Chapter 3: White Goat
Blood Qi surged outward with Su Xiao as the epicenter. Bald Head, Poison Lady, and the others all leaped backward, creating distance from Su Xiao.
Sensing Su Xiao's current aura, Bald Head's eye twitched. In his perception, Su Xiao hadn't just switched weapons—he had fucking switched people.
"Poison Lady, use 'that.'"
Bald Head roared. Hearing this, Poison Lady, her face covered in scars, hesitated for a moment before finally pulling a bone fragment from her chest.
"Cover me. I'm going in."
Just as Poison Lady was about to step forward and charge, she sensed something was wrong. Among her six teammates, four had turned and fled, including Bald Head·Brother Black, while the remaining two, after a moment of stunned hesitation, also turned and ran.
Bang!
The sound of an air blast came. Poison Lady instinctively leaned her body backward. She clearly saw a longsword slash past right before her eyes.
Several strands of black hair were severed. Leaning back, Poison Lady slapped the ground and retreated in a backward-leaning posture.
'Blade Path: Time.'
Thud.
The longsword stabbed into the ground, spreading fine cracks across the surface as a shockwave radiated outward.
Still in her backward-leaning posture, Poison Lady immediately felt the surrounding air become viscous. It was as if she had fallen into amber, her speed drastically reduced.
"Wait, I'll give you..."
The longsword slashed through. Blood splattered, and Poison Lady crashed to the ground with a thud.
As soon as she hit the ground, Poison Lady tried to get up. After all, she was a Sixth Rank violator. Having her chest slashed open by Su Xiao's blade, with many internal organs injured, it wasn't enough to kill her instantly. Her survivability far exceeded that of a Fifth Rank contractor.
Poison Lady's hand pressed against the ground as blood flowed from her chest. But before she could stand, she felt a heavy impact on her head.
Boom!
Su Xiao stomped Poison Lady's head into the ground. Holding the longsword with both hands, he thrust downward, piercing straight through her neck. The entire process was fluid and seamless.
Su Xiao flipped his hand gripping the sword, lifted the blade, and tossed the half-dead enemy aside.
With a bang, Poison Lady crashed into the stone wall in the distance. Bald Head, who was about to leap out of the cave, stopped in his tracks because Poison Lady had flown right past him.
"Acting all tough and then trying to run? Where's the fun in that?"
Baha blocked the entrance at the top of the cave, its claws embedded into the rock layer. All it needed to do was hold these violators back.
Bald Head's expression grew uglier. He had led his team to ambush Su Xiao mainly because his teammate had detected that Su Xiao's imprint level was Lv.50, classifying him as a Sixth Rank newcomer.
The ideal was plump, but the reality was a blood-soaked ferocious beast.
A drop of blood dripped from the tip of Dragon-Slaying Flash. Su Xiao held the longsword with one hand, the blade tip angled toward the ground, and walked slowly toward the six violators. Ignoring the numerical disparity, the situation was that Su Xiao had surrounded the six violators.
"Stop hiding. Use your trump cards. Poison Lady... is dead."
Bald Head raised his arm and bit down on his own tiger's mouth, tearing off a large piece of flesh and skin.
Not only Bald Head, but the other five violators also began to change. Three of them completely transformed into monsters—some covered in scales, others turning into a cloud of black smoke.
Unfortunately, Su Xiao had always been best at dealing with violators.
Realizing there was no escape, all six violators charged at Su Xiao...
After a chaotic battle.
"Cough, cough~"
Bald Head, half of his body embedded in the stone wall, coughed dryly, spitting out a few specks of blood. His pupils were somewhat dim, and his nearly half-meter-thick arm was covered in slash marks.
A dozen meters away, Su Xiao stood before a violator. This person had no physical form, his entire body turned into black mist, but the Azure Steel Shadow energy had successfully locked onto him.
The black mist violator knelt on the ground, his arms hanging limply. The longsword chimed, and his head was severed.
The black mist violator fell backward with a thud, gradually regaining his physical form. His fingers twitched twice before he went still.
"You're... the Night of Beheading. Ha, haha, what a twist of fate. In the end, I still have to die at the hands of a hunter."
