Chapter 3572: Decisive Battle

Gulu descended from the skylight and landed between Su Xiao and the Eternal God. Seeing this, Su Xiao knew that the win rate against the Eternal God had soared from 25% to about 30%.

This had nothing to do with Gulu and Sheng Shi's personal abilities. In a battle against the Eternal God, even Su Xiao would die on the spot if he were slightly careless after getting close. A fragile assassination-type like Gulu would die very suddenly after engaging in melee combat with the Eternal God; she might just rush over and be gone.

Sheng Shi appeared to be the strongest Eighth-Tier healer, but she was now Gulu's exclusive nanny, and her soul body was in Gulu's consciousness space, meaning she could only heal Gulu herself and apply buffs.

Regarding letting Sheng Shi transfer to Su Xiao's consciousness space to assist him in battle, both sides had tried it before the battle against the Wolf Knight Captain.

It is worth mentioning that compared to entering the nightmare-like area of the City of Deathly Silence, attempting to invade Su Xiao's consciousness space was the closest Sheng Shi had ever come to death. If she hadn't suddenly realized something was wrong, she would have been devoured.

Su Xiao's soul was too powerful, and he possessed the Soul Eater talent. For Sheng Shi to invade with her soul body like that was equivalent to being devoured while completely naked.

The reason Gulu's appearance would increase the win rate to 30% was mainly because she descended from the skylight, which represented many factors.

First, after Su Xiao shattered the sealing tablet, the temple's exit was closed, and space was locked. But don't forget, the Eternal God descended from above. Its descent created a gap in this impregnable temple.

This gap was both a path to survival and a possibility, representing that the space sealed here had developed a passage—a passage that could connect to the outside world, and even, through the layout of arrays + coordinates, connect to other worlds.

Besides this, Gulu could also make other contributions. This was one person's worth of blood volume. As an Eighth-Tier contractor, after repeated enhancements, the transcendent blood in her body was very useful.

Hiss~

The World Severing Line tightened, pulling Gulu in front of Su Xiao. He grabbed Gulu's back collar with one hand.

"Th-thank you."

Gulu naturally knew what was good for her. The position she was in just now was very dangerous. She immediately added: "In this battle, I will definitely give it my all to backstab... cough~, I'd better use my ultimate move for mid-range attacks."

Gulu was very smart and knew Su Xiao wouldn't save her for no reason, so she immediately stated her position.

"Hide behind Xiang Bubu to reduce blood loss."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Gulu, who was being held by her back collar, shivered. The situation this time was too abnormal. Su Xiao not only saved her but also let her hide in the back. You know, during the previous life-and-death battle against the Wolf Knight Captain, it was because she hid far away; otherwise, by the end of the battle, Su Xiao might have used her as a hidden weapon to smash at the Wolf Knight Captain.

"You... what are you going to do, Father, ah no, Dad..."

Before Gulu could finish her sentence, Su Xiao had already thrown her out.

"Phew~"

Su Xiao looked at the Eternal God ahead and slowly exhaled. If it were just him, Amu, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baham in this battle, he would definitely die. Fortunately, he had tricked two good teammates into coming.

Su Xiao had cooperated with these two good teammates for so long that he still couldn't figure out their bottom lines. If it came to frontal combat power, he was the strongest. But if it came to survivability and means of weakening the enemy, he couldn't compare to Zui Yasi. If there was one person who could survive if they were defeated today, it would definitely be Zui Yasi.

As for Wood, this guy was becoming increasingly mysterious and unpredictable, to the point of having an Abyss-like feel. But for a trickster like Wood, throwing himself into the Abyss was impossible; it was more like he had created a variant type of Abyss energy to temporarily boost his own abilities. As the previous holder of the Abyss Jar, having such means was not surprising.

Su Xiao was a Hunter of Samsara Paradise, and he had always obtained a large amount of resources and become stronger quickly. That was correct, but Zui Yasi and Wood were representative figures of the Meteor Star and the Devil race. The speed at which these two improved their abilities was actually not much slower than his. Sometimes, they even improved slightly faster than him.

Thinking about it, it made sense. During the previous Painted World battle, the Meteor Star and the Devil race each had one quota, and choosing to let these two fight actually represented many things.

It wasn't the first time Su Xiao had joined forces with these two 'good teammates' to fight, so he naturally knew their ability tendencies.

In this battle, Su Xiao was responsible for the most dangerous aspect: blocking the Eternal God head-on and causing it the most damage.

Regarding blocking the Eternal God, Su Xiao had some confidence. The Eternal God's Roar ability looked terrifying—six stages of damage judgment leading to six instances of Death Flame burning + six instances of beast damage and six instances of probability-based physical paralysis—but Su Xiao's Dragon Shadow Flash ability was not just for show.

It wasn't about opening up distance, but using a faster method to avoid it. After the Dragon Shadow Flash ability reached Lv. EX, it had the following characteristic:

"New characteristic: The spatial penetration state can be maintained for 0.2~3 seconds (determined by the user's will)."

Besides this, in terms of causing heavy damage to the Eternal God, Su Xiao held the Immortal-level +14 Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. Under the temporary buffs of the Silver Moon Blade and Spirit Blade, the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan's sharpness had reached an astonishing 1062 points.

Besides this, there was the blade-type weapon damage tier. This characteristic's judgment was extremely high. Su Xiao felt that this was on the same level as true damage judgment. Therefore, one could imagine the slashing strength derived from the blade-type weapon damage tier +5.

The Eternal God, a few dozen meters away, seemed to be temporarily not attacking actively due to the erosion of the Source of Deathly Silence. Even at such a distance, one could still feel the tyrannical aura coming toward them becoming increasingly intense.

Zing~

The long blade left its sheath, and fluorescent white moonlight scattered from the tip. The next second, the entire long blade was covered in Green Steel Shadow energy.

Boom!

Gravel splashed under Su Xiao's feet as he disappeared from where he stood. When he appeared the next second, he was already in front of the Eternal God.

Seeing this scene, Zui Yasi and Wood's thoughts were surprisingly consistent: Bai Ye, who hadn't defeated the final powerful enemy, was truly reliable!

