Chapter 3721: Second Stage

Clang~, clang~

The bell tower of the Beast Race's ancient capital rang. The Storm Flame Dragon circled between the clouds rendered golden by the setting sun. For some reason, a large amount of world power gathered in the sky, causing those clouds rendered golden by the setting sun to rotate slowly in a vortex shape.

Directly below this vortex was the Old Royal Palace. At this moment, on the old throne, the old Beast King, whose figure was already thin but whose bulkiness and sense of power were not reduced in the slightest, was sitting majestically. His hands were crossed in front of his chest, and those dark golden pupils, which were slightly turbid but also full of power, were looking at Su Xiao.

Clatter~

The palace gate behind Su Xiao was pushed open, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha entered. As for why Xian Lulu didn't come, Xian Lulu couldn't adapt to this level of battle. Don't look at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's physique as not strong; in fact, when fighting against powerhouses, Xiang Bubu had very strong survivability, which was trained by following Su Xiao to fight against powerful enemies all the way.

With a boom, the door of the Old Royal Palace closed. The old Beast King on the throne subconsciously reached out to straighten his crown, but touched nothing. Instead, he gripped the hilt of the battle blade leaning against the armrest.

"Law-Breaker, will you be an enemy of the entire Beast Race for the sake of this imprint?"

The old Beast King picked up the "Initial Imprint" on the armrest of the throne beside him.

「……」

Su Xiao didn't speak.

"You will. You will, for the sake of this imprint, let the Zerg Queen you cultivated show her fangs to the Beast Race. You have already cultivated that Zerg Queen into an existence capable of destroying the Beast Race. That is a race that exists solely for conquest. The abundant vitality of the Beast Race is the hotbed for those Zerg to grow, growing to the point where their numbers are enough to swallow the Beast Race and tear the Sea Race to pieces."

The old Beast King's words were actually not a delusion, but something that would definitely happen. If it weren't for this final battle, in order to seize the last large piece of "Initial Imprint," Su Xiao would indeed have let the Zerg start producing troops and head straight for Eternal Ring City. Although the remaining stay time was not enough, he never had the habit of giving up.

The reason why the old Beast King chose to have a life-and-death battle with Su Xiao here was actually because he felt that the Zerg Mother Nest in Twilight Winter City had developed to a point beyond his control...

This was also why, after Su Xiao raised the Zerg race level to Lv. 95, he subsequently received the steel feathers of the old Beast King.

The cost of going to war with the Zerg was too great, even greater than going to war with the Sea Race. If he directly handed over that 35% "Initial Imprint," it would seem to be the smallest cost, but that represented hundreds of thousands of ounces of Space-Time Power. The old Beast King, who was temporarily notarized by the Tree of the Void, could also become the top one.

If the old Beast King became the final winner of the imprint ranking, then after deducting the notarization fee of the Tree of the Void, as well as various losses and the cost of the battle for supremacy, the Beast Race could probably get one-fifth of the Space-Time Power. Assuming there were still 2 million ounces of Space-Time Power in that "Space-Time Power Storage Device," the entire Beast Race could get 400,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.

This was a Transcendent Native World. Naturally, he knew what a good thing Space-Time Power was. Coupled with the fact that the old Beast King, who was only ranked on the imprint ranking in the later stage, naturally didn't know about the Priest's layout. After all, although the old Beast King was difficult to deal with in all aspects, he was not an omniscient and omnipotent existence. Otherwise, he wouldn't have reached the point of being about to die of old age.

The cost of going to war with the Zerg was too high, and how could he be willing to directly give up this opportunity to obtain 400,000 ounces of Space-Time Power? Therefore, this final battle in the Old Royal Palace was the old Beast King's best choice.

If Su Xiao was killed, the Zerg would be immediately excluded from the Wind Sea Continent. Even if Jila wanted revenge, there would be no possibility of coming here in the future. Furthermore, this kind of race whose talent points were all added to war capabilities would perish in a very short time once they lost the protection of Su Xiao, the hunter. This was inevitable.

In this way, the crisis faced by the Beast Race was resolved at the smallest cost.

