Black Wizard Zhu Peng - z4Chapter 93
If you look at it from a distance of thousands of miles away, in an instant, you will really think that a round of the sun suddenly jumps out on the surface, radiant and brilliant.
And when the power of the entire water mirror and the ice crystal array converged, the world suddenly darkened, and the countless sun divine glory was sorted, circulated, and then reunited, and finally gathered in Li Ruohai’s crazy betting mana Tongtianling Above Baohao’s sky mirror.
This blazing sun divine light didn’t know what it had gone through, or how much it had undergone amplifying and strengthening. Finally, it suddenly expanded and spread, and the blazing light pierced the sky, dissolving and destroying everything in an instant.
At this moment, the huge remains of Zhongzhou Longting Tiangong were still in outer space, of course, it seemed to be smashed down slowly. If you look closer, you will see dead bodies on the remains, withered and blackened. Stacked.
Suddenly, it seemed to feel something. A half-corrupted corpse stood up, and the filthy demonic energy lingered and spread. Many Taoists still maintained a human form on half of their faces, but half of their cheeks were completely rotten. The rotten half of their faces, The deep red blood pupil dilated and faint brilliance.
Only in the next moment, they or they saw the rainbow appearing, and in the next moment, the unparalleled radiance of the blazing sun had bombarded the ruins shrouded in death and decay…Since they have already left. , Then never come back again.
The big collision of light and darkness, in addition to the majestic energy, there is also the high temperature of exterminating demons, circling around, strangling entanglement.
The great sun is not only the power of creation, but also the power of destruction. It is fiery and burning, and all things are born and die in this raging fire.
In the worlds of the mid-planes, there are some civilized planes without the sun, but most of the planes with prosperous civilization will have at least one or even plural suns because of the factors of energy strength and distance. , Therefore, the plural suns on some planes just meet the demand, and are even cooler than a planet with the sun.
It’s a long way off. In short, seeing the sun as a **** is an inevitable choice in the early stages of many civilizations. Without the sun, there is often no basis for the birth of life.
The sun in its heyday was too restrained for the endless abyss as the dark side of the universe.
The only thing that the endless abyss can swallow is the doomsday sun, which is why the sun of the endless abyss often falls from the sky, and they are already on the verge of destruction.
Zhu Peng, in the East China Sea in the Youzhou Region of the Xingxian World, relied on the ice graphite mirror and the endurance of his own spiritual pupil to directly look at the world-destroying meteorite falling from the distance by the impact of the blazing sun.
Well, it is a bit exaggerated to describe that it can directly destroy the world, but it is only a slight exaggeration. Fortunately, under the impact of the sky-wide rainbow, the giant meteor is slowly breaking, cracking, and dissolving. It shatters into a hundred pieces, but it is just a dazzling meteor shower falling, I am afraid it has not yet landed. It was wiped away by the flame produced by high-speed friction.
On Li Ruohai’s side, he uses the Haotian mirror in his hand as the source, and the end where the endless sun’s divine brilliance converges on the other side. In the space, the extremely dazzling aurora seems to be everywhere, constantly piercing and breaking. The clouds in the sky, the surging golden rainbow divine glory, and the collapsed space in front of them all show the palm of Li Ruohai. Strong with one blow.
When it comes to strength, Li Ruohai in the Nascent Soul Peak Realm is a strong front-line even among the fifth-order transcendent demon lords. With the help of the formation, he uses restraint methods to target the abyss demon. It is not an exaggeration to be the full blow of the sixth-order life body.
As time went on, the giant meteorite that was beyond that day was cracked and cracked, and at the same time, Zhu Peng spent a lot of time and effort to arrange and complete the dark blazing sun gods array. , After all, water mirrors and ice crystals are the main body, if the heaven, material and earth treasures are used as the main body, it will certainly not be so fragile. Of course, the cost will also increase, and the main body that controls the glow of the sun is not the formation, but the practitioner as the core of the formation.
Zhu Peng’s formation of the Dark Sun Divine Mang had begun to collapse, and Li Ruohai couldn’t hold it anymore. This was the core of the problem.
The Haotian Mirror, where the energy phantom spreads, began to shrink, and the light of the sun god’s blazing sun began to converge. At this time, the fallen Dragon Court Heavenly Palace was basically broken, even if some of it fell on the plane of seeking immortals. , It is no longer a big deal.
