Chapter 887: Traitors Kill People

It was a pity that the mere few dozen miles could be covered in an instant. By the time Wan Gu and the other travelers could launch their second round of attacks, the beast herd had already reached them.
Boom!
Dozens of magical beasts at the forefront charged forward with overwhelming force, fearlessly slamming into the group. The defensive barrier created by over a hundred travelers trembled violently but held firm.
“Hold on!”
“Attack!”
A few experienced travelers in charge shouted loudly. The third round of combined attacks instantly shattered the dozens of beasts right in front of them, but even more beasts rushed forward, about to collide with the barrier.
Su Che and the others were among the hundred people responsible for defense. By now, Su Che had realized that it wouldn’t be easy for the beast herd to break through the barrier—especially since, when blocked by it, the beasts would crowd together outside, allowing the travelers’ combined attacks to deal heavy damage, costing them over a hundred beasts per round.
“Be careful! Don’t stay too far away from me!”
Su Che suddenly sent messages to Tian Yin and the others at the same time. They could all guess what was about to happen.
“We can’t avoid being exposed any longer.”
Su Che gritted his teeth and activated the Time Domain instantly.
Boom!
A crimson shockwave spread out from Su Che as the center, covering only about twenty zhang in radius.
A time domain with a radius of twenty zhang formed, not encompassing all the over 300 travelers but only the closest hundred who were defending. These hundred people were desperately maintaining the defensive barrier. Now trapped within the time domain, all their actions slowed down immensely, including the speed at which energy was released from their bodies.
Although it was only an instant outside the time domain, the defensive barrier seemed unchanged on the surface, but its defensive effectiveness plummeted by hundreds of times.
“A Time Domain?”
The experienced travelers like Wan Gu were shocked and demanded, “Who’s there?”
Whoosh!
Though the hundred defenders inside the domain were slowed by time, the combined power they unleashed was beyond Su Che’s ability to resist. Thus, the time domain lasted only a brief moment before being completely torn apart and disappearing.
At such a critical moment, even a single instant was enough.
The change was so drastic that many people failed to recognize who had carried out this deadly act of destruction.

“You…”
One of the veteran travelers saw everything clearly. Pointing at Su Che, he roared in anger, but he couldn’t say anything else.
The main force of the beast horde crashed into the defense barrier, whose protective effect plummeted by hundreds of times. The travelers had just escaped from the time realm and hadn’t had time to pour more energy into the barrier.
Boom!
The first dozen or so magical beasts that hit the barrier were then pushed by the incoming horde, getting crushed into meat pies. Yet this sacrifice wasn’t in vain—the transparent barrier in front of them was shattered by the overwhelming force of the horde.
They were charging in!
“Bad! Retreat quickly!”
Wangu and the others couldn’t afford to punish Su Che now. Their only hope was to retreat immediately. If they could maintain formation and pull back a distance before forming another defense barrier, maybe they still had a chance…
But this hope vanished the moment it arose. Boom! The more than two hundred travelers at the front were completely overwhelmed by the surging horde, and their figures disappeared from sight.
Only Wangu and his group of veteran travelers, along with dozens of others, managed to retreat thousands of feet in an instant and escape just in time.
“Up!”
With a fierce cry, Wangu, along with a dozen old friends, unleashed a pale green defensive shield that temporarily stopped the hundreds of magical beasts charging in.
The other dozens of travelers also acted quickly, using all their strength to help maintain this much smaller pale green shield.
Ah!
Ah, ah, ah…
Cries of pain filled the air. Among the more than two hundred travelers trapped in the horde, many were devoured and torn to pieces on the spot.
Su Che and his group were also in the midst of the chaos, but from the start, they were entangled by dozens of tree roots that sprang up from the ground, as if trapped in a cage woven from roots.
It was this cage that protected Su Che and his group, because no magical beast would attack those roots. Even if they could sense Su Che and his group inside, they would ignore them.
Cries of agony echoed around them. One of the nearest travelers even rushed at the cage, pleading to get inside, but was knocked away by Lao Hei and fell into the horde, where he was torn to shreds in an instant.
Su Che felt no pity or remorse. In chaos, no one cared about the lives of others when fighting for what they wanted.

