this infinite world

Chapter 1184 Different

"boom!"

Along with a thunderous sound flashing across the sky, the earth and the air shook continuously, and ripples like water waves appeared in space.

Buildings collapsed like melted butter, and turned into tiny particles in the ensuing energy impact. The air was filled with the smell of scorched earth and gunpowder, as if even the sky was dyed red.

Although they had never dealt with each other before, and had never even met before the final battle, Zhao Yingkong and Zhang Xiaoxue, who were rivals, actually fought each other with real anger. Perhaps because the women could not stand each other, the intensity of their battle was even more intense than that of Feng Luo and Qi Tengyi, who had a deep hatred, and the clone Luo Gandao who wanted to prove himself and his original body...

...one-sided, "much more intense".

"Is that all?"

Thick smoke was still billowing from the edge of the battlefield, and the blazing energy fluctuations flattened everything around. In the void, Zhao Yingkong, with a frosty face, was suspended in the air like a goddess descending from the earth. Her figure was particularly clear under the dim sky, as if she had merged with the world.

——A one-sided beating.

Even if Haoyi, the number one god in the suspended pavilion, was here, the great wizard Xiangliu in the bottomless abyss was reborn, and Zhao Yingkong, who had broken through to the advanced fourth level, would not be afraid of fighting two alone, not to mention that Zhang Xiaoxue was only wearing the "Witch God Armor" made of the remaining flesh and blood of two great wizards combined with rune technology... After a short battle, Zhao Yingkong, who had seen through the opponent's strengths and weaknesses, kicked Zhang Xiaoxue unceremoniously, causing her to bleed profusely and plunge into the ground, leaving a huge crater on the land of Raccoon City.

“…I haven’t lost yet!”

It was like a roar coming from the abyss of hell. In the center of the huge pit, the armor she was wearing had turned red. It was not known whether it was dyed red by the spurting blood or the anger in her heart. Zhang Xiaoxue slowly stood up, stomped her feet hard, and the ground suddenly cracked. While instantly expanding the range of the crater by three times, her figure turned into a stream of red light!

As she made this move, the thrusters hidden in the armor instantly gushed out a flame-like AT force field that looked like wings of light, releasing an impact that distorted the space. The huge reaction force instantly turned Zhang Xiaoxue into a red comet running in the universe. At a speed even faster than before, she rushed towards Zhao Yingkong in the air!

——Then, the red comet met a slender hand that fell from the sky.

"boom!"

The mighty force was like the earth splitting and the sky collapsing, like a mountain falling down, crushing the little remaining matter in the surrounding space into particles not even the size of molecules. And the figure that intended to fight back, once again in the same posture, fell to the ground like a bird with broken wings!

"There's still some time."

Zhao Yingkong suppressed Zhang Xiaoxue with one hand in a way that was not "Zhao Yingkong" but quite "Yang Yun". She had changed a lot since joining the Zhongzhou team. Even she herself had not expected that she would change so much. She said in the same cold but more "irritating" tone: "Since, the final signal has not been sent yet."

The moment the words fell, eight purple auroras of lightning streaked across the sky like meteors. Their light was so dazzling that it seemed to dye the surrounding space purple, and they violently passed through Zhao Yingkong's body!

In the pit, Zhang Xiaoxue, who was slapped into the ground again, half-knelt on the ground, gasping for breath. Eight flying wing floating cannons popped out from the inside of the "Great Witch Armor" and spontaneously protected her. Just now, it was based on the calculations and predictions of the "Primordial Spirit Brain" obtained in the Lingkong Pavilion that locked onto Zhao Yingkong and fired eight "Purple Gold Sky Thunders".

"It's okay. I still have some time to do some warm-up exercises before all the preparations are completed."

But before Zhang Xiaoxue could confirm her victory, Zhao Yingkong's afterimage slowly dissipated in the air, and when it sounded again, it was already behind Zhang Xiaoxue, very close. With just a flick of his finger, he shattered the eight flying wing cannons!
"……Shut up!"

