Chapter 299: First Blood

Gale and heavy snow, thunder and lightning.

At this moment, compared to the overwhelming blizzard, the pass, which was tens of kilometers wide and formed by the clamping of two mountains, also appeared so narrow.

The storm flowing on the earth converged under the constriction of the mountain range, appearing even more tyrannical.

It was like falling into a wild tide in the sea in an instant.

The miserable white torrent swallowed everything.

From the darkness that covered the sky and the sun, in the darkness, countless flying snow and fragments whistled through the wind, turning into thousands of traces, stretching infinitely.

Just like the curtain falling on the stage, all prying eyes were blocked out.

Now, there were no more annoying spectators watching, and no need to worry about the persona collapsing or scaring the children; the two completely different faces of the "actors" in front of and behind the scenes switched silkily.

Pulling hair, tearing skirts, spitting when they should spit, and throwing old fists when they should throw old fists.

Now, it's happy tearing time!

Boom!

The sub-zero cold locked the high temperature of the boiling dragon blood, countless snowflakes falling on the steel monster's body evaporated, dissipated instantly, leaving a straight trail in the storm.

Panying hungered and roared.

In the gloomy storm, blood light rose like a torch, soaring.

From rushing into the storm, no, the counterattack that had been prepared for a long time before rushing into the storm had already reached the extreme, even the manta ray that was split in two could not block the edge of this blow, but instead used its own life as a sacrifice to further promote Panying's ferocity and edge!

The sound of bursting was endless, and it was annihilated in the roar of the gale.

The residual light flashed and vanished.

All defenses and shields fixed on Tiancheng's contestant vehicle shattered in an instant, fell apart, and the slashing blood light tore through the roof of the car, unstoppable!

But immediately after, it was as if it suddenly solidified and froze from the air.

In a moment of near stagnation, the blood-flow giant sword with fierce flames rubbed against the void, sparks erupted, and faint cracks appeared from the void, spreading.

Inch by inch forward.

The driver's face was livid, roaring, the veins on his forehead burst, the power of the Tian Tian Yuan system surged out; its delicacy could not be compared with Tong Shan's, but the instantaneous explosive power was terrifying; actually, the moment he reacted, he resisted this long-planned sword, completely unable to hold back in his haste, instinctively, going all out.

And the consequence was... ignoring the White Deer lurking and peeping in the wind and snow!

In the darkness, An Ning flicked her finger.

A faint light suddenly appeared from behind the speeding snow powder, flying lightly as if it had no weight, suddenly drawing a curved arc, invading from the crack of the car window, just like the exquisite edge held by an invisible hand, wiping toward the driver's neck.

Bang!

Strange claws stretched out of the broken bottle out of thin air.

It was Maya.

The moment she sensed the death of the manta ray, she decisively crushed the bottle hanging on her waist, releasing the disaster beast that had been contained within it; it was like a wisp of white smoke, ignoring the gale, curling and dancing, wrapping around Maya's body, extending toward the surroundings in thousands of threads, and under Maya's command, claws appeared out of thin air, one after another, blocking before the faint light, gripping it tightly, holding it!

The whole process was just in an instant.

In the collision between the Little Niu Ma that descended from the sky and Tiancheng's vehicle, just between steel and steel, monster and machine, the physical kinetic energy collided in the most cruel way, making both fly backward!

Amidst the driver's screams—

The wisp of faint light that popped out of the darkness, although it didn't take the life of the Tian Tian Yuan driver, it easily chiseled a faint crack on the iron wall of air solidified by the power of thought.

Blood light drove straight in, flashing and vanishing.

Severely injured!

The driver who flew out of the car was grabbed by Maya in mid-air, seemingly unscathed, but the moment he was dragged, the half of his body touched by the blood light shattered instantly, countless cracks appeared, blood sprayed, was wrapped away by the storm, and under Panying's pulling, flew up against the gale and fell into the sword blade.

It was like blood vessels connecting each other, swallowing happily.

