Chapter 5: Professional
Within the temporary residence in the underground city, in the rear courtyard.
After finalizing the follow-up plan, the three rascals of the Arbiters left first. Originally, Su Xiao planned to provide round-trip teleportation, but under the vehement opposition of Toad and Rat, the two fled in disgrace. In fact, Kaisa was somewhat tempted, because using Su Xiao's teleportation array to go to the Southern Continent wouldn't cost any money.
However, after learning that Su Xiao had once again improved the Law-Destroying Teleportation Array, Kaisa pondered for a few seconds before finally gritting his teeth and deciding to give it a try. After all, this could save a Soul Coin expenditure. Although, given Kaisa's wealth, this was a drop in the bucket, in Kaisa's cognition, every single Soul Coin was a priceless treasure. This had nothing to do with how many Soul Coins he currently had in his coffers.
To put it another way, spending a single Soul Coin, for Kaisa, was like cutting flesh with a knife.
After the three rascals of the Arbiters left, the two good teammates also decided to set off, agreeing to meet later at Twilight City in the Southern Continent. Just as the two were about to leave, a notice from the Void Tree appeared.
[Notice: Warning, the Northern Continent is expected to enter Dark Night in 1 hour and 5 minutes!]
[All Contractors located in the Northern Continent must enter the Northern Continent's Sanctuary Zone before Dark Night arrives to avoid this Dark Night. This Dark Night is expected to last ten hours.]
[The only Sanctuary Zone in the Northern Continent is: The Underground City.]
[Coordinates for the Underground City have been opened to all Contractors in the Northern Continent.]
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Blood-red notices and prompts appeared one after another, causing Zuiyasi and Wude, who were about to leave, to decide to wait and see for now.
This decision was correct, because from the very beginning, the source of danger in this world was not the sun in the sky. The sun's Solar Force was indeed somewhat distorted, but as the blazing sun that had shone upon this world since the Transcendent Era, its existence still protected the living beings on the earth.
Otherwise, why would the Sun God Clan of Blazing Sun City... no, now called Twilight City, pass down the "Blazing Sun Blood" at any cost? The answer was: when the sun in the sky temporarily falls silent and the Blood Moon appears, that is when this world truly reveals its ferocity.
The Abyss Force spreading from the Lightless Zone had not only eroded the sun but had eroded the moon even more severely. The Silver Moon of this world was once one of the wonders of the Void Myriad Realms. Come to think of it, how could something qualified to replace the supreme sun at night not be a spectacle?
Many scholars believed that the ancestors of the Silver Moon Wolf Clan came from Blazing Sun Star: Chilia De. The entire Silver Moon Wolf Clan becoming Abyss Watchers was likely because the initial Silver Moon they resided on, Chilia De, was contaminated by Abyss Force and distorted into the Blood Moon.
This seemed like a cause and effect, or a curse, causing most of the later generations of Moon Wolves, who served as Abyss Watchers, to end up eroded by the Abyss.
Thinking carefully, it was indeed so. The Law Destroyers, Demon Scythes, and Wanderers had no less contact with the Abyss than the Moon Wolves, but less than one-fifth of them ended badly due to Abyss erosion. In contrast, for the Moon Wolf Clan, at least six out of ten Moon Wolves met their end through Abyss erosion. This fate-like curse might be due to this Blood Moon in the sky.
The Blood Moon in the sky made the nights of this world extremely terrifying, divided into four levels: Dark Night, Black Night, Blood Night, and Eternal Night.
Dark Night: The environment is relatively dim. The sun's suppression power is reduced by 65%. All Dark Creatures emerge from their nests. Twisted, thriving monsters and Bloodthirsters are moderately enraged. A small number of Abyss Creatures appear. A small number of Undead appear.
Single duration of Dark Night: 8 to 10 hours.
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Black Night: Completely enters the night curtain. The sun's suppression power is reduced by 100%. All Dark Creatures emerge from their nests. Twisted, thriving monsters and Bloodthirsters are highly enraged. A moderate number of Abyss Creatures appear. A moderate number of Undead appear.
Single duration of Black Night: 10 to 15 hours.
