Chapter 1111

"Father, should we stop them?"

Silva took out a whistle and blew it. He was summoning specially modified fighting hounds.

"Stop them? If you dare to step forward now, let alone whether Byakuya will make a move on you, your great-grandfather will never show mercy. He has been lonely for too long. Now... no one can stop him, except the one who is fighting him."

Zeno's expression was serious. He actually didn't want to accept Su Xiao's commission, but he had some understanding of Su Xiao's personality. If he refused the commission directly, heaven knows what the other party would do. Washing the Zoldyck family in blood wasn't impossible.

"Gather all the hounds, and don't let Illumi and Kikyo watch the fun in the castle. Let them come out and find an opportunity to terminate the battle at any time."

Not to mention the arrangements of Zeno and others, at this moment Su Xiao was fighting Maha Zoldyck with full concentration. This old man wanted to take his life at any time.

Su Xiao didn't know much about Maha Zoldyck before. He originally thought this old man would follow the rules of an assassin. Now it seemed it wasn't the case.

Although the situation deviated slightly from what he expected, Su Xiao didn't reject it. Now this situation was actually better. Fighting an enemy without killing intent couldn't achieve the testing effect. Fighting was about life and death.

Moreover, Su Xiao felt the blood all over his body boiling. Fighting an enemy of Maha Zoldyck's level, excluding the danger aspect, was indeed very satisfying. Su Xiao's various new abilities were all used to the limit.

Clang, clang, clang...

Large blade lights slashed toward Maha Zoldyck. Black Nen sprayed out from Maha Zoldyck's body. With a boom, all blade lights were smashed.

Stop the battle between the two by the remaining members of the Zoldyck family? Stop joking. If they approached within 50 meters of the battlefield, they would immediately be affected by Su Xiao's blade lights or Maha Zoldyck's black Nen.

"Young man, you're not bad."

Maha Zoldyck spoke. Purple-black blood flowed from the wound on his back. This was the wound Su Xiao had slashed before.

Maha Zoldyck looked relaxed, but he was on guard against Su Xiao's ability to vanish suddenly at all times. Frankly speaking, Maha envied that kind of ability. That kind of ability was really practical in melee combat.

"These old bones of yours are also unexpectedly tough."

Su Xiao smiled, revealing white teeth.

Sizzle~

Metal threads suddenly broke through the ground and entangled toward Maha Zoldyck. The opponent stood still.

The Boundary Breaking Thread tightened around Maha Zoldyck and easily pierced through Maha Zoldyck's body. Maha Zoldyck twisted and vanished into the air. This was a residual image or phantom image.

Just at this moment, Su Xiao's Intuition ability suddenly sent a warning. The attack came from the back of his head.

A palm knife, thin to the point of being skin and bones, stabbed toward the back of Su Xiao's head. Cold light flashed on the sharp nails, and the whole palm was bulging with veins, not looking like a human palm at all.

When the Intuition ability sent a warning, the palm knife had already reached the back of Su Xiao's head. Maha Zoldyck's speed was too fast. Dodging at this time was clearly too late.

Whoosh~

Maha Zoldyck's palm knife passed directly through Su Xiao's head. There was no physical feeling. Maha was full of doubt. He could be sure that this was Su Xiao's real body.

The reason for this situation was that Su Xiao paused for a moment when passing through space. He used this momentary pause to "dodge" the enemy's attack. This move could only be used in melee combat. That momentary pause was too short, so the enemy's attack had to be fast, otherwise it couldn't be dodged.

Clang.

The sharp long blade slashed toward Maha Zoldyck's neck. Maha Zoldyck's arm twisted again, stabbing toward Su Xiao's throat at a very strange angle.

The long blade stopped in front of Maha's neck, and the palm knife also stopped in front of Su Xiao's throat. Around them were Zeno, Silva, Kikyo, and Illumi, who had rushed forward.

The goals of the four were clear. Zeno and Illumi were responsible for stopping Maha Zoldyck, while Silva and his wife were responsible for stopping Su Xiao.

