The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

The dark red barrier collided violently with dozens of wildly swinging giant claws, and an indescribable, terrifying energy shockwave erupted instantly!
Time seems to freeze at this moment!
The heart-stopping cracking sounds rang out one after another. Several giant claws that rushed to the front and tried to crash into the barrier had their obsidian shells corroded and disintegrated by the golden regular patterns flowing on the surface of the dark red barrier the moment they came into contact with it, as if they had encountered their nemesis. They were covered with spider web-like cracks, and the tips of the claws were even broken off!

Shen Ge had never released his Ghost Domain with such full force as he had today, as if he was about to release the fused Ghost Energy within his body, which was in fusion with the Red Mist Ghost Energy.

From the depths of the black hole came a roar mixed with pain and rage. Clearly, Shen Ge's attack, which gathered all his strength, had truly injured the limbs of that terrifying being!

Despite the frenzied resistance of the giant claws, the barrier pressed forward relentlessly, like an unshakeable wall of sighs, forcefully pushing those outstretched claws back inch by inch into the black hole.

The spatial rift was violently twisted and deformed under the pressure of the ultimate barrier, emitting a sound of being overwhelmed. The swirling fungal carpet and energy flow at the edge of the black hole were forcibly pushed aside.

Just as the dozens of giant claws were about to be pushed back into the black hole, and the spatial rift was about to be forcibly closed, at this crucial moment—

A suction force, far more violent and terrifying than before, suddenly erupted from the depths of the black hole. This suction force was not directed at physical objects, but rather acted directly on space itself.

The "ultimate barrier" that Shen Ge had been maintaining with all his might suddenly became extremely unstable, with its edges beginning to crumble and dissipate, and the strange energy gushing out like a burst dam.

"Oh no!" A warning screamed in Shen Ge's mind.

The suction force was trying to drag him and the barrier into the black hole. He tried his best to steady himself and sever the strange energy connection with the barrier, but it was too late.

The spatial suction was terrifying, like a black hole in the universe capturing light. The dark red ultimate barrier, along with Shen Ge behind it and connected to it by energy, was grabbed by an invisible giant hand and violently pulled towards the black hole that was rolling with endless darkness and the aura of destruction.

"Master!" Little Seven's voice rang in Shen Ge's ears. Even if it wanted to use the blood-corroding tentacles of the Red Mist Armor in conjunction with the Ghost Gloves to "not let go" and help Shen Ge stabilize his body, it was impossible.

Shen Ge felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, as if his body had been thrown into a high-speed spinning washing machine. The world spun around him, and violent spatial turbulence tore at his body and consciousness. The red mist armor emitted a piercing alarm. His last sight was of the huge dark red barrier and himself, completely swallowed up by the deep darkness.

Pfft!
As if falling into a viscous swamp, or being thrown into a boiling furnace, Shen Ge crashed heavily onto a... indescribable "fusion" ground.

He endured the intense dizziness and the tearing pain from the spatial teleportation, instantly entering combat mode. His red mist armor covered his entire body, activating the Bone Armor mode. The muzzle of his sniper cannon glowed with an eerie light, and he gripped the butcher knife and the monster-destroying revolver tightly in his hands, ready to unleash his monster domain at any moment.

However, the anticipated frenzied attack from the true form of the Demon King did not materialize.

He looked up and found himself standing on a huge, dark red "platform." The surface of the platform was shimmering with a familiar red mist and eerie energy, while the inside was interwoven with golden, regular patterns—this was the "ultimate barrier" he had just condensed.

And he was standing in the center of this enormous barrier!
"What's going on?" Shen Ge looked around.

On the other side of the barrier, there was a huge spatial rift, like the gaping maw of an abyss, with viscous black fungal carpet and dark red, destructive energy flowing around its edges.

Dozens of terrifying giant claws, covered in cracks and shimmering with the light of lava, were frantically scratching and tearing at the barrier at the cave entrance.

Each impact caused the entire barrier to shake violently, emitting a dull, thunderous roar. The golden, regular patterns on the barrier's surface were visibly fading.

The fused substance under Shen Ge's feet was likely a mixture of flesh and energy, which made it feel very strange to step on.

“Master, the formation of this space is very strange. It is completely different from the spatial structure theory in ‘reality’, and... we seem to be inside the barrier,” Xiao Qi said.

In other words, after the "barrier" was sucked into this space, it also underwent some strange changes, just like turning into a transparent jelly, and Shen Ge was in the center of the jelly.

Shen Ge never expected that he would be sucked to the "inner side" of the barrier, blocked at the entrance of the black hole by the ultimate barrier he himself had condensed.

