Chapter 4004: Hold On

The pitch-black sea behind was exceptionally quiet. Su Xiao took out a space probe. This thing was similar to a dagger, but without a handguard, and was thin and long.

The space probe pierced into the space in front, waited for a few seconds, and pulled it out. Su Xiao found that there were only a few black lines on the crystal probe, representing that the space here was not severely eroded by the abyss, unlike the space near Sanctuary City, where the probe was inserted for a few seconds, and the darkness spread to the handle of the probe, without even needing to pull it out to check.

In that environment, summoning Iron-Blooded Hounds, let alone whether the Iron-Blooded Hounds of the Underworld would respond, even if they responded, the moment they arrived, they would definitely pounce on Su Xiao first. That kind of space erosion intensity was clearly trying to kill the summoned party.

"Iron-Blooded Oath: After activating this oath, you will sign a contract with the Iron-Blooded Hounds of the Underworld's Nightmare Land, obtaining the qualification to summon them to fight for you. In return, after each battle, you need to pay a strong heart (at least Supreme-level strong heart) as the reward for this battle. If the reward is not paid, you will bear the fierce backlash of the Iron-Blooded Hounds..."

This oath is equal. More accurately, it is Su Xiao temporarily hiring Iron-Blooded Hounds to assist him. The other side can refuse, and can also let the "Iron-Blooded Oath" permanently break after discovering that Su Xiao, the summoner, harbors malice.

Su Xiao released some blood energy, forming an "Iron-Blooded Oath" on the back of his left hand, pressed one hand on the ground, and the Aoge crystal spread to form a summoning array. With his real charm attribute of -32 points, he should not be able to summon anything, but in the distant Underworld, he received a reply.

Illusory imprints appeared in front of his eyes. Each imprint represented the Iron-Blooded Hounds he could communicate with and summon. He chose the imprint that ranked sixth, was pitch-black overall, but the imprint was smaller than other Iron-Blooded Hounds.

As the summoning was confirmed, the summoning array emitted light. Bulgan on the side just watched and didn't plan to interfere. He now had to hide himself to the maximum extent.

Just now, the dark will successfully awakened, which had already made him slightly uncoordinated. Fortunately, being influenced by darkness for a long time gave him a cover. After all, it was common for exploration team members to have confused thinking or messy memories.

The blood-red light of the summoning array gradually dissipated, and a fierce, irritable, and highly aggressive aura erupted. This aura presented as needle-like black, making Xilin, Bulgan, and Baja choose to retreat a few steps. Even the Pain Priest's aura became solemn.

The needle-like black aura shot outward, even making the hem of Su Xiao's long leather coat hunt. After lasting for more than ten seconds, the comer's aura converged. Except for Su Xiao, everyone else looked over, and then... they saw nothing.

The few people who saw nothing subconsciously lowered their perspective and saw a small dog-sized creature with oil-bright black skin. Its neck, torso, and other positions were covered with pale red bone spurs. These bone spurs were only sparser than hair, each slightly curved, and could unfold to become barbs.

Seeing these barbs, as well as Black Leech Kenbas's thin mouth and streamlined head, made people feel that it was very good at drilling into the enemy's flesh, and after that, all the bone spurs on its body would unfold, making all these bone spurs become barbs, and the enemy wouldn't want to peel it off.

Black Leech Kenbas had long, thin eyes. It looked at Su Xiao, sized him up for a few seconds, and perhaps because it felt Su Xiao was pleasing to the eye, it said:

"Pubudu, Yeka (Underworld Language)."

The general meaning of Black Leech was that it was willing to assist Su Xiao for a day, but it needed to pay 3 "Strong Hearts" because Ignoring Bubu Wang was not present, so it could only understand this much.

Su Xiao took an item from the team space. He dragged it with one hand. This item was about the size of a millstone, with a diameter of just over 1 meter. It was heart-shaped overall, but the outside was covered with blood vessels and meridians. This bright red giant heart gave people the only feeling of being strong, as well as the rich vitality inside.

