Chapter 3287

Black tentacles surged in the seawater. Under the invasion of the Sun Flame, these black tentacles were scorched and lost their vitality.

With a boom, the black tentacles, which had almost coiled into a giant ball, shattered. Sun Bird Taihakak broke free from the restraints. As it flapped its wings in the seawater, a large area of seawater turned golden-red, and the water temperature reached an outrageous level.

Thousands of Sea Clan members surrounded Sun Bird Taihakak from all directions. Taihakak, in the flames, looked coldly at the Sea Clan members. It didn't act rashly. If it were on land, these merfolk would have long since turned into grilled fish, but this was under the sea. Taihakak knew clearly that its ability had been significantly weakened here.

Its purpose for coming here was to kill Su Xiao. Other things didn't have to be retrieved, but the 【Iron Box】 must be taken back.

"Stab this turkey to death!"

I don't know which talented Sea Clan member shouted this. Looking closely, it was a female Sea Clan member whose mouth was as loose as if it had been greased.

Sun Bird Taihakak actually understood the Sea Clan's language. The golden-red flames on its body exploded, and a flame laser beam shot straight at the female Sea Clan member.

"The turkey is angry."

The female Sea Clan member's figure blurred, and she swapped positions with a bewildered, one-horned Sea Clan member who usually held a grudge against her.

The one-horned Sea Clan member's chest was pierced by the flame laser. His body turned into charcoal from the inside out, then turned into black ash, distributed in the seawater.

Su Xiao, Wood, and Zuiyas all saw this scene. Their gazes turned to the female Sea Clan member simultaneously. Such a talented person at drawing aggro would be of great use in this battle.

Originally, drawing aggro was entirely Baham's responsibility. Although Baham, when landing, ran like a chicken, it ran fast. But Baham, having entered the sea, lost its taunting ability.

Baham's principle was that the most important bonus attribute for taunting ability was speed. If you taunted and didn't run fast enough, you were holding the key to heaven. If you wanted to taunt, you had to ensure you could outrun the target you were taunting; this was the essence of taunting.

In the seawater, Sea Clan members holding various long weapons rushed toward Sun Bird Taihakak. These Sea Clan members either had exoskeletons on their bodies or thick scales, and all were good at defense.

The seawater near Sun Bird Taihakak began to churn, and water ropes as thick as arms were generated, winding toward every part of Taihakak's body.

Bang!

A water spike nearly five meters long pierced Taihakak's chest. It immediately spat out a stream of golden flames, which instantly burned the Sea Clan member who controlled the water spike to ashes.

A soul-stirring singing voice came from above, and a mermaid-like figure swam above. A sun phantom appeared behind Sun Bird Taihakak, and the mermaid above it immediately turned into a dried fish.

Countless water-type attacks assaulted Sun Bird Taihakak from the surroundings, and various binding methods emerged one after another. The Sea Clan were basically water-type, spirit-type, or curse and transformation-type.

Facing the siege, Sun Bird Taihakak let out a sharp cry, and the sound waves mixed with flames spread in layers. Its wings spread, and the fire domain spread to within a thousand meters. Polosi's subordinates let out bursts of wails.

When the fire domain finished a round of pouring, more than eighty percent of the nearly a thousand subordinates Polosi sent had died. This was the price of fighting Sun Bird Taihakak. One had to know that most of the Sea Clan members Polosi sent had Tier 8 combat power, with few at Tier 7.

In just a short while, the Sea Clan had suffered heavy casualties. Seeing this, Polosi, who was watching the battle, waved his hand, and more than a thousand Sea Clan members hidden on the seabed surfaced, surrounding Sun Bird Taihakak again.

"Don't let this turkey run away!"

The female Sea Clan member from before hadn't died yet. She shouted with a flushed face—not from shyness, but because she had almost been boiled just now.

The second round of the siege began. The water flow vibrated, and the flames continued to spread in the water. Under the wild surging of a large number of bubbles, it was difficult to see the situation on the battlefield. The charred corpses of Sea Clan members falling down already showed how tragic this underwater battle was.

When the number of Sea Clan casualties dropped to below 300, Polosi waved his hand again, and another batch of Sea Clan members lurking in the shadows under the sea appeared.

It was wise to send only 1,000 Sea Clan members each time. This number was enough to besiege Sun Bird Taihakak without letting too many people be burned to death by Sun Bird Taihakak's large-scale abilities.