“what……”
Li Ruohai in the midair fell directly from the sky, his whole body was soaked in sweat, and he was too weak to stand firm. Zhu Peng flashed over and crossed the space to come to Lao Li’s side to support him. In any case, the matter has been resolved. Although Li Ruohai has lost a lot of skill, he has not suffered any major injuries after all. This aspect is his cultivation level. Shen Zhan, on the other hand, Zhu Peng made a certain contribution in the fine-tuning of the blazing sun divine glow.
The original creator of this formation, but after a single blow, he sat down and fell.
“Six extremes, eventful autumn… so tired.”
“Tarzan in the eyes of mortals is just a pebble in the eyes of giants. You are just too tired. Take a good rest for a while, and you may even find peaceful days too boring.”
“Hahahaha, then let me be bored for a while.” Chatting, chatting, joking, joking, driving the spirit shuttle again, after all, I still have to rush back like a desperate, even Li Ruohai’s cultivation is It was done on Lingsuo. So exhausted, everyone really feels that their bodies are hollowed out.
Among everyone here, even Zhu Peng is included. He has always been known for being physically strong, energetic, and energetic. However, after so many years of rushing and toiling for more than a decade, he often has no room to breathe. He is really tired.
Of course, the catastrophe of the last days, struggling in such a catastrophe, being able to grind your teeth with exhaustion, only shows that you are tenacious enough and you are still alive.
Event after event, fight after fight.
The battle time of high-ranking monks may be short, but the recovery time of mana is bound to be long. A great monk with great power and vastness like Li Ruohai consumes too much power at a time, and the time to fully recover is in years. of.
In this regard, Zhu Peng is relatively better. His practice is inherently connected to the Void Air Vessel, and the passive recovery speed is faster than the recovery speed of other people. The recovery speed is more than several times that of the monks of the same level. So save a lot of time.
But what Zhu Peng has learned is too mixed. No matter which item is refining, swordsmanship, body refining, or pill, it will inevitably consume some time, even at this moment on top of the spirit shuttle, Li Ruohai is busy retreating and adjusting his breath, Zhu Peng Busy thinking about magic weapons.
But when they arrived at the boundary between Jizhou and Youzhou in the past, whether it was Li Ruohai, who was in retreat, or Zhu Peng, who was lowering his head to study the magic weapon, they suddenly opened their eyes, and the other suddenly raised their heads, feeling a strong sense of anxiety. To their hearts.
Cultivating to the realm of life like Li Ruohai and Zhu Peng, on a whim, nine out of ten. At the same time, a wave of invisible ripples diffused and sensed, and after another cup of tea, a huge jet-black smoke column rose from the direction of Cold Cloud Ice City.
Li Ruohai rushed into the quiet room of retreat and self-cultivation. Seeing this, he immediately contacted the same door with a talisman for transmission.
Zhu Peng went a little faster than him, because it was not he who contacted the sect, but Shui Yao from the cold cloud ice city contacted him with a talisman.
“Husband, Elder Bai Ji is crazy, he detonated the fire and broke the boat of good fortune… Now, now he is crossing the catastrophe… Bai Ji triggered the God of Heavenly Tribulation!” Shuiyao was a little flustered and at a loss. There was the sound of the words, but she didn’t need to say, Zhu Peng could also see some things in the billowing smoke and spirit fluctuations coming from there.
“…Thanks to the Dao heart to develop the Tianxin, the body fits the Dao, the Tianxin counters!” Li Ruohai slowly spit out a word, and at this moment Zhu Peng also recalled all the previous things in an instant. He had already felt Bai Ji long ago. It’s not natural, but because of all sorts of affairs during this time, I couldn’t take care of it for a while.
The rushing spiritsuo in the middle slowly came to a halt under Li Ruohai’s instructions. Li Ruohai walked out of the spiritsuo in Zhu Peng’s surprised eyes, and then his body flew higher and higher, his momentum rose, and appeared above the sky. A huge whirlpool of spiritual energy caused all the robbery thunder to gather.
This is, the fifth-level transformation of the gods.
“Six extremes, now that’s the case, let me tell you the last guess of our group of old guys.”
