Uesugi Akizuki rolled around in bed, staring at the ceiling with a sense of despair.
Where is Su Ze? I want Su Ze!
Where did he go? Didn't mother say he would be back in a few days?
Why hasn't he returned after so long?
What is he doing?
I'm so worried.
Lately, I've been feeling uneasy.
"Thinking about Su Ze again?" Uesugi Chigenki, wearing the pajamas Su Ze bought for Uesugi Akizuki, climbed into bed and held her sister's hand. "There are only five days until Huaxia University starts, he'll definitely return by then."
Uesugi Akizuki immediately sat up, looking at her sister with bright eyes.
"It's true," her sister lovingly patted her head.
On the battlefield in the Land of the Living Dead.
Although the battle had lasted for over ten hours under extreme pressure, Xu Ziyin still couldn't break through.
This was the difficulty of breaking through under pressure - no matter how much danger Xu Ziyin put herself in, she subconsciously knew she had a way out, it wasn't truly desperate.
If she couldn't hold on, her teammates protecting her would definitely rescue her.
People only truly unleash their full potential when pushed to absolute limits.
Right now, she was merely exhausting her body to unleash her full strength.
On a distant mountain.
A giant eagle landed on the mountaintop, flapping its wings.
A one-armed youth holding a long blade stood on the eagle's back, his empty sleeve and white hair fluttering in the wind.
The one-armed youth, Su Ze, stared in surprise at a mountain not far from Xu Ziyin and her group.
The mountain looked strange, with a huge gray buttock, the same color as the surrounding land, protruding from its back.
Its terrifying enormous head was hidden within the mountain, but its eyeballs were separated, connected by a huge tentacle that burrowed into the forest, watching Meng Xingyao's group with interest.
In an instant, Su Ze understood the situation.
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Early Lamp Realm - with Sister Xingyao there, nothing too serious would happen.
If Su Ze didn't have his rules, Meng Xingyao as a transcendent would be slightly stronger than him.
After all, she was a veteran Lamp Realm expert, different from Su Ze who had just reached the Lamp Realm as an ability user.
She was more familiar with using Lamp Realm energy.
Therefore, Su Ze believed Meng Xingyao could handle this mysterious being.
He raised his blade and suddenly slashed at the mountain where the mysterious being was!
The rules instantly transferred the power to the mountain body.
With a huge boom that made everyone turn their shocked gazes, the mountain exploded, revealing the terrifyingly huge mysterious being!
The giant mysterious being was clearly annoyed, straightening up like a building, its fat body with rolls of flesh jiggling.
It roared, its snail-like eyes and mouth full of dense, sharp teeth.
"Early Lamp Realm!" Meng Xingyao exclaimed in shock.
Everyone stared blankly at this suddenly appearing Lamp Realm mysterious being.
"Has it been hiding since we arrived?" Shen Qingsheng swallowed.
Cang Yu silently moved to protect Zhi Xu behind him.
Zhi Xu, slightly displeased, pulled him to her side instead.
Though surprised, Xu Ziyin reacted immediately, swinging her nunchucks as the chains retracted into the rods, connecting them into a two-meter iron staff.
She spun the staff.
With a sharp sound!
Straight blade edges extended from both ends of the staff!
Similar to a double-headed spear, but with straight, slender blades instead of spearheads.
Her figure blurred, leaving countless afterimages as she leaped up to attack the giant mysterious being!
In an instant, her pressure increased manifold, but she felt somewhat delighted - these Firefly Realm living dead couldn't pose much threat to her.
Now that a Lamp Realm mysterious being had appeared, the pressure was on!
Her figure turned black, splitting into multiple solid clones.
Compared to Su Ze's projection-like clones, her clones were more substantial but also more fragile, and she only had one true body.
Gu Qingqing sketched the giant mysterious being in just over ten seconds, her brush moving across the canvas.
In an instant, a huge gash appeared on the mysterious being's belly!
The mysterious being wailed as Gu Qingqing gritted her teeth and drew another stroke, tearing open its head, but all wounds healed within seconds.
Cang Yu and Zhi Xu charged forward, each attacking one of the giant being's feet.
Amidst the flashing blades, the giant mysterious being collapsed under their combined assault.
But being immortal, it quickly stood up again.
Being an early Lamp Realm mysterious being with immortality, it soon launched a counterattack against the group.
Since everyone was at the Candle Realm level, even with Meng Xingyao's formidable strength, they couldn't match it equally, but it could counterattack through the pain, severely injuring Shen Qingsheng, Zhi Xu, Cang Yu, and others.
Cang Yu was slapped flying by the giant mysterious being, embedding into the rock wall so deeply he couldn't be pried out.
He felt like his entire body was about to fall apart.
Shen Qingsheng raised his blade to block but was punched into the ground.
They were late Candle Realm, but against this unkillable and powerful monster, they had no chance of winning.
Meng Xingyao sliced off the giant mysterious being's wrist but was sent flying by the following massive fist.
