Chapter 660: Almost a One-Shot Kill! What Kind of Monster Is This?

More than half a minute had passed since Tianming Sect began their operation.

The entire Peter Square was already littered with corpses, a thick stench of blood hanging in the air.

Yet there was barely any blood on the ground, and even the corpses were drained of color.

While the Tianming Sect ability-users slaughtered ordinary civilians,

they used a special container to collect every drop of their blood.

Although Xu Jingming didn't know what it was for, he snatched a few of those containers while killing the Blood Divine Envoys.

Of all 53 Blood Divine Envoys on the field, he had killed 45!

All 45 were ability-users below the seventh tier.

Whenever Xu Jingming struck, it was almost always an instant kill.

One Lightning Chain alone could take out five or six at a time!

The remaining 8 were all Grandmaster-tier ability-users,

not the kind you could drop in a single second—within a short time, there was simply no way to take them down.

That's why they were left for last.

"Eva, among the remaining Blood Divine Envoys, who's the weakest?"

Pick the softest persimmon to squeeze—Xu Jingming was full of anticipation.

How many ability points would killing a seventh-tier Blood Divine Envoy net?

"Southeast. He's a lower seventh-tier Blood Divine Envoy."

Xu Jingming looked toward the spot Eva had indicated.

Sure enough, there was a middle-aged man covered in grotesque beast limbs, locked in combat with the seventh-tier vice-captain of the Holy Church's guard squad.

The gap between them wasn't actually that wide, but because the guard squad had to protect the ordinary civilians around them,

they were almost being beaten back.

"That's my target."

Golden Lei Ting spread out as Xu Jingming was about to use Sky Thunder Art to blast him dead on the spot.

A furious roar suddenly erupted from his rear flank:

"Xu Jingming! Your opponent is me!"

BOOM!!

Immediately after, an overwhelmingly powerful aura swept in from the side.

"This aura? An upper seventh-tier Grandmaster?" Xu Jingming's brow furrowed.

The golden thunder ring behind him spun, and the surrounding golden Lei Ting swiftly swept in.

They formed a thick barrier—like an eggshell—shielding him within.

CLANG!!

A battle saber wreathed in crimson blood qi hacked down like lightning, producing a deafening crash of metal.

The perfected Lei Ting Barrier only dimmed slightly, but it still held firm.

Xu Jingming finally got a clear look at his foe, who had leapt back more than ten meters after that single strike.

It was a man over two meters tall, his muscles bulging all over, built like a hunting leopard!

From his thighs and abdomen, several grotesquely out-of-place, blood-soaked beast claws jutted out.

"As expected… an upper seventh-tier Blood Divine Envoy…"

Although Xu Jingming didn't want to gnaw on these hard bones right now—it was too much of a waste of time—

since the other party had already come to him, he naturally wouldn't back down.

Sizzle—

Lei Guang flashed, and Xu Jingming, gripping the Melsha Obsidian Spear, vanished on the spot, reappearing less than half a meter in front of the man.

"What terrifying speed!" Cole's pupils contracted sharply.

"Die! Thunder-Piercing Demon-Slaying Spear!"

The spear in Xu Jingming's hand blazed with golden light as the SS-tier Doushen Shenlei coated the spear's surface in a peculiar way.

The next instant,

the air shuddered, and the dazzling spear, like divine punishment, hurtled straight at Cole's head!

"Not good!"

Cole's face changed drastically.

He pushed his blood qi to its peak, straining to jerk his head to the left in evasion!

As an upper seventh-tier Grandmaster, the world in his eyes effectively operated at millisecond speed.

His reaction speed was nothing short of terrifying!

BOOM!!

He barely dodged the strike with his head, but his entire left shoulder blade had already been devoured by Lei Ting.

The spear's attack range wasn't limited to just the tip—under the empowerment of Lei Ting,

the range expanded outward from the spearhead by a full ten centimeters!

"Sure enough, trying to one-shot an upper seventh-tier Grandmaster is still a bit too difficult."

Xu Jingming shook his head.

Compared to Lei Lei Bao Tai, Thunder Extreme Form still fell short by quite a margin.

By the Dejiaka Battle Group's power assessment method, this man was nothing more than a Liuxing Sect Grandmaster.

If it had been Lei Lei Bao Tai, that spear thrust just now would have been enough to one-shot him.

"What kind of monster is this, exactly?"

Ke Er, who had just narrowly escaped death, had eyes filled with shock.

Even with an SS-rank ability boosting you, you're a sixth-tier upper-rank ability user trying to one-shot a seventh-tier upper-rank — isn't that a bit excessive?

More importantly, Xu Jingming almost succeeded!

If not for the fact that the divine blood he had refined came from a leopard-type beast emperor with extremely high agility.

That shot just now might really have done it!

"A strike that almost one-shotted a seventh-tier upper-rank grandmaster? Has his strength already reached this level?"

On the hosting platform, Catherine, who had been watching Xu Jingming the entire time, couldn't help but draw in a sharp breath.

The astonishment in her heart even suppressed her fury toward High Priest Parker.

Last night, after advancing to sixth-tier upper-rank, she had also entered the virtual world to test her own strength.

Under the Divine Advent state, she could likewise achieve this kind of attack effect.

But Xu Jingming's current appearance clearly wasn't even his strongest state yet.

"Xu Jingming..." A dangerous glint flickered in High Priest Parker's eyes.

If he could, he would actually hope Xu Jingming would die in this Tianming Sect raid.

But unfortunately, the current Tianming Sect probably doesn't have that capability......

"Too bad — one shot wasn't enough to kill me. You'll never get another chance to kill me. This little bit of injury doesn't even count as anything!"

On the ground, scarlet qi and blood swirled around Ke Er's entire body as he tried to recover his shattered left shoulder blade.

As a seventh-tier upper-rank enhancement-type ability user, the wound looked serious, but it would only take a few breaths to fully recover.

However, when the qi and blood covered it, the wound, which should have healed rapidly, instead healed extremely slowly.

"Damned SS-rank ability!" Ke Er's expression darkened.

He could feel that violent Lei Ting still rampaging inside his body.

Especially around the left shoulder blade, where the Lei Ting simply refused to dissipate, blocking the wound's healing.

"Looks like my attack wasn't without effect."

Xu Jingming grinned and pressed forward.

No one knew whether someone else was secretly watching him; the Thunderstorm State, as a trump card, didn't need to be deployed yet.

As for this enemy — if one shot wasn't enough, then he'd fire a second.

Within five shots, death was certain!

Ke Er clearly realized he couldn't meet Xu Jingming head-on, and hurriedly fled toward Lei Kesi's direction.

At the same time, he anxiously sent a spiritual transmission:

"Lei Kesi! Hurry and make your move — I can't hold this guy back any longer!"

Lei Kesi, however, did not reply. While fighting the escort captain, he used his spiritual sense to gauge the distance between Xu Jingming and himself.

There was only one chance.

Once this ambush failed and Xu Jingming became alert, he would never have another opportunity to strike.

He had to make sure Xu Jingming entered the optimal attack range before he made his move.

Lei Kesi was like a seasoned hunter, waiting to strike.

As for the escort captain in front of him, he hadn't even unleashed his state yet.

Once he unleashed his state, even the captain of the Holy Church escort wouldn't be able to stop him!