Chapter 4157: Powerful

Fenhai Continent, original site of Twilight Winter City.

As one of the three Transcendental Realms of the Second Epoch, the Fenhai Continent was occupied by the Yu family before the Abyss Cataclysm erupted. The Beast race was wiped out, and the Sea race was nearly annihilated. Under these premises, the Fenhai Continent initially had an 87%

Abyss erosion rate.

By comparison, the Myriad Races Realm, which currently has only a 5% Abyss erosion rate that consistently hovers between 5% and 8%, shows how well it has held its ground.

Currently, the Void is suffering from about 30% Abyss erosion, mainly because the Arcane Eternal Star laid a good foundation; as it consumes vast amounts of natural elements to gain power, the Abyss naturally spreads toward it.

The existence of the "Abyss Purification Device" suppresses this erosion rate but cannot lower it. The Abyss's erosion of the Void and the five major battlefields never stops for a moment. This also means that once the defensive line falls and the "Abyss Purification Device" is destroyed, the erosion rate in that war zone will immediately reach 100%, transforming into an Abyss region.

If the Void were to become an Abyss region, at least five Abyss Gates would appear in the Void. Under the assault of such massive Abyss power, even if multiple "Abyss Purification Devices" were built simultaneously, it would be impossible to turn the tide.

The current situation is that if the Void headquarters falls, our side will be defeated instantly, unless someone breaks into the Abyss during the subsequent Abyss assault on the Star Realm and slays the contemporary Abyss Lord. Without the Abyss Lord on the high throne to preside, Abyss power would not invade externally with such high intensity, but rather slowly.

The problem is, even if the desperate counterattack succeeds, the only one who might survive in the end is that powerful individual who slew the Abyss Lord alone, and that powerful individual would also be swallowed by the Abyss.

The current strategy is very clear: the Void must be held at all costs. This is why Su Xiao and the Tuanzhang are both in the Void, while the other five major battlefields share a sense of common fate.

If the Fenhai Continent falls and the Abyss erosion rate reaches 100%, an Abyss Gate will appear on the Fenhai Continent. Then, this true Abyss Gate will project toward the Blazing Sun Star, the Witch Realm, the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, and the Myriad Races Realm, causing the defensive difficulty of these four battlefields to skyrocket.

From a strategic perspective, the Void core battlefield cannot be affected until all five battlefields fall. As for a complete victory, the possibility does not seem high based on the current situation, but the current goal is just to win.

A so-called complete victory is to bring the Abyss/elements into perfect balance. Once this is achieved, even if the Abyss and elements become unbalanced again in the future, it would at least be after the eighth or even ninth epoch. This is not the time to plan for future generations; after all, this Abyss assault is too aggressive.

According to the Tuanzhang, the last Abyss assault had the Void as the main battlefield, with radiation spreading to multiple high-tier worlds, not affecting the Transcendental Realms. This time, however, it has affected five Transcendental Realms.

At this moment, inside the Fenhai Continent's general command headquarters, also known as the Fenhai Headquarters.

In the general command room, a strong woman wearing a black commander's combat suit, with a mechanical right arm and a faint bloody scent due to injuries on her body, is known as Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina, the general commander of the Fenhai Continent.

Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina holds a cigarette between her fingertips. She was just besieged by two Abyss descendants, and her injuries have only just been suppressed. She gives a few instructions to the people in the command room before teleporting away, because her partner is holding the line on the front battlefield.

In the room are all of Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina's current subordinates, or former subordinates. Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina is a very veteran powerhouse. To put it this way, during the last Abyss campaign, she was a Supreme powerhouse,

and she was one of the members of the hundreds of small teams who survived to the end and entered the handover zone. This time, she is already at the peak realm of the Apocalypse Paradise.

Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina has no command talent, yet the Tree of the Void still chose her. This was a decision made after judging her past actions, and her approach has verified the correctness of this judgment. Although she is the general commander, she transferred command authority to a man with a full head of white hair and a refined temperament, known as the White Wolf King.

