Chapter 3639: Cap

Saint Poetry floated behind Su Xiao. Although her identity as a poison healer was exposed, she also caused high damage to the Sand King, healing the opponent's 495 health to 452. Don't think this damage intensity is low. Fighting a heavy sword hunk like the Sand King, having this damage intensity already shows that Saint Poetry's healing amount is amazing.

Saint Poetry just floated behind Su Xiao when she released a golden-green energy thread from her hand, merging into Su Xiao's back. The next second, Su Xiao felt that both warm and clear energy spread from his back, like a clear spring nourishing his internal organs, allowing his various organs that had been damaged by clashing with the Sand King to begin to recover.

The situation was changing so rapidly. Just a moment ago, it was Su Xiao who wanted to kill Saint Poetry behind the Sand King, but now it was the other way around, with the Sand King staring at Saint Poetry with tiger-like eyes.

This was also why the higher the tier, the fewer the healers. First, the self-preservation ability of pure healers was not good, and second, healers were too hated by enemies during battle.

Drip~

Blood dripped along the tip of the sword, falling on the water surface, gradually diluted by the shallow water beach.

Su Xiao stared at the Sand King dozens of meters away. He could feel that from the beginning of the battle to now, the Sand King's aura was becoming more and more crazy, which also meant that the erosion from the Soul Crown was getting deeper and deeper.

Su Xiao didn't think the Soul Crown would help him. In other words, he had to kill the Sand King before the Soul Crown completely eroded the Sand King's mind, otherwise, there might be some changes.

"A mere mortal, dare to betray me."

The Sand King's voice was deep. It was hard to imagine that someone's voice could be so dark and heavy. Not only that, the "Abyss Meteor" battle sword in the Sand King's hand actually began to reveal abyss aura.

"Mortal!"

The Sand King roared and held the battle sword with one hand, stabbing it toward the shallow water on the ground.

Dong!!

Like an explosion, the weight of "Abyss Meteor" was completely released. With one stab, the earth within a radius of tens of kilometers around collapsed, and the crust shattered into fragments of different sizes.

Su Xiao half-crouched on a crust that had shattered and tilted upward. Amidst the flying broken crust, he leaped several times and attacked the Sand King from the front.

Clang!

The battle sword blocked the long sword. The next instant, Su Xiao felt a huge force coming from the sword. His right arm felt sore and swollen. Fortunately, he didn't resist hard, but tilted the blade, letting the battle sword slash along the edge of the long sword.

With a sizzle, the blade and sword edge rubbed past, slashing sparks. The Sand King's sword looked fierce and won in the clash, but after this sword was completely slashed, not only did it fail to hurt Su Xiao, but because of the wide-open slash, it left him wide open.

Clang, clang, clang!

Three slashes as fast as thunder slashed across the Sand King's chest, throat, and face. But who knew, the blood that sprayed from the wounds slashed on the Sand King was not blood, but black smoke.

At this moment, the Sand King, wearing the Soul Crown, had pitch-black eyes that were hair-raising. He took three slashes but didn't show any stiffness after the damage, but instead slashed down with a heavy sword.

Su Xiao's intuition ability instantly gave a death warning, which made Su Xiao immediately lean aside to dodge, letting the battle sword slash past his cheek. But the sword pressure that swept past, as well as the destruction caused by spatial collapse, caused crack-like wounds on his left cheek and left arm.

Dong!!

With one sword slash, all the broken crust that had splashed up shattered and flew to the surrounding area. Groundwater surged up, filling the huge pit.

The Sand King landed on the water surface with a boom, causing the water surface under his feet to creak while standing steadily on it. Su Xiao landed steadily, stepping on the water surface naturally as if standing on flat ground. Technique masters meditating to understand the world and nature could naturally do this easily when they reached a high tier.

"Roar!!"

The Sand King, holding the battle sword with one arm, roared. His pitch-black long hair like tentacles flew. Layers of black sound waves spread because of his roar. Careful observation revealed that the red gem on the Soul Crown was becoming more and more conspicuous, a feeling like the Sand King only had this red "single eye" left.

"Bai Ye, I feel the Sand King is getting crazier."