In severe pain, the driver became ruthless, and the power of thought forcibly locked the blood vessels and wounds inside, forcibly cutting off the devouring. But behind him, a sharp hiss suddenly came.

The moment he reacted, his face had already turned a color paler than snow.

Their... car!

No, now it's Ji Jue's car.

Deeper in the pass, the figure standing in the wind and snow raised his hand—Mechanical Deification!

The severely injured vehicle that had just been slashed by Panying changed instantly, the steel healed and changed, turning into a broken monster walking on four legs, and without hesitation, bit back at its own master!

At the same time, the Little Niu Ma that fell backward seemed to be completely fine, just rolled over, climbed up in the gale, borrowed the wind, and ran wildly again.

In the half-month of preparation, Ji Jue had long used the materials he scraped and whored from the three departments to gradually replace its body through alchemy, from the car frame to the chassis, from the suspension to the engine—it can be said that its whole body, the worst is the armor hanging on the outside, and that is also the composite armor directly plucked from the Haizhou garrison base and then strengthened in physical properties!

Now the Little Niu Ma, except for the dragon blood in its body, had long since had no similarity to the previous little sheep; if it were a human, it might struggle with the dilemma and problem of the Ship of Theseus, but for a monster whose body was dragon blood essence, it would only say it was delicious, loved it, and wanted to eat more.

I damn eat eat eat eat—

"Careful!!!"

In the gale blowing in his face, the driver's eyes were about to split, roaring at Maya, just wanting to say something, but in the darkness where the storm came from, the figure overlooking indifferently just raised his hand.

Aim, lock, pull the trigger.

The crystal bullets sealing the sin-tainted metal had already rushed toward them from the gale—carefully endowed with spiritual quality structure, engraved with many Upper Goods emblems to enhance destructive power, and at the same time endowed with armor-piercing effects, and itself carried the scraps from the study of the Elephant Sword Theory and sin-tainted pollution; the moment it left the chamber, it had already rushed to their faces.

Toward, Maya!

With the Little Niu Ma in front and the opponent's Little Niu Ma behind, the severely injured Tian Tian Yuan far away was simply not worth worrying about; from beginning to end, the one who could pose the greatest threat to Ji Jue was precisely the navigator who possessed the strengths of both Metamorphosis and Heart Pivot!

Bang!

A muffled sound, in the hurricane, on Maya's twisted and pale face, blood and gore oozed from her mouth and nose again.

She hadn't mobilized the disaster beast that protected her, and it would have been useless to mobilize it—the strong intuition unique to the Metamorphosis system and the pure killing intent read from Ji Jue by Heart Pivot, and even, the instinct that was more terrifying than that sword...

For this reason, she decisively mobilized the crucial high-level skill of the Metamorphosis system—Revision Negation!

The heart wins over things, transcends things, and can naturally negate things!

With self-perception, forcibly erase the incoming attack from the present world, negate and resist accepting this reality.

Pop!

The bullet disappeared without a trace.

Immediately after, the pain and backlash of the soul cracking made her wail, but soon the injury dissipated without a trace, transferred to her arms—cracks appeared on the strange pendant that looked like a rag doll, blood color oozed, and it screamed like a baby. Unable to care about the pain of the substitute doll, Maya scrambled and ran wildly in the storm, and at the same time, threw a spiritual quality impact that fused soul riot and Five Skandhas torment toward Ji Jue, Little Niu Ma, and the monster catalyzed by Mechanical Deification.

Boom!

The Little Niu Ma's movement just stalled for a moment, but behind the Tian Tian Yuan driver, the steel monster just catalyzed by Mechanical Deification exploded suddenly, lost control, and countless fragments flew.

And just upstream of the storm, under the support and protection of the mercury limbs, Ji Jue's eyes went black again, blood oozed from his mouth and nose, and his spiritual quality was disordered.

He actually stopped the offensive, raised his hand, and wiped the blood on his face.

The severely injured driver was overjoyed, supported the repulsive force again, and turned to look at Maya.

