Chapter 4031: Chance of Winning

Darkness, darkness so viscous it surged like liquid in the sky, black insects drilled between the space rifts. The Ancient Dragon Kingdom at this moment was like an apocalyptic scene.

Su Xiao faced this rolling apocalypse alone. His long blade was unsheathed, the tip pointing obliquely at the ground. If his back were to be recorded in a painting with this apocalyptic scene, it would be particularly magnificent.

However, someone was really doing this. This was a hunchbacked old man. A mechanical inch-mirror was embedded in his left eye, which completely replaced the function of the left eye. Although his face and skin were full of wrinkles, the four arms represented that he was not of the human race. His gray, somewhat messy hair was tied into a thick braid. The long shawl fabric on his body was slightly tattered and sometimes blocked his four arms.

He sat on a withered wooden stake, in front of him was an ancient drawing board that seemed to come from the First Era. This was clearly an ancient existence, the Painter.

Do not think that the Painter was here to help Su Xiao or anything. Such existences were too ancient. They were not witnessing history; they were part of history itself. Appearing here at this time was only because when he insightfully saw fate, he noticed that the Ducain family, the Abyssal Insect family, actually had several fate lines heading toward destruction, so he came to record it.

Su Xiao held the long blade, the tip pointing obliquely at the ground, facing the scene of insects swallowing the world alone, which was what the Painter was drawing now. However, he was in the void, neither considered to be in this world nor completely present. He was a pure recorder.

Dark liquid flowed down from above. Su Xiao jumped backward. Just as he jumped away, the massive dark liquid crashed down where he had just been.

Massive pale skulls were born from the dark liquid. A dark gate opened above the skeleton stairs, and the Ducain ancestor walked out from the dark gate, wearing a pitch-black cloak covered with eyeballs.

The body under the cloak was protected by a surging insect battle armor that clung to the skin, as if fused together. A straight horn grew on its head, and the middle part of this horn had branches on both sides. The whole looked like a cross.

The insect boots stepped on the skeleton stairs, making a "click-clack" sound like metal stepping. Its head of black-purple long hair was disheveled. These hairs seemed to have their own life. Once one sensed them, one would discover their strong aggressiveness.

Click-clack, click-clack~

The white bone staff pointed on the skeleton steps one by one. The Ducain ancestor was actually a cripple, but it walked step by step, and the dark sky began to lower, making people feel suffocated.

"You Law-Killers, as reckless as ever."

The Ducain ancestor spoke. It no longer had the appearance of being old and weak; at most, it was at the level of just reaching old age.

The detection-type mechanical bee on Su Xiao's cuff exploded with a "pop," but it had already completed its mission.

【This detection failed. The enemy was once a "Supreme Peak" individual, and there are undetectable residues.】

【Because Xiang Bubu Teni's charm attribute is 780 points, which is significantly higher than the enemy's -15 points, some data has been successfully detected. The data is as follows:】

Name: Ducain Ancestor · Bain.

Health: 1000%

Abyssal Power: 2.8 million / 2.8 million points.

True Strength:???

True Agility:???

True Stamina:???

True Intelligence:???

Charm: -15 points

Skill 1, Abyssal Lineage (Abyss · Passive, LV. EX):???

Skill 2, Parasitic Insect Evil Life (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): Use the power of Abyssal insects to temporarily "breed" powerful individuals in the world and control them to fight for the "Ducain Ancestor."

Skill 3, Eye of Yellow Springs (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): Being stared at by the "Ducain Ancestor" for more than 2 seconds will immediately result in "instant death."

Skill 4, Death Sentence (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): The "Ducain Ancestor" can sentence the enemy to death, causing them to suffer "Soul Slash."

Warning: The cooldown time for this ability is 3 minutes.

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Skill 8, Dark Domination (Passive, Lv. EX): Has "absolute domination" over energy with dark characteristics. Dark-system ability damage +950%, and it comes with dark true damage of 10% of the damage caused.

Prompt: If you need to view the branch characteristics of this ability, you need to open the branch list.

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Skill 17, Evil Awakening (Ultimate · Passive, Lv. EX): The "Ducain Ancestor" enters a stronger state at the cost of temporarily reducing sanity by 30%.

Skill 18, Evil Insect Brain-Eating (Ultimate · Passive, Lv. EX): On the basis of "Evil Awakening," further improve comprehensive characteristics, but will temporarily lose 80% sanity.

Skill 19, Dead Evil Insect Body (Ultimate · Passive, Lv. EX): On the basis of "Evil Insect Brain-Eating," enter the ultimate state, but will completely lose sanity until this state ends.

Skill 20, Ultimate Evil (Supreme Peak · Passive/Active, Lv. EX): Because the "Ducain Ancestor" has not recovered to the "Supreme Peak," this ability is temporarily unavailable.

The Ducain ancestor stopped in the middle of the skeleton sky stairs, looking down at Su Xiao. There was no anger or hatred in its gaze. It had played games with too many powerful enemies. The hard-managed Abyss Near Area was broken, which was indeed a heavy loss, but in the long life of the Ducain ancestor, it could only be considered a memorable failure, nothing more.

Initially, the Ducain ancestor was just the most insignificant Abyssal insect. It climbed upward step by step with the most humble weakness. Even if it was sealed as one of the ancestors of several Abyssal lineages, it could still face its former weakness and humble origin. Even in the records inside the Ducain family, the first sentence was:

"My ancestor, the weakest insect at the bottom of the Origin Abyss."

This was inner strength, not escaping or covering up one's former weakness and lowliness, or rather, with the achievements of the Ducain ancestor · Bain, although it was full of evil, looking at the Astral Realm, this was already the part of existence that could not be ignored.

