Chapter 2824: Remnant Glow of the Strong

The bright moon hung in the sky, District 5, Xiwu Street.

Xiwu Street was one of the main streets of District 5. There were many shops on both sides, but after 6 PM, these shops were all closed. At night, this was the territory of desperadoes.

The 3rd node was located on the street, but now six parties had gathered. Heaven's Punishment of the Apocalypse Team did not dare to make a move easily. He knew the attitude of the Magic Association and the Steam Alliance.

After entering the combat state, Heaven's Punishment's body size skyrocketed by a full time. He was covered in brown keratin, and in his hand, he held an alloy long blade full of technological sense. This blade was three meters long, and the slightly curved blade body was about a palm wide. Because of its overall length, it did not give people a clumsy feeling, but instead appeared very sharp.

Heaven's Punishment, who was already over five meters tall, held this alloy blade, giving people a sense of oppression that was not weak. His strength was stronger than the bald man of the Death Paradise.

Several parties were vaguely in a state of confrontation. Judging from the attitude of the Magic Association and the Steam Alliance, the Black Tide was likely to appear near this street.

Whether the node was related to the Black Tide was not yet known, but the appearance of the Magic Association and the Steam Alliance interfered with Su Xiao's contention for the node.

Su Xiao sat on the edge of the small building and glanced at Heaven's Punishment dozens of meters away. This enemy was not easy to deal with, and the opponent's teammate was not present. The timid female Qiyuezhe was hiding somewhere. This had to be guarded against; sometimes one couldn't just look at the surface.

Besides Heaven's Punishment opposite, the Red-Eyed Woman of the Healing God Church was also an enemy. This was a strong reinforcement found by Heaven's Punishment.

Finally, there was the Holy Domain shaman who hid back in the dark. If there weren't so many people present, Su Xiao would have wanted to slash Iron Skull Kiplin. Judging from the opponent's attitude, the Steam Alliance's attitude toward the outside was more overbearing and arrogant than the Magic Association's.

Su Xiao deliberately used blood energy to force the Holy Domain shaman out just now, not letting the opponent hide in the dark. The shamans of the Holy Domain had a characteristic: if they were hostile, they must be slashed again after being killed on the spot. Throwing some explosives was not too much.

Among these guys, some might not look strong, but what they could summon, no one knew. If it was a god's incarnation, that was a gain for Su Xiao, but if it was a strange object, it would be very troublesome.

"Baja."

"Understood."

Baja entered the different space to watch the Holy Domain shaman, so as not to let the opponent cause any trouble.

Heaven's Punishment looked at the masked man Bas, his eyes meaningful. Since entering this world, he hadn't done nothing. He gave up two nodes and took this time to investigate the several major factions of the City of Smoke.

Heaven's Punishment and the timid girl's initial faction was the Healing God Church. Because of the props used in advance, Heaven's Punishment's status was not low.

Before coming to District 5 tonight, Heaven's Punishment had already figured out the situation and learned the true identity of the Undead Xiuxiu Luo through the Red-Eyed Woman, which made Heaven's Punishment very troubled. Xiuxiu Luo was the only son of the Magic Association president. Provoking Xiuxiu Luo was equivalent to offending the Magic Association and the Black Tower at the same time.

"Everyone, there are at least 12 hours before the Black Tide appears. Before that, we have a grudge with the Black Tower people to resolve. Is the Magic Association going to interfere?"

Heaven's Punishment looked at the masked man Bas with a smile. He said this very well. He stood beside the Red-Eyed Woman, plus his status in the Healing God Church, at this moment he was the representative of the Healing God Church.

He didn't say he had a grudge with Xiuxiu Luo, but with the Black Tower. If the masked man Bas, representing the Magic Association, intervened, it would be equivalent to a conflict between the Magic Association, the Black Tower, and the Healing God Church. This responsibility was something the masked man Bas could not bear.

