Chapter 3758: Monster

Scarlet Castle fifth floor, in the open space.

Because of the blessing of scarlet energy, the walls and ground here were exceptionally sturdy. In addition, when deciding to choose this place to fight the Ancestor, Su Xiao had strengthened this place with spells.

The two metal doors behind him were tightly closed and sealed from the outside, representing that Su Xiao had not left a way out. If he couldn't win against the Ancestor, who was poisoned and fell into a trap, then there was no possibility of dealing with the other Four Giants.

The Mysterious Eye floated up behind Su Xiao and began to detect the Ancestor's data.

【Comparing the true physical attributes of both sides (this enemy-self attribute judgment is random, randomly selected from five attributes: Strength, Agility, Stamina, Charm, and Intelligence).】

【Comparison completed. This detection can obtain 70% of the enemy's data.】

Name: Ancestor.

Category: World-ending existence (Due to this world's reason, ability upper limit is sealed).

Health: 320%.

Blood Soul: Uncondensed state (Due to insufficient Source Blood, the Ancestor cannot condense Blood Soul. The Ancestor can condense up to 960 Blood Souls).

Corruption Power: 125920/130000 points (Ability upper limit is sealed, this characteristic is somewhat reduced).

Strength:???

Agility:???

Stamina:???

Intelligence:???

Charm: 0 points.

World Debuff, Super-World-Level Sealing Spell (Passive): Located within this world, the comprehensive ability upper limit can only reach Absolute Strongman · Extreme Value.

Skill 1, Devour Evil Object (World-ending · Passive): Located in the balance of normal Abyss and elemental power, can plunder all life in the world, and even world power, until the world withers and dries up.

Skill 2, Evil Proliferation (World-ending · Passive): Ignore the influence of world consciousness, and block all rejection, causality expulsion, etc., of the world.

Skill 3, Undying · Evil Object Tough Body (World-ending · Passive): Health upper limit +220%, all damage reduction 95%.

Skill 4, Evil Blood Nourishment (Passive): Health +270000 points, physical defense +195 points, attacks carry life plunder effect, thereby restoring lost health.

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Skill 6, Filth Insect Eruption (Active, Lv. 85): The Progenitor immediately consumes 3,000 points of Corruption Power, enters a state of Super Armor, and erupts a large number of Corrupt Filth Insects into the surrounding area with itself as the center. While enemies suffer high amounts of biting and erosion damage, they will also accumulate a moderate amount of "Corruption Value."

Warning: This ability has no cooldown and can be used continuously.

Skill 7, Filth Insect Parasitic Cannon (Active, Lv. 83): The Progenitor immediately consumes 2,500 points of Corruption Power, enters a state of Super Armor, and fires 10–50 needle-like Filth Insects from its palm. If the Filth Insects pierce into an enemy's body, they will absorb life force to grow rapidly and then explode inside the enemy, causing internal damage while also accumulating a significant amount of "Corruption Value."

Warning: This ability has no cooldown and can be used continuously, and the number and speed of filth insect eruption can be improved through charging.

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Skill 9, Filth Insect Incarnation (Passive): Three-form weapon, carrying corruption, parasitism, and frenzy damage, and accumulates "Corruption Value" to a medium degree when attacking.

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Skill 11, Filthy Revenge (Passive): When health drops to 150%, the Ancestor will enter a blood-thirsty state, and the combat style will change. When health drops to 50%, the Ancestor will enter a frenzy blood state, and the combat style will be further enhanced.

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Skill 14, Filth Insect · Corrupt Gnawing (Ultimate Ability · Passive): Being attacked by each filth insect will reduce physical defense by 5 points, lasting for 10 seconds. This effect can be continuously stacked until physical defense is -300 points. This characteristic will stop stacking, but the duration will still stack and increase.

Skill 15, Death Corruption (Ultimate Ability · Passive): When Corruption Value accumulates to the full value, it will immediately die.

