Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

"So noisy!" Gulu grumbled in dissatisfaction, the murderous intent in his pupils almost solidifying.

Although she enjoyed the killing, the endless human wave tactics annoyed her.

More importantly, she could feel her physical strength being depleted more rapidly. Even with Lin Yi's aura supporting her, this high-intensity, continuous output made her breathing slightly rapid.

Gulu took a deep breath and lowered his body slightly.

Behind her, the air rippled like water, and one, two, three... a total of five "shadows" almost identical to her figure silently appeared.

This is the ability that Gulu recently awakened, which allows her to summon a clone with 80% of her combat power.

Each time she was summoned, she could feel her mind being torn apart.

However, this ability comes at a great cost. Maintaining each clone requires a huge amount of physical and mental energy, and using it in group battles is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

Once their strength is exhausted, they become lambs to the slaughter.

Therefore, Gollum rarely uses this ability, usually only as an aid to a decisive blow, delivering a fatal strike to the enemy at the most crucial moment.

However, now that she has Lin Yi as her infinite energy source, she can finally use this ability without any worries.

"Go! Tear them apart!" Gulu shrieked excitedly.

Five clones shot out and instantly rushed into the frenzied crowd.

Their movements were as swift and ruthless as Gulu's own body; the cold light from their daggers flashed continuously, bringing with it countless splattered bloodstains and severed limbs.

Although the power is only 80% of the original body, such destructive power is still devastating to ordinary believers and low-level priests.

In an instant, the battlefield situation was completely changed.

The hellish believers, who had been surging in like a tide, now crashed into a meat grinder wall made of death.

Gulu's main body moved through the battlefield like a ghost, specifically targeting priests who attempted to organize a counterattack or cast evil spells, while her five clones formed an efficient killing matrix, clearing out the minions like mowing grass.

Lin Yi wasn't idle either. Occasionally, he would flick his finger, sending out a tiny sword aura to interrupt a priest's spellcasting, or to shield Gulu or his clone from a fatal sneak attack.

His presence was like an invisible force field, firmly controlling the rhythm of the entire battle and raising Gollum's killing efficiency to an astonishing level.

The efficient slaughter continued. More and more corpses piled up on the ground, and the viscous blood almost formed a stream, flowing towards the huge magic circle in the center of the hall, which only made the bloody light of the magic circle even more eerie.

Finally, after Gollum and her clones had tirelessly slaughtered nearly four or five hundred people, the remaining believers' offensive suddenly stalled.

The feverish color on their faces gradually faded, replaced by an incredulous fear and bewilderment.

They looked at the petite figure before them, stained with blood, and the five tireless killing shadows beside her, then glanced at the man in the distance who hadn't moved an inch from beginning to end.

They began to back away, staggering, and even letting out suppressed sobs of fear.

"Tsk, boring, scared already?" Gulu flicked the blood off his dagger and curled his lip.

The five clones silently merged back into her shadow like swallows returning to their nests. Maintaining their existence was a considerable mental burden, and since the enemy had been defeated, there was no need to waste any more time on them.

Lin Yi frowned slightly; he sensed something was amiss.

The collapse of these fanatics seems... a little too fast? And their retreat is not chaotic, but rather as if they are retreating in a tacit understanding towards certain specific locations of the magic circle.

Just when Gulu thought the enemy had been terrified and the battle was about to enter the cleanup phase, a sudden change occurred.

The fear on the faces of those who had retreated vanished instantly, replaced by an almost manic devotion.

Almost simultaneously, they all drew a uniform bone dagger from their robe sleeves.

The blade of the dagger had an unnatural pale color, as if it had been polished from the bone of some kind of creature.

Without hesitation or shouting, they calmly slit their own throats with daggers.

Their movements were perfectly synchronized, as if they had rehearsed countless times.

Pfft——!
Hundreds of streams of blood gushed out simultaneously like fountains.

