CHAPTER 768: CHAPTER 475: SHARD ACQUIRED

Zog Soz’s panic lasted only for a fleeting moment before he regained his thoughts and rationality, but he couldn’t shake off the feeling of powerlessness from being suppressed by a bloodline.

His strength was weakened.

His reactions were sluggish, his Star Power circulation slowed, and all his Abilities were disrupted.

He had only less than fifty percent of his strength left.

"Ancestor Dragon Vein!"

He finally understood the effects of the Ancestor Dragon Vein, but as the thought surfaced in his mind, there was a flash before his eyes—Ji Xinghuo had instantaneously moved, not only leaving the kill zone of the Gravity Bomb but also counterattacking!

It was as if every step had been calculated.

The distance between them was less than ten meters.

For a Sixth Rank powerhouse, it was almost as if they were face to face, and Zog Soz saw clearly the human opponent, who had a pair of Strange pupils.

There was a faint circle of light at the edge of the right pupil, which seemed to perceive everything; the left pupil was filled with a ghostly light, as if it could devour everything.

At this moment, both of his eyes exuded a dark golden color.

Majestic! Ancient! Terrifying!

Ji Xinghuo radiated the same kind of Ancestor Dragon Vein aura as the Annihilation Dragon, layering it with the aura of Doomsday, doubly suppressing Zog Soz. His large body trembled like chaff, and the dragon Vein deep within his bones made it hard for him to resist.

However, it was only for a moment, and Zog Soz’s awareness regained clarity—Mind Hackers are best at controlling the mind.

His mental will returned to normal, but his body was stuck to the center by the Dark Energy Vortex Field, unable to break free.

Hum!

As Ji Xinghuo instantaneously moved, the Azure Sky Ring was already in his hand, and he immediately activated it.

The Void Cage enclosed the two of them.

A transparent barrier with a hundred-meter diameter separated the world inside and out—within the cage, there were only Ji Xinghuo and Zog Soz.

Qing Hong, having been forewarned, had already teleported away earlier, swinging the Sky Splitting Claw straight at the Xukun Dragon in the sky, bravely withstanding the Void Dragon Breath with his own body, canceling out the Gravity Field with his own, tearing at the Xukun Dragon in the air.

Jiu You attached itself to Ji Xinghuo’s body and initiated the Dark Avatar.

Doomsday hovered in midair, its mouth brewing a clump of dark golden light, ready to spew out an Annihilation Light.

Zog Soz was like an insect frozen in amber, able to move slowly, but not much faster than a turtle’s pace.

His mind was astounded and shocked.

The Void Cage—an Ability that he was, of course, aware of, the most powerful signature Ability of the Xukun Dragon. But his own Xukun Dragon was only of Flood Level, yet to awaken the Void Cage, and he himself couldn’t use it. Unexpectedly, the enemy had mastered it.

Six seconds!

In the first second inside the Void Cage, Ji Xinghuo entered his Giant form, standing over five meters tall with electricity swirling around his body, his eyes bursting with electric light.

Giant Transformation, Overload, Electromagnetic Oscillation!

Dark Avatar!

Thread after thread of ghostly light moved upon Ji Xinghuo’s skin. He held the Thunderstorm Sword in his hand; the 9,999 fragments exploded apart, and substantial Electromagnetic Star Power poured into the Sword Blade, coalescing into a ten-meter sword, breathing blinding electric light.

This took almost two seconds.

While Ji Xinghuo was preparing to deliver a fatal blow to Zog Soz, eight Shadow Clones were not idle.

They pointed toward the sky in unison.

Boom...

Huge bolts of Lightning shot into the sky, vanished into the clouds, and the next second, the storm clouds burst, hundreds of Lightnings slashing through the air, striking the Mutants around the black palace as if it was the wrath of the gods.

These Mutants were Zog Soz’s slave warriors, providing him with a power boost and sharing the damage received.

To kill a Commander, one must first kill the Commander’s subordinates.