“Zhuji Thunder Tribulation, Golden Core Thunder Tribulation, and Nascent Infant Heaven Tribulation, these three levels are all produced by the condensing of this world, while God Transforming Heaven Tribulation is produced by the upper plane spiritual world. Therefore, in fact these years Here, we old guys have always had such a conjecture in our hearts…If the lower realm has enough primordial infant stage practitioners promoted at the same time, will there be a shortage of energy from the heavens in the spirit realm? ”
“We know this is a bet, now… we can only bet.”
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Youzhou, Qingzhou, and even the remote Yangzhou region.
The huge circle of tribulations and spreading clouds began to surge. Almost all the veteran cultivators in the Nascent Soul Stage are veterans and elites. In most cases, it is impossible for them to fight desperately, and it is unlikely that they will fight hard.
But this time, they went up one by one.
Bai Ji, Li Ruohai, Fa Mie, Fierce Tiger, Huangfu God Soldier… the remaining repairers of the Qingzhou region, the remaining repairers of the Yangzhou region.
The whole world of seeking immortals began to proliferate from round to round of God Transforming Heaven Tribulation Circles. Many Nascent Infant Realm ancestors simply lacked their skills. They used secret methods and swallowed elixirs to forcefully activate God Transition Heaven Tribulation.
The stronger the person, the more he has the ability to choose independently, like the big capitalists, scientists, and cutting-edge talents in various fields in the Earth Age. Even if their motherland is invaded, crushed, or trampled on, in fact, these people can drag their families to go abroad, and they can still live comfortably and beautifully.
During the Second World War on the Earth, Germany frantically persecuted Jews, but before being drawn into concentration camps, it was necessary to classify talents. Engineers, university professors, mathematicians, these people and their families would be retained.
In any era, anyone who says that reading is useless is ridiculous, stupid, inferior and ignorant. Any civilization, any world, respects the owner of knowledge. Bandits know how to find a talent to be a kowloon strategist, and women bandits who **** men up the mountains all know to **** a nerd, because it is not easy to change their lives against the sky, and having knowledge may be the only shortcut on this road.
Wizarding civilization, the wizard of knowledge holders. Cultivation civilization, the owner who knows is the cultivator. Science and technology are civilized, and the knowledge holders are scientists…Politicians also have extremely high knowledge reserves. The senior leaders of the KMT and the Communist Party must read history. After the founding of New China, which leader did not graduate from a prestigious university?
Wizard civilization, immortality civilization, and knowledge holders attribute great power to themselves. Technological civilization, the owner of knowledge, does not completely dominate civilization. This also leads to many flaws in civilizational warfare, but it also has its advantages.
The ancestors of Yuan Ying, as the knowledge holders, power masters, and absolute powerhouses in various senses under the cultivating civilization system of the world of seeking immortals, they have a high degree of independent selection ability.
Even if the world of Xunxian collapses, the sky is torn, the earth sinks, and the cultivators of the Nascent Soul Stage will be fine. Most of them can easily survive in the endless abyss until their life is exhausted, if they are interested. , Can even turn into the fifth-order transcendent abyss demon lord, for these cultivators, the abyss will is greedy and welcome.
The cultivators of the Nascent Infant Realm turned to the fifth-order supernatural abyss demon lord, all of whom were elite lords. They did not know how much world they could destroy for the endless abyss, and how much food they could plunder.
But at this moment, more than a dozen veteran cultivators of the Nascent Soul Stage in the world of seeking immortals, put their old lives on the gambling table, and bet against the sky.
They are not fighting for themselves, but for the survival of this civilization, for the survival of this tradition.
When foreign nationals invaded and the country was destroyed and the family died, the vast majority of people died with the country. In fact, they cannot be called patriotic, because they have no ability to be unpatriotic. Where do such people want to run?
In fact, they have always been blessed by this country. With the prosperity and strength of this country, and the decline and misfortune of this country, the vast majority of people do not actually have the ability to determine their own destiny, they just follow the waves of the times.
To love is to sacrifice one’s own interests for this country and for this civilization with the power to choose.
For example, Lu Zuofu, a great businessman and industrialist in the Republic of China, can run to Japan or Nanyang when the national crisis is at stake. He has money in his hands, and he has room to turn around. But when the Japanese invaded China, he destroyed his home and led the Yichang retreat, retaining precious vitality for the subsequent war of resistance.
