Chapter 319: Slaughter, It Pleases Me (5k Big Chapter)

Pfft!

A finger like white jade tapped against the chest of the Black Knight; the protective charms for long-range attacks would not react to such close-quarters strikes.

The suddenly erupting Dodon Ray tore directly through the silver heavy armor, flew out from his back carrying a spray of blood, and smashed into a building a hundred meters away, causing a massive explosion.

The Black Knight let out an angry roar, and intense Fighting Spirit exploded outward with a boom.

Boom!

The ground was overturned inch by inch, then shattered and blasted in all directions; the ground that had turned into magma was also blown over for dozens of meters.

This was the ultimate energy burst of a Second Tier Reincarnator; Bai Cangshu blocked with his left hand in front of him, his figure drifting backward along with the impact of the explosion.

When those Fighting Spirit impacts hit Bai Cangshu's body, purple Wave power emerged, appearing as if it wanted to burst out of his body, but it was immediately absorbed by the Prohibition Earring on his earlobe.

Bai Cangshu drifted backward nearly a hundred meters, stepped on the air with his feet, and his whole body rotated as he flew upward, landing on the roof of a shop.

Ring!

A massive fan-shaped sword energy slashed down from the sky; amidst the shattering of a Soul Ring, the Reincarnator who had arrived to provide support the fastest was slashed directly from the air to the ground.

He looked at the huge wound on his chest, a flash of light appeared in his hand, and a bottle of potion appeared, which he immediately sprinkled onto the wound; the terrifying wound healed rapidly.

"Careful, it's the Moon Demon, she isn't dead!"

This kind of iconic, terrifying swordsmanship was mastered by few in the space, and that abnormal sense of sharpness was a characteristic that could only be possessed when Sword Mastery was strengthened to near lv9.

Combining the two, he immediately guessed Li Qingzi's identity.

The smoke from the explosion caused by the Black Knight's Fighting Spirit burst dissipated; as his figure was revealed, a large patch of blood had already appeared on the ground; clearly, the hit he had just taken from Bai Cangshu had caused serious injury.

"Hongye, Moon Demon, and... Tao Baibai!"

Under the armor, the Black Knight's eyes began to turn red, and his figure suddenly began to swell.

Creak~

The sound of muscles tearing accompanied the sound of the armor being stretched open; the already huge Black Knight became even larger, his figure now completely exceeding three meters, standing on the ground with immense tonnage.

He dropped those two Claymores, took the initiative to reach his hands into the magma, and then, as if he had grasped something, pulled his hands out; two even larger magma greatswords had appeared.

【Knight Does Not Die With Empty Hands】!

Simple Shaping Magic combined with this special 【Noble Phantasm】 allowed him to possess combat power at any time.

【Class Berserker】!

He spat out the turbid air from his chest; the blood energy from his lungs and internal organs, which had been injured by the Dodon Ray, was spat out like a red mist, extending for nearly ten meters around him.

In this red mist, the Black Knight activated a new ability.

The exclusive 【Madness Enhancement】 belonging to the 【Berserker】!

His body size continued to swell; his Constitution and Spirit had already exceeded 50 points through the two instances of Madness Enhancement; this was a special buff exclusive to the 【Berserker】, capable of bypassing the Power Ladder restrictions on Strength and Constitution, significantly increasing base attributes, and combined with his 【Efficiency】 conversion, the Black Knight's actual strength was now approaching one hundred points.

"You are all going to die!"

Hongye stood in front of the warehouse like a general guarding a mountain pass; she stood sideways, turning her head at this moment to take in the changes in the battle situation completely.

The Black Knight who had unleashed a second Madness Enhancement outside of her data, the sudden appearance of the Moon Demon and Tao Baibai, and the 【Tangka Qi】 who had quickly arrived to provide support—these people could all be considered senior Reincarnators with a certain level of fame in the space.

They were all the type that had developed well within the Second Tier.

It was just that...

Her gaze shifted, finally settling on the man wearing the iconic pink robe standing on top of the shop; the other party was also examining her with great interest.

Their eyes met, and both revealed smiles; both had the same look of Arrogance.

Hongye's gaze suddenly froze, and intense Spirit power pierced directly into Bai Cangshu's mind.

In an instant, Bai Cangshu felt as if his scalp and nerves had been pierced through by countless needles.

【You have suffered an attack from a Reincarnator; based on the difference in Spirit power between the two parties, you have obtained the following information】

【You have suffered a Spirit piercing attack; your brain has sustained damage】

Thump, thump...