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Blood Night: The Blood Moon completely appears in the sky, blocking the sun. All Dark Creatures emerge from their nests + enraged. Twisted, thriving monsters and Bloodthirsters are severely enraged + severely distorted + severely bloodthirsty. A large number of Abyss Creatures appear. A large number of Undead appear. Abyss System entities appear. Infected alien entities appear.
Effects of the Blood Moon on living beings: Severe bloodlust, reason limit -50%, prone to rage, prone to madness, probability of falling into despair increased by 300%, probability of generating illusory dark faith increased by 39%, continuously consumes reason points. When reason points reach zero, falls into Blood Moon distortion, distorting into a Moon Mad Beast.
Single duration of Blood Night: 20 to 24 hours.
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Eternal Night: The sun falls. The Blood Moon hangs forever in the sky. This world defaults to permanently entering the "Blood Night" stage.
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These four levels of night were the true terror of Blazing Sun Star. Now, the Northern Continent was about to face the fourth-tier danger level of night. Su Xiao leaped onto the roof of the mansion. The next second, a sound like a steam train's whistle came from the top of the central steel building in the Underground City.
Woo!!!
The steam whistle was incredibly loud, even creating ripples in the air. The reason every building in the Underground City was made of steel became clear. The doors and windows of each building lowered their shutters, sealing the entire structure. The steam pipe valves on the outer walls opened, and hot steam sprayed out. Dark Creatures hated fire and heat; this could minimize the chance of Dark Creatures approaching their homes.
Groups of City Guard legions or Transcendent guilds rushed towards the largest entrance of the Underground City. There was no need for the Dark God Cult to force them to defend the city. If the Underground City fell, everyone would die. Except for a very few teleportation arrays that could function during the night of this world, 99% of teleportation arrays could not break through the sudden increase in spatial density caused by the Dark Night.
The difference was like firing a rifle bullet: in the air, the range was hundreds of meters to a kilometer, but in water, it was only 1 to 3 meters. This was just a density difference of several hundred times. The difference in spatial density between day and night on Blazing Sun Star was between 45,600 and 46,000 times. Many Space System users had doubted their lives during the nights of this world.
Su Xiao leaped between the multi-story steel buildings. Under the increasingly tense and dark conditions, the wind whistled past his ears. The air had a fresh scent of grass and trees, a direct manifestation of the Abyss Energy becoming active.
When Su Xiao arrived at the only entrance and exit of the Underground City, he found that in front of the several dozen meter wide, hundred meter tall metal giant gate, various defensive weapons had already been set up. The reason the gate was built so large was that the Underground City had no choice. The entire underground space of the Underground City was actually the shell of a Swamp Lord turtle. This Swamp Lord was, during the peak of this world, second only to the first generation Sun King.
Its size could be known from the current Underground City. This super-giant turtle shell had many washbasin-sized holes on top, originally wounds inflicted by the first generation Sun King. The Underground City used these holes to allow the roots of the Sun Tree above to spread to the dome of the Underground City.
A more intuitive expression was that the entire giant turtle shell was buried underground. The space inside the shell was the Underground City. The openings at both ends were sealed off at the back, while the front part was left as an exit.
Rings of semi-circular defenses were formed under the organization of the City Guard and Transcendents. It could be seen that they had rich experience in defending the city. The total of over a dozen layers of semi-circular defensive lines were not for a last stand, but for a gradual retreat. When the front line was breached, the stronger combatants from the rear would surge forward, push back the Blood Beast tide a bit, and while the others took this time, they would once again form layers of semi-circular defenses.
Because the tech tree was completely skewed, and after years of defending the city, the weapons in the hands of the defenders looked bizarre. For example, a "tech enchantment" of a chip tied to a battle axe could be seen.
This "tech enchantment" naturally had no practical effect. It was a Scavenger who found a control chip in an ancient ruin but didn't know how to use it, so they tied it to their weapon as decoration. It was no different in essence from tying feathers to a weapon as decoration.
Seeing Su Xiao arrive, Dark Archbishop Berheva raised a hand to greet him, seemingly having forgotten the unpleasantness of the previous negotiation. Berheva said, "Dark Night is coming soon. Oh, right, welcome to Blazing Sun Star. See the true face of this world."
After saying this, Dark Archbishop Berheva glanced at the old pocket watch in his hand. There were still over 30 minutes until Dark Night descended.