An obscure, icy death approached. After Su Xiao raided to the front of the God of Eternal Life, he felt that he had entered a domain dense with death energy. His HP did not drop, but his mana was depleting at a speed that was not exactly slow.

If an ordinary melee-type encountered this situation, they might have collapsed on the spot. The amount of physical energy for melee types was generally a weak point. Su Xiao was an exception among them. His Mana, reaching as high as 59,348 points, allowed him to hard-tank this passive domain without issue.

The distance was instantly closed to within three meters. A gust of wind hit him head-on. Su Xiao, holding the long blade, stopped abruptly in place. Not only that, he also began to lean backward.

"Blade Dao · Time!"

Boom~

Everything around slowed down. In his perception circle, the Eternal God had already raised a huge claw and was slapping it down toward him.

As Su Xiao leaned back, with a 'whoosh,' the huge claw narrowly missed him from the front. The sharp claws nearly grazed his chest.

Rip~

The long leather coat on Su Xiao's shoulder was torn open. Immediately after, the gust of wind caused by the huge claw blew the hem of his leather windbreaker until it fluttered, and his hair was temporarily blown into a hairstyle identical to Kingsley's.

Pop!

A layer of the ground around Su Xiao shattered. Although he wasn't hit by the attack, he left a few blood beads in the air. Instead of retreating, he advanced, pushing toward the Eternal God.

Clang!

The long blade slashed down but was blocked by the Eternal God's other claw. This claw was covered in a layer of gray bone-like substance. If you didn't look closely, you would think it was rough skin, but this layer of defense was extremely solid, and Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan couldn't shake it in the slightest.

This was, of course, the case. These beast claws were the Eternal God's weapons and were naturally indestructible.

An almost irresistible giant force came from the blade. Just at this moment, a hand pressed against the spine of the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan, and large black tentacles spread, spreading to most of the Eternal God's body.

Suddenly, the Eternal God made a slight upward-looking movement. Seeing this, Su Xiao's pupils began to constrict, and his perception was warning him for his life. He had to enter the spatial penetration state immediately.

But at this moment, he noticed something wrong in his perception circle. Zui Yasi, standing to the side, hadn't retreated. Was this scoundrel trying to commit suicide?

To be precise, Zui Yasi certainly wasn't trying to commit suicide. He was trying to invade the Eternal God's body to continuously cause internal damage. This was his most proficient combat method. However, he hadn't been able to invade just now and was pushed out by a powerful force of death.

This feeling was like Zui Yasi riding a small electric scooter with a rocket engine installed on the back, traveling at over 800 miles per hour, and then slamming head-on into a steel wall opposite. Because the small electric scooter had no protection, he slammed his face right into it.

Although it was a metaphor, this was Zui Yasi's most real experience at the moment. He was a bit stunned by the force of death.

"Roar!"

The Blood Beast lunged out fiercely, exploding on the Eternal God's upper body and head. Although the Blood Beast's power had retreated to the second line from its ultimate move, the speed of this move was unreasonably fast.

With a boom, the Eternal God was stunned by the explosion. As for damage, it was unscathed.

It was precisely this precious moment that Zui Yasi, who had turned into a large number of black tentacles, surged toward the Eternal God's head. One by one, black tentacles as thick as little fingers drilled into the Eternal God's head. If a normal living being had suffered this move, they would have been scared half to death.

Unfortunately, the Eternal God was not in this category. Its claws tore at its head, pulling off a large handful of tentacles and squeezing them in its hand.

Squish~

Black blood and tentacle fragments splashed. In turn, Zui Yasi's broken corpse slid from between the Eternal God's fingers. When these broken remains landed, it could be seen that the hair on this corpse was long—it was the young Zui Yasi who had died.

Although Zui Yasi didn't have five lives, his five fingers each represented a different age of himself. As long as the current him didn't die, in a dangerous moment, he could use other ages of himself to substitute for death. After the battle ended, he would gradually recover at a cost that made his heart ache.

Zui Yasi had succeeded. He would continuously cause internal damage to the Eternal God. As for whether the terrifying amount of death energy within the Eternal God would erode him to death, that would test Zui Yasi's Undying ability.

Just at this moment, Wood in the back had turned into a human shape made of black fog, floating in mid-air. Unlike before, a pair of black-smoke devil wings unfolded, and a strange and dark aura continuously invaded the surroundings.

Never mind Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, even Baham and Gulu felt a tremor in their hearts, thinking: fortunately, this is a teammate.

Wisps of black smoke, appearing and disappearing, connected Wood and the Eternal God. In this way, the Eternal God's powerful body was not only slowly weakened, but its HP also slid down at a slow speed.

The moment he was affected by Wood's ability, the Eternal God locked onto him. The Eternal God slightly lowered its body, making a move to lunge toward Wood.

The moment the Eternal God lunged, blood energy poured into the long blade in Su Xiao's hand.

"Blade Dao · Kill."

With a 'whoosh,' a blood-colored streak slashed out, enveloping the lunging Eternal God and forcibly slashing it down.

Because this move had been developed many times, after the Eternal God was slashed, blood flames ignited on all its fur, causing it to slap its single claw onto the ground.

Boom!

A shockwave spread due to this palm, sudden and impossible to avoid.

Su Xiao felt a numbness in his feet. His legs from the knees down were shocked into losing sensation. In such a dangerous moment, located directly in front, the Eternal God made a slight upward-looking movement again.

"Roar!!!"

A roar spread out. Even though the temple's area was very large, with a width of nearly a thousand meters, the gray sound waves triggered by this roar still enveloped 99% of the positions within the temple.

It was impossible to avoid this roar with speed. Su Xiao only felt waves of force penetrating his body. Death Flame ignited on him with a 'whoosh,' but at the same time, he entered the spatial penetration state.

The roar had a total of six stages of damage judgment, but they weren't simultaneous; they came in waves at a high frequency. Su Xiao suffered two stages of impact from this roar. Even so, his HP slid to below 60%, and the intense pain throughout his body felt as if his whole person was about to be shaken apart.

