Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Almost simultaneously with the heart-stopping battle between Laurent and Shub Nicholas shaking the entire battlefield, the allied forces behind Lin Yi surged forward like a burst dam, sweeping towards the violators under Sphinx's command who were unable to retreat due to the contract.

The explosive sound of energy instantly replaced the brief silence, turning the area within several kilometers in front of Obsidian Manor into a bloody meat grinder.

Having lost Shub's direct threat and witnessed Laurent's terror firsthand, the morale of the allied forces soared to its peak.

In contrast, Sphinx's men, though bound by a harsh contract to fight, clearly showed despair in their eyes.

The ruler is dead, and the black goat is entangled. Unless Sphinx can conjure up the true form of Azathoth, the most terrifying "source of evil," the outcome of this battle seems predetermined.

This despair manifested in action as resistance becoming increasingly chaotic and powerless, with the front line being compressed step by step toward the manor gate.

Several gray wizards at the forefront had already approached the magnificent gates of Obsidian Manor.

However, a petite figure appeared on the steps in front of the gate without warning.

It's a sugar pill.

She still wore that innocent yet cruel smile. Facing the charging gray wizard, she didn't even make a big move, only her figure swayed slightly, leaving a series of blurry afterimages.

The momentum of the gray wizards charging forward suddenly froze. Their eyes were still filled with fanaticism and excitement, but a thin line of blood had already appeared on their necks.

The next second, several heads slid off neatly, and the headless corpse lurched forward a few more steps due to inertia before collapsing heavily to the ground.

Sugar Pill flicked away non-existent beads of blood from her fingertips and stood lightly amidst the pile of corpses. Alone, she forcefully halted the allied forces' fierce offensive.

The allied forces' charge stalled, and the violators and wizards in the front ranks looked at the seemingly harmless but deadly woman with suspicion and uncertainty.

However, this momentum created by Sugar Pill's personal strength lasted for less than a breath.

Because Su Xiao made a move.

Just as Sugar Pill used that bizarre spatial ability to instantly kill several gray wizards, and his figure had just solidified—

"Qiang!"

The dragon's roar as the Dragon Slayer was unsheathed seemed to resound directly in Sugar Maru's ears!

A cold, sharp blade flashed, faster than the limits of visual tracking, aimed directly at her neck.

The chill of death instantly seeped into the marrow of Tangwan, making her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

For the first time, the smile on her face vanished completely, replaced by utter horror.

She didn't see how Su Xiao approached at all; the killing intent emanating from the blade had already locked onto her body.

In that critical moment, the instincts honed through years of walking on the edge of life and death overwhelmed all other thoughts.

Sugar Pill's energy surged wildly, attempting to activate spatial teleportation once again, just as it had done with other enemies before, to teleport behind Su Xiao and launch a fatal counterattack.

This was her standard tactic: using spatial abilities to create information gaps and absolute speed, manipulating her opponents, and finally taking their lives from the most unexpected angle.

However, today she is facing Su Xiao, and a Baha who has just undergone spatial bloodline enhancement.

Just as ripples spread through the space around Sugar Pill, and his form was about to become intangible—

"Place it there for me!" Baha's sharp, shrill cry came from the air.

On its wings, several feathers containing its primordial spatial power instantly turned to dust.

A spatial confinement field, far stronger than when it interfered with the Dominator before, like an invisible shackle, covered the space within a foot square around the sugar pill!

hum!
Sugar Pill felt as if he had bumped his head into a cement wall.

The smooth spatial travel was forcibly interrupted by a brute force!

The violent backlash made her chest feel tight, and her ethereal form was forcibly "squeezed" out of the spatial rift, solidifying back into place, and even staggering slightly due to the recoil.

This moment of stagnation might be insignificant in ordinary combat, but for a top hunter like Su Xiao, it was an insurmountable chasm between life and death.

Before the horror in Sugar Pill's eyes could turn into despair, Su Xiao's ever-present blade had already descended.

