Chapter 3805: Dark

The goose-feather snow made the sky gray and heavy. The Twin Lord, dozens of meters opposite, had asphalt-like burning liquid dripping from his black-flame greatsword. Those black flames mixed with mottled white were definitely troublesome; that was a kind of Devouring power.

Boom!

Su Xiao and the Twin Lord vanished from their spots at the same time. The ground where both had originally been shattered and rose, but both sides didn't rush toward each other, but toward a group of people who wanted to benefit from the fisherman's profit.

The Twin Lord flashed his figure twice at high speed, leaving black embers in the air, and arrived at the hiding place of the Winter King and others.

The Light-Dark Greatsword... no, it should be called the Devouring Greatsword. The Devouring Greatsword slashed into empty space with a boom. This space made a crisp "crack" sound, then triggered a chain reaction. Like a mirror shattering, a different space exploded with a boom. The space-type old man who maintained this different space was ignited with Devouring black flames all over his body, only having time to let out a painful wail before being burned into pale ashes.

The Winter King's hundred personal guards immediately protected the Winter King in the center. Several personal guards protected the Winter King at close range, their backs almost touching the Winter King's armor. The Winter King, who was burly, over three meters tall, and wearing dark golden armor, raised his hand to push these personal guards away. As a War King, he didn't need such close-range guards.

In the flying heavy snow, Su Xiao and the Twin Lord blocked both sides of the group of personal guards. The two surrounded a hundred people. Although this sounded a bit strange, no one present questioned it.

"Protect this King..."

The Winter King's words were only half-spoken. He himself was very surprised, never expecting that he would say such a thing. The hundred personal guards around him had firm eyes, ready to protect the Winter King to the death.

The brief surprise on the Winter King's face was seen by Su Xiao. He didn't choose to form the Blood Beast with the blood energy he had gathered. This was actually a newly developed ability. Now it seemed there was no chance to use it.

The Twin Lord opposite stabbed the Devouring Greatsword into the ground. A loud noise spread, and layers of dark shockwaves spread. The surrounding earth, like a series of raised rings, spread to the surroundings.

Boom!

A huge Winter Armor shrouded the group of personal guards and the Winter King. The Winter King in the center held a cold core in one hand, which crackled. Obviously, he used this secret treasure to block the Twin Lord's attack.

The Twin Lord rushed out with a wind-breaking sound. With the tattered black wings behind him like a tattered cloak, he held the Devouring Greatsword with both hands and raised it high above his head. Black flames surged onto the greatsword, making the entire greatsword instantly reach a length of a hundred meters.

"Darkness... Descend!"

Boom!!

Darkness instantly shrouded everything within dozens of kilometers around. A few seconds later, the darkness here gradually dissipated. The once-majestic giant Winter Armor became dilapidated, with only a few pieces floating in mid-air. The hundred elite personal guards of Eternal Winter City all turned into incomplete skeletons, and while falling, they drifted away like ashes.

Viewed from above, the snow accumulated in the surrounding hundreds of kilometers was all cleared, forming a huge circle. Within this area, the ground seemed to be eroded by asphalt, burning with Devouring black flames.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

After the Winter King coughed a few times, blood sprayed from his mouth and nose. The extreme ice war hammer in his hand was already broken. Although he was a War King, the Winter King's strength was not in martial arts, but in leading troops to fight. The Winter Legion led by the Winter King was exceptionally feared even by the Witch camp.

The darkness remaining in the air all dissipated. A wind-breaking sound came from the side of the Winter King. He was about to force his breath back to deal with this blow when a layer of translucent blue crystal layer instantly climbed onto his body, sealing him like a statue.

Su Xiao appeared behind the Winter King and gave a clean and neat side kick.

Boom!

The crystal layer shattered. The Winter King turned into a straight line and flew to the side. Almost simultaneously, a space distortion two kilometers away formed a space vortex, swallowing the flying Winter King. It was Baja, who had rushed over. At this time, Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Alana were all dealing with a group of black witches who had suddenly appeared.

