Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 227 - 224 Power Cut (7000-word mega
Chapter 227 -224: Power Cut (7000-word mega chapter, updates 1, 2, 3~)
Chapter 227 -224: Power Cut (7000-word mega chapter, updates 1, 2, 3~)
Denghis Xisi had been under immense pressure during this period. On the one hand, he needed to rebuild the towns destroyed by the Holy Spirits and gather food so that his people could continue to live.
On the other hand, they had to wrest back control of the island and offer Biland Island an ultimate battle.
Jiang Qiao’s conjecture wasn’t wrong; Biland Island was a living being, still in its infancy.
But as Crystal Disease Infected, they were Biland Island’s eyes, skin, ears… taste.
They were essentially the ‘collective consciousness’ of all Crystal Disease Infected.
In other words, everything experienced by the Crystal Disease Infected, Biland Island could experience, which is why Jiang Qiao had players crazily licking NPCs recruited from the market.
However… lately, Biland Island’s appetite had changed. Rather than delicious food or care from family and friends, Biland Island now craved power and the thrill of victory in battle.
Denghis Xisi knew the reason for this change. The blood resonance he had implanted in the fifty-three civilians abducted by the Holy Spirits had taken effect. This resonance not only completely transformed the Crystal Disease Infected into monsters on the island but also… planted seeds of bloodlust into Biland Island’s consciousness, making the entire island bellicose.
Of course, merely fifty-three people wouldn’t affect the overall consciousness of Biland Island, which is why the Magic Thief, with a heavy heart, sacrificed three hundred of his own people to the island as well.
Therefore, this time, Denghis Xisi had three goals for the offensive. First, to destroy the Holy Spirits’ strongholds as much as possible and devour their power. Second, to recover his apprentice Yelena, whose sole mindset could equal tens of thousands of Crystal Disease Infected.
If Biland Island were compared to a beehive, then Yelena would be the queen bee, while the other Crystal Disease Infected would be mere worker bees.
Third, and the primary objective of this attack, to please Biland Island by performing highly entertaining fights and slaughter to satisfy the island.
This plan was initially very successful. When Denghis Xisi and the island’s monstrous horde had breached the Abyss Temple stronghold, he could feel Biland Island watching them, not just watching but cheering for the battle.
The island’s soul was truly delighted.
From the start of the attack, and in less than half an hour, the assimilation value held by Denghis Xisi had risen from forty-five to fifty.
If this momentum continued and the fires of war spread throughout the Spiritual Vein Forest, engulfing every stronghold of the Holy Spirits, Denghis Xisi would gain an absolute advantage in this island power struggle.
This advantage lasted until Denghis Xisi exited the cave of the Abyss Temple…
“Holy Spirits! Do you have no shame at all!”
Denghis Xisi wiped the filth from his face with his hand, truly angering him for the first time.
Even if Denghis Xisi were severely wounded or killed by the enemy, he could always maintain absolute calm in battle, but no one could tolerate being humiliated by being smeared with such filth.
The players who were throwing stink bombs around him didn’t even notice Denghis Xisi’s lines, and another stink bomb plastered his face.
No matter how agile Denghis Xisi was, he couldn’t avoid the dense barrage of stink bombs.
Out of anger, Denghis Xisi released a Telekinesis Energy Shield to block all the stink bombs that were thrown by the Holy Spirits.
“Stand up and face me!”
One of his apprentices shouted angrily at the distant Holy Spirits.
No matter how Denghis Xisi sliced it, this attack was advantaging his side, with visible gains in assimilation value, whether in victory or defeat.
But he never expected these Holy Spirits not only would refuse to fight him but also resorted to such despicable and underhanded tactics to disgust them.
“Retreat.”
In the end, Denghis Xisi issued this order to his apprentices who could still fight.
“Why? Instructor… they’re just filthy objects! We’re not hurt at all.”
The apprentices’ conditions were little better than Denghis Xisi’s, with almost everyone stained with some of the odd substances.