Bai Cangshu's heartbeat began to accelerate again; it was a sense of oppression he had not experienced for a long time since leaving the Pirate World.

This woman was strong.

The fake smile that had been hanging on Bai Cangshu's face disintegrated bit by bit, then his brows and eyes began to relax, his mouth opened slightly, and the pores all over his body seemed to begin to open; it was the look of a person truly beginning to get excited, something that could not be faked at all.

Thump thump thump!

His heartbeat intensified continuously, and faint electric sparks began to flash from Bai Cangshu's fingertips; his fingers also twitched unconsciously; his powerful cells, stimulated by the Electric Shock, grew increasingly active.

Bai Cangshu's pupils were completely focused on Hongye; he completely ignored the Black Knight on the other side, who was huge in size and holding magma greatswords after two Madness Enhancements.

Li Qingzi noticed this point and dropped from the air; her eyes were hesitant, not knowing what was wrong with this madman Bai Cangshu again, and even less clear about what she should do at this moment.

Should she continue to hunt the relatively weaker man who used Soul Ring combat skills, or join forces with Bai Cangshu to deal with the famous Title-level Reincarnator, or... wait and see?

Once this thought appeared, it swirled in her mind like the whispers of a devil; only if Bai Cangshu died could she possibly obtain liberation.

And because of the Contract, she could not produce any thoughts of harming the other party, but if it were facing a target that was completely impossible to match, then... even if she participated in the battle, it might be that Bai Cangshu would still die in the end...

The change in her eyes caused that intense sense of sharpness to weaken.

In just an instant, the Black Knight, with his Second Tier Madness Enhancement activated, instinctively sensed that the Moon Demon seemed to have become weaker; he didn't seem to have any movements, and the ground beneath his feet exploded with a boom.

That was the ultimate speed after the ultimate power had completely erupted.

Like a wall, the Black Knight, carrying intense wind pressure, crashed into Li Qingzi with a boom.

Li Qingzi woke up instantly, drawing her sword with one hand to slash.

Ring!

The emerald sword light lit up again, the ground was cut open, and the huge fan shape lit up with a boom; however, the Black Knight had lost his reason due to the Berserker's bloodline Madness Enhancement; normally, facing such an attack, he would definitely choose to dodge, but at this moment, he was dominated by that manic blood.

He actually didn't dodge or evade and crashed over with a boom.

Li Qingzi's pupils shrank; she saw the giant beast in silver armor cut through the air wall in front of him in an instant; Fighting Spirit and the slash collided, and the sharp slash was still superior, but after cutting through that protective Fighting Spirit, the giant beast-like Black Knight had already shifted his body and crashed over sideways.

As the sword light cut away the man's shoulder armor and took away a piece of flesh, that terrifying impact had already reached her body.

Li Qingzi's figure blurred, 【God Speed】 already manifested; in an instant, she seemed to transform into three afterimages, simultaneously leaping toward the left, right, and upward directions.

The Black Knight let out a roar, and the three-meter-plus giant lava sword swept across with a boom.

Magma, Fighting Spirit, and Magic Power erupted simultaneously.

Boom!

The explosion occurred in mid-air; Li Qingzi was shaken by this impact force, causing her to lose her footing upon landing and stumble back two steps.

On the other side, 【Tangka Qi】, who had previously been wounded by a sword strike, had finished healing; the Soul Ring on his body lit up again, and he plunged his hands into the ground, causing emerald green bamboo to suddenly pierce out from in front of Li Qingzi like sword blades.

His strike was originally a large-scale attack with a range exceeding one hundred meters, but because large swaths of the terrain here had already been turned into magma by Hongye, his Soul Power was insufficient, and the hundred-year Soul Bamboo could not take form within the magma, thus the range was significantly reduced.

Li Qingzi's mind turned cold; Observation Haki captured this attack, and her entire body instantly leaped into the air, stepping repeatedly with 【Moon Walk】 to fly up nearly one hundred meters high.

Whoosh!

Like a hurricane erupting, that terrifying momentum—carrying the air from a radius of several dozen meters—came crashing in once again; under the full eruption of the maddened Black Knight, it actually made it somewhat difficult for Li Qingzi to parry...

"Tsk, Moon Demon is not as good as the rumors say~"

Hongye stood on the ground, withdrawing her gaze from the two's battle; she realized that the 【Moon Demon】, once highly regarded by many Title-level Reincarnators, was nothing more than this.

Her heart was not firm enough, and her Haki was even less unyielding.