After a side kick, Su Xiao landed. He originally intended to slash the Winter King and the other party's hundred personal guards, but just now, noticing the surprise on the other party's face after saying "Protect this King," Su Xiao decided that he couldn't let the Winter King die here.

He was more than 70% sure that the Winter King had been devoured of his fate by the Platinum Apostle, and with the strength of the Winter King's fate and causality, it was by no means as simple as devouring the fate of Dark Star Witch Phyllis.

This meant that devouring the Winter King's fate was something the Platinum Apostle had planned for a long time, and even after several world progress operations, it was achieved. That is to say, the plan of the Platinum Apostle and the Priest had been conspired long before, and the subsequent joining of the Abyss Archbishop was like adding wings to a tiger...

Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of one thing: whether the Priest, who was dragged into the Eternal Light World, chose to count against count, and the other party's plan was: since they were going to enter the Eternal Light World anyway, it was better to save a strong reinforcement, and let this strong reinforcement participate in the plan with the Platinum Apostle.

In this way, the Priest chose to replace the confidant of the Eternal Dark Lord in the Eternal Light World, the Temple High Priest Ezle. This was definitely not a coincidence. These were all planned by that old guy, step by step, until the Abyss Archbishop escaped from the prison of the Eternal Light World.

The more specific reason was that the Priest cooperated with the Platinum Apostle, which was inevitably passive. The Platinum Apostle was a violator who had escaped the hunter's hunt. One could imagine his strength and means. Therefore, the Priest needed a strong reinforcement to join this plan, to check and balance the Platinum Apostle through this strong reinforcement, and this strong reinforcement had to be of great help to this mysterious plan.

The final implementation location of this mysterious plan was undoubtedly the Witch World. As the absolute ruler of the Dark God Sect, the Abyss Archbishop, even if the Platinum Apostle was dissatisfied, he couldn't refuse the joining of this strong reinforcement. One of the Priest's goals was achieved.

The situation at the moment was that the Platinum Apostle needed to borrow Su Xiao's hand to get rid of the Winter King whose fate he had devoured. The subsequent chaos in Eternal Winter City played a vital role in the plan of the Platinum Apostle, the Priest, and the Abyss Archbishop, and it was even one of the turning points of that plan.

Su Xiao fought his way to Supreme Tier, and he didn't rely on just being reckless. Pure reckless people couldn't live long in the Paradise camp, except for the tyrant with negative intelligence attributes.

Therefore, he couldn't let the Winter King die this time, at least he couldn't let the other party die in this battle. The best result was to give the Winter King a chance to recover. In this way, the Platinum Apostle, the Priest, and the Abyss Archbishop would have new enemies, and the entire Eternal Winter City camp would become their mortal enemies.

Zing~

Su Xiao, wearing a metal armguard on his left hand, stroked the blade of the Dragon Flash. He stood in the black flames that had diminished in momentum, looking at the Twin Lord opposite. He could determine that the other party's Devouring ability had an unreasonably strong attack power.

If it were before mastering the Green Shadow King, Su Xiao wouldn't have much confidence in this battle. But after actually using the Green Shadow King, he discovered many powerful aspects of the Green Shadow King. For example, the Twin Lord's current maximum HP cap of 200% could only recover to 135.3%, and the remaining 64.7% of the blood bar turned gray.

The reason for this was that the Green Shadow King ability caused 125,000 points of real damage + 20% of maximum HP as real damage to the Light/Dark Lord respectively. Such a high percentage of real damage caused deep damage to the Light/Dark Lord. After the two entered the third stage, this deep damage stacked up, reaching 64.7% of the maximum HP.

This deep damage could be recovered through some means later, but it was extremely difficult and required enough time to recuperate. This meant that after being damaged by the Green Shadow King, even if the treatment system treated it immediately, it would be useless.

In the burning black flames, the Twin Lord, a hundred meters away, suddenly vanished from his spot and rushed toward Su Xiao. A large amount of darkness surged on the Twin Lord, making him look like a black hole, with strong adsorption.

