Chapter 3759: Victory or Defeat

Blood flames without temperature burned within the spacious hall. While they appeared incapable of causing burn damage, they actually continuously drained one's Sanity, eventually driving a person to madness.

Su Xiao felt nothing regarding this; with over 1,800 points of Sanity, he could withstand these blood flames for a long time. The more pressing issue at hand was the Progenitor, who had fully entered a combat state.

Normally, although the Progenitor stood three meters tall, he resembled a withered corpse wrapped in dark gold bandages. But now, the Progenitor's withered physique had become hulking; not only did his height exceed four meters, but his torso, with its distorted muscle contours, was covered in faces with their eyes tightly shut.

These were all powerhouses who had fought the Progenitor to the death or had, to some degree, posed a threat to him. They were also the final hope of many worlds. Unfortunately, these hopes had all been shattered and devoured by the Progenitor into his own body.

The laughing Progenitor gripped a vertebral chain blade in his right hand. This chain blade, constructed from vertebrae, was over three meters long, covered in blades and barbs, and continuously spewed filth-worms from its gaps.

The Progenitor's left arm had transformed into a deformed, massive limb, with a beast's head at the end capable of spewing flames and filth-worms.

*Pat, pat—*

After Su Xiao took a few steps forward, the blood around him exploded. He vanished from his spot, and the Progenitor opposite him vanished almost simultaneously.

The next instant, both sides reappeared, now less than two meters apart, as the long blade and the vertebral chain blade clashed.

*Crack! *

The surrounding space shattered. Large swaths of filth-worms scattered from the vertebral chain blade, while the long blade's slashing power dispersed. The two eroded each other, neither able to overcome the other.

The impact of Su Xiao and the Progenitor's clash instantly cleared the bloodstains on the ground, while the surrounding walls were dyed red in an instant. Furthermore, dense cracks appeared on the wall structures.

As the long blade and vertebral chain blade remained locked, the Progenitor's physical strength was terrifying, far exceeding Su Xiao's. However, a Blade Master boosted by 6 points of Primal Skill Points was no pushover; he was fully qualified to clash head-on with the Progenitor.

Just then, the Progenitor's left arm—the deformed beast limb—raised up, the beast's mouth aiming at Su Xiao, preparing to spew blood smoke and filth-worms.

"Super Blood Smoke Cannon!"

A blood-energy phantom formed behind Su Xiao, and a blood smoke cannon as thick as a bucket slammed directly into the beast limb's mouth, causing that arm to swell by another circle.

"Roar!"

The Progenitor let out a hair-raising roar that could pollute a living being's spirit. This caused a buzzing in Su Xiao's ears, and he fell into a disadvantageous position in the standoff.

With a *whoosh*, the vertebral chain blade swept Su Xiao away. While Su Xiao was still flying in mid-air, the chain blade whipped like a lash, striking him.

*Snap! *

Fragments of the shattered crystal layer splashed everywhere. Su Xiao turned into a blur, slamming into the side wall. He felt his blood and Qi churning, but with no time to recover, he slapped the massive crater in the wall with one hand, using the recoil to leap out even faster.

With a *bang*, the vertebral chain blade struck the crater in the wall where Su Xiao had just been. The power of corruption turned the interior a purplish-black, with many filth-worms left behind.

While in mid-air, the moment Su Xiao landed, he held his blade to block.

"Perfect Block."

*Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang... *

Dense, continuous crisp sounds rang out as the vertebral chain blade struck Checking Zhan Long Shan from top to bottom. The blades and barbs on the chain blade clashed with the edge of Checking Zhan Long Shan, sending sparks flying.

Su Xiao excelled at blocking single, violent attacks, but this multi-stage attack clearly countered his Perfect Block. Thus, he immediately broke the block. The end of the vertebral chain blade grazed his shoulder, tearing away a large chunk of flesh and leaving filth-worms to gnaw at the wound.

Qing Gang Ying energy surged, evaporating the filth-worms in the wound. Even so, Su Xiao staggered half a step due to the broken defense.

The Progenitor naturally wouldn't miss such an opening. Its deformed beast limb, already charged with blood flames, spewed toward Su Xiao. Moreover, a deformed pale arm growing from its side waist aimed at Su Xiao; this arm bulged, fully charged with energy, and spewed over a hundred steel-needle-like parasitic worms at him.