Facts have also proven that the White Wolf King's command ability is quite good. He used the two trump cards in his hands to ensure that the defensive lines on both wings of the headquarters were as solid as a rock. These two trump cards are the Deer God and the Sword Demon.

In such a catastrophe, the Deer God would naturally not sit idly by. The Sword Demon's arrival was a bit of a coincidence; during the Tree of the Void's conscription, the Sword Demon was in an unconscious state, so he chose to ignore it. The next battle for the Sword Demon, who is currently finding himself, after leaving the Meteorite Star, is the Fenhai Continent.

Originally, the Sword Demon was pursuing fragments of past memories, but not long after he arrived at the Fenhai Continent, the Abyss campaign broke out. Good heavens, the Sword Demon, who is currently on the front line, suddenly recovered many memories of the past. The situation where these Abyss creatures are endless, and ten swarm over for every one killed, is familiar—too familiar.

The Deer God is on the left defensive line, and the Sword Demon is on the right defensive line, but the front defensive line has become a big problem. It's not that the powerhouses of the Apocalypse Paradise are weak; the erosion intensity of this world itself is high, and coupled with the fact that the Apocalypse powerhouses are a bit—well, compared to Reincarnation and Death, they are indeed a bit weak. For a time, the front battlefield was beaten to the point of crying for their parents.

As for why not send the Sword Demon or the Deer God to the front, it's as if the defensive lines they were guarding would be able to hold if they left.

If one were to say the Apocalypse faction is weak, nearly 70% of our side's resources in this Abyss campaign were provided by the Apocalypse faction.

But if one were to say the Apocalypse faction is strong, there wouldn't be a situation like Tianji's horse racing, where our side's inferior horses face the enemy's superior horses. The problem now is that the combat power of these inferior horses is too unexpected. It can be said that from afar they look like horses, after a few steps they look like mules, and upon closer inspection, damn! It's a donkey, and a donkey with big front teeth grinning at that.

However, the contractors on the Fenhai front line at this moment cannot laugh at all.

Boom!

A scorching crimson iron fist slams down. The Apocalypse peak powerhouse with steel wings, Fei · Kashiu, stumbles back a few steps. He stares with his mechanical eyes at the crimson giant in front of him. This man, who is like a beast, is ridiculously strong.

Besides that, the figure not far away is equally dangerous. The opponent is three meters tall, a thin humanoid composed entirely of wriggling sea worms, and its strength is no less than that of the beastly giant in front.

Not to mention, there is also the black snake that is continuously killing our contractors. This black snake is like a human and a snake, often transforming its state, which is extremely eerie. Even more troublesome is that it can suddenly appear anywhere, even at the back of an enemy's neck.

Therefore, the serrated short blade in that pale hand of the eerie black snake is very dangerous. Since the start of the war, several Apocalypse Supremes have been suddenly throat-slitted. Even more unsolvable is that being throat-slitted by this peak black snake results in instant death. Except for the life core, no life-saving items are useful, not because these life-saving items are not powerful, but because they cannot be triggered.

In other words, the black snake does not kill by first killing its life and then causing its "causal death,"

it is the other way around; it first causes the victim's "causal death" and then lets the cause of death backfire on the victim. In this way, life-saving items are naturally ineffective, because 99% of life-saving items are triggered when the original life force is damaged to a certain extent.

Besides this black snake, there is also an Abyss descendant wearing a bronze mask, dressed like a plague doctor. It has three arms and a pale, bare upper body. As long as those vertical pupils look at someone, that person is locked on. The next second, the serrated short blade in its hand, like the black snake's, will pierce its own chest, and the person it gazes at will die on the spot.

These two come from the Abyss descendant · Aggregate and Bronze respectively, and the causal weapons in their hands are one of the Abyss faction's killing moves this time. The Abyss Legion never rushes forward all at once and then fights chaotically. Although Abyss creature cannon fodder is like this, the elite combat power is specifically for killing enemy powerhouses.

Once a breach is torn in the defensive line, the Abyss army swarms in, and the difficulty of killing them back is more than ten times that of guarding just now.