Conversely, if Su Xiao killed the old Beast King, he would naturally get what he wanted. Coupled with the fact that the old Beast King also set up a layer of insurance, which was that after Su Xiao became the final winner, he would definitely leave the Wind Sea Continent as soon as possible.

In addition to these main reasons, the old Beast King naturally also had some selfishness, which was that he had fought all his life and led the Beast Race to build Eternal Ring City, but today, he was so old and frail that he was about to die on his sickbed.

Rather than continuing to linger on for a few months, or even a few years, the old Beast King preferred to pick up his former weapon and let his life fire burn one last time before it was about to extinguish.

Crack, crack, crack~

The originally dilapidated and old throne began to show large areas of cracks due to the awakening of the old Beast King's aura, and gravel floated up due to the Beast King's aura.

The old Beast King stood up from the throne. His height of more than three meters made the battle blade nearly two meters long in his hand not look too long, but rather just right in proportion to his height. The cloak with soft leather inside and iron feathers outside hung down. Every steel feather had a sharp edge, but this was not a weapon.

An extremely sharp aura appeared on every steel feather. This sharpness was all concentrated on the battle blade in the old Beast King's hand. The edge of this battle blade had many traces of damage, showing how many bloody battles it had experienced. Although there were many chips on the edge, at the first sight of this weapon, no one would doubt its sharpness and the thick weight that was difficult for ordinary powerhouses to control.

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand pointed obliquely at the ground. The dual-blade state of the Silver Moon Blade and the Spiritual Blade had been successfully blessed, but even so, he felt that the pressure coming head-on was getting greater and greater.

Where was the old Beast Race on the opposite side? It was more like a blade of steel that was burning. This was not a fire-type ability, but a powerful force and unparalleled self-healing power that burst out after the life force burned fiercely.

Was the survivability of the Knight Commander, this heavy-armored warrior, abnormal enough? That was actually the disciple of the old Beast King, and he only learned the old Beast King's "Robust Beast Blood" and failed to fully learn the old Beast King's use of weapons.

Simply put, the Knight Commander had ridiculously strong survivability but average output, while the old Beast King had ridiculous survivability + powerful attack power.

The Eye of the Gods floated behind Su Xiao, detecting the data of the old Beast King on the opposite side.

【Comparing the intelligence attributes of both sides... Comparison complete. Our intelligence attribute is 0.99 times that of the enemy. Obtaining 80% of the enemy's data.】

Name: Beast King ·?? (Due to the influence of Ultra-Pure Abyss Blood, causality has been blocked by the Abyss).

Health: 105.8% (Permanent damage and aging led to a 14.2% reduction in the health cap).

Battle Soul Power: 86500/86500 points.

Strength: 300 points (True attribute, fell to the barrier value due to aging).

Agility: 300 points (True attribute, fell to the barrier value due to aging).

Stamina: 300 points (True attribute, fell to the barrier value due to aging).

Intelligence: 300 points (True attribute, fell to the barrier value due to aging).

Charisma: 1 point (Due to the influence of Ultra-Pure Abyss Blood, this attribute has been solidified to 1 point).

Skill 1, King of the Wind Sea (World · Passive, Lv. 1): Health +92000 points, Willpower +126 points, and gains the aging slowing characteristic.

Hint: The absolute upper limit level of this ability is Lv. 1.

Skill 2, Battle King (Passive, X): Health +110000, ignores all control effects, physical damage reduction 12%, energy damage reduction 15.5%, Willpower +138 points.

Skill 3, Beast King (Passive, X), Health cap +20%.??????

Skill 6, Abyss Battle Spear (Technique · Passive, Lv. 85):???

Skill 7, Blade Technique Master (Technique · Passive, Lv. 78):???

Blade Technique Master Lv. 10 derivative ability · Heavy Strike: Slashing power judgment tier +1.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 20 derivative ability · Angry Beast: Slashing power judgment tier +1.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 30 derivative ability · Collapse: Slashing power judgment tier +1.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 40 derivative ability · Residual Destruction: Slashing power judgment tier +1.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 50 derivative ability · Shura Slash: Slashing power judgment tier +2.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 60 derivative ability · Angry King: Slashing power judgment tier +3.

Blade Technique Master Lv. 70 derivative ability · Blade of the Hegemon: Slashing power judgment tier +6.???