Su Xiao felt a momentary weightlessness and nearly was adsorbed by the Twin Lord. If he flew over, with the other party's real strength and a greatsword, he would at least lose half his life.

"Blood Smoke Cannon."

Su Xiao pointed his left index finger at the Twin Lord. The blood energy compressed to the extreme gathered at his fingertip, releasing a red light that made people feel palpitations. Because the red light was too strong, a cross-shaped blood-red flash appeared.

Bang!

After the blood energy was compressed to the limit, it turned into a blood-colored ray and blasted out. Along the way, layers of small air waves broke in the air. This Blood Smoke Cannon, which was unreasonably fast, hit the Twin Lord on the spot.

Crack!

A thunderbolt with a coverage range of five meters struck down. This World Thunder was too fast and too sudden. The Twin Lord's lunge was interrupted, and the darkness that looked like a black hole also shattered. After being shrouded in golden electric arcs, the Twin Lord fell into momentary paralysis.

Whoosh~!

Su Xiao suddenly lunged to the front of the Twin Lord and gave a straight kick.

Boom!!

The Twin Lord knelt on one knee on the spot, spitting blood from the blood basin giant mouth covered in jagged sharp teeth. The force of the straight kick pierced through his body, making the tattered cloak-like wings behind him even more tattered.

Su Xiao's straight kick actually had two ways of exerting force: power penetration or power explosion. The former was used for combo connection, with the advantage of not kicking the enemy away, but the disadvantage of not being able to fully unleash the power. The power-explosive straight kick was the complete form of the straight kick, which maximized the damage and kicked the enemy into light with one kick.

The reason the enemy would turn into light was that after high-speed flying backward and colliding with the surface space, the white strong light erupted from the shattered space fragments. At first glance, the enemy looked like he was kicked into a light by Su Xiao.

Su Xiao's control abilities were all so simple and unadorned. It was either the lightning paralysis caused by World Thunder or the body numbness caused by the straight kick.

"Blade Dao Blade - Extreme!"

Zing.

The long blade tore through space, leaving a terrifying black-blue mark. The reason it was black-blue was that it was a black mark after deeply slashing open space, and his blade technique slash would leave a blue slash mark. When the two overlapped, it became a black-blue slash mark.

Now, only the strongest melee blade technique slash "Blade Dao Blade - Extreme" could slash open space to

With a clatter, a large hand wrapped in black scales blocked Su Xiao's long blade with its bare palm. Although it blocked it, the long blade sank into the flesh, slicing open nearly half of the Twin Lord's palm; if he continued to slash, he could have severed half of the Twin Lord's left hand.

Crack—

The Twin Lord gripped the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan. With a roar and a boom, the ground in a large area around them collapsed and cracked. Su Xiao, being so close to this roar, felt a buzzing in his ears, and everything before his eyes appeared with multiple ghost images.

The Great Sword of Devouring slashed down. Just at this moment, a blood-red claw clattered and grabbed the Great Sword of Devouring. As they clashed, layers of impact spread out. The crystal layer clinging to the blood-red claw was the key to its ability to hard-resist this sword.

A massive blood-red beast, resembling the "Fierce Beast, Fei," formed behind Su Xiao. One of the beast's claws grabbed the Great Sword of Devouring, while its right hand, which had only three fingers—a thumb, index, and middle finger—grabbed one of the Twin Lord's wood-like twisted horns. The opponent's two horns were like wood-like deer antlers.

The Blood Beast opened its maw and spat blood flames at the Twin Lord, causing the Twin Lord's scales to crackle and pop.

Crack!

Another World Thunder struck down. Although it was not summoned by Su Xiao with 1160 points of elemental affinity, its power was equivalent to one summoned by him with 580 points of elemental affinity. It struck the Twin Lord, and the effect was significant.

Because he was too close to the Twin Lord, the striking World Thunder caused a buzzing in Su Xiao's ears and blasted him flying backward. His HP dropped sharply. With his 600+ points of lightning resistance, it was still like this; one could imagine how severe the damage was to the Twin Lord.

