Chapter 2868

Black-blue smoke gathered on the Dragon-Slashing Flash, and just as Su Xiao prepared to activate Dragon Shadow Flash after slashing with the demon blade, a breath within his blood qi vanished.

With a thud, the priest fell nearby, his body covered in fine slash wounds, inflicted by the 'Blade Dao Knife · Slay'.

The black-blue smoke on Su Xiao's blade faded; if the demon blade was not swung and the killing effect not triggered, the blade demon spirit within Dragon-Slashing Flash would not temporarily fall silent, meaning it would not enter cooldown.

The priest's aura suddenly recovered somewhat; clearly, he could no longer be killed by the demon blade, which is also why Su Xiao stopped attacking.

The priest rose from the ground, smiling: "Bai Ye, do you want to kill me now? Isn't it too early? You haven't even left the dungeon."

Upon hearing this, Bahama immediately spoke:

"Of course not; we were afraid you'd be slaughtered by Axe Brother, we were just rescuing you—no need to thank us, after all, we're teammates."

"Rescuing me..."

The priest wiped the blood trace from his neck, revealing a wound piercing through the neck, caused by being pierced by Dragon-Slashing Flash.

"This is a mistake."

"I suppose so."

The priest's smile returned; the blood traces on his body were absorbed by countless hair-thin tentacles.

"This strong enemy is also dealt with; it's time to leave the dungeon."

The priest seemed to have forgotten the earlier unpleasantness—this kind of person, who just wiped clean the blood on his face and immediately smiles, is the most needing of caution.

Su Xiao ignored the priest's words; he was checking the reward for killing the executioner, which was somewhat special.

【You have killed the Executioner of the Prison of Suffering.】

【You obtained 6.1% of the World's Source.】

【You obtained 720 Soul Coins (high-zone bonus, unexplored zone bonus).】

【You obtained the Cry of Sorrow · Dinton (using this item causes??? enemies to fall into a confused state for 30 seconds).】

【You obtained an Immortal-tier Chest (7%).】

【Tip: Opening this chest has a high chance of yielding Immortal-tier equipment, gems, items, bloodline items, etc.】

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Su Xiao leapt up, grabbed the metal ladder in the ceiling passage, and began climbing upward; the ladder was very long, nearly a hundred meters, and went straight up.

When the ladder reached its end, Su Xiao leapt out from the somewhat cramped ladder shaft; his position had walls three meters high on both sides, and ahead were fewer than ten steps, ascending upward.

After walking a few steps on the steps, Su Xiao saw the situation ahead: it was a stone path, over twenty meters wide, straight ahead, with low walls less than half a meter high on both sides, the upper half of the walls having a uneven surface.

【You have reached 'Above the City Wall'.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao realized he had originally circled underground and arrived atop the city wall above the great stone house of the deserted village.

When Su Xiao stepped onto the fifth step and his waist was level with the city wall's ground, a sense of crisis emerged from all directions; his entire body felt stinging sensations.

Su Xiao immediately retreated, stepping back down the steps.

On both sides of the city wall, semi-transparent fire-colored phantoms appeared, each holding a longbow of the same color, already in the posture of drawing and shooting arrows.

Ding, ding, ding...

Crisp sounds came from the ground ahead and above Su Xiao; hundreds of arrows formed from sunlight beams struck the rock ground and steps ahead and above him.

If Su Xiao had not retreated then, he would definitely have been shot into a hedgehog; as for rushing past by speed, it was utterly impossible—these semi-transparent fire-colored phantoms, Su Xiao had seen them in the Sun Holy Temple, they are mechanisms within the fourth layer of the Sun Holy Temple.

The attack frequency and bow-drawing speed of these flame spirits change according to the enemy's speed; rushing at full speed only gets you killed faster, a direct handout.

While Su Xiao was thinking, the priest had already climbed up from behind.

"Can't pass ahead?"

"Can, but you'd have to rush through; I'm waiting for you."

"Waiting for me?"

The priest looked doubtful.

"Well, to avoid you ambushing me from behind while I rush through."

"This..."

The priest was speechless with laughter, shaking his head while smiling: "Then let's rush through together, but... are you sure you can rush through?"

"Not entirely sure, but there's a high chance of success."

Su Xiao placed one hand on the hilt, began adjusting his state; looking ready to rush through, Bahama also took a deep breath beside him.

"3, 2, 1."

When Bahama counted to 1, Su Xiao rushed toward the steps; the priest deliberately slowed for a moment, confirming Su Xiao was truly rushing at full speed before following.

As Su Xiao rushed out of the steps onto the city wall, a sense of crisis appeared around him; if he did nothing, he would die within two seconds.

The priest behind suddenly stopped, tentacles madly growing on his body; he had long known what was on the city wall, because earlier he had let a 'Lamb' crawl over this wall.

Moreover, while in the great stone house, he had used the information about the danger of climbing the wall to exchange for a bottle of sun potion; what exactly the danger was, he didn't say, just waiting for this opportunity.

The priest acted; he didn't want to clash head-on with Su Xiao, for even if he won, he'd have to pay a painful price, which would cost him the qualification to compete with President Rogesh for the Dark Mask.

