Chapter 3853

The giant Xia De appeared under the tree, then opened his arms and directly hugged the large tree that could no longer move due to the four pitch-black chains.

"Power of the Red Dragon" and "Oath of Self-Immolation" were activated together. Under the immense force, Xia De pressed the tree directly toward the forest floor, causing the "feet" constructed of tree vines to sink back into the mud beneath the snow:

"Daniste! Quickly!"

The giant under the tree canopy shouted. Seeing that Xia De could confront this enemy on his own, the sorceress flew directly to the base of the tree to prepare the ritual.

Although it could not move, the gray tree containing a powerful curse was still trembling violently. The vines hanging from the canopy constantly collided with the ends of the four chains with a clanging sound, yet they could not touch Xia De's true form no matter what.

The powerful curse force was transmitted to him through the position where Xia De was in contact with the tree trunk. Xia De had originally thought this curse would have no effect, but he did not expect that three seconds later his skin would turn blue, and at the same time, the life force within his entire body began to drain away.

However, the power of the "First Flame" was immediately triggered. When Daniste, who was preparing the ritual under the tree, looked up, the scars of the "First Flame Embers" had already appeared on Xia De's body.

"Why is the curse of this tree so powerful?"

The tree from the "Past" doomsday era was suppressed within the St. Deran Square area, so it was difficult to compare. But the curse-corrupted trees in the Vesta Woodlands combined did not have as much curse power as this tree.

"Where on earth did it absorb so many curses from?"

The four chains that had crushed the vines had now penetrated deep into the interior of the canopy, but even the current chains could not completely suppress this tree to stop it from launching attacks. Daniste, who was nervously preparing the ritual, could clearly feel the terrifying curse power above her head intertwining with Xia De's own power, even without looking up.

Even though everything had been prepared in advance, the ritual would take at least five minutes to activate, and during this period, they could only rely on Xia De to resist the full power of this tree.

"Mind Blast!"

The miracle that Xia De rarely used nowadays was slammed by him onto the tree trunk. The giant tree shook violently, but it also allowed Xia De to very clearly feel that there was only one soul within this tree, and that soul was currently controlling the tree in a hazy state.

"It's easy to handle if there's a soul. Forgive me, Ms. Carter—Soul Lash!"

The moment the blood-colored whip made of blood was lashed out, even Daniste felt a stinging pain in her soul; after all, the enhancement when casting spells in the giant state was quite significant.

And when the blood-colored whip hit the canopy, the tree almost broke free from Xia De's embrace during the violent shaking, and the soul scream coming from the tree made Daniste quite uncomfortable.

However, fortunately, this strike was exceptionally effective, and subsequently, the intensity of the tree's counterattack against Xia De clearly weakened.

And the severe pain of the soul even brought another benefit. More than ten seconds after the tree's counterattack weakened, Xia De's powerful soul actually "heard" unconscious whispers coming from the tree.

"Ms. Carter's soul has briefly awakened!"

Xia De was startled, then looked down at his feet:

"Daniste, the final step of the ritual will be performed in advance. I will go and resonate with her soul now to guide her to break free from the tree."

"No, I'm not ready here yet. Her soul is still imprisoned by the curse, you can't take her away!"

"Now is the best opportunity. The power of this tree's curse is far stronger than we thought! Once the soul falls asleep again, the subsequent overflow of the curse may contaminate the soul being born."

"Alright then, you must be careful, Xia De, I'll wait for you to come back!"

The giant Xia De immediately pressed his forehead against the canopy, then he followed the source of the whisper just now, letting his spirit resonate with it.

Even though he was in a dream at this moment, Xia De had the feeling that he had had a dream again.

His consciousness cleared after a moment of trance, and what he saw was a gray world. This was still the location of the summit of Mount Kalas, only the starry sky, the moon, the mountain, and the forest behind were all gray.

Xia De's body still had color, but it could be seen that this color was also gradually becoming dim. Gray is a symbol of curse power, and Xia De knew that he could not let his consciousness stay here for too long.

Stepping forward, where the "Moon Tower" should have existed, what existed at this time was not the towering thirteen-story tower, but a sacrificial ground that was slightly concave downward.

A lush large tree stood in the center of the sacrificial ground, and the lonely Ms. Helena Carter was hung under the tree by vines, as if she were being sacrificed to this gray world.

Ms. Carter's body was also gray, and Xia De knew that this was her soul, so he immediately entered the sacrificial ground. He had originally been guarding against attacks from this soul world, but until he arrived under the tree, nothing had happened yet.

Then, a flash of silver moonlight cut the vines, and the "corpse" fell and was caught by Xia De. And the power of the curse in that "corpse" was so strong that even Xia De couldn't help but click his tongue:

"There's no other way, ordinary purification doesn't seem to work on this soul."

He carefully placed the "corpse" on the gray ground under the large tree, then his right hand grasped the silver moonlight greatsword from the void. He very carefully knelt on one knee beside the "corpse" under the tree, with the sword tip pointing downward and both hands raised high to hold the hilt, and while bowing his head to pray, he slowly stabbed the sword into the chest of the "corpse":

"Miracle—【Moon Prayer · Sanctuary Halo】!"

