CHAPTER 341: CHAPTER 303 SACRIFICE

Ghost King Hall is the most magnificent palace within the City Lord’s Mansion of Hundred Ghosts City.

Because the highest leader of the Black Banner Alliance is known as the Ten Kings, grand palaces are built on each administrative star of the Black Banner Alliance specifically to entertain the Ten Kings.

The Ghost King Hall is constructed in the style of ancient palaces, with nothing particularly unique, primarily characterized by its splendor.

The Celestial Snake King reclines on the high throne, almost akin to a royal seat. The throne is as wide as a bed.

To reach the Celestial Snake King’s side, Purple Lily must ascend seven levels of steps.

It was when Purple Lily stepped onto the first step that the Celestial Snake King noticed the entourage beside her unexpectedly followed along.

The Celestial Snake King felt displeased as Purple Lily reached the second step. The entourage also stepped onto the second step.

By this moment, the distance between both parties was less than four meters.

This distance is very safe for ordinary people, but for a Golden Powerhouse, the opponent was way too close.

The Celestial Snake King immediately sensed a warning sign, ready to act, but Gao Xuan acted first.

For Gao Xuan, this distance was sufficient. Even if the opponent was a Golden Powerhouse.

In this constrained environment, nothing could be faster than his Aurora Sword.

Aurora Sword: Flash Stab.

A flash of blood-colored sword light pierced into the forehead of the Celestial Snake King. The Celestial Snake King’s reaction was incredibly fast; as the Godslaying Sword’s tip pierced his skin, he twisted bizarrely. His skin became immensely supple and slick.

The Godslaying Sword hit the Celestial Snake King’s skin but uncontrollably slid to the side, failing to pierce through the Celestial Snake King’s forehead, leaving only a faint blood trace between his brows.

At the same time, the Celestial Snake King’s left leg lashed out like a serpent’s tail, striking Gao Xuan’s chest.

Gao Xuan noticed the danger, retracting his chest and drawing in his abdomen, retreating as if a phantom; yet he still could not evade the Celestial Snake King’s bizarre strike.

The Celestial Snake King’s leg carried a peculiar penetrating force, forcibly penetrating the Celestial Spirit Battle Armor that Gao Xuan condensed.

The fierce Celestial Spirit Sword Qi exploded again, greatly weakening the Celestial Snake King’s leg power.

Nonetheless, the Celestial Snake King’s leg slid through layered Celestial Spirit Sword Qi like a swimming snake, hitting Gao Xuan’s chest squarely.

Gao Xuan’s chest bone broke on the spot, with his heart nearly exploded by the strike. More terrifying, the Celestial Snake King’s leg was also loaded with poison.

Like a venomous snake, tendrils of Source Power ran rampant within Gao Xuan’s body, gnawing at him, its emitted venom constantly corroding and destroying his vitality.

Gao Xuan perceived the threat, hurriedly leveraging the leg force to retreat further, but still spat out a mouthful of blood mid-air.

Having succeeded with one move, the Celestial Snake King sprang up from the throne, heading straight to pursue Gao Xuan.

Passing by Purple Lily, the Celestial Snake King casually pointed at her forehead.

Realizing the peril, Purple Lily could only desperately urge her Source Power, doing her best to retreat.

However, in such a tier of combat, Purple Lily appeared way too weak and slow.

The Celestial Snake King’s forefinger easily pierced through Purple Lily’s protective Source Power, striking her forehead. The Finger Force penetrated through Purple Lily’s head and continued spreading, causing her whole being to collapse progressively under the Finger Force.

The Celestial Snake King cared not if Purple Lily was innocent; his heart was filled with killing intent. He not only wanted to wipe out Purple Lily but to uproot her organization as well.

As for the assassin across, indeed formidable, having injured him with a sword. Yet, a mere Silver Sword Hero daring to assassinate him was indeed courting death!

The Celestial Snake King sneered internally; his foundation in the Celestial Serpent Transformation Scripture lay in Body Refinement Technique, not to mention the strongest in the Star River, but it was also a top-notch Body Refining Secret Technique.

Though the Planet of Death limited Source Power, it could not limit his powerful body.

The opposite side intending to ambush him on the Planet of Death was truly courting death.

Killing Purple Lily was merely done in passing, not affecting his pursuit of Gao Xuan at all.

In the next moment, the Celestial Snake King was already before Gao Xuan, his fair and supple hand striking toward Gao Xuan’s face like a serpent’s head.

The transformations of the Celestial Serpent Palm Sword were bizarre and swift, but Gao Xuan saw through the opponent’s changes, horizontally slashing the Godslaying Sword at the opponent’s wrist.

