"Look, there's a gap!"
"Great, let's go!"
A gap opened in the Cloud Vine's golden vines, and the four Immortals within the encirclement discovered it. Just as they were about to pass through, a dark green stream of light flew in from the gap.
"Oh no! It's that Cloud Vine Lord!"
"The Cloud Vine Lord has broken in! What do we do?"
"If this Cloud Vine Lord truly has King-level Immortal combat power, then we are no match for him at all!"
The three Mechanical Race Immortals, who were currently entangled by the Cloud Vine, saw Ender transform into a stream of light and break in through the gap, and they all panicked slightly.
"The Cloud Vine Lord has entered the encirclement. It seems Mantis's fate is sealed."
As he fought against the golden vines that entangled him, Sarin saw Ender enter from the outside, and a feeling of sadness inevitably rose in his heart.
"Sarin! What do we do now?"
An Immortal used a large hammer in his hand in conjunction with a Mechanical Puppet to smash open a golden vine, while simultaneously transmitting a message to Sarin, asking, "That Cloud Vine Lord has come in. If we don't do something, we'll only have a dead end."
Sarin transmitted, "You wait for my notification. I'll try to talk to that Cloud Vine Lord. If he refuses to let us go, then we can only enter the depths of the spatial interlayer and fight for that sliver of Vitality!"
An Immortal asked unwillingly, "Are we really going to the depths of the spatial interlayer?!"
The spatial interlayer is a very terrifying place, rumored to be divided into thousands upon thousands of layers.
Among them, the first layer is the spatial fragments, closest to the 'Original Universe Space', with very little threat. A normal World Master Pinnacle Stage can resist those spatial fragments.
The second layer is the Divine Kingdom layer, which is also relatively stable. Immortals can generally survive there. The spatial fragments there are much larger, some with diameters of tens of millions of kilometers, hundreds of millions of kilometers, and so on.
The third layer is the spatial torrent layer, beyond the Divine Kingdom layer. Even a King-level Immortal might fall there. The further out one goes, the greater the danger.
"Sarin is right. We can't use Divine Kingdom teleportation now, and the Cloud Vine's encirclement is too large, so we can't get close to the edge of the encirclement and can't leave through the spatial fragment layer." Another Immortal's voice was low, "Although it's a near-certain death to enter the depths of the spatial interlayer, it's our only chance to escape!"
"Right! This is the only chance!" The last Immortal also nodded.
"I'll negotiate with that Cloud Vine Lord now. You wait for my news." Sarin said, then began transmitting to Ender.
...
After the Cloud Vine opened a gap, Ender transformed into a dark green stream of light, and with a "whoosh," he drilled into the encirclement formed by the golden vines.
As soon as he entered the encirclement, Ender saw dozens of golden vines of varying sizes, constantly lashing or striking at the four Mechanical Race faction Immortals within the encirclement.
Boom!
Boom!!
Mechanical Puppets of varying sizes and forms were also using energy attacks from a distance or initiating physical attacks in close combat to relieve the four Immortals.
After Ender displayed King-level Immortal combat power, the situation had already reversed. The four Mechanical Race faction Immortals, who were originally focused on entangling the Cloud Vine, were now focused on escaping.
They desperately wanted to break free from the Cloud Vine's entanglement, then escape through Divine Kingdom teleportation or the spatial interlayer, to avoid being attacked by Ender, a powerhouse with King-level Immortal combat power.
However, the Cloud Vine had dozens of golden vines, constantly attacking from all directions, preventing them from achieving their goal.
And of the tens of thousands of Mechanical Puppets, several thousand had already been lost when entangling the Cloud Vine earlier. The remaining Mechanical Puppets were mostly comparable to First Order Marquis-level and High-level, with only slightly more Pinnacle Stage Military Lord Immortal than Pinnacle Marquis-level Immortal.
Whoosh!
Ender's speed did not decrease. After entering the encirclement formed by the Cloud Vine's golden vines, he charged towards the four Mechanical Race faction Immortals.
"Don't block the way."
During his flight, a Mechanical Puppet blocked his front. The long spear 'Void Spear' in his hand shone with light, then was swung out fiercely.
It was just a casual sweep, without using the top-tier secret technique "Eternal Sky", but with the basic strength boost approaching High Stage King-Level, the power of this strike was elevated to near, or even reaching, the Pinnacle Marquis-level Immortal.
Boom!
With one strike, the Universe space collapsed. A Mechanical Puppet, built from F9-class alloy and comparable to a Pinnacle Marquis-level Immortal, was swept tens of thousands of kilometers away for blocking the way, and multiple cracks appeared on its sturdy alloy shell.
