Chapter 2261

Outside the hall, a torrential rain was pouring, and inside the hall, there were bursts of roaring sounds.

A blade light slashed past, and the stone pillar nearly a meter thick in the hall was cut into several pieces.

Bang!

A shockwave spread. The Ancient God, Nijadi, standing three and a half meters tall and covered in exoskeleton, was slashed back a few steps. It was very puzzled at this moment; in terms of strength, it was a notch stronger than Su Xiao, and its speed was similar to Su Xiao's, yet after entering melee combat, it was completely suppressed.

Gray-black energy gathered in Nijadi's hand. It clenched its hand, and a very special energy fluctuation spread out.

Thud~

The energy fluctuation swept over Su Xiao. His figure, just about to charge forward, paused, and the scene before his eyes twisted. Everything in his vision appeared with a layer of ghosting. This was Nijadi attempting to drag him into the dream world. If his heart were not strong enough, he would have already been dragged into the dream world by now.

The scene before his eyes returned to normal, and a cool night breeze blew from behind.

Wind pressure hit his face. As Su Xiao raised his blade to block, blood energy gathered behind him.

Clang!

The Spear of Light smashed onto the long blade, causing Su Xiao's body to lean slightly low. The next moment, the Blood Beast roared toward the sky and pounced toward Nijadi.

Given the speed of the Blood Beast and the distance between Su Xiao and Nijadi, it was almost impossible to dodge.

Blood energy exploded, and Nijadi was enveloped within it.

Several pieces of shattered exoskeleton flew out from the blood energy. When the blood energy dissipated, Nijadi was already standing in a giant crater. No obvious damage was seen on its body, but there were several cracks on the exoskeleton of its head, and black-red blood mist drifted out from the cracks.

Su Xiao would certainly not miss this golden opportunity to suppress Nijadi. The moment the blood energy exploded, he had already charged forward with his blade.

Zing!

The long blade slashed across Nijadi's neck. There was no exoskeleton here, so the long blade sank directly into the flesh. Looking at the momentum, it was clearly intended to slash off Nijadi's head.

Just as the blade sank into Nijadi's neck, the light and shadow around it twisted, and it seemed everything became illusory.

The long blade slashed past, leaving a trail of blood in the air, and Nijadi vanished.

With a whoosh, the Spear of Light flew past Su Xiao's side, and this long spear buried itself into the ground behind him.

Su Xiao perceived the changes in the surroundings. Nijadi had vanished into thin air—not by using a spatial ability, but by entering something like a dream world.

The current situation seemed to be that Nijadi had been beaten away. It indeed could not drag Su Xiao into the dream world, but this did not mean it could not enter the dream world itself.

This was also a choice Nijadi made out of helplessness. Nijadi was very powerful, but unfortunately, its abilities were restrained by Su Xiao. In a situation where it could not drag the enemy into the dream, its combat power dropped by at least 40%. For Nijadi, this battle was simply unwinnable.

Inside the hall, Su Xiao's gaze swept around. He did not believe Nijadi could create a massive dream world in a short time. According to his deduction, Nijadi's ability to control dreams was divided into two types.

The first type was invading others' dreams. As long as there was a medium, this ability could be used on victims from a super-long distance, and this ability was called "Lord of Dusk." It was precisely because of this that Nijadi was called the God of Dusk in the outside world.

As for the second type of dream ability, it was generating a dream world and dragging the enemy into it.

The current situation was that Nijadi had hidden in the dream world it created itself. The good news was that a dream world created in a rush should not be too large.

As Nijadi's core ability, controlling the dream world was easy for it. Therefore, after hiding in the dream world, there should be no time limit or anything of the sort, and Nijadi could gradually expand the dream world. When it expanded to a certain extent, Nijadi could leave this isolated island through the dream world.

Continuing to delay was clearly more disadvantageous to Su Xiao. Once Nijadi escaped, the subsequent retaliation would be endless.

As for why Nijadi did not hide in the dream world at the very beginning to avoid Su Xiao, the reason was simple: Nijadi, as an Ancient God, was the type of god who didn't talk much but acted ruthlessly, and of course, it had its own pride. Hiding before even fighting was something Nijadi would not do.