Heaven's Punishment was not afraid of making things big. He was not a person of this world at all, and he didn't even care whether he offended the Red-Eyed Woman beside him. The other party was a weapon, a weapon responsible for cleaning up heretics.

Heaven's Punishment, who was five meters tall, looked rough, but was actually meticulous. He had sensed long ago that Su Xiao was a seventh-tier Qiyuezhe, but he didn't underestimate him because of this.

A seventh-tier Qiyuezhe was teleported to the City of Smoke to compete on the same stage as their eighth-tier Qiyuezhe. Didn't this explain the problem?

Using everything that could be used to seize the node was the only thing Heaven's Punishment had to do now.

"Can you represent the Healing God Church?"

The masked man Bas narrowed his eyes, and iron sand-like black energy drifted around him.

"I can."

Heaven's Punishment's large hand pressed on the Red-Eyed Woman's head, and the Red-Eyed Woman was expressionless.

"Then remember what you said today forever."

Leaving these words, the masked man Bas disappeared into the darkness with several secret mages.

"120,000 black crystals. From now until 7 AM tomorrow, what happens here has nothing to do with the Steam Alliance."

Heaven's Punishment turned his gaze to Iron Skull Kiplin and threw a card to the other party. Inside this were 120,000 black crystals sealed.

"*Hehehehehe. *"

Iron Skull Kiplin, this old man, laughed until his shoulders trembled. He turned and walked into the darkness, waving his mechanical prosthetic limb at Heaven's Punishment.

"Friend from the Reincarnation Paradise, let's begin. This node, the winner gets it."

Heaven's Punishment walked toward Su Xiao with a large blade, and the pale gold pattern on the blade edge made a light hum.

Su Xiao leaped down from the small building, grasped the hilt of the blade at his waist, and the long blade was drawn.

"I don't want to fight a woman."

Xiuxiu Luo threw the large cloth bag on his shoulder to the side. The large cloth bag hit the wall, and a low hum came from inside. Clearly, the female secret mage was excluded from the category of not wanting to fight a woman.

"Red-Eyed Woman, go over there. If you stay here, you'll be slashed."

Xiuxiu Luo leaped between the buildings, and the Red-Eyed Woman below walked on the street, stepping on high heels, holding a straight staff in her hand, pointing at the ground with the staff while walking, using this thing as a blind man's cane.

A night wind blew, and Su Xiao and Heaven's Punishment confronted each other on both sides of the street. Heaven's Punishment was very vigilant, his gaze always kept level with Su Xiao's shoulders, not looking at Su Xiao's expression and eyes.

Combat instinct told Heaven's Punishment not to make eye contact with the enemy. The moment they made eye contact, he would likely have openings. At least he had to fight with spirit after exchanging blows with the enemy to make eye contact.

*Zheng. *

Two blades cut through the air almost simultaneously, slashing out pale blue blade glow and golden blade glow. While the blade glows collided, the two long blades slashed against each other.

*Dong! *

Su Xiao and Heaven's Punishment's blades slashed together, and a shock spread. The street surface around them cracked and rose, and large cracks appeared on the buildings on both sides of the street.

During the confrontation just now, Su Xiao sensed that the enemy this time was the same as him, a technique type. Qiyuezhe from the Apocalypse Paradise developed toward technique types. As long as their courage during battle was enough, they wouldn't lack resources.

*Clang! Clang! Clang! *

Sparks splattered, and the two long blades slashed against each other. Compared to Heaven's Punishment, Su Xiao's body size and weapon length were quite different.

"Ha!"

Heaven's Punishment shouted, holding the blade with both hands, and slashed forward with all his strength.

Su Xiao retracted his blade and turned to the side. A blade glow grazed past him, and the building behind was slashed open. The huge slash mark spread for a hundred meters before stopping.

Heaven's Punishment slashed heavily on the ground. Just as he was about to push the large blade that had entered the ground horizontally to top Su Xiao to the side, Su Xiao stepped on the blade ridge of the large blade. With a *bang*, the air wave spread.

