Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 30 Each Person's Path and Belief (1w4, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)
"The great existence I'm familiar with... Su Zhou, why are you suddenly asking about this?"
In the cosmic space, the stars are brilliant.
On the edge of the outer Jupiter orbit, apart from the silver-blue light flames of the spacecraft's propulsion port, there are endless stars covering 360 degrees.
Su Zhou, with his arms crossed, stood on top of the Leaplight, gazing at the distant sea of stars. He heard She Ling's slightly puzzled question, "You didn't pay attention to this before."
"The past is the past. Now that it's come to this, isn't it normal that I want to know the enemies or friends I might encounter in the future?"
On his right hand, a slight weight appeared. A long snake, seemingly cast from red gemstones and entirely crimson, manifested from the soul space into the real universe and coiled around the young man's shoulders.
Having long grown accustomed to this, Su Zhou raised his left hand. He calmly extended his fingers and touched his left eyeball—the spherical crystal, harder than diamond, had a cold, inorganic feel. This action that ordinary people would never do, the young man did with natural ease, and rings of gear-like imprints, carrying gray mist, emerged from within.
Touching his eyeball and feeling the power contained within, Su Zhou withdrew his hand. He calmly said, "Now, I have obtained the approval and imprint of the Silent Lord, so from now on, I will try to understand other great existences. Isn't this normal?"
"Indeed, it's not strange."
At this moment, Yala was wrapped around the young man's shoulders, like the divine serpent dancing with Shiva, the symbol of the god of destruction, and the contemporary immortal god wielding world-destroying power. It was indeed a fitting match.
The red serpent spirit pondered for a moment before slowly opening its mouth, "Now that it's come to this, I think you can indeed know this information. However, before that, I must explain—even great existences cannot know the exact number of great existences, and I will not tell you all the great existences I know, only those we may encounter in the future."
"After all, some things, uttering their honored names, is karma. If you don't want to deviate from the plan, it's best not to involve too much."
"No problem, that's exactly what I intend—I understand that point too." Su Zhou naturally agreed. He didn't want to know too many irrelevant things, lest it distract his mind.
"Alright then."
Having received Su Zhou's response, Yala nodded. The serpent spirit raised its head slightly, looking up at the black fissures between the stars.
Then, it extended its tail, using the tip of its tail as a pen, drawing inexplicable, solemn emblems with multiple structures in the dark vacuum of space.
——An endless revolving snake with a different ring head each time.
——Heavily concentric circles constantly spreading in infinite mist.
——Countless intersecting and rotating, infinitely extending network structures.
——Radiation lines extending infinitely from the source point, leading to the far distance.
——An endless hourglass, shimmering with twilight light, using the universe as sand.
——An infinitely huge tree, supporting the sky and the earth, hanging down myriad paths, so vast as to be unimaginable.
Circles of bright and complex crimson emblem imprints, like solemn steles, rotated around Su Zhou, revealing a sacred, majestic, and ethereal atmosphere.
"The great existences you have personally contacted and communicated with—I, the Silent Lord, Destiny, Pioneer, Twilight. And the Divine Tree - the Tree of the Great Path."
Temporarily withdrawing its tail, the red serpent spirit's tone was solemn. It seriously said, "Of course, there's something strange about the Divine Tree."
"The 'Tree of the Great Path' that contacted us, that is, the entity behind the Divine Tree World, the Banyan Undying Tree, It did indeed meet us, but the 'Divine Tree - World Tree', which should have been almost like a conjoined twin with It, inevitably appearing whenever the Tree of the Great Path appears, has disappeared without a trace and has never appeared."
"I think this is worth being vigilant about, but maybe the World Tree hasn't broken free from its seal yet, so I'm just mentioning it."
After speaking, seeing Su Zhou nod with utmost seriousness, Yala extended its tail again.
But this time, it didn't draw those incomparably profound emblems, but simply wrote out names in divine script.
