[Vanguard Across the Realm] Entering the fifth day of Tier Four.
At the very bottom of the Parasitic Forest Sea, there is a dark dead ditch that has been almost completely filled with dead vines over the years.
Click!
The sharp claws covered with black scales dug into the bone seams like iron chisels, and with a sudden movement of the wrist, half of the thick weathered shell was blown away. [Tom Pie] The cat crouched and slid in along the narrow gap. His combat boots stepped on a huge biochemical broken branch lying in the mud, and his figure suddenly stopped.
Swish... swish.
There is the sound of water.
It was extremely weak, covered by the continuous blasts of heavy artillery several kilometers above our heads, faintly visible and intermittent.
[Tom Pie] Lowered his body, lowered the gain of the helmet headset with his backhand, suppressed his breathing, and silently moved forward for more than ten meters along the slippery shell wall.
Snap.
A drop of thick, warm dark red liquid quietly fell from the ceiling of the cave, hit the broken wood at his feet, and slowly seeped into the depths of the charred and decayed wood grain.
[Tom Pie]Slowly raise your head.
Searchlight's Wei Guang penetrates dust.
Deep in the countless ancient black roots that hang upside down and intertwined, a layer of violently undulating gray-white translucent capsule is tightly woven and entwined. Whenever there is a dull and weak pulse from the depths of the local veins, the capsule will bulge violently like a heart for a moment!
And in the shadow of the root system, three branch straws as thick as a child's arm suddenly tightened under the pressure, making a greedy whirring sound, and pressing the dark red body fluid in the straws toward the forest sea high in the sky!
"It turns out... the towering trees above are all grown by eating this food."
[Tom Pie] licked his chapped lower lip, expressionlessly looking away from the drop of blood.
The fine black scales on the side of the neck close to the collar gave rise to waves of familiar itching.
During these three weeks, he almost turned into a Ghost wandering outside the main army's defense line.
The large army was pushing forward to open up the wasteland on the front line, while he single-handedly picked out the hard bones in the shadow of the bottomless rift valley. From level sixty-five to the current [LV.69], he was no longer the young boy who had to resort to self-mutilation to resist the backlash of gluttony.
The three severe lacerations on the back have healed after treatment, and the Nirvana Energy in the body flows smoothly with every inhalation and retraction.
Hunger is still a constant presence.
But now--
One exhale, one inhale.
The Nirvana Energy that had not been vented was about to break through the fingertips, and slid meekly back to the chest and abdomen along the meridians of the forearm. As the circulation in the body calmed down, the thirst deep in the throat was suppressed by him little by little. He slowly loosened his clenched left paw, and the joints made a subtle pop in the darkness.
In the dark task bar in the corner of the field of vision, the target mark still flickered stubbornly, guiding a nearby divine body node that was resurrecting, urging him to devour and destroy it.
And he followed the location given by the "enemy radar" and followed the root ditches and the sound of water along the way, and bit by bit he found this hidden root dead end.
"Instead of giving me a regular map, I was given a top-notch prospector."
[Tom Pie] sneered and swept the task panel into the background with his backhand.
A few days ago, in order to catch up with the commando team that the gods had opened the way for, he paid a large sum of transportation fees and stuffed himself into a pod hung separately from the belly of the giant Winged Transport Construct. He was blown alive for most of the day in the high-altitude air currents thousands of kilometers away. When he landed, his two thighs were almost numb and painful from the seat belts.
If I climb back empty-handed this time, that huge sum of money will really be wasted.
His figure floated over the bloody broken branches like a fallen leaf, tapping the ground lightly with his toes.
Whoosh!
Just when his toes were about to touch the front, a dark biochemical heavy foot covered with jagged barbs suddenly emerged from the shadow under the gray-white capsule!
Like a landmine detonating!
Boom!!
Pieces of root webs were torn to pieces by Berserk in an instant! Tier Three Heavy Armor Lurker Beast, whose carapace was covered with jagged sarcomas and whose lower abdomen was tightly attached to the blood vessels, swooped down with sparks of broken wood flying all over the sky!
