I transformed into a cute girl and lived a carefree life in the apocalypse.

This advantage lasted for less than a few seconds before being completely suppressed by the boundless extreme cold. The swirling snow obscured his figure, and only his stubborn resistance could be vaguely discerned.

However, compared to the others, Hyde's situation was relatively good. The others' combat power was greatly reduced in this extreme cold, and oxygen was almost non-existent. It was only thanks to Mu Mu's spatial ability that they were able to barely maintain the situation.

hum!

The Great Sage seemed to transform into a bright moon, suddenly defying the laws of physics as he rammed forward. The Snow Woman, who had just gotten up, was thrown off balance, and a small part of her right side broke off.

Only then did Yan Shan, who had just clashed with the Snow Woman, reveal himself; he was completely encased in ice!

This scene horrified everyone. They knew very well how powerful the extreme cold emanating from the Snow Woman was. Once frozen, was there any hope of her surviving?

The primordial energy from the heavens suddenly descended rapidly, washing over the ice surface of the Qilin on Icebound Mountain. In just a few moments, the ice was crushed to pieces.

"Roar!"

The mountain qilin was enraged, and the aura it exuded became increasingly terrifying. Its eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky, its scales began to change into five colors, and strange phenomena such as fire and sea appeared around its body, which was extremely frightening.

"Woo——"

The snow woman was under immense pressure, and the icy vortex below her body was about to carry her back into the sky, trying to avoid its sharp edge.

The other ninth-tier beings weren't just there to stand by and cheer; they all stepped in to stop it. A massive wave of energy swept across the entire area. The Great Sage and the Grand Preceptor, both at the Void Mirror level, unleashed their full power, and together with the attacks of several ninth-tier beings led by Hyde, they managed to suppress the Snow Maiden for a time.

In fact, even without Yan Shan's intervention, they alone were more than capable of defeating a Sequence-level opponent; it's just that one or two of them might perish.

Click...

The space shattered, and the mountain qilin stretched out its front claws towards the snow woman. All the five elements' strange phenomena flowed in like water and grabbed at her.

The mountain unicorn's hand had just reached down and hadn't even grasped anything when the snow maiden let out a shrill scream, and her body immediately disintegrated into a large part. When the Five Elements Claws completely covered her, the snow maiden exploded into a huge cloud of unnecessary snow and wind, and even this snow and wind was completely annihilated under the Five Elements Claws.

"Dead, dead?"

Everyone was dumbfounded. This was a Sequence-level creature, and they were all prepared to seriously injure one or two people, but it was killed by Yan Shan with a single claw.

Yan Shan also frowned, because he had indeed made a firm grasp and was certain that he had inflicted serious damage on the Snow Maiden; there was no mistake about that.

But... isn't this too easy?

"Woo—" The Snow Woman's voice rang out from all directions, like a mournful cry, a long howl, like the wailing of a ghost.

sough.......

Snowflakes swirled and gathered again within a hundred miles, forming a blurry outline in mid-air. In just a few seconds, the Snow Woman's overwhelming size once again descended upon the world, blotting out the sky, and unleashed a roar as if from the ancient wilderness.

For some reason, Yan Shan, the Great Sage, and Mu Mu felt a sense of relief mixed with an ominous premonition, as if things couldn't be that simple.

How powerful are the Five Elements Claws of the Mountain Kirin? Even a great sage would surely die if caught in them, but the Snow Woman seemed to have no injuries at all. She simply reassembled her body and was fine.

A very familiar scene flashed through their minds, something that happened more than a year ago—Yan Ziming slaying three Watchers in succession.

If that's the case, then things will get complicated...

"continue!"

Thinking about it here is useless. Yan Shan continued to lead the charge. Even Yan Zimo has limitations. He will still die after being scattered multiple times. Xue Nu can probably be dealt with in the same way.

The others were also in a frenzy, going all out and breaking the Snow Woman apart seven times in the next hour!

Seven times in total!

When the Snow Woman reappeared before everyone in her fully prepared state, everyone felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, their bodies turning ice-cold.

88. Root

At this very moment, in Western Tibet Province.

Yan Ziming stood like a god under an ancient tree, with the Raikiri sword standing upright in front of him, his hands on the hilt, and his eyes closed.

The ancient tree in front of her would occasionally shoot out rays from its countless branches. Any one of them could sink a large area. Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of rays attacked Yan Zimo at the same time, trying to destroy her completely.

One can imagine that even a ninth-tier warrior would perish in a fraction of a second when faced with such a dense and terrifying attack, and a city could be reduced to a sea of ​​fire in an instant, annihilated in the long river of time.

However, this terrifying attack was blocked by an invisible wave just before it reached her. The beams of light disappeared without a trace, like flames being extinguished or candles being blown out by the wind.

If you were there, you would feel that Yan Ziming was surrounded by countless blinding rays of light, and it was these rays that obliterated attack after attack.

Thousands of purple veins shimmered on the ground, all converging at Yan Ziming's feet. Despite being at a disadvantage in this confrontation, they were inexhaustible and endlessly vital...

