Chapter 3311

The sound of the wind whistled in his ears. Su Xiao stared fixedly at the Old Knight in front of him. As he launched a surprise attack forward, the distance between the Old Knight and himself suddenly closed, but he was already accustomed to this feeling.

Clang!

The long blade and the greatsword slashed against each other. This slash was initiated by Su Xiao, and the Old Knight was the blocking party. For the initial 0.5 seconds, Su Xiao's weakness in Strength would not be reflected, but when the Old Knight exerted force, the 18-point difference in Strength attribute would reveal a somewhat exaggerated gap in power.

Fighting is not a competition of Strength attributes, but the problem is, if the gap in Strength is too large, one can overcome ten with one force.

What is a technique-type? A technique-type is someone who can still fight an enemy even if there is a gap in Strength.

A huge force came from the hilt of the blade. The Old Knight's expression opposite was blank, but his aura was that of a living beast.

The weapons clashed. The force first traveled to Su Xiao's arm, then caused his shoulder to sting. The black-rusted greatsword in front pressed down. Seeing this, Su Xiao tilted the blade, angling Checking Zhan Long Shan.

With a screech, the greatsword slid diagonally along the blade's edge. A layer of black light appeared all over the Old Knight in front, triggering the Super-Armor Slash effect.

Boom!

The greatsword slashed at Su Xiao's side. His left ear was splashed by mud, and the impact made his ears buzz.

【Blade Dao Blade: Kill.】

With a whoosh, a dark red blood-colored ribbon slashed past, not only blocking the Old Knight's line of sight but also shielding his perception. The dark red blood-colored ribbon enveloped him.

A faint blood aura appeared around Su Xiao as he rushed into the blood-colored ribbon ahead. Relying on the homologous characteristic of the blood aura, he was not slashed or injured within the blood-colored ribbon, and his speed soared for an instant. After passing through the blood aura ribbon, his speed returned to normal.

【Blade Dao Blade: Blood Blade.】

Blood-colored feathers appeared near Su Xiao. He seemed to turn into a blood line along with the slash, piercing from behind the Old Knight to his front.

【Blade Dao Blade: Time.】

With a thud, everything around Su Xiao slowed down. He leaped backward while arching his body in slow motion, dodging the greatsword slashed by the Old Knight.

After using Blood Blade, Su Xiao was facing away from the Old Knight. At this moment, leaping backward, he and the Old Knight stood side by side.

Su Xiao's "Kill" + "Blood Blade" + "Time," although it did not severely injure the Old Knight, also caused the Old Knight's health to slide a bit. Under the blessing of the "Technique Sublimation" ability, the power of the blade moves was top-notch.

The Old Knight slashed into the air. Amidst the flying mud, he did not lift the greatsword away from the mud, but instead plowed horizontally through the mud on the ground and the lower layer of stone slabs, picking toward Su Xiao.

Su Xiao immediately entered the space penetration state. The greatsword slashed through his skull the next instant. Su Xiao came to the rear of the Old Knight from the side of the Old Knight by space penetration. He did not cancel the space penetration, but took this opportunity to slash at the Old Knight's back neck. He would end the space penetration the moment he slashed the Old Knight.

Bang!

An elbow wrapped in armor magnified before Su Xiao's eyes. His brain buzzed, and he was forcibly blasted out of the space penetration state, flying backward.

When the buzzing in Su Xiao's ears disappeared and his perception and vision recovered, he was lying in a plowed trench, and a greatsword was stabbing toward his head.

Su Xiao raised his left hand to block, while his right hand slapped the ground.

Su Xiao's crystal arm was shattered, and the Black King Armguard was pierced by the greatsword. Taking this opportunity, Su Xiao had already turned over and stood up with the help of the force of slapping the ground. The greatsword piercing the Black King Armguard grazed his cheek, drawing a bloodstain.

Su Xiao turned over from the ground and stood up. While in mid-air, the blood aura under his feet condensed. The blood aura even approached a solid state for an instant. Using this as a stepping point, Su Xiao arched his legs and performed a classic double jump at a position three meters above the ground.

Su Xiao's high-speed surprise attack left a faint blood aura behind him. When he appeared again, he was half-squatting on the Old Knight's arched back, holding the blade with one hand, stabbing toward the Old Knight's back neck.

