255: Chapter 255 Consort Jing's Palace

After a flash.

Tang Long panted heavily, a sharp pain like a blade piercing his heart still radiating from his chest.

But everything before him had changed.

The altar he had been standing on had completely vanished, and the armored, sword-wielding manifestation of the Crystal Concubine had become a statue of ice crystal.

Before him was a gate covered in ice crystals, filled with seaweed, coral, small fish, and the like, but there was a small indentation that seemed to be missing a nautilus shell.

[Warrior who has passed the Trial of the Divine Covenant, welcome to the Crystal Palace.]

[The Crystal Palace was originally the bedchamber of Her Divinity, the Crystal Concubine, and it houses the true mysteries of Crystal Power.]

[Unfortunately, the bedchamber has been permeated by dark forces. You have triumphed over greed and fear, but the true hardships have only just begun.]

[Enter the Crystal Palace and defeat the Alien God's minions, and you will have the chance to obtain the {crystal void cube}, the Divine Artifact of the Crystal Law's Legacy.]

[I have infused some Crystal Power into your heart. It will help you in battle and assist you in understanding the Crystal Law.]

[Now, enter that gate bravely!]

[You have obtained a time-limited special skill {30 minutes}: Crystal Spirit!]

[Crystal Spirit: Crystallizes everything it touches. The maximum capacity for a single crystallization is equal to your maximum spiritual energy. Use interval: 36 seconds.]

After carefully reading through this series of information prompts, Tang Long took another deep breath.

Then he immediately took out the nautilus and placed it directly into the small indentation on the gate.

With a click, he suddenly felt a void before him, and he instantly passed through the gate, standing atop a high platform.

Though called a high platform, it was more like the ruins of a city wall's battlement.

Just like when he encountered Haibage, the surrounding light had formed into crystalline shapes.

But looking down, Tang Long immediately shouted "WTF" in his heart.

Before him was a dilapidated yet still magnificent palace, shimmering under the light of a bright moon overhead.

But between the battlement and the palace, and in every visible corner outside the palace, stood dense crowds of black humanoid entities.

These things... were identical to the ones he had seen in the Jiang Family's laboratory.

These... were alive.

Because as soon as Tang Long appeared, they began to grow visibly restless.

However, they seemed unable to see or sense his exact location.

Looking more closely at the surrounding crystalline light, Tang Long became thoughtful.

He tried extending a finger, slowly passing it through the light screen formed by the crystalline light.

As expected!

The moment his finger passed through the light screen, many nearby Prehistoric Game Entities suddenly looked up.

Tang Long retracted his finger like a lightning bolt, his heart still pounding.

It felt... pretty damn thrilling.

There were too many of these things, and their combat power likely wasn't weak either, especially some of the Prehistoric Game Entities that were noticeably larger than the average ones.

Since I'm already here, might as well try!

He first set a resurrection point.

Then he summoned three Armored Giant Apes from the wall again and commanded one to leap down.

However, while the giant ape was still in mid-air, dense black shadows suddenly flashed around it, and black light swept wildly from side to side.

This was followed by consecutive purple light slashes, a blue pillar of fire suddenly erupting from the ground, and various other chaotic things.

The giant ape's health plummeted, and by the time it hit the ground, it had already been sliced into dozens of pieces.

Tang Long cried out "Holy shit!" in his heart.

That giant ape just now had been hit by at least ten different skills.

Among them were the Black Slaying Slash, the ultimate move of a Fourth-Turn Dark Annihilation Martial Ancestor; the Purple Light Capital Punishment of a Fourth-Turn True Incantation Dharma King; and the Demon Blue Huagai Incantation of a Fourth-Turn Forbidden Curse Mystic Sect.

Besides these, there were many Third-Turn skills.

This meant that the things below were basically equivalent to Third or Fourth-Turn players.

In the Doomsday Era, a fifty-man Fourth-Turn raid group was enough to challenge a Spirit Map. If there were two groups, even a Spirit Map would have to take a detour.

The dense number of Third and Fourth-Turn entities before him was roughly estimated to be over two thousand. Was it enough to steamroll a Huagai Realm?

It seems I really am just a small fry~~

But, as the saying goes.

I'm already here!

Tang Long closed his eyes and remained silent for ten seconds.

After ten seconds, he immediately dismissed the two Clones that were training in some dungeon and recreated them by his side.

Then his main body and Clones used the Spirit Summoning Incantation simultaneously. Nine Armored Giant Apes appeared on the wall with a rumble, nearly filling the once spacious crystalline space.

Actually, Tang Long wanted to dismiss the Clone left at the martial arts hall as well. Having one more Clone and three more giant apes would mean four more targets to draw fire.

