Chapter 3879: Slaughter

The blood moon hung high in the sky, and two trial options were placed before him. If it were before absorbing the Soul Blade, Su Xiao might have chosen the first "Trial of Bravery" because there were too many strong enemies to deal with later. But now, he really wanted to test the power of the Sword Mastery ultimate move, "Powerful Slash."

【You have accepted the Trial of Iron Will. You must deal with this siege alone when the Abyss Second Son leads a large number of dark creatures to attack.】

【You will be teleported to an ancient ruin 150 kilometers away from Lingmian City.】

【Teleportation starting.】

When the space mist around him dissipated, Su Xiao completed the teleportation. Because he had left the protection of Lingmian City's barrier, he felt the Blood Night descend. A dark chill invaded from above. Under the illumination of the blood moon, his rationality felt like mist slowly evaporating from his body.

The Blood Night was not pitch black. Su Xiao looked around at the ruins and broken walls; this place had once been a great city, but over a hundred years ago, it failed to withstand the onslaught of the Blood Night, its barrier was breached by feral beasts and dark creatures, its high walls collapsed, and it ultimately met this fate.

Su Xiao stood in the center of the ruins. The stone floor under his feet was covered in cracks and weathering marks. This was an open area of over a thousand square meters. Not far away, a goddess statue was half-damaged, and the goddess statue that had lost an arm had a kind of desolate beauty under the blood moon.

Suddenly, the goddess statue opened one eye. More accurately, an eye suddenly appeared on the palm of the goddess statue's right hand, which was reaching forward. Starting from this, like the spread of a disease, eyes opened on the goddess statue's arms, torso, and base, and then spread throughout the entire ruin in a very short time.

These millions of eyes were all staring at Su Xiao. Wisps of darkness rose from the ground, making the originally dim environment become gloomy and deep. Even more spectacular was that the darkness rising from the ground was mixed with some white flames. The combination of black and white made one catch a glimpse of the Abyss.

A long, beast-like howl came from afar. The sound moved from far to near. With the pressure of the wind approaching, with a loud bang, a figure over ten meters tall with black fur all over its body landed. Its upper body was human-like, its lower legs were arched like a beast's, its head was covered with irregular wooden horns on the right side, and its right arm was covered with Abyss eyes. This was the Abyss Second Son · Uvalito.

"Roar!!"

The Abyss Second Son roared, and layers of black sound waves spread to the surroundings. This also caused all the eyes distributed in the ancient ruins to turn scarlet, and a powerful mental pressure descended, causing the rationality attribute to slide down faster.

As the long roar ended, the surroundings were already surrounded by dark creatures. Looking around, except for dark creatures of various shapes, one could no longer see the ground from above.

Black and white flames ignited on the Abyss Second Son, or rather, there were some white fire embers in the black smoke. A space hole appeared above, and black liquid spread out, flowing onto it. After a crackling sound, bones pierced out from its spine.

Boom!

The Abyss Second Son suddenly disappeared from its original position, and the ground collapsed. When it reappeared, it had already pounced in front of Su Xiao. Wherever its right claw plowed along the way, it left behind space cracks.

The Abyss Second Son adhered to the strategy of surrounding and attacking rather than fighting one-on-one. As it pounced forward, the dark creatures around it swarmed up.

Su Xiao felt the surroundings suddenly darken. In the past, "Ring Break" would have been a good response to this situation, but this time, he was prepared to experience the ultimate sword ability, "Powerful Slash."

Almost instantly, a large portion of the protective energy derived from his technique abilities was consumed. With a hum! The Dragon Flash sword tip, which was pointing diagonally at the ground in his hand, erupted with golden light. Unlike the golden light corresponding to gold or the sun, this golden light was more condensed and even had powerful attack power.

Boom!!!

The golden light surged like a tide, instantly clearing the dark creatures as far as the eye could see. The Abyss Second Son pounced forward, bleeding all over, with black broken hair flying, but this didn't stop its charge. It prepared to interrupt Su Xiao's ability.

How could the Abyss Second Son know that this erupting golden light wasn't an ability at all, but a sign caused by the "Powerful Slash" before the strike.

Clang!

Su Xiao struck with a simple, unadorned, yet seemingly honed-through-billions-of-repetitions strike. The first to be unable to withstand it was the space in the surrounding area. The space within a radius of over a hundred kilometers was like shattered glass, full of cracks with a "pop." And those dark creatures that were charging forward were affected by the shattered space, and nearly a third were crushed by the subsequent suction and annihilation phenomenon.