Saint Poetry, floating half a meter above the water surface, spoke. As she spoke, she also healed herself. From her expression, it could be seen that she was very depressed now. The reason was that her health percentage was slipping faster than Su Xiao, who was fighting the Sand King to the death.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He naturally saw that the Sand King was becoming more and more crazy. This had advantages and disadvantages for him. The advantage was that the crazier the opponent, the harder it was to exert the dual-master ability. The disadvantage was that the crazier the opponent, the stronger the pure physical strength.

At this time, the Sand King's height had reached nearly 5 meters, and his right arm holding the sword was several times thicker than before. The metal scales on it had turned black, and combined with his fluttering black long hair like tentacles, the Sand King looked like a dark monarch about to fall into madness.

The Sand King turned his gaze to Saint Poetry, the murderous intent in his eyes almost turning into substance. Saint Poetry immediately received a prompt.

Saint Poetry was expelled from the Sand King's faction, which meant that she and Su Xiao became the same faction, which also meant that her healing Su Xiao would be true damage, while healing the Sand King would be a 5-fold healing effect.

"Bai Ye, it's my turn to perform."

Saint Poetry spoke. As she spoke, she activated her own healing buff ability, temporarily increasing the level of all her healing abilities except for ultimate abilities, with an additional level bonus of lv. 8 for 10 minutes.

After doing all this, a golden light ball appeared in Saint Poetry's hand. Then, this golden light ball appeared a hundred meters above, and the brilliant light erupted, providing a large-scale healing effect.

The dazzling light shone down, and Su Xiao immediately felt a stinging pain all over his body. This was the first time he had suffered true damage caused by healing.

Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of meters away, the Sand King, who still had some sanity, had darkness surging on his body, allowing the slash marks on his body to heal rapidly. This was the self-healing ability brought by the Soul Crown. But the next instant, the increasingly intense madness in the Sand King's eyes turned into astonishment and incomprehension because the light shining down from above actually allowed his health to recover rapidly. Combined with his own activated self-healing ability, in a flash, his state recovered to the best, and his health recovered to 500.

Looking at it this way, everything Su Xiao had just done was simply futile. But would he really do futile things in a deathmatch with a strong enemy? Of course not. When he saw that the Sand King had 500 health, and the ultimate passive was that for every 1 health lost, it provided 1 point of physical defense, Su Xiao determined one point: even if he used Saint Poetry's "Blood Feather version Ultimate Ability" to cause 300 true damage, he still couldn't win against the Sand King.

The Sand King, this heavy sword hunk, had an amazing physique, and at this moment, he was being eroded by the Soul Crown. After he was eroded to a certain extent, he would definitely obtain a self-healing ability that was surprisingly strong. This was an inevitable result caused by the characteristics of the ability.

This would lead to the fact that in the end, the Sand King would rely on his self-healing ability to keep his health above 50, unable to be killed, plus he would become a heavy sword hunk with over 600 points of physical defense. That was powerful attack ability + no one could hit him.

And the deathmatch between Su Xiao and the Sand King just now was not to severely injure the Sand King. Trying to defeat an enemy wearing an "Original Sin Object" in a conventional way was very unwise.

The reason Su Xiao had a deathmatch with the Sand King was to let Saint Poetry stack marks. Saint Poetry was a soul-type. It could be seen from her ability to enter Gulu's consciousness space with a spiritual body and her ultimate ability named "Soul Rage."

There was one key point: if Saint Poetry wanted to use "Ultimate Ability: Soul Rage" on a target, she must ensure that the target had already stacked 3 or more of her soul marks. Only in this way could she use the "Soul Rage" ability on the target with these soul marks as a medium.

Just now, Saint Poetry continuously poisoned the Sand King. The Sand King, who suffered these healing-type abilities, would definitely have Saint Poetry's temporary soul marks on his body. According to Saint Poetry, her soul marks would continue to drift for 8 to 10 minutes before dissipating on their own.

That's right, the reason Su Xiao chose to have a deathmatch with the Sand King was to let the Sand King stack enough soul marks.

On the water surface, Saint Poetry floated behind Su Xiao. She needed to concentrate all her attention while using "Soul Rage."