The battlefield is in chaos, Abyss creatures of all sizes roar continuously, steel is burning fiercely, and pitch-black blood has accumulated to the point of covering the ankles. A melee tough guy who was dying with all his teammates dead and both arms broken fell into a blood pit. He, who was bound to die due to the severity of his various injuries, was finally drowned by Abyss blood.

An Abyss giant beast burning with ice and fire all over its body runs around in pain, making miserable howls. It is not without fear; Abyss creatures are also creatures, and they also have fear and a desire to survive, but under the domination of an absolute superior,

it can only rush forward all the way.

With a "wah" sound, a shieldless tank-type spits blood, his hands pressing against his knees, panting like an ox. He had thought about the cruelty of the Abyss campaign, but it was indeed something he had never imagined that it would be like this as soon as the fight started. This place has already turned into a purgatory where blood and killing are boiling.

A three-headed magic dragon was blasted down, scattering blood rain along the way. After landing with a boom, it was detonated by the controller in the distance, an "Ancient Abyss Existence" like a giant pitcher plant.

Thud!.

The dragon flame explosion was gathered into the hands of a red-haired man just as it spread. He grabbed and compressed the dragon flame with his hand, and with a roar, the dragon flame in his hand sprayed out like a fountain, rumbling.

Located hundreds of meters away, a large mass of enhanced dragon flame flew above the crimson beast giant. It grinned, grabbed with one hand, and the dragon flame attached to its fist. The scorching red fist slammed into the Apocalypse faction peak powerhouse · Fei · Kashiu in front.

With a thud, Fei · Kashiu flew back a distance, his metal wings shredding a large number of Abyss creatures along the way. After landing in a half-squat, he plowed a long way before stopping, feeling a surge of blood and Qi.

The crimson beast giant is none other than the fourth seat of the Luen family, the Crimson Beast · Di Luo. When fighting Su Xiao on the Meteorite Star, Di Luo did indeed seem a bit timid at the end, but now, fighting the Apocalypse faction's peak powerhouse · Fei · Kashiu, it is striking with heavy punches.

And the thin humanoid composed entirely of wriggling sea worms near Di Luo is none other than the Yu family's second elder · Di Kunu Jia, who did not show up on the Meteorite Star.

Without giving Fei · Kashiu any room to breathe, Di Luo instantly pressed forward, another heavy punch.

Thud!

Fei · Kashiu broke through layers of air waves. Wherever he passed, the wind pressure swept by. A healer whose teammates had all died was swept by the wind pressure, and just the wind pressure alone left bloody marks on her body. As the fourth defensive line at the front, this place is no longer safe, and Abyss creatures have rushed into this area.

The exploding black flames caused a gale to rise. The severely injured healer, Ai Duoer, got up from the ground in a daze. Her light blonde hair was tied into a fishtail braid, and the tiny specks of blood on her face made her look even more desperate and desolate.

"Roar!"

A black deformed evil beast pounced from above, pounced on a severely injured squad leader, and bit off his upper body in one bite, which can be described as blood splashing and intestines flowing. This evil beast turned its gaze toward Ai Duoer.

This made Ai Duoer, whose face was already fair, look even paler. Just then, a figure blocked in front of her, which gave her a glimmer of hope, but the next second she discovered that this figure had knelt a few steps before reaching her. In fact, this figure was covered in wriggling black leeches, and its pupils, with small worms swimming inside, trembled, then turned to look at Ai Duoer.

At this moment, Ai Duoer wanted to cry a little. Her path to becoming stronger had been relatively calm in the early and middle stages, until she encountered a certain hunter, and the subsequent events were thrilling and exciting. Now that she had been conscripted to the main battlefield,

she had originally thought that the healer type was relatively safe, but who would have thought that the enemy's offensive would be too fierce.

"Roar!!"

The deformed evil beast and the leech parasite roared at Ai Duoer at the same time. The healer's sweet life force attracted them.

The nearby peak powerhouses Fei · Kashiu and Iron-Blood Rose · Beitanshina both sensed this scene, but they were too busy with their own two-on-four fight. A tech-side mecha blue-haired man further back had the heart to reinforce, but the Abyss angry beasts pouncing on him never stopped for a moment. The small energy-gathering cannons had fired continuously, and the energy was highly overloaded, but they still couldn't beat back the endless stream of angry beasts around him.