That was exactly the issue!
“There’s no atmosphere for fighting anymore! Get into the teleportation gate now!”
Denghis Xisi summoned a teleportation gate he had learned to steal from the Holy Spirits and flung one of his apprentices through it.
The instant the Holy Spirits began using stink bombs, Biland Island, which had been indulging in the battle, instantly shifted from joy to… wailing.
If Biland Island were a baby right now, it probably would cry out loudly…
So, Denghis Xisi could clearly see his apprentices, as well as their assimilation values, rapidly decreasing before his eyes.
Denghis Xisi’s apprentices were very efficient in their execution. They quickly ran into the teleportation gate opened by Denghis Xisi, under his cover…
After confirming that all his apprentices had retreated, he opened another teleportation gate and was about to step in when the ley lines under his feet suddenly surged with extreme frost.
Almost the instant the ice magic circle appeared, frost rapidly spread from his feet towards his whole body. In that moment, Denghis Xisi turned back and saw that Can Xin had somehow come out and released a skill known as the Extreme Ice Banquet.
“Just these bits of ice!” Denghis Xisi lifted his foot and broke free from the freezing effect of Extreme Ice Banquet.
“Damn! I’ve been wanting to say this… isn’t this BOSS’s resilience too high?” Can Xin abruptly stopped his Extreme Ice Banquet as he attempted to switch to the Annihilation Black Hole spell, but Denghis Xisi had already charged at him.
Denghis Xisi didn’t mind killing another Holy Spirit before retreating, but the instant he took his first step, a hound with black and white chains wrapped around its body bit into Denghis Xisi’s leg.
The huge dog transformed into a black boulder and once again bound Denghis Xisi’s feet.
The Demon Exorcist’s skill, Shikigami Genbu!
“Oh! Old Mo’s got some power!” Can Xin, seeing the leader of the Gray Eyes Association, Gray Eyes, appear behind Denghis Xisi, exclaimed. Although it sounded like a tongue twister, Gray Eyes was indeed the top Demon Exorcist among the Holy Spirits.
Gray Eyes threw another talisman, and from it leaped another hound-like creature that lunged for Denghis Xisi’s left arm.
The Power of Waves erupted from Denghis Xisi at that moment, tearing the two Shikigami to shreds…
“Finally ready to fight seriously, Holy Spirit?” Denghis Xisi’s face broke into a smile again, but it only lasted a few seconds… as yet another stink bomb was accurately thrown at his face.
“You…” Denghis Xisi’s cursing was cut short as dark purple smoke rose from under his feet and a translucent sphere formed around him, imprisoning him in the center.
The Elemental Bomber’s skill, Dark Imprisonment!
“As expected, Bubble Guild Leader still sticks to his guns!” Can Xin’s gaze shifted to Bubble, who had just released the Dark Imprisonment.
“Forget loyalty! Who has more stink bombs? I’ve thrown all mine! I’ll buy them for a hundred bucks each! We can negotiate the price!” Bubble, after releasing the Dark Imprisonment, skillfully sent a message on the current channel to buy stink bombs.
Stink bombs really are… so much fun; anyway, Bubble had taken a liking to the thrill of smacking BOSS faces with stink bombs.
But just as he spoke, the Dark Imprisonment Bubble released shattered into debris, and Denghis Xisi appeared in front of Bubble with the force of a sky-splitting slash.
The next second, he used his hand as a blade, aiming to instantly kill Bubble, who posed the greatest threat.
But in that instant, Denghis Xisi heard a tiger’s roar from the sky.
Zhao Mingwei leaped down from above the canyon, with the phantom of a roaring tiger appearing behind him, it directly bit at Denghis Xisi.
Denghis Xisi took the full brunt of the tiger’s earth-shaking attack, then stepped back to dodge Zhao Mingwei’s follow-up skills.
Zhao Mingwei also landed in front of Bubble, eyes locked on Denghis Xisi not far away.
