Chapter 779 - Leaving (1/2)

Translator: Chaos_ Editor: Chaos_

The Walker’s Hidden Secret 20th level made Xue Ying’s Void Evasive Maneuver extremely formidable. He was able to move stealthily to the side of the enemy. Adding the Mirage World’s concealment, Xue Ying’s movement became undetectable by even the ‘Hundred Leading Howls’.

A silver spear abruptly appeared from the void, going straight towards one of the eyes on one of the Hundred Leading Howls hundred heads. The spear moved like a faint shadow – indescribably fast and sudden! But the ‘Hundred Leading Howls’ was within the Void God realm and reacted instinctively. For all its speed, the spear missed its intended target, the eye, and struck the cheek of that head instead.

The skin of the creature was extremely firm and was covered in thin veined patterns. When Xue Ying struck it, it felt as if he was striking the void. Chaotic energy worked to guide the spear away.

“Pu.” Xue Ying had broken through its skin, leaving a shallow wound. As he pulled the spear out, black blood began spurting.

“Hou~” The Hundred Leading Howls howled with indignance and madness. The bloody mouths on all its hundred heads began spewing out poisonous gas. The poisonous gas fused with the surrounding dark domain, giving it the property to corrode every single substance. Xue Ying’s disguised incarnation could not withstand this and dissipated. This domain’s power had even permeated into the Mirage world.

“Even though there is a major realm gap between a True God and Void God, the Walker’s Hidden Secret at the 20th level gives me enough strength to threaten the life of a Void God. Even though I struck once to determine its strength without using my killing move, even if I did so, I would only injure it at most.” Xue Ying stared at the Hundred Leading Howls from within the Mirage world. He could not help but shake his head inwardly, “The intelligence isn’t wrong. This Hundred Leading Howls might be foolish, but I still have to entice it to spurt more poisonous gas, diminishing its power before I have any chances of killing it.”

The way of killing the Hundred Leading Howls was to exterminate all heads!

This was considered slightly easier already. Some of the stronger Void Gods like ‘Bloodshed God-Emperor’ who specialized in the ‘hex’ system from the myriad existences would usually transform their bodies to attain the so-called undying body. Their survival capabilities were much more terrifying than the Hundred Leading Howls.

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The world was dark. There was poison pervading through every single corner of this world.

The Hundred Leading Howls was floating in the sky. Its countless tentacles enveloped many different places, and its hundred heads swept across all directions without spurting out any more poison.

Xue Ying appeared at this moment.

But his body was faintly real and unreal at the same time. He could feel the horrifying suppressive force from the dark domain. This suppressive force sufficed to kill Monarch Green and Purgatory Ruler! After all, Monarch Green and the others had a fleshy body weaker than even the body cultivated from the 11th level of Walker’s Hidden Secret.

“Are you thinking of killing me with just these few techniques?” Xue Ying laughed out loud. At the same time, many blood ripples appeared in the surroundings.

The blood ripples were spreading in all directions. Each ripple was akin to a single silk strand, and the many blood ripple silk strands intercrossed each other into a single entity before spreading in all directions.

Slaughter Domain!

He had long cultivated the ‘Dao of Slaughter’ and ‘Dao of Ripple’ in the Ruler realm. Furthermore, he cultivated the Primal Chaos ranked absolute art “Shadowless Heaven’s Gathering”, fusing some methods of utilizing ripples into the Slaughter Domain, boosting its power significantly.

But however strongly the Slaughter Domain tried to charge out, it was suppressed by the dark domain, and remain scattered.

“Void!”

Xue Ying operated the void energy. The power garnered from controlling the void using the 20th level of cultivation technique was similarly horrifying.

“Hong!” The void energy fused perfectly with the Slaughter Domain as they charged out in all directions.

“Hong hong hong~” The blood ripple domain was doing its best to rush out in all directions, yet the dark domain was continually suppressing it, causing the Slaughter Domain to maintain at over 50 kilometers without extending any further.

‘Who would have thought that I remain disadvantaged even after fusing both the Slaughter Domain and Void energy.’ Xue Ying thought, ‘The gap between a Ruler and a Void God is ultimately too big.’

…

The white-haired old man who was spectating the battle felt very shocked. A Ruler was actually able to clash with a Void God in terms of domains? Even though it was a slightly weaker Void God, this was amazing regardless.

“Die for me.” The Hundred Leading Howls roared. It spoke using some unknown language, but Xue Ying was able to understand what the other party meant. The Hundred Leading Howls continued roaring and spurting out the poisonous fog. The dark void fused with the poisonous fog and it seemed that the power of the fog was becoming stronger. It was also giving off sounds of ‘chi chi chi’, unnervingly corroding Xue Ying’s Slaughter Domain.

‘The poisonous fog can corrode away my domain?’ Xue Ying said, with a hint of envy.

“Just this little technique is useless against me.” Xue Ying continued laughing at and provoking his opponent.

Over and over, the Hundred Leading Howls formed an illusion as it charged, throwing many of its tentacles into an assault; but every time Xue Ying borrowed on the Mirage world and the void to teleport and flee. He repeatedly taunted the Hundred Leading Howls, which could not touch him at all. Xue Ying even took opportunities to bring out an incarnation to sneak an attack, or used flying darts. He even used his true body for an assault!

But every single time he snuck an attack, he would direct part of his strength to prevent the Hundred Leading Howls from discovering traces of him.

While these sneak attacks barely broke the skin of the Hundred Leading Howls, their audacity enraged it. This weak little Ruler could escape from it? The Hundred Leading Howls could not reach its enemy? It spewed more poisonous fog in a bid to use its domain to trap this enemy.

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The white-haired old man was watching this battle from the side. The Hundred Leading Howls was spurting out more poisonous fog while becoming weaker at the same time. While hiding his true strength, Xue Ying had been getting sneak attacks in time after time. When he determined he could kill his opponent, Xue Ying erupted with the “Wind Ripple Path, which boosted his offenses greatly.

With a terrifying close combat strike, he destroyed a head of the Hundred Leading Howls. This roused the Void God.

This damnable Ruler was actually hiding his true strength!

At this moment, its many tentacles were also doing their best to defend itself. But Xue Ying outmaneuvered it at every turn. Even though destroying a head was very difficult, he had succeeded after spending a little more time. One by one, they were exterminated, and when the last head was destroyed, the corpse of the Hundred Leading Howls collapsed onto the ground, and Xue Ying let out a sigh of relief.

This battle had lasted for two full days. 90% of the time was spent killing the heads because it took a very long time to get rid of every single head.

“You won.” The white-haired old man chuckled at Xue Ying, “But you should understand that it only used all its strength to try and kill you because of an order given by Master to this Hundred Leading Howls puppet. During ordinary battles, it would be harder for you to provoke it to spit more poisonous gas. Furthermore, the moment it discovers that things aren’t optimistic, it would escape. This space region is too small so it could not escape.”

“I understand.” Xue Ying nodded.

Because it was a trial, that Hundred Leading Howls puppet had gotten an order to use all its force to kill the Ruler taking the trial. Thus, it made it easier to entice it to spit more poisonous fog.

“Fortunately, I’ve gotten intelligence on it before. Otherwise, it’d have been a slightly more difficult opponent to defeat. It is also a slightly weaker Void God.” Xue Ying had a better understanding of himself, “No matter what, it is still a Void God. Thus, for me to reach this stage meant that I have the power to fight across realms! But in order to reach the power of those golden-robed disciples on the Seven Star Oceanic Sacred World, I still have to improve myself further.”