# Chapter 6: Siege
The setting sun on the horizon was like blood. Standing on the teleportation array, Su Xiao surveyed his surroundings. What met his eyes were all sea clan—their tough, oily blue-white membranes, coldly gleaming scales, and uniquely shaped weapons that flowed with chilling energy radiance.
Don't mistake these sea clan for mere cannon fodder. The beast clan and sea clan legions active around the main battlefield had all undergone brutal trials. To be precise, this current sea clan legion was likely formed from over a dozen sea clan legions merged together. When two sea clan legions each suffered over half casualties, they would merge, and so on.
Among the cold-eyed ordinary sea clan warriors were giant fishmen over ten meters tall, carrying massive battle axes on their shoulders. They wore rough linen garments with hemp ropes hanging down, making them look like they were wearing straw raincoats. Combined with their dirty great axes and protruding, yellowed fangs, they exuded an inexplicable sense of intimidation.
If such giant fishmen were thrown into other ninth-rank worlds, they would at least be elite mini-bosses. But in this world, they only corresponded to chieftain-level beast clan. Looking around, among the boundless sea clan army stretching to the horizon, there were many such giant fishmen.
Far in the distance stood a hundred-meter-tall figure. It was humanoid overall, with a spike-shaped torture instrument fixed on its head and a huge wooden cangue around its neck. Though the cangue looked battered, it gave off a very different feeling. This sea clan giant had a single eye growing on its chest, and on its back was a viewing platform made of metal and wood combined.
On this platform was a seat. A sea clan commander nearly three meters tall, with pale blue-white skin, wearing black scale armor, and bald-headed sat there. To the left and right of his seat were his dwarf adjutant and a deep-sea siren.
The beast clan's beast king and the seven great families' conflicts seemed complicated enough, but compared to the sea clan, the beast clan's internal affairs were already considered harmonious.
The three sea clan mid-to-high-ranking members on the viewing platform represented different factions within the sea clan. First was the sea clan commander in the main seat, who served under the Sea King and was loyal to death to him.
The dwarf adjutant beside him had a Sea God Church background. At first glance, this seemed absurd—how could the Sea King allow such an organization as the Sea God Church to exist? But if one knew who the Sea God Church worshipped, there would be no surprise. The sea god worshipped by the Sea God Church was precisely the first-generation Sea King.
In other words, the god worshipped by the Sea God Church was the current Sea King's ancestor. If the current Sea King wanted to deal with the Sea God Church, appropriate suppression was possible, even crippling them, but eradicating them entirely was out of the question—that would be disrespectful to his ancestor.
Think that's tricky enough? Of course not. Look at the deep-sea siren on the right side of the sea clan commander's seat. This deep-sea siren came from the Council of Elders.
What organization was the Council of Elders? It was actually the sea clan's Dark Division + punishment institution + supervisory body. The spies who had previously disguised themselves as the Beast Clan Grand Commander Kane and his wife all came from the Council of Elders.
This deep-sea siren was responsible for overseeing the battle and providing intelligence + assassination functions to the sea clan commander beside her. If he wanted to assassinate a powerful enemy from the beast clan side, he only needed to tell her, and she would arrange for mid-to-low-level members of the Council of Elders to complete the task.
The Sea King, the Sea God Church, and the Council of Elders formed the sea clan faction. Among them, the Sea King had the most power, followed by the Council of Elders, then the Sea God Church.
At this moment on the viewing platform, the deep-sea siren gazed at the teleportation array several kilometers away and said, "The human they sent this time is no ordinary one. Even from this distance, I can sense this guy's aura."
Compared to the gazing deep-sea siren and dwarf adjutant, the sea clan commander Pro in the main seat remained calm. He had done this kind of thing many times with the beast clan's Jackal and Serpent Witch families.
They would find opportunities to alter the teleportation tower's coordinates, sending those hostile to them to the sea clan's wilderness teleportation points, where they would be besieged and killed by the sea clan legion stationed there.
This way, the Jackal and Serpent Witch families eliminated their enemies, and the sea clan commander Pro gained merits—a win-win situation. As for deeper cooperation, it hadn't appeared yet. Or rather, both sides had exercised restraint, not daring to engage in deeper collaboration.
