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 ability types—enhancement-type abilities can train it, and lightning-element abilities can too.

The only pity is, it’s a martial seal, 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-dull martial seal into his space ring and stood up. “Teacher, let’s go—we’re departing.”

“Alright.”

Su Qingli was still lost 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 underground, growing vines as it advanced steadily.

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’s like fish in water—its speed reached an astonishing 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 down to match the Iron-Thread Lotus’s pace while searching for any void stones hidden in the soil...

Ninth Layer of the Breakthrough Tower, somewhere.

A corpse lay on 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 except his forehead.

It was precisely this wound that killed him.

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

he beamed with ecstatic joy and muttered excitedly in Japanese:

“Sugoi! Dead! He’s really dead!”

Shhh—

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

The weapon was pure white, its surface scarred with damage, bearing the marks of time.

Yet even so, it radiated a profound sense of technological elegance.

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 rapt devotion, as if it were his lover.

His name was Xiao Dao Taiyi, a seventh-rank master from Japan.

He murdered a rival family of three and was wanted by Japan’s Public Security Bureau.

He originally planned to flee to another country, lie low for a while, then return.

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

He never expected to get rich.

After all, this level of competition was dominated by ninth-rank experts.

A seventh-rank master like him was just cannon fodder.

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

It helped him kill an eighth-rank beast, and now it had just killed a ninth-rank Law Saint!

This was a ninth-rank Law Saint!

In the past, he’d never dared dream of such a being.

Yet now, he’d slain one effortlessly.

“Pity—the Martial Saints have indestructible bodies. Even shooting their heads won’t kill them. Only Law Saints are vulnerable.”

Xiao Dao Taiyi felt a pang of regret.

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

“SSS-grade battle suit, battle boots, and a space ring—no matter what, this time I’ve hit the jackpot!”

In just minutes, Xiao Dao Taiyi stripped the corpse of all gear and donned it himself.

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

But he didn’t care—so long as the defense was strong enough.

“Next, I’ll kill a few more Law Saints, then find a hiding spot until the Breakthrough Tower opens.”

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

He wasn’t greedy—the laser rifle was powerful, but likely had limited charges.

If the next trigger pull did nothing, he’d be humiliated.

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

Thus, he did not dare to underestimate ninth-rank experts just because he possessed this rifle...

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 maybe not even ten ninth-rank Law Saints.

So despite his efforts over the past few days, Xiao Dao Taiyi still hadn’t found another ninth-rank Law Saint.

He’d only used the rifle to kill one eighth-rank peak adept.

“This battle suit is trash, the space ring’s capacity is tiny—this guy was eighth-rank peak, and this is all he had?”

Having seen the wealth of a ninth-rank Law Saint’s space ring, Xiao Dao Taiyi naturally looked down on this haul.

But given his own speed, encountering another ninth-rank Law Saint was extremely difficult.

“Do I have to settle for eighth-ranks?”

Xiao Dao Taiyi frowned tightly.

As he hesitated, two streaks of lightning—black and blue—shot across the distant sky, faintly revealing a man and a woman.

“That’s... Su Qingli and Xu Jingming of Great Xia!”

Xiao Dao Taiyi’s eyes widened with ecstatic greed.

Their names were legendary—even in Japan, he’d heard them thunderously.

Especially Xu Jingming.

When the Blood Sword slaughtered a Japanese city because of Xu Jingming, it caused a massive uproar.

Even now, people still discuss it online.

“Su Qingli is a lower-tier ninth-rank Law Saint. My laser rifle can kill her before she reacts and turns elemental.”

“As for Xu Jingming—he’s not even ninth-rank, has no indestructible body. One shot will kill him!”

Greed surged across Xiao Dao Taiyi’s face.

Su Qingli!

The head of Thunder Martial Hall, one of Great Xia’s two top martial academies.

She must carry immense resources.

Xu Jingming, of course, needed no explanation—the top prodigy of Blue Planet couldn’t possibly lack treasures!

The only concern was their identities were both significant.

Especially Xu Jingming—who knew if he had any last-resort survival cards?

“The laser rifle is powerful—it can pierce even a Grade Nine Guardian Rune!

Forget it! I’m going for it! If I succeed, I’ll never worry about resources again!”

Seeing Xu Jingming and Su Qingli about to fly beyond the rifle’s range,

Xiao Dao Taiyi gritted his teeth, made no further hesitation, and pulled the laser rifle from his space ring.

He aimed straight at Su Qingli’s forehead and pulled the trigger!

The next instant,

a beam of compressed energy erupted from the barrel!

If struck by this beam, Su Qingli would die without doubt.