Baha looked around at the front lines and asked, "Judging by this setup, do you go through this every day?"
Hearing this, Dark Archbishop Berheva chuckled wryly and said, "If it were every day, the Underground City would have ceased to exist long ago. Roughly once a week, every night is Dark Night, depending on the Blood Moon's appearance."
Through Dark Archbishop Berheva's description, Su Xiao learned about the night situation in the Northern Continent. Roughly once a week was "Dark Night," once a month was "Black Night." As for "Blood Night," it appeared about once a year, each time being a test of the Underground City's survival.
Comparatively, the Northern Continent was already heaven. The Southern Continent was truly terrifying; that was a place only powerful forces were qualified to stay. The nights in the Southern Continent defaulted to "Dark Night," roughly once every five to seven days was "Black Night," and once a month was "Blood Night."
From this perspective, Twilight City, which could still maintain a population of several hundred million, was incredibly strong. Consequently, Twilight City had many Absolute Strong individuals, but currently, only one Supreme Strong existed.
Why was that? The answer was that the strong in Twilight City did not lack resources for strengthening. The "Blood Beast Heart" was an efficient and easily obtainable resource for strengthening. Twilight City had a complete system for absorbing the power of "Monster Hearts" to become stronger. The peak of this power system was the Supreme Rank. The problem was that very few people could live long enough to reach this level.
Abyss Energy erosion and Solar Force distortion were challenges every strong person in Twilight City had to face. So why did the crazy Soul Academy and the various God Cults recognize Twilight City as the boss? Because when this large group of Absolute Strong level Sun Madmen from Twilight City went crazy, those Soul Scholars and fanatical believers didn't seem so scary anymore. Even they had to take a detour when encountering Sun Madmen.
Moreover, many of Twilight City's Sun Miracles were large-scale abilities. Even facing "Dark Night" every day, Twilight City could hold out. However, when facing "Blood Night," Twilight City also faced great pressure.
The moment the countdown ended, the surroundings suddenly fell silent. A droplet-like black liquid substance appeared in the air, then slowly evaporated, filling the air with a dark aura. Inhaling this air felt like inhaling the darkness and fear into the lungs, then dissolving into the blood through the lungs, flowing through the body with the bloodstream, causing fear from the inside out.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Distant, heavy footsteps came, the sound of a World Giant walking. When the Black Night descended, under the Blood Moon, a World Giant covered in shackles, with dozens of meter-thick iron chains hanging from its body, would carry an island shrouded in black mist, step by step forward. No one knew its destination, nor its origin, nor what was on that black mist island.
Inside the Underground City, driven by the pneumatic device, the metal giant gate slowly opened. When facing the Blood Beast tide, the city defense naturally couldn't close this metal gate. This gate, made of gram metal, was extremely expensive. Only if the defense at the city entrance failed would they consider temporarily lowering it.
Black mist surged in from outside, dissipating after passing through the blocking barrier at the entrance. Then, ripples appeared on this blocking barrier. A whooshing sound broke out. A fully metal arrow, covered in wind holes, was driven diagonally into the ground. A monster with its head pierced gradually revealed its form. Its body surface was a riot of colors, and its oily, textured skin constantly oozed corrosive liquid.
Plop, plop.
Sticky, wet footsteps came. A Blood Beast, over four meters long, with a deep red, shiny outer skin and a row of black tentacles hanging from its back, approached on all fours. Its vertical pupils stared at the City Guard and Transcendents. Its tongue, covered in barbs, licked its snout. The scent of living flesh and blood made it unable to restrain itself, but the failure of its last attack on this place prevented it from acting rashly.
Soon, one Blood Beast after another emerged from the darkness. As Dark Creatures, they had some reason, but as the Blood Moon, only partially visible, rose higher, their reason was gradually replaced by bestiality.
"Roar!!"
A Blood Beast roared. The row of tentacles on its back flew up. Gravel splashed under its feet as it charged forward at full speed.
Boom!
A hot Energy Crystal blasted over, blowing the Blood Beast's head off. The Energy Crystal also exploded. But the next second, countless Blood Beasts pounced out from the black mist.