"As for the others, Su Zhou, you have contacted their kin, but have not officially contacted their main bodies. They are 'Termination', 'Balance', 'Synergy', 'Perfection', 'Miracle', and 'Transcendence'."
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but be a little surprised. He turned his head to look at the serpent spirit, and asked confusedly, "Have I encountered the kin of these existences? I don't remember?"
"Many of the cannon fodder contain half-kin of these great existences, but you kill them too quickly, and they are too weak, so you can't detect them."
Yala shook its head. When it said 'kill them too quickly', its tone was obviously a bit regretful, as if an old farmer seeing seedlings being pulled out before they had a chance to grow: "For example, in the Advent Society, the leader called 'Spirit Caller' is a kin of 'Synergy'. I can also see that there are many members inside, mostly half-kin of 'Termination'."
"As for Balance, you have actually seen it many times—every sacrifice, every exchange, every contract that pays a price, the hidden compulsion behind them all originates from His avatar in essence. Whether it's the Devil's Heart Vow or the Dao Heart Vow, it's the same. He is responsible for arbitration and confirmation, grasping the balance of everything."
"Perfection goes without saying. Those guys who can only see the results but ignore the process are simply everywhere. They all have the potential to become kin in essence, but few have the obsession to become true kin."
Speaking to the end, Yala thought for a while before slowly saying, "As for Miracle and Transcendence... they are the same as Perfection. They have many who are close to them, very rampant, but few really have the opportunity to become kin—but as long as they appear, they are very powerful. This is different from the Divine Tree, which spreads kin randomly."
"I see."
Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but nod slightly. He pondered the honored names of these great existences, and said in a low voice, "In this way... there are thirteen of them. I didn't expect that, now, I have already seen so many great existences?"
"Actually, there are still two great existences that should appear that you haven't seen: 'Creation' and 'Unification'."
In response, Yala calmly replied while gazing at the stars, "But if I had to guess, you should meet them soon."
"Of course, there are far more than these fifteen great existences, but in this multiverse, the great existences that will be active are probably only these."
"Why?" Su Zhou asked casually, he joked, "Could it be that the others are too badly injured and haven't recovered yet, unable to exert their power?"
"Maybe." Yala didn't deny this guess, it just calmly said, "What I'm talking about are all the great existences that were sealed before I was sealed—and after I was sealed, I haven't sensed any other great existences being sealed in."
"In short, if there really is such an existence, their recovery speed must be very slow. They shouldn't have recovered now and can't have the power to affect our plan."
"I understand." Su Zhou nodded slightly. He raised his head and looked at the galaxy in front of him, then smiled lightly, and said seriously, "So many great existences, what methods do they use to influence us and this universe?"
"Also, Yala, I've seen so much along the way and experienced so much. I should be qualified to express my opinion now—I think all the great existences' 'correctness' seems to have its reasons, and it's not unacceptable, and can even be said to guide people to be positive."
"So, why are great existences feared as evil gods in many worlds, and why can the people of the Advent Society distort these clearly good inheritances and principles into such an extreme and terrifying appearance?"
"Heh, Su Zhou, what do you think 'great existences' are?"
Slightly shaking its head, Yala put away its tail, and the crimson imprints in the cosmic space gradually turned into light particles and dissipated.
It calmly said, "We are, 'self-righteous correctness' and 'completeness'."
"Anyone, any existence, at any time, can see our different faces."
"Good and evil, good and bad, right and wrong, whether or not... if mortals or even transcendent immortal gods want to recognize us, they will inevitably be like blind men touching an elephant. Existences that cannot transcend even time and space cannot know our true form, at most they can only see a partial aspect."
"Just like the Silent Lord, Su Zhou, you have seen His love and strictness—His existence is obviously a completely different thing and feeling from the perspective of different lives."
"...Indeed."
At this moment, the Leaplight's warp engine was starting to warm up, and the progress bar began to load.