This item was called "Titan Dragon Heart," which Su Xiao had Zhila cultivate through the gene sequence of the Demon Flame Dragon, plus the powerful life characteristics of the Titan Beast, combined.

This kind of strange item could only be cultivated through the insect nest, and this was also because Zhila was the Lord of Eternal Light and could get the gift of massive world power from the Eternal Light World, so it could carry out the creation of this kind of insect organ. Fortunately, the initial creation cost was high, and the cost of cultivating "Titan Dragon Heart" later was within the acceptable range.

What Su Xiao paid to the Iron-Blooded Hounds in the past was just the "Dragon Heart" of ordinary Demon Flame Dragons. Now it was tailor-made. A simple comparison was that the value of one "Titan Dragon Heart" was higher than thousands of "Dragon Hearts." Placed in the Iron-Blooded Hound clan, this was also a top-tier "Strong Heart."

From the fact that Black Leech's eyes were already straight, it could be seen that this "Titan Dragon Heart" was tempting to it. Black Leech hadn't been able to transform into a stronger one for a long time, but it had a feeling that if it swallowed enough of these rare hearts, it might complete the promotion it had been looking forward to for a long time.

After a short silence between the two sides, Black Leech Kenbas nodded to Su Xiao, the meaning was very clear: the reward for this assistance no longer needed three "Strong Hearts," one was enough.

But just at this time, Su Xiao actually threw the "Titan Dragon Heart" in his hand directly. Looking at the "Titan Dragon Heart" flying over, Black Leech was obviously stunned, but the hunger from its bloodline made it no longer suppress it, piercing the "Titan Dragon Heart" and drilling into it.

After the "Titan Dragon Heart" landed, it shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just ten seconds, it became a shriveled sac skin. Black Leech tore the sac skin and stretched its body while burping. It only had one feeling now: cool!

However, in the next second, another "Titan Dragon Heart" was thrown out. Black Leech was stunned again, still not polite, drilling into the flying "Titan Dragon Heart." Before it landed, it swallowed it until it was shriveled.

This time Black Leech shook its head, actually having a bit of comfort, licking its front paw pads. Its aura also changed from the initial unruly, fierce, and highly aggressive to flat, although it was still dangerous.

Another item flew over. A "Titan Dragon Heart" landed in front of Black Leech. Black Leech didn't move, and even took a small step back. It suddenly had a bad feeling, that is, this Law-Extinguisher was afraid that he was going to buy its life.

A total of ten "Titan Dragon Hearts" were thrown out. Black Leech, which was already small, looked even smaller among the "Titan Dragon Hearts." It tilted its head and looked at Su Xiao suspiciously. Just a few minutes ago, the vertical pupils that were full of aggression now actually... had a bit of confused clarity?

"You, this, what, meaning."

Black Leech said in broken human Void Language.

"Didn't say hello in advance, rashly summoned you here, excuse me."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, Black Leech grinned, although the shark teeth mouth looked very fierce, it felt that it should smile politely at this time.

"This time I want to deal with one of the three councilors of the Abyssal Race Dukain family, the Beast Lord."

Hearing this, Black Leech's vertical pupils narrowed a bit. It looked around at the "Titan Dragon Hearts" around it. If it was dealing with the Beast Lord, these ten rare hearts, although still looking like a lot, were no longer at the level of being outrageously generous.

"Good, I die, before five times, will not, retreat."

Black Leech's Void Language was still not fluent.

"Hmm, then take these deposits."

"?"

In Black Leech's not-so-big eyes, there were big doubts. It belonged to the cold guy among the Iron-Blooded Hounds, but this time it really didn't hold back. This price was actually just a deposit...

"Regardless of whether the matter succeeds or fails, as long as you do your best, I will pay you 30 'Titan Dragon Hearts' afterwards. If it succeeds, 50."