"My, descendants, fight for me."

The Ducain ancestor's white bone staff pointed on the skeleton steps under its feet.

Dong~!

An impact that had both death and life spread. This was almost impossible, but from Abyssal insect to Ducain ancestor, such achievements were actually more incredible than this.

On the wide skeleton stairs, flesh and blood and skeletons surged. In a very short time, the Beast Master, Centipede Councilor, Red Scorpion Empress, Council Chairman Ergubaya, Insect Man · El, Liana, Hidden Sin, Bogdo, and other Abyssal lineage members all appeared. They surrounded the Ducain ancestor · Bain, either standing or sitting on the skeleton sky stairs. The Ducain family was gathered together.

"Go, children."

As soon as the Ducain ancestor finished speaking, all Ducain family members rushed toward Su Xiao. The Red Scorpion Empress was the fastest, turning into a red fluid and disappearing. Reappearing, she was already behind Su Xiao, revealing her malicious true face with a scorpion tail. This aura, compared to Lady Scorpion, Lady Scorpion was simply a small fry.

"Heavenly Wrath · Running Thunder Fall!"

Crack!

The Boundary Thunder Cloud, which had been covered by the dark flow above, instantly blasted the darkness away. Because this was a Transcendence World, coupled with the temporarily abundant elemental power, a Boundary Thunder light pillar with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers fell instantly.

Hundreds of kilometers away, Su Xiao, who had "replaced" positions with the Demon Spirit, appeared. Just as he appeared, he almost couldn't stand firm, his whole body surging with golden electric arcs. This was why he didn't use "Heavenly Wrath · Running Thunder Fall" to summon thunder and then "replace" positions with the Demon Spirit after starting a life-and-death battle with a powerful enemy.

Setting aside the fact that during battle, the Demon Spirit had to be within a range of several thousand meters of him for such a "replacement" to be the fastest, a farther distance could indeed "replace," but it would appear with a wake-up time. In Su Xiao's current battle, this short time was enough for the enemy to take his life.

The second was that Su Xiao had to complete the "replacement" the instant the Boundary Thunder fell. Otherwise, the Boundary Thunder might blast out an L-shape, turning sharply before landing, tracking Su Xiao hundreds of kilometers away. Don't doubt it, this was the strongest thunder, the Boundary Thunder.

Crushing a bottle of "Bright Red Potion," using the "Battle Potion," Su Xiao boarded the Lord Train, let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang start the train, and rushed toward the direction of the Ducain ancestor. The battle was finally officially started.

A distance of hundreds of kilometers was just a short while for the Lord Train. The earth had turned from pitch black to scorched paste, and the skeleton sky stairs and the high hall summoned by the Ducain ancestor were now tattered. Ancient flying dragons "parasitically bred" were spreading their dragon wings, forming a giant scorched ball.

The Lord Train rushed over directly, crashing and shattering the scorched ball. The next instant, a dark giant hand appeared, pressing toward the Lord Train.

Zing!

The blade light flashed. It was Su Xiao standing on the top of the train. Under the high speed of the train, the hem of his long leather coat hunted in the wind.

From the shattered scorched ball, it seemed that the Ducain ancestor had "summoned and bred" the ancient dragons of the First Era to this world, only then successfully blocking the terrifying Boundary Thunder just now.

Su Xiao jumped off the Lord Train, and with the help of the train's dive, slashed the thousand-meter-sized dark ball ahead into pieces.

After this dark ball shattered, it melted into the air like ink marks. This made Su Xiao certain that the Ducain ancestor was stealing the world power of this world to form darkness.

The Ducain ancestor stood in the surging darkness, facing the technique master who was rushing over, and raised one hand.

"Death."

Su Xiao, who was rushing over, stopped for a moment. While one "Blade Heart" shattered, the long blade slashed down fiercely.

The long blade hadn't arrived, but the wind pressure struck. On the side of the Ducain ancestor's neck, a black bloodstain suddenly appeared. This was exceptionally obvious on its pale neck skin. It was worth mentioning that because of resisting the Boundary Thunder, the insect armor was in regeneration.

The Ducain ancestor didn't sense the aura belonging to a top-tier technique master on Su Xiao. The problem was, this Law-Killer's slash was a large chunk more terrifying than an ordinary top-tier technique master.

"Darkness."

Dong!

Su Xiao felt severe pain all over his body, and his whole person was blown away by the weightlessness. In mid-air, his hand wrapped in the crystal layer suddenly grabbed through space.

With a "crack," white freezing air rose on his left hand, making him hang in mid-air like climbing a rock with one hand.

"Extreme Blade · Blood Smoke Cannon."

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand pointed forward, and the blood smoke cannon gathered at the tip of the blade, blasting out with huge force.

With a "bang," the Ducain ancestor's hand aimed at Su Xiao was forced to lift, and a means that could pierce dark insects into Su Xiao's head was interrupted.

"Moo!"

Amu roared angrily and rushed toward the Ducain ancestor. One must know that the Ducain ancestor was stepping on the surging dark tide. Amu running over like this was unlikely to get close.

But Amu was what kind of cow? It rushed onto the dark semi-fluid tide, and was immediately blocked and bound by the dark tide. It grabbed the dark tide with both hands, as if it would starve to death the next second, and stuffed it into its mouth fiercely.

Seeing this scene, the Ducain ancestor couldn't help but smile slightly. It was indeed stupidly stunned by this Tauren, but the next second, its smile froze on its face. The reason was that this Tauren, like sucking jelly, sucked and swallowed, actually sucking one-fifth of the Ducain ancestor's dark tide into its stomach.