This was not a desperate suicide, but... a sacrifice.

Hundreds of life energies were forcibly extracted and condensed in an instant.

The scalding blood did not fall to the ground; instead, it was drawn by an invisible force and surged wildly toward the statue of the "Lord" in the center of the hall like rivers flowing into the sea!

The statue began to emit a low hum, and the eyes on it seemed to come alive, giving one a chilling feeling of being watched by countless eyes.

Om-!
The space groaned in agony, overwhelmed by the pressure.

In the open space in front of the statue, blood mingled, and a twisted spatial passage was forcibly opened.

"This smell..." Lin Yi's nose twitched slightly, his eyes instantly becoming incredibly sharp, "...a watchdog?"

This familiar stench was the same scent that had marked him before, only now it was a hundred times stronger.

The next second, a tall figure slowly stepped out from the filthy spatial passage.

It was nearly three meters tall and wore a tattered gray cloak stained with dark dirt. The hood covered most of its face, and only a vaguely visible face beneath it could be seen that did not appear to be human.

In its hand it held an enormous black cross, seemingly forged from rough metal and unknown bones. The end of the cross was sharp and gleamed with a cold light. It looked like both a sacred object and a torture device, full of contradiction and blasphemy.

Several surviving hell priests, perhaps believing their sacrifice had summoned divine messengers or saints, struggled to their feet, their faces filled with the ecstatic joy and awe of surviving a catastrophe, and tried to step forward to express their piety: "Great guardian of the holy remains, you..."

The words have not yet been spoken!

The watchdog, known as the "Guardian of the Remains," glanced down at the priests, then casually, as if shooing away flies, swung the huge cross in its hand horizontally and slammed it down.

boom!
With a terrifying roar, the cross fell, covering the priests and the surrounding area of ​​several tens of square meters.

The ground crumbled and collapsed layer by layer like a fragile biscuit, forming a shockingly huge crater.

The priests were instantly smashed into a bloody pulp, mingling with the rubble and dust.

Some kind of force attached to the cross even prevented the blood from splattering; all the flesh and blood were firmly contained within the range of the blow, forming a nauseating mess.

They cannot distinguish between friend and foe; their aggression is purely aggressive.

[Comparing intelligence attributes of both sides... Comparison complete. Due to special circumstances, our side has obtained 20% of the enemy's data (Reconnaissance Eye increased by 20%).]

The information is as follows
Name: Guardian

Category: Nightmare Creature
Health: 100%
Mana: 5781/9651
strength:? ? ?
agile:? ? ?
physical strength:? ? ?
intelligence:? ? ?
Charm: X
Skill 1: Nightmare Creature (Passive, Lv.70): ? ? ?

Skill 2: ???: ???
Skill 3: ???: ???
???

……

After the investigation, it became clear that Lin Yi's thing was no ordinary artifact. Even against ancient gods of the same level, Lin Yi was able to gather sufficient information.

The monster's body structure was seamless, with energy evenly distributed throughout its entire body, and no part of it appeared particularly vulnerable or critical.

It seemed to be an impeccable fighting entity, every inch of it existing solely for destruction.

This was the first time Lin Yi had encountered a situation where there were "no weaknesses".

The moment Lin Yi's probing gaze focused on it—

call out!
The watchdog vanished without warning, not at high speed, because there was no sound of it cutting through the air, no disturbance of airflow, and not even the slightest spatial fluctuation.

The next second, it appeared less than three meters in front of Lin Yi and Gulu, its huge shadow completely enveloping the two of them.

The heavy cross, which had just created a huge crater, slammed down on Lin Yi and Gulu with a terrifying force that could crush everything!

"Hmph!" Lin Yi shifted his stance, neither dodging nor avoiding, and swung his longsword upwards, precisely blocking the end of the falling cross. Clang!
The terrifying shockwave exploded in a ring, blowing away all the rubble and corpses on the surrounding ground.

