Chapter 463: The Death God

The Death Game can no longer hold it together.

Dahui is absorbing the stray electric arcs, and its body is rapidly undergoing Expansion.

Its figure suddenly became super-sized.

The Death God suddenly realized that Dahui's strength had actually risen to the eighth rank, and at this moment, the entire space where the Death Game was located was collapsing at an extremely fast speed.

However, the phantom of the God of Contracts still stood above, motionless.

It seemed completely unaffected in the slightest.

"Dahui!"

"Go!"

Dahui's hand was raised high, and endless lightning condensed in Dahui's hand, forming a mighty Thunder Battle Axe.

Violent lightning fell from the sky above, slamming heavily onto the ground.

The thunder transformed into chains that wrapped around the Mountain Giant's body.

The Mountain Giant's feet were pierced through by the chains, and it let out a deafening roar.

The Holy Oak on its back transformed into countless rhizomes, stabbing into the ground.

At the same time, the Mountain Giant's strength also rose to the eighth rank.

Two eighth-rank Pet Beasts are enough to tear the entire space in two.

Only a crackling sound was heard, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the sky, and the space was instantly torn in two.

A deafening sound came from the outside world.

Jagged lightning bolts followed the chains made of thunder, spreading onto the Mountain Giant's body.

The Mountain Giant instantly let out a roar of unwillingness.

"What a good scheme!"

The Death God looked at the shattered space, eyes spitting fire; once the space undergoes Kongjian Suipuo, the Thunder Dragon Cat can borrow the power of heaven and earth.

Terrifying electric currents fell from the sky; this is Thunder Island, after all, and it can borrow the power of heaven to attack the Mountain Giant.

If the Mountain Giant perishes here, for the Death God, he has completely lost this match and will need to sacrifice his Soul to the God of Contracts.

This is something the Death God cannot accept.

"Forget it, in the event that such a thing really happens, I also have a way to evade the rules."

The Death God's heart was filled with calculations; after all, he is the initiator of the Death Game and possesses a certain degree of immunity.

It is just that the price to be paid will be much greater than imagined.

It might cause the Death God to start from scratch, and even the Pet Beast body he obtained with such difficulty would have to be contributed.

But he would be able to have a chance to escape with his life.

Ye Bai knows that Dahui has the upper hand, but he dares not be the least bit slack, because the Death God's abilities are much more formidable than imagined.

Moreover, the more critical the moment, the more one must remain calm, lest the Death God find a loophole.

The fear is that the Death God is like a centipede that dies but does not stiffen; once the Death God uses a golden cicada shedding its shell, Ye Bai will have one more enemy hiding in the shadows.

For himself and for Dahui, there is no particularly good way.

Dahui brandished the Thunder God Axe, straightaway slicing off more than half of the Mountain Giant's arm.

The thick arm, along with the rock club, fell below, smashing down with a deafening sound.

A large amount of smoke and dust spread out, and bolt after bolt of thunder, as if regardless of their own lives, bombarded the severed part of the Mountain Giant's arm.

More than half of the Mountain Giant's body was blasted to smithereens, but its feet were still planted on the ground.

Therefore, the Mountain Giant was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's useless. As long as the Mountain Giant's feet touch the ground, it can recover. You cannot do anything to it."

"Obediently become the Mountain Giant's rations."

"Your Soul will eventually be absorbed by me."

The Death God does not clearly know the Mountain Giant's weakness, but this Mountain Giant's Earth Gaia trait can guarantee that it will not die.

But this is Thunder Island, which makes the Death God feel a faint sense of unease.

"If the Thunder Dragon Cat uses the power of heaven and earth, I fear the Mountain Giant will not be able to hold on."

The Death God muttered to himself inwardly.

Ye Bai, meanwhile, watched coldly from the sidelines.

He had already seen the flaw in Earth Gaia: once the recovery speed is less than the destruction speed.

Then the Mountain Giant will never be able to recover again.

"Go, Mountain Giant, use Root Entanglement on yourself to protect yourself."

The roots entangled the Mountain Giant's body, blocking most of the thunder for him.

The Holy Oak's body stretched out, and rays of golden light gathered on the tender green leaves.

It was doing its utmost to help the Mountain Giant recover.

More than half of the torso was scorched black by the heavenly thunder, even emitting flames.

The flames shot into the sky, burning the Holy Oak's outer skin until it was shattered.

A cold look appeared in Ye Bai's eyes.

The Death God had kept his attention on the Mountain Giant but had neglected the Holy Oak.

"Go, Dahui, final strike, Thunder God's Judgment."

Dahui took a deep breath, and bolts of thunder-type energy gathered on the Thunder God Axe in its hand.

As the thunderclouds churned, golden and silver snakes danced wildly in the sky.