For example, scientist Qian Xuesen, who studied in the United States, became a world-renowned aerodynamics expert at the age of twenty-eight, and later became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Such an honorable person, the Tuo family went to jail and returned to China, which was far from the United States at that time. Such a person can be called a patriot and a hero.
Of course, an ordinary person, under the premise of being able to live in peace, uses his own subjective choice to carry a gun on the battlefield to serve the country, and he can also be called a patriot and a hero. But those who choose passively and are driven by the torrent of fate, no matter what great achievements we have made, while acknowledging their achievements, we will inevitably still feel that they are worse.
True love is when you have the power to choose, at the expense of your own interests for what you love. Just like at this moment, Zhu Peng’s cultivators flying up in front of him can save their lives in most cases, but at this moment, they don’t need to discuss, so they choose to do what they want. Love the civilization, grit your teeth.
In a plane world, there are more than a dozen rounds of Transformation God and Heavenly Tribulation Circle in the same day. Such a magnificent scene is probably unprecedented, and it may be difficult to replicate in the future.
Zhu Peng stood floating in the void, watching the sky full of Tribulation General Li Ruohai. This former Youzhou No. 1 master had a great loss of skill. The moment he activated the fifth-order Transformation God Thunder Tribulation, it meant He is dead.
Moreover, Li Ruohai’s sacrifice is meaningless. Among all aspects of the cultivation of immortality, the most distinctive and powerful point lies in its superior control of energy.
The thunder tribulation provided by the catastrophe elimination system is almost 100% completely transformed. If someone overcomes the thunder tribulation, then the spiritual pressure difference between the two worlds will be accompanied by the ascending spectacle to force a large amount of spiritual pressure into the lower plane world, but if no one passes through it Lei Jie, then the supplement to the world of seeking immortals is probably just the spiritual energy pillars that spread after the death of these ancestors of the Nascent Soul…It is meaningless.
Zhu Peng turned abruptly, turning a rainbow and flew away.
After a while, thousands of miles away, another huge circle of Tier 5 Transformation Heavenly Tribulation spread.
Standing in the middle of the circle of heaven, someone seemed to have a headache and was able to caress his forehead, and there were thousands of grass and mud horses galloping across the Gobi.
Counseling in front of a daughter-in-law is cohesive, but you can’t treat courage as counseling.
No matter how amazing the energy reserves of the upper plane spirit world are, in a dilapidated world of small planes, suddenly there are fifteen or six major monks who are at least in the middle and late stages of the Yuan Ying who are going crazy, wanting to rush to the fifth-order **** of thunder. , This energy overload is inevitable.
This place where Zhu Peng crossed the catastrophe was at noon, and there was a red sun in the sky, and the distant mountains and golden clouds, with infinite beauty.
However, as the circle of tribulations spread, the wind and clouds above his head suddenly suddenly changed. In the distant outer universe, there was a cold and cold wind roaring, the dark clouds resembled the raging waves of the sea, and the galloping horses. In the waves, the sky was densely covered in an instant.
With such a forceful opening, even if Zhu Peng had always regarded Lei Jie as nothing, his expression could not help but his face gradually became condensed at this moment.
In his previous career, Zhu Peng has always regarded the test of Thunder Tribulation as nothing, because his life essence level is high enough, and his foundation is so strong that he can be described as unbelievably powerful. It is unlikely that the foundation-building monk will directly avoid death. Zhu Peng refining qi to kill the foundation, not only is not a crazy demon who slaughters the city for treasures, but also has the corresponding means to counter the thunder tribulation, of course he can treat the thunder tribulation test as nothing.
This is true for the Zhuji Thunder Tribulation, so is the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation, and so is the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation. When you can refine the qi to build the foundation, build the foundation to kill the golden core, and the golden core to cut the soul infant, generally speaking, you don’t need to care too much about the thunder tribulation test. If such a monk can’t survive the thunder tribulation, the cultivation civilization has long been lost. The robbery is clean.
However, the higher the level, the more difficult the challenge. At least Zhu Peng, under normal circumstances, it is very difficult to kill Yuan Ying and transform the gods.