The ground beneath Lin Yi's feet instantly cracked and collapsed, but his figure remained as immovable as a mountain.

Judging from the recoil force transmitted through the sword, this monster's pure strength was extremely terrifying, only slightly weaker than when he unleashed his full power.

"Thank goodness..." Just as Lin Yi had this thought in his mind and was about to exert his strength to swing the cross away, another change occurred.

The power emanating from the cross suddenly increased dramatically without warning.

The violent power surged down the sword like a torrent, and this sudden change was far beyond Lin Yi's expectations, almost causing his wrist to buckle and his sword move to be broken.

At the critical moment, Lin Yi's fighting instincts were brought to their fullest potential.

Instead of confronting the sudden increase in strength head-on, he subtly twisted his wrist, tilting the sword at a delicate angle, and simultaneously lightly tapped his feet, using the immense force to propel himself backward.

The heavy cross slid down the tilted blade and crashed heavily onto the ground where Lin Yi had just stood, creating another shallow crater and sending shards of stone flying.

The moment the cross hit the ground, Lin Yi abruptly stopped, like a taut bowstring snapping back.

He placed his left foot precisely on the head of the cross, using it as a fulcrum. Powering up his waist, his right leg, like a steel whip, whistled through the air as he delivered a swift and powerful spinning kick that landed squarely on the unsuspecting guard dog's abdomen.

Bang! ! ! !

With a dull, thunderous crash, the watchdog's massive body was sent flying backward by Lin Yi's terrifying kick. Like a cannonball, it smashed through four or five thick black stone pillars that would take several people to encircle before finally coming to a stop amidst a cloud of dust.

The roar of the collapsing stone pillars echoed through the hall, stirring up even more dust and debris.

Lin Yi landed back on the ground, but his expression was not relaxed at all; instead, it became even more serious.

Something is wrong!
The sensation of the kick was extremely strange; it didn't feel like kicking flesh and blood at all, but more like kicking a piece of incredibly tough rubber.

Most of the power from his kick, which was powerful enough to shatter alloy, was absorbed by that strange material; the actual destructive force transmitted was probably less than one-tenth.

As the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, the watchdog slowly rose from the pile of rubble.

It dusted off its cloak, its movements seemingly sluggish, but it was clearly not seriously injured.

The tattered cloak tore open where it had been kicked in the abdomen, revealing the "skin" beneath—a pale white leather texture, without any bruises or damage, only a faint dust mark left by Lin Yi's shoe sole.

"What the hell is this..." Gulu also noticed the strangeness of the other party, but her fighting style has always been aggressive and fiery. Seeing that the other party's weapon was out of hand and his defenses were wide open, it was the perfect time to attack!
Gulu's petite figure shot out, her dagger aimed straight at the opponent's pale abdomen.

Just before her dagger was about to touch its target, an extremely strong sense of crisis pierced her spine like an ice needle!
Without any hesitation, Gulu forcefully twisted his body, touched the ground with his toes, and stopped his forward momentum, rolling to the side!
Almost at the same moment she dodged!

call--!
An identical black cross appeared out of thin air in the watchdog's hand, as if it had always been there, and slammed it down hard on the spot where Gollum had just charged forward!

Boom! The ground shook again!
Gulu narrowly avoided the attack and landed to the side. Looking at the unbelievable scene before him, he turned his head to look at the cross that Lin Yi was still stepping on.

"Weapons can be summoned out of thin air? Does that mean this thing is impossible to disarm?" Gulu instantly understood how troublesome this monster was.

Having confirmed this, Gollum immediately changed his strategy, lowering his body slightly and beginning to circle around the watchdog, no longer getting close easily, and trying to find other weaknesses to attack.

Just as she cautiously took a step back, trying to create some distance to observe—

The watchdog in front of her disappeared again without warning.

"Behind me?" Guru's hair stood on end. Her combat instincts kicked in, and without thinking, she did a clumsy side roll.

