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 quickly caught on

exceptional energy and 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 every time

However...

“...What?”

target. Bewildered, the woman tried to chant to increase the power of the blood flames, but it was

as flames surrounded him, “You must be a nascent

per second, and it was putting a lot

pressure. He was 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

time and finally disappeared. The woman’s spiritual

Shunpo. The update had removed the restrictions on the players’ sixth sense and speed. Once liberated from these constraints, Grid’s speed was back at what

built up a bit of status must be on a similar level to you. There is no way you

“What do you know?!”

suffered such humiliation if she hadn’t lost her cultivation level? Enraged, the woman fired four silver swords at Grid. Grid also pulled out whatever secondary weapon was lying in his

“Link.”

was Hurent. He wanted to use the Aura Master’s ability to inflict ‘fixed damage’

when

swords stabbed at Grid’s vital points. At the same time,

has received

target has received

target has

……

…

affected by his stats, level and

woman’s HP drop to almost zero in

million? It seems like you can’t overcome the limitations

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

defense was irrelevant. Grid had high

cut lightly at the woman. She died without even

emerged from the corpse. The dwarf looked exactly the same as the woman, but she had short arms and legs. Four silver swords floated around her. She held a broken pavilion in each

is the

finally understood what the prisoner had told him

face!”

activated Barbatos’ Vision, only

escape technique is superb. Like those obsessed with eternal life, she has exercised extreme caution in honing her survival

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

field of view increased by nearly 400 kilometers. This way, he figured out the location of the dwarf, and used

“Hah!”

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

have lived for over three thousand years. I will be useful

that you are in the soul transformation realm when your skills are only to

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

soul? Are

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

front of him had any sense of pride. The moment they lost a fight and were captured, they immediately started whining about how old they were. Their obsession with living seemed

to spare you? Even if I did, it would be annoying if you teleported again and ran

moment I betray you, I will

“What is a ban?”

“Ah...”

had been defeated and humiliated by a man who didn’t know

wave consisting of hundreds

frightened dwarf hastily explained, “Just as the name implies, a ban means a way of preventing a person 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 break their promise. So please,

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

‘Golden Soul Technique: 1 star’ has

improved it over the years, thus making it easier to learn. Your cultivation is just in the qi