# Chapter 20: Dragon Knight VS Giant Monster
Blazing golden flames burned within the cylindrical barrier. In the inferno, the Ancient God Sacred Oak writhed like a blazing giant tree, ramming against the barrier's interior from all directions.
Various abilities' radiance burst forth from its body, yet still couldn't break through the barrier, at most causing it to deform slightly.
This barrier was constructed from fourteen types of alchemical formation diagrams mixed together. With Su Xiao's alchemy skill reaching Lv.66, these formations were already quite strong, and additionally, the core node of these formations was the [Sun Ring].
This Sun Ring didn't exist independently. In Ser Star and Treeborn World, there were two other Sun Rings, which, after being certified by Reincarnation Paradise, resonated with this Sun Ring.
99.99% of all pig-headed people on Ser Star believed in the sun, and the Mushroom Clan and Ghost Clan in Treeborn World were basically the same. This massive population of living beings generated an enormous amount of faith power every moment, which was then transmitted to the Sun Ring held by Su Xiao.
At this moment, this [Sun Ring], serving as the core of the alchemical formation diagrams, displayed extraordinary compatibility, resulting in a tougher barrier with terrifyingly high temperatures from the solar flames within.
This wasn't even the most despairing thing for Ancient God Sacred Oak. Before entering this world, it hadn't noticed anything wrong, but after entering, it gradually sensed something amiss.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Its current situation was that not only was it being burned by the solar flames inside the barrier, but outside the barrier, there were also 1000 Solar Flame Dragons spewing dragon flames at the cylindrical barrier's exterior.
Initially, Ancient God Sacred Oak could maintain its dignity as a divine existence, but as it was gradually roasted dry, it "broke down." After all, how much magnanimity could an existence have that couldn't even play by the rules it set and would cheat?
That's right, before facing death, Ancient God Sacred Oak cursed Su Xiao with the most vicious profanity.
Flames raged below. Su Xiao frowned at Ancient God Sacred Oak shouting angrily within the barrier and asked, "What is it saying?"
"No idea, who knows what language that is. Hey big guy down there, can you speak Void Common Language? Speaking in dialect, we can't understand!"
Baha shouted, but Ancient God Sacred Oak, after roaring a final "Pudilong," collapsed heavily within the barrier.
In the end, Su Xiao still didn't understand what Ancient God Sacred Oak had been shouting, but that didn't matter. Ancient God Sacred Oak wasn't dead yet; they needed to maintain the current heat and continue slow-roasting.
After nearly another hour of intense slow-roasting, Ancient God Sacred Oak, already lying on the ground, let out an extremely unwilling roar and kicked the bucket.
Ancient God Sacred Oak's vitality was truly too strong. Su Xiao estimated that if he were in this situation, he'd be dead in about 10 minutes at most, but Ancient God Sacred Oak stubbornly held on for over an hour before finally kicking the bucket.
[Prompt: You have killed Ancient God Sacred Oak.]
[You have obtained Inscription Box (opening will definitely produce a Life Inscription).]
[You have obtained Covenant Object (special item).]
[You have obtained Divine Soul Sacred Oak (special item. This item can be melted using the [Smelting Furnace] to eliminate its aberrant characteristics, thereby obtaining [Liquid Soul]. Pouring it onto soul equipment can greatly enhance the soul equipment's comprehensive attributes).]
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A total of three items were obtained. The [Inscription Box] needed no explanation. Su Xiao had encountered inscriptions before. One of his current accessories, the [Inscription Base], was embedded with three inscriptions: "Incineration," "Darkness," and "Blazing Sun." The combination of the three resulted in "Ember Flame (Passive)."
Su Xiao checked the properties of the [Covenant Object]. For some reason, this item gave him a faint sense of familiarity.
[Covenant Object]
Origin: Void, Doom Star, Wind Sea Continent.
Category: Special Item
Durability: 317,320 points.
Usage Effect: None (this is a proof token).
Description: A proof token forged by a Demon Blacksmith. Holding this proof token and the [Smelting Furnace], one can go to White Town to find this Demon Blacksmith (currently whereabouts unknown). The Demon Blacksmith can use the [Smelting Furnace] to smelt the souls of divine existences, supplemented with other materials, to forge powerful weapons, armor, etc., with divine characteristics. Of course, this forging is not free; you must pay the Demon Blacksmith sufficient Soul Coins.
Tip: Due to the binding of covenant power, you must carry this proof token and the [Smelting Furnace] for the Demon Blacksmith to possibly perform this type of forging for you (you need to provide the soul of a divine existence yourself).
Price: 1,650 Soul Coins.
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Seeing this item, Su Xiao felt this time was both lucky and not so lucky. He knew the Demon Blacksmith. The three Immortal-grade gems currently on Dragon-Slaying Flash were set by the Demon Blacksmith.
Back in White Town on Dark Star, Su Xiao had interacted with the Demon Blacksmith a few times. The item the other party gave him when leaving still hadn't been identified by Su Xiao, so he could only leave it in his storage space for now.
