Chapter 20: The Madman
The rewards from Bounty 2: Lightning Speed were quite good, not only yielding a [Mysterious Treasure Box] but also a skill scroll that suited Su Xiao perfectly.
Su Xiao picked up the floating scroll before him. The scroll was entirely the golden color of World Lightning. The moment he touched it, golden arcs of electricity spread out.
[Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash, Lv.1]
Type: Absolute Strength Rank · Active (Requires at least Absolute Strength Rank to qualify for mastering this ability).
Prerequisite 1: Able to summon high-intensity World Lightning (Achieved).
Prerequisite 2: Health Points above 1,400,000 (Achieved).
Prerequisite 3: Lightning Resistance above 600 points (Achieved).
Skill Effect: After summoning World Lightning for 5 seconds, you can gather all the summoned World Lightning onto the weapon you are holding, executing a single ultra-high-intensity attack.
Note: This ability has three traits, only one of which can be chosen. Once the trait selection is completed, it will be permanently fixed and cannot be changed by any means.
Trait 1: Domain of Judgment (Active) – After gathering World Lightning onto your weapon, you can thrust the weapon into the ground, triggering a total of 15 to 30 lightning shocks to the surroundings. The attack power, range, and maximum number of shocks for each impact will depend on the intensity of the World Lightning you summoned this time.
Domain of Judgment Prerequisite: Blade Grandmaster Lv.50 or above, Strength and Stamina attributes 450 points or above, Earth Vein Basic Ability Lv.70 or above (Not Achieved).
Domain of Judgment Exclusive Specialty: Significantly reduces the damage from World Lightning to oneself and increases the maximum duration of World Lightning enhancement on the weapon (from the original maximum of 5 seconds to 20 seconds).
Trait 2: Nether King (Active) – After gathering World Lightning onto your weapon, you can execute a thrusting heavy cannon with this weapon toward the front, causing the World Lightning enhanced on the weapon to strike the enemy target in a concentrated form, dealing high Impact Damage + Penetration Damage + World Lightning Damage. If the target's health is below 35%, this attack has a 10% to 25% chance to execute the enemy (determined by the enemy's body/soul toughness).
Nether King Prerequisite: Blade Grandmaster Lv.60 or above, Agility and Intelligence attributes 450 points or above, Lightning Basic Ability Lv.80 or above (Not Achieved).
Nether King Exclusive Specialty: After summoning World Lightning, there is no need for a 5-second adaptation phase. Instead, the World Lightning can be absorbed and gathered onto your weapon at the same time it falls.
Trait 3: Blade Grandmaster – After gathering World Lightning onto your weapon, you can execute an ultra-high-speed, unstoppable charge, and your next attack will carry the lightning damage of this World Lightning.
Blade Grandmaster Prerequisite: Blade Grandmaster Lv.85 or above, Strength, Agility, and Stamina 500 points or above, holding an Eternal Rank blade-type weapon with a rating of 6000 or above (Achieved).
Blade Grandmaster Exclusive Specialty: This ability's level will synchronize with Blade Grandmaster and will increase as Blade Grandmaster's level increases.
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Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash was a very high-tier ability. The most basic threshold for this ability was to become an Absolute Strength powerhouse; otherwise, one wouldn't even qualify to master it. But even passing that, there were three prerequisites: being able to summon high-intensity World Lightning, having over 1,400,000 health points, and having over 600 points of Lightning Resistance.
Did that mean one could master Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash? Not exactly. These three requirements only meant the user had the qualifications to withstand high-intensity World Lightning and could gather it onto a weapon.
To truly unleash the killing power of this move, there were further requirements. This ability had three branches: Judgment, Nether King, and Blade Grandmaster. The first two were beyond Su Xiao's ability to master, but that didn't matter—he was very interested in Blade Grandmaster.
This trait of Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash perfectly matched his ability characteristics. First was lightning summoning. After a World Lightning pillar dozens of kilometers wide, or even over a hundred kilometers wide, fell, the first five seconds were the peak of its power. Su Xiao and the enemy would both take damage within this lightning domain.
However, Su Xiao's Lightning Resistance was high, so he could endure better than the enemy. This was his secret method of controlling lightning. Once others understood this principle, many lightning-ability users would inevitably question their life choices.
