, Chen Sui glanced out of the corner of her eye and said to her teammates who were tearing butterfly wings: "Jacques Delot is leaving."
"Are we fighting?" Zhou Chen's mecha was covered in Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' blood and juices, with Stele Mushroom mucus traces corroding his broad-leaf armor beyond recognition.
Gu Qinxue waved her hand, and a flame rose from his body. Zhou Chen was burned, crying out several times, directly burning the broad leaves to black ash which fell.
"Fight!" Chen Sui nodded, resolving the last Purple-Winged Golden Butterfly in her hands.
Zhou Chen rolled his eyes with annoyance: "Don't speak, you fight everything, even the SSS-level Butterfly King."
He understood that in Chen Sui's eyes, anything that could be killed alive was resolvable. The Butterfly King almost took half his life, exhausting him.
Chen Sui pressed her lips: "But we got the SSS-level energy crystal, wind-attribute, high-level. Don't you want such a summoned body?"
Her voice was calm, without ripples, but with just a few words, she directly painted a beautiful vision for Zhou Chen. Imagining himself stirring wind and thunder on the battlefield, feeling so cool, Zhou Chen immediately changed his tone: "You're right, we should fight!"
After speaking, he directly switched his weapon to a cannon, looking toward Xie Chunshi.
The Commander's peripheral vision watched Jacques Delot's position while also watching the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies in the Stele Forest.
The Stele Mushrooms could resolve meteor trees and Fierce Fire Star Stone. Their group strength was quite formidable, not to mention the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies, which were a thousand times noisier than meteor trees.
As soon as they opened their mouths to call, the Stele Mushrooms would let them know that silence is golden.
With the Stele Mushrooms' assistance, Chen Sui finally didn't have to hear the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies' piercing screams, feeling utterly refreshed.
"Stele Mushrooms are truly wonderful creatures."
Seeing all the Purple-Winged Golden Butterflies dead in battle, Chen Sui exclaimed at the edge of the Stele Forest.
The noise source about to disappear, Zhu Jing Fu prepared to exit the Stele Forest. Xie Chunshi noticed that Jacques Delot hadn't gone far but was scattered on the path not far from the Stele Forest, waiting for the retreating Zhu Jing Fu school team.
"Prepare for battle."
Jacques Delot wasn't like the other teams encountered before, with skirmishes that could end the battle.
This was a Seven School where each individual could stride across the Sultry Red Forest.
Chen Sui's expression turned cold. As soon as she exited the Stele Forest, the surroundings became extremely quiet, with the wind gently blowing the treetops, broad leaves rustling.
The dark yellow mechas blatantly stood under giant trees, with light swords in hand flashing in the somewhat dim night.
On the giant tree branches, crouching mechas shouldered cannons, their muzzles lit with charging light.
"I've long admired you, Commander Xie." Bai Ruohua politely nodded to Xie Chunshi. His voice was very gentle, sounding like someone with a good temper.
Indeed, everyone knew that Jacques Delot's new Commander was somewhat indecisive.
But Bai Ruohua had led Jacques Delot through various energy fields, large and small, without ever making a wrong decision.
Now was no exception.
A battle with Zhu Jing Fu was unavoidable.
At this moment, no one would consider whether another Seven School would become the fisherman after the two sides fought.
Both teams knew that when narrow roads meet, only one team could advance.
In the overhead live broadcast camera view, Zhu Jing Fu's five members slowly converged, weapons in hand, strolling toward Jacques Delot's position as if taking a casual walk.
On the other side, Jacques Delot's two attackers were charging cannons in the treetops, with the Commander, analyst, and soldier in the center of the road, quietly watching Zhu Jing Fu's approaching footsteps.
Just as they were about five meters apart.
Harper's energy cannon fired, with Xisier's cannon following closely, shooting toward Zhu Jing Fu.
The two attackers directly leaped from the treetops, heading toward the analyst in the crowd, striking first!
Chen Sui's gaze watched the mecha attacking her. Her two hands moved to the sides, patting Gu Qinxue and Zhou Chen. The two directly brushed past the opposing attackers, heading toward analyst Ye Kaiyun.
Immediately after, the blue-green mecha spun, with vines bursting from the ground, whipping toward Harper and Xisier's positions.
A lion's roar exploded in the air. A red lion's shadow covered the darting dark yellow mecha, carrying blazing flames, sweeping over the vines. Starting from the end, they began to burn. As the mecha passed, the vines turned to ash. Xisier's light sword collided with Chen Sui's long spear.
"It's Chen Sui, right? I know you're quite formidable, specially coming to learn from you!" Xisier's voice rang out with some laughter, the light sword blade brushing against the spear shaft, bursting with layers of fire.
His sword chopped down with extreme speed. Chen Sui's long spear continuously blocked, and with the pressure of Xisier's attack, her figure had already retreated several meters, completely separated from her teammates.
