Traffic jam in the city, four tragic camps. (5200)

After absorbing the dragon heart, Cao Xing felt filled with power.

Even Liu Muxue and Sarah, who were by his side, were feeling the changes in their own bodies with expressions of astonishment.

Cao Xing first glanced at the system panel, and upon seeing the attributes displayed, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"So comfortable…"

"With this, even if I take off all my equipment, my attributes are now roughly equivalent to a Chieftain of the same level."

Why a Chieftain, and not an Elite?

Because along his journey, Cao Xing had absorbed too many good things, and his four-dimensional attributes had long since surpassed those of ordinary Elite monsters.

Now that he had broken through again, he naturally reached the Chieftain level.

Of course, the one who gained the most was Sarah.

She was already a Dominator-level creature, equivalent to the limit of her potential!

Now, she had taken another step beyond that limit.

Although she didn't directly become a Mutated creature like the Dragon Speaker, she was not far off.

At this moment, Sarah was exuding a dangerous aura from head to toe.

Once she breaks through to the Hero level, she might not be as good as the Dragon Speaker when it comes to group attacks.

But in a one-on-one fight, Sarah could be called the number one person under the true Legendary rank, even more terrifying than the Dragon Speaker!

At this moment, the Dark Elf said respectfully.

"Thank you, Lord!"

Cao Xing smiled, "It's nothing, you're welcome. Go back and rest now."

Sarah nodded, "Understood!"

After saying this, the woman's figure disappeared from where she stood.

Cao Xing looked at the female knight beside him and said, "Let's go to sleep too, Muxue."

"Alright." Liu Muxue nodded gently.

Then, the two of them returned to the tent together and fell asleep peacefully.

However…

That low, humming sound appeared in Cao Xing's ears again tonight.

"Woo… woo…"

By now, Cao Xing had figured it out.

The sounds appearing in his mind were from two dragons.

The one that could converse with him and grant him the authority of the Crystal Land was the dark blue dragon.

And the one constantly emitting painful moans was the other one.

Although Cao Xing had not yet seen this dragon.

But through some clues, its identity was already obvious.

Crystal Dragon: Krakatoa!

A solemn look appeared in Cao Xing's eyes again.

Although he didn't know why two dragons had sought him out this time.

Nor did he know what kind of relationship the dark blue dragon had with Krakatoa.

But as the only Survivor Lord of the Dragon faction, he wasn't worried that they would harm him.

Consequently, Cao Xing fell asleep peacefully.

However, for the Survivors of the four great factions, tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

At this moment, the four major cities were filled with broken walls and ruins everywhere.

Everyone's original strongholds had already been destroyed, and they could only rest in the ruins…

The chat channels of the four major factions were going crazy!

The commanders of the major legions were constantly posting messages on the world channel.

Recruiting more people to join the alliance.

Because now, the situation had reversed.

The Dragon faction no longer needed to engage in defensive battles with them near the crystals.

Instead, they had to guard against the counterattack of the Branded Monsters.

Only by concentrating everyone's power could they deal with that army of Branded Monsters under unified command!

However, what they didn't know was…

Today's events were just the beginning of the nightmare.

During this night.

All Dragon Crystals began to continue birthing new Branded Monsters.

Very quickly, they replenished yesterday's losses.

The night passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was past five o'clock in the morning.

It is worth mentioning that there is no sun on the Crystal Land.

Every day at six o'clock, intense light would be emitted from the four major cities, illuminating the entire Crystal Land.

Including the mist that shrouded the entire plane, which would also be dispersed.

However, the light emitted by the four major cities today seemed much dimmer than before.

The Crystal Land was still shrouded in a faint, dark purple mist.

The system prompt appeared right on time.

[Survivors of the five great factions, please note: the seventeenth day of the Battle of the Oracle is about to begin…]

[Please speed up your progress and destroy more crystals…]

…

"Rumble…"

The gates of the four major cities slowly opened.

After a night of discussing strategies and forming alliances, the Survivors of the four great factions had basically reached a consensus.

In each major city, several representatives had been chosen; they were all beings from the top ten of the rankings.

When encountering large-scale battles, these powerhouses would take command.

