Chapter 48

Warm-up over, game begins.

Within the mental landscape, mental power gradually filled, and the mental link channel gradually closed.

A blue-glimmering egg floated on the pale gold sea, rising and falling with the ocean's surge.

Who says Sentinels are bad? Sentinels are great.

Hungry for a long time, first time feeling full; the blue egg slowly rolled on the sea surface.

Fu Guang rested a moment, relaxed her jaw, easing her sore teeth.

She squeezed the hand at her side, she no longer said it hurt, really as Xiao Lan said, it's also too awesome, right?

Golden six wings opened, Xi Guang saw the girl in his arms looking at him with burning eyes, as if wanting to eat him.

The mental link connecting the two was not broken; Xi Guang needed to sense the guide's condition.

The S-rank Sentinel's mental barrier was very solid; Fu Guang could vaguely feel the Sentinel's thoughts through the mental link, she narrowed her gaze somewhat, but she simply couldn't resist licking her lips.

What was before her was actually a large power bank.

It was still fragrant; Xiao Lan gulped down some golden spiritual power.

Delicious, just as delicious as the previous icy cold spiritual power.

A hand wearing a white glove appeared at Fu Guang's cheek, lightly turning the girl's head to one side.

Fu Guang didn't mind the large power bank's actions; whatever the large power bank did was right.

It would be even better if one could follow her.

Fu Guang's blue eyes flickered; she glanced at Xi Guang with the corner of her eye, "Executive Chief, you said if I solve the problem you'd give me a gift; I want to choose it myself, how about that?"

"After it's accomplished, the guide will choose." Xi Guang's wings fluttered; he felt that Fu Guang, who had suddenly changed her attitude, was more troublesome than any criminal he had ever seen.

"I hope the Executive Chief keeps his promise." Fu Guang curled the corner of her lip into a smile, as if victory were certain.

"Are you done chattering? Quibbling!" Ting Zhu's voice was louder than thunder, echoing across the battlefield.

Xi Guang suddenly raised his six wings, about to embrace Fu Guang, only to see Fu Guang instantly appear beside Ting Zhu.

Traveling by water?

"Yo, not bad looking." Ting Zhu's gaze swept over Fu Guang, and he spoke in a deep voice.

"Let's see what you've got, what could make Xi Guang take a liking to you."

The bloodthirsty vine seemed excited by Fu Guang's arrival; hundreds of branches abandoned others and all attacked Fu Guang.

Like a cage woven from crimson branches, looking forward from Fu Guang's position, not a single gap could be seen.

Ting Zhu's gun made a faint sound; several silver bullets struck the vine's nodes, instantly forming an electric net that entangled and shattered the branches attacking Fu Guang.

"Guide, warm-up's over, the game has begun."

Ting Zhu no longer looked at Fu Guang; he teleported to the side.

"You only have half an hour." Xi Guang, holding a light sword, flapped his six wings and landed beside her; he thought it would be great if Fu Guang, experiencing the battlefield for the first time, didn't get scared and cry.

Half an hour for her to ease into it is enough.

"No, a novice?" Ting Zhu looked at Xi Guang in disbelief, frowning, "Xi Guang, you're crazy, expending half your spiritual power to find an unstable factor?"

Xi Guang has always been calm and rational; otherwise he couldn't have sat in the Executive Chief's position.

Expending half his spiritual power to bring up a guide whose strength, even after a forced boost, is less than one percent of his?

Is he crazy? Or does he have other plans?

Is this scrawny girl actually useful?

He teleported back again, fearing that the guide bearing half of Xi Guang's spiritual power might not react to attacks in time and suddenly die.

He had also cooperated with Xi Guang before; Xi Guang's actions were measured, not like a hotheaded fool who decides on the spot, so he temporarily believed him for a while.

Xi Guang said nothing, drew his sword and stepped forward; the crimson branches touching the golden light shuddered violently like meeting hot oil, then were cut down by a single sword strike.

Fu Guang summoned Darkening Light, her fingertip sliding across the strings.

The three strings moved together; gong, shang, jiao — defense, attack, healing — turned brown, gold, and green, falling on each person.

The last two strings, as soon as she touched them she had a premonition; she couldn't pluck them.

Her current strength is only a pseudo A-plus; better not to push it.

"Buff, not bad." The black lines on Ting Zhu's cheek spread; a pair of white fluffy ears sprouted on his head, and a long tail, black and white alternating, swayed loosely behind him.

Fu Guang's eyes paused for a moment; a tall, sturdy man standing 2.2 meters really didn't match this appearance.

"What, want to touch? After the fight I'll let you touch as much as you like." Ting Zhu noticed Fu Guang's gaze; looking into her eyes, his wild nature fully showed as he casually grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth.

"Plucking hair from a tiger's head? I'm timid, better forget it." Fu Guang replied offhandedly.

Then she focused her gaze on the bloodthirsty vine; the vine had tens of thousands of regenerative branches, each branch that fell could become a small bloodthirsty vine; if not dealt with promptly, this small one would grow into a new organism.

Fortunately, everyone here is an S-rank Sentinel, so there isn't much blood for it to drink.

Fu Guang sensed her own blood within the main body of the bloodthirsty vine; her gaze sank.

The cultivation world has many hidden taboos, including two: do not let others obtain your blood, and do not casually drink others' blood.

The former: those with ability based on blood can cast various spells and exert control without the person's knowledge.

The latter: do you even know what's in the blood? And yet you dare to drink it?

Moreover, she is water-element; her blood is also water. Controlling the fluid inside the bloodthirsty vine with her ability is difficult, but using her own blood as a medium to control the fluid is not difficult.

Among peers, water-element can kill invisibly, leaving no trace.

Fu Guang lowered her eyes; the fingertip hidden in her sleeve twitched, and her blood likewise throbbed faintly.

The bloodthirsty vine won't notice this subtle activity hidden in its thick branches; the Sentinels, dealing with the endless branches, are somewhat exhausted and now have no spare attention.

A drop of blood gathered the fluid of forty to fifty branches in one place; Fu Guang said, "Watch my mark, Sentinels."

In the instant the sparkling blue light lit up, a sharp blade flashed past; Jin Zhu hooked the giant tree's branch with his foot and flipped back onto the branch.

Only seeing where the branches had just attacked, the area instantly cleared; she seemed to have used little force, yet she sliced through the branches.

Has she really found the weak point of the Bloodthirsty Vine?

"Come on." Tengzhu burst out laughing.

Baihu, Leiting, Jinjian, and Daofeng each broke a point, one after another.

Fu Guang shook her head; a wave of dizziness filled her mind as her mental power neared exhaustion. They said it would be half an hour—is that fifteen minutes?

Inside the Bloodthirsty Vine, her blood was almost gone—only two drops left—and the vine still had three thousand branches, but it wasn't enough.

After prolonged high-intensity combat, the Sentinels' mental power was nearly exhausted; the black lines on the unfamiliar Sentinel's cheek were about to crawl up to his ear.

"That Leiting Sentinel, please go to the rear." Tengzhu, having just narrowed his eyes to get through a spell of dizziness, then heard the guide tell him to go rest?

Who's talking about him? Who dares to command him like that? He lifted his brows, his eyes cold as he looked toward Fu Guang.

Then a pure blue potion was tossed over; after grabbing it, it was still no bigger than his palm.

"Are you planning to fight only halfway through the mutation, then come fight us?"