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[Mental shock! Strength sequence 7!]
[Psychokinetic Binding! Strength Sequence 7!]
Corrosive energy rays! High threat level!
Yuan Shu's alarm rang in Zhang Su's mind like a sudden storm, but he remained calm.
The mutated right arm brings not only strength, but also an almost instinctive killing technique and absolute control over the body.
The mere mental shock and telekinetic restraint had no effect on him; he only felt as if he had crashed into glass panes, the shock making his head buzz.
As for the corrosive rays, simply turn around in mid-air to avoid them.
"Drink!" Zhang Su twisted his body in mid-air, waving his right hand at the same time, his mutated scimitar drawing dark arcs that tore through the darkness!
puff!puff!puff!
The three tentacles blocking the way snapped off instantly, gushing out juice!
Using the recoil from his swing and his body’s uncanny flexibility, he managed to make an incredible right-angle turn in mid-air, narrowly avoiding the two intersecting corrosive rays!
At this moment, he was like the protagonist of the Devil May Cry series. He had no wings, but relied on the recoil from each fierce slash, the leverage from stepping on the attacking tentacles, and his incredible coordination to constantly turn back, rush forward, and dodge in the air!
The flashing blades crisscrossed, weaving a deadly net in the thick darkness!
Although the Black Tai Sui has many tentacles, it is difficult to catch its slippery, mud-like, and lightning-fast attacking figure.
While rune attacks and mental shocks are incredibly powerful, in this chaotic close-quarters combat, they can easily injure its own massive body.
Zhang Su, like a leech, frantically slashed and hacked around the huge compound-eyed head. Every time his blade flashed, it would leave a deep wound that exposed bone, or sever a waving tentacle!
The dark green sap poured down like a torrential rain, and the Black Tai Sui's painful roars never ceased.
Zhang Su also suffered several wounds—his left shoulder was charred and smoking from being grazed by the corrosive rays; his back was stinging from being struck by the end of a tough tentacle; and the aftershocks of the mental shock caused him to bleed from his mouth and nose, and his vision to go black intermittently.
But the fighting spirit burning in his eyes grew even more intense!
Finally! A golden opportunity has presented itself!
Driven by excruciating pain and rage, Hei Tai Sui lunged forward, attempting to ram his round, hole-filled chin, dripping with viscous fluid, into Zhang Su!
This action completely exposed its enormous compound eye, composed of countless cave faces, directly in front of Zhang Su, and its position remained relatively fixed!
"Now!" Zhang Su's eyes flashed with a sharp light! He stomped his right foot hard on the side of an attacking tentacle, and his body shot out like an arrow, becoming a stream of light that tore through the darkness, heading straight for the top of the Black Tai Sui's head!
He raised the mutated right arm scimitar high above his head, the dark red energy burning more intensely than ever before, making the blade look like hellish lava!
"One strike to cleave in two—Ruyi Divine Sword!!!" Zhang Su roared, pouring all his accumulated power and will into this powerful splitting strike!
Zzzzz—!!!
The dark glint of the blade seemed to slice through time and space!
The blade cleaved into the top of the giant compound eye without any resistance! The structure, composed of countless shattered mirror-like "small eyes," was as fragile as glass before the blade, which contained the mutated energy of the Greedy Treasure Chest!
Snap! Sizzle—!!!
A chilling mix of cracking and tearing sounds!
A massive wound, over two meters deep and nearly two-thirds the thickness of the compound eye, was cleaved open! Dark, viscous fluid gushed from the wound like a burst dam!
"Awoooo ...
This scream surpassed the sum of all the previous ones!
The massive body of the Black Tai Sui began to thrash wildly and erratically! Its injured compound eye convulsed and thrashed violently as if in a spasm!
Zhang Su, who had just finished his slash, was flung away like a leaf in a storm by the violent force.
He tumbled several times in the air before crashing heavily back onto the sticky "ground," splashing up a cloud of filth.
A sharp pain shot through his entire body, especially at the point of impact, but Zhang Su grinned and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
He struggled to his knees, supporting himself with his mutated right hand wielding a curved blade, and looked up at the Black Tai Sui in the air, who was in a state of frenzied agony.
The advantage has been reversed!
"Insects! Insects!! How dare you... how dare you hurt me like this!!" Black Tai Sui's voice was filled with unprecedented shock, anger, and fear.
Its broken, pus-filled compound eye was fixed on Zhang Su on the ground, and all its tentacles retracted like a tide, wrapping around its massive body.