The long blade pierced through the outer armor and sank into the flesh. When it stabbed the bone, Su Xiao felt a counter-shock force, as if he were stabbing into some extremely hard metal, rather than stabbing into a biological bone.

The Old Knight immediately turned and slashed. The Black King Armguard strung on the sword was flung away.

Su Xiao stepped on the Old Knight's spine and leaped backward. While in mid-air, his previously shattered crystal arm rolled back under the action of the Banishing fragments, splicing toward his left arm, and the Black King Armguard also flew back.

Su Xiao stepped on solid ground, and a sense of crisis appeared all over his body.

Zing!

Zing!

Zing!

The Old Knight slashed out three giant black slash rays at a speed that was not fast. These slash rays attacked in an interlaced manner.

Su Xiao first dodged the first slash by turning sideways. Just as he was about to dodge the second giant slash ray, this slash ray turned into thousands, slashing toward Su Xiao in a scattered manner.

Clang, clang, clang...

Sparks flew, and Su Xiao slashed away the small black slash rays attacking him one by one.

【Blade Dao Blade: Green Ghost.】

A cyan-blue blade ray slashed out, heading straight for the third giant black slash ray attacking.

Just when everyone thought the two slash rays would collide, the Old Knight rushed over and collided with Green Ghost.

Cyan-blue blade ray fragments splashed everywhere. After the Old Knight collided and shattered Green Ghost, the greatsword in his hand slashed toward Su Xiao's head. When dodging, a thought inexplicably appeared in Su Xiao's mind: if he could survive and go back this time, he would definitely develop Green Ghost further. He had never thought before that someone would use their body to smash his slash ray, let alone the super-upgraded version of the slash ray, Green Ghost.

Boom.

Mud splashed beside Su Xiao. He slashed across the Old Knight's neck, and a slash mark appeared.

The Old Knight did not care about Su Xiao's slash at all. His sword momentum suddenly accelerated, and he began to hack randomly at Su Xiao.

Boom, boom, clang! Boom...

After Su Xiao blocked a slash, he felt his hand was about to break. As for using a perfect parry to reduce the Old Knight's power, Su Xiao would absolutely not do that; his waist would break, and he simply could not block it. The Old Knight's passive abilities, which were as fierce as a tiger, were not just for show.

The blade edge and blade ray flashed one after another. After a muffled clang, Su Xiao flew backward. After landing, his feet plowed through the ground as he retreated.

From just now, his slashes against the Old Knight were not really breaking defense anymore. What was even more fatal was that the Old Knight's armor stacking was still continuing. If it weren't for Checking Zhan Long Shan, and if he had used other Immortal-grade weapons, he would have been scraping the Old Knight from the very beginning.

The slash mark cut across the Old Knight's neck. The Old Knight made a move to slash. Su Xiao saw that the situation was not good and was about to leap backward, but before his feet left the ground, the Old Knight opposite stepped on the ground.

With a thud, the ground for several kilometers around shook. Su Xiao's body immediately went numb for an instant. This was some kind of undetected ability of the Old Knight.

Pfft.

The greatsword slashed across Su Xiao's chest. His health dropped by a large chunk. He slashed the Old Knight, and the opponent had nothing serious, but after switching, it was not the same thing.

It was fortunate that it was Su Xiao. If this situation were replaced by an eighth-tier tank, after taking a sword from the Old Knight, that would be it. It would not be an instant kill, but they would not be able to dodge the Old Knight's subsequent swords. An eighth-tier upper-echelon tank would be near death after two swords and leave this beautiful world after three.

Fresh blood splashed from Su Xiao's chest. The blood light in his eyes deepened. He pointed forward with one hand, and the fresh blood splashing from his chest turned into blood aura, forming several sharp needles that stabbed toward the Old Knight's face.

Needles 20 centimeters long stabbed into the Old Knight's face one after another, exploding successively, but he seemed to have no sensation, slashing with a sword.

【Blade Domain!】

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand pointed forward, ignoring the greatsword slashing toward his head.

Zing, zing, zing...

Dense light blue blade rays enveloped the Old Knight. The slash frequency was astonishing, but this still could not stop the Old Knight from swinging his sword.

