Chapter 398: The Top-Tier Account That Almost Became a Blank Slate

To verify the reliability of his Skill, Lin Bai used Jiang Qingqin as an anchor point to cast Backstab on her, nearly scaring Jiang Qingqin, who was in the middle of cultivation, into a Qi deviation.

The test was a success.

Lin Bai's confidence surged, and he refocused his gaze on the battling Heavenly King of Thunder and the God of Darkness.

If you've offended someone, you have to finish them off.

Having lost the Thunder God Hammer, Beigui's strength must be greatly diminished, and he might not be able to defeat the God of Darkness.

Only a fool wouldn't take advantage of a free opportunity.

Strike while he is down.

Mess him up.

A head flew through the Magpie Bridge and into the dark space.

Inside, the Heavenly King of Thunder and the God of Darkness were fighting with great intensity.

After the space was repaired, the God of Darkness regained the upper hand, pressing the Heavenly King of Thunder on the defensive.

Thunder spirits were extinguished one after another, and the voice of the God of Darkness echoed in the space, arrogant and punchable: "... Aren't you going to tear my space apart? Come on, I'm swallowing your mana again. Pull it back if you can! I have never seen such an idiot as you, actually letting someone snatch a Divine Artifact from your hands. Partners? Hahahaha..."

"God of Darkness, don't be happy too soon. Do you think Lin Bai will let you off? Even without the Thunder God Hammer, I can still handle you." The Heavenly King of Thunder's face was gloomy as he sneered, "You have no idea what kind of existence I am?... Lin Bai, you still dare to return..."

Before the words had even faded.

A cluster of golden lightning had already wrapped around Lin Bai's lonely head: "Where is my Hammer?"

"The main body is waiting outside to pick up the scraps; defeat the God of Darkness, and I will return the Hammer to you." Surprisingly, they hadn't both been crippled yet, so Lin Bai's head giggled, sowing discord.

Pop!

Lin Bai's head was crushed, and he lost his vision.

Immediately after, a second head flew over through the Magpie Bridge: "Trapped in the dark space, you'll never get your Hammer back until you die!"

Pop!

The head was crushed again.

"Hammer-losing Heavenly King, you coward, you love your life more than your Hammer..."

Pop!

"I'm waiting for you outside."

Pop!

One head after another flew over, each one coming just to say a single sentence, every word dripping with brainwashing.

In the background, the Heavenly King of Thunder kept providing Emotion Value of anger, and Lin Bai used this method to deepen his rage.

Heads were consumables; losing a few was no loss to him. Provoking the Heavenly King of Thunder into fighting for his life was a success.

The reason he didn't attend to the God of Darkness at the same time was that there was no need; one angry person was enough...

One head after another, sent over like a string of firecrackers, just to say a single sentence; the God of Darkness was stunned.

To be honest.

He considered himself well-traveled and knowledgeable, but this was the first time he had seen a fighting style like Lin Bai's. He hadn't even understood what happened when the Hammer was snatched earlier.

Logically speaking, the Heavenly King of Thunder belonged to the same level of existence as him; there was no reason his own weapon could be snatched away right in front of him.

"If" "you" "don't" "tighten" "your" "grip" "the" "restriction" "on" "the" "Hammer" "will" "be" "wiped" "away" "by" "me"...

After he couldn't say a complete sentence.

Lin Bai threw over a series of heads, each head popping out one word.

Disgusting enough to kill, the Heavenly King of Thunder was thoroughly enraged: "Thunder God Descent."

A humanoid figure over three thousand meters tall, composed of lightning, suddenly appeared behind the Heavenly King of Thunder.

Looking at the three-thousand-meter-tall lightning giant, the God of Darkness suddenly understood.

Damn.

He'd been played.

Lin Bai provoked the Heavenly King of Thunder, but he was the one who would end up unlucky!

This guy never had good intentions from the start...

The God of Darkness hurriedly said: "Heavenly King, wait, Lin Bai is our true enemy..."

"Too late." The Heavenly King of Thunder snorted angrily, "The moment the Thunder God was summoned, you were destined to be buried with me."

The lightning giant's hand raised, and a long Sword made of lightning appeared in its grasp; he swung the long Sword in his hand forcefully forward.

The dark space was once again blanketed by dazzling electric light.

With a loud explosion, the dark space shattered with a boom.

Starlight fell from the sky, and charred dead wood and the corpses of magical beasts were pulverized by this strike...

Between heaven and earth, only a lonely Magpie Bridge remained.

The God of Darkness let out a shrill scream, and those shattered fragments of space converged into a pitch-black humanoid figure, fleeing rapidly into the distance.

"Die."

The Heavenly King of Thunder stood at the end of the Magpie Bridge, controlling the lightning giant to throw a bolt of lightning at the fleeing God of Darkness.

The lightning pierced through space, instantly landing on the God of Darkness and shattering him once more.

One of Lin Bai's heads flew over from the Magpie Bridge, happening to see this scene, and immediately planted a mark on the God of Darkness.

All this time.

The God of Darkness had never truly shown his face, and Lin Bai couldn't find him even if he wanted to mark him; now, he had finally seized the opportunity.

