Chapter 889 - 394: Rule Origin 3

He still needed time, more time!

A sharp glint flashed through Chu Xiu’s dark eyes. His cold voice rang out: "Mao Qi, how long are you planning to lie there?"

Mao Qi’s body trembled. She slowly raised her head. The other Civilization Envoys all showed shocked expressions, for around her eyes, fiery red, web-like vertical lines were spreading outward, as if she had been scorched by some kind of Power!

But in the way she looked at Chu Xiu, the fear was fading, replaced by a gradually igniting fanaticism!

Mao Qi suddenly raised her head and let out a long howl toward the sky. Her waist twisted, and in the next instant, a gigantic Cyan Dragon had appeared in the field!

Compared to the earlier Transformation, this Cyan Dragon’s size was almost more than double! And on its surface there were actually golden patterns flowing!

Zhu Jiu stared at Mao Qi in disbelief. "She actually couldn’t bear but use the Cyan Dragon’s blood? What on earth happened between them..."

Xie Xuanzhao was also full of incredulity. The use of the Rule of Transformation usually required a Supporting Object, but it was generally only used as a base, a medium. This kind of method that directly consumed the Supporting Object could indeed greatly strengthen the newly transformed body, yet it would also cause the Supporting Object to disappear permanently once its Power was exhausted!

This Mao Qi was clearly racking her brains earlier to kill Chu Xiu; how did she suddenly start risking her life for him?

Before everyone could recover from their shock, a dragon roar that split the clouds and cracked the stones resounded through the field. In an instant, a massive shockwave spread outward with Chu Xiu as its center. The surrounding poisonous insects were blasted into disarray by this Power, driven back, and then a huge curtain of water rose again, firmly protecting Chu Xiu.

The others exchanged looks. Though they didn’t know what had happened, they also knew this wasn’t the time to dig to the bottom of it, and they all followed up, rebuilding the defensive line to help Chu Xiu delay.

Like this, under everyone’s combined effort, time slowly passed.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes... half an hour!

With everyone working together, in a full half hour, only fewer than three thousand poisonous insects managed to slip past!

And at this moment, Chu Xiu actually seemed to have grasped a way to withstand the Bone Changing Tribulation. Even though the poisonous insects on his body had doubled twice over, he still maintained that dynamic balance of melting and rebirth occurring at the same time.

"Brother Chen, we don’t have much Energy left. How much longer do you need?" Xie Xuanzhao sent a Sound Transmission.

"Just do your best. No need to use the Divine Artifact," Chu Xiu’s voice sounded.

The crowd exchanged looks again. In this half hour they had indeed consumed a lot of the Tribulation’s Power, but after all they were only blocking; outside, a massive amount of the Tribulation still remained, and they had no idea where Chu Xiu’s confidence came from.

But at this point they could only place their trust in Chu Xiu.

Thus, everyone pushed on, their Mana almost completely exhausted, dragging out another half hour for Chu Xiu, before they could no longer hold on and all retreated far away.

With no more obstruction, the sea of poisonous insects directly pounced onto Chu Xiu, densely filling every inch of gap, wrapping him into a "giant cocoon" made entirely of insects!

Once he was wrapped up, every thread of Life Energy overflowing from Chu Xiu was Devoured, which caused a large number of poisonous insects to fly toward the other Civilization Envoys’ direction.

"We’re in trouble now. We helped him, but now we no longer have any means to resist these poisonous insects," the Crippled Demon said with a bitter smile.

"At this point we can only use the Divine Artifact," Zhu Jiu said.

However, just as he was about to make a move, a massive surge of Life Energy once again erupted from Chu Xiu’s body! A jade-green Armor appeared on his surface!

"A Divine Artifact!" Mu Tuo’s eyes lit up. "So Brother Chen still had such a hidden trump card. No wonder he was so fearless. The Divine Power can at least help resist and consume the Rule."

Xie Xuanzhao said, "But the Divine Power contained in this Divine Artifact is pitifully little, and it contains no Rule at all. It probably isn’t from the hand of a True God. No, most likely it’s not even from a sub-god, but only from some Incomplete Star God."

"This bit of Power, before the Tribulation, isn’t worth mentioning."

All of them more or less had this kind of Equipment imbued with such Power, and Xie Xuanzhao’s group of three had even stronger trump cards.

At this time, Mao Qi sneered and said, "Take a good look. Those poisonous insects that were originally coming to attack us—haven’t they been attracted over again?"

The others were startled when they heard this, and then discovered that the insects really were being attracted by the Armor’s Power, gathering toward Chu Xiu again.

Mao Qi said proudly with a smile, "Since Senior said he’s going to undergo the Tribulation, how could he use some cheap trick? He isn’t using Divine Power to oppose the Rule. He’s only using the Life Energy of this Divine Artifact to replenish himself, while gathering all the Power of the Tribulation together, that’s all."

The crowd looked at her with strange expressions. Zhu Jiu hesitated and said, "Chen... Senior?"

"If he weren’t a Senior, how could he possess such Divine Techniques?" Mao Qi gave him a sidelong glance, then turned her head away, lifting her chin slightly. "Forget it. Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand."

Everyone: "..."

Just what on earth has this fellow gone through!

Infinite curiosity welled up in their hearts, but seeing Mao Qi’s inexplicable sense of superiority, they suddenly didn’t feel like asking her.

They could only endure their curiosity and quietly wait for Chu Xiu to undergo the Tribulation.

With the help of the Divine Living Weight Armor, Chu Xiu gradually adapted to the sudden surge in poisonous insects. After its Power was completely exhausted, Chu Xiu’s condition stabilized once again.

Like this, another hour passed.

By now, countless insect corpses drained of Power were scattered around Chu Xiu, while he himself was still surrounded by a massive swarm, forming a black sphere over five meters in diameter.

Suddenly, a soft cracking sound came out. First, a fissure appeared on the surface of the sphere. Then the fissure rapidly spread, and in a short while it covered the entire sphere. Finally, as if it had reached some critical point, the huge sphere collapsed with a boom!

Countless insect corpses rustled down. Through the gaps between those bodies, they could vaguely see a humanoid being gradually emerging—first the skeleton, then the blood vessels, muscles, and internal organs!

"Could this be..." Zhu Jiu looked toward Xie Xuanzhao.

"It should be," Xie Xuanzhao nodded, her beautiful eyes filled with shock as well. "This is what’s recorded in the ancient texts—"

"Rebirth in Flesh and Bone!"