Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1070 Eliminating the BOSSes!
As the final blow took away the White King's remaining data, Xia Xiu's figure slowly emerged from the snow mist.

【DECONVERTING!】

He gently pressed the cartridge eject button on his waist device. With a click, the cartridge automatically popped up, accompanied by a series of mechanical rotating and retracting sounds—the metal plate-like armor quickly unlocked and retracted, the heat emanating from his legs cooled down, and the shoulder armor, chest armor, and arm armor transformed into specks of data in the light particles, dissipating into the air like feathers.

The white light receded from the body like a tide.

In the end, only the young man in a black suit, with his blond hair slightly tossed, stood in the wind and snow, his shoulders still bearing the warmth and snow dust from the battle.

Meanwhile, Lupercal, looking slightly disheveled, finally deactivated his transformation. Covered in blood and energy scabs, he struggled forward, clutching his left shoulder. His eyes held a complex mix of shock, awe, and the stubbornness of a young man whose spirit had not yet faded.

He stood before Xia Xiu, looking up at this stranger who had shattered a myth in his desperate situation, his voice tinged with doubt and resentment:
"who are you?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Xiu's playful nature was aroused. He raised his right hand and naturally pointed his index finger to his game ID above him.

"Me?" His smile held a mischievous ease. "I'm just a passing angel."

Lupercald choked, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of snow, opened his mouth but said nothing.

Xia Xiu didn't intend to tease the silly kid any longer. He took out a cassette tape with a hazy golden light from his waist, the edges of which were engraved with classical runes representing the three dream cores.

This is the [Transcendence Cassette], which is used to awaken people from illusory dreams.

He casually tossed the cassette to Lupercal, which spun halfway through the air before making a clear "ding" sound and landing precisely in the other's hand.

"What is this?" Lupercal asked instinctively, feeling the fiery heat in his palm.

"A cheat code." Xia Xiu shrugged, replying casually.

"???"

Lupercal's face was full of question marks, but he couldn't sense any malice from this person. Instead, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if a shadow from his long-forgotten memories was quietly awakening.

He didn't ask any more questions and silently inserted the cassette into the driver at his waist.

【SUPER——EXTRACT——ACTIVE】

The moment the cartridge started, a golden light burst forth, and an invisible torrent of data poured in.

In an instant, Lupercal's pupils contracted!

He suddenly crouched down as if struck by lightning, clutching his head tightly with both hands, letting out a painful growl. Countless fragmented images surged into his mind, flashing like fragments of a dream.

Soon, he remembered everything.

He opened his eyes.

No longer the boy lost in his dreams, who thought himself a genius in the game world, he stood up, his eyes clear and bright as he stared at the person standing in front of him, as if he had finally pierced through all the illusions.

"Father...where am I..."

Xia Xiu stepped forward, raised his hand and gently patted Lupercal on the shoulder, explaining:

"This is the dream world constructed by the moon of Noema, a dream battle spanning the entire Abelio, about consciousness, cognition, and cosmic pollution."

He spoke slowly, briefly explaining the information about the Dream God Group and the identities of the three Dream Core members to Lupercar, while also clarifying the essence and purpose of the dream gamification system—a mental epidemic prevention war involving the entire population.

Lupercal listened quietly, his expression gradually becoming serious. After a moment, he raised his head, his tone more solemn than ever before:
"So next, we must get all the players in Abelio involved... Lower-ranked players will acquire the cognitive antibodies against the cosmic starfish through game progression, daily battles, and completing dungeons... And the real task of elimination and annihilation is left to you, right, Father?"

Xia Xiu nodded, his gaze lingering on the deep horizon beyond the snowfield, as if he had already traversed a dream and seen the calamities and flames deep within other forbidden zones.

"That's right, this is just the beginning."

His tone was calm, yet it concealed a determination that would shake the entire world.

"Next, I will travel through all the forbidden zones... The ten BOSSes that split off from the cosmic starfish are just the first line of defense. I will eliminate these seeds one by one and cut them off at the source."

He looked down at the driver in his hand, then looked up into the distance, his tone growing increasingly cold:
“But even if I clear them away, I cannot complete the final falsification. We also need all the participants in Abelio’s dream to have their cognitive antibodies reach a certain threshold. Only then can we initiate the final falsification process.”