Su Xiao was submerged in blood flames, filth-worms, and parasitic worms. The Progenitor laughed wantonly until Su Xiao fell, turning into black smoke.

That's right—before being submerged by the attacks, Su Xiao had swapped positions with the Magic Spirit. As for where the Magic Spirit had been, that went back 1.5 seconds, when his shoulder was struck by the vertebral chain blade.

As a Blade Master, would he be broken through a block? Of course not. This was a flaw he had intentionally exposed. The Progenitor's abilities were too troublesome; he had no way to charge in, and the Magic Spirit couldn't get close either, so he had to expose a flaw.

Just moments ago, the Magic Spirit in its black smoke state had been clinging to the inside of Su Xiao's long leather coat, on his shoulder and left torso. When the Progenitor's vertebral chain blade severely wounded his left shoulder, tearing away flesh, it naturally took away a certain amount of the Magic Spirit's black smoke.

In such a fierce battle, the Progenitor's attention wouldn't be focused on its weapon, let alone noticing that the enemy opposite had been broken through his block and was in a brief state of physical numbness. Under such circumstances, it wouldn't notice the Magic Spirit's black mist flowing between the gaps of the vertebral chain blade.

Now, Su Xiao and the Magic Spirit had swapped positions. He appeared directly in front of the Progenitor, who was still in the middle of a full-power spewing attack, with over half of its body energy concentrated in the deformed beast limb.

Su Xiao suddenly appeared two meters in front of the Progenitor, which gave the Progenitor quite a shock. Although it laughed madly, it had never underestimated the Blade Master it was fighting. Therefore, it avoided close-quarters combat with him as much as possible; as long as it maintained a mid-range confrontation, this Law-Breaker would surely die.

What the Progenitor didn't expect was that Su Xiao, having closed to this distance, didn't choose to strike with his blade first, but instead delivered a direct kick. This left the Progenitor feeling both puzzled and relieved.

*Thud!! *

The kick hit the Progenitor's abdomen, causing its dozen eyes to widen to their limit. Its powerful, tough torso visibly arched backward, with flesh cracks spreading from the point of impact.

After a piercing sound of breaking air, the Progenitor turned into a straight blur, followed by the massive sound of it crashing into a wall. Viewed from above, the entire Scarlet Castle shook. Inside the opposite building, all the vengeful spirits and ghosts gathered together; saying they were shivering might be an exaggeration, but it was close enough.

Inside the hall, the Progenitor, located in the massive crater in the wall, bent its body forward, and a large amount of dark red blood spewed from its mouth. In its eyes, there was a hint of disbelief.

Opposite, dozens of meters away.

"Blade Dao Blade · Green Ghost."

*Zing! *

A cyan-blue slash hit the Progenitor, causing its body, which was just about to stand up, to lose balance. Taking this opportunity, Su Xiao charged forward, delivering a direct kick with 30% of his power held back, maximizing the piercing force.

*Bang! *

The Progenitor was kicked into a flaw. Just as it rose from the hole in the wall, it instinctively knelt on one knee, blocking in front with one hand.

"Blade Dao Blade · Extreme."

The blade edge slashed past, and the Progenitor's deformed beast limb was severed instantly.

"Roar!"

The Blood Beast lunged out and exploded. This belonged to the standard triple combo: a direct kick, the strongest melee blade slash, and finally, the Blood Beast lunging up.

Su Xiao, just about to retreat, felt his pupils shrink slightly. It was "Master Intuition" triggering. Seeing the scene in the next 0.5 seconds, Su Xiao immediately began charging "Blade Dao Blade · Kill."

A loud explosion came from the front. The Progenitor spewed a large number of black parasitic worms. These worms were not only incredibly fast and flew with immense force, but also had a tracking effect. Su Xiao's "Master Intuition" had just seen him retreating, avoiding the Progenitor's counter-attack ability, which would have caused him to be hit by this move.

So-called counter-attack abilities were not only possessed by the Progenitor; Su Xiao had them too, such as Extreme Blade · World, Ring Break, etc. These were all counter-attack abilities that could prevent being continuously suppressed by the enemy.

A large swarm of black parasitic worms flew over, and Su Xiao unleashed the "Blade Dao Blade · Kill" he had been charging for less than a second.

With a *whoosh*, a blood-colored ribbon slashed out. "Kill," bolstered by Blood Soul, unleashed a blood-colored ribbon that appeared dark red, with tiny sparks inside.

