Chapter 3223: Reason

A series of prompts appeared. After seeing these prompts, Su Xiao knew what was going on.

This place called the Endless Desert had a very special kind of soul. These souls were formless and invisible in normal times, provided they didn't encounter other living beings.

When living beings encountered these souls, because of the protection of the Endless Desert, no one could discover these souls, but these souls would change.

For example, Morey encountered a soul. This soul would immediately follow her, for about a few minutes. This soul would then detach. On the premise that Morey didn't undergo heart-beast transformation, this soul would transform into a Heart Beast, existing independently, not having a direct connection with Morey, and wouldn't lead to Morey's heart-beast transformation.

Simply put, this was the defense mechanism of the Endless Desert. Everyone who arrived here would encounter the souls here, then the souls would transform into Heart Beasts. The result afterward was that the Heart Beast would kill that person, and the Heart Beast would degenerate back into a soul, a soul more powerful than ever before.

The blood Qi incarnation was different. This was not Su Xiao's Heart Beast. In the few minutes the soul followed him, he was fighting Luoxi, and of course, he had to release blood Qi. The soul absorbed the blood Qi, failed to transform into a Heart Beast, and transformed into a Blood Soul.

A Blood Soul was a very special existence. If it were one-on-one, Su Xiao's winning rate wouldn't be low. Unfortunately, he didn't have the chance for a one-on-one. As soon as they met, the Blood Soul swallowed the tentacle man and the scythe reaper, without even the possibility of stopping it.

The even more screwed-up thing was yet to come. The Blood Soul, which originally had weaknesses, had its weaknesses disappear after swallowing the "projections" of the female trio.

Precisely because of this, the blood Qi monster in front of him was not an ethereal existence. This thing was a super big boss. After killing it, the World Source might not be much, but the quality of the treasure chest would definitely be top-tier.

At the moment, Su Xiao didn't care about the quality of the treasure chest. Whether they could win was what he was most worried about. The initial probing was complete. 【God's Eye】 was affected by this desert, and the detection data failed.

This monster became stronger the more it fought, but the rewards were also high. At the very least, there was a high-gold-content Immortal-grade treasure chest, as well as the 7-star title 【Blood Intent】. Just looking at the title name, Su Xiao vaguely felt that this thing suited him.

Su Xiao untied a sapphire pendant from his waist and wore it around his neck, while 【Berg's Heart】 was unequipped.

What he was wearing now was the 【Hunter King】 pendant he hadn't worn for a long time. Although this pendant was of Gold quality, it was the first set Su Xiao synthesized and used. In the low-to-mid tiers, the Hunter Set was known as the dream set for melee combat.

Thinking back, the ring in this set was snatched by him from Gulu. To this day, when Gulu thinks of this, she still can't eat.

As if cyan-blue flames ignited on Su Xiao's body, Hunter Moment was activated. The cooldown time of all his active abilities was forcibly lifted, which also included Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Whoosh!

Su Xiao disappeared in place. When he appeared again, he was already behind the blood Qi monster. Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan tore through space, leaving a black mark while slashing toward the blood Qi monster's neck.

Clang~

The long blade slashed through empty air. Su Xiao turned his head; the blood Qi monster had appeared behind him by relying on spatial movement, and the serrated long blade in its hand stabbed toward the back of his head.

Pfft, pfft, pfft!

Three slash marks appeared on the blood Qi monster's shoulder, neck, and other positions. The long blade in its hand pierced Su Xiao's head, but the next instant, the Su Xiao pierced by it had turned into blood Qi. This was the blood-colored residual shadow Su Xiao left in place when he penetrated space just now. He himself had appeared beside the blood Qi monster, and it was he who had slashed three times 0.2 seconds ago.

Clang.

Two blade lights slashed across simultaneously. The cyan-blue blade light flew into the high sky, and the other blood-colored blade light slashed into the ground. Amidst the splashing broken stones, it plowed a trench nearly a hundred meters long and seven or eight meters wide on the ground.

Morey watched this scene blankly. The phantom behind her had already pulled the bow to the full, but Morey didn't know who to shoot. Shoot the blood Qi monster? Stop joking, that monster appeared every 0.5 seconds, and then disappeared. When it appeared next time, she didn't know where it would be.

Two figures dragging blood Qi left residual shadows in mid-air. Blade lights crisscrossed, and the slashing power caused large areas of the white rock ground to collapse.

Boom!!