Compared to these dark creatures, the Abyss Second Son had a deeper experience of this "Powerful Slash." At the moment the blade's edge slashed toward it, the pupils of every eye on its head constricted.

The Abyss Second Son's body, over ten meters tall, was clearly much taller than Su Xiao, but at this moment, its aura withered instantly. Facing this incoming slash, it could only raise its right claw to meet it. As for dodging or space abilities, the Abyss Second Son's strongest feeling at this moment was that its body and soul seemed to be firmly welded in place. This strike made any dodging or evasion abilities meaningless.

The Abyss Second Son met it with one hand, preparing to buy some time. Its right arm, which was preparing to meet the strike, shattered, turning into blood smoke under the powerful slashing force. Then, this strike landed on its body.

Clang!!

The crisp sound of the slash pierced the sky. The Abyss Second Son tilted its head back, its mouth wide open. Looking at it now, its entire right side had disappeared, and even half of its right head had been slashed off. Accompanied by the dark blood gushing from the wound, the Abyss Second Son fell to the ground with a thud. Its powerful regeneration ability meant nothing under this strike.

The Abyss Second Son struggled to get up from the ground, but all failed. It roared with its upper body raised, supported by its left hand in a prone position, and then its body exploded.

That's right, Su Xiao killed the Abyss Second Son with one strike. This boss, representing the ★★★★★ tier trial difficulty, was killed just like that.

Never mind others, Su Xiao himself was momentarily surprised, but the sharp pain from his right arm made him realize the price of the "Powerful Slash" being so powerful.

Several cracks appeared on the skin of his right arm, deep enough to reach the bone. Blood soon gushed out, staining his entire arm bright red. As for the 【Hunting Night】 long leather coat on his body, he occasionally had to consider the psychological shadow area of an old friend, so he unequipped the 【Hunting Night】 from the equipment slot before using "Powerful Slash."

The night that was originally filled with the blood moon was not only shattered in the space within a hundred kilometers after this strike, but the black clouds above the firmament were also slashed open, forming a trench that reflected white light, as if the night sky had been slashed open, allowing light to shine down. The night temporarily turned into day, just like the name of "Powerful Slash" in the skill list, "Extreme Blade · Bai Ye."

Standing in this "Bai Ye," Su Xiao's right arm holding the sword was bright red. Behind him were the corpses of the Abyss Second Son gradually turning into embers and flying away. Ten meters around him, the dark creatures were forced back because his aura was too powerful. If this scene were recorded or captured, it would definitely be a magnificent sight.

"Roar!"

A deep abyss creature composed of black tentacles roared. Under this roar, the surrounding dark creatures suppressed their fear of Su Xiao and swarmed toward him.

The next morning.

The sun rose. After a night of holding on, Lingmian City successfully survived this Blood Night. However, what puzzled the soul scholars was that the offensive of the dark creatures wasn't fierce during this Blood Night. Instead, the space tremors that suddenly appeared shortly after the Blood Night descended caused many cracks in the city walls. This was the biggest loss in the defense of this Blood Night.

The battle outside the city was naturally noticed by several elders of the Soul Academy. So, as soon as the sun rose, a team from the Soul Tower rushed out of the city. There were two leaders of the small team: Soul Mentor Adru and Soul Soother Fina.

In this small team, Soul Mentor Adru, who was bald and wore a loose black robe, was the combat force. In the soul system, there was indeed a large system that had the habit of opening holes in the head, but opening 3 to 5 was usually the limit. The number of holes Soul Mentor Adru opened made his head look somewhat hollow.

Moreover, he was no longer satisfied with just opening holes in his head; he had also opened many holes in his torso, arms, and other positions to facilitate releasing soul power to a greater extent during battle.

From this degree of hole-opening, one could also guess the mental state of Soul Mentor Adru. Please don't be deceived by the gentle smile on his face; he only needed weak external emotional stimulation to become crazy to the point of hysteria.

Therefore, Soul Soother Fina, as the deputy captain of this team, went to the ancient ruins over a hundred kilometers outside the city with Soul Mentor Adru and more than a dozen soul apprentices to investigate. The so-called Soul Soother was to use her own soul-type ability to calm the mental state of the soul-type practitioners when their mental state was most unstable, pulling the target back to the ranks of rationality.

The team moved very fast. When they arrived at the area near the ancient ruins, they all stopped. The scene before them made Soul Soother Fina and the dozen soul apprentices look stunned.

The ancient ruins had disappeared, replaced by a mountain of bones pressing down on the ancient ruins, with blood flames still burning on it. However, because the flesh and blood had burned out, the white bones were not the fuel for these blood flames.