Based on this level of evaluation of the fifth-level transforming **** Thunder Tribulation, coupled with the special circumstances of the world of seeking immortals, Zhu Peng, who has always sought stability in his work, is inclined to choose the boat of good fortune and run to the spiritual world of the middle plane. However, after all, human calculation is still not as good as the sky calculation. No one could have expected that the great elder of the Heavenly Dao Divine Machine Sect, Bai Ji, would suddenly go crazy. He set off a fire and broke the boat of good fortune, and brought everyone to accompany him on the road. The most dangerous road.
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In the circle of the fifth-order **** of heaven, the dark cloud like black ink carried the terrifying aura of wanting to crush Wanfeng, layer upon layer rolling endlessly in the sky.
In the next moment, an electric light that was brighter than all lightning blasted in the air. It was like the thunder god’s whip in the sea of clouds, slamming half of the sky violently and blasting towards him fiercely.
The eyes are full of eyes, everything is roaring thunder.
The whole body of the demon flame flame burned, and Zhu Peng one-handed his crossarm to block. After his figure was suffocated, the spreading current spread out all over his body.
And the huge thunderstorm that followed seemed to be the groan that the sky was about to collapse, and with this thunder, the pouring rain poured down from the sky.
The raindrops of Dou Da fell on his cheeks, slowly raised his head, and the cold wind whistling in the sky, Zhu Peng knew that the greeting was over and the fifth-order God Transformation Heaven Tribulation had really begun.
Among the clouds, the huge thundercloud is beating slowly like a heart, purple electrocoagulation, flowing like blood.
Hua Shen Tian Jie asked: “I value you so much and gather such a large group of energy to attack you. Are you moved?”
Zhu Peng: “Don’t dare to move, I don’t dare to move at all.”
Indeed, he did not dare to move. Zhu Peng treated the foundation of the Thunder Tribulation, the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation, and even the Yuan Ying Thunder Tribulation as nothing, and even dared to rush into the sea of clouds to absorb the power of the Heaven Tribulation Thunder.
However, the one who comes out is always to be paid back.
Overturning the little ones all the way, today finally came an old guy who Zhu Peng couldn’t stand. The large group of thunder condensate from the fifth-order God Transformation Heavenly Tribulation was condensed in the sky like a heart. During this process, Zhu Peng did not dare to rush to explode it at once…this is definitely the fastest crossing The robbery method, but it is definitely the cleanest way to survive the robbery.
Zhu Peng’s spiritual consciousness was so crazy that he warned himself that with the energy intensity gathered from this day of calamity, he dared to detonate it, even if he drove Jiuli Chiyou’s real body, he would definitely be blown up to the size of his nails.
The first catastrophe of God: the catastrophe of eternal thunderstorm.
The basic, and the most terrifying, the red-red thunder in the sky and cascading down among the black clouds in the sky, the arc formed by lightning in the sky covered by the black clouds is extremely shocking, and the arc length can even reach five to eight kilometers. 1.2 million lightning strikes per minute, and the energy intensity reached 400,000 amps. These are not the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is that Zhu Peng spreads seventy-two green bamboo wind and clouds swords. In this lightning barrage, the body and the sword are combined in a crazy shuttle, but It was discovered that when the second catastrophe arrived, the eternal thunderstorm catastrophe had not ended and there was no meaning to it at all…This TM superimposed catastrophe!
The Second Tribulation of God Transformation: Flowing Death Icefall.
The blue-white arctic ice waterfall flows down through the gap in the clouds. Because the temperature is too low, the salt in the seawater is naturally precipitated. The seawater freezes and spreads around the seabed in a columnar shape. Wherever it goes, there is no need to touch it. The nearby marine creatures were directly frozen to death, and the iced sea was frozen!
The terrifying cold air spread, and Zhu Peng, who was within the scope of the fifth-order transformation of the gods and heavenly catastrophe circle, relied on his brilliant swordsmanship and seventy-two green bamboo wind and cloud swords to avoid procrastination. At this level, it would be impossible for Zhu Peng to truly slash Zhu Peng if it consumes a hundred years of energy.
However, this blue-white extreme cold ice waterfall surged down. On the one hand, Zhu Peng had to avoid its coverage, on the other hand, he had to resist the extreme cold that it spreads. The Earth Demon Flame Armor around his body was naturally excited, and the flames spread, seemingly parallel Zhu Peng was not injured, but even the Earth Demon Flame Armor was passively activated. It can only be said that the effect of this ice aura is strong enough to freeze ordinary cultivators of the Nascent Soul Realm, and it is basically a large-scale attack without a handicap.
