Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Chapter 1274 If you can't beat them, run away

The Gemini's teamwork is indeed excellent, as can be seen from their counterattack just now.

As his older brother punched him in the back, the younger brother was already preparing to restrain him.

If his purification spell hadn't been fast enough, he might be the one lying on the ground right now.

Lin Yi raised the black and white rose in his hand, the tip of the sword pointing in the direction of his twin brother.

The power of the abyss surged across the sword, and black mist spread from the blade, condensing into fine threads in the air.

The older brother's pupils contracted slightly, his body sank slightly, his center of gravity shifted forward, and his hands were spread out at his sides, assuming a defensive posture.

His gaze darted quickly between Lin Yi and his younger brother, clearly weighing whether to continue the attack or retreat.

But Lin Yi didn't give him time to think.

His figure vanished instantly, leaving two deep dents in the snow with his boots, sending snowflakes flying to both sides.

The black and white roses pierced out, the sword tip aimed straight for her brother's chest.

The older brother reacted quickly. He leaned back and pressed his right hand in front of him, and a semi-transparent energy barrier condensed in front of him.

But Lin Yi's sword was faster.

The moment the sword tip touched the barrier, the power of the abyss surged from the sword, like a red-hot knife cutting into butter. The barrier began to crumble from the center, cracks spreading outwards, and then it shattered with a deafening roar.

The moment the barrier shattered, the brother rolled to the side. The tip of the Black and White Rose sword grazed his shoulder, leaving a long gash in his dark robe, revealing the white shirt underneath.

There was a small bloodstain on the shirt, and the blood seeped out from the wound, spreading a small patch of dark red on the white fabric.

The older brother rolled twice and knelt on the snow, his right hand covering the wound on his shoulder.

Lin Yi's body charged forward again, the black and white rose slashing out horizontally, the blade drawing a black arc in the air.

Just as the blade was about to touch the brother's neck, a semi-transparent energy barrier suddenly condensed between the two of them.

The black and white roses struck the barrier with a dull thud.

Cracks appeared on the surface of the barrier, but it did not break.

Lin Yi frowned slightly. He felt a powerful repulsive force coming from the barrier, pushing his body back two steps.

The younger brother knelt on the snow, his right hand outstretched with his fingers spread.

His face was deathly pale, blood was still seeping from the wound on his abdomen, and the indentation on his side was even more pronounced.

The broken ribs pierced the skin, exposing the white bone fragments, with dark red flesh still clinging to them.

His lips were trembling, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he looked like he might collapse at any moment.

He gritted his teeth and pushed his right hand forward, causing the semi-transparent barrier to surge forward, forcing Lin Yi back two steps.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the older brother got up from the snow, walked quickly to his younger brother's side, squatted down, and took out a vial of medicine from his pocket.

He unscrewed the bottle and held the medicine to his brother's lips.

The younger brother opened his mouth and drank the deep red liquid in one gulp.

The moment the medicine went down his throat, his complexion improved slightly, and fine granulation tissue began to grow on the wound in his abdomen, while the broken ribs slowly returned to their original positions.

But his expression remained pained, because the power of the abyss was still raging within him. The buds were constantly being eroded by the power of the abyss as they grew, and then they would grow back again and again, repeatedly consuming his life force.

The older brother stood up and stood in front of his younger brother, his dark brown eyes fixed on Lin Yi, his pupils full of vigilance.

He no longer launched an attack, but simply stood there with his hands slightly outstretched at his sides and his body slightly lowered, adopting a defensive posture.

Lin Yi looked at them but did not attack immediately.

He is waiting.

Battle is never just about offense; sometimes, waiting is the best offense.

Xue Piao was about two meters behind Lin Yi, her icy blue eyes fixed on the Gemini stars, the light in her pupils flickering slowly.

Her body trembled slightly, not from the cold, but from nervousness.

She subconsciously moved closer to Lin Yi, her tattered skirt fluttering gently in the wind, and tiny ice crystals condensing and dissipating at the ends of her hair.

"Doctor, who are they?" Xue's voice was soft, with a hint of barely concealed nervousness.

"An opponent." Lin Yi's answer was concise and clear.

Xue blinked, seemingly not quite understanding the meaning of the word "opponent".

She tilted her head and looked at the Gemini stars, her icy blue eyes filled with curiosity.

Why did they hit you?

"Because of the competition."