To make an analogy, the importance of this dark tide to the Ducain ancestor was equal to the "Night of Wild Hunt" for Su Xiao.

The Ducain ancestor rarely showed a bit of anger in its eyes. Its hand raised, and the dark giant beast grabbed Amu with a boom. A terrifying scene appeared: this dark giant beast turned into millions of insects, drowning Amu while biting Amu frantically.

The Ducain ancestor didn't look at Amu anymore. In its view, this stupid cow was already bound to die. But it soon discovered that the dark tide under its feet was actually decreasing.

"Blade Dao Blade · Flow."

Zing!

The Ducain ancestor's right hand turned pitch black, and it raised its hand to grab "Flow." This wind mark with powerful slashing power was held in its hand just like that.

"Still this level of move, actually has such a slash, amazing."

The Ducain ancestor flicked its dark hand, and the wind mark of "Flow," with the crisp sound of slashing, hit Amu, who was being bitten by ten thousand insects. Blood splashed everywhere, and the wounds were deep to the bone.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao knew that his blade technique development couldn't keep up with his current blade technique progress, but there was no way. After he ascended to Supreme, the Blade Master ability could be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds, but this was not a problem. With the assistance of the "Land of All Living Things" in the Reincarnation Paradise, this drawback would soon be compensated.

And after using 120 "Initial Skill Points" to improve, an awkward scene appeared, which was that Su Xiao's melee flat slashes exceeded 90% of the current blade technique moves. He could be certain that these blade technique moves of his were not in vain, but these things that served as the foundation of blade technique were too much in need of a qualitative change.

Breakthrough in this battle? Su Xiao never had this kind of thought. If he dared to slack off for a moment now, the Ducain ancestor would take his head.

Some blade technique moves were not easy to use, so he used melee slashes, and this move "Blade Dao Blade · Extreme" could be said to be an epic enhancement.

Su Xiao's "Blade Heart" shattered one again, but he was certain that the Ducain ancestor hadn't been staring at him all the time. This made him realize a problem: the hundreds or thousands of eyes born in the space behind the Ducain ancestor could all trigger the Ducain ancestor's "Eye of Yellow Springs" ability.

The good news was, for some reason, Amu didn't trigger a single instant-death judgment, which made Su Xiao think of a possibility: Amu, who had swallowed more than 30 portions of "Abyssal Origin Matter," had an Abyssal constitution. Was this implicit gain of this characteristic an immunity to instant death? No, an ability as powerful as complete immunity to instant death would definitely be reflected. Then it could only be that because Amu had an Abyssal constitution, it simply wouldn't be subject to instant-death judgment.

It was like scolding a deaf person. It wasn't that the deaf person wasn't afraid of being scolded, but that they couldn't hear it at all. Even if the other party scolded until they bloomed, it was 0 damage.

Su Xiao's "Blade Heart" was limited, so he had to make a quick decision. He now had to get within three meters of the Ducain ancestor, but the other party's dark tide was truly tricky...

Hmm, it was no longer tricky. Amu was bitten by dark insects until its whole body was bloody, and it also took a death dark spear from the Ducain ancestor. The power of this thing, even if Su Xiao took one, he would lose half his life.

Amu roared in pain, but it didn't delay it at all from showing off the dark tide into its mouth.

This truly made the Ducain ancestor move real anger. It lifted one hand.

"Darkness."

Starting from the Ducain ancestor's hand, darkness erupted suddenly, and then converged again. The world power consumed by this blow made the surrounding world suddenly turn gray and lose a few colors.

"Bestow."

The dark small ball in the Ducain ancestor's hand disappeared. Almost instantly, Su Xiao felt the crisis of his hair standing on end. He slashed obliquely, which was a slash with "Perfect Block" characteristics.

"Perfect Block."

Dang!!

The dark small ball that would have appeared in his skull in an instant and then triggered a dark explosion was actually blocked and bounced out by him from the space rift.

The "Perfect Block" ability of the Silver Moon Wolf was of course something the Ducain ancestor had experienced.

But at this moment, this kind of thing, which was clearly an attack-type slash, actually had "Perfect Block" characteristics. With the Ducain ancestor's knowledge, it had truly never seen it. And "Dark Fate" did not belong to physical-characteristic slash or attack abilities. Could this kind of ability also be blocked?

For a time, the Ducain ancestor actually had a new understanding of the "Perfect Block" ability of the Moon Wolf clan. If this scene were known to the Moon Wolves, they might blush, and they would have to emphasize again that their "Perfect Block" ability was really not that strong.

Su Xiao slashed obliquely, and a black mark appeared in the space ahead. He rushed into it fiercely. The next second, the space area in front of the Ducain ancestor.

Dong!

A muffled sound made the space in front of the Ducain ancestor full of protruding cracks. This space shattered, and a figure holding a long blade rushed out.

The Ducain ancestor controlled the darkness, making a gesture to blast Amu away, but Amu bit the space in front of it, making this space "crack."

Boom!

A violent repulsive force acted on Su Xiao and Amu. The flesh and blood on Amu's body were torn, but its two big hands pierced into the dark tide, and its sturdy flat teeth were firmly bitten on the space. It actually stood up to the dark impact of the Ducain ancestor.

Su Xiao, who had just rushed out from the space rift, successfully avoided this dark impact behind Amu. The earth where he and Amu were located was plowed away by a hundred meters deep with a boom.

Su Xiao jumped onto Amu's shoulder, stepped on Amu's bloody left hand with one foot, and the other on Amu's shoulder, and jumped out with a boom.

