Chapter 2998

Wisps of black energy drifted out from the main entrance of the palace, giving people a sense of ominousness and confusion. Based on Su Xiao's experience, he had already judged that this was the aura of an Old God.

"Xiang Bubu, how long has this Old God been unsealed?"

"Woof."

"3 minutes and 49 seconds. Very good."

Su Xiao took out a dozen test tubes and several pieces of precision-structured equipment from his storage space. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Bahar all took some. Of the remaining two test tubes, one was wedged by Su Xiao under his Black King Armguard, and the other was loaded into an injection gun.

Su Xiao stabbed the injection gun into his upper arm, and the light red medicinal liquid inside was injected into his body. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Bahar were all doing the same thing.

This was a suppressive potion for resisting erosion and avoiding mental resonance, which Su Xiao had developed based on Old God energy. It had no side effects and was not expensive to produce, so he had prepared a lot of it.

Having hunted so many Old Gods, Su Xiao's team was already very professional at dealing with them.

Bahar sucked a device about three meters in diameter and one meter in height onto the ground and activated it. If one observed carefully, one would find that there were three hearts inside this device: one black, one blood-red, and one dark purple. As energy was injected, these three hearts began to beat. The subtle impact generated by each beat would be absorbed under the device and then disappear into the ground.

As long as this device was fully activated, it would use the earth's veins as a medium to release a high-vibration pulse wave once. It had no effect on most creatures, but it had a high compatibility with the Old God's aura, between 42% and 68%. Each time the "high-vibration pulse wave" was released, the Old God would fall into a brief moment of distraction, the specific effect depending on the Old God's strength.

Click, clack...

Bahar snapped one ring after another onto its eagle claws and nodded at Su Xiao, signaling that it was ready.

Bahar entered the different space, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang blended into the environment, and Amu followed behind Su Xiao. Everything was ready; the God Hunt began.

Su Xiao walked up the steps. The closer he got to the palace's main entrance above, the stronger the Old God's unique aura became. This aura was very thick and had not yet fully erupted.

Su Xiao stopped in front of the palace gate, and the scene inside the palace came into view. The King of Light was still on the throne at the very back, and beside him was a stone sculpture covered in black patterns.

In the center of the palace, black smoke swirled. A humanoid figure stood there. Its height was over two and a half meters, its head had a row of eyes, and its mouth was a messy air hole. All over its body were drooping black tree roots. These tree roots were not hard; the ends had the texture of hair and drifted with the surrounding black smoke.

Seemingly sensing Su Xiao's violent blood aura, the Old God raised its head, and a dozen eyes looked at Su Xiao.

"Mortal."

Boom!

A spatial shock exploded. Bahar suddenly appeared directly above the Old God. All the metal rings on its two eagle claws expanded, and electric arcs crackled and surged.

The Old God below didn't care; it raised its hand full of tree roots and made a grasping gesture toward Bahar.

"Heh~"

Bahar laughed. A binding force appeared around it. Almost simultaneously, all the metal rings on its eagle claws shattered; this thing was extremely sensitive to Old God energy.

Ding, ding, ding...

The fragments of the rings happened to sink into the ground around the Old God, forming a circle eight meters in diameter.

Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of metal spikes protruded from the ground, each about half a meter long. The Old God in the center had a cold and lonely gaze.

Ice spread, and the dozens of metal spikes around the Old God climbed with ice, with sharp branches appearing on them. This thing required a large amount of energy, provided by Amu.

With a roar, Su Xiao, holding his long blade, disappeared from his original spot. When he reappeared, he was already in front of the Old God.

The long blade cut through the air, and the tree roots on the Old God's body grew wildly, coiling toward Su Xiao.

Without needing too much judgment, Su Xiao knew that this was definitely not the sealed Old God. That Old God had the characteristic of will erosion, while the one in front of him was inclined toward dark life, growth, etc.

Regardless, he would beat it half to death or slash it directly first. The King of Light had just awakened, and this Old God appeared; it definitely wasn't a coincidence.

Su Xiao had encountered three Old Gods in the Wizard World; it was not uncommon for there to be multiple Old Gods in one world.

Clang,

The long blade severed a large number of tree roots. Just as Su Xiao was about to strike a second time, nearly a hundred tree roots pierced through the stone slabs on the ground and coiled toward him from bottom to top.

This surprised Su Xiao. The aura of the Old God in front was shocking, but in terms of actual combat...

The tree roots were about to envelop Su Xiao when a pulse surged from underground, sweeping across the Old God's body. The pupils in its dozen eyes trembled wildly, and some eyes even became cross-eyed.

The Old God fell to one knee with a thud, and Bahar pounced from above, its claws piercing into the Old God's back neck.

All of the Old God's eyes recovered. It made a move to get up from the ground, and almost simultaneously, a black shockwave spread with it as the center point.

Su Xiao clenched his left hand into a fist, and the test tube inside his cuff shattered, with a large amount of light particles exploding.

The Old God's consciousness trembled again, and the black wave it released collapsed on its own. By this time, it realized that today's events didn't seem simple. This human in front of it was like a hunter specifically for hunting Old Gods; many of his methods were developed specifically to deal with Old Gods.