Warning: This ability can be triggered continuously and rapidly. If two instant death effects are borne within ten seconds, even if the instant death judgment is exempted through immunity means, it will be immediately "beheaded."

Skill 16, Corruption Spread (Ultimate Ability · Passive): All hostile targets within 10000 meters will bear 0.25%–40% of maximum health true corruption damage per second due to Corruption Power, and accumulate "Corruption Value" to a small to large degree.

Prompt: This ability determines the damage intensity according to the enemy's willpower and soul strength, and will cause more damage to targets with low characteristics in these two aspects.

Skill 17, Filthy · Corruption Domain (Ultimate Ability · Passive): Instantly release a huge amount of "Filth Insects" and "Filthy Proliferation," covering a range of ten kilometers. For enemies within this range, it causes 17000 points + 20% of maximum health true corruption damage per second, and accumulates "Corruption Value" to a super-huge degree. This domain can last for 30 minutes at a time, and can be opened again after a 10-minute cooldown.

Skill 18:???

Skill 19, Sudden Death Eye (Supreme Level · Passive,???): This ability has been sealed by this world.

Skill 20, Descent · All Living Beings Calamity (Supreme Level · Passive,???): This ability has been sealed by this world.

The Ancestor's data was simply outrageous. Not to mention various dangerous abilities, just a "all damage reduction 95%" was enough to make the enemy despair.

Enemies with such near-unsolvable defensive power generally don't have high total health, but the Ancestor didn't follow this law. Its health upper limit was as high as 320%. It was estimated that the health must be over a million points.

Enemies with high health upper limits are difficult to deal with. For example, "Extreme Blade · World" can instantly cause 25% of maximum health true slashing damage. For ordinary enemies, this is a quarter of health loss, but for the Ancestor, this is not even one-tenth of health loss.

The good news was that Su Xiao was not afraid of the Ancestor's "all damage reduction 95%." His Dragon Flash broke through the enhancement limit of the Origin level and reached +16 enhancement, obtaining a bonus called "Transcendence Blade."

"+16 Enhancement Additional Effect: Transcendence Blade (Passive), damage caused by this weapon ignores all damage exemption and reduction effects."

The Ancestor's ability was very terrifying, and this was still under the constraint of this world. From this, one could imagine how terrifying the Ancestor would be in its peak state, and why it sucked dry so many worlds and lived to this day. This was a top-tier world-ending existence.

Su Xiao drew the long blade from its sheath and switched the Soul Core to Slash Soul · Soul Core. For this kind of enemy, the most feared things were soul slashing and true damage, which were also the two aspects he was good at.

"Moo!"

Amu sprayed two streams of cold air from his nostrils. After the improvement of the Watcher Tower, he was reborn at this moment. With the cooperation all along, there was no need for Su Xiao to speak. Amu had already rushed toward the Ancestor.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Every step Amu took made the cold ice spread rapidly toward the surroundings. When he was still more than ten meters away from the Ancestor, he leaped up, held the handle of the Dragon Heart Axe with both hands, and the axe blade slashed out a whimpering sound of breaking through the air, heading straight for the Ancestor's head, intending to split the three-meter-tall Ancestor in two.

Clang!

Amu's Dragon Heart Axe slashed onto a layer of transparent hard shell, and the attack stopped abruptly. Before he could react, the Ancestor's right arm probed like a poisonous python, grabbing Amu's neck in an instant, lifting him up by the neck.

"Moo..."

Amu's roar had just begun to be deafening, but then it was like a deflated balloon, the sound dropping straight down. Not only that, his life force was rapidly absorbed by the Ancestor's arm, which made Amu visibly thin and bony, and finally his head tilted, and he didn't move.

Discovering that the enemy was dead and could no longer absorb any life force, the Ancestor threw Amu aside like garbage.