All the black parasitic worms turned to ash in an instant, and even the Progenitor was enveloped in the slashing ribbon. The counter-attack ability was broken.

This was why many powerhouses were unwilling to clash with technique-types; having a counter-attack broken was not only embarrassing but also led to a severe beating.

Blood energy clung to the long blade, and Su Xiao unleashed rapid slashes at the Progenitor in front, leaving arc-shaped slash marks in the air.

A shocking scene appeared. The Progenitor withstood Su Xiao's slashes, activating "Filth · Corruption Domain." A black-red hole appeared above, and a massive amount of filth-worms and turbid growths poured down, about to submerge Su Xiao. The world around him plunged into darkness.

"Extreme Blade · World."

A crisp ringing sound dispersed the darkness. Every dozen centimeters around, a grain-sized slashing flash point appeared, including the Progenitor, who was caught in the middle, leaving its entire body covered in deep-to-the-bone slash marks.

The Progenitor had activated "Filth · Corruption Domain" twice, and both times it was shattered by Su Xiao's "Extreme Blade · World." It had to be said, the domain-breaking ability of a Blade Master Lv. 80 was simply too useful, and this move had an incredibly fast startup speed and high damage.

Having suffered consecutive heavy blows, the Progenitor's HP had dropped below 150%. Just then, the eyes on every face on its body opened simultaneously.

With a *clang*, the descending long blade blocked the vertebral chain blade, and then an impact hit him head-on. Su Xiao was immediately blasted away.

Landing steadily in a half-squat, Su Xiao saw the Progenitor opposite him rising with golden-red energy. It no longer spewed filth-worms, but the vertebral chain blade had changed drastically. Biological tissue clung to it, connecting the blades on one side, eventually transforming into a recurve greatsword with the vertebrae as the core, covered in flesh.

This vertebral blade had many faces full of hatred, so the weapon was named Hatred.

Strands of flesh and blood grew from the Progenitor's right arm, connecting to the hilt of the Great Blade of Hatred, causing a fresh red energy to emerge upon this vertebral bone blade known as Hatred.

"Ha—"

The Progenitor exhaled white mist from its mouth and gripped the Great Blade of Hatred with its right hand. Immediately after, its strong, excessively proliferated physique condensed in the blink of an eye, restoring the Progenitor's height to just over three meters. The muscle lines all over its body tightened, exuding a sense of explosive power.

The Progenitor had entered its second stage; at this point, it shifted to melee combat.

Whoosh!

The Progenitor streaked out as a gold-red afterimage, ambushing Su Xiao from the front; only after it had passed did the roar of space being violently torn through reach from behind it, and the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand smashed down.

Looking down from above.

Thud—!!

The entire Scarlet Castle crumbled, the power of scarlet scattered by the violent force. Half a kilometer away, those watching vengeful spirits, ghosts, and the like died instantly under the impact.

An afterimage streaked diagonally through the building's ruins before crashing into the earth several kilometers away. The accompanying impact caused soil to be blasted a hundred meters high, just like high water waves splashing up when something falls into water.

Inside a dirt pit covered in blue crystals, Su Xiao covered his mouth with one hand. Even so, blood and tiny organ fragments still flowed out through his fingers. After calming his aura at the fastest speed, he pulled the Spirit Shadow Threads with one hand. The Spirit Shadow Threads embedded in his right arm were pulled taut, and the cellular-level stitching forced the flesh wound on his right arm to heal.

Having entered the second stage, the Progenitor's combat power had undergone a qualitative change; Su Xiao had barely been able to withstand that heavy slash just now.

Without giving Su Xiao time to catch his breath, a fierce wind struck. He leaped sideways, barely dodging the Great Blade of Hatred as it slashed down.

The Great Blade of Hatred smashed into the ground.

Thud!

The ground within a one-kilometer radius crumbled and rose. This was not the end; the Progenitor raised the Great Blade of Hatred again and slashed furiously at Su Xiao.

"Roar—"

A miniature Blood Beast pounced out. Although it could not interrupt the Progenitor's attack, it dealt a "Breath Flaw," triggering the "Time Dominator" effect, and everything around them slowed down.

Su Xiao leaped backward, the Great Blade of Hatred narrowly slashing past his face, and the Great Blade of Hatred struck the ground for the second time.

Thud!

The ground within a ten-kilometer radius crumbled and rose. Looking down from above, it was a disk-shaped upheaval.