Wind pressure hit her face. It was the Sand King leaping over. He slashed down with the battle sword in his hand, and a water ditch appeared.

The blood shadow retreated backward with Saint Poetry. Su Xiao had just avoided this heavy slash when he felt a strong soul energy fluctuation behind him.

Saint Poetry behind Su Xiao had finished charging her power. She floated up as if ascending, her long hair flying, and she raised her right hand, pointing her index finger at the Sand King.

The Sand King was about to continue chasing Su Xiao when he suddenly felt something wrong. The strange feeling in his life force made the madness caused by the Soul Crown suddenly retreat by a large margin. He actually backhanded his sword and pierced through his own chest.

Causing 300 true damage to the Sand King with the Blood Feather version of "Soul Rage"? At first glance, this was indeed formidable, even to an exaggerated degree, but if one thought that the Sand King was wearing the Soul Crown, this 300 true damage seemed difficult to decide the outcome of the battle. Don't forget, the Sand King's Mad King state gave him a 500 health cap.

Such a high health cap made Su Xiao think of a possibility: this was caused by the Sand King devouring a large amount of Life Source. It looked like a powerful ability, but Su Xiao thought this was the Sand King's greatest weakness.

To what extent would the Origin Life Force overflow to appear a 500 health cap? Since that was the case, was constantly severely injuring the Sand King really hurting him? No matter how one looked at it, this was helping him release the overflowing Origin Life Force that was about to explode, allowing him to reach his peak state.

That's right, the Sand King's 500 health was a trap. Fighting him in a conventional way, when his health was hit below 100, the Sand King would enter his peak state, and his strength would soar by a large margin.

Su Xiao's idea was, since the enemy's vitality was overflowing to this extent, why not add more force to make his vitality overflow even more, reaching the limit and then exploding.

In the current judgment, Su Xiao and Saint Poetry were friendly forces. Saint Poetry healing Su Xiao would cause true damage. Conversely, Saint Poetry healing the Sand King would cause a 5-fold healing effect.

【Soul Rage (Ultimate Ability Lv. 42): Can be used on self or a single friendly target. After use, the target will recover 20% of maximum health per second for 15 seconds and remove all debuffs currently suffered.】

In this way, Saint Poetry's Soul Rage was recovering 1500 health in 15 seconds. The Sand King, whose vitality was already overflowing, would be how after suffering this healing? This was not in a game where healing overflow was just overflow. A real healer used life energy without characteristics to nourish and recover the life force in the recipient's body.

With a muffled boom, it came from the Sand King's body. His torso suddenly expanded, as if something inside was expanding violently. Blood surged out from his mouth and nose. Even if he pierced his chest with a sword, under the 1500 health recovery, this sword appeared exceptionally pale and powerless.

"How, could it..."

Before the Sand King finished speaking, a hole the size of a plate exploded in his chest. Because the life force was too overflowing, the proliferating flesh surged out from the hole, spreading to the surroundings with claws and teeth.

Su Xiao's feet splashed water. He leaped back the moment the proliferating flesh surged over, while Saint Poetry behind him had long since floated away to a distance. Although her face was pale due to exhaustion after using "Soul Rage," she still continuously threw healing abilities at the Sand King.

The proliferating flesh tissue continuously surged out from the hole in the Sand King's chest. The Sand King soon discovered that with the massive loss of Origin Life Force, his strength began to decline, which made him immediately block the hole in his chest with one hand. Finding that one hand couldn't block it, he simply released the "Abyss Meteor" battle sword in his right hand and covered the hole in his chest with both hands.

The massive Origin Life Force no longer flowed away. Added to the effect of the Soul Crown, the Sand King immediately felt his strength increasing continuously. In a very short time, he actually made a big step forward in strength under the blessing of the crown, which made the Sand King grin, revealing white, ghastly fangs.

"You, can't kill me!"

The Sand King's black long hair like tentacles moved without wind. He blocked the hole in his chest and healed. He held the battle sword in his right hand, and the "Abyss Meteor" battle sword that had sunk into the water broke through the water and was held in his hand.

