Chapter 4095: Confrontation

Even at noon, Meteorite Star revealed a dim, yellowish hue; the thick gray clouds in the sky seemed as though they would never disperse.

Sparse stone forests of varying heights were scattered across this plain like stars in the sky. Near the Lord Train, embers drifted through the air. Su Xiao stood in a standoff, separated by several dozen meters, from a tall figure draped in tattered animal skins and crowned with deer antlers.

The opponent's entire body was covered in pale golden fur, which was somewhat long; at positions like the elbows, there was a sense of fur tassels. The chin featured a casually trimmed beard, the face wore a gray-white bone mask, and the head bore elk antlers. On his back was a metal black staff over three meters long and as thick as a goose egg, from which a dense Abyss aura emanated. This was an Abyss weapon.

Yes, this was the "Honey Badger" of the Astral Realm—the combat ceiling of the friendly system gods who took life and death lightly and fought whenever they were displeased—the peak of the Supreme, the Deer God.

The Deer God's pupils were golden, a result of long-term absorption of Golden Power in its initial state. Among known powerhouses, only he dared to directly absorb Golden Power in its initial state.

Golden Power might sound a bit unfamiliar, but Golden Skill Points were not unfamiliar at all; Golden Skill Points were transformed from Golden Power in its initial state.

In other words, Golden Skill Points were actually weakened "initial state Golden Power." It wasn't that the Paradise faction intentionally weakened them, but rather that whoever added those points would die; thus, Golden Skill Points could hardly be called a reward.

The unweakened "initial state Golden Power," though dangerous, possessed the power to continuously break through upper limits.

The Deer God merely stood there, and an intangible pressure radiated outward, as if there were nothing he couldn't smash once he gripped his Abyss weapon, Chou Shou. More peculiarly, ninety-nine percent of Abyss weapons had the tendency to devour their masters, yet this Abyss weapon was extremely willing to assist the Deer God in battle.

The Deer God raised a hand and pointed his index finger at the Lord Train; the meaning was simple: hand over the Eye Princess.

Su Xiao did not speak. A monstrous blood aura erupted with a boom, making him seem as if he were standing in an intangible sea of blood. The scarlet blood aura formed a faint, looming Blood Beast behind him, grinning at the Deer God.

Neither side needed to say more. The Deer God gripped the handle of the Abyss weapon, Chou Shou. Black tentacles spread from both sides of the handle, coiling around the Deer God's forearm.

With a boom, the blood sea aura and the golden divine might collided violently, each eroding and suppressing the other. However, the blood sea had the upper hand—this was the aura enhancement brought by "Supreme Charm." Means of increasing aura rank were still very rare.

Thud!

The earth trembled. Su Xiao and the Deer God vanished simultaneously. When they reappeared, they were less than three meters apart. The battle between two melee-type Supreme peaks—just thinking about it felt terrifying, and one couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for this world.

"Extreme Blade: White Night."

"Sun Piercer."

Checking Zhan Long Shan, infused with technique energy and revealing a golden luster, collided violently with the super-high-temperature, glowing red battle staff, Chou Shou.

Thud—!!!

A muffled sound like colliding meteorites spread, followed by a crackling sound like firecrackers. This was the surrounding world area beginning to crack; even a Transcendent World could not withstand two Supreme peaks clashing with their ultimate moves the moment they met.

Inside the Lord Train, there was a rumbling sound. The Eye Princess lay against the train window, her thin lips slightly parted in shock at the apocalyptic scene outside. She couldn't help but ask:

"What do we do now?"

"What do we do? Run, of course. What if the train gets broken? This is one of my boss's most cherished treasures."

Baha looked at the Eye Princess with a look that suggested she was 'wise'.

"Ah? We're fleeing the battle? Is that okay?"

"Then, Princess, please get off the train. You go help."

"Drive, quickly."

After the Eye Princess finished speaking, she nodded very seriously at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Seeing this, Baha laughed. Before the train door closed, it flew up and dove out, circling above the battlefield to wait for an opportunity.

