Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 814 Contract Fulfills Dream 2.0
clang--! !

Heavy clangs of swords clashing echoed across the battlefield, and waves of blood energy and oppressive force crashed against the earth, turning the entire battlefield a dark red.

On the ground, Xin Lailai, who had blocked the attack of the White Night Projection, did not hesitate at all. She took a step forward and, amidst the golden light emanating from her body, condensed all the blood energy unleashed by the White Night Projection onto her sword blade, delivering a heavy slash in return.

Upon seeing this, the white night projection's blood-smoke-filled pupils flickered slightly. As if it had anticipated this, it suddenly retreated, creating distance as it opened its right hand. The blue-green crystal attached to it unfolded into a thick crystal shield, colliding with the blood-red sword light unleashed by Xin Lailai.

boom!
The next instant, a collision erupted, and the blood energy condensed to its extreme, along with the pitch-black heavy sword, slammed into the shield formed by the Azure Steel Shadow energy. With a clearly audible shattering sound, the White Night Projection was blasted back, shield and all. The White Night Projection, forced back by this heavy blow, suddenly stopped, plowing two furrows dozens of meters long in the ground while unleashing dozens of crescent-shaped azure blades, each over ten meters long, controlling them to surround from both sides, attempting to block Xin Lailai's movement.

Before these blue-green blades could even get close, Xin Lailai, propelled by the full force of her black scales, burst out of her original position with a whoosh, instantly pulling herself hundreds of meters away. At the same time, she used her mental power to precisely lock onto the white night projection in the distance.

Geo Elemental Magic: Deaththorn!
A flash of earthy yellow light disappeared in an instant, and a large number of slender rock spikes shot up from around the White Night projection, all piercing towards it. This caused the blood-red light floating in the White Night projection's pupils to flicker slightly. With a leap, it dodged the rock spikes that were flashing with black and white light, and at the same time, a crystal shield that could be used to gain leverage instantly condensed under its feet. Under Xin Lailai's gaze, it stomped down with all its might!
Blade Blade·Blood Blade!
The crystal shield, powerful enough to withstand a heavy sword master's full-force strike, shattered in mid-air. A blood-red afterimage, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom and a ring of blood-red air, shot out, covering hundreds of meters in a mere instant, giving Xin Lailai no chance to truly create distance.

Just as the white night projection was about to rush in front of Xin Lailai, it seemed to sense something, and the blood light floating in its pupils suddenly flickered, and it decisively entered a space-traveling state.

boom! ! !
The next instant, a terrifying gravitational turbulence erupted from mid-air, tearing apart the ground below and the surrounding blood energy. Xin Lailai, who had successfully delayed the movement of the White Night projection, slightly shifted her gaze. With a heavy flap of her Netherscale Feathers, she created distance in the sky while simultaneously using her mental energy to penetrate space and lock onto the White Night projection, which was in a spatial traversal state. She then uttered two cold syllables:
"Rock fragments."

As the compressed chanting fell, a massive dragon jaw, over thirty meters wide, swept up from the ground, accompanied by a deep roar, and tore at the white night projection in mid-air.

Zheng!
A bluish-green blade flashed, instantly slicing the rock dragon that was tearing at it into several pieces. But in the next instant, a large number of seemingly ordinary black and white spheres suddenly burst out from the broken rock dragon's body, rapidly expanding and growing in the vision of the white night projection.

Boom——! !

One after another, the extremely compressed annihilation energy balls erupted, transforming into annihilation light orbs more than ten meters wide. Like wildly proliferating spores, they engulfed Bai Ye's projected figure in a series of chain explosions. Meanwhile, Xin Lailai, who had already widened the distance to more than three thousand meters in the sky in just a few seconds, simply calmly reached out and pressed down, causing the hundreds of fist-sized annihilation energy balls behind her to descend simultaneously.

Boom boom boom boom——!!

In an instant, countless black and white orbs of light burst forth from mid-air, blasting away the bloody aura and blue lightning arcs that permeated the battlefield. Bai Ye's projection and Xin Lailai's figure moved at high speed in mid-air at the same time, but every time they approached, they were immediately interrupted by Xin Lailai's Crystal Star Chaos Technique or pre-arranged elemental magic, leaving them only able to endure Xin Lailai's bombardment in a frustrating manner, unable to launch any effective counterattack.

There were no fancy or complicated games of strategy.

There was no earth-shattering, large-scale magic.