"I am the chosen King of Kings. Both strength and the crown belong only to me!"

The Sand King completely became a Mad King. He, who was nearly 5 meters tall and holding a battle sword, stepped toward Su Xiao. But he had just taken a step when he suddenly felt the world spinning, which made him kneel on one knee, astonishment appearing in his eyes. The Mad King, whose consciousness had already been turned into a Mad King, didn't quite understand why this was.

With a muffled boom, the Sand King's left arm became several times thicker. He could no longer see steel-like muscles, but turned into a thick left arm that was distorted by proliferation.

Starting from the left arm, the Sand King's torso, legs, and neck all suffered severe proliferation and growth. Only his right arm covered with scales and his head, because of the Law-Breaker technique on the back of his hand and under his eyes, did not appear to have life force running wild, but it only supported for more than ten seconds before the right arm also appeared to have wild growth. The bulging proliferating flesh quickly swallowed the Sand King's head into it.

"I, am, the King of Kings..."

After the Sand King said this sentence with difficulty, his head was swallowed into the wildly proliferating flesh tissue, and the whole person turned into an irregular meat ball that continued to grow. In a very short time, this meat ball reached a size of a hundred meters.

From the moment he saw the Sand King's 500 health cap, Su Xiao already had this plan. Battle was like this; one had to adapt to circumstances. Or rather, Su Xiao was not prepared to fight a strong person wearing the Soul Crown to the death at all. That was too irrational.

"Ah~!!"

A long scream came from above. Su Xiao looked up and saw Amu and the Platinum Bishop falling from above. At the beginning of the battle, Amu and the Platinum Bishop were teleported to an unknown place by the Sand King at the cost of a secret treasure ring. Now they actually fell from above.

Amu fell into the water first. Because of several sea adventures, Amu was a bit panicked in his heart. Therefore, as soon as it fell into the water, ice spread with it as the center, freezing the water surface within a few kilometers around.

The Platinum Bishop fell onto the ice surface with a boom. After he climbed out of the broken ice, his gaze looked at Amu, while Amu looked around guiltily. Having pitted his teammate, the honest Amu felt very guilty.

"Bai Ye, where did the Sand King go? That guy teleported me into a space channel, and I've been in free fall there until now."

As the Platinum Bishop spoke, he was attracted by the meat ball that was constantly growing.

Boom!!

An explosion resounded through the sky. The meat ball on the ice surface exploded. A pitch-black crown flew out from the broken meat, landed on the ice surface with a clang, and then slid to Su Xiao's feet due to inertia.

Su Xiao picked up the crown, shook off the blood on it, took out a charcoal box, threw it into it, and put it away after sealing the charcoal box.

Looking down from above, one would find that this large area of ice was already stained red with blood and broken meat. But after a few seconds, all the blood and broken meat began to evaporate, as if indicating that obtaining power through the Soul Crown was fast, but this was false power.

On a piece of ice covered with black stains, a thin figure lying on it was the Sand King. Hearing the footsteps coming from the side, the Sand King turned his gaze and asked weakly and dying:

"The crown, you sent someone to present it."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't answer, just watched the Sand King from a few meters away. No matter how one looked at it, he was guarding against the Sand King having any sudden means.

"Disdain to waste words with a traitor? That's the style that old guy's disciple should have."

The Sand King smiled, lying on his back and looking at the sky.

"Your next target must be the Shadow of the Abyss. I can tell you about the Shadow of the Abyss, but you have to..."

Before the Sand King finished speaking, Su Xiao had already raised his hand, and a Blood Smoke Cannon blasted the Sand King's head to pieces. He wouldn't talk nonsense with a dying enemy, let alone believe every word said by a traitor. Regarding the whereabouts of the traitor, he had means to explore.

The "Hunter List: Blood Contract" materialized in front of Su Xiao. He used the enemy blood stained on his thumb to wipe away the Sand King's name. In this way, only the traitor at the bottom remained on the Hunter List, or rather, the Shadow of the Abyss in the Sand King's address.

