The spine of the world of terror! Sweating!

Just as Qin Feng teleported to Shenmu Village and flew rapidly towards the World Spine Giant Tree.

Beneath the towering giant tree, thousands of meters high and reaching into the clouds, countless vines gathered. These vines, several meters thick, intertwined to form a giant tree cage, trapping a sixty-person team within it.

Vines continuously attacked the team, but they were temporarily fended off by the strong individuals in the team using a temporary defensive barrier.

"No, the World Spine's attack is too fierce!"

A Black-Clothed Youth with long hair, his face grim, spread his hands and desperately maintained the defensive barrier: "More lifespan! I can't hold on much longer!"

Upon hearing his shout, everyone around him, without hesitation, solemnly threw lifespan orbs at the Black-Clothed Youth, each orb representing one hundred years.

Everyone's expressions were grim.

Except for… a large yellow eyeball floating in mid-air within the crowd.

This large eyeball was none other than a 'Knowledge Eye', and this Knowledge Eye was in an extremely excited state!

Her name was 'Knowledge Eye·Jeanne d'Arc', clearly a Knowledge Eye of the Knowledge Eye race, assigned to the Yōlán Civilization to collect information.

As an NPC, the Knowledge Eye, though she herself doesn't remember the records of each previous reincarnation, if the civilization she is in undergoes Sublimation, her race can extract the information she collected in each reincarnation through certain means.

Under normal circumstances, only information from Sublimated civilizations will be 'uploaded' to the Knowledge Eye race's headquarters. Conversely, if a civilization cannot Sublimate, then the Knowledge Eye race has no need to know its information… because such civilizations are too insignificant.

Compared to that, the 'Mechanical Rubik's Cube' clearly collects information more in real-time.

Qin Feng had once inquired with Ling Che about information regarding the Mechanical Rubik's Cube and Knowledge Eye, and he also learned some things that ordinary people didn't know…

That is, 'Knowledge Eye' belongs to a race; such a race already exists in the universe, and in the God Forsaken Game, they also belong to the 'player' identity.

However, the 'Mechanical Rubik's Cube' is different; it is merely a 'tool' created by a certain powerful individual. Through the power of a certain authority, the Mechanical Rubik's Cube BOSSes dispatched to various civilizations can record and upload information about their defeat in real-time upon death…

As for what authority it is, it still couldn't be explicitly told to Qin Feng due to the agreement.

But Qin Feng also realized that the Mechanical Rubik's Cube, like the Abyss Child, might be his future enemy…

…

At this very moment.

In the giant tree cage below the World Spine Giant Tree, Knowledge Eye·Jeanne d'Arc looked up at the thousands-of-meters-high World Spine Giant Tree with eyes full of excitement!

"It's the Fourth World Spine!"

"To be able to personally witness the Fourth World Spine is truly a rare opportunity…"

"In the history of the Yōlán Civilization, it's highly likely to be the first time!"

For the Knowledge Eye race, they crave all knowledge, especially the collection of various BOSS data within the God Forsaken Game.

And the Fourth 'World Spine Giant Tree', due to its rare appearances in various worlds, even when it does refresh and appear, the Knowledge Eye rarely gets to see it firsthand. Therefore, the Knowledge Eye is extremely interested in information about the World Spine.

One must know that while each world's World Spine has consistent basic mechanisms, their detailed skills and specific abilities are completely different.

For the Knowledge Eye, the more data collected, the more she can glimpse deeper patterns about the God Forsaken Game…

Therefore.

Even though 'Knowledge Eye·Jeanne d'Arc' was facing a life-or-death crisis with other players from Shenmu Village, she was not afraid at all.

Even if she died, she wanted to collect more data about the World Spine Giant Tree for her race!

"It was truly the right decision to let them bring me out this time!"

The Knowledge Eye was very fortunate.

Earlier, when this team was about to go out to clear monsters, she applied to the guild leader to come along, and it just so happened that the Fourth World Spine spawned right in front of them, making her ecstatic on the spot.

But compared to the Knowledge Eye's excitement, the expressions of the other team members were very grim.

In the past, they wouldn't have feared death… but now it was different, because of the existence of Shadow 007, the entire Yōlán Civilization had united.

The Yōlán Civilization would Sublimate to the Order Land with an extremely powerful stance!

If they died in this situation, they would truly die, without even a chance for resurrection and reincarnation.

"We must hold on!"

Everyone looked at the Black-Clothed Youth maintaining the defensive barrier, each nervously throwing out their lifespan.

They all knew that the Black-Clothed Youth's quantum barrier could utilize his own defense and damage reduction, with a maximum damage reduction of seventy-five hundred times!

This was already a higher damage reduction than a typical Mythic BOSS, even reaching the level of a typical Ancient-Grade BOSS.

However, the cost of obtaining this damage reduction was that for every ten thousand durability deducted from the quantum barrier, the Black-Clothed Youth would consume one day of his lifespan.

That is, one year of lifespan could only offset 3.65 million durability, which translates to a basic damage of only 27.3 billion…

In normal times, when battles occurred between teams or guilds, this defensive barrier could be said to be a life-saving artifact at critical moments.

For a typical sixty-person Level 50 team, the Black-Clothed Youth could easily withstand all of the opponent's attacks by consuming less than 10 years of lifespan per second.

If it were a large guild, this defensive barrier could at most withstand attacks from three to five hundred people simultaneously, and it would definitely not consume 100 years of lifespan per second.

But now…

This World Spine Giant Tree!

"Who knows what this thing has eaten?"

"One flick of a vine can cost me more than twenty years of lifespan!"

"Its basic attack reaches one hundred trillion!"

"And there are a total of thirty-six tentacles, whipping me twenty to thirty times per second…"

The Black-Clothed Youth gritted his teeth, already drenched in sweat.

Now he needed to consume two to three hundred years of lifespan per second just to withstand the World Spine's attacks!

He could hardly imagine how an Ancient-Grade BOSS, after gaining the World Spine's buffs, could possess such terrifying damage capabilities?

Such damage…

Even top-tier tank professions could only withstand it during periods of 'invincibility' and 'high damage reduction'.

If there was no high damage reduction state, no invincibility, then being whipped by those vines once would be fatal!

"Calculated this way, just this one World Spine Giant Tree would require hundreds of top-tier tank professions to take damage in turns."

"There are a total of five giant trees globally, so at least five hundred top-tier tank professions would be needed to take damage…"

The Black-Clothed Youth and the others around him all had grim expressions, unable to imagine what kind of overall strength a civilization would need to achieve to defeat such a BOSS…

And this was without even considering the BOSS's other mechanisms and subsequent skills.

"Don't worry."

Just then, a female priest in her thirties in the team suddenly looked delighted: "The guild leader just told me that the Movie Emperor is here!"

"Shadow 007?"

The Black-Clothed Youth's expression slightly darkened upon hearing this code name: "Excluding the BOSS itself, there are forty to fifty vines alone, each with 3.6 trillion HP. Together, they have ten times more HP than the BOSS itself. Even if it's Shadow, he might not make it in time…"