Chapter 2056: Sand Walker

"You promoted to a demigod? Apart from those means of abandoning one's own independence and mortal status, are you the first demigod of the Sixth Era?"

Xia De looked at her in surprise, but Isabella did not want to talk about this topic:

"The era of apocalypse no longer belongs to the Sixth Era... In short, you are not yet enough to peek at the root-based power of time. Even things like 'Adele's Time Stop' are just a small branch of the Time Stop sorcery. This time, I want to teach you sorcery derived from the power of 'returning to the past'."

"Is this also sorcery you created yourself?"

Xia De asked. The witch nodded lightly, but there was not a hint of complacency on her face. The wind and sand blew her golden long hair, and the tear mole at the corner of her eye fully displayed her beauty:

"Yes, and the creation of this sorcery is related to the previous Great Witch of the Moon. She once watched the stars shift with me and talked to me about the return of the sun and moon. I understood the meaning of return on the plain under the starry field, so I created this sorcery - Adele's Principle of Return."

This name sounded very recognizable. Xia De worried again that even if he learned it, he would not dare to use it in front of other witches.

Isabella naturally did not know Xia De's worry:

"I created this sorcery very specially. Holding the ritual only requires time talent, but to really learn it, one needs to explore step by step, rather than being able to use it just because the ritual is successful. 【Adele's Principle of Return】, although it is not the most powerful sorcery I have mastered, it is the sorcery I am most proud of. Now I want to teach it to you. I will not ask you to call me teacher, I just hope that after my time heads toward annihilation, I, this lonely person, can still do something for this world."

Seeing Xia De nod with a solemn expression, she suddenly laughed out:

"Don't be so nervous, I just think highly of you. Moreover, you might not really be able to learn it. This is sorcery I tailored for myself, even mixed with ingredients of certain witch secret techniques. Although it can be learned at the middle ring, the difficulty will not be lower than the moves of demigod witches. So far, no one has successfully learned it. I teach it to you, more importantly, I hope you can understand the meaning of time more deeply and create your own power."

She placed her hand on Xia De's shoulder:

"Now, Xia De Hamilton, go and meet this challenge target. I will demonstrate the brand-new sorcery at the appropriate time, and you can hold the ritual and practice it yourself after returning to reality."

"Okay, Miss Isabella. Also, call me Xia De."

He said so, and the witch nodded lightly, then stood by the wall watching the key turn into a light orb and flip in front of Xia De, and as he walked forward, it turned into that pitch-black 【Staff of Yggdrasil】.

Xia De came to the center of the square. The gale blew the yellow sand, and the dim yellow sky was infinitely desolate. This time there was no need to wait. Just a moment later, Xia De saw a hunched human-like creature jump down from a high place on the other side of the square opposite to number 6, entering beneath the ground of the square as if jumping into a water surface. It moved quickly toward Xia De beside the fountain statue ruins like swimming, leaving a clear raised trace on the square ground buried by yellow sand.

Even without seeing the enemy this time, Xia De immediately understood the truth of the opponent:

"This time it is the power of the earth!"

That raised trace drew an arc and kept approaching Xia De. Xia De did not dodge but watched it come to his feet. When the positions of both sides overlapped, while the withered yellow hands growing with fine roots stretched out from under his feet, Xia De had already pierced downward with both hands holding the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】:

"Thunder Spear!"

Silver-white thunder entered the earth along with the bottom of the long staff, but immediately the jumping thunder spread to the surrounding ground and was easily resolved. This was an attack using the power of the earth to disperse and introduce it into the ground. Miss Lu Lu Weiya had once said that she could also use similar sorcery when standing on the earth.

It was just that this time this means was used by the enemy, so Xia De's counterattack failure also meant that the hands stretched out from underground grabbed his ankle. Afterward, the body like a loach in the mud also probed out as the hands clung to Xia De's legs.

The next second, the human-like creature underground "slid" out of the ground, hugged Xia De's waist and jumped upward, and the head wrapped in a layer of mud was behind Xia De, opening its mouth to bite directly at his neck.

With a "bang," Xia De's body exploded into a group of red butterflies in the yellow sand, and the monster that was hunched over and covered in mud landed lightly, while the red butterflies gathered into Xia De again not far away.

He frowned slightly, looking at the thing that jumped into the mud again like jumping into water after leaping. Although the other party's face was severely deformed, and the body was even more deformed to the point of being unrecognizable, Xia De still barely recognized who this was. After all, he had only been in this world for a year and did not know many people:

"Professor Drake?"