There were no dazzling light effects, no complicated moves, only a slash that was both extremely fast and extremely precise.

The sword flashed past.

Sugar Pill didn't even manage to parry or dodge effectively; she only felt a chill on her waist and her vision began to spin.

She saw her lower body severed in two, saw her gushing internal organs and blood, and saw Su Xiao's cold, emotionless eyes.

"Fancy and over-the-top," Su Xiao thought to herself.

In Su Xiao's view, Sugar Pill's assassination tactics, which rely on spatial movement, seem mysterious and difficult to defend against, but in fact, the core is to use information asymmetry and speed to launch a sneak attack.

Once someone sees through the patterns and prelude to her spatial movement, or possesses the ability to forcibly interfere with and imprison space like Baha, her fatal weakness of lacking the ability to directly attack and sustain combat will be exposed.

In a real life-or-death struggle, this style, which relies too much on a single method, is tantamount to suicide once it is targeted and restrained.

Sugar Pill, one of the sharpest blades under Sphinx's command, is dead.

Almost at the same moment that Sugar Pill was cut in two by Su Xiao, at the other end of the city of Eisenla, near the direction of the ancient ruins, an enormous pale fireball rose into the sky like a deformed sun.

Even from such a distance, everyone on the battlefield could clearly feel the destructive energy fluctuations and the blinding light that brought tears to their eyes.

This sudden turn of events attracted the attention of many on the battlefield, causing both sides in the fierce battle to pause for a moment.

Sphinx's gaze swept over the pale fireball that was devouring everything around it. He adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, and his eyes behind the lenses turned somber.

He recognized it; it was the final measure he had given to Iron Curtain—a high-level explosive rune that would only be activated when all other options were exhausted.

The fireball rising at this moment meant that, on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the last mage under his command with the ability to clear large areas had also fallen under the siege of Lin Yi's forces, and was even forced to use this last bit of madness.

Lady Moon stood beside Sphinx and could clearly see Sphinx's naturally hanging hand tremble slightly before slowly clenching into a fist.

Having followed Sphinx for so long, she knew all too well the raging anger that this man was suppressing at this moment.

Everything that Sphinx had painstakingly built was being brutally crushed and destroyed piece by piece by Lin Yi and Su Xiao, two unpredictable variables.

However, keeping one's emotions hidden is an essential skill for old silver coins.

On the surface, Sphinx didn't show much change, but his clenched fists and increasingly deep, cold gaze behind his glasses revealed that he wasn't truly indifferent.

He turned his head to look at Lady Yue, whose face was equally pale, and even managed a gentle smile, but beneath that smile lay a chilling determination.

“Since they have given us such a ‘generous gift,’ wouldn’t it be extremely impolite of us not to reciprocate?” Sphinx’s voice was eerily calm, as if stating a given fact.

Lady Moon looked into Sphinx's eyes, remained silent for a moment, and finally let out a barely audible sigh.

She understood the Sphinx; at this point, there was no turning back.

She originally thought that the backup plan, the ultimate insurance that even made her heart tremble, would never be used.

But today, it must be started.

Lady Yue no longer hesitated. She stretched out her left hand and gently scratched her palm with her right fingernail, creating a deep cut that revealed the bone, from which bright red blood immediately gushed out.

But the blood that flowed from her did not drip; instead, drawn by some unseen force, it floated in the air, rapidly outlining a complex magic circle. As the magic circle took shape, Lady Yue's face turned ashen at a visible speed, and her aura rapidly declined, as if her life force was being frantically drained by the magic circle.

The next second, the space groaned under the strain.

The void in front of Lady Yue suddenly collapsed inward, forming a huge black hole.

An aura filled with darkness and ignorance swept out of the black hole like a storm!

A colossal object slowly emerged from the black hole, revealing its outline.

