King of Assassins
Chapter 245 - 225 Explanation
Across the spatial barrier, Gao Xuan could see the state of the Crimson Eye through the Celestial Dragon Eye.
The opponent's life force withered rapidly; no matter how powerful it was, unable to immune itself to the Godslaying Sword, it could only accept death.
As the Crimson Eye was on the brink of death, Gao Xuan carefully threw the Godslaying Sword over.
The blood-colored blade was firmly lodged deep within the gigantic pupil of the Crimson Eye.
The Crimson Eye, provoked, released another destructive spiritual storm.
Unfortunately, Gao Xuan was in another dimension.
The Crimson Eye's dying strike yielded no result. It was immensely furious but could do nothing to Gao Xuan.
At this moment, it suddenly remembered there was still a bunch of foolish human followers on Purple Dragon Star.
Negative Space and Positive Space exist on different planes.
The Crimson Eye locking onto the spatial channel of the Blood Dragon Cave didn't mean it could lock onto Purple Dragon Star.
It established a spiritual link with the people on Purple Dragon Star, mainly using their spiritual power as spatial coordinates.
Sometimes, it would give them some power feedback to deepen its connection with this world.
The power granted by the Crimson Eye was insignificant, yet for humans, it was exceptionally powerful. Thus, several organizations worshiping the Crimson Eye became increasingly powerful.
For instance, the Spirit Sword Association essentially occupied a continent with immense strength.
Additionally, there were other powerful organizations like Red Eye and Blood-colored Flames.
These organizations, though in conflict with each other, did not recognize each other's worshiped deities. Yet, they were all followers of the Crimson Eye.
It's just that the spiritual form the Crimson Eye manifested was different, and thus the followers' perception of it varied greatly.
Human-established religious organizations always have strong exclusivity, often unrelated to the deities but because humans fight for their own desires.
Before its death, the Crimson Eye transmitted Gao Xuan's image to all its powerful followers, commanding that Gao Xuan must be killed.
After doing all this, the Crimson Eye's power was also exhausted, its colossal body disintegrating layer by layer into ashes.
The Godslaying Sword, however, emitted a crimson blaze burning fiercely.
The life energy of the Crimson Eye was too powerful, and the Godslaying Sword absorbed so much at once that it couldn't even digest it.
At this time, Gao Xuan only entered Negative Space. He first retrieved the Hongyi Sword, then attempted to reclaim the Godslaying Sword.
The Godslaying Sword was like a glaring flame, and even with his ability, he couldn't put it away.
Fortunately, the infinite Source Power in Negative Space constantly eroded the Godslaying Sword, rapidly depleting its energy.
The Godslaying Sword now was like a match trying to illuminate the night sky; however fiercely it burned, the light would swiftly be consumed by darkness.
Gao Xuan waited for a long time until the light on the Godslaying Sword finally stabilized.
Gao Xuan resonated again with the Godslaying Sword, successfully retrieving it.
After completing all this, Gao Xuan swiftly returned to the Blood Dragon Cave.
Zichuan Fragrance, the Long Brothers, and Yu Fei Sea all lay unconscious. The spiritual impact of the Red Flame Eye was unpleasant. Not to mention, the Red Flame Eye had sent out several spiritual impacts subsequently.
Gao Xuan had no good solution for this.
Spirit, divine soul, are the most profound fields. Just like the Crimson Eye, such an alien god, couldn't understand the essence of the divine soul. It could only seize Gao Xuan's divine soul through direct contract methods.
This shows how intricate the divine soul is.
Gao Xuan could grasp his own divine soul, but he couldn't help others.
Speaking of which, the intense resentment released by the Crimson Eye before death provided a huge amount of spiritual power to the Celestial Demon Relic.
The Celestial Demon Relic was filled with a shallow layer. Which showed how strong the resentment of the Crimson Eye was. Also, it showed how strong its spiritual power was.
The Godslaying Sword, which absorbed the essence blood and divine soul of the Crimson Eye, seemed to have mutated. Yet, since the Godslaying Sword was in an evolving state, Gao Xuan wasn't sure what it would become.
The Godslaying Sword is not a real material, more like a wisp of divine light, which is why it meshes exceptionally well with the Aurora Sword Technique.
The strength of the Godslaying Sword lies in its virtual-to-real transformation, able to disregard all kinds of defenses. Just like the Source Power defense of the Crimson Eye, it was breached with one sword.
