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Chapter 156 How many floors does it take to carry a bag of rice?
When Chen Feng returned to the Fourth Mental Hospital, he thought he had come to the wrong place.
Looking around, the entire internet addiction academy was shrouded in red mist and had been taken over by fleshy monsters; there was no trace of human life at all.
"Did Old Wolf give the wrong address?"
"Wait, with so much red mist, how come my divine sense isn't disturbed at all?"
Chen Feng walked in, and as soon as he reached the outskirts of the village, he felt a chill on his skin, as if he had bumped into some transparent glass.
Looking at the transparent barrier in front of him, which rippled like the surface of water, Chen Feng suddenly realized.
Oh!
It's a barrier.
A barrier specifically designed to confuse monsters.
"But what if the monster is a hothead like the Beast King or Black Hand, and insists on going in?"
To answer his question, Chen Feng grabbed a monster from the roadside and threw it onto the barrier. The monster bled profusely and was immediately cleaved in two.
"It can even distinguish between humans and monsters, amazing!"
Chen Feng passed through the barrier and, as expected, found himself in a completely open and clear space.
The school, which was originally occupied by fleshy monsters from the outside, has now changed. The air is fresh, there is no trace of blood, and you can even smell the damp earth.
Above the barrier, a fireball dispelled the darkness.
Below the barrier, on the school playground, rows of students were practicing martial arts against wooden stakes. According to the assessment system, their general combat strength was around the level of breaking through walls.
"Is there a barrier that can block the red mist?"
"Perhaps even in the apocalypse outside of Cihang City, there are still people stubbornly surviving."
Chen Feng was sighing with emotion.
Suddenly the air trembled, and a dark figure appeared out of thin air in front of them, which then turned into a white-haired man with an eye patch.
Ding!
Chen Feng glanced at the appraisal system; the white-haired man's strength rating was: Standard Street Explosion.
"One level above me."
"It's only been a month. I don't believe he could reach the point of being a street monster so quickly. So, like the magical girl, did he resist time reversal?"
"A sorcerer, indeed living up to his reputation."
Let's not beat around the bush.
Chen Feng looked directly at the other person and got straight to the point: "I want to take down the willow trees in the city center, how about it? Want to team up and play some games?"
The sorcerer clicked his tongue and made a clicking sound: "I thought I was arrogant enough, but I didn't expect there to be someone even more arrogant than me in this world."
"Alright." The sorcerer pressed his index finger against the edge of the blindfold and gently pushed it up, staring at Chen Feng with his pale blue eyes. "Let me test if you have the ability to team up with me?"
Chen Feng looked around: "Right here?"
"Of course not." The space around the sorcerer shifted slightly, leaving behind a black shadow. "See you outside the city."
Outside Cihang City.
A deserted wasteland.
The sorcerer explained to Chen Feng, "Spellcasting is about extracting a power called spell power from negative emotions, and then attaching that spell power to your fists, weapons, or even emitting it directly as waves."
"Powerful sorcerers can use their magical power to create barriers called domains, giving them an advantage in battle."
What does it mean?
Chen Feng hadn't dealt with any supernatural tales in a long time, so suddenly encountering an opponent who could explain his abilities felt a bit strange: "That's true, but I don't study sorcery, so what's the point of telling me this?"
The sorcerer explained, "As I said, sorcery originates from the power of emotions, so the more one reveals their abilities, the greater the power of their sorcery becomes."
Chen Feng's eyes widened: "Really?"
"Try it and you'll see!"
In an instant, a semi-circular shield appeared around the sorcerer, enveloping Chen Feng inside.
It's so hot!
Chen Feng looked down and found that his whole body was starting to burst into flames, as if he were about to catch fire.
The sorcerer explained, "The Fire Domain can instantly incinerate all living beings within its range."
The words fell.
Chen Feng instantly felt the temperature of the flames on his body more than double!
"Holy crap, it's actually true!"
Relying on his Foundation Establishment stage physique, Chen Feng directly withstood the attack and escaped the domain's range.
Then, he drew the Eternal Sword: "The Gentle Breeze Demon-Subduing Sword!"