None of the four made it in time. This was the gap in strength. What the four didn't expect was that Su Xiao and Maha Zoldyck didn't end up both injured.

Su Xiao and Maha Zoldyck both had the idea of killing the opponent when fighting, but this was just a habit of both sides. Neither had any grudges, and they were in a temporary employer-employee relationship. Why end up both injured?

The two were indeed fighting to the death, but both were very calm at critical moments. That large commission wasn't spent for nothing.

Snap, snap.

Maha Zoldyck's arms returned to normal, and the black Nen returned to his body. Su Xiao also sheathed Zhan Long Shan, and the light red aura around him dissipated.

"What are you nervous about?"

Maha Zoldyck scanned the family members of the grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson generations around him.

"Cough."

Zeno coughed dryly, looking a bit embarrassed. The fact was just that. In Maha Zoldyck's eyes, he, at his age, was just a grandson generation.

Just after the battle ended, Maha Zoldyck's injuries recovered to a visible degree. This old man was an Enhancement-type after all, and his physical strength was very astonishing.

Su Xiao shook the blood off his hands. He was thinking about a problem: he seemed to have underestimated his own combat power.

After the battle with Maha Zoldyck, Su Xiao discovered that the Dragon Shadow Flash ability had brought a qualitative leap to his combat power. This improvement wasn't very obvious in the arena and previous battles.

When fighting in the arena, Su Xiao tried his best to avoid using the Dragon Shadow Flash ability to save mana and strive to fight a few more matches.

As for the battle against the three-in-one entity, after he used the Dragon Shadow Flash ability, the three-in-one entity was almost killed by his series of attacks.

Now, he had a satisfying fight with Maha Zoldyck. In this battle, the effect of the Dragon Shadow Flash ability was fully reflected. Twice, Su Xiao turned a major disadvantage into an advantage instantly. Precisely because of this, he could fight Maha Zoldyck to a draw.

If there were no Dragon Shadow Flash ability, Su Xiao would soon be defeated. This was an indisputable fact.

After this battle, Su Xiao discovered that he could fully fight the Ant King head-on. Although he would likely be defeated in the end, he definitely had the ability to fight the Ant King. This was good news.

If Su Xiao could kill the Ant King and play a leading role in it, the reward would be extremely generous.

For all the Contractors entering the Hunter World this time, the Ant King was the ultimate boss. The kill reward would naturally be exceptionally generous.

"Follow me. Let's change to a place to complete the commission. Although our family's assassination ability won't help you, a commission is a commission and must be achieved."

Maha Zoldyck beckoned to Su Xiao, and the two left the courtyard full of craters.

"What a pity he didn't die here."

Although Illumi had no expression, his feelings at the moment weren't very good. The reason was simple: he had a grudge with Su Xiao. If he met Su Xiao outside, he would die eight or nine times out of ten.

"Don't worry. Even if you meet him later, as long as your positions aren't opposed, he won't take the initiative to kill you."

Zeno walked toward the castle with his hands behind his back. He sensed a familiar feeling from Su Xiao—the familiarity of being an assassin. The Zoldyck family was an active assassin, while Su Xiao had already retired from the assassin ranks and no longer fought for money.

In a forest, Maha Zoldyck was demonstrating several killing techniques of the Zoldyck family to Su Xiao, such as Rhythm Echo, Body Curve, and Spirit Snake.

These techniques were not bad, but as Maha Zoldyck said before, they didn't suit Su Xiao. Su Xiao's fighting style was open and close, fighting head-on.

"Maha Zoldyck, I'm curious about one thing."

"What thing?"

Maha Zoldyck stopped demonstrating the killing techniques. His voice was very hoarse, without much breath.

"How did you live to this day? Normally, you should have died of old age long ago. I had a feeling during the battle before that you aren't alive in the complete sense."

"Yeah, how did I live to this day."

Maha Zoldyck looked at Su Xiao, seemingly hesitating about something.