At this moment, Harper directly mounted a cannon in the distance, firing a shot directly toward Chen Sui's next landing trajectory.
Feeling targeted, Chen Sui twisted her mecha before landing.
The long spear whirled, blocking the descending sword blade while kicking toward the dark yellow mecha.
Xisier's chest was struck, seeing the mecha in front of him using the momentum to leap upward, her figure brushing past Harper's cannon fire, with the embers of the blast blowing toward the mecha.
Chen Sui leaped into mid-air, rapidly moving toward Jacques Delot's three other members' position.
Xisier, watching her trajectory, his eyes moving, followed with Harper. Before they could catch up, they saw the blue-green mecha turn around: "Wood-Born Flower!"
This spirit body name was too resounding. Jacques Delot's two attackers were both startled.
They saw the ground beneath them burst with green light.
Suddenly, an extremely thick vine tentacle flashed by. Xisier's flames burned along it, turning the green outer skin black, but the tentacle continued to writhe, sweeping toward the mechas in mid-air.
"Boom!"
The vine swept, directly throwing the two mechas away, then winding toward Chen Sui's feet.
The rapidly growing vine laid out a small path in mid-air for Chen Sui, directly bringing her to Jacques Delot's other three members.
Gu Qinxue's fire dragon restrained Commander Bai Ruohua. His spirit body, Cloud Scorpion, possessed powerful wind-attribute energy concentration. The fire dragon directly crashed into the wind wall, with wind blades gathering around, slashing toward Gu Qinxue.
The flames split into branches, rushing toward where the wind blades came from.
The moment the energies clashed, both of their energy barriers simultaneously shattered. The thorny fire whip penetrated the energy, directly wrapping around Bai Ruohua's heavy sword.
The seemingly indecisive Commander circled around the thorny fire whip, directly chopping down heavily toward the ground.
Gu Qinxue tried to pull her weapon, only to find that his heavy sword was long and wide, directly splitting the thorns. Under the pressure of gravity, it couldn't move.
In the distance, Chen Sui quickly scanned the battlefield. Xie Chunshi and Zhou Chen were attacking soldier Zhuo Yun's lightning net, preparing to isolate the analyst. Puluo's quantum gun was controlling the surrounding cannons.
At the moment of Gu Qinxue's standoff, a long spear like a cloud-piercing arrow slashed across the sky, directly passing in front of her, thrusting toward Bai Ruohua's direction.
The mecha holding the heavy sword, with the silver-white cold light of the long spear reflected in its pupils, its eyes flashing, Cloud Scorpion's shadow flashing to its front: "Wind Rise!"
A gale blew fiercely toward the approaching long spear.
The blue-green mecha rapidly approached, holding the long spear, feeling the great resistance from the headwind, directly withdrawing the spear and turning back.
Seeing Chen Sui abandon her attack, the wariness in Bai Ruohua's eyes didn't diminish.
Chen Sui, feeling wind pressure as strong as the Butterfly King's tornado, realized that forcing her way in with the mecha's current condition would cause more damage to herself than to Bai Ruohua.
Chen Sui's brain rapidly flashed through solution options, immediately looking toward Gu Qinxue: "Ah Xue, lend me some fire!"
This line made Gu Qinxue curl her lips: "Of course, fire at your disposal."
After speaking, Chen Sui quickly switched weapons, shouldering her cannon. Gu Qinxue called out her spirit body: "Xubai!"
The Three-Eyed Droopy-Eared Rabbit jumped behind her, its drooping ears swaying. Around the upright eye between its brows, fire patterns instantly spread all over its body, as if sealed by strange talismans. Then, fierce flames ignited from the Droopy-Eared Rabbit.
Chen Sui's cannon charged, the muzzle aimed in Gu Qinxue's direction. Her mecha retreated to the treetop, stepping forcefully to bounce up. At the moment of springing, she fired a shot toward Gu Qinxue's position.
This scene shocked Bai Ruohua, but some of Zhu Jing Fu's actions, while seemingly nonsensical, were killing moves everywhere. He didn't dare relax his vigilance at all.
The comments were filled with screams, not understanding why Chen Sui suddenly bombarded her teammate.
But Gu Qinxue, at whom the cannon was aimed, remained very calm, welcoming the powerful energy impact.
Endless fierce fire wrapped around the cannon, instantly bursting into a blaze, flames soaring to the sky!
The Three-Eyed Droopy-Eared Rabbit opened its rabbit teeth, exhaling an extremely long fire wave, fierce flames charging toward Bai Ruohua's position!
Cloud Scorpion stirred the gale. The powerful wind pressure could withstand the rapidly approaching long spear, but when such raging fire came burning, the scorching flames carried a huge energy storm, directly exploding in front of Bai Ruohua, all along the way.
This wasn't a single explosion but followed the fire's path. Wherever it contacted different attribute energy, it caused energy explosions, each a ground-shaking sound.