Crack, crack~

A figure with a sheathed long sword at his waist, bare-chested, with a translucent blue crystal left arm and a right arm wrapped in bandages stained with blood, walked down from the mountain of bones step by step. The person walked past the dozen members of the Soul Academy with a calm expression, neither avoiding them nor showing hostility, at least that's how it looked.

Everyone in the team, including the captain, Soul Mentor Adru, subconsciously held their breath. After the person had walked far away, he slowly exhaled. As for those soul apprentices, they felt a sense of relief for having survived a disaster.

"Adru, this person... let's just identify him as a human. This person seems to be going to Lingmian City."

Hearing Soul Soother Fina's words, Soul Mentor Adru's expression didn't look good. He was about to chase after him, but the feeling of being pinched by a giant blood beast, and the person encouragingly patting his head like a dog when he left, made him stop immediately.

That lingering feeling of fear was like branding a blood mark on his soul. Once he dared to face that blood beast again, this blood mark would burn his soul.

At noon that day, the sun after the Blood Night was exceptionally dazzling. A steam car drove on the street. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was in the driver's seat, Su Xiao was in the passenger seat, Amu was in the back seat, and Morey and Baja were squeezed on the car windows on both sides of Amu.

The vehicle drove into the large courtyard where the Academy Tower was located. A middle-aged man with small round glasses and a slightly plump figure greeted them. This was Gildas, the person in control of the Soul Academy's finance department. Although Gildas seemed full of enthusiasm, it could be seen from his conversation that he wasn't very welcoming of Su Xiao coming here to eliminate the "Immortal Abyss Creatures." This showed that the Soul Academy was not of one mind, and there were differences of opinion regarding this matter. That was why they offered such a low reward of 50,000 Soul Coins for each "Immortal Abyss Creature" eliminated.

Regarding this price, both the Soul Academy and the high-level figures of Twilight City thought Su Xiao wouldn't come. As a result, Su Xiao agreed on the spot.

This caused the Dean of the Soul Academy and the representative of the old nobles of Twilight City, Augustus, to slap their foreheads with one hand at the same time. One of these big figures didn't expect Su Xiao to agree, and the other was the sucker who paid 500,000 Soul Coins for each "Abyss Creature."

This situation confused the Sacred Heart City's God Church, which also had "Immortal Abyss Creatures" that needed to be dealt with. They decided to wait and see. If the Soul Academy didn't have any problems, they would also offer 50,000 Soul Coins per creature to entrust Su Xiao to eliminate the two "Abyss Creatures" there.

The Soul Academy had sealed two "Immortal Abyss Creatures" on the bottom floor of the Academy Tower. An hour later, Su Xiao stopped in front of a silver-gray metal door.

Compared to Twilight City, the sealing level of the Soul Academy was lagging behind. This was normal. According to Wood, there was an Original Sin sealed in the central city area of Twilight City. Original Sins were the greatest driving force for the progress of sealing studies. Su Xiao's achievements in sealing studies today were mainly "relying" on this point.

Click-clack~

The long-sealed metal door was pushed open by Su Xiao and then closed on its own. He walked into the black mist ahead. After walking about a hundred meters, he arrived at the cage where the "Abyss Creature" was sealed. He glanced at the "Abyss Creature" inside; it had been sealed to the point of extreme weakness. Although its source energy wasn't damaged, dealing with it was very simple. After the Demon Blade ability was activated, it was just a matter of one strike.

Crystals spread behind Su Xiao's feet, forming a crystal chair with a backrest. After he sat down, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out the projection device it had made and began to play the scene where Su Xiao dealt with three "Abyss Creatures" in Twilight City. The roaring and muffled sounds were transmitted to the outside through the one-way barrier from time to time.

As for why this was the case, killing the "Abyss Creature" with one strike would make the client feel that the 50,000 Soul Coins were spent in vain. Sufficient ritual was an indispensable part of executing a commission.

An hour later, Su Xiao walked out of the black mist with an "exhausted" aura. After receiving the 100,000 Soul Coins paid by Gildas, he took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja out of the city and returned to the underground safe area of the God Exile Land using the "Extinction-Law Teleportation Array."

After the teleportation fluctuations faded, Su Xiao found that Moon Apostle and Hao Mei were not there. The two had left a note for Morey, saying that they had suddenly received a high-reward errand mission with no risk and had to go to Twilight City. If Morey saw this message when she returned, she should go to the barbershop at 1850 Walnut Street in Twilight City's Inner City.