After Amu landed, blood splashed everywhere, but this silly cow roared, not retreating but advancing, rushing toward the Ducain ancestor.

Su Xiao just arrived in front of the Ducain ancestor, and what greeted him was absolute darkness. If it were anyone else entering within ten meters of the Ducain ancestor, whether it was perception, or five senses such as vision and hearing, they would be temporarily deprived. Note, it was not suppressed or obscured, but a more unsolvable deprivation.

But "Absolute Perception" could not be deprived.

"Darkness."

The Ducain ancestor raised its hand, already aimed at the rushing Su Xiao. A terrifying impact struck in front of Su Xiao.

"Replace."

Su Xiao swapped positions with the Demon Spirit.

Dong!!

A loud noise that resounded for thousands of kilometers around shook the surrounding space again and again. In front of the Ducain ancestor, there were layers of spreading, wave-like world scars. This was not as simple as shattering space; it left scars on this world.

"Hoo~"

The Ducain ancestor let out a long breath. Using this blow, its burden was not small. But for some reason, it just felt in the dark that it couldn't let this Law-Killer get close, otherwise there would be serious consequences. This Law-Killer, eight or nine times out of ten, had obtained a huge improvement recently, making the other party's mid-to-long-range lethality and melee strength not on the same tier.

"Instant Return."

Su Xiao returned to the position where he had "replaced" with the Demon Spirit just now, which was in front of the Ducain ancestor.

Hum!

Golden brilliance erupted on Checking Zhan Long Shan. This was the scene only when technique energy was condensed to the extreme. The next second, this golden brilliance converged, making the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan turn golden.

A melee slash.

Zing!

The slashing sharpness that penetrated the sky made the Ducain ancestor, who was prepared to use an insect substitute to withstand this blow, only able to lean aside and resist hard. It was not that it didn't want to, but this terrifying slash, its resulting regional slash power, made its soul thread connection with the insect substitute snap.

This was the appearance of a flat slash being a big move in the late stage. No matter how mysterious the enemy's ability was, when the slashing power was sufficient, it would affect the space energy and soul energy of a large area around it.

When everything around was cut off by the slashing power, the only choice left was to resist hard.

The long blade and the dark staff sword slashed against each other. With a "crack," the dark staff sword collapsed upon contact. The long blade slashed down, and the Ducain ancestor's left arm, small half of its left torso, and even half of its left leg were all slashed off.

"Darkness."

Dong!!

Su Xiao disappeared from the spot instantly, reappearing, already flying backward for thousands of meters, with dots of blood along the way.

The Ducain ancestor landed. Its broken arm, torso, broken leg, etc., quickly spread with flesh and blood. But the next second, these flesh and blood constituting the arm, torso, and left side cracked open. The Soul Slash of a Blade Master was just like this.

The dark tide surged. Seeing the current dark tide, the Ducain ancestor couldn't help but twitch its cheeks. It had been swallowed by that silly cow until only one-fifth remained. It simply used these dark tides to constitute its left arm, torso, left leg, etc.

The Ducain ancestor stepped forward. Every step it took, space would distort, allowing it to instantly cross a thousand-meter distance. It wanted to take advantage of Su Xiao being heavily injured to completely solve this Law-Killer.

"Moo!"

Amu rushed over with big strides. It now had unparalleled survival ability, but the gains of the Abyssal system were always extreme and involved sacrifice. Amu's attack ability was not enough to threaten the Ducain ancestor. The problem was, Amu was now carrying a "Wrath of the Sun · Apollo."

This made the Ducain ancestor frown, raising its hand toward Amu. Amu and the "Wrath of the Sun · Apollo" flew out with a boom. While in mid-air, in order not to continue being entangled by this silly cow, the darkness in its eyes almost boiled. A giant phantom appeared. This was the World Giant of this world, which had now become one of the Ducain ancestor's abilities.

The World Giant swung the dark giant hammer in its hand toward Amu. Amidst the cracking of space along the way, this blow that left cracks in the world hit Amu.

The surrounding sounds disappeared for a moment because the sound was too loud. Amu turned into light and disappeared in the distance. The half sun that suddenly appeared in the distant sky was caused by the explosion of the "Wrath of the Sun · Apollo."

Who said Amu was silly? It took the "Wrath of the Sun · Apollo" from the team storage space instead of the "Sun Holy Sword," which showed that Amu was actually not silly.

The dark World Giant disintegrated and could not be summoned again for the time being.

Although Amu was beaten down, its life or death was unknown, but compared to the past where it would exit the stage after taking a big move, the current Amu could make such a terrifying enemy as the Ducain ancestor feel tricky. Amu was truly too hard to kill.

The sharp slash struck. The Ducain ancestor's right hand turned pitch black. It was just about to control the surrounding world to bind the incoming slash, but found that the incoming blade light was black-blue, and there was black smoke diffusing on it.

"Roar!"

The ancient flying dragon with only half its body left as a skeleton was bred under the effect of "Parasitic Insect Evil Life," spread its dragon wings, and flew backward.

Almost at the same time, Su Xiao swapped positions with the black-blue blade light, which was the Demon Spirit, and slashed upward obliquely.

Zing!

The resurrected ancient dragon was slashed into two halves. It was not that the ancient dragon was weak; this ancient dragon was a powerful entity from the early First Era. It was too far from the present. Even if it was temporarily resurrected by "Parasitic Insect Evil Life," it was mostly in a skeleton state.

Su Xiao rushed forward. Suddenly, a hair-raising crisis made him lean aside. A black insect, a hundred meters long and as thick as a water bucket, opened its dark mouth full of sharp teeth and bit past Su Xiao.