Su Xiao's offer completely crushed Black Leech's hesitation. It had heard from its brother Red Leech before that this Law-Extinguisher was very generous. Now it seemed that this was more than just generous. First of all, it gave enough respect, and secondly, it had a good reputation for paying deposits, and the offer was particularly pleasant for the dog's mood.

With this attitude and sincerity, Black Leech felt that even if Nightmare was summoned, Nightmare would not refuse.

Suddenly, Black Leech actually had a sense of crisis. Whether it was strength or status, Nightmare was above it. If Nightmare met this Law-Extinguisher, who would be summoned next time was really hard to say.

Black Leech had already decided not to retreat before dying 10 times. Since people gave full respect and sincerity, it, as an Iron-Blooded Hound, could not be a coward. And, when it was just summoned, Black Leech felt that this Law-Extinguisher with terrifying blood energy looked pleasing to the eye.

"Black Leech, I heard you are very good at sneaking in."

"Of... course."

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked at Bulgan. Black Leech followed his gaze and asked: "Replace? Or, kill?"

"Replace."

Almost the moment Su Xiao spoke, Bulgan pulled out the short swords on both sides of his waist. Strong light emerged on his body, his heart became fiery red, and the mechanical bones in his body seemed to reflect. A root of metal tentacles hung down from the broken swords in his hands.

However, Black Leech was so fast that there was no afterimage. A second ago, it was still beside Su Xiao, and the next second, it had pounced on Bulgan's face, its sharp head drilling towards Bulgan's right eye hole.

The cruel sound of friction between the body and the flesh and body fluids made Bulgan, who was preparing for mechanical activation, forced to stop. He held his pitch-black right eye with both hands, emitting a shrill scream like a slaughtered pig. After he fell to the ground, he struggled violently like a fish on the shore.

A few seconds later, Bulgan, who was lying down, suddenly raised his chest to the limit, his body formed a C-shape, and then relaxed. He got up from the ground, adapted to his body, and made a creak, creak sound of bone friction. After hanging his head and being silent for a few minutes, Bulgan opened his eyes again.

Bulgan's index finger nails grew long and began to outline a map on the ground, saying: "Here is... Wild Lush Sea, this, is the night pier, this... Elf Kingdom, Beast Lord, where, don't know, estimate... in the Elf Kingdom, this servant... belongs to, Beast Lord's second son, Soth. He, half an hour ago, called, this body owner's, consciousness."

Black Leech's speech was still a bit stumbling, but it was already much better than before. After all, it ate the consciousness of this body and also had its memory. As for whether it would be influenced by the "Darkness Corruption" of this consciousness, the answer is yes.

However, there is a buffer period for this. With Black Leech's soul strength, facing the "Darkness Corruption" at the Abyssal Race level, it could resist for a period of time. This kind of indirect one was even less of a problem.

Moreover, Black Leech could vomit out the temporarily swallowed memories, and correspondingly, it would also vomit out the "Darkness Corruption" corresponding to these memories.

"Soth? What tier is it?"

"Supreme, Double Tooth."

The Double Tooth that Black Leech said was a rough assessment of the Supreme level among the Iron-Blooded Hounds. If converted, it was the level of a senior Supreme.

Su Xiao hadn't fought with a Supreme-level being yet, but he estimated that although he was promoted to the Supreme level with a super-limit specification, after all, it was the first world after being promoted to the Supreme level. His strength was roughly between a senior Supreme and a top Supreme. He should not be able to beat a top Supreme, let alone a super-top Supreme. As for "Supreme Peak," if he met it now, he would definitely die.

But not being able to beat a top Supreme was Su Xiao's own estimation, and it hadn't been tested yet.

Su Xiao and Black Leech discussed in detail for 30 seconds and successfully set up a cautious and thorough plan, which was to contact the Elf Kingdom through Bulgan, his superior, then kill the other party, Black Leech would swallow the other party's memory, occupy the other party's body, and then find the Beast Lord's second son, Soth.

The subsequent process was to kill, swallow memory, and determine where the Beast Lord was.

