Chapter 641
Chapter 641 - 621: Light Against Desperation
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The mountain collapsed? No, the sky collapsed.
When Hannah appeared in front of Lu Ping’an again, the initial upheaval was actually smaller than Lu Ping’an had anticipated.
She just suddenly appeared in front of Lu Ping’an with a calm expression, neither sad nor happy.
And the torn flames around her clearly show that she did not really walk over slowly.
If one were to look down from above, they would see a huge trench from the middle of the arena to the corner, standing between the two of them... The appearance of the valley trench was just a momentary thing.
However, this was just the prelude to her outburst...
"...Don’t die."
A simple phrase, perhaps a kind of blessing, and the sincerity in it can easily touch one’s heart.
But at this moment, Lu Ping’an once again fell into a momentary trance... On the other side of the hideous shark’s head, he seemed to see another face, a younger, sadder, and more worried woman...
"Lu Ping’an!" The strong mental wave from Zhi Xi woke him up again.
This wasn’t a mental attack, but rather her words in this state could disturb Lu Ping’an’s vulnerable mind at the moment.
Luckily, Hannah didn’t attack at this moment, she just continued to smile at Lu Ping’an.
The previous bloodlust and frenzy seemed to be just an illusion... And this scene made Lu Ping’an, sheltered by his solid defense, feel the ultimate fear.
He was like a fish that had jumped ashore, knowing the despair of its impending demise.
There was no escape; death was certain... The instincts of living beings were screeching in Lu Ping’an’s ears.
But at this moment, when Death screeched again in front of Lu Ping’an, he too laughed.
"...Of course not, my life hasn’t belonged to me in a long time."
And what responded to him was the creepy smile of the Shark-tooth Knight, and the long-awaited... Battle Axe.
The wave-cutting axe did not strike the shield this time.
It hit the void, striking a spot four or five meters away from Lu Ping’an.
The seemingly misjudged battle axe brought about a ferocious impact sound.
Something in the space... or the void began to collapse!
Vibration? No, it was something even higher.
The ground of the arena could no longer withstand it.
In front of Lu Ping’an’s eyes, space began to collapse, and life began to disintegrate.
"...The sky is collapsing."
The world spinning was the current state of Lu Ping’an, who could not even tell whether the sky’s collapse was real or a cruel illusion.
Only when the "Resonance" finally arrived in a certain sense did Lu Ping’an realize how ridiculous his previous defenses were.
The Turtle Spirit’s Force Field Shield? In an instant, it was directly swallowed and disintegrated.
Iron-making from Ironstones? The covering "iron skin transformation" was merely affected by the shockwave and turned directly into flying ash.
Too powerful a Decree... or possibly a "rule" directly ignored the "Black Iron Curse" of Lu Ping’an and Zhi Xi.
𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
This was a qualitative suppression, an absolute difference in power that led to despair.
After swinging this strike, Hannah was still smiling, and even had the leisure to speak again.
"One of the three supreme kills of the Wave-Cutting Technique, Extinguish Void... I can only use this, so if you don’t die, feel it with your body, and learn as much as you can."
The next moment, she demonstrated it once again.
When the battle axe swung down again, the originally torn, entangled, and forcibly resonating "vibration source" with the world...
All the eyewitnesses seemed to hear the sound of space shattering and the "wailing" of the rules.
A huge gap began to spread like crazy along with the point of attack.
And the Hannah who made all this happen, smiling, put down her battle axe... Her body was slowly becoming transparent.
With her current state, everything was already over after using "Extinguish Void."
She had turned into a bubble shadow before the unavoidable shockwave hit, and at that moment, the shark’s skull had turned into a human... Perhaps this was her form before being cursed.
But Lu Ping’an could only catch a glimpse of this scene.
His last arrangement was already meaningless, but now all he could do was struggle to survive.
As a fellow practitioner of the Wave Battle Axe, he could feel the air vibrating, the earth shaking, and even the rules that sustained the world beginning to waver.
He could not understand, could not resist, could only grit his teeth and record everything before him... and then try to live on.
"Final Form."
At this moment, when his body was disintegrating along with the Resonance, and when Zhi Xi’s skin was showing a lot of debris, Lu Ping’an knew that there was no good luck left.
"Final Plan."
The final tactic was activated, which was an incomplete and utterly unpredictable ultimate gamble...
"Spiritualization..."
Inside Lu Ping’an’s armor, there was always a familiar scroll. Meow’s Talent Abilities were expensive and short-lived, but at critical moments, they were always a trump card with a nearly unlimited limit.
This time, Lu Ping’an completed the Spirit Body transformation quickly.
The solid metal knight turned into a ghostly steel guardian... To achieve the best, Zhi Xi also used the Ability Borrowing Contract for Spiritualization!
In the face of such an attack, the original armor was already meaningless, and only by improving one’s "foundation" could one survive.
And the "All Things Breathing Martial Arts" made this high-level Spiritualization technique, which could only be achieved at the highest level, simple and easy to use.
Lu Ping’an transformed, and the Ghostly Knight, turned into Lu Ping’an’s ghost, possessed the Ghost Knight.
At this moment, the original metal knight seemed to become a living person.
The black knight struggled and resisted in the waves of space, trying to survive.
This state theoretically could ignore physical attacks...but the rushing tide still tried to sweep away the "rubble" in its way.
"Not enough, still not enough."
"The very, very, very final plan... Little Flame!"
The tactic of overlapping possessions had no theoretical limit as long as it could be endured.
Using the current "All is One" state, the bond between lives and spirit bodies was completed once again.
At that moment, the world suddenly went dark, yet also bright.
The mountain collapsed, and the sky collapsed, too.
The space in the arena showed a chain reaction of collapse.
The Ghost Knight that Lu Ping’an had transformed into had already been sucked into it, trapped deep in the quagmire and unable to save himself.
The desperate tide did not stop, but before being swallowed up, a vicious beast suddenly leaped out, trying to swim against the current.
It, or he, or she... Wrapped in golden flames, humanoid yet beast-like and saint-like, with four claws and two legs, shimmering with the metallic luster.
It faced adversity and continued to move forward, even as space fractured.
It broke through the despairing times and traversed the shattered space...
It crawled out.
At least before Lu Ping’an completely lost control and awareness, he... they were still alive.
"Congratulations, Host, for winning the Heroic Spirit Challenge (Lower Gold Rank)!"
— End of Chapter 641 —