"Cloud Vine Lord!"
Ender continued to fly forward, when he suddenly received a message.
"Cloud Vine Lord? An interesting title…"
Hearing the address in the message, Ender was somewhat enlightened. This was similar to Luo Feng's 'Star Eating Lord' title in the original novel.
However, considering that among Human World Master Geniuses, there were quite a few with Immortal plant life, similar titles were probably numerous.
Ender heard the message and asked with a light laugh, "Alien Immortal, why are you looking for me? Do you want me to let you go?"
Sarin transmitted, "Cloud Vine Lord, if you let us go, I am willing to offer 200,000 Yulan Units as compensation. 200,000 Yulan Units is 100,000 Mixed units in your Human currency."
"You think 100,000 Mixed units is enough for me to let you go?" Ender's words were firm, "That's impossible!"
"300,000 Yulan Units." Sarin raised the price.
"Impossible!"
"400,000 Yulan Units."
"600,000 Yulan Units, this is the maximum price we can pay!"
"I said, it's impossible!" Ender's voice was cold, "If I kill you, I can still obtain your wealth."
"Cloud Vine Lord!" Sarin transmitted angrily, "Even if you kill us, you won't be able to obtain 600,000 Yulan Units, because half of our assets are in bank accounts."
Ender said indifferently, "It doesn't matter."
"1,000,000 Yulan Units!!" Sarin gritted his teeth, "This is my final offer!"
"Alien Immortal, do you think someone of my strength would lack a mere 500,000 Mixed units?" Ender scoffed, "If I kill you, I can obtain a large amount of military merits. I prefer military merits to Mixed units."
"Cloud Vine Lord!" Sarin was furious, "My master is the Mechanical Race King-level Immortal powerhouse 'King Melting Rule'! If you kill me, my master will definitely make you pay the price!"
"Oh? Mechanical Race High Stage King-Level Immortal 'King Melting Rule' is your master?" Ender smiled slightly, then said coldly, "Then I want to kill you even more!"
"Mechanical Race Immortal, what is your relationship with your master? If I kill you, will your master come after me?"
"If so, that would be too interesting!" By the end, Ender's words were full of anticipation.
He came to the Extraterritorial Battlefield precisely for tempering, and only by engaging in life-and-death battles with different alien powerhouses could he recognize his shortcomings and accelerate the speed of creating his own secret techniques.
Even in the crushing battle where he killed that Mechanical Race Pinnacle Military Lord Immortal not long ago, he gained some experience, thereby creating the second form of "Eternal Sky" at the last moment, pursuing a one-hit kill—'Dark Cloud'.
If he were to fight a King-level Immortal powerhouse, what kind of inspiration would he gain? Would he be able to create the two moves he had conceived?
Therefore, he was very interested in the 'King Melting Rule' whom this Mechanical Race Immortal referred to as his master.
Seeing that Ender did not hold his master in high regard, Sarin angrily said, "Cloud Vine Lord, you are too arrogant!"
He was an intelligent life form who had accompanied his master's growth and had a very deep emotional bond with his master. His master being insulted made him incredibly angry.
Sarin said coldly, "My master 'King Melting Rule' is a High Stage King-Level Immortal. As a World Master, you should show respect to King-level Immortal powerhouses."
"Heh, make me show respect." Ender heard this and transmitted disdainfully, "I already have King-level Immortal combat power without breaking through to Immortal. If I break through to become Immortal, what level of strength do you think I can reach?"
"What's more, 'King Melting Rule' is your Mechanical Race's King-level Immortal. What does that have to do with us Humans?"
"Alright, I'm not interested in wasting words with you anymore." Ender said impatiently and coldly, "Just wait for death, alien!"
Sarin transmitted angrily, "Cloud Vine Lord! You…"
Ender ignored him, flying even faster than before, charging towards the four Mechanical Race faction Immortals.
Boom!
Boom!!
Several blocking Mechanical Puppets were all sent flying by Ender. Although his speed was somewhat reduced, he still maintained a flying speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second.
...
On the other side.
Sarin, who was fighting the Cloud Vine's golden vines and simultaneously communicating via transmission, saw his electronic eyes flash violently red after not receiving a reply from Ender.
Seeing this, an alien Immortal transmitted, asking, "Sarin, how is it?"
"The Cloud Vine Lord refused." Sarin's voice was cold, "We have to make a desperate gamble. Whether we live or die depends on our luck."
The three Immortals heard this. Although they had already expected it, their hearts still sank when they heard such an answer.
"Run!" Sarin sent a message in the virtual world, then reminded in a deep voice, "If we don't run now, the Cloud Vine Lord will catch up."