A blood-colored residual shadow broke through a wave of air and fell straight down. It was Su Xiao. In the concave pit, the crystal layer on his body cracked in a large area, and there was a blade wound piercing his body on his chest. Blood had already stained his bare upper body red.

The blood Qi monster appeared suddenly, the serrated long blade in its hand raised, making a gesture to slash off Su Xiao's head with one blade.

Black smoke spread, forming a skull that let out a ferocious laugh. The blood Qi monster hissed as it was corroded by the blue smoke all over its body. A sour smell permeated. The skin and flesh all over its body peeled off a layer. This layer of skin and flesh hadn't even landed on the ground before it was corroded into gas by the acidic energy.

The blood Qi monster disappeared and appeared behind Wood. Wood's pupil flames shrank to the extreme. He was not a melee type.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Blade strikes slashed across one after another. The black smoke around Wood was quickly slashed away. Before anyone could come to help, the serrated long blade in the blood Qi monster's hand had already slashed toward Wood's shoulder. Wood could clearly judge that if this blade slashed down, he might die on the spot.

The sound of breaking wind appeared. An energy arrow nearly 5 meters long attacked. Just as it was about to hit the blood Qi monster's head, its body became semi-transparent.

The serrated long blade in the blood Qi monster's hand deliberately slowed down its slashing momentum. After the energy arrow passed through its head, it broke away from the spatial penetration state. Because the slashing blade didn't stop, at this moment, the blade edge was less than 10 cm away from Wood. Even if he jumped backward after the time Morey fought for him, he couldn't jump out of the blood Qi monster's slashing range.

The serrated long blade cut onto Wood's shoulder. At this critical moment, tentacles spread from beside the blood Qi monster, powerful and heavy.

Pfft.

The tentacles couldn't touch the blood Qi monster. It disappeared and appeared behind Ceyas. The serrated long blade in its hand had already pierced Ceyas's head. All this was too sudden.

Gulp, gulp~

The sound of sucking blood appeared. If other people's abilities were to suck blood when attacking, then the serrated long blade in the blood Qi monster's hand was directly drinking blood. There was even a gulping sound of blood leading!

Ceyas wilted immediately, his cheeks collapsed, and his whole person became bone-thin. Even if he were made of iron, he couldn't withstand such torment. Still, a figure appeared behind the blood Qi monster and kicked straight out.

Bang!!

The sonic boom spread. The blood Qi monster was kicked into two halves immediately. The serrated long blade in its hand was pulled out from its head. Ceyas's body swayed back and forth, almost falling down.

"I, this, is very bad."

While Wood was speaking, he knelt on one knee with a thud. The suit on his body splashed in large areas, revealing his dry Devil body. In fact, Wood was not a skeleton; only his head was a skeleton.

At this moment, Wood's chest was broken open, and various organs were dragged out. It was when the blood Qi monster was kicked away by Su Xiao, it immediately entered the spatial penetration state. While passing by Wood, it reached an arm into Wood's chest cavity, and after restoring its physical body, it pulled Wood's organs out hard.

Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of meters away, the blood Qi monster's lower body regenerated rapidly. As its left leg regenerated, it stepped on the ground with one foot and crouched halfway. It raised its left hand. In its left wrist, half of Wood's liver was embedded. Seeing this, the blood Qi monster calmly cut off its own left arm with the serrated long blade.

Hiss~

Because the speed of flesh and blood regeneration was too fast, the sound of regeneration was particularly obvious. The blood Qi monster moved its left arm.

"Left hand, got it."

The blood Qi monster's voice was still hoarse, but the tone was somewhat similar to Su Xiao's, especially its decisiveness in slashing off its own arm just now.

"Bai Ye, do you always fight like this?"

Ceyas shook his head, he was a bit dizzy. From the beginning of the battle, he had been beheaded 4 times, shattered 2 times, and because his standing position was awkward, he was smashed once by the joint efforts of Su Xiao and Wood.

"Pink hair, be serious."

Hearing Ceyas's words, Morey felt a sense of grievance in her heart. She was very serious. Just a few minutes ago, she almost got slashed into two halves to provide reinforcements. If she hadn't used an item, her intestines would be flowing all over the ground now.

Although she felt aggrieved in her heart, Morey couldn't say anything. The enemy was like a ghost. She rushed up to melee, but it was useless. The hit rate of shooting with the "Gathering Void Bow Guard" was embarrassingly low. This was not only because the blood Qi monster could move spatially, but it could also penetrate space.