In Su Zhou's mind, scenes from the reincarnation world naturally emerged, and he nodded slightly, expressing his approval.
He couldn't help but whisper to himself, "Just like Yala. Your chaos, in a sense, is indeed an extremely evil existence."
"You can't stand anything, you want to break and change everything, but because of this, most lives only hope to live in stability... they call you 'evil'. This is indeed not an exaggeration. This is just that they can only see your partial aspect and cannot see your complete essence."
"However, for those who are bound by 'Destiny', unable to make any changes, and desperate to live but unable to die, choosing 'Chaos' may be the only way out."
"They will wholeheartedly choose your path and then resist Destiny."
"Not bad." Hearing this, Yala couldn't help but flick its tail slightly, obviously in agreement.
Speaking of which, Su Zhou instantly changed the subject. He frowned, recalling the 'heretics' in the mouths of the Serestians, and whispered, "In other words... apart from the semi-compulsory possession and transformation I've seen before, there will also be people who actively choose to become kin of great existences, right?"
"As long as they want to, and seek it, they will get a response?"
At this moment, the young man turned his head and looked at the red serpent spirit.
Yala shook its head slightly and replied, "The term 'kin' is actually not very accurate in essence. Strictly speaking, they are just cultivators who uphold our ways and grow based on them."
"We never interfere with what they do. It's like the universe doesn't interfere with an ant living on Earth."
"Of course, if they want to sacrifice and have mastered the correct method... then if we hear and see these existences walking the right path and find them interesting, then they will naturally get a response."
"I understand."
Hearing this, Su Zhou was silent for a long time.
Then, with the young man letting out a long sigh, after making a decision in his heart, his expression became firm: "I must admit, Yala, my perception of great existences did have some prejudice before, so I made some 'correct' decisions at that time."
"But now that I think about it, I was not only overthinking, but also excessively meddling."
"What is it?" Yala shook its head slightly, it was a little confused.
"About the choices my family makes."
At this moment, the Leaplight's warp engine was fully prepared, and he could sense that the psionic engine capable of distorting space-time was gradually releasing a chilling wave.
Tain, the Prophet behind him, also sent a message saying that the warship's transplanted warp engine was also ready and could depart at any time.
So Su Zhou turned around and walked towards the Leaplight's spaceship entrance.
On the way back to the spaceship, he whispered to Yala beside him, "After returning to Earth, I want to have a good talk with Shuangyue."
"Although it's dangerous, although it's unpredictable, I can't use my will to force those who want to leave the 'cage' in her eyes to continue to stay in that comfort zone that we see as 'comfortable', that cage that is easy, but not necessarily the right one."
"The same goes for Qiming. I have the power to help them, but I always don't do it because of some condescending worry."
Just as the young man was muttering to himself, he found that the red serpent spirit showed a somewhat amused smile.
"If it's that little girl, that's all."
Slightly shaking its head, Yala chuckled, turned into a stream of light, and returned to Su Zhou's soul space.
Afterwards, its soul wave slowly sounded and appeared in Su Zhou's ears: "But, if you're talking about your childhood friend... Su Zhou, I'm afraid you underestimate that guy's determination."
"You know, he is the only human in this world, besides you, who has seen a 'great existence'."
"What?"
At first, the young man didn't react.
But soon, he became thoughtful: "Could it be..."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile slightly and shook his head: "It doesn't matter."
"Everyone has their own path."
"And what I need to do is not 'stop', but 'innovate', hoping they get better."
The young man entered the spaceship.
Soon, in the dark cosmic space, two dazzling psionic halos lit up one after the other, turning into extremely bright space-time gates, opening the passage to the other side.
The spaceship flashed past, like a shooting star.
At the same time.
Earth, Zheng Nation, Tiandu.
Cloudy, night.
The summer nights in the capital are always extraordinarily bustling and noisy.