Beigui, having lost the Hammer, using Thunder God Descent also proved to Lin Bai that the Skills learned from the Thunder God Hammer would not disappear with the loss of the Hammer. This was a good phenomenon; he could give the Hammer to different people to farm Skills.

This time, the Heavenly King of Thunder did not destroy Lin Bai's head, but merely threw one bolt of lightning after another at the God of Darkness, looking coldly at Lin Bai: "Are you satisfied?"

Lin Bai did not speak, only watching the Heavenly King of Lightning, calculating how much time the Thunder God could still remain.

"I will help you finish off the God of Darkness, and you return the Thunder Hammer to me," the Heavenly King of Lightning said. "The Hammer is bound to me, and it has my restrictions on it; you cannot use it even if you get it. You have won my trust with your strength; I agree to cooperate with you to conquer the Shenmo Dalu."

"Defeat him first, then we'll talk." Lin Bai pursed his lips toward the fleeing God of Darkness, as if he had the Heavenly King of Lightning figured out.

The Heavenly King of Lightning glared at Lin Bai, and a bolt of lightning flew from the hand of the lightning giant; when it landed on the God of Darkness, it had already turned into the Lightning Cage that had trapped the War God's body back then.

The next moment.

The Lightning Cage had already brought the God of Darkness, who had fled thousands of miles away, back to the Mist Forest.

Watching the lightning giant, Lin Bai clicked his tongue in wonder.

The description of the skills on the Thunder Hammer was clearly wrong; Thunder God Descent was not limited to launching a World-Extinguishing Strike, but rather, within three minutes, one could use skills at will, and all skill effects would be magnified a thousand times...

Being hammered repeatedly, the God of Darkness also grew angry. Inside the Lightning Cage, he glared at Beigui: "You fool, you've been used and you don't even know it. Do you really think you can kill me? Dark Touch."

His body suddenly turned into a mass of black mist, escaping from the Lightning Cage, and re-condensed into human form outside, with thousands of tentacles wrapping toward the lightning giant.

The moment the tentacles touched the lightning giant, the tall lightning giant shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Crack!

Lightning fell from the sky, severing the tentacles of the God of Darkness.

A mass of black Sky Curtain once again blocked the starlight. Within the Sky Curtain, a jet-black magic dragon poked out its claws, reaching straight toward Beigui, who was being protected by the lightning giant.

At the same time.

Beneath Beigui's feet, a vortex appeared, draining the power of the lightning giant...

Lin Bai was dazzled by the sight.

Having lost the dark space, the two top powerhouses grew hot-tempered and began a battle of true fisticuffs.

Beigui's moves were all skills of the Thunder Hammer; he used these skills with consummate ease, and one combo after another continuously dealt damage to the God of Darkness.

The God of Darkness was worthy of being a top deity of the Shenmo Dalu; the Divinity he utilized seemed endless, and even after being continuously struck by lightning, he showed not a hint of fatigue...

But in this exchange of blows, Beigui was clearly at a disadvantage.

After all.

His Thunder God Descent could only last for three minutes, but as a player, he clearly did not care.

"You're dead." Watching the lightning giant shrinking continuously, the God of Darkness's voice grew increasingly ferocious. "No one can save you."

"Are you sure?" Beigui chuckled and looked at Lin Bai. "I'll give you a big gift; see if you can seize the opportunity. Take my Hammer; I'll wait for you in the Immortal World. Otherwise, the fate of the God of Darkness will be your fate."

A bad premonition flashed through the heart of the God of Darkness.

The next second.

The nearly three-thousand-meter-tall lightning giant exploded with a boom, turning into a bolt of lightning that slammed heavily onto the God of Darkness, pinning him to the ground.

The God of Darkness let out a shrill scream; wanting to dodge but unable to, he could only retract all his black energy to resist the lightning falling from the sky.

"So this is the real World-Extinguishing Strike," Lin Bai muttered.

Beigui shuddered, his expression finally changing: "How did you know?"

"What do you think?" Lin Bai's true body suddenly appeared behind Beigui, nimbly pinching his neck and using the Chef God System's Absolute Suppression. With his Spiritual Power emptied, he could no longer use the Lightning Field. "Beigui, when you used a cage to trap the War God's body to threaten me, did you ever think there would be a day like this?"

"You wiped away the restrictions on the Thunder Hammer?" Beigui was horrified.

"Isn't that obvious?" Lin Bai smiled and used the Extraction skill on Beigui.

Lightning Field: Form a defensive shield made of lightning around the body to isolate external damage and reflect it back at the opponent.

"How is this possible? A mere Star Brilliance Realm, how can you wipe away my restrictions? And the Hammer is clearly bound to me." In his shock, Beigui did not notice at all that he had already lost a skill.

"Binding is a joke; if it can bind to you, it can bind to me." Lin Bai used Three Heads and Six Arms, holding the Thunder Hammer in one hand.

Sure enough.

After extracting Beigui's skill, the Lightning Field showed its proficiency was at max level.

Lin Bai smiled with satisfaction; he had found a way to deal with the Nine Heavenly Kings. As long as he kept using skill Extraction, even if he were a top player, without skills, he would just be a super-sized blank slate.