Skill 9, Robust Beast Soul (Passive, Lv. 80): Will increase health recovery speed by absorbing surrounding world power based on lost health and own willpower.???

Skill 11, Self-developed technique ability (53 types in total), detailed data of this type of ability cannot be detected, 33 passive types, 20 active types (originally 695 types, refined to only 53 remaining).???

Skill 14, Molten Iron Body (Ultimate · Passive, Lv. 50): When health is below 50%, the Beast King will enter a strong super-armor state, gaining relatively high damage reduction, body defense, and super-strong knockback resistance.

Skill 15, Molten Iron Body · Slaughter (Ultimate · Passive, Lv. 55): Due to excessive accumulated damage and severe aging, this ability has become invalid.

Skill 16, Dark · Beast King (Ultimate · Passive, X): When the Beast King's health is below 30% and partial conditions are met, he will enter this state, at which time the Beast King will temporarily return to his peak state.

……

Seeing this data, Su Xiao knew that although the battle against the old Beast King this time was dangerous, it was fightable. Due to the old Beast King's past hidden injuries and illnesses, coupled with aging, his strength at the beginning of the Absolute Strong level had continued to slide.

The old Beast King right now had combat power that was not at the Absolute Strong level but exceeded the ninth tier. If the old Beast King stably maintained this level, then with his rich combat skills accumulated over thousands of years, Su Xiao would not be his opponent.

The problem was that the old Beast King's state was not stable, fluctuating between the top of the ninth tier and half an Absolute Strong level, and the fluctuation range was not small. In this way, it was fightable. Su Xiao could not fight an Absolute Strong, but he could fight a powerful enemy who had not reached the Absolute Strong level.

But then again, the deep treatment authority of the Reincarnation Paradise was truly a good thing. If the old Beast King had had the recovery and treatment of this authority, he would definitely not have reached today's point.

Even so, Su Xiao would still not underestimate this powerful enemy. He previously thought that among the powerhouses he had fought, the Old Knight with the super-armor slash was the hardest. Now it seemed that was not the case. Once the Beast King's health dropped to 50%, he would be super-armored throughout.

In fact, the Beast King's ability system was very simple and crude: his own physique was strong, plus the power slash with ridiculously high judgment. This was a Battle King who had killed his way out of thousands of troops. His abilities were naturally not flashy. No matter how fancy the opponent was, one power slash of the battle blade would kill the enemy or peel off a layer of skin.

Simply put, the old Beast King's first stage was high attack + thick blood, and the second stage was full super-armor + high attack + thick blood.

Compared to these fierce and domineering first two stages, the Beast King's third stage, the Dark Beast King, was simply ridiculous. There was no need to consider how to deal with the third-stage old Beast King, but rather he must absolutely not be given the opportunity to enter the third stage. Otherwise, Su Xiao would definitely die today.

The old Beast King, who injected "Ultra-Pure Abyss Blood" into his heart, would not hold back at all, but would kill Su Xiao as much as possible. Therefore, the old Beast King entering the third stage was equivalent to Su Xiao's death date.

The good news was that the old Beast King had to wait until his health was below 30% and meet an unknown condition before he could enter the third stage.

Right now, Su Xiao's Magic Blade ability was in a state of being ready to be used at any time. Therefore, how to kill him with a set of combos the moment the old Beast King's health dropped below 30% was the key to this battle.

"Amu."

Su Xiao spoke in a deep voice. Amu, who had been prepared for a long time, mooed and rushed toward the old Beast King with the Dragon Heart Axe.

Every step of Amu was exceptionally stable, but because the charge ability was activated, its speed became faster and faster. When it reached a few meters in front of the old Beast King, Amu leaped up, held the Dragon Heart Axe with both hands over its head, and slashed at the old Beast King's head with one axe.

Whoosh!

The long blade swept through the wind pressure. After the old Beast King slashed horizontally with a full-power slash, Amu suddenly turned into a beam of light—a beam of light with freezing air—and crashed into the side wall.

Crack~

Dense cracks appeared on the edge of the Dragon Heart Axe. This made Amu's heart ache. It roared angrily and rushed toward the old Beast King with red eyes.

Boom!