After entering the spatial penetration state, Su Xiao looked around. Because he was in the spatial gap, everything around was black and white. Facts proved that as long as one's reaction was fast enough, the Eternal God's roar could be avoided with Dragon Shadow Flash.

Gray sound waves spread in the temple. Looking again, Wood, who had just appeared like a devil descending with his black smoke wings spread, was already leaning against the metal gate at the entrance.

Gulu was standing in the corner for punishment. She had never stood in such a standard punishment posture before.

The roar ended, and Su Xiao exited the spatial penetration state. Seeing this, Gulu, standing in the corner for punishment, knew that the opportunity had come. Since she had already chosen to participate in the battle, she couldn't just watch.

Gulu's three short blades all flew up, and these three short blades split into ten slender, fine blades. Her pupils turned golden-red. After her ultimate move was activated, she pointed at the Eternal God.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang...

Ten fine blades either hit the Eternal God's throat or its head. This caused the Eternal God to look toward Gulu. It used the claws of its thumb and index finger to pinch a fine blade nailed beside its jaw. After pulling it down, it applied a little force and squeezed—with a snap, the fine blade shattered.

Something Gulu would never forget in her life happened: the Eternal God, seemingly having glanced at her, turned its head and re-locked onto Su Xiao. The Eternal God, having eaten one of her full ultimate moves, simply ignored her 'scraping' behavior.

Gulu froze. At this moment, she sincerely hoped that her profession could enter the final awakening stage.

Ask, could this be endured? The answer was: it could be endured. Rushing over now would truly mean death—death here without any suspense or opportunity.

The roar hadn't completely dissipated in the temple when Su Xiao felt wind pressure coming from the side. When his perception successfully captured it, one of the Eternal God's huge claws had already reached his side.

The Death Flame brought by this claw caused Su Xiao's HP to suddenly slide to below 50%. If grabbed by this claw, the "Scepter of Death" ability would be triggered.

"Blade Dao · Blood Blade."

Su Xiao disappeared from where he stood, leaving a straight blood line in mid-air. It wasn't a blood line toward the enemy, but straight upward. No one stipulated that blade techniques must be used to slash people.

Blood-colored feathers drifted in mid-air. In fact, this was a condensation of blade light and blood energy. At the moment Su Xiao rushed out at super high speed, it played a protective role. After completing this mission, this crystal shattered. Because of the nature of blood energy, it looked like blood-colored feathers when it dissipated.

With a 'pop,' the blood-colored feathers scattered in mid-air were slapped into fragments by the Eternal God's claw.

Su Xiao stepped on the semi-circular ceiling, and the long blade in his hand returned to its sheath.

"Blade Dao · Blood Blade Fang."

Zing!

A straight blood line swept from top to bottom. Logically speaking, this blade should have slashed a vertical wound in the center of the Eternal God's body. However, the Eternal God had its two claws held horizontally in front of its chest, palms facing outward.

Even if there were ways to avoid the "Roar" and "Scepter of Death," the Eternal God's melee ability was not only not inferior to Su Xiao's but actually stronger. This was an existence that had fought bloody battles against various Abyss-born creatures on the Abyss battlefield for many years. Sometimes, a campaign would be fought for months, or even a year or two, without stopping.

Almost at the moment Su Xiao turned into a blood line and crashed to the ground, a dark ball appeared between the Eternal God's hands, and a continuous ray poured out from the dark ball.

In the smoke and dust where Su Xiao crashed, only the upper body, a similarly tall blood energy phantom, condensed above him.

"Super · Blood Smoke Cannon."

The Blood Smoke Cannon and the dark ray collided. At the intersection point of the two, energy expanded, forming a sphere about a dozen meters in size before exploding with a boom.

There was a buzzing sound in Su Xiao's ears. When he was blown away and crashed into the wall, it didn't hurt as much as he had imagined. Was the wall soft?

"You, you must have done it on purpose."

Gulu, with blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, spoke. Being smashed by Su Xiao just now, she nearly lost her breath and passed out directly.

If it were just being smashed by Su Xiao, that would actually be fine. The key was that in order to reduce the damage suffered, Su Xiao subconsciously covered his spine and the back of his head with a crystal layer while flying backward.

The experience of Gulu taking this hit made her suddenly think of teppanyaki squid—not that she was hungry, but she had a common language with the squid being pressed on the iron plate.

"Super · Blood Smoke Cannon."

The blood energy phantom above Su Xiao that hadn't dissipated yet fired another Blood Smoke Cannon. Opposite, the Eternal God raised a single claw, hard-tanking the Super · Blood Smoke Cannon with its bare hands. What was even more exaggerated was that it walked forward with large strides while facing the continuous pouring of the Blood Smoke Cannon.

Su Xiao disappeared in place. When he appeared again, he was already in front of the Eternal God. A huge claw slapped toward him head-on.

Clang!!

The long blade blocked the claw. On Su Xiao's body under his long leather coat, wounds appeared, and blood gushed out from them. This was the price of hard-tanking one of the Eternal God's claws.

With a boom, the impact spread to the surroundings with Su Xiao as the center. Baham, who was preparing to come over for reinforcements, was helplessly pushed back by the wind pressure. If you looked closely at Baham's eyes, the gaze was so resolute it was soul-stirring.

Su Xiao had just hard-tanked one of the Eternal God's claws when the Eternal God made a slight upward-looking posture. This was a sign of a roar. The previous two roars were both like this.

It could be said that this was also a possibility to defeat the Eternal God. The Eternal God's divine soul had passed away, and for some attacks, it had obvious habitual movements. If the opponent's divine soul were still there, that would be truly impossible to fight.

But who would have thought that this time it wasn't a roar? As the Eternal God lowered its head, Death Flame sprayed from its mouth. This thing was terrifying enough when it carried it during an attack; if sprayed directly, let alone Eighth Tier, even if a Ninth Tier tank came, it would be instant death.

After a series of crisp sounds, Su Xiao, who was in a posture of blocking upward with his blade, turned into a stone statue that had lost its life in the Death Flame. As the Eternal God's claw pressed down, this stone statue shattered. The texture inside was translucent blue crystal.