This was an old professor Xia De met during his search for the "Goddess of the Lake" in the City of Red Wine - Huntington City. The professor had wanted to find the "Goddess of the Lake" from a very early time, but after really finding her, he chose to abandon his memory because he feared the wisdom of supernatural power, and thus his legs were disabled and he had always been sitting in a wheelchair.

Later, after Xia De found the "Goddess of the Lake," he took the professor to see the Wisdom Angel "Cherub" once, so the professor finally let go of the knots of the past and admitted that he chose to stay away because he feared wisdom. At the end of the Huntington City story, Professor Drake chose to move to Willendale City to live with his son. His two sons and one daughter all lived there.

Although the professor did not know Xia De's true identity, he also mailed gifts and greeting cards to the White River Valley Vineyard during the end-of-year festival, and mentioned Xia De many times in letters to his old friend Professor Manning.

Xia De still remembered the professor's words: "We live on a quiet little island called ignorance, surrounded by an endless black ocean, and we were never meant to sail far. The pitch-black tomb is right before our eyes, and I am willing to sleep here forever, listening to the wind and waves."

Xia De had never seen the professor stand up from his wheelchair, let alone know how the old professor, who had always lived in Huntington City and later only moved to Willendale, would be involved with the calamity of the earth.

It was just that now was not the time to think about these things. The monster that re-entered the underground approached Xia De again like swimming in the mud. Its speed was very fast, at least faster than Xia De moving on the ground.

It was only a few seconds before it caught up with Xia De again. Just like just now, it stretched out its hands from the mud to grab Xia De's ankle, and then the whole person "slid" out of the ground and quickly clung to Xia De's body.

Only this time Xia De could not use "Red Butterfly Incarnation" to escape. The ground seemed to have an extra huge gravitational force, making him unable to easily break away from the ground. Fortunately, Xia De did not intend to escape this time. At the same time that the evil thing grabbed him, two pitch-black chains slid out of his sleeves, binding the monster and Xia De himself together.

Although the soul of Mr. Bernhart, who was half-dead last time, was completely unaffected by the 【Chain of Sin】, Professor Drake, who had spent his whole life seeking knowledge, was clearly still affected by the power of sin.

It was just that the 【Chain of Sin】 with six runes still could not completely lock it. The evil thing bound to Xia De's back struggled to break free from the chains. Amidst the clanging sound of the chains, in order to prevent an attack from behind, Xia De simply lay down on the ground, and then they began to wrestle at close range while tied together.

"Hmm..."

The witch at the edge of the square could naturally see this scene under the cover of yellow sand, and this kind of indecorous battle was something the witch could never have imagined.

During the rolling, the evil thing wanted to drag Xia De into the ground, but Xia De's weight seemed heavier than a mountain in its eyes. So the two rolled for half a minute. As Xia De released the chains, letting one end be tied to his wrist and the other end to the other party's ankle, making it unable to easily enter the soil again, they separated slightly, and then rushed toward each other with raised fists.

Next was a pure competition based on strength. The sound of fists breaking through the air and the sound of the square ground shattering because of bearing pressure were even more ear-piercing and sharp than the sound of the wind.

Although Isabella still thought such a battle was indecorous, she had to admit that the pure physical strength displayed by Xia De and that evil thing at this moment was definitely not something an ordinary high-ring sorcerer would dare to face.

Although it was not as exaggerated as "one punch shattering space," the strength of the punches swung by the two standing on the ground was getting stronger and stronger. Xia De had also never felt that he could exert his strength so refreshingly to this extent. Standing on the earth, the earth was his source of strength.

Although the monster in front of him, like him, could have stronger and stronger strength as long as it touched the earth, this time Xia De even had strength that was more compatible with this piece of earth than it. That "filthy earth origin" that had become a part of him was still subtly affecting his body and soul today. Facing a similar enemy in such a state, Xia De truly realized what kind of ability he had.

Every time he entered the time point of the past, he was always suppressed by various strange doomsday evil things. Only this time Xia De steadily occupied the upper hand. The two sides punched each other, even if Xia De's fists and arms were the first to show cracks and wounds, he still did not fear at all as if he could not feel it at all.

The clothes on his upper body gradually shattered because of the trembling of his muscles and the shaking when dissipating force, and the ground under their feet even formed two huge concave pits because of the crushing. Finally, after Xia De's blood-blurred fist once again punched forward and collided with the evil thing's right fist—

Crack!

The evil thing's right arm shattered into powder, and when Xia De's fist further penetrated its right chest, fine cracks instantly spread over the evil thing's entire body. ===== CHAPTER 2057 =====