When they get close, they use the burst damage advantage brought by the Greatsword Master to force them back. Once they create distance, they bombard them with endless Devouring Energy Balls. This is the most brutal and unsolvable way to fight when their speed disadvantage is brought back by the "Limit Breaker", "One-Man Army" and "Celestial Gem".

but--

All of this is contingent on them being able to maintain... their speed advantage!

boom! ! !
On the battlefield, as another round of bombardment followed, traces of blood slid down from the arm of the White Night projection. Just as a new wave of destructive energy orbs hurtled towards it, the White Night projection, gazing at Xin Lailai high in the sky, suddenly made a startling move—

The next instant, the sound of flesh being pierced rang out, and the blade, wreathed in blood and lightning arcs, pierced through the body of Bai Ye's projection. Then…

Shadowless... Flash!

Boom——! !

In an instant, an incredibly violent roar erupted from the battlefield. Almost the instant that Bai Ye's projection's health dropped to about one-third, an unusually heavy heartbeat suddenly came from his chest, and his entire body vanished from the spot with a thud.

Did you actually use it...?

As Xin Lailai watched this scene from mid-air, she decisively mobilized all her protective energy to block in advance. Just as she was about to block the opponent's attack, which had been amplified by a full 420%, a scene suddenly bloomed in her gray-white pupils, causing her pupils to shrink sharply.

wrong! ! !

In this future… the opponent didn't use a slashing attack, but rather—

The next instant, the same scene that had appeared in Xin Lailai's pupils appeared. The projection of Bai Ye, surging with blood energy, appeared in front of her at an unimaginable speed, and then... delivered a straight kick at the maximum speed, which heavily struck the protective energy layer on Xin Lailai's body!

boom! ! !
The terrifying kick, tripled in speed by the Shadowless Flash, caused Xin Lailai, who barely managed to dodge, to transform into a streak of light and slam heavily against the barrier of the spatial battlefield. Her protective energy barrier shattered into countless points of light, and her health bar plummeted from 100% to 69.7%. The half of Bai Ye's projection in mid-air also exploded into a cloud of blood mist from the recoil of the protective energy. Then—

[Note: The target has been detected to have used an unsuccessful detection capability. The current detection information has been updated.]

……

[Skill 18, Hunting Moment (Equipment·Ultimate·Active/Passive): When HP drops below 1%, immediately enter a 3-second "Strong Secondary Invincibility" state, recovering 10% of maximum HP and body energy and entering "Hunting" state. In this state, the user's physical strength will be increased by 100% beyond the limit, and the damage dealt will receive an independent increase of 100%, lasting up to 30 seconds.]

……

In mid-air, as the White Night projection was shattered by its own kick, a faint golden light suddenly emanated from its body. Taking advantage of this opportunity, it suddenly took out a bottle of something that Xin Lailai was very familiar with and drank it all in one gulp.

That's... a potion to restore honor!
Boom——! !

In an instant, a huge roar exploded again. Bai Ye's projection, which had recovered to 100% status with the Honor Recovery Potion, took a step forward and his figure instantly turned into a blood-red afterimage. He rushed straight towards Xin Lailai in a flash of blood-red blade light, causing Xin Lailai's pupils to shrink involuntarily. While using Future Retrospection to predict the opponent's movement trajectory in advance, she decisively raised her sword to block to the side.

boom! ! !
The second heavy kick caused Xin Lailai to cough up a mouthful of blood. The missing kick sent her sliding a considerable distance along the spatial barrier, depleting her hard-won protective energy once more. Her health, which had just recovered to 83.7%, was instantly reduced to around 31.2%. The recoil from the kick also caused Bai Ye's projection's health to plummet to around 20%, and then…

Honor Restoration Potion!

Another potion of honor restoration was drunk, restoring the White Night projection's health to full. Xin Lailai, watching this scene, twitched slightly, clearly anticipating what was to come. She sighed softly in her mind, a hint of helplessness in her voice.
"There's no other way, Lingyuzi, let's do it."

'Um. ’

The next instant, the White Night Projection, with its super-high speed boost provided by "Hunting Moment," once again rushed in front of Xin Lailai with the dash technique of "Blade Path Blade: Blood Blade," preparing to repeat the triple speed boost without the Shadow Flash. However, when it delivered a kick with 100% independent damage bonus, Xin Lailai seemed to give up the struggle, suddenly lowered the blade in her hand, and calmly raised her hand and pressed it forward.

Annihilation...Assimilation!
boom! ! !
A burst of black and white light, far purer and more terrifying than the energy of annihilation, caused the White Night projection, possessing intuitive abilities, to decisively change its actions. It forcibly entered a deep spatial traversal state, sufficient to evade the anti-air effect of the Netherworld Feathers, attempting to avoid Xin Lailai's deadly attack—

My Destiny Weapon: Shield!
Boom——! !