Heaven's Punishment felt heavy on his hands. The large blade held by both hands was completely submerged in the ground. He was forced to step forward, his eyes gradually widening, revealing shock.

While Su Xiao stepped on the large blade, the Checking Zhan Long Shan in his hand slashed forward, heading straight for Heaven's Punishment's neck.

The blade edge struck, and Heaven's Punishment felt the stinging pain in his neck. His right hand holding the blade hilt pulled hard.

With a *boom*, rubble splattered, and a large pit exploded on the street surface. The pale gold brilliance on the large blade in Heaven's Punishment's hand faded, entering a charging state. Holy Spirit-grade +13, inlaid with 3 Holy Spirit-grade gems, the weapon was not given for nothing, not to mention Heaven's Punishment was also a Sword Technique Grandmaster.

Su Xiao jumped back with the rubble, finally standing on a protruding roof corner. He had just stood firm when a whimpering sound of wind breaking struck. A blade glow with a diameter of ten meters slashed over.

'Blade Dao Blade · Time.'

The shock spread. After the huge blade glow flew within ten meters of Su Xiao, it immediately slowed down. Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy gathered on Checking Zhan Long Shan, and Su Xiao stabbed with his blade, piercing through the incoming blade glow.

Heaven's Punishment, who witnessed this scene, was stunned. He had been a Sword Technique Grandmaster for a long time, but he had never thought that blade glow could be pierced?

Heaven's Punishment didn't know that this was just the beginning.

After Checking Zhan Long Shan pierced through the huge blade glow, the roof corner under Su Xiao's feet shattered. He rushed out like a cannonball. In mid-air, he swung the long blade in his hand, throwing the huge blade glow he had pierced away.

With a *hiss*, electric arcs flashed on the huge blade glow, clearly blessed with Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy.

The huge blade glow headed straight for Heaven's Punishment. Dodging was not his strong suit. He slashed upward with the large blade in his hand, and with a *pop*, he slashed the incoming blade glow to pieces.

'Blade Dao Blade · Blood Blade.'

Blood-colored feathers appeared. Heaven's Punishment held the long blade horizontally in front of him. Although he didn't see the enemy, the slashing sensation had already been transmitted from the blade.

'So fast! There's also a chain slash behind.'

When this thought appeared in Heaven's Punishment's mind, he had already held the large blade vertically behind his back. This was the combat experience accumulated from years of fighting.

'Blade Dao Blade · Absolute Ghost.'

The surroundings turned pitch black, and three black-blue slash marks appeared behind Heaven's Punishment.

*Clang, clang, clang. *

After the urgent slashing sounds, blood splattered on Heaven's Punishment's spine. His large blade could not block all the slashing surfaces, but it protected his spine from injury.

Heaven's Punishment staggered a few steps, and he stood up by inserting the large blade into the street surface in a half-squatting posture.

A few meters behind Heaven's Punishment, Su Xiao jumped back repeatedly. If he went to attack Heaven's Punishment now, he would likely be injured.

Sensing Su Xiao jumping back, Heaven's Punishment pulled out his blade and stood up, moving his painful spine, and turned to face Su Xiao.

"Refreshing! I am Heaven's Punishment. Besides slashing people, I have no other hobbies."

Heaven's Punishment grinned, smiling very sincerely.

If Su Xiao's sword technique was sharp and unstoppable, then Heaven's Punishment's was violent and open and close.

Slashing crisp sounds, blade glows crisscrossing, the buildings on both sides of the street were slashed into pieces. There were no refugees nearby long ago; they were all quietly evacuated by the Healing God Church. Falling column tides were not terrible; what was terrible were gathering tides, which were unpredictable and would affect more than ten kilometers around after erupting.

With a *hiss*, the blade edges rubbed against each other and slashed past. Su Xiao straightened up slightly; this was a sign that he was about to kick directly.

