Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 258 The Faded Sun Begins to Collapse (5k)

Bai Shi teleported Xia Duo out of the Hefen Spire and stepped onto the barren plain with only dead bones again.

He looked at the empty scene that was no different everywhere, feeling a little distressed.

What needs to be done now is very clear, which is to destroy the death ceremony held by Godwin's followers and destroy part of the fading sun.

But where to go?

Can't we have some map guidance design?

Fortunately, Bai Shi now has a witch by his side who can help guide him.

Bai Shi looked at Xia Duo and placed his hope on her, who had wandered in the spirit world for a long time.

"Xia Duo, do you know where the death ceremony is held?"

Xia Duo blinked.

"Even if you say that...I don't know where they are."

"In this world, I don't dare to go deep into most places."

"...But if we talk about the general direction, there are a few possible places. Can I take you there?"

Bai Shi nodded.

"Whether it is or not, let's go and see first."

“It’s better than having no direction at all.”

Seeing that Bai Shi agreed, Xia Duo chose a place she thought was possible and prepared to lead Bai Shi.

She took out a skull from her small bag.

This skull has no jaw and is overall smooth and flawless, slightly transparent like glass.

And in the eye sockets of this skull, there is a faint blue flame burning.

Judging from the shape, it appears to be a purebred human skull.

It is a standard skull that is so pure that it can be recognized by the Emperor even if it is placed on the Holy Terra world.

Xia Duo placed it on the palm of her hand.

Bai Shi looked at this unique skull and asked curiously:
"What is this?"

Xia Duo did not rush to explain, but held the skull high.

Then the skull slowly turned by itself, turning in a certain direction, and the blue flames in its eyes burned even more vigorously.

It was as if there was something there that was still attracting it.

After it changed direction, Xia Duo explained to Bai Shi:

"This is a special skull I picked up a while ago."

"There is still a part of its soul residing in its skull. It cannot communicate, but that part of its soul is always staring in a certain direction."

"I kept walking, trying to find its destination, but ultimately failed."

"After crossing several areas, the ocean of the dead stopped me."

"Anyway, it is now a prop that can be used to indicate direction. It can be used to determine a location."

Bai Shi looked at the skull with some surprise. It turned out to be something similar to a compass.

After determining the direction, Xia Duo took out a scroll made of unknown material.

On it was a simple map that she had drawn stroke by stroke.

This map is very rough, with only the boundaries of several areas drawn at random to roughly divide them.

On this map, there will be some marks in each area, such as circles, crosses, squares, etc.

Bai Shi pointed to the mark on the map and asked:
"What does it mean?"

Xia Duo glanced at the place Bai Shi was pointing at, and began to explain while thinking about the route.

"I'm not very good at drawing maps, these are just rough areas I marked at random."

"The circled area represents the area where monsters live. You need to be careful around there."

"As for the places marked with a cross, they are particularly dangerous and should not be approached."

"As for those blocks, they are where the various Hefen Spires are located, but I only saw those few in total."

"Oh, yes, you may not be able to feel it, but for the soul, the Hefen Spire has a special guiding significance, and it can vaguely sense the direction."

"So by relying on this skull and the Hefen Spire to locate us, we can roughly know where we are in the area."

After saying this, Xia Duo stood up and walked in front to lead the way for Bai Shi.

Bai Shi followed her, thought for a moment, and called her.

"Would you like to take a short break?"

He was a little worried about Xia Duo's condition.

They had just climbed up and down the Hefen Spire, and the journey was quite long.

I don’t know if Xia Duo can hold on.

Xia Duo turned around and smiled at Bai Shi.

"Haha, it's okay."

"I have been in the spirit world for quite a long time. Now the thing I am best at is escaping."

"If even this little bit of road has problems, it will be difficult to survive."

Bai Shi blew Torret's whistle, trying to call it out.

But for some reason, Torret seemed to be resistant to the spiritual world and was unwilling to appear here.

Since this was the case, Bai Shi had no choice but to give up the idea of summoning Torret.

Although Xia Duo insisted that she was fine, Bai Shi still carried Xia Duo on his back just like he did in the Hefen Spire just now.

Xia Duo was still a little shy, but didn't say anything else.

In this way, Bai Shi can also speed up the movement speed.

Well, that's how she convinced herself.

Bai Shi carried Xia Duo on his back and ran all the way across the plain full of bones, heading towards the place where the ceremony might have taken place.
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Bai Shi and Xia Duo ran to several places and encountered various monsters, but they never found the real location.

Along the way, only a few monsters were very aggressive. Most of them would only react after getting too close. Bai Shi and Xia Duo easily avoided them.

During this period, Bai Shi also tried to use Soul Charge to attack some monsters that actively attacked.

The result wasn't too bad. When Bai Shi transformed into a pure soul and charged forward, he could cause damage to monsters.

And after trying it, it was found that human nature can be directly used to provide consumption.

However, such a direct collision will also damage Bai Shi’s soul, and it cannot be used as a means of conventional attack for the time being.

Using this trick you can only rush forward and fight with others.

