Chapter 2915

"Yin Yi Yi Lu Na, I am going to take back the cards blocking the rift; why don't you retreat first."

"It's okay, don't waste time."

The eighteen-year-old girl, leaning on Xia De's leg, still said in a weak tone, but her hands remained tightly gripping her dark golden scales, attempting to share the pressure for Xia De.

Xia De did not insist:

"Get ready. Three, two, one!"

The six cards flew back to Xia De's side from the glowing rift simultaneously, and at the same time, Xia De squeezed hard and crushed the crystal bottle used to contain the 【Tear of the Parting】.

The material of the crystal bottle itself was the containment vessel; after it shattered, it could also ensure that the liquid remained suspended between the crystal fragments. As long as Xia De controlled the crystal fragments to hover, the liquid inside would also hover.

But unexpectedly, after the crystal bottle shattered, the liquid inside actually all stained his palms at once. Xia De didn't know why this was different from what Yin Yi Yi Lu Na said, but it seemed there were no side effects, only a heartfelt sense of sorrow that almost made him cry immediately.

He did not tell Yin Yi Yi Lu Na about the accident he encountered, but instead raised his palms to block the light in front of him, and then grabbed toward the rift with his liquid-covered hands.

For a moment, Xia De even felt that he had directly grasped the split time and space. He subconsciously exerted force, wanting to bring the two sides of the split rift back together; he almost thought he was about to succeed, and the liquid on his palms was itself attracting the split rift to gather again.

The rift thus really shrank bit by bit under his palms, and even the dim yellow light projected from it was weakening. Although Xia De also believed that he definitely could not completely eliminate this rift by this method, shrinking it to a controllable range was entirely feasible.

"Ugh!"

Xia De's painful muffled groan attracted the listless Yin Yi Yi Lu Na. When she looked up, what she saw was a black, nail-like object piercing Xia De's hand that was reaching toward the rift.

She didn't even have time to say anything before the massive impact erupting from the rift directly blew the two of them away, along with the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 that had been stabbed into the floor.

Xia De rolled on the ground several times while holding Yin Yi Yi Lu Na before stopping. Supporting himself on the ground and looking back toward the center of the high platform, he saw that from the glowing rift, which had already shrunk quite a bit, a black right hand wearing an emerald ring and a left hand wearing nothing stretched out to grip the rift. After the rift expanded to the left and right, from that dim yellow light, a human head that looked like it had lost its skin, revealing muscle tissue, poked its head out from the rift.

It probably didn't have dark vision, so it didn't see Xia De and Yin Yi Yi Lu Na, who had rolled into the darkness. After confirming that there was no one here, its entire body crawled out from that dim yellow light, and then, on all fours like a reptile, it darted rapidly toward the entrance.

Its speed was astonishingly fast; when Yin Yi Yi Lu Na, who had raised her head, discovered it, it had just darted out of the door.

"Stop it!"

Yin Yi Yi Lu Na said as she rolled to her feet:

"I'll go stop it; you stay here and continue to control the rift."

"But..."

"We can't let more things crawl over."

She said as she stumbled toward the entrance, but in fact, Xia De wanted to say that the thing just now was obviously not right. That was definitely not an evil object living in the doomsday era; that thing didn't have the madness mixed from the power symbolizing the end of all things and the remnants left before the world was about to disappear.

However, that was clearly not an easy opponent to fight either, but Yin Yi Yi Lu Na was right; currently, the rift here was still the most important thing.

After picking up the staff, Xia De looked at his right hand again; the wound on the pierced right hand was healing, but at this moment the entire right hand had turned into a transparent color, fortunately, the transparent color was slowly fading. He didn't know if this was the consequence of him rashly contacting the time rift or the effect of the Unknown-level relic touching himself; now the biggest problem was that the 【Tear of the Parting】 had been exhausted.

Originally, the rift had been controlled by Xia De to be much smaller than when he had just entered, but after that monster crawled out, the rift had now expanded again to a state on the verge of being completely out of control.

It was too late to think of other methods; Xia De could only use the "Stability Principle of Ancient Elves" again to temporarily stabilize the rift. But before he could walk to the high platform, the situation around the rift changed again.

Amidst a rumbling sound, two massive tree roots broke through the floor tiles and emerged from the ground. They wrapped around the rift from the left and right; the roots themselves rapidly turned withered black and lost their vitality, but the rift did indeed shrink under their wrapping.

Xia De now knew where the withered tree roots all over the ground had come from.

After the first two tree roots completely withered and died, new tree roots emerged from the underground and wrapped around the rift, which should have had no physical form. After the second batch of tree roots withered, it was the third batch, and the rift also became smaller and smaller in this process, until it was finally completely wrapped in the dense tree roots, like a tree burl suspended in the air, with only a sliver of dim yellow light projected through the gaps in the roots.