The immense pressure caused the white night projection, which was in a spatial traversal state, to groan. As if struck by a heavy blow, it staggered and fell from the area more than ten meters away. Almost the instant it appeared, black and white light appeared precisely in front of it, as if by premonition, and engulfed its body.

Deathly silence descends!
boom! ! !
A black and white color, powerful enough to annihilate everything, burst forth and collided heavily with the deathly energy spreading from the White Night projection. This caused the deathly domain, which should have expanded instantly, to pause briefly. As Xin Lailai faced the overwhelming deathly aura, her eyes flickered slightly, and her figure was instantly enveloped in a golden light.

Spatial displacement! The soul shell used as a sacrifice was revealed, replacing Xin Lailai and being swallowed by the Deathly Silence Domain. Meanwhile, the original appeared hundreds of meters away from the White Night projection, looking at the White Night projection, which was drinking the potion in the Deathly Silence Domain, quickly adjusting its state and continuing its power, and smiled slightly.

He understood Baiye's idea perfectly. It was simply to use the 10 seconds of silence that followed to stall for time, and then, once he recovered, replicate that shameless charge and straight kick that was comparable to their kite and energy ball combo.

From the perspective of seeking victory, there's nothing wrong with this approach itself, but...

'I really want the guy who designed this thing to take a good look at the garbage code he wrote.'

Realizing that further delay would make it difficult to witness the moves of the Azure Shadow King and others she had imagined, Xin Lailai sighed helplessly in her mind. Then, with a hint of disappointment, she looked at the White Night projection in front of her. Under the other party's fierce gaze, which was enough to stop a child from crying, she sighed and then... took down the Book of the World hanging on her waist.

"Well, after all, when it comes down to it, I don't really have any complaints about the practice of students repeating a grade."

As the murmured words fell like a soliloquy, in an instant, as if sensing something, the White Night projection in the Dead Silence Domain suddenly moved its eyes, while the Death Bearer on the outside of the spatial battlefield had a deep and mysterious look in its eyes.

Previously, when she sought to spar with the other party to calm the deathly aura of the Netherworld after killing too many abyssal creatures, she had noticed more than once that Xin Lailai was planning to use the Book of the World to try something. However, out of caution, she forcibly interrupted her each time with her own ultimate-level move. After trying it twice, Xin Lailai seemed to give up on continuing to use it.

And now, thanks to the White Night Projection's prioritization of all sorts of underhanded tactics in order to win, she finally gets to see... the true face of the trump card that her opponent seemed to be trying out back then:
Domain: All things lead to the same destination!

Om-! !

In an instant, an inky black color spread from the Book of Worlds, and the free magic and other extraordinary energies in the entire spatial battlefield, as if stimulated by something, began to frantically converge towards Xin Lailai's direction. Xin Lailai, meanwhile, gazed at the White Night projection, which had been indirectly controlled in place for 10 seconds by the Descent of Deathly Silence, as she stepped into mid-air and looked down indifferently:

"You really like Lai Zhao repeating a grade, don't you?"

Boom!

A tremendous roar subsided, and various energy collision phenomena caused by the excessively high energy concentration erupted around Xin Lailai. Xin Lailai herself looked down at the white night projection located in the dead silence below and spoke:

"Then I'll let you repeat a grade to your heart's content!"

Endless Laws - Crystals!
Om-! !

In an instant, a massive amount of magical power began to surge, transforming into a vast crystalline ocean within a few breaths, engulfing an area of ​​several hundred meters in radius.

Blade Blade·Blood Blade!
The next second, realizing the seriousness of the problem, the White Night Projection burst out from the dead silence that had dissipated due to reaching its limit of duration, transforming into a blood-red streak of light and slashing at Xin Lailai at high speed. However, it was like a mud ox entering the sea, only managing to travel less than a hundred meters in the crystal ocean that was hundreds of meters thick before being forced to stop.

You like repeating a grade, right?

Since that's the case, he wants to see who is more capable of repeating the exam—the other party or those of them who possess seemingly limitless magical power!
In mid-air, Xin Lailai, seemingly retaliating for the earlier kicks, gazed at the white night projection below, a chilling smile on her face. Her mental energy surged once more:
Endless Law - Devouring!
A massive amount of demonic and angelic power collided in mid-air, transforming into a gigantic black and white palm that crushed down on the unavoidable White Night projection. Upon seeing this, the White Night projection's eyes flickered slightly, like a ferocious beast at its wit's end, revealing a terrifying bloodlust in its eyes. It deliberately plunged the blade into its own body, devouring a small portion of its magical power, and then desperately thrust the long sword forward.