The daytime is full of traffic, and the nighttime is also extremely congested. There are always cars on the streets and pedestrians on the roadside. Even the revival of spiritual energy has not changed this. At most, there are gradually flying cars flying in the air, and cultivators with flight permits shuttle between buildings.
The overly bright lights even completely obscured the starlight in the night sky. Only by standing on top of a building more than seven hundred meters high could one vaguely see, with the vision of a transcendent, the twinkling stars hidden behind the light pollution and dark clouds.
The starlight flickered in the gaps of the heavy clouds, vaguely forming a galaxy.
Under the galaxy, on the top floor of the office building where the Tiandu headquarters of 'Zhu Zhao Group' is located.
A young man with dark brown hair was standing on the roof, staring at the starry sky in a daze.
Shao Qiming, who had just finished his internal group work, was gazing at the high sky, seemingly thinking about something in his heart.
But soon, he calmly lowered his head, took off his coat, revealing a smooth black tights, and walked towards a medium-sized exoskeleton armor with blue-black paint on one side.
On the dark paint, the prismatic raised structures were connected to each other, and the faint cloud pattern runes formed an array pattern like an ink painting. On the towering metal giant armor, the smooth structures were assembled layer by layer, forming a huge mobile armor with a very violent aesthetic.
The jagged and solid armor plates were staggered and hung on various joints, strengthening the defense while also serving as grooves for bleeding in close combat. The extremely dangerous aura mixed with the smell of blood made people know that this armor was definitely not the first time it had struck.
[Tongyou Dao Armor] (Armor of Penetrating the Netherworld)
The superior alternative armor to [Black Emperor Guard - Xingyou Armor] (Armor of Shadow Travel), incorporating Qingqiu Dao Armor technology, is a captain-specific machine with first-class concealment and the ability to walk silently in the shadows.
At the same time, it also has first-class frontal combat power.
Shao Qiming, wearing a driving suit, quickly entered the exoskeleton armor. With the nerve and spiritual power interface on the driving suit, he quickly docked with the entire armor, integrating with the entire armor through the dual nerve-soul port.
Cloudy.
The cloudy days of summer are not cold and biting, but rather have a stuffy heat, like the hot air when opening an oven, with a bit of moist hot wind sweeping and surging on the streets.
On the evening of June 30, 2018, Shao Qiming, who had finished a day of hard work, originally had a little irritability and anxiety in his heart, but when he sat inside the Tongyou Dao Armor and started this hideous killing machine with his own spiritual power, hiding his figure in the shadows, he felt a sense of true 'peace of mind'...
And 'joy'.
Everything was going away. Whether it was the pain that had entangled him since childhood, or the troubles he often encountered because of his physique, all the dark memories hidden in the shadows disappeared.
While feeling this power, Shao Qiming, inside the armor, closed his eyes slightly, and then showed a gentle smile.
"The hunt begins."
He whispered to himself.
Then, when Shao Qiming opened his eyes again, the young man's eyes became cold and ruthless. Although the corners of his mouth were still raised, like a smile, there was no more gentleness than before, but full of coldness.
Buzz——a low hum that was weaker than the sound of the wind, almost imperceptible. The Tongyou Dao Armor driven by Shao Qiming disappeared into the shadows like this, constantly jumping rapidly in the darkness.
In this world, if a person wants to obtain something, they must pay something and make some choices.
Choices are always difficult, always confusing. They always force people to step out of their comfort zone, constantly forcing people to change themselves, change their thoughts, actions, and lifestyles.
But this is the way to become stronger.
Shao Qiming knew this better than anyone, because he had a friend who often made choices, a very powerful friend, powerful enough to be called Earth's number one.
Because of him, the young man knew what difficult choices were needed to become stronger, how to painfully reform his own thoughts again and again, admit his mistakes, step out of the comfort zone of free conviction, and finally reach that destined bumpy 'path of eternal innovation'.
That path is very difficult to walk, especially when walking alone.
Because he knew this, because he knew this, the young man's heart was always incomparably touched.
"It shouldn't be just him changing."