With a whoosh, the Qingfeng Subduing Demon Sword flew into the air.
The sorcerer instantly stacked two more domains and said, "Ordinary sorcerers can only possess one domain in their lifetime, but I am different. I am the strongest, so I can comprehend multiple barriers at the same time."
"In the realm of water, one continually heals oneself with the water of life."
"The Domain of Gambling grants you a 50% chance of gaining invincibility for 4 minutes and 11 seconds."
Two defensive barriers activated simultaneously, instantly coating the sorcerer's entire body in a light blue cloak: "My luck isn't so good today; my invincibility failed."
"But I still have the Shadow Realm."
A black barrier unfolded, and a group of black humanoid shadows appeared on the ground.
"The Shadow Realm creates a large number of shadow clones to take damage for me, and I can also switch positions with the shadow clones at any time."
So that's how the teleportation was achieved.
Chen Feng warned, "My Qingfeng Subduing Demon Sword is huge; none of you shadows will escape!"
The magic power surged forth.
The Eternal Sword soared upwards, circled in the air, and then crashed to the ground in an extremely embarrassing manner.
The Qingfeng Demon-Subduing Sword failed to activate!
This time it was the sorcerer's turn: "What does it mean?"
Chen Feng stuck out his tongue: "Sorry, I'm not feeling well today."
If I had known it would be this embarrassing, I wouldn't have claimed the Sunset Sword Technique and the Divine Sword Shadowless Step as rewards for the mission to slay the heretic.
At this moment, the sorcerer also activated the fifth barrier: "Domain of Nothingness. Anyone who stays in the domain for more than ten seconds will be paralyzed and unable to move in place."
Chen Feng was startled: "If I'm paralyzed after ten seconds? Then I'll have to rush in and take you down before those ten seconds are up."
I was tricked after all.
The sorcerer chuckled: "Come on, let's see if you can take me down in ten seconds."
But the next second, the sorcerer's smile froze on his face.
Because although Chen Feng said he would fight to the death, his body obediently ran in the opposite direction:
"friend."
"Although you told the truth in the first four areas and did indeed enhance the power of the moves, that doesn't mean you won't lie in your last sentence."
Chen Feng is someone who has dealt with beef noodles before.
Back then, in order to deceive Chen Feng, Niu Mian dragged together the city's entire collection of supernatural tales and told the truth that had been circulating for thousands of years.
That's what you call a real scam.
The sorcerer in front of us is playing child's play at best.
Chen Feng thought to himself: Brother, Cihang 1.0 has already played this game, why are you still playing it?
But Chen Feng didn't fall for it.
The sorcerer sighed in admiration, "You guessed right. My Domain of Nothingness doesn't paralyze people in ten seconds. Rather, the closer you get to me, the easier it is to paralyze you. If you had rushed up just now, you would have already lost."
The two sides barely managed a draw.
Now we can discuss how to deal with the willow tree.
The sorcerer said, "I can agree to work with you to deal with the willow tree, but we must split up."
He's cautious enough; he's definitely a veteran.
Chen Feng was also worried that the other party might betray him when they acted together, so he immediately agreed: "Then it's settled. We'll set a time. You draw Liu Shu's fire, and then I'll rush in and kill it."
Rushing into the willow tree's territory was far more dangerous than drawing fire, and Chen Feng thought the other side would be very satisfied with this division of labor.
But the sorcerer chuckled softly, "Don't get me wrong, I am the strongest, you are the assistant."
So arrogant?
Chen Feng changed his tune, saying, "Then we'll advance simultaneously, and whoever is slower will be the one providing the assist."
It's a deal.
After finalizing the arrangements, Chen Feng went to the West District and used his Wind Howl technique to transmit his voice: "Hey, we're going to fight the willow tree in three days. We're one short. Are you coming?"
"A message transmitted over a thousand miles?"
The magical girl slammed the monster she was holding to the ground, then leaped up, landing with both feet where the sound had come from, creating a large crater. She exclaimed, "Where is she? Did she run away?"
