Stepping through that door, Xu Yi found himself once again amidst the fleshy ruins.
The huge pupil still hung above, but unlike last ti, there were more debris of buildings around them—they must have co close to the center of the ruins.
Dim figures erged, and Xu Yi gripped the handle of his sword, accounting for the Sub-Divine Power within him.
After so many days of effort, he had refined a total of seven strands of Sub-Divine Power.
"With so little Sub-Divine Power, I wonder if I can withstand this slaughter?" Xu Yi was filled with worry.
A dull tolling of bells rang out, like the clarion call to war, while the corrupted monsters let out excited roars, responding to the bells above.
Xu Yi looked around warily, a cruel battle on the verge of breaking out.
As the slaughter began, Xu Yi felt the differences imdiately.
The average strength of the corrupted monsters was much stronger than the last ti, none of them to be taken lightly.
Although Xu Yi was psychologically prepared, the situation was worse than he had imagined.
Centipede tendrils sward in from all around, Xu Yi brandished his sword in a horizontal swipe, severing the tendrils that fell to the ground.
But there were just too many centipede tendrils, and Xu Yi's body was tightly ensnared.
During the previous lee, Alesa could just occasionally step in to assist, dabbling in the fray.
But now, that was no longer an option—she had to give it her all to keep Xu Yi from defeat.
The sharp broadsword spun, creating an arc of sword flowers; with a fierce turn of the blade, it cleaved a humanoid ant in two.
As Xu Yi continued to slay enemies, his strength grew stronger, and the annihilation effect of his sword beca increasingly terrifying.
Xu Yi killed another formidable foe, but there wasn't a trace of joy in his heart.
An intense desire to kill surged within him, and he burned a strand of Sub-Divine Power to dissipate the bloodlust.
At this point in the battle, he had only two strands of Sub-Divine Power left.
The Sub-Divine Power was depleting much faster than he had anticipated.
Xu Yi stood with his sword, taking a brief rest.
But the next second, his heart suddenly throbbed with anxiety—he felt as if so terrible thing had fixed its gaze upon him.
He spun around sharply.
It was a titanic black jellyfish, floating weightlessly in the air. Its body was covered with the maws of piranhas, the sharp fangs bared.
However, Xu Yi's attention was not on the jellyfish. There was a man atop it, with pitch-black skin, bald, and with exceptionally pronounced facial features.
A mark was carved in the man's forehead, with two triangles overlapping.
Xu Yi stared at the man, as if facing a formidable enemy.
The man gave him a familiar sensation; Xu Yi glanced at Alesa on his shoulder and suddenly understood.
The man was like Alesa, another being who wielded control over a Divine Kingdom.
The black jellyfish too was a creation of his, in the sa class as Xu Yi's current Triangular Head.
Alesa stood up from Xu Yi's shoulder, watching the man intently, her expression grave.
She felt a lethal threat.
The jellyfish's tentacles fell like a rain of arrows, and Xu Yi charged forward against the barrage.
The advantage of wearing the tal Triangular Head beca apparent as it blocked most attacks.
He leapt forcefully, his sharp blade tracing a semi-circle, making a heavy and powerful cut that split the black jellyfish in half.
The flesh around the jellyfish's wound squird, unable to heal due to the sword's annihilation effect.
The jellyfish's maws opened, but instead of spitting venom, they released a web-like substance.
The black "web" wove into a net, enveloping Xu Yi in an instant. He was as a small insect caught in a spider's web, unable to struggle free.
Xu Yi pondered how to escape, and at that mont, flas ignited on his blade—flas from Alesa.
The fire was the bane of the "web," burning it away. Xu Yi danced with flaming sword in hand, and amidst the black webbing, his blade was like a dragon of fire tracing through the air.
Fire, a long sword… This gave Xu Yi the illusion of being back among the Ghost Samurai. He tried to manipulate those flas and sensed Alesa's will within them.
Alesa, feeling sothing, glanced at Xu Yi and then handed over the control of the flas to him.
At first, Xu Yi couldn't manipulate the flas proficiently, but as ti went on, he beca more skillful and fluid in his control.
It was hard to imagine such a bulky figure wielding a heavy chopping knife with such agility.
The blade danced faster and faster, at one mont like a spinning hurricane, at another like a teor streaking across the night sky… Soon he reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship: Unity of Man and Blade.
Xu Yi let out a deep roar as his blade slashed down, and a dazzling burst of firelight erupted. The flas moved effortlessly, and a crescent-shaped blade of fire surged out, severing the black jellyfish's tentacles in one clean swipe.
What had been an evenly matched battle changed with Xu Yi's use of the fiery blade energy.
Amidst the ink-like fiery blade energy, the black jellyfish scread horribly, and the man atop it had half his head sliced off.
"So-called Divine Kingdom bearers are nothing special after all!"
Xu Yi's ntality was sowhat inflated, but his combat strategy remained conservative.
In this wasteland of flesh and blood, the creator of the Divine Kingdom couldn't draw upon the Divine Power and was barely stronger than a common corrupted creature.
But he quickly realized he had been horribly mistaken.
Xu Yi cut through the connection between the man and the jellyfish, exposing the bloody spine.
Xu Yi's heart skipped a beat as a thought struck him.
If the black jellyfish was the man's creation, why would he connect his body with the jellyfish?
He knew that binding the two together would expose him to the erosion of murderous desires.
Xu Yi realized sothing was amiss, but it was already too late; he was too close to the enemy.
The man who was at death's door suddenly burst with strength and lunged at Xu Yi.
The man's flesh split open, revealing the true form hidden inside.
It was an unknown Otherkind, with a slender and curved head resembling a Hook Scythe.
The Otherkind's surface was covered only by a thin layer of black flesh, with densely packed bones underneath, and at the end of those bones was a long tail, tipped with a sharp barb.
Xu Yi couldn't dodge in ti and was embraced by the creature from behind.
The sharp tail fell like a Spear Gun and, to his surprise, pierced through his sturdy body after only a mont's resistance.
The tail burrowed deep into Xu Yi's heart region, instantly pulverizing his heart.
Xu Yi trembled all over due to the excruciating pain.
Seeing that the situation was dire, Alesa kicked off the ground and leaped away from Xu Yi's shoulders.
This sequence of actions flowed like water, perfectly exemplifying, "In the face of great disaster, each flees for themselves."
Xu Yi, being a creature like a triangle-headed monster, should have been able to move even if his heart was shattered, or even if his internal organs were emptied.
But now, he couldn't muster any strength, even lifting an arm was difficult.
Xu Yi felt bursts of icy coldness in his heart, and that chilling sensation spread continuously.
He suddenly realized that the tail had not only pierced his body but also injected so kind of toxin into him.
"Impervious to All Laws" should have included resistance to toxins.
Yet now, it had no effect at all because those toxins were above physical and ntal toxins… rule-based toxins.
The strength of the creature caught Xu Yi completely off guard.
After all, it was on a completely different path than Alesa's.
It didn't let its creations fight for it; instead, it actively absorbed the energy generated from fighting to strengthen itself.
Naturally, it had to be stronger than Alesa under this continual growth.
Alesa floated mid-air, preparing to flee.
It wasn't that she didn't want to save Xu Yi, but in her eyes, Xu Yi was already done for at this point.
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