Moreover, by keeping on extracting, he even saved the time spent leveling up.

"Hahahaha." The God of Darkness, still suppressed by the Thunder God's World-Extinguishing Strike, watched Beigui's miserable plight and burst into laughter. "Heavenly King, your fate is no better than mine!"

"You can't kill me; I have an Undying Body." Beigui was laughing, but his eyes looked like he wanted to kill. "So what if you took the Thunder Hammer? To master it, you need at least a thousand years of cultivation. The Spirit Qi of the Mortal World is simply insufficient to support you in grinding up the proficiency. If you dare to come to the Immortal World, you will be mine to command."

Lin Bai shook his head and let Beigui go again.

Beigui, having regained his freedom, was stunned and hadn't understood what was going on when, the next second, Lin Bai pinched his neck again and pinned him down.

Extraction!

Thunder Strike: Summon lightning to damage enemies;

Then.

Lin Bai smiled and let Beigui go once more. What could be more convenient than grinding skills from a max-level character who had lost all their Spiritual Power?

He did not use a card to seal the Heavenly King of Lightning; players possessed an Undying Body, and even when severely injured, their consciousness would remain clear. They would return from the Resurrection Point at any time, so the possibility of sealing them was too low.

With his basic skills suddenly disappearing, Beigui finally realized something was wrong. He asked in horror: "You... erased my skills?"

Erased?

Lin Bai was taken aback and nodded: "You discovered it so quickly! Beigui, if I didn't have a way to deal with you lot, how would I save the world from you players?"

In a flash.

Beigui was pinned down again. He struggled unresignedly: "How did you find out I was a player?"

"I'm not stupid; I even got the Thunder God Hammer." Lin Bai used Extraction.

Chain Lightning: Use chain lightning to attack enemies;

Another skill turned gray. Beigui was on the verge of a breakdown. His level hadn't dropped, but the skills he had painstakingly cultivated to max level were turning gray one by one. Even if he returned to the Immortal World, he didn't know how long it would take to level them back up. Moreover, having lost the Thunder Hammer, it was questionable whether the skills could even be leveled back up at all!

"Lin Bai, let me go, the Thunder Hammer is yours," Beigui said. "I can yield the position of Heavenly King to you. I still have many loyal subordinates in the Immortal World; they only listen to my orders..."

"No need to rush. The Thunder God Hammer is in my hands, which proves I have defeated you, an old Heavenly King, and become the new Lightning Heavenly King; they will listen to me soon enough." Feeling Bei Gui's fear, Lin Bai released him again, "I heard you have lived for ten thousand years, but I must say, you are truly naive. At this point, you actually still think I would let you go?"

"The Nine Great Heavenly Kings are of one mind; I will tell everyone about your ability to strip skills, and they will not let you off..." Bei Gui roared.

"Whatever." Lin Bai continued his operations indifferently.

Lightning Bind, Thunder Shock, Thunderbolt Flash, Fire Thunder, Thunder Spirit Soul Devouring, Thunder God Descent...

One by one, the Skills were extracted by Lin Bai; not only were there the Skills of the Thunder God Hammer, but also many useless martial arts, movement techniques, and the like.

I have to say.

A max-level account really does possess many abilities.

In less than two minutes, the Skills cultivated over ten thousand years turned gray one after another. Bei Gui finally could not endure it anymore, shifting from begging to cursing loudly, but under the Absolute Suppression of the Chef God System, he could not even put up the slightest bit of resistance...

But the Lightning Heavenly King was worthy of being a top-tier account; even when not in the Immortal World, his Spiritual Power recovery speed was very fast. After Lin Bai released him more than twenty times, he suddenly used Flash into the lightning pillar of the World-Extinguishing Strike, turned into a lump of charred remains, and chose to drop levels to save his life.

Watching the Lightning Heavenly King suddenly die, Lin Bai could not help but sigh: "He really is a fierce man!"

Bei Gui faked his death, but Lin Bai did not take it too much to heart; the most powerful Skill, Thunder God Descent, had been extracted by him.

Moreover, most of Bei Gui's Skills had been extracted by himself.

As one wanes, the other waxes.

He was no longer his opponent; with Shadow Follows, he could find the fallen Heavenly King at any time and finish extracting the remaining Skills.

Just at this moment.

The World-Extinguishing Strike of Thunder God Descent completely dissipated, leaving behind a mass of humanoid black mist that condensed without scattering.

The moment the black mist was free, it chose to dissipate. Although Lin Bai did not look strong enough, he had consumed a great deal to resist the World-Extinguishing Strike, and furthermore, he had been scared by Lin Bai's methods!

"Can you run?" Lin Bai chuckled, activated Shadow Follows, and grabbed the black mist.

The black mist coiled around his arm, devouring his Spiritual Power like a suction cup, and the Spiritual Power flowed away from his dantian like water leaking...

Lightning Field.

Absolute Suppression.

Under Lin Bai's hand, the black mist turned into a pale-faced youth. He looked at Lin Bai and revealed a humble smile: "Lin Bai, perhaps we can talk..."

(End of this chapter)