Just as Su Xiao was flying backward, everything around him suddenly dissolved. Whether it was the black flames that had been burning him and dropping his HP below 60%, or the gravel and dirt flying everywhere, even the sky and the earth dissolved, turning into darkness.

Su Xiao stood in the darkness. He could feel the darkness rapidly encroaching upon him. It was not energy erosion, but rather enveloping and swallowing him into the darkness.

Vision was the first to become ineffective, followed by hearing, smell, and touch. This feeling was like his soul being stripped from his body, soaked in cold water, gradually eroded to numbness by the chill, and finally losing all five senses.

Relying on his remaining sense of space, Su Xiao stabbed his own left arm with his long blade. He could judge that Checking Zhan Long Shan had pierced his left arm, yet he felt not a hint of pain. Facing the current situation, he felt no panic in his heart; it was normal for an enemy in the top-tier echelon to be this difficult to deal with.

Drip, drip—

The sensation of blood dripping down was fed back. Although Su Xiao had been temporarily deprived of his five senses, the feeling of his blood dripping onto the ground became exceptionally clear. This immediately made him realize that this darkness's ability to deprive him of his five senses acted upon his body, and once his blood dripped off, it separated from him and naturally was not affected by this ability. As for why he could sense his own blood, there were two reasons.

1. Blood-type sensing derived from Blood Gun Master Lv. 85.

2. During battle, his blood contained Green Steel Shadow energy.

Su Xiao was almost unable to feel his own body. The reason he could still confirm his existence was that his soul strength was high enough; the enemy's use of darkness to swallow his five senses could not reach his soul in a short time.

Relying on the Reincarnation Paradise's equipment notarization effect, Su Xiao removed the 【Night of the Wild Hunt】. Then, he used Checking Zhan Long Shan to cut open his own chest. The blood that flowed out floated up, turning into blood beads around him.

This all seemed like a long process, but in fact, from the moment Su Xiao fell into the darkness to the moment he cut open his chest, only 3.6 seconds had passed. The Twin Lord, who had continuously endured two World Thunders, had just recovered.

In the darkness, Su Xiao felt the blood beads in front of him suddenly move toward him. Something was charging at super-high speed. Using the distance between the blood beads, the Twin Lord's height, and the different speeds at which the blood beads' positions changed, he judged the direction from which the Great Sword of Devouring was slashing.

"Perfect Block!"

Clang!!

In the Twin Lord's surprised gaze, Su Xiao held his blade with one hand and blocked this powerful, heavy sword. For a moment, the Twin Lord even mistakenly thought his ability had failed.

The strength gap of several dozen points was temporarily ignored by the Perfect Block. Next, it was time for the Technique Master.

Zing—

The long blade brushed against the sword's edge. The tilt of the long blade's edge caused the pressing great sword to slide along the side of the sharp blade. Then, following this momentum, the long blade naturally and elegantly slashed toward the Twin Lord's throat. The Twin Lord could only block with his great sword.

Clang—!

The long blade slashed with force. Having taken this blow, which had a "Blade-type Weapon Slashing Power Judgment Tier +71" bonus, the Twin Lord felt his blood and Qi surging. How could someone with strength a tier lower than his slash such a blow? The deterrent power of this blade was too fierce.

Clang, clang, clang, boom!

After Su Xiao successfully suppressed him with three consecutive slashes, he delivered a straight kick, stomping onto the spine of the Great Sword of Devouring. The Twin Lord was sent flying backward with the sound. This straight kick was an all-out explosive force.

The reason Su Xiao kicked the Twin Lord away was that, while in the darkness, he had begun to feel his own existence blurring—or rather, his sense of his own location was beginning to blur. Once he lost his sense of location, he would enter a state of weightlessness or a falling sensation.

Su Xiao indeed could not see the Twin Lord, but he could confirm that he had kicked the opponent away. Just a moment ago, he had controlled a few drops of blood to hit the Twin Lord. The damage value was indeed 0, but through these few drops of blood, he could judge the Twin Lord's position.