Having just dodged the second furious slash, the Progenitor roared and had already slashed a third time. This time, as the Great Blade of Hatred fell, the space along its path shattered with a crackle.

This slash could not be blocked head-on; even with a perfect block, one would have to pay a huge price.

Su Xiao swapped positions with the Magic Spirit located a hundred meters above. The third slash of the Great Blade of Hatred passed through the Magic Spirit and landed on the ground.

Thud!!

Within a hundred-kilometer radius, the ground crumbled and vibrated upward. Looking down from above, the crumbled ground was a huge disk shape with a diameter of a hundred kilometers.

Soil fell like a curtain of rain. Looking around, the earth was devastated, and the soil had turned gray-white due to corruption.

Su Xiao landed. As soon as he landed, he charged toward the Progenitor, his long blade clashing against the Great Blade of Hatred.

Crack!

The originally pitch-black sky was sliced open from the middle. Daylight shone down from this groove, just happening to illuminate Su Xiao and the Progenitor below.

Wisps of vitality drifted out from the wounds on Su Xiao's body and then floated toward the Progenitor a dozen meters away. Because Su Xiao's HP was as high as one million points, the Progenitor's healing speed was quite considerable when absorbing his vitality.

This was the Progenitor in the second stage, the Blood-Thirst state. Whether it was that impossibly strong Great Blade of Hatred slash, this vitality absorption, or the black filth-worms distributed over a hundred kilometers around that were rushing toward this side, all of this meant that this battle could not be dragged on any longer.

Su Xiao confirmed that the Eye of Mystery was wrapping the 【Intense Emblem】 inside the team storage space. This was one of the gains from completing the world mission on the Star Fall Continent.

Su Xiao exhaled slowly. If he let the Progenitor enter the third stage, the Mad Blood state, he would definitely not be a match. Therefore, he had to use some ruthless methods to ensure the Progenitor had no chance to enter the third stage. Even if it was unavoidable and the opponent entered the third stage, he had to ensure the opponent had already been severely wounded.

End this deathmatch within ten minutes; either the enemy dies, or he dies. As for running away, he had never considered it.

"Blade Art: Green Ghost."

Clang—

A black slash flew out, moving at an incredible speed. The next instant, it had reached the front of the Progenitor.

The Progenitor swung the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand, shattering the incoming black slash. Black mist appeared suddenly. This time, when casting Green Ghost, Su Xiao had added the Magic Spirit into the slash of Green Ghost, which was why the slash had changed from blue-green to black.

Su Xiao swapped positions with the Magic Spirit and slashed with all his might.

Clang!!

The long blade and the Great Blade of Hatred clashed together. A terrifying impact spread out with Su Xiao and the Progenitor as the center point. After this clash, Su Xiao immediately stepped back; the Progenitor's second-stage strength was too terrifying.

The Progenitor gripped the Great Blade of Hatred with both hands, raised it over its head, and delivered a powerful downward slash at Su Xiao. Although this was not as terrifying as the last slash of the triple furious slash, the momentum was still shocking.

"Perfect Block."

Clang!!

The long blade blocked the Great Blade of Hatred. Even though protective energy was distributed throughout his entire body, Su Xiao still felt as if his body's skeleton was about to fall apart.

The Progenitor opposite him had an even more manic smile on its face. It pulled down the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand. With a screech, the sharp edge of the Great Blade of Hatred scraped across the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan. Then, the Progenitor raised the Great Blade of Hatred over its head once more, and more than a dozen arms grew out, all gripping the hilt to increase the power of the downward slash.

The sound of wailing wind and the sound of space shattering came at the same time. Su Xiao made a move to leap sideways to dodge, but because his blood and Qi were unstable, he was a split second too slow, and the Great Blade of Hatred struck.

The Great Blade of Hatred passed through Su Xiao's head and torso. It was him using Dragon Shadow Flash to penetrate space. The Progenitor in the Blood-Thirst state was indeed strong, but it was not without weaknesses. The Progenitor's excessive distortion of itself destined its control over combat details to become poor.

With a snap, an electric arc appeared, and then the blue electric arc climbed onto Checking Zhan Long Shan. This slash was swift and light, cutting across the Progenitor's throat.