Blood splashed everywhere. Su Xiao's left arm was already gone. Facing this kind of situation, he had experience early on. While losing his left arm, the crystal spread, and the "Battle Prosthetic · Left Arm" was quickly formed.

The impact of this insect bite slowed Su Xiao's momentum. Opposite, the Ducain ancestor was already standing on the head of a dark insect several meters thick and several hundred meters long. Behind it were dark insects as thick as water buckets. These insects were covered with eyes, violent and terrifying.

Su Xiao's "Blade Heart" shattered one again. His whole body felt severe pain as if his blood was about to explode, but he was unusually calm.

The Ducain ancestor pointed forward with one hand. The hundreds of dark insects behind it, like giant cannonballs launched, blasted toward Su Xiao. Being hit by them was not as simple as taking a heavy punch, but being bitten off a large piece of flesh, or even having one's head or entire upper body bitten off.

Boom, boom, boom...

The dark insects formed afterimages. Su Xiao jumped between their attacks, occasionally slashing a blade, and several dark insects had their heads cut off.

"In my name, I sentence you to death."

The white bone staff in the Ducain ancestor's hand, which had been restored, pointed and stabbed at a dark eye ahead. This dark eye let out a sharp and painful hiss. Afterward, its pupil turned into the appearance of a Law-Killer mark.

Almost at the same time, Su Xiao's "Blade Heart" shattered one again.

This was the battle with the Abyssal lineage. If the means to exempt "instant death" were not enough, one wouldn't even have the qualification to fight them.

The shattering of this "Blade Heart" made Su Xiao feel severe pain all over his body. He avoided the bite of the dark insects, his movements slowed, and a dark insect opened its mouth with a diameter of several meters and swallowed him in one gulp.

Just after successfully swallowing Su Xiao into its mouth, this dark insect turned fiery red. The terrifying dark red flame in its body, called Abyssal Karma Fire, was detonated by the Ducain ancestor.

The moment it swallowed Su Xiao, this dark insect suddenly stopped. Its filthy and chaotic vertical pupils quickly revealed crystal colors. Instead, this dark insect, as thick as a water vat and several hundred meters long, froze in a crystallized state.

Crack, crack, crack!

Crystallization spread rapidly to the surroundings. The Ducain ancestor, located on the head of the largest dark insect, drifted toward the high place. In a very short time, everything that touched the earth below was assimilated into crystals.

With a "bang," everything on the earth within dozens of kilometers around exploded into crystal fragments.

Su Xiao squatted on the ground, located among these crystal fragments. He looked at the Ducain ancestor and gripped his hand toward the other party. This made all the crystal fragments fly toward the Ducain ancestor and gather.

A dark insect hidden in the "space rift" suddenly appeared and bit Su Xiao vertically from above.

"Feather Shell."

Feather-like crystal fragments splashed. Su Xiao jumped backward and pierced through space, as if his soul had left his body, and the remaining crystal body was smashed to pieces.

In mid-air, the Ducain ancestor frowned and looked at the crystal fragments flying around. These crystal fragments had no aggressiveness, but combat intuition told it not to touch these crystal fragments.

With a boom, the Ducain ancestor's dark aura erupted, blasting the surrounding crystal fragments away. But these crystal fragments actually melted rapidly, turning from a crystal state to an energy state, forming energy lines as thick as a little finger. They were actually super-thickened versions of Spirit Shadow Lines.

First of all, one must know that Pride Song Crystal and Spirit Shadow Lines were both converted from Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy. That is to say, when the Pride Song Crystal was completely solidified into a crystal state, that is, forming a "Battle Prosthetic" in this situation, it could be re-converted into a Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy state, and then form Spirit Shadow Lines.

Looking at the Spirit Shadow Lines that were distributed, pierced, and pierced out of space for dozens of kilometers around, the Ducain ancestor felt something was wrong. It formed a dark insect behind it, making a gesture to swallow it.

A roar, actually several consecutive sounds, but because the connection was too fast, it sounded like one. Su Xiao stepped on the Spirit Shadow Lines and appeared in front of the Ducain ancestor.

"Blade Dao Blade · Extreme."

Hum!!

Intense golden brilliance—no, because the golden light was too thick, it had turned dark gold—was added to the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan, and it slashed toward the Ducain ancestor.

The Ducain ancestor's eyes widened a bit. Its combat intuition told it very clearly that if it took this blade, even if it were an Abyssal lineage, it shouldn't think about being intact. If this Law-Killer didn't talk about martial virtue and directly opened the Demon Blade, dying directly in this one time was also possible. Ultimately, its current form was too weak.

"Ketsuhyo Ketsuhyo Tanxi."

The Ducain ancestor let out a sigh. Before taking this blade, its pupils had already shattered.

Zing!!

A slash mark appeared on the Ducain ancestor's forehead, as if it were about to split it into two.

"Old thing, you finally, let us out."

A smile gradually appeared on the Ducain ancestor's face. Its body flesh and blood surged, changing from a height of just over two meters to a height of five meters. Black worms surged all over its body, turning into a humanoid monster with eight python-like insect arms.

The evil of the Ducain ancestor had awakened.

Boom!!

A violent black wave erupted with the Evil Ancestor as the center. It had more than a dozen eyes of different sizes, and the cheeks of its mouth split open, forming a grinning shape. Sharp teeth and long tongues branching out spread.

With a "wah," the Evil Ancestor spat out a large number of insects. These insects drilled into the space of this world and began to pollute this area of the world.

"Slaughter, destruction! Destroy!!"

