Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

"Who are you?!"

The two Blood Erosion Sect monks, whose meridians were locked by the sword force and were already disabled, tried their best to break free of the shackles, but instead, they felt severe pain all over their bodies due to the stimulation of the Cold Evil Sword force.

"You don't deserve to know."

Luo Shuangning spoke in a cold and hard voice, and with a thrust of the sword, blood burst out of their bodies.

Now, all the tendons, bones and veins are destroyed.

Pain distorted their faces, widened their eyes, and produced inarticulate screams from their throats.

Luo Shuangning watched coldly, without any sympathy.

Never show mercy to your enemies.

"Why would the evil cultivators of the Blood-Erosion Sect be interested in Jiyuan?"

She asked slowly, pressing the tip of her sword against one of them's throat.

The man gritted his teeth and said nothing, as if he was determined to protect the answer at the cost of his life.

"Oh, you want me to give you a quick death?"

Luo Shuangning sneered in a low voice, her eyes fixed, and the tip of the sword swept across, leaving a scar on the man's neck, with blood gushing out, but it was not fatal.

"Don't ask, I know."

Lu Mu walked forward, leaned over, and stared at the pair of eyes filled with hatred and resentment with his bright eyes: "The Xiexin Sect asked you to come, right?"

The man's pupils suddenly shrank, as if the most taboo secret in his heart had been revealed.

"Yeah, I knew it was like that."

The man opened his mouth to say something, but his face was distorted by the pain, and in the end he could only utter a few unclear syllables: "Um, you..."

Luo Shuangning frowned and trembled her fingers, freezing his blood vessels, making it difficult for him to breathe and unable to speak.

"Brother Mu?"

"They must have some ulterior motive for this action. The Blood-Erosion Sect is not well-known and even only operates in the northwest of the Central Region. This means that they are not qualified to contact Jiyuan and the 'secrets' behind Jiyuan at all."

Lu Mu explained.

"It makes some sense."

Luo Shuangning nodded: "The Evil Heart Sect is notorious, and all the evil cultivators in the world look up to them. It is normal for the Erosion Blood Sect to be used as a pawn."

"But what does the Evil Heart Sect want?"

She pondered for a moment, unable to figure out the reason.

"I also know that they want the 'source' of the formation of the Abyss, that's all."

Lu Mu pointed at the ten-foot-tall flesh and blood tree that was swaying aimlessly because it had absorbed some unknown power.

If you look closely, you can actually see that these thick flesh-and-blood vines are spreading out from under the deep pit to the ground.

So, how big is this flesh and blood creature, and how long is it...

It's worth going down and taking a closer look.

But Lu Mu knew that there was no need to go down.

This group of evil cultivators from the Blood-Eating Sect helped them do the necessary "work".

"In that case, I don't need you anymore."

Luo Shuangning tapped her fingers lightly, and the sword force burst out. The two evil cultivators were immediately blown into hedgehogs by the ice spikes that exploded from the inside out, and died with unwillingness in their eyes.

“…This thing doesn’t look easy to deal with.”

Murong Xue's nose twitched, as if she smelled something that made her extremely disgusted and wary.

As soon as the words fell——

The flesh and blood vine tree suddenly attacked, and dozens of thick flesh and blood tentacles broke through the ground and lashed over with bared fangs and claws!

Luo Shuangning's pretty face sank slightly, her wrist trembled, sword rainbows flew, and the sharp sword energy was about to cut off the tentacles that were sweeping towards her, but when the sword was about to chop down, she found that these flesh and blood limbs were much harder than those of the evil cultivator!

"Bang bang bang!"

After a series of loud noises, only a few pieces of flesh were cut off from the tentacles, while Luo Shuangning was knocked back dozens of steps by the recoil force.

Murong Xue was also affected.

Seeing this, Lu Mu hurriedly supported the two of them and then circulated his Taoist power. Even the Shura Killing Form seemed a little lacking in confidence in front of this ten-foot-tall creature.

But when the two fists punched out, the powerful force even distorted the space, and the tree of flesh and blood still paid a price.

The force of the fist exploded, directly blasting a huge hole in the trunk of the tree of flesh and blood, and dark and eerie blood flowed out.

"Wow ah——"

Suddenly, miserable wails were heard in the originally quiet and silent valley.

The sound seemed to be stuck in the throat and could not be uttered completely, but each vague tone was filled with intense pain.

The flesh and blood branches around the tree of flesh and blood began to tremble wildly, as if they had found an outlet to vent, and they all attacked this side.

The three of them adjusted their rhythm and attacked again. This time, it was easier to deal with. The ferocious power of Taoism burst out, shattering all the attacking tentacles, causing blood and flesh to splatter and debris to cover the ground.

However, this strange creature seemed to be endless. No matter how many times it was shattered, its flesh and blood would continue to be regenerated. The speed at which it was shattered was far slower than its speed of regeneration.

"Is this thing unkillable?"

Murong Xue was panting, sweat on her forehead, and breathing rapidly.

Luo Shuangning frowned as she looked at the bloody tentacles that kept crawling out, her mind racing as she thought about how to deal with it.

And Lu Mu just whispered: "It has a core, it needs to be peeled off."

