Chapter 2377: The Former Emperor

The Decapitating broadsword slashed past Su Xiao's cheek, leaving a trail of blood, and immediately rotated to slash downwards.

Boom!

Black gravel splashed, and the tattered cloth strips on the Butcher of Living Beings flew.

Su Xiao stepped on the spine of the Decapitating broadsword, and a huge force came from under his feet. He took advantage of the momentum to jump back several meters. The moment he landed, the broadsword slashed towards his face.

The Butcher of Living Beings' sword absolutely could not be blocked head-on. Within the Chapter of Greed, Su Xiao's strength, agility, and stamina were a constant 100 points. He was currently a spiritual body, not a physical one, so the consequences of being killed were not serious; because his soul strength was high, at most he would have a headache for a while.

Compared to Su Xiao, the Butcher of Living Beings' strength and agility attributes were much higher. Although his attacks were wide and open, there were no obvious flaws.

When Su Xiao's sword technique was at lv. 33, he had no way to fight the Butcher of Living Beings at all. In his first fight with the Butcher of Living Beings, Su Xiao was defeated in 7 seconds.

To defeat the Butcher of Living Beings, Su Xiao had to seize an opportunity. Currently, apart from sword techniques, he could not use any other abilities; this was the characteristic of the Chapter of Greed.

Wisps of black smoke rose from the Butcher of Living Beings. He pulled the broadsword embedded in the ground. Despite his highly oppressive physique, he had a speed that made people unable to react.

The Butcher of Living Beings disappeared from where he was. When he reappeared, he was already in front of Su Xiao, the Decapitating broadsword in his hand held high, black brilliance gathering.

Su Xiao was very familiar with this move. He had "died" under this move 27 times. It wasn't that he didn't want to dodge, but he simply had no chance to. When this sword slashed down, regardless of whether he dodged or not, a black shockwave would be generated. If hit, he would be bound by darkness, and then he would definitely die.

The broadsword slashed straight down. This time, Su Xiao neither blocked nor dodged, but instead lunged towards the Butcher of Living Beings, kicking straight out.

Bang!

A shockwave spread. Su Xiao kicked the Butcher of Living Beings on the thigh. The Butcher of Living Beings' figure stiffened, and the broadsword in his hand slashed crookedly, narrowly missing Su Xiao's shoulder.

Before the broadsword landed, Su Xiao took advantage of the momentum to slash at the Butcher of Living Beings' neck. This was the closest he had ever been to victory.

The Blue-Devouring long sword slashed onto the Butcher of Living Beings' neck, first cutting through the broken armor fragments, then the flesh, and finally... slashing through a mass of black smoke.

The Butcher of Living Beings turned into a wisp of black smoke and disappeared. Su Xiao stood still; the Butcher of Living Beings was standing right behind him, and moving even a little might result in death.

Blood splashed, splattering onto Su Xiao's neck. This blood was actually still somewhat warm; it was the Butcher of Living Beings'.

An extremely strong sense of threat persisted behind him. Su Xiao didn't move, and the Butcher of Living Beings didn't move either; time seemed to be freezing.

With a crack, the armor shattered, and the broadsword in the Butcher of Living Beings' hand slashed towards Su Xiao, heading straight for the back of his neck.

"Blade Dao Sword · Time."

A shockwave spread with Su Xiao as the center point. He tilted his body with all his might, and the broadsword slashing from behind narrowly missed his face.

Dodging the slashing broadsword, Su Xiao took advantage of the Butcher of Living Beings being affected by "Time" and turned around to kick sideways.

With a bang, the Butcher of Living Beings was kicked to his knees. As long as Su Xiao chose to kick straight or sideways, it was definitely when he could create a flaw.

"Blade Dao Sword · Extreme."

Blue light slashed past, leaving a pale blue slash mark in mid-air that didn't dissipate even after a few seconds.

The Butcher of Living Beings maintained the posture of kneeling on one knee. A slash mark appeared from his side waist to his shoulder, crossing the entire torso of the Butcher of Living Beings diagonally.

"The Empire, shall not perish."

The Butcher of Living Beings' muffled voice came. His upper body fell to the ground with a thud, and the corpse turned into black smoke at a slow speed. From beginning to end, the Butcher of Living Beings only said these four words: "The Empire, shall not perish."