Bald Head's lips trembled as he watched Su Xiao approach. He raised his thick arm and flipped him off.
With one slash to the throat, Bald Head let out a roar. Even facing death, he didn't regret his choices. He was a violator of Reincarnation Paradise. Daring to violate the rules of Reincarnation Paradise meant he had backbone.
Gravel slid down. Bald Head's arm went limp. The battle was over. Or rather, the moment Su Xiao gripped Dragon-Slaying Flash, the battle was both the beginning and the end.
[You have obtained Diamond Honor Medal ×1.]
[Due to the hunter obtaining a Diamond Honor Medal, the items in the Honor Shop have been refreshed. Check after returning to your Exclusive Room.]
...
This was Su Xiao's first time obtaining a Diamond Honor Medal. Among the seven violators he had just killed, only one was a violator of Reincarnation Paradise. Clearly, killing violators from other paradises offered little benefit unless they dropped a Scarlet Card.
The value of a [Diamond Honor Medal] far exceeded that of a [Golden Honor Medal]. Su Xiao had realized this before. In the Moon God World, he had received a hunting mission with a Fifth Rank violator as the target, rewarding two [Diamond Honor Medals].
It sounded great, but in reality, it wasn't. That guy ran too fast. Su Xiao even suspected that even with his current strength, he couldn't catch up to that guy.
Su Xiao clearly remembered that on the holographic map with a tracking range of 1000 meters, that guy zipped out of the hunting range in an instant, happy as can be. Even if a dozen hunters surrounded him simultaneously, they might not be able to block him.
That hard-to-catch guy only rewarded two [Diamond Honor Medals], while killing the reckless Bald Head rewarded one. Su Xiao felt that was already quite a lot.
The battle ended. On the other side of the light screen, Xia's mouth was slightly open, stunned. She took a deep breath, and some of the despair of being trapped in a dangerous place faded. After witnessing this battle, she felt that Su Xiao might really be able to find her and take her away.
"Big shot, save me!"
Xia and Su Xiao were old acquaintances, so she didn't bother with formalities. Being coy at a time like this would only seem hypocritical.
"What?"
Su Xiao closed Reincarnation Paradise's notification and looked at Xia with confusion.
"Nothing, nothing. Just got a little excited."
After calming down, Xia racked her brains for clues about her location, but after a long while, she still couldn't come up with any useful information.
Su Xiao approached the light screen and began to examine the situation inside.
This was a stone room about 60 square meters in size. There was a passage on the side. According to Xia, it was pitch black inside. Going a few seconds in would cause a feeling of suffocation, and going deeper than 5 meters would trigger an instant death judgment.
On the left wall, there were a few white scratches. According to Xia, this was the result of her hard work over several days. She was clearly trying to destroy the wall to escape. Although it had no effect, Xia wasn't giving up. If dying here was fate, she wouldn't give up before fate arrived.
On the inner wall, there were several blurry patterns. Judging by the marks, these patterns were carved in.
There were three carvings in total. The first was completely blurred, with signs of wiping. Xia had probably tried to clean the stains on the wall, but unfortunately, the first carving had been deliberately damaged.
The second carving was a set of overlapping array diagrams. Based on Su Xiao's experience, this was most likely a space-type array diagram.
The third carving was the most special. It was a goat doodled with white paint. Although there was only one white goat, two goat heads protruded from its back and lower abdomen. It looked like it was splitting, going from one to three.
The first clue was unknown, the second clue was space, and the third clue was the white goat. No, it was splitting. The white goat was just a form of expression.
"Unknown, space, splitting, secret room. If I'm not mistaken..."
Before Su Xiao could finish his sentence, the light screen twisted and eventually dissipated.
[Position lock failed.]
[Spatial connection failed.]
Inside the unknown secret room, Xia raised her fair hand but eventually lowered it in disappointment.
Click~
A faint sound came. Xia nervously looked toward the source. Was it her imagination, or did the white goat pattern on the wall seem to move?
"Illusion, it must be an illusion."
Xia forced herself to self-soothe. Although she had some combat ability now, she was in a Sixth Rank world.
"Human."
The white goat on the wall spoke, grinning at Xia with a somewhat eerie smile.