Lupercal took a deep breath, a long-dormant fighting spirit igniting in his eyes, and said in a low voice:

"Then I will be responsible for ensuring the progress... Whether it's unlocking dungeons, updating versions, or exploring the main storyline, I will lead the players of Abelio forward to reach that necessary critical point."

Xia Xiu smiled with the satisfaction of an old father: "Then I'll leave it to you."

With that, he waved goodbye to Lupercal. He still needed to go to the forbidden zone to crush the cosmic starfish bosses one by one; this process wouldn't take too long.

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After a brief and composed farewell to Lupercal, Xia Xiu did not delay and immediately threw himself into the next phase of the Cosmic Starfish Elimination Plan in the Dream Game.

The three dream cores had precisely marked the coordinates of the ten avatar BOSSes on his system interface, and his figure moved like a fleeting shadow through the various forbidden zones of the dream.

His second stop was the game's second restricted area: the Stormy Sea.

This is a coastal outskirts that doesn't belong to conventional geography, where the waves never stop, the sky is always overcast and leaden, and the storms seem to be locked in some eternal cycle, never stopping for a moment.

The pitch-black seawater churned with foam and salt mist, wave after wave washing over the reefs and debris built from data fragments. The entire coastline was a fragmented landscape forcibly stitched together by some grand program structure.

However, a heavy, surging sound suddenly came from the wind, like an ancient god turning over.

Xia Xiu stood on the jagged reef, silently watching the black giant shadow gradually rise on the horizon.

That is the second boss: "Black God Argento".

He rose from the waves, his form like flowing obsidian. His outer shell constantly shifted shape, as if chaos were mimicking a human form, his face covered by a dark gold mask, with only his eye sockets emitting a ghostly blue light.

The gale whipped up waves that slashed towards the shore like knives.

Xia Xiu remained expressionless as he slowly pulled a purple cartridge from his waist and fastened it to his driver.

【SISYPHUS! ——！！！！】

Accompanied by clear sound effects, a purple stream of light surged forth, sweeping upwards from his feet and enveloping his entire body in a three-dimensional frame composed of purple-gold folded lines. His muscle lines were strengthened, and his armor structure was reorganized, forming a combat armor that exuded power and spatial aesthetics.

That is the battle form of [Sisyphus] – the master of all space and vectors.

The armor was fully loaded, and Xia Xiu slowly raised his head, taking steady steps forward.

The next instant, he slightly bowed, pointed his index finger diagonally forward, his gaze deep like that of a judge before execution, and then slowly pointed upwards at Argento.

"Disproven, begin!"

Light and shadow froze for a moment, and space began to distort. Time on the shore seemed to be suddenly disrupted, and countless looping and intersecting Möbius structures unfolded behind him.

The Black God, Argento, let out a deep roar. As his body trembled, countless bionic arm blades emerged from his body and rushed towards Xia Xiu like a tidal wave, carrying with them scorching sea mist and crushing fluctuations that distorted space.

But Xia Xiu did not retreat. He flashed and the space under his feet unfolded a spiral vector jump. Almost instantly, he approached Argento and cut in at an extremely simple angle. He raised his fist and slammed it down!

Wherever his fist struck, space trembled violently, and an entire dimension echoed from his blow.

The ensuing battle was devoid of language; everything was submerged in the violent clash of torrential rain and collapsing space.

The storm tore through the atmosphere, its vectors severing the tides, each strike leaving a scar hundreds of meters long, and each collision causing the ocean itself to weep!
And so, the cruel angel and the black king of the beach engaged in a life-or-death struggle. When everything calmed down, all that remained was a pockmarked beach.

And the unique icon in this area – [Already conquered].

And this BOSS battle has officially entered the accelerated phase.

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After completely purging the Stormy Sea and defeating the second cosmic star incarnation, Xia Xiu barely had a moment to catch his breath before immediately setting off for the next forbidden zone of the dream world.