Xue nodded as if she understood, but didn't ask any more questions.

Silence spread among the three.

The older brother stood in front of his younger brother, his eyes fixed on Lin Yi, not daring to relax for a moment.

His breathing was steady, but there was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.

The younger brother knelt on the snow, his hands supporting him on the ground, panting heavily.

The wound on his abdomen had mostly healed, but the erosion of the abyss power continued. His face remained deathly pale, and his lips were devoid of color.

Lin Yi stood there, black and white roses hanging at his sides, the tip of his sword pointing to the ground.

The power of the abyss flowed slowly across the sword, and black mist drifted around the blade, creating an eerie scene on the white snow.

Time passed by, second by second.

The younger brother stood up from the snow. He moved very slowly, each step as if he were struggling with his own body.

Although his abdominal wound had completely healed and the indentation on his side ribs had returned to normal, his complexion was still very poor, his eyes were sunken, and he looked like he had been seriously ill.

He walked over to his brother and stood beside him.

The two exchanged a glance without speaking, but their unspoken understanding transcended words.

The older brother nodded slightly, and the younger brother also nodded slightly.

Then their gestures changed simultaneously.

The older brother pointed his right hand upwards to the sky, his index and middle fingers together, with a faint golden light shimmering at the tips.

The younger brother's right hand pointed downwards to the ground, the same gesture, the same light, only in a different direction.

At the same time, the energy within the two began to expand rapidly.

That expansion was not a slow growth, but an explosive surge.

The energy within their bodies multiplied several times in just a few seconds, surging out and forming a thick layer of energy on their skin.

The older brother's energy was pale gold, and the younger brother's energy was deep black. The two colors intertwined and swirled around their bodies, forming a huge energy vortex.

At the center of the vortex, between them, a black and white sphere of light was rapidly coalescing.

The ball of light was initially only the size of a fist, but it expanded rapidly as energy continued to flow in.

A few seconds later it grew to the size of a basketball, and then to the size of a millstone.

Electric arcs constantly pulsed across the surface of the sphere of light. These arcs, black and white, crackled in the air, scorching the surrounding snow particles.

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed slightly.

He didn't know what the other party was going to do, but there was no doubt that this thing was going to fight to the death, and judging from its appearance, it was most likely preparing to unleash a powerful move with a very high cost.

Faced with this situation, Lin Yi wouldn't be foolish enough to rush in.

He leaped backward, grabbing Xue's skirt with his left hand and pulling her along with him.

Xue stumbled as he pulled her, her translucent body tracing an arc in the air before regaining its balance.

She looked down at Lin Yi's hand that was gripping her skirt, a hint of confusion appearing on her translucent face.

"Doctor, what are you doing?"

"run."

"Run? Why run?"

Lin Yi did not answer, but simply increased his speed of retreating.

His boots left deep footprints in the snow, and snowflakes flew to both sides, forming two white trails of dust behind him.

He retreated behind a large, gray-black tree, shielding himself from the snow, and stared through the tree trunk at the expanding black-and-white energy sphere in the distance.

Xue peeked out from behind him, her icy blue eyes fixed on the ball of energy, the light in her pupils pulsating violently.

"It looks terrifying."

In the distance, the black and white energy ball had expanded to a size of nearly two meters in diameter.

It floats between the twin stars, slowly rotating, with electric arcs constantly dancing on its surface.

The electric arcs grew denser and more violent, crackling in the air and scorching the surrounding trees.

The Gemini brothers didn't look too good.

The older brother's face was pale, veins bulged on his forehead, and his hands were trembling slightly.

The younger brother's face looked even worse, ashen white, his lips purple, and he looked like he might collapse at any moment.

But they didn't stop.

They gritted their teeth and poured all the last of their energy into that ball of energy.

The energy ball expanded again, reaching a diameter of two and a half meters.

Its rotation speed increased, the electric arcs on its surface became denser, and the buzzing sound it emitted grew louder and louder, like a machine about to overload making its final hiss.

Lin Yi looked at the ball of energy and frowned slightly.

He sensed that something was wrong.

The energy ball looked incredibly powerful, with terrifyingly violent electric arcs on its surface and a dazzlingly fast rotation speed, but it didn't pose any danger to Lin Yi.

Within his perception range, the opponent's attack was like a child's water gun—it looked powerful, but actually posed no danger.

But Lin Yi dared not be careless in the face of this situation.