Meanwhile, the barrier was currently enduring the frenzied attack of that monster that surpassed the seventh-tier monster king!
Shen Ge instantly understood his predicament. Not only had he failed to push the monster back, but he had also delivered himself to the monster's doorstep, becoming a "door bolt" blocking the monster's entrance. This was somewhat difficult to manage.

As the barrier trembled and dimmed under the bombardment of the giant claws, and as he felt the terrifying pressure and overwhelming rage emanating from the other side of the barrier—enough to crush human consciousness—Shen Ge's eyes narrowed. Instead of fear, a more ferocious fighting spirit surged within him.

"Want to get out? Did you even ask me?"

He slammed the butcher knife into the barrier beneath his feet and slammed his hands heavily onto the "ground" that was flowing with eerie red mist.

"Little Seven, keep injecting the red mist energy. I want to see if it has the ability to get out." Shen Ge decided to do everything he could to reinforce the barrier.

Behind him lies Rongshi City. Even if he fights this Ghost King to the death today, he cannot easily release it, or the entire Rongshi City will be doomed!

The progenitorous strange cells within Shen Ge's body were frantically extracting strange energy at an unprecedented rate, combining with the strange energy of the red mist to continuously strengthen the strange domain and inject it into the barrier.

Golden veins appeared on the blood-red barrier, which had been infused with the power of the Crimson Mist, a manifestation of the violent output of the Primordial Bizarre Cell's power.

Under Shen Ge's relentless and frantic infusion, the dark red ultimate barrier burst forth with unprecedented brilliance. The dim golden patterns instantly shone like the blazing sun, and the thickness and strength of the barrier increased dramatically in an instant!
boom! boom! boom!
The frenzied bombardment of dozens of giant claws outside crashed into the suddenly strengthened barrier, only causing larger energy ripples, but they could no longer shake it in the slightest. Instead, several claws were shaken by the recoil, causing fragments of their carapace to fly off, and molten blood to splatter out.

"Scratching an itch? Is that all you've got?" Shen Ge mocked.

"Roar!"

Deep within the black hole, the terrifying being unleashed an even more furious and resentful roar, filled with the humiliation and rage of being blocked by ants.

It charged wildly, the spatial rift twisting violently, but the dark red barrier, like an insurmountable chasm, firmly blocked its exit.

Ah?
Is there a response? Does it understand?
Shen Ge was just trying it out casually, but he didn't expect to actually find something out. This giant monster king was either a fusion-type monster that still retained a bit of human consciousness;

Or it could be the same situation as the "Big Whale," where a strange person is actually manipulating things behind the scenes, which is why it reacted to Shen Ge's provocation.

Just as this extreme struggle of strange energy reached its peak, and Shen Ge's strange energy poured out like a flood, a sudden change occurred!

It did not come from the demon king outside the barrier, but from the deepest part of the black hole, from that undetectable absolute darkness.

An indescribable "wave" that surpassed all previous strange energy fluctuations erupted without warning!

It is not an impact, but an "emergence".

Like a star suddenly thrown into the Dead Sea, which had been silent for billions of years, an unimaginable amount of strange energy instantly filled the entire black hole space, and then... it went out of control! For the first time, the silent strange domain was forcibly torn apart and twisted. Shen Ge felt as if he had been stuffed into the center of a millstone made of violent energy that was spinning at high speed.

The balance he had established with the Ghost King through the Ghost Realm and the Silent Ghost Realm was completely shattered by this sudden surge of energy!

The ultimate barrier that Shen Ge had painstakingly maintained proved as fragile as a delicate glass mirror in the face of this pure and chaotic storm of bizarre energy.

On the mirror, the golden blood vessel patterns that symbolized the ancestor's eerie and unpredictable powers were the first to emit a piercing wail, breaking apart inch by inch!
Immediately afterward, the dark red barrier itself, starting from the edge that came into contact with the black hole, was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, like a piece of cloth being torn apart by an invisible force!

The earth-shattering roar he had imagined was swallowed up by the chaotic energy flow. Shen Ge only "felt" a devastating impact slamming into his body.

Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his vision was completely red.

The ultimate barrier has shattered!
The fragments, like burning dark red meteors, were instantly swept away, decomposed, and assimilated by the raging storm of bizarre energy.

Outside the barrier, the dozens of frantically tearing giant claws were equally vulnerable in the face of this storm, which even a seventh-tier demon king could not fully control.

They were like withered branches thrown into a meat grinder, easily cut, torn, and shredded by the invisible, violent blades of space.