Boom, boom, boom.

The Old Knight slashed down sword after sword, but all slashed into the air. Su Xiao had already retreated more than ten meters away by relying on the space penetration of Dragon Shadow Flash. As for using Dragon Shadow Flash to approach the Old Knight, Su Xiao had done so a few minutes ago, and his skull was almost cracked by the Old Knight's elbow. The Old Knight could blast enemies out of different dimensions or space penetration states.

The Old Knight's violent hacking did not stop. Had he lost his mind? Not at all. After the Old Knight swung his sword, he could enter a strong super-armor state through Battle Soul Power. The strong super-armor state would bring high damage reduction effects.

Even if the Old Knight had now become a beast, a warrior is always a warrior. Moreover, mental beastification is not losing consciousness, just madness.

When the Blade Domain stopped, the Old Knight also stopped swinging. He rushed toward Su Xiao with big strides, and a heavy weight immediately appeared on Su Xiao's shoulder.

This was the second unsolvable point of the Old Knight. When he targeted a target, that target's movement speed would plummet due to some ability.

In other words, once targeted by the Old Knight, one could only fight him head-on. It was an unsolvable matter; the super-armor slash was almost invincible in a one-on-one head-on fight.

Su Xiao scanned the Old Knight's health. Just now, the Old Knight had stacked his armor too high. He really did not expect that his Blade Domain would actually be scraping the Old Knight.

Clang!

A shockwave spread with Su Xiao as the center. The greatsword and the long blade collided, creaking. Su Xiao's crystal left arm, which was dragging the spine of the blade, gradually cracked due to the huge force pressing down from the greatsword.

Just as Su Xiao was about to pull away, an impact came head-on. A pitch-black mist cluster, like a ghost head, attacked. With a speed that made dodging absolutely impossible, it penetrated through Su Xiao's body. This was the soul power of a Trace King, released by the Old Knight.

Su Xiao's body felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar. This was not control, but a collision of soul power, causing his body to go numb. If his soul strength had not been high, he would have died on the spot.

A stinging pain came from his abdomen, and then Su Xiao felt his height climbing.

The double images before Su Xiao's eyes disappeared, and his vision returned to clarity. Severe pain came from his chest. A greatsword pierced through his chest, while Baha was located behind the Old Knight's head, grabbing the gap in the armor behind the Old Knight's neck with both claws, flapping its wings with all its might, intending to drag the Old Knight backward.

Fortunately for Baha, otherwise, Su Xiao would have been nailed to the ground by the Old Knight's sword.

A fishy sweetness surged up. Under the impact of the stabbing force, fresh blood rushed up and sprayed from Su Xiao's mouth, also carrying fragments of internal organs.

Dark energy raged in Su Xiao's body. Although the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy was continuously devouring this energy, the energy reaction caused during the devouring made his body continuously numb. If he hadn't been using a blade for years, he wouldn't even be able to hold the blade at this moment.

Ice spread. The Old Knight's left arm swung back, and a black impact blasted onto Amu's face a few meters away. Amu rolled backward.

Xiang Bubu Wang bit onto the back of the Old Knight's calf. The Old Knight was unaffected, but Xiang Bubu Wang bruised itself, eyes welling with tears.

"Woo meow meow!"

Benny also rushed over, looking particularly fierce, and then a tragic scene occurred. The Old Knight stomped his foot, and Benny was immediately shot backward.

【Blade Dao Blade: Time.】

Su Xiao finally had the strength to grip the hilt of the blade. The domain of Time spread. After he pulled away and retreated, letting the enemy's greatsword leave his chest, he slashed diagonally at the ground.

With a roar, Xiang Bubu Wang and Baha were blasted away by the slash. They each used their own skills; one entered a different dimension, and the other blended into the environment.

Su Xiao pressed one hand to his chest, and several Spirit Shadow Threads entered his body. He only had time to roughly suture the internal injuries before the Old Knight attacked.

The Old Knight roared, and the greatsword in his hand was wrapped in darkness, slashing toward Su Xiao. This made Su Xiao's pupils shrink rapidly. This ultimate move looked too ordinary, almost the same as a normal slash.