“Laughing bro! Do you have any stink bombs left?” Bubble hurriedly asked.
“Yes, let’s talk about the trade later. Moonlight! Stop hiding!” Zhao Mingwei shouted towards the shadow where Denghis Xisi had landed.
“I didn’t slack off! Laughing bro, not everyone can play with their skills like they’re summoning a beast.”
Another unfamiliar voice came from behind Denghis Xisi, who was slightly startled as a giant hand made of purple death energy suddenly emerged from his shadow on the ground.
The ambition of Death Mage·Despot Balak!
This hand of death energy suddenly grasped Denghis Xisi without giving him a chance to struggle, and in the next moment, exploded… The aura of death surged into Denghis Xisi’s body, and at this moment, he began to show signs of damage and wear.
“Damn it? Moonlight, weren’t you a no-show?” Can Xin looked at the cruel moonlight that had appeared out of nowhere; previously, when he tagged everyone in the Holy Spirit Guild’s group chat, Cruel Moonlight only replied with a pigeon emoji and then went silent.
“I was a no-show for rescuing you, but… for farming bosses, our guild definitely has to be counted in!”
Cruel Moonlight commanded the phantom of Despot Balak that floated behind him, a heavily-armored knight wielding a longsword and a signature summon of the Death Mage.
The phantom of Despot Balak raised the longsword in its hand and chopped down fiercely at Denghis Xisi, who was kneeling on the ground, but at the next moment, a similar giant phantom appeared behind Denghis Xisi and blocked the attack from Cruel Moonlight.
“The elites of the Holy Spirit… have… all arrived?” Denghis Xisi knelt on the ground, heaving deep breaths… At this moment, his body was gathering the Power of the Dead, Telekinesis Energy Shield, Elemental Power, as well as the power of the Four Divine Beasts.
Replicating so many powers at once was a bit of a strain, even for his superlative talent.
When Zhao Mingwei wanted to charge at Denghis Xisi again, the Power of Waves centered around Denghis Xisi exploded outwards, the wild energy destroying the ruins on the ground while also stopping Zhao Mingwei’s advance.
“Let’s see then…” Denghis Xisi slowly stood up from the ground, but when he looked up, he didn’t see Zhao Mingwei, but rather the cold pupil under a helmet.
Mo Shigui immediately launched a Shield Strike to Denghis Xisi’s face. Denghis Xisi was not a BOSS with a powerful physique, or to say… his only had invulnerability while releasing skills.
So, Mo Shigui could treat him as a player with three million health points who knew all the Holy Spirit Guild’s skills.
If he was a player… then it would be easy!
The moment after Mo Shigui’s Shield Strike hit his face, his longsword was at Denghis Xisi’s throat, and with the lacerating skill added, he intended to sever Denghis Xisi’s neck.
But Denghis Xisi grabbed Mo Shigui’s sword-hand with his own… and with his other hand acting as a shield, he released a Shield Strike to Mo Shigui’s face, instantly sending him flying off into the distance.
“Old Song, you actually came? Great! I’ve decided, I won’t roast you for a week!” Can Xin looked at Mo Shigui who had also jumped down from above the canyon and felt a little moved at the moment.
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“Quit talking about roasting or not. We have seven minutes left… take him down within seven minutes.” Mo Shigui got up from the ground and looked at the leaders of the other five guilds, as well as Zhao Mingwei, who represented Overlord of the World… Excluding Nan Feng’s howling, the remaining seven major guilds of the Holy Spirit had all arrived.
“I won’t question your abilities because I can feel that you are the strongest in the Holy Spirit, so come on… come on!”
Denghis Xisi’s gaze swept over the leaders of the seven major guilds that had surrounded him, his left hand began to glow with the light of telekinesis, his right hand released the runes of the elements, and behind him was the phantom representing the Power of the Dead, the phantom of Despot Balak.
Originally, Denghis Xisi thought his plan would… just fail like that.
