Chapter 3264: The Boat of Friendship Returns

Not only was the Light Flame Lord fleeing, but Wood, Sin-Ais, and Lilim were also fleeing. They used manipulation, deception, and bewitchment to drive a large group of Beast-ized ones, the Abandoned, and the Sand Tribe toward the direction from which the Sun Bird: Taihakaku was flying.

After the distance closed a bit, Su Xiao saw the general appearance of the Sun Bird: Taihakaku, which was 90% similar to the Phoenix in mythology.

This giant bird with a wingspan of over ten meters had a sun behind it as it flew. Wherever it passed, the ground would ignite with flames, and the high temperature spreading in the air would make living beings feel desperate to the extreme.

This was simply a mobile natural disaster. Fighting it? This was basically impossible. The Sun Bird: Taihakaku only needed to fly at an altitude of ten thousand meters to continuously roast the area below. To get close to it, one not only had to resist the high temperature but also face an oxygen-free environment and flames that suddenly burned through space.

Fighting it from a distance meant being slowly roasted, and rushing toward it was even more fragrant—crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

Three figures leaped onto the city wall: Wood, Sin-Ais, and Lilim. Wood and Sin-Ais both stopped, and the three-person team reunited.

Wood and Sin-Ais looked at the J-Demon held by Su Xiao's feet, and smiles appeared in their eyes.

Sin-Ais examined the J-Demon sniper rifle. For some reason, he suddenly wasn't in a hurry to flee anymore and asked: "Bai Ye, what is this weapon?"

"Firewood stick."

Su Xiao looked at the fire cloud pressing in from afar, knowing that he couldn't stay in this world any longer. As for the Light Flame Lord, this big boss, he could only say goodbye. Su Xiao estimated that this big boss wouldn't exist for too long—maybe a few days, or perhaps a month or so.

According to Su Xiao's observations and the data he had investigated, the Light Flame Lord and the Sun Monarch were not the same person; the two might have a kinship.

A more important point was that after the Light Flame Lord appeared, he didn't know what had happened before, but based on the current situation, he mistook Wood and the others for the murderers who killed the Sun Monarch.

The appearance of the Light Flame Lord was not because of a bloodline connection, but to make the person who killed the Sun Monarch pay a price in blood.

At this time, in the Light Flame Lord's cognition, there were four enemies: the one who played with water (Water Brother), the black bone (Wood), the big white leg (Lilim), and the seafood (Sin-Ais).

The Light Flame Lord hated these four people more. On Su Xiao's side, because of what happened before, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had added a halo to the Light Flame Lord.

After receiving the halo buff, the Light Flame Lord could sense Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's general location. This was inevitable. The Light Flame Lord had an action that represented he wasn't crazy. Ever since receiving the halo buff, he began to explore the range of this ability, and then he found the edge area of the halo, fighting Wood and the others while maintaining that he wouldn't easily rush out of the halo's range.

This meant that the Light Flame Lord was deliberately attracting the enemies away, keeping them away from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. From this, one could see the character of this big boss.

If Donkey Brother could leave the Sand World and enter other Inner Painting Worlds, it would be lively. This meant that a four-legged big boss would continuously hunt down Wood, Sin-Ais, Water Brother, and Lilim.

Comparing combat power, Donkey Brother actually didn't crush these four people. Based on the previous situation, none of the four would use their full strength. If it were a one-on-one, Donkey Brother was stronger than any one of these four.

For Su Xiao, this was enough. Let Donkey Brother hunt them down to his heart's content.

Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of a possibility: if Donkey Brother could leave the Sand World, couldn't the Sun Bird: Taihakaku do the same?

Thinking about it this way, he couldn't bother with Donkey Brother even more. Donkey Brother could drag down three opponents. If the Sun Bird: Taihakaku could really leave the Sand World and go to other Inner Painting Worlds to hunt him down, having Donkey Brother hold back three opponents would at least give him a glimmer of breathing space. He really didn't believe that the Sun Bird: Taihakaku was invincible in all Inner Painting Worlds. The three Ancient Gods of the Wizard World were also called invincible back then, but what happened in the end?

