Chapter 39: Slaying a God! Divine Fragment! Title: 'God-Slayer'!

This close combat was not like ordinary close combat!

The Fire God projection could actually ignore eighty percent of physical damage; after all, this creature was merely an energy being, and as a projection, it was basically immune to physical damage.

But Lu Zheng had Taotie charge in not to punch or tear with claws, but to devour with its mouth!

Against a Fire God projection possessing such formidable combat power and recovery, a war of attrition was actually inadvisable; the attrition Lu Zheng had just created had been bought at the cost of one divine beast dead and another crippled.

That was an attrition method that could not be replicated.

And ordinary methods had no effect at all; only now, by seizing the opportunity and expanding the gains, was it possible to complete this mission!

Taotie charged onto the Fire God projection and pounced directly onto it.

Facing Taotie's audacious move, Fire God Laban was incomparably furious, striking hard at Taotie with the scepter in his hand, but failing to break through Taotie's defense.

At this moment, Taotie's Constitution was as high as 100,000 points; physical damage below 200,000 points could not break its defense, and under the passive skill 'Mana Annihilation,' spell damage below 120,000 was also ineffective.

Although the Fire God projection's level was very high, an ordinary strike was insufficient to break through Taotie's defense.

With one bite from Taotie, the Devouring Black Hole in its mouth activated, directly swallowing a huge chunk of his body—HP plummeted by 100,000, mana dropped sharply by 30,000! Seeing this payoff, Lu Zheng was overjoyed and had the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix charge forward to attack as well.

But the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix's role was not to attack Laban; rather, it used itself to help Taotie block and absorb the excess flame energy damage.

After these several exchanges, Lu Zheng had discovered the Fire God projection's weakness: its attacks leaned toward flame spells, and its skills were even more inclined toward ranged combat; once closed in, it could be prevented from leveraging its advantages.

Sure enough, under close-quarters combat, the Fire God projection was completely helpless.

"A god shall not suffer insult!"

He shouted loudly, and immediately after, activated the skill Fire God Legion.

The next moment, a giant fireball appeared in midair, and immediately after, figures emerged from within it one after another; they were over ten meters tall, their entire bodies like molten rock, humanoid in shape, but without ears or noses, their faces bearing only a mouth and a single gem-like eye.

These were the regular soldiers of the Fire God Legion—One-Eyed Fire Demons!

Every single One-Eyed Fire Demon was as high as level 200, with quality reaching Boss-tier, so their combat power was naturally not to be underestimated.

And such monsters poured out of that giant fireball by the thousand all at once, all charging toward the Fire God projection's direction, a crimson spear appearing in each of their hands, looking as though they intended to kill Taotie and the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix.

Seeing this scene, Lu Zheng not only did not feel worried, but was instead delighted.

In an instant, the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix activated the skill 'Undying Sea of Fire'; the battle just now had absorbed quite a lot of flame energy, allowing it to recover some mana, so it could now fully release this skill.

Currently in its revived state with all attributes doubled, the Undying Netherfire it produced upon releasing this skill was extremely powerful.

At the same time, Lu Zheng dispatched the Cave-Gazing Azure Serpent, Howling Moon Azure Wolf, and Three-Tailed Spirit Fox to join forces in slaughtering these One-Eyed Fire Demons.

Although their level was high, with three Immortal-grade spirit pets attacking together, a great number of One-Eyed Fire Demons were slain immediately, and these killed One-Eyed Fire Demons were engulfed by the Undying Sea of Fire, transforming into Undying Fire Spirits the next second.

These Undying Fire Spirits, transformed from Undying Netherfire, all pounced on the surrounding One-Eyed Fire Demons.

In a moment, the army of over a thousand One-Eyed Fire Demons was entirely converted into Undying Fire Spirits, all pouncing toward the Fire God projection.

The army originally summoned by the Fire God projection to protect himself had, in the blink of an eye, entirely turned traitor, becoming part of the force attacking him!

By this time, Fire God Laban had already lost eight million HP, and his mana was down to only one million. Taotie's level, after several devourings, had reached level 89, still in its peak condition, continuing to slaughter furiously.

Watching the army of Undying Fire Spirits converted and charging toward him, Fire God Laban was furious; at the cost of consuming a massive amount of mana, he activated Fire God Domain once more, flames spreading across half of the Fire God Island dungeon, and the next moment, his figure abruptly vanished from where he stood, appearing in a place where flames surged upward.

One of Fire God Domain's abilities was that it allowed him to teleport to any position, but maintaining such a capability required enormous consumption, and furthermore, wary of what had just happened—Taotie using his domain to drain his mana—he had not activated this skill again before now.

But now, if he did not break free, he might be slowly worn to death by Taotie and the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix, so he had to create distance.

Looking at the freed Laban, Lu Zheng did not hesitate, ordering the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix to control the Undying Fire Spirits to launch self-destruct attacks.

The damage produced by one thousand level-200 monsters self-destructing was extremely powerful.

Although Laban possessed the Fire Ring of Repulsion skill that could grant immunity to flame spell damage, the explosion's blast damage and the Power of Death spell damage could not be immunized against; after absorbing 100,000 points, the remaining half of the damage was deducted from his HP.

Moreover, his mana was soon completely depleted by maintaining the Fire Ring of Repulsion, to the point that he could no longer even sustain Fire God Domain.

After the Fire Ring of Repulsion's skill effect also disappeared, the damage from the self-destructs became even stronger.

Watching the Fire God projection's HP plummet to less than five million, a flash of fervent color passed through Lu Zheng's eyes; he had originally thought that holding out for three hours would be enough, but never expected that with the opponent's own help, there was now hope of directly killing the target.

Without the one thousand level-200 monsters that Fire God Laban had summoned with the 'Fire God Legion' skill, Lu Zheng absolutely could not have achieved victory—holding out for three hours would already have been a stroke of luck! But with one thousand 'self-positioning explosives' provided by the enemy, everything was different.

When all these things swarmed at Laban and completed their explosions, his HP dropped to just over two million.

Right at this moment, Taotie directly consumed all its mana and once again released Dark Reach; a claw of divine power, even larger than the last, reached out from the void, and with one strike, Fire God Laban's projection had its remaining HP completely emptied, with two million overflow damage!

【Ding! Your summon 'Taotie' killed the projection of LV. 350 Fire God Laban ×1. Your summon 'Taotie' gained 140 million experience points. You gained 35 million experience points.】

【Ding! You obtained the item 'Divine Fragment' ×1】

【Ding! You successfully killed a god, obtaining the title 'God-Slayer'】

【Title: God-Slayer】

【Effect: Deals an additional 5% damage to gods and those who possess divine power; Spirit +2000, Constitution +2000】

Holy crap! This title was incredible! Base attributes directly surged by 4,000 points—good lord! Before Lu Zheng even had time to rejoice, a roar and a notification suddenly sounded by his ear.

"Lowly ants! You will sooner or later die by my hand!"

【Attention! Because you killed the projection of Fire God Laban, you have been cursed by Fire God Laban. The base hostility of all fire-type monsters toward you has risen to 90%. Fire-type monsters battling you will receive Fire God's Blessing, with fire-type spell damage increased by 100%, and some of these monsters will have a small probability of being mutated and enhanced by the Fire God's influence!】

Hearing these contents, Lu Zheng's entire face immediately turned green! Was this god really that petty?

I killed just one of your projections, and you make all fire-type monsters double their spell damage to use against me!?

Lu Zheng couldn't help but grit his teeth, a wave of anger also surging in his heart.

'One day I'll definitely slaughter your true body!'

(End of this chapter)