Peking Opera Cat: I Became A Zi's Brother

The Xingluo Squad followed Wu Song along the rugged mountain path of Jingyang Ridge. As dusk deepened, the chaotic fragments floating in the air suddenly trembled violently.

Wu Song gripped the stick tightly, and a faint blue light flickered on the tip:

"Something's wrong! The sound of gears is getting closer, like a mechanical beast is chasing us!"

Da Fei glanced around vigilantly and blew an ethereal tune on his bamboo flute. The sound waves resonated in the forest, detecting any abnormalities.

……

Before he finished speaking, countless metal vines emerged from the bushes on both sides of the mountain path, and the leaves shone with a cold silver light.

Bai Tang leaped up, and the rhyme pattern exploded under his feet, turning into a golden meteor that smashed through the attacking vines.

"Be careful! These metals absorb rhyme energy!"

Starlight condensed at Mingyue's fingertips, but the blade of light dimmed the moment it touched the vines. The remaining chill of the Ice Crystal Tiger Puppet spread along the metal and froze the corners of her clothes.

Senior Wu Song slapped out a powerful punch with both palms, shattering the metal barrier blocking the road ahead:

"Towards the cliff! I remember there's an ancient cave there!"

"..."

Everyone was fighting and retreating, and Mo Zi suddenly stumbled and knelt down - the purple pattern on the back of her neck twisted like a living thing, and actually absorbed the rhythmic power she was sending.

"elder sister……"

Xiaoqing hurriedly supported her, and the detoxifying bamboo leaves swung out by her sleeves were instantly crushed by the metal vines.

Haipiao hurried to Mo Zi's side, while Dafei kept attacking, trying to block the approaching metal vines.

"Youngsters, come this way!"

At the entrance of the cave, Senior Wu Song suddenly punched the cave wall, and the hidden mechanism opened with a bang.

"I can't be so unlucky!"

The cats filed in, but at the last moment Bai Tang's ankles were entangled by metal vines.

At the critical moment, Senior Wu Song rushed out, grabbed the scorching metal with his bare hands, and white mist rose from his fist:

"Come on!"

Wu Song immediately swung his stick to break the vines. As the stone door of the cave slammed shut, the roar of the metal vines hitting the stone wall made everyone's eardrums hurt.

"..."

The candle in the cave suddenly lit up automatically, illuminating the mottled star map on the cave wall.

Senior Wu Song pointed to the location of the seventh star of the Big Dipper in the map and said, "Hanxing Ferry is located at the location corresponding to this star, but... I once heard from a hunter that the power of the stars there will devour the memories of those who intrude."

Before he finished speaking, silver liquid suddenly seeped out from the top of the cave and condensed in the air into a mirror-image puppet that was exactly the same as everyone else, with the dim light of chaos runes flashing in its eyes.

"It turns out that the power of chaos has already penetrated here!"

Xiaoqing swung out her water-soaked sleeves, but saw that the puppets' movements were exactly the same as hers.

Mingyue's pupils suddenly shrank:

"They're copying our moves!"

Wu Song swung his stick and swept it across, but the puppets actually counterattacked simultaneously, and the shadows of the sticks collided, producing dazzling sparks.

Da Fei just took a step forward, blocking Hai Piao behind him, and stared fiercely at the puppets in front of him!

"These……"

Mo Zi looked at the star map on the cave wall and suddenly found that a certain star track resonated with the chaos rune.

She bit her fingertip and dripped blood onto the star map. Purple lines spread along the star tracks.

"Perhaps... we should fight chaos with chaos! Sugar, use your rhythmic power to amplify mine!"

"it is good!"

Bai Tang understood, and the golden rhythm pattern wrapped around Mo Zi's arm. The energy wave blasted out by the two of them actually tore a gap in the group of puppets.

"Shocking!"

At this moment, Da Fei also found the right opportunity and attacked fiercely!

"boom!"

When the last mirror puppet dissipated, the cave wall flipped over with a loud bang, revealing a hidden star passage.

At the end of the passage, a star ring composed of countless memory fragments was suspended, and in the center stood an ice sculpture that looked like Senior Wu Song fighting a tiger—but deep in the ice sculpture's eyes, there were faint chaos runes flowing.

The cold air surged in the Star Track Channel, and the chaos runes wrapped around the ice sculpture trembled like chains.

Wu Song gripped the stick tightly, his knuckles turning white from the exertion.

"This ice sculpture...has the exact same aura as the puppet from before!"

Before he finished speaking, the suspended fragments of memory suddenly turned into fireflies, weaving a brilliant galaxy above everyone's heads, but it was hiding murderous intent.

"Uh--"

The chaotic power in Mo Zi's body became agitated again, and she struggled to stand firm:

"Be careful! These memory fragments will materialize our inner fears!"

After she finished speaking, Mingyue's eyes flashed with the scene of being chased by the Chaos Beast when she was young. Its sharp claws, gleaming with cold light, almost pierced her throat.

Bai Tang was trapped in an endless dark arena, and his opponents were countless dark figures holding judge's pens.

