Chu Tian handed the jade token to kh3106.
At this very moment, an anomaly occurred.
Suddenly, the jade token exploded with a "peng" sound and vanished.
Everyone was stunned by this scene.
Immediately afterward...
A deafening roar.
"Beep beep beep beep… Anomaly detected… Unknown organism or object invading high-particle stealth shield, extreme intensity!"
At this point, everyone felt the world begin to shake.
The four-dimensional holographic image released by Sui Xing turned completely red.
Including the ground and the protective shield beneath their feet, everything turned red.
"Quick… get into the mechs!" Chu Tian shouted.
He then ran towards the giant box.
"Boss… what is this thing? What are you doing?" Xiao Hei shouted.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is the will of the Sacred Spirit Realm. You guys get into your mechs first.
kh3106, prepare to launch a full-scale breakout. This guy is probably furious and wants to erase me!"
Chu Tian shouted as he ran.
"Boss, I'm not leaving… I'm faster than you… I'll carry you away!" Xiao Hei yelled, rushing to Chi Xue's side.
This startled her, "What are you doing?"
Xiao Hei said nothing, grabbed her arm, and before she could react, flung her away.
His target was the opened entrance on the chest of the Sui Xing mech.
Then, with lightning flashing beneath his feet, he transformed into his true form.
His four hooves stepped on lightning, a blur of afterimages streaking across. In the blink of an eye, he caught up to Chu Tian.
"Holy crap… are you stupid? Who said I was running alone? I'm going to collect this big guy. You hurry back!"
Although Chu Tian cursed him, his heart felt warm. At some point, Xiao Hei's feelings for him were no less than for Wei Jin.
It was the same for him, always calling him "Boss."
"Ah?" Xiao Hei was stunned, then looked at him with disdain, saying, "I thought you were sacrificing yourself for the greater good, to buy us time to escape!"
"Damn…" Chu Tian was speechless, already at the front of the giant, strange box.
"Divine Gate… open!"
Without hesitation, Chu Tian summoned the Divine Gate.
His soul power surged out, maintaining the opening of the Divine Gate and expanding it.
"Xiao Hei, hurry back and tell kh3106 to activate Sui Xing and help me push the box in."
Chu Tian shouted back.
"You got it…" Xiao Hei agreed, then turned.
His four hooves stepped on lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed back.
At this moment, Sui Xing had retracted its arms inserted into the ground and stood up.
The entrance on its chest had closed.
Seeing Xiao Hei return, it slowly opened again.
Meanwhile, Chu Tian was outputting his soul power at full capacity.
The Divine Gate grew larger and larger.
Gradually, its width and height exceeded a thousand meters.
At this point, Chu Tian's body began to tremble, and large beads of sweat flowed from his temples.
The Divine Gate also trembled slightly.
It flickered, feeling as if it could collapse at any moment.
*Hum…*
Sui Xing took to the sky, streaking rapidly across the sky and arriving opposite the box.
Its hands directly pressed against the hard wooden board of the box.
Its legs bent slightly, and the giant box was gradually moved towards Chu Tian's Divine Gate.
*Bang…*
Just as the strange box was halfway into Chu Tian's Divine Gate, there was a muffled thud.
The high-particle shield exploded, and an irresistible immense force descended from the sky.
*Creak…* Sui Xing let out a grating sound.
Within the ten thousand meters enveloped by the high-particle shield, the ground sank more than a meter deep the moment it disappeared.
Those inside Sui Xing felt nothing.
However, Chu Tian, who was desperately supporting the Divine Gate, experienced something entirely different.
The moment he saw the shield disappear, Chu Tian directly activated his Great Bear form and continuously cast ten layers of Iron Mane Protection.
At the same time, he raised his arms in a posture of supporting the sky, having transformed the Moon God's Wrath into [Ursa Major's Claws] and fitted them onto his arms.
He also compressed several heavy strike skills and unleashed them towards the sky.
However, under these circumstances, Chu Tian still coughed out a mouthful of blood directly, and his legs were submerged into the ground up to their roots.
His arms hung limply.
Within the blood he spat out, chunks of flesh could be seen.
It was evident that his chest and abdomen had suffered severe damage, and the crushing force had squeezed them out of his thoracic cavity.
