Chapter 4005

The filthy blood water spraying from the dense showerheads on the two-meter-high ceiling could not exert any influence on this black shadow either, so Lady Gustav, while hiding under the metal plate crafted by the halfling girl, released a new wonder.

She threw out the spellcasting materials Xia De had brought for her this time, which was a large handful of very thin metal sheets:

"Wonder: Metal Transmutation!"

The metal sheets directly transformed into a thick metal wall in the room, and the wall even bore the holy emblem pattern of that True God.

The 【Church of Creation】 also has Ringed Shushi who specialize in alchemy, and "Metal Transmutation" is mostly used to temporarily craft metal weapons; making a wall directly like this is not very common.

The wall was not broken through. The black shadow passed through the wall as if it were passing through a door, its form appearing to virtualize. Only because the wall bore the holy emblem of a True God, its speed in passing through the wall was not particularly fast.

This gave the group a chance to continue their retreat. When the black shadow had completely passed through the metal wall, which was thicker than a bank vault, Miss Bredewei turned and pointed:

"Witch Secret Art: Metal Bomb!"

Boom!

The four, already prepared, used the impact of this massive explosion to arrive at the door on the opposite side of the room as if flying.

The room itself was completely unaffected by this massive explosion. Amidst the blood mist formed by the evaporated blood water, the black shadow appeared at a speed even faster than before, lunging at the group as they were opening the door.

"Spell: Life Ray!"

Xia De's right hand, which had been struck by the power of "Wither," was currently holding that Source of Fire with Gina's help. His right hand, not yet having lost sensation, continuously absorbed the warm fire of life to heal the injuries on his right arm.

Seeing the black shadow lunge, Xia De's right hand, wrapped by Gina, immediately lifted. In the process of near-instinctive spellcasting, this time he didn't even emit the fire of life from within his own body, but directly triggered the Source of Fire.

Hum!

A crimson ray erupted from the center of the burning flame eye. The black shadow, which had always used a shield to resist attacks, chose to dodge this time; it seemed uniquely unwilling to come into contact with the power of the fire of life.

Thus, Xia De had an idea of how to counter it.

The sound of the door being fully opened had already come from behind, and the halfling witch's voice sounded again:

"The third room! It's the Blood Vessel Brood Nest! Be careful, this room contains a powerful enemy called the 'Blood Vessel Spider,' and the path is very difficult to walk."

Gina's right hand wrapped around Xia De's right fist, guiding Xia De's fist to move, letting the beam erupted from the Source of Fire pursue the dodging black shadow. The doll on Xia De's shoulder leaned on his shoulder and looked toward the door:

"Outside the door is a dense space of crisscrossing spiderwebs made of blood vessels as thick as wrists. It looks like there is no solid ground; you must advance along the spiderwebs."

As she spoke, Lady Gustav had already jumped first onto the blood vessel spiderweb outside the door, while Miss Bredewei continued to hold up the metal plate that was transforming from metal to flesh due to contact with too much filthy blood water.

Gina took Xia De and retreated, then the three jumped toward the door together, landing directly on the crisscrossing spiderwebs.

With a *bang*, the door closed. Gina was responsible for helping Xia De maintain his balance on the blood vessels, and Xia De immediately aimed the Source of Fire in his hand at the door.

The power within the Source of Fire was triggered again. The eruption of the Source of Fire just now had allowed Xia De to more deeply understand how to utilize the life energy within it, so this time, Xia De attempted to imbue the power of the fire into the Red Moon:

"Thorns of the Moon!"

Because it was his first attempt, what appeared on the door were only red moonlight thorns mixed with a slight fire of life, but even so, the surface of the moonlight thorns still shimmered with a softer red light than usual.

【Very good, you successfully imbued "Life" into the Red Moon.】

"She" said gently, and doing so indeed prevented the black shadow from immediately breaking through the door to pursue them.

The space of the new room was extremely large. Looking up and down, one could only see dense blood vessels crisscrossing; left and right, there was no end in sight. On the tangled blood vessels, Xia De clearly saw several bloodied corpses that had been gnawed upon. He couldn't even tell if they were corpses of normal creatures or corpses of aberrant flesh creatures.

The front and back sides of this room were about two thousand meters apart. At different heights on the walls on both sides, there were many doors, and very unfortunately, the door everyone needed to find was on the opposite wall.

"Move as lightly as possible, and don't speak too loudly, otherwise it is very easy to attract Blood Vessel Spiders!"

Gina whispered in Xia De's ear. Lady Gustav, walking at the very front, raised her right hand to show the number "3" to everyone, meaning it was obvious: this was already the last room the black shadow could track them through.

