Chapter 2004: Metal and Rust

The seawater was cold and bone-chilling. Gu Sheng-Yi's aura had completely disappeared, and Su Xiao's health was sliding rapidly.

Being in the Azure Sea, Su Xiao would suffer 17 points of damage per second, and that was after various exemptions.

17 points of damage per second, one minute was 1020 points. In a protracted battle, Su Xiao would definitely lose.

If Su Xiao were in a state where all abilities were open, he could teach Gu Sheng-Yi how to behave in minutes. Compared to the lethality of Dead Silence Descent, Gu Sheng-Yi's Azure Sea didn't count for much.

Unfortunately, Su Xiao had activated Dead Silence Descent when dealing with the Moon God before. Dead Silence Descent had a 10-day cooldown, and it was currently in the cooldown stage.

Blood Beast, Demon Blade, Hunter Moment were all in the cooldown stage. It wasn't just Su Xiao who was like this; most contractors who came to fight in the arena were like this. Ultimate moves had long been used in derivative worlds or native worlds.

Su Xiao spat out a string of bubbles. With his physique, he could hold his breath in the water for a long time, but considering the consumption of battle, this time would be greatly reduced.

Su Xiao's arm raised, and the long blade slashed slowly in the water, bringing up a wisp of dark current, spreading toward the front.

Unable to use ultimate moves to teach Gu Sheng-Yi how to behave, Su Xiao didn't give up. He didn't know how many times he had experienced this kind of predicament. At this time, complaining about how shameless the enemy's ability was, was the stupidest behavior. Now he needed to stay calm and think about how to break the current predicament with the best state.

First, break the Azure Sea. Su Xiao didn't know much about this kind of ability, so he had to take risks to try.

The second was to determine Gu Sheng-Yi's current state: whether the other party had turned into energy, or assimilated with the surrounding seawater, or hidden into another dimension.

With the train of thought in his brain straightened out, Su Xiao no longer paid attention to his own health sliding; that had no meaning.

Blood energy spread around Su Xiao, and the surrounding seawater gradually turned light red.

With a *whoosh*, the surrounding seawater boiled, and blood energy spread out.

After the blood energy spread to the limit range, Su Xiao closed his eyes to perceive, still without any aura.

After confirming all the conjectures in his heart, Su Xiao's Devouring Core activated, and black-blue smoke gradually appeared on his body surface.

Soon, Su Xiao was wrapped in black-blue smoke. The black-blue smoke all over his body drifted upward like burning flames. Some, after leaving his body, gradually dissipated in the seawater.

The scene in Su Xiao's vision changed drastically, turning into black and white, or rather, all dead objects were black and white, and only biological energy would show distinct colors. Red represented inedible, blue represented devouring, green was unique to plants, and colorless was absolutely pure. Su Xiao had never seen that kind of biological energy color.

Su Xiao's gaze swept around. The seawater had turned white, and within the seawater, there were thousands of red light spots.

*Zheng~*

Blade light flashed, Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy surged, and a red light spot the size of a rice grain was devoured.

Suddenly, all the red light spots in the seawater stopped swimming, and the next moment they all moved away from Su Xiao.

Su Xiao sheathed the long blade in his hand, holding the scabbard with his left hand and the hilt with his right hand, Checking Zhan Long Shan unsheathed at an extremely slow speed.

"Blade Dao Blade - Ten Thousand Ghosts."

Fine blade lights flew out from the blade, spreading around with Su Xiao as the center point, leaving wisps of blue electric arcs along the way.

Attaching Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy to every blade light was no small consumption for Su Xiao. In an instant, nearly one-third of his Mana was consumed.

Large white bubbles were slashed out, and the seawater was filled with pale blue light.

A muffled groan came, and Gu Sheng-Yi appeared in the seawater. Her face was somewhat pale.

"Metal Realm."

Gu Sheng-Yi stretched her hands flat to both sides, and one after another marine creatures appeared around her. Among them were sharks, small crabs, and a large octopus.

These marine creatures were very peculiar. The head and upper half of the shark were metal structures. It didn't look like acquired modification, but rather that its original body had been transformed into a metal structure.

Those small crabs were wearing bottle caps, crawling at high speed at the bottom of the seawater. The octopus's tentacles were metal structures, and the head was a biological structure.

Three semi-metal sharks rushed out, meeting Su Xiao who was breaking through the water.

Several white lines flashed, and the three semi-metal sharks were shattered. Their blood was diluted by the seawater.