I don't know when, but Su Xiao appeared behind the Eternal God's neck. Because he temporarily lost Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan, he held a blood spear in his hand.

Bone spurs appeared behind the Eternal God's neck, growing wildly and stabbing toward Su Xiao. At the same time, Baham flew toward the front of the Eternal God, its eagle claws spread, and it launched a surprise attack on the Eternal God's throat.

Even for the Eternal God, it had to make a choice between two options at this time. Among all the combat units present, except for the Eternal God, Baham had the fastest speed. Its surprise attack could not be underestimated.

Su Xiao, located behind the Eternal God's neck, although a threat, had temporarily lost Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. At this time, Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan was flying in front of the Eternal God because the crystal statue was crushed, and it was only half a meter away from Baham.

Su Xiao and Baham's positions were swapped abruptly due to Baham's ability.

Psh, psh~

Baham was pierced through the body by two bone spurs, and Su Xiao, who appeared in front of the Eternal God, had already gripped the hilt of his blade.

"Blade Dao · Extreme!"

The "Extreme" move, which had the highest slashing strength among all blade techniques, was unleashed. With a 'shra,' the long blade seemed to have been extended, slashing diagonally across the Eternal God's chest, leaving a bloodstain that reached the bone.

"Nice!"

While Gulu continued to 'scrape' with her ultimate move, she couldn't help but shout. This was the first strike since the start of the battle that had truly heavily damaged the Eternal God.

Slashed angrily by one blade, the Eternal God was slashed until it roared and leaned backward. Just when everyone thought this powerful enemy was about to fall, two more arms suddenly grew out below its original two arms.

What was even more unexpected was that these four arms of the Eternal God stretched out a bit, and four claws slapped and grabbed Su Xiao from all directions.

A loud explosion sounded in Su Xiao's ears, and the surroundings turned into darkness. It wasn't that he didn't want to avoid this move with Dragon Shadow Flash, but during the process of these four claws grabbing, they were continuously squeezing the space at the center where he was.

If the previous spatial density was 0.5, then after suffering this kind of squeezing, the surrounding spatial density reached at least 400. Trying to penetrate space was not only slow but also dangerous. Along with it was the physical pressure brought by the skyrocketing surrounding spatial density. Back then, ten thousand meters under the sea, Su Xiao hadn't felt such great pressure.

The Eternal God's four claws grabbed and bound Su Xiao in its hands. Its posture returned from leaning back to upright, and it sprayed Death Flame from its mouth toward between its claws.

Just when the Death Flame was about to envelop Su Xiao, the elderly Zui Yasi appeared more than ten meters away on the side, I don't know when.

The white-haired elderly Zui Yasi seemed to sigh. One eye after another opened all over his body. This was the "Retrospective Eye," Zui Yasi's trump card.

Everything in the temple suddenly stopped. A shocking scene occurred: everything here was like a videotape being pressed on the rewind button. The Death Flame gradually retracted back into the Eternal God's mouth.

As everything rewound, the "Retrospective Eyes" on the elderly Zui Yasi's body exploded one by one. What was even more terrifying was that the elderly Zui Yasi's body dissolved like a candle. One could see how terrifying the backlash of time-series abilities was. Just letting the local time in the temple rewind for 3 seconds required paying such a price.

During the rewind, the Eternal God's four claws gradually unfolded. Everyone present could feel everything rewinding around them, but they couldn't move—including Zui Yasi himself, who couldn't take this opportunity to attack.

When the Eternal God's four arms were completely unfolded, everything around could no longer bear it and shattered like glass.

With a boom, the Eternal God seemed to have broken free from a large piece of transparent glass. Its four claws gathered again. Taking advantage of this short gap, Su Xiao had already retreated more than ten meters away with the Dragon Shadow Flash ability and landed firmly on his feet.

Looking at the elderly Zui Yasi again, most of his body had shattered like an explosion. His only remaining right arm was raised, pointing at the Eternal God.

"Decay."

With a bang, bloodstains exploded all over the Eternal God. When these bloodstains were still in mid-air, they quickly rotted and withered, turning into dust as if they had experienced thousands of years of time.

The Eternal God's HP dropped sharply, by at least 15%. After this guy Zui Yasi went all out for his life, the strength of his means was unexpected.

The elderly Zui Yasi completely shattered. Su Xiao wouldn't miss such a golden opportunity.

"Blade Dao · Flow."

Elegant wind marks slashed across the Eternal God, and blood splashed. This caused the Eternal God to intend to roar again.

"Blade Dao · Blue Ghost."

A blue blade light slashed out. The Eternal God, whose throat had just been slashed open by "Flow," immediately interrupted its roar and met it with a claw with all its might.

Pop~

Blue Ghost dissipated into the air as fragments smaller than rice grains. This caused the Eternal God to pause for a moment, seemingly wondering why there was such a big difference in slashing strength.

"Boss, detected it. Above is a hole connecting to the outside."

Baham landed on Su Xiao's shoulder. Hearing this, Su Xiao already had a decision in his heart. To win, he had to go outside to fight. Although the temple was very large, one roar turned most of the area here into a death zone, which was really difficult to utilize.

Regarding how to get out, it was definitely not possible now. Anyone who dared to leap toward the skylight at the top would be slapped down by the Eternal God's claw.

Only when the Eternal God's HP was reduced to below 50% and it transformed into its second form would that be a good opportunity to attack, but it would also be an opportunity to leap outside.

Su Xiao needed an opportunity. At the moment, the only one who could create this opportunity was Zui Yasi.

Clang~

Su Xiao's left index finger, wrapped in the Black King's arm guard, tapped on Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. A sound wave spread quietly. This was the signal agreed upon when fighting the Sin God before.

Before Su Xiao could receive a response, the Eternal God opposite had already lunged over. The claw that slapped over seemed to be infinitely magnified, and there was no possibility of dodging. Otherwise, Su Xiao wouldn't have hard-tanked this heavy slap of the sharp claw before.

Just when he wanted to hold his blade to hard-tank it again, the lunging Eternal God suddenly paused in mid-air. This was the opportunity Zui Yasi, who had invaded its body, created for Su Xiao.