The two forelimbs cut across the air like guillotines, the cold Bone Blade brushed past [Tom Pie]'s mask by less than half an inch, and Berserk's air waves plowed out several dazzling sparks on the stone wall behind him!
[Tom Pie] The back of the head is almost close to the ground, leaning back to the extreme!
His left paw latched onto the broken wood beside him, his waist and abdomen exploded like a spring, and his whole body slid sideways and flipped out in an almost fractured and anti-physical posture!
Boom!
The hooked feet fell and sawdust flew!
[Tom Pie] The soles of his feet stepped on the protruding rock edge, and he used the force to counterattack. His whole body was like a dark meteor, piercing the center of the monster's inner door!
Two hits with the right paw!
The first blow exploded with dazzling sparks on the hard and thick armor of the foot, and the second blow had already penetrated the entire foot along the opened seam of the nail!
Poof!
Black blood spurts out!
The monster screamed in pain, and the muscles in his feet tightened crazily. The thick tendons instantly locked his five fingers like iron locks, and Berserk's force tried to push him alive into the mire with his claws!
"Seeking death!!"
[Corrosion Claw]!
The pure black gangrene death gas was violently injected into the blood mouth!
The Nirvana Energy in the monster of the same level rushed towards the injured area to block it. The death light only caused a small section of tendons under the claws to quickly fade away, and then it was withstood from the momentum of continued erosion!
Although the erosion is firmly pressed near the wound, this tiny stagnation is enough!
[Tom Pie] Immediately held back his life force, decisively drew out his claws to use force, stepped on the joints that had temporarily lost strength with his toes, and jumped into the air, and his body brazenly straddled the back of the monster's neck!
The two claws are intertwined! From top to bottom, violent reverse penetration!
Puff! Puff!
The soft flesh under the armor edge of the head and neck was completely torn open, revealing two terrifying gaps several feet deep!
The parasitic monster shook its head wildly, and its huge body smashed three load-bearing bone beams one after another. [Tom Pie] took advantage of the momentum to backflip and land on the ground, leaving two long scratches on the gravel ground.
Boom!
The huge body of the giant beast was unbalanced and overturned, twitched several times, and finally died.
[Successfully killed Calamity Kin(LV.68, Tier Three)!]
[Get experience points with Bio-Energy.]
Huh... huh...
[Tom Pie] He straightened up from the ruins, shook off the scraps of meat from his claws, and felt another physiological hunger spasm in his stomach.
He lowered his head and glanced at the corpse exuding rich energy, then turned around expressionlessly:
"He was so full that he came to be a dog for plants. He was covered in rotten meat and was so hard that his teeth were broken."
As the giant beast's body collapsed, the broken wall that was smashed by it finally revealed its true appearance hidden by layers of Withered Roots.
It was a large dark red ancient wall that sloped inwards in an arc shape.
It is dozens of meters high and is expanding outwards steadily, slowly and extremely powerfully under the dim light.
And on the surface of the warm native pipe wall, six gray-white straws as thick as a bucket were tied side by side!
At the edge of the perforation, the originally healthy and plump dark red tissue was turned pale and necrotic by the rough barbs. The thick and warm dark red blood continued to overflow along the gap, and was all swallowed up by the biochemical vesicles wrapped on the outside. Along the pipe, it was sent to the endless forest sea high in the sky.
[Tom Pie] Pupils shrink.
What flows here is not the kind of "Chaos True Blood" that once shocked his soul, but the ordinary circulating blood in this vast god's body that is used to transport nutrients to nearby tissues.
The reason why the virgin forest covering the sky on the surface of the earth is inexhaustible can be killed and cut down...
It's because under their feet, there is a whole row of Blood Sucking tubes that suck the bodies of gods!!
[Tom Pie]I didn't rush to extubate.
He climbed over the collapsed wooden frame and continued sliding down along the crack in the broken wall.