The Celestial Snake King’s dexterous palm contracted to avoid the Godslaying Sword before his arm extended again, placing the palm on the sword spine of the Godslaying Sword.

With a contraction and extension, the Celestial Snake King’s arm resembled a spirit snake, with its transformations full of mystery and agility.

Even with Gao Xuan’s capability, he had to admire that such a combat and killing technique was exceedingly masterful.

Concerning Body Refining Techniques, the Celestial Snake King would easily rank in the top ten among all the experts he had encountered in his two lifetimes.

The Celestial Snake King’s Celestial Snake Sword Palm fell upon the Godslaying Sword, with swift yet immensely gentle sword-palm fusion, almost sticking to the Godslaying Sword. Meanwhile, its palm force vibrated at a high frequency millions of times instantly, forcing Gao Xuan into persistently manifesting Sword Qi to counter.

In body strength, Gao Xuan was ultimately inferior to the Celestial Snake King; his body heavily injured, making such a direct clash of forces even more disadvantageous for him.

The Godslaying Sword surged with waves of blood light, yet failed to completely counteract the Celestial Snake King’s palm force, sending Gao Xuan flying along with his sword once more.

Gao Xuan sighed; he could perceive all the opponent’s alterations, yet his body lagged momentarily. In terms of speed, the Aurora Sword—even as quick as it was—could not surpass the opponent.

Lacking the speed advantage, he also gained no edge in Source Power, suffering significant setbacks in both consecutive strikes.

This Golden Powerhouse was no imitation like Shao Daoyuan.

Even on the Planet of Death, the opponent demonstrated the mighty prowess of a Golden Powerhouse.

Both in emergent response and counterattack—flawless.

The bizarre and unpredictable leg strike felt like it came from outer space, and even after sensing it, he was powerless to escape.

Though Gao Xuan had prepared beforehand, the Celestial Snake King’s strength still caught him slightly off guard in actual combat.

Nevertheless, having wounded the opponent first, this round was his win.

As Gao Xuan retreated swiftly, his left palm floated, invoking the Ice Sword Qi. The white Ice Sword Qi abruptly lowered the spatial temperature to its extreme, even freezing the intangible Sea of Source Power in place.

Originally intending to pursue aggressively, the Celestial Snake King was momentarily stalled by the Ice Sword Qi, his Source Power circulation inevitably inhibited slightly.

"Wait."

Gao Xuan raised his hand, indicating to hold off the fight, while spitting another mouthful of blood.

The Celestial Snake King smirked but paused, intrigued to hear what Gao Xuan had to say.

This powerful assassin, meticulously plotting to assassinate him, after all, who was behind directing him?

In Ghost King Hall, the opponent had nowhere to escape.

At this moment, the Celestial Snake King’s guards also sensed something was off, surrounding from all sides.

Seeing the Celestial Snake King not moving, they too held back from taking action.

Gao Xuan seized the opportunity to take out the Dimensional Mirror with a flick, the space rippled, and a Mirror Space was created out of thin air.

Inside the Mirror Space, there were only him and the Celestial Snake King.

The Celestial Snake King looked indifferent, "Mirror Space? Such a thing can be easily pierced, what use is it?"

Gao Xuan’s face turned a ghastly green, looking like an evil ghost, he said, "Don’t rush, patiently wait a few seconds. I will certainly give you a reasonable explanation."

As he spoke, he took out the Book of All-Knowing from his arms. The Book of All-Knowing was indestructible. In fact, it wouldn’t be affected by external forces. It couldn’t be used to block any attacks.

The Celestial Snake King asked with interest, "What is this?"

"The Book of All-Knowing."

Gao Xuan placed the Book of All-Knowing on the ground and recited a phrase, "Using the golden life in front as a sacrifice."

The Celestial Snake King laughed, casually offering something as a sacrifice to kill a Golden Powerhouse; then all the Golden Powerhouses would have died out long ago.

Not to mention a marvel, even if the Divine personally descended to battle him, it’s uncertain who would kill whom!

Marvels naturally have their uses, but there are not many that can pose a threat to a Golden Powerhouse. Moreover, it is impossible to kill a Golden Powerhouse in such a bizarre way.

"Is that all to this little trick?"

The Celestial Snake King shook his head, "Boring."

Though he said so, the Celestial Snake King still felt something was off. The assassin on the other side was exceptionally fierce and probably had other tricks up his sleeve.

To avoid long nights and many dreams, it’s better to completely solve the opponent first.

The Celestial Snake King was about to act, but found his body already uncontrollable, and the condensed Spirit Core was buzzing, issuing a sharp warning.

Yet, the Celestial Snake King didn’t know what went wrong, somewhat bewilderedly looking at Gao Xuan, "What means is this?"