He had all three required items: [Covenant Object], [Smelting Furnace], and [Divine Soul], but the Demon Blacksmith was no longer in White Town. Where exactly he went, Su Xiao didn't know either.
He could only store them for now and let fate decide later. However, when he returned to his exclusive room this time, he needed to move the [Smelting Furnace] to the team storage space.
Su Xiao commanded Barbatos to fly upward. Moments later, Su Xiao was above the clouds. The Sun Ring floated here, emitting dazzling light. After collecting it, he controlled Barbatos to dive down.
After the barrier opened, the ground previously covered by the barrier had long been burned away, leaving a cylindrical giant pit with Ancient God Sacred Oak lying inside.
After some dissection, Su Xiao roughly understood Ancient God Sacred Oak's structure. It wasn't a living creature but more like a living wood-type existence. Therefore, it didn't have a heart or similar organs. Inside was connective tissue somewhere between living creatures and plants. Not edible, unfortunately.
Su Xiao collected some of this connective tissue and ordered the Solar Flame Dragons to burn Ancient God Sacred Oak completely to ash. There happened to be a large lake nearby. Scattering the ashes in the water as a burial, to show respect.
Su Xiao took out [Sacred Oak] and found the equipment's properties hadn't changed. After all, this was equipment certified by the Void Tree and wouldn't change due to Ancient God Sacred Oak's death.
Su Xiao brought all the Demon Beasts and Solar Flame Dragons back. This siege of Ancient God Sacred Oak was both to eliminate a threat and to send a warning to some hidden individuals.
Su Xiao was about to deal with Brutal Fortress Kara. Dealing with Kara, this tactic wouldn't work. Setting up alchemical formation diagrams as an ambush was highly effective against enemies breaking through space barriers from outside worlds.
Such enemies, after breaking through space barriers, would have a brief spatial adaptation period. That is, when arriving in a completely new world and facing somewhat different world rules, they needed a short adaptation time. During this period, their crisis premonition and perception would be greatly reduced.
Kara was different. She was a native of this world. Even if her consciousness was now chaotic, luring her into a trap would be difficult.
Su Xiao's method for dealing with Kara was simple and direct. He would bring 270 Solar Flame Dragons, plus himself in Dragon Knight form, using the World Thunder Spear to deal with Kara.
Returning to the Mother Nest base camp, Su Xiao began waiting for news from the Empire. They had been tracking Kara to prevent her from attacking New Star City.
The Third Fleet responded quickly. Currently, Empire Hand Rhine God was the temporary commander there. According to intelligence from Rhine God, Kara was at High Marsh Lake.
High Marsh Lake was located in the central region. This lake held extraordinary significance for the native inhabitants of this world, reputedly called Mother Lake.
Kara went to High Marsh Lake to half-submerge her body in the water, alleviating the irritability and madness caused by Nether erosion.
This showed Kara still had some rationality. Unfortunately, this rationality was about to be completely extinguished.
After consideration, Su Xiao decided not to bring Amu to this battle. The reason was that it would be useless. Having Amu tank Kara's attacks was a very stupid decision. Having Amu guard the base was a better choice.
As for Bubu Wang and Baha, they weren't exactly participating in the battle either. Bubu Wang was responsible for reconnaissance of the surrounding area and, if possible, providing Su Xiao with aura effects. Baha was for high-altitude reconnaissance and dealing with contractors who wanted to profit from the chaos.
Barbatos spread its wings and took off. This creature had a characteristic. Each time it was first cultivated, it was not only arrogant but also jealous, plus it had the dragon race's hereditary greed.
However, after Barbatos's soul left the insect nest for a while, it gradually became emotionless, fully entering combat and slaughter mode. It would only be clear-headed for a while after its soul slept and woke up in the Mother Nest next time.
The reason Jila restricted Barbatos so much was that Barbatos was born from gathering many advantages and disadvantages.
On the dragon's back, with Su Xiao's control, black tentacles extended from behind Barbatos's neck, climbing up his left arm and left side of his body. He could feel Barbatos's extremely cold killing mindset. This was the biggest characteristic of the insect race; there was no concept of mercy.
Su Xiao left the Mother Nest. After flying toward High Marsh Lake for over half an hour, he felt prying gazes. Some contractors were targeting him.
Earlier in that meeting room, he had directly stated he would deal with Kara. With so many people present, some must have had close personal relationships with certain contractors.
Someone had informed Kain that Su Xiao was going to deal with Kara. When Kain heard this good news, he immediately announced it on the world communication platform.
Kain and Su Xiao's side had long-standing enmity. First, Kain was made the scapegoat on the transport ship. Then Kain was pushed to second place in the reputation ranking.
For Kain of the Death Paradise faction, first and third were both acceptable, but second was absolutely not.
After being made the scapegoat, Kain counterattacked. This was only human nature. Not to mention announcing the news that Su Xiao was going to deal with Kara. Even if the Valhalla members helped Kara besiege Su Xiao, Su Xiao would find this reasonable. In a Primordial World, mutual struggle and forming enmity was too normal. This was different from the mortal enmity with Arcane Eternal Star.