Black tentacles surged toward Su Xiao, nearly enveloping him; these tentacles disturbed the surrounding space, actually preventing Su Xiao from moving through space; the old cunning priest had prepared thoroughly, even calculating Su Xiao's Dragon Shadow Flash ability into his plan.

At this critical moment, the priest felt a buzz in his mind, and half his body lost consciousness.

Xiang Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, retreated; in its claw was a blood-stained piece of cloth, and it was this that caused the priest such a strong reaction.

The black tentacles around Su Xiao froze; he exerted himself to leap sideways, escaping the chaotic space area, then Dragon Shadow Flash activated, and his position after penetrating space was behind the priest.

The priest's pupils reconverged, and a sound of breaking wind came from behind him.

"Bai Ye..."

Bang!!

Su Xiao kicked straight with his foot, sending the priest flying; he grabbed Xiang Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang beside him and lunged toward the hiding place below the steps.

On the city wall, the priest was kicked flying, nearly skimming the ground at a height of three meters; due to his extreme speed, hundreds of sound-booming sunlight arrows had already reached his vicinity.

"What exactly... is going on."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The deafening explosion rang out, fragments of charred flesh and blood scattered everywhere, a severed arm slapped onto the ground with a thud, and hundreds of sunlight arrows struck again, blasting the still-burning flesh remains into ashes.

【Notification: You have eliminated Violator #170042.】

【Notification: You have eliminated Violator #129113.】

【You obtained Diamond Honor Medal x59.】

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Seeing this notification, Su Xiao furrowed his brow; he had killed the priest, yet two elimination notifications appeared, and the amount of Diamond Honor Medals obtained felt low to him—less than half of what he got when killing the Crimson World.

Was it because the priest was not a violator of their side? Or perhaps the priest was not truly dead.

Su Xiao sensed his surroundings, expanding his perception to the maximum; there was no sign of living beings nearby.

After sensing for over half an hour, Su Xiao finally retracted his perception; he was not in a hurry to pass through the city wall, although there was a skeleton emitting a lustrous white light just a few dozen meters ahead, leaning against the low wall beside the city wall.

This skeleton emitting a lustrous white light was completely identical to the one seen in the painful dungeon; this should also be a 'Soul Skeleton'.

Su Xiao returned the way he came, first sliding down the metal ladder to reach the 'City Wall Basement', then entering the 'Painful Dungeon'.

Inside the Painful Dungeon, Su Xiao wandered several circles in the maze-like front section before successfully reaching the rear section; the terrain of the rear section was very friendly, with only one passage and cells on both sides.

As he passed the large cell holding the Sun Warrior, Su Xiao placed his hand on the hilt of his sword.

The Sun Warrior sitting in the darkness opened his eyes, glanced at Su Xiao, then continued to remain silent; his gaze was very forlorn.

A few minutes later, Su Xiao returned to a cell only about ten or so square meters in size; the lustrous white skeleton was still leaning against the wall inside the cell,

holding a stemmed metal cup in its hand, with a ring of white gemstones set around the cup; at this moment, the color of the gemstones was very dim.

As Su Xiao approached the cell, he reached forward with one hand and touched the metal cup in the skeleton's hand.

Wave~

A ripple spread out; the gemstones on the metal cup turned blue, and blue flames appeared in the skeleton's eye sockets; it slowly rose, shifting from a seated position to kneeling on both knees, holding the metal cup with both hands.

Black backflow incense poured out from inside the metal cup, drifting downward; soon, the floor of the cell was covered with a layer of black mist.

【You have activated the 'Soul Skeleton'.】

【Total 'Soul Skeleton' activations: 1 (the more Soul Skeletons activated, the rarer the items available for exchange in the Soul Shop).】

【Notification: Activating the first 'Soul Skeleton' gives a 100% chance to refresh Immortal-tier equipment in the Soul Shop.】

【The Soul Shop has refreshed; you may now exchange the following items.】

1. Sun Elixir.

Price: 180 Soul Coins (exchange price reduced by 20 Soul Coins)

Stock: 8 (stock increased by 2).

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2. Exemption Physique

Effect: Can reduce the damage intensity of the 'Burning' effect……

Price: Initial exchange costs 140 Soul Coins (exchange price reduced by 10 Soul Coins)

Note: Each exchange increases the price, up to a maximum of five exchanges (the fifth exchange costs 2240 Soul Coins, with the exchange price reduced by 160 Soul Coins).

Note: After leaving this world, this benefit will convert into a certain proportion of abnormal attribute resistance.

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3. Chilian Adian Language (Holy Land Language)

Effect: Mastered immediately upon exchange.

Price: 320 Soul Coins.

Stock: --

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4. Divine Spirit Bone (Epic Tier)

Price: 50 Soul Coins.

Stock: 2.

Note: If multiple 'Soul Skeletons' are activated, the quality of exchangeable Divine Spirit Bones will improve.

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5. Soul Scythe·Judgment (Immortal Tier)

Category: Weapon

Price: 4800 Soul Coins.

Stock: 1.