Shao Qiming always thought so in his heart. It shouldn't always be Su Zhou changing himself, it shouldn't always be him introspecting himself and solving one troublesome problem after another—this is not fair.
The world also needs to change, human civilization also needs to change—facing the 'new world' that is gradually coming, from the future that everyone expects, what needs to be changed is definitely not just Su Zhou alone, but the entire human world.
So, when Su Zhou proposed to start a diplomatic tour to every major force in the world, and proposed the 'Global Arena Plan' intended to change the world, the young man did not hesitate at all, and directly agreed to this plan, and then used all the power he could master to promote it.
But... just this is not enough.
The world is just chasing after that guy's footsteps. When the results of all the reforms are seen, that young man must have grown to a higher level—no one can catch up with him.
——So, how can I catch up with my friend's footsteps?
This question always lingered in the young man's heart.
And the answer is obvious, there is only one.
That is... he also has to make a choice.
Unlike in the past, make a choice that also makes the young man step out of his comfort zone.
"Connect to the internal line of the Security Bureau, find the target."
Buzz——
With the clear instructions issued, electronic micro-sounds rang out.
Inside the head display of the exoskeleton armor, one piece of information after another emerged.
One head after another, portraits, information introductions, as well as subsequent related crimes, related cultivation advancement and combat details, all floated before the young man's eyes.
"Select target number 5."
A calm voice rang out, he said so.
Then, with the emotionless system sound of the armor system 'starting to guide' rang, a white route guidance trajectory, and related data, floated on the display in front of him.
[Meng Province, abnormal individual, extraordinary patient, He Genyan]
[Crimes: Killed his wife and three children, killed more than 1,600 large and small cattle and sheep in the Linhai City Ranch, currently on the run]
[Combat methods: Extraordinary high-level power, nearly leader-level recovery, super strong vitality, good at manipulating surrounding plants to absorb biological essence for recovery, has not yet shown his hole cards]
[Suspected ancient Venerable 'Divine Tree' blessing]
[Estimated amount of Heavenly God Factor: above 2900]
——To catch up with his friend, what kind of determination is needed?
For Shao Qiming, it was nothing more than doing what he had always wanted to do.
"2900 Heavenly God Factors, even if you use the secret method of the Advent Society to harvest human flesh crops, you need to harvest tens of thousands of people to have so many... it is indeed a big target."
Whispering to himself, the young man's eyes were cold.
The target is big and strong.
Therefore, he needs to speed up and kill the opponent before the local Security Bureau's special mobile unit finds him, and use secret methods to harvest all the Heavenly God Factors, and then leave.
As for why Shao Qiming is so confident that he can easily find the escaped wanted criminal that even the Zheng Nation Security Bureau's special operations team has difficulty finding, and defeat him.
The answer is simple.
Because, he is now also a 'Heavenly God Kin' in a sense.
And, very powerful.
The Tongyou Dao Armor turned into a black shadow, constantly jumping in the shadows between the city streets.
Soon, leaving the core circle of Tiandu, the streets at night became empty, no cars, no people, only the gloomy clouds were churning in the sky, gradually dropping raindrops.
The exoskeleton armor hidden in the shadows silently passed through every drop of rain, only slightly twisting the direction of their descent, bringing out a slightly distorted corridor of rainwater between the night rain.
Cultivating the Divine Tree method, in essence, is no different from becoming a Divine Tree Kin itself.
Shao Qiming realized this when he compared the 'Jiwang Zhi Mu' cultivation method from Zhou Buyi of the Divine Tree World with the 'Fusang Divine Tree' cultivation method from the Zheng Nation Immortal God inheritance.
That's right, of course it's the same.
The so-called Divine Tree, its existence itself, can be regarded as an avatar of a great existence in a sense... of course, the Divine Tree is not a great existence, nor is it an avatar of a great existence, but they do have the same connotation and way of survival, that is to say... the so-called natural kin.