Just as the dwarf adjutant was about to order the sounding of the siege horn, the ruby pendant worn by the deep-sea siren suddenly emitted a crimson glow. Seeing this, the deep-sea siren tapped the gem on her pendant with her finger. She suspected it was broken, because this thing only reacted when sensing a beast clan lord's badge—an essential item for high-ranking members of the assassination unit. Yet now, it was beginning to glow faintly.
"Lord Pro, this seems to be... a lord?"
By the end, the deep-sea siren's tone was very uncertain. But upon hearing this, the sea clan commander Pro, who had been leaning back in his seat, straightened up slightly, his cold eyes narrowing.
"At any cost, annihilate him."
Receiving this order, the dwarf adjutant picked up the commander's battle flag resembling a command flag and waved it downward. The giant toad frogs that had been waiting took deep breaths and blew into the huge horns covered in barnacles.
Wooom!!
The horn sound spread across the battlefield. The setting sun in the sky seemed soaked in blood, while above were large masses of stagnant black clouds, pressing down darkly.
The sea clan legion advanced with earth-shaking steps. At the center of the encirclement, Su Xiao stood on a rock teleportation platform covered in dried bloodstains. From the dried blood and damage marks on it, this place had seen siege-style melees many times before.
Bloodthirsty Battle Armor climbed onto Su Xiao, spreading to his neck and climbing up the lower half of his face. Unlike the dark red on his torso, his face was bone-white like a skeleton. His mouth consisted of small air holes. When Su Xiao exhaled, the membranes inside the holes opened; when he inhaled, they closed, filtering the air he breathed and preventing him from inhaling blood that would soon be splattering everywhere.
"Hoo~"
Su Xiao exhaled, and faint blood mist came out of the air holes in his mouth. After the Bloodthirsty Battle Armor attached to him, he only had one feeling—as long as he could kill enemies, he wouldn't die. This battle armor was like a hungry, thirsty beast, absorbing the primordial life force that scattered after enemies died.
Faint blood aura spread around. The long horn sounds and the earth-shaking advance should have boosted the morale of the surrounding sea clan warriors.
Looking around, the distant sea clan warriors indeed had high morale, but the sea clan warriors forming the circles around Su Xiao were all filled with terror. They pushed outward with their backs, trying to get as far away from Su Xiao as possible, because they felt more deeply the fear of facing this humanoid big boss.
Finally, pushed by the army behind, a sea clan warrior ended up only a few meters from Su Xiao. He panted heavily, saliva flying from between his clenched sharp teeth. Finding that there was truly no escape, this sea clan warrior roared and charged at Su Xiao. This feeling was completely unlike Su Xiao being surrounded.
Clang!
The long blade slashed diagonally. The charging sea clan warrior was cut open diagonally through his torso, but an energy like black mist prevented him from being instantly killed. Instead, it was like threads forcibly connecting his diagonally severed body, allowing him to make a desperate counterattack before death.
Clang~
Another slash passed through. This sea clan warrior's vision went black, and his head, full of shock, flew up.
Not being able to kill this sea clan warrior in one slash made Su Xiao frown slightly. In such a melee, being able to kill an enemy in one slash versus needing two slashes were completely different concepts. If he could kill in one slash, Su Xiao was confident he could make this sea clan legion rout in panic. Conversely, he could only retreat using life-saving items.
The Eye of All Gods detection had already been completed. Su Xiao glanced at the detection results and understood what was happening. All sea clan warriors had a certain ability called:
[Deep Sea Drowning Hatred (Abyss Passive·X): When receiving a single attack sufficient to be fatal, the abyssal darkness hidden in the sea clan bloodline will completely occupy their soul, temporarily locking their primordial life force to 10% of maximum health. Effect lasts 10-30 seconds.]
Seeing this ability, Su Xiao understood why he couldn't instantly kill an ordinary sea clan warrior earlier. He had a way to deal with this.
Dark blue smoke clung to Dragon-Slaying Flash, activating the Demon Blade ability.
[Shadow·Demon Blade (Core·Passive): After Demon Blade successfully kills an enemy, within the subsequent 30 minutes, the Blade Demon Spirit will not immediately enter the dormant phase. The Demon Blade ability will remain usable. If another enemy target is killed, the Blade Demon Spirit will again delay the dormant phase, usable within 30 minutes.