Amu fell to the wall of the hall with a "plop." This blockhead naturally didn't die, but he couldn't get up to continue fighting. A hidden spatial mark appeared in Amu's palm. It was left by Baja in advance. At this moment, Baja was outside the Scarlet Castle, quietly teleporting Amu to that side through this spatial mark using spatial ability. To be hidden enough, this required a few minutes.

Su Xiao slashed out. While the blue slashing light flew out, he swept out at the same speed, reached the front of the Ancestor in an instant, and slashed down with force.

Clang!!

The Ancestor blocked this slash with his bare hands. A substance similar to bone climbed onto the Ancestor's arm. The pressure of the slash caused the surrounding space to crack like a shattered mirror, with a "crack" sound. The scene was both spectacular and had a sense of absolute beauty.

Feeling the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy surging on the long blade, the Ancestor gradually grinned. At this moment, even above the corners of his mouth, two small eyes appeared, which made his smile even more crazy.

Don't look at the Ancestor being old and cunning before, but this monster, which had been locked in a narrow seal for a hundred thousand years, had long been driven crazy by being locked up. He could usually pretend, but when it came to fighting, he completely exposed his completely crazy nature.

The sharpness of Dragon Flash, plus the "Blade-type weapon damage rank +56" and "Blade-type weapon slashing power judgment rank +56" slashing power, made the blade edge slash through the Ancestor's exoskeleton, subsequently slash off his left forearm, and slash across his head diagonally.

"Ah!"

The Ancestor let out a miserable howl, waving his arms wildly, staggering back. But after retreating a few steps, he suddenly covered his face with one hand, froze in a posture of looking up, and subsequently, his body began to tremble.

"Hehehehe... Hahaha!"

Boom!!

Turbid, gray-white aura exploded. A cloak like a translucent skin membrane fluttered behind the Ancestor. Eyes the size of beans opened on his face, his arms lengthened by a few points, and holes the thickness of a thumb appeared on his torso.

The violent aura hit his face, even forming a powerful thrust. Su Xiao blocked the front with his left arm wrapped in the Black King Armguard. Through the gaps between his fingers, his gaze was fixed on the Ancestor, but the Ancestor in front suddenly disappeared.

Su Xiao pierced through space, adjusted his body, and moved forward spatially.

Bang! Bang!

Two half-meter-long bone spurs were nailed to the place where he had just been. Perceiving this scene, he immediately held the blade to block.

With a "clatter," the smashing feeling and the resistance of cutting came from the blade. It was the Ancestor opposite, who was smashing toward Su Xiao with a twisted arm wrapped in filth insects.

The filth insects were about 8 cm long, the front part was like a centipede, dark red, the mouth was full of sharp fangs, and the body was full of black barbs. It was difficult to pull out after burrowing into the target's flesh, and it was also convenient to hang on the target. The gray-white back half had mucus, and on top was the power of corruption.

These filth insects attached to the Ancestor's right arm, and subsequently coiled and bit each other, forming this five-meter-long giant arm.

At this moment, the giant arm smashed down. Although Su Xiao blocked it with his blade, one-third of the filth insects on it flew toward him.

Blood aura exploded, blowing away more than 90% of the filth insects. The remaining 10% bit his shoulders and arms. His health and physical defense dropped rapidly, and the "Corruption Value" increased at a not-slow speed. In the blink of an eye, it rose by one-fifth. If the "Corruption Value" was full, there would immediately be an instant death effect.

Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy surged on Su Xiao's body surface. The filth insects on him all hissed and shattered, but just at this moment, the giant arm smashed down again.

【Blade Dao · Extreme.】

Zing!

After the crisp slashing sound, the Ancestor's giant arm was slashed off. But this giant arm composed of filth insects had just broken when it exploded with a "boom."

The impact struck. While Su Xiao retreated plowing the ground with his feet, he squatted down to stabilize his figure. This explosion, besides the impact, also had a kind of filthy energy fluctuation, making his blood and energy churn.