Just over ten seconds ago, Heaven's Punishment had just taken a direct kick from Su Xiao. If he hadn't been wearing two Immortal-grade pieces of equipment to save his life, it wouldn't have been a piece of skull slashed off, but his whole head slashed off.

Heaven's Punishment held the blade with both hands in reverse, and the large blade in his hand stabbed toward the ground.

*Dong! *

A shock spread, and hundreds of pale gold blade glows spread around. This was a unique skill Heaven's Punishment developed himself, Earth Tooth.

Space fluctuation appeared behind Heaven's Punishment, and blade glows pierced through Su Xiao's body. When the last blade glow pierced through his chest, he stabbed down with his blade.

*Puchi. *

The long blade pierced through Heaven's Punishment's heart from the back. He fell halfway on the ground, spitting blood from his mouth.

"Ah!"

Heaven's Punishment roared, ignoring the risk of his torso being slashed open, and turned around to swing his arm. While he swung his arm, the large blade inserted on the side split, climbing toward his right arm, finally forming a blade edge that fit the arc of his arm on the outside of his right arm.

Heaven's Punishment knew that he must force Su Xiao back. At this time, equipment abilities, props, etc., were unreliable and too late to use. Only using physical attacks was the fastest.

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand was withdrawn from Heaven's Punishment's heart. He leaped about two meters high, leaning his body back with all his strength.

Heaven's Punishment's side-swinging arm grazed past Su Xiao's face, even cutting off his coat corner. This guy's body size was large, and he had no clumsy feeling.

Avoiding Heaven's Punishment's back-swinging punch, Su Xiao landed. He held the blade with one hand, a downward stab.

With a *swish*, the long blade submerged into Heaven's Punishment's head from his eye socket, blood dripping down Su Xiao's arm and onto Heaven's Punishment's face.

Su Xiao was injured. Fighting an enemy like Heaven's Punishment, injury was inevitable. Spirit, combat experience, sword technique level—Heaven's Punishment lacked nothing.

Heaven's Punishment only lacked one thing: high-intensity cruel combat. In the world of the Apocalypse Paradise, there were not many such situations, especially for a battle maniac like Heaven's Punishment who liked to take the initiative to find enemies to fight.

Heaven's Punishment's single eye widened. A moment later, his large hand grasped Checking Zhan Long Shan's blade edge. He knew he was going to die, his vitality was dissipating irreversibly, and no props or potions could save him.

"Refreshing."

A smile appeared on Heaven's Punishment's face, stained with a few drops of blood.

"I... won."

Heaven's Punishment spoke very weakly. A temporary coordinate that had already been set up gradually appeared in the node. Seeing this scene, Xiang Bubu Wang beside the node was a bit incredulous. It had clearly set up a coordinate in the node just now.

Xiang Bubu Wang shifted its gaze and saw a temporary coordinate standing beside the node. It had been influenced by some ability just now. Before the node was successfully set up, there was no prompt. This was the balance mechanism of the Tree of the Void. The prompt was an absolute permission. For illusion-type and mental-type Qiyuezhe, it was an extremely unfair judgment.

Seeing this scene, Heaven's Punishment's pupils began to dim. He hadn't died just now; he was holding on with the willpower of a sword technique powerhouse, waiting for this scene to appear.

"Apocalypse, also has, powerhouses."

Heaven's Punishment's large hand holding Checking Zhan Long Shan's blade edge dropped powerlessly, the keratin outside his body fell off, and his body gradually collapsed, turning into debris and drifting away with the wind.

【Prompt: You have killed Qiyuezhe No. 20**11.】

【You have obtained 5 points of Reincarnation Paradise Merit (single kill acquisition limit for Qiyuezhe).】

【You have obtained Scarlet Medal x37.】

【You have obtained Remnant Glow of the Strong (3 Remnant Glows of the Strong can permanently activate the usage permission of the Sixth Floor of the Land of All Living Things).】

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