Note: After killing two enemies consecutively, when you kill another enemy, while the Demon Blade ability's cooldown refreshes, you will gain a rapidly diminishing all-around speed boost within 3 seconds.
Note: After killing two enemies consecutively, killing another enemy will cause the Blade Demon Spirit to enter a high-activity state, temporarily increasing the kill threshold by 5%. This characteristic can stack, up to a maximum of killing enemies below 45% maximum health.
Note: When no new enemy is killed within 30 minutes, this ability will enter the cooldown phase, and the kill threshold will return to 25% maximum health.]
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The moment the Demon Blade ability activated, Su Xiao, deep within the sea clan encirclement, was already submerged by the sea clan swarming in from all sides. Even from above, Su Xiao's trace couldn't be seen. But within the encirclement of these sea clan, a sound of air being drawn in appeared. The surrounding air was all sucked in, even causing many fine black marks and wind marks to appear in the air.
The suction force appeared extremely suddenly, causing all sea clan within a few hundred meters diameter to feel as if they were being forcibly pulled. Some nearly slipped and fell, their charging momentum abruptly stifled.
'Demon Blade·Super·Ring Break!'
Whoosh! A black circular blade aura slashed open at the center of the sea clan army. Looking down from above, the slashes around Su Xiao were like a perfect circular black disc, encompassing all the sea clan warriors around him. The circular slash marks in this area were like drifting black flames, mixed with white wind marks inside and at the edges.
After this slash, the area within a few hundred meters diameter suddenly fell silent. Then came falling black fire rain. Looking closely, this was no black fire rain—it was fragments of sea clan warriors that had been slashed apart, ignited by black flames and falling, turning to ash in mid-air before even hitting the ground.
If this were an ordinary ninth-rank world's legion, witnessing such a scene would surely cause a sharp drop in morale. But this was a Transcendent Primordial World, the Wind Sea Continent.
Wooom!!!
The distant horn sound grew longer and louder. The surrounding sea clan warriors roared and charged forward again. Not only that, a boom came from afar.
Like a war hammer smashing heavily into the earth, a creature resembling a giant octopus sprayed out fluorescent green spore eggs over ten meters in diameter from its tubular cavity. These spore eggs dissolved in mid-air, revealing a blazingly burning, ghastly green fireball inside. Wherever this thing passed, space was burned through. Without a doubt, this was the sea clan's war weapon. Not to mention Su Xiao, even an Absolute Strong would gain nothing good from taking it head-on.
'Super·Blood Smoke Cannon.'
A blood aura phantom appeared above Su Xiao, pointing at the flying ghastly green fireball. A Blood Smoke Cannon blasted it apart.
The surrounding sea clan pressed in again. An evil wind came. Su Xiao tilted his head, dodging a highly compressed water spear, while leaping back about a meter.
As Su Xiao leaped back, a several-meter-long great axe fell. It was a giant fishman, holding the great axe with both hands and chopping down. This great axe had a sea clan style, very much like an enlarged fish tail fin.
Taking advantage of this giant fishman's full-power axe chop causing his body to lean forward, Su Xiao jumped onto his extended arm and made a light, casual upward slash. The giant fishman's entire head fell off, as natural as a skilled butcher dismembering an ox.
Clang!
A heavy hooked blade struck Dragon-Slaying Flash. The blades rubbed against each other. Dragon-Slaying Flash's sharpness cut into the enemy weapon's edge.
Su Xiao slashed and shattered the enemy's weapon in one stroke, then cut the enemy in two with the second. The sea clan indeed had the anti-instant-kill miracle of [Deep Sea Drowning Hatred] with abyss characteristics, but it couldn't prevent a kill. His current slash was base damage + Azure Steel Shadow true damage + soul damage + various passive damages. And that wasn't all—finally, there was the kill threshold stacked to 45% of maximum health.
After killing the sea clan warrior in front with one slash, Su Xiao delivered a straight kick.
Boom!
A dull sound. The sea clan warrior in front shattered. Not only did he shatter, but his flesh, broken bones, etc., carried powerful kinetic energy, flying forward like a fan-shaped shotgun blast, causing a group of sea clan in front to fall.
