Chapter 369 The Sky Collapses

 The evil spirit is the gathering of the dead's remnants. When it invades the brain area along the reverse direction of energy, the consequence is that Guishu's mind collapses instantly.

  Hearing the miserable wailing coming from behind, Xu Yue raised his eyebrows slightly. There was no need to look back. He just slightly raised the halberd in his hand and stabbed it back. The sharp tail of the halberd, which was as sharp as the tip of a spear, suddenly stabbed out.

  Learning from the last lesson, his target of attack this time was not the head, but the heart in the chest. The tail of the halberd tore through the airflow along the way at a very fast speed, penetrating the green evil energy protecting the body surface. When it was about to touch the target's skin, a fatal sense of crisis also exploded in Guishu's heart. The

  scattered pupils barely condensed a trace of clarity. If the body was forced to be evil energy in the current state, the greatest possibility was that the evil energy would completely blend with the evil spirit in the body, and then it would no longer be able to be removed. In desperation, Guishu had to deflect his body as much as possible, so that the tail of the halberd that had pierced into the chest at this time would rub the ribs and pass through the shoulder.

  Puff!

  Blood splattered in an instant. Feeling the halberd in his hand penetrate his flesh and blood, Xu Yue immediately exerted force to pull it, and continuous vibrations spread through the halberd shaft. The next moment, white bone fragments mixed with fine blood mist exploded from the shoulder, and the whole arm of Guishu was directly torn off by the trembling halberd. The broken

  limbs were full of minced meat flying and falling, and on the other side, the intense pain also made Guishu's chaotic mind finally regain clarity. The sticky black evil spirit was forced out from all the acupoints of his five senses. Looking at the black halberd shaft that tore his arm on the left and then swung again, his eyes were green, and then his whole body turned into a ball of green mist and was directly dispersed by the halberd.

  After a moment, the scattered green evil energy gathered again in the distance, and the bloody trickster emerged. After only a few seconds of fighting, his left arm and most of his shoulder disappeared. The pale ribs and the internal organs that kept wriggling under the broken flesh were exposed to the air and were extremely eye-catching. He used the price of serious injuries to prove once again how stupid it was for a magician to try to fight a skilled master in close combat.

  If it weren't for the long-term control of evil that made the trickster naturally highly resistant to mental erosion such as resentment and malice, so that he woke up at the critical moment, otherwise it would not be just a serious injury. The stabbing shot just now would be enough to kill him on the spot.

  "Ahem, I was too confident..."

  Blood gushed out of his mouth uncontrollably, and then he swallowed it forcefully. Looking at Xu Yue who seemed to be in no hurry to attack, Guishu sighed secretly and temporarily extinguished his resolute plan to self-destruct with evil energy. Then he stretched out his hand and clenched his five fingers towards the lawn behind him. The next second, a muffled groan came from the lawn not far away. The

  green grass leaves twisted and deformed, and a strange blue color emerged. Mystique, who should have left long ago, suddenly jumped out of the lawn, but after running a few steps, she fell down with convulsions in the wailing. A large amount of dark green evil energy gushed out of her chest and flew automatically towards the direction where Guishu was. This was the real meaning of flesh compensation!

  As the green mist lingered, a long inhalation sounded, and the evil energy lingering around was sucked into the mouth and nose by the trickery like a whale sucking water. At the same time, the hideous wound on the left side of his body began to heal rapidly with the influx of evil energy. The bones were reset, and the flesh and blood squirmed. Soon, the exposed bones and internal organs were wrapped again by the regrown flesh and blood skin. Although the broken left arm still could not grow, the injury was greatly alleviated, at least it was not a big problem to continue fighting.

  On the opposite side, Xu Yue, holding a long halberd, quietly watched the opponent's recovery from the injury. Since he should have a conflict with the forces behind this contractor soon, he didn't mind collecting more intelligence information during the battle.

  His sight paused on the strange green energy. The nature of this thing was very interesting. It could be demonized, bound, plundered, healed, and even had a good corrosiveness. It could be called a panacea. But as long as its energy nature was still biased towards evil, it would inevitably be restrained by the pure Yangyan.

  Boiling golden-red flames gushed out from the palm of his right hand and quickly spread along the tightly grasped halberd. Soon, the residual green evil energy on the blade and tail of the halberd was completely swallowed up by the flames that spread there, and turned into a few wisps of green smoke and dissipated. Glancing at the drifting smoke, Xu Yue turned his gaze to look at the trickery in the distance and said lightly:

  "This energy is good, what's its name?"

  "Evil energy."

  He said the name of his core energy without hesitation. The trickery looked at the golden-red flames spreading on the halberd opposite, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and he also asked:

  "What about your kind of flame?"