Su Xiao walked into the utility room where the rough ore was stored. He pressed one hand on the ground, and crystals formed a "Extinction-Law Teleportation Array." He was responsible for the pickup this time. Caesar and the others had already started "stocking up." According to Violent Rat's investigation, the Soul Academy's largest treasury was in the Soul Tower, and the Soul Tower maintained a space ban. Conventional teleportation means couldn't break through this ban.

He glanced at the team channel. Caesar was indeed in a state where he couldn't speak. Su Xiao had expected this. The Soul Academy's treasury was a special area. He took out a timer and watched the countdown passing on it. At the moment the countdown reached zero, he pressed his hand on the teleportation array on the ground.

Thump!

Space crystal fragments splashed everywhere. Caesar, Morey, Toad, and Violent Rat all appeared. As soon as Violent Rat stood firm, he walked sideways like a crab and then plunged into the ore storage box.

Caesar held the wall with one hand. He was still very stable. Toad wasn't doing well, lying on the ground with his belly up and foaming at the mouth. Morey, who was beside Su Xiao, sat on the ground. Experiencing the "Extinction-Law Teleportation Array" for the second time, she was still doubting life.

"Save... save me..."

A weak voice came. Everyone looked at the person who made the sound. This was a teenager wearing a white robe with a long braid. The teenager had a frail physique, not only a neutral appearance but also fingers as slender as a woman's. As for his pale skin, it was caused by severe blood loss.

The teenager wanted to continue saying something, but because he was too seriously injured, he rolled his eyes and fainted. Amu stepped forward, grabbed the teenager by the collar, and lifted him up. With two slaps, one forward and one backward, this "awakening treatment" big-mouth slap he learned from Su Xiao immediately woke the teenager up.

Originally thinking that everyone in the Soul Academy was a lunatic or a tough nut to crack, who knew that after Amu put his battle axe on the teenager's neck, the other party told everything he knew.

First was the teenager's identity. He had no name since he was a child. He met his mentor when he was about ten years old and had been following his mentor ever since. By the time he reached adulthood, his attainments in space studies had already far exceeded his mentor's, especially in space blocking. He had the strength to completely crush his mentor. The juniors of his mentor's family were even worse when they faced him.

The teenager's mentor was "very gratified" and then sent him to the Soul Academy to study further. At first, the teenager—that is, the Space Controller—was very happy, but it didn't take long for him to find that the Soul Academy seemed a bit wrong. It wasn't until he witnessed the students of the Soul Academy performing a hole-opening ceremony that he was so scared he almost peed his pants.

From then on, the Space Controller decided to escape from this terrifying force. He formulated a plan and started to implement it the next day, only to be discovered by the academy's guards 15 minutes later.

When the Space Controller was tied up and thrown onto the carpet in the Dean's office, the kind-faced Dean told him: "Silly child, you aren't here to study; your mentor sold you to us, and it had to be paid with Soul Stones. The price was so high that it was almost most of your mentor's family's wealth, or even more."

Learning this truth, the Space Controller cried for a long time. He resigned himself to waiting in the Space Tower. But over time, he found that although these soul lunatics looked terrifying, they were generally, roughly, seemingly... better to him than his mentor. At least now, if he wanted to learn space knowledge, he could go to the Dean and ask for books instead of having to steal them with great effort.

If trying to block the previous version of the "Extinction-Law Teleportation Array" was like trying to block a steel train speeding on a rocky road with bare hands, then blocking the current version of the "Extinction-Law Teleportation Array" was equivalent to facing a steel train blasted by a space railgun.

Su Xiao asked Amu to tie up the Space Controller and send him to Great Noble Luciva in Twilight City. Later, he wanted to know how this teenager survived.

Before long, everyone present left. Su Xiao walked out of the storage room and sat cross-legged on the carpet in the center of the venue. He checked a series of notifications. First was about the "Trial of Iron Will."

【You have completed the Trial of Iron Will.】

【Your True Willpower attribute is permanently increased by 35 points.】

【You obtained a Passive Scroll Treasure Chest · Highest Tier (After opening, you can obtain a type of Extreme-level · Technique Passive).】

Quite good gains. Su Xiao continued to scroll down. Next were the gains from "stocking up" at the Soul Academy.

【You obtained Soul Crystal Soul × 125.】

【You obtained Source of Strength × 1.】

【You obtained Dark Moon Queen Badge (Eternal-level · Full Rating · Unique Characteristic Equipment).】

【Notification: This equipment is in a sealed state. Once this state is lifted, the equipment will be soul-bound to you and will

【Note: This equipment is in a grease-sealed state. Once this state is removed, the equipment will soul-bind to you and forcibly occupy at least three of your equipment slots (you may choose and change which equipment slots are occupied).】