They decided to wash away their shame today!

"Damn it, we were beaten too miserably yesterday, blocked at home and couldn't get out."

"Yeah, today we must rise up, take revenge, and destroy all the crystals within a week!"

"Brothers, let's go!"

But when the vast crowd of Survivors just arrived at the city gates, they froze in place again.

Everyone's mouths twitched, and before long, looks of terror appeared on their faces!

Because they saw that on the Crystal Land ahead, a massive amount of Branded Monsters had assembled again!

The sky was filled with Branded Winged Birds and Crystal Dragons, almost blocking out the sky and occupying their entire field of vision!

Within the monster horde, those Hydras looked filled with destructive power!

Before dawn.

Cao Xing had already gathered all his warriors, continued to divide them into four teams, and led the army of Branded Monsters to the vicinity of the four major cities.

Moreover, the position of these Branded Monsters was exactly in the area about two kilometers away from the city gates.

This was also a place where the attacks of most Survivors could not reach!

Even if a small portion of Survivors had special abilities that could attack from such a distance.

Compared to the number of Branded Monsters, these attacks were insignificant.

At the same time, the massive amount of Branded Monsters had already assumed battle stances and prepared for attack.

It was as if as long as they dared to come out, they would be met with the same carpet-bombing attack as yesterday!

The Survivors immediately realized what was happening.

"Damn it! Are they planning to block us in the city again?"

"He doesn't want to keep us blocked until the very last day, does he?"

Obviously, this was Cao Xing's plan.

Including the Survivors of the four great factions and the people watching the live stream, everyone understood this point.

The Survivors of the four great factions were furious!

"Damn it, this is too much!"

"If this can be tolerated, what cannot? Brothers, let's go together, let's just charge out!"

However, although they said this, no one dared to go up.

After all, the terrifying scene caused by the Branded Monsters' concentrated fire and carpet bombing yesterday was still fresh in their minds!

No matter who it was, the first wave of charging Survivors would definitely be killed instantly!

Furthermore, during these ten-plus days of campaigning, most Survivor Lords had died at least once.

Yesterday's battle had consumed quite a few people's revivals.

If they died again today, they would really be finished!

Therefore, although everyone felt very angry, no one dared to go up.

Including the few representatives they had chosen last night, they didn't know what to decide.

At this moment, they could only remain frustrated within the range of the city's defensive shield.

The live stream chat was going crazy again.

"Hahaha! The brothers of the four great factions are blocked again."

"Damn, I've really learned something today! Tens of millions of Lords are being blocked by one Lord."

"Hahaha! This Battle of the Oracle is truly exciting. With Great Lord Cao Xing around, we can see all kinds of amazing things every day."

"Indeed, if I had known, I would have participated too!"

"Brother, what would you participate for? To give Great Lord Cao Xing points?"

…

And at this moment.

The Survivors of the four great factions fell into silence again, just like yesterday.

They stood on the city walls, watching the overwhelming army of Branded Monsters outside the city.

Time passed slowly…

One hour…

Two hours…

In the blink of an eye, three hours passed.

The Survivors of the four major cities were still blocked in the city by Cao Xing.

During this time, a small number of Survivors organized some teams to rush out.

However, they had barely stepped a hundred meters outside the defensive shield.

When they were directly taken care of by Cao Xing's legions.

In the live stream, the number of online viewers soared to over a billion again!

They were all stunned!

In the afternoon.

Among the four great factions, those powerhouses on the rankings couldn't stand this humiliation.

They organized the largest charge in history, wanting to rush out of the city and break up the formation of the Branded Monster army!

However.

Not long after leaving the city, they stepped into that three-kilometer death zone.

Then they suffered concentrated fire from the massive amount of Branded Monsters, including a large number of Dominator-level creatures and Commander-level creatures!

"Boom! Rumble!"

Terrifying dark purple light orbs rose up.

After nearly an hour of battle.

This group of people was wiped out again.

In the main city, white lights rose one after another.

These were the Survivor army that had just been taken out in the battle.

Among them was the red-haired Angelina.

She had just resurrected in the main city, with a look of anger and shame in her eyes!