Crack, crack, crack—

The long blade and the battle staff pressed against each other, emitting a harsh grinding sound. Su Xiao felt an irresistible force continuously transmitting from the enemy's weapon to Checking Zhan Long Shan, then spreading into his own arm and body. This caused the ground beneath his feet to crack, and his body began to feel numb.

In reality, the Deer God on the other side was the one truly surprised. In the past, even enemies of the same rank who dared to meet this staff strike head-on were ninety percent likely to be blown away. Those who could withstand it, besides the Void's Blade Demon, were only this Law-Breaker before him. Golden light bloomed in its eyes.

Hum—!

Centered on Su Xiao and the Deer God, the space for a thousand kilometers around cracked like shattered explosion-proof glass, the fracture marks exceptionally dense. Within this range, more than thirty gatherings of Evil God believers, totaling at least a hundred thousand, shattered and exploded into blood mist in the same instant.

An irresistible giant force came from his right arm. Su Xiao was blown back a large step, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His internal organs felt as if they were cracking, and his entire skeleton emitted sounds of being unable to bear the burden.

That wasn't the end of it. A terrifying whistling sound came head-on; the Deer God on the other side swung the staff again. This... was good.

"Perfect Block."

Clang!!

The Deer God's heavy strike was forcefully blocked and deflected. Because the power was too terrifying, the Deer God's right arm holding the staff and half of his body went instantly numb, and he was forced to tilt and retreat half a step.

Puchi!

The "Annihilation Blood Spear" pierced the Deer God's chest, but before it could explode, it was enveloped by a golden power, causing it to materialize and thus fail to maintain its fragmentation.

Qing Gang Ying energy surged into the Deer God's body. Even with the Deer God's endurance, the corners of his eyes twitched. Those who could withstand the "intense pain" caused by the awakened Qing Gang Ying without roaring were truly ruthless people.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang...

The long blade and the battle staff clashed at super-high speed, metal ringing. Su Xiao and the Deer God were temporarily so fast they lost their traces. In just a few minutes, the two sides exchanged thousands of blows, making the Deer God's golden pupils even sharper. In the past, he hadn't fought this refreshingly.

Blood dripped down Su Xiao's chin. His left arm hung limply; the long blade pressed upward into his armpit, and he immediately severed his left arm. This made the Deer God on the other side feel slightly puzzled, but more cautious. As Su Xiao's crystal left arm formed, the Deer God knew what was going on.

With two melee-type Supreme peaks fighting, the surrounding world area was truly unlucky.

"Extreme Blade: Heavy Moon."

A pitch-black heavy moon appeared in the sky, and the slashing pressure instantly enveloped the Deer God, causing his figure to hunch slightly.

Even so, the Deer God still braced against the slashing pressure, stepping on the earth until it boomed as he attacked. However, this caused the Deer God's speed to plummet. While leaping backward, Su Xiao slashed out a phantom blade.

"Extreme Blade: Green Ghost."

Zing!!

The cyan-blue slash almost instantly hit the Deer God's left eye. But the Deer God's combat experience was incredibly rich; he immediately closed his left eye. Even so, with the sharpness of Su Xiao's blade, a scar slashed diagonally across the Deer God's left eye. Although it didn't injure the eyeball, it left a deep cut.

With a boom, a violent golden pressure attacked from the front. Su Xiao felt as if he were in golden liquid, surrounded by endless pressure. This was the Deer God using pure physical strength to assimilate the "power concept" of the surrounding world area, allowing him to command the surrounding gravity, attraction, and so on.

Yes, when a type of ability reaches its extreme, it undergoes a qualitative change. Even if pure physical strength reaches its extreme, it will have very surprising and powerful derivatives.

The Deer God raised the battle staff in his hand and shook the earth with one strike.

Thud!!!