Just as Ai Duoer wanted to use her last-resort life-saving means, a metallic explosion,

came from above.

Boom—!

It was as if a blood-colored nova had appeared in the sky, blooming with a cross-shaped scarlet radiance. As the cross-shaped flash faded, a mark appeared in the sky.

The Apocalypse Paradise Qiyuezhe present all felt their hearts tighten subconsciously. In the past, seeing this mark meant they were definitely about to get hammered; they had almost developed muscle memory for it, but this time, it was friendly reinforcements.

Iron Blood Rose Beitanxina and Fei Kashiu showed no emotional fluctuations. Reinforcements were a good thing, but the problem was that the situation in the Wind Sea war zone was no longer something a single peak powerhouse could turn around. Even a peak powerhouse from Reincarnation Paradise would find it difficult, unless that Commander-in-Chief from the core battlefield came. Unfortunately, that was impossible; even if the Wind Sea battlefield fell, that person could not leave the main battlefield.

The mark seemed to be stained by blood, the blood turning into blood smoke, which then poured down with a roar, transforming into a pillar of blood-colored light.

With a 'whoosh', the Magic Eagle flew out from the blood-colored light pillar. Everyone looked at the pillar; in front of a tall figure with bull horns stood a figure with glowing red eyes. This figure just stood there, exuding an incomparable sense of oppression, as if his arrival made this battlefield of blood and fire even more terrifying.

Seeing this, Di Luo's cheek twitched visibly.

Rumble!

The earth trembled; more accurately, all the blood in this place began to gather and compress. In front of the figure who had just arrived, it formed a flashing crimson light—a phenomenon caused by the excessive compression of blood Qi.

The newcomer raised a hand, and a crimson blood core was held up in the air. As he crushed it with one hand, with a 'boom', waves of blood surged in all directions. In a very short time, it cleared out the Abyss creatures in this large area, leaving ninety percent of the combatants present stunned.

Aiduoer was shocked into a daze. Although she knew he was very strong, she had never had a concrete judgment; now, she finally had a certain standard of measurement.

Su Xiao's gaze turned to the four Abyss clansmen present: the Fish family, the Beast family, the Bird family, and the Aggregate. The four strongest Abyss families had all come here; it seemed they had a strategy to take the Wind Sea battlefield first.

Using this as an advantageous starting point and continuously expanding that advantage—as for the Void battlefield, that place looked like a tough nut to crack no matter how one looked at it.

The facts were indeed so. Although the Void was the core battlefield, both sides were definitely fighting more intensely in the five Great Transcendental Worlds during the early and middle stages.

Furthermore, the Abyss Gate in the Void could not be closed until this Abyss campaign was won. Conversely, the Abyss Gates in the five Great Transcendental Worlds could be closed; after all, these were projections of the Abyss Gate, not a true gate opened here.

If the Wind Sea Continent could be defended, it would be defended. Ensuring the destruction of the Abyss Gate in the Fang Clan World first was undoubtedly a victory in the first round.

Among the four Abyss clansmen present, the Black Snake of the Aggregate family flipped the serrated short blade in its hand and said in the Abyss language:

"Four against one, let's devour him."

Black Snake's words made Di Luo's cheek twitch again. Beside him, the Fish family's Second Elder, Dikunujia, remained calm; anyway, it was positioned at the very back. The Bird family's Bronze Crow said nothing, merely drawing another blade of causality.

Su Xiao's gaze swept over the four Abyss clansmen present, finally locking onto the Black Snake. He was very interested in the serrated short blade in the enemy's hand.

With a 'boom', the space shattered, and Su Xiao was already in front of Black Snake. Black Snake's expression was calm, its form twisting, about to assimilate with the powerful enemy before it. Moreover, its life core was currently full—

Wind pressure struck. Greeting it was a straight kick from Su Xiao. The terrifying power of this straight kick caused Black Snake's assimilation ability toward Su Xiao to shatter like broken crystal.