In the next second, everything went quiet. A trench several tens of meters deep, more than ten meters wide, and over two kilometers long appeared.

Su Xiao half-squatted beside the trench. The clothes on his body were tearing at a slow speed. The 【Wild Hunt Night】 long leather coat finally could not continue to be worn on his body due to severe damage and fell off. Because of the belt at the waist, it blocked his trousers in strips.

Finger-wide blood grooves appeared on Su Xiao's body, affecting most of his upper body. First, it was numb, then his whole body burned with pain. Soon, most of his bare body turned red, dyed by fresh blood.

Groundwater sprayed from the trench beside Su Xiao. In a short while, the groundwater filled the trench, overflowed, and continued until it submerged the ankles of Su Xiao and the Great Knight, and the water level stopped.

Drip, drip~

Blood drops dripped down Su Xiao's chin and were diluted after falling into the water.

Boom.

Su Xiao and the Old Knight broke through the water and rushed forward at the same time. Amidst the large splashing water, the long blade and the greatsword clashed with a clang, and the impact blasted the surrounding water away.

Fighting to this extent, Su Xiao's health was about to slide below 35%. Fighting the Old Knight, once the vitality fluctuation was below a certain level, it would become extremely dangerous. One mistake could lead to being executed by the Old Knight.

Blade rays crisscrossed. Su Xiao's state was not good, but the Old Knight was about the same as when the battle started. No, the Old Knight's body defense was now stronger than before.

The blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan slashed across the Old Knight's shoulder from bottom to top. It should have severed the arm, but it only slashed out a wound, sparking when it cut across the armor.

The greatsword grazed Su Xiao's ear. He dodged sideways, and the greatsword slashed into the water with a boom. The Old Knight opposite was in a super-armor slash state. Just at this moment, Su Xiao keenly captured that the energy in the Old Knight's body slowed for an instant. This was the subsequent influence caused by the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy invading the body and devouring the energy.

【Flaw.】

Su Xiao leaned forward. The Old Knight immediately raised the long sword and slashed toward his head. It was a moment of life and death.

Bang!

Su Xiao kicked straight, hitting the Old Knight's abdomen. The Old Knight, who was originally in a super-armor slash state, retreated half a step in response, then knelt on one knee, splashing water everywhere. The super-armor was successfully broken.

【Blade Dao Blade: Extreme.】

Su Xiao slashed open the Old Knight's neck, and black blood scattered out. This was not the end. His crystal arm shattered, and Banishing formed a hiltless stabbing sword shape, with a straight line of fire as thick as a hair burning inside. Banishing entered the internal combustion state.

"New characteristic: Internal Combustion."

"After Banishing enters the internal combustion state, it will rapidly consume the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy stored inside, significantly enhancing characteristics such as flight speed, penetration, and lethality."

"Banishing can be internally combusted for a maximum of 5 seconds. Each internal combustion requires 5 natural days to cool down."

Banishing stabbed out a deafening sonic boom, stabbing in from the Old Knight's neck and out from the back neck, barely stabbing out a hole as thick as a walnut.

The Old Knight's health suddenly slid by a large chunk. Including the accumulated damage from before, the Old Knight's health dropped to 50%.

Su Xiao knew that the opportunity might have come. Many enemies could not move or fight back when transforming forms. One must take this opportunity to strike the enemy hard, not watch like a fool.

Not only Su Xiao, but Baha also knew this principle well. It blended into the different dimension and flew over silently.

"Roar!"

The Old Knight roared, his previously hunched body straightened, and his spine crackled as it returned to its normal physiological curvature.

"I, I damn it!?"

Baha, who was preparing to rush up and output crazily, hurriedly retreated. The Old Knight entered the Dark Blood Knight state from the normal state in less than 0.5 seconds, straightening his body, cloak fluttering, and black flames burning on the greatsword. The battle continuation was completed.

Looking at the Old Knight now, black flames were burning on the greatsword in his hand. This was also why the greatsword, which was originally bright, was covered in black rust. This made one wonder, could it be that someone had fought the Old Knight before? And made him enter the Dark Blood Knight state.

