# Chapter 1174: The Most Spectacular Magic
The successive space barriers that appeared blocked "All Things Want to Cut Everything" for the magician, and at the same time he turned around and snapped his fingers, causing dozens of blades constructed from spatial rays to appear in the space.
The blades created by spatial rays were somewhat like broken space barriers, but these blades were much harder than simple defensive barriers, because they could even pass through defense items without taking any damage!
Xu Huo put on the "flexible mechanical suit" again. This protective suit was enough to withstand the blades formed by spatial rays. Although the joints couldn't be fully covered, that wasn't a major problem.
Opening three doors in the air in succession, Xu Huo moved five hundred meters away, and when he encountered flying colored paper strips head-on, he activated the Library Tower.
The chaotic flying colored paper strips and the constantly rising and falling spiral staircase of the Library Tower were like two vanguard fighters of the spiritual realm. As one rose and the other fell, either the spiral staircase swallowed and carried away large amounts of paper strips, or under the wrapping of the paper strips, the spiral staircase gradually disintegrated. In short, within this chaotic space, the spiritual power of both sides had increased to varying degrees—this might be the benefit brought by the special space.
But it wasn't all benefits.
Consuming such a large amount of spiritual power was a burden for both of them. Therefore, after the most intense minute of power struggle at the beginning, both sides tacitly reduced the scope of their spiritual realms. The magician didn't use his pyramid, and Xu Huo didn't bring out his chessboard either. Both kept their trump cards hidden.
Because their battle range had already shrunk to within the coverage of the Cube Space. As the battle progressed, they had continuously switched through several ruined spaces, while also bringing in some onlooker players who hadn't managed to escape in time.
For those players, being inside the Cube Space allowed them to see the dazzling spiritual power struggle, but they couldn't see the spatial rays, nor could they perceive whether the surrounding space had changed. It was only when Xu Huo and the magician suddenly disappeared along with some of the people while fighting that they belatedly realized something was wrong... During this time, Xu Huo and the magician had already switched battlefields several times in succession.
The consumption of items on both sides was enormous, and in such dense exchanges, items couldn't compare to Super Evolution Power in usage. So after occasionally using some items, the magician began to shrink the scope of his spiritual realm.
Where the magician's spiritual evolution was stronger than Xu Huo's was that he could use spiritual materialized objects as real weapons—Xu Huo currently could only do this with his shadow personality. Therefore, when the magician withdrew his power, Xu Huo also used all the defensive items he could.
However, unexpectedly, this time the flying colored paper gradually converged, forming a colorful curtain in front of him. As the two curtains pulled apart to the sides, a bright red stage was revealed. The magician wearing the moth eye mask stood on it, waving his magic wand to pull him down to the stage!
Xu Huo was forced to sit down.
"As a magic show performed for today's only lucky audience member, I will demonstrate the most spectacular magic I have learned so far—Ten Thousand Selves!"
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
With three rounds of applause, Xu Huo, sitting in front of the stage, exploded into countless flying colored paper strips. Each paper strip carried a part of his body, dancing freely. Some flew up to the hanging lamps, overlooking the entire stage from above, while others drifted to the ground, looking up at the seemingly towering magician walking on the stage... At this moment, Xu Huo's vision seemed to split into tens of thousands along with the scattered paper strips. Each paper strip was a perspective, constantly alternating and flashing, taking in every corner of the stage while also bringing a dizzying barrage like a high-speed film!
His eyes could no longer keep up with the rapid changes of things before him, so Xu Huo closed his eyes.
From the moment he closed his eyes, some of the colored paper strips began to turn black, as if they had lost their vitality, falling listlessly to the ground.
The magician standing in the center of the stage watched this scene with a smile. While waving his magic wand to make the paper strips spin faster, he used his other hand to take off his top hat and toss it forward:
The colored paper strips that didn't belong to Xu Huo gathered in front of the top hat, forming a small vortex. As the top hat passed through the vortex, the stage lights became a bit brighter.
In the following moments, the top hat passed through the paper vortex three times in succession. Each time it passed through, the magic stage lights grew brighter, and correspondingly, the color of Xu Huo's paper strips became dimmer—this was the fluctuation of spiritual power. The magician repeatedly destroyed the overlapping Library Tower structures outside, while Xu Huo was still trapped among the paper strips, yet to break free from himself.
Although the magic stage was surrounded within Xu Huo's spiritual realm, the Library Tower, having lost its core driving force, seemed unable to exert much pressure on the stage anymore.
Seeing the number of black paper strips on the stage surge, the magician waved his magic wand to stop the materialized objects, and also stopped Xu Huo. He said, "Give me the magician's gift, and I'll let you go."
Clearly, Xu Huo didn't agree. Two paper strips frozen in front of the magician each opened an eye. The amber-colored pupils were clear and bright, seemingly not having fallen into the endless perspectives created by the magic.
The magician twirled his magic wand, and the colored paper strips, which had paused for a few seconds, began to fly wildly again.
However, as more and more black paper strips descended, a narrow path made of scattered paper strips extended from the edge of the stage all the way to the magician's feet.
The light paper strips seemed to have gained weight at this moment. They converged into a black shadow, and at the tip, formed an arm that silently reached up to touch the magician's pant leg.
It was only at this moment that the magician realized there was a third person in his spiritual realm. Instinct made him immediately flee toward the spiritual gate, but what he never expected was that the black shadow arm intercepted him at the gate first. After blocking his path, the five fingers quickly split and elongated, twisting like hemp ropes and stabbing toward him. Even after he successfully dodged into the gate, it directly pierced through, cutting one of his materialized objects—the top hat—in half!
The magician was hit with considerable shock. Recovering quickly, he shouted loudly, "You can't go berserk! There are still over a hundred players here! Do you want to kill them all?!"
He thought Xu Huo had lost control of his spiritual power and couldn't restrain himself, so he tried to wake him up. However, the black shadow struck first, knocking down his magic wand. After eroding from all sides of the stage like liquid, it separated into countless sharp cones, surrounding the magician from three hundred and sixty degrees without any blind spots, even ignoring the repeatedly opened paper strip gates!
Unable to escape for the moment, the magician dove into a transparent body bag. But unexpectedly, the first black shadow sent as a probe directly pierced through the overlapping spiritual gates on the body bag and stabbed into his calf!
The magician's eyes widened in disbelief. Just as he was about to experience being pierced by a hail of arrows himself, the flying colored paper strips quickly gathered in front of him, forming a paper figure as tall as a person—after the paper strips reassembled, Xu Huo gradually regained control of his body, and his body "returned" from paper form to solid form. He stood in front of the magician, grabbed the black sharp cone that had stopped in front of him, and pulled hard:
"Come back!"
(Chapter End)