Chapter 1791: Not All Heroes Stand in the Light
Gunstandin, stuffed into the sack, struggled wildly and roared without end, using every trick he had!
But he simply couldn't break free from the sack's restraint!
(ꐦ⚆益⚆) "Damn it, what the hell is this thing? Why can't I ascend dimensions?"
He realized that this sack space completely confined him, severing all contact with the outside world!
He couldn't even make a horn-horn call, let alone that their horns hadn't grown back yet!
"Let me out! I'll chop you to pieces!"
Gunstandin swung a Bose Axe in one hand and a Sourceium Armor Metal Axe in the other, hacking wildly at the sack, but it was completely useless!
The sack just squirmed more violently!
His face was full of disbelief. As a high-dimensional lifeform, playing around in the three-dimensional world was supposed to be a dimensional reduction strike!
He refused to believe there was anything in this world that could trap a Bose Body. This sack completely defied his understanding!
Qian Benying immediately stood up, ran over to the sack, and stomped on it furiously!
(ꐦ°᷄ڡ°᷅) "Weren't you just acting all arrogant? Said you'd chop me up? Try being cocky again now, huh?"
"What's this 'Blade of the Star Gods' crap? Still bends to my pleated skirt, right? Ahahaha!"
A Dao Heaven Seven? An Upper Clan Bose Body? This might be the greatest achievement of my entire life!
How could she not be excited?
Gunstandin was going insane with rage:
(cao min cao(#) "Don't let me get a chance, you bitch! First thing I do when I get out is kill you!"
"Li Mingshan, save me!"
Just as Qian Benying was laughing triumphantly, she felt something soft patting her head.
Was it Jiangnan's head-rub move?
Then she said smugly: (︶.̮︶〃) "See how awesome I am now? One head-rub isn't enough!"
"Hurry up and offer a sack full of Space Spirit Pearls to honor your Ying Jiang! I know you've got them! Or else you'll lose me, I'm telling you!"
But as soon as she finished speaking, she heard a "clang," and Qian Benying's head was knocked sideways!
A smoking red lump appeared on her head!
୧(☍﹏⁰。)୨…
Jiangnan gritted his teeth: (ꐦ°᷄～°᷅)و "Praise you a little and you get full of yourself? A sack of pearls my ass? Want me to give you a big red envelope instead?"
"Watch the prisoner! We're not done here!"
Qian Benying couldn't hear him anyway, just clutching the lump on her head, frantically looking around in fury!
"You just wait!"
Meanwhile, Li Mingshan, who was locked in battle with Baikou, was also shocked!
What the hell?
That powerful Upper Clan Bose Body, Gunstandin, actually got stuffed into a sack?
And no reaction for so long?
And Broken Brow Wei? What kind of sack was that?
In the blink of an eye, only Li Mingshan was left struggling alone on the field!
Baikou said fiercely: "Let's see how you hold out now!"
Li Mingshan: (￢_￢◟)
Just then, Jiangnan used a powerful teleport to breach the Celestial Repulsion Force Field!
"Space Swap!"
The next moment, the nuclear battery inside the metal tower instantly turned into a coin. With one energy source missing, the strength of the Celestial Repulsion Force Field dropped significantly!
Jiangnan's expression hardened. At this intensity, he should be able to withstand it!
"Swap again!"
In the next instant, Jiangnan swapped positions with the coin again, closing in on the metal tower!
The moment before being repelled, his two hands grabbed the nuclear battery and yanked hard!
"Boom!"
He was instantly blasted away, but without the energy supply!
The Blackout Block fell to the ground, and the metal towers scattered across the desert stopped emitting energy!
The entire Celestial Repulsion Force Field vanished!
Jiangnan opened a spatial wormhole, leaped into it, changed the direction of the repulsion, and arrived back at the metal tower!
His drool was almost dripping!
٩(º﹃º٩) "This Blackout stuff is all mine now! Taking it all!"
With that, he opened Alternate Dimension and ripped the entire Energy Step-Up Inverter out by the roots, stuffing it into the dimension!
Including the main body of the Blackout Block!
With the Blackout gone, the energy waves flowing into the void disappeared too!
Communication across the entire Blue Star slowly began to recover, electromagnetic waves no longer interfered with!
Li Mingshan watched this unfold from the corner of his eye, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
Three people? Two open, one hidden? Hmph～
But the next moment, the sack at Baikou's waist suddenly turned into a coin!
That sack had already been generated in Anti-Li Mingshan Mode earlier!
And the sack suddenly appeared above Li Mingshan's head, opening wide to envelop him!
Li Mingshan: !!!
Damn you, you little brat!
You want to bag me too?
When did you get close to me? Without even a spatial fluctuation?
How did you do that?
The crisis sense from his body made Li Mingshan react quickly!
"Space Sphere!"
A space sphere emerged from Li Mingshan's chest, expanding rapidly to envelop his body!
"Boom!"