Hearing the reminder, the three Immortals looked back and saw the roaring dark green light, only a few hundred thousand kilometers away from them.
Although there were Mechanical Puppets blocking, his speed was still tens of thousands of kilometers per second. A distance of a few hundred thousand kilometers could be covered in at most ten seconds.
"Run, if we don't run now, the Cloud Vine Lord will catch up."
"Go!"
The three Immortals no longer hesitated, each tearing apart the Universe space, then drilling into the spatial cracks, arriving in the vast and dangerous spatial interlayer.
Whoosh!
Seeing the three Immortals enter the spatial interlayer, the Cloud Vine's golden vines lightly sliced, tearing apart the Universe space, and one by one, the golden vines drilled into the spatial cracks and pursued them.
Whoosh!
Sarin saw his companions enter the spatial interlayer to escape. He also swung his blade to cut through the Universe space, bringing about ten Mechanical Puppets comparable to Pinnacle Marquis-level Immortal into the spatial interlayer.
"Hmm, why did they all enter the spatial interlayer?"
Ender was somewhat surprised, continuing to fly without slowing down, "With the Cloud Vine here, even if they enter the spatial interlayer, they won't be able to escape… Could it be!"
His expression changed slightly. He swung his spear, tearing through the Universe space, and directly drilled into the spatial crack.
...
Spatial interlayer.
Smaller spatial fragments flew and shuttled, and occasionally, spatial fragments with diameters of several kilometers quickly swept past in the distance. Further away, due to distance, it was difficult to see clearly.
After Ender passed through the spatial crack and arrived in the spatial interlayer, he saw dozens of golden vines of varying sizes, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, forming a 'cup'-shaped net spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers, constantly extending into the distance.
And in the distance, nearly twenty figures were flying towards the depths of the spatial interlayer, where spatial fragments of varying sizes shuttled, at a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second.
"They really dare to drill into the depths of the spatial interlayer."
Seeing this, Ender also pursued, muttering to himself, "Placing oneself in a death trap to find Vitality? This is probably a certain death."
Far away.
As the four Mechanical Race Immortals continued to delve deeper into the spatial interlayer, their flying speed gradually slowed down. From time to time, they would decelerate significantly to avoid the incoming spatial fragments.
After slowing down considerably and avoiding a spatial fragment over a hundred thousand kilometers wide, an alien Immortal transmitted, "Further ahead is the Divine Kingdom layer, and the Divine Kingdom layer is the limit of our survival."
"Can't stop!" Sarin transmitted, "The Cloud Vine Lord is still following behind. Once we stop, we'll only have a dead end!"
The three alien Immortals heard this, their faces turning grim. They glanced back and saw that the dark green light was indeed following, so they gritted their teeth and continued to fly towards the Divine Kingdom layer.
"This is rare."
Ender followed behind, muttering to himself, "Normally, when Immortals are forced into a desperate situation, they would usually choose to self-destruct to make the enemy pay a price."
"But these four alien Immortals are different. They actually chose a path of certain death, entering the dangerous depths of the spatial interlayer to escape."
"They wouldn't think they are Sons of Destiny, able to survive in the dangerous depths of the spatial interlayer, would they?" He secretly shook his head, "It seems I'll be losing a lot of spoils of war this time."
"If my speed were fast enough, I could completely catch and kill them before they enter the depths of the spatial interlayer."
Ender secretly thought, "Tsk, compared to High-level or Pinnacle Military Lord Immortals, my speed is still quite slow. I need to make up for this weakness in the future."
As he pursued, the Cloud Vine only had over thirty golden vines extending in pursuit. The rest of the vines had been withdrawn to the Original Universe Space to deal with the remaining Mechanical Puppets.
Whoosh!
Ender pursued for another ten seconds. At this moment, the four alien Immortals fleeing ahead had already entered the Divine Kingdom layer within the spatial interlayer. Their flying speed had now dropped to about ten thousand kilometers per second.
"Sarin! What do we do?" An alien Immortal transmitted, "That Cloud Vine Lord is still chasing!"
"Keep flying outwards!" Sarin's electronic eyes flashed violently red, "I don't believe he, a World Master, dares to chase us into the spatial torrent layer!"
Hearing Sarin's transmission, the three alien Immortals saw Ender still pursuing, so they gritted their teeth and continued to flee into the depths of the spatial interlayer.
After flying for a few more seconds, suddenly, a vast spatial fragment with a diameter of over ten million kilometers, and a few architectural remnants on it, swept past rapidly.
Boom!
"No!"
Three shrill screams rang out. The three alien Immortals fleeing ahead were just grazed by the edge of that spatial fragment…
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