But these Holy Spirits were as he thought they would be, although they would use despicable means, they were all a group of heroes and warriors with cool skills.
The Soul of the Island was now very pleased, even trembling with excitement.
Denghis Xisi could clearly feel that the consciousness of Biland Island was now focused on him.
The entire Biland Island was craving for… craving for this spectacular battle!
This was going to be an epic battle! An absolute epic that would be recorded and praised by future generations.
Denghis Xisi felt the assimilation value within him rapidly rising, the consciousness of Biland Island was continuously pouring into him.
For this battle, even the monsters around him were consciously driven away by Biland Island.
“I won’t run away before I kill all of you, Holy Spirits! Use your strongest power to try and kill me!” Denghis Xisi’s pupils gradually covered by a crimson hue.
The Power of Blood Qi!
“Damn it! The BOSS is provoking us so blatantly, what are you hesitating for? Get him!” Can Xin already had Elemental Power gathered in his hands, ready to confront Denghis Xisi.
Mo Shigui also silently pulled all the personnel on the battlefield into the Holy Spirit Guild’s squabbling voice chat group.
But just then… the voice channel of the ‘Cruel Moonlight’ suddenly transmitted a woman’s voice “Everyone’s off today and still playing games! How long do you plan to play? It’s time for dinner!”
Hearing this woman’s voice, Can Xin closed his own mouth and listened carefully, as did the other guild members.
“Sorry, sorry! You keep fighting, I’ll go have a meal and come back!” Cruel Moonlight rubbed his ears, looking like someone had fiercely tugged his ears in reality.
Then the next second, Cruel Moonlight logged off, and the shadow of Despot Balak behind Denghis Xisi also disappeared.
“Damn it! I knew Moonlight was a dead pigeon! Old Gray Eyes, you can’t possibly…” Can Xin turned to look at Gray Eyes, the most trustworthy among all his friends, only to see that he had vanished as well.
“His power went out at home,” Zhao Mingwei said in the voice channel.
“Ah? That much of a coincidence?” Can Xin was a bit stunned.
“There’s even more of a coincidence. The staff at the venue are calling us; we should log off too,” Mo Shigui said coldly, glancing at Denghis Xisi in the distance.
Although he really wanted to slay Denghis Xisi right now, the problem was… his real-life job didn’t allow him to do so.
Mo Shigui made a gesture of taking off his helmet, and his figure disappeared in front of Denghis Xisi.
“Wait… Holy Spirits! Where are you all going?”
Denghis Xisi became somewhat panicked when he saw Gray Eyes, Cruel Moonlight, and Mo Shigui logging off one after another, realizing something was wrong.
“Old Song has logged off? Should I log off too? Damn it… Xue Bi says she’s going to cut my power! Laughing Master! Before you log off, sell your Stink Bomb to me?” Bubble wasn’t really interested in the BOSS Denghis Xisi; he came purely to… throw Stink Bombs.
“Wait! Holy Spirits! I’m right here.”
When Denghis Xisi heard those Holy Spirits utter the word ‘log off’ and then suddenly disappear, he panicked.
And at this moment, the consciousness of the island gradually overwhelmed him, making his mind a little hazy, and all Denghis Xisi could think of was having a hearty showdown with these powerful opponents.
So…
“Come and kill me!” Denghis Xisi shouted at those Holy Spirits, “It’s me who has destroyed your strongholds! Don’t you hate me? Hey!”
“Thanks, Laughing Master, see you at the next expedition ceremony.” Bubble didn’t listen to what Denghis Xisi was saying; after completing the Stink Bomb trade with Zhao Mingwei, he once again set his sights on Denghis Xisi.
“Yes, that’s right, come and kill me! Isn’t that how your god incites you? Come and win your honor and rewards.”
Denghis Xisi, ready for battle, saw Bubble slowly approaching. But the next second, what greeted Denghis Xisi was not one of Bubble’s stylish and explosive Elemental Bomber skills… but another Stink Bomb.
