Overgeared

Grid’s fist smashed through the heavy pavilion with ease, only to be blocked by a gray protective film. But he’d expected that.

From the moment he broke the pavilion, the purple energy around his fist became lighter. The effect of the Annihilation energy, which removed the target’s defense effect one single time, had ended.

All he had to do was activate it again.

Grid’s other purple fist slammed into the woman’s face, Russian hook followed by a punch to her body. Even though he had mastered Tai Chi, he liked showing off his boxing skills in a funny way.

The gray protective shield shattered and the woman’s head whipped to the side. Her body flew because of her shield breaking, and she rolled a good distance backward.

Grid immediately chased after her. Seeing how the woman was relatively unscathed, Grid thought to himself, ‘She’s way past core formation.’

Right now, he didn’t have a weapon equipped. So, he just swung his bare fists infused with Annihilation energy.

Based on what the prisoner in Reinhardt Prison had said, a cultivator would’ve been damaged if they were only at the level of foundation building, meaning that this woman was at a level beyond core formation.

The woman barked at him, grinning, “It seems you have mastered a technique that neutralizes defense! Haha! Even if you break my shield, what are you going to do with your cotton fists?”

Of course, she was feeling bitter inside. Not only was her defensive orb smashed, but now that her shield was broken, she was consuming way more spiritual energy than before. She thought she was going to die, but she was relieved to find out that was not the case.

‘I need to get rid of this strange guy as soon as possible, raise the blood sacrifices, restore my cultivation level, and regain my treasures.’

This woman had originally been a soul transformation cultivator. However, hundreds of years ago, she was mortally injured by an enemy and her cultivation dropped to the nascent soul realm. The strange person in front of her or the world that she’d suddenly found herself in didn’t matter to her. She could move forward once she recovered her cultivation.

If she killed all the hundreds of thousands of fish people here, took their dantians, and held a sacrificial ceremony with the blood they shed, she would become much stronger and restore her cultivation.

The woman had a poisonous heart. She opened her mouth and took out four silver longswords. Those were her highest-grade treasure, and they displayed the skulls of the White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Black Tortoise, and Blue Dragon, realistically depicted on the hilt.

The woman brought her fingers to the hilt of the four swords and the skulls bit her fingers. It was bizarre seeing them chew and swallow as if they were savoring delicious food.

Kieeeek!

A red mist was emitted by the skulls as soon as they finished their meal. It clumped together, like a cloud of blood, and was extremely powerful. It released mighty waves of spiritual pressure and caused the seafloor to tremble. There were many water clan members who collapsed, unable to control their bodies.

Grid frowned. The four fingers that the skulls had chewed and swallowed sprouted from the woman’s eyes.

“You’re trying to become immortal, and yet you look like that...?”

“Are you talking about my appearance? What does appearance matter when it comes to achieving the great dao? The important thing is the essence. What I look like now is simply the consequence of using some spells.”

“Yes, it isn’t the appearance that matters. That’s a good thing to say.”

Grid’s heart throbbed. He recalled how ugly he used to be, and sympathized with the woman’s words. He asked, “By the way, why are you trying to hurt the water clan people? They might look different from us, but they are the same in essence and life.”

“Because their blood and dantian will help me with my cultivation. The outcome would be no different even if they were mortals or cultivators. I will eat whatever it takes to help my cultivation!”

“...Do you lack ethical awareness entirely?”

“Bah, the world of the cultivators is a society composed of both weak and strong individuals. Do you think the other cultivators are different from me?”

The four fingers sprouting from the woman’s eyes crossed at a strange angle. Just then, the blood-red fog turned into a flash of light and attacked on Grid.

Grid didn’t avoid it. He planned to experience as many tricks this cultivator had up her sleeve as possible, since he was fighting the likes of her for the first time. Of course, he also didn’t intend to let the water clan be damaged. He armed the God Hands with shields and ordered them to protect the people.

The sight of hundreds of black-gold hands being armed in unison made the woman’s heart sink. However, she noticed that spiritual energy wasn’t flowing through the shields and soon regained her composure.

“Can a mere mortal’s belongings handle the blood flames coming from every single direction?”

Grid quickly caught

firepower. It was a large-scale killing technique that wouldn’t go out until the target was turned to ashes. In addition, the range of the flames expanded to the surrounding areas

However...

“...What?”

to burn this target. Bewildered, the woman tried to chant to increase the power of

him, “You must

per second, and it was putting a lot of pressure

Every time the mana shields melted, he would cast new ones. Thanks to the shields mitigating the damage, Grid remained at full HP. The rate of recovery was much faster than the rate at which his health

time and

the players’ sixth sense and speed. Once liberated

of status must be on a similar level to you. There is no way you are in the soul transformation realm,

“What do you know?!”

fired four silver swords at Grid. Grid also pulled out whatever secondary weapon was lying in his inventory—a sword he had

“Link.”

performed a sword dance. The person he imagined was Hurent. He wanted to use the Aura Master’s ability to inflict ‘fixed damage’ and gauge the target’s

the woman’s defense when he

silver swords stabbed at Grid’s vital points. At the same time, a sharp sword slashed at

has received 353,100

target has

has received

……

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was affected by his stats, level and status. His compatibility with

saw the woman’s HP drop to almost zero in an instant.

It seems like

mist the color of blood trickling out of her. Her wounds were so great, Grid could even see some exposed bones. There was blood flowing from her injuries, and she was using it as a

defense was irrelevant. Grid had high resistance, health and recovery, so he withstood her attack without the use of any armor. He had

two fusion sword dance. The purple sword cut lightly at

she had short arms and legs. Four silver swords floated around her. She held a

is the

that he finally understood what the prisoner had told him about the concept of the nascent

her teeth. “I’ll remember your face!” she said

Vision, only to

life, she has exercised extreme caution

He’d obtained this item after killing

he figured out the location

“Hah!”

a protective shield, but it was meaningless—Grid’s purple-covered hand ripped through it. He slashed his sword at the

life! I have lived for over three thousand years. I will be useful one way

you are in the soul

wasn’t like this until two hundred years ago. However, my cultivation has declined. I am now only in the early

stage of nascent soul? Are there different stages

completion. You don’t seem to know much

of him had any sense of pride. The moment they lost a fight and were captured,

you? Even if I

soul. The moment I betray you, I will explode to

“What is a ban?”

“Ah...”

because she had been defeated and

Grid, a black-gold wave consisting of hundreds of

from doing anything. There are many different types... First things first, I will teach you a forbidden technique that will cause the target to self-destruct if they

nodded. The dwarf pulled out a booklet from her sleeve and handed it to

Soul Technique: 1

have improved it over the years, thus making it easier to learn. Your cultivation is just in the qi refining realm, so you should