The mid-air explosion directly blasted a huge crater in the ground, with continuous explosions in the air, but the ground seemed flattened, all the way to Bai Ruohua's front.
"Boom—"
A huge explosion directly burst open the fiercely blowing wind wall, with fire directly surging through the huge gap.
Xisier and Harper, just crawling out of the ground after being hit by vines, saw towering flames in the distance, with a blue-green mecha directly crashing into the fire.
Xisier's eyes flashed with alarm.
The leader was about to be reached by Chen Sui!
The Fierce Fire Star Stone-enhanced energy cannon could drive extremely strong fire-attribute energy. After Gu Qinxue mobilized such energy intensity, she quickly fell into temporary energy deficiency. Puluo rapidly arrived at her side, his dual scythes swinging, intercepting the rapidly approaching Jacques Delot agile attacker Harper.
With Harper's movement blocked, the blue-green mecha was seen charging into the fire, with the burning flames and rolling black smoke making the Commander's position unclear.
Chen Sui gripped her long spear, directly rushing to Bai Ruohua's front. This time, the long spear thrust forward fiercely, hitting the mecha's chest, emitting a crisp metallic sound.
Bai Ruohua, his body numbed by the flames, felt the attack and hurriedly raised his heavy sword.
That heavy sword was extremely weighty, chopping down from mid-air. The long spear almost couldn't block it. Chen Sui hurriedly misaligned with the blade, the spear shaft against the sword, the spear tip from this posture, rapidly jabbing the dark yellow mecha.
This kind of rapid, quick thrusting couldn't cause massive damage, each hit raising only a point.
But Chen Sui's speed was too fast. Bai Ruohua felt his mecha damage increasing every second.
This realization alerted his brain that something was wrong. He quickly wanted to distance himself from the blue-green mecha, but the heavy sword had just raised when the long spear stuck to it!
Chen Sui's long spear followed the trajectory of the heavy sword, the spear shaft always tightly against the blade. The long spear crossed back and forth, jabbing the mecha's chest, waist, back, arms, thighs—anywhere within reach could be struck by the four-edged spear blade. Then the spear tip would rotate, and if unfortunately stabbed at a mecha joint, the sharp edge's violent shake could even shatter the mecha joint.
When Bai Ruohua realized he couldn't escape Chen Sui's control, his heart skipped heavily. Before he could find the key to breaking the deadlock, the dense thrusting long spear in front suddenly slowed.
Based on Bai Ruohua's observation, Zhu Jing Fu suddenly stopping wasn't a good signal. It often meant they were about to strike heavily.
Sure enough, Chen Sui's long spear suddenly stopped at one point, and Bai Ruohua felt the pressure on the heavy sword suddenly lighten.
Immediately after, the spear wind swept past his face, the long spear directly piercing through his chest, sending his mecha flying.
The blue-green mecha darted after him, the long spear rapidly flicking and chopping in mid-air.
In the moment of being airborne, Bai Ruohua adjusted his heavy sword to continuously block her long spear, but Chen Sui's attack speed was too fast. There were always several chopping blows that missed rhythm and hit the mecha.
For the final blow, the blue-green mecha seemed to rub its wrist, and Bai Ruohua heard her somewhat tired voice.
"I'm really sorry, I'm a bit tired."
As a question mark appeared over Bai Ruohua's head, he saw the mecha put away the long spear. Before he could understand what was happening, his heavy sword still maintained a chopping motion.
He saw Chen Sui directly gripping the blade of the heavy sword with her bare hand. The blade cut open the mecha's outer shell, like a deep-to-the-bone cut on the palm.
The mecha before him seemed completely unaware of pain, directly throwing away his heavy sword.
Bai Ruohua felt an irresistible tremendous force sweep through his tiger's mouth. When he came to, the heavy sword had already slipped from his hand. Immediately after, the mecha's fist descended toward his chest, followed by a wind speed he couldn't see clearly.
Chen Sui threw several consecutive punches, her fists creating extremely loud wind-breaking sounds, like explosions in mid-air.
After that pitter-patter of disturbance, there was only—
"Boom!!!"
A heavy smash!
A dark yellow mecha was slammed down from mid-air by a punch.
Bai Ruohua's mind went blank, his eyes somewhat unfocused, with waves of pain in his chest making him unsure if he was still under Chen Sui's fists or if he had landed with lingering effects.
He only knew that the huge rumbling sound in his ears covered the [Damage level 81%] sound, leaving only [Number 1501 eliminated].
Then the light pillar rose with dazzling light, making Bai Ruohua feel as if he had arrived in heaven.
His limbs maintained weak twitching, and he couldn't help thinking that after years of entering and exiting energy fields, Chen Sui was the first being to make him feel that battle was a form of torture.
"Next time, could you not punch one by one?" The gentle male voice in the elimination light pillar was full of fatigue and weakness.
Why are you tired, because you are really! TOO ABNORMAL!
Who punishes people like this, being so good?!