When the World Lightning domain lasted for five seconds and was about to enter a power decay phase, Su Xiao could activate Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash, gathering all the World Lightning within a hundred-kilometer radius onto his blade, then charge to the enemy's front and deliver a Torrent Slash imbued with powerful World Lightning.
If Su Xiao wanted, he could also slash out a golden World Lightning giant blade from medium to long range. Although this was spectacular and flashy, its power was nearly half less than charging in for a close-range lightning slash.
Compared to the Judgment and Nether King traits, the Blade Grandmaster trait was stronger because this ability's level synchronized with Blade Grandmaster. Remember, this was an Absolute Strength Rank ability, and leveling it up would be very costly.
Currently, Su Xiao's Blade Grandmaster was at Lv.87. If he mastered Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash and chose the Blade Grandmaster trait, then Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash would immediately rise to Lv.87. The combat power boost this would bring was simply absurd.
The problem was that mastering a powerful ability required corresponding endurance. Even though Su Xiao's health was as high as 1,660,000 points, he wouldn't be arrogant enough to think he could withstand an Absolute Strength Rank ultimate skill jumping from Lv.1 to Lv.87 in a short time.
The good news was that this was an active ability. If it were a passive, there would be no way around it.
Deciding not to use the Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash skill scroll for now, Su Xiao took out the [Mysterious Treasure Box] he had just obtained and opened it.
[You have opened the Mysterious Treasure Box.]
[You have obtained Dawn Fragment x1.]
If he had been unlucky enough to draw a [Dawn Fragment] in the past, Su Xiao would have had to force a reason, like "this accumulates luck" or "Dawn Fragments aren't bad." Not anymore. Amu's [Dawn Shield] progress had reached 3/10. He still needed 7 more [Dawn Fragments] to start forging the "strongest shield in history."
When the train slowed down, they had arrived at District 130. Su Xiao got off with Bubu Wang and took a public transit train to the Teleportation Tower.
Inside the Teleportation Tower, Su Xiao paid the fee and stepped onto the teleportation platform. A smell of rain-soaked earth spread. This was the scent of liquid space characteristics volatilizing due to frequent spatial movement. Almost all teleportation-type buildings had a faint trace of this smell, but it wasn't unpleasant.
Su Xiao didn't go directly to Falling Star City. Instead, he adjusted the teleportation coordinates and arrived with Bubu Wang at Silent City near the Sigor River, also known as Night City.
When the teleportation ended, the surrounding scene was lively. Men and women, or other races, dressed in bizarre outfits, were standing or sitting in various parts of the Teleportation Tower. They seemed to be partying, but in reality, they were waiting for naive newcomers who had wandered in.
After sensing Su Xiao's aura, the malicious gazes around him withdrew. It was like in nature: vultures wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge a beast of prey.
At night, Night City became a lawless place, where extravagance, depravity, and crime ran rampant. At 8 PM, Su Xiao stopped in front of a four-story building and knocked on the door. A beautiful young woman opened it. Behind her, in the shadows, stood her husband holding an old hunting rifle. The engravings on the rifle glowed with energy.
The two slightly bowed to Su Xiao in respect. Su Xiao went up the stairs to the second floor and saw Lucius, the second-in-command of the White Bull faction, reclining in a lounge chair with his eyes half-closed, resting.
Lucius raised a hand to Su Xiao in greeting before closing his eyes again. Su Xiao went up to the third floor and entered an empty bedroom.
He had come here to use the Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash scroll. Where was the safest place in the Witch Realm? The Moon Ring City · District 1 · Witch Guild Headquarters, where the Moon Witch was? Or the Moon Ring City · District 3, controlled by the Star Research Association?
For Su Xiao, neither. He had a good relationship with the Guild Leader, but that couldn't involve faction conflicts. As for the Moon Witch, Su Xiao always felt she was hiding too many secrets. Therefore, in his view, the territory of Lucius, the second-in-command in Night City, was the safest for him.
Lucius was indeed disloyal to White Bull, but at this stage, Su Xiao had a direct interest relationship with him. A potion business partnership that Lucius absolutely couldn't give up. If there were a few people in this world who didn't want Su Xiao to die, Lucius was definitely one of them.