The Evil Ancestor could be described as hysterical. The earth under its feet sank with a boom, and it took the initiative to rush toward Su Xiao. One insect arm after another bit toward Su Xiao.

Zing, zing, zing!

Fast blade slashed chaotic insects. The Evil Ancestor's eight insect arms were shredded, but it immediately regenerated. This was not the core part of its body, and there was no such thing as being soul-slashed.

The long blade slashed down with force, bringing wind pressure. The incoming slash made the five-meter-tall Evil Ancestor's body forced to be lowered, and it was forced to kneel on one knee.

Zing.

The long blade slashed across the Evil Ancestor's head from a distance, and its head was slashed off by half obliquely.

A straight kick, with a "bang," the Evil Ancestor almost lay on the ground, changing from kneeling on one knee to supporting the ground with one hand. The long blade slashed into its shoulder.

"Hehe, hahahahaha!"

A crazy and extremely evil wild laugh came from the Evil Ancestor's mouth. Black insect arms grew all over its body, wrapping Su Xiao. It didn't care about the slash wounds at all. Its mouth opened until black blood splashed at the corners of its mouth, and a large number of dark insects spat out from its mouth, pouring down on Su Xiao.

The surrounding space was eaten too seriously by insects, so "Dragon Shadow Flash" or "Feather Shell" could not be used. Swapping with the Demon Spirit was feasible, but the problem was, "replacement" only had two times left.

The good news was that the Ducain ancestor was different from the Abyssal Ancient Dragon and didn't have the ability to restore its health to full instantly. It seemed that should be unique to the Ancient Dragon system, and it was only after being unbridledly enhanced by the Abyss that it became powerful to that extent.

Taking two melee slashes from Su Xiao, the Evil Ancestor's

Crystal spread; the filthy insects raining down on Su Xiao's head crystallized, and the crystallization spread toward the Evil Progenitor.

The Evil Progenitor leaned back with all its might, and with a 'Crack!', it broke free from the crystal assimilation, though the lower half of its body was torn off, and a multitude of eyes emerged on its body.

"I curse you, aging (unknown language)."

The Evil Progenitor emitted a bewitching sound as if from the netherworld, and it was in a language never heard before.

Su Xiao, who had just been about to step forward, suddenly felt an anomaly throughout his body. He raised his sword-wielding hand and discovered that his hand had become old and withered; his skin had lost its vitality, becoming wrinkled and loose, his hair grew uncontrollably and turned gray, and his vision blurred slightly.

Su Xiao had truly aged. Logically, the Evil Progenitor should have seized the opportunity to attack, taking advantage of Su Xiao's aging and weakness to kill him on the spot.

Yet the Evil Progenitor's radial pupils suddenly constricted to the limit. A pale arm broke out from the side of its neck, pointing at Su Xiao. It was actually... going to undo Su Xiao's aging?

Upon entering the second stage, that is, after the "Evil Awakening" ability was triggered, the Ducain Progenitor's sanity value plummeted by one-third. In exchange, it gained powerful melee capabilities, even enough to go head-to-head with Su Xiao in close combat.

But the decrease in sanity caused the Ducain Progenitor, now the Evil Progenitor, to overlook one issue: a Sword Art Master sometimes grows stronger with age.

"Extreme Blade..."

As Su Xiao slashed out with this blade, the aging curse was rapidly undone, but it was already too late.

Clang!!

A slash mark extended diagonally into the sky. This black slash mark would exist for a very long time, and the world through which it passed was sliced open.

The Evil Progenitor could not dodge this blade at all, but a second before being struck, its head suddenly swelled—it was its third stage, "Evil Insect Brain Devour."

The Evil Progenitor quickly transformed into a giant brain monster. Its entire body surged with translucent insects. These insects possessed an immortal characteristic and were extremely difficult to deal with; as long as an enemy touched even a little, these insects would rapidly proliferate.

Furthermore, given enough time, the Brain-Devouring Progenitor could fill the entire Ancient Dragon Kingdom with these transparent insects, filling it from the ground to the sky.

But just as the Brain-Devouring Progenitor entered the third stage, a black slash mark suddenly appeared on its torso. Facts proved once again that a Sword Art Master is more terrifying the older they get. What was even more fatal was that Su Xiao had used 120,000 "Supreme Potential Points" to ascend to the Supreme level, and he had obtained:

"Due to your ultra-limit specification Supreme ascension, you have obtained??? Supreme limit!"

This was a solid, existing limit, not some ethereal, lip-service claim that technique masters grow stronger with age. Of course, as a Reincarnation Paradise hunter, his path toward becoming the strongest would not actually involve growing stronger with age; he would either die halfway or ascend to the peak while still relatively young.

The Brain-Devouring Progenitor naturally discovered that entering this stage was insufficient to withstand that terrifying blade from just now. It immediately entered its ultimate form, "Dead Evil Insect Body."

"Roar!!!"

The terrifying evil entity from the abyss finally revealed its true form: a massive body a hundred meters tall, roughly resembling an ancient dragon that had been skinned alive, with its back covered in bone spurs. Its wings were composed of dark evil insects, and beneath the wings hung soft, tassel-like insect bodies. A total of six heads and long necks were tightly coiled together, the six heads squeezing and fusing to form a twisted head.

With a 'Pop', a black slash mark burst open on the Dead Evil Progenitor's chest. This was also why it had revealed not the "Evil Insect Body," but the ancient dragon it had once devoured—it wanted the ancient dragon's astonishing flight power.

Clang!