Hum!

The sword tip pierced the heart, and then with the sword tip as the center, the rippling silver ripples swept toward the entire gray world, but because of the overly powerful curse, it eventually only created a small circle of colorful area around Xia De, who was kneeling on one knee, and the "corpse".

It was just that although the "corpse" trembled, it did not wake up. Xia De let go of the greatsword in his hand and let it dissipate into a large cluster of silver light spots.

【Then, what should be done next?】

"She" asked gently at this moment. Xia De naturally knew what to do; he had done this in his dreams more than once. He changed from kneeling on one knee to sitting on the ground under the tree, and after holding the black-haired lady in his arms, he kissed her gently:

"Locked-Room · Sleeping Princess!"

The next second, the entire gray world trembled, and then all the gray converged toward the two of them, and finally, that massive curse flowed through the "corpse" and into Xia De's soul.

The fingers of the lady held by Xia De trembled again, but Xia De did not realize this. While kissing, he was passively enduring the massive curse power, and he also saw some memory fragments of the lady in his arms.

Those fragments were even more fragmented than the memories he obtained when "falling," but in summary, after Ms. Helena Carter died here and turned into a tree, the root system absorbed massive amounts of time curse power from the earth of this dream world, so that the curse-corrupted tree eventually became what it is today.

"But where did the curse in this world come from? This curse is stronger than all the curse powers combined during the Time War. If it weren't for my time resistance being greatly enhanced after the Time War, this time..."

The curse in the "corpse" was absorbed, and the chaotic soul moved toward sobriety. When she realized the situation at this moment, she wanted to push Xia De away at the first opportunity, but her current soul power was far from being Xia De's opponent.

The two souls that had been fused by the Locked-Room were so familiar, and at this moment they were tightly together. While Xia De obtained some memories of Helena Carter, she actually also knew the reason why he appeared here.

Since she couldn't push him away at this moment, she hugged him tightly. The curse of the gray world was then mostly absorbed by Xia De, and a small part remained in the body of the cursed soul.

But the radiance of the moon had already bloomed within the souls of the two at this moment. In the night sky of the gray world, that huge silver moon had also gradually returned to its pure color.

Three drops of divinity shone brightly within that great soul, the divinity resonating with the silver moon, resonating with time, resonating with everything at this moment...

Xia De then fell into a deep sleep amidst the cold curse, only a second ago he could still feel the slight coldness and tenderness of the black-haired sorceress's lips, and the next second he heard the sound of a cat meowing in his ear:

"Meow~"

"Little Mia, don't make trouble, I'm dispelling the curse..."

Xia De was suddenly startled:

"Wait a minute, Little Mia wasn't brought into the dream!"

He opened his eyes all at once, and then was squinted by the sunlight shooting in from the half-opened tent entrance.

The day had already dawned, the rain and snow from last night had stopped, and the light of dawn shone into the thirteenth floor from the direction of the tower terrace, and just happened to illuminate this tent located at the boundary between light and shadow.

The campfire in the camp had already gone out. Xia De, listening to Little Mia's impatient meowing, slowly crawled out of the quilt, and then heard Daniste's sobbing.

"What's wrong?"

He hadn't figured out the current situation yet, only remembering that he had hugged the large tree in his dream and kissed Ms. Helena Carter in the dream within the dream. "She" in his ear reminded him that it was Saturday morning in the real world, the dream had awakened, and the cat was calling him to get up because Xia De had overslept.

"Teacher, the egg..."

Daniste, who was sitting on the side covered with a quilt, sobbed and said. So, with the help of the dawn light after the rain cleared, Xia De saw the red-haired sorceress with disheveled hair wearing a nightgown, holding a giant egg thirty centimeters high.

The gray giant egg had abstract patterns of the moon and trees, and those silver-green patterns were shining brightly in the dawn light at this moment.

"Success?"

Xia De blinked, then immediately reached out toward the egg, and the majestic life force and familiar soul fluctuations coming from it made him smile:

"It was indeed a success. It seems I found the right method. 【Sleeping Princess】 is still the most professional for dispelling curses."

"Xia De, I found the teacher~ I found the teacher~"

Daniste cried with joy, and Xia De hugged her. Because of the position, the cat standing on Xia De's pillow saw clearly that the two were holding the strange egg from left and right.

"Meow~"

The cat then leaned forward and sniffed, then confirmed that this egg could not be eaten. It then continued to meow to urge them not to do such strange things anymore, but to hurry up and prepare breakfast. After all, in the cat's view, an egg could not be hatched like this, but if you didn't eat breakfast, you would definitely miss a meal.

It was indeed the real world after the dream had awakened. Daniste had only woken up a few minutes earlier than Xia De, and before she had time to check on Xia De's situation, she found this egg and a small piece of withered yellow large tree root in the quilt.

The two of them had this dream for a whole night.