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Chapter 200: Scenes and Changes

Ling Dengxian felt like he was stuck in a quagmire and couldn't breathe.

There were densely packed and flying images in front of his eyes, and it seemed as if countless ghost hands were tearing his spirit apart in his mind, trying to make him see all the fragments of the images at the same time.

He couldn't do it. Pain, pain, pain... It shattered all his endurance, as if a mirror was shattered, countless fragments of the picture were pulled away and disappeared, and he fell into the remaining fragment in front of him.

"It's your turn today, kid." As if the distorted voice of an old sound generator was heard, he saw the twisted passage slowly returning to normal, and "he" stepped onto the dead end tremblingly and began to cry.

"Why me?!" He was a little out of control.

"What's the big deal? One person will be picked out every day. Sooner or later, it will be your turn. If you want to save your life, save your strength for later."

"This is the only way... I won't help you extra." The familiar voice made Ling Dengxian's spirit tremble and break away from the state of substitution. He "saw" that after he left, the scene behind him and the man disappeared together. He thought it was because of the fragments of the picture.

And the voice that made him shudder... was Xiao Xie? !

"If you are going to die, then work harder so as not to lose the chance of resurrection."

"Why me?!" He had a ferocious expression.

"Because it happens to be you." Xiaoxie's voice was half-smiley, completely different from the tone of Xiaoxie he knew.

Although the little scumbag he knew deserved a beating, he had never been as... murderous as he was now.

Disgust, irritability, unwillingness, hatred...

At the end of the passage was an arena, but it was a killing field for humans and beasts.

The stands were not luxurious, and did not have the so-called magnificent feeling, but they were very high... The people in the stands were not wealthy businessmen with gold teeth and a breath of wine and meat. They were all Sarkaz, some were skinny, some were big and strong... But it can be seen that none of them were in a high position.

Only then did he notice that something was wrong with his condition, but before he could take a closer look, the beast, which had been hungry for a long time like him, pounced on him and tore his flesh.

He couldn't change anything in the fragmented image and could only watch from a first-person perspective while enduring the severe pain in his mind.

The flowing blood took away the heat, and his frail body was too weak compared to the real him, almost like he was in the original world.

Fortunately, he was able to kill the leopard-sized beast at the cost of having his stomach pierced. In his dying moments, he madly bit the beast's flesh and blood, wanting to survive.

"...Luckily," the voice sounded again, with a hint of relief, "The beast's soul chose not to retaliate against you. It believed that this was a battle for food rather than killing, and it did not think that you were with those people. It wished you to survive."

With his face covered in blood, his originally dilated pupils glowed again and he stood up tremblingly.

The fatal wound in his abdomen turned into a minor injury and he survived.

Ling Dengxian couldn't bear the pain any more. He felt that he was almost reaching his limit of enduring the torture from the two swords.

Perhaps because of the length of the battle, the content in the image fragments this time was clearer and more organized, but he could not find the connection between the contents of the two image fragments.

"Ling Dengxian, wake up!" A clear shout rang out, and his vision, which was about to be drowned in blood, regained a bit of clarity, and he immediately struggled to stay awake.

Ling Dengxian's perspective was separated from his body. The scene of a child holding the body of a beast, crying silently and covered in blood was frozen in the broken afterglow. Fragments flew everywhere, and he suddenly lost weight and fell back into reality.

Unable to hold the two swords any longer, he simply crossed them and inserted them into the ground. Whether it was a coincidence or not, the swords landed exactly at the place where he had put down the red lotus before. Without any hesitation, Ling Dengxian took out the red lotus, ready to respond.

The pain only now began to feed back to his mind. It seemed that his shoulders and chest had suffered serious injuries. The white flame still instinctively wrapped around the original wound. Having lost subjective control, the white flame did not seem as agile as before.

At the same time, he noticed the situation in front of him.

His heart almost skipped a beat. Standing in front of him were two Ursus inner guards. They were obviously not in good condition. Their outer armor was covered with sword marks. He felt a little surprised when he saw that one third of the blade in the hand of one of the inner guards had disappeared.