Feeling that after absorbing the power in the Source of Fire, the right half of his body had recovered for the most part, Xia De let Gina release him, and the group of four quickly stepped forward along the blood vessel network.

A two-thousand-meter-long room, if it were flat ground, could be crossed in the blink of an eye. But this time the "road" was a swaying blood vessel network; walking fast would only attract other enemies, so they dared not speed up at all.

And behind the four, the red light on the surface of the moonlight thorns grew weaker and weaker. After the thorn cluster disappeared as if withered, Miss Feilian, who was hugging Xia De's neck and looking behind, warned:

"Attention, the 'Shadow of Wither' has broken through the door."

But this was not the worst news. On the blood vessels in front of the four, a blood-red spider that blended almost perfectly with the environment was sprawled. The spider's body surface was wrapped in blood vessels protruding from within its body, as if it had put on a biological armor.

It wasn't that they had walked too fast and provoked it; it had been here all along, and clearly, it had discovered the four people approaching it.

"I'll deal with the one behind; Lady Gustav, the one in front is left to you!"

The old witch did not respond, but accelerated toward the spider that had already stood up, which was at least three meters tall. Since they had already been discovered, more and more spiders would soon come along the blood vessel network; there was no longer any need for concealment.

The halfling girl also rushed forward holding the shield embedded with a magic eye. The whisper elements emitted by the relic-level magic eye, fully activated, were even more powerful than those of the original holder in the prison.

Although Gina was worried about Xia De, she knew that with Miss Feilian there, she followed to help.

Xia De recalled the feeling of erupting rays directly with the Source of Fire in the emergency just now, and the feeling of integrating the fire of life into the red moonlight.

【Also, the feeling of constructing an energized body with the Source of Fire.】

"She" reminded gently.

"Yes, Wonder: Moonlight Greatsword."

The burning flame eye was tossed up by Xia De, and in the air, brilliant red moonlight formed around that flame eye, until it constructed a red moonlight greatsword with a more magnificent blade than ever before.

The "Source of Fire" was embedded in the hilt of the greatsword, and then Xia De grabbed it in his hand. The fire of life rippled around the blade, making the entire moonlight greatsword look as if it were coated with a layer of flame.

But what this sword manifested was still the power of the Red Moon; the Source of Fire only integrated part of the energy into the moonlight of the Red Moon, and the compatibility between the two was quite high.

At this moment, the Source of Fire embedded in the hilt was exactly in Xia De's palm, serving as the bridge connecting Xia De and the "Moonlight Greatsword." Energy molding, life force eruption, and integrating life into moonlight—lacking any one of these three conditions, Xia De would not have been able to summon this "Life Fire Source · Moonlight Greatsword."

With this spellcasting experience, Xia De could try to integrate the "Life Fire Source" into more wonders related to the Red Moon in the future. It is a pity that in the Sixth Era, the "Source of Fire" Xia De mastered was filled with the power of disaster, and he dared not use that Source of Fire for such spellcasting... but he could use his own life energy for similar spellcasting.

"Be careful."

Miss Feilian whispered in Xia De's ear. Xia De nodded and met the black shadow with his sword. The latter hesitated significantly when facing the greatsword in Xia De's hand, but then continued to slide toward Xia De along the blood vessels.

Flying was still prohibited here, but when Xia De slashed the slashing light of the Red Moon forward, the black shadow actually relied on flight to dodge it.

Dark red chains shot out from under its robe again, and were then severed by the greatsword in Xia De's hand.

"Steel Snake!"

The Red Moon greatsword transformed into a crimson whip flowing with red moonlight halos, lashing out into the air. The sound of the whip tip cracking in the air echoed repeatedly between the rock walls.

More and more Blood Vessel Spiders appeared above and below the group, but Xia De noticed that they seemed to fear the thing that was fighting him, and most dared not get too close, only intermittently spitting out some crimson spider silk capable of piercing steel to harass the people fighting.

So the three witches behind Xia De faced only five spiders, which they could barely handle.

As for Xia De himself, the black shadow clearly did not expect the greatsword to instantly transform into a long whip. It was struck by the crimson whip, and the Red Moon, rich in life force, split its body apart, causing the black shadow to explode into a mass of black mist in this blood-colored space.

But immediately after, the scattered black mist re-condensed, and the black shadow returned.

A dim yellow ray of wither erupted downward. Xia De, holding the Source of Fire, immediately activated the "Seal of Night," imbuing the night with the energy from the Source of Fire to block this strike.

"Miss Feilian, does its 'resurrection' have any depletion?"

Xia De, swinging the whip again, asked. The doll leaned on Xia De's shoulder and looked up at that thing:

"In the short term, the energy level it exhibits has decreased, but this decrease is temporary. Theoretically, non-absolutely fatal injuries will not have much impact on it."