A cloak made of black steel fragments was draped behind the Old Knight. The armor plates on the outside of the cloak stood up like scales, the outer edges were sharp, and the hem of the cloak was tattered, looking very much like a row of uneven daggers side by side.

Whoosh!

A black flame flashed, and the Old Knight's speed had an explosive increase. Previously, Su Xiao could fight head-on with the Old Knight mainly because his speed was faster than the Old Knight's. Now, not only was the speed advantage gone, but the Old Knight's speed was even better.

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand blocked diagonally at his side. The next moment, an irresistible huge force came from the blade. Because he really couldn't block it, the enemy's greatsword slashed onto Su Xiao's side waist. When slashed, it was first numb, then severe pain.

Su Xiao flew to the side. While flying in mid-air, a slender firearm appeared in his hand. It was "Deathly Silence Ember."

Bang, bang, bang...

Five shots in a row, all blasted onto the Old Knight's chest and face, but this did not stop him from moving forward. The armor fragments eroded by the power of Deathly Silence fell, turning into fly ash before falling into the water.

Su Xiao landed in the water with a boom, plowing through the water flow and sliding dozens of meters away. He half-squatted on the ground.

After the Old Knight entered the Dark Blood Knight state, the balance of this battle had been set. If he continued to fight like this, he would definitely lose.

Su Xiao stood up, looking at the Old Knight walking toward him. From a long time ago, he had a trump card, but he couldn't be sure if he could survive after using that trump card now.

Compared to being hacked to death by the Old Knight, Su Xiao was more willing to gamble for a glimmer of life. Moreover, the probability of surviving after using that move was at least 80%. Compared to the current certain-death situation, it was very profitable.

Confirming that Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Benny had moved away, Su Xiao raised his left hand, and the 【Thunder Spirit】, which looked like tree roots, climbed over.

Su Xiao leaped back a few steps, reached the location he had chosen long ago, and activated 【Thunder Spirit】.

Use 【Heavenly Wrath: Thunder Fall】? No, with the Old Knight's current body defense, that move was not enough to decide the outcome.

Su Xiao had two ways to draw thunder: 1. Relying on the Luck attribute, 2. Relying on Elemental Affinity.

As a Law-Exterminator, his Elemental Affinity was 897 points. What kind of powerful World Thunder would this astonishingly high Elemental Affinity attract?

Su Xiao wanted to perish together with the Old Knight? Of course not. A badge named 【Sacred Cross Badge】 was currently in the team storage space.

"Sacred Protection (Passive): When the engraver's health drops below 0.35%, this item will be activated, granting the engraver a high-tier invincible shield. The shield lasts for 1.5 seconds. During this period, 100% of the engraver's health and 50% of their mana will be restored."

"The Sacred Cross Badge shatters after being activated once. The remaining powder still possesses a very powerful sacred characteristic. After applying it to a weapon, the weapon will carry high-amount Sacred Real Damage for a period of time."

With the 【Sacred Cross Badge】, Su Xiao had more than 70% confidence in resisting the World Thunder. The duration of the World Thunder's strike was not long, and a 1.5-second high-tier invincible shield should be enough to save his life.

A more critical point was that the World Thunder determined the intensity limit based on the world's strength. In the real world, the Void, and other places, drawing thunder with Elemental Affinity was equivalent to seeking death, but it was different in this Painted World.

This was an eighth-tier world on the verge of collapse. Drawing thunder here, the intensity limit of the World Thunder would not be too exaggerated.

Golden arcs surged on Su Xiao's left hand. He clenched his left fist, drawing the World Thunder above.

The Old Knight sensed danger and made a move to retreat. Blue light emerged in Su Xiao's eyes, which caused the Old Knight's figure to pause.

Why did the Old Knight do this? The answer was that at the moment Banishing pierced the Old Knight's neck earlier, a portion of Banishing turned into dust-level particles and merged into the Old Knight's Dark Blood. Just now, Su Xiao interfered with the Old Knight's mobility by controlling that portion of Banishing. Although it was only for a short time, it was enough.

The dark clouds in the sky turned pitch black. Just a moment ago, there was sunlight shining behind them, but now it was nowhere to be seen. Golden thunder was brewing to the limit above.

Boom!