Then, he turned his head and shouted to the empty fog behind him: "It's time for you to come out! I need your help now!"

"Tsk."

"Why can you still find me? It's so annoying."

Accompanied by a lazy voice, a figure emerged from the thick fog and walked closer.

Gu Yunxi stepped out from the blood mist, her white dress not stained at all, like a banished celestial being from the Moon Palace.

Her expression showed a hint of disgust.

Perhaps she was disgusted by the way she hid her tracks.

"It's you?"

Murong Xue and Luo Shuangning both remembered Gu Yunxi, but Murong Xue had a deeper impression of her. Ever since they parted in the Hidden World Valley, Luo Shuangning had no more contact with this "ordinary" cultivator who even Lu Mu praised.

But, fate is something that is hard to explain.

"Every time I see you, there's always a very pretty girl next to you. I really shouldn't get close to you."

Gu Yunxi just smiled faintly in response to Lu Mu's raised eyebrows, but that smile was so fake that it couldn't be more fake. Gu Yunxi didn't even try to hide the complicated feelings she had after seeing Lu Mu.

"Let's not talk about that for now. Have you seen this thing?"

Lu Mu pointed at the flesh and blood tree whose tentacles were waving and becoming more and more ferocious.

Gu Yunxi nodded and said, "This monster regenerates very quickly. Do you want me to go down to the Abyss and peel out the 'mechanical core'?"

"That's right."

Lu Mu gave a thumbs up.

Chapter 13: Female Marquis

When mentioning the "mechanical core", both Luo Shuang Ninghe and Murong Xue looked puzzled.

They don't know what it is.

But Lu Mu knew, and he was clear that Gu Yunxi must have known it too.

She is the "protagonist", the "protagonist" who owns the system.

"can."

Sure enough, Gu Yunxi agreed without saying a word and glanced at Lu Mu.

"But..." She paused, her eyes sharpening for a moment, "How did you know about the existence of the 'Mechanical Core'? And you seem to be very strange since the beginning, knowing things that you shouldn't know."

Lu Mu inexplicably felt that her smile was a little weird.

"never mind."

Without waiting for him to savor it, Gu Yunxi circulated the blood and energy in her body, then smashed any flesh and blood tentacles that attempted to attack her, and then rushed into the deep pit!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of violent collision exploded in my ears.

The flesh and blood tree began to lose its target, its tentacles swayed around, and it screamed even more violently. But after a dozen breaths, all the movements of the ten-foot-tall flesh and blood tree, which was exposed on the ground, came to an abrupt halt, and then...

Collapse!

Gu Yunxi rushed up again, looking relaxed, and patted her dust-free skirt.

Behind her, flesh and blood turned into powder and quietly dissipated.

"Done. It's pretty easy."

In her palm, there was a bright and juicy black fragment, as if there were countless wronged souls crying and wailing. It was wrapped in the rich blood and Taoist power, and the extremely evil energy that escaped was blocked outside.

But just by looking at it, one can feel that within this palm-sized fragment, there is a terrifying power that is enough to drive a person crazy.

Luo Shuangning frowned: "Is this the 'mechanical core'?"

"Hmm~"

Gu Yunxi raised her chin.

Lu Mu stared at the mechanical core with his eyes slightly narrowed.

Luo Shuangning gently poked Lu Mu's waist with her elbow and narrowed her eyes: "Brother Mu, what exactly is this thing?"

From the beginning, she had many doubts about what Lu Mu and Gu Yunxi said.

Especially this extremely evil thing, only Lu Mu and Gu Yunxi knew what it was used for... Although it was not good to think so, she still felt for no reason that the two of them seemed to know certain secrets very well.

"this?"

Lu Mu waved his hand and sucked the weapon core into his palm.

"This is the real reason why the abyss was formed."

The magic machines from outside the realm are in great conflict with the original environment within the Xuantian Realm. Powerful magic machines can still resist this discomfort or even ignore it completely, but there are too many magic machines, and there are only a few dozen truly powerful ones.

Naturally, transforming the environment is also something they urgently need to accomplish.

And, it was indeed successful.

"Jiyuan" is a successful example of environmental transformation.

However, to the creatures of Xuantian Realm, the existence of Jiyuan is simply the evil that cannot be tolerated in the world. "Jiyuan" is synonymous with death, but to magic machines, it is a paradise.

In order to form the "Extreme Abyss", one must rely on this "machine core" to constantly change and maintain an environment that allows extraterrestrial magic machines to adapt and survive.

Just take away the "mechanical core" and isolate it.

The abyss will disappear naturally.

"You mean, this thing is the root of Jiyuan?" Luo Shuangning asked in surprise.

"more or less."

Murong Xue was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then asked: "Then how do we destroy this thing?"

Although they were completely unaware of the existence of such things as "machine cores", any perceptive person would know that keeping such things would only bring disaster. No matter what the extraterrestrial magic machine brought, it would only lead to destruction.

"Destruction? No, this thing is very useful."

Lu Mu smiled and put away the weapon core.

In the later part of the plot, "machine cores" can be used to deal with extraterrestrial magic machines. Of course, it was already very difficult to collect machine cores at that time. Most of the Abyss had already erupted, and it was a problem to just clean up the Abyss monsters.