85: Chapter 85 Instant Kill? The Terrifying Mechanism of Rule-Based Life.

In the Eighth Floor corridor, the survivors slumped against the walls waiting for death now scrambled frantically toward their dormitories.

The scorching air distorted their vision, yet the instinct for survival made them burst forth with unprecedented speed.

Inside the Bone Gate, facing this torrent of destruction, the Skeleton Monarch merely let out a scornful cold snort from its throat bones.

It remained seated upright on the bone throne, holding a huge bone scythe taller than a person in one hand, waving it forward casually.

The movement was effortless, as if it were shooing away a fly.

An off-white arc of light detached from the scythe blade, propping up an invisible barrier in front of it.

All attacks smashed into an invisible wall half a meter away from it and shattered with a boom.

Lin Qing took a step forward.

With a thought, a huge circular bed materialized out of thin air, blocking the trajectory of the bone scythe's swing.

Boom!

With a muffled, massive explosion, the impact caused the air to ripple visibly to the naked eye.

Lin Qing stood behind the bed-shield, supporting it with one empty hand.

The indestructible large bed remained completely motionless, and not even a trace of counter-shock force could be transmitted to his body.

Having temporarily reached the legendary-tier life level, both his physique and strength had reached an unimaginably high level.

After a round of concentrated fire from Bai Nian and the other girls, the Skeleton Monarch was completely unscathed.

The peak Epic-tier life level was simply not something they could shake right now.

"Retreat!" Bai Nian's longsword pointed obliquely at the ground, her voice cold and clear.

Taking advantage of the gap while the bed-shield blocked the attack, Su Xixi and the others nimbly retreated with the help of the momentum, quickly yielding the main battlefield ahead.

Their task was already complete—testing the depth and leaving marks; the rest would be left to that man.

"The struggles of ants are meaningless."

The Skeleton Monarch finally stood up from the throne. In its hollow eye sockets, those two dim blue soul fires beat violently, overlooking Lin Qing from above.

The peak Epic-tier pressure descended with a crash like a mountain.

At the back of the team, those fifty slave-status members who had just been rejoicing over the coolness suddenly felt a heavy weight on their shoulders.

As if carrying a small mountain, their knees went soft, and they collapsed to the ground in rows, their weapons clattering all over the floor.

Behind the door cracks, gloating jeers sounded once more.

"Hehe, those people on the Ninth Floor are done for..."

Before the words fell, Lin Qing moved.

He only took one step forward.

A terrifying pressure far surpassing the Skeleton Monarch erupted explosively from within his body!

The pale golden Protecting the Crowd halo centered on him instantly enveloped the entire building!

The slave-status members whose backs had been bent felt a sudden lightness, and strength surged back into their limbs as shock and wild joy flashed in their eyes.

"Noisy."

Lin Qing lowered his eyelids, and a pitch-black rift reflected between his brows.

Within the Heart Realm.

A drop of Realm Heavy Water fell.

The water droplet passed through the realm barrier and appeared above the Skeleton Monarch's head, instantly lengthening into an extremely thin line of ink-colored water that silently slashed down.

Chi—!

There was no loud explosion, only a soft sound like cloth being torn apart.

The Skeleton Monarch's huge body, the bone throne beneath it, together with the dozens of meters thick bone wall behind it, were split in two by this single line.

The cuts were smooth as a mirror.

The power of turbid calamity spread, and the stark white bones quickly turned ashen and decayed.

With a "poof," the soul fire went out.

Amidst the dull gazes of the crowd, the huge skeleton scattered into a pile of black powder all over the ground.

The entire Eighth Floor plunged into a deathly silence.

Those gloating eyes behind the door cracks now held only shock.

"D-Dead? In one move?"

After a brief silence, irrepressible cries of wild joy and cheers erupted from the Ninth Floor team.

"We won! We won!"

"Boss Lin Qing is invincible!"

However, Lin Qing didn't relax in the slightest.

He stared at that pile of bone ash, his brows tightly locked.

Something was wrong.

Sure enough!

The walls and ground of the entire building began to emit white light, shaking violently.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Countless bone fragments flew backward, gathering and splicing together above the ruins.

In less than three seconds.

An intact Skeleton Monarch stood before the crowd once again, its aura even a fraction stronger.

"Hhahahaha!" It twisted its neck, the sound of bone friction grating harshly. "On this Eighth Floor, I am undying!"

The color drained completely from the faces of the Ninth Floor members.

The cheers came to an abrupt halt.

Killed and immediately respawned with full health?

What the hell, is this running a health-lock cheat!

A thick stench of rot permeated the air.

Bai Nian, Su Xixi, and the others merely frowned and waved their hands to fan the air.

"Ugh—"

An Mumu suddenly covered her mouth and began to retch.

Her face turned pale, and cold sweat seeped from her temples.

"Mumu? Are you alright?" Su Mengmeng hurried to support her.

Su Xixi turned her head and curled her lips. "Miss An, vomiting just from watching a pile of bones revive? You're way too delicate."

"N-No..."

An Mumu waved her hand while retching, suppressing the churning in her stomach, and glared at Su Xixi.

"The monsters I've killed are no fewer than yours, how could I feel nauseous because of this..."

Before she finished speaking.

A flash of inspiration crossed Su Mengmeng's mind.

Her gaze suddenly fell on An Mumu's lower abdomen, and she exclaimed, "Mumu, you... are you pregnant?"

"What?!"

Su Xixi's voice changed pitch. "Impossible! You and Lin Qing... it's only been ten-odd days!"

Bai Nian turned her head, her gaze pausing on An Mumu's face for a moment before she said calmly, "In the Survival World, things cannot be deduced by conventional logic."

"The Kindling, it should be because of the Offspring Kindling," Su Mengmeng added.

An Mumu was stunned.

Her face showed bewilderment first, followed by shock.

Afterwards, the corners of her mouth uncontrollably curled upward bit by bit, blooming into a silly smile.

Yet she still didn't forget to arch an eyebrow at Su Xixi.

She muttered softly, her tone full of unconcealable pride.

"Who gets it... I actually got pregnant..."

Su Xixi clenched her teeth tightly, her fingers gripping the knife handle tightening inch by inch, her knuckles straining.

Meanwhile, at the front of the battlefield.

Lin Qing's face sank.

The fusion with Mo Lingxue placed an extreme burden on his body, and the legendary-tier energy was tearing apart his meridians.

A subtle stinging sensation came from his skin, and streaks of blood cracked open from his arms.

If it wasn't resolved soon, once the fusion ended, he would instantly suffer from extreme exhaustion.

"Again!"

Lin Qing let out a violent shout.

The next instant, the Heart Realm mirrored reality.

A patch of heavy water dark clouds surged violently.

In a flash, it turned into pitch-black rainwater.

Swish!

A torrential downpour poured down.

The rainwater containing spatial slicing and turbid calamity corrosion instantly hacked the Skeleton Monarch into a thousand pieces, scattering even its bone ash!

However, three seconds later.

White light lit up, and the bone ash reassembled.

The Skeleton Monarch stood before him for the third time, the soul fire in its eyes full of mockery:

"It's useless, human. As long as the rules of this building still exist, I am undying."

"And you, how much longer can you hold out?"

Lin Qing panted heavily, veins bulging on his temples.

The fusion state was about to be forcibly lifted!