A golden thunder pillar a thousand meters thick blasted down. The thunder was so strong that before it even landed, it caused the accumulated water on the surface to spread in all directions.

Boom!!!

Su Xiao and the Old Knight were submerged in the ten-thousand-ton thunder. The earth was like taking a heavy punch from heaven. The ground within several kilometers cracked, sinking downward in the lightning strike area. Xiang Bubu Wang, who was running away, fell directly into a pit and fell face-first into the mud.

In the lightning strike area, Su Xiao sank underwater. This was the location he had chosen long ago, the trench several tens of meters deep that the Old Knight had slashed out with sword skills earlier.

In the thunder, Su Xiao lost all sensation in his body. Already severely injured, he triggered the 【Sacred Cross Badge】. An eggshell-shaped shield appeared, wrapping him inside. His health recovered rapidly, and soon it was restored to full.

The high-tier invincible shield was somewhat short-lived. Fortunately, the World Thunder in the water had passed its peak. After the invincible shield disappeared, Su Xiao's body was electrocuted numb again.

When the World Thunder completely dissipated, Su Xiao swam out of the trench and casually threw away the potion bottle in his hand. As expected, the World Thunder drawn this time was very fierce, but not strong enough to make even the life-saving item useless.

That's right, if it were in the real world or the Void, drawing thunder with Elemental Affinity would make life-saving items useless. You would die regardless; it was just a question of dying early or late.

Even in a normal eighth-tier world, drawing thunder with Elemental Affinity, the probability of surviving with a life-saving item was not high.

The scene before his eyes was already scorched earth. Su Xiao looked toward the direction where the Old Knight had been just now, and a scorched, tall figure was lying there.

Click~

The sound of armor cracking reached his ears. The Old Knight lying on the ground stood up. He held the greatsword with one hand, supporting his body with the greatsword to stand up. Wisps of scorched smoke drifted from his body.

The Old Knight, who had taken the World Thunder head-on, did not die. Su Xiao was not surprised. This Painted World was on the verge of collapse. Perhaps in a few years, this place wouldn't even be able to draw World Thunder.

Although the Old Knight did not die, his armor was covered in cracks, and his health slid to 31.77%. In this way, there was a fight to be had.

Groundwater bubbled out, submerging the scorched ground around.

The Old Knight roared and rushed over. Su Xiao made a posture of drawing the blade.

【Blade Dao Blade: Flow.】

An elegant wind mark slashed past. The armor on the Old Knight's chest was slashed open, and a slash mark deep enough to reach the bone appeared. Seeing this, Su Xiao felt much more at ease; he could finally break the defense.

With a boom, the greatsword slashed beside him, and water splashed up. Because the impact was too great, the water flow cut bloodstains on Su Xiao's face.

Su Xiao was kicked by the Old Knight and retreated continuously. With the help of this force, he tilted his body, and the greatsword grazed his ear and slashed into the water with a whimper.

Zing, zing, zing.

Blade flowers appeared suddenly. The armor fragments on the Old Knight's arm blocking in front splashed, and the arm was slashed to the bone by several blades.

The greatsword slashed horizontally, powerful and heavy. Su Xiao stood the blade to block, and the tip of the blade stabbed into the water, sinking into the ground.

Clang~

The greatsword slashed onto the long blade. Su Xiao used the hilt of the blade as a support point, leaped up, and after leaping to dodge the horizontal slash, the long blade he was holding disappeared and was put into the storage space.

The greatsword slashed under Su Xiao. He took out the long blade from the storage space again. Just as his feet stepped on the water surface, he began to accumulate power. When he stepped to the bottom of the water, he had already lunged out. With super-fast speed, he closed the distance to the Old Knight by half a meter and kicked straight.

With a bang, the Old Knight was caught in a flaw again, and his super-armor was broken. As he knelt on one knee, a layer of crystals wrapped around Checking Zhan Long Shan. It was the Green Shadow King ability.

The long blade stabbed forward.

Thud.

Su Xiao's eyes blurred, and he flew backward. Fighting is not a turn-based game where you take a move and I take a move, but one with many variables.

When his vision recovered, Su Xiao's whole body burned with pain. Black flames were burning on his bare body. As he released the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, the black flames extinguished.