Furthermore, before Lucius truly rebelled against White Bull, he wouldn't dare to attack Su Xiao. White Bull's injuries were entirely suppressed by Su Xiao's alchemy. Lucius couldn't bear White Bull's wrath.
Su Xiao took out Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash and then sent a request to Reincarnation Paradise to activate a restriction-type authority. As a Hunter with a brand level of Lv.93, he naturally had plenty of such authorities.
After searching for a moment, Su Xiao found the restriction-type authority he needed. However, because he was within a mission world, the activation cost for this authority had skyrocketed from over 700 ounces of Space-Time Power to 1500 ounces of Space-Time Power.
After a brief consideration, Su Xiao felt this Space-Time Power was well spent. Taking risks and being reckless were fundamentally different. Raising Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash from Lv.1 to Lv.87 in a short time was truly a fancy way to court death.
After paying the Space-Time Power to activate the corresponding authority, Su Xiao crushed the skill scroll in his hand. The next moment, the skill scroll turned into golden World Lightning that merged into his arm.
Instantly, Su Xiao felt as if all the hairs on his body were standing on end. Fortunately, he had extensive experience in mastering Law-Destroying abilities and had strong resistance. He managed to withstand the intense pain of World Lightning surging through his body and stabilized his breathing.
This state lasted for an hour before Su Xiao's aura calmed down again. Hot sweat evaporated from his body into steam. After a while, he let out a long breath.
[Note: You have mastered Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash.]
[Due to mastering this ability, your Lightning Resistance has permanently increased by 50 points.]
[Your Lightning Resistance has reached 668 points.]
[Your Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash ability has been raised to Lv.30. The Restriction Authority has been activated. Until this Restriction Authority is lifted, this ability's level will not increase further (this Restriction Authority can only affect active skills; passive skills cannot be restricted in this way).]
[You have lifted the first stage of the Restriction Authority. This restriction has a total of three stages.]
[Your Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash ability has been raised to Lv.50.]
[The second stage of the Restriction Authority has been activated. Until this Restriction Authority is lifted, this ability's level cannot increase further.]
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Su Xiao opened his eyes. Fortunately, he had prepared properly before starting to master Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash. Otherwise, the ability jumping from Lv.1 directly to Lv.87 would definitely have sent him off.
Even raising it to Lv.30 had been quite intense. But with the first stage of the Restriction Authority as a buffer, when Su Xiao stabilized and then lifted it, Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash smoothly rose to Lv.50. It wasn't as unbearable, after all, Su Xiao's True Stamina attribute was 539 points, and his health was 1,660,000 points.
[Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash: Lv.50 (Absolute Strength Rank · Active)]
Skill Effect (Active): After summoning World Lightning for 5 seconds, you can gather all the summoned World Lightning onto the weapon you are holding, then execute an ultra-high-speed, unstoppable charge. Your next attack will carry 85% of this World Lightning's lightning damage, plus your slashing damage (including blade damage, soul damage, etc.). If the enemy blocks with a weapon, this attack will carry a Break Limit effect, potentially damaging the enemy's weapon.
Note: This ability's level will synchronize with Blade Grandmaster and will increase as Blade Grandmaster's level increases (Restriction Authority locked; this trait will trigger once the authority is lifted).
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If Su Xiao used his elemental affinity to summon lightning, the power of Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash would be extremely fierce. Combined with his style of "normal attacks are ultimate moves," this one slash would be quite terrifying.
After meditating for a while to recover, Su Xiao didn't linger long. He bid farewell to Lucius and, with Bubu Wang, headed north to the Eternal Winter City · Long Lu to meet with the Winter King.
The Winter King had already started dealing with the Platinum Apostle and the Priest. It was clear that the Winter King was quite capable. Recently, Su Xiao had felt a sharp decrease in pressure from the Platinum Apostle and the Priest.
After bidding farewell to the Winter King, Su Xiao walked with Bubu Wang toward the Teleportation Tower through the heavy snow and wind. Along the way, Bubu Wang happily ran around. Being in a cold region put Bubu in a good mood; it seemed his clever intelligence had taken over.
The next morning, when Su Xiao walked out of the Teleportation Tower in Falling Star City · District 6, a different scene greeted him. Falling Star City's style was like a cyberpunk explosion of technology. Various flying vehicles whizzed overhead on the streets. Early in the morning, young people with bizarre hairstyles rode old-fashioned motorcycles roaring down the streets. The air had a slight sense of pollution and the damp heat of steam.