Zhang Xiaoxue's reaction was extremely fast. She grasped the floating shield sword in her right hand in an instant, and transformed various spiritual energies like the clone Chu Xuan in Resident Evil 2, continuously releasing telekinetic fluctuations, force lightning, psionic storms and psychic turbulence as needed; the siphon energy cannon in her left hand, like a long snake, continuously released dark external torrents, devouring and erasing everything it hit. The two phases overlapped, covering the entire space in the radius...

…But, is it useful?
Zhao Yingkong faced a 360-degree attack like a dragnet, and she did not show any expression at all to Zhang Xiaoxue's sudden outburst. She had not even used the light of her mind yet, but only moved her lotus steps lightly, always finding the corresponding gap at the critical moment, and dodging Zhang Xiaoxue's attack with an attitude of leisurely strolling in the garden.

"Passing through a field of thousands of flowers without getting a single leaf on you" is the best interpretation of Zhao Yingkong at this moment... But correspondingly, Zhao Yingkong only needs to hold the Sanye sword and stab continuously, and he can leave huge cracks on Zhang Xiaoxue's red armor!
Although the recovery ability of the "Witch God Armor" was extremely strong, even Zhao Yingkong's attack could only injure but not kill, and Zhang Xiaoxue was also fighting hard despite the pain. However, the more she fought, the more she felt something was wrong, because Zhao Yingkong's attack was at best superficial. Rather than trying to decide the outcome of this battle, it was more like she was deliberately doing this. Even the wounds left by the attack were faintly connected into a curve on her body——

"I told you I would skin you alive."

While Zhang Xiaoxue was in doubt, Zhao Yingkong spoke again, her eyes passing over the injuries she had caused: "Even if your skin is hard to peel off, it will only take a little more effort."

Swish!
The next moment, countless sword lights connected into lines and suddenly burst out from all parts of the "Witch God Armor"!

Under the radiance of Sanye's swords, the two crossed each other. When they separated again, Zhao Yingkong already had more than half of the armor fragments in his hand. Strangely enough, the fragments of armor turned into pieces of red flesh and blood the moment they left Zhang Xiaoxue's body, like living active pieces of flesh. Not only did they try to bite back at Zhao Yingkong's arm to seek energy, they also began to expand rapidly.

"...Heh, witch."

Seeing this, Zhao Yingkong sneered and frowned in disgust. She first cut a dark hole in the air with her left index finger and threw the bloody flesh into it. Then she turned around and looked at Zhang Xiaoxue, whose upper body was covered in blood: "Based on my understanding of Chu Xuan, if he is not quite sure, he will not let you face me directly."

"So, what trump card did he prepare for you when the final battle begins? Just use it."

Zhao Yingkong stared at Zhang Xiaoxue, looking at the face that looked exactly like a familiar stranger, but would never show that hostile expression in front of her: "Otherwise, you're just wasting my time."

"... Chu Xuan didn't prepare any trump cards for me."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaoxue, who was covered in blood, covered her chest and replied after a long time: "But I said... As a marginal person who was excluded from the core battlefield, I will defeat you here thoroughly." "This is the second time you have said the same thing."

Zhao Yingkong frowned slightly, but she did not take action directly. Instead, she chose to continue the conversation: "Marginal... Is this how the Demon Team defines me and the majority of the Reincarnation Team members except for a few in this final battle?"

"Do you really not understand, or are you pretending not to understand? We have all been left behind!"

Seeing Zhao Yingkong's indifferent attitude, Zhang Xiaoxue could no longer bear it. She grabbed her chest with one hand and waved the other hand back vigorously, shouting excitedly: "This is the final battle! It is the final battle to determine the 'protagonist'. Apart from the 'protagonist', everyone else is a supporting role. No matter how strong they are, they are just fireworks that cannot decide their own fate and are destined to burn out!"