Located more than ten meters away, the Ancestor let out a deafening crazy roar. One by one, filth insects surged out centered on him, and the collision and friction of the filth insect shells made a crisp sound, which was exceptionally penetrating.

The filth insects scattered everywhere. After Su Xiao slashed away a large area of filth insects with a few blades, he immediately tilted his head to dodge. Several line insects, tight and straight like steel needles, flew past his ears and nailed to the metal door behind, making a "bang bang" muffled sound.

The evil wind hit his face, and Su Xiao slashed forward with a blade.

Puchi!

The long blade slashed halfway into the Ancestor's head, and then was stuck by the tough body. The Ancestor proliferated several arms, firmly binding Dragon Flash. This was not the end; a large number of filth insects surged from his body, about to drown Su Xiao in them.

【Blade Dao · Blood Explosion.】

The Dragon Flash in Su Xiao's hand was already covered with a layer of bright red, which was high-concentration blood aura attached to it.

A loud noise spread, and the Ancestor and the surrounding filth insects were all blown to pieces. But this didn't make the filth insects fewer, but increased in number, and they all grew three pairs of insect wings, flying around.

For a time, the entire hall, only within 3 meters around Su Xiao, had no filth insects flying, and other positions were occupied by filth insects. The vibration of insect wings and the crisp sound of shell friction made one's scalp tingle.

Su Xiao looked around, suddenly slashed toward the side, dark red blood appeared, and the Ancestor appeared and retreated.

Just at this moment, everything around slowed down. Su Xiao 'saw' a large area of steel needle-like line insects flying from the side, at a speed that was unbelievable. Even changing positions with the magic spirit was too late. These line insects pierced into his left arm and left torso, and subsequently exploded, causing him to lose nearly half of his torso.

This scene shattered like a bubble. Su Xiao suddenly turned sideways and slashed forward. A gust of wind pressure swept past. Thousands of line insects flew past around him, and the dozens that were attacking him were just slashed to pieces by him with one blade.

A squeezing sound came from the air around him. Subsequently, the filth insects all around seemed to go crazy. A black-red hole appeared above, and countless filth insects and filthy creatures poured down. This horrifying number would drown Su Xiao in the next instant.

【Extreme Blade · World.】

A sharp and metallic slashing sound appeared, and the filth insects that surged around were instantly cleared. It was "Extreme Blade · World" that broke the "Filthy · Corruption Domain." Being shrouded by this domain, not to mention the horrifying damage per second, just the "Corruption Value" that would be filled instantly was enough to be fatal.

Just as the domain around was broken, Su Xiao felt the whole world spin. Subsequently, he felt like he was sinking into water, sinking continuously.

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The darkness around Su Xiao shattered. Just 0.5 seconds before the previous moment, he was dragged into an unknown domain instantly. Fortunately, his willpower was strong enough.

Sharp pain came from all over his body. The surroundings were already full of filth insects. The sound of shell collision, the crisp sound of "chi li ka cha," this time had to add the terrifying sound of gnawing flesh.

Boom!

Blood aura exploded centered on Su Xiao. The filth insects around him all melted and evaporated like grease under high temperature.

Su Xiao felt an unprecedented sense of weakness hit him. His health at this moment had already slipped to 45%. Even with his 1.1 million health, he couldn't withstand the damage caused by so many filth insects. However, compared to this damage, the physical defense reduction caused by the filth insects was actually more tricky.

Theoretically, when health drops below 50%, Su Xiao's "Undying Constitution" ability will be triggered, and he has entered the second stage.

"Undying Constitution (Passive): When your health drops to 50%, it will "hugely" increase your physical defense according to your true Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes (the increase range is, Strength + Agility + Stamina + Intelligence, the sum multiplied by 0.5)."

With Su Xiao's current physical attributes, this is an increase of 792 points of physical defense. The increase range is horrifying. Combined with his million-level health, only top-tier Absolute Strongmen could cause enough threatening damage to him.