Of course, swallowing the memory of the Beast Lord's second son, Soth, was a high-risk behavior, but Black Leech was willing to try. For this reward, Black Leech could risk its life a few times.

After listening to Su Xiao and Black Leech's plan, Xilin grabbed into her braids with one hand, with an expression of "Are you two kidding me?" Where was the old cunning, the competition and confrontation between each other?

Su Xiao didn't plan to have a strategic confrontation with the Beast Lord, or rather, why should he have a strategic calculation with the other party here? This was the headquarters that the other party had operated for more than an era. Just the Supreme-level elf servants had accumulated more than ten.

The other party had more Supreme-level beings than his own team members. In this situation, Su Xiao's Law-Extinguishing Blade was the top-tier strategy.

This strategy could cut into the enemy's brain and carry out a strategic strike at the physical level.

Su Xiao activated the Lord Train key. The steel beast-like Lord Train drove out from the different space. The cooling steam spewed out between the brakes. After everyone got on the train, the train started.

In the train, Xilin leaned on the seat, holding a cup of kumquat lemon tea in her hand. She bit the straw and took a sip of the sweet and sour fruit tea, suddenly feeling that this journey seemed quite good.

The Pain Priest remained silent, as if Bulgan's matter didn't cause half a ripple in him.

Su Xiao poured a glass of elemental wine for Black Leech opposite him. Black Leech was a bit unruly, but that didn't mean it was arrogant and ignorant. Black Leech nodded politely to thank him before picking up the wine glass. After taking a sip, its expression management lost control for a while.

The Pain Priest twitched his nose, and his gaze looked at Su Xiao. Su Xiao didn't speak, just handed the remaining half bottle of elemental wine over. In the style of the Pain Religion, wine was naturally one of their painkillers after battle. The Pain Priest drank a sip of elemental wine, and that paralyzed face actually changed a little.

The Pain Priest thought for a few seconds, took out a pitch-black finger from his bosom, and handed it to Su Xiao. Obviously, the Pain Priest belonged to the style of being silent and paralyzed, but not taking advantage of others. Facing others' generosity, he would not be stingy.

【You have obtained Pain Severed Finger (one-time item): When carrying this item, when you bear curses and evil grievances (super high-risk negative state), this severed finger will actively absorb the curses and evil grievances you will bear.】

Quite a good protective item. Su Xiao often fought against abyss-type and ancient god-type strong enemies. Maybe one day, this thing could block a curse or evil grievance that would make him pay a tragic price.

The Pain Priest drank another sip of elemental wine, hesitated, resealed the bottle, and both sides felt that they had made money this time.

Black Leech began to explain the situation this time. With Bulgan's identity, it was not enough to see the Beast Lord's second son, Soth, directly. The traitor received the order to bring Su Xiao and others to the stone forest on the south side of the 27th city district of the Elf Kingdom, where strong men had already been ambushed.

If Bulgan's identity was exposed before going to the ambush area, Bulgan could escape immediately through the "molting" ability, and then report all the information inquired from Sanctuary City to the confidant of the Beast Lord's second son, Soth, an old elf slave with senior Supreme strength.

The Abyssal Race allowed elves to multiply in large numbers through breeding factories, but they would not suppress the transformation of talented elves. Instead, they would give special resource support to particularly outstanding ones, because from the first era to the present, no consciousness had ever been able to break free from the already solidified "Darkness Corruption."

Even the awakening of the elf soul was not breaking free from "Darkness Corruption," but rather a new consciousness and soul appearing in the body like a split personality. Moreover, from the time the Dukain family enslaved the elves until now, there were less than ten elves who had awakened their souls.

Compared to this risk, the endless stream of elf powerhouse servants, and they were absolutely loyal and docile servants, the benefits completely outweighed the risks.

Su Xiao raised his hand, and a group of black-blue smoke emerged, entering the left arm of Bulgan's body. It could be perceived that Black Leech in this body had its aura tremble significantly.