The distorted runes on its surface instantly extinguished and disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, at the center of its enormous compound eye, the huge pupil embedded in the core of the dark vortex and composed of fragments of hundreds of faces, suddenly lit up with a blinding, pure black light!
The light was extremely concentrated, carrying a terrifying aura that could annihilate everything and corrupt the soul!
Source Core issued another warning: [Warning! Extremely high energy level detected! Threat level: Lethal!]
"Die! Die! Die!!!" Black Tai Sui roared madly, black light shooting from his eyes!
Zhang Su's pupils constricted sharply! The black light was too fast! The range was too vast! There was simply no way to avoid it!
"I'll block it!" he roared, almost instinctively holding his mutated scimitar right arm in front of him, the energy from his hand instantly forming a solid energy shield in front of the blade!
boom--! ! !
A thick, pure black beam of light, as thick as a house pillar, carrying a powerful aura capable of annihilating everything, slammed into Zhang Su's sword arm shield!
A deafening explosion!
The mutated energy of the Greedy Treasure Chest and the pitch-black energy of Tai Sui are locked in a fierce struggle!
The "ground" beneath Zhang Su's feet began to collapse and evaporate.
The terrifying impact propelled him backward, carving two deep furrows into his body!
A sharp pain shot through his right arm, the bones straining under the immense pressure. The mutated muscle fibers tore apart under the intense pressure, and his energy shield thinned visibly.
[Energy shield overload! Expected to collapse in 30 seconds. Please take evasive action immediately!] Source Core issued an urgent warning.
"Die! Die! Die!..." The Black Tai Sui's frenzied roar, accompanied by the continuous output of black light, tolled like a death knell.
Zhang Su clenched his teeth, and blood seeped from his gums.
The immense pressure made his bones groan, but his eyes remained unusually calm as he stared intently at the enormous eye that was frantically unleashing destructive energy, silently calculating.
Twenty-seven seconds... twenty-eight seconds... twenty-nine seconds...
The shield's light had become as faint as a candle flickering in the wind!
"Die!!!" Black Tai Sui roared for the thirty-fourth time, filled with glee!
"Now is the time!" Zhang Su thought to himself.
Just as the Black Tai Sui's thirty-fourth "Die!" had not completely dissipated, the mental momentum brought about by the continuous roar and the fervor for the impending victory caused its mind to go blank for a moment!
Zhang Su had been waiting for this moment. His mutated right arm muscles stretched to their limit, and the blade suddenly made an extremely subtle side rotation!
Om-!
The destructive black light was slightly deflected by this ingenious deflection force!
Although it was only a tiny angle of less than ten degrees, it was enough for Zhang Su, who was pressed tightly against the shield!
The black light grazed the edge of his mutated blade arm and shot obliquely into the endless darkness behind him, corroding that space into a huge void!
Just as the black light shifted and a hint of surprise flashed in the huge compound eyes of the Black Tai Sui, Zhang Su made his move!
He abandoned all defenses, pouring the last bit of energy provided by the Source Core and his own will to survive into his legs!
Like a cheetah pouncing on its prey, he rolled and sprinted forward at unprecedented speed, his body pressed against the ground, his target the giant compound eye of the Black Tai Sui, which was temporarily immobilized by the continuous emission of black light!
That brief moment of surprise was a fatal pause for Hei Tai Sui!
When it realized something was wrong and stopped emitting black light, preparing to deploy its tentacles or use mental attacks for defense—
Zhang Su had already used the momentum of his sprint to leap up again!
This time, he didn't jump high, but he was fast enough and close enough!
He gripped the mutated scimitar in his right hand as if it were a deadly dagger, the tip of which was pointed directly at the center of the huge, astonished compound eye that was oozing dark green pus and had a broken face!
"go to hell!!"
Poof! ! !
The blade, imbued with the mutated energy of the greedy treasure chest and filled with Zhang Su's entire will and rage, pierced deeply into the lower right corner of the Black Tai Sui's compound eye without any hindrance!
"Uh...?!" All of Black Tai Sui's movements, roars, and energy output came to an abrupt halt at this moment! The enormous compound eye froze instantly!
Zhang Su roared, "Die!"
He gripped the hilt of the knife tightly, and with all his might, he spun it fiercely and frantically inside the pierced eyeball! An upward slash!
*Sizzle!*
It was like tearing apart thick leather and sticky glue!
A terrifying rift, starting from the center of the pupil, extending diagonally upwards, and almost piercing through the entire giant compound eye, was forcibly ripped open by Zhang Su's mutated scimitar!
