The Insect Brain couldn’t see what the Terminal was licking.
But it could feel its own body being sucked over from head to toe.
Thinking of how the Terminal fed on Beastn’s Star Stones, waves of nausea rolled through the Insect Brain’s stomach.
Insect Brain: [Ugh!]
Bai Yan was startled and suspicious, "What’s that sound?"
Insect Brain: [Ugh, ugh—]
Bai Yan: [What’s going on over there?]
Insect Brain: [System signal interference creating noise.]
After replying to Bai Yan, the Insect Brain spent a long ti calming itself down, finally recovering from its queasy spell.
Though there was no direct evidence.
It suspected that the Terminal had just sucked on its essence.
After all, it was parasitically residing in Bai Yan’s body, essentially making it a part of this Mist Continent ruled by the Terminal.
Since the Terminal knew about Bai Yan and Insect Brain 1.0’s internal conversations, it was clear it was aware of its existence.
Having discovered that the Terminal fed on Beastn, and might even prey on the Insect Clan itself.
The Insect Brain hurriedly relayed this information back to the Insect Clan.
They needed to assess how best to advance their plans of occupying the Mist Continent given the obstacle of the Terminal.
Once the ssage was successfully transmitted, the Insect Brain waited anxiously for the Insect Clan’s response.
Even as Bai Yan muttered complaints about not being able to find Xi Qu and Ying Fei, the Insect Brain pretended not to hear.
anwhile, Xiao Jinsheng and his group, with the help of Li’s superpower, were teleported back to Cloud Island.
Li’s chosen landing point was the Snow Peak.
But during the teleportation, they encountered an interference attack, causing the teleportation channel to verge on collapse.
Li had no choice but to hold onto Xiao Jinsheng and exit the teleportation channel prematurely, before reaching the designated Snow Peak.
Their surroundings were a stretch of ice-white landscape.
Standing on the frozen surface of the sea, Xiao Jinsheng confird that they were at Snow Cliff Ice Sea.
Due to the attack on the teleportation channel, Chen Yunji had to rely on his elental power to pass through unnoticed, expending significant energy to avoid being swept away by spatial turbulence.
He landed and imdiately felt the eerie quiet and intense cold unique to Cloud Island, his thoughts flashing to Huaiqing’s twice-repeated prophecy. In alarm, he asked, "Is this Snow Cliff Ice Sea?"
"Just now, a force hiding in the shadows attacked ," Li’s expression was grave.
He could sense that the ambush carried multiple elental superpowers.
"You were already in the teleportation channel. For you to be attacked at such a ti..." Xiao Jinsheng was horrified, "Could it be...?"
The words "Terminal" were too terrifying to voice at this mont.
Huaiqing’s prophecies earlier had shown Xuan Jiu’s puppet slain, with a Ten-Star Star Stone lying beside his corpse.
This alone suggested that the Terminal had likely noticed soone escaping Snow Peak.
Otherwise, with Xuan Jiu still being at Ten Stars, the Terminal would have no reason to hunt and kill him.
Ti was pressing. Just as Li prepared to activate his teleportation superpower to head toward Snow Peak, a chilling wind swooped in — a figure fell heavily before Xiao Jinsheng.
On the icy surface lay a corpse. Silver hair stained with blood, and a gaping bloody hole at the dantian.
"It’s Xuan Jiu’s puppet." Observing the aura on the corpse, Chen Yunji’s voice trembled.
At that very mont, the desolate and cold Snow Cliff Ice Sea rose with black fog.
Within the black fog appeared scenes from Cloud Island’s Snow Peak.
From the fog, a humanoid form took shape, morphing into a face belonging to Xiao Jinsheng, twisted maliciously.
It knelt down to look at Xuan Jiu, who lay sprawled on the ground. With a smirk, it spoke, "Now, you must make your choice."
"Do you choose to die for your allies, exchanging your death for their chance to survive?"
"Or do you choose to embrace death together with them?"
Simultaneously, in another part of this world.
Xiao Jinsheng couldn’t spare a glance at the black fog’s visions, shouting to Li to reactivate the space teleport and prevent the onset of inevitable tragedy.