The Third Forbidden Zone: The Mirror World. This is a dimension entirely composed of reflections. The sky is a shattered glass dome, and the earth is a series of intersecting mirror corridors. The surroundings appear still, but in reality, every step is being gazed upon by countless versions of oneself.

Space has no direction, and time is constantly deflected. This is a true "cognitive maze," the most bizarre and unpredictable battlefield in dreams.

When Xia Xiu arrived, the Mirror Realm rippled slightly like the surface of water. He stood quietly amidst countless reflections of himself, his golden hair floating like a tide of mirrors, and each step he took shimmering with light.

Deeper ahead, the Lord of the Mirror Realm had been waiting for a long time.

He stood in the center of the mirrored corridor, undulating like water, faceless and eyeless, his figure like a glass sculpture, constructed from countless reflective surfaces, like a gatekeeper sculpted by the world itself. His image repeated, superimposed, and spread in each mirror, every posture extending continuously within the shards of glass, seemingly a thousand faces, yet also seemingly devoid of human form.

He raised his hand, and as reflected in the mirror, dozens of arm shadows rose high, causing the space to collapse in an instant.

Faced with such an enemy, Xia Xiu remained calm and composed.

He pulled a jet-black cartridge with pale purple-gold patterns from his waist, flicked its edge with his fingertip as if igniting some kind of runic mark, and then inserted it into the driver.

It is accompanied by a clear and resonant startup sound effect, like a spell.

【W——A——S——H——A——K (Vasak)——！ ！ ！ 】

The cartridge was loaded, and in the next instant, jet-black and purple-gold particles exploded outward from the driver, weaving a deep, calm, and sharp battle armor around Xia Xiu, like a nightmare blade.

[Vasak] form, loading complete.

His head mask was an inverted triangle with a narrow, elongated structure, with deep purple light flashing on both sides, and his eyes were replaced by two deep, cold beams of light; his torso was constructed of fine black and silver armor, like a god carved from the shadows; his arms extended into retractable chain-like particle ropes, and his spine extended with a twisted, snake-like spine, making him look like a judge and executioner emerging from the abyss of time.

"The moment of falsification begins."

He murmured softly, his voice seemingly refracted through layers of mirrors, echoing throughout the space, the sound waves reflecting a rhythm that was both constant and distorted.

As if sensing a threat, the Lord of the Mirror Realm suddenly transformed his body into thousands of reflective shards of mirror, which surged forth like a tide.

Xia Xiu's eyes sharpened, and he suddenly slapped the sides of his belt.

【Time Domain Expansion——】

A pendulum-like halo immediately appeared around him, spatial particles froze, and time stood still beneath his feet—the Time Stop Domain unfolded.

The Lord of the Mirror Realm's offensive was immediately halted, and the surging mirror waves stopped abruptly in mid-air, like afterimages frozen in film.

Xia Xiu stepped forward, shattering the reflection on the ground with one foot. Then, with a side kick, the pendulum's shadow beneath his feet spun. He then kicked the Lord of the Mirror Realm directly in the forehead.

The mirrored world then cracked, and the structure of time collapsed like a spider web!

However, the mirror world was only a broken mirror. The Lord of the Mirror World quickly emerged from another mirror, while Xia Xiu, relying on the time-stopping mechanism, began a life-and-death cycle of battle in the mirror world.

This confrontation was not simply a battle of strength, but a standoff between "controlling time" and "manipulating reflections".

Xia Xiu approached step by step, like a swordsman going against the current of fate, while the Lord of the Mirror Realm went crazy and split, creating countless illusions in an instant, intending to trap his opponent with endless phantoms.

After a long battle, the mirror world was completely plunged into a death spiral. The light and shadow collapsed violently, and the Lord of the Realm finally let out a sharp, silent roar amidst the distortion and annihilation, before disintegrating into billions of mirror fragments that vanished into the void.

Xia Xiu stood above the collapsed Mirror Sea and gently popped out the belt from his waist.

His voice echoed in the shards of mirror and the fading light:

"next."

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In the dream world, a realm of ever-changing illusions where flesh and will coexist, an unprecedented war of disproving is quietly approaching its climax.