Lin Yi had seen attacks that obscure perception before.

In his understanding, the more dangerous the situation, the less it is visible. Just like when many people are weak and encounter dangerous people who are two or more levels above them, they not only fail to perceive the danger, but also think that the other party is very safe. This is the problem caused by cognitive error.

Therefore, in Lin Yi's view, Gemini's attack this time should have exceeded the sixth level, which is why his perception thought that this attack was not very dangerous. In fact, the opponent had taken out his trump card.

Faced with this situation, Lin Yi naturally wouldn't hold back. He took a deep breath, and the power of the abyss within his body began to surge wildly.

His right arm began to tremble slightly, not from fear, but from the immense force exerted, pushing the muscles and bones of his arm to their limits.

The black mist on the Black Rose Sword suddenly became several times denser, and the mist swirled wildly around the blade, forming a tiny vortex.

At the center of the vortex was the tip of the sword, where a black light was gathering.

Lin Yi gripped the hilt of his sword and pointed the black and white rose forward.

Abyss Shadow: Blade of the End.

A black sword aura shot out from the tip of the sword, heading straight for the black and white energy ball.

Wherever the sword energy passed, the air was torn apart, a deep furrow was plowed into the ground, and snowflakes flew to both sides, forming two trails of white dust behind them.

Even more terrifying is that the space itself cracks wherever the sword energy passes.

A thin spatial rift opened up along Lin Yi's attack, its edges dark black, with terrifying energy surging within, like an eye opening.

The sword energy collided with the energy ball.

boom.

A deafening roar.

But something unexpected happened to Lin Yi.

The moment the Gemini's attack collided with the sword energy, it was instantly swallowed up by Lin Yi's sword energy, just like a needle puncturing a balloon.

The black and white energy sphere, with a diameter of two and a half meters, was utterly vulnerable in the face of the sword energy. The sword energy passed through its center, and the energy sphere began to disintegrate from the inside. The electric arcs on its surface instantly went out, the rotation speed suddenly stopped, and then the entire sphere shrank rapidly like a deflated balloon.

A few seconds later, the ball of energy completely dissipated, leaving not a trace.

Lin Yi's sword energy continued to fly forward with almost no hindrance.

Lin Yi was puzzled for a moment, then immediately realized what was going on.

He looked up and gazed in the direction of the Gemini stars.

There was no one in sight where the two Geminis had just stood; the place was completely empty.

There were only two deep indentations in the snow, the footprints they had left when they stood there. Water was still seeping out from the edges of the footprints, melted snow water from their body heat.

There was nothing else.

After suffering a loss, the two guys pretended to unleash a powerful attack to take everyone down with them, and then ran away the moment Lin Yi's attention was drawn to the attack.

Lin Yi's lips twitched slightly.

All I can say is that the Geminis are truly worthy of being from the Paradise faction; they're masters at running away when they can't win.

After discovering that Lin Yi's close combat ability far exceeded expectations, and that his younger brother was unable to continue fighting due to the corruption of the abyss power, they immediately decided to retreat.

That ball of energy was just a decoy from beginning to end, a decoy used to attract Lin Yi's attention.

They had no intention of fighting Lin Yi to the death; they just wanted to run away.

Moreover, they ran away cleanly and efficiently, leaving not a trace.

However, this put Lin Yi in a difficult position.

Since the Twin Stars' attack was useless, Lin Yi's ultimate move went unimpeded without encountering any obstacles.

The black sword energy continued to fly forward without slowing down, heading straight for the huge tombstone in the center of the open space.

boom.

Another earth-shattering roar.

The sword energy slammed into the tombstone.

The tombstone is ten meters tall, grayish-white in color, with fine, flowing patterns on its surface, as if it were carved from some kind of unknown stone.

The sword energy struck the tombstone, bursting forth with a blinding light.

The light lasted for about three seconds, then gradually faded away.

Lin Yi opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the tombstone.

The tombstone is intact.

There wasn't even a single crack.

Lin Yi frowned slightly.

He knew perfectly well how powerful his sword strike had been.

That was a full-force sword strike from him, enough to level a small mountain.

But the tombstone withstood his attack without any problems.

The tombstone was made of a much sturdier material than he had expected.

Snowflakes drifted out from behind him, and his icy blue eyes stared at the tombstone, the light in his pupils pulsating violently.