The foul-smelling liquid, like erupting volcanic lava, mixed with desperate howls, gushed out from the huge fissure!
Volume 1: Chapter 25: Blood Ancestor, Farewell to the Foundation Stone
This dark illusion constructed by the Black Tai Sui suddenly began to shake violently as it suffered a severe blow!
"Uhhh-!!!"
The Black Tai Sui no longer roared in anger, but instead let out a shriek like that of someone on the verge of death, mixed with extreme pain.
The space of the illusion resembled shattered glass, revealing countless irregular cracks that shimmered with eerie light amidst the tremors, making the space chaotic and disordered.
Zhang Su wanted to press his advantage and deliver the final blow to this evil creature!
However, the sudden feeling of weightlessness beneath his feet set off alarm bells in his mind—the violent shaking of the illusion had deprived him of his ability to float for a short time!
"Damn it!" Zhang Su cursed under his breath. His body fell straight down from mid-air like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily onto the sticky "ground" below, splashing up a cloud of filth.
What made his eyes narrow even more was that the distance between him and the huge, writhing black Tai Sui was invisibly increased by tens of meters the moment he landed!
Clearly, the Black Tai Sui, in its agonizing struggle, was still desperately trying to distort the spatial rules of the illusion, attempting to distance itself from this deadly threat.
"Ha!" Zhang Su propped himself up, wiping away the liquid mixed with his own blood and filth that had spilled from the corner of his mouth. He pointed his mutated scimitar at the dark behemoth writhing in agony in the distance, his expression mocking. "What, scared now? Where's that 'boundless grace' of yours? One more slash, and this filthy thing will probably be obliterated!"
"Humans... ants...!" Black Tai Sui's compound eyes, composed of countless fragments of cave-elemental faces, were fixed on Zhang Su. His voice was distorted by excruciating pain and extreme rage, each word seeming to be squeezed out from a rotting throat. "You... dare to injure me like this... You deserve to die a thousand deaths! Your sins are unforgivable!!"
"Deserves to die?" Zhang Su grinned, revealing blood-stained teeth. "Looks like that stab wasn't deep enough, not ruthless enough, leaving you with the energy to spout such threats! Fine, I'll satisfy you now, giving you a thorough thrashing! I'll shut you up completely!"
Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Su suddenly exerted force with both legs!
The viscous substance beneath his feet exploded with a deafening roar, and he transformed into a blur that tore through the darkness. His mutated scimitar arm trailed a chilling glint as he charged toward the Black Tai Sui once more with an even more resolute and swift speed than before!
He was confident of victory; with his next strike, he would surely kill!
If one cut isn't enough, then three or five cuts, until it's completely reduced to pus!
Faced with Zhang Su's determined and deadly charge, the massive, mountain-like body of the Black Tai Sui visibly trembled violently!
The spurting fluid from its wound showed no signs of stopping; on the contrary, it gushed out even more violently due to the intense trembling.
In that huge, compound eye that bore the fragments of a broken face, the raging fury and arrogance of the past had been replaced by obvious fear and weakness.
It seemed... truly to be powerless to fight any longer, and even less confident in withstanding this deadly blow!
Then, from the top of the writhing head of the Black Tai Sui, a huge tentacle, completely different from the other pitch-black tentacles and with an eerie dark red color, suddenly pierced through the darkness like a spire rising from the lava of hell, and grew wildly into the sky!
The surface of this dark red tentacle was covered with even finer, eerie runes that shimmered with an ominous blood light. Unlike the other tentacles that swung and attacked, it fiercely stabbed at the dark sky above the illusion, which was cracked from the tremors!
"Om-!"
A blinding crimson light burst forth from the tip of the dark red tentacle, precisely piercing a spatial rift!
Then, the Black Tai Sui chanted in its deep, layered voice:
"The Blood Sacrifice Dao Beacon has appeared! My physical body is about to collapse, my cultivation is completely destroyed, I am facing imminent death and am powerless to save myself!"
We respectfully beseech the Supreme Blood Ancestor, from the Abyss of Blood and the Nest of a Thousand Eyes, to bestow his mercy!
Descend with your Dharma body to save your disciple from the calamity of annihilation of both body and soul!
The plea for help, filled with a sacrificial fervor, echoed throughout the shattered illusion!
Upon hearing this, Zhang Su thought to himself, "Damn it! Is it calling for its parents because it can't win? What a cliché fantasy novel plot! I absolutely cannot let it complete this bizarre SOS ritual!"
In just a few seconds, he was back in front of Tai Sui, and leaped high into the air, swinging his sword down!