Chapter 2598

Mu Xiao rushed out of the hole, the war scythe in her hand inadvertently cutting off several banana leaves. She suddenly leaped while rushing forward, and a slashing glow flew past under her feet, cutting off a large area of trees in front.

Mu Xiao swung her scythe to shatter the fallen giant tree and passed through the gaps in the broken wood.

"Blade Dao Blade · Green Ghost."

Clang!

A cyan-blue slashing glow flew past Mu Xiao's ear. She tilted her head to the limit, and a few strands of hair were cut off.

Bang!

Mu Xiao broke through a layer of air explosion and was kicked flying by Su Xiao's direct kick. While in mid-air, Mu Xiao spat out specks of blood, and her lower abdomen was completely numb.

"Blade Dao Blade · Extreme."

"Original Sin · Desire Embrace."

A red energy surged within Mu Xiao's body, quickly forming her phantom before pouncing toward Su Xiao.

With a thud, the red phantom exploded, and a cold light slashed out from the red mist.

Clang! Clang, clang, clang!

After Mu Xiao consecutively blocked four blades, she leaped backward, and another slashing glow slashed past, grazing her shoulder.

Puchi.

The long blade pierced through Mu Xiao's lower abdomen. She inhaled with all her might, her body turned into red mist, and Su Xiao's side-cutting blade slashed at empty air.

Seeing this, Su Xiao half-squatted on the ground, the long blade in his hand stuck in the soil.

"Blade Dao Blade · Time."

Thud—

An impact spread out. Su Xiao pulled out his blade and rushed to the right. After running at full speed for over ten seconds, Mu Xiao's back appeared in front.

"This monster."

Mu Xiao was intent on escaping. She now urgently needed to find a quiet place to perceive what changes had occurred in her body and what was going on with the light red mark on her back.

Mu Xiao fled in front, and Su Xiao pursued from behind. In terms of speed alone, Su Xiao was stronger than Mu Xiao. The passive effect of the King of Green Shadows provides a very strong boost to speed.

The sound of the wind whistled past his ears. Five seconds later, Su Xiao slashed with several blades in succession, and blood splashed on Mu Xiao's spine. Mu Xiao, who was rushing forward, was somewhat stunned; the enemy hadn't slashed out a blade glow just now, yet he had slashed her from several meters away.

Su Xiao stopped in his tracks, sheathed his long blade, and held it vertically in front of him. He closed his eyes.

"Blade Dao Blade · Flow."

A wind mark slashed past, instantly catching up to the sprinting Mu Xiao, and the trees along the way snapped in response.

While rushing forward at high speed, a large amount of blood splashed on Mu Xiao's spine. The wound was extremely deep. With this one slash, Mu Xiao's health dropped sharply by 70%! She almost fell to the ground severely injured. If it had been the full-power Heavenly Flow, she might have already died suddenly.

Mu Xiao didn't stop. The wounds on her body were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. This wasn't her own recovery power, but a potion she used to save her life. When she was bombed by Apollo earlier, she had tried to use this potion to sustain her life, but unfortunately, that bottle of potion was baked dry the moment it was taken out.

The direction Mu Xiao was fleeing in was purposeful. After she rushed out another two hundred meters, three contractors appeared in front. They were also sprinting, clearly having sensed Mu Xiao and Su Xiao, one chasing and one fleeing. The three arrived here, attracted by the explosion, mistakenly believing that someone nearby was besieging a hegemon creature.

Mu Xiao turned into an afterimage and appeared between the three contractors.

"We are survivors!"

"Original Sin · Desire Blood Dance."

The war scythe slashed in a circular motion several times, and the three contractors all froze in place. After all, Mu Xiao is ranked fifty-seventh in the Tree Arena. Although she was almost driven to autism by Su Xiao, against these three Apocalypse Paradise contractors, her ultimate move 'Desire Blood Dance' killed all three instantly.

The blood stilled around Mu Xiao. The war scythe in her hand disappeared, and she waved both hands.

With a clatter, nearly 30 Soul Crystals (Complete) scattered all around. Metal wires stretched, suspending these Soul Crystals in mid-air, binding them tightly. Once these wires were subjected to impact or slashing, they would directly crush these 32 Soul Crystals (Complete). Although Soul Crystals are precious, they are not hard objects.

Mu Xiao used a stunt she thought of on the spot: the Soul Crystal Life-Saving Technique.

Blood gathered and quickly formed threads. These blood threads twisted together like a twisted rope, binding Mu Xiao in the center.

After the blood threads twisted into a strand, they dragged upward and dissipated into the air. Also disappearing along with them was Mu Xiao herself.

Just the moment before Mu Xiao disappeared, Exile pierced into her lower abdomen.