"Sorry, I can’t tell you that,"

Gao Xuan said softly, "You are sure to die. Better not struggle. Save some energy, go peacefully."

The divine light in the Celestial Snake King’s eyes suddenly intensified, planning to unleash all power to kill Gao Xuan at all costs.

But his Spirit Core silently shattered, the divine light in his eyes immediately dimmed.

"What sword are you using, it shouldn’t be like this..."

The Celestial Snake King couldn’t believe he was dying just like that, but no matter how unwilling he was, under the Law of the Godslaying Sword, he was destined to die.

The life-defunct Celestial Snake King’s head drooped, falling to the ground.

Gao Xuan shook his head, the Celestial Snake King was stabbed by his sword, though not seeing his own blood, he saw him vomiting two more mouthfuls of blood, how could he not die.

The unique characteristic of the Godslaying Sword is just this, both the Sword Master and the person injured by the sword, if blood is seen, death is certain.

Only depending on the life levels, the time for the Blood-See-Will-Die Law to take effect varies.

Being a Golden Powerhouse, the Celestial Snake King managed to hold on for about a minute.

If not for the Godslaying Sword, Gao Xuan couldn’t have killed the Celestial Snake King to death, he might even have been counter-killed.

But without the Godslaying Sword and the Mysterious Windbreaker, Gao Xuan wouldn’t have taken action.

No matter how strong the strength of the Celestial Snake King, or how many cards in hand, being stabbed by the Godslaying Sword first, he had to die.

This is the most powerful aspect of the Godslaying Sword.

A divine being like the Crimson Eye would also be killed with one sword, let alone the Celestial Snake King.

However, the Book of All-Knowing had no reaction, it seemed the Celestial Snake King hadn’t died thoroughly yet.

Gao Xuan was just thinking when he saw the Celestial Snake King’s body convulse, his scalp suddenly tore open a crack, and he emerged from the scalp crevice.

The Celestial Snake King moved quickly, in a flash he crawled out of the old skin, the bare Celestial Snake King flopped haphazardly, more snake-like.

Leaving behind his clothes and a layer of human skin in place...

The reborn Celestial Snake King raised his head and glanced at Gao Xuan, but before he could speak, his eyes quickly dimmed again, losing all signs of life.

"Why did you make such a fuss..."

Gao Xuan shook his head, "Shedding a layer of skin, terrifyingly bizarre."

The rebirth through shedding skin might be the Celestial Snake King’s ace, unfortunately, regardless of shedding or not, he was still him, having been struck by the Godslaying Sword, he couldn’t survive.

The Book of All-Knowing finally reacted, shining with bizarre light, the corpse of the Celestial Snake King on the ground vanished silently in the strange glow.

Gao Xuan didn’t have time to look at the answer from the Book of All-Knowing, he quickly put the Book of All-Knowing away.

The human skin left by the Celestial Snake King was tenaciously exceptional, just a bit eerie.

Gao Xuan thought such a piece of skin would suffice to make a fine leather armor. Or a fine pair of leather shoes?

Of course, it was just a thought. He wasn’t that deranged yet.

The Celestial Snake King left everything behind, Gao Xuan looked over, the most important being the Celestial Serpent Transformation Scripture, a piece of material akin to snake skin, naturally attaching to the body upon contact, transforming into a bizarre white snake skin.

It appeared very smooth, but was actually composed of patches of semi-transparent white scales.

This thing seemed somewhat strong, Gao Xuan tested it, indeed, the Godslaying Sword couldn’t pierce the Celestial Serpent Transformation Scripture.

He chose the Celestial Snake King’s face when he attacked because it was unguarded and easier to succeed. The Celestial Snake King’s chest might have had other protections that couldn’t be pierced.

Indeed, his intuition was right. If that strike had targeted the chest, he would have been in trouble.

Sometimes, victory or defeat is determined in an instant.

The Celestial Snake King didn’t carry a sword, his weapons should have been hidden within the Celestial Serpent Transformation Scripture.

Besides the Celestial Serpent Transformation Scripture, the Celestial Snake King left behind a unique belt, most likely the carrier of the Biochemical Battle Armor.

Unfortunately, such a Biochemical Battle Armor is custom-made according to personal genes. Others couldn’t make use of it even if they obtained it.

Gao Xuan could only reluctantly destroy the Battle Armor core.

Outside the Mirror Space, there were still many experts waiting for him.

Gao Xuan touched the Guardian Ring, Bai Yutang in her Cyan Lotus Skirt emerged.

Bai Yutang saw Gao Xuan’s face green as a ghost, with blood at the corners of his mouth, looking quite intimidating. She worriedly asked, "Ah Xuan, are you hurt?"

Gao Xuan grinned vilely, "Sister Tang, heal me."