Su Xiao made a move to stand up, but a wave of dizziness hit his brain. He was too severely injured.

Thud.

Black flames attacked from the front. Su Xiao blocked in front with one hand, and a black shadow pounced to kill.

Precise, sharp, the perception circle closed. Everything around Su Xiao disappeared, leaving only the Old Knight pouncing from the front. The domain of "Time" appeared around Su Xiao, and he stabbed forward with the blade.

The long blade pierced through the Old Knight's chest, straight through the heart. The Old Knight seemed to have no feeling at all, instead using a headbutt. Even though Su Xiao used his left hand to protect his head, he was still blasted backward, his eyes turning black.

【Cut.】

While flying backward, Su Xiao vaguely heard the Old Knight's hoarse voice filled with madness. A sense of crisis struck. He gathered blood aura under his feet, and the moment he controlled the blood aura to approach a solid state, he stepped.

Su Xiao leaped backward a second time in mid-air, dodging several black slash rays, but the moment before he landed, a predictive slash ray attacked his left leg.

With a snap, Su Xiao's severed left leg fell into the water, and blood dyed the water red. His right leg was severed from a few centimeters below the knee.

Su Xiao fell into the shallow water. His crystal left arm shattered, and the Banishing fragments inside peeled off. A crystal calf spread from the severed leg, and the Banishing fragments sank into it.

Su Xiao stood up and stepped on the accumulated water with his left foot. He had a leg, he wasn't dead yet, continue.

Su Xiao walked toward the Old Knight at a speed that was not fast. The Old Knight also walked over from the opposite side. It looked like a halftime break, but both disappeared at the same time.

The long blade and the greatsword clashed one after another. After being struck by thunder, the Old Knight's power had dropped a lot and was no longer crushing Su Xiao. But the problem was, the Old Knight seemed to have sobered up a bit. Although he couldn't recognize who Su Xiao was, he remembered how to fight with techniques. Su Xiao's severed leg was the bloody evidence.

Clang, clang, clang!

Sparks flew. Su Xiao made a move to gather blood aura. Before he could start gathering, a greatsword slashed horizontally. Su Xiao immediately entered the space penetration state.

He saw the Old Knight holding the sword with both hands in reverse, stabbing toward the ground. An impact spread. Su Xiao, who had just penetrated space, was blasted out in response, and several black slash rays slashed over.

Su Xiao had just dodged the slash rays. Black flames ignited on the Old Knight opposite. His damage from being struck by thunder was recovering. Perhaps in a short while, he would recover to his peak state. By then, Su Xiao would be dead for sure.

As the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot. Blood aura gathered behind Su Xiao.

"Roar!"

The Blood Beast roared and pounced toward the Old Knight. A black flame ring appeared around the Old Knight and spread out.

The blood aura explosion was annihilated, but this was not because the blood aura was suppressed, but because the Blood Beast turned into hundreds of blood-colored Banishing, stabbing toward the Old Knight from all directions.

Dense blood aura explosion sounds came. Su Xiao rushed forward, bearing the blood aura explosion. Suddenly, a stinging pain appeared in his perception in his chest, which made him dodge sideways immediately.

A black flame ray as thick as a finger blasted through Su Xiao's chest. His health slid to a very dangerous level. In the next second, his health began to recover. This was because he had just drunk the 【War Recovery Potion (Eighth-tier)】 obtained from Caesar, performing delayed recovery.

He originally wanted to go back and study this potion, but compared to surviving this battle, that was fundamentally unimportant. If he died here, everything would return to nothing.

Su Xiao rushed into the blood aura. Black flames came head-on. The Old Knight's health was 22.1%, entering the execution line! There was only this one chance.

A powerful oppressive force came head-on, which made Su Xiao's heart cold. The Old Knight was about to recover to his strength before being struck by thunder. This must be with the help of some passive ability, otherwise, it wouldn't be so fast.

The blood aura was blasted away by the impact. During the surprise attack, Su Xiao, covered in bloodstains, slowly inhaled. Black-blue smoke clung to Checking Zhan Long Shan. Although using the Magic Blade was unstable now, if he didn't use it now, there would be no chance later. Once the Old Knight recovered to his peak state, the one who would die would definitely be himself.

