Chapter 339: Limited-Time Event: The Last Spirit Root Race

"How can a Spiritual Root move without its Mage?" Qi Suian looked back at Celestial Sea Capital. Countless spatial mirrors were slicing the entire city apart.

The true purpose of these spatial mirrors wasn’t destruction, but to precisely connect to every single Spiritual Root.

The connected Spiritual Roots were immediately teleported over and began to fuse.

"It has taken over most of my body. It’s no longer a simple Spiritual Root, but a hybrid of a Spiritual Root and a Mage—just like those Insect People you killed with the plague."

"Besides, it’s an Immortal Spiritual Root, the royalty among Spiritual Roots. You can’t judge it by ordinary standards," Luo Geng said weakly.

Qi Suian understood immediately. This evolution had occurred after he obtained the data on the Spirit Root Race, which was why he didn’t know about it.

In a way, the entity had most likely also benefited from the "protagonist halo" treatment that came with Luo Geng.

"Good thing I have a backup plan," Qi Suian muttered under his breath, then ordered his smart-brain to launch an intercontinental missile.

Inside a launch silo, an intercontinental missile shot out, heading for Celestial Sea Capital’s location.

"Tell all Floating Cannons to charge up first, then commence a suicide attack," Qi Suian continued.

Without Luo Geng, the Immortal Spiritual Root could no longer be considered an Immortal Mage, which meant that to some extent, it was still possible to kill it.

However, even though it hadn’t managed a complete possession, it had successfully broken free of its suppression and could use the power of space once more.

"Don’t run! I know its weakness."

"Only by killing it can everything..." Luo Geng immediately spoke up when he saw Qi Suian showed no intention of fighting.

"Cut the crap and just tell me the weakness, can you?" Qi Suian hated people like this the most.

It was the same situation during the previous battle. He could have just pointed out the weakness, but no, he had to spout all this nonsense first.

It left Qi Suian speechless.

Such a favorable situation had turned into this mess.

"Remember the Immortal Spiritual Root, Endless Universe, that I got from you?" Luo Geng asked and answered himself. "I haven’t fully refined that Immortal Spiritual Root yet."

"So, as long as you can destroy that unrefined Immortal Spiritual Root, the entire thing will collapse."

"Aside from that, there’s also..."

Luo Geng rambled on and on, but to Qi Suian, it was all completely useless.

He glanced back. The intercontinental missile had been sliced into dust by spatial cuts in mid-air; it never even exploded.

The Floating Cannons did slightly better. After charging up and self-destructing, they managed to affect the spatial mirrors. However, the effect was extremely limited and did nothing to stop the Immortal Spiritual Root from fusing with the other Spiritual Roots.

’Well, that was just great. There’s no need for the Exorcism Order anymore, because all the Spiritual Roots have been fused together.’

’If they didn’t deal with this Spiritual Root fusion, they wouldn’t have to worry about the Mage problem either, because humanity would most likely be wiped out.’

"Hold on. We have to solve two problems first."

"How am I supposed to break through its spatial blockade and precisely locate that Immortal Spiritual Root you mentioned on such a massive monster?" Qi Suian retorted, glancing at the torrent formed from countless parasites.

Wherever the torrent passed, space twisted, shattered, and warped.

If Qi Suian went in there, he would die without a doubt.

’It would be better to just run and buy some more time.’

After the Spiritual Root fusion body was complete, a timed event for the New World Pass in the apocalypse game also began.

[Timed Event: The Last of the Spirit Root Race]

[Objective: Survive for seventy-two hours]

[Reward: New World Pass]

The fact that it was asking him to survive for seventy-two hours was a testament to the danger.

’After all, back in the Sacred Artifact World, with three Destructive Sacred Objects duking it out, the system had only asked him to survive for twelve hours.’

’The Spiritual Root fusion body was nowhere near the level of a world-ender. At most, it could destroy an ecosystem; it didn’t even qualify as a rule-level threat.’

’If you threw it into the Sacred Artifact World, it would probably be dead for good in less than three days.’

However, part of this was also because Qi Suian’s "aggro" was too high; there was no way the entity would let him go.

Before he could get an answer from Luo Geng, Qi Suian was met with an attack from the Spiritual Root fusion body.

The space in front of Qi Suian shattered, while the space behind him contracted.

Up, down, left, and right became chaotic. His next step could land him a kilometer away, or it could move him only a single centimeter forward.

"Where can you run?"

The sounds of countless squirming things formed a voice. Silently, the Spiritual Root fusion body, as large as Celestial Sea Capital itself, had drawn near to Qi Suian.

Qi Suian wasn’t one to take this lying down. He unleashed every missile in his strategic missile weapons system in the same instant.

However, the spatial distortion made it impossible for the missiles to hit their target.

For the Spiritual Root fusion body, with its powerful spatial abilities, dodging on the spot couldn’t have been simpler.

"It’s at the center! If you can break through the spatial blockade and punch through the swarm of Spiritual Roots, you can kill it in one strike!" Luo Geng tremblingly pointed out a ’clear path’ for Qi Suian.

Qi Suian no longer had any chance of escape. It was either kill the entity or wait for death.