The earth trembled, as if it were a giant that had suffered a painful blow. Within a range of several hundred kilometers, the ground began to spew pillars of magma. Not only that, the power of this staff strike caused the firmament to be covered in cracks. A translucent fluid flowed out from the thousand-meter-long cracks in the firmament—this was, shockingly... World Power.

A drop of blood dripped down the Deer God's chin. At this moment, the Deer God already had a dozen slash marks on his body, but his state was rising instead of falling. He saw the scorching power surging from the depths of the earth and the World Power flowing from the cracks in the firmament, all gathering in the Deer God's hand. It seemed like a lot of steps, but from the moment the heavy staff strike was smashed out to the completion of the gathering, the whole process took less than 1.5 seconds.

With a whoosh, surging heat appeared in the Deer God's hand. A fireball three meters in diameter was held in the Deer God's hand. This fireball continuously absorbed the earth's heat and World Power.

It wasn't that Su Xiao didn't want to interrupt the Deer God's move, but rather that when the opponent shook the earth with that staff, his vision went dark. Although he wasn't injured, he was hard-controlled for a very short time by unknown physical means.

The golden-red fireball was held in the Deer God's hand. Seeing this scene, Su Xiao's pupils contracted, because that thing was not a fireball at all. He was very certain that thing! Was a small sun! The Deer God had rubbed out a real, albeit small, sun with his bare hands!

The Deer God made a throwing gesture, and then, just like that, simply threw the sun in his hand.

Rumble!

Wherever the small sun passed, the area trembled incessantly. The earth turned into a liquid magma lake, and the space it passed through was scorched full of holes.

Su Xiao sheathed the long blade in his hand, his aura suddenly retracted, and the surrounding world quickly faded in color. This was suppressed by his technique power.

"Realm of No-Self: Extreme."

Su Xiao slashed out with one blade. The flying small sun was suddenly cut open, turning into two sides that flew past him, quickly dissipating. This was the annihilation phenomenon caused by two extreme forces canceling each other out.

Whoosh—

Su Xiao exhaled white air from his mouth. This "Realm of No-Self: Extreme" almost drained all the essence, energy, and spirit of him as a Supreme peak, especially his soul power. It seemed that raising his soul strength to 3000 points needed to be put on the agenda.

Speaking of which, after being promoted to the Supreme peak, wanting to increase soul strength wasn't as difficult as before. After all, with his current physique, the soul-strengthening treasures that would have caused him to die suddenly after use in the past could now be easily withstood. After a few bottles of conditioning potions, he was completely recovered.

A sense of danger attacked; it was the Deer God who had launched a surprise attack. The wind pressure coming head-on made Su Xiao immediately adopt Kingsley's hairstyle. A few rounds of confrontation confirmed to him that, as he was now, if they were to fight to the death today, he would definitely not be the Deer God's opponent. But this battle caused his combat experience at the Supreme peak to soar.

To use a simple analogy, if he fought other Supreme peaks, even if they eventually fought to the death, the combat experience would probably increase by 1000. But in this confrontation with the Deer God, even though they hadn't decided the winner yet, his combat experience had soared by 8000+.

Death came head-on. The Deer God didn't hold back at all, and neither did Su Xiao.

"Extreme Realm: Astral Realm!"

Centered on Su Xiao, everything around stopped. The long blade slashed across the Deer God's neck, and the Deer God's health dropped by a large chunk. But for a god at this level, being beheaded certainly wouldn't kill him. In fact, just as the long blade slashed across, the Deer God relied on his self-healing ability to complete the recovery of the neck injury.

One must know that "regeneration" and "self-healing ability" are different. What is regenerated first must be rotten flesh, and then remodeling. But self-healing ability is innate to the body, without risks or side effects of any kind. As long as stamina is sufficient, it can be passively sustained.

However, for self-healing ability to be stronger than regeneration, this was clearly unique to the Astral Realm.