After passing through two deep 90-degree corners, an extremely abnormal wind suddenly hit us from the end of Abyss!
Humid, warm, with rich vitality of the earth, and magnificent echoes!
[Tom Pie] Drilled out the last layer of Withered Roots net.
The moment his combat boots stepped firmly onto the hard ground, he raised his head and looked forward -
His breathing, his heartbeat, and his whole body were completely frozen in place.
What appeared in front of him was not a narrow and cramped underground sewage ditch at all.
That's a...
Magnificent, vast, and deep enough for heavy fleets to keep pace with each other - the endless dark red rift valley!!
Above the head, the towering arc-shaped vein wall extends endlessly towards the darkness in the distance. The steady and powerful pulses are stirring in the Void layer by layer, just like the mountains are breathing heavily in the Abyss!
In the center of the rift valley, large areas of dark red blood rivers that should have been running endlessly were forcibly intercepted by towering biochemical blocking membranes formed by parasitic roots and turned into large and small stagnant pools;
However, at the breaches that were washed away and collapsed, the roaring red water still converged into a long underground river that rushed forward!
What he stood under his feet was a bank of foreign dead shells piled up against the native lumen.
And the ancient blood vessel wrapped in a root network in front of us is extending deeper along the bottom of the Parasitic Forest Sea!!
[Tom Pie] Slowly straightened up, his mind was like thunder!
He has sat on [Crimson Boat], and he has sailed thousands of miles in the veins of the divine body!
The large army overhead is still leading thousands of engineers, braving the poisonous smoke and billions of epiphytes, working like lumberjacks to cut down trees one by one and remove piles;
And beneath their feet...
There is actually a ready-made underground highway that is expected to pass through this forest!!
"Fuck..."
[Tom Pie] Even his palms were trembling. He opened the holographic video function at lightning speed and packaged the majestic lumen in front of him, the puncture straw above, the rushing dark red river, and all the coordinate routes he had personally walked with one click:
"Brother Feng!! Look at the private chat!!"
On the other end of the communicator, there was only the harsh sound of wind.
After five full seconds, [Vanguard Across the Realm]'s deep voice suddenly tore through the communication:
"Tom, where are you now?!"
"Right under that rotten forest you chopped down!!"
[Tom Pie] was so excited that he shouted loudly and stepped hard on the hard stone beam with his boots, "Come down along the route I took! Don't use a big knife to chop the tree trunks up there!!"
"Wait for me for two minutes and I'll be there immediately!"
Boom!
A moment later, Flight Wings broke through the air!
[Vanguard Across the Realm] Follow the clear corridor to the mouth of the ditch, and then follow the mark to enter the side cavity. Flight Wings behind him is like a blade, and his figure is like a god and demon walking through the shadows, stepping out from the depths of the cracks in the weathered cave.
This supreme powerhouse who had just stepped into Tier Four, when his eyes fell on the dark red blood river roaring in the darkness with no end in sight, and on the undulating original vein wall above his head...
The whole person was frozen in place, speechless for a long time.
A full half minute passed.
[Vanguard Across the Realm] slowly turned his head and looked at the grinning [Tom Pie] beside him, grinning slightly at the corners of his mouth, smiling extremely ferociously and wildly:
"Are you still cutting down trees?" [Tom Pie] raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly.
"Cut the ass off!!"
[Vanguard Across the Realm] The long knife trembled, and it directly cut into the frontline joint operations channel, sending the coordinates and images to the guild leaders, and the voice was as loud as thunder:
"Secure this route first and escort the nearby Divine Body Weaver over! Second and third echelons, postpone the surface attack in this area!!"
"Tier Three's main group comes first with two teams, equipped with rope racks and strong searchlights, and assembles towards the east coordinates!!"
[Vanguard Across the Realm] Pull out the sword and point it forward, the sword light pierces the eternal night underground:
"--We won't fight them anymore in this forest!"
"I'll take you... from inside!!"