Every time the enemy penetrated space, Morey felt she was being played like a fool. She turned her gaze and looked at Su Xiao with a very aggrieved look. Morey was certain that the blood Qi monster's ability was a no-cooldown version of Bai Ye's ability.

Actually, there was one thing that made Morey feel even more uncomfortable. The three people present were fighting the blood Qi monster to the death, while the blood Qi monster... didn't pay attention to her at all. This made her secretly relieved while feeling that her self-esteem had suffered a devastating blow.

She could only output while hiding, but Morey estimated that the damage she caused to that monster was actually very heavy.

Boom!

The air wave spread, and slash lights appeared. In the chaotic spatial fluctuations, a black-blue residual shadow flashed by. It was Baha, dragging a large piece of flesh in its claws.

The blood Qi monster, whose cheek flesh was torn off by Baha, retreated two large steps. Before it could stand firm, black tentacles broke through the ground, stabbing through its entire body like needles.

Baha circled in the sky, its eagle eyes sharp to the extreme. It didn't make a sound when flying, leaving only spatial fluctuations. It was an assassin hiding in space.

In the black smoke below, Su Xiao slashed continuously with the long blade in his hand. The crisp sound of clanging was endless, sparks splashed. Opposite him was the blood Qi monster, nearly three meters tall, holding a serrated long blade. The injuries on its body had completely recovered, as if all the attacks on it before were ineffective. What was even more terrifying was that its health had recovered to 98.6%.

Clang!

Su Xiao was slashed back. He wiped the blood from his chin. The strength of this enemy was different from the strength of past enemies. The blood Qi monster was so powerful because it was in the Endless Desert. Even so, it couldn't be underestimated. With a slight carelessness, he would die in this place.

However, the strength added by this environment was only powerful in certain aspects. For example, the blood Qi monster's defense wasn't powerful to an outrageous degree. This was an opportunity.

Just one opportunity, with the cooperation of Wood and Ceyas, Su Xiao could win. Don't look at the two of them, one half-dead and one about to become a dried person, but as long as the opportunity came, they would all use their respective trump cards.

Wood and Ceyas kept their trump cards until now because of Su Xiao. Su Xiao fought the blood Qi monster one-on-one like a real man throughout the battle, the kind where whoever cowers is a grandson. It was also because of this that Wood and Ceyas discovered the blood Qi monster's powerful regenerative ability.

Ceyas was very depressed. This enemy's regenerative ability was already stronger than his.

Su Xiao stood up from the ground and reactivated the Hunter Moment ability of the 【Hunter King】 pendant around his neck. This ability lasted for a total of 100 seconds. After using it for so long, he had already discovered its pattern.

Hunter Moment didn't have to be kept on all the time. As long as it wasn't completely ended, leaving a small amount of "blue flame" on the body surface, the ability could be reactivated within 10 to 15 minutes of turning off Hunter Moment, provided that there was still remaining time from the previous 100 seconds.

Hunter Moment was just activated, and Su Xiao and the blood Qi monster disappeared in place at the same time. Slash sounds, sharp blades clashing, sparks splashing.

When Su Xiao appeared, he felt a burning pain in his chest. This was the evil result of being pierced through the chest by the enemy's blade twice.

Spatial fluctuations appeared behind him. Su Xiao immediately penetrated space, but this time, the spatial penetration failed.

With a crack, a crisp sound came from Su Xiao's neck, and a sapphire pendant shattered.

Pfft.

The serrated long blade slashed down from top to bottom. Su Xiao's left arm flew out, spinning and landing with a slap.

Crack, crack, crack~

The crystal layer spread from Su Xiao's severed arm, and the release fragments also joined the construction of the crystal arm. As soon as the crystal arm was formed, Su Xiao turned and elbowed with the crystal arm.

With a bang, the wind pressure spread. The blood Qi monster leaned back, the exoskeleton on its face shattered, and its skull was somewhat flattened.

"Kept you waiting!"

Lilim's shout came. She suddenly appeared dozens of meters away. From the beginning of the battle to now, she hadn't attacked even once.

On both sides of Lilim's eyes, purple patterns spread backward. Her eyes were as brilliant as two purple stars, and a heart phantom floated behind her.

"Slumber."

The heart phantom behind Lilim quickly tightened and withered into a twist, like a wrinkled balloon.

Almost at the same time, the blood Qi monster, which was chopping Ceyas with the serrated long blade in its hand, suddenly stiffened in place.

"3 seconds!"

Lilim's hands clapped together with a slap, and blood seeped from her ear holes.