She is forging her will, her path, and everything she owns.

Such opportunities are rare, and being able to fight against a super being so different from ordinary sequence-level beings in this way was extremely beneficial to Yan Zimo.

It was as if one could see a ladder to the clouds stretching ever longer and farther beneath her feet...

During the confrontation, she still had the energy to ask the useless Xi, "Hey, useless... little Xi, I have a question for you."

After spending more than a year together, Xi finally understood what the word "useless" meant and strongly demanded that Yan Ziming change it. Yan Ziming had no choice but to comply.

However, in private, people still call her "Waste Xi".

"what's up?"

"There's a question that's been bothering me for a long time. I've been tracing back to your origins in this world and I've discovered a very strange phenomenon."

Yan Ziming hesitated for a moment, unsure if it was appropriate to say it, but still asked, "Will you... die?"

"Yes, it will," replied the careless Xi, "as long as this land dries up."

"What do you mean?"

"As I've said before, as long as I exist in this world, wherever I go, I will be eroded by the power I naturally emanate. This is not just about simply transforming the environment to suit me, but also about maintaining the necessity of my existence. As long as my 'place to stand' remains, I will not truly die."

"Undying?!" Yan Ziming was shocked. Even she herself could not utter such a reckless statement, yet she said it so naturally.

"It can't be said that I am truly immortal. If I am scattered or even obliterated, I can still be reborn through this land, but there are still some limitations."

Waste Xi recounted in detail what she knew—

This land can provide Yan Zimo and the useless Xi with truly unlimited energy. No matter how much they use it, it will never run out. This land is constantly producing lightning elements, and no matter how much you take from it, it will not harm Qi's origin.

Just like an ordinary person donating blood, as long as it's not too much blood drawn at once or bone marrow, which is the foundation of blood production, there won't be any major problems.

However, if the original body is killed and reborn on this land, it will directly damage the root. It cannot be resurrected infinitely. If it takes too much of the root source, it will perish.

Yan Ziming was startled and asked the next question: "With the area of ​​land you currently occupy, how many times can you regenerate?"

"Emm...maybe a hundred or so times?"

"So many?!" Yan Ziming was startled.

She is now connected to the waste Xi, and can clearly know that in this battle between lightning and nuclear radiation, the area belonging to lightning is only about 30,000 square kilometers.

Thirty thousand square kilometers is nothing compared to the aurora borealis, which has over seven hundred thousand square kilometers and is backed by half of Tibet Province.

That's why Aurora wanted to use this method to eradicate the useless Xi. Only when the "root" of the useless Xi is gone will she truly perish.

Otherwise, how could Aurora and Waste Xi, both possessing sequential-level combat power, possibly kill each other hundreds of times in succession?

Putting aside how long it would take Aurora to kill the useless Xi hundreds of times, if Xi continues to expand his territory during the battle, it will be even more impossible to kill him. Instead, Aurora will be worn down and killed by Xi in the first few battles.

Therefore, only by forcing the useless Xi to fight it in this way can the almost zero possibility be maximized. In fact, if Yan Zimo hadn't intervened, Aurora would have succeeded long ago.

"Are there other life forms similar to you?"

"...I don't know." The useless Xi's emotions fluctuated slightly. "I think there probably is, right? After all, I've never been outside."

However, this answer did not reassure Yan Zimo.

If a life form similar to Waste Xi were to appear in other places, the world would truly be thrown into chaos.

Its near-immortality will directly push humanity into the abyss.

The existence of "Useless Xi" was a special case. She encountered me. If it weren't for this factor, I'm afraid "Useless Xi" would also be a calamity to the world. Liu Mengxian also destroyed "Useless Xi" when she first met her.

—After I help you conquer the aurora, what path will you choose next?

Yan Ziming was unable to ask that question.

She hoped that the useless Xi would come with her, because if Xi were separated from her, no one knew whether she would lose control.

Perhaps the worst-case scenario is that the useless Xi will completely stand on the opposite side of humanity.

Yan Ziming sighed softly and said, "If you have time, I'll take you out to have a look around."

".......Um."

An eerie silence fell over the room. Just then, a voice that Yan Ziming never expected rang out.

"What are you talking about?"

A light, melodious female voice emanated from Raikiri's blade, from which a beam of light separated and coalesced into a delicate human figure.

"Mo Xin! You're finally awake!"

Yan Ziming was overjoyed and wanted to give her a big hug, but he was currently deeply involved in the battle with the aurora and could not afford to be distracted.

Since Mo Xin was scattered by the intense nuclear radiation, there has been no news of her. For more than a year, Yan Ziming has been trying to contact Mo Xin, but all his efforts have been in vain.

"How long has it been?"

"I'm not quite sure, maybe a year and a half...?"

"Huh?!" Mo Xin excitedly shook Yan Ziming's shoulder, her almond-shaped eyes wide open, unable to believe that she had been asleep for so long.

She realized just how terrifying the aura emanating from Yan Ziming was; he had clearly reached the pinnacle of power in the world. While she was overjoyed, she also felt a pang of loneliness.