Su Xiao's long blade slashed at a one-eyed sea clan warrior. Just as the long blade cut through the crystal shield and diagonally slashed open this sea clan warrior's torso, a slightly different slashing feel appeared. This meant his [Basic Passive·Blood Awakening] ability was triggered. After being raised to X, this ability was activated for the first time.
[Basic Passive·Blood Awakening, Lv.80·Skill Effect: When killing an enemy, there is a certain probability of causing a deterrent fear effect on surrounding enemies, and causing enemies entering the fear state around to have their comprehensive defense reduced by 70%, movement speed reduced by 96.5%, and suffer debuff states such as mental terror, movement imbalance, severe fear, probabilistic ability failure, and soul trembling.]
Boom!!
With Su Xiao as the center point, blood aura erupted. The surrounding world suddenly turned blood-colored as the base tone. Fierce blood aura burst out, piercing through the flesh and soul of every criminal present.
At this moment, in the eyes of all surrounding sea clan warriors, Su Xiao's appearance changed drastically, becoming a blurry but overwhelmingly oppressive scarlet humanoid figure. Blood smoke filled the surrounding air, and the ground was stained crimson—a scene of purgatory.
The sea clan warriors who had been bravely charging at Su Xiao were now either trembling in their legs or directly sitting on the ground, kicking their legs randomly trying to get away from Su Xiao. They were terrified to the point of liver and gallbladder splitting. More importantly, this sea clan legion's morale dropped from 100 full morale to just over 70 points in a short time.
Within the scarlet domain, Su Xiao instantly appeared in front of a sea clan small leader. This small leader instinctively raised his weapon but found nothing in his hands. He had been scared silly earlier and had unknowingly let go of his weapon. Now finding himself unarmed, he was so terrified his heart nearly stopped. He could no longer care about anything else, choosing to follow the most primitive instinct—turn and run.
But just as he took a step, this sea clan small leader found his legs had become weak and powerless, like stepping on cotton. He had barely run two steps before falling to the ground.
When the scarlet domain disappeared, all sea clan within a hundred meters of Su Xiao turned and fled into the distance. Su Xiao didn't kill them. Compared to executing these sea clan, letting them escape would further reduce the enemy legion's morale.
A sound of breaking wind came. Su Xiao raised his left forearm to block, while a crystal layer climbed onto his left forearm.
Boom! A loud explosion. Su Xiao was sent flying. It was a sea beast over a hundred meters long with multiple horns on its head.
As soon as Su Xiao landed, he was besieged again by the sea clan. Blade aura flashed continuously. The sea clan around him were all killed. First, the Bloodthirsty Battle Armor absorbed the primordial life force, then converted this life force into a blood-type healing energy, merging into Su Xiao's blood aura, ultimately achieving a healing effect.
The dull pain in his chest caused by the war beast's impact subsided. Su Xiao flicked the blood off his long blade and fiercely faced the charging sea clan ahead.
The brutal death battle began. When the sky was completely dark, Su Xiao was already standing on a towering pile of corpses. Golden lightning flowed over the battle armor on his body. Looking down from above, a large area around was covered in charred sea clan bones.
Su Xiao gazed into the distance several kilometers away at the viewing platform carried by the sea clan giant. There were three sea clan members. Those three should be the leaders of this sea clan legion.
At midnight, a torrential downpour poured down. Lightning suddenly illuminated the earth, revealing that on the corpse-strewn wasteland, the sea clan legion was still besieging Su Xiao. Often, highly corrosive liquid giant spheres with trailing flames, or dense dark secret techniques, would slide down from above, crashing down toward Su Xiao.
As the lightning's light faded, the battlefield was dark again. With only faint moonlight, only the weak glint of metal objects reflecting light could be seen. The rain was heavy, but the sky-shaking battle cries actually overpowered the rain sounds.
When the first rays of morning sun rose, on a several-hundred-meter-high mountain peak—no, this was a huge pile of corpses formed from sea clan remains—Su Xiao held a two-meter-long all-metal crossbow bolt with one hand. After cutting off its rear half with a slash, he pulled this cruel weapon covered in barbs out from his chest, then casually tossed it aside.
Su Xiao leaped down from the huge corpse pile. As he advanced, the surrounding sea clan warriors moved with him as the center, but none dared to step forward first.
