Chapter 37: Too Much Insult

Under the threat of death, the other party still cared only about the evil crystals on the ground, which truly left Duan Xing puzzled.

Glancing at the other figures still picking up evil crystals, he snapped the neck of the player before him, turned into a blue phantom, and resumed the slaughter.

Yet even amidst the killing, Duan Xing remained unable to solve the mystery.

After striking down all these disruptive lives, Duan Xing could not feel happy in any way; these lives would turn into black mist and vanish upon death.

The evil crystals used for trial proof also disappeared along with them.

Taking a deep breath, he suppressed his emotions deep within his heart and turned expressionless toward the surging evil lifeforms attacking him.

Click~ Click~ Click~

The mainspring wound, emitting a crisp meshing sound; the rune armor reignited, and Duan Xing became a blue streak of light once more, charging at the tide of evil lifeforms.

Just as Duan Xing fought, the regional voice channel was incredibly lively, with players discussing this warrior named Duan Xing and the evil crystals scattered everywhere.

Although nearby players had been killed and forced out of the game, more envious players were on their way.

The evil crystals covering the ground were full of temptation in the players' eyes; compared to that, the death loss of 10 points of Shou Shou Jili seemed negligible.

Half an hour later, players began arriving one after another.

When Duan Xing noticed, the arriving players had already switched to a frantic pickup mode, scrambling on the ground to collect evil crystals.

This made the always expressionless Duan Xing's mouth twitch; he decisively turned his direction and lunged at the players.

After killing the latest dozens of players, he found the evil crystals on the ground had noticeably decreased; his Bai Xi skin flushed red, and the anger in his eyes seemed ready to erupt.

As the most outstanding warrior among the reserve forces of the Back-Tide Legion, this slaughter trial was the final step for him to prove himself.

Once the trial was completed, he would be promoted to a member of the Back-Tide Legion.

He would absolutely not allow himself to fail.

After rotating the energy core left by his father to recharge the rune armor, Duan Xing turned to gaze at the approaching evil lifeforms and launched another charge.

In the midst of combat, Duan Xing's steps were light, like a ghost weaving through the encirclement of evil lifeforms.

As the dual blades danced, sharp sounds of wind being torn followed closely.

Just then, an evil lifeform five meters tall appeared ahead; black mist swirled around its body, its face was hideous, and its bloated lower limbs supported a body on the verge of decay.

Duan Xing's steps did not pause even slightly; his figure crossed past it, and instantly a cross-shaped light mark appeared on the chest of the huge evil lifeform, splitting its body into four, yet the splashing black slime did not touch his body in the slightest.

In the frenzied slaughter, Duan Xing transformed into the Grim Reaper, moving freely through the horde of evil lifeforms; the dual blades seemed to have come alive in his hands, sometimes becoming sharp blades to cut, sometimes turning into a spinning storm to tear, and every swing was accompanied by the death of several evil lifeforms.

At the peak of exhilaration, Duan Xing roared to the sky, his full head of blue hair dancing in the wind.

But when the corner of his eye caught a group of sneaky lifeforms appearing again, his smile stopped abruptly.

"You... deserve to die!"

Reserve warriors of the Back-Tide Legion were not assigned spatial storage items; all he could do was kill a sufficient number of evil lifeforms, then use the "Coordinate Starstone" installed on the shuttle to summon the Back-Tide Legion's trial inspectors to verify and confirm the trial's completion.

But this group of mysterious lifeforms he had never seen before became the greatest obstacle to completing his trial.

Gazing at the mysterious lifeforms in the distance, their furtive glances toward him from time to time made the anger in Duan Xing's heart surge upward.

Die!

He decisively changed his target and lunged at the group of players happily picking up money.

Seeing Duan Xing charge, the regional chat channel instantly exploded:

"Brothers, pick up fast! The God of Wealth is coming with two big cleavers."

"This God of Wealth is really stingy; how can he get angry just because we picked up a few evil crystals?"