After kicking the Twin Lord away, Su Xiao felt the darkness around him recede slightly. Although he still could not see anything around him, he could already feel that he was holding Checking Zhan Long Shan.

This meant that the Twin Lord's ability to deprive opponents of all senses using darkness was stronger the closer the enemy was to him. Once he was beyond a certain distance from the enemy, the effect of this ability would be greatly reduced, or even completely ineffective.

Su Xiao, in a half-crouched position, slapped the ground with one hand. With a boom, layers of crystal as thin as cicada wings rose from the ground around him, with one layer every half meter.

On the opposite side, the sensory feedback of the crystal layers being shattered one after another came back. Besides that, Su Xiao also felt the feeling of being completely submerged in darkness become intense again. The only good news was that he still had the sensation of his right hand holding Checking Zhan Long Shan.

"Perfect Block."

Clang!!

The Twin Lord charged forward, and his powerful, heavy sword was again blocked by Su Xiao holding his blade. Afterward, the blood evaporating on the Great Sword of Devouring was the key for Su Xiao to capture this sword strike.

"Roar!"

Su Xiao formed the Blood Beast and fiercely pounced out, hitting the Twin Lord on the opposite side.

With a crack, the golden World Thunder struck down. Although Su Xiao's perception was pitch black and he could see and hear nothing, he acted as if he had foreknowledge, leaping backward out of the World Thunder's range.

The Blood Beast consumed 30% of his blood Qi value, so this strike was bound to summon the World Thunder.

Dead Silence Power surged. Su Xiao pulled the Dead Silence Ember from the gray mist of dead silence and aimed it at the Twin Lord, who was still paralyzed by the World Thunder. This caused the opponent to fall into a slowed state. Already paralyzed by the World Thunder and added to the slowdown, it was even more impossible for him to dodge the subsequent Ember bullets.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

All five Ember bullets hit. The last one even hit the Twin Lord's head, blowing away a part of his head along with one wood-like horn.

"Ember (Core/Active): Release the Dead Silence Ember and hold it in your hand. Within the initial 3 seconds, you can designate a target to have their speed significantly reduced. Initial slowdown is 70%, subsequently decaying by 10% per second until the slowdown effect completely disappears.

Hint: The initial attack power of the Dead Silence Ember is constant, and it contains 5 Ember bullets inside.

Hint: Ember bullets receive a bonus from soul strength, increasing extra attack power by Soul Strength × 0.82 (729.8 points of extra attack power) and extra penetration by Soul Strength × 0.82 (729.8 points of extra penetration).

Ember Bullet: An old-fashioned bullet composed of a large amount of Dead Silence energy. If multiple Ember bullets hit the same enemy, the erosion of Dead Silence energy will cause the enemy's defense to decrease, making the damage caused by subsequent Ember bullets increase. The first Ember bullet hits the enemy for 100% damage, the second for 150% damage, the third for 200% damage, the fourth for 300% damage, and the fifth for 500% damage.

Hint: If all five hit, you can perform one 'Dead Silence Devouring Explosion', destroying all of this enemy's defensive equipment and defensive-type abilities (this bonus has high priority)."

Dead Silence Power drifted from the Twin Lord's body. Su Xiao, holding the Dead Silence Ember, used his thumb to flip the explosion bolt.

With a boom of dead silence explosion, all the scales on the Twin Lord's body shattered, and black blood splattered everywhere.

Situated in the darkness where he could perceive nothing, Su Xiao advanced instead of retreating. In this state, he charged forward for a distance before successfully activating the Blade Demon Spirit. Black-blue smoke appeared on the long blade in his hand.

Calculating the distance in his heart and combining it with the sensory feedback from the dozens of blood beads around him, Su Xiao advanced another step and activated the Dragon Shadow Flash ability.

Wind pressure swept through. The Twin Lord, covered in black blood and with an incomplete head, held his great sword with both hands and slashed at Su Xiao's neck. He certainly judged that Su Xiao had entered a space-penetration state, yet he still slashed this sword. This sword, containing all his remaining Devouring Power, was bound to kill Su Xiao, who had entered the space-penetration state.