"Good plan, but I’m not strong enough." Qi Suian couldn’t see the so-called one-hit-kill weakness, but he was certain this was his only path to survival.

"So I’m going to need a little help from you."

After dodging a powerful attack from the Spiritual Root fusion body, Qi Suian looked at Luo Geng and spoke.

Luo Geng looked a bit puzzled. How could he possibly help?

But before he could ask, Qi Suian crushed Luo Geng’s skull and simultaneously flushed his body with polymorphic energy.

The whole process was swift. Luo Geng died without any pain, and his body was subsequently tossed into the Melting Furnace.

’He was an incomplete Immortal Mage, after all. Even if it wasn’t much, he could still provide a large amount of evolutionary energy for the Tai Sui God.’

"I need the luck you carry to help me." As Qi Suian’s words fell, the protagonist halo on Luo Geng was devoured by the one on Qi Suian.

[Reinforcement +10: Resistance]

Qi Suian glanced at the reinforcement effect, then ignored it.

’I don’t know what it does for now, but it’s probably a defensive ability, something like ’Indomitable’.’

"Hahaha, human infighting is truly amusing. To think you’d kill your own ally at a time like this. How interesting." The Spiritual Root fusion body let out a sharp, mocking laugh.

Then, it pressed down on him with shattered space. If Qi Suian were to be caught in it, he would die without a grave.

Before, Qi Suian would have been worried.

But now, with a +10 reinforced Celestial Fate: Profound and a quasi-home-field advantage, he wasn’t afraid at all.

"To me, you’re just a dead man walking," Qi Suian said, filled with confidence, as he took control of the Tai Sui God.

He immediately maxed out three modules: the Wind Master aviation system, the micro-element particle accelerator, and the berserk-type elemental ion thruster.

Cradling a Floating Cannon in his hands, he blasted a path forward with a Dark Energy Beam.

’Of course, he hadn’t deployed all of his Floating Cannons. Knowing the enemy excelled at spatial manipulation, he had definitely kept some in reserve.’

The Dark Energy Beam blasted a path forward for Qi Suian.

Whether it was shattered space, Spatial Barriers, or spatial cutting abilities, the continuous output from the Dark Energy Beam precisely destroyed the enemy’s spatial structures each time, directly nullifying its powers.

"What?!"

The Spiritual Root fusion body let out a sharp cry, its voice filled with shock.

It simply couldn’t understand how Qi Suian could so easily strike the weak points of its spatial structure, and even ignore its attacks.

"It’s... Luo Geng. You killed Luo Geng and obtained some kind of unknown power from him."

At that moment, the Spiritual Root fusion body finally understood why its attacks couldn’t land and why it couldn’t stop him.

Add to that the fact that he knew its fatal weakness.

The combination of all these factors made it panic, leaving it at a loss for how to counter Qi Suian’s assault.

"Great Lord, I pray to you, please..." The Spiritual Root fusion body suddenly snapped to its senses.

It still had a backer—Atrek Nakaya, the Spider God who used countless worlds as its web.

But soon, it fell into despair.

Because this time, its prayer was like a stone tossed into the ocean; there was no response whatsoever.

In the past, even if there was no direct reply, there would at least be a sense of connection. Now, even that feeling was gone.

It felt as if it had been abandoned.

"You want to become a vassal of the Spider God? You should have checked if it even wanted you."

"Besides, were you really trying to be a subordinate? You just wanted to parasitize the Spider God."

Qi Suian’s voice boomed, striking a blow right to the heart of the Spiritual Root fusion body.

"Did you think no one could see through your petty little scheme?"

"First you parasitize humans, now you want to parasitize an even stronger being. Who the hell do you think you are?" While verbally crushing it, Qi Suian rapidly closed in on the Spiritual Root fusion body.

The Floating Cannon’s Dark Energy Beam landed on the entity, disintegrating a direct path to its fatal weakness.

"You offended the Spider God, and you tried to wipe out humanity, betraying the world."

"You tried to play both sides. It’s only fitting that you die here today."

Qi Suian pierced through the fusion’s body and grabbed ahold of the Immortal Spiritual Root that formed its fatal weakness.

"If you’re going to be a subordinate, you shouldn’t have ulterior motives."

"When the world gives you a chance to develop, you don’t betray it."

"You had two choices, and you managed to screw them both up. Heh." With a final taunt, Qi Suian ripped out the unrefined Immortal Spiritual Root and tossed it into the Melting Furnace.

"This... shouldn’t... be happening!!!" the Spiritual Root fusion body roared in defiance.

But its defiance was futile. Its massive body collapsed with a deafening crash, and the countless Spiritual Roots that formed it disintegrated.

Quick as a flash, Qi Suian snatched Luo Geng’s original Spiritual Root—the tapeworm and a series of parasitized organs—and stuffed it into the Melting Furnace as well.

"Luck... it was all just luck." Qi Suian swallowed hard. Now that it was all over, his hands started to shake.

"Fortune and misfortune really do go hand-in-hand. With such a huge batch of Spiritual Roots, plus an Immortal Mage, the Tai Sui God’s next two evolutions are a sure thing."

Qi Suian murmured, watching the ceaselessly writhing torrent of Spiritual Roots, their numbers dense and immeasurable.

"The only downside is having to risk my life for it."