Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
As the spirit flames raged, Golden Tooth Bloody Soul let out high-frequency vibrations, and as if it was disintegrating, it released rays of golden light that looked like sharp swords.
The golden light spun dozens of times around Meng Chao's vitality magnetic field before it crawled back into the thousands of runic symbols carved into Golden Tooth Bloody Soul, turning the already mighty heavy saber into a weapon that was more than three meters long and half a meter wide. It was a weapon that could cut an Apocalyptic Beast in half with one slash!
Lu Siya stared blankly by the side.
She did not expect that Meng Chao would be able to fuse Golden Tooth Saber and Bloody Soul Saber into one and create such a fierce and matchless weapon.
She also did not expect that the half a year of training with Battle God Lei Zongchao would allow him to improve to such a terrifying degree. He now had the bearing of Golden Tooth Saber's former master, the former Underground Emperor Jin Wanhao.
When the super heavy saber finally finished transforming, Meng Chao could no longer hold back his spirit energy. It surged out of the blade like a flood.
The faint golden spirit flames turned into a sharp saber glare. Once it cut the Goddess of Plague in half, it did not slow down at all. It sank deep into the trunk of the wisdom tree and nearly cut the tree in half.
"Meng Chao, you've mastered Divine Nine Dragon Seals and Celestial Tyrant's Star Shattering Slash?"
Lu Siya could not help but cry out in surprise. She paused for a moment before she said, "You didn't even tell me!"
"Didn't I just tell you?"
The dragon meridians around Meng Chao churned, causing the 108 main meridians and 1,024 branch meridians to tremble. It made the profound and complicated spirit tattoos on his skin change as if they were alive. They guided the spirit energy in his body and instantly created more than ten highly destructive spirit energy magnetic fields.
More than ten destructive ripples went through the blade and cut into the depths of the wisdom tree.
Rays of golden light even exploded from the back of the wisdom tree.
The wisdom tree let out a shrill scream of pain, and its branches and vines started twitching violently.
Lu Siya snorted coldly. She did not want to show weakness. With a light leap, she jumped over Meng Chao's shoulder and knelt down on one knee under the wisdom tree.
She placed her palms on the ground and mumbled. Spirit tattoos that were even more exquisite and complicated than Meng Chao's appeared around her.
As her vitality magnetic field surged, the spirit tattoos gradually moved from her body to her palms, then from her palms to the ground.
With Lu Siya at the center, a large runic formation formed by hundreds of spirit tattoos and runic symbols spread out on the ground.
All the stones in the runic formation were under Lu Siya's control.
First, it was the fine dust, then the muddy soil, then the shattered pebbles, and finally, the hardest rocks floated into the air and condensed into giant, steel-like snakes.
When dozens of stone snakes danced madly around Lu Siya, the presence that could crush everything did not lose to Meng Chao's, who had the Dragon Patterned War Robe and Golden Tooth Bloody Soul on his shoulder.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
Lu Siya raised her right arm high and brought it down like a guillotine.
Dozens of Rock Snakes were like extensions of her arms and fingers. Their speed soared to the limit as they fought to be the first to smash the roots of the Wisdom Tree like cannonballs, almost uprooting the Wisdom Tree.
The astonishing scene made Meng Chao remember the first time he and Lu Siya fought together under Raging Waves three years ago.
At that time, Lu Siya had just started developing from a support occupation to a fighting occupation. She could only summon a small Rock Snake, and it was weak and would collapse at the first touch!
In just three short years, the changes that happened to her could be described as someone who had been reborn and turned into a completely different person!
Meng Chao had Kindling and the contribution point system to help him, but she had nothing. She could only rely on her hard work.
In a sense, Big Sis Ya had more potential than him.
He really did not choose the wrong person. She was the best partner for him to work with on his path to become a superhuman!
As he stared at Lu Siya's heroic bearing, Meng Chao could not help but smile. "Big Sis Ya, you didn't tell me that you improved so quickly over the past half a year!"
"Of course!"
Lu Siya was a woman who did not know the meaning of modesty. She flung off her sweat and the dust on her hair. "Did you think that I managed to secure my position as the leader of Group 9 because I leeched off your achievements?" she said smugly.
They had not worked together for half a year.
It was not as if they did not want to compete against each other in secret.
They brought out the amazing martial arts they had been practicing over the past half a year and attacked the wisdom tree madly.
Meng Chao swung his super heavy saber and created a golden whirlwind.
Lu Siya summoned more than one hundred Rock Snakes in one go.
The two of them practically brought out the destructive power of two armies.
They were shocked by each other's astonishing improvement, and they said at the same time, "Monsters!"
"Huff, huff, huff, huff!"
When the two of them finally retreated at the same time and covered each other while gasping for breath, the wisdom tree was already surrounded by smoke and flames.
However, almost at the same moment that they retreated, there was a 'slurp slurp slurp, slurp slurp' sound from the smoke and flames.