Su Xiao ignored his HP, which had already slid to below 30%, and stepped forward. Facing the lunging Eternal God, he delivered a direct kick to the head.

Boom!!

It was like a high-power bomb being detonated. Wind pressure scattered, and the lunging Eternal God was kicked flying backward.

"Blade Domain."

While Su Xiao switched "Soul Severing Shadow" to Soul Severing · Soul Core, he activated the Blade Domain. Countless slashes appeared around the Eternal God, forming a dense spherical slash.

Su Xiao rushed forward, his long blade covered in blood energy, which made Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan look a bit longer. With the help of the physical paralysis time from the direct kick and the suppressive nature of the Blade Domain, he slashed at the Eternal God repeatedly.

Blood and severed fur splashed. Gulu, standing in the corner for punishment, also increased her 'scraping'... cough, increased the stabbing intensity of her ultimate move.

Zing! Zing! Zing!

Su Xiao slashed out blade after blade. But just at this moment, the Eternal God, submerged in the dense attack, suddenly flashed with golden-red brilliance for a moment. A certain ability of its was triggered, and the Eternal God entered a short state of strong super-armor.

"Roar!!!"

The roar spread. At this moment, as long as Su Xiao was affected by the roar, he would trigger instant death. Even if he could enter the spatial penetration state, he had to hard-tank 1~2 stages of roar damage before he could perform this ability.

Death was within reach—no, death was coming head-on and could not be stopped.

In the distance, Baham, who hadn't directly participated in the battle but was constantly vigilant and had its ability half-activated, spread its wings and instantly swapped positions with Su Xiao. The gray shockwave triggered by the roar enveloped Baham.

What was even more fatal was that once the roar was fully taken, the rapid slide of HP wasn't the most fatal thing. There was the 【Bud of Creation】 life-saving prop in the team storage space. The problem was the instant-death characteristic carried by the Death Flame.

"Bud of Creation · Tree's Blessing (Passive): When the memory mark holder's HP slides to below 0.5%, this item will be activated immediately, granting the user a high-tier invincible shield. The shield lasts for 2 seconds. During this period, the user will restore 50% HP and 50% Mana, and gain a large movement speed bonus."

In the roar, Baham's HP didn't even drop to 0.5% before it suffered the instant-death state. At this moment, Baham felt as if it had fallen into water and began to sink continuously. The light on the water surface was moving further and further away, and the darkness around slowly invaded. It knew it was going to die.

In the temple, the moment the roar ended, metal spikes sank into Baham's wings, pulling it back.

Retracting the World Severing Line, Su Xiao threw Baham into the corner to the rear. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had been integrated into the environment, appeared. It held a metal device that looked like a stun gun in its dog paw. As soon as Baham landed, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang aimed at its chest and gave it a zap.

"Divine Awakening: Within 5 minutes of the target's death, and with a body integrity of over 60%, using this item on it has a high probability of reviving it from the 'fake death state' and healing vital injuries."

Crackle, crackle~

Electric arcs surged on Baham's body. In Baham's feeling, it was sinking in water. Suddenly, golden electric arcs appeared around it, shocking it until it shivered. This changed it from sinking into the darkness below to rushing toward the light above.

"I'm screwed!"

Baham suddenly 'faked death' and popped up with its eyes wide open. It breathed heavily. Although it knew that helping to tank this roar would definitely mean death, this was the best choice it could think of. If Su Xiao fell, even if he could also escape the fake death state with a high probability from "Divine Awakening," this period of time was enough for the Eternal God to wipe them all out.

"Nearly died, I'm screwed!"

Baham spread its wings and flew up, continuing to prepare to swap positions with Su Xiao at a critical moment.

Blood dripped down Su Xiao's chin. He now saw everything with a bit of double vision. The problem was that he hadn't yet defeated the first stage of the Eternal God, and he wouldn't explode or temporarily break through himself. The situation at this time was: if he couldn't beat it with all his abilities, then he couldn't beat it. There would be no miracles, no luck, only group annihilation here.

Su Xiao just prepared to continue forward and fight another round, at least to get the Eternal God's HP below 50% to enter the second stage.

Before Su Xiao could act, he discovered something wrong. His state was so bad, why didn't the Eternal God opposite attack actively?

After staring carefully, he discovered that very faint black smoke was drifting from the Eternal God's whole body. It was Wood. This guy was also going to use his trump card.

Wood, floating in mid-air, landed. The black smoke he had turned into spread to his back, turning into the image of a grim reaper holding a scythe. The next second, this grim reaper slashed off the head of the black-smoke-state Wood.

Wood's head in the black smoke figure state landed, and his whole person knelt on both knees, kneeling there motionless as if dead.

Almost at the same time, blood splashed on the Eternal God's neck. This feeling was like being almost beheaded by a scythe.

The two arms that had grown out from the Eternal God collapsed, leaving only the original two arms. Its claws pressed on the ground, and darkness spread throughout its body. Its "Abyss Awakening" ability was activated.

Black tentacles swarmed out from the slash wound on the Eternal God's chest. Zui Yasi, who had escaped, ran with large strides and then crashed into the wall and fell.

After falling, Zui Yasi used a hand blade to cut off his own head and his entire left arm. These parts had been eroded by Abyss energy.

"Baham."

Su Xiao spoke. Baham, on the side, flew toward Wood, grabbing Wood's black smoke head with one eagle claw and the other's body with the other eagle claw, flying toward the skylight.

Su Xiao just prepared to leap out when he felt a dizzy spell.

"Moo."

Amu, whose HP had recovered a bit, arrived at Su Xiao's side. Su Xiao leaped onto Amu's shoulder and crouched on it. Amu reached out a large hand, grabbed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and leaped toward the skylight.

Zui Yasi and Gulu were not slow either. The opportunity they had fought so hard to create had to be rushed outside; otherwise, the Eternal God's Roar ability was too unsolvable, or rather, the Death Flame ability was unsolvable.

This ability had already killed Su Xiao nearly twice. Once he was saved by Zui Yasi's "Time Reversal," and later Baham died in his place.