The sea clan hadn't been driven back. Excluding the insect race, this was the most tenacious enemy legion Su Xiao had ever encountered, bar none.
If this had been before raising all basic abilities to X and obtaining the Awakening Stele, encountering such a legion would have forced Su Xiao to temporarily retreat.
Now, after a full night of death battle, Su Xiao's stamina was nearly exhausted. Although the Bloodthirsty Battle Armor could provide close to 95% or more of the bloodsucking effect, this thing also consumed a lot of stamina. Without various passive supports, he definitely couldn't have lasted until now.
Besides that, the Law Destruction faction's [Perfect Physique] ability was truly top-notch. Without this ability, the several times he was focused-fired last night would have been very dangerous.
Drip, drop~
The rain had stopped, but the remaining water dripped from Dragon-Slaying Flash's blade tip. At this moment, none of the surrounding sea clan warriors dared to step forward. The giant fishmen who had been cruel and violent in their eyes yesterday now looked at Su Xiao with noticeably clearer eyes. This proved that when seeing someone they feared, their eyes would indeed become much clearer.
Several kilometers away, on the viewing platform carried by the sea clan giant, although the sea clan commander Pro still sat steadily, his gaze was gloomy to the extreme. It wasn't that he didn't want to request reinforcements from other legions, but what he was doing now had some suspicion of colluding with the enemy. Plus, he really hadn't expected that besieging someone who wasn't an Absolute Strong would cost him two-thirds of a legion.
"Lord, let's retreat. Say we were ambushed by a beast clan legion from nearby Iron Fortress City. No one will investigate."
The sweat-covered dwarf adjutant spoke.
"We can't retreat. As long as we eliminate this lord, all losses can be explained. If we can capture him alive, everything is worth it. This is a lord. As a human, he became a lord—there must be something extraordinary about him."
The deep-sea siren spoke coldly, causing the dwarf adjutant on the other side of the seat to show anger in his eyes. He urgently said, "Capture alive? You, you... you say that killing god can be captured alive?"
The dwarf adjutant was confused. After witnessing last night's melee, he had somewhat developed a human phobia.
"Yes, capture him alive. He seems to be starting to tire."
The deep-sea siren spoke while always staring into the distance. Hearing this, the dwarf adjutant narrowed his eyes, looked around for a moment, gritted his teeth, and suggested:
"Then let's launch a full assault. We can't keep dragging this out. Iron Fortress City might send a legion to rescue him. And before launching the full assault, the three of us should retreat further. This kind of ruthless character will definitely have something terrible happen before he dies."
After hearing the dwarf adjutant's words, the sea clan commander Pro made a decision—launch a full assault, and today, they must kill this lord here.
An especially long horn sound spread. All the sea clan surrounding Su Xiao showed fierce determination in their eyes, knowing it was the final full assault moment. The originally loosely positioned sea clan legion began to press toward the center. With this relentless advance, Su Xiao had no half-second of breathing time, forced to continue high-intensity death battle.
Su Xiao had long been waiting for the enemy to launch a full assault. Amid the sky-shaking battle cries around, Su Xiao, wearing the Black King Bracer on his left hand, made a single-handed grasping motion.
'Dead Silence.'
Whispering sounds came, very chaotic, no one could understand them.
Within 10,000 meters centered on Su Xiao, the world turned gray-black and white. Cotton-like objects floated. The ground began to decay, the soil turned yellow and cracked. This area was being assimilated and eroded.
Rows of inverted pointed-top buildings appeared in the sky, like an upside-down mirage. Seeing these buildings, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, causing the surrounding sea clan's morale to plummet sharply, falling below 10 points for the first time.
A giant fishman stared blankly at the center of the battlefield. There, a throne made of bones as its foundation stood. On the throne sat a figure with withered flesh, wearing a crown, with the same appearance as Su Xiao. This was the White King who had triumphed over the God of Eternal Life and been crowned.
Within the vast area shrouded by Dead Silence, countless Dead People wandering souls appeared. They let out silent roars. Though there was no sound, the sea clan within the roar range had their bodies instantly turn woody, quickly decaying into residue, scattering like ashes.