He won. After being killed 76 times and slashed 359 times in total, he finally won.

In Bubu Wang's words, this wasn't the Chapter of Greed at all; it might as well be called the Chapter of Autism. Although that was the case, the moment he defeated the Butcher of Living Beings, Su Xiao felt very refreshed.

The battles within the Chapter of Greed could truly reflect the growth of his sword techniques. Here, apart from sword techniques, all other abilities were sealed.

Su Xiao looked at the Butcher of Living Beings gradually turning into black smoke and didn't start stripping the soul memory. Stripping the soul memory of a remnant soul had no value, and it was highly likely that it couldn't be stripped out anyway.

Defeating the Butcher of Living Beings seemed to have no harvest, but that was not the case. Fighting the Butcher of Living Beings made Su Xiao's dodging ability and his early warning of crises stronger.

After all, he had been slashed 359 times by the Butcher of Living Beings, almost every slash was a fatal wound. This made Su Xiao's perception and prediction stronger. When fighting the Alien King, he even predicted the attack trajectory of the Alien King's three inheritance tails. Although he only succeeded once, it allowed Su Xiao to avoid falling into a disadvantage at the start of the battle.

Defeating the Butcher of Living Beings was just a process. When Su Xiao defeated the ten soul manifestations within the 【Chapter of Greed】, the 【Chapter of Greed】 would undergo a qualitative change.

Just when Su Xiao thought there was no harvest from defeating the Butcher of Living Beings, the corpse of the Butcher of Living Beings completely turned into black mist. The black mist surged, gathered, and finally formed a black key, floating in mid-air.

Su Xiao stepped forward and grabbed the black key, and a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: You have obtained Butcher of Living Beings · Evil Emperor Soul.】

【Butcher of Living Beings · Evil Emperor Soul】

Origin: Undead Mausoleum

Quality: Legendary ~ Holy Spirit Grade

Category: Prop

Effect 1: This item can be used to manifest the Butcher of Living Beings. The duration of the Butcher of Living Beings is 1 hour.

Warning: The Butcher of Living Beings is an independent unit. After being manifested, it will attack any creature within its sight, including the summoner themselves.

Prompt: The comprehensive attributes of the Butcher of Living Beings will be determined based on the summoner's strength, intelligence, and charisma attributes. Because the Butcher of Living Beings is an evil faction unit, the charisma attribute will cause a negative gain to it.

Prompt: It is detected that the Hunter's charisma attribute is extremely low, which will grant a high gain to the Butcher of Living Beings and cause the Butcher of Living Beings' malice to increase significantly.

Prompt: The combat power of the Butcher of Living Beings is 5th to 7th tier, depending on the summoner's bonus.

Rating: --- (The rating of this item cannot be constant)

Introduction: The former emperor, has turned into the Evil Emperor who slaughters living beings.

Looking at the black key in his hand, Su Xiao was quite satisfied. The charisma attribute had two sides; if it was high, it tended towards the lawful faction, and conversely, it tended towards the evil faction.

From the appearance of the Butcher of Living Beings, it could be seen that he had nothing to do with the lawful faction. If the charisma attribute was high, manifesting him would instead reduce his combat power, and conversely, it would increase it.

This prop was very suitable for Su Xiao. If he manifested the Butcher of Living Beings, the Butcher of Living Beings would definitely be very strong. Strength, intelligence, and charisma—all three attributes could bring bonuses to the Butcher of Living Beings.

The only problem was that after this guy was manifested, he didn't distinguish between friend and foe; if it was a living thing, he would kill it.

The harvest was not bad. Su Xiao stared at the gray mist in front of him; the third soul manifestation was coming.

The gray mist surged to Su Xiao's front, and a residual image flashed in the gray mist. Su Xiao felt the world spinning, and then there was no then.

Sitting on the sofa in his exclusive room, Su Xiao looked at the Chapter of Greed in his hand. The only known information was that the third soul manifestation's speed was very fast, fast to an outrageous degree.

Because his physical fitness was restricted within the Chapter of Greed, Su Xiao only saw a wide sleeve, which was deep green, with exquisite embroidery on it. Apart from that, it was a hand with relatively slender fingers. ===== CHAPTER 2378 =====