After the Lord Train traveled for four hours, it stopped near the destination. The map given by the priest was quite accurate, especially after Black Leech completed it. The situation in the lower left corner of this continent basically appeared on it.

After Black Leech got off the train, it ran quickly to the west side. After walking a few steps, it stopped. The tip of its right index finger became sharp and long, like a bone blade. It twisted its arm to the reverse joint degree, drew a few wounds on its back, and not only that, it also used its own blood soul energy to erode the wounds, making them look like they had been injured for several hours.

After doing this, Black Leech's pace began to stagger. At first, it was uncoordinated, but after staggering for a while, anyone who saw it would feel that it had been seriously injured, as if it would die in this place in the next second.

Black Leech staggered and fled like this for more than half an hour. When it was still more than ten kilometers away from the meeting point with the contact person, it fell headlong onto the endless Gobi Desert.

The cracking wind with yellow sand blew. Black Leech... no, it should be Bulgan's lips were dry and cracked, and the whole person showed a bit of death, as if in the next second, he would die in this place due to serious injury.

Shoes stepped on the sand and gravel, stopping beside Bulgan's head. A metal cane pressed into Bulgan's eye socket, pressing down until turbid eye fluid flowed out. Bulgan still didn't react.

"Trash."

Holding the metal cane, the old elf slave dressed as a butler spoke. He bent down and grabbed Bulgan's head with his left hand, which was larger than an ordinary elf, and lifted him up easily.

A bit of crystal liquid emerged from the darkness, seeped from the old elf slave's palm, and flowed onto Bulgan's facial skin. Accompanied by the hissing burning sound of absorption, a few seconds later, Bulgan's eyelids trembled painfully, and he opened his eyes.

"Master, save... me..."

Bulgan spoke in a dry and hoarse voice. The old elf slave wearing narrow-framed small glasses snorted coldly and asked:

"Where did those two Supremes of Sanctuary City go."

"In, in..."

Bulgan raised his hand with difficulty, as if wanting to point to the north, but in the next second, he vomited a large amount of blood. Seeing this, the old elf slave frowned a bit, both disgusted by this inferior human dirtying his clothes, and not wanting to see this human die just like that, so he couldn't explain to Soth.

Just at this time, Bulgan's left arm exploded, and black-blue smoke emerged. The next instant, this black-blue smoke swapped positions with a person in the distant different space, which caused Su Xiao to appear beside the old elf slave in an instant when he couldn't react.

Hum!

The "Extreme Blade Bai Ye" in its peak state made the Dragon Flash erupt with golden light. There was no sense of holiness, but a sense of majesty and sharpness.

"Extreme Blade Bai Ye (Supreme-level Active/Passive), after activating this ability, the next melee slash is increased by 500% (including slash attack power, slash power, slash impact power, etc.,"

This ability is that the stronger the user, the more outrageous the power exerted. At the moment, Su Xiao has been promoted to the Supreme level, and his self-assessment is between a senior Supreme and a top Supreme.

The old elf slave close at hand had no time to use any ability. Although he had senior Supreme combat power, being approached by a Technique Grandmaster to this extent, being able to raise his right arm to block was already a quick reaction.

Clang!

The dark clouds in the sky were all slashed open, and the sunlight that had been blocked for hundreds of years rarely shone on this area, but the sunlight in this world was dim.

The slash mark crossed the old elf slave's chest, and the slash power and Blue Steel Shadow energy rushing into the body made him uncontrollably bleed from his mouth and nose.

After Su Xiao slashed out, considering that this was the first time fighting a Supreme, even if the opponent was half a step weaker than himself, he had to deal with it with all his strength and must not capsize in the gutter.

While the enemy in front was still numb from the "Extreme Blade Bai Ye," Su Xiao had already rushed forward, and a straight kick that looked plain but was actually abnormally devilish had already been kicked out.

Almost at the same time, there was a buzzing sound in the old elf slave's ears, and the scene in front of him changed suddenly. He seemed to see a young elf with amber eyes and a face like carved jade.