Not far away, Su Xiao stopped his steps. With blue light flashing in his eyes, he gripped the air with one hand. A miserable groan came, Mu Xiao disappeared, and the Exile in its broken blade form floated in mid-air, covered in blood.

Over ten kilometers away, Mu Xiao and the blood-colored threads appeared simultaneously. After she fell to the ground, she spat out a large mouthful of blood with a wow, in which one could even see fragments of internal organs.

"So ruthless, you bastard. How should I put it, I let you watch me the whole way, didn't I?"

Mu Xiao pulled up her skirt-like top, blocked her upper body, and tied the clothing at the back of her neck, which counted as covering her upper body.

"Cough, cough—"

Mu Xiao crawled to a giant tree and leaned against the trunk. Blood dripped down her chin. She took a potion from her storage space, and just as she was about to pour it into her mouth, a cold light flashed.

A trace of despair appeared in Mu Xiao's eyes. Footsteps came from her right side.

"Bastard, you're too ridiculously strong."

Mu Xiao released her perception. The next moment, her expression was somewhat strange.

"Beauty, even if you flatter me, it's useless."

A male contractor wearing a hood and holding dual blades walked over.

"Still think it's that guy."

Mu Xiao, covered in blood, stood up from the ground and moved her somewhat stinging neck. When she was hit by the hilt earlier, she had thought her neck was broken.

"Give up. With only 15% of your health left, what else can you do? How about we make a deal? Leave behind more than half of your equipment, sign a contract, and I'll spare your life."

The dual-blade man pounced forward, preparing to first slash Mu Xiao until she was severely injured and dying, and then deal with her slowly.

Half a minute later, Mu Xiao stepped on the dual-blade man's back shoulder with one foot, and the blood-colored war scythe hooked the dual-blade man's neck. Mu Xiao tugged the war scythe, and a head flew up.

"Scared to death, still thought that guy had chased after me."

Mu Xiao kicked away the headless corpse in front of her and stepped into the dense forest. She successfully exited the combat state.

A few minutes later, with a boom, Su Xiao landed nearby, and dead leaves splashed up. His gaze swept left and right, only seeing a headless corpse and a string of words written in blood on a nearby tree.

"The Illusionist is the Gray Gentleman's tool man. The Gray Gentleman's control has been severed. Tracking the Gray Gentleman's trail failed."

This was left by Mu Xiao. Seeing this, and the identity of the other party as a survivor, Su Xiao figured out many things.

With Mu Xiao's strength, her becoming a survivor is something that doesn't quite make sense. Tank Man, Gourmet, and Gask are all Hunters. Among these three, Mu Xiao's strength is in the middle; she should also have been forced to become a Hunter.

When strength reaches a certain level, one is forced to become a Hunter. This intelligence is known to only a few people in this world, and Su Xiao is one of them.

According to Su Xiao's guess, Mu Xiao should be an existence similar to a Hunter within the Holy Light Paradise. She didn't enter this survival trial to participate in the trial, but to find the Gray Gentleman's trail through the Illusionist. Therefore, the Holy Light Paradise made her a survivor through some initial regulations.

The Illusionist was controlled by the Gray Gentleman, but for some reason, this control was interrupted. Therefore, the Gray Gentleman changed to ability endowment, allowing the Illusionist to act freely in this world. This led to the Illusionist's cheats working sometimes and not others. He seemed mysterious and unpredictable, but the weakness of a tool man was exposed without doubt. Without the Gray Gentleman's remote command, he was very confused about what to do next.

But no matter what, the benefits this tool man, the Illusionist, obtained ultimately all belonged to the Gray Gentleman.

Mu Xiao took advantage of the opportunity when the Gray Gentleman couldn't control the Illusionist to approach him and join his team. Her method of proving her identity was simple and crude; after all, she was a genuine survivor.

During this period, Mu Xiao directly pointed out that she knew the Illusionist was the Gray Gentleman's subordinate, and that if the Gray Gentleman had any plans, she could participate, but she didn't want to become a victim of an old schemer.

In fact, the Illusionist was also panicking. He felt that the Gray Gentleman might have abandoned him. He was just pretending to be calm, trying hard to imitate the Gray Gentleman's behavioral patterns. Unfortunately, he failed to paint a tiger and ended up with a dog. Mu Xiao's powerful combat strength and the temporary abilities endowed by the Gray Gentleman gave the Illusionist hope. In the end, this hope was shattered by four Apollos.

"More troublesome than Feishi."

Su Xiao walked toward the direction of the Rain Throat Tribe. In his feeling, the Gray Gentleman is not difficult to deal with because of how strong his strength is, but because of the means he uses to obtain resources. That guy likely doesn't enter any world personally, but controls tool men to obtain resources. As for how many puppets the other party has, that is temporarily unknown.

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