The City Guards were mostly melee fighters. Their close combat experience and courage were very strong. The Adventurers and Scavengers who often went out were mostly long-range types. Their attack methods were sharp, and their combat experience was rich.
For a time, the wave of Blood Beasts was blocked by the first ring of defenses. Seeing this, a smile appeared on Dark Archbishop Berheva's face. This was the result of his years of management.
"Well, Bai Ye, the defenses of the Underground City aren't bad, are they?"
Dark Archbishop Berheva, who didn't know Su Xiao's background and only had a superficial understanding of Law Destroyers, spoke. He turned his head to look at Su Xiao beside him, only to find Su Xiao frowning as he looked at the Blood Beast tide.
This gave Dark Archbishop Berheva an estimate. This person's individual combat strength was indeed strong, but group combat probably wasn't his forte. After all, if such a scene made him frown, it would be hard to make a name for himself on Blazing Sun Star.
Had Su Xiao never seen group combat? Of course not. He had flattened the Eternal Light World and dealt with a bunch of World-Destroying level races. This Blood Beast tide was just a daily small scene in his experience. What truly surprised him was that this Underground City was truly a hidden dragon and crouching tiger. Among the attacking Blood Beasts, there was actually an Absolute Strong level, Undying, Abyss Spawn hidden.
Under such circumstances, Dark Archbishop Berheva still looked calm. This was truly extraordinary. From this perspective, was an attack by an Absolute Strong level, Undying, Abyss Spawn a daily occurrence for the Underground City?
With Su Xiao's knowledge of Abyss studies, he naturally knew the strength echelons of Abyss System entities. First were Abyss Creatures, which were super-enhanced versions of Dark Creatures, with many types.
Stronger than Abyss Creatures were "Abyss Spawn." These Abyss entities were quite difficult to deal with. Above them were "Undying Abyss Spawn." Previously in the Witch Realm, the Witch Guild couldn't even eliminate an Undying Abyss Spawn. They could only rely on individual strength + human wave tactics to wear it down, then seal it.
Comparing this, if the Underground City dealt with an Undying Abyss Spawn every few days, then this big city's foundation was simply heaven-defying.
Su Xiao looked at the Dark Archbishop Berheva beside him and then noticed that this guy, who had been standing with his arms crossed and a faint smile on his face, now had a gradually livid complexion. His arms had dropped, his eyes were slightly widened, and his cheek twitched.
"It seems you don't often deal with Abyss Spawn."
Hearing Su Xiao's words, Dark Archbishop Berheva's expression turned even uglier. He said, "Bai Ye, do you know why the Dead City, also in the Northern Continent, met its end? Because... decades ago, during a Blood Night, an Undying Abyss Spawn attacked the Dead City. Of that big city's ten million population, not a single living thing remained. And now, that Abyss Spawn has appeared before us."
After saying this, Dark Archbishop Berheva gritted his teeth so hard they creaked. He stared at the Undying Abyss Spawn that had parasitized the Blood Beast, his heart filled with uncontrollable hatred. He had painstakingly managed the Underground City for so many years, and it was about to cease to exist.
"Bai Ye, I'll see you in Twilight City."
Dark Archbishop Berheva never fantasized that this situation would have a good ending. So he prepared to immediately flee. That was an Undying Abyss Spawn. The three major forces of the Southern Continent could barely deal with it through sealing. In the Underground City, immediate flight was the wise choice.
"..."
Su Xiao didn't speak. It wasn't surprising that Dark Archbishop Berheva wanted to flee directly. The problem was, if he lost the resource backing of the Underground City, it would be very difficult to deal with those old foxes in Twilight City later.
This made Su Xiao look at Dark Archbishop Berheva. The moment their eyes met, Berheva shuddered. He understood Su Xiao's meaning all too well. This was not letting him run, forcing him to live and die with the Underground City. Berheva swore to the heavens that although he had managed the Underground City for a long time, he didn't want to live and die with this big city at all.
He had long purchased a manor in the inner city of Twilight City. Moreover, he had six wives and over a dozen children there. He had long since extracted enough wealth and resources from the Underground City to last several lifetimes. He had even prepared the means to escape this world with his most satisfactory descendant before the sun of this world fell.
"Bai Ye, you might not understand my feelings for the Underground City, but this time the Underground City has already..."