  "Pure Yangyan."

  As soon as the word "flame" fell, the reply was blown away by the howling hurricane caused by the charge. Since the information about the evil energy had been roughly collected, Xu Yue had no interest in dragging it on. After dealing with the two, he had to rush to Lake Alkali to investigate the specific situation, and it was not advisable to delay too long.

  The grass under his feet was directly shattered by the huge force. When his agility broke through 50 points, the distance of dozens of meters was within reach in front of Xu Yue. With just one pounce, the Fang Tian Hua Ji wrapped in boiling flames suddenly appeared above Guishu's head and smashed down with a hurricane.

  Guishu looked up and saw that the wind helped the fire. The halberd that was smashing dragged a long and gorgeous flame tail, like a golden red meteorite falling from the sky.

  "Boom!"

  Under the heavy blow, the ground cracked and sunken, and the flames rolled outward. A huge pit appeared at the point where the halberd fell. Outside the pit, there were burnt grass leaves within a radius of several meters that were burned by the flames. As expected, Guishu, who was the target of the attack, turned into a ball of green mist again and escaped smoothly.

  However, unlike before, although the green evil energy that escaped this time avoided the surging force of the halberd when it fell, the flames that descended with the halberd followed like a thorn in the flesh.

  At the edge of the giant pit, Guiju, holding a huge deadwood staff, walked out of the gathering green mist. However, as soon as he emerged, a large amount of pure sunfire surrounding the edge of the green mist surged down. Wherever the sunfire passed, the evil energy seemed to have encountered some natural enemy, and quickly dissipated with a sizzling sound. In an instant, the surrounding space was completely covered by flames. Looking around, there was nothing but a golden red between heaven and earth.

  The scorching heat burned all over his body. Guiju's palm holding the deadwood staff glowed green, and suddenly the human skull on the top of the staff began to raise its head and roar, and a large amount of evil energy rushed out from the empty mouth, nose and eye sockets of the skull, forming an overwhelming green tide that spread out.

  In terms of quality, the pure Yangyan, which had been strengthened by the Burning Fire, was definitely superior, but the number of oppressive forces could completely make up for this gap. Under the mighty green tide, the surrounding flames were completely engulfed without any stalemate. Seeing this, Guishu's face relaxed, but the continuous explosions immediately dispelled the relaxed look that had just emerged. At

  the front of the evil energy wave, a series of long halberd phantoms were constantly shooting at them. Whenever a phantom was inserted into the green tide, it would explode on the spot. In just a few seconds, more than ten phantoms that exploded in succession blasted out a wide cavity in the wave.

  After exploding the vast amount of evil energy that was in the way, the long halberd phantoms still did not stop. The sound of breaking through the air resounded in front of him. Guishu looked forward and saw four or five long halberd phantoms filled with evil spirits approaching in the center of his vision.

  "Boom! Boom!..."

  A violent roar erupted within the green tide. The surging air waves that burst out were like sharp blades, tearing the vast green tide on the periphery into pieces. At the end of the tide, a green figure flew out backwards.

  After landing on the ground and stumbling back more than ten steps, Guishu managed to stabilize his body. His arm holding the withered wood staff trembled slightly. He looked at the pale skull with several cracks on the top of the staff. In addition to heartache, he was more shocked. He recognized the shadows that had just attacked him. They were medium and short-range attacks that only appeared after the master of skills reached level 20.

  What is the concept of master-level skills above level 20? This means that if he is close to him, even if he does not lose his mind due to the erosion of evil spirits, he can only last less than ten seconds before being killed and torn to pieces.   

  What was even more terrible was that, with the speed of the opponent's advance, he could not pull away at all, and his body's evasive means of evil energy was approaching its limit. If he continued to transform into evil energy frequently, his body might collapse before the opponent even made a move.

  Coupled with the opponent's pure Yangyan, which seemed to be particularly restrained against evil energy, it seemed that he would only die no matter how you looked at it.

  Thinking of this, a hint of madness emerged in the eyes of the trickster. He took out two potions and a soul crystal (small) from the space, and then stuffed them into his mouth at the same time.

  "Ka Ka~"

  A sound similar to chewing candy came from his mouth. As he chewed, a deep green liquid flowed out from the corners of the trickster's eyes. There were also strands of cracks that spread rapidly from his head and face downwards, making him look extremely evil, like a porcelain doll that was about to collapse.

  "Gudong!"

  His throat rose and fell, and a very obvious swallowing sound was heard. The soul crystal fragments in his throat had just been swallowed into his stomach, and a heat wave just hit him in the face. A cold light in the rolling flames continued to expand in his pupils.