Of the more than two thousand Mutants, the vast majority were below Fifth Rank, with only a dozen being Legendary. They were slaves Zog Soz had captured from the Sea Abyss, mind-controlled for many years. In the Secret Realm, they were unable not only to increase their strength but were even regressing.

Under the Xukun Dragon’s Gravity Field, the Mutants’ speed was significantly reduced, making it difficult to dodge.

The Lightning struck.

Lightning jumped continuously among the Mutants, causing multiple kills, and with just the first wave, two to three hundred Mutants were struck dead.

Zog Soz’s aura weakened further, and his strength diminished.

More Lightning struck down.

Boom...

Amidst the thunder, Ji Xinghuo swung his giant sword toward Zog Soz’s head, unfettered by the Void Cage, while Zog Soz could only watch helplessly as the giant sword descended.

The Reversed Dragon Armor surfaced on the outside of Zog Soz’s body, blocking the Sword Light, but no sound was emitted within the Cage.

The tip of the giant sword shattered.

Pieces of the Thunderstorm Sword scattered within the Void Cage, but that sword strike had already breached the defense of the Reversed Dragon Armor.

The Dragon Scale patterns dimmed and failed to re-coalesce.

Ji Xinghuo let the Sword Blade fragments fly randomly, clenching his right fist and stepping forward to punch through the gaping hole on the Reversed Dragon Armor, unleashing an Electric Light Spiral Force. All his Strength, Star Force, and electricity were concentrated in this punch without any reservation.

Zog Soz’s chest caved in, his muscles trembled visibly; one could clearly see the Spiral Force conducting inside his body, his gray, slippery skin rippling like the surface of the sea, deforming his entire body.

But inside the Void Cage, he was not blown away.

He was still on the spot!

Two seconds remained for the Void Cage while the Shadow Clones delivered two more rounds of Lightning Storm, killing half the surrounding slave Mutants.

Zog Soz’s strength was whittled down to less than thirty percent.

Ji Xinghuo pounded him with five more punches.

Every punch was a full-powered Electric Light Spiral Force, firmly striking Zog Soz’s body, like beating a punching bag, pouring out his power without restraint.

The last second.

Ji Xinghuo teleported out, escaping the Void Cage.

At the same time, Doomsday spewed an Annihilation Light from its mouth, a dark golden thin line tearing through the sky. The world darkened as if sliced in half by a sharp sword. The light shot into the Void Cage but was slowed, struggling to advance.

At that moment, the Void Cage ended.

The instant the transparent barrier disappeared, the five Electric Light Spiral Forces within Zog Soz fully burst forth.

Bang!

The giant’s body was as if it had been ravaged a hundred times, its bones and flesh ground into dust, barely resembling a human form.

Such severe injuries left him unable to resist.

The Annihilation Light pierced through the octopus head.

Boom...

Zog Soz’s head instantly evaporated, and as the Annihilation Light passed through and hit the ground, a massive explosion occurred. It shattered his body into fragments, sending shockwaves in all directions, and created a crater with a hundred-meter diameter on the ground.

Ji Xinghuo watched from a distance, his expression calm and unrelenting.

There was no notification from the Spiritual Origin Ability.

Ji Xinghuo was not surprised; Myriad Phenomena had seen this outcome ten seconds earlier. Flexing his right hand in mid-air, fragments of the Thunderstorm Sword flew like moths to a flame from the explosion to reassemble into a gigantic sword.

The sword light surged towards the sky, growing ever larger.

A visible immense electromagnetic field enveloped the surroundings, with Ji Xinghuo’s body being one pole and the giant sword the other.

Electromagnetic Star Power poured crazily into the giant sword, making it grow larger in the wind until it turned into a hundred-meter-long sword in an instant.

The sword light descended from the sky.

fragments, like stars, were embedded in the giant sword, emitting dazzling electrical currents, with the sword tip aiming at an empty space on the ground.

An illusionary silhouette emerged, quickly taking shape — it was Zog Soz.