Clouds flowed past on both sides. Su Xiao didn't know how many people would come to reap the benefits this time, but that wasn't important. While dealing with Kara this time, he also wanted to make Kain's side completely settle down or be completely wiped out.
Flying all the way, when it reached afternoon, Su Xiao on the dragon's back finally saw High Marsh Lake below.
There were many aquatic plants in the lake, with thin water mist on the surface, making High Marsh Lake look both vast and somewhat ethereal and boundless.
The entire lake was boundless, with continuous mountains on the diagonal opposite side. These peaks were generally not tall, densely covered with green vegetation, suitable for concealment.
"Woof."
Bubu Wang barked once, put on pilot goggles, blended into the environment, and wearing a gliding suit, leaped down, gliding toward the mountain range. Don't underestimate Bubu Wang's gliding skills. It had once taken Beini to jump into the Black Abyss, almost scaring Beini to tears, and was scratched quite badly afterward.
Over ten minutes later, Su Xiao received news from Bubu Wang, suspecting it had found traces of Kain and his group.
Meanwhile, inside the continuous mountain range, figures stood or sat in the darkness. It was the Valhalla members.
"Captain, they've arrived."
A female perception-type contractor with a shaved head and single earring spoke. Despite her shaved head, she still had explosive appearance. This female contractor was the type who didn't want to rely on looks but wanted to prove herself through hard strength. She dual-cultivated perception and assassination, named Silver Pheasant.
Silver Pheasant was different from traditional perception or assassination types. As a perception type, she had strong mental power. In assassination, she didn't have keen speed or similar. She used a type of mental poison as her assassination method.
Anyone had a perception field, or technique-type perception circle. Silver Pheasant could attach deadly poison to her mixed perception and mental power, then use needle-like perception to stab into others' perception fields or circles, causing them to be poisoned mentally and eventually die from the poison.
More astonishing was that Silver Pheasant's mental poison had paralysis properties. When "stung" by her, there was basically no feeling. A few seconds later, there would be dizziness, and eventually, the poison would take effect.
Facing Silver Pheasant, one might be "stung" by her from a hundred meters away and die shortly after. It could be said that any system, when reaching high ranks, would gradually show its respective strength. Except for the Necromancer system, which was an extremely cool iron waste. Although it differed from the Undead system by only one word, the strength difference was like clouds and mud.
"Silver Pheasant, can you 'sting' him?"
Kain spoke from the darkness.
"I can, but he's a technique type. Although a technique type's perception range is small, it's a perception circle, not a perception field."
"What's the difference?"
A questioning voice came from the darkness beside them. Silver Pheasant originally didn't intend to respond, but thinking about how Kain had said before that her ability was already particularly formidable, being too cold in manner wasn't good, she said:
"A normal person's perception field is like spreading 'gas.' A technique type's perception circle, although with a small perception range, is like a 'liquid ball.' Stabbing into gas and liquid naturally has a difference."
"Oh, learned something new."
The curious brother nodded. Bubu Wang, crouching nearby, also looked like it had gained knowledge.
"Captain, how about we forget it this time? That's the Night of Decapitation. They say even Gray Gentleman was killed by him."
A weak male voice came. Just hearing the voice, one could imagine the approximate appearance of this weak young man.
"Don't panic. This time we're setting him up, not directly confronting him."
A brother with a steady voice comforted him. The weak young man was still a bit worried.
Kain hadn't spoken the whole time. His coming this time was after careful consideration. In his view, Kara had to be eliminated. After obtaining Kara's kill reward, he would choose to observe the situation from the Empire's side. And he always believed that Kara's death would be the beginning of everything that followed.
Everyone in the mountain body converged their auras. Bubu Wang quietly left.
Over ten minutes later, among the lotus leaves near the lakeshore, two figures crouched in the shallow water, only half their heads exposed. It was Hao Mei and Yueshitu. This concealment method was learned from Molei. Unfortunately, they only learned 40%, not reaching Molei's soulful "Croak~."
"Gurgle gurgle~"
Yueshitu spoke, and a large number of bubbles emerged.
"Gurgle gurgle, gurgle, gu~"
Hao Mei spoke, still in "bubble language."
"Gurgle gurgle gurgle! Gurgle!"
After Yueshitu finished speaking, she even nodded. Hao Mei also nodded. Bubu Wang on the nearby shore held its dog head with both paws, dumbfounded. It really couldn't understand what Yueshitu and Hao Mei had said. This was the most confusing day in its scout career.
Above High Marsh Lake, Barbatos circled but didn't rashly attack. This time, Su Xiao brought 270 Solar Flame Dragons to avoid triggering Kara's World's Favor ability.
[World's Favor (Passive, X): When the number of enemies around Kara exceeds 100, 300, 500, 1,000, and 50,000, Kara will receive the following blessings from this world.