Zing—!

The Great Sword of Devouring tore through space and slashed across Su Xiao's neck, but it slashed out blood that looked like black iron sand.

Why would this happen? Su Xiao had been burned by the Devouring Black Flames for over 70% of his HP. He certainly judged that attacks imbued with Devouring Power could ignore space penetration, so after his senses were completely plunged into darkness, he deliberately used the space-penetration method to avoid this strike. In reality, his true evasion method was to swap positions with the Demon Spirit twice in succession.

When the Great Sword of Devouring was about to slash Su Xiao's neck, he swapped positions with the Demon Spirit. Afterward, the Great Sword of Devouring slashed across the Demon Spirit's neck. Immediately following that, he swapped positions with the Demon Spirit again, returning to the front of the Twin Lord.

In this way, it formed a scene where the Twin Lord slashed his great sword across, and although it clearly slashed across Su Xiao's neck, it slashed out blood like black iron sand.

Just as the Great Sword of Devouring had slashed across Su Xiao's neck, the long blade in his hand had already slashed to the side of the Twin Lord's throat.

The Twin Lord's pale pupils gradually constricted. In the pupil of his right eye, light of elemental characteristics was released.

"Light of Time."

White light suddenly appeared. At the critical moment, the Light Lord's ability to slow down time erupted. This ability gave the Twin Lord a chance to continue leaning his body backward. As long as he could successfully avoid this blade, then the final winner would be him.

Crack, crack, crack—

The bones throughout the Twin Lord's body were nearly overwhelmed by his all-out backward lean. Everything around seemed to slow down. In fact, the Twin Lord displayed an evasion speed he had never shown before, which made him certain that if he continued to evade like this, he would definitely be able to dodge this blade.

The crystal layer had climbed onto Checking Zhan Long Shan at some point, extending a section of crystal blade for Checking Zhan Long Shan, with black-blue smoke clinging to it. If it were normal, this crystal blade could not have cut through the Twin Lord's body, but just a moment ago, the "Dead Silence Devouring Explosion" from all five Ember bullets hitting had left the Twin Lord without his usual powerful defense.

With a swish, the extended crystal blade slashed across the Twin Lord's throat, rapid and with a touch of elegance. This wound was about two fingers deep, but all the black-blue smoke on the blade sank into this wound on the Twin Lord.

The Twin Lord took a big step back and fell to one knee with a boom, half of the Great Sword of Devouring inserted into the ground. The pale pupils in his eyes began to dim rapidly.

The Twin Lord no longer had the strength to pull out his sword. With his last bit of strength, he used his claws to stab into his own chest, grabbing a Dark Mark bestowed upon him by the Abyss Archbishop, and crushed it with a snap. This made him bare his ferocious mouth and smile with satisfaction and violence. He would not let Su Xiao obtain this Dark Mark, nor would he betray the Abyss Archbishop.

In Su Xiao's perception, the darkness around him gradually thinned. The first thing to recover was his sense of touch, followed by hearing, vision, and so on. Finally, even his perception recovered. The darkness around him evaporated completely, and all his various senses returned to normal.

Su Xiao took a deep breath of the cold air and looked around. The black flames burning on the ground around him were rapidly dissipating, revealing the cracked ground.

Su Xiao looked at the Twin Lord opposite him. The Twin Lord finally lowered his head and died here. On the cracked ground, snowflakes slowly drifted down. The Twin Lord's corpse gradually dissipated, turning into the most essential dark energy, drifting into the air.

【You have killed the Twin Lord.】

【You have obtained 20.8% of the World's Source.】

【You have obtained 9280 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained the Eternal-grade Treasure Chest: Twin.】

【You have obtained the Source Quality Treasure Chest (there is a probability of obtaining it by killing a strong enemy).】

【You have obtained the Astrological Disk (this is a key item required for your main quest/talent awakening quest/bounty quest).】