Out of the skylight on the ceiling, Su Xiao felt the space around him twist and then return to normal.

After landing, Su Xiao leaped down from Amu's shoulder and looked around. Everywhere he looked, the ground was dust, making the terrain crisscrossed with gullies.

The Hall of Atonement in the distance represented that Su Xiao hadn't entered a special space but was still in the deepest area of the City of Deathly Silence.

"Bai Ye, cough cough cough~, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back this time. Hey~, I have a wife, son, and daughter. Dying here with you single guys, I'm the biggest loser."

Zui Yasi, with blood still flowing from the corner of his mouth, still had the heart to joke. It could only be said that basically no one present was afraid of death, or rather, if they were afraid of death, they wouldn't have come here.

Time was tight. After Su Xiao threw a bottle of medicine to Zui Yasi and Wood each, he took out the 【Honor Resurrection Potion (Eighth Tier)】 and injected it directly. His injuries were too severe; he couldn't do without this potion.

"Honor Resurrection Potion (Eighth Tier): After use, immediately restore 100% HP/100 Mana, and rapidly heal all injuries throughout the body. It has a significant recovery effect on organ damage and brain tissue damage to a certain extent."

Within a short time, Su Xiao's injuries were basically healed. As for his state, although it wasn't as good as before the battle, it wasn't bad either.

"Gulu, this is the key to getting out."

Su Xiao took out the Sanctuary Key. Gulu, whose hair was a bit frizzy, ran over cautiously and quickly. After the distance was reduced to three meters, Gulu's eyes blurred.

"I knew it!"

Gulu had felt something was wrong before. Before the battle started, Su Xiao not only saved her but also let her hide in a safe place. This was too abnormal.

The crystal layer climbed onto the tips of the five fingers of Su Xiao's left hand, forming a hollow structure like a claw, and then stabbed into Gulu's lower abdomen.

Gulu felt as if her whole person was about to be emptied. Her blood flowed out at high speed. In the blink of an eye, her little face turned pale.

Gulu stared at Su Xiao. That look seemed to say: Old lady finally knows why the treatment this time was so good. You're treating old lady as a mobile medicine bottle, aren't you?

The answer was: No. Su Xiao couldn't restore his HP by absorbing others' blood, even if it was transcendent blood.

Gulu had four-fifths of her blood absorbed. As an Eighth-Tier contractor, she could naturally take it, and she also got her wish to ride on Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's back.

The transcendent blood absorbed from Gulu first turned into blood energy, then compressed, turning into complicated blood patterns that climbed onto the Black King's arm guard.

"It's coming. Prepare to continue the siege."

Wood spoke. He had already returned to his normal appearance.

"No, I'm one-on-one with the enemy."

Su Xiao pulled his right arm out of the severely damaged long leather coat sleeve, which made the entire long leather coat hang down in strips. Because of the belt at his waist, the strip-like leather coat blocked Su Xiao's legs. If Reed saw this scene, his blood pressure would definitely soar.

Before Su Xiao spoke, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baham either ran wildly toward the distance or flew at full speed. Among them, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was also carrying the severely blood-depleted Gulu.

"You should run faster."

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, Zui Yasi's cheek twitched, and Wood turned into black smoke and drifted toward the distance.

The two good teammates probably never dreamed that in this battle, at this moment, their teammate was even more dangerous than the enemy.

The black clouds in the sky blocked the sun, with only a few thin rays of sunlight penetrating through. On the open ground, the breeze blew up wisps of dust, having quite a bit of the tranquility before a life-and-death battle.

Su Xiao held a large metal water bottle in his hand, took a few big gulps, and then poured the remaining clear water over his head to wash away the blood on his body.

Beast roars came from the Supreme Sanctuary in the distance. Su Xiao casually threw down the large water bottle. Soon, the beast roars continued to approach, and a figure covered in black fur, nearly 10 meters tall, crashed down near him.

Su Xiao's left index finger, wrapped in the metal arm guard, brushed over the edge of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. Although this was very likely his last battle, he still had to ensure that Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan was in good condition.

After the Eternal God arrived, it was quiet for a few seconds. Suddenly, Su Xiao and the Eternal God disappeared at the same time.

Clang!!

The long blade and the claw collided. Su Xiao was sent flying backward. In mid-air, his gaze became increasingly sharp.

"Blade Dao · Flow."

Zing~

The elegant wind mark slashed across, but it was dodged by the Eternal God shifting its body. At the same time, its huge claw grabbed toward Su Xiao.

Before the sharp claw arrived, Su Xiao already felt the spatial density around him increase sharply. This was the Eternal God hindering him from penetrating space. It was worthy of being a true god who had experienced years of bloody battles. Even if its divine soul had passed away, some things were carved into the bones and blood of this divine body.

Unable to penetrate space, Su Xiao had other ways.

"Blade Dao · Blood Blade."

A straight blood line surprised him from above. The Eternal God grabbed empty air. It took the opportunity to slap the ground, and bone spurs crisscrossed and stabbed out from the ground.

Before Su Xiao landed, "Blade Dao · Kill" slashed out. With a 'whoosh,' the blood energy streak slashed the dozen-meter-long bone spurs on the ground into powder.

"Blood Smoke Cannon."

After landing, Su Xiao pointed at the Eternal God. Who knew that the lunging Eternal God tilted its head, seemingly about to rush over, but roared halfway through.

"Roar!!!"

Black sound waves spread. Before Su Xiao penetrated space, Death Flame had already ignited on him.

A vertical eye opened in the center of the Eternal God's forehead, staring at Su Xiao in spatial penetration. In just an instant, his whole body was numb to the tips of his fingers.

Su Xiao exited the spatial penetration state. In a one-on-one situation, after just a few rounds of exchange, his HP had already slid to 20.7%. At this time, the advantage of having good teammates nearby to cover for each other was reflected.

But to win, he had to fight the Eternal God one-on-one. Although it wasn't a guaranteed win, it was much better than seeing no hope of victory.

At this moment, this opportunity was about to arrive. On the hanging strip-like leather coat, faint black embers appeared.