Da Fei saw a vision of his companions being swallowed by chaos, and he kept screaming in panic.

"Damn it, this illusion is so strong!"

Xiaoqing swung out her sleeves, trying to dispel the illusion, but the sleeves were ineffective as they passed through the debris.

"You guys take a break, let me do it!"

Seeing this, Senior Wu Song slapped out a strong wind with both palms, and the force of his fists tore through several pieces of memory fragments, revealing the curled chaos spores inside.

"Attack the core! These fragments are just a cover!"

Wu Song was the first to swing his stick at the suspended star ring, but the shadow of the stick was swallowed by the vortex of memory fragments.

"Comet!"

White sugar transformed into a golden stream of light and shuttled through it. The sharp claws condensed from the rhythmic force tore through layers of illusions and finally touched the chaos spores in the center of the star ring.

"What……"

The spores suddenly burst, releasing a suffocating black mist. The shadow of a huge mechanical gear emerged from the black mist, and a sticky chaotic liquid oozed out from the meshing points of the gears.

“This isn’t good!”

Mingyue gathered rhythmic power at her fingertips, but the light blade froze the moment it touched the black fog.

"This can't go on like this!"

Mo Zi bit her tongue, and purple lines shot up her cheeks like flames. She injected her rhyme power into the star map, and the cave wall suddenly lit up with an ancient star array.

"Senior Wu Song, may I borrow your momentum from when you slew the tiger!"

"!"

Senior Wu Song understood, and he threw his fist with a mountain-like pressure towards the black fog. The star array resonated with the fist force, shattering some of the chaotic liquid.

"Senior, lend me your strength once! All my soldiers will attack!"

Wu Song cooperated with the senior's offensive and found the right time to attack the weak point of the black fog.

"..."

Just when the cats thought the situation was improving, the eyes of the ice sculpture Wu Song suddenly turned scarlet, and chaos runes spread all over his body like a spider web.

"what……"

He let out an inhuman roar, swung his fist to shatter the ice shell, and the wind from his fist, wrapped in ice crystals, knocked Bai Tang away.

"What? How did you break free so easily?!"

Xiaoqing threw out a special chain, trying to tie up the chaotic Wu Song, but was torn off by the other party with his bare hands.

Wu Song took the opportunity to go around behind the ice sculpture and found a diamond-shaped chaos crystal embedded in its spine.

"look here!"

He shouted and threw the stick at the crystal, but it was deflected by the chaos barrier just as it was about to hit.

"The wind and moon are boundless!"

Mingyue gathered all her strength and attacked fiercely, but found it was useless!

Mo Zi looked at the ever-growing chaotic liquid and suddenly remembered what Senior Wu Song mentioned.

"The power of the stars will devour memories."

She looked at the galaxy of memory fragments, and something in her mind moved:

"Perhaps... we can use memories to fight chaos! White Sugar, use your rhythmic power to awaken these memories!"

White sugar turned into a stream of light and rushed into the galaxy. Wherever the golden rhythm pattern passed, fragments of memory began to emerge, revealing the real scene of Senior Wu Song fighting the tiger.

"..."

When the first ray of sunlight penetrated the fog of memory, the movements of the Chaos Ice Sculpture became noticeably slower.

Senior Wu Song took the opportunity to leap up, slapping his palms with full force, and the wind from his fists tore through the chaotic barrier.

Wu Song seized the opportunity and smashed the diamond-shaped crystal with his stick.

With a crisp "crack", the crystals cracked into spider-web-like patterns. The chaotic ice sculpture let out an unwilling roar and turned into ice crystals and dissipated in the air.

"..."

The star ring lost its core support and began to slowly collapse.

Just as everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the ground suddenly cracked and countless mechanical gears rose from the ground. Mechanical spiders covered with runes crawled out from the gaps between the gears.

Bai Tang's rhyme power surged, and the golden beast claws tore several spiders into pieces, but found that the killed spiders were reassembled and resurrected.

"The weak points of these spiders are the runes on their joints!"

Mingyue swung out the light blade, accurately cutting off the spider's joints.

"Everyone, hurry up!"

"Young man, you're pretty good!"

Mo Zi forced himself to inject rhythmic power into the star array, which turned into a cage that trapped the spiders. Senior Wu Song and Wu Song took the opportunity to launch a fatal attack.

"Haha, I am from a reputable and upright family after all!"

When the battle ended, the Star Track Channel began to shake violently. Senior Wu Song looked at the collapsing Star Ring and said in a deep voice:

"The entrance to Hanxing Ferry is right in the center of the star ring. The passage is unstable now, so we must pass through immediately!"

Everyone passed through the shrinking star gate. After the dazzling light, a starry sky with countless memory crystals suspended in it appeared before their eyes.

Each crystal contains the memory of a hero corrupted by chaos.

Sugar clenched his fist:

"So this is what Hanxing Ferry is like... We must save these imprisoned heroic spirits!"

Before he finished speaking, the largest memory crystal in the center suddenly cracked, and a familiar and evil aura spread out - An's shadow slowly emerged from the depths of the crystal.