Jiangnan, who was about to bag Li Mingshan, was instantly pushed away by the space sphere!
He couldn't get close, and couldn't even teleport or swap inside the sphere!
Jiangnan grimaced: (ꐦ°᷄益°᷅) "Tsk～ As expected of an old-school space system ceiling. That awareness?"
Baikou flicked her sleeve from the side!
"Extreme Cold Snow Country • Great Chill!"
Infinite coldness swept in like a thin veil, freezing everything!
"Boundary Cut • Sever!"
A thick spatial wall instantly formed, cutting the entire desert battlefield in two!
The cold invaded but was blocked by the boundary cut. The world seemed to split into two extremes!
One side was a frozen snow country, the other endless yellow sand!
But it only lasted less than a second before even the boundary cut was frozen solid by the cold and shattered!
Countless glazed fragments drifted like slow motion!
But Li Mingshan had already used the opportunity to teleport away. Jiangnan, sack in hand, wanted to go again!
Li Mingshan, however, raised a finger and drew a line. A boundary cut appeared, blocking Jiangnan's path!
"Space Crack • Collapse Realm!"
"Boom!"
With a thunderous explosion, centered on the space sphere, tens of thousands of space cracks split open!
Each space crack was like a pitch-black abyssal maw, roaming everywhere. The entire world seemed to collapse along with it!
The suction force from within stirred up a storm of yellow sand, blurring everyone's vision!
Jiangnan's scalp tingled. What level of space crack was this? He could use it like that?
Li Mingshan surveyed the scene:
(◞¯ิ～¯ิ) "You've already broken the Blackout. No need to press this to the death, right?"
"I don't seem to have any reason to keep fighting you anymore."
Baikou said coldly: (❅‾᷄‸‾᷅) "That's your reason, not mine."
"You were working for the Sacred Star, betraying the human faction. Now the Blue Star era is rewritten, spirit calamities run rampant, people die every moment."
"All these dead humans are directly or indirectly related to you."
"I'm not moralizing, just stating facts. Killing you saves lives."
Li Mingshan just glanced at Baikou lightly, said nothing, and didn't rebut.
But the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
His gaze fell on an empty patch of void. He took a deep breath, his voice a little hoarse.
"If you want to survive, if you want a chance to keep moving forward, go get the Warp Bubble. At least you'll catch a sliver of opportunity."
"Otherwise, humanity won't withstand the next attack. I couldn't do it back then. I hope you can."
"Now humanity has no strong enough figure to hold the line. Xiao Chuihuo isn't enough, Odin isn't enough either."
Baikou was stunned, frowning deeply. What was this old Li talking about?
Hadn't he already sided with the Sacred Star? Why say these ambiguous words?
And what was the Warp Bubble?
Jiangnan was taken aback. He knew Li Mingshan was talking to him. Even though he couldn't see him or detect his presence, Li Mingshan knew he was there.
"Uncle Li... I..."
But Li Mingshan couldn't hear what Jiangnan said. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.
"This starry sky is really vast and wonderful, but it also devours people without spitting out bones. Don't follow Jiang Fan's old path, or it'll end the same way. Nothing will change."
"Those who come after must surpass the ones before. I couldn't do it. I didn't have the ability."
"You know? Every galaxy is a starry island of light. The universe is really big—so big that a person might spend their whole life and never break out of this island."
"Go get the Warp Bubble. Whether now or in the future, you'll need it."
With that, Li Mingshan turned around, hands behind his back, and stepped toward the dimensional gap behind him.
His back was lonely and desolate, calmly walking into the darkness.
His figure vanished from their sight in an instant.
He didn't even give Jiangnan a chance to say a few more words or get a little closer. He was already gone.
Jiangnan reached out toward that figure, his mouth open but unable to utter a single word.
He wanted to persuade Li Mingshan to come back, to tell him that he had a way to push him to Transcendent.
But would Li Mingshan not know that? He knew!
Xiao Chuihuo and the others had already ascended. How could Li Mingshan not understand?
Jiangnan didn't know how to speak. Because at this point, there was no place for Li Mingshan in the human faction anymore.
Cursed by a thousand fingers, reviled by ten thousand people.
Yet he still unwaveringly walked the path he had chosen.
The invisibility wore off, and Jiangnan's figure slowly became visible, his eyes slightly red.
Even Baikou was confused. What was Li Mingshan really thinking?
Thinking back to the battle just now, she didn't think Li Mingshan had gone all out. He initiated attacks very rarely, mostly just defending passively.
And what he said just now completely baffled her.
"Jiangnan, little brother... Is Li Mingshan good or bad? He..."
Jiangnan murmured: "There are so many kinds of people in this world. How can you judge them simply as good or bad?"
"Uncle Li... He's not a good person, nor a bad person. He's himself."
"Sister Baikou, you need to know that not all heroes stand in the light. Those who stand in the darkness are heroes too."
"Warp Bubble, huh? I'll remember that..."