Su Xiao's charge slowed down. The three semi-metal sharks he shattered were too weak. Apart from being a bit faster, they had no advantages.

Just as Su Xiao was about to continue pushing forward, an abnormal feeling came from his left leg. The joints were as if rusted, movement became very inflexible, and most of the sensation was lost.

Su Xiao tapped his left leg with the hilt of his blade. The feeling of metal collision reached his hand. His left leg had become semi-metalized, without any judgment or hint.

Gu Sheng-Yi floated in the seawater, her gaze fixed on Su Xiao. From just now, she had been vigilant about something. She was very worried about something happening.

Su Xiao didn't continue to rush forward. His combat intuition told him that rushing near Gu Sheng-Yi now would definitely lead to defeat, and there was a high probability of being metalized instantly.

Gu Sheng-Yi's ability was certainly more than just the Azure Sea. This kind of ability was indeed difficult to deal with, but it didn't reach the level of being completely invincible.

Gu Sheng-Yi's truly powerful ability was that within the Azure Sea, enemies couldn't attack or approach her, otherwise they would be metalized.

"The time until you are completely metalized is just a matter of time. You guy, how many worlds have you killed through? You must have gotten S-evaluations until your hands were soft to be this strong now."

Gu Sheng-Yi spoke, and the semi-mechanical octopus behind her rushed out, pouncing toward Su Xiao.

Su Xiao floated in the seawater. He paid the price of one leg being metalized to figure out what the enemy's ability was about.

The semi-metal large octopus pounced on Su Xiao, and a dozen metal tentacles rolled over. However, Su Xiao didn't attack, and didn't even dodge.

"Cut."

Gu Sheng-Yi's thin lips pursed. She liked to fight with old schemers because such battles were fun. Although she didn't know where the problem was yet, the enemy had guessed the true ability of the Azure Sea eight or nine times out of ten.

Su Xiao was wrapped by the large octopus, blue light flashing in his eyes.

Gu Sheng-Yi's body suddenly shattered, and the broken blade form of Fang Zhu stabbed out from all over her body. The seawater in the arena began to recede at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a moment, only a layer of bubbling seawater remained on the ground of the arena. Water ripples spread, and an arm reached out from the ripples; it was Gu Sheng-Yi.

"When did you discover it? If you follow normal thinking, shouldn't you find my main body first? The brother in second place before was very persistent about this point."

Water droplets dripped along Gu Sheng-Yi's hair. She had no wounds on her body, except for her pale face, her state was still okay.

The large octopus that wrapped Su Xiao turned into seawater and scattered down. Su Xiao's legs were completely metalized, and the joints were covered in rust.

The broken blade state of Fang Zhu flew back near Su Xiao. He waved the hilt and smashed it on his right leg. *Crack*, rust splashed from the joints. He threw Checking Zhan Long Shan to the other hand and smashed it toward his right leg again.

The broken blade state of Fang Zhu clung to Su Xiao's leg. He controlled his legs through Fang Zhu and tried to slightly bow his left leg.

"Have legs."

Su Xiao lowered his body, the long blade horizontal in front of him.

"..."

Gu Sheng-Yi was silent. Her expression became solemn. The enemy hadn't given up in that state, and she was in a better state than the other party.

*Zheng~*

Blade light collided with the crystal-clear rust, and the roaring sound continued.

36 minutes later.

*Bang! *

Gu Sheng-Yi hit the metal wall. She tried to stand up several times, but failed due to the knife wound on her chest and abdomen.

*Crack, crack... *

Su Xiao, holding the long blade, walked over. His already rusted left hand reached toward his side ribs, forcibly tearing off a large piece of metalized flesh and blood. If not handled, this would cause his movements to be stiff.

As the saying goes, one hair pulls the whole body, not to mention the waist, which was the key part of power transmission. More than 60% of his body was metalized, which had already made his actions very inconvenient.

"No strength left, but don't expect me to surrender."

Gu Sheng-Yi wiped the blood off her face. As a Hunter of Reincarnation Paradise, she certainly wasn't normal. She would rather take a few more slashes than take the initiative to forfeit.

*Crack, crack... *

Su Xiao stopped in front of Gu Sheng-Yi. His face was already covered in rust. Except for parts of his torso and head, most of his body had lost sensation.

With a slash without hesitation, *clang*, golden light appeared, and the blade stopped in front of Gu Sheng-Yi's neck.

【Hint: Hunter has promoted to the top of the Tier 5 Paradise Arena.】 ===== CHAPTER 2005 =====