"Damn Cao Xing, hateful!"

Now, she only had one last chance to resurrect.

Not only that, but in that last wave of total annihilation, many of her own legion members had also fallen.

Angelina endured the heartache and spent a considerable amount of gold points to resurrect everyone.

Other Survivors who were sent back to the main city were equally furious.

However, no matter how angry they were, there was nothing they could do.

Cao Xing simply wouldn't let them leave the city anyway.

In the blink of an eye, it was twelve o'clock at night!

In other words, they had been blocked in the main city for the entire day, unable to get out.

The Crystal Land welcomed its calmest day in over half a month.

As the power of the dragons gradually covered the entire Crystal Land, a system notification appeared.

[Survivor Cao Xing, please take note!]

[The seventeenth day of the Battle of the Oracle has ended. Rewards are being calculated based on the number of remaining crystals.]

[Number of crystals destroyed today: 0. Remaining crystal count: 27,652 * 16 days = 470,084.]

[Main crystal has been preserved for 16 days. Obtained gold points: 16…]

…

…

Seeing the system notification, a smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

Because this was the first day since entering the Battle of the Oracle that zero crystals had been destroyed.

"Very good. As long as I keep this up, just by dragging it out until the last day, I can earn tens of millions of gold points again!"

Although the Survivors had the protection of the main city, making it impossible to farm gold points by killing them.

But Cao Xing could earn a large amount of gold points every day just from the calculations.

It could be said that he wouldn't lose out no matter what.

Surrounded by the monster horde, Cao Xing also began to meditate and rest.

Soon, the night had passed.

The next day…

The situation remained the same.

Cao Xing continued to command the massive horde of Branded Monsters, blockading the areas around the four main cities.

By today, there were fewer and fewer Survivors attempting to organize teams to rush out.

The eighteenth day…

The nineteenth day…

The twentieth day…

For four consecutive days, the number of crystals destroyed across the entire Crystal Land had been zero.

Cao Xing's gold points were also steadily increasing.

The Survivors of the four major factions had finally understood Cao Xing's intentions.

Cao Xing did not intend to let them out before the Battle of the Oracle ended.

For a moment, expressions of bitter laughter appeared in everyone's eyes…

An unprecedented sense of frustration welled up in the hearts of those powerful individuals.

Cao Xing, however, felt nothing and continued to block them.

It lasted until the end of the twentieth day.

The number of dragon crystals destroyed was 5.

These 5 crystals were destroyed by some Survivors who possessed special means.

They seemed to have used some kind of large-scale teleportation scroll to directly teleport their legions out of the city en masse.

Cao Xing did not act immediately upon discovering this.

Instead, he waited until they had all reached the vicinity of the crystals, then took them all out directly.

Many of those Survivors left the Battle of the Oracle battlefield because they had exhausted their resurrection attempts.

He glanced at the number of remaining dragon crystals.

[Number of dragon crystals: 27,647]

[Number of main crystals: 1]

…

Cao Xing let out a sigh of relief.

"Finally, I've made it past 20 days."

This result had far exceeded Cao Xing's expectations.

After all, according to the initial estimate, the 100,000 crystals wouldn't have lasted even 20 days before being completely wiped out.

But now, not only had 20 days passed, but over twenty thousand remained.

With this, as long as he blocked the Survivors for another five or six days, even if they attacked with all their might for the remaining time, they wouldn't be able to push down the remaining crystals.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing could already see the hope of victory in his eyes.

Then, he entered a meditative state again to recharge and recuperate.

However, the dragon's voice that Cao Xing heard over the past few nights had been much calmer than before.

Although he could still feel its pain, relatively speaking, it wasn't as intense.

The night passed in the blink of an eye.

The next day…

A system notification appeared.

[Survivors, please take note! The Battle of the Oracle challenge has reached the twenty-first day. The final stage has now begun, and the attributes of Survivors in the four major factions have increased by 20%!]

[Furthermore, for the remainder of the time, the gold points obtained from killing all Branded Monsters will be doubled!]

[Please destroy the crystals as quickly as possible!]

…

As the notification ended.