"Soul Electro-Shock (Passive): Significantly strengthens the control characteristics of the Green Steel Shadow energy. When Green Steel Shadow energy burns the enemy's body energy, there is a 15% chance to trigger a paralysis state (this is an absolute control effect and cannot be exempted by any means). The abnormal status duration is 0.2–3 seconds."

"Hint: This effect can be continuously stacked. Each time Green Steel Shadow energy burns the enemy's body energy, if the 'Absolute Control' effect is not triggered, the trigger probability of this characteristic will increase by 20% until this probability reaches 100%. The next slash carrying Green Steel Shadow energy will, upon hitting the enemy, definitely cause the enemy to fall into an 'Absolute Paralysis' state."

The number of slashes Su Xiao had dealt to the Progenitor had long exceeded six, but Soul Electro-Shock was not completely uncontrollable. When its trigger probability increased to 100%, he could decide which slash carried this ability.

As the slash carrying Soul Electro-Shock cut across the Progenitor's throat, the Progenitor was paralyzed on the spot by the electricity. Although the control time was only for an instant, for Su Xiao, it was enough.

A "Sun Holy Sword" had already been taken out. Su Xiao used the hilt of his blade to smash this glass pillar. The liquid Apollo inside gushed out, and those fist-sized gelatinous Apollo also quickly liquefied.

A "Sun Holy Sword" quantity of liquid Apollo climbed onto Su Xiao's right foot and lower leg, which were wrapped in a crystal layer. In normal times, he certainly wouldn't do this, but right now he had the overloaded 【Inscription Base: God Sacrifice】.

"Inscription Effect: Supreme Blazing Sun (Core, Passive, Overloading), immune to 85% of Sun Flame damage."

When the blue electric arc on the Progenitor's body surface disappeared, Su Xiao had already delivered a Sun kick, heading toward the center of the Progenitor's chest.

At first, there was no deafening roar, only a dazzling light appearing, and then came a muffled, loud sound.

After the earth-shaking loud sound, Su Xiao kicked the Progenitor straight out. With him as the center, the surrounding ground expanded and crumbled in rings, until it affected a range of dozens of kilometers around.

The corruption power in the ground corrupted by the Progenitor was immediately blasted away by the impact, and the falling soil gradually returned to the pitch-black color of the Wet Salt Zone.

The Progenitor turned into a straight golden afterimage. Wherever it flew backward, the ground was plowed into a trench hundreds of meters wide. This trench was glowing red due to the high temperature and was covered in flashing sparks. Subsequently, it showed vitrification after the high temperature ended.

Flying more than ten kilometers away, the Progenitor stopped flying parallel and crashed into the ground with a bang, causing the earth to tremble.

Even so, the Progenitor still did not fall. It knelt on one knee, the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand stabbing into the ground. In the dark red blood it spat out, there were glowing red sparks.

A whistling sound of wind struck, and the Progenitor held the Great Blade of Hatred horizontally in front.

Crack!

The long blade pierced through the thick body of the Great Blade of Hatred, only ten centimeters away from the Progenitor's skull. Pale arms grabbed onto Checking Zhan Long Shan one by one.

"Blood Smoke Cannon!"

A blood-Qi phantom appeared, and from a high position, it fired a Blood Smoke Cannon at the Progenitor's skull, blasting the Progenitor backward for more than ten meters.

Su Xiao charged forward and slashed off a small half of the Progenitor's head with one blade. But what puzzled the Progenitor was that the slash from this Law-Breaker opposite it no longer had the same threat as before; the soul-slashing degree had been reduced by a large margin.

Why was this? The reason was that Su Xiao had already switched the Soul Core of the Soul-Severing Shadow from the Soul-Slashing Soul Core to the Falling Thunder Soul Core.

With a crack, the sky, which had become dim again at some point, suddenly emitted a muffled sound. The Progenitor immediately looked up at the sky. Just one glance, and it felt an unprecedented sense of threat.

The sky that came into view was a slowly rotating vortex of dark clouds, containing terrifyingly strong World Thunder. Do not forget, this was the Eternal Light World; the World Thunder was already outrageously strong, not to mention that Su Xiao was also drawing thunder with 996 points of elemental affinity.

The Progenitor's first thought was that this Law-Breaker wanted to perish together with it. Its whole body burst out with proliferating dark red flesh. These proliferating flesh quickly shrouded it inside, and then hardened into a gray-white, bone-like substance.

Boom!!!