Then, the smile stiffened on his face.

Stunned.

Maya was also stunned, blank and puzzled, not understanding why her teammate cast such a terrified look, until, she felt a faint coolness on her heart...

On her chest, a penetrating hole suddenly appeared.

Blood sprayed out, and under the wrapping of the gale, it left her body, stretching a faint dancing red practice in the air.

It's over.

Www??????? co

When she wanted to speak, she could no longer make a sound.

But exactly... when?!

The answer is, the moment she went all out to revise reality and negate Ji Jue's bullet, the faint light reappeared from the darkness, speeding, arriving silently.

Then, like a phantom, it easily penetrated the defense and interception of the smoke disaster beast, and at the moment of crossing, turned from virtual to real, from behind, penetrating the heart!

Like dew and electricity, the flash that passed in a moment was really too fast, so fast that the pain didn't have time to spread, and she didn't even feel the arrival of death.

Clearly it was just a wound on the flesh, even without a heart, it should have been able to persist and survive; whether it was Metamorphosis or Heart Pivot, they should have been able to temporarily transcend the shackles of the body with their own will and thoughts.

But when a wisp of faint light plunged into the soul and exploded silently, everything was already over.

Life has its limits, and fate has its end.

Now, the flying light has arrived!

Die!

Accompanied by the annihilation of Maya's soul, the disaster beast that surged like smoke around her instantly expanded, as if waking up from the control and brainwashing of Heart Pivot, returning to freedom; before it could be overjoyed, it soared into the sky.

Then, it hit an invisible barrier.

The thousands of mercury threads spreading in the storm, I don't know when, had already been woven into a cage. Clearly woven so sparsely, but just by touching a wisp, it was like being stuck by super glue, unable to get rid of it.

The mist hissed, struggling, leaping and twitching time and again, yet it could not shake off the entanglement and shackles of the solid alchemy. Finally, as Ji Jue's five fingers contracted, it was thoroughly compressed into a sphere and fell to the ground.

Maya's corpse fell on the ice, no longer making a sound, finally revealing An Ning standing there, I don't know when, behind her.

At this moment, across countless flying snow, the girl looked back and smiled silently at the stunned Tiancheng driver.

"Say hello to the people coming behind for me."

In that instant, the radio that fell at the driver's feet shattered, and a cold voice came out.

Immediately after, the faint light reappeared, shooting over.

Boom!!

The void where the power of thought hardened into an iron wall shook violently, and finally, amidst the slashing of knives, axes, and hammers, it cracked, and then, Panying's blood light torrent drove straight in, forward.

Unstoppable!

At the last moment, the driver only had time to raise his hand in horror:

"Wait—"

Then, the blood light flashed and vanished.

After the instantaneous piercing, the sky full of blood color spread, danced, and under the hungry devouring of the sword blade, converged and gathered, integrated into it, and disappeared.

No bones left!

Then, without even Ji Jue's instruction, the Little Niu Ma had already begun to spontaneously crush everything remaining around it.

After annihilating all traces, it picked up Maya's corpse, threw it into the carriage that had just been thrown aside, changed again, and returned to the appearance of the original vehicle.

Amidst the roar of the engine, it moved forward again.

And the storm remained tyrannical, rolling snow powder, residual traces, and fragments, going to the further distance, disappearing.

When a sudden storm passed, the live broadcast airship lowered its altitude again and searched the vast snowy plains, everyone finally saw—

The falling curtain opened again.

A miracle performed!

At the end of the overwhelming white waves, the pitch-black vehicle broke through the gale and heavy snow, and amidst the cheers and shouts of countless audience members, broke out of the sea!

At most, there were a few more scratches on the armor, and the scarlet on the front of the car was even more vivid.

Just like that, it calmly crossed the last danger and drove toward the end of the snowy plains, toward the towering mountains.

Kunwu Plateau, already in sight!

"The first one."

In the speeding car, Ji Jue lowered his eyes and drew a cross on the place where "Tiancheng" was written in his notebook.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 300 =====