Looking down from above, the Dead Silence Throne was at the center, Su Xiao was below and in front of the throne, while within the Dead Silence-shrouded area around, Dead People wandering souls roamed, along with scattered decaying residue from shattered sea clan.
This scene lasted for over a minute before gradually dissipating. The earth and sky in this area returned to normal. As for the sea clan legion besieging Su Xiao, only the remnants lucky enough not to be caught in the Dead Silence and fleeing into the distance remained, including the sea clan giant carrying the viewing platform.
Su Xiao disappeared from his spot. When he reappeared, he was behind a fleeing giant fishman. This giant fishman swung his axe to chop down, but at the same time, the Blade Demon Spirit turned into a blade, stabbing into his back.
This giant fishman's eyes turned dark blue, with a smoky feeling. He dropped the great axe in his hand, lowered his posture, and placed one hand on the ground.
Su Xiao stood on the giant fishman's hand. Under his control, this giant fishman's muscles bulged, becoming strong to the point of deformity. Boom! He threw Su Xiao out. Almost simultaneously, the Blade Demon Spirit inside him was drawn out, merging into Dragon-Slaying Flash.
Su Xiao broke through layers of air waves, crashing onto the viewing platform on the sea clan giant's back. The long blade slashed through, and half of the sea clan giant's head flew off.
Amidst the broken wooden pieces, the sea clan commander Pro, the dwarf adjutant, and the deep-sea siren landed one after another.
"I'll only ask once. Who is cooperating with you?"
Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, the deep-sea siren extended her clawed hands and pounced at Su Xiao.
Clang.
One slash killed the enemy. Su Xiao looked at the sea clan commander Pro.
"Don't even think about it."
Hearing this, Su Xiao had already appeared in front of the sea clan commander Pro. This sea clan member had some combat power—couldn't be killed in one slash. He delivered a straight kick.
Su Xiao looked at the dwarf adjutant, pressing his long blade against the other's neck, beginning to attempt negotiation.
The dwarf adjutant, who had just reacted, swallowed his saliva and said, "Jackal, Serpent Witch."
"Very good. Continue to the second question. Who is leading Arcane Eternal Star this time?"
"Sefeiliya, and an old man. I haven't seen that old man before. I only recognized Mage Sage Sefeiliya."
The dwarf adjutant said these without much hesitation. Of course, this was mainly because it didn't involve major sea clan secrets. If it were about that, he wouldn't yield either.
"You go back and tell Sefeiliya that the Law Destroyer has come to find her."
Su Xiao finished speaking and sheathed his long blade. He did this both to fulfill his promise and for his subsequent plan. His current lord identity was obtained by using his Law Destroyer identity to restrain the spellcasters in this world. This was the initial transaction with Grand Commander Kane—naturally, he would follow through.
As for the spellcasters in this world contacting Arcane Eternal Star, intending to have Arcane Eternal Star's strong ones all come to this world to besiege Su Xiao—that would be wonderful. At that time, Su Xiao could watch the show, watching Arcane Eternal Star VS beast clan + sea clan.
Therefore, such a thing was fundamentally impossible. The sea clan seeking Arcane Eternal Star as an ally was correct, but the sea clan wouldn't be stupid enough to invite a wolf into their home.
Su Xiao distinguished the direction and walked toward Iron Fortress City. He glanced to the west, where behind the continuous mountain range, quite a few contractors were hiding. They should all have their initial points in Iron Fortress City, drawn here by this melee.
At this moment, behind the distant continuous mountain range, three figures were gazing at the distant battlefield. However, among these three, Molei's little eyes showed some life-weariness. The reason was that she had accepted a faction mission in Iron Fortress City. This faction mission was called [Lord Recruitment], with Grand Commander Kane as the notary. Simply put, she would temporarily work under the lord, completing various faction missions. Seeing that the mission rewards were quite good, Molei naturally accepted it.
Following the mission's guidance all the way, Molei arrived here and saw a lord single-handedly taking on a sea clan legion. This combat power made Molei very surprised. But soon, surprise turned to shock. The more she looked at this lord, the more familiar he seemed, until she put on her pain mask.
"Walking right into the trap, hahaha~"
Hao Mei couldn't help but laugh out loud. Hearing the laughter of her close friend and best friend, Molei's little eyes became even more life-weary.