"Boss…"
"Xiao Tian…"
"Holy crap…"
Everyone inside the mech cried out simultaneously.
They wished they could rush out immediately.
Although Chi Xue didn't speak, her nervous expression and clenched fists clearly showed her deep concern for Chu Tian's condition.
"Sui Xing, put some effort into it!"
Despite suffering a heavy blow, Chu Tian still struggled to stabilize the Divine Gate.
With every word he spoke, he coughed up blood.
kh3106, who was already preparing to control Sui Xing to rescue Chu Tian, trembled the entire mech upon hearing his cry.
Clearly, kh3106 hesitated.
"Beep… Risk assessment, current rescue success rate 95%, healing probability 15%… if…"
Sui Xing's mechanical voice provided a risk assessment.
*Clang…*
"You damn bastard, listen to the boss…"
Before the mechanical voice could finish, Xiao Hei kicked the virtual pod.
The liquid inside rippled with waves.
Whether it was due to Xiao Hei's kick or kh3106 regaining its senses,
Sui Xing's wings below its back, its waist, and the back of its legs suddenly erupted with several streams of fire.
The box in front of it rapidly accelerated towards Chu Tian's Divine Gate.
However… for some reason, the box that it could previously lift and fly with had become extraordinarily heavy.
Even just pushing it felt strenuous.
Chu Tian had initially thought that Sui Xing could push it into his Divine Gate with a mere flick of its finger.
Now… he had miscalculated.
He felt the box resisting, refusing to enter his soul space.
A mere box possessing such awareness filled Chu Tian with a mixture of surprise and joy.
It further confirmed that this thing was an inestimable treasure.
"Beep… Back thrusters activated 20%…"
*Clang…*
"You damn idiot, turn it up to a hundred…"
Xiao Hei, inside Sui Xing, went berserk and kicked the virtual pod again.
Wei Jin quickly stepped forward to restrain him.
"Quiet down…" Chi Xue also shouted.
Wei Jin was surprised.
What was wrong with Xiao Hei? Although he used to listen to Chu Tian,
He would never lose control like this.
Why… after seeing Chu Tian again this time, did Xiao Hei seem like a completely different person?
He seemed to carry some inexplicable emotion towards Chu Tian.
After being yelled at by Chi Xue, Xiao Hei quieted down but still stared at the miserable Chu Tian with red eyes.
His thoughts had drifted elsewhere, and he thought to himself, "You can't die, you absolutely cannot die…
I promised them I would protect you…
Over ten thousand years have passed…
I thought it was just a joke… I never expected to see you…
Damn that old bastard Wei Du…
Sometime he must have placed a seal on my memories…
If it weren't for accidentally breaking that seal while inheriting the Mother-Son Yin-Yang Lightning…"
…
In Xiao Hei's heart, he silently recalled, and three people flashed through his mind.
An old man, a young man, and a woman of exquisite beauty.
…
However, everyone else looked at him and then at Chu Tian, completely bewildered.
While they were all equally tense, they were nowhere near as distraught as Xiao Hei.
*Hum…*
From above everyone's heads, fluctuations emanated.
It was as if a more powerful pressure was brewing.
Based on its current intensity, it had already surpassed the pressure that had descended earlier.
And… it was still increasing.
It felt as if it was about to deliver a fatal blow.
Chu Tian coughed up blood profusely.
He activated his Ancient Tree form and cast various healing spells on himself without restraint.
Only then did he stabilize his injuries.
Suddenly, the space violently shook.
The pressure ten thousand meters above seemed to have reached a certain critical point and stopped rising.
And the box was still a hundred meters away from being fully inside the Divine Gate.
"Damn you all… I'll fight you to the death!
If you won't let me live, then I'll destroy your little world and see if you can still exist."
Chu Tian's injuries had recovered by half. Although it consumed a large amount of soul power,
His soul source was now like an inexhaustible spring.
Although the water level of the divine source around the soul island had dropped considerably,
It had not yet reached the bottom.
He felt… after sleeping for three years last time, his soul space had expanded fivefold, and its depth had also increased significantly.
Chu Tian cursed as he pulled his legs out of the deep pit and looked up at the sky.
In his eyes, there was a hint of madness and bloodlust.
The Moon God's Wrath materialized in his hand.