Chapter 50: The Inheritance of the Alien King
Su Xiao and the Alien King had no verbal exchange. The Realm Severing Thread retracted, and Su Xiao landed. The moment he touched the ground, a marble-sized black crystal shot toward him.
*Clang~*
A flash of blade light passed, and the black crystal shattered with a crackling sound. This object was under extreme pressure, and after being broken apart, it scattered like buckshot in all directions.
Blue flames surged across Su Xiao's body surface. Before entering the fog wall, he had activated his Azure Steel Shadow ability, energizing the Cyan Steel Shadow Energy.
Su Xiao vanished from his spot. When he reappeared, he was in front of the Alien King, his long blade thrusting forward.
*Clang.*
Dragon-Slaying Flash was blocked by an invisible force field, slowly pushing forward. The air between Su Xiao and the Alien King cracked like glass under the blade's pressure.
The Alien King's pupils narrowed. He had compressed the surrounding air to its maximum limit, yet still couldn't stop the enemy's blade.
*Crack,* like a mirror shattering, Dragon-Slaying Flash broke through the blockade and stabbed toward the Alien King's head.
*Crunch.*
The long blade pierced through the Alien King's skull. No blood appeared at the wound; instead, cracks spread from the point of impact, and the Alien King turned to stone.
A sudden sense of crisis emerged above Su Xiao. Just as he was about to sidestep, a heavy pressure enveloped his entire body.
Su Xiao halted abruptly. The air around him solidified like a physical substance, pinning him firmly in place.
The Alien King had somehow already appeared behind Su Xiao. His arm raised, and crushed stone surged toward his hand, compressing into an obsidian-like blade that clung to his palm.
*Pfft.*
Two streams of blood splattered. Su Xiao and the Alien King both retreated two steps. A slash mark appeared below the Alien King's neck, while Su Xiao's rear shoulder was pierced by the black crystal blade.
Su Xiao slapped his shoulder, sending the black blade embedded in him flying. As it soared through the air, it expanded. If Su Xiao had been 0.5 seconds slower, his entire left shoulder and a small part of his torso would have been obliterated.
A single moment of error meant death. Before mastering the Azure Shadow King, the Alien King was an enemy Su Xiao absolutely could not defeat.
Blood dripped from Su Xiao's fingertips. The Alien King's abilities were extremely troublesome. He could control air, stone, and even gravity and repulsion.
What was certain was that the Alien King's close-combat skills were mediocre. Of course, this was relative. In a battle between Su Xiao and the Alien King at this level, the Alien King's melee ability was below average.
This didn't mean the Alien King was weak. His abilities were tricky. Without finding a countermeasure, Su Xiao's reckless approach could easily lead to his death.
Su Xiao took a small oxygen tank from his storage space and took a deep breath. He couldn't breathe freely now. The enemy could control the air around him, and if something harmful were mixed into it, it would be trouble.
Su Xiao and the Alien King were about fifteen meters apart. Su Xiao could sense six air walls in front of him. These were defensive barriers created by highly compressed air.
*Bang,* the small oxygen tank in Su Xiao's hand exploded. The blast caused fragments of the tank to collide, creating a single spark.
Seeing this spark, Su Xiao flicked his left arm, sending blood flying toward the spark in midair.
Before the blood could touch the spark, it began to expand. The Alien King had compressed the nearby oxygen, creating pure oxygen, and gathered some flammable substance onto the spark, setting up an explosive combustion environment.
*Boom.*
The flames exploded. Amid the blazing fire, Su Xiao used the incoming heatwave to leap backward.
The moment Su Xiao's foot touched the stone slab, a binding sensation came from under his feet.
*Slap.* Su Xiao flicked the blood from his left hand onto the rock that had climbed to his ankle. The spiritual energy within the rock instantly dissipated.
Seeing this, the Alien King stepped back one by one. He needed to distance himself from the enemy. The weakness of his abilities had been exposed. In this battle, within five meters, he would die; beyond ten meters, the enemy would die.
Su Xiao's speculation was confirmed. The Alien King could control a small portion of physical matter through spiritual energy. Known substances included rock and air. From these two, he derived control over gravity, repulsion, fire, and oxygen.
The most toxic thing in the world was oxygen. It could oxidize most objects. If a human inhaled excessive oxygen, they would unknowingly suffer oxygen poisoning. Explosions, combustion, and the like were all inseparable from oxygen.
Fortunately, the Alien King's control over oxygen hadn't reached the level of his air manipulation. His specialties were air and rock.
