Chapter 630 - 422: Outsider

Although killing fellow team members was forbidden,

fighting was not.

For example, you could beat someone half to death, as long as you weren’t the one to land the killing blow.

But she wasn’t confident.

Besides, in a world like this,

infighting was not a good option.

With that thought, she changed the subject.

"You’re right. We can’t stay here. We need to find a way to leave, quickly!"

In the original plot, even a simple limping character could undergo such a horrifying transformation. This Seven-star Novel World had already degraded to an unpredictable state.

Continuing the side quest was tantamount to suicide.

No matter how rich the rewards, you had to be alive to claim them.

The most important thing right now was to find a safe place and lie low until the mission ended.

"How interesting..."

Just as the two were about to leave, a soft chuckle came from behind them.

They both froze and whipped their heads around.

Not far away, a matte silver Mecha stood silently, its gaze studying them with keen interest.

The Mecha’s surface seemed to devour all light.

Its face had only two crescent-shaped slits of light that glowed with a chilling, pale blue luminescence.

In its hand, it held a white scythe.

The blade flowed with a dark purple halo of light.

The newcomer was none other than Hu Qi.

In truth, he had arrived several minutes ago.

What he hadn’t expected was that this group had been nearly wiped out by Zhao Ying.

Looking at the two before him,

Hu Qi’s gaze seemed to pierce through their bodies, straight to the depths of their souls.

After a moment, Hu Qi’s brow furrowed slightly.

The auras on the two were indistinguishable from those of this world; there was nothing unusual.

But Hu Qi had been observing from the side for a long time and had seen that the Extraordinary Power they wielded was not native to this realm.

This undoubtedly confirmed their identities.

Like him, they were outsiders, and they had arrived in their original bodies rather than through means like possession.

However, what puzzled Hu Qi was that of the two, one was only at the Half-step Spirit Level, and the other was merely at the Late Stage Spirit Level.

’In my eyes, such strength is less than that of an ant. How did they enter a world within the Bottomless Realm? And how were they able to ignore this world’s Power of Rules and descend in their physical bodies?’

Thinking this, the cloud pattern on Hu Qi’s forehead began to glow with a faint golden light. He unhesitatingly activated his Primordial Eye to investigate.

Since awakening his Taiyu Serpent Bloodline, his Primordial Eye had undergone a Mutation, granting it the Ability to see through illusions and trace things back to their source.

He focused his gaze now.

He saw black chains wrapped around the two, their source extending into the depths of the void.

Hu Qi’s gaze followed the chains, and at their pitch-black end, he saw a dense cluster of purple light.

However, just as he tried to probe deeper, an indescribably bizarre power shot back along his line of sight.

Hu Qi let out a muffled grunt.

The Primordial Eye’s cloud pattern on his forehead dimmed instantly.

Fine cracks even appeared directly on his cheeks.

The strange power tried to press closer.

But within Hu Qi’s body, a flash of light suddenly appeared and blocked it.

As Hu Qi closed his Primordial Eye,

the bizarre Power of Erosion receded, as if it had never been there at all.

He was shocked.

’Just a single glance...’

’And I suffered such a strong backlash!’

’This means the entity behind these people is far more powerful than I imagined. It must be at least at the Dao Seed Level, and perhaps even connected to the legendary Daoist Lords.’

At that thought,

Hu Qi stared at the two, his tone flat.

"Now, tell me, how did you get to this world?"

Xu Shu and Lumina’s expressions turned ugly where they stood.

The space around them was now frozen, making it extremely difficult to even move.

Let alone escape.

"A Forbidden Mecha..."

In just an instant,

the two recognized it.

Xu Shu wanted to resist.

But having just transformed once, he didn’t have enough qi in his body to do it again.

Besides, he could clearly feel how powerful his opponent was.

’Even if I did transform, I probably wouldn’t be a match for him.’

"Sir, what are you talking about? We... we don’t quite understand."

Lumina put on a pitiful and helpless act. Her soft voice, combined with her cute features, was indeed quite disarming to most men.

"Is that so?"

Hu Qi said.

As his words fell,

the Eclipse Hermit swung its scythe.

The next second—

SPLAT!

A line of blood suddenly split open on Lumina’s forehead. Her body was instantly sliced in two, sending blood spraying everywhere. Guts and brain matter spattered across the ground in a bloody and gruesome scene.

GULP!

Xu Shu watched this scene unfold,

his face rigid.

He hadn’t even seen how the other had attacked.

’This kind of power...’

"Tell me. I don’t want to ask a third time!"

Hu Qi’s voice was ice-cold.

Xu Shu’s expression became extremely ugly. He didn’t understand how the other had realized they weren’t from this world.

But due to the rules of the Reincarnation Bookstore,

if he leaked any relevant information, the only thing awaiting him was obliteration.

However, if he didn’t answer Hu Qi’s question, he would also face certain death.

He had no choice at all.

At this thought, Xu Shu gritted his teeth and forced himself to speak.

"I cannot tell you the specific details.

If I did, I would only die a more miserable death.

However, if you truly wish to know, sir, you can crush this item."

As he spoke, a flash of light appeared in his hand, and an object materialized in his palm.