Another power slash, and Amu turned into a beam of light again, crashing into another wall. Amidst the scattering gravel, Amu, covered in blood, walked out from the smoke and dust. Having taken two slashes from such a powerful enemy as the old Beast King, Amu actually still had this state...

Squelch!

Amu was bleeding all over. Looking closely, one would find that it was covered in cracks shaken out, and in some cracks, internal organs could be seen.

Zing!

A dark golden slash with a metallic texture swept past. Amu's chest was bleeding. Amidst the splashing blood, Amu fell down with a thud, its aura weakening rapidly. This was clearly a sign of impending death.

Seeing this scene, the old Beast King no longer paid attention to Amu. Facts proved that if Amu had master abilities, that might not be a master of being beaten, but a master of playing dead. It played dead so realistically that its soul aura was even a bit drifting.

Just noticing this point, Baha's eyes widened. This was not playing dead at all. Amu was too severely injured this time and was really about to collapse. Seeing this, Baha activated the potion control device in the team storage space, causing several biological capsules pre-injected into Amu's heart to shatter. The powerful recovery potion inside merged into its blood at the fastest speed, pulling Amu back from the brink of death.

Amu seemed to have only taken two slashes before collapsing, but its help to Su Xiao was not small. Through Amu's damage, Su Xiao learned of an ability that had not been detected.

Every slash of the old Beast King was a judgment. The first slash was a normal heavy slash, the second slash was a powerful slash with strong vibration, the third slash returned to a normal heavy slash, and the fourth slash was a powerful slash again.

Confirming this point, Su Xiao swept past a blood shadow and, relying on his speed advantage, fiercely attacked the old Beast King.

When Su Xiao was still three meters away from the old Beast King, the old Beast King on the opposite side slashed over. At this moment, Su Xiao had a strong feeling that except for swapping positions with the Magic Spirit, he could not evade this slash in any way. He could only block it with the sharp blade in his hand. Otherwise, if he dodged rashly, he would pay a painful price, and it was even more likely that the battle would end quickly just as it began.

As a triple master, how could Su Xiao not believe the keen combat intuition derived from his technique ability? He held the blade and clashed with the old Beast King.

Clang~!!

The sharp blades clashed, and high-speed overlapping images caused by the vibration appeared before Su Xiao's eyes. The powerful enemy fought this time required every slash to be blocked head-on. What was more fatal was that the other party's slashing power was strong to the point of being unimaginable. At this moment, Su Xiao's right arm was already a bit numb. One must know that the battle had just begun.

Su Xiao took a step back along the trend. Just as his foot landed, with a crack, starting from the ground he stepped on, dense cracks exploded on the ground, climbing all the way to the wall of the palace before stopping.

Not giving Su Xiao even half a second of breathing room, the old Beast King on the opposite side slashed again. This slash was a powerful slash with super-strong lethality, and that feeling of being unable to evade coming head-on appeared again.

Fortunately, Su Xiao had been prepared. Amu hadn't been beaten for nothing. Su Xiao blocked with his long blade and activated the "Perfect Block" ability.

Thud!

An impact expanded with the intersection point of the battle blade and the long blade as the center. Su Xiao felt an impact like raging flames coming head-on. Fortunately, he chose to use the "Perfect Block" to block this powerful slash. Otherwise, the price would be very serious.

The astonishing slashing power passed through his body, and the space behind Su Xiao exploded. In the palace behind him, the air was covered with space cracks. These cracks were like sharp blades suspended in mid-air, standing still there.

A piece of gravel shaken by the impact flew behind Su Xiao. When it passed half a meter behind him, this piece of gravel was silently cut into flakes. While scattering down, it was cut into fragments.

This was the old Beast King's powerful slash. Although he didn't have space-type abilities, he could shatter the space in an area through slashing to kill the enemy. This method had the same effect as Su Xiao's thunder resistance and thunder control.

The terrain of half the royal palace was changed into a death cutting zone. Coupled with the fact that the old Beast King's slashing knockback was very strong, Su Xiao, who used big moves for normal slashes, couldn't hold on. One could imagine how dangerous this battle was.

Blood flowed out from Su Xiao's sleeve and stained the long blade. Although his health had dropped by over 10% and his internal organs were shaken to the point of dull pain, Su Xiao's attention was unprecedentedly focused, because this battle was not a clash of abilities, but a clash of techniques.