Its entire body is covered with a pitch-black carapace or skin that seems to absorb all light, and it has a rough humanoid shape. It is curled up on a blurry stone platform.

Just sitting there, it is at least seven meters tall; if it were to stand up completely, its height would be unimaginable.

Behind it grow jagged, pale bone spurs.

The skull has no mouth or nose, only a row of pores for breathing located on the lower part of the head.

Above the stomata are three eyes arranged in an inverted triangle.

The pupils in those eyes twisted and changed constantly, as if containing the deepest chaos in the universe.

This is Azathoth, the source of darkness—an ancient god whose body has lost its conscious control and is now reduced to pure bestiality, a body driven by the instinct to devour and destroy.

The moment Lady Yue completed her summoning, she spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, her body went limp and she collapsed to the ground, her breath extremely weak, and she fell into a deep coma.

Clearly, she paid an unimaginable price to summon this ancient god's body.

Sphinx didn't even glance down at Lady Moon, who had sacrificed everything for him. All his attention, the obsessive gaze behind his glasses, was focused on the massive body that was gradually solidifying.

At that very moment, the pale fireball in the distance slowly dissipated, marking the demise of the last core combatant under Sphinx's command.

At this point, apart from the already turned traitor, Sphinx was truly all alone.

But at this moment, Azathoth, the source of darkness, has also fully descended.

Its massive size instantly created an oppressive atmosphere that enveloped the entire battlefield.

All those engaged in combat, whether allied forces or the Sphinx's long-defeated remnants, involuntarily ceased fighting. Overwhelmed by the tyrannical mental pressure, they retreated in terror, like a tide moving away from the center, clearing a large empty area with a radius of over a hundred meters around the newly arrived Azathoth.

Even Laurent and Black Goat Shub, who were locked in fierce combat, tacitly separated for the time being.

Laurent returned to Lin Yi's side, looking solemnly at the enormous, dark body.

Shub-Niggurath, her face shrouded in eternal mist and blasphemous whispers, also seemed to turn toward Azathoth, her countless tentacles writhing restlessly, her aura filled with gloom, apprehension, and an indescribable longing.

The current Dark Source, Azathoth, is merely an empty shell, retaining only the most primal instincts of devouring and destroying.

To it, all life present, whether human, wizard, outlaw, or even Shub, who was also an ancient god and had a close connection with it, were "nourishment" that it longed to devour in order to fill its own emptiness.

In its chaotic, frenzied perception, there are no allies, only prey and food!
Su Xiao drew the Dragon Slayer again, which he had just sheathed. The Azure Steel Shadow energy surged and leaped across the blade like blue electric arcs, producing a faint crackling sound.

Just looking at the giant hand of Dark Source Azathoth, the size of a millstone and covered with black scales, Su Xiao had a feeling that he must not be grabbed by those hands, otherwise, given the opponent's strength attributes, he would almost certainly be crushed instantly.

[Comparing intelligence attributes of both sides... Comparison complete. Our intelligence attribute is 1.21 times that of the enemy. 98% of the enemy's data has been obtained (Reconnaissance Eye increased by 20%).]

Name: Azathoth, the Source of Darkness
Category: Ancient Gods

Health: 85% (Permanently reduced by 15% due to the death of Eyeless Azathoth)

Spiritual Energy (Ancient): 47500/47500 points

Strength: ??? (True attribute, attribute difference too large to detect)

Agility: 140 (true attribute)
Physical strength: 159 (real attribute)
Intelligence: 105 (true attribute)
Charisma: 1
Skill 1: Mid-Rank Deity - Dark (Passive, LV.68): Health +65000 points, immune to all control effects (including but not limited to stun, imprisonment, slow, charm, etc.), ignores all dark attribute damage, and has a certain resistance reduction to light attribute damage.

Skill 2: Blind (Passive, Lv.75): This ability has been permanently sealed due to the death of Blind Azathoth (the dominant consciousness).