Her body was trembling slightly, not from the cold, but from fear.

"Doctor, you've made a mess of things." Her voice was soft, with a slight, barely concealed tremor.

Lin Yi looked at her.

"What's the meaning."

Xue raised her hand and pointed to the ground in front of the tombstone.

“Look over there.”

Lin Yi looked in the direction she was pointing.

Five cracks appeared in the snow in front of the tombstone.

The cracks started from the base of the tombstone and spread outwards, each several meters long and about a hand's width wide.

A pale blue light flickered at the edge of the crack, growing brighter and more dazzling, as if something was about to emerge from the ground.

Click.

A crisp cracking sound came from underground.

Then came a series of cracking sounds, as if something was moving rapidly underground, smashing through rocks and permafrost along its path.

The cracks grew wider and deeper, and blue light could be seen surging through the fissures in the ground, like an underground river.

Lin Yi's perception extended underground, and the moment he touched those blue lights, he felt a bone-chilling energy emanating from his senses, almost freezing his perception.

He withdrew his senses, his brows furrowing even more deeply.

Those blue lights were not ordinary energy, but rather the power of ice element with extremely high purity.

Its purity was higher than any ice element he had ever seen.

Xue's face turned very pale.

The previous playfulness and curiosity were gone from that translucent face, replaced by solemnity.

Five humanoid creatures crawled out of the snow.

Their movements are slow, as if they have just woken up from a deep sleep, and every movement is sluggish and stiff.

But that stiffness is not weakness, but rather the accumulation of strength, like a bear that has just woken up from hibernation, seemingly clumsy, but actually deadly.

Their skin was deathly pale, as white as freshly fallen snow, without a trace of blood.

That kind of white wasn't a healthy skin tone, but an almost pathological pallor, like a corpse that had been soaking in ice water for too long.

They wore gray ice armor, with fine ice crystals condensing on the edges of the plates, gleaming coldly in the dim light.

Most strikingly, their forearms are adorned with curved blades.

The arm blade extended from the wrist, about half a meter long, and was crescent-shaped. Its edge was so sharp that it could reflect a person's image.

The blade is not made of metal, but of some unknown crystal. It is light blue in color and has fine, flowing patterns on its surface, like an underground river beneath the ice.

Their eyes were dark blue, without pupils, only two cold flames flickering in their eye sockets.

That flame had no temperature, only chilling coldness, a chilling coldness that could freeze the soul.

Their gazes swept across the surroundings, passing over the traces of battle on the snow, before finally settling on Lin Yi.

Five pairs of dark blue eyes stared at Lin Yi at the same time.

There was no anger, no hostility, no emotion in his gaze.

There is only a cold scrutiny, like someone examining an object, judging whether it has value or is worth paying attention to.

Lin Yi felt a chill rise up his spine.

At the same time, a mark appeared on Lin Yi's arm.

The logo was about the size of a thumb, light blue, shaped like a snowflake, and with clearly visible lines.

The mark appeared on the back of my left hand, and there was a slight stinging sensation on the skin, like I had been bitten by something.

Lin Yi glanced down at the mark, then activated his identification ability.

A semi-transparent light screen unfolded in front of him, but the information on it was pitifully scarce.

[Comparing the intelligence attributes of both sides... Due to interference from the Frost Forest, only 7% of the enemy's data has been obtained.]

Name: Frost Guardian

Health: 100%

Heterogeneous source: 95000/95000 points

Strength: ??? (True Attribute)

Agility: ??? (True attribute)

Stamina: ??? (True Attribute)

Intelligence: ? ? ? (True Attribute)

Charisma: 1 (This is a high-risk neutral unit)

Skill 1: Oath of Souls (Passive): ? ? ?

Skill 2: ? ? ?

Skill 3: ? ? ?

……

……

Skill 11: ? ? ?

……

Conservative estimates suggest that these Frost Guardians are on par with Axe Bro in terms of combat strength.

Unlike the Axe-wielding creatures, the Frost Guardians are not dangerous as long as you don't provoke them.

This is the only complete clue in the identification information, and it is also the most important one.

The awkward thing is that Lin Yi's actions just now were definitely considered a provocation in the eyes of the other party.

He not only attacked the tombstones they guarded, but also left a deep sword mark on one of them.

Although the tombstone itself was undamaged, that level of attack was seen as a blatant provocation by the guards. (End of Chapter)