Chapter 965: Xiao Dao Taiyi! S-20 Laser Rifle!

The SSR-level body cultivation technique "Spirit Cat Supple Body" is restricted to female practitioners.

But it imposes little restriction on the type of ability, allowing enhancement-type abilities and lightning-based abilities alike to train it.

The only regret is that this is a Wu Yin, not the original, with only three uses remaining.

After Xu Jingming and Su Qingli used it, only one use remained.

"Once we return to the Xinhuo World, maybe we can trade this last use for something valuable."

Xu Jingming retrieved the now dimmed Wu Yin into his space ring and stood up. "Teacher, let's go. It's time to depart."

"Alright."

Su Qingli was still immersed in the subtleties of the newly acquired body cultivation technique.

Only now did she snap back to awareness and fly off alongside Xu Jingming.

Meanwhile, the Iron-Thread Lotus remained hidden beneath the earth, growing tendrils as it advanced continuously.

The Breakthrough Tower is a lightning world, where constant thunderstorms have mutated the soil.

Its hardness rivals Class-D alloy!

Yet for a plant life like the Iron-Thread Lotus, it was still like fish in water, moving at an astonishing speed of one hundred meters per second!

Of course, compared to Xu Jingming and Su Qingli, it was still far too slow.

The two had to slow their pace to match the Iron-Thread Lotus while searching for possible Void Stones hidden in the soil...

Ninth Layer of the Breakthrough Tower, somewhere.

A corpse fell to the ground—a man.

Though dead, he still emitted a faint aura of pressure.

Undoubtedly, he was a ninth-rank adept.

He wore a full-coverage battle suit, with no wounds anywhere on his body except his third eye.

It was precisely this wound that caused his death.

A short man sprinted from afar; upon confirming the man on the ground was dead,

he wore an ecstatic expression and excitedly muttered in Sakura language:

"Sugoi! Dead! He's actually dead!"

Shhh—

A faint glow from his space ring materialized a laser rifle about one meter long in his hand.

The firearm was entirely white, its surface scarred with damage, bearing the marks of time.

Yet even so, the entire weapon radiated a profound sense of technological beauty.

On the most prominent part of the barrel, the characters "S-20" were engraved.

"Treasure! Absolute treasure!

I wonder what kind of civilization Noah was—how could they produce a laser rifle of this caliber!"

The short man caressed the rifle with rapturous affection, as if it were his lover.

His name was Xiao Dao Taiyi, a seventh-rank Master from Sakura Country.

He murdered a rival family of three over some matter and was wanted by Sakura's Public Security Bureau.

He originally planned to flee to another country to lie low for a while before returning.

Then he suddenly heard the news that the Xinhuo World had opened, so he decided to come and try his luck.

He never expected to get rich.

After all, competition at this level was primarily the domain of ninth-rank experts.

A seventh-rank Master like him was merely cannon fodder.

But unexpectedly, the laser rifle he'd accidentally acquired days ago revealed astonishing power!

It not only helped him kill an eighth-rank ferocious beast, but now it had helped him kill a ninth-rank Law Saint!

Remember, this was a ninth-rank Law Saint!

In the past, he never dared to imagine such a being existed.

Yet now, he had slain one effortlessly.

"Pity—the Martial Saint has an indestructible body; even shooting the head won't kill them. Only Law Saints can be targeted."

Xiao Dao Taiyi felt a pang of regret.

But looking at the corpse on the ground, his regret quickly turned to excitement:

"SSS-class battle suit, battle boots, and a space ring—no matter what, this time I've hit the jackpot!"

In just a few minutes, Xiao Dao Taiyi stripped all the equipment from the corpse and donned it himself.

Due to his height, the gear made him look absurdly mismatched.

But he didn't care—he only needed sufficient defense.

"Next, I'll kill a few more Law Saints, then find a hiding spot and wait until the Breakthrough Tower opens."

He stored the laser rifle in his space ring and swiftly departed.

He was not a greedy man; though the laser rifle was powerful, it likely had limited uses.

If the next trigger pull yielded no response, that would be embarrassing.

And if he failed, his fate would be utter ruin.

Thus, he would not, merely because he possessed this laser rifle, look down on ninth-rank experts...

Ninth-rank Law Saints weren't common vegetables. Among the hundreds of thousands of adepts entering the Breakthrough Tower,

there were probably fewer than thirty ninth-rank adepts, and perhaps not even ten ninth-rank Law Saints.

Thus, despite his efforts over the following days, Xiao Dao Taiyi still found no other ninth-rank Law Saint.

He had merely killed one eighth-rank peak adept with a laser gun.

"This battle suit is trash, and the space ring's capacity is too small. Isn't this guy eighth-rank peak? Is this all the trash he's got?"

Having already seen the spacious space ring of the ninth-rank Law Saint Xiao Dao Yi, Xiaodao Taiyi naturally looked down on this haul.

But given his speed of pursuit, encountering another ninth-rank Law Saint was truly too difficult.

"Can I only go after eighth-rank adepts now?"

Xiao Dao Taiyi furrowed his brows tightly.

Just as he hesitated, two dark and cyan lightning bolts suddenly streaked across the distant sky, faintly revealing the silhouettes of a man and a woman.

"That's… Su Qingli and the prodigy Xu Jingming from Great Xia!"

Xiao Dao Taiyi widened his eyes, his face lighting up with ecstatic delight.

Even he, far away in Sakura Nation, had heard their names thunderously!

Especially Xu Jingming.

When Xu Jingming slaughtered a city in Sakura Nation, the Blood Sword caused a massive uproar at the time.

Even now, people still discuss it online.

"Su Qingli is a lower-tier ninth-rank Law Saint. My laser gun can kill her before she can react and use elemental transformation."

"As for Xu Jingming, he's not even ninth-rank and has no immortality. One shot from me will kill him!"

Greed surged across Xiao Dao Taiyi's face.

Su Qingli!

The head of Lei Ting Martial Art, one of Great Xia's two top martial academies.

She must carry abundant resources.

Xu Jingming needs no mention—he's the number one prodigy of Blue Planet; he certainly won't lack treasures!

The only thing worrying him was that both had unordinary backgrounds.

Especially Xu Jingming—who knew if he had any life-saving trump cards?

"The laser gun is powerful—it can pierce through even a ninth-rank protective talisman with one shot!"

To hell with it! I'll risk it! If I succeed, I'll never worry about resources again for the rest of my life!"

Seeing Xu Jingming and Su Qingli about to fly out of the laser gun's range,

Xiao Dao Taiyi gritted his teeth, stopped hesitating, and pulled out the laser gun from his space ring.

Then he aimed at Su Qingli's forehead and pulled the trigger!

The next instant,

A beam of hyper-compressed energy blasted from the barrel!

If struck by this beam, Su Qingli would surely die.