Chapter 178

His resentful voice rang out.

At this moment, in its eyes, Zhou Yi was like a tiny sun, completely impossible to approach.

Let alone killing it......

"Pain? This is only the beginning!"

A smile curled at the corner of Zhou Yi's mouth as lightning elements rapidly gathered:

"Lightning, come!"

Crackle!!

Crackle!!

Crackle!!

Three bolts of lightning struck down in succession; amid the rampant thunder and holy light, Xiong Guai went poof and vanished into smoke.

"Hehehehe, human, I admit your holy light is very powerful.

But the power bestowed upon me by the great Lord Exxia makes me unkillable!"

Black qi gathered as Xiong Guai's phantom coalesced once more, a human-like smug smile on its bear face.

"Oh? Is that so?"

Zhou Yi smiled faintly as the magical power within his body rapidly churned:

"Hand of God!!"

Boom!!

The entire space suddenly flickered with lightning, and thunder roared on all sides.

An incomparably enormous golden palm slowly reached out from midair.

This entire palm was golden-yellow, its surface covered with all manner of sacred and mysterious runes.

An absolute pressure suddenly descended!!

PS: Beginning of the month, begging for monthly tickets, many thanks~~~~.

Rumble rumble rumble!!

In the ruin space, the giant hand condensed from sacred power pressed down slowly with an unmatched, overwhelming momentum.

Time, space......

At this moment seemed to lose all meaning; only this giant hand remained eternal and unchanging.

"Useless! Human, you can't kill me!! -"

A mocking expression appeared on Xiong Guai's phantom face; it didn't even bother to unleash a single talent skill.

Of course, it also knew.

Beneath this skill, all struggle was futile.

"However, this should be your trump card, right?"

"Once you've used your trump card, how much power can you still have left inside?"

"The next time I revive, will be the day you die!!"

Xiong Guai's strange cry, like claws scraping glass, rang out in Zhou Yi's heart.

And at that very moment, the Hand of God finally descended!

Boom!!!

Like striking a porcelain doll, Xiong Guai's phantom directly exploded apart!!

Shi Zhu, the throne......

The front half of the area, along with the descent of the Hand of God, was utterly obliterated and vanished!!

Boom!!

At the same time, the entire ruin space was filled with the sacred power from the Hand of God's shattering explosion.

The original eerie and sinister atmosphere was completely gone; even the rotting, bloody smell in the air had disappeared......

"I told you, you can't kill me!!!"

Xiong Guai's phantom voice rang out once more.

Black qi gathered ahead as its massive nightmare body seemed about to coalesce again.

However, before its body could even coalesce halfway, the black qi seemed to run out of supply and stopped surging forth.

As if sensing something, its terrified voice immediately rang out:

"Human, what did you do?!!

Why has the power Lord Exxia bestowed upon me disappeared??!!"

Sizzle—

Sizzle—

At this moment, the spreading golden sacred power began to erode its body, which had already been reduced to only half.

Causing its entire body to rapidly shrink, its aura growing ever weaker!!

"No!!"

Black qi churned ceaselessly across its entire body, as if making a final struggle.

"Noisy pest!"

Just then, with a crackling sound, a golden-yellow thunderbolt crashed down, splitting apart and obliterating the last remaining wisp of black qi......

"Now the whole world is quiet."

Zhou Yi looked ahead; after this last wisp of black qi vanished, Xiong Guai's phantom did not coalesce again.

"As expected, the so-called infinite resurrection was just an illusion."

"As long as we exhaust all of its energy, we can kill it in one go."

Because of his S+ talent, Sacred Angel Guardian, Zhou Yi was extremely sensitive to dark-attribute or otherwise bizarre energies.

The moment he entered this space, he had already detected an extremely subtle energy permeating the entire area.

This energy did not belong to elemental power; instead, it felt somewhat similar to the power of the God of Light that he had once come into contact with.

Only, the energy in this space was roughly one ten-millionth the strength of the God of Light's divine power — extremely faint.

Moreover, unlike the God of Light's warm divine power, this force gave off an eerie and violent feeling......

Precisely because of the presence of this energy, along with the bizarre magic circle on the ground, he deduced that an evil god ritual had once been held here, and that someone had obtained the power of an evil god.

The appearance of the Xiong Guai wraith also proved this point.

Furthermore, when the Xiong Guai wraith revived for the first time, a portion of that eerie energy in this space vanished.

From this he deduced that the Xiong Guai wraith's resurrections were not without a limit.

Once the energy in the space was fully depleted, it would die along with it!

However, even understanding this, because of the special nature of this energy, ordinary professionals simply had no way to directly obliterate it!!

The only option was to defeat the Xiong Guai wraith again and again, forcing it to continuously draw energy from the space, until the energy was finally drained — only then could the trial be cleared naturally.

But for Zhou Yi, none of that was necessary at all.

After all, his S-rank divine skill, Hand of God, also contained the power of the God of Light.

So he gave it a try.

Sure enough, the moment Hand of God came out, it not only slew the Xiong Guai wraith but also swept clean every last trace of the eerie energy in this space.

The Xiong Guai wraith was obliterated, and the notification sound appeared in Zhou Yi's mind:

【Congratulations on clearing the bonus stage. Clear time: '1 minute 12 seconds'.】

【Now distributing clear rewards......】

【Congratulations on obtaining 7,113 experience points】

【Congratulations on obtaining the item 'Xiong Guai Horn'】

Compared with the previous clear rewards, the rewards obtained from slaying the Xiong Guai wraith this time were far fewer.

Still, since it was a bonus stage, getting any reward at all was already not bad.

Zhou Yi didn't pay it much mind either.

【Level: 18 (42,649/42,000)】

"Over seven thousand experience added — just enough to level up."