But now, under the physical defense reduction of the filth insects, his physical defense is only 30 points. Please don't misunderstand, this is not 30 points left. If it were based on the degree of physical defense reduction by the filth insects, his physical defense at this time should be -260 points. This would cause the damage caused by the Ancestor later to be no different from true damage, and it would also carry high additional damage.

The reason why Su Xiao can still have this physical defense is the absolute physical defense brought by "Adaptation Power," which is not very obvious on weekdays.

"Adaptation Power (Passive): According to enemy characteristics, increase 25–30 points of true resistance that cannot be reduced!"

So-called true resistance means that no matter what, Su Xiao's physical defense, physical abnormality resistance, etc., will not be reduced below this level.

The recovery potion drunk before the battle began to take effect. Su Xiao's health recovered rapidly, and soon reached more than 90%. The numbness from the wounds faded, representing that the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy had already devoured the invading corruption power.

The hall was full of insect corpses. The blood of these filth insects was exceptionally bright red. In addition, too many filth insects were slashed by a "Extreme Blade · World" just

Standing in this bloodstain that resembled a shallow pool, Su Xiao pointed his long blade diagonally toward the ground; the tip of the blade touched the blood slightly, causing a very faint ripple to spread outward.

And opposite him, the Progenitor, covered in slash marks with only half its head remaining, was recovering its body rapidly. It seemed that Soul Slash was ineffective against it, but the portion of HP that had already slipped away indicated that it had realized the threat Checking Zhan Long Shan posed to it, especially since it lacked a Blood Core—this blade could truly kill it.

"Exterminator!"

Filth Insects surged continuously from the holes in the Progenitor's body, and it controlled these insects to pounce toward Su Xiao. Taking advantage of this opening, it opened its fang-filled mouth, bit into its own arm, and then raised the injured limb; the dark red blood flowing from the wound immediately proliferated into dark red biological tissue.

A humanoid figure gradually emerged; this appeared to be a Beastman, over seven meters tall, with a face full of agony. This had once been a powerful warrior who had nearly killed the Progenitor, only to eventually die at its hands.

As soon as this Beastman proliferated, it fell to the ground with a thud. The Progenitor's hand pierced into the Beastman's nape, ripping out its entire spine, after which the Beastman, composed of proliferated tissue, collapsed and dissolved.

Boom!

The Progenitor swung the spine in its hand; it was like a chain blade, covered in blades and barbs, and due to the Progenitor's ability, it constantly sprouted Filth Insects that scattered everywhere.

This was not the end; the Progenitor's left arm proliferated rapidly, eventually forming a deformed, gigantic arm. The end of this arm resembled a beast's head; this had once been the mount of a Child of the World, the final hope of an entire world's living beings, but unfortunately, that Child of the World was eventually defeated and died.

"Hahahahaha!"

The Progenitor laughed madly and raised its deformed left arm, the beast head spewing blood flames mixed with Filth Insects.

"Exterminator! Once you die by my hand, I will leave a spot for you."

After speaking, one of the Progenitor's newly grown arms tore off the dark gold bandages on its upper body; on its torso were faces with eyes tightly shut.

Without a doubt, this was a monster through and through, and its abilities were terrifying beyond measure, but Su Xiao was certain that the number of such monsters he would have to deal with in the future would definitely not be limited to the few in this world. Regarding this, he felt not the slightest fear in his heart.

The blood flames ignited the pool of blood on the ground; although they had no temperature, they would cause one's Sanity to drop rapidly.

The vast hall, the Filth Insects flying everywhere, the blood pool on the ground ignited by blood flames, the reliefs on the walls splattered with blood, and the powerful, horrifying monster opposite him laughing madly.

Su Xiao stood in the blood flames, facing the Progenitor, which had revealed its true form. The battle had only just begun.