The blood Qi monster suddenly didn't move. It was simply a god-given opportunity. This was the reason Lilim had been hiding and not attacking from the beginning of the battle to now. She was holding back a big move.

Wood, who was pretending to be dead, had black smoke surging all over his body. His pupil flames turned ghostly green. With a whoosh, ghostly green flames ignited on the blood Qi monster's body surface, and its health dropped like flowing water.

Ceyas, who was about to be chopped into a dozen pieces, raised his hand, and an eye opened on the back of his hand. As soon as this eye opened, dense tentacles grew all over the blood Qi monster's body. These tentacles were like insects, drilling and swimming in the blood Qi monster's flesh and brain.

Interestingly, Su Xiao, Wood, and Morey were all pretending to be dead just now. The first two were too severely injured, and Morey was too easy to die. Only Ceyas was being chopped. If it went on for a while, he would be chopped into meat filling.

An energy arrow that had almost condensed into substance attacked, pierced through the blood Qi monster's head, and then the energy arrow exploded. It was Morey.

More than ten meters away, Su Xiao, who had fallen into the rock pit, suddenly opened his eyes. He leaped up sharply, broke through a blood shadow, and appeared in front of the blood Qi monster. Along the way, there were mottled bloodstains. This blood Qi monster was really too strong in the Endless Desert.

More than ten meters away, Su Xiao, who had fallen into a rock pit, suddenly opened his eyes. He leaped up sharply, broke through a blood shadow, and appeared before the blood-gas monster. The path he had charged along was covered in mottled bloodstains; this blood-gas monster was truly too strong within the Endless Desert.

Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan slashed across the blood Qi monster's neck. Everything around seemed to freeze for a moment, and then recovered.

As soon as this blade slashed across, the blood Qi monster's eyes reopened. The exoskeleton on its face had shattered, and its expression was very calm. Those scarlet pupils stared coldly at Su Xiao. Even in death, it didn't fear or submit.

The blood Qi monster's head was slashed off. Black-blue smoke merged into its broken neck. Su Xiao's crystal arm grabbed the blood Qi monster's head, threw it under his feet, and stomped it into a pulp, to prevent this head from being a separate individual or existence.

"Boss, the arm is here."

Baha's shout came, grabbing Su Xiao's left arm in its claws. Su Xiao let out a long sigh of relief, and the Reincarnation Paradise prompt appeared.

【Prompt: You have killed Blood Soul Dark Demon Shadow.】

【You obtained 5.42% World Source (this enemy is a special existence, the World Source obtained after killing is relatively low).】

【You obtained 3227 Soul Coins.】

【You obtained Immortal-grade treasure chest Dark Demon Shadow.】

【You obtained title Blood Intent (★★★★★★★).】

【You have lifted the Ancient Curse of the Endless Desert and can now walk out of this area.】

The treasure chest belonged to Su Xiao. This was not worth being surprised. Not counting Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, a total of six people participated in the battle. The kill contribution, the intensity of damage caused, etc., were all digitized into percentages due to triggering the special event. The damage intensity list was:

Bai Ye: 49.62%.

Ceyas: 21.59%.

Wood: 20.77%.

Morey: 7.49%.

Lilim: 0.53%.

Moon Apostle: 0%.

The Moon Apostle lay down and won. At this time, she was hiding behind a sand dune in the distance with lingering fear, revealing half of her head.

"Lying down and winning this time."

Morey pressed one hand on her waist, grinning in pain. It had to be said that Morey was very daring when fighting.

"Act, actually gave 2 7-star titles, 1!"

Morey's words made the severely injured Su Xiao glance sideways.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Su Xiao coughed repeatedly, and blood seeped from between his fingers. Morey was about to step forward to support him, but suddenly shivered. She didn't know why, but she felt it was better not to step forward now. She seemed to have said something she shouldn't have.

"Bai Ye, you wouldn't have not obtained the title because your Charisma is too low, right? Actually, I didn't obtain it either, really."

Morey smiled. Su Xiao didn't say anything. He came to more than ten meters away and picked up the broken pendant from the ground. This was the 【Hunter King】. Any equipment had to be extreme. The Gold-quality 【Hunter King】 could no longer withstand Su Xiao's high-frequency use.

It could be said that the pendants Su Xiao had obtained all along were exceptionally top-tier, such as 【Hunter King (1/1 set)】, 【Hunter Dragon Glory (1/1 set)】, and 【Berg's Heart (Immortal-grade)】.