But this did not mean that this rift was completely controlled, because the tree roots were still withering; clearly, it wouldn't be long before the rift would lose control again. And the existence controlling these tree roots could absolutely not have achieved this without a price.

In other words, the crisis here was only temporarily resolved, and afterward, he still had to find a way to deal with this time rift, which could be called the most dangerous one in the local area.

However, at least for a short time, Xia De didn't have to stay here anymore; he knew the origin of those tree roots well, but there was no need to delve into it at this moment.

Holding the staff, he chased after Yin Yi Yi Lu Na's figure and left the black building, leaving only the writhing tree roots outside the time rift, which was attempting to expand again, emitting sounds similar to painful groans because of the breaking of the root hairs.

The snow had become heavier within two hours; when Xia De chased out of the building and arrived in the canyon, the scene of the sky-filling heavy snow falling under the dim yellow sunset made him freeze for a moment as well.

Because some time had been delayed, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na's figure had already disappeared among those scorched, withered trees. But Xia De didn't need to search carefully; continuing to chase forward for a few dozen steps, following the abrupt shaking of the earth, he actually heard the sound of rushing water coming from afar:

"Sound of water? Is there a river nearby?"

The rushing sound grew closer and closer; after two breaths of time, a water wall dozens of meters high appeared in the distance of the canyon, and then a wave slapped toward Xia De.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough."

When the small boat carried Xia De up from the bottom of the water, he looked at the surroundings again; the boundless water area reflected the dim yellow light of the sky and thus also turned into a turbid yellow. This scene reminded him of the scene during the "Sea Sending Back" ceremony in Coldwater Harbor last summer.

In all directions, he couldn't see any forest scenery, as if the entire world had sunk below this water area:

"What's the situation? A mystery lock or a word of sublimation?"

But this didn't look like a word of sublimation, nor was there the abnormality of a specific space unfolding when a mystery lock was cast. Beside him was the turbid water surface, the sky was a yellow sky covered by yellow sand, and even that sun was dyed a dim yellow because of the sky-filling yellow sand.

However, at least Xia De was very glad that it hadn't turned into the black appearance with lines of fire flowing downward in his memory.

The water surface was not calm but there were no stormy waves; the rushing sound of water had completely disappeared at this moment, replaced by the dead silence of all things being quiet.

Xia De, who had steamed his clothes dry with flames, stood up on the small boat and looked at that sun behind the yellow sand:

"If the ocean still existed in the doomsday era, is this what it looked like?"

"She" laughed gently in Xia De's ear; Xia De was very certain that the scene at this moment was also not an illusion. Space and time were confused here; if he really had to describe what this place was like, Xia De thought it was more like the venues of those time adventures he had experienced.

But no matter where this place was, he couldn't stay here; he could be certain that fighting had already broken out outside.

The 【Stability Principle of Ancient Elves】 was ineffective against the current situation, the 【High-Efficiency Space Perception】 only perceived a boundless turbid water area, and 【Lagley's Leap】 could not jump out of this strange area.

But when Xia De cast 【Return of Time】, he just gave himself a gentle push and immediately fell backward as if hit by a cannonball, then crashed onto solid ground.

The sky was still a dim yellow filled with yellow sand, but at least the falling snow had returned. Seeing the withered trees dyed silver-white standing all around, Xia De knew that he had returned to that canyon.

The spiritual light of the ring warlock battle not far ahead reminded him of the situation at this moment; Xia De transformed into a stream of light composed of red butterflies and leaped up, arriving at the battlefield in the canyon before long.

And the first thing Xia De saw was that monster that had escaped from the rift, looking as if its entire skin had been peeled off.

It had now transformed its entire body into a black liquid and turned into a figure dozens of meters high. It was lying on all fours in the snow-covered canyon, its body facing away from the black building and facing the church camp at the canyon exit, and then it opened its mouth and sprayed out a surging liquid like a collapsing dam.

That liquid was not the black of its body, but, just like what Xia De had seen just now, a turbid yellow mixed with mud and sand.

This location was not far from that black building, so the church hadn't arranged for anyone to be stationed here at all. By the time those out-of-control liquids rushed to a position a hundred meters from the camp like a rushing river in a canyon, the light of wonders lit up in the camp.

First, a tornado-like flame called forth by some high-ring warlock collided with that flood, but the turbid yellow water easily suppressed the flames. Then, an ice storm appeared at the canyon entrance, but even the extremely cold storm could not freeze this surging water flow.

These turbid yellow waters contained power from the doomsday era; spells and divine arts were difficult to have an effect on it. But fortunately, Megan and Audrey were also in the camp; the power of cutting space re-spliced space in front of the rushing water flow, finally allowing the rushing yellow water to go to an unknown distance.