Su Xiao wasn't having an easy time, and neither was the Alien King. When he used air to restrict Su Xiao's movements, his brain was convulsing. His current form wasn't suitable for fighting Su Xiao. As for his other form, he wasn't willing to use it for now.
The information Su Xiao had gathered was that any physical object controlled by the Alien King would quickly lose its grip when it touched other "life forms."
For example, when Su Xiao's blood splattered onto the rock, the Alien King could no longer control that small piece of rock. The life force in the blood interfered with the Alien King's control.
With this conclusion, Su Xiao made a light cut on his arm. The amount of blood wasn't enough. Sometimes, when blood was urgently needed, a moment's delay could lead to a disadvantage.
Several stone pillars, several meters thick, gathered near the Alien King. Four pillars, each five meters thick, rumbled as they were compressed into finger-thick spikes that looked like obsidian, their sharp tips aimed at Su Xiao.
The Alien King waved his hand forward. Five nearly three-meter-long stone spikes pierced through a wave of air, instantly reaching Su Xiao.
The stone spikes passed through Su Xiao's head, but he didn't use Space Penetration to charge forward. Instead, he swung his blade, sending out a blade aura.
*Clang.*
The blade aura struck the air wall, cutting through two layers before dissipating.
Almost as the blade aura vanished, the ground beneath Su Xiao's feet sank. He shot forward like a blue afterimage, reaching the Alien King in an instant. This was the speed granted by the Azure Shadow King.
*Shiiing.*
The long blade pierced into the Alien King's chest. The intense pain caused bloodshot veins to appear in his eyes, but his expression remained unchanged, as if the blade wasn't embedded in him.
The Alien King's golden-black radial pupils contracted. A force spread outward from him as his center. Just moments ago, his internal organs had been damaged, causing a momentary delay in his control. That 0.2-second gap allowed Su Xiao to nearly pierce through the Alien King's first heart.
*Bang.* The force field expanded, pushing Su Xiao back. A hint of confusion appeared in his eyes, as if he had won. The Alien King hadn't realized the key issue.
While flying through the air, a blue glow emerged in Su Xiao's eyes. The Banishment that had already invaded the Alien King's body was fully activated. Earlier, when Su Xiao and the Alien King traded injuries, Su Xiao had slashed below the Alien King's neck. That was when Banishment, along with the Cyan Steel Shadow Energy, had invaded the Alien King's body.
Banishment surged toward the Alien King's brain. His fingers twitched, and he dropped to one knee.
*Drip, drip.*
Blood flowed from the vents in the Alien King's faceplate. The light in his eyes quickly faded. Such strong spiritual control meant the brain was crucial to the Alien King. Fighting this super boss didn't necessarily require hacking away with a blade. He was also a living creature. If the brain was destroyed, no amount of health points would matter.
The Alien King didn't know how to fight. Su Xiao was certain of this. His ??? intelligence attribute hadn't been utilized at all.
*Thud.* The nearly three-meter-tall Alien King fell. The moment he hit the ground, Su Xiao sensed something was wrong and charged forward.
The long blade cut through the air with a whistling sound, aimed at the Alien King's neck. The air around the Alien King gathered, but for some reason, he seemed to be rapidly losing this ability.
*Clang.* Just as the long blade was about to reach the back of the Alien King's neck, it was wrapped around by a bone tail covered in gray-black scales.
The Alien King's hand transformed into a claw. He stabbed it into his own skull from the temple, dug around a few times, pulled out the mangled brain, and shook out the remnants of Banishment inside.
The faceplate on the Alien King's face shattered. He tossed the brain into his mouth and chewed it thoroughly.
In the distance, Bubu Wang was stunned. This wasn't a matter of "eating what you need." Who eats their own brain and enjoys it so much?
*Pfft.*
Three rows of bone spikes burst from the Alien King's spine. The muscles on his body gradually swelled, and his aura grew stronger.
The Alien King from before wasn't in his complete combat form. The battle had only just begun. The Alien King, who had inherited the combat techniques, experience, will, and combat organs of the previous Alien Kings, was about to arrive.
Su Xiao kicked the Alien King's head, sending him flying. The Alien King tumbled backward for over ten meters before the four-meter-long bone tail at the end of his spine swung, using its curvature to abruptly stop. His feet didn't touch the ground; instead, he supported himself with the bone tail, crossed his arms, looked down at Su Xiao, and remained silent.
Su Xiao tightened his grip on the blade. The current Alien King was probably too much for him to handle. Fortunately, he had help.