A thunder pillar a hundred kilometers thick fell, standing between heaven and earth, continuously pouring down golden thunder. Most of the Wet Salt Zone was instantly filled with World Thunder. If Baha hadn't taken Amu to leave the Wet Salt Zone at high speed, they would definitely have been affected at this time.

Su Xiao and the Progenitor were submerged in the massive golden thunder. The earth crumbled, concave downward from the center of the thunder strike area, quickly forming a huge pit that was exaggeratedly large.

In the thunder and lightning, Su Xiao lost all feeling in his body. The empty potion bottle in his hand was instantly evaporated. His HP, which had just recovered to 80%, stopped recovering. Before the World Thunder fell, his choice was different from the Progenitor's; he did not form a defense, but drank a bottle of 【Honor Resurrection Potion】 that could restore 100% HP and Mana.

Not only that, Su Xiao's base thunder resistance was 564 points, and he also increased his thunder resistance through the following means.

"Falling Thunder Soul Core: Significantly increases thunder resistance."

"Extreme Physique: Wrath of Heaven (Passive): When your HP is lower than 30% due to the attack of World Thunder, you will immediately gain thunder resistance equal to your real stamina attribute × 2.1. This state can last for 30 seconds."

In just an instant, the bonus of "Extreme Physique: Wrath of Heaven" was triggered, and Su Xiao's thunder resistance soared by 832 points, reaching an extraordinarily exaggerated level.

The surroundings were full of golden thunder. Were these preparations of Su Xiao to withstand the World Thunder of the Eternal Light World head-on? No, these means of his to increase thunder resistance could only ensure that he would not instantly turn into fly ash, giving him the qualification to trigger life-saving items, and that was all. Wanting to withstand the World Thunder head-on in the Eternal Light World with thunder resistance was really too difficult; the extreme elements here brought about extremely powerful World Thunder.

An eggshell-shaped shield appeared; it was an invincible shield. This was Su Xiao's means to withstand the World Thunder of this world head-on.

【Intense Emblem】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Category: Special (No need to wear directly, it takes effect when stored in the team storage space)

Durability: 2/3 (Being buffed by the Eye of Mystery).

Equipment Effect: After storing it in the team storage space, when you and all team members receive a high-intensity strong attack that causes HP to suddenly drop to 1%, this emblem will be activated, locking the vitality of this unit for 10 seconds, making it enter an absolute invincible state.

Hint: Only when the HP drop range exceeds 70% in a very short time can the protection of this equipment be triggered.

Because the life-saving item was triggered, the ultimate effect of Blood Gun Master was suppressed by Su Xiao. Inside the invincible shield, with only 1% HP left, he took out an injection gun and injected a 【Vitality Stock Solution】 into his neck. Because the usage interval was too short, his HP only recovered to 12.8% before it stopped recovering.

The momentum of the World Thunder was terrifying, but it also receded quickly. After about seven or eight seconds, thunder no longer poured down from the sky, and the thunder spreading on the ground gradually dissipated into the air.

Looking at the Wet Salt Zone now, the space within this entire area was full of cracks and gaps. At the center point where the World Thunder fell, a semicircular huge pit appeared here. If there were groundwater here, this huge pit would have already formed the largest lake in this world.

On the flat ground at the bottom of the huge pit, the invincible shield around Su Xiao shattered. He looked forward, and a gray-white huge sphere, a hundred meters in size with a honeycomb rock structure inside, was gradually shattering.

With a muffled bang, the Progenitor rushed out from inside, and the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand delivered a furious slash at Su Xiao.

"Perfect Block."

Clang!

Su Xiao flew backward for dozens of meters, his HP suddenly sliding by nearly half, leaving only just over 6%. Not only that, his whole body was covered in cracks, and these cracks were oozing blood outward. As for the 【Night of the Wild Hunt】 long leather coat, if he hadn't unequipped it just now, this equipment might really have been evaporated by the World Thunder that fell just now, especially since this defense hadn't been upgraded to the Eternal level.

Although the Progenitor did not die under the World Thunder, its whole body was full of charred cracks. Most of the faces on its torso were shattered, and its skull also had cracks. Its left arm and part of its left torso had turned into charcoal, barely able to remain connected to the torso.

Besides these, the Progenitor's ultimate life-saving ability had been used to resist these World Thunders, which made its originally winning mentality waver a bit.

"Just by you, you... are not qualified to kill me!!"