The broken space behind him brought a sense of sharpness and cutting. With no way to retreat, Su Xiao fiercely lunged forward. While the sound of the wind whistled past his ears, the long blade in his hand slashed down.

Just as the two sharp blades were about to clash, Su Xiao entered the space penetration state, which allowed the Checking Zhan Long Shan in his hand to pass through the old Beast King's battle blade without any obstruction. Almost at the same time, he left the space penetration state.

In this way, it formed a situation where Su Xiao's long blade slashed toward the old Beast King's neck, and the old Beast King's battle blade slashed toward Su Xiao's head.

A stream of blood surged up. Su Xiao and the old Beast King brushed past each other. A severed arm flipped and flew up, finally landing on the ground with a clatter.

Su Xiao, with stars of bloodstains on his left cheek, stood with his back to the old Beast King. Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of spirit shadow threads spread from his severed arm.

More than ten meters behind Su Xiao, a large amount of blood scattered from the old Beast King's throat. Although his throat was cut by a blade, the old Beast King showed extremely strong self-healing power. The wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Self-healing was not a rare ability, but it was rare to have such self-healing power with such a powerful physique.

Some self-healing and regeneration abilities that looked invincible in the early stage might not even have the most basic hemostatic effect when applied to powerhouses in the later stage. This was like an ant being able to drag a leaf and move quickly, but it was absolutely impossible for it to drag a magnificent palace.

Sizzle~

All the spirit shadow threads spreading from Su Xiao's severed arm retracted, pulling his severed arm back, performing micron-level suturing at the wound, connecting the severed muscles, nerves, etc., and finally fixing the bones.

Su Xiao moved his left hand. At first, the movement of his fingers was a bit uncoordinated, but it soon returned to normal. It was not as flexible as before and was still a bit numb, but it could be used for the time being.

"Blood Smoke Cannon."

Blood aura gathered at his fingertips. After being compressed to the limit, it turned into a blood-colored ray and blasted out, breaking through layers of small air waves in the air along the way.

With a boom, the Blood Smoke Cannon was slashed and exploded by the old Beast King. Subsequently, the long blade in the old Beast King's hand stabbed into the ground!

A terrifying sense of crisis, like sharp needles piercing his whole body, Su Xiao leaped sideways. Sharp cone spears pierced out from the ground, one of which pierced the skin and flesh of Su Xiao's right shoulder, and pierced through the ceiling above with bloodstains.

Amidst the falling gravel above, Su Xiao landed, his aura suddenly becoming sharp.

"Blade Way Blade · Blue Ghost."

Zing!

A Blue Ghost slash several meters wide flew out. When it flew in front of the old Beast King, it suddenly turned into a large piece of small Blue Ghosts. Next was flying past the old Beast King. Taking advantage of the other party's relaxation of vigilance, the blade chain composed of dozens of small Blue Ghosts retracted, letting the old Beast King taste the feeling of being pierced by the Blue Ghost...

Boom!

The old Beast King slashed out with a heavy slash. The dozens of small Blue Ghosts that split apart all shattered like broken crystals. Not only that, the broken Blue Ghosts, due to the old Beast King's tyrannical slashing power, swept toward Su Xiao head-on like sharp shotgun bullets.

Su Xiao tilted his head to dodge. Pieces of broken Blue Ghosts flew past him. One of the fragments grazed his cheek, leaving a bloodstain. The Blue Ghost, which had just been propped up for a few days, was hammered again.

"Blade Way Blade · Flow."

A wind mark was slashed out. Seeing this slash, the old Beast King on the opposite side looked solemn. With a heavy slash and a half-step back, he dissipated the "Flow" slash.

Su Xiao could see that the old Beast King's means of dealing with medium-distance attacks, although simple and unadorned, were truly unsolvable. No matter what medium-distance attack method it was, a heavy slash would smash it to pieces.

An increasingly strong sense of oppression came head-on, which made Su Xiao know that some ability of the old Beast King was gradually activating. He must end the battle quickly. Otherwise, when that ability was activated, it would be his death date.

"Super · Blood Smoke Cannon."