Bubble took out the Stink Bomb that Zhao Mingwei gave him, pulled the pin, and threw it precisely, hitting Denghis Xisi in the face without error.
“It really feels awesome to throw this thing! Damn! Xue Bi is pinching my waist; I gotta run!” Bubble felt a sharp pain in the area of his small belly in reality, which must have been his secretary pinching him.
Bubble, with Denghis Xisi watching in despair, also disappeared in front of Denghis Xisi.
Zhao Mingwei weighed the current situation, and after confirming that Denghis Xisi wouldn’t pose any more threat to Yelena or the stronghold, directly opened the game’s main menu and chose to log off.
When Zhao Mingwei logged off, the Telekinesis Energy Shield in Denghis Xisi’s hand also disappeared.
In the end, only Denghis Xisi and Can Xin were left on the ruins of the battlefield.
“Elemental Mage, look behind you, everything you’ve built up… I’ve destroyed it all! And now is your chance for revenge!” Denghis Xisi shouted at Can Xin.
But now Can Xin wasn’t paying any attention to his cliché line; rather, Can Xin had just seen a link in the Holy Spirit Squabbling Group a short while ago, a link to an official site notification titled ‘The Cat Repair Team’.
The notification on this official site was very straightforward… which was “Dear Holy Spirit Lords whose strongholds have been destroyed, rest assured meow. After the monster siege ends, we will work hard to repair the damaged strongholds, meow! This repair benefit is limited to the full-server monster siege event; if a personal guild is besieged by monsters, this benefit will not be available, meow. So, please cherish your own stronghold, all Holy Spirits Lords.”
System automatically restores stronghold!
Can Xin just said how could this game possibly be so orphaned, suddenly spawning over three hundred lord monsters, it would take a star-destroying cannon for Can Xin to annihilate so many creatures.
“Guild Leader! We’ve run back from our corpses! Is the final BOSS still there? Shall we hit him?”
As Can Xin was reading the announcement, all the members of the Abyss Temple had also run back from their corpses, so they streamed out of the cave one by one.
Right now, every member of the Abyss Temple was holding their breath… Denghis Xisi really humiliated them a lot when he had killed them earlier.
“Come on, come try to kill me, Holy Spirit!” Denghis Xisi yelled at the members of the Abyss Temple in the distance.
“Hit him my ass! The expedition ceremony is about to start, and the stronghold system will rebuild, this BOSS will probably go back after attacking for two hours, there’s no gain in beating him, you guys who can stay online go find some lord monsters in the Spiritual Vein Forest that look very powerful, who knows, maybe after two hours when the monster siege is over, these creatures will become recruitable NPCs, right?”
Can Xin was still very clever, mainly because he was an opportunist who liked to take chances. This time during the monster siege, although the Abyss Temple paid a heavy price, there were risks and potential rewards.
These three hundred monsters represented three hundred recruitable NPCs, and the monsters gathered near the Abyss Temple were the most numerous.
“What about you, Guild Leader?”
“Us? We’ve logged off.” Can Xin said.
Sure enough, just as Can Xin had expected, the moment he uttered those words, his figure stiffened and stopped moving on the spot, and ten seconds later, Can Xin’s figure also disappeared from in front of Denghis Xisi.
The Elemental Power in Denghis Xisi’s hands had completely vanished… Far away at the Abyss Temple, seven members chose to log off, and without the guild leader to organize them, a small portion of the remaining players chose to log off, while others went after the lord-level monsters with stink bombs.
“Stop! Where do you think you’re going!”
Denghis Xisi shouted at those running Holy Spirits… As the Holy Spirits logged off one by one and left.
Biland Island was also greatly disappointed in Denghis Xisi, his assimilation value rapidly declined, and Biland Island’s attention to Denghis Xisi also gradually disappeared.
At this moment, Denghis Xisi once again regained his composure… and a familiar voice sounded in his ear.