This was the sound of cells splitting and flesh regenerating, which gave humans the greatest headache.
The Goddess of Plague, who had just been cut in half by Meng Chao, stepped through the smoke and flames. She walked through the air and stared at the duo from above.
Behind her was the wisdom tree, which had been ravaged by them madly, but now, it reappeared in front of them, completely unharmed!
"That's impossible!"
Meng Chao was dumbfounded.
He and Lu Siya had been flattering each other for a long time, but they had managed to achieve the effect of smoke being unscathed.
This was very awkward.
Lu Siya gritted her teeth and summoned another Rock Snake to stab the root of the wisdom tree.
The stalagmite was as sharp as a spear, and it had clearly pierced a hole through the wisdom tree.
But at the moment the stalagmite was pulled out, sticky resin flowed out of the wisdom tree and filled up the hole perfectly.
Meng Chao cut off the smiling Goddess of Plague's head again.
But it was originally formed by vines, moss, lichens, and fungal carpet.
As the fungus and moss squirmed about, it soon grew a new head that looked like Golden Millennium.
The branches, vines, burls, and trunk were all the same.
It seemed to boast the ability of infinite division, infinite proliferation, and infinite rebirth. No matter how the two of them slashed, stabbed, and bombarded the tree with spiritual energy that was powerful enough to blow up a skyscraper, the wisdom tree would recover at a visible speed.
"How could this be?"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other, then at the exploration team members who were fighting hard around them. The defense line was about to collapse, and the undead were increasing in number. They sank into despair.
However, at the same time as despair rose in Meng Chao's heart, a strange feeling grew stronger.
He felt that something was off.
He seemed to have overlooked something.
He had overlooked something … that had been right in front of him since the start. It was too obvious, which was why he had not noticed it.
"Wait!"
Hence, when Lu Siya gritted her teeth again and wanted to burn her life without care to release all her spirit energy, Meng Chao moved like lightning and pressed down on her shoulder.
His expression returned to the extreme calmness he had when he figured out the situation and solved the Vortex's scheme during the battle of the lair.
"Don't waste your energy. We're still in an illusion."
Meng Chao stared at the Goddess of Plague and enunciated his words slowly.
"What?" Lu Siya was stunned.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Meng Chao explained calmly. "Even if the wisdom tree is really the mastermind of the monsters, it has to follow scientific principles and the laws of nature. As long as it's a carbon-based creature, no matter how strong its cells' ability to multiply and repair itself is, there's a limit to it!
"With our current cultivation realms and fighting strength, if I'm being a little humble, we're both top-class elites among the younger generation in Dragon City. If we work together and use our big moves fearlessly, even if we're facing a Deity Realm superhuman or an Apocalyptic Beast, it's impossible for us not to be injured. At the very least, they'll have a few nosebleeds and lose a few leg hairs to show us some respect, right?
"If this guy is really ridiculously strong, and he has such a loyal army of undead lurking around us, waiting for his command at any time, why would he need to go through so much trouble to play the game of 'paradise'?
"It could just beat us up so badly that our souls would leave our bodies. Then, it could plant the zombie virus in our bodies or the mind virus in our brains. Wouldn't it have the final say?
"The only reason we can stop it from doing this is because it can't do it. This is still an illusion, and we're just scaring ourselves!"
"That's right, this is a double illusion!"
Lu Siya was a smart person. Once she was reminded by Meng Chao, she immediately came to a realization.
"I understand why the previous illusion of paradise was so colorful and had a lot of things that didn't make sense. It was really clumsy. It's not that it can't make the illusion look real, but that it intentionally revealed flaws so that we would discover how fake the illusion was!"
Lu Siya spoke quickly. "To the creator of the illusion, the most important thing is to make the person it wants to deceive walk into the illusion without their knowledge and completely blur the boundaries between reality and illusion.
"If a person is originally in a sunny city and suddenly comes to an isolated island in a storm, no matter how lifelike the island is, no matter how good the sound and visual effects of the lightning and storm are, they will not be fooled.
"The same logic applies to us. We were originally exploring the area around the sinkhole, but we suddenly ran into a strange monster horde and explosion. Then, we fell into the abyss and appeared on a fluffy and soft bed in Peach Blossom Town. Even if we didn't react to it at that time, when we thought about it calmly, it didn't make sense.
"The explorers are all determined people. The lie of 'drifting down a peach blossom stream' can't deceive everyone.
"And in a large-scale group illusion, as long as one person wakes up, it might cause an unpredictable chain reaction. To the creator of the illusion, it's bad.
"The wisdom tree knows that it can't perfectly explain why hundreds of explorers appeared in Peach Blossom Town at the same time. We will become suspicious sooner or later.
"So, it decided to create a double illusion. The first one was meant for us to see through it.
"When we thought that we shattered its illusion and returned to reality, the real illusion had just begun!"
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