But after thinking about it, he decided against it.

Things have been too tense lately; he had to keep up appearances perfectly.

One main body, two Clones, and nine monkeys—twelve targets weren't exactly few.

But that wasn't enough.

Next, he pressed his hands together and then slowly pulled them apart.

A crystal appeared out of thin air in the middle, growing larger and larger, and gradually becoming filled with various colors of spiritual energy.

Tang Long was cautious, stopping only when he had expanded the crystal to the size of a hug.

Now, this crystal held eight types of spiritual energy simultaneously.

The compression force wasn't strong, but the quantity was sufficient.

Although they were temporarily separated, as long as the crystal was broken or if he released the Crystal Power himself, it would...

Boom~~!

He threw the crystal directly, and it was detonated in mid-air by those game entities, producing a massive explosion.

The multicolored shockwave knocked down a patch of the black game entities. The most severely injured ones had their health bars drop by a fifth.

And the damage radius of this thing was truly not small; at least a hundred targets were affected.

Next, Tang Long and his two Clones began production simultaneously.

Twelve large ones and over forty smaller ones.

He couldn't make any more.

Crystal Spirit was only a trial special skill with a duration of 30 minutes, yet its cooldown was as long as 36 seconds.

The skill itself had a significant energy cost, and the cost doubled when the Clones produced them. He soon had to replenish his mana, which wasted more time.

Checking the time, with only one minute left for Crystal Spirit, Tang Long decided to make his move.

He and his two Clones acted together, rapidly throwing over a dozen small ice crystals in a covering pattern.

Immediately after, the nine Armored Giant Apes, each carrying a large ice crystal, leapt from the wall one after another.

As the roars of explosions sounded continuously, he and his two Clones leapt out at the same time.

The distance from the wall to the palace was at least five hundred meters. All the previous preparations were made to allow the main body to safely rush across this distance.

Every detonation point had been carefully calculated to ensure they could cover the entire path.

But during the actual execution, Tang Long discovered there were still deviations.

Standing inside the crystalline space on the wall, he hadn't personally felt the power of the test explosion and could only estimate.

It wasn't until the impact of the Spirit Blast affected his forward speed that he realized his error.

But there was no turning back now.

He could only change his plan on the fly, grabbing one Clone and hurling it forward with force.

He then had the other Clone grant the main body invincibility, while the main body turned around to directly detonate a crystal and activate Sprint.

The massive impact force from the Spirit Blast sent him flying out like a cannonball.

As the main body passed the hurled Clone, that Clone granted the main body a second invincibility while simultaneously detonating another crystal.

The main body gained acceleration again, completely ignoring the various skills hitting him. As the second invincibility was about to end, he frantically threw and formed more crystals.

The second invincibility ended, and all Clones and Armored Giant Apes had vanished, but he was now less than a hundred meters from the palace.

At this moment, he cast the final invincibility on himself and charged frantically toward the blurred palace gates.

Inside the gates, it was also crowded with black game entities.

Only the core of the palace seemed to be a patch of bright white.

Tang Long recklessly stepped on their heads as he swept past, his eyes fixed on nothing but his goal and the countdown of his invincibility.

3!

2!

1!

Invincibility ended.

He plunged into another light screen and collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

A 15-second Sprint, and three invincibilities perfectly covered the entire 15-second duration.

There really wasn't even half a second of leeway.

He believed that if he had been without invincibility for even half a second, he would have been instantly killed by those game entities.

He couldn't say he was exhausted, but the execution had been at the absolute limit.

After lying there for a while, he slowly got up, lit a top-grade Purple Mist, changed his resurrection point to this location, and then looked at the divine throne behind him.

Upon the divine throne sat another statue of the Crystal Concubine.

This statue wasn't armored and sword-wielding like the one outside the gate; instead, she wore magnificent robes, and in her upturned right hand, a crystal-clear cube was shimmering.

This must be that crystal void cube, right?

Above it, he could see the System label {crystal void cube} in golden characters, even brighter than the mask of calamity.

However, for some reason he couldn't quite name, Tang Long felt something was off and didn't immediately reach out for it.

After looking it over for a while, Tang Long finally identified the problem.

Because the statue was crystal-clear and radiant, much like the one outside, one could only see that she was exquisitely beautiful and divine.

But thinking back carefully, there were some obvious differences in the features of the two statues. Specifically, this statue had a crescent moon mark on the center of its forehead.

It was very faint, and one wouldn't notice without looking closely! But Tang Long spotted it quickly.

So this statue wasn't the Crystal Concubine at all!

This is the fucking Moon Mother!

The Goddess of Soul and Darkness, the Sun God's primary consort!

Just then, the System label on the crystal void cube suddenly vanished.