"Hiss... huh... it's indeed a variable. Before we set out to provide support... we must deal with the variable."

To be honest, at the beginning Ling Dengxian really didn't expect the dual swords to be very effective. After all, he had only dealt with a few enemy leaders. All he wanted was to save his life. As long as he could make the inner guards weigh the pros and cons and give up the idea of ​​killing Frost Star or hold on until Frost Star left... But now it seems that the effect is much better than he thought.

But unfortunately, he knew too little about the Ursus Internal Guards. The more dangerous he appeared, the less likely they would give up.

Unless we can find a point that will make them hesitate.

"Hiss, huh... Has the 'paintbrush' arrived? It shouldn't take that much effort to deal with the bloody monster." The inner guard who was fighting against the bloody monster finally killed the monster completely. When he blocked the third corner, Ling Dengxian could feel his heart beating wildly.

Frost Star had never experienced such a scene before. When Bai Ge rushed out like a Shura to intercept the inner guards, and she was dragged away from the battlefield by a small dragon that came from nowhere, she was at a loss. Until now, facing such a predicament, she didn't know how to intervene.

She knew that she should help Bai Ge, but if she could have intervened, she would have done it long ago. Frost Star recalled the battlefield that was filled with dark magic and violent sword lights, and she couldn't even get in a little bit of magic.

She was able to fight against the Inner Guards, but facing a battle between two guards and one Bai, she really couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't accidentally hurt friendly forces.

Although in that state, she might have to consider whether she would be regarded as an enemy by the abnormal white pigeon...

"Have the internal guards on Tallulah's side responded?"

"It has already been done... Kosice's successor is worthy of the name in terms of strength."

"Hurry up...hiss, huh...according to the records of the bloody monster, huh, it is a hidden danger that may threaten the bottom-level production of the empire."

"Zizizi...hiss...whoosh...can you hear me...this is Paintbrush...I have some very bad news."

A familiar voice came from the built-in communication channel, but the other party's words seemed to be more solemn than ever before.

Every Ursus Internal Guard is a unit of equal status. Because of the principle of their birth, the only difference between the new generation of Internal Guards and their predecessors is experience... There has never been a system of Internal Guard Chiefs. This generation of proud dragons emerged in various countries, and Ursus also had a new 'strongest Internal Guard', who was given the special code name 'Brush' based on personal preference.

An accident occurred in the laboratory that was transforming the inner guards, and the two inner guards who were undergoing transformation simultaneously caused "annihilation". When Ursus thought that this transformation had failed, a dark figure like a goblin walked out of the country.

As an exception that "is theoretically impossible to exist", a demon fragment is still suppressed in the brush's body, but all the overflowing negative energy in the laboratory at that time was suppressed by the brush and absorbed into the body, and this is also the source of his powerful strength.

Huabi is not an ordinary Ursus internal guard. He is valued by his predecessors and trusted by his peers.

But now, he sent such a dangerous signal.

"All inner guards, abandon all current tasks and gather in Sunset Canyon." After the signal stabilized, the sound of the paintbrush was clearly heard by every inner guard.

"Emergency mission, without a doubt, the most important thing."

The Ursus internal guard in front of Ling Dengxian was startled, but did not question it. He whispered: "Hiss... huh... what about the hidden danger in front of us? A very high level of dangerous hidden danger."

"No hidden danger outweighs this urgent threat."

"Besides, if it can be handled quickly, why would you bother asking me for instructions? Hiss... huh... since it can't be handled right now, then just give up."

"Hiss, huh...what about the Kochesi heir?"

"No more than two internal guards will remain. The process must not take more than thirty minutes."

Ling Dengxian didn't know what exactly happened, but he didn't dare to act rashly. The Ursus guard in front of him suddenly turned his eyes to him, with a cold look in his eyes:

"Hiss... huh... leave it to me then. I can also handle the hidden dangers while I'm at it."

"Remember the time and don't delay. This is a matter of evil spirits."

The Ursus internal guard was stunned again.