The long blade slashed out a tricky arc, slashing toward the Old Knight's neck. Suddenly, the Old Knight's speed soared by a large chunk, and the greatsword in his hand slashed down diagonally, accompanied by a shockwave that made one's brain dizzy.

Pfft!

Su Xiao's entire right arm was severed, and Checking Zhan Long Shan, wrapped in black-blue smoke, flew out.

"Blade!"

Baha shouted, appearing beside Checking Zhan Long Shan. It hooked with its eagle claws and threw the long blade back.

"Moo!"

Amu crashed from the side, but failed to hit the Old Knight, instead being hit on the side of the neck by the Old Knight's hilt, crashing into the ground. It almost did a backflip. If it weren't for the pressure Su Xiao gave, the Old Knight would have already split Amu in two from the crotch.

The long blade, with its edge wrapped in black-blue smoke, flew toward Su Xiao, but he no longer had a right arm. As for the crystal arm on his left hand, because his left calf was severed, the Banishing fragments were transferred to act as the control center for the crystal left calf.

Click, click, click, click~

Crystals grew at the severed part of Su Xiao's right arm. A Banishing fragment grazed the right side of Su Xiao's neck, and fresh blood sprayed out to his right. As soon as this fresh blood sprayed out, it turned into blood aura, mixing into the rapidly forming crystal arm, forming blood-red veins like nerves.

A crystal right arm full of blood-colored threads inside was built in less than 1 second. It was very unstable, but it could be used.

Su Xiao could not control the crystals transformed by the "Pride Song" ability to move, but he could control blood aura. A large number of crystal fragments, plus the blood aura transformed from his own fresh blood, successfully constructed an arm that he could control by manipulating blood aura.

Snap!

Su Xiao's right hand gripped the long blade. The black-blue smoke on the long blade had not yet dissipated.

"I damn it~"

After Baha exclaimed, it was slapped away by the Old Knight's sword. As for why it was a slap, it was because the Old Knight's slash was dodged by Baha. Before it had time to be happy, it was slapped away by the Old Knight's change of move.

Blood aura erupted with Su Xiao as the center. He was already very close to the Old Knight. With a full-speed surprise attack, he arrived in front of the Old Knight the next instant. The Old Knight raised his sword to hack with all his might. Seeing this scene, Su Xiao knew that he had turned defeat into victory.

【Flaw.】

A blood aura explosion suddenly appeared inside the Old Knight's neck. Don't forget, earlier, the Old Knight's neck was pierced by Banishing in the internal combustion state, leaving a hole the size of a walnut.

The Old Knight's body defense was indeed powerful, but his self-recovery ability was average. This was like Su Xiao's Charisma attribute; nothing was absolutely perfect.

Su Xiao had left a portion of the blood aura from the Blood Beast earlier, and at this moment, it played a decisive role.

The blood aura exploded inside the Old Knight's neck. His movements were obviously slow for an instant. Su Xiao slashed out with the blade, and the long blade in his hand seemed to slash out a black-blue ink mark diagonally.

In this second, everything around slowed down. The "black-blue ink mark" sank into the wound on the Old Knight's chest. He slowly lowered the greatsword he had raised, and brownish-yellow pupils appeared in his pitch-black eyes.

"You defeated the beast, and... the god."

After the Old Knight finished speaking, he fell down with a boom. Su Xiao's right arm, constructed of crystals and blood aura, shattered inch by inch. Checking Zhan Long Shan slipped from his hand, stabbing into the shallow water and sinking deep into the ground.

Su Xiao breathed out blood aura from his mouth, then lay back in the shallow water on the ground. He felt he wasn't going to die yet, but he needed to rest for a while first.

The dark clouds in the sky moved, and a beam of sunlight shone down from the gaps in the clouds, shining on the Old Knight.

"Rude beast, why not accept my power? I am a god, the god who masters the mind. I actually... lost to a beast? Absurd..."

An undetected existence perished. The ink gradually drifted out from the Old Knight's body, gathering above him. Finally, his eyes, which had returned to their original state, lost their luster.

The Old Knight, executed.

PS: (Two updates today, but this chapter is 9,000 words, and the two chapters total 12,000 words. That shouldn't be considered short, right?)