It's just that the Divine Tree is too gentle, and few people would associate it with other Heavenly God Kin and alien demons who create all kinds of chaos.
But in the final analysis, the Divine Tree is still a Heavenly God Kin... and, like other Heavenly God Kin.
The Divine Tree cultivation method can be strengthened and accelerated by gathering 'Heavenly God Factors'.
"Although the Heavenly God Advent Society is foolishly seeking its own death, resulting in its demise, they do have a lot of good things to use."
"For example, this method of gathering Heavenly God Factors from other Heavenly God Kin... is truly an incomparably ingenious design."
Traveling in the shadows, instantly crossing thousands of meters, Shao Qiming flew towards the incomparably obvious bright light source in his spiritual sense, which was almost like a searchlight, his eyes revealing a smile like a hunter seeing prey.
Controlling the armor, he pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, and wisps of cyan spiritual patterns like tree roots rose from the steel hand that moved with his will, strengthening the essence of the entire armor.
The Heavenly God Advent Society. A destroyed great existence worship organization, a former absolutely pyramidal organization that was hidden in the dark, constantly carrying out various extremely evil plans, and using ordinary people and bewitched believers as crops to harvest 'Heavenly God Factors' to strengthen official members and leaders.
A kin joint organization that has explored a systematic method of kin advancement and accelerating the speed of related inheritance cultivation.
The core secret method of this organization, [Heavenly God Gathering Spirit Method], entered the Zheng Nation official secret database as early as two years ago when the organization was destroyed, and is limited to relevant researchers for study.
Fortunately, with the relationship of his friend, Shao Qiming is one of the 'relevant personnel' who has read this cultivation method.
And after he made up his mind and made a 'choice', he cultivated it to perfection.
——There are no evil cultivation methods in this world, only evil people.
Since Shao Qiming saw that the 'Devouring Evil Demon Lord' supernatural power, which was extremely vicious and evil, could be used by people like a righteous method to punish evil and eliminate evil, he no longer felt that any cultivation method itself had an evil essence.
Even the 'Heavenly God Gathering Spirit Method', which is used to harvest human flesh crops and gather Heavenly God Factors, if it is only used on those unforgivable criminals, then what harm is there?
Although it may violate the law a bit... but as an excellent graduate of Qinxing Academy, and now a national civil servant registered in the Zheng Nation Alien World Exploration Department, the young man also has relevant law enforcement power.
This is certainly not evil, at most it's just a little... small trick.
At this time, in the rapid shadow jump method, Shao Qiming had arrived in Meng Province.
The summer cloudy cloud layer, which covered most of the northern part of Zheng Nation, had been left behind by the young man, and the starlight and moonlight reappeared, illuminating the endless prairie.
And that incomparably clear aura belonging to a kin of a certain great existence had already appeared in Shao Qiming's eyes.
The young man felt the aura mixed with madness, chaos, arrogance and fear. He could sense that his target did have a very serious extraordinary disease—because of the suddenly becoming overly powerful extraordinary power, because he saw it too clearly, so he could see all the filthy and dirty things.
Now in his eyes, I am afraid that everything is as ugly as distorted and rotten flesh.
That's why he committed the crime of killing his family with his own hands and fled without any psychological burden to hide in this quiet prairie.
Sad, but not worthy of sympathy.
Moo——
Above the prairie, the free-range cattle suddenly made panicked sounds, but these sounds were cut off one by one in the rustling sound of grass and trees surging, and fell into silence.
This is the last wailing of the cattle being slaughtered, because they have become Heavenly God Kin, so they crave nourishment and blood. This impulsive instinct makes the monster, which should know that it should hide its traces, reveal its figure and expose its position.
Noticing the abnormality of the cattle, the distant rancher seemed to have started making phone calls. They had been notified long ago that there was an extremely vicious extraordinary criminal nearby, so they would definitely call the police decisively as soon as there was any disturbance.