A dazzling beam of light erupted once again from the statues in the four main cities.

It landed on the heads of the Survivors in the four major factions.

Everyone felt their strength surge significantly!

"Damn… all attributes increased by 20%? That's pretty fierce!"

"This boost is comprehensive; even the strength of the units under my command has surged significantly!"

"Hahaha, can we now consider ourselves to have elite-level attributes across the board?"

As mentioned before, one potential transformation increases attributes by 30%.

But the Survivors had used quite a few items to increase their attributes along the way.

Now, with another 20% increase, they were indeed equivalent to the elite level.

And it wasn't just a portion; it applied to all Survivor lords and their combat personnel!

The surge in strength caused their confidence to skyrocket once again.

A legion commander said.

"Everyone, now that we have all received a significant boost, shall we try to organize and charge one more time?"

Hearing this proposal, many in the four major factions were already tempted.

A legion commander immediately echoed.

"I support charging. Plus, killing these monsters now yields double gold points. If we can break out and easily wipe out some Branded Monsters, we'll earn more than we did before."

Stimulated by these double gold points, many Survivors were tempted.

They quickly assembled their teams.

Soon, a massive number of figures gathered in the four main cities.

After some temporary adjustments.

A massive army of Survivors rushed out of the main city.

They launched the largest charge during the five or six days they had been blockaded.

"Whoosh!"

Countless Survivor armies poured out of the main city like a tide.

Among them were a large number of units that jumped directly from the hundreds-of-meters-high city walls.

It was as if a zombie apocalypse had broken out!

They moved in a massive, overwhelming force, rapidly approaching the Branded Monster army!

However, Cao Xing sensed their movements immediately once again.

At the same time, he also received warnings from Yao Yiming, Ji Xinyue, and others, as well as Bai Zhi.

Now, these three often sent him various intelligence about the four major factions.

For example, which legion was preparing to sneak out of the city, run to the rear of the Crystal Land, and destroy his dragon crystals.

For example, which powerful individual had a certain special item and was recruiting people to prepare to leave the city.

Relying on the intelligence from these three, Cao Xing had indeed eliminated quite a few Survivors who had tried to sneak out of the city.

They were practically double agents planted within the four major factions!

At this moment, after grasping their movements, a smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

"Do you think you can break out just with a 20% increase across the board?"

"You're still quite far off!"

The moment the Survivor army stepped out of the defensive barrier.

The sky began to tremble violently!

A massive meteor shower appeared overhead, each meteor carrying a destructive force.

It was none other than the commander-level skill unleashed by those Crystal Dragons!

In addition, there were even more shells fired by the Branded Winged Birds and Branded Bombardiers!

Under the impact of hundreds of doomsday meteors and the bombardment of massive amounts of long-range shells.

The ground was blasted and kept trembling.

The first batch of Survivors who rushed out was instantly annihilated.

However, they seemed to have mentally prepared for this scene.

More Survivors rushed out from all directions, one after another.

Some people even simply wanted to take advantage of the chaos to lead their legions directly to attack the dragon crystals.

For these people, Cao Xing directly dispatched his own legions and mobilized Branded Monsters from other crystal strongholds to surround and kill them.

This could be called the largest-scale collision in the history of the Battle of the Oracle.

The Survivors charged into the Branded Monster army several times.

But they were all beaten back by the suicidal attacks of those Branded Monsters.

This wave of attacks lasted for a full two or three hours.

Even one-third of Cao Xing's Branded Monsters were wiped out.

It wasn't until the people of the four major factions were mostly beaten down that it gradually subsided.

It was precisely during this wave of attacks that at least one or two million Survivor lords in each main city left the Battle of the Oracle battlefield because they had exhausted their resurrection attempts.

Adding up the four main cities, that was six or seven million Survivor lords.

The number of people in the main cities plummeted significantly.

At this moment, the chat channels of the four major factions fell silent once again.

And those resurrected Survivor lords immediately felt extremely stifled.

"Damn! We can't break out at all!"

"With just this 20% attribute increase, it's completely ineffective in front of so many monsters."

"Damn it! What's the point of fighting? Now that so many people have been wiped out, there's even less hope for the future."