Since Xia Xiu stepped into the dream world of the moon Noema, this passing angel has been like a god descending to earth, wandering among the ten forbidden zones constructed by the dream core, transforming into the symbol of the end, and single-handedly shattering the Nightmare King split from the cosmic star one by one.

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Fourth Forbidden Zone, Abandoned City - Aerial Battlefield

In the ruined city where the sky is cracked and the clouds are thick, collapsed buildings made of steel and glass shards float in the dark sky, as if everything has been frozen in the moment after the explosion.

Queen Inos, the hive will that manipulates the collective consciousness, hovers atop the city in a floating body composed of countless spore sacs.

Xia Xiu chose to ascend straight to the heavens in the form of [Metatron], unfurling thirty-six pairs of light particle wings in the air, like a pure white sun in the sky. When he wielded his twin swords and broke through the core of the swarm, the light energy that burst forth pierced the sky and penetrated the core of the swarm.

The light engulfed the insect queen's body, and billions of spores were reduced to ashes in the explosion.

[The fourth forbidden zone has been conquered].

……

The Fifth Forbidden Zone: Ruins and Wilderness in the Rain

In the desolate wilderness, where dark clouds loomed and lightning flashed, collapsed statues and half-buried temple ruins were washed away by the torrential rain, resembling weeping corpses.

"The Undying King"—a king amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with a broken throne as his skeleton, his body stitched together from bones and flesh, carrying countless souls, and treading on the prayers of the dead.

In this battle, Xia Xiu appeared as Sisyphus, with spatial chains and vector armor intertwined, resembling a perfect combination of violence and structure.

Faced with an enemy he could not kill completely, he did not hesitate at all. After the layers of spacetime structure were peeled away, he dragged it out of the hell of souls with his bare hands and used pure physical violence to tear this "immortal" king to shreds with each punch.

[Fifth forbidden zone, already conquered].

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The Sixth Forbidden Zone, the Mountain Sanctuary

On the sacred mountain, atop the floating clouds, beside the temple, dwells the demon god-level being "King of the Wraiths." Its form is similar to a composite of a mirage and a shadow serpent, capable of constantly devouring cognition and turning the illusory into reality.

Xia Xiu chose to fight in the form of [Vassak].

The King of Time Frozen stood atop the mountain, unleashing his Time Stop Domain like a thousand ripples, disrupting the King of Demons' illusionary rhythm with endless stagnation, repeatedly cutting, weakening, and penetrating within eternity—finally, in the ninth time stop, a Knight's Kick shattered his spiritual core, causing his complete annihilation.

[The sixth forbidden zone has been conquered].

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The subsequent conquests, like a great river flowing into the sea, were unstoppable.

The Seventh Forbidden Zone, the Tower of Kyoto; the Zerg King resides atop the tower, its body coiling like a centipede around the city's veins, forming a symbiotic web of information and life. But after a perfect [Cherangel Knight Kick], its neural trunk was completely severed.

The Eighth Forbidden Zone, the Time Train; the Demon King, like a train conductor, manipulates the time train to travel through multiple time axes. Each carriage is a time trap. Only Xia Xiu, who possesses the [Vassak] ability, can smash the train engine with a single punch in the time traveler, nailing the Demon King's ghost between the gears.

The Ninth Forbidden Zone, the Moonlit Platform; the Vampire King, like a whisperer of the night, manipulates blood tides and resonates with souls, but faced with the spatial stability destroyed by the violent destruction of [Sisyphus], he can no longer transform his form and is buried alive in the crack by the uprooted altar.

The Tenth Forbidden Zone, the Collapsed City; Time Stowaways manipulate the deepest levels of dreams, using images of the future as weapons.

But Xia Xiu had already transcended the prophecy, tearing apart all the false timelines and freezing the escapee in the last frame.

In this way, one forbidden zone after another, which had been listed as an SSS-level disaster threat by the Dream God Group, was cleared away by that golden-haired, golden-eyed figure wearing pure white armor in a short period of time.

All system announcement interfaces are constantly updated.

[Seventh Forbidden Zone, Conquered]

[Eighth forbidden zone, already conquered]

[Ninth Forbidden Zone, Conquered]

[The tenth forbidden zone has been conquered]

All world bosses have been defeated!