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Chapter 411 - 97: The Fall of a Hero, A Return with Momentum (Requesting Monthly Votes)_3

Chapter 411: Chapter 97: The Fall of a Hero, A Return with Momentum (Requesting Monthly Votes)_3

As soon as these words came out, they immediately drew sideways glances from the people behind.

Gu Yue Ming, Tang Rou, and others were astonished as they stared at Xu Shu from a distance, not understanding why he suddenly started reciting poetry to a monster, and why did he seem so insufferably sarcastic?

This Nie Qiba clearly did not seem very intelligent. Was he, bullying an idiot?

It was utterly perplexing.

Only Gu Pan felt this was all too normal and silently sighed, shaking her head.

"Alas, Xu Shu, although you are indeed very strong, you are still too naive. What can you do about the world’s peace all by yourself?"

"Being too upright will put you at a disadvantage..."

"Speaking of which, what about that strange monk on his back earlier?"

Gu Pan suddenly paused, turning to Gu Yue Ming and asking her question.

The latter’s gaze also darkened, as she and Tang Rou had also noticed this. They were very aware of the monk’s strength.

Could he still be inside?

Before they could ponder further, they suddenly heard a despairingly shrill scream.

"You dare to kill Lord Bahamut! Lowly humans, I curse you! I will make you receive punishment in the Lord’s Divine Kingdom!"

The voice came from the bound alien monster, Nie Qiba.

She stared intently at Xu Shu, her eyes blood-red, filled with intense hatred and resolve.

"Humans, feel the pain! My Lord will surely make you understand what absolute despair is!" Nie Qiba roared.

"Okay then, let me experience it!"

Seeing this, Xu Shu chuckled to himself.

Success!

Next, it was time for this Nie Qiba to self-immolate with black flames, and then open the gate to the ruins!

All of this was still within his calculations.

He wanted to test by letting Nie Qiba sacrifice herself through self-immolation and communication with Tailed Ksitigarbha to draw out results.

Why is it that the "Divine Kingdom" she spoke of clearly refers to the underground illusion of Tailed Ksitigarbha, yet on their journey, she shouted to open the gates of the Divine Kingdom twice while actually opening the entrance to the ruins that felt somewhat familiar?

This was something Xu Shu could now experiment with.

He watched quietly as Nie Qiba waited for herself to be reduced to ashes by the black flames she summoned.

Nie Qiba also watched Xu Shu quietly, waiting to be sacrificed by herself to drag the other into the Lord’s Divine Kingdom, to make his life worse than death.

They just stared at each other in silence.

As time ticked by, a gentle breeze blew, lifting Nie Qiba’s soft, shiny black hair, lightly touching her pale and luminous face.

After a moment, Xu Shu furrowed his brow and pinched her cheek: "Hey, are you having second thoughts, not wanting to self-immolate? I think your loyalty to Lord Bahamut is fake!"

Nie Qiba was also baffled.

She stared at Xu Shu, dimly resisting: "No, it’s not like that... How could it be... Why can’t I feel the Divine Kingdom of the Lord... No, where is my Lord? The highest, eternal Lord, I beseech you to respond to my call! You are the supreme being who controls the domain of space, the great and boundless Tailed Serpent..."

Nie Qiba began to pray rapidly. Her continuous invocation of Tailed Ksitigarbha’s sacred name, her eyes brimming with tears, it was clear she deeply loved Bahamut.

However, this did not change the fact that she seemed to have lost the oversight of her Lord.

She completely lost the response from Tailed Ksitigarbha.

This time, the ritual of summoning Tailed Ksitigarbha through self-immolation was a massive failure!

"It actually failed. From what she’s saying, it seems she lost contact with Tailed Ksitigarbha?"

"Could it be because Tailed Ksitigarbha’s escape is something that happened in reality just now, and didn’t happen on previous journeys..."

"If that’s the case, it seems... it seems that I can’t help but suspect that there is a certain connection with my arrival..."

Xu Shu’s gaze sharpened.

Clearly, some mysterious changes had taken place behind the scenes, rendering the little gatekeeper Nie Qiba’s ability to summon the Evil Spirit ineffective.

The cause was still unclear, and he was merely speculating, unable to make a determination.

After all, Nie Qiba had even failed at self-immolation, so naturally, Xu Shu couldn’t use her for experiments.

Given the circumstances, even though he was unwilling, he had no choice but to let it go.

Luckily, Xu Shu was always carefree, never clinging to what he couldn’t have. He immediately gave up on the test and felt not the slightest sense of defeat in his heart.

As for Nie Qiba, who had eaten many people alive, she had lost her value, and with a swift motion of his blade, Xu Shu killed the monster and seized the Erosion Crystal from within her.

It was a gem containing fourteen strands of green, lush and frightfully pretty.

"Let’s go, let’s leave this place."

Xu Shu wiped the Erosion Crystal clean and turned to walk forward, towards Gu Pan and the others.

They were about seventy or eighty meters away, standing in front of the lighthouse at coordinates (19,19), all with looks of astonishment on their faces.

"...Huh?"

Witnessing the distance between them, Xu Shu’s expression suddenly tensed.

No, something wasn’t right!

Before, everyone was no more than ten meters apart.

When had they become seventy or eighty meters apart?

He abruptly turned around, looked around, and was shocked to discover that behind him was another lighthouse supply point, identical to the one in front.

The only difference was that the lighthouse where Gu Pan and the others were located was within the border.

Meanwhile, the one beside him was outside the border—this was easy to distinguish because there was a wasteland not far behind, which could be used as a reference point!

He had, unknowingly, been displaced outside the border line, about fifty meters away from it.

"How could this be... wait, the identical scenes, the exact mirror-image landscape, this is..."

Xu Shu froze, then came to a sudden realization.

"Holy shit, I understand now!"

"Tailed Ksitigarbha has already successfully escaped! From now on, the real domain of the deity begins outside the border line!"

"No wonder Nie Qiba’s sacrifice just failed, she definitely sacrificed in the wrong direction!"

Realizing this, Xu Shu didn’t hesitate and immediately dashed towards the inside of the border line.

"Fortunately, it seems Tailed Ksitigarbha isn’t very interested in me..." But at that moment, a dark shadow launched from a hundred meters away, arriving almost instantaneously before Xu Shu.

It blocked his path into the border line.

The head topped with numerous trembling compound eyes and a face as rugged as if chiseled by axe and knife, uttered almost through gritted teeth:

"You deceitful, poisonous little insect, I’ve finally caught you!"

Xu Shu took a sharp breath.

Damn it, an old acquaintance.

The Earl, Lance!

What the hell, when did he arrive?