Su Xiao returned to his hotel room. As he pushed open the door, he smelled blood. Inside the room, Amu was covered in bandages but still had a good appetite. Baha was cursing while perched on the back of a sofa, his eyes clearly plotting revenge. Serene, an admirer of Green Gillian and one of the three candidates for the future Moon Witch, was eating breakfast. She had some bandages too, but her injuries weren't serious.
As for Su Xiao's little assistant, Alanna, she looked dazed, on the verge of a mental breakdown. Regardless, Alanna was at the peak of Ninth Rank. Being beaten so badly was clearly the result of being schemed against from afar by the Black Hole · Azler, that super old yinbi. She had nearly lost her life and was now questioning her existence.
Su Xiao sat on a single sofa opposite Alanna and snapped his fingers in front of her face with a "pop." Alanna was startled, and the light in her eyes returned to its usual liveliness. Seeing Su Xiao across from her, Alanna's nose suddenly tingled, and she said, "Mr. White Night, I thought I would never see you again."
Hearing this, Su Xiao said in a firm tone, "That wouldn't happen."
Hearing this, Alanna, who had just been schemed against and nearly died, felt deeply moved. She never expected that the Mr. White Night she usually feared could actually comfort people.
"If Black Hole · Azler had killed you first, even if he had his men do it, it would have left traces. Killing you just to leave traces wouldn't be worth it."
Hearing this, Alanna, who had been so moved she was almost self-hypnotizing, immediately choked. Her lips parted, wanting to say something, but she didn't know what. Strangely, her previous sense of despair had dissipated by ninety percent.
"Serene, use your family's intelligence channels to find this woman as soon as possible."
Su Xiao placed a reproduced photo on the coffee table. Serene, chewing her food, brushed her silver short hair behind her ear, picked up the photo, and tilted her head to look at it. Just one glance, and she was immediately interested.
If there was any difference between Serene and her admired Green Gillian, it was that Green Gillian was quite a player, loving the thrill of first love, while Serene preferred married women—a classic Cao thief behavior.
After being stared at by Su Xiao for over ten seconds, Serene reluctantly put away her thoughts, stuffed the remaining piece of bread in her mouth, and took the photo to leave.
"Wait. Amu, temporarily assist Serene."
"Moo."
Amu stood up and walked out. With Amu watching, Su Xiao felt relatively at ease.
"Bubu, Alanna, go find the Dark Prophet. He might be in Falling Star City."
Su Xiao had Bubu Wang and Alanna team up. Their survivability was maxed out. Bubu Wang could blend into the environment, and Alanna, by taking a deep breath and entering a breath-holding state, could merge into the surrounding world. In that state, she was immune to any attack, and no one could pull her out. It lasted for 5 minutes each time.
"Dark Prophet? Is he also our enemy?"
Alanna's gaze was a bit emotional. She had read the Dark Prophet's travelogue of the Wizard Continent when she was a child. Now, she was about to deal with the Dark Prophet. She couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.
"Not sure yet."
"Understood. We'll find him first but won't make contact."
Alanna stood up and walked out, turning her head to see that Bubu Wang had already disappeared somewhere.
Baha flew out the window to track the Madman's trail. Su Xiao began to meditate with his eyes closed. Around 3 PM, Baha returned and landed on Su Xiao's shoulder, saying, "Boss, I've got a lock on the Madman. This guy is in District 10..."
After listening to Baha's report, Su Xiao took out a map and studied District 10 for a while. A theater caught his attention. It was called the Hive Theater, once one of the largest theaters in Falling Star City. But a few years ago, a major incident caused it to decline. Now, it barely survived on clown comedies and animal shows.
Su Xiao got up and left. He took a public transit train and soon arrived at the Hive Theater. Today, the Hive Theater was bustling. Under warm-toned lights, the tiered seats were nearly full. On the verge of bankruptcy, the theater naturally couldn't make demands of its guests. The smell of various foods from the audience filled the air. The dark red curtain at the front was tightly closed. Compared to the noisy audience, it was very quiet behind the curtain.