The blade of the Thunder God Axe hung inverted, drawing down the electric snakes of Jiuxiao; Dahui's elementalized body became dignified and solemn, filled with pressure, and fine electric arcs leaped between its upright hair.

This was the final strike launched by Dahui.

It gathered the power of thunder throughout its entire body, a do-or-die attempt; if this strike failed and the Mountain Giant survived, Dahui might be defeated in a matter of minutes.

The craggy stone armor on the Mountain Giant's chest split open, revealing the roots entwined within.

Facing this magnificent heavenly might, the two dark red lights in its eye sockets rotated sluggishly, and its knuckles, thick as ancient banyan trees, gripped the broken half of a rock giant club tightly.

It hesitated; if it met the thunder head-on, it would very likely die as a result.

The Holy Oak, situated on the Mountain Giant's back, trembled slightly.

It would die; if it took this move head-on, it would die.

"Go, Dahui, don't fear anything!"

Ye Bai said to Dahui through the contract.

Amidst the Gale carrying the scent of thunder, the axe blade traced a profound trajectory, and Dahui struck.

Thousands of thunder rays condensed into a solid form on the axe face, actually gathering all the thunder within a radius of ten miles onto the blade.

When the heavenly dragon formed by purple-white lightning pierced into the Heaven-Supporting Holy Oak, Dahui was sent flying backward by the recoil, crashing into the mountain rock like a cannonball.

"Die!"

Another earth-shattering explosion flashed past the ears of Death.

The deafening Thunder Sound made Death almost lose consciousness.

After the Holy Oak was struck by the thunder, it instantly turned into a piece of charcoal.

And the Mountain Giant's body also began to crumble at this moment.

A muffled, thunder-like cracking sound came from inside the mountain; as the red light in the Mountain Giant's eye sockets flickered, its entire torso disintegrated with a boom along the crystallized patterns scorched by the lightning.

The rubble that had not yet fallen to the ground was melted into glass by the high-voltage current in mid-air, smashing onto the cracked earth like a rainstorm.

Death widened his eyes, his body trembling slightly.

Even his shell feared this magnificent heavenly might.

After the intense light dissipated, Death only felt that the Mountain Giant's aura had vanished.

The residual lightning roaming between the clouds reflected bits of broken gold in Dahui's slightly narrowed eyes.

It backhanded the still-humming Thunder Axe into the scorched earth, looked at the lava flowing all over the ground with the corners of its mouth slightly raised, and the electric current in its body gradually dissipated.

At the moment the Mountain Giant died, Dahui felt that the inner demon that had troubled it for so long had finally dissipated.

"How is this possible?"

"The Mountain Giant actually lost."

"Impossible, what tricks did you pull?"

Death questioned Ye Bai loudly.

"What tricks did I pull?"

"Have you forgotten that I make a living with my brain?"

Ye Bai pointed to his head with fingers as white and delicate as jade.

"The Holy Oak and the Mountain Giant formed a symbiotic relationship; you should be aware of that."

Death nodded hesitantly.

But what does that have to do with the demise of the Mountain Giant?

The Mountain Giant, possessing the trait of Earth Gaia, shouldn't be able to die, right?

This left Death truly unable to understand.

"Death, you believe that a Mountain Giant with the Earth Gaia trait cannot die."

"That is what you are thinking in your heart."

"However, you must have forgotten how the Mountain Giant died."

"The Mountain Giant died because its crystal core shattered, and the Holy Oak used its roots to help the Mountain Giant restore the crystal core."

"Although you allowed the Mountain Giant to possess a physical form again, this flaw of the Mountain Giant was never repaired."

"In other words, the Mountain Giant's weakness still exists."

"Once the Holy Oak dies, the Mountain Giant's crystal core will also shatter instantly."

Dahui slumped onto the ground, not wanting to move a single finger.

Only the Myriad-Change Butterfly split off a Clone of the Giant Rock Butterfly King, creating a large number of Earth Type butterflies.

These butterflies shuttled through the remains of the Holy Oak and the Mountain Giant, collecting the shattered crystal cores for them.

At this moment, the phantom of the God of Contract moved.

Death's eyes were filled with horror.

"No, you cannot touch me, no!"

The huge phantom descended toward Death.

Strands of black energy appeared in the palm of the God of Contract.

In just a moment, it turned into a pitch-black, beating heart.

The God of Contract pinched the black heart fiercely.

The heart burst open instantly, forming bursts of black energy that dissipated in mid-air.

Death felt a heart-wrenching pain emerge from his body.

The body he had painstakingly seized was dissipating.

"Hahaha, kid, do you think you've won?"

"No, I still have other ways."

Death was originally the king of manipulating the Soul.

It naturally had a way to escape the sanctions of the God of Contracts.