“You as a BOSS don’t drop any good gear, no titles or quests either, and on top of that, you have high health, fast moves, and can kill with a wave of your hand, a player would be insane to prioritize taking you down.”
Denghis Xisi was stunned for a moment, his gaze quickly shifted to a pile of building ruins above the Abyss Temple, where Jiang Qiao was sitting on top of the ruins, smiling at him.
“It’s you!” Denghis Xisi realized that Jiang Qiao’s identity was not that of a simple Holy Spirit.
“Fortunately for you… the Holy Spirits don’t want to kill you, I guess.” the moment Jiang Qiao’s words fell, the arrow that surpassed missiles split the air and hit the leyline beneath Denghis Xisi’s feet.
The arrow exploded in an instant, and the shock caused Denghis Xisi’s body to lose balance slightly. He dodged that arrow, but in the next second, a figure wearing an orange cat mask appeared behind him.
At that moment, Denghis Xisi felt something pierce through his chest…
Looking down, he saw it was a retractable chain-blade.
From the moment the consciousness of the island surged into his body, Denghis Xisi’s mind began to malfunction; naturally, he could no longer think about the current situation. But now, the same thing happened, yet the desire to survive still made him grab hold of the chain-blade.
Just as he tried to pull out the chain-blade, a giant sword engraved with a wolf’s head pressed against the left side of his neck, and a massive axe against the right side.
What entered Denghis Xisi’s vision from both sides… were a black cat mask and a husky mask.
“You can’t kill me like this… Devouring God.” Denghis Xisi turned his gaze towards Jiang Qiao, who was sitting upon the ruins in the distance, and shouted, “You can’t kill me like this!”
“I never intended to kill you. You’re such an excellent BOSS that I couldn’t have designed myself; of course, I’d have to make good use of you… recycle a bit.”
Jiang Qiao ran his thumb across his neck, making a light throat-slitting gesture, prompting the axe-wielding man with the black cat mask and the wolf knight with the husky mask to simultaneously swing their weapons.
Denghis Xisi’s head flew into the sky… but he didn’t truly die. His consciousness was shared with the entire island, which was why Denghis Xisi was so fearless.
His body wasn’t actually his own. Even if Jiang Qiao killed the current Denghis Xisi, his consciousness would reappear in any of the Crystal Disease Infected on the island.
So a system book with sharp teeth appeared behind Denghis Xisi, bit down on his head flying in the sky, and swallowed it whole.
“So the hive mind of Biland Island causes such a severe drop in intelligence? It’s a good thing Hai Lan wasn’t in contact with Biland Island for too long.”
Jiang Qiao, looking down at the headless corpse on the ground, felt that when the system book devoured Denghis Xisi, a part of his consciousness or soul had managed to escape into the soul group of Biland Island…
In the past half month, Jiang Qiao’s understanding of the existence of Biland Island had grown increasingly profound; it was actually a hive mind controlling the collective of the Crystal Disease Infected. Although the infected wouldn’t be influenced by Biland Island’s consciousness in their daily lives,
the subtle connection between them still existed. Denghis Xisi’s sudden drop in intelligence during the encirclement by the four knights also proved that Biland Island could affect the thinking of the Crystal Disease Infected.
“But the trouble now isn’t that.” Jiang Qiao opened the Heaven’s Court live-stream gadget. After dragging on for so long, the intercontinental competition’s departure ceremony had finally begun.
However, with the start of the intercontinental competition’s deployment, the online criticism of the four major teams for neglecting their duties would probably explode. Jiang Qiao didn’t believe the truth behind the delay of the competition’s departure ceremony could remain hidden.
“I’ve dealt with the enemies in the game, but now real-life ‘enemies’ pop up? They’re not exactly enemies… Rivals? Or should I say… Haters? Anyway, let’s wait and see how things unfold.” Jiang Qiao glanced at Weibo and forums.
Most of the messages were currently asking why the departure ceremony for the intercontinental competition had been delayed for so long… The situation still needed some time to develop.