Dong~!!!

The earth trembled. Just as Black Snake spat out a massive amount of black blood and prepared to fly away, it suddenly froze for an instant—it was the instantaneous activation of 'Extreme Blade: Astral Realm'.

Zing!

The long blade slashed across Black Snake's throat, severing its snake head, which was then grabbed by a hand wrapped in a crystal layer. The Astral Realm fixation only lasted for an instant, so Black Snake's headless body continued to turn into light and fly backward into the distance, while its head was seized by Su Xiao.

Pfft!

A blade pierced into the center of Black Snake's brow. This Abyss clansman, which had never known what death was, saw its eyes suddenly widen to the limit. Subsequently, something called terror spread across its snake face. Up to this point, it did not believe that it, as an Abyss clansman, would actually die just like this. From the First Era when it became an Abyss clansman until now, it had completely forgotten death; at this moment, it was drowning in it.

Pulling the long blade out of the huge snake head, which was over a meter in diameter, Su Xiao tossed it to Amu. Amu caught it with both hands and took a bite. Seeing this, the Fish family's Second Elder, Dikunujia, like Di Luo just now, immediately had its cheek twitch. When it came to eating, Amu was always very strong, so it quickly swallowed the snake head.

"Di Luo."

The Bronze family's crow mask spoke in a deep voice, only to find that the space beside it was empty. Di Luo had actually slipped away. One might ask, why was this guy so fast?

Of course he slipped away fast. From the moment he discovered the reinforcements were Su Xiao, Di Luo had prepared to withdraw immediately. Sharing the same thought was the Fish family's Second Elder, Dikunujia. The two of them would not be coming to the Wind Sea Continent war zone for the time being. Anyway, the master's order was to occupy a Transcendental World as soon as possible; they chose to go to the Ancient Dragon Kingdom.

Zing~!

A slash mark passed by, and the Bronze Crow's mask was broken, but this Abyss clansman suddenly disappeared. Su Xiao was certain this was not the opponent's own ability; it should be that among the Abyss clansmen, there was one located in the Abyss who could instantly pull a marked target back to the Abyss. This type of ability was very similar to the 'Origin Clan Emblem' characteristic, but much faster.

When the blood Qi pillar poured down just now, the friendly forces did not hold much hope, but the current situation—

—made the friendly Qiyuezhe exceptionally invigorated.

Lei Fa Shen Aige, who had been recalled here because the situation in the Wind Sea war zone was dire, despite being matched to the Void, let out a long sigh of relief. He had previously thought he was unlucky to be matched to the Void, the core battlefield, but now he saw that the Wind Sea Continent was the most dangerous.

No one cheered or thanked him loudly, partly because the battle had to continue, and partly because the powerful reinforcements had an aura that was too oppressive. If they weren't on the same side, just seeing that rising scarlet blood smoke would make one feel fear from the bottom of their heart; even as allies, looking from afar was frightening.

The battle line, which had been on the verge of collapse just a moment ago, began to reverse. Iron Blood Rose Beitanxina and Fei Kashiu both looked at the Hunter who had come to reinforce them. For some reason, the two of them suddenly felt a bit panicked, having a feeling that if this Hunter hadn't managed to slaughter that Abyss clansman, he might just slash them in a fit of boiling killing intent.

"Thank you for your trouble."

Iron Blood Rose Beitanxina spoke. Su Xiao merely nodded in response and headed toward the incoming Abyss beast tide. Blade light crisscrossed, and the roaring sounds continued unabated. With him clearing the way, it didn't take long for the Wind Sea battlefield's front line to be pushed back to its original position.

Zing, zing, zing~

Blade light flickered, and the slashes were as crisp and neat as chopping melons and vegetables. However, the further Su Xiao moved forward, the more he felt the sense of prying coming from his surroundings. With a 'swish', a transparent sharp thorn that pierced through space and even the world stabbed past in front of him. This was an attack from some kind of "Ancient Abyss Existence".

Su Xiao ignored it and continued to slaughter his way forward, but he gradually felt substantial pressure coming from the Abyss Gate. He stopped pushing forward and instead returned to the friendly battle line in a few leaps.