It only needed to discard a portion of its Soul to do so.

However, just as the Death God was about to Cut its own Soul, the Bronze Ancient Sword suddenly emerged from Ye Bai's Pet Beast Space.

The Bronze Ancient Sword formed sharp Dragon-Slaying Swords, falling from high above and shielding the surrounding space.

"No, no, no."

Because the space was shielded, the Death God's Soul had nowhere to dodge and could only watch helplessly as this heaven-covering hand reached toward it.

As the hands closed together, the Death God's physical shell turned to dust in an instant.

Only two wisps of Soul Fire remained, appearing in the hands of the God of Contracts.

"Human."

"Congratulations on winning this match; you will receive the Dead Man's Scythe, the Shadow Law, and the Soul belonging to the Death God."

The God of Contracts wiped the consciousness from the Death God's Soul, condensed it into a pale blue crystal core, and it landed in front of Ye Bai.

"Congratulations."

"This is the method to summon me; if there are other exciting matches, just summon me."

The figure of the God of Contracts slowly dissipated.

Dahui's lifelong enemy also completely dissipated at this moment.

Ye Bai finally let out a sigh of relief.

At this time, the Giant Rock Butterfly King was manipulating the Giant Rock Butterflies to pick up fragments, its wings emitting a strong earthy yellow light.

The shattered crystal core of the Mountain Giant was gathering on the Giant Rock Butterfly King at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, a pale green seed suddenly appeared in the hands of the Sunflower Fairy.

This seed looked like an acorn; it was the essence condensed by the Holy Oak Tree.

Inside it contained the lifelong insights of the Holy Oak Tree.

"Sunflower Fairy, I shall bestow this treasure upon you."

"The inheritance of the Holy Oak Tree is quite a match for you."

The Sunflower Fairy took the seed into its body; after all, this was the lifelong insight of a former Ninth Rank Exotic Beast, which was of great help to the Sunflower Fairy.

"All-Changing Butterfly, the Shadow Law shall be left for you to handle."

The All-Changing Butterfly opened its Blood Basin Mouth and swallowed the black bead in one gulp.

Afterward, its body emitted wisps of black light spots.

Before long, a black giant cocoon appeared beside the All-Changing Butterfly, inside of which was the Gloom Butterfly King undergoing metamorphosis.

This time, the All-Changing Butterfly had a bountiful harvest; it currently already had three monarchs: the Star Wave Butterfly Emperor, the Thunder Butterfly Emperor, and the Five Elements Holy Butterfly.

If the Gloom Butterfly King and the Giant Rock Butterfly King successfully metamorphosed, it would only be four monarchs away from the All-Changing Butterfly's evolution.

It is not easy for a Seventh Rank Pet Beast to advance to the Eighth Rank.

The conditions are extremely harsh.

"Alright, as for that Death God's Soul, I will leave it for you to devour, Hell Nether Wolf; I hope you can comprehend the Soul Law."

The Hell Nether Wolf governs the Hellfire Domain and is capable of comprehending the Fire Law and the Shadow Law.

If it can comprehend the Soul Law, it can transform the Hellfire Domain into Purgatory.

At that time, it will be able to, like the Death God, collect the souls of powerful Pet Beasts and imprison them within Purgatory.

With the demise of the Death God, the many souls controlled by the Death God also dissipated one after another.

This made Ye Bai feel it was a bit of a pity; if the Hell Nether Wolf could control the Soul Law, perhaps it could have kept these souls.

But unfortunately, there are no "ifs."

"Giant Rock Butterfly King, evolve."

After absorbing the Mountain Giant, the Giant Rock Butterfly King's body condensed into a piece of earthy yellow rock.

Like the Gloom Butterfly King, it entered a state of eclosion; when it breaks out of the cocoon as a butterfly, that will be the time it becomes an Emperor.

The Death God, this formidable enemy, was finally resolved.

Dahui's inner demon was also completely laid to rest; as long as the resources arrive, Dahui breaking through to become an Eighth Rank Pet Beast is only a matter of time.

"Next, Thunder Rabbit, it is time for you all to evolve."

Ye Bai's gaze looked toward the Thunder Rabbit tribe, and they only felt a sharp gaze sweeping toward them.

The Thunder Rabbits immediately revealed obedient, cute, and honest expressions.

The power of thunder emitted from Dahui's body made them not dare to move a single bit.

"The Death God delayed me for quite some time; now a day and a night have passed, currently leaving me with about one day of time."

"If you still cannot get your plan done, then we can only start over from the beginning."

"Going to attend the World-class Researcher Conference is more important."

"You shouldn't let me down, right?"

Ye Bai's cold gaze fell upon the Thunder Rabbits.

(End of this chapter)