Su Xiao sheathed the long blade in his hand. Strong combat intuition told him that even if he took the opportunity to kill the Deer God in front of him, the opponent wouldn't die completely; instead, it would trigger even greater unknown dangers. After a brief buildup, he kicked the Deer God straight in the chest.

Thud!!!

The Deer God vanished instantly, flying out of the area covered by the "Extreme Realm: Astral Realm." Since he couldn't beat him, he would temporarily send the opponent away.

A dozen seconds later, the Deer God fell from high altitude, plowing up a thousand-meter-high wave of soil along the way. After leaving a trench over ten kilometers long, he stopped steadily while half-submerged in the earth.

The Deer God stood up with a normal expression. Holding the battle staff "Chou Shou" in one hand, he scanned the surroundings. There were two reasons: first, to determine where he had flown to; second, to see if there were any other people within sight. He confirmed there were none.

The Deer God pressed a hand to his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood with a wow. However, after taking a few deep breaths, his aura became stable. As for chasing down that Law-Breaker, he had experienced how fast the Lords' trains were at the end of the Second Era.

The Lord Train traveled at high speed. Su Xiao put down the injection gun in his hand, felt the recovery of his body, and let out a long breath. He had only been in this world for a few hours and had already fought another Supreme peak. It seemed that this world was destined to be a fierce battle.

Looking at the "Book of Original Sin" on the potion-mixing table, every piece of "Big Daddy-level" Original Sin item inside was a death warrant. It wasn't that he intentionally collected these Original Sin items; he could even open Big Daddy-level Original Sin items from Abyss treasure chests. It was clearly destined to be so.

Su Xiao was wrapping bandages around his right forearm and hand. The faint red glow in the center of his pupils gradually subsided and faded. Just then, the Lord Train began to decelerate. He stood up and went to the main carriage, only to find Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang manipulating the Lord Train to accelerate. Yet, for some reason, the Lord Train kept getting slower and slower until it finally came to a stop, and there was no malfunction whatsoever.

Puchi—

Steam surged, and the door of the Lord Train opened. An old woman wearing a gray robe and having a severe hunchback stepped onto the train. The copper bell hanging from her neck with a thick rope made a clanging, clanging sound that made the soul dizzy as she walked.

The withered arms and the eyes that seemed to have magma burning inside proved the identity of the person who came: the Supreme peak of the Demon race, the Demon Old Woman.

"Law-Breaker kid, you don't want to fight with this old woman right now, do you? So, letting me take her away is a choice that is good for you and for me."

The Demon Old Woman spoke. Her eyes were pitch black at the bottom, and the pupils were like burning eyes. What was revealed was no longer the indifference to everything of the past, but burning ambition—ambition to seal the Supreme.

Many high-level figures of major forces believed that the Demon race was able to flourish to this day by repeatedly being fence-sitters under the shade of the Demon Old Woman.

In reality, most people in the Void felt that the Demon race was a reliable ally. This had to do with the Demon race's choices. In the First Era, they were allies of the Sun faction. Because the Sun faction and the Ancient Dragon faction perished together, the dirty things the Demon race secretly colluded with the Ancient Dragon faction, as well as their wretched faces, were not known to others.

And by the Second Era, the Demon race was an ally of the Law-Breakers. Smart people saw the clues here: whichever side was strong, they were that side's ally.

However, the Demon race never expected that the leader hidden behind the Arcane Eternal Star, who had never appeared, was actually the Supreme Person.

At this point, kneeling directly to the Arcane Eternal Star would be too shameful, and they wouldn't be able to mix in the Void in the future. What to do? Of course, bribe the major newspapers and media in the Void to report extensively on the Demon warriors killed by the spellcasters.

One thing must be mentioned: in the early and middle stages of Law-Breaker VS Spellcaster, the Demon race did indeed contribute, and many low- and middle-level members died. As for the high-level, there was no word of any high-level Demons dying in that Era War.