【Inscription Pedestal · Wrath Statue】

Inscription Effect 1: Dark Embers (Core · Passive), when the pedestal wearer's HP is below 25%, you will trigger the power of Dark Embers.

Prompt: This effect lasts for 30 seconds, and the trigger interval is 48 hours.

Warning: To trigger this ability, you must ensure your own willpower is above 120 points; otherwise, you will not receive the recognition of the Dark Inscription.

Dark Embers triggered. The effect of this ability was very simple: the lower the current HP, the stronger the body's tolerance. In general, it was an improvement in physical toughness and comprehensive resistance.

It was fortunate that he had this ability; otherwise, during the last battle against the Wolf Knight Captain, Su Xiao might have been eroded by Abyss power to an irreversible degree.

Deciding life and death within five minutes, Su Xiao, with less than 20% HP, fiercely surprised the Eternal God. With life-saving props in hand, his physical state at this time wasn't considered the most dangerous.

The distance between the two sides closed abruptly. A huge claw slapped from the side. Facts proved that as long as one aspect was strong to the extreme, without any fancy abilities, one could also hammer the enemy until they doubted life.

Wind pressure hit from the side. Su Xiao didn't block with his blade again. He raised his left arm, preparing to block the Eternal God's heavy blow in this way. At first glance, this was no different from seeking death.

At the moment the Eternal God's huge claw slapped Su Xiao's left forearm, on the Black King's arm guard, the blood patterns made of four-fifths of Gulu's blood became almost translucent red.

Boom!

The blood patterns exploded into large blood smoke. A buzzing sound appeared in Su Xiao's left ear. His left arm was slapped flying. Not only the left arm, but the entire left shoulder also went with the left arm, and a small part of the left torso also went with it. The beating heart was exposed. But for some reason, the wound caused by this slap was exceptionally smooth and neat.

The reason it was so tragic was not only because the enemy slapped it, but because before being slapped, Su Xiao slashed his left torso himself.

So it looked like the enemy slapped his shoulder and left arm away, but in fact, he slashed it off himself, and then the shoulder and left arm were slapped away.

Although this hit was hard, the position Su Xiao was attacked was slapped away, and the Death Flame couldn't burn over along the left arm.

Crack, crack, crack~

The crystal layer covered the wound. Su Xiao, with blood spots splashed on his face, landed in a crouched posture as if he hadn't been injured.

Blood smoke spread in front of the Eternal God. This kind of blood smoke could not only block the line of sight but also shield perception. Su Xiao had used it before when dealing with the Sin Aggregate.

After taking this hit, even with the Dark Embers buff, Su Xiao's HP slid to a near-death state. The Lv. 40 ultimate ability of Blood Spear Master was triggered.

"Life from Death (Passive), when your HP is reduced to a near-death state, your soul power will be completely activated. During this period, all your melee attack damage increases by 50%."

Su Xiao rushed into the blood smoke. He closed his eyes, lowered his body, dodged the claw that slapped diagonally, and as the blood smoke was slapped away, he stood up and delivered a direct kick.

Bang!!

The Eternal God was kicked flying out of the blood smoke range. Su Xiao, who followed closely, slashed across the Eternal God's face with his blade, and blood scattered.

Pop~

Golden electric arcs flashed and disappeared on the blade. Taking advantage of the Eternal God's physical paralysis from the direct kick, Su Xiao manipulated the blood smoke that was about to dissipate to gather. These transcendent bloods obtained from Gulu naturally couldn't be wasted.

The Eternal God had entered the second stage, that was correct, but Su Xiao had entered the third stage of the near-death state. This was the strongest he could reach.

The attachment of a large amount of blood energy made Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan turn into a blood blade, with a length about half longer than usual.

Zing, zing, zing...

Blood blades slashed angrily one after another. As strong as the Eternal God was, facing Su Xiao in the third stage, it could only temporarily avoid the edge. Its combat instinct told it that this human couldn't maintain this state for long.

The facts were indeed so. After slashing wildly with the blood blade for less than 10 seconds, Su Xiao's aura weakened abruptly. With a clang, the Eternal God, which had many slash marks on its body, gripped the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan in its blood blade state with its bare hands.

The Eternal God made a move to roar. Suddenly, its movements stopped, and it looked up at the sky. Everywhere it looked was golden lightning.

Just now, when golden electric arcs appeared on Su Xiao's blade, Su Xiao had already started to summon lightning—not by summoning lightning with the Luck attribute, but by summoning lightning with 980 points of Elemental Affinity.

Su Xiao wanted to die with the Eternal God? Of course not. First, he had the "Bud of Creation" to save his life. Unless he encountered instant death or beheading with high judgment, this thing was exceptionally reliable.

This world had undergone self-sealing, and after self-sealing, it was notarized by the Tree of the Void, which was equivalent to being sealed in tier by the Tree of the Void once again.

World Thunder determines the upper limit of strength based on the world's strength. In the real world, the Void, etc., summoning lightning with Elemental Affinity is equivalent to seeking death. Here, although the World Thunder summoned would be terrifying, this was the same as the Eternal God—even if it was strong, it had an upper limit.

What was even more important was that this place was the City of Deathly Silence, a huge and independent space within this world, which made the strength of the World Thunder highly unlikely to reach a level that even life-saving props couldn't defend against.

Boom!!!

A terrifying thunder pillar a dozen kilometers thick fell, standing between heaven and earth, continuously pouring golden thunder downward.

Su Xiao and the Eternal God were submerged in the ten thousand tons of thunder. The earth cracked, the thunder-struck area sank downward, and the remaining groundwater in this area was blasted out and evaporated due to the strong thunder strike.

In the thunder, Su Xiao lost all sensation throughout his body. Originally severely injured, he triggered the 【Bud of Creation】. An eggshell-shaped shield appeared, wrapping him inside. It was a high-tier invincible shield. This thing successfully blocked the World Thunder. Not only that, his HP recovered rapidly, and soon recovered to above 50%.

The high-tier invincible shield only lasted for 2 seconds, and the peak period of the World Thunder was also very short. After the thunder pillar struck, the momentum retreated rapidly. Even so, Su Xiao was still numb all over, and his HP slid.