Zhi Xu ran up the being's arm like a dragon coiling around a pillar, leaving deep cuts wherever she passed.
Reaching the shoulder, she leaped up and slashed open the giant mysterious being's neck, causing blood to spray like rain.
The mysterious being's neck wasn't completely severed, only cut halfway through, and quickly healed.
Ghastly wounds appeared all over the giant mysterious being's body as Gu Qingqing, from a distance, gritted her teeth and made stroke after stroke on her painted mysterious being.
As the mysterious being's wounds healed, they also healed in her painting.
Su Ze, watching from afar, somewhat envied Gu Qingqing's ability, wondering if he could fatally wound someone by drawing them from a photo from thousands of miles away and making a single stroke.
"We can't fight it, we have to run!" Meng Xingyao said through the earpiece.
She knew they could only flee from this type of mysterious being.
After all, they were immortal, and now their main damage dealer was Meng Xingyao. Even if Xu Ziyin broke through at this moment, just two Lamp Realm fighters against an immortal giant mysterious being had no chance of victory, because they would eventually exhaust themselves while the mysterious being wouldn't!
Unless they could beat the mysterious being into submission.
Of course, that was impossible.
Su Ze, at peak Candle Realm, had made countless attempts before subduing that small group of mysterious beings.
Now expecting Meng Xingyao to make this mysterious being fear them was truly asking too much.
Everyone quickly reached consensus.
Su Ze noticed their tendency to flee and narrowed his eyes.
"Kill them all!" Su Ze jumped off the giant eagle's back.
The eagle flapped its wings and dove straight into the group's escape path.
Though he said this, Su Ze certainly wouldn't let any of them die.
The eagle was only a mid-Candle Realm mysterious being; even someone like Shen Qingsheng could fight it evenly, let alone their whole group.
"Holy crap..." Shen Qingsheng stared in shock at the diving eagle.
Cang Yu frowned deeply, instantly charging to engage the eagle in battle.
"What are you doing playing with your phone at a time like this? Help us!" Meng Xingyao was confused seeing Shen Qingsheng suddenly take out his phone and scroll frantically.
"Wait, almost done!"
Shen Qingsheng put his formatting phone back in his pocket.
He wasn't sure if he'd survive, but he wasn't afraid of death - he just wanted to leave a clean reputation behind.
Meng Xingyao tilted her head, somewhat understanding yet not.
"Why did two mysterious beings suddenly appear?!" Shen Qingsheng angrily cooperated with Cang Yu in attacking the mysterious being.
"Looks like we've fallen into an ambush," Cang Yu belatedly realized.
Zhi Xu was struck by the giant mysterious being, her arm turning purple and blood trickling from her lips, but she raised her blade to attack again.
The group was surrounded by the eagle and giant mysterious being, and this unfair battle continued for over ten hours.
Su Ze was disappointed that Xu Ziyin still hadn't broken through.
Cang Yu and Shen Qingsheng furiously attacked the eagle in a frenzy, with Cang Yu leaping up to impale it to the ground with one strike.
Suddenly, the giant mysterious being kicked Zhi Xu flying, then uprooted a huge tree and thrust it toward the airborne Zhi Xu!
This scene caught everyone off guard!
Meng Xingyao's speed increased dramatically as she rushed toward Zhi Xu, but it was already too late.
Su Ze suddenly dove down, his figure disappearing as he traversed three thousand meters, appearing on the giant mysterious creature's neck.
"Don't touch her!" At the same moment, Cang Yu stomped the ground forcefully, causing it to explode beneath him! He almost instantly flashed to the underside of the giant mysterious being.
Two cold glints of light crossed paths, and the giant mysterious creature's head was instantly severed!
Cang Yu twisted his waist and kicked the headless body of the giant mysterious being, sending it flying backward.
This was the explosion of potential that humans experience in desperate situations. Under normal circumstances, Cang Yu would never have been able to cover such a vast distance in such a short time.
Su Ze noticed that the tree held by the giant mysterious being suddenly vanished. He looked toward Gu Qingqing, who had her head lowered, eyes slightly closed, with an expression of mild pain.
This supernatural ability was truly formidable.
Cang Yu rescued Zhi Xu, holding her in his arms, and made several consecutive leaps up a high mountain to prevent any unexpected dangers.
Zhi Xu snuggled closer into her boyfriend's embrace and suddenly asked, "Do you love me?"
Cang Yu remembered that she hadn't asked today yet. "Yes, I love you."
He suddenly felt like laughing but suppressed his voice, pretending to be angry, "What kind of situation are we in right now? You almost died just now!"
Zhi Xu completely ignored her boyfriend's scolding, turned around in his arms, looked up, and kissed him once, "It's exactly because I almost died that I'm afraid of regrets, regrets of not hearing you say you love me today."
This habit had started since they became a couple. Zhi Xu would ask every day, and she made him swear that whenever she asked this question, he must not lie to her.