With a loud noise, the Super · Blood Smoke Cannon with several times the power blasted out. The old Beast King on the opposite side dodged sideways the moment the Blood Smoke Cannon blasted out, as if he had known it beforehand. The wind pressure brought up by the Blood Smoke Cannon blew up his steel feather cloak.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao was puzzled. Why did the old Beast King, who had always slashed all attacks head-on, choose to dodge? Even if the power of the Super · Blood Smoke Cannon was very strong, the old Beast King's dodge caused the sense of oppression that was continuously climbing to drop by a large margin suddenly.

That feeling was like some ability of the old Beast King was building up. The more this ability built up, the stronger the sense of oppression Su Xiao felt. And just now, that powerful ability had at least built up 50%, but the old Beast King's dodge caused the terrifying feeling brought by the buildup to suddenly loosen by a large margin, meaning the buildup bar of that powerful ability suddenly slid from 50% to 25%.

Su Xiao's Blade Way Blade · Flow had power exceeding the Blood Smoke Cannon blessed by single blood soul. Under such circumstances, why did the old Beast King choose to resist "Flow" head-on but dodge the "Blood Smoke Cannon"?

This made Su Xiao think of a possibility: the old Beast King had an unsolvable ability like strong super-armor, and it was a continuous strong super-armor after health was below 50%. But to get something, one must pay something. Everything has a balance. For example, Su Xiao could ignore causality and divination, but his luck would be relatively bad.

Then what was the price paid for the old Beast King's strong super-armor ability? A physique that was too rigid could sometimes snap. Therefore, there must be a drawback. This drawback was that the old Beast King had a characteristic similar to a parry limit, commonly known as a parry bar.

This characteristic was usually used to soothe the excessive rigidity brought by the strong super-armor, but in battle, once the old Beast King's parry bar was full, he might fall into a short-term defense-break state.

Su Xiao thought of these factors in a very short time, which made his head, which had been beaten to the point of being a bit dizzy, quickly recover his sobriety. He knew how to win. He couldn't retreat. If the enemy was hard, then apply full pressure until the enemy's parry broke.

With a boom, gravel splashed under Su Xiao's feet. He turned into a blood shadow, changing his previous defensive posture and attacking fiercely. Or rather, this was the biggest trap in the battle with the old Beast King. The old Beast King's domineering blade technique would make people subconsciously fearful and choose a safe defensive posture. But once such a choice was made, it was highly likely that they would be suppressed to death by the Beast King.

The Blue Ghost, which had just been sent to the cold palace, was dragged out again. The reason was that the Blue Ghost seemed to have collapsed just now, but the dense slashes caused the old Beast King, who shattered it, to have his parry bar rise by a large margin, rising more than when he shattered "Flow."

Clang!

The long blade and the battle blade clashed. The vibration made Su Xiao feel congested in his chest, but not only did he not retreat a single bit, he slashed out again.

After an explosion, the impact expanded to the surroundings. The large amount of gravel knocked away blasted the walls on both sides into holes. This royal palace, blessed with arrays, began to be unable to withstand the clash between Su Xiao and the old Beast King.

"Blade Way Blade · Time."

Thud~

An invisible impact expanded to the surroundings. With Su Xiao as the center, everything around slowed down. He slashed toward the old Beast King's throat, but although the old Beast King's speed slowed down, he blocked with the first third of the battle blade with extreme precision, causing the Checking Zhan Long Shan to graze along the edge of the battle blade and finally slash into the air.

Not only that, the old Beast King, whose speed gradually returned to normal, pulled the edge of his cloak with his left hand and flicked it forward with all his might. Pieces of sharp steel feathers exuding a faint light shot toward Su Xiao.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!

Crisp hitting sounds spread. Su Xiao blocked the flying steel feathers one after another with his long blade. When he blocked the last steel feather, more than a hundred spirit shadow threads had spread from the five fingers of his left hand. He flicked with all his might, and these spirit shadow threads connecting all the steel feathers connected all the steel feathers into a blade chain and attacked the old Beast King on the opposite side.

The old Beast King was a bit surprised, but his movements were not slow. He stepped forward with one foot, and a beast head composed of soul energy roared, shaking the attacking blade chain to pieces.

After a crisp sound of clinking, all the steel feathers retracted to the old Beast King's cloak.