【Hunter King】 and 【Hunter Dragon Glory】 were both shattered, leaving only 【Berg's Heart】. Su Xiao hoped this pendant could hold on for a while longer. Judging from the attributes, 【Berg's Heart】 shouldn't shatter. I don't know why, the necklace slot was exceptionally dangerous.

Crack, crack~

The sound of something growing entered Su Xiao's ears. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw tree roots growing from the blood Qi monster's corpse, coiling into a circle. This circle suddenly expanded to a thousand meters, pitch-black inside, leading to an unknown place.

In this huge ring formed by tree roots, a large cluster of coiled tree roots floated out. Its diameter was hundreds of meters, and this was under the condition of its precise coiling. If it stretched out, its volume would definitely be kilometer-level, or even ten-thousand-meter-level.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao already knew things were bad. He was still puzzled before why the Overgrowth of Madness didn't absorb the blood Qi monster dry this time. It turned out that the main body of the Overgrowth of Madness had come!

The Overgrowth of Madness gave people a strong feeling. Looking directly at it would cause the spirit to appear mad and twisted, causing irreversible damage, or even conscious death.

The sun in the sky disappeared, and the desert was no longer hot. The originally clear sky became pitch-black, and auroras with a strange feeling in seven colors appeared in the sky, layer upon layer.

The main body of the Overgrowth of Madness floated in the sky. Its root system pierced into space, and the yellow sand on the ground gradually turned white, finally turning black, becoming hard, stepping on it like rock.

This was not a change in one area, but everywhere Su Xiao could see had turned into this scene, and messy gibberish sounds appeared in his ears.

"Overgrowth, of, Madness!"

Lilim lowered her head, her eyes full of disbelief. She didn't understand why such an existence would come here. Suddenly, she guessed something and turned her gaze to Su Xiao. Something that shocked her happened: Su Xiao was looking up at the Overgrowth of Madness.

"Bai Ye, don't look directly..."

"Thanks for this time. When I return to the Paradise, I will pay you a page of Tree Life Page. It was my negligence. It turns out you and the Abyss Jar are in an antagonistic relationship."

Su Xiao spoke. This made Lilim doubt life a bit. She suspected that Su Xiao seemed to be communicating with the Overgrowth of Madness.

Why did Su Xiao want to pay the Overgrowth of Madness 1 page of 【Tree Life Page】? The reason was that the Overgrowth of Madness and the Abyss Jar were antagonistic. When the two sides met, not to mention one side being destroyed, it was a fight to the death.

This time the Overgrowth of Madness sensed the Abyss Jar was there, but didn't immediately appear to fight it. The Overgrowth of Madness chose to wait temporarily, waiting for Su Xiao and the others to kill the blood Qi incarnation, or for the blood Qi incarnation to kill Su Xiao and the others.

No matter what, Su Xiao had traded with the Overgrowth of Madness several times. Both sides were very satisfied with several trades. This was also the reason why the Overgrowth of Madness didn't immediately start a war with the Abyss Jar. Once that situation appeared, all living things on this desert would die.

Su Xiao ignored the injuries on his body and disappeared in place. When he appeared, he was already behind Morey. He strangled Morey's neck with one arm and strangled Morey's waist with the other. He didn't want to die here. The Moon Apostle was too far away, so he could only try Morey.

"Morey, do you have any life-saving items? The kind that can leave immediately, right now."

While Su Xiao was speaking, his arms increased in strength.

"I have, but it's very expensive. Do you really have to use it? If it's not necessary..."

Morey hadn't finished speaking when she saw a pottery jar floating into the high sky, and terrifying fluctuations filled the surroundings.

The Moon Apostle and Morey both became hot items. Baha, Ceyas, and Lilim rushed toward the Moon Apostle, while Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was right beside the Moon Apostle.

As for Morey, she was being strangled by the neck from behind by Su Xiao. Others, hindered by Su Xiao's overly fierce aura at the moment, didn't get near Morey.

While Su Xiao prevented Morey from slipping away, he looked up at the sky. The Overgrowth of Madness and the Abyss Jar each occupied half of the sky, obviously about to start fighting.

PS: (6000-word big chapter delivered. Originally, it could have been updated at 11 o'clock, but this battle wasn't finished, and it was uncomfortable to be stuck, so I kept writing, and it was only updated now.) ===== CHAPTER 3224 =====

PS: (A 6,000-character long chapter is delivered. I could have updated at 11 o'clock, but this battle wasn't finished, and it felt uncomfortable to be stuck, so I kept writing and only just finished it now.)