Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1302 - 161: Xu Shu’s Radiance

The smile on Xu Shu’s face faded, and he said seriously, "Don’t you think this ’referee’ is very powerful? It’s basic courtesy to pay respects to the referee after the duel ends!"

Saying this, he bowed sincerely, as if he were a gentleman of exceptionally high breeding.

Almost instantly, a "zzz" sound resonated again from the dome above. The translation Xu Shu saw was: [The challenger’s choice is complete, rewards selected and has left! Other challengers, please make your choice quickly; there will be penalties for overtime! 10, 9, 8...]

In the next second, with a snap, two orbs of light out of the six floated over by themselves, enveloping Xu Shu.

In the warm, slippery sensation, as if being kissed and wrapped by the fragrant tongue of a very gentle elder sister, Xu Shu’s feet lifted off the ground and he swiftly rose up, sitting back into the cable car.

Meanwhile, he had obtained something extra in his hand, a rather strangely twisted white bone mask.

At first glance, it seemed somewhat similar to the White Bone Snake Spirit Demon Statue conjured by Qi Lixiang earlier, yet with significantly more complex and obscure inscriptions on the top, making it seem incredibly sinister at a glance.

No time to observe this "god-given reward" in detail, Xu Shu quickly stuffed the mask into his pocket as his body, along with the light cluster cable car, shot like a meteor towards the original beehive compartment he stood in.

Behind the compartment, space undulated and dissolved, revealing the identical rotating wormhole from before!

Xu Shu immediately understood, this was him being "teleported" out after the fight, without any leftover time.

Seeing the countdown still continuing while his teammates stood dumbfounded staring at him, he hurriedly shouted, "Do it quickly! Just like I did—"

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Shu’s body was suddenly squeezed into a narrow, elongated tunnel like a crack in the sky.

It’s worth mentioning that the mermaid, perhaps due to following Xu Shu’s actions, was also deemed to have "finished the challenge" and hence was teleported out along with him.

Her reward was a cool blue-white ball, about the size of a fist, with a curled-up ice-blue worm inside, emitting bursts of chill.

Until Xu Shu completely vanished, his loud shout resounded in the sky, only then did the rest snap out of their daze.

"So that’s how we respond? Brother Xu truly is a remarkable person!" Yan Huoxing exclaimed, mimicking Xu Shu’s actions, shouting ’I’m done,’ ’see you next time,’ and bowing, whereupon he too was enveloped by a white light sphere and sent towards the entrance passage they came from.

Seeing this, the others immediately followed suit without hesitation.

Naturally, Lu Bingwei was the most puzzled, wondering why Xu Shu seemed to know this minor detail; hadn’t this Secret Realm’s sixth boss been defeated for the first time already?

She was particularly bewildered but momentarily couldn’t figure out what was wrong, so she didn’t overthink it, simply joined the light circle last, closely following Ali and Xie Xiaochan, ascending into the sky.

By this point, their attention had been attracted by the "challenge rewards" that suddenly appeared in their hands.

And when everyone in the duel arena had evacuated, the huge, towering dome above lazily lowered several light balls, grabbing those on the "substitute bench," including Gu Pan and that biochemical mother body, tossing them all into the space wormhole.

Crack!

Space fissures started to close slowly; the speed was quite sluggish, just like the slow closing of a door after excreting five days of squeezed feces by a vertebrate.

Perhaps, the closing speed corresponds closely to the rate at which people completely leave the area, and it will truly shut tight only after everyone exits; otherwise, it won’t close due to things being stuffed inside.

But what contrasted with this was the previously roaring ocean-like cheers that instantly fell silent as if cut off abruptly.

This transition from extreme chaos to extreme silence created an enormous sense of disruption, plunging the giant honeycomb Duel Arena Secret Realm into an atmosphere of extreme eeriness.

It’s as if, the previous excitement never happened.

The only evidence proving the reality was the chaos-smitten duel arena, quickly restoring to its original, dust-free condition.

The only movement came from the countless, densely packed honecombed compartments, filled with eyes either resentful, fearful, submissive, or despondent.

They were quietly isolated within the amber membranes, as if tiny spiders had hatched from giant spider eggs.

The eyes quietly watched...

Right at this moment.

As the rotating spatial door was about to close completely, with only a trace left smaller than the Planck length, beyond the observation of ordinary humans, in that instant.

On the dome above, a suddenly aroused fury unleashed its anger as if awakening from a great slumber.

"It’s actually... you?"

"Despicable wretch, you’ve broken the rules!"

This fury condensed into a black droplet surpassing the speed of light!

Fully conjured from the death-laden Chen Huangquan liquid, like a water droplet yet more akin to condensed black mist, within which resided countless howls and screams, seemingly harboring billions of grievance souls capable of enveloping a planet, immediately shot towards the closing space tunnel, trying to traverse out!

It seemed focused on one target—Gu Pan!

On the ’substitute bench,’ Gu Pan, who volunteered to stay behind, therefore last in line!