Large chunks of flesh covering the obsidian shell, along with lava-like blood, were instantly swept into the vortex of the storm and turned to dust.

The entire black hole space has been completely transformed into a violent and destructive energy mixer!
Barrier fragments, creep debris, the flesh and blood of the Ghost King, dark red energy streams... everything was being frantically torn apart, pulverized, and mixed.

The Crimson Mist Armor instantly erupted with unprecedented light, and countless blood spiders surged out from the gaps in the armor, attempting to build layer upon layer of flesh and blood shields in front of Shen Ge.

At the same time, the Crimson Mist Armor itself is operating at overload, pushing all its defensive capabilities—"Regeneration," "Healing," and "Strange Bones"—to their limits!

However, all efforts were in vain in the face of this bizarre energy storm that was tearing space itself apart!
puff!puff!puff!
The defense constructed from layers of blood spider flesh burst instantly like soap bubbles. The crimson mist armor in its grotesque form emitted a metallic twisting sound the moment it touched the edge of the storm, its surface instantly covered with dents and cracks, and was torn apart once more in an instant.

Gather, tear apart, gather, tear apart.

Xiao Qi tried her best to control the invisible barrier, hoping to protect Shen Ge, whose consciousness was blurred due to overdrawing his magical energy, amidst the raging storm of strange energy, but it was difficult.

Shen Ge felt as if he were being grabbed by countless invisible giant hands, being torn apart, spun around, and thrown around wildly. Excruciating pain came from every corner of his body, his bones were groaning, and his internal organs felt like they were about to shift.

The Red Mist Armor's self-checking system emitted a piercing alarm, and the data representing the armor's integrity in the field of vision plummeted like an avalanche. This was the first time Shen Ge had ever seen the Red Mist Armor shatter.

His last sensation was a sharp burning pain and a cracking feeling on his wrist, where Xiaoqi's wristwatch was located.

Shen Ge completely lost consciousness. His body, like a withered leaf in a storm, was swept up by this devastating and bizarre energy storm and violently thrown into a huge spatial rift at the edge of the black hole, which had been completely destroyed and torn apart by the shattering of the ultimate barrier and the impact of the Ghost King.

Darkness, coldness, and a feeling of weightlessness.

And then... a seemingly endless drift.

Shen Ge's consciousness floated and sank in the ocean of nothingness, sometimes feeling a bone-chilling cold, and sometimes feeling as if she were in a scorching furnace.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint ray of light pierced through the heavy darkness.

Shen Ge opened her heavy eyelids with great difficulty and extreme slowness.

The blinding sunlight made him squint instinctively, and what met his eyes was an endless expanse of blue, shimmering with dazzling light...

The sky was a pure, clear blue, without a single cloud. Beneath me lay… a swaying, salty, fishy-smelling… deep blue.

sea.

The endless sea.

He was floating on his back on the sea, gently rising and falling with the waves. The sun shone down without any obstruction, making his exposed skin burn.

"Uh..." Shen Ge tried to move his fingers, and a deep-seated weakness and excruciating pain instantly swept over his entire body.

He felt like a rag doll that had been taken apart and then pieced back together, with every bone and every muscle protesting in pain.

The strange energy... was almost depleted. The surging power within his body had vanished without a trace, and the progenitor's strange cells had also become as silent as if they were dead.

Shen Ge tried to call out to the system, but it was like throwing a stone into the sea; there was no response. He turned his neck with difficulty to look at his wrist.

Empty.

The familiar red mist wristwatch, which was under Xiao Qi's core control, has disappeared.

Only a ring of deep purple, gruesome scars remained on her wrists, as if scorched by high temperatures. The skin and flesh were torn open, and broken metal wires could be faintly seen embedded in the flesh, a shocking sight. These scars silently told the story of the tragic separation at the last moment.

Shen Ge called out to Xiao Qi and the Red Mist Armor several times, but received no response, only the sound of waves crashing against his body.

His last memories became clear: in the instant the energy storm tore everything apart, Xiao Qi controlled the Red Mist Armor, using almost all of its energy to protect his body. The Red Mist Armor was torn apart, shattered, regenerated, and shattered again and again in the energy storm... until the "Endless" reproductive speed of its characteristic could no longer keep up with the speed of destruction, and it finally turned into ashes.

But Shen Ge knew very well that the Red Mist Armor had incorporated the characteristic "Endless," which meant it was infinite, or in other words, immortal and indestructible.

Even a single drop of blood residue can slowly multiply, regenerate, and merge.

Xiao Qi and the Red Mist Armor were originally one, which meant she also possessed the power of "immortality." The problem now is...

How did he survive in the ocean? (End of Chapter)