Clang!
The long blade was drawn from its sheath and pressed against Dark Archbishop Berheva's neck. He was silent for a few seconds before shouting solemnly, "I will live and die with the Underground City!"
Hearing his shout, the City Guards and Transcendents, who were originally retreating, suddenly paused in their steps, as if encouraged. They gradually gathered again and shouted, "For the City Lord!"
Hearing this shout, Dark Archbishop Berheva's mentality nearly shattered. He wailed inwardly, 'You bastards, immediately flee in disarray! Then this killing god beside me won't force me to live and die with the Underground City!'
"Berheva, do you have any Soul Coins?"
"Not a single one."
"What about Soul Stones?"
"Even less."
"..."
Su Xiao looked at Dark Archbishop Berheva. After seeing his increasingly friendly gaze, Berheva tentatively asked, "Can Sun Gold Coins work? This was the precious currency used by the Sun God Clan during their heyday."
"Fine. 5000 Sun Gold Coins, and I'll destroy that thing for you."
"Destroy that thing?!"
Dark Archbishop Berheva knew too little about Law Destroyers and didn't know that Law Destroyers could eliminate Undying Abyss Spawn.
Su Xiao began to observe. The Undying Abyss Spawn, which occasionally appeared in the black mist, parasitized inside the Blood Beast. Parasitic type, tentacle structure, tentacles black on the outside, with dark gold energy flowing inside. After observing, he analyzed the following information through his Abyss studies:
- This is a "Mothborn" among the parasitic species.
- This is a high-danger level Spawn.
- After being killed, it will gradually regenerate in the darkness of a random location within half a month.
- This entity has high hatred for: Wanderers, Law Destroyers.
- This entity has low hatred for: Silver Moon Wolves, Demon Scythes.
- Even if eliminated, this Undying Abyss Spawn will leave a clan memory, causing newly appeared Undying Abyss Spawn Mothborn in the Abyss to remember which enemies killed their kind.
Hmm, from this perspective, it wasn't that the Underground City was unlucky. This Undying Abyss Spawn had sensed the presence of a Law Destroyer and came to take revenge during the Blood Moon's descent.
After Su Xiao reached these conclusions, the Dark Archbishop Berheva beside him muttered to himself:
"Even during a Blood Night, the probability of an Abyss Spawn attacking is less than one percent. This shouldn't be happening."
Dark Archbishop Berheva frowned.
"Maybe it's bad luck."
Su Xiao tried to make Berheva ignore this issue.
"No, look at that Abyss Spawn. It clearly has a target. It seems to be here for revenge? Is it my imagination?"
"Yes, it's your imagination."
"No, this must be revenge. And the one it wants to take revenge on has only recently come to the Underground City. In my opinion..."
Dark Archbishop Berheva got this far in his speech when he found Su Xiao's hand already on the sword hilt. This made his next words become:
"Hmm, Brother Bai Ye, you were right just now. This Abyss Spawn did happen to come here by chance."
"..."
Su Xiao glanced at Dark Archbishop Berheva and lowered his hand from the sword hilt. Baha, on his shoulder, added to Berheva, "You analyze well. Next time, don't analyze."
Ignoring the Dark Archbishop Berheva beside him, whose expression was complex and who was almost putting on a mask of pain, Su Xiao took out a bottle of semi-fluid black liquid substance and tossed it to Amu. Amu gulped it down. Bubu Wang and Baha went to choose a location to set up various formations and mechanisms.
After waiting a few minutes, Su Xiao took out a "Crystalline Substance," a "friendly" smile appearing on his face. He said to Dark Archbishop Berheva, "As our collaborator, I shouldn't have threatened you just now."
"Haha, it's nothing, nothing."
Dark Archbishop Berheva's scalp tingled as he spoke. He could be sure that something particularly bad was about to happen.
"As an apology, I'll compensate you with a supreme treasure."
Su Xiao tossed the piece of black crystalline substance in his hand to Berheva. After examining it for a moment, Berheva's expression turned strange, because this was indeed a particularly rare semi-finished material.
Soon, Berheva realized something was wrong. The Undying Abyss Spawn that had been staring at Su Xiao in the black mist had now shifted its gaze, staring intently at Berheva.