Seeing this gain, Su Xiao had a bold idea: he had mastered the Agility Basic Passive: Shadow Speed for not long, and it was only lv. 1. According to his previous experience, although this permission could only improve one ability once, there was no limit to how much it could be improved. As long as the body could bear it, it was no problem to improve "Basic Passive: Shadow Speed" from lv. 1 to lv. 90, and then to x.

If it were a Tier 9 contractor with similar strength to Su Xiao, the probability of dying on the spot by improving "Basic Passive" like this, especially the "Basic Passive" corresponding to agility, was not low.

Su Xiao was different. He was not blindly confident, but had extremely high resistance in this regard after being tempered by Law-Breaker abilities such as Spirit Shadow Constitution, Green Shadow King, Soul-Severing Shadow, and Law-Breaker Talent: Hunter Shadow. He didn't die when he mastered "Soul-Severing Shadow" before. Now, it was completely worth trying to push "Basic Passive: Shadow Speed" from lv. 1 to x.

To use a metaphor, the danger level of mastering "Law-Breaker Talent: Hunter Shadow" was 19, "Soul-Severing Shadow" was 30, then the danger level of pushing "Basic Passive: Shadow Speed" from lv. 1 to x was at most around 15. It was worth a try.

Su Xiao put away what he had obtained. He chose to kill the Sand King directly just now, not only because he didn't believe the traitor's words but also because he had means to find clues about the traitor from the Sand King.

Besides improving soul strength, Su Xiao's "Soul Eater" talent actually had the effect of stripping soul memories. It was just that the risk of absorbing soul memories was very high, and after using it a few times, he didn't use this ability much.

Su Xiao held his hands in a virtual grip, and a mottled translucent light ball appeared between his hands. Several blue energy threads as thick as hair pierced into it.

A muffled thunder seemed to ring in Su Xiao's ears, and a picture appeared before his eyes: a bleak lead-gray sky like the end of the world, with corpses all over the ground, and broken weapons inserted everywhere on the ground.

"Cough, cough~"

The Sand King, who was still young in his brows, fell to the ground, coughing up blood from his mouth, his chest and abdomen pierced by a long sword. A Law-Breaker of Shadow, who had suffered a backstab from him, lowered his eyes and looked down at the Sand King who was dying on the ground with pupils revealing blue light. This was the most shameful moment in the Sand King's life. He backstabbed his mentor with one sword, only to be slapped and slashed to the point of dying by his mentor.

The long sword was pulled away from the flesh, and the sharp blade pressed against the Sand King's throat. Just a touch, and the sharp blade cut the skin, and a few strands of blood flowed out. But, this was a disciple he had watched grow up since childhood. In the end, the Law-Breaker, whose hair already had traces of gray, sheathed his long sword and left the place, leaving only the large number of enemy corpses that were originally ambushers, as well as the Sand King who was in a coma due to serious injuries.

The soul memory ended here. Su Xiao tried to switch memory fragments. The next second, it was a scene of the Sand King fighting a strong enemy. He tried to switch memory fragments again.

After switching memory fragments several times in succession, Su Xiao finally saw the scene he wanted to see. It was a church with strange and dark furnishings. Besides the Sand King, there were two figures. One of the figures had the appearance of a human in the upper body, while the lower body was a thick snake-like black mud semi-fluid. According to known information, Su Xiao recognized this as the Abyss Leader, Silvis.

In the dark church, besides the Sand King and the Abyss Leader, Silvis, there was also a figure sitting on a long chair with his back to the Sand King. According to the cognitive feedback given by the soul memory, this was the traitor, or the Shadow of the Abyss.

Besides this memory feedback, Su Xiao also sensed one point: the Sand King was somewhat afraid of the traitor. It wasn't fear because of the gap in strength; that feeling was more like awe for a strict elder. Thinking that the Sand King grew up in the Law-Breaker faction, it meant that the traitor joined the Law-Breaker faction even earlier.

The scene provided by the memory fragments ended here. Su Xiao continued to check, and until the light ball composed of the soul memory fragments in his hand completely dissipated, he didn't find any more traces related to the traitor.

Sand King, Abyss Leader Silvis, Traitor.

Su Xiao's target began to become clear. Next target: Abyss Leader Silvis. ===== CHAPTER 3640 =====