The casualties paid by the Demon race were more like admitting defeat after losing a bet. They indeed didn't expect that a faction as strong as the Law-Breakers would actually encounter an opponent. Of course, admitting defeat was one thing, but letting the Demon high-level figures who decided this matter die—they absolutely wouldn't agree.

This resulted in the Demon race being nearly split internally at the time. The low- and middle-level Demon race were truly allies of the Law-Breakers because they hated those high-level figures who used their lives as bargaining chips, while the Demon high-level figures were pure fence-sitters.

This was also why Su Xiao felt deeply in the early stages that the Demon race was indeed an ally of the Law-Breaker faction. Now it seemed that the correct statement was that those low- and middle-level Demons who had already died were truly blood-sworn allies of the Law-Breaker faction. They, like the Moon Wolf, had all perished.

In the early and middle stages of the Second Era, the Moon Wolf and the Demon race were actually blood-sworn allies. After all, there was no existential crisis at that time. But by the later stages, no previous Law-Breaker would take the relationship of the Demon race as blood-sworn allies seriously. Who didn't have a case of making friends carelessly? Moreover, the reputation of the Demon race in the First Era was indeed very good.

This was also why, after Su Xiao reached the Absolute and Supreme levels, there was no news from the Demon race. Those old Demons also had a sense of self-awareness.

If they relied on Su Xiao being a generational successor and not understanding what happened at the time, and continued to emphasize the alliance friendship between the Demon race and the Law-Breaker faction, that would be seeking death.

Therefore, Su Xiao's Black Maple Tree became more and more robust, but there was no sound from the Demon race. And, during Su Xiao's middle stage, the friendship shown by the Demon race was not because of his identity as a Law-Breaker—that was just an excuse. In the final analysis, the Demon race very much needed the output of the Black Maple Tree and was convinced that even if they killed or captured Su Xiao alive, it was impossible to seize that Black Maple Tree.

Actually, some things, after reaching a high level, could be seen at a glance. The top combat power of the Demon race, the Demon Old Woman, didn't participate in the confrontation between Law-Breakers and Spellcasters at all in the past. Even, in the later stages, after the low-level Demons died out, the Demon race swayed to the side of the Arcane Eternal Star. It was also subsequent secret collusion that allowed the Demon race not to be liquidated after the Arcane Eternal Star won.

Regarding the subsequent suppression of the Demon race by the Arcane Eternal Star, this was too wonderful. After being suppressed for so many years, the Demon race was still a super-first-tier major force in the Void. This was truly looking down on the Arcane Eternal Star.

The Silintus Dwarves were the true allies of the Law-Breakers in the past, and they also suffered subsequent liquidation and suppression by the Arcane Eternal Star. The Silintus Dwarves, who were once a first-tier force, were now nearly extinct.

The Star race's attitude at the beginning was biased towards the Law-Breakers, believing that the Law-Breaker faction was very qualified as the Void hegemon, not interfering with other major forces, belonging to the type that as long as you didn't mess with natural element power or Abyss power, then each managed their own affairs, and you could do whatever you wanted.

The Soul race had the same attitude, and even supported the Law-Breaker faction more than the Star race. Of course, this was all attitude support and didn't actually send out combat power.

But even so, the Star race and the Soul race were slowly cleaned up by the Arcane Eternal Star later, sliding from super-first-tier forces to almost first-tier forces.

Looking at the Demon race, liquidation + suppression, it was not only still super-first-tier, but also accumulated enough. Not to mention anything else, just the decision-making on the overall situation of the Second Era, the Demon high-level figures were truly strong.

Cleaning up internal dissidents without getting their hands dirty, and also getting on the big ship of the winning side.

Now it seemed that the Demon race had greater ambition. After being a fence-sitter for two eras, it was clear that they wanted to say, the Third Era belongs to the Demon race!

On the train, Su Xiao picked up the elemental wine on the table, pulled out the stopper, and drank it down. After drinking more than half the bottle, he let out a long breath, looked at the Demon Old Woman, and asked:

"Are you sure you can kill me?"