Su Xiao looked into the distance from the city wall. One by one, the Abandoned rushed toward the pressing fire domain. Wood and Sin-Ais were also watching this scene.

Sin-Ais didn't know who the Sun Bird: Taihakaku was hunting down. Beside him, Wood's expression was relaxed, typically watching the fun without fearing it was too big. At this moment, Su Xiao suddenly spoke.

"Wood, your father is looking for you."

"What?"

Wood was confused for a moment, and then, killing intent surged in his heart. Seeing this, Bahar on the side said:

"Your father must have something urgent to find you. It has already prepared to devour the items in our team space. Release it immediately; you should be mentally prepared."

"Wait..."

Bahar didn't wait, but instead shouted loudly.

"Father is here!"

"I..."

Just as Wood's words came out, Bahar took a black pottery shard from the team storage space and slapped it onto Wood's forehead with a "pa" sound, almost knocking Wood to the ground. That attitude seemed to say: 'You are really unfilial; it's been so long, and you didn't take the initiative to find your old father. You Devil race members are all rebellious children.'

This scene was truly "father kind and son filial."

Wood was almost angered to death and immediately chose to return to the Main Painting World.

Su Xiao didn't return immediately. He had a premonition that the Sand World was completely different from the previous Nightmare World. This place was more like a springboard and a major node, allowing participants to roughly understand what had happened in the Painting World. The subsequent two Inner Painting Worlds were definitely closely related to this place.

The Sun Bird: Taihakaku was like it was on the horizon before, but now it had pressed close. The scorching temperature rushed toward them, making it difficult to even breathe.

A large group of Beast-ized ones, the Abandoned, and the Sand Tribe rushed toward the Sun Bird: Taihakaku. They were sent out to die, to see exactly how strong the Sun Bird: Taihakaku's combat power was.

Several hundred meters above, the silhouette of the Sun Bird: Taihakaku was located in the flames. Its eyes had the sharpness of an eagle's cry, as well as the majesty of a god-type creature.

Whoosh!!

The Sun Bird: Taihakaku spat out golden-red flames from its mouth. These continuously spat flames instantly crashed to the ground. As the flames spread to both sides, the impact force blasted the ground until it cracked. Soil, sand, rock layers, etc., were all burned into a gaseous state. These flames not only had powerful impact force, but the temperature was also terrifying.

The earth trembled. With a "boom," due to the high pressure underground, a large area of the ground cracked open like a flower, and the soil was roasted into a gaseous state while still flying in mid-air.

The Beast-ized ones, the Abandoned, and the Sand Tribe, who had been full of momentum just now, had disappeared at this time, not even leaving a residue. Su Xiao knew why Donkey Brother ran so fast after seeing the Sun Bird: Taihakaku; anyone with normal thinking would have to run.

Determining that the matter was impossible, Su Xiao activated the permission to return to the Main Painting World. He had already made a fortune this time; there was no need to continue staying.

The second before he was teleported away, Su Xiao saw the pair of eyes staring at him in the flames in the distance. The meaning of that gaze was already very clear: it and Su Xiao must have one die, otherwise, it would never give up.

When the darkness before Su Xiao's eyes faded, he had returned to the reception hall of the Main Painting World's Gubao. On the wall in front were four paintings.

Both the "Nightmare Painting" and the "Sand Painting" had been experienced. The subsequent two paintings were still covered in iron chains.

Su Xiao looked at the "Sand Painting" and frowned. In the Sand Painting, the Sun Bird: Taihakaku was in this painting. It actually... moved, slowly sliding its sharp claws across the painting screen, as if it might pounce out at any time.

Pa.

A wooden stick as thick as a thumb hit the "Sand Painting." It was the Young Lady; he didn't know when she had come.

With a very ordinary wooden stick hit, the Sun Bird: Taihakaku in the "Sand Painting" narrowed its sharp eyes. Finally, after slightly lowering its head to the Young Lady, the Sun Bird: Taihakaku gradually turned into flames and merged with the surrounding painting scenery.