A black cat appeared behind the girl: "It's that guy who can rewind time, meow."
The magical girl lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and exclaimed, "Just a defeated opponent? Why should I listen to him?"
The black cat nodded: "Yes, meow, that's right, meow."
With a bang.
The magical girl suddenly grabbed the cat's head and shoved it into the ground like a rice seedling: "Stop pretending to be cute!"
"I'm sorry, meow, I won't do it again, meow."
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Three days later, in Beishan District.
Chen Feng is ready.
According to intelligence, the Flesh and Blood Willow Tree is divided into three areas. The first is the outer area. If the flesh and blood branches of the tendrils almost span the entire Cihang City, people hit by these branches will continuously lose life and energy to replenish the willow tree's body.
In the words of the blond-haired guy, "It's like sucking both blood and mana."
Beyond the outer area lies the central area, where the tendrils are thicker than those in the outer area. Anyone struck by a tendril from the central area will lose cultivation.
In Huang Mao's words, "It means both your stats and level dropped."
As for the core area of the central district, it is said that only the Savior ever broke into it once.
"We have to conquer three areas in a row."
For Chen Feng, what was most disgusting about the big willow tree was the unique resistance mechanism of flesh and blood creatures.
Without any mechanism to resist, Chen Feng only needs to activate the "suicide Meng Chengcheng" tactic, send Meng Chengcheng away, activate the "shared fate" effect, and they can perish together and take Liu Shu with them.
Unfortunately, flesh-and-blood creatures don't consume negative abilities that are weaker than their own.
Simply put, for the same fate skill to take effect, Meng Chengcheng must also be upgraded to the same City Burst level as the Flesh Willow.
"It's as overpowered as the God Cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Trap Cards are completely ineffective, and Spell Cards and Monster Effects only last for one turn."
"As expected of something from the apocalypse, this is really troublesome."
Even if it's difficult, we have to do it.
Otherwise, with the flesh and blood willow tree still around, Chen Feng wouldn't dare to reload the save file.
"Go."
At Chen Feng's command, Old Wolf set off.
Its mission is to lure a large number of flesh and blood branches to the Guangming Hospital where PEACD is located.
This way, the savior can be held back to prevent the enemy from causing trouble, while also weakening the flesh and blood tree's fighting power—a double benefit.
As for Chen Feng, he chose to pave the way with violence.
After eliminating the heretical half-demon, Chen Feng did not choose to upgrade the Qingfeng Subduing Demon Sword, all for the sake of today.
"fly!"
Chen Feng threw out the Eternal Sword and began to perform a hand seal.
In an instant, countless Eternal Sword Shadows imbued with magical power flew out from the Eternal Sword itself, then transformed into a great river of sword energy, pouring down on the surrounding flesh and tree branches with overwhelming force.
Sunset Sword Technique!
With a sharp whistling sound, the flesh and branches were pierced and riddled with holes, quickly clearing a path.
"I feel a little dizzy."
Chen Feng felt a wave of weakness wash over him. Although this technique was powerful, using it once almost depleted his magical power.
As expected, every ultimate move comes at a price.
The opportunity was fleeting, and Chen Feng quickly rushed forward towards the central region.
Although there are far fewer dark red branches in the central area compared to the bright red willow branches on the outside, the level of danger has increased by more than double.
"The sword energy can no longer penetrate it."
Chen Feng knew he absolutely must not be hit by the branches in the middle.
Although his Qi Refining cultivation was given by the Demon Slayer System, and the certificate is permanent, the Foundation Establishment cultivation is not. If he is hit a few times, he will probably fall back to Qi Refining.
Therefore, in order to deal with the flesh and blood branches, we can only call for external help.
Chen Feng summoned the system panel and pleaded, "Senior, lend me a hand!"
A branch flew over and was caught by Chen Feng. Before he could feel his cultivation draining away, he threw it to the Asura King, who had just manifested his physical form.
"Leave it to me."
The Asura King grabbed a branch and began to spin around in place, dancing.
At the same time, the tree trunk begins to absorb attributes.
but!