Ultimate Technique: Azure Shadow King!
Four blades of annihilation appeared, transforming into a terrifying suppressive force that froze the giant hand of annihilation above them. Then, the four blades of annihilation shot out simultaneously, like soldiers fighting to the death, rushing towards the giant hand of annihilation that covered their entire heads.

boom! ! !
A terrifying collision erupted, powerful enough to instantly crush a Tier 3 Overlord-level unit. A dazzling azure light burst forth, forcefully breaking through the blockade of the Devouring Giant Hand and carving out a vacuum zone hundreds of meters long from the crystal sea. Just as the White Night Projection was about to seize this moment to rush to Xin Lailai's side...

Endless Law - Devouring!
Four giant hands of devouring energy, exactly the same as before, reappeared, their overwhelming size crushing down upon the gaze of the white night projection, which had shown a slight change for the first time.

"I told you, I'll make you repeat a grade as many times as you want."

boom! ! !
Four gigantic hands formed from devouring energy slammed down simultaneously, unleashing a dazzling black and white light that engulfed everything on the battlefield.

[Hint: Challenge successful, time taken: 00'59"59]

ended.

"It feels weaker than I expected?"

"Hmm, now that I think about it, this thing is actually not as strong as that White Demon guy from the Dark Star era."

A slightly disappointed sigh rang out as Xin Lailai gazed at the gradually dissipating spatial battlefield before her and communicated with Ling Yuzi in her mind.

Although he knew long ago that their current strength was greater than the White Night difficulty in his mind, to be honest, after actually experiencing it, the feeling they gave him was not as surprising as when he first met them.

After all, objectively speaking, apart from the advantage of being a master of kicking techniques and the attribute advantage brought by the release of the boundary, the other things on the opponent are really not as powerful and unbeatable as the White Demon, who is also a member of the Destroyer system. Whether it is the development of the sword technique master, the secret of the Azure Shadow King, or the use of the demon spirit, the White Demon is obviously much stronger than 'White Night in My Heart'.

If he were to make an accurate assessment, judging by the recruitment quota of the expedition world, Bai Ye's strength in his mind would be roughly equivalent to the entry level of the 8.0 quota, which is about the same level as them when they first obtained the new class template.

As for comparison with them, who have already opened up the realm of all laws leading to the same goal?
The result was just as we saw. In front of their Domain of the Unity of All Laws, the opponent had no chance to get close or counterattack. Even the Azure Shadow King, who used it as an ultimate technique, could only offset one of their 'Endless Laws - Devouring' attacks. And within the Domain of the Unity of All Laws, he could launch an attack of the same magnitude as 'Endless Laws - Devouring' at least thirty to fifty times.

[Note: Congratulations to the challenger for successfully completing the "White Night in My Heart" difficulty level. Do you wish to upload your challenger's data? This data will be stored in the "Sanctuary Paradise - Academic Sect" database for future "Contract Operation" content development.]

[Note: If you choose to upload, your challenger data will be made into a playable character in "Contract Operation: Beyond the Principles Simulation Battle (Development Project)" and you will gain priority testing access to "Contract Operation: Beyond the Principles Simulation Battle (Development Project)"]

[Statement: This data will be stored in the academic sect's database with the highest level of confidentiality and will only be used for experimental and functional development purposes. If the challenger agrees to the recording, as compensation, you will be given priority to experience any new versions of this simulation project developed in the future!]

Suddenly, two cold notification sounds rang out, causing Xin Lailai to look up at the branding interface with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

This is... a data upload invitation from developers? And it even involves a new project related to contract actions?
"An unofficial simulation battle... That's interesting. Could it be that they're planning to include all of us in the contract as well?"

After imagining the other extra-tier teams appearing in the Contract Operation, Xin Lailai couldn't help but show a hint of curiosity in her eyes. After thinking for a moment, she pressed the confirm button.

[Note: Upload complete. Thank you for your support. We hope "Contract Action" provides you with a good experience.]

As the notification sound faded, Xin Lailai glanced at the final message of thanks, her expression twitching slightly. Then, after glancing at the location of the departing Death Keeper, she said nothing more, opened the teleportation interface, and disappeared from the spot.

With less than a day left before the world expedition progress begins, and since they've already completed the challenge on the White Night side of their hearts, the remaining time is perfect for them to use up the deep healing attempts they've been saving up, finish off the remaining benefits, and at the same time, get themselves back to their best condition.

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(End of this chapter)