With the Tongyou Dao Armor's internal system from the Zheng Nation official, Shao Qiming could see that the nearest Security Bureau special operations team would arrive in 12 minutes.
Not slow, not fast, there is still plenty of time after my hunt to cover up the traces.
The young man thought so, and the killing intent in his heart grew stronger.
The shadow flashed past among the swaying grass in the wind, and the towering pasture flew around in a mess, vaguely revealing a trace of a 'one' shape. The exoskeleton armor, holding the magic sword at its waist, crossed several kilometers in an instant like a ghost, but did not bring up any sound.
Very close, very close.
He could already sense that obvious, extraordinary high-level, even peak, aura of spiritual energy.
In the armor observation interface in front of him, data began to emerge. The high-precision camera locked onto the monster that was quietly wreaking havoc among the cattle several kilometers away—a giant made of vines, more than thirty meters high.
This giant usually seems to lurk in underground pits, which are covered with obvious traces of soil.
But now, as it greedily drinks blood, dark red blood flashes on the inside of those dark green vines, causing its entire body to swell and release gusts of evil wind spiritual pressure.
The huge vine giant stretched out its hands, grabbed a spirit cow mixed with spirit beast blood, it tore apart the cow's body, and then squeezed all the blood and internal organs into its mouth like juicing, and its eight inhuman wooden eyes, exuding a faint green light, revealed a crazy desire.
This is... the final ending of most Heavenly God Kin, because they can't control the restless desires in their hearts.
From the sacred and solemn 'God's Kin'——
Turning into 'demonic ghosts' that can only wander in the ghostly realm of the underworld.
"Clang——"
The clear sound of a long sword being unsheathed suddenly rang out.
With the supersonic roar tearing the vacuum, a silver-cyan sword light cut through the atmosphere like a meteor and slashed towards the vine giant's abdomen.
Suddenly, the monster, which was still drinking spirit blood and having a great time, relieving the panic of almost being suppressed by the special operations team before, was shocked, but the powerful instinct of the demon made it avoid being severely injured upon meeting.
In just an instant, the vines forming the giant's waist surged rapidly, splitting to both sides, and then the whole person retreated rapidly, directly retreating nearly a thousand meters away.
Although the magic sword strike still cut off most of the vines in its waist, they were all scattered and did not have any substantial damage. With a burst of vine twisting, the giant quickly returned to its original state.
"Goooo... Who, who is it?!"
At this time, the original He Genyan, the current vine monster, was shocked and angry.
It had worked so hard to run all the way from its hometown in Meng Province to the prairie near the border between Zheng Nation and Rose Country, and thought it would soon be able to escape the country and go to the Siberia region to hide.
That's why it planned to indulge a little and greedily drink spirit blood in its hometown to its heart's content.
But who knew that the special operations team, which should have been following its tracks and eating its farts in a dozen minutes, hadn't arrived yet, and someone had already found its main body.
It wanted to figure out who the attacker was, but it was too late.
In fact, the demon, who only knows how to kill and fight by instinct, did not know that the moment it opened its mouth in shock and anger, the moment it did not immediately try its best to explode all the power in its blood to attack the enemy and force back the enemy, its defeat was already doomed.
At this moment, the sword light dissipated.
But the vine giant saw that a steel fist entwined with golden-cyan root brilliance was directly hitting the core of its chest.
In the instant of the magic sword's empty slash, Shao Qiming had already turned around, retracted his arm, and then took advantage of the momentum to twist his waist and exert force.
His left palm clenched his five fingers tightly, and he aimed at the vital point of the demon in front of him and threw his punch.
So the fist arrived.
Boom!
The heavy punch that surpassed the speed of sound hit the vine giant's vine body, which was far more solid than steel. The vines, which were enough to withstand several tons of force without producing any changes, and could even bounce back most of the force with elasticity, shattered under the higher level of Divine Tree power.
