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?”

to Grid

demonstrated exceptional energy and firepower. It was a large-scale killing technique that wouldn’t go out until the target was turned to ashes.

However...

“...What?”

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

as flames surrounded him, “You

second, and it was putting a

able to cast mana shields to absorb more than half the damage. 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

and finally

He didn’t even have to use Shunpo. The update had removed the restrictions on the players’ sixth sense and speed. Once liberated from these

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

“What do you know?!”

swords at Grid. Grid also pulled out whatever secondary weapon was lying in his inventory—a sword he had made a long time ago,

“Link.”

performed a sword dance. The person he imagined was Hurent. He wanted to use the Aura Master’s ability

when he hit her with his bare hands

Grid’s vital points. At the

has received

has received

has

……

…

damage was affected by

to almost zero in

health at around twenty million? It seems like you can’t overcome

she yelled, a 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 medium for

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

fusion sword dance. The purple sword cut lightly at

same as the woman, but she had short

the nascent

understood what the prisoner had told him

your face!” she said before disappearing using a technique

Barbatos’ Vision,

life, she has

containing the ‘Golden River Water.’ He’d obtained this item after killing Judar. The moment he

way, he figured out the location of the

“Hah!”

Astonished, the dwarf squeezed out her remaining spiritual energy into a protective shield, but it was meaningless—Grid’s purple-covered hand ripped through

I have lived for over three thousand years. I will

thousand years? Are you saying that you are in the soul transformation realm when your skills

until two hundred years ago. However, my cultivation has declined. I am now only in the

stage of nascent soul? Are there different stages for each

middle, late and great completion. You don’t seem to know much about cultivators. Please, spare me. I will serve you sincerely and answer any questions

of pride. The moment they lost a fight and were captured, they immediately started whining about how old they

you? Even if I did, it would be annoying if

ban on my nascent soul. The moment I betray you, I

“What is a ban?”

“Ah...”

had been defeated and humiliated by

of

from doing anything. There are many different types... First things

nodded. The dwarf pulled out a booklet from

‘Golden Soul Technique:

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