This is an almost instinctive reaction, stemming from a sense of danger cultivated through countless life-or-death battles.

Almost at the same moment she moved, a huge cross fell from the sky like a meteorite, crashing heavily onto the spot where she had just stood.

If she had reacted even a fraction of a second slower, she would already be a meat pie by now.

The wind pressure from the cross even messed up her hair, and she could feel the sharp, strong wind on her skin.

"Teleportation?! And no cooldown or wind-up?!" Gulu broke out in a cold sweat; this ability was too overpowered.

The watchdog, having missed its target, immediately raised the cross, seemingly preparing to launch another attack.

But this time, before it could teleport again—

Lin Yi's figure appeared to its side and behind.

"Stop!" Lin Yi shouted, his left hand forming a claw as he grabbed the guard dog's neck, which was covered by a tattered cloak.

The touch still reveals that inhumanly tough texture.

Lin Yi's arm muscles bulged, and his whole body burst with strength. He grabbed its neck and slammed it hard into the ground like a scarecrow!

Boom! ! ! !
A huge crater was smashed into the ground! The watchdog's body was deeply embedded in it!

Almost as soon as he smashed it into the ground, the longsword in Lin Yi's right hand transformed into a streak of light, stabbing down with unparalleled precision!
puff!

The longsword pierced the watchdog's chest without any resistance, pinning it firmly to the ground!
Did you succeed?!
Gulu just breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next second, something astonishing happened.

The watchdog, its chest pierced by a longsword, neither struggled nor died.

Its body began to split apart, centered on the point where Lin Yi's longsword had pierced it.

It's like a viscous liquid being separated, or like the rapid fission of cells.

Its flesh, bones, even its tattered cloak and the heavy cross stuck in the floor, were all split in two in a way that defied all common sense!
To Gulu's astonishment, two independent and complete "watchdogs," each holding a huge cross, slowly rose from the nailed "corpse" on the ground!

The aura emanating from them was almost identical to that of the original entity.

Lin Yi's perception told him that the power level of these two new individuals had not significantly decreased.

"Are you kidding me? Split? Infinitely multiply? How can we fight this?" This situation was completely beyond her comprehension. One enemy, which was already troublesome enough, had now become two, and it seemed that they could continue to split.

The two watchdog clones moved simultaneously. One swung a cross at Lin Yi, while the other teleported in front of Gulu and launched a fierce attack.

Their coordination was impeccable, as if they shared the same consciousness, their attack rhythms were perfectly synchronized, giving their opponents no chance to breathe.

Lin Yi and Gulu were instantly put on the defensive. They dared not attack easily anymore, fearing that the more they fought, the more of these monsters would appear. If the entire hall were filled with these indestructible, unshakeable, and infinitely teleporting monsters, then even a god would be helpless.

While dodging the attacks, Lin Yi's mind raced.

"Energy conservation... All abilities must follow the most basic rule! Splitting inevitably consumes energy, and the energy of the split entity can never be generated out of thin air! The reason I can't feel the weakening is either that its energy level is far beyond my perception, which is absolutely impossible, or... it has some way of continuously drawing energy from the outside world to instantly replenish the energy consumed by splitting!"

His gaze suddenly swept towards the statue in the center of the hall.

That's it! This alternate dimension, this magic circle, this statue—that's its energy source.

As long as it remains here, it can regenerate and split almost indefinitely.

"It must be cut off from this space!"

Thinking of this, Lin Yi had a sudden thought.

Like ink dripping into clear water, the power of the abyss began to rapidly repel, erode, and assimilate the power permeating the air.

as predicted!

As the concentration of abyssal power increased dramatically, the aura of the two watchdogs that were frantically attacking began to weaken at a visible rate, like a punctured balloon.

Lin Yi's guess was correct; this monster was not invincible, and its power depended on the environment.

The balance of power has begun to shift. (End of Chapter)