Su Xiao took 16 Scroll Fragments from his storage space and handed them to the Young Lady.

The Young Lady, who was more than a head shorter than Su Xiao, held them with both hands to avoid any damage to the 【Scroll Fragments】.

"Don't bother with the person in Room 5."

After the Young Lady finished speaking, she walked toward her easel and high stool.

【Prompt: You have submitted Scroll Fragments ×16.】

【Young Lady's friendliness +80 points.】

【Young Lady's friendliness has reached 100 points.】

【You have obtained the Secret Code: 338145.】

【You have obtained the password: Blood of Darkness.】

Su Xiao didn't know the use of the secret code and password yet. He looked around and found that Morey and the Apostle of the Moon hadn't returned, but they hadn't died either. There was no prompt for a new faction joining, which was a bit strange.

Water Brother, Wood, Sin-Ais, and Lilim had all returned. Which faction the last one was remained unknown.

"Cooperation makes things easier to handle. What do you two think?"

Sin-Ais seemed to have forgotten all the previous unpleasantness and became a good teammate again. The boat of friendship between the three floated to the surface again.

"Makes sense. Bai Ye, what is your attitude?"

"Well said."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, a smile appeared on Sin-Ais's face.

"The three of us in the evil faction must be united."

Sin-Ais made the decision: in the next world, the evil faction trio would continue to cooperate.

Wood gladly accepted this proposal. His trouble with the Abyss Jar hadn't been solved yet, so he was fearless.

Sin-Ais also had trouble. He had been the most ruthless toward Donkey Brother before, and as the seafood in Donkey Brother's eyes, Donkey Brother's hatred for him was explosive. After all, Donkey Brother felt that being beaten by seafood was shameful—no, it was the shame of a lifetime.

Wood and Sin-Ais both had their own troubles, so they were eager to cooperate with others to share the firepower—that is, to pit others.

Wood and Sin-Ais didn't know yet that Su Xiao also had his own trouble. The Sun Bird: Taihakaku hated him so much that its teeth itched; it wished it could burn him to ashes to plant flowers.

The danger of the Abyss Jar was a long-term one, while Donkey Brother was fierce and not completely impossible to deal with. Finally, the Sun Bird: Taihakaku...

"Bai Ye, we have all fallen into solidified thinking. Since the three of us can cooperate, why can't we add Enzo? Enzo? Are you interested in joining forces with us?"

Hearing this, Water Brother smiled politely and declined without a word.

"What a pity. Lilim, I presume you would be interested in joining us."

Sin-Ais issued a sincere invitation. Lilim didn't speak. After handing four Scroll Fragments to the Young Lady, she walked quickly toward the second floor, her steps hurried.

Su Xiao waited for a moment. After Wood, Sin-Ais, and Water Brother had all gone up to the second floor, he walked up to the second floor.

Su Xiao saw the silver-gray metal door opposite again. This silver-gray metal door was about 2.5 meters high, looking heavy and solid, with dense patterns covering the surface.

If one stared at it, one would find that the patterns on the silver-gray door were like twisted characters, but after a while, one would feel they were like a marine creature—a group of them gathering in the deep sea to worship, with dark white skin, like marine creatures evolved from humans. They were slimy, cold, and grotesque.

Su Xiao took out the 【Ward Key】 he had obtained from Bishop Cooper, hesitated for a moment, took out a brand-new head bucket and put it on, then inserted the 【Ward Key】 into the keyhole. With a twist, with a "click," the silver-gray door opened.

【Prompt: You are about to enter the Nightmare: Gubao Ward.】

【Current Sanity: 429/495 points.】

【Entering the Nightmare: Gubao Ward requires consuming 430 Sanity points.】

【Prompt: Exploring in this area will continuously reduce Sanity at a rate of 40 points per minute.】

PS: (My cervical spine has recovered quite a bit, but after writing for a while, I need to rest for a while. With this rest + coding, it took 13 hours. It should be much better tomorrow.) ===== CHAPTER 3265 =====