  The corners of his mouth gradually cracked to the roots of his ears, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth that had grown inside his lips at some point. He smiled grimly, and the skin on his head and face actually fell down along the spreading cracks, but he seemed to be unaware of this. He just swung the dead wood staff in his hand fiercely and smashed directly at the cold light in front of him.

  The tip of the halberd and the skull on the top of the staff met head-on in mid-air, without any meaning. The two pieces of equipment might be of similar grade, but in terms of hardness and sharpness, the dead wood staff, which was mainly used to assist in casting spells, could not compare to the Fang Tian Huaji in Xu Yue's hand.

  The tip of the halberd pierced the skull's frontal bone, and then the entire skull disintegrated and splashed into a large number of fragments under the halberd's advance, and then the dead wood staff behind it was also shattered.

  In the blink of an eye, broken bone fragments and wood chips flew everywhere, and after completely shattering the dead wood staff, the forward stabbing of the Fang Tian Hua Ji still did not stop at all, and the trickster behind it had lost all its flesh and blood at some point, leaving only an ugly skeleton with squirming organs inside.

  A pair of round eyes without eyelids were embedded in the eye sockets of the skull, staring straight at the halberd tip that was approaching in front of him, with no fear in his eyes, only hysterical madness.

  "Boom!"

  The bone residue and minced meat exploded together. The terrifying skeleton form of Guishu did not cause Xu Yue to be afraid at all. The long halberd first shattered the skull, and then the halberd body was pressed down by force, smashing it completely from top to bottom. Under the violent effect of Fang Tian Huaji, the whole skeleton turned into countless small fragments with a diameter of less than one centimeter, which can be said to be a real crushing of bones and ashes. The

  scattered blood mist was blown away by the strong wind, and the black scales of the boots fell to the ground. Xu Yue took back the long halberd in his hand and stood exactly where Guishu had landed before. Although the enemy's body had been completely smashed by him, his cold expression did not relax at all. In the place where strange blood and abilities emerge in endlessly in the Reincarnation Paradise, smashing the flesh does not necessarily mean destroying the enemy.

  Looking at the Paradise page that did not have an obvious kill prompt, Xu Yue frowned slightly. Compared with what the naked eye sees, the battle prompt of the Paradise is the best evidence to prove whether the enemy is dead.

  Obviously, Guishu is not dead, but what about the person?

  'Escaped?'

  The thought that the target had already escaped popped up in his mind, but he quickly erased it. From the opponent's fighting style, it is not difficult to see that in a desperate situation, the opponent will fight to the death, and the probability of even dying together is much greater than running away in a panic.

  While thinking, Xu Yue's pupils suddenly shrank. He felt a strange tremor coming from the ground under his feet. He lowered his eyes and looked down. He saw that the ground around him was covered with fresh flesh and blood that had just fallen from the trick not long ago. At this time, the flesh and blood that should have been lifeless began to wriggle, like fat meat worms drilling into the ground, causing the ground to tremble.

  No! Retreat!

  An unspeakable feeling of oppression suddenly emerged in his heart. Xu Yue bent his feet slightly and prepared to jump out of this strange area first. But before he jumped up, the ground that served as his foothold had already collapsed. Hundreds of flesh and blood tentacles with a strong green light on their surfaces broke through the ground almost at the same time, and then covered the sky.

  Like a giant octopus hidden underground hunting, the dense and thick tentacles covered the sky and the sun, intertwined together, forming an upside-down flesh bowl, ready to drag Xu Yue, who was covered inside, directly into the ground and crush him to death.

  However, the next second, before the flesh bowl composed of tentacles could shrink inward, a violent war cry suddenly exploded from the inside of the bowl.

  "Roar!"

  The war cry roared, and the flesh bowl began to tremble violently. Then countless metal fragments broke out from various parts of the bowl, tearing its originally seamless outer wall into pieces.

  Finally, the fierce sound waves set off by the war cry began to surge outward, and also tore the surrounding flesh tentacles completely apart. All the tentacles that emerged from the ground fell apart under Xu Yue's war cry and were swept away.

  Although the murderous intent on the ground was completely eliminated, the sky ushered in the second wave of trickery. Xu Yue stood among the broken tentacles and looked up, only to see a green tide covering a hundred meters in the sky, and in the center of the green tide was a giant skeleton condensed by evil energy.

  The hideous head of several meters in size leaned down, and the empty eye sockets burned with dark green evil fire, quietly looking down at the tiny figure below. The upper and lower jaws of the skeleton began to collide constantly, making a series of strange crackling sounds, as if mocking.

  Then, the sky fell!

  This giant skeleton suspended in the sky, carrying an endless green tide, brazenly pressed down towards Xu Yue on the surface.

  "Red Lotus!!"

  (End of this chapter)