This approach to the Abyss Gate confirmed one thing for him: before the Abyss erosion of this world was suppressed to below 5%, don't even think about getting close to that Abyss Gate. The closer one got, the more suppression one felt from the Abyss power. If he forced his way close, even if he succeeded, he would be very passive when a peak-strength Abyss clansman walked out from inside.

Wanting to destroy this Abyss Gate, for the time being, the possibility was very low, and the risk was very high. Sure enough, he still had to win the Fang Clan World first, then have the powerhouses stationed in the Fang Clan World head to the Wind Sea Continent to form a stable defense line here. Now it all depended on whether the Ten Thousand Clan World succeeded first or the Wind Sea Continent fell first.

As long as the Abyss Lord did not come in person, even if the four clan leaders of the Abyss clansmen came to Wind Sea, Su Xiao could still fight them. As for those extremely powerful "Ancient Abyss Existences", he hadn't encountered enough of them; he would only know after fighting them.

【Prompt (Void Tree): Campaign mission is about to be issued.】

【You have passively accepted the campaign mission.】

【Final Campaign Mission: Victor.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 4

Mission Content: Win this Abyss campaign.

Mission Deadline: None.

Mission Reward: Determined based on final contribution value statistics.

Mission Penalty: None.

Missions without failure penalties are generally dangerous, and this time was no exception.

Su Xiao arrived at the high wall of the fifth defense line, found a random place to sit down, and took an item out of the team storage space. It was a 【Covenant Item】 that Beni had obtained from the little sprite Popoli at the Void base camp just now. The Library Silver Coins obtained from selling the Void Grand Library were basically all used to buy this thing.

【Bestowal Covenant】

Origin: Soul Grand Library.

Category: Covenant Item/Cursed Item.

Covenant Effect: Bestowal (Passive): You can bestow one of your strengths upon an individual who has a high degree of causal connection with you.

Prompt: That is, you can add one of your current physical characteristics to your follower or a friendly party with whom you have close interaction.

Warning: If the friendly party cannot withstand this powerful physical characteristic of yours, this follower/friendly target will die immediately.

Covenant Cost: Temporary Deficiency (Covenant Cost - Unique Passive), the physical characteristic you bestow—

—will be reduced to 10% of its original value.

Curse Cost: Calamity Descent (Curse Cost - Unique Passive), you will enter a state of calamity, and your subsequent luck will continuously decrease by a massive amount.

Prompt: Because your luck is too low, at -20 million points, this effect is ineffective on you.

Prompt: Because your luck is too low, it has even caused a backlash against the curse characteristic of this equipment. It is estimated that 10–15 natural days after you wear this "Covenant Item", the curse characteristic of this "Covenant Item" will be worn away by your luck, making this equipment a purer "Covenant Item", and there will be no "Curse Cost" subsequently.

Introduction: Covenant and Curse. Hmm, only covenant, no curse; perhaps there will never be a curse in the future.

Price: Cannot be sold after being equipped.

Seeing the characteristics of this equipment, Su Xiao pondered for a while, and a bold idea brewed in his heart. After weighing it again, he consulted the Void Tree with his current high authority on whether there was a mission regarding destroying the Abyss Gate of this world, and the result was yes.

【Campaign Side Mission: Wind Sea Battlefield.】

Difficulty Level: Lv.

Mission Content: Make the Abyss erosion degree of this world lower than 5%, and successfully destroy the Abyss Gate.

Mission Deadline: None.

Mission Reward 1: "Super-Massive" final contribution value.

Mission Reward 2: Ultimate Harmony Stone (A unique product of the Void Tree, can be used to harmonize the "Abyss Heart" or "Element Eye", increasing the success rate of ascending to the Supreme Realm, or harmonize the two—

—thereby increasing the promotion probability while obtaining a higher promotion ceiling).

Mission Reward 3: Immediately obtain 30 million ounces of Space-Time Power.

Mission Penalty: None.

Seeing this mission, Su Xiao made up his mind: he would smash the Abyss Gate here. Regarding this, he had a particularly bold idea.