Su Xiao took a seat. He wasn't sure what Black Hole · Azler and the Madman were after, but he knew one thing: District 10 of Falling Star City probably wouldn't survive today.
This explosion had been long planned. The gem ring worn by a nearby kind-faced noblewoman was actually a gem bomb. She was completely unaware. Not far away, a punk teenager's clothes had their original metal ornaments replaced with explosives. He, too, had no idea.
This was the power to manipulate minds, making these innocent people unknowingly carry various explosives to the Hive Theater in District 10.
The front curtain slowly opened. A figure stood on the stage, dressed neatly, wearing a black top hat and a white mask on his face. Behind him was a muscular man, bare-chested, with wild, disheveled hair flowing back. His mouth was full of jagged, beast-like teeth, each one especially ferocious.
If Su Xiao's guess was correct, the masked figure on stage was Black Hole · Azler, and the one half a step behind was the Explosives Master · Madman.
"Hello, Hunter from the Paradise."
Black Hole · Azler on the stage spoke with a hint of a smile. In the center of the audience, Su Xiao's hand rested on his sword hilt.
Although Black Hole · Azler remained calm, the Madman behind him was on edge. Seeing was believing. Now, feeling Su Xiao's blood energy and the overwhelming pressure of a final boss-like big shot, the Madman didn't dare delay any further. He immediately detonated all the explosives in the theater, while he and Black Hole · Azler were just flesh-and-blood avatars, not their true bodies.
Even so, the Madman deeply felt what it was like to face this Law Destroyer face-to-face.
Boom!
The disguised explosives around detonated. The people in the theater still wore the expressions from a moment ago, but the dark red flames of the explosion began to spread, consuming everything they touched.
Zzzz~
Spirit Shadow Threads spread from Su Xiao's left hand, instantly filling the entire theater. A crystal layer clung to the building's outer walls.
Thud!
The theater, wrapped in a thick crystal layer, was covered in cracks. The ceiling shattered. The explosion, which should have swallowed most of District 10, didn't spread. Instead, it turned into a pillar of fire shooting upward.
Inside the theater, flames engulfed the place. Su Xiao stood in the flames, with Baha on his shoulder. An explosion of this level couldn't threaten Baha, let alone Su Xiao. The Madman's purpose for this explosion was to destroy District 10, not to kill many strong individuals.
When the flames began to die down, the surrounding crystal layer shattered and dissipated. But at that moment, several more explosions came from a distance.
Baha flew high into the air and dove back down a few seconds later. According to Baha's aerial view, the outer perimeter of District 10 was engulfed in a ring of explosions, forming a circular wall of fire. Nearly half of District 10 was destroyed.
Today's attack had been long planned, but Black Hole · Azler and the Madman's appearance seemed somewhat forced. It felt more like they were trying to hold Su Xiao back. Thinking about it, Black Hole · Azler's real target should be in the nearby area. This explosion was more about covering their tracks and angering the Wizard Guild of Falling Star City, making them focus on the explosion and ignore other things.
A crystal appeared in Su Xiao's hand. He threw it to the ground. With an especially crisp sound, the ritual crystal shattered, and a shockwave spread out. The only purpose of this item was to release a large-scale shockwave. When these shockwaves touched any rituals, they would give feedback.
Su Xiao leaped to the top of a tall building and looked around. There were quite a few rituals activated around here. After all, this was Falling Star City. But one ritual stood out, its light visible from a great distance.
Boom!
The broken concrete under Su Xiao's feet splattered. He turned into a blur and rushed to the location of the target ritual. Upon arriving, he saw a bank building covered in a ritual. The ritual on the outer wall was for impact resistance and high-temperature resistance. No doubt about it, Black Hole · Azler's real target was this bank.
Su Xiao approached the ritual, looking like he was about to kick the door open with a straight kick.
Inside the bank's first floor, members of the Dark God Cult, all dressed in black and wearing white masks, were dividing up the loot from this heist. Black Hole · Azler wasn't interested in the money; he was here to steal an artifact.
Thud!
A dull sound. The bank's heavy metal door flew in. Three Dark God Cult members, who had just received their share and were chatting, didn't have time to react before they were turned into a bloody mist by the half-meter-thick, several-meter-wide metal door. The door then slammed heavily into the opposite wall, causing the entire bank building to tremble. All the glass windows shattered. Even with the ritual reinforcement, the building's structure was distorted.
