The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Temple projection and the black fog vortex's massive ritual were colliding furiously!

The entire ground was shaking, the city already in ruins, with frail buildings turning to dust under the terrible ripples one after another, and from the center of the deep pit, more and more enormous cracks were continuously splitting open!

And the twisted exterior... The monstrous five-headed Guardian was emitting a terrifying aura, with traits from within its body bursting forth with bizarre Strength, tearing at the twisted Ripples.

The twisted Ripples were already crazily pouring in various monsters!

Endlessly roaring, the sounds were deafening!

At this moment, the players were trembling in their souls, they glanced towards the twisted Ripples, and could vaguely discern numerous black figures appearing within!

Hundreds of Seventh Rank Monsters... were approaching.

The heavy footsteps upon the ground, the roaring voices thundered!

This scene!

Had everybody trembling all over!

"...This is practically... the end of the world!"

"There's no way... to resist!"

The Ghost-faced Magicians and others had lost their previous excitement, each and every one involuntarily rising with boundless despair and fear from deep within their hearts!

An unceasing stream of monsters, like a massive army!

Mad, bloodthirsty, throwing themselves forward without regard for their own lives!

Such a terrifying tide of Pollution Monsters! Coupled with the ongoing twists, it was mentally bizarre!

The players' bodies and minds were on the edge of collapse; every face was pale without a trace of color, using their last ounce of strength, they fought desperately, praying that the presence in the center... could resolve everything.

And only Su Qi... he knew.

The Yellow Robed Priest was also on the brink of collapse.

Because.

He now stood at the center of the deep pit; the Yellow Robed Priest was already on his last breath, kneeling on the ground, head bowed... the Soul Fire was burning out.

The artifacts of the Divine between his body and the projection of the Temple... Like aurora silk threads, were already starting to break apart one strand at a time.

"It seems you're in a bad spot," Su Qi said to him, his voice gentle.

The Yellow Robed Priest didn't lift his head, just bowed it even further, as if he was about to die completely, his hoarse voice slowly emerging from his throat: "...It's about to end."

At this moment, it resembled a pool of stagnant water:

"The ritual... is stronger than I imagined."

"...I overestimated myself... and underestimated fate... I can no longer see the future."

"If I say I can see it," spoke Su Qi softly.

The Yellow Robed Priest lacked even the strength to scoff, sighing feebly, "This is reality. Those who harbor hope... often reside at the very bottom, weak and insignificant, much like believers, always hoping for a Miracle to descend, to save themselves."

"But in reality, it's nothing more than the impotence of ants,"

Su Qi: "No, the future I'm referring to is... that everything will be destroyed in 10 minutes."

The Yellow Robed Priest: "..."

Su Qi looked up at the deep red exclamation mark in the Sky Dome.

The countdown was, from the beginning to the end, ticking down steadily, as if predicting the current situation, as if no matter what everyone did, no matter how much the Yellow Robed Priest exerted himself.

It seemed doomed to end with destruction at the end of the countdown.

If all factors had been maximized and the outcome still couldn't change, then one could naturally attribute it to the gears of fate and destiny.

But Su Qi didn't see it that way.

His voice continued to carry: "How much longer can you hold on?"

"Less than a minute..."

"You're fast."

"??"

The Yellow Robed Priest was momentarily taken aback, almost choking, but ultimately his voice was as dead as ashes:

"The cost of using Divine Artifacts is great in itself, not only does it sip Life Force, but it also impacts both the Mind and soul, my current state, is already close to being worn out, to be able to exert its power I'm already burning my soul..."

"In that case, it seems I'll have to take over."

"???"

The Yellow Robed Priest, as if hearing an outrageous joke, rasped:

"Mortal, before I die... I also wanted to recall my life with somberness."

"Not like now, almost bursting out laughing..."

He lifted his head... and suddenly fell silent, his hollow eyes suddenly gaping wide.

The Su Qi before him.

His eyes were pitch-black, like thick ink, and shadows cast upon the ground behind him revealed countless evil spirits struggling, roaring, trying to climb onto Su Qi, to drink his blood, to gnaw his flesh!

The weirdness, the twist almost visibly flooding over!

And Su Qi's breaths were as stable as he could keep them, every vein was already extending black lines.

He didn't know how this came to be.

But at the moment.

Su Qi was indeed reaching his limit.

"What on earth are you..." The Yellow Robed Priest was stupefied, unable to believe what he was seeing in Su Qi.

The horrific, twisted power had exceeded all norm!

And it made even him feel uneasy!

"Don't ask... if you ask, it's 'physical strength', a gift within me," Su Qi looked at him, "the last chance, you still won't seize it?"

The Yellow Robed Priest muttered, his mouth agape; though he was a Priest, he had never seen such a sight.

He saw all the Pollution seemingly concentrated within the body of the mortal before him!

Rushing like a tide!

This twisted anomaly, if it were placed on anyone else, would immediately turn them into a terrible Pollution Monster!

But not only did he suppress it, he was even just then able to chat so calmly with it!

The Yellow Robed Priest was ultimately a person who did great things.

He had already disassembled the artifact of the Divine... that yellow robe, although it was a Divine artifact, death brought into the grave was not as worthwhile as seizing the last bit of hope now.

Even if there was only a faint chance.

Su Qi's pitch-black eyes were looking at the disassembling yellow robe that hovered in mid-air, emitting astounding fluctuations, the robe billowing, terrifying power stirring within the invisible Ripples, connected to the Sky Dome Temple projection.