His body transformed from an illusion to a physical form, resurrected.

Snap.

A gray gemstone fell from one of Zog Soz’s tentacles, shattering into countless fine pieces and turning to ash.

Ji Xinghuo did not know what it was, but he could see that it had taken a death for Zog Soz, exchanging it for a life. Myriad Phenomena had foreseen this moment and had calculated the timing perfectly, delivering a decisive strike.

The newly revived Zog Soz was still very weak, still suppressed by the Ancestor Dragon Vein.

His slaves had also been nearly all killed.

He had just been resurrected in the blink of an eye, not even clear about the situation, when the Thunderstorm Giant Sword came crashing down on him.

The Reversed Dragon Armor manifested again, but it had obviously been badly damaged and only withstood a moment before collapsing like paper. The giant sword pierced through the octopus’s head, impaling him from head to foot to the ground.

With a thunderous crash.

The Thunderstorm Giant Sword dispersed into a torrent of lightning, striking the enemy beneath.

Countless fragments cut Zog Soz, and all the damage he sustained was shared with the surrounding Mutant slaves through a Life Link, allowing him to not die immediately. However, the sheer magnitude of the sustained injury severely harmed the slaves.

One by one, the slaves died trying to dodge the lightning.

The number of Mutant slaves dwindled rapidly.

Zog Soz’s lifeforce grew weaker and weaker, and within ten seconds, all the slaves on the island were dead.

There were other islands within the Secret Realm, where some slaves hadn’t had time to arrive.

But they too perished.

Yet, Zog Soz hung onto a breath of life and did not die, self-healing no matter how severe the injuries, but he had lost the power to resist.

Ji Xinghuo looked up at the Xukun Dragon in the sky and realized what was happening.

He was Life Linked with the Xukun Dragon.

This was like other Xukun Dragon Lords in the world, drawing vitality from their own Xukun Dragons. As long as the dragon lived, the Lord would not die.

Zog Soz’s Xukun Dragon was only of Flood Level, a young dragon with no outstanding strength, not even having awakened the ability to create a Void Cage. Qing Hong easily restrained it, coupled with the suppression of the Ancestor Dragon Vein, it could not help its Lord at all.

Ji Xinghuo had initially thought about keeping this Xukun Dragon.

After all, it was a rare Divine Dragon Species, and maybe he could cultivate it himself. Now it seemed impossible.

Moreover, this young Xukun Dragon was clearly imprinted with a Thought Steel Seal, becoming a slave to Zog Soz, making it nearly impossible to recognize a new master.

"Doomsday."

While suppressing Zog Soz, Ji Xinghuo signaled to Doomsday.

Doomsday’s mouth was brewing a second Annihilation Light, initially aimed at Zog Soz, but without hesitation, turned to face the Xukun Dragon.

Ji Xinghuo raised a hand and pointed.

A Dark Energy Vortex Field appeared above the Xukun Dragon, pulling it towards the center of the vortex, rendering it unable to escape.

As a member of the Divine Dragon Species, Doomsday had no hesitation.

The Annihilation Light immediately shot out, penetrating the head of the Xukun Dragon.

A pitiful wail echoed across the sky.

The enormous body of the Xukun Dragon, suspended in midair, fell down, crashing heavily into the black palace and crushing most of it. Almost simultaneously with its demise, Zog Soz, whose Life Link had been severed, emitted a silent scream of agony.

The Thunderstorm Sword Light eviscerated him, slicing off limbs, tentacles, and head, turning him into a pile of flesh.

[Spiritual Origin Ability +48324]

Ji Xinghuo saw the notification in his vision, confirming that the enemy was truly dead.

But he paid no mind to the Spiritual Origin Ability.

Ji Xinghuo teleported in front of Zog Soz’s corpse, rummaging through the pieces of one tentacle to find a Dimension Space Ring. His consciousness probed inside and shortly after, a monocular telescope appeared in his hand.

The second fragment of the Wanxiang Star Pupil, finally in hand!