Chapter 5: White Town
Currently, Su Xiao is the representative of White Town. If the Demon Blacksmith were included, White Town would completely dominate all other forces in this world. Unfortunately, the Demon Blacksmith will never intervene.
Initially, the situation in the Dark Star World was simple: an Ancient God was sealed, and all other forces were in despair, awaiting the arrival of doom.
However, as Su Xiao gradually explored, he discovered that wasn't the case. Although the Grand Sage and the Mother Goddess both dared not face the Ancient God directly, their attitude suggested they weren't overly afraid of the Ancient God breaking free from its seal.
The Kodo School clearly wasn't intimidated either. While they couldn't deal with the Ancient God, they had ways to protect themselves.
As for the Soul Clock Tower, they were initially terrified, but after modifying their souls, they became completely unhinged. Their method of eradicating fear was to remove parts of their brain tissue.
Many believe that religious fanatics are the most terrifying, but in the Dark Star World, that's not the case. The mad scholars are far more horrifying.
Religious fanatics at least have intact brains and souls, but those mad scholars do not. If there's a problem, they cut out part of the brain. Fear? Cut out some brain tissue. Desire? Cut out some brain tissue. A traitor? Cut out all their brain tissue and leave them babbling incoherently.
This made Su Xiao silently decide that after dealing with the Dream World, he would temporarily stop and wait for the Space-Time Power trade to begin. After seizing the Space-Time Power, he would focus entirely on completing his main mission.
Things were getting increasingly lively here. Who knew what changes might occur later? Even if the Ancient God suddenly broke free from its seal right now, Su Xiao wouldn't be surprised.
After all, in this world, there were religious fanatics, mad scholars, the Grand Sage (an exceptionally cautious old schemer), and the Mother Goddess, whose patience was maddening.
To put it simply, all these forces were playing dead. The reason was that whichever side appeared strong would be pushed forward to deal with the Ancient God.
Fighting that Ancient God wasn't a matter of sending waves of troops to die. It actually increased the difficulty of the battle. Before one's willpower reached a certain threshold, simply seeing the Ancient God would result in instant enslavement, turning them into a Divine Servant.
Su Xiao was a Law Destroyer, so Ancient God energy couldn't erode his body. Additionally, as a Blade Grandmaster, he had the strongest resistance among his rank against mental influences. That was why he could hunt gods.
Numerous Beast Clans surrounded him from all sides. Their turbid eyes stared at Su Xiao, and their yellowed fangs gnashed with a clicking sound.
"He is a follower of the Ancient God. Tear him apart."
With this shout, the surrounding Beast Clans all lunged at Su Xiao.
'Blade Path Sword: Super Ring Break.'
Clang!
A ring-shaped blade aura expanded. The charging Beast Clans all felt a numbness in their waists. Before they could stop, their bodies were severed at the chest and abdomen, and their arms were also cut off at the stumps.
A large swath of the Beast Clans attacking from the periphery fell, but only a few died. A few meters from Su Xiao, a Beast Clan member, cut in two, used its claws to quickly crawl toward its lower half. Translucent threads emerged from the flesh at its waist, sinking into the wound surface of its lower body, pulling the two severed halves together and rapidly healing.
These translucent threads were composed of souls. There was no mistake. The Soul Clock Tower must be in collusion with the Grand Sage. No other force possessed this kind of soul technology.
"Roar!"
A ferocious-faced Beast Clan member lunged at Su Xiao. Su Xiao slashed diagonally, sending half of the creature's skull flying. It died on the spot.
Blade aura crisscrossed. If viewed from above, countless Beast Clans were charging from all directions, surrounding the dark square so tightly that they began trampling each other.
The reason Su Xiao came alone was precisely this. The Dream World wasn't small. If he didn't lure the Beast Clans here into a concentrated area, the kill effect wouldn't be significant.
Su Xiao stood amidst the siege of a massive horde of Beast Clans. His long blade slashed continuously. Since Dragon-Slaying Flash had been upgraded to Immortal Rank, the blade cut through enemy flesh with exceptional smoothness, like slicing through melons and vegetables. After killing dozens of Beast Clans, the stench of body odor and blood became choking.
Expanding his perception range, he determined the number of surrounding Beast Clans and contacted Baha above through the team channel.
A sense of crisis suddenly struck from above. Even Su Xiao felt a sharp pain in his perception. It was [Blazing Sun's Wrath: Apollo].
Although the Beast Clans in the Dream World were ferocious, it turned out they could also feel fear. The surrounding Beast Clans all looked up, and some simply turned and fled.
Baha had been ready for a long time. After Su Xiao contacted him, he first increased his altitude, then activated Apollo at over 3,000 meters before dropping it. By the time the enemy reacted, it was too late.
Apollo turned into a golden line of fire, hurtling downward. The Beast Clans around Su Xiao had already scattered. He sheathed his long blade, slightly bent his legs, and lowered his upper body.
With a boom, Su Xiao left a massive crater where he stood, launching himself like a cannonball into the distance.
Boom!!
The moment Apollo landed, it exploded. First came a blinding golden radiance, then a golden fireball expanded, quickly reaching a diameter of 3 kilometers.
Within the Solar Flame, a Beast Clan member's fur ignited. It clutched its head and wailed as its body first dissolved, then turned to ash, and finally, even the ash was vaporized by the extreme heat.
"Heavens above, is this punishment for entering the dream?"
An unusually large Beast Clan member knelt and screamed in agony. The pain lasted only 1.2 seconds before it was vaporized.
At the edge of the Solar Flame, Su Xiao burst out, ending his spatial penetration state. He had used Dragon Shadow Flash three times in succession, totaling 6 seconds of spatial penetration, to escape the range of the Solar Flame.
Su Xiao's long leather coat was covered in sparks. The crystal layer enveloping his body was cracked and burned. Experiments proved that within the explosion range of [Blazing Sun's Wrath: Apollo], even penetrating space couldn't evade the Solar Flame. The high temperature had burned through space itself, an effect of massive true fire damage.
"Hoo~"
Su Xiao exhaled a breath of hot air. He didn't bother checking the kill notifications. There were too many, frantically flooding his interface.
Baha swooped down and landed on Su Xiao's shoulder. With Baha, Su Xiao walked toward the direction of the Misty Zone.
Deep within the Dream World, in front of the church, the Grand Sage stared at the distant giant fireball. When he first saw it, he even wondered if the sun had fallen.
"Is that all? It's not enough to break me."
The Grand Sage's gaze was calm, but the wooden staff in his hand creaked under his grip. Those Beast Clans killed in the explosion were the result of years of accumulation by the Grand Sage, luring and deceiving them into the Dream World before performing soul modifications.
Facing this situation, only the Grand Sage, who had been biding his time for centuries, could maintain composure. Anyone else would have had their mentality shattered.
To put it bluntly, the Grand Sage had underestimated the situation. There was still a "combo package" waiting for him.