The Old God's actions were restricted, and Su Xiao stepped forward, the long blade in his hand thrusting forward.

Puchi!

Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan pierced through the Old God's chest. This was the Immortal-grade Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan; both its sharpness and penetrating power were incomparable to before.

If one observed carefully, one would find that on the blood-stained tip of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan, fragments of Exile were clinging to it, and the World-Severing Thread was also wrapped around the blade.

Su Xiao withdrew his blade and retreated. Exile constructed a hiltless piercing sword behind the Old God, with the tail end connected to the World-Severing Thread.

Exile dragged the World-Severing Thread and moved at high speed around the area. Don't forget, at this time, the World-Severing Thread also passed through the blade wound on the Old God's chest.

Zzz~

The thread wheel inside Su Xiao's cuff rotated at high speed. After reaching a certain degree, he pulled hard with his left hand, and the World-Severing Thread, reinforced with the Soul Silk state, tightened.

Looking at the Old God now, the World-Severing Thread was not only wrapped around its entire body but also used the surrounding metal ground spikes as hooks to firmly fix it in place.

Boom!

Another shockwave struck, and the pupils in the Old God's dozen eyes began to tremble wildly again. Amu rushed forward and slapped the ground with one hand.

Click, click, click...

Ice froze, freezing the Old God and the World-Severing Thread around it, forming a tomb-shaped pile of ice. The Old God, which had been full of ominousness and confusion just a moment ago, now only had its head exposed.

Bahar grabbed a weapon similar to a fish gun and shot nail spikes covered in patterns into the ice pile. Light blue electric arcs appeared inside the ice.

"Where did this Old God come from? It's too weak."

Bahar hovered at a low altitude, while Amu formed an ice sculpture. As long as the ice layer on its surface wasn't shattered, the ice pile trapping the Old God would be difficult to destroy. The principle was similar to "Prince Rupert's Drop."

Su Xiao also wanted to know where this Old God came from; its combat power was simply too weak.

"You, where did you come from?"

Su Xiao stood in front of the ice pile and spoke.

"Mortal..."

Clang.

The long blade slashed, and the Old God's head was severed.

Just as its head was severed, the Old God's aura quickly "deflated" like a punctured balloon.

"Don't kill it! It's very important; trap it first."

The stone sculpture beside the King of Light was half-shattered, revealing the upper body of the Moon Spirit. The expression on her small face was somewhat dull, clearly having witnessed the battle just now. Although she didn't quite understand what was going on, she discovered one point: Su Xiao and his team seemed very professional at dealing with Old Gods. She had originally intended to help, but didn't know what to do.

"It ran out again."

Moon Spirit looked at the frozen Old God. Even the simple Moon Spirit felt that this Old God was very unlucky. This Old God was named Tree God Bellerophon. It had run out four times in total. The first time was when the people of the Soul Bell Tower came to the Light Dynasty to worship. During that time, due to a messenger's mistake, the Tree God ran out.

Just as the Tree God was preparing to slaughter, a tragic scene occurred. It was almost blown to death by those people from the Soul Bell Tower through soul self-detonation. After a total of over a hundred soul messengers died, the Tree God was blown to pieces and then stuffed back into the outer layer of the seal by Moon Spirit.

The second time the Tree God escaped, it was beaten back by Moon Spirit leading the souls in the town. This time, the Tree God was not severely injured and recovered after resting for more than ten years.

The Tree God didn't give up. The process of it becoming an Old God, although a bit unbelievable, was, regardless, barely considered an Old God.

It was one thing not to have seen a real Old God, but inside the seal, that neighbor who was so powerful that it terrified the Tree God was a real Old God.

The Tree God felt that an Old God should be like that: indifferent, overlooking all living beings, chanting its divine name, with every pore exuding fear—that was unspeakable fear.

With such a powerful "neighbor" as a benchmark, the Tree God's spirit gradually became "Old God-like," and then it prepared for its third "jailbreak."

The process went smoothly. The hateful Royal Guard didn't wake up. Just as the Tree God walked out of the Pale Palace, it saw a blacksmith with dark red skin and goat horns on his head walking over. The Tree God pounced, and the Tree God almost ceased to exist.

When the Tree God came to its senses, it was already in the outer layer of the seal. After lying there like a corpse for decades, it was finally able to move slightly.

After being stuffed back into the outer layer of the seal again, the Tree God told its neighbor about the process of its third "jailbreak" through spiritual fluctuations. What surprised the Tree God was that the neighbor who hadn't paid attention to it for hundreds of years actually sent back a spiritual fluctuation. Its meaning seemed to be praising its bravery?

In fact, that real Old God did indeed praise the Tree God. The King of Light, the Great Sage, the Wolf Spider Queen, the Mother God, etc. —that real Old God didn't care about any of them. The only one it could slightly recognize was the container. As for the blacksmith in the White Town...

The Tree God didn't give up. After accumulating for many years, taking advantage of the King of Light's awakening, it rushed out from the outer layer of the seal again, and then encountered Su Xiao's team.