After searching for the place several times without success, Xia Duo finally decided to take Bai Shi to the most dangerous central area.

There are usually powerful enemies guarding there, and if possible, it is best not to confront them.

But now that place is all that's left.

Under Xia Duo's guidance, Bai Shi finally arrived there.

This is the very center of the plain.

In the center of the plain filled with bones, there is a huge passage that extends diagonally downward.

The two of them walked down the passage.

Along the way, many giant skulls appeared, which looked the same as before and had fought against Bai Shi.

These giant skulls all have helmets with eclipsed suns on them, so this time we've probably found the right place.

In this passage, there are a large number of Godwin's skeleton guards in the spiritual world.

And after the first skeleton discovered the two people, all the skeletons rushed out together.

Seeing these skulls covering the aisle, Bai Shi summoned the dragon soldiers Tian Can and Di Que.

The two dragon soldiers continued to charge forward, crushing skulls along the way and clearing out space.

The group broke through head-on and rushed all the way to the deepest part of the underground.

A bright spiritual fire burned in this cave, which was even brighter than the earth shrouded in the dim sun outside.

At this moment, the skeleton guards guarding outside have all been killed, but the followers in the cave remain unmoved.

There is a huge magic circle in the center of the cave.

Countless creatures, with only dry bones left and spiritual fire burning on their heads, knelt around the magic circle and worshiped.

In the center of the huge magic circle, there sat an extremely skinny humanoid creature holding a scepter of thorns and wearing a crown on his head.

The robe it wore was extremely gorgeous, embellished with gold, completely different from the tattered robes worn by the believers beside it.

It seems to be of high status, perhaps a bishop.

It was short in stature, with a withered face, and not a trace of flesh under its strangely dark skin.

The many creatures on this side are obviously the ones who follow Godwin and preside over the death ceremony.

They did not make any move due to the sudden intrusion of the crowd and continued to pray silently.

It seemed that the guards' failure was not a problem at all. On the other side...

Bai Shi turned his gaze towards the man in black armor who was standing silently at the edge of the cave.

After seeing the armor that could move and attack at the Spire of Hefen, Bai Shi naturally could no longer regard it as ordinary armor.

What's more, the armor has already started moving at this moment.

After Bai Shi noticed it, it immediately flew over.

Almost in the next moment, it appeared beside Bai Shi and others.

The man in black armor raised the greatsword in his hand and slashed towards the waists of the dragon soldiers.

Ashimi appeared in front of the armor and swung his sword to block, but was knocked away by a huge force.

By the time Ashmi adjusted his posture in the air and stood firmly on the ground, the armor had already swung another sword at the dragon soldiers.

A moon-like sword energy shot towards the waists of the dragon soldiers.

Before the knife hit them, the souls of the two dragon soldiers were taken back into their ashes by Bai Shi, thus avoiding the knife.

Otherwise, judging from the power displayed by this armor, it might directly split the dragon soldiers in two.

Bai Shi frowned as he looked at this extremely powerful enemy.

This should be what Xia Duo said before, the guardian with extremely powerful strength in each area.

Now Bai Shi roughly understood why Xia Duo had no hope for their plan.

This guardian is even more powerful than the top heroes.

No matter how powerful it was when it was alive, it has that kind of strength in the spirit world, perhaps with some unique bonuses.

In Bai Shi's opinion, this power can already be regarded as that of demigods.

If every place where Godwin's death ceremony was held was guarded by a guy of this strength, then based on their strength on paper, their chances of winning would be slim.

Ashimi picked up the Sword of Night and Fire and rushed forward to fight with the armor.

While Ashmi was fighting with the dark armor, Bai Shi rang the Soul Summoning Bell and summoned the Storm Knight Oleg and the Battlefield Magician Yog.

After the two were in position, Bai Shi ordered them to rush into the magic circle in front and destroy the ritual.

The sea shells immediately gathered on Yog's staff and smashed towards the place where the believers were most concentrated.

The rest of the believers were all unmoved, as if they were not the ones being bombarded.

The Haimo shells were blocked in mid-air by a barrier made of spiritual fire.

The bishop in the center of the magic circle opened his eyes, looked at everyone with his shriveled eyeballs, and waved the thorny scepter in his hand.

The pitch-black thorns of death immediately grew out beside everyone.

Bai Shi pulled Xia Duo to the side and dodged, watching the death thorns twisting around him.

When he took a closer look, Bai Shi discovered that these death thorns were actually made up of twisted worms.

It seems to be exactly the same as the ones on the earthworm-faced monsters at the border.

When the bishop saw that everyone had avoided the slow-moving thorns, he shook the scepter of thorns again.

Suddenly, a large number of relentless ghosts emerged from above its head, tracking the surrounding enemies.

When the black armor saw that it was attacked on the other side, it immediately turned around and tried to leave, but was shot down from the air by Ashimi using a storm.

After the brief fight, Ashimi had several serious scars on his body.

"I didn't say you could leave."

Ashimi felt very upset after being beaten just now.

There is nothing special about the enemy in front of me.

