Chapter 803

Having said that, Su Ming struck with his sword again.

He split Yuan Teng directly down the middle.

His entire body fell in two halves, his head even split into two sides.

His HP instantly dropped by 2%, his breath as thin as a thread, almost no different from being dead.

If it were an ordinary person, such injuries would surely have caused death long ago, but Yuan Teng had the cultivation of a fifth-turn expert after all, with powerful vitality; even after being split in two, he still had a sliver of residual consciousness.

His one remaining eye was filled with fear, fresh blood staining his vision as he stared tremblingly at Su Ming.

Although still alive, he no longer had any combat capability.

Moreover, in less than a moment, he would bleed to death.

In just two moves, he had completely crushed two fifth-turn experts.

This was Yuan Teng's first time fighting Su Ming in his life, and he was almost instantly killed.

Su Ming's power made Zai Da view him as a god; he gripped his dagger tightly, unexpectedly not daring to continue attacking for a moment.

Su Ming looked toward Zai Da, his gaze sharp.

"Zai Da, do you really want to fight me to the death?"

As he spoke, he slowly moved closer to Zai Da.

"Just because Guo Xin spared your life, you want to kill me for him?" he asked.

Zai Da, after all, had not yet been completely swallowed by the shapeshifter's will and was still in the process of transformation, so he still wanted to try to struggle.

He wanted to see if he could awaken Zai Da's reason.

Zai Da's brows were tightly locked.

"I'm afraid that is indeed the case."

"After all, Su Ming, you haven't been in our Heisha for long, and I'm not familiar with you; there is no friendship."

"After killing you to repay President Guo Xin, I will immediately return to Heisha to provide support."

Zai Da had a carefree personality, yet he placed such importance on a favor that clearly carried malice and exploitation from his enemy; this shows how deep the shapeshifter's influence on his will was.

There was a hint of a smile in Su Ming's eyes.

"Hehe..."

"Then what if I told you that Guo Xin did you no favor?"

Once these words were spoken, Zai Da's gaze trembled.

"He saved you?" Su Ming continued to press.

"Wrong, he didn't save you at that time!"

"Instead, he let the shapeshifter take over your body and treated you as a pure tool!" Su Ming shouted sternly, his voice amplified.

"At this moment, the shapeshifter inside you is constantly influencing your will, devouring your flesh from the inside!"

"Guo Xin's actions are no different from killing you; he even made your fate worse than death, and he owes you no favor at all!"

Once these words were spoken, Zai Da seemed to be instantly awakened, a flash of clarity appearing in his eyes for a split second!

This was a sign of his reason returning!

His subconscious recalled the scene of himself being possessed by the shapeshifter.

Although it was only for an instant, it was enough for Su Ming.

Su Ming had never expected Zai Da to break free from the high-tier shapeshifter's mental suppression by his own power.

After all, high-tier shapeshifters are terrifying existences; even a sixth-turn expert might not be able to break free from their mental suppression once parasitized.

What Su Ming wanted was this moment, when the two wills were struggling most intensely, to let the Will Butterfly Parasite take advantage of the opening!

Whoosh!

In this instant, the Will Butterfly Parasite hidden in Zai Da's ear suddenly penetrated deep into his brain.

The two wills of Zai Da and the shapeshifter were already fighting for control of the body, and at this moment, they had no time to attend to anything else.

The Will Butterfly Parasite naturally succeeded in taking advantage of the opening!

Su Ming's eyes trembled; in an instant, he had seen through all of Zai Da's memories!

When Zai Da was born, his body was thin and weak, and he was abandoned by his parents.

Later, he was adopted by an orphanage.

But the director of that orphanage was a psychopathic old man.

He liked little girls and boys and repeatedly humiliated the orphan children.

In the end, Zai Da, only 12 years old, used extremely meticulous planning to kill the sleeping old director—who had first-turn cultivation—in the middle of the night and led the children to escape into the city!