It was this short gap that couldn't be considered a flaw that was perfectly captured by Su Xiao, which made the old Beast King, as a Battle King, feel a bit uncomfortable. A Law-Breaker who was a triple technique master was indeed difficult to deal with.

Su Xiao lunged forward, kicking straight. The fierce wind pressure suddenly attacked the old Beast King, which made the corner of the old Beast King's eyes twitch imperceptibly. This kick was very wrong!

"Roar!"

A beast roar that seemed like an illusion spread. The old Beast King held the hilt of the battle blade with one hand and resisted the blade spine with the other, resisting this straight kick head-on.

With a loud noise, the old Beast King staggered back a few steps. Of course, Su Xiao, who kicked on the blade edge, also had his foot cut open. However, he had used a Solar Straight Kick before, causing this foot and lower leg to be blown off, which was currently installed in the life-support device. The current one was a crystal lower leg and sole.

The old Beast King was broken in his parry, and his figure inevitably had a short stiffness. Taking advantage of this gap, black-blue smoke emerged from Su Xiao's body.

"Blade Way Blade · Magic Shadow."

While Su Xiao slashed out, the released Blade Magic Spirit had already appeared behind the old Beast King. Just as the Checking Zhan Long Shan in his hand was about to slash onto the battle blade that came to block, he swapped positions with the Magic Spirit, which caused him to appear behind the old Beast King.

Squelch!

Blood and sparks splashed. The long blade slashed through the cloak, causing slashing damage to the old Beast King's back. It was just that this steel feather cloak was too tough, so the defense-breaking effect was not ideal. However, if another blade slashed at the same position, this steel feather cloak would be slashed open, leaving only the upper half.

With a clatter, the crystal long blade of the Magic Spirit opposite the old Beast King slashed onto the old Beast King's battle blade. The sense of crisis coming from behind made the old Beast King slash backward in a circle. As a result, the one slashed open was actually the Magic Spirit.

Su Xiao swapped positions with the Magic Spirit again, appearing behind the old Beast King who had turned around.

"Blade Way Blade · Extreme."

Su Xiao combined two blade technique abilities. He slashed out his strongest blade in close combat.

Blood and steel feathers splashed. The old Beast King's steel feather cloak was slashed off. Su Xiao did not give the old Beast King any chance to fight back, and slashed out another blade.

This made the old Beast King simply not block. He held the hilt with both hands and stabbed the battle blade into the ground. A powerful impact expanded with him as the center point.

Su Xiao's pupils gradually tightened, starting to capture the timing. Just as he was about to be swept away, he swapped positions with the Magic Spirit. Because the distance between him and the Magic Spirit to the old Beast King was the same, he perfectly avoided the impact of the angry slash by this position swap.

"Blade Way Blade · Blood Explosion"

The blade of the Checking Zhan Long Shan in Su Xiao's hand turned crimson. This was high-concentration blood aura clinging to it.

Red light appeared in Su Xiao's eyes. The long blade stabbed toward the old Beast King's chest. As a result, the old Beast King dodged sideways, only stabbing into the left shoulder. Subsequently, a loud noise spread. The Checking Zhan Long Shan that pierced through the old Beast King's shoulder triggered an explosion, which caused the old Beast King's left shoulder and left arm to shatter at the same time.

This was the power of Blood Explosion. This move would consume 60% of Su Xiao's blood aura, and would consume a large chunk of the Checking Zhan Long Shan's durability. It could not be used more than twice in a single world.

Amidst the blood smoke, a battle blade slashed head-on. Its power caused dense black cracks to appear in the surrounding air.

"Perfect Block."

Clang!!

After successfully blocking this slash, Su Xiao staggered back a few steps. As for using "Perfect Counter" to shock the enemy after blocking, that would be like breaking his own waist. Even if he didn't perform a counter-shock, his whole skeleton felt like it was about to fall apart. The old Beast King's powerful slash was domineering to the point of being ridiculous.

Su Xiao's health had already slid to below 50%. And in the blood smoke on the opposite side, golden-red soul flames rose. This meant the old Beast King had entered the second stage, starting continuous strong super-armor. This made Su Xiao have a feeling that this life-and-death battle had actually just begun.