The teleportation was swift, and this ti, it wasn’t intercepted.
But as Xiao Jinsheng and Li appeared in the Bamboo Courtyard, black fog instantly descended over the bamboo house, tearing the area into ruins.
A blood-stained Star Stone flew out of the wreckage, landing in the massive terror-inducing claws above.
The Poisonous Fog cleaned the blood off the Star Stone.
Above the Bamboo Courtyard, a satisfied sigh echoed.
"This... is the taste of despair."
The voice was hoarse and chilling.
With a flick of his hand, Li swept the shattered remains of the bamboo house into the abyss below.
Amidst the destruction, a figure lay motionless in a pool of blood.
Xiao Jinsheng rushed toward Xuan Jiu frantically, releasing those who had remained within the spatial channel.
Yu Yunxiao had barely left the spatial pocket when Xiao Jinsheng dragged him urgently forward toward Xuan Jiu.
"Quick, quick, quick, save him." Xiao Jinsheng urged anxiously.
"Oh my god!" Yu Yunxiao exclaid in shock.
The Healing Elent Superpower flowed endlessly onto Xuan Jiu’s cooling form.
Xiao Jinsheng simultaneously poured his Healing Elent Superpower into Xuan Jiu’s wounds.
Yu Yunxiao stared at the gaping bloody hole in Xuan Jiu’s dantian and shouted, "Where’s the Star Stone? Where’s the Star Stone?"
"Taken away by the black fog," Li replied.
He positioned himself behind Xiao Jinsheng, scanning the surroundings with vigilance.
"Without a Star Stone, how am I supposed to save him?" Yu Yunxiao’s trembling hands transmitted superpower, visibly panicked.
Feeling his spiritual power plumting fast, Xiao Jinsheng asked anxiously, "What about his heart? Can we save him with just the heart, without the Star Stone?"
"It’s possible, but the Star Stone is the vessel for one’s superpowers. Without it, he’ll only be an ordinary person, no different from humans during the Mist Continent’s apocalypse." Yu Yunxiao explained.
In that mont, he couldn’t help but feel relief at having risen to Nine-star Superpower himself.
To save a Beastman without a Star Stone was undoubtedly challenging.
But to revive an ordinary human without superpowers seed comparatively easier.
Xiao Jinsheng quickly produced Xuan Jiu’s heart.
Sealed in a porcelain jar, it thumped steadily.
Under the wrapping of Healing Superpower, the Nine-tailed Fox’s heart transford into energy, returning to Xuan Jiu’s body. The once irreparable bloody hole at the dantian began to close under the effects of healing.
Xuan Jiu found himself surrounded by snow.
A giant hand extended from the black fog, descending from the sky, hunting him as though swatting a desperate insect.
Amidst the infinite snowfield, he could only flee endlessly toward an unknown destination.
Blood dripped from the dantian wound, leaving a crimson trace against the pristine snow.
Snowflakes fell like feathers.
Covering his footprints, burying the bloodstain.
Xuan Jiu was battered by a violent gust, sent flying into a snow pit where the ice buried him. Within the silence of the cold abyss, the Terminal’s voice constantly whispered in his mind, a corrosive murmuring.
In agonizing pain, Xuan Jiu cupped his ears, desperate to block out the repulsive, insidious muttering.
He burrowed deeper into the snow, ignoring the cold as he searched for a refuge.
Plunging further into the icy expanse, warmth surprisingly replaced the cold in his body.
He abruptly awoke to crimson eyes locking onto Xiao Jinsheng, whose face was close to his.
Startled, Xuan Jiu recoiled backward, his gaze defensive and fixed on Xiao Jinsheng.
"Xuan Jiu, you’re awake!" Xiao Jinsheng exclaid joyfully.
Xuan Jiu held a cold expression, carefully scrutinizing every detail about Xiao Jinsheng.
The more he examined, the more he confird that this truly was Xiao Jinsheng before him.
It wasn’t an illusion conjured by a dream.
Nor was it the Terminal in disguise.
But exactly because of that, Xuan Jiu was overwheld by a bitter sadness and pain as he spoke, "Xiao Jinsheng, how did you die too?"
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