Su Xiao's words made the Demon Old Woman's gaze dangerous.

"You can fight the Deer God to this extent. I can defeat you, but if you are determined to escape, I really can't kill you."

As the Demon Old Woman spoke, she had already arrived beside the Eye Princess. Distance meant nothing to her; distance, space, and even causality could be erased by her ability.

"You take her away, and I will go to the Void and slaughter the Demon race until not one is left."

Su Xiao used the calmest tone to say the most cruel words. Hearing this, the Demon Old Woman's aura like a purgatory demon spread, and the space was enveloped by streaks of magma patterns.

If it were facing others, the Demon Old Woman would say in a gloomy tone: "You dare!"

But not to Su Xiao, she didn't say that, because this Law-Breaker really dared. This guy was a famous killing god and evil ghost in the entire Astral Realm. Slaughtering the Demon race until not one was left was not a matter of whether the other party could do it, but rather, this was the means the other party often used.

The atmosphere was quiet to the point of suffocation. After half a minute of standoff, the Demon Old Woman put down the hand she had pressed on the Eye Princess's shoulder. She looked at Su Xiao and smiled very strangely. With her severe hunchback, she slowly walked off the train.

Was the Demon Old Woman scared? Actually, not really. She perceived the "Original Sin causality" that was eager to swallow Su Xiao. Under such circumstances, she didn't want to fight to the death with a Law-Breaker who would face a great catastrophe in less than a month.

Who said that the Astral Realm only had one Supreme peak like the Deer God who took life and death lightly and fought whenever he was displeased? Right now, a certain Law-Breaker was more violent than the Deer God.

The Lord Train returned to normal and sped across the wilderness again. On the train, the Eye Princess suddenly breathed heavily. Just now, under the pressure of the Demon Old Woman, she was so scared that she forgot to breathe.

As the saying goes, the more one experiences death, the more one cherishes the preciousness of life. At this moment, the Eye Princess was exactly like this.

If it were said that before the Deer God and the Demon Old Woman appeared, she still had some inconsistency and was preparing to quietly escape and pursue her own free life when the timing was right, then her decision now was that she would not get off this train no matter what, unless she could follow closely behind the Law-Breaker, Bai Ye.

"Mr. Bai Ye... Lord Bai Ye, you must protect me well. I don't want to die at all."

"..."

Su Xiao took a sip of elemental wine and felt a secret regret for the Demon Old Woman's departure. If this old demon had left a little later...

He pulled a contract parchment from under the table. It was just a little bit away from being successfully signed. It was a great pity. It seemed that the old demon had a warning ability in this regard, so she left decisively.

【Hint: You have triggered the "World Bounty" of this world.】

【World Bounty: Meteorite: Achieve Meteorite (need to pay a bounty deposit of 200 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Because the bounty difficulty is extremely high, after completion, you will receive a 5000-fold additional bounty).】

Previous "World Bounties" all had a bounty of 50 and a bounty multiplier of 5000, which was a total bounty of 250,000 ounces of Space-Time Power. But this time, the bounty became 200. It seemed that the increase in the amount was not large, but the problem was that after multiplying by 5000, it was a bounty of 1 million ounces of Space-Time Power.

Su Xiao was already a Supreme peak, and having a bounty of this level was reasonable. He checked the three event bounties that appeared this time.

【Detected that there are three "Event Bounties" that can be accepted, totaling as follows:

1. Heart of Madness: Obtain the Heart of Madness of the "Second Asylum" (pay 8000 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Completing this bounty will grant 8 times the bounty amount).

2. Golden Crown: Obtain the Golden Crown (pay 30,000 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Completing this bounty will grant 5 times the bounty amount).

3. Mother of Mercy: Completely eliminate the Mother of Mercy (pay 20,000 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Completing this bounty will grant 300 times the bounty amount).

...】

Seeing bounty 3, Su Xiao had a very bold idea. Although the probability of success was not high, it was worth a try.