Because it could not drag Su Xiao into the dream world, Nijadi had only fought Su Xiao in melee for a few minutes before nearly being slashed by him. After all, no one is omnipotent. If Nijadi could drag Su Xiao into the dream world, Su Xiao would be dead by now, but if it couldn't drag him in, the one who would die in a head-on fight was definitely Nijadi.

Just now, Nijadi was nearly slashed to death by Su Xiao. This was a very abnormal situation. With Nijadi's 150-point real stamina attribute and the two-layer bone defense in its body, it shouldn't have been that fragile.

As long as it could drag the enemy into the dream world, Nijadi was an invincible existence. This somewhat unsolvable ability had a risk: once the dream world was created, if it couldn't pull the enemy into the dream world, Nijadi would gradually weaken over time. And now, Nijadi's degree of weakness had reached its peak, so it chose to hide in the dream world.

Su Xiao did not know if his deduction was correct. If it was, he had to drag Nijadi out of the dream world as soon as possible. Nijadi was currently very weak, and this was the only chance to kill it. Once Nijadi waited until it was out of its weakened state, it could take the opportunity to escape.

With the lesson from just now, even if Nijadi came to retaliate, it would drive the Light-Extinguishing Divine Sect as the main combat force, which would be troublesome.

Su Xiao's thoughts raced. The dream world was originally an illusory thing. To make this illusory world stable enough, it needed a carrier or coordinates. Nijadi's speed of traveling between the dream world and the real world was too fast. Su Xiao absolutely did not believe there were no fixed coordinates, unless the opponent's dream world was already completely stable, approaching the degree of reality.

But if that were the case, Su Xiao would have been dragged into the dream world long ago. That kind of ability, which was almost like creating a "small world," was not something a mid-tier Ancient God could do.

Su Xiao stepped hard on the ground, and the entire hall shook. A long spear broke through the soil. Nijadi had always used this Spear of Light as a melee weapon, even going so far as to modify its own right arm.

No matter how you looked at it, Nijadi's behavior was superfluous, but what if this Spear of Light was its node in the real world?

These deductions were not Su Xiao imagining things out of thin air. When he was pierced between the brows by the Spear of Light earlier, he had a feeling that he was locked on and was being dragged toward somewhere. Now it seemed that was the dream world.

The Spear of Light was not only a coordinate; everyone pierced by it, as long as their heart was not strong enough, would be directly dragged into the dream world by Nijadi.

Su Xiao gripped the Spear of Light, and Qing Gang Ying energy surged on this long spear, beginning to extinguish the energy wrapped around it.

With a sizzle, pale blue electric arcs surged, and the surrounding air cracked like a mirror, crackling.

Whoosh~

The surrounding "world" shattered—no, it should be that a dream world had shattered.

Nijadi, who had been half-crouched on the ground, suddenly appeared. The moment it appeared, Su Xiao had already leaped forward and thrust.

Squish!

The long blade pierced through Nijadi's head. There was no anger in its eyes, no fear, only unwillingness. In another 10 seconds, its weakened state would have recovered. At that time, it could have cut off the connection between the dream world and the Spear of Light, and at the cost of being temporarily trapped in the dream world, it could have continuously expanded the dream world and finally successfully escaped.

Su Xiao stepped back. After pulling the long blade out of Nijadi's head, he immediately swung the blade in a horizontal slash, without any redundant or flashy movements.

With a swish, Nijadi's head was slashed off, clean and neat.

Nijadi's tall, headless corpse toppled in front of Su Xiao, and the exoskeleton on its body quickly cracked. No matter how powerful an existence, death was just a matter of an instant.

【Prompt: You have killed the God of Nightmares, Nijadi.】

PS: (Only one chapter today. The pain from my cervical spondylosis hasn't completely subsided, so I can only write when I'm not feeling uncomfortable. Believe me, Feiwen will recover soon. Once I recover, I will immediately resume three chapters a day, and I will add more within the limits of what my neck can bear. I've had some minor health issues, please forgive me.)