Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Both scales moved at the same time.

The two were positioned on opposite sides of the battlefield. At the same time, they pulled out something, and a strange purple light flashed in mid-air. Then, a large amount of dark red mist suddenly appeared in the entire space, enveloping the whole area!

"Be careful!"

"Watch your defense!"

"Prepare to heal and replenish blood."

"Disperse! Disperse them quickly!"

The players of the Divine Dragon Guild began to shout and shrink their lines.

However, they soon discovered that the fog seemed to have no effect on them. On the contrary, the snake people who came into contact with the fog began to hiss and scream!

Their bodies began to disintegrate—scales fell off, skin melted like wax, and muscles and bones dissolved in the mist into a dark red mass of flesh and blood.

The flesh and blood writhed, swelled, and reorganized in mid-air, transforming in the blink of an eye into giant, dark purple snakes, each as thick as a bucket and three or four meters long, covered in slippery scales, with dark red flames burning in their vertical pupils.

The giant snakes hissed and surged toward the two split scales.

The female, Split Scale, opened her arms to welcome the giant snakes. The snakes coiled around her body, scales rubbing against each other with a piercing rustling sound. Her body began to swell, from two meters to five meters, from five meters to ten meters, twenty meters, fifty meters…

The male, Split Scale, was different. He too transformed into a giant snake, but he opened his gaping maw and frantically swallowed the other giant snakes. One after another, the giant snakes burrowed into his throat, and his body began to swell until he became a python over a hundred meters long and as thick as a truck. The python's head had a pair of curved bony horns, and its vertical pupils were like two lanterns. Each flick of its tongue carried an astonishingly putrid stench.

Two enormous objects, one on the left and one on the right, completely blocked the passage.

Liu Nian frowned slightly.

So that's the trick I was looking for!

Furthermore, the number of female scale fusions is significantly higher than last time! However, their body size seems to be similar to last time... It's unclear whether this body size is fixed or if it can be controlled...

He had once speculated on how many of his kind Riftscale could fuse with, but now it seems the number far exceeds his imagination.

Liu Nian glanced at the two Rift Scales, then immediately summoned the Giant, gathering all the Divine Dragon Guild players except for Devourer of the Sun.

The enemy has already used their ultimate moves; there's no point in other players staying here except to die.

On the other side, the battle between Sun Eater and Chakna continued.

Several of the dragon's scales had been shattered, and a deep claw mark ran along the skeleton of its left wing, dark red blood dripping down its length. But it did not retreat; instead, it fought with increasing ferocity. Purple flames blazed fiercely in its vertical pupils, and the adamantite finger guards on its dragon claws had been deformed by the monstrous paws of the Sun-Devouring Bear.

"You bear, you're really tough to deal with!" Chuckner roared.

"Your lizard isn't bad either!" Devourer of the Sun roared back.

Chuckner suddenly leaped backward, creating distance. He pulled a fist-sized, dark red stone from his waist, its surface covered with densely packed runes and cracked, from which shone a scorching magma light.

"You didn't want to use this in the first place," he said in a low voice, throwing the stone to the ground.

"boom--!!!"

The stone exploded, and a ball of dark red flames shot out from the crack.

The flames burned, expanded, and coalesced on the ground, quickly forming a gigantic outline—a monster over thirty meters tall, its entire body composed of magma and obsidian, its head shaped like a goat with a pair of enormous curved horns, and its eyes two burning flames. Its hands were massive stone fists, with magma flowing across their surfaces.

[Level 666 Hellfire]

Chuckner grinned as he looked at Sun Eater.

"Again!"

The bear that devoured the sun changed color.

Level 666! This thing is beyond his ability to handle. Just then, the fog rolled in, so without saying a word, he turned and ran.

"Liu Nian! I can't hold on any longer!" he shouted into the channel.

When the fog dissipated, only two Riftscales remained on the scene: the Dragon Demon and the level 666 Hellfire, Morse, Sun Eater, and Liu Nian.

The dragon demon stood at the feet of the hellfire.

He also saw the two Fissures, his vertical pupils filled with shock—he clearly didn't know that the Fissures had two bodies!

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he shouted at one of them with a conflicted expression:

"Splitter. Did you deliberately choose the wrong path at that fork in the road before, and already go to the Barrier Reagent behind my back?"

The enormous snake-man monster looked at Chakna upon hearing this, a writhing smile appearing on its snake-like face: "Weren't you also carrying a level 666 Abyss Summoning Stone behind my back? Wasn't it all for turning the tide at the last moment?"

Chuckner's vertical pupils contracted slightly.

"Unfortunately, I'm still one step ahead," the snake-man monster continued. "My other self has already infiltrated there and obtained the barrier reagent!"

"Barrier reagent?" Liu Nian frowned. "What's that?"

Chuckner glanced at Liu Nian not far away. At this point, there was no longer any direct conflict of interest between him and Liu Nian; their enemy had become Rift Scale.

He snorted coldly and said, "You don't know, do you? Riftscale brought you in to draw fire. There's nothing good here, the only valuable thing is one thing—Barrier Reagent! This thing has a function that players dream of."

Liu Nian's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What function?"

"It will allow us to break through the level 199 barrier!"

Liu Nian: ...

"What?"

He thought he had misheard.

Chuckner said with a pained expression, "It's the item that allows us to break through our current limits and reach level 299!"

Liu Nian: Huh? That's it?

I thought it was some kind of incredible, godlike thing! Turns out you guys went through all this scheming and made such a big fuss over this piece of junk?!

Is that all?

The Paradox Mark meant that he had no leveling barriers before level 499!

Others get stuck at levels 199, 299, or 399 and need rare items and quests to break through, but he doesn't have to do anything. Once he reaches the required level, he can just click to break through... So this damn thing is completely useless to him!

This feeling is like having a beautifully crafted treasure chest passed down from your ancestors, which you finally manage to pry open after going through many hardships, only to find a super luxurious original Ultraman plastic toy inside!

My mood instantly turned into one of utter disbelief.

Chakner didn't notice Liu Nian's expression; his gaze was fixed on the two cracked scales, his vertical pupils filled with resentment and anger.

"Liu Nian," he suddenly spoke, "let's cooperate!"

Liu Nian raised an eyebrow: "How do we cooperate?"

"You help me deal with the Riftscale, all I want is the Barrier Reagent. The rest, all the equipment and materials that drop, are yours!" Chuckner waved his hand dismissively.