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Theoretically, the Godslaying Sword has no tier limit.
As long as enough deities are slain, the Godslaying Sword can even be elevated to a Divine Artifact.
Gao Xuan chose the Godslaying Sword over his eyes because the Godslaying Sword has such a growth characteristic.
For instance, an alien deity like the Crimson Eye, naturally endowed with divinity from Negative Space, is referred to as an alien god.
The so-called divinity stems from the energy level law of a higher life energy level.
Generally, the divine level is certainly above the golden level.
However, top-tier golden level powerhouses can easily slay weaker deities.
Crimson Eye encountering a powerful golden powerhouse is certain death as well.
Bearing a touch of divinity, the Crimson Eye is called an alien god, but it has a vast gap compared to real deities.
Of course, the Crimson Eye has a high growth limit. If it could grow, it would become extremely powerful—beyond the capabilities of a golden level life.
A deity truly transcending all energy levels, like the powerful deity Master of Blood who possesses endless knowledge and power, has near eternal life.
The Virtual Godhood Gao Xuan pursues is that kind of deity power that surpasses all energy levels.
With the experience of two lifetimes, Gao Xuan has a profound understanding of deities. After a bit of interaction with the alien god, he judged its real state.
Strong yet ignorant, it's worth trying to slay.
Gao Xuan is so daring also because he mastered the Golden Cicada Shell.
The Crimson Eye was indeed very powerful; the spiritual impacts it released upon dying could directly destroy Gao Xuan's divine soul.
This destructive power triggered the divine technique of the Six-winged Celestial Cicada: Golden Cicada Shell.
Gao Xuan's divine soul instantly escaped danger, returning to his body, leaving only a spiritual projection in place.
Maximally mobilizing all forces to attack the opponent's thinnest weakness.
This is the fundamental reason for Gao Xuan's consistent victories.
This adventure also yielded extraordinarily massive rewards.
It's hard to say what level the Godslaying Sword will reach, but the Hongyi Sword has already completed its fundamental transformation.
Gao Xuan casually swung the Hongyi Sword, finding it lighter and more agile, with an unusually smooth and fluid operation of Source Power.
The key is that the Hongyi Sword's material has completely changed. Gao Xuan casually picked up a Bronze-level Sword Artifact to test it, and the Hongyi Sword silently slashed through it, cutting the Bronze Sword Artifact into two pieces with an extremely smooth cut.
This was something that was absolutely impossible before.
The reason why Gao Xuan likes to stab between the eyebrows is that most people have no defense there.
With the material of the Hongyi Sword, if it were to pierce through some strong armor, the Hongyi Sword would surely shatter.
Especially as the enemies' levels increased, the Hongyi Sword clearly became insufficient.
Now, the sharpness of the Hongyi Sword has been raised to a terrifying degree, even surpassing the Godslaying Sword.
The Hongyi Sword, as a tangible entity, has integrated the Water Source Essence, making its sharpness surpass that of the Godslaying Sword, which is normal.
The truly profound aspect is the Hongyi Sword's affinity with Water Elemental Source Power. When operating with Water Elemental Source Power, the Hongyi Sword's power can increase a hundredfold.
Gao Xuan experimented with using Water Elemental Source Power to activate the Hongyi Sword and found it could gather Water Elemental Source Power to become incredibly heavy.
In other words, as long as his Source Power is strong enough, the mass of the Hongyi Sword can increase almost infinitely.
As light as a feather, as heavy as a mountain.
By adjusting the Source Power, the Hongyi Sword can switch between light and heavy at will. This is a very interesting change and has great power in actual combat.
The Hongyi Sword, fused with Water Source Essence, clearly has more than these simple changes.
All of these can be studied slowly in the future.
Gao Xuan sensed that many people had already entered the Blood Dragon Cave, so he first collected the Underground Sword Artifact.
The Long Brothers each had a Bronze Sword Artifact, and Zichuan Fragrance's Flowing Fragrance Sword was also Bronze-level.
Zixianchuan had reminded him before, so Gao Xuan owed her a personal favor and didn't touch the Flowing Fragrance Sword.
As for the Long Brothers' swords, Gao Xuan was not polite. These two were full of malice towards him; they were no good.
Not slaughtering them on the spot was already broad-hearted and merciful of him.