Su Xiao watched this scene from the sidelines. Although he didn't know why the Sun Bird was so persistent, if this were on land, his chances of winning a fight with the Sun Bird would be infinitely close to 0.

The current battle was that the Sun Bird had left the World of Sand, which was the first layer of weakening. Then it rushed into the deep sea, where not only was there terrifying water pressure, but the large amount of water meant that natural water elements were at their most abundant and fire elements at their least, which was just the second layer of weakening.

Wood was continuously activating some kind of ability, which was the third layer of weakening for the Sun Bird. When dealing with blood-qi monsters, Wood's weakening-type ability played a major role.

With the three layers of weakening superimposed, the Sun Bird was still formidable. More than a thousand Sea Clan warriors couldn't get close, and in the seawater, they were burned to death by the flames it released before long.

At first glance, the Sun Bird was an invincible existence in Tier 8, but in fact, it was not. After bearing three layers of weakening, although the Sun Bird's combat power was still formidable, the divine-system solar energy in its body was being consumed 6 to 7 times faster than usual.

This was the price of wanting to maintain the power of fire-type energy in the deep sea. Everything was an equivalent exchange of balance. If it wanted the Sun Flame to have a more terrifying temperature without the support of fire-type elements, it needed to consume more of its own body energy.

Su Xiao would wait for the Sun Bird's energy to be consumed to a certain extent before he would make a move; at the very least, it had to be consumed by more than 80%.

How to achieve this? Very simple: fill it with the lives of Polosi's subordinates. Today, the Sun Bird must be left here forever to eliminate future trouble.

The melee continued. After this melee lasted for about an hour, on the seabed below the battlefield, the seabed here turned black and white. The black was the Sea Clan members burned to charcoal and crushed by water pressure, and the white was sea salt evaporated by high temperatures.

At this moment, only a few hundred Sea Clan members remained besieging the Sun Bird. Su Xiao looked at Polosi, and the Emissary Polosi shook his head and whispered:

"It's not working. If we send more people to besiege it, even if we win after the battle, we will be besieged by the unruly people of the shelter."

The Emissary Polosi usually bullied men and women. If more than four-fifths of his subordinates died in battle, retribution wouldn't be far off.

Su Xiao checked the Sun Bird's data again. The opponent's solar energy was still at 39.53%, and its health was almost full. The Sun Bird could restore its own health by consuming solar energy. It was difficult to kill it without exhausting its solar energy.

The war of attrition had been going on for nearly two hours. The Sun Bird looked like it was in good condition, but it had already shown signs of decline.

The deep sea restricted it too much. Every time it used energy, it needed to consume several times the solar energy and stamina of normal circumstances. That's right, the Sun Bird was not an energy body; it had a physical body. Otherwise, Zuiyas wouldn't have used his full strength to help this time.

"Bai Ye, let's go!"

Zuiyas stepped on the seawater under his feet and headed toward the Sun Bird. Su Xiao looked at Wood, and Wood nodded, meaning that he wouldn't make a move now, but he would help Su Xiao win two opportunities.

Su Xiao turned into a blurred shadow in the water and raided the side of the Sun Bird. After getting within a thousand meters of the Sun Bird, he felt that the surrounding seawater was at least 140° or more. If this weren't the seabed, the water here would have evaporated into steam. The closer to the Sun Bird, the higher the temperature of the seawater.

Whoosh!

Three fire pillars erupted from the three sun eyes behind the Sun Bird, converging on Zuiyas in a pincer formation.

The tentacles Zuiyas grew quickly turned into charcoal, and the next second, he was burned to ashes, just like that, suddenly.

A black mark appeared in the Sun Bird's pupil. The intense burning pain made the Sun Bird wave its wings wildly, causing currents to generate in the water.

Zuiyas died? Of course that was impossible. For the past two hours, Zuiyas hadn't been doing nothing. He had been staring at the Sun Bird, quietly leaving a seed of the brand on the opponent's body.

At this moment, the seed erupted, and Zuiyas successfully invaded the Sun Bird's body. This seemed like courting death, but after invading the enemy's body with the black brand, Zuiyas would gain corresponding resistance based on the enemy's cell characteristics. This was the replication of cell characteristics in the Eye Ritual.

For example, after invading the Sun Bird's body, Zuiyas would gain high fire-type resistance. After he left this state of invasion, the resistance he gained would disappear.