The long sword pierced the air. The Dead Evil Progenitor took the blade head-on, and a large amount of black insects scattered—this was the Dead Evil Progenitor's blood. It spread its wings and roared into the sky. A wrong choice had plunged it into a huge disadvantage; this was also why the Ducain Progenitor was so desperate to restore its "Supreme Peak."

In the past, it could overlap four states instead of switching between them like this, and the overlapping of states would not lead to a decrease in sanity. It was only due to being soul-slashed by Grimm Gillian multiple times that it suffered aftereffects that had not yet healed to this day.

The Dead Evil Progenitor roared into the sky and disappeared at the horizon. Su Xiao was just about to pursue on foot but gave up; at this ancient dragon-level flight speed, pursuing on foot was too stupid. The Lord Train was driven over by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and he leaped onto the roof of the carriage. It is worth mentioning that Amu was recovering from injuries inside the carriage.

Click, click, click~

A crystal layer spread beneath Su Xiao's feet. Although it was fixed by the crystal layer, he crouched down as a precaution. The Lord Train started with a roar and pursued the Dead Evil Progenitor.

At this moment, Empress City, District 19, Rear Pedestrian Street.

Today was Empress City's annual Summer Abundance Festival, which meant that midsummer was approaching. Various fruits and vegetables, the specialty of District 19, were about to hit the market and be transported to other districts. This was the main income for most laborers in District 19, and it was indeed a festival worth celebrating.

At the festival grounds, various fruits and vegetables were placed on wooden racks along the street for people to take as they pleased. The finances of District 19 were quite good, and with several capable people among the mid-level officials here, the already decent economy of District 19 was moving toward the top thirty.

A young girl with fresh flower ornaments in her hair and a hint of shyness in her eyes was standing on the street steps, looking around while waiting for her lover. Compared to the unrestrained residents of the neighboring District 27, the residents of District 19 were generally more conservative. However, the girl standing on tiptoe and looking around had already decided in her heart to give her betrothed lover a small gift today that crossed the line of conservatism.

On the opposite street, a big boy from a family out for a stroll was somewhat absent-minded. Watching the happy smiles of his younger siblings, he, who had entered his rebellious phase, snorted with disdain. His slightly chubby father, seeing this scene, sighed secretly, a feeling that his eldest son was a wasted effort lingering in his heart.

People on the street were laughing and talking, children were chasing and playing, and the hawking of snack vendors was endless.

Right in the midst of this lively beauty, a roaring sound of wind-breaking appeared. With a 'Boom', the massive ancient dragon crashed into this district. Large areas of buildings turned into powder, and the surrounding pedestrians were no longer just turned into flesh and blood but were impacted by the terrifying force into blood mist, dissipating in the surroundings; not one survived.

From all over the Dead Evil Progenitor's body, thin, long insects grew out. These insects submerged into the ground, constantly breeding and spreading, and in a very short time, they enveloped the entire District 19.

Thump~ Thump!

A huge heartbeat sound appeared. It was all the living beings in District 19 whose heartbeats had reached a single frequency and had all beaten for the last time simultaneously, which was why such a huge heartbeat sound was produced.

In just an instant, this district, which had just been prosperous and beautiful, turned into a dead city. A massive amount of stripped-away primal life force gathered toward the Dead Evil Progenitor.

The Lord Train smashed through building after building, and the second after the Dead Evil Progenitor swallowed this life force, it roared and rammed it into the distance.

Dark insect bodies like pythons grew out from the Dead Evil Progenitor's back. It transformed into a humanoid shape with wings on its back, a dozen dark insect bodies on its back, and its thick arms were covered in holes. This was the Dead Evil Progenitor's strongest state, and the pitch-black slash mark on its chest had been smoothed over.

A blood shadow attacked from the direction where the Lord Train had just been. Seeing this, the Dead Evil Progenitor's large hand pierced into the darkness, pulled out a twisted blade, and slashed toward the incoming blood shadow.

Clang!

The Dead Evil Progenitor's twisted blade was blocked, but the smile on its face became increasingly cruel. It saw its massive body instantly transform into a massive amount of abyss insects, enveloping Su Xiao within them. More accurately, the surrounding thousand-meter range had been submerged by these abyss insects. If not for the protection of the Lord Train, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang would definitely have been killed instantly, and Baha could not have held on for long either; it was, after all, a space-type.

Dense slashes swept past Su Xiao's surroundings. His perception circle narrowed to a diameter of five meters, making the slashes within the perception circle even denser. Even so, he would still be bitten by the insects that broke through the slashes, and every bite meant a piece of flesh.

"Mad Devour."

A harsh sound like glass being scraped came, and the surrounding abyss insects suddenly erupted with a more intense abyss aura, causing Su Xiao to be submerged on the spot.

The moment he was submerged by the insect sea, Su Xiao's "Heart of the Blade" shattered several times. Even more terrifyingly, his life-saving ability "Blood Controller" was instantly triggered; death was approaching.

Strips of abyss insects broke through Su Xiao's body defenses and burrowed into his right arm and back, leaving blood holes the size of a little finger. This made him feel intense pain, as well as the powerful force of these several abyss insects squirming crazily within his flesh.

Crystal assimilation spread, killing and repelling the insect sea that had engulfed him. The few insects that had burrowed into his right arm and back also died immediately and were pulled out of his flesh by Spirit Shadow Threads as they crystallized.

In his ears was the rustling sound of insects surging and rubbing. Su Xiao knew that life and death were in this instant. His aura was exceptionally calm, suddenly penetrating space.

"Blade Dao Blade · Soul · Ring Break."

With a 'Whoosh', the soul black flame ring blade light slashed out with Su Xiao as the center, but it had no attack power against the surging abyss insects.