Even if the Black Knight was a Reincarnator who had experienced more missions, in her view, a truly excellent sword master of the 【Strong】 rank would be enough to cleave open the opponent's defense and sever that barren head.

"Indeed, she is very weak now."

Bai Cangshu nodded happily, agreeing with Hongye's assessment; under his "devastation," the woman Li Qingzi's Haki strength had weakened time and again, and at this moment, it was already less than the strength she had when they first met in the Dragon Ball World.

At that time, Li Qingzi's performance of cleaving a mountain with a single sword had allowed him to witness the power of high-level Reincarnators for the first time, but now, only a fragile woman remained.

He had absolutely no intention of supporting Li Qingzi.

For the strong to support the weak is a waste of resources.

If one cannot even defeat this kind of opponent, then there is no value in Survival.

Bai Cangshu's heartbeat was already fast enough, and electric currents began to emerge in his eyes.

Bai Cangshu shook his head, and his body also began to swell slightly.

Hongye tapped her forehead lightly, finally eliminating the influence of that sticky 【Active Spirit】.

Her Spirit power exceeded one hundred points under the effect of her performance, and more importantly, her application of energy and Spirit power was completely incomparable to a beast-like person such as Bai Cangshu.

"Tao Baibai, you are very interesting; I didn't expect you to have actually obtained an extraordinary characteristic like 【Active Spirit】. Could it be that you are the legendary type whose three attributes break through the Extreme Value?"

Hongye's body slowly floated up, and high temperatures began to appear; the surrounding air blurred due to the rising temperature, and at this moment, even if there were cameras in the distance, they would be unable to capture images that were not overly distorted.

Not only that, but equipment like infrared imaging could not affect her either.

She was able to begin releasing her abilities without any concealment.

It is true that there are many large Gatherings in the space that secretly cultivate multi-attribute Extreme Value Reincarnators, but currently, those who have succeeded have only broken through with dual-attribute Extreme Values.

The overly diluted attributes make the growth cycle for this type of Reincarnator longer, and in itself, this type—which can have attributes evenly distributed during the stage where one can freely allocate attributes in the space—is extremely rare.

Reincarnators are assets of the space; when the space allocates attributes for you, it is actually hinting at the type you excel in, the talent this body of yours possesses.

Only Reincarnators who possess aptitude for multiple attributes simultaneously will have their attributes distributed evenly, and this practice also makes these Reincarnators very difficult to grow in the early stages.

At first glance, it is very contradictory, but Reincarnators who can still grow up under this kind of distribution, because they possess more than one performance and extraordinary characteristic, have actual combat power that far exceeds Reincarnators of the same level.

Hongye knew very well that Tao Baibai was a Martial Artist type of Reincarnator; not only did he obtain 【Dodon Ray】 in the Dragon Ball World—an ability that could grow along with the Reincarnator and had a quite high upper limit—but he also obtained Killing Intent Wave in subsequent trades.

Therefore, the opponent's Main Attribute must include Strength and Agility; these two attributes, which are close to balanced, are the choice of most physical-technique-side Reincarnators.

If it were a Reincarnator after the 【Strong】 rank, they might also supplement their attribute gaps by actively allocating Attribute Points.

Combining speed, strength, destructive power, and precision—this is the choice of Martial Artists and fighters.

And her one Spirit pierce was enough to crush the mental defenses of most low-level Reincarnators, causing them to fall into a long-lasting stupor and causing irreversible damage to the brain.

But Tao Baibai only frowned, and the space prompted that he had been countered by an extraordinary characteristic named 【Active Spirit】.

This made Hongye conclude that Tao Baibai was likely an extremely rare three-attribute Extreme Value Reincarnator.

This could explain why the opponent suddenly rose to prominence and had astonishing combat power, killing the Flame Demon and others in the Pirate World.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head, and his physique finally swelled completely to an exaggerated size of over three meters.

When he breathed, there was already the sound of wind and thunder in his mouth and nose.

"Who knows... indeed."

When he spoke, he was still a hundred meters away, but by the time the last word "indeed" was spat out, that sound of wind and thunder had already exploded in Hongye's ears.

The next moment, in Hongye's eyes, the magma on the ground hundreds of meters away had holes blasted into it, as if an invisible giant foot had stepped across from above.

The spiraling Force stirred up white cloud debris, and golden Ripples spread from Bai Cangshu's right hand like ribbons for four or five meters.