The huge power directly shattered the vine giant's chest, and the layers of divine vines, like bone ribs, protecting the central core, were dented, shattered, and completely twisted off.
Everything happened in a short moment. When Shao Qiming condensed the power of the Tongyou Dao Armor and his own, and launched the double blow of the armor's main body, the vast spiritual power, several times that of ordinary cultivators of the same rank, burst out, directly blasting the vine giant into the air.
And its chest even had a huge depression, exposing the 'blood core' that exuded a faint blood light, which was located under heavy protection in the past!
The core of the demon·Blood-Devouring Demon Vine, the 'Blood-Devouring Spirit Core'!
It has to be said that the defense of higher demons is indeed far beyond ordinary spirit beasts and even divine beasts. Generally speaking, even if the Garuda took this blow, it would probably have to hold its breath for a few seconds, but even if the vital point of the vine giant was hit, it still had the strength!
"Run!"
The entire body was blasted into the air, the Blood-Devouring Demon Vine Giant did not have any extra thinking, and directly used Shao Qiming's power to turn around, and then accelerated to escape towards the distance.
Fight? How could it possibly win! Not to mention that the opponent's equipment is so good, just relying on the demon's own hard power, it is far inferior to the opponent's thick and terrifying Divine Tree power!
Run, run, run! Only run! Blood vines shot out and plunged into the depths of the ground. The vine giant, fleeing in fear, used vines to pull the earth and throw itself towards the distance at several times the speed of sound!
But, how could it escape?
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The heavy trampling sound rang out. With a burst of vast sunlight shining, flames began to dance under its feet—the Tongyou Dao Armor stepped on the ground, and every step would explode with pure fireworks!
Relying on the explosive thrust, the young man imitated his friend's 'missile acceleration form' to explode to the fullest, and in an instant, he turned the burly steel armor into a streamer phantom. Then, he took the lead and caught up with the rapidly fleeing demon vine's footsteps!
"No?! Why! Why me?!"
Feeling the spread of the aura of death, the Blood-Devouring Demon Vine Giant couldn't help but let out an unwilling roar. Realizing that it couldn't escape, it turned around abruptly, exploded with all its strength, and made a last-ditch effort!
Goo goo goo——In the blood core, the infinite and rich life aura burst out, and with the high-speed beating of the heart, the scarlet life aura permeated in the air, and then poured into every part of the vine giant's body.
In an instant, a large number of scarlet ripples burst out in the air, the air was distorted, and invisible power gathered. The vine giant's figure suddenly soared to forty meters in an instant, and its right hand swelled and deformed violently under the infusion of spirit blood, and then turned into a huge and terrifying drill, spinning rapidly!
The gust of wind was wrapped in scarlet spiritual energy, stirring up vortex-like ripples. Solid particles rubbed against each other, creating thunder out of thin air——the scarlet light and the bright thunder reflected, even piercing the atmosphere and igniting the grass next to it, inducing a raging fire.
Such power is enough to prove how terrifying this blow is. Even if a skyscraper is hit by such a blow, it will inevitably collapse into rubble in a violent explosion!
Under the pressure of life and death, the Blood-Devouring Demon Vine Giant burst out with all its strength as a demon, releasing a blow that surpassed its past limit!
But what it faced was an incomparably bright sword light, carrying the brilliance of the sun!
At this moment, the Tongyou Dao Armor was surrounded by the bright wood spirit light of cyan gold, and a light circle-like arc floated behind the Dao Armor and spread in all directions.
"Too weak."
Shao Qiming held the magic sword in his hand tightly, and the air was burning under the high-heat spiritual power——Wood helps fire, and fire derives light. The inheritance of the Tanggu Fusang Tree is like this. The young man smiled and condensed his power, and then drew his sword without hesitation and stabbed!
"I have learned from Su Zhou how to use weapons!"
In an instant, on the already burning prairie, the light soared and turned into an incomparably condensed light thorn, facing the drill arm that the vine giant猛击 (méngjī, to strike