This was to be expected. Su Xiao was in a state of space penetration when he slashed out this Ring Break. In less than 0.5 seconds, the spatial dimension he was in was bitten through by the abyss insects, and he was forced to exit space penetration.

It seemed like a useless blade with a huge cost, but the purpose of this blade was to determine the enemy's position through the soul ring slash spreading outward. This sudden whim of a move worked.

The Dead Evil Progenitor's filthy and powerful soul, even when "Soul · Ring Break" spread within the spatial rift, still fluctuated. In addition, the surrounding space had already been gnawed into a thousand holes by the abyss insects.

The moment the Dead Evil Progenitor was located, "Dead Silence Extinction" appeared in Su Xiao's hand. Feeling the stinging pain in his right palm from the faintly penetrating power of dead silence, he pulled the trigger.

Bang!

A distance of a hundred meters was just an instant for the "Super · Extinction Bullet." The Extinction Bullet hit the chest of the enemy among the abyss insects a hundred meters away, which caused the abyss insect group to choke.

Almost simultaneously, Su Xiao entered a near-death state. Although there were no abyss insects close to him, being in this insect domain would cause his health to slide rapidly. At most, after 3 seconds, he would die here.

Black-blue smoke emerged, sweeping past the insects in front. No matter how the abyss insects bit, they could not block the Magic Spirit. The reason was that the Extinction Bullet that had been fired was wrapped in a small amount of Magic Spirit energy.

Su Xiao suddenly swapped positions with the Magic Spirit and appeared in front of the Ducain Progenitor. The core of this so-called "Dead Evil Progenitor" state was fundamentally the Ducain Progenitor.

"Death."

The Ducain Progenitor seemed to have been waiting for a long time. Even more fatally, Su Xiao's "Heart of the Blade" had been exhausted in this abyss insect sea.

Just as death approached, Su Xiao swapped positions with the Magic Spirit again, and the Magic Spirit took this instant-death judgment.

"Instant Return."

Su Xiao returned to the abyss insect sea from outside, but this time, his health recovered a small portion; he had crushed a bottle of "Bright Red Secret Medicine."

Su Xiao successfully launched a surprise attack in front of the Ducain Progenitor. This blade was so powerful that the surrounding abyss insects exploded with a 'crackling' sound.

"Death, reappear."

The Ducain Progenitor pointed at Su Xiao again, the two sides within arm's reach.

If there were no accidents, Su Xiao would have lost this round; the instant death would take effect before the long sword. The problem was, if he didn't have a certain degree of confidence, would Su Xiao have been so reckless as to "Instant Return" into the abyss insect sea?

At the same time he "Instant Returned," a loud noise came from outside the insect sea. It was the close-range spatial teleportation that Baha had been preparing since the beginning of the battle. To be precise, it was a super-fast teleportation formed on Amu that could only be activated once, but could be activated normally even in a broken spatial area.

The pupils in the Ducain Progenitor's eyes emitted a ghostly light, and on the opposite side, the long sword clinging to black-blue smoke broke through a large number of abyss insects and stabbed toward the Ducain Progenitor's chest—it was a blade of Magic Blade slaughter.

Crack!

A shocking scene appeared: Amu suddenly appeared behind the Ducain Progenitor. Amu did not have powerful attack power, but it had a stomach that could swallow abyss-type creatures, as well as a mouth that had also been enhanced by the abyss and was particularly astonishing. Amu, appearing from behind, actually opened its mouth to the maximum and bit off one-third of the Ducain Progenitor's head in one bite.

The Ducain Progenitor's pupils trembled wildly. At the same time, the long sword clinging to black-blue smoke had pierced through its chest. A crystal sky wall formed behind it, and the long sword penetrated it, pinning the Ducain Progenitor to this crystal wall.

With a 'Boom', the entire world trembled because of this blade.

Bathed in blood, his long leather coat was so tattered that it hung down in strips. Fortunately, it was bound by the sword belt at the waist, so the Night of Wild Hunt did not fall apart.

Su Xiao, bare-chested, gradually pulled out the long sword that had pierced the Ducain Progenitor's chest. As the long sword was pulled away, the crystal sky wall behind the Ducain Progenitor collapsed. Along with it, as the long sword was pulled out, the long sword clinging to the black-blue smoke extracted a pure black power from the Ducain Progenitor's body. This caused the Ducain Progenitor's hands to become claw-like, and on its head, which only had two-thirds left, the pupils trembled, but it could not move a single bit.

Clang!

Su Xiao slashed horizontally with one blade. The long sword left sparkling black-blue residual flames in the air. With one slash, the Ducain Progenitor's head flew off in response.

The scene of Su Xiao killing the Ducain Progenitor with one blade was frozen and recorded, forming a painting where only the flying fire embers had color, while everything else had lost some color due to the withering of the world here. In its magnificence, there was also a sense of destiny.

The surrounding abyss insect sea dissipated with a 'Boom', leaving flying embers in the air. The Ducain Progenitor tremblingly raised its hand, its flying head widening its eyes:

"You... traitors, you... traitors, abyss..."

The Ducain Progenitor's headless body raised its hand, as if wanting to grab something far away.

Pop!

The Ducain Progenitor exploded into a large amount of abyss insects, and before they could land, they were burned to nothing in the air by the "Blood-Burning Embers."

Su Xiao flicked the long sword in his hand, causing the embers clinging to it to fly everywhere, and the long sword returned to its sheath.

Ducain Progenitor, already slain!

PS: (The decisive battle chapter; I didn't want to post it a day after asking for leave, so I updated it today and postponed the holiday until tomorrow. I hope all the reader masters will forgive me.)