As the words were spoken, blood ignited!
As Zhang Xiaoxue no longer spent all her energy trying to control the badly damaged "Witch God" armor on her body, the stripped flesh and blood gained its own life at this moment and began to wriggle and multiply wildly, swallowing up everything around her with Zhang Xiaoxue as the center!
The speed of flesh and blood proliferation was beyond all expectations. It expanded tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times in an instant. The rapid growth of mass even made time and space unstable. Zhao Yingkong had to jump back to avoid his body being contaminated by the madly proliferating flesh.

"Soul-burning Blood Witch Formation!"

Then, from the mouth of a giant monster with seven heads, nine horns, a snake body and a human face, Zhang Xiaoxue's hateful voice came out!

——As countless blood-red rune images suddenly lit up, time stopped silently.

That was the realm of time, the special power of the Great Wizard. Although Xiangliu, the Great Wizard of the past, was able to stop Zheng Zha in the state of "primordial chaos - creation of the world", he also stopped his own time; and under the blessing of the orthodox rune formation, this power involving the fifth level of the realm had a further aura, making the whole world seem to have turned into gray and white!

However, Zhao Yingkong, who is at the advanced level of the fourth stage, is not Zheng Zha, who is at the intermediate level of the fourth stage after all.

Zhao Yingkong, who is more orthodox than Zhang Xiaoxue, has ancient genes in his body and awakened to become a great wizard through orthodox means, could never be defeated by this mere standstill of time.

“It’s a little more interesting now.”

In this gray and white world, Zhao Yingkong could still walk leisurely. She dodged the seven-headed giant snake that was biting at her, and her tone finally had a little more emotion: "If that's the case, then I should be a little more serious."

In an instant, layers of phantoms appeared behind her. They were the brothers and sisters of the "Empty" Project, manifested by the light of the mind, "The Heart Mirror Reflects the Soul"... and these dozens of figures all emitted energy fluctuations that were no less than the fourth-order intermediate level.

“…This is the light of your soul.”

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoxue's voice, filled with fatigue and relief, came from the giant snake's body: "Sure enough, we are the same."

“The light of your soul is the proof of your weakness, it is the light of awakening to cover up the loneliness in your heart.”

"—"

At that moment, the atmosphere between heaven and earth changed. It became solemn, cold, and murderous. Then, Zhao Yingkong spoke in a serious and murderous voice for the first time: "What do you know about me?"

"Of course I understand... I've said it many times, we are the same kind of people!"

Zhang Xiaoxue's even more excited voice came from the giant snake's mouth: "Isn't it? We all have people we love, people we are willing to give everything for!"

"But you are just like me. We were all left behind! In this final battle, they regarded us as a burden and chose not to take us with them! That's why I have to--"

"--Ah."

Before Zhang Xiaoxue could finish her words, she was interrupted by a voice full of ridicule: "So that's what you think."

"It seems that even though they both have the same face, she can see much further than you."

"who……?"

Zhang Xiaoxue couldn't help but show a brief moment of confusion after hearing the completely unexpected answer. But Zhao Yingkong didn't answer her question, but in the flickering light, he grasped the Yama Sword that was reunited with the Sanye Sword in his hand.

"You and I are different."

Zhang Xiaoxue, of course, would not understand. In that distant plane of the Grudge, the girl with the same face as her did not feel the slightest bit of sorrow for Yang Yun's journey. As a witness of all this, Zhao Yingkong naturally understood that some concepts of love are not about long-term companionship, but about letting go at the right time... Just like what Cheng Xiao said a long time ago, when a man has made a decision, no matter whether that decision is right or wrong, as his lover, the most important thing to do is to respect and bless him!

"Besides, now I am——"

When Zhao Yingkong gently pushed the handle of the Yama Blade, dozens of figures behind her also made the same move. But among those Zhao family assassins who looked very similar in appearance and age, there was one person who was out of place. Looking around, the person was not holding the Yama Blade, but a Sky Crystal Sword...

"Even if I die and reincarnate, I will never be separated from him."

Where the knife light appeared, it split the gray and white world and cut off the still time. The dimensional knife mark was like stars surrounding the moon, wrapped in green sword energy, cutting the body of the seven-headed and ten-horned giant snake into pieces!
(End of this chapter)