The Progenitor suddenly erupted, rushed to the front of Su Xiao in a few steps, and slashed down with the Great Blade of Hatred in its hand.

Clang!

Su Xiao was again slashed into staggering back a few steps, scattering a large amount of blood along the way. Even worse, his "Corruption Value" was full, and instant death was triggered.

【Warning: You are about to suffer an instant death effect.】

【Blade Art Master: Soul Blade (Ultimate, Passive), has exempted this instant death. Soul Blade has entered a cooldown state.】

Su Xiao's corruption value was cleared. Although he exempted the instant death, all the strength in his body felt as if it had been drained in an instant.

Bang!

The Progenitor delivered a straight kick. The crystal layer splashed everywhere. Su Xiao's left arm, wrapped in the crystal layer, blocked this straight kick, preventing the Progenitor from getting revenge for the two straight kicks it had received.

"Extreme Blade: World!"

The crisp sound of the slash had just appeared when Su Xiao felt a sharp pain all over his body. His state was too poor, leading to an overdraft in the use of his ability.

Taking advantage of Su Xiao's ability interruption, the Progenitor swung the Great Blade of Hatred.

Clang!

The long blade blocked this attack, but the subsequent huge force caused Su Xiao to fly backward and crash to the ground. He tried to get up from the ground, but the world spun around him. Over 90% of the blood in his body had been lost, making him feel weakness invading. If it weren't for his astonishing physique, as a human, this amount of blood loss would have already caused him to die on the spot.

His vision blurred. Su Xiao looked at the Progenitor in front of him, whose image was doubled. The opponent was dragging the Great Blade of Hatred and walking over step by step.

"Blood Smoke Cannon!"

A Blood Smoke Cannon was fired. Su Xiao only heard a clatter; the Progenitor successfully used the Great Blade of Hatred to block this Blood Smoke Cannon, but the Great Blade of Hatred broke.

The Progenitor stopped its pace, looked at the broken Great Blade of Hatred in its hand, and casually discarded it. A one-meter-long bone spear grew from its palm and was held in its hand.

The Progenitor's state was also extremely poor, but it could still walk, and at this moment, it was walking toward Su Xiao step by step.

"Blood Smoke..."

Su Xiao had just activated the Blood Smoke Cannon when his vision blurred. Even worse, in his current state, the effect of recovery potions was minimal, not to mention that the Progenitor opposite him would not give him a chance to use recovery potions.

"Blood Smoke Cannon!"

With a boom, the Progenitor, who was walking toward Su Xiao, was blasted into staggering back two steps. Its left half of the body, which had already turned into charcoal, was damaged, but it laughed, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Law-Breaker, your subordinate killed you."

The Progenitor laughed with extreme joy and madness, because killing a Law-Breaker in this way allowed the hatred it had accumulated from being imprisoned for a hundred thousand years to have a place to vent.

A green light sphere appeared in the Progenitor's chest. This was a mass of vitality. Under these circumstances, if the Progenitor absorbed this vitality, the final winner could only be it.

This vitality was absorbed by the Progenitor from Amu when the battle first started. In order to prevent this vitality from having problems, from the beginning of the battle until now, the Progenitor had kept this vitality trapped in its body without absorbing it. After confirming there were no problems, it prepared to absorb this vitality.

Like a long drought meeting sweet dew, as the Progenitor absorbed this vitality, the cracks on its body surface healed quickly. But the next second, the crazy and joyful smile on its face froze abruptly. The alchemical fierce poison it had been poisoned with earlier was suddenly strengthened to the limit.

Pfft!

Black blood sprayed out from the mouths and noses of the faces on the Progenitor's body. Its HP, which had just recovered to 30%, suddenly slid by 15% and was still continuously dropping.

Why did the Progenitor clearly confirm that Amu's vitality had no problems, yet after absorbing it, it still caused the fierce poison in its body to strengthen?

"Amu Skill 5, Elemental Physique (Core Skill, X, Passive): Elemental Physique possesses extremely strong natural elemental affinity and can form a good cycle with natural elements, thereby strengthening itself."

"Hint: Each time a natural elemental cycle is completed, it will slightly permanently increase HP, real strength, real stamina, and real intelligence attributes."

If there were elemental power in other people's vitality, it would definitely be detected by the Progenitor. Amu was different; it completed a natural elemental cycle every day, which led to the fact that even if there were natural elements in its vitality, the vitality would not have special fluctuations, because this was the normal state of Amu's vitality, not deliberately added.