He doesn't know magic or prayer, and doesn't even have many special combat skills. It's just pure numbers.

It was because of this that Ashmi felt very uncomfortable.

She, who clearly imitated the Baizhi numerical value, is the real numerical monster. She can pin the opponent to the ground and hammer him without even thinking.

It's a pity that she couldn't fully display her strength.

"I didn't want to use my brain..."

"This kind of thing is too complicated for a replica teardrop."

Since we can’t rely on numbers to win mindlessly, let’s rely on technology to win.

It's just a fight between two opponents of higher rank!

She was imitating Bai Shi's body, which had a rich system of various powers, so she was not without a chance of winning against such an enemy.

Moreover, she also learned important combat methods from Bai Shi——

The ancient dragon mark on Ashimi's hand lit up, and he applied various buffs to himself, including the Golden Tree Oath and Celine Shanks's Dragon Thunder.

As soon as the armor stood up, various colorful lights appeared on Ashmi's body.

Seeing that the situation was not good, it immediately rushed to Ashmi, ready to interrupt her.

But at this moment, Ashimi had been fully strengthened. He used his sword blade to accurately deflect the opponent's sword and kicked him back.

Ashimi finally wiped her palm across the sword, and a raging fire suddenly ignited on the sword of night and fire that she condensed.

"What now?!"

Ashmi roared, and collided with the armor rushing towards him, and a fierce fight began.
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Bai Shi stood aside with Xia Duo to command the battlefield.

The battlefield pressure on Oleg and Yug was not great, and the bishop had no means of attack.

He kept using the same few moves over and over again, and his movements were as stiff as a robot, so they couldn't catch them at all.

At this moment, the two of them had broken through the barrier of spiritual fire, rushed to the center of the magic circle and started slaughtering.

Bai Shi could clearly feel the satisfaction coming from Yug's soul.

Therefore, Bai Shi's attention was almost entirely on the battlefield on Ashimi's side, ready to rescue her at any time.

Originally, after witnessing the power of the armor, Bai Shi was ready to use Feng Ling Yue Ying's super damage to strengthen the soul sprint and kill it instantly.

The power that Ashimi can exert is still somewhat behind that of the opponent, so he may not be able to defeat him.

In the end, if Ashimi loses, you still have to use Feng Ling Yue Ying.

Since there is no way to take him down, it is better to kill him instantly as soon as possible, so that Ashimi can preserve some strength.

However, to Bai Shi's surprise, Ashimi actually fought back and forth with the opponent.

Even because of the diversification of output methods, it continues to gain many advantages.

Bai Shi could feel that Ashimi was becoming more and more proficient in fighting skills and was beginning to think about how to win like a real human being.

Seeing this, Bai Shi temporarily suppressed the idea of using super damage immediately and planned to use this opportunity to train Ashimi.
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In the end, Ashimi found the right opportunity in the battle, leaned over to avoid the opponent's horizontal slash, and then stabbed his sword into the opponent's empty helmet.

As the helmet flew up, the movement of the armor completely stopped.

But the next moment, the headless armor swung the sword down again.

Ashimi thrust the tip of his sword into the gap between its shoulders, removed its arm armor, and the greatsword in its hand fell to the ground.

Ashimi was not careless and chopped it down with his sword, completely smashing it to pieces.

This pitch-black armor, like the previous enemies of the same type, turned into ashes and disappeared on the spot.

Ashimi was unable to hold on any longer at this moment and dissipated directly back into Bai Shi's body.

In the last period of the battle just now, the buffs that were applied earlier have gradually become ineffective.

And after the close combat, the opponent didn't give her any chance to renew the buff.

If she hadn't truly integrated all the powers of Baizhi, she might have been the one to fall.

Bai Shi was very surprised at this moment. Ashimi's performance just now was completely beyond his expectations.

After this time, Ashimi became truly stronger and was able to unleash the true power of the abilities he imitated.

The battle on the other side had already ended, and all the believers and magic circles had been completely wiped out.

But this death ritual has not been destroyed.

So Bai Shi used the bracelet to teleport back to the border area and came to the sacred temple field on the Weeping Peninsula.

Looking at the many headless soldiers guarding the mobile temple under his feet, Bai Shi summoned a storm of destruction.

After a few breaths, the headless soldiers disappeared, and the mobile temple also stopped moving and stopped on the ground.

Bai Shi pushed open the door of the spirit temple, and inside it was a heavy stone tablet, replacing the soulless demigod corpse that was supposed to be here.

After finding the place, Bai Shi took out the greatsword of ruins, and the stone tablet was immediately shattered under the wave of destruction.

The dim sun hanging in the sky, blocked by the golden tree, suddenly shattered into pieces.

The power of the sun in the white consciousness also increases.

Feeling this power, Bai Shi breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it was not possible to completely destroy the fading sun in one go, it was able to get rid of part of it.

Bai Shi wanted to teleport back to the spirit world, but suddenly found that he couldn't teleport back.

Because just now, the connection between that spiritual world area and the border area seemed to have been destroyed by his own hands.

(End of this chapter)