Moreover, in Su Che’s mind, were the Chaos Travelers any different from these magical beasts before him? No difference at all. On a smaller scale, none of them were from our universe; on a larger scale, they were all just creatures of chaos. After entering chaos, Su Che had long thrown aside all notions of kindness, compassion, justice, and so on. The realm of chaos was the most primitive and extreme hunting ground—only those who ate the most could grow stronger. He would keep growing until he could create his own universe, and then it would be only right to show kindness to the countless beings born in that universe, like a kind father… Over two hundred travelers were submerged in a herd of more than two thousand beasts. No matter how hard they struggled or resisted, it was useless. In just a dozen breaths, the herd rushed at the pale green defensive shield thousands of feet away. In this area, apart from the cage protecting Su Che and his four companions, nothing else remained. All perished at the beasts’ mouths, their souls absorbed by the magical beasts—no one could escape. “There are still over eighty people left.” Su Che gazed at Wan Gu and the others inside the pale green defensive shield, muttering to himself, “Let’s see—at a critical moment, a traitor like me can doom everyone.” Meanwhile, Wan Gu and the other veteran travelers floated inside the defensive shield, about thirty feet above the ground. Their eyes could see past the herd outside and directly at Su Che’s side. Especially Wan Gu’s icy gaze, spanning thousands of feet, pierced straight into Su Che’s eyes, clearly signaling, “Wait for it—no matter how vast chaos is, we won’t let you go!” Su Che smiled calmly and replied with his gaze, “Don’t worry. You won’t leave Magic Island alive.” With over two thousand magical beasts surrounding them, could they escape? Even if Su Che agreed, the Snake Woman and the Magic Tree wouldn’t agree either. Eliminating this group of travelers would ensure that no one would come to disturb the Magic Tree for a long time. It seemed the outcome was already decided, but Su Che still wouldn’t dare slack off in the slightest. After all, for his own purpose, the most important thing was to get that Mist Sea Divine Ship from Wan Gu’s hands. He must not let him escape! After all, it was impossible to know whether others also had such a Mist Sea Divine Ship.

The Snake Woman’s mental signals came through, filled with joy: “Su Che, that move just now was amazing! Is that the skill you just learned? I remember, many years ago, there was a guy whose time domain was exactly like yours. It was with that skill that he managed to obtain a few Purple Crystal Fruits.”
“That’s right,” Su Che replied. “That person is already dead. I acquired this skill from him not long ago.”
“I see.” The Snake Woman was slightly surprised. “All these years later, he’s still around Magli Island?”
“It’s not just him; many others are also keeping an eye on the Hunli Divine Tree,” Su Che reminded her. “That’s why, as soon as it became clear that the Hunli Divine Tree had begun to evolve further, they all showed up.”
“So, do you think Magli Island should move to another place after killing all these people today?” the Snake Woman asked.
“If Magli Island could move, it would certainly be better to leave this well-known area.”
After saying that, Su Che curiously asked, “Can such a large island move around in chaos?”
“Of course it can. If you don’t believe it, just wait and see,” the Snake Woman replied in a sweet voice.
While the two were communicating mentally, on the other side, the beast herd continued to attack the defensive shield maintained by Wan Gu and the others.
By now, the surviving travelers, including top experts like Wan Gu, numbered only eighty-three. To keep the defensive shield from being broken by the magical beasts, everyone had to give it their all, leaving no extra strength to attack the beast herd outside.
If this continued, they would eventually be worn down to death by the beast herd.
Wan Gu and the others had realized this fact. Their initial ambitions had long vanished, and they no longer cared about repaying Su Che. The top priority now was to survive.
So, Wan Gu sent a mental message to just over a dozen of his close friends: “Disperse. Come back when we have a chance.”
At these words, the other dozen immediately understood: To leave safely, the best way was to use these ordinary travelers as scapegoats, luring the beast herd’s attention away…
“Let’s go!”
At Wan Gu’s signal, the dozen top experts suddenly retracted their energy. The glow of the defensive shield surrounding them dimmed, and its defensive strength dropped by more than half.
“What’s going on?”
The other ordinary travelers were shocked, but they weren’t fools. They quickly realized: It was time to save oneself when disaster struck.

At the moment when everyone simultaneously withdrew their energy, the defense shields, no longer sustained, were instantly torn apart by the beast horde.
Whoosh!
Like flowers scattered by angels, dozens of figures leaped high, attempting to cross over the beast horde from above.
Magic Island had an extremely terrifying gravity—no one had the ability to fly, not even the magical beasts born there. Yet, as Chaos Travelers, even if they couldn’t fly continuously, they could still leap with all their strength to cover distances of hundreds of feet.
Flee! No one could care for anyone else.
But when everyone reached the highest point in the air, they suddenly felt the terrifying gravity of Magic Island surge several times over.
“It’s over!”
Those with the weakest strength were horrified and uncontrollably fell back down.
Below were rows of snarling faces, along with their ferocious mouths full of sharp teeth…