Click, click, click~
A figure, stepping on broken glass, holding a long sword, and walking against the light, came into view of over a hundred Dark God Cult members. More cult members rushed down from upstairs, gathering a total of several hundred people on the first floor of the bank.
The sunset's afterglow painted District 10 in a bloody hue. The gathering dark clouds in the sky suddenly dimmed the daylight, bringing nightfall early.
The bank building had fallen silent. Under a pillar, the light flickered uncertainly. Su Xiao was holding a Dark God Cult squad leader by the neck with one hand. Four Mercy Spikes were embedded in the cultist's head. Tears, snot, and saliva mixed and dripped down.
After getting the information he wanted, Su Xiao snapped the squad leader's neck with a "crack." Looking around, the scene was filled with severed limbs and broken bodies. The floor, walls, and pillars were splattered with large amounts of blood.
The sound of a small spaceship's engine came. Harsh spotlights shone through the broken areas of the bank building, locking onto the only living person present: Su Xiao.
Officers in uniforms, holding tech firearms, rushed into the bank building. Having just witnessed such a horrific bombing and now seeing the hellish scene inside the bank, these officers were on edge.
"Hands up!"
"Drop your weapon!"
The officers shouted loudly, mixed with anger. The spotlights from the small spaceship were blinding and flickering. The officers aimed their tech firearms at Su Xiao, slowly advancing. But the next second, a roar came from Su Xiao's other side.
"Everyone over there, drop your weapons! Get down! Now!!"
This roar was full of authority, startling even the officer captain. In such chaos, with the stimulation of blood and the blinding lights, the captain couldn't see who the other group was.
At that moment, another roar came, even more intimidating. A third group of people, totaling several dozen members, walked in through a broken wall opposite Su Xiao.
Just as the three groups around Su Xiao were confronting each other, a wall a few dozen meters behind Su Xiao exploded with a bang. A fourth group entered, causing even more blinding spotlights from small spaceships to shine on him.
Stimulated by today's events, all four groups were on edge and full of pent-up anger. Although they all believed Su Xiao was the mastermind behind everything, they nearly started fighting each other.
Before the situation could worsen further, they identified each other: the officers, the city guards, the patrol unit, and the Hunter Agency. The last group had the fewest members but the most authority.
"This man, we're taking him away."
The officer captain spoke first, with a strong attitude.
"You're full of shit! This bastard destroyed half of District 10! Our City Guard Legion must take him back!"
The city guard captain glared angrily.
"This man is related to the Dark God Cult. We suspect he's a high-ranking cult leader."
After the Hunter Agency commander spoke, both the officer captain and the city guard captain fell silent.
"Do you provide dinner?"
Su Xiao suddenly spoke, catching the Hunter Agency commander, Ashis, off guard. He had seen all kinds of situations, but he never expected the criminal in front of him to be so calm. His female adjutant quickly said, "Even criminals will receive a fair trial."
"..."
Su Xiao's hands were bound. As for his various equipment, he had already stored them in his storage space. When he first arrived in this world, the Moon Witch had informed him that, for various reasons, she couldn't provide him with an official identity in the Wizard faction.
In return, if he was arrested by the Wizard faction's subordinate departments while dealing with the Dark God Cult, it didn't matter. The Witch Guild would help him regain his freedom as soon as possible. During the day, it wouldn't exceed three hours; at night, it wouldn't exceed six hours.
Sitting in a restraint chair designed for dangerous criminals, Su Xiao looked through the small spaceship's porthole at the outer area of District 10 below, where flames were still burning fiercely. Inside the spaceship, over a dozen Hunter Agency members were watching Su Xiao with extreme vigilance. Even if he yawned now, it would make them highly nervous.
Su Xiao didn't care about that. What he really cared about was that the Blade Demon Spirit within Dragon-Slaying Flash was about to finish devouring that Supreme Rank · Immortal · Abyss Spawn.
This also meant that the Blade Demon Spirit's intensity was about to reach 560 points. This required Su Xiao to have over 1000 points of Soul Strength to suppress it. In other words, the thrilling and dangerous "mutual harm" phase between him and the demon spirit was about to begin.