# 556
**Chapter 557: A Fierce Battle**
Although the MP3 player was shattered, the [Requiem] itself remained undamaged—this was the one silver lining for An Qingyu.
As for the shattered hand… he could just grow another one.
After storing away [Requiem], An Qingyu smashed the ice encasing his right wrist. The blood that had been spurting out had already stopped, and a large number of cells were rapidly regenerating. The outline of a new hand slowly began to form from his wrist.
Even with his rapid regeneration, regrowing an entire hand was a major undertaking. Full recovery would take time.
Jiang Er’s expression darkened when she saw this. She turned to look at the spatial rift from which the bear claw had emerged.
The white bear, having landed a successful strike, retracted its massive paw back into the void. Just then, a white shadow shot out like lightning and crashed into the bear’s true body hidden within the spatial rift!
The white bear’s body trembled, and it stepped out from the rift it had been hiding in. Its two enormous paws began slapping itself across the face at high speed. Each blow landed with a dull, thunderous impact!
Its strength was already terrifying. After just a few strikes, its entire head was a bloody mess.
Roar—!!
Endless fury and frustration filled its mind. Under the violent emotional fluctuations, the ghostly Jiang Er was forcibly ejected from its body.
The bear raised its bloodied head high and let out a deafening roar.
Then, its body vanished into the void again. In the next second, it appeared directly in front of the ghostly Jiang Er. Its massive paw came down like a mountain, but it passed through Jiang Er’s body harmlessly, causing no damage whatsoever.
Jiang Er was essentially a magnetic field—physical attacks from the white bear were completely ineffective against her.
The bear’s rage intensified!
“It’s going berserk! Run!”
An Qingyu had clearly seen the entire sequence. With the black coffin on his back, he sprinted at full speed toward Cao Yuan, bringing Baili Pangpang and Shen Qingzhu with him!
The white bear wasn’t stupid. Realizing it couldn’t harm the girl in the white dress, it let out a roar, ignored Jiang Er’s taunts, and turned to chase after An Qingyu and the others.
Although An Qingyu, Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, and Jiang Er were all strong fighters, engaging a “Klein”-level “mystery” head-on in the middle of a beast tide would be suicidal. Even if they survived the bear, the other “mysteries” would tear them apart while they were weakened.
Baili Pangpang and Shen Qingzhu joined forces to carve a bloody path through the beast tide. At the same time, the berserk Cao Yuan sensed their approach. His killing intent flared like a blazing flame as he slashed open a path of blood and charged toward them.
Just then, a second “Klein”-level aura erupted between the two groups!
A three-meter-tall black giant leapt from the rear of the beast tide and crashed down like a meteor directly in front of Baili Pangpang and the others. Its massive feet instantly crushed several weaker “mysteries” into paste.
Boom—!
The black giant’s chest had a large circular hole. In each hand, it held a thick, pitch-black chain. At the ends of the chains dragged two massive, round human heads.
The heads glared with bloodshot eyes, their bloodstained pupils rotating eerily as they locked onto Baili Pangpang and the others.
“Damn it, how are there so many ‘Klein’-level monsters in this fog!” Baili Pangpang cursed upon seeing the grotesque black giant.
He glanced back—the white bear that could phase through space was rapidly closing in!
“The fog is a lifeless zone not just because of the toxic mist, but also because of the terrifying creatures living within it,” Shen Qingzhu said grimly. “I heard from [Yiyu] that the fog was dangerous, but I didn’t expect it to be this bad…”
“Qingyu, what do we do now?”
An Qingyu frowned. After a moment, he said, “Try to go around the giant. If we can’t… we’ll have to force our way through.”
…
Whoosh—!
A golden beam of light cut through the surging beast tide, reaping the lives of seven or eight “mysteries.” Instantly, more creatures surged forward to fill the gap.
Pale-faced, Jialan stood amidst the beasts, swinging her golden spear. Her mental strength was no longer enough to activate the killing beams of [Celestial Gate], so she could only fight the beasts in close combat with raw spear techniques. The blood of the “mysteries” splattered across her body, gradually dyeing her deep-blue robe crimson.
Her hands trembled slightly as she gripped the spear. Her movements grew slower. More and more creatures latched onto her, unable to bite through her body but nearly burying her beneath their numbers.
One after another, strange Forbidden Ruins pressed down on her, weakening her combat power and draining her stamina.
She bit her lip. Though her body grew heavier, her bloodstained face remained defiant.
Boom—!!
A blazing dragon’s breath carved a path through the beasts. A figure riding a red dragon shot toward her like a comet.
Jialan’s body trembled when she saw the rider.
Dressed in black, Lin Qiye wielded [White Slash] in his right hand, slashing repeatedly. Blades of light filled the air within a thousand meters, shredding any “mystery” that tried to approach. Beneath him, flower buds instantly absorbed the mental and life energy from the corpses, feeding it back into him.
In his left hand, he spun a silver Rubik’s Cube at high speed!
As Jialan’s body was nearly swallowed by the beast tide, the world seemed to spin. The space around her twisted like a cube, and the creatures clinging to her fell away one by one. Her body lightened, and she dropped from the sky—
Right into Lin Qiye’s arms.
Lin Qiye retracted the [Chaos Cube] into the Asylum of the Gods. Holding Jialan close, he urged the Flame-Vein Earth Dragon beneath them to beat its wings hard, sending the two of them and the dragon soaring into the sky!
He looked down at the exhausted Jialan and asked, “Are you okay?”
Lying in his arms, Jialan stared blankly into his eyes. Her pale cheeks flushed red.
“I… I’m fine…”
She turned her head away, unable to meet his gaze, her heart pounding.
At that moment, only one thought remained in her mind:
*My life is complete.*
Seeing that Jialan was weakened but uninjured, Lin Qiye nodded and turned to dive toward Baili Pangpang and the others.
Just then, within the vast beast tide, a third “Klein”-level aura surged skyward.
Lin Qiye’s expression instantly turned grave.