"This supreme treasure is too precious. I can't accept it."
"..."
"Say something. Any suggestions or something."
Berheva's expression was almost twisted. He could already sense the surging killing intent and intense desire from that Abyss Spawn.
Su Xiao pointed his long blade at a flashing signal light in the distance, the meaning clear. If Berheva wanted to live, he should run towards there.
Boom!
The steel roof under Berheva's feet caved in. He turned into an afterimage, dashing towards the signal light. Just 0.5 seconds after he disappeared, a black shadow flashed past several dozen meters beside Su Xiao.
Su Xiao took a drag from the cigarette pinched between his index finger and thumb. He only inhaled it into his mouth before exhaling the pale smoke, which contained black light particles. Attracted by the black light particles, this smoke clung to the surface of his clothes and began to slowly evaporate.
Following the trail of the Abyss Spawn's passage, Su Xiao leaped between the rooftops. Half a minute later, he saw a large open space. In the center stood Berheva within a circular formation, and around him, the Abyss Spawn paced leisurely, unwilling to step into the formation.
Su Xiao leaped down from the third-floor roof. As soon as he landed, the Abyss Spawn, which had parasitized the Blood Beast, stopped paying attention to Berheva. It began to deeply parasitize the Blood Beast, turning its entire body black. Its surface grew many hair-thin tentacles, flowing like very long fur.
"Roar!"
The Abyss Spawn growled lowly, its radial pupils fixed on Su Xiao. Although it had never seen a Law Destroyer before, its racial memory told it that this human was extremely dangerous.
Su Xiao tossed away the remaining half of the special cigarette. Such a powerful Abyss Spawn immediately dodged. The pale smoke diffusing in the air made it shake its head several times in a row, looking exceptionally irritable.
A Devouring Core formed in Su Xiao's hand. He tossed it towards the Abyss Spawn. At first, the Abyss Spawn just watched warily. But the next second, its body was suddenly jolted into an afterimage. It roared in extreme pain.
Plop.
The Devouring Core fell to the ground, half-buried in the sand, making no sound or vibration. Yet the Abyss Spawn's figure kept showing afterimages, as if drunk, its four limbs staggering. The reason was that the Undying Abyss Spawn Mothborn was very afraid of "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation."
In layman's terms, creating a secondary oscillation wave within the alternate space of this area would cause the parasitic "Mothborn" extreme pain, even losing combat effectiveness.
If one were to directly confront this Undying Abyss Spawn, even with peak Absolute Strong level strength, they would only have a 20% chance of victory.
This thing's core ability was "Symbiotic Synchronization." Simply put, when an enemy dealt damage to it, the enemy would also be injured. Even more unsolvable was that "Mothborn" could temporarily suppress this injury synchronization. When the enemy inflicted many injuries on it, it would unleash all these damages on the enemy at once, causing instant death.
The current situation was that "Mothborn" was constantly synchronizing the damage caused by the "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation" to Su Xiao. The problem was that Su Xiao, as a human, only felt a slight discomfort in his eardrums after enduring this oscillation.
The Mothborn charged a few steps to the Devouring Core and smashed it with a claw. The "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation" it was enduring immediately disappeared. Taking this opportunity, it pounced towards Su Xiao.
A Devouring Core left Su Xiao's hand. After throwing this Devouring Core, he leaped back a dozen meters. The pouncing Mothborn once again experienced figure-shaking afterimages due to the "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation." It crashed to the ground in pain, roaring angrily. It swung its long tail, and with a crack, shattered the Devouring Core on the ground. It had discovered that as long as it wasn't too close to this crystal core, it wouldn't be affected.
The ground trembled as the Mothborn rushed over. Almost simultaneously, Su Xiao made a motion to throw the Devouring Core in his hand. But at the same time, the pouncing Mothborn used its claws to slash its other front paw and synchronized this damage to the Devouring Core in Su Xiao's hand. The Mothborn's damage could be synchronized not only to living things but also to inanimate objects.
The Devouring Core Su Xiao had just thrown shattered with a crack. The Mothborn, pouncing to within two meters in front of him, opened its blood-filled mouth full of sharp teeth, intending to swallow Su Xiao into the Abyss in one gulp. This was a lethal ability.
Buzz!
"Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation" suddenly appeared on the Mothborn. There were no other Devouring Cores nearby. The Mothborn's powerful perception could confirm this.
Why was this happening? The answer was that the "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation" wasn't caused by the Devouring Core at all. It was Baha, who was in the alternate space of this location. Baha was cooperating with Su Xiao the whole time. Only when Su Xiao threw the Devouring Core and it approached within five meters of the Mothborn did Baha start causing the "Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation," thereby affecting this Abyss Spawn.
The current situation was that the Mothborn, unable to move due to the "Intense Spatial Heterolayer Oscillation," had actively pounced in front of Su Xiao. Su Xiao's pupils gradually contracted. After activating "Hunting Vision," he could clearly see the distribution of the Mothborn's parasitism within this Blood Beast. This was to deal with another troublesome characteristic of the Mothborn: when the parasitized host died, it would immediately transfer its parasitism, randomly parasitizing a living being within a 1000-meter radius.
Clang!
The long blade slashed through. A single, incredibly precise cut severed the Mothborn in two, with the two halves differing in size by no more than 0.2%. This was to counter another characteristic of the Mothborn, "Split Survival." When severely injured, it could transfer its source energy to the relatively larger part, while the remaining part would explode, causing a large-scale Dark Matter erosion.
The current situation made it impossible for the Mothborn to quickly determine which part of its body to transfer its source energy to, as both parts were nearly identical in size. It was during this 0.5-second judgment that the lightning converted from Cyan Steel Shadow Energy through the formation was released through the array on the ground. With a crack, it pierced the Mothborn, causing paralysis.
'Extreme Blade: World!'
Clang!
Lines of slashes spread out. The Mothborn's parasitic host was completely shattered. Before it could hit the ground, a long blade emitting dark blue smoke pinned the Mothborn, which looked like a large mass of black tentacles, to the ground.
A silent, terrifying roar spread in layers. Su Xiao pulled the Dragon-Slaying Flash, deeply embedded in the Mothborn, free. The long blade, covered in dark blue smoke, pulled a dark black source energy out. Then the Demon Spirit devoured it, merging into the Dragon-Slaying Flash.
On the ground, the remnant of the Mothborn, stripped of its source energy and unconscious, struggled wildly. But soon, its activity began to decrease. It turned into a kind of black crystal shards that gradually dispersed. Before they could disperse, they were frozen by the spreading crystals.
These translucent blue crystals gathered, compressed, and finally formed a pitch-black sphere in Su Xiao's hand, about the size of a marble. If the Mothborn's shell crystal shards were allowed to disperse after its elimination, within a maximum of three natural days, there would be no living thing left in the Underground City.
Having witnessed all of this, Dark Archbishop Berheva's sincerity for future cooperation soared. If before his sincerity was 20/100 points, now it directly reached the full value of 100/100 points.
The reason was that as an Archbishop of the Dark God Cult, Berheva naturally had Undead System abilities. If not for the contract he had signed, he wouldn't have compromised with Su Xiao at all.
But now, the "Undying Abyss Spawn," which Berheva believed was absolutely impossible to eliminate, had been completely destroyed before his very eyes. If such an Abyss Spawn could be eliminated, then his Undead System abilities, when facing this killing god, wouldn't even have the qualification to struggle.
Amu brought a pre-prepared charcoal box. This charcoal box was about 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. Su Xiao placed the glass-like black sphere inside, added a semi-fluid filling material, filled the box, closed the lid, and then performed a multi-layered seal with various formations on the outer layer.
He took some gold wire, heated it in a crucible until liquid, and then poured the liquid gold over the outside of the charcoal box. Gold was a wonderful metal; even at high-level Alchemy, it still had many uses.
He tossed the sealing container, coated with a layer of gold, into a wooden bucket of water. With a hiss, white steam rose. Su Xiao fished it out, inspected it, and after confirming there were no issues, tossed this item to Dark Archbishop Berheva. The surface meaning was to keep it as a souvenir. The implication was: 'See this little box? If you pull any tricks, this will be your final resting place.'
At this moment, in the shadows half a kilometer behind, a presence was hiding. The one who had originally prepared to launch an assassination gradually concealed her aura. This was the current strongest Assassin, Xiao.