When the World Thunder completely dissipated, the scene before his eyes was already a scorched earth. Su Xiao looked toward the position of the Eternal God, and a scorched, tall figure lay there.

In the Supreme Sanctuary in the distance, the main body of this building was severely damaged. Inside the temple, Zui Yasi and Wood were both flopped on the scorched black ground. They never dreamed that although they didn't die in the hands of the Eternal God, they were nearly killed by the World Thunder summoned by their teammate.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, not far away, was lying down, pressing Gulu underneath. If it weren't for Xiang Bubu, Gulu definitely wouldn't have been able to carry it; she had no World Thunder resistance.

At the center point where the World Thunder fell, the ground was covered by shallow water. Su Xiao just prepared to lift his feet to move forward when the Eternal God lying there raised its claw, and with a pop, it pressed on the ground. Amidst the splashing water, it propped up its body.

Looking at the Eternal God now, its whole body fur was scorched black, its flesh was scorched, and there were crisscrossing cracks on its body.

Not giving the Eternal God a chance to heal, Su Xiao surprised it, a direct kick,

Bang!!

The Eternal God was kicked until it knelt on one knee, but its HP recovered at a speed that made one's heart tremble. The maximum HP limit of 150% greatly reduced the risk of being beheaded. To behead the opponent, one must ensure the opponent's maximum HP slides to 25% or below.

Facing the Eternal God, which was physically paralyzed and kneeling on one knee, Su Xiao didn't slash its neck a few meters high with "Flow" but adopted another strategy.

"Blade Dao · Extreme!"

The long blade deepened the slash mark that was already between the Eternal God's chest and abdomen. He didn't continue to slash, but continued to move forward. He followed this slash mark several meters long and rushed into the Eternal God's chest cavity.

The Eternal God's body regained sensation. Just as it was about to reach its hand into the wound between its chest and abdomen, crystals spread within its chest.

Realizing this, the Eternal God's right claw stabbed into its own chest. The position was very tricky. One of the claw tips pierced through the crystal layer and stabbed into Su Xiao's abdomen.

However, just at this moment, a muffled thunder sounded from the sky. It was Su Xiao summoning lightning again with Elemental Affinity.

Crack!!

A thunder pillar several hundred meters thick fell. Su Xiao had just summoned lightning once. Summoning it for the second time in such a short time, although the World Thunder wouldn't be weak, it would be much worse than the first time. To summon very strong World Thunder every time, one had to wait at least a month.

When the World Thunder subsided, the Eternal God fell on the scorched earth again. Su Xiao, whose whole body was shocked numb by electricity, fell out from the wound in the Eternal God's chest and abdomen. He used the Eternal God to avoid the second World Thunder.

The battle stopped temporarily. Su Xiao and the Eternal God both lay in the shallow water and didn't move. But a few seconds later, Su Xiao suddenly leaped up and stabbed at the Eternal God's neck with his blade.

With a bang, Su Xiao was slapped flying by the Eternal God. After he landed on the ground hundreds of meters away, his eyes went black, and he nearly fainted.

The Eternal God walked toward Su Xiao. On the way, the wound between its chest and abdomen forcibly healed, avoiding being drilled into by Su Xiao again. But it didn't walk a few steps before it knelt on one knee, spraying scorching divine blood from its mouth, in which electric arcs could still be seen surging.

Seeing the wound between the Eternal God's chest and abdomen heal, Su Xiao felt much relieved. The plan had succeeded.

Boom~!

A muffled sound came from the Eternal God's chest cavity. Its chest cavity expanded for a moment. It was an Apollo that Su Xiao had dropped before that exploded, causing the Eternal God to spray a large mouthful of divine blood carrying sparks.

But even so, the Eternal God still stood up and walked toward Su Xiao with large strides. At this moment, Su Xiao, lying on the ground, sincerely felt that the opponent should be called the Undying God.

Su Xiao got up from the ground with his last bit of strength.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Su Xiao blocked three heavy slaps of the claw in succession. Covered in blood, he retreated repeatedly. This time... he was going to lose. The Eternal God, which had been hit by two World Thunders, was in a better state than Su Xiao.

What was even more helpless was that the Eternal God's HP at this time was only 17.2%, but to behead the opponent, one must slash one blade in melee combat. At this time, there was no such opportunity.

"Moo!"

Amu's roar came from above, approaching rapidly. If it were before, the Eternal God could have dodged it, but at this time, it had been hit by two World Thunders. Being able to have its current state was already very exaggerated.

The reason Amu descended from the sky was because after the Supreme Sanctuary dodged the World Thunder, although Amu and Baham were also affected, they were often shocked by World Thunder, and even Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had over 140 points of World Thunder resistance, not to mention the two of them.

Therefore, it was Baham grabbing Amu and flying up that led to this scene.

At this moment, Amu descended from the sky. Its posture was the same as when the battle started. The difference was that it slashed an axe onto the Eternal God's shoulder, causing the Eternal God to nearly fall forward, pressing one hand onto the scorched earth with a boom.

Black-blue smoke clung to Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. Su Xiao turned into a blood shadow. At this moment, the world seemed to pause for a moment. In the world that only had black and white colors, the straight blood shadow flashed and disappeared.

With a thud, Su Xiao fell onto the shallow water on the ground behind the Eternal God, splashing water. Looking at the Eternal God again, black-blue smoke drifted out from the wound on its neck. The Demon Blade's beheading was successful!

"Roar~!"

The Eternal God stood up and let out a final roar toward the sky. After this roar, which had no attack characteristics, ended, its huge body crashed onto the shallow water on the ground. This time, it couldn't get up again.

Not long after, raindrops fell from above, and it began to rain, as if the world was crying because it had lost the true god that protected it.

Su Xiao got up from the shallow water, shook off the divine blood on his blade, and the long blade slowly returned to its sheath.

The Eternal God, beheaded!

PS: (Sorry, the update is late. To finish this decisive battle in one chapter, I wrote 14,000 words, so I wrote until now. Dear readers, please forgive me.) ===== CHAPTER 3573 =====