Assassinating a first-turn expert with a mortal body!?

Truly an assassination genius.

First-turn strength is indeed very weak; their skin can even be injured by mortal weapons, and the gap with mortals is not obvious.

But for a child to be able to kill one was still enough to shock Su Ming.

No wonder Zai Da always had a devil-may-care personality; it turned out he had seen the ugliest things since he was a child, so almost nothing in the human world could make him pay attention or be moved.

But these were Zai Da's private memories; Su Ming did not look much and hurriedly skipped over them.

For enemies, he would naturally look through everything, but for friends, Su Ming had his own code of conduct; he was no voyeur.

The memories instantly fast-forwarded.

Arriving at a few months ago, during the tournament!

Upon seeing Su Ming attacked by the Xuanjing newcomer Shi Liang using cheating methods, Zai Da was extremely displeased; he directly attacked and severely injured Yuan Bin, then fled a thousand miles away.

Subsequently, the Heavenly Tower Realm and the Xuanjing Guild launched an all-out pursuit to kill him.

Zai Da fled directly into a dungeon, the Chaotic Cloud Great Forest.

After fleeing for a few months, he reached his limit.

Zai Da was unlucky; while passing through, he was severely injured by the dungeon's BOSS, his arm and leg broken.

After exhausting all his strength to leave the BOSS area, he was unable to flee further and was caught red-handed by the Xuanjing Guild members.

All of this was consistent with what Zai Da had said.

But the point lay in what happened after he was caught!

His memory, starting from this node, underwent a bizarre modification, yet Zai Da was completely unaware.

It turned out that at that time, the Xuanjing Guild members were accompanied by a young master!

This person was none other than the young heir of the Wan Wu Group, Zhuang Xunzhou!

The moment Su Ming saw him in the memory, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

This guy had bet on himself to lose the match during the tournament, but ended up being slapped in the face by his own former principal, Wang Tingshan; Su Ming had some impression of this matter.

Through his peeking into the memory, Su Ming observed carefully and felt that there were traces of shapeshifter eggs wriggling in Zhuang Xunzhou's pupils.

"Could it be... that the young master of the Wan Wu Group, Zhuang Xunzhou, is a shapeshifter, and he saw my performance in the tournament, coveted my powerful and young body, and has been tracking me ever since?"

A sharp light flickered in Su Ming's eyes; he felt that his guess was almost nine-tenths correct.

One must know that for the shapeshifter race, every time they change bodies, their lifespan is depleted; only by occupying a sufficiently powerful body can they increase their lifespan.

Therefore, their ultimate dream is to constantly find more perfect bodies with potential and parasitize them forever.

"I'm afraid Zhuang Xunzhou reached a deal with Guo Xin, deciding to first take Zai Da's body to gain my trust, and then approach me to kill me."

"In this way, this shapeshifter can take my body, and the Xuanjing Guild can get the support of the Wan Wu Group behind Zhuang Xunzhou to defeat Heisha in the guild war?"

Su Ming felt a chill run down his spine.

If they succeeded, that would be too terrifying.

He continued to observe the memory scene.

"Zai Da... you really have good skills." Guo Xin was seen coming to Zai Da, sneering.

"During your escape, you didn't forget to use a little trick, leaving false traces and clues to lead away the Heavenly Tower Realm pursuers."

"If not for your bad luck in being hit by the BOSS, you might have really escaped."

Guo Xin shook his head with regret, a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"Your Heisha and my Xuanjing are destined to have a battle; your reckless behavior will become a variable, becoming the final reason that crushes Heisha."

Hearing Guo Xin's words, Zai Da was bold and unconstrained, his face full of faint smiles.

"Hehe, you Xuanjing have had constant friction with my Heisha for nearly ten years, and I've killed several of yours, so it's not a loss."

"Our blood feud has long been impossible to resolve!" Zai Da, severely injured, leaned against a giant rock and sneered.