"Brother over there, you've thrown away all your dignity just to pick up evil crystals, crawling on the ground; isn't that shameful? Get up and let me pick them up!"

Just then, Duan Xing arrived.

But what Duan Xing couldn't understand was that even though he was right in front of them, the gaze of this group of mysterious lifeforms remained fixed on the evil crystals, as if they didn't care at all about being about to be killed.

Watching the evil crystals one by one decrease, Duan Xing's killing speed suddenly accelerated.

In just a few breaths, he completely crushed this group of players into black mist and they vanished.

But when he looked up toward the distance, he discovered that swarms of mysterious lifeforms were approaching from that direction.

This time, Duan Xing did not choose to continue slaughtering evil lifeforms; he turned his body to face the incoming group of players.

Accompanied by the sound of gears meshing, the rune armor burst forth with brilliant light, and he subsequently became a streak of blue light shooting forward.

In less than a moment, over a hundred players were completely slaughtered.

"Over there! The God of Wealth is over there!"

The shouts from the distance made Duan Xing, who was preparing to continue slaughtering evil lifeforms, look up; what he saw was a vast wave of players attacking from all directions.

This scene made Duan Xing's scalp go numb.

In his view, this group of mysterious lifeforms was far more headache-inducing than the evil lifeforms; although their bodies were weak, the evil crystals would inexplicably disappear wherever they passed, and due to their disruption, his trial mission could not be completed at all.

"Kill!"

Taking a deep breath to adjust his emotional fluctuations, Duan Xing charged at the incoming players once more.

But after killing dozens of waves of arriving player groups, Duan Xing was completely numb.

Because the incoming mysterious lifeforms not only did not decrease but continued to increase, even surpassing the number of arriving evil lifeforms.

The more he killed, the more there were; it was simply impossible to finish them all.

Most importantly, this group of mysterious lifeforms did not attack all at once but came wave after wave.

This prevented him from wiping them out in one go; he could only pay constant attention to the movements of the mysterious lifeform groups while slaughtering evil lifeforms.

After repelling 87 waves of players, Duan Xing's mindset completely exploded.

Gazing at the players rushing toward him from the distance, his eyes revealed deep despair; then he leaped into the air, transforming into a streak of light in mid-air and flying toward the direction of the Ancient Battlefield.

Half an hour later, on the north side of the Ancient Battlefield.

After resting and recovering his strength, Duan Xing took out the Lure Crystal and crushed it.

Accompanied by rising black smoke, the nearby evil lifeforms were tempted and rushed toward his location.

A new round of slaughter unfolded once more.

Just as Duan Xing was killing with exhilarating ease, he suddenly heard a familiar voice, then whipped his head around to look toward the direction the sound came from.

What he saw were dozens of familiar figures; the one in the lead, expression excited, pointed a finger at him from afar:

"Look quick, the God of Wealth is right there! Brothers, charge with me!"

"Hahaha, finally found him! Zongzi, send the coordinates to the guild chat channel and tell the brothers to come over."

"Sss~ I can already smell the sweet fragrance of the Evil Crystals drifting away. One exchanges for at least 750 in cash; the scent of money fills the ground."

Seeing this scene, a trace of despair surfaced in Duan Xing's eyes.

The trial of the Reverse Tide Legion randomly transports participants across space to scenes of Waning Moon or First Quarter Moon.

He had firmly believed that even if transported to a First Quarter Moon scene, relying on his status as the strongest reserve, he would still have the power to fight and would inevitably complete the trial mission, continuing to join the Reverse Tide Legion as a new recruit in the guise of the strongest.

But the appearance of these mysterious creatures completely disrupted his trial mission of slaughtering evil spirits.

Choosing to retreat voluntarily seemed like a humiliation in his eyes, yet he endured it to complete the trial; he never expected these mysterious creatures to push their advantage, launching another attack.

His fist slowly clenched tight, and a trace of bloody light and shadow surfaced in Duan Xing's pure white eyes:

"They truly insult me too greatly!"

(End of this chapter)