"Speaking of which, I really am a benevolent gentleman..."
Gao Xuan sighed, then stuffed the numerous Sword Artifacts into the Celestial Spirit Sword Box.
In the Blood Dragon Cave, using Marvels sparingly was primarily because the Alien God loathed other Marvels.
Now that the Alien God had been killed, there was naturally no need to worry about these things.
He stuffed in over a dozen Sword Artifacts at once, including a Silver-level Sword Artifact. The Celestial Spirit Sword Box was stuffed to the brim, and the operation of Celestial Spirit Sword Qi became noticeably more sluggish.
If the Celestial Spirit Sword Box could speak, it would probably say: You damn near want to stuff me to death...
Gao Xuan had handled all matters well, and Xiao Ting, Long Zhengtang, and the rest arrived.
Xiao Ting immediately saw Gao Xuan in front of the underground altar, her heart filled with joy—Gao Xuan was indeed okay.
She looked again at the four people lying on the ground; they were all unconscious but not dead.
Xiao Ting didn't pay attention; she didn't care whether others lived or died.
She leaped lightly to Gao Xuan's side: "Are you alright?"
Gao Xuan sighed softly and said, "You see me looking fine on the outside, but I'm actually very seriously injured."
"What happened to you, where are you hurt?"
Xiao Ting was surprised and worried, scrutinizing Gao Xuan from top to bottom. Gao Xuan appeared immaculate, composed, and handsome, not at all like someone injured.
"My heart hurts from missing Sister Ting too much," Gao Xuan said with a cheeky smile.
Xiao Ting couldn't help but roll her eyes. If someone else had said such corny words, it would have been absolutely stupid.
But coming from Gao Xuan, it made her feel sweet inside. Though outwardly she still feigned impatience.
If she smiled bright-eyed at such corny words, it would be too childish.
While Xiao Ting and Gao Xuan flirted, the others were not in the mood for such things.
Long Zhengtang checked on Long Feilin and Long Feijiao, his white eyebrows tightly knit. Both Long Family prodigies were in deep comas, completely unresponsive to outside stimuli. There wasn't even any basic spiritual consciousness fluctuation.
Human medicine is advanced, but there's not much it can do for spiritual consciousness.
The state of Long Feilin and Long Feijiao resembled brain death. The situation was quite troublesome.
Long Zhengtang couldn't help but look towards Gao Xuan; he was the only one at the underground altar who remained conscious and didn't even have a speck of dust on him.
This young man must know a lot about the underground altar's anomalies.
If he could understand why Long Feilin and Long Feijiao were comatose, there might still be a way to save them.
Another crucial issue was that the underground altar seemed to have undergone some significant change.
The pervasive sense of evil and power had clearly dissipated. Even the underground altar seemed less imbued with soul-intimidating divinity.
Long Zhengtang couldn't imagine what exactly had happened at this Blood Dragon Sword Assembly.
All the answers lay with Gao Xuan.
Long Zhengtang also noticed Xiao Ting and Gao Xuan's intimate posture, which made him hesitate.
Gao Xuan stood there unscathed, indicating his strength. Xiao Ting was even a Silver Sword Hero. It would not be good to provoke them if they teamed up.
Long Zhengtang was not afraid, but he didn't want to act rashly.
At this time, the vice president of the Spirit Sword Association, Guo Gang, suddenly jumped out. He pointed at Gao Xuan and shouted, "Gao Xuan, what on earth happened? You have to give us an explanation."
Gao Xuan chuckled, "I haven't slept with your wife, so why should I give you an explanation?"
Guo Gang became furious. He pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, full of killing intent, but he restrained his anger, saying, "The Blood Dragon Cave is the treasure of our Purple Dragon Star. As soon as you arrived, something happened in the Blood Dragon Cave. If you don't give Purple Dragon Star an explanation, don't even think about leaving!"
Pang Song, a master of the Blood-colored Flames, also stepped forward, saying, "Gao Xuan, the anomaly in the Blood Dragon Cave, you must clarify this matter."
Wu Tong from the Red Eye Sect also raised his voice, saying, "That's right, this matter must be clarified. Gao Xuan, don't think you can just walk away."
With supporters, Guo Gang's aura grew stronger, "Gao Xuan, if you don't behave, no one on Purple Dragon Star can protect you!"