Skill 3: Eye of Darkness (Active, Lv.65): Azathoth can release up to three 'Eyes of Darkness'. The Eyes of Darkness will automatically absorb the life force of all life within a 500-meter radius and deal 50 points of true damage per second to all hostile creatures within the radius (ignoring most defenses and resistances). The Eyes of Darkness will exist permanently until they are destroyed.

Note: The original effect was to deal 158 points of true damage per second, but this ability has been significantly weakened since Azathoth the Blind has died.

Note: The Dark Eyes are extremely sturdy and protected by Azathoth's primordial power, making them incredibly difficult to destroy. If any Dark Eye is successfully destroyed, Azathoth will experience a brief soul shock, entering a weakened state for 3.7 seconds, temporarily reducing all attributes by 15%. After the weakened state ends, Azathoth can consume divine energy (ancient) to re-manifest a new Dark Eye.

Skill 4: Divine Body (Passive, Lv.60): Health +23000, Physical Defense +157, extremely high resistance to physical and conventional energy attacks.

Skill 5: Dark Life (Passive, Lv.60): While the Eye of Darkness exists, Azathoth recovers 240 health points per second. This recovery effect prioritizes the consumption of Divine Energy (Ancient) until the Divine Energy (Ancient) is exhausted.

Skill 6: Beast Soul (Basic Technique Ability, Lv.45): Azathoth will fight purely on combat instinct, with unpredictable attack patterns and ignoring all sensory misdirection abilities (such as illusions, visual distortions, etc.).

Skill 7: ? ? ? (This ability has been permanently sealed due to the death of Blind Azathoth)

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Skill 10: ? ? ? (This ability has been permanently sealed due to the death of Blind Azathoth)

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Lin Yi's pupils contracted slightly as he looked at the information returned by the reconnaissance skill.

The 159 points of real stamina brought a sense of oppression that was even heavier than when facing the Dominator before.

And that's not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is Azathoth's power attribute, which is impossible for even scouting to detect.

He had no doubt that if they hadn't dealt with Blind Azathoth beforehand, the only thing they could do now when facing the fully-formed Azathoth was to figure out how to escape as gracefully as possible.

Fortunately, they severed the "brain" of this terrifying body beforehand.

Lin Yi endured the stinging pain and began to fully unleash his abilities.

The ultimate halo spread rapidly outwards from him like ripples, enveloping Su Xiao, the three immortal wizards, Baha, Amu, Bubuwang, and all the surrounding allied forces.

Strength boost, agility enhancement, defense strengthening, life recovery acceleration, energy resistance increase... Lin Yi applied almost every buff he could currently provide to everyone without regard to cost.

He knew that when facing monsters of this level, any improvement in any attribute could be the key to life or death.

Even so, when Azathoth's chaotic and twisted aura spread out completely, some of the weaker and less mentally resilient violators in the allied forces were struck in the soul as if by an invisible hammer the moment they came into contact with that aura.

Their eyes instantly became bloodshot, and they let out meaningless roars or maniacal laughter, completely losing their minds—their hidden soul strength assessment failed, and they directly fell into an irreversible state of madness, indiscriminately attacking everything around them.

The atmosphere on the battlefield, due to the arrival of Azathoth, the source of darkness, instantly plummeted from the fervor of impending victory to the solemnity and despair of facing ultimate terror.

The real test has only just begun.

Dawn and Gus also came to Laurent's side. The three immortal wizards stood side by side, facing the body of the ancient god who had schemed against and enslaved them for thousands of years. Their eyes were complicated, but more than anything, they were resolute.

They knew that today, they had to put an end to all of this here and now.

Su Xiao gripped the Dragon Slayer Blade tightly, and the Azure Steel Shadow energy burned even more fiercely, as if responding to his will.

He lowered his body slightly, like a cheetah poised to pounce, locking onto the massive figure in the arena.

Slay the gods, or... perish here. (End of Chapter)