【Stubbornness: When attributes are reduced by an abnormal status, the attribute reduction effect will be reversed into an increase】
The big willow tree is only immune to negative effects on him, but it cannot interfere with others giving him buffs.
As Chen Feng threw more and more branches, the Asura King's dance grew longer and longer, and his aura became increasingly imposing.
Originally, with the strength of the Asura King, even with ten layers of Ghost Dance, he wouldn't be able to touch the Flesh and Blood Willow Tree at all.
But if you add stubbornness, then it's a different story.
The current situation is that the more attributes the willow tree absorbs, the weaker the Asura King becomes; the weaker the Asura King becomes, the higher the Stubborn Reversal attribute becomes.
Although it sounds complicated, it is true that the weaker the Asura King is, the stronger the Asura King becomes.
"open!"
With a flick of his fingernail, the Asura King shredded the surrounding flesh and branches to shreds.
Is this the core area?
After breaking through dozens of layers of barriers made of flesh and branches.
Chen Feng heard a deep, muffled thud from afar, like the rhythm of a heartbeat; each beat caused the entire area to shake violently.
"Holy crap, willow trees have evolved hearts too?"
One more step.
With a whoosh.
A new type of branch covered in blood vessels flew over, but was easily blocked by the Asura King.
"It's not faster than the central area."
"There's definitely something wrong!"
Just as the senior student was about to tear the branches apart, she suddenly felt her strength vanish instantly.
【Ding! 】
Chen Feng was instantly unsettled after seeing the Ghost-Catching System.
[The Asura King has lost his skill: Stubbornness]
Chen Feng broke out in a cold sweat: "First they nerfed health and mana, then they nerfed attributes, and now they're nerfing skills!"
Just then, another branch came hurtling towards the senior student.
"Get out of the way!"
With Chen Feng's prompting, the senior student rolled over and narrowly avoided the danger.
"Thank goodness! If that willow tree had absorbed my quick dodge skill, I would have been done for."
Chen Feng told his senior to quickly transform into her soul form and escape, while he planned to use his movement techniques to fight his way out.
S.A.W.S., open!
Divine Sword Shadowless Step, activate!
Chen Feng transformed into a sharp sword with afterimages, flying towards the direction of the throbbing sound.
The willow tree seemed to have guessed Chen Feng's idea, and directly concentrated dozens of its core area blood vessel branches, determined to stop Chen Feng.
[Ding! You have forgotten the Qingfeng Demon-Subduing Sword]
[Ding! You cannot lose the Divine Sword Shadowless Step]
Although the flesh-and-blood monsters from the apocalypse are very strong.
However, the system's "one certificate for life" is not something to be taken lightly.
Just when Chen Feng thought the Divine Sword Shadowless Step was about to stop, a surge of power filled his body, propelling him forward.
not enough.
Almost there.
Emergency moment.
Suddenly, the core area trembled, and dozens of branches that had surrounded it suddenly lost their vitality and fell to the ground.
"The sorcerer has unleashed their power!"
Chen Feng seized the opportunity and rushed into the final area.
Arrived!
Before Chen Feng was an incredibly spacious chamber, surrounded by walls made of flesh and blood, covered with thick blood vessels and nerve bundles, and at the center of the chamber was a gigantic heart that could not be measured by the naked eye.
Each contraction of the chamber causes a small earthquake.
I've finally caught you.
Chen Feng looked at the citizens who had been drained dry by the willow trees, his eyes turned cold, and he took out a tin can.
It contained some ant-cow bug eggs.
Long ago, Chen Feng had been thinking about how to knock out a tree.
But the conclusion is that it's impossible. Trees are plants; how can you knock them unconscious? How can you control them?
"So all I need to do is knock it out."
Chen Feng gently removed the ant-boar eggs, stunned them, and threw them in front of the heart of the willow tree.
The control conditions are met.
Colored Hextech: Cruel, Activate!
At this moment, at the head of the Cihang Barrier, a giant comet with a silver tail and a giant meteorite burning with hellfire appeared simultaneously, crashing towards the ant-cow worm eggs in the heart chamber.
"From now on, let the tree feel pain."