In order to pursue extreme violence, Bai Cangshu's 【Rakshasa Palm】 caused his arm muscles, bones, and joints to be completely twisted and rotated; this was no longer just a technique, but an extraordinary ability involving physiological structural coordination.

Crack~ Bang!

The explosive burst of force in an instant caused the sonic boom cloud to shatter completely in front of Bai Cangshu's right palm.

His right palm shattered the sonic boom cloud, and then the terrifying spiral Force erupted in an instant.

Hongye's eyes flickered, and her pupils shifted to her left side.

Crimson flames appeared out of thin air from her left arm.

Boom!

The flames erupted like an explosion, colliding directly with that spiraling palm.

Bang!

The terrifying collision emitted a sonic wave that pierced the eardrums; the shockwave of this strike instantly caused the magma on the ground to be completely extinguished, turning into dark red lava.

Hongye's body tilted and rolled out to the side, while Bai Cangshu stood in the position Hongye had just occupied, crimson flames burning on his right arm.

This kind of flame was very counterintuitive; when not in contact, it felt like the temperature was extremely high, but when it burned on his own body, it was actually absorbing the temperature from his own skin.

Moreover, through this strike, Bai Cangshu had already realized one point—this woman was not a simple spellcaster; the opponent's physical fitness was extremely high!

One hundred meters away, the magma beneath Hongye's feet solidified, and she completely neutralized the impact force; she patted her left shoulder, and no damage appeared, only her clothes had been shredded by the twisted Force, revealing the crimson skin of her shoulder.

"Tao Baibai, you have great potential; why not join our Gathering..."

Boom!

A shockwave like a hurricane erupted from within Tao Baibai's body, and that intense surge of will struck her skin, causing friction and collisions like lightning.

This intense Conqueror's Haki caused Hongye to stop mid-sentence; he looked at Tao Baibai, who was breathing out white steam from her nose and mouth, and knew that the opponent was already completely immersed in the battle.

The corners of her mouth curled up, and her smile became increasingly manic.

The next moment, crimson flames began to ignite on her hair and skin, and those flames were extraordinarily dazzling.

It was as if all the light had concentrated upon her body; the light in the sky began to vanish, and subsequently, the surrounding sky turned dark red.

【Crimson Night】, descend.

The Black Rider, who was constantly charging left and right, leaving trails of white smoke dragons in the air, also suddenly sensed this change.

Another person standing on the ground, Tangka Qi, who was attempting to control the Moon Demon by unleashing several Soul Skills at once, was calmer and immediately issued a warning.

"Be careful, it is Hongye's title ability; we should retreat, let Dongxia have this group of people!"

Screech!

An incomparably ear-piercing screech sounded, as if the air for several kilometers around was trembling in an instant.

Tangka Qi turned his head back, only to see a sword light that seemed to pierce through Heaven and Earth suddenly appear from the hand of that woman whose mask had a broken corner.

At this moment, Li Qingzi's face no longer held that elegance and coldness; while being besieged by these two, she saw Bai Cangshu punch 【Crimson Night】 away and suddenly felt that she had unknowingly become so weak.

Recalling the images of her being humiliated, she nearly crushed the bones of her own hand.

In an instant, she slashed out hundreds of swords, every single one following the same trajectory; this was her realization while in the mire.

If one is not strong enough, then become stronger.

If one sword is not enough, then slash out hundreds of swords.

She was no longer the high and mighty Moon Demon; she was merely a slave and should no longer hold onto that Arrogance; only blood could re-forge her long sword and Haki.

"Die!"

The woman shouted angrily, and the sword light appeared almost simultaneously with her phantom image.

Century-old Soul Bamboo shattered one after another, and his right arm radiated the luster and patterns of Soul power; Tangka Qi's Martial Soul was very special—it was his own body; what he possessed was a 【Body Martial Soul】.

Yet, this Martial Soul that allowed him to perfectly control himself was currently unable to sustain him; the intense sword light pierced through his body, and that pitch-black Tachi slashed diagonally from his shoulder into his chest cavity, tearing his body apart along with Li Qingzi's angry shout.

As his broken corpse crashed down, the Black Rider had only just managed to charge over.

Li Qingzi turned her head indifferently and took a step, her figure flickering to appear dozens of meters away; she stroked her black sword with her hand, and the familiar Haki and sword intent made her feel as if she had regained her long-lost self.

She actually embraced her long sword, letting the blade press against her body; beneath the broken mask, the corners of her mouth revealed a smile of relief and joy.

"Slaughter, it is truly delightful~"

(End of chapter)