If vitality were compared to individual cells, incorporating natural elements into other people's vitality meant that the natural elements and cells were next to each other, which would be discovered by the Progenitor. But Amu could do it by wrapping the elemental power with vitality cells, and it was wrapped in the very center.

Amu performed a natural elemental cycle, not devouring elements. Its vitality cells would make the elemental power feel affinity, so after one of its vitality cells wrapped around a natural element, the natural element would not try to break away, but instead would settle down comfortably for a period of time, just like a little elf tired of drifting, temporarily finding a safe place to live.

That's right, from the "Life Crystal" to the fierce poison, Su Xiao's target had always been the Progenitor. Among the Four Giants, Su Xiao learned the ability data of the Progenitor and the Astral Devourer through the grocery guy, Thorns, so naturally, he had to deal with these two first.

It was not wise for many people to besiege the Progenitor; more HP would instead give the Progenitor a chance to turn the tables. This was also why Su Xiao did not let other teammates go to the Scarlet Hall to deal with the Progenitor together, only letting Amu be there to fight the Progenitor with him.

The Progenitor, a dozen meters away, staggered. Taking advantage of this short breathing time, Su Xiao had already recovered some strength. He stood up from the ground and charged at the Progenitor with less than 5% HP left.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters.

When Su Xiao was only three meters away from the Progenitor, the Progenitor suddenly gripped the air with one hand. With it as the center, a massive amount of filth-worms erupted. This was the Progenitor's finishing move.

Under the impact and biting of a large number of filth-worms, Su Xiao's HP dropped to 1%, and he was about to die here.

Thud—thud!

Su Xiao's heart beat fiercely. Located in his chest, his heart turned crimson, and one could even see the rapidly beating bright red heart through the flesh and bones with the naked eye.

"Blood Gun Master Lv. 80 Ultimate Ability: Blood Controller (Ultimate, Passive): When your HP is only 1% left, all your remaining soul energy, mental energy, and 80% of your body energy will all be instantly transformed into blood-Qi power through the Devouring Core, and with this massive amount of blood-Qi power, protect your 'Life Origin' for 6 seconds. Within these 6 seconds, if your Life Origin (heart) and the human race's largest vital point (head) are not highly destroyed, even if you suffer high-intensity attacks, your HP will not drop to 0%."

Because of the blood-Qi power all over his body, Su Xiao's strength and speed recovered by a large margin. Blood-Qi erupted, and the filth-worms rushing toward him were shattered. Black-blue smoke appeared on Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Su Xiao stepped forward. At a distance of less than two meters from the Progenitor, he slashed down. Opposite him, the Progenitor's right hand, carrying rich corruption, reached out to grab Su Xiao's head.

With a slash mark carrying black-blue smoke, he slashed diagonally. Everything around seemed to be still, including the filth-worms flying toward Su Xiao with bared fangs and brandished claws, and the corruption hand of the Progenitor that was about to press on his face.

Pop—

A filth-worm ruptured, seemingly causing a chain reaction. All the filth-worms around exploded one after another with a crackle, and before they even landed, they turned into ashes.

The Progenitor still maintained the appearance of wanting to grab Su Xiao's face with one hand. Its fingers trembled, but in the end, it could not move an inch.

Not only that, black-blue flames appeared on its body, causing this body to be burned into ashes and drift away in a short time. A gray-white, ugly worm about 5 cm long fell to the ground. Although there were black-blue flames on its body, it burned relatively slowly.

"Law-Breaker, wait... wait, I know a shocking secret, no no no, I know where many treasure vaults are, I have hidden wealth outside that you cannot imagine..."

The Progenitor tried to make a final struggle. It looked up at Su Xiao, but it found that this Law-Breaker had already raised his left foot, and the sole of his shoe was stepping toward it.

Once upon a time, when the Progenitor was invading worlds, it was located high in the sky, looking down at the billions of living beings crying and howling on the ground.

At this moment, it looked up and stared at the falling sole. It was clearly just a sole, but after it was beaten back to its original form, this sole was like the falling firmament, unavoidable. The Progenitor's expression was ferocious and carried a bit of fear. It roared angrily:

"No!!"

Su Xiao stepped forward with his left foot and stepped on it with a pop, stepping this monster that had destroyed many worlds to death with one foot.

World-destroying existence, Progenitor, has been killed.