Black Eats Black

The rapidly soaring price, after nearly an hour of fierce bidding, finally began to draw to a close.

By then, the price of the "Sky Splitting Tyrant Leg" had climbed to a staggering ten million...

Once the price reached this point, some of the weaker factions finally began to withdraw. After this relentless process of bidders being eliminated by the rising price, another quarter of an hour passed before the gray-robed middle-aged man from Black Skull Tomb finally announced the astronomical price of thirteen million with a twitching face, leaving the entire auction hall deathly silent.

Xiao Yang had originally considered joining the bidding, but on second thought, this damned place was the Black-Corner Region—the equivalent of that kidney-harvesting, flour-dealing triangular zone from his previous life. Showing his wealth in a place like this would be a real nuisance if someone set their sights on him.

In the original story, his own big brother had been followed by men sent by Yuan Yi, the leader of the Eight Gates.

Yuan Yi was a Dou Emperor and had once followed Han Feng to Jia Nan Academy to seize Heavenly Flames. He was hardly a decent man, and Xiao Yang had no desire to draw his attention for no reason.

If he had not been unable to provoke Han Feng, Yuan Yi would have directly kept the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill that Han Feng had entrusted him to auction.

What was more, an Earth-Tier mid-level Fighting Skill was worth many people risking everything for.

In a place like the Black-Corner Region, where morality meant nothing, fishing in troubled waters and robbing the robbers was the best strategy.

Within the dense forest, Xiao Yang used Flash Step to dart onto a towering ancient tree. Through the gaps in the branches, he looked toward the base of a large tree merely a hundred meters away, where more than a dozen figures were taking a brief rest.

These people were the members of Black Skull Tomb who had successfully purchased the Earth-Tier mid-level Fighting Skill, "Sky Splitting Tyrant Leg."

A short while later, the people of Black Skull Tomb chose a remote mountain path and hurried toward their headquarters, Skull City.

This mountain trail was secluded, deserted, and rugged. Hardly anyone ever passed through it, making it difficult for others to discover their tracks.

Strictly speaking, this choice was not wrong.

But that was only if the temptation was not great enough, and the allure of an Earth-Tier mid-level Fighting Skill had clearly far exceeded that threshold.

Treasures belonged to the virtuous.

And in the Black-Corner Region, virtue clearly meant strength.

As the saying went: strong troops and sturdy horses make an emperor; political power grows from the barrel of a gun.

If Black Skull Tomb had sent out a Dou Wang-level expert, there naturally would have been no problem.

But the issue was that Black Skull Tomb only had three Dou Ling, five Da Dou Shi, seven or eight Dou Shi, and around a dozen Dou Zhe. They were nothing special at all.

Forty to fifty li outside Black Seal City, in an exceptionally remote mountain hollow, over twenty corpses lay strewn across the ground. The few remaining people whose robes bore embroidered black skulls were also drenched in blood, surrounded in the center.

"What? Still planning to resist to the bitter end? Hand over the item obediently, and I'll spare your life."

"Heh, save that bullshit for three-year-olds! Even if I destroy the scroll, I won't give it to you."

"You dare!" The middle-aged burly man carrying a ghost-head great blade grinned wickedly. "If you dare destroy the scroll, I'll castrate you, cripple your Dou Qi, and sell you to a brothel!"

Hiding nearby, Xiao Yang could not help twitching at the corner of his mouth. Damn, the Demon Blade Sect's sect master truly lived up to the word "demon." He could even come up with something that vicious.

With that guy from Black Skull Tomb looking like a skinny, skin-and-bones skeleton, anyone would throw up their last meal at the sight of him. Just how heavy did someone's tastes have to be to go through with that?

The Dou Ling expert leading Black Skull Tomb was also stunned for a moment. Then, a pitch-black blade light flashed past, and his head flew into the air.

The Demon Blade Sect Master burst into laughter and snatched the Ring of Acceptance from the man's hand. Just as he was about to search through it, the two remaining heavily injured Dou Ling and three Da Dou Shi from Black Skull Tomb suddenly charged forward. Their faces turned an eerie bluish-purple as they roared, "Bone Explosion!"

Amid a deafening explosion, dust and smoke billowed into the air, and a massive pit more than two meters deep and dozens of meters wide appeared in the ground!

Yet the Dou Wang expert from the Demon Blade Sect had not been blown to death. His clothes had been reduced to strips of rags, his flesh was torn and mangled, and his right arm had vanished without a trace.

Then, by sheer coincidence, the right hand of that blasted-off arm was clutching the Ring of Acceptance that had just been taken from the Black Skull Tomb Dou Ling expert.

At the same time, there was another Ring of Acceptance still on the index finger of that right hand.

And in the end, that arm actually flew straight in front of Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang's mouth twitched again. He knew the system's Opportunity Card was outrageous, but he had never expected it to be this outrageous. Even novels did not dare write something like this.

Xiao Yang removed the rings from the severed hand, then pried out the ring clenched in its palm as well. He hurriedly stuffed them into his clothes, then, without another word, spread the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings produced by his Earth-Tier Flight Dou Technique. With a flap of those wings, he streaked across the sky like lightning and vanished.

A Flight Dou Technique truly was an essential item for murder, arson, home travel, and making off with the money.

At that moment, the system notification sounded in Xiao Yang's mind once more: "Congratulations, host, for achieving the accomplishment: Robbing the Robbers.

Hidden accomplishment completed: Dogs Bite Dogs, No Way to Trace It. Reward: Three-piece Eye Technique Set—Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susanoo."

A smile once again curled across Xiao Yang's lips.

Everyone was probably familiar with these three skills, so there was no need to say much about them.

Tsukuyomi was particularly effective against soul bodies; there was no need to elaborate on that. In the future, as long as those Soul Hall Protectors dared meet Xiao Yang's gaze, whoever he looked at would die.

For those with physical bodies, having their heads cut off within Tsukuyomi was merely an illusion. But for the soul bodies of Soul Hall, if their heads were cut off, then their heads were truly gone.

As for Amaterasu, the skill was simply too powerful—without weakening it, there was no way to use it in a story. Black Flame born from the center of the sun; if it truly followed the setting, the Raikage's arm and upper body would have vanished in that instant. Cutting off an arm to survive? Dream on.

There was only one reason this move had been weakened: if it followed the setting, Sasuke would never have had time to use the Orochimaru-style substitution technique. The moment Amaterasu ignited, his entire body would have been burned and vaporized, leaving not even a scrap of bone behind.

More terrifyingly, Amaterasu ignited at the focal point of one's vision. But if the eyes could not focus, then nothing could be seen.

In other words, the moment it saw you, Black Flame would ignite. It was completely an instant-kill skill—show your face and die, look at anyone and they died. How the hell could that be playable without a nerf?

And clearly, the skill package provided by the system had to be the complete, unnerfed version.

As for Susanoo, heh. Once Xiao Yang activated the Heaven-Tier Fighting Skill Vajra Glazed Body and wrapped another layer of armor around himself, he would practically become a Gundam. He did not even dare imagine how satisfying it would be to bring that blade down.