"Muji! Muji Woodway! Don't be controlled by them, wake up!"

The memory picture stopped abruptly here. Muji Woodway, the old elf slave, had his eyes split, but the severe pain from his chest and abdomen gave him no chance to counterattack.

Boom!!!

The space in the surrounding area vibrated. The space where Muji Woodway was located was like thick glass hit by a hammer, with semi-transparent cracks all over the impact point.

Looking into the distance, it was a trench that spread to more than ten kilometers away. This trench was conservatively estimated to be thousands of meters deep, and groundwater surged out.

Bulgan's body on the side had been shattered into blood mist. Black Leech shook its somewhat confused head. It patted its buzzing right ear with its dog paw and said:

"Law-Extinguisher, dead powerhouses, especially those who are Supremes like us, I cannot swallow memories, nor can I occupy the other party's body. Must be alive."

"Won't die, the opponent is a senior Supreme."

Su Xiao felt that this old elf slave, as a Supreme, took this two-hit combo, and at most lost his combat power. Even, he had to guard against the other party's counterattack.

"In my experience, it will die."

As Black Leech spoke, thinking of the terrifying power of that kick just now, let alone that elf who looked like it was born from inferior law, even if it, as an Iron-Blooded Hound, took a kick, it would have to briefly see the great-grandmother who loved it most.

"..."

Su Xiao's expression sank. Stepping on the water in front, he quickly rushed towards the old elf slave.

First of all, Su Xiao had misjudgments in three aspects this time.

1. In the final analysis, the old elf slave is a slave of the Dukain family. Even if he is promoted to the Supreme level, he will not have a good foundation. 99% of them are strength born from birth, and he is one of the few who survived among dozens of promotions to the Supreme level.

The Abyssal Race will not lack those abyss-type resources with particularly strong side effects. That is to say, although the old elf slave has senior Supreme level, his combat power is really not at this tier.

2. Su Xiao assessed himself. He is between a senior Supreme and a top Supreme. Logically speaking, being promoted to the Supreme level with the highest standard will get the potential of "Supreme Peak" and the initial combat power from senior Supreme to top Supreme.

He was promoted to the Supreme level with a super-limit specification, and there was no standard for judgment. He measured it according to the records in the books in the Soul Library, and then assessed himself as "senior Supreme~top Supreme." In fact, he is now a proper "top Supreme."

The reason is that when he was at the Supreme level, his foundation was too good. There are five small tiers in the Supreme level. After that kind of outrageous accumulation, it is natural to be in the first tier of the third tier initially.

That is to say, he is a pure, three-technique grandmaster, Law-Extinguishing Shadow top Supreme, who gave a big move two-combo to an elf who was born from birth, whose combat experience was not rich, and who was not good at melee combat, by way of a surprise attack.

The old elf slave didn't kick his legs and die on the spot, entirely because of the "Blood of Immortality" that would definitely awaken after the elf was promoted to the Supreme level.

When Su Xiao and Black Leech rushed to the old elf slave, they saw the old elf slave lying on the water, with the water surface within a diameter of dozens of meters dyed red. Looking at the appearance, the old elf slave could die at any time. Su Xiao stepped forward quickly, an injection gun appeared in his hand, and the special injection needle pierced into the old elf slave's neck, and a powerful recovery potion went down.

Su Xiao and Black Leech both looked at the old elf slave in a semi-shock state, and almost simultaneously recited in their hearts:

"Don't die, don't die, don't die, hold on."

A few seconds later, the old elf slave took a deep breath and finally broke away from the near-death shock state. This had a high probability of being able to survive the subsequent parasitism. Black Leech made a move to pounce forward to complete the parasitism. The old elf slave, whose eyes returned to clarity, suddenly said:

"Be, be careful, their, ancestor..."

The old elf slave finished speaking, Black Leech had already drilled into his eye socket. A moment later, Black Leech stood up. Very good, the first round of the plan was completed smoothly. The next round, kill the Beast Lord's second son, Soth.