Zuiyas was able to steal the God-Hidden's ability to restore sanity before because of the replication eye cultivated by the Eye Ritual.

The Sun Bird clearly felt the existence inside its body. Its chest and abdomen swelled with a boom, then slowly deflated, and it spat out golden-white flames from its mouth.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao didn't hesitate anymore. If he let things be, Zuiyas might really turn into grilled seafood, and he would be directly in the Sun Bird's stomach.

Clang, clang, clang!

Three crisscrossing blade lights slashed out. Su Xiao knew one thing clearly: he must never take the Sun Bird's attack head-on. Given the Sun Bird's hatred for him, the attack method it used on him, even if not an ultimate move, was a signature ability.

The Sun Bird had indeed been weakened layer by layer, but the intensity of its ability attacks hadn't been weakened much; most of the weakening was aimed at its body.

Based on this, Su Xiao would be seriously injured after taking one attack from the Sun Bird, would immediately consume the 【Sacred Cross Badge】 after two, and would die after three.

It wasn't that Su Xiao's survival ability was weak, but that the Sun Bird hated him too much. Judging by the momentum, it would even be willing to die with Su Xiao. This was even more stubborn than Donkey Brother.

"Blade Dao, Flow."

The elegant wind marks slashed through under the water. A slash mark immediately appeared on the Sun Bird's chest and neck, and the golden-red blood was diluted by the seawater.

At the same time Su Xiao slashed, with a 'sizzle', hundreds of dense flame rays crossed and cut from bottom to top. Su Xiao had nowhere to hide.

Just as the flame rays swept past, a 'pop' sound appeared around Su Xiao; it was the sound of him leaving the space penetration state, and the spatial repulsion force pushing away the seawater.

The Sun Bird's eyes stared at Su Xiao. Su Xiao rushed toward the side, but he was a moment too slow. He felt that the blood all over his body was about to burn, and his health was sliding away like flowing water.

Just at this moment, the Sun Bird let out a sharp cry, its claws scratching wildly in the seawater. It was Zuiyas, who had invaded its body, taking the opportunity to severely injure it and cover Su Xiao.

It could be said that the Sun Bird was the natural nemesis of all melee fighters. Su Xiao no longer tried to get close to the Sun Bird. After getting within tens of meters of the opponent, he felt that he was about to be boiled. Being killed by a powerful enemy was something Su Xiao could accept. He who kills will be killed; he understood this principle. He could be killed by others, but he didn't want to be boiled. Dying like that would be too embarrassing.

If he won this battle, he would definitely stew this flat-feathered beast.

Su Xiao took a scroll from his storage space and made a gesture to Wood. Wood understood. The benefit of having these old schemers as teammates was that while they might betray you or stab you in the back, if their interests were aligned, these old schemers would be exceptionally reliable.

The Spirit of Thunder clung to Su Xiao's right forearm and was immediately activated. There was no golden lightning, that is, World Thunder, striking down.

Equipment Effect 1: World Thunder (Active), after activating this effect, one can summon World Thunder.

Note: The upper limit of the World Thunder's intensity will be determined by the world one is in.

Note: The quantity and intensity of the summoned World Thunder will be determined by the equipment wearer's luck attribute or elemental affinity (the two ways of summoning thunder can be switched freely).

Su Xiao summoned thunder this time based on elemental affinity. This was tens of thousands of meters under the sea. After the World Thunder struck to this depth, it should be within a bearable range. Moreover, this was a Tier 8 world; even if the World Thunder was strong, it had an upper limit.

Did Su Xiao have a lightning-immunity ability? No. The reason he could fight with World Thunder was so crude it was jaw-dropping: he was more resistant to electricity than others. No, he was especially resistant to electricity.

Kingsley's original words were: 'Bai Ye, I searched for a long time and didn't find any ability or dangerous object that could grant immunity to World Thunder. To master World Thunder, the point is not to summon it, but after summoning it, you must be resistant to electricity. If the enemy falls and you don't, you win.'

Boom!!!

A loud noise that almost shattered his eardrums came from the seawater above. The Sun Bird looked up.

"You guy!"

Zuiyas's voice came from inside the Sun Bird. He now had fire resistance, but no lightning resistance.

Su Xiao ignored Zuiyas. That guy possessed immortality and couldn't be easily struck to death. A crystal layer clung to his body surface.

With a boom, the golden lightning pillar formed by the World Thunder struck down, engulfing Su Xiao, the Sun Bird, and Zuiyas.