Chapter 2000: The Hive World
Zheng Yuci merely glanced down, and the small hexagons that automatically appeared beside her sliced the shadow hands into pieces. She turned to look in Xu Huo's direction, and the large hexagonal barrier behind her abruptly halted before rapidly flying past her, all heading toward Xu Huo's location. At the same time, countless hexagonal portals appeared in the air. Even without forming an enclosed space, these hexagonal barriers could still crisscross back and forth, completely plowing through this area as if it were farmland.
Hexagonal barriers larger than a person flew chaotically through the city, occasionally following Xu Huo's movements to places where mutated plants grew. At such times, they would often stir up a sky full of leaves. Amid the cluttered field of vision, Xu Huo rapidly changed positions through spiritual gates, but Zheng Yuci, still standing at the Agor headquarters, kept her gaze locked on him.
Of course, Xu Huo hadn't moved too far away, because all the spiritual power materialized objects he had arranged were nearby. Losing one hand didn't matter—there were plenty of opportunities to strike.
No matter how you looked at it, his spiritual power evolution level couldn't match Zheng Yuci's. So when materializing, he used a little trick, hiding the materialized objects in shadows—whether it was the shadows of buildings, the shadows of flying props, or the shadows beneath the trenches carved into the ground by the hexagons. Wherever there were shadows, the materialized objects could lurk, because their forms were naturally closer to shadows.
Although Zheng Yuci didn't change position, she was occasionally attacked by materialized objects suddenly emerging from underground or from collapsing buildings. And as time passed, what started as elongated shadows coming from a distance quickly turned into flying objects, like stones kicked up by the hexagonal barriers. In the end, even flying leaves could be used to conceal the materialized objects—this meant that the person controlling spiritual power had not only learned to turn the large into the small, but also understood how to disperse spiritual power and could control it remotely!
"Truly talented." Zheng Yuci praised, and the next second, she crossed through a spiritual gate and intercepted Xu Huo. Ignoring the defensive props on Xu Huo, she directly reached out and pressed his shoulder. Then the two were sealed inside a semicircular barrier made of hexagons. The moment they were sealed, Xu Huo felt as if countless giant hands were pressing him down in midair, his body locked tight. And what he saw before him was no longer Zheng Yuci, but several enormous tentacles covered in eyeballs, dozens or even hundreds of eyes all staring fixedly at him.
How to put it, there was a strange sense of absurdity.
Xu Huo moved his hand, and the shadow curled up beneath his feet split into dozens of strands, springing out nearly thirty meters before peeling away from the ground. They stood upright and then gathered inward like a bouquet, instantly slicing Zheng Yuci's "operating room" to pieces. But this didn't completely collapse the "operating room," because outside the small "operating room" there was a larger one. The two had barely distanced themselves when he was once again trapped inside a hexagonal barrier. Zheng Yuci still stood before him, almost maintaining the same posture, but the strength of the hand pressing his shoulder had increased. At the same time, she herself seemed to have changed.
It wasn't Xu Huo's imagination. In the second "operating room," Zheng Yuci had grown taller!
This was very abnormal. Because this was the spiritual realm, any change in sensation could be due to the opponent's spiritual interference. It wasn't an illusion he saw—whether through his eyes or spatial perception, Zheng Yuci had indeed changed!
A long blade materialized from spiritual power rose from beneath Xu Huo's feet, standing upright and slicing the "Zheng Yuci" before him in half from the center. Watching the person turn into two shadowy pieces, Xu Huo fully pulled out the Library Tower, casually opened a door, and walked inside.
Inside the Library Tower, the rooms on each floor were constantly shifting and swapping positions. They could become hundreds or thousands, and one building could split into two, two into four. Of course, when facing an opponent like Zheng Yuci, sheer numbers wouldn't be very effective. So Xu Huo focused his energy on this single building, frequently darting between different rooms.
However, this didn't buy him much time. In less than a minute, two hexagonal pieces about ten meters high crashed into the Library Tower, quickly cutting the building to shreds. Xu Huo had no choice but to retreat from the Library Tower. But when he got out, the scene before him shocked him. In that extremely short time, not only had the hexagonal barriers grown several times larger, but everything around him—buildings, plants, even the streets—had all become enormous. Moreover, Zheng Yuci, who had been chasing him, was now several heads taller than him. If she lifted her foot a little higher, she could step on him!
Because of the change in size ratio, Xu Huo's movements became more difficult. Using spatial power, the farthest distance he could cover was two thousand meters. But as he shrank, this distance didn't change for him, but for Zheng Yuci, it was effectively shortened several times. At the same time, more and more hexagonal barriers appeared around him. As they attacked, they continued to multiply wildly, soon covering nearly half the city. After the sky was sealed off, these hexagons began connecting to each other, forming small compartments—they were building a hive!
Whether it was staying near the Agor headquarters or not fully distancing himself from Zheng Yuci earlier, it was all to drain her spiritual power. But even Xu Huo himself hadn't expected Zheng Yuci's spiritual evolution to be this strong. In the current situation, the longer it went on, the more disadvantageous it became for him.
After a brief pause, he took out the "Same District Portal." However, even with the Agor headquarters blown to pieces, the spatial teleportation prop still couldn't be used. Though he suspected Zheng Yuci might be holding a time-space super prop, Xu Huo still didn't use "Three Seconds of Life." Instead, he wielded the Black Blade to open a large hole in the ground, jumped into the underground structure, equipped the "Life Core," and maximized the destruction of the underground metal framework.
Because the Agor headquarters had been bombed multiple times, both above and below ground, many areas relied on metal supports to keep from completely collapsing. Now, the main metal structures in these places were pulverized. With the Agor headquarters as the center, the area began to rapidly collapse in all directions. The ground crumbled like cookies, chunks falling down. A massive amount of dust surged from underground, instantly covering the city center!
Xu Huo had no intention of destroying the entire city, so when the Eastern District players led by Teacher Zhao came in to stop him, he held back. Of course, his main goal was still to destroy the underground instruments. If it wasn't Zheng Yuci, then the most likely culprit interfering with the spatial prop was the giant underground instrument.
But when he returned to the surface, he realized he had overestimated Agor and underestimated Zheng Yuci.
Two thousand chapters! It's been a long journey, feels like I ran a marathon, a bit tired. Lately, I've been getting stuck on writing, so updates have been a bit unstable. Please forgive me. It's the end of the year, everyone remember to balance work and rest, and don't catch a cold. O(∩_∩)O