Lin Zhen clenched his fists tightly. He opened his mouth to speak, and the others were also reluctant to leave.
“Trust me!” Yun Ruoxi turned and looked back, a brilliant and gentle smile on her face. “I’ll catch up!”
“After all, I’m the first!”
「What kind of Lao Shi speech is that?」
「The last person who said they were the strongest got cut in half. Don’t go jinxing yourself, Lao Xi.」
「Lao Xi is like an old general on a stage.」
Lin Zhen listened to Yun Ruoxi’s confident declaration, his expression shifting as he weighed his options.
Beside him, Kaos stepped forward. He placed a hand on Lin Zhen’s shoulder and pulled him back, his face full of seriousness.
“A Zhen, trust Xiao Xi. If we delay any longer, more Tree God Guards will arrive, and it will be impossible to end this! With Xiao Xi here alone, she’s a smaller target and won’t have to worry about us.”
“Given her speed and strength, she can leave whenever she wants! These Tree God Guards can’t stop her.”
“Besides, we’re just going to another battlefield first!”
“A Kai is right,” Zi Jiu interjected softly.
Lin Zhen was silent for a moment before finally sighing. “Let’s go!”
He simply didn’t want to abandon his companion; it wasn’t that he had lost his reason.
But before they could even leave the street, a tall green elf stepped out from in front of them.
She licked her lips and suddenly cracked the long whip in her hand. One by one, the surrounding houses began to stand up.
At the same time, a massive shadow suddenly appeared, enveloping them.
The group looked up to see dozens of massive House Giants jumping directly from the high-altitude urban area. Atop one of the House Giants stood a thin green elf with his arms crossed.
Kaos’s face turned pale.
“This is crazy. It’s not just Flame Star — these green elves have gone mad too!”
“Flame Star drove them crazy. Besides, they can control plant growth and transformation. No matter how much the city is destroyed, it can be repaired quickly!”
Lin Zhen’s expression was also quite grim.
Now, enemies were in front, behind, to the left, and to the right.
Both Yun Ruoxi and Kaos were right; they were too conspicuous with so many people making such a commotion. They had to leave this place as soon as possible.
The thought flashed through his mind.
Holding his star energy metal spear, he turned toward the right — the second-closest direction to the city outskirts — and shouted while running, “Charge! Cut right through them!”
“Understood!”
Zi Jiu took a long breath and drew her double blades from her back.
Blood-red hellfire poured from her palms, spreading from the hilts all the way to the tips of the blades.
With a strange sound of twisting metal, demon heads grew from the hilts, and the blades became covered in complex patterns full of eerie beauty.
The hellfire simultaneously burned through her mimicry, spreading to every part of her body.
Spikes and studs grew on her star energy combat suit, giving it a retro-punk vibe.
*Whoosh!*
Zi Jiu flashed past Lin Zhen with her blades trailing behind her, leaving a path of blazing fire.
She charged toward a giant transformed from a house and jumped high, stepping off the edge of the corner at the end of the street.
Then, using the power of her waist, she spun her entire body in the air, moving so fast she looked like a wheel of red fire.
*Swoosh swoosh swoosh!*
The fire wheel sliced through the nearest House Giants and sprayed a large amount of flames into the surroundings, igniting the houses on both sides.
Plants controlled by Tree God Weapons were immune to ordinary flames, which was why they didn’t fear fires. But Zi Jiu’s hellfire was no ordinary flame!
「What kind of double blade back scrub is this?」
「Ghost rider!」
「Lao Jiu is so cool!」
“A Kai!” Zi Jiu shouted.
Kaos understood her plan almost instantly. While shouting his acknowledgment, he puffed out his cheeks and blew forward.
The weak airflow from his mouth instantly grew stronger. By the time it reached Zi Jiu’s side, it had turned into a howling gale.
The gale blew the flames, making them claw like devils as they spread in all directions at extreme speed.
The wind fueled the fire!
But it wasn’t over yet. Zi Jiu only wanted Kaos to help her spread the fire, but Kaos had his own ideas. He slammed his hands together. A wisp of rapidly spinning gale was born in the center of the flames.
The gale wrapped around the flames and spun wildly. Under the influence of Kaos’s supernatural power, it frantically absorbed the surrounding air and fire.
Seeing this, Zi Jiu immediately pushed her double blades forward, continuously feeding her hellfire into the fire tornado.
A terrifying fire tornado was beginning to form!
The heat it radiated alone was enough to ignite the nearby House Giants, causing them to wail as they turned into fireballs.
“We can’t let this ghostly thing keep growing!”
A Tree God Guard not far away narrowed her eyes. With a swing of her long whip, dozens of purple-tinted spikes shot out from the whip’s body.
*Clang clang clang!*
Lin Zhen controlled an iron shield to block them all.
At the same time, vines that tunneled out from the ground to sneak-attack Kaos were stopped by the combined efforts of Anvil and Yun Che. Under everyone’s protection, the fire tornado grew rapidly.
Kaos shouted for everyone to move out of the way, then activated his supernatural power, pushing it toward the Tree God Guard holding the whip. Everywhere it went, the controlled plants wailed and turned to ash.
「What a cool combo!」
「Is this the main cast’s heart-pumping combo skill?」
「Their cooperation is so good.」
No sooner said than done.
All of this happened in a very short amount of time. At this point, the House Giants falling from the high-altitude urban area were still about 100 meters from the ground.
However, the sound of the wind being broken by the falling behemoths was already deafening.
Lin Zhen quickly waved his hand and shouted, “Go, hurry up and go!”
The Tree God Guard was still unwilling to give up and tried to intercept them, but the fire tornado had already reached her.
Furthermore, because this was a densely populated urban area, if she dodged, the area affected would be incredibly vast. She couldn’t dodge.
She could only grit her teeth and take it head-on.
But then she discovered that no matter what means she used, she couldn’t stop the fully formed fire tornado. Instead, she was constantly providing it with nourishment to grow larger.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!”
She roared and dodged backward. A massive House Giant landed right in front of her, smashing a huge crater into the ground. The terrifying vibration caused her feet to slip, and she nearly fell.
And this was only the beginning.
Over the next several seconds, more and more House Giants, carrying massive momentum, slammed heavily into the ground like cannonballs.
Most of them were aimed at the escaping Lin Zhen and his group, while a small portion was aimed at Yun Ruoxi.
*Thump thump thump!*
Lin Zhen and the others used every trick they had — dodging or blocking head-on — and finally managed to endure the rain of giants. They ran out of the battlefield along the path burned open by the fire.
Just before leaving, Lin Zhen paused for a moment and turned to take one last look at Yun Ruoxi, who was still fighting in the distance.
Yun Ruoxi stood in the air.
She was surrounded by a dense cluster of floating, spiral-shaped wooden spears. She was like a stubborn rock in a river.
The House Giants falling from the sky smashed down on her head one after another, but they couldn’t budge her figure in the slightest.
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