While avoiding the eternal thunderstorms that were constantly falling in the sky, Zhu Peng condensed his sword energy from time to time and slashed downwards, hardly splitting the frozen glacier, trying to gain more space for himself to escape.
Although according to the conventional laws of physics, ice is not conductive, theoretically speaking, Zhu Peng can avoid the first calamity and the second calamity by avoiding the glacier… But Zhu Peng dare not be at the transformation level after all. With this clever trembling in front of Heavenly Tribulation, Bai Ji’s experience has already been told to everyone, that people are not as good as the heavens, and the organs are too smart, and it is very likely that they have missed their lives.
Sure enough, the third calamity of God Transformation: The Gate of Hell opened-the blue lava, it verified Zhu Peng’s previous judgment.
Under the influence of the gods of the gods, the earth and rocks in the depths of the sea bulged, and a huge amount of majestic flames spewed out, and the flames were not normal red, but blue.
On the sea level, large groups of blue light flames burst out frantically, and the flames burned vigorously, continuously rising two or three hundred meters high, and even with the strongest eruption, they would rush for kilometers.
Thunderstorms, ice tides, and the eruption of faint blue ground fire magma, all of which are the most extensive destructive energy input, constantly compressing Zhu Peng’s shrinking room for maneuver and escape. At this moment, the Seventy-two Green Bamboo Wind and Cloud Sword had been controlled to the extreme by Zhu Peng.
Sword Qi transforms into rainbows, sword Qi thunders sounds, refining swords into silk, sword light splits… all kinds of sword formations and kendo magical skills emerge in endlessly, but Zhu Peng, who shuttles through each pure golden pure sword light, has a look in his eyes. Calm or even indifferent, this is the most calm and sensible state and can reduce the consumption of mind.
Now, it’s only the third calamity. This transforming thunder calamity is at least nine calamities, and it is possible to strike the twelve calamities. Therefore, the magnificent momentum in front of the first three calamities, like a natural disaster, is just an appetizer. To avoid them perfectly, Zhu Peng seems to have nothing to be proud of. Although, if Zhang Jie resurrected at this moment, he would be a little bit ashamed to see Zhu Peng play the Qingzhu Fengyun Sword to this point~www.mtlnovel.com~ If you feel your heart, it is possible to give Zhu Peng the magic weapon of your own life, and then buy a piece of tofu and smash it to death.
Because it is also a set of sword weapons, the difference in the degree of control of the two sides is too big.
Seventy-two Green Bamboo Wind and Cloud Swords, some of which use swords to lighten rainbows, some use sword energy and thunder sound to rush, some are refined into silk and twists and turns, and some are merged and divided, gathering and dispersing wishful, the whole set of magic weapons forms a set of movement state Under the mysterious formation, Zhu Peng, who possesses the ability of human sword integration, may appear in any of the seventy-two green bamboo wind and cloud swords, and these green bamboo wind and cloud swords are not very afraid of thunder strikes, freezing ice, and ground fire. It is shocking, or even if the magic weapon is damaged, if it can survive the catastrophe, it will be worth it.
The fourth calamity of God Transformation: Hurricane of Soul Dispersal.
Because Zhu Peng did not escape into the glacier, and even slightly increased his position, he did not endure the third calamity of God Transcendence: Hell Gate Opening-Blue Lava.
However, is the majestic power of the third calamity of God Transformation wasted in vain?
How could it be possible that Zhu Peng’s face changed when the hurricanes in all directions gradually formed. The hurricane of this tribulation was already very terrifying. If it is a ghost cultivation here, no matter how clever the cultivation level, The hurricane basically sat down on the spot.
Zhu Peng is a dual cultivator of law and body, his body and soul are fully melted. He is not particularly afraid of the power of the hurricane itself, but at this moment in the circle of death, the ice waterfall of death descends, the ground fire roars, and then When the hurricane of the soul dispersal, basically the entire area of the disaster area becomes a pressure cooker.
In addition, Hurricane Soul Diffusion also has the effect of greatly diminishing the attention of the repairer. If it is carried over hard, it will be extremely detrimental to Zhu Peng’s subsequent tragedy.