Crushed to Death

Bang.

A dazzling bullet shot forth like a little sun, blasting toward the platform where Bai Xiaowen stood.

Bai Xiaowen immediately sensed the threat of this Sun Bullet. It carried the terrifying power to Purify everything; this could no longer be described in terms of damage value. It was a domain-type attack with the authority of "Purify."

Layers upon layers of array light flickered around Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Liqun, while Immortal Talismans circled their bodies.

Sizzle.

The Sun Bullet pierced straight through both the front and rear sides of the Immortal Array.

Fortunately, Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Liqun used the array's obstruction to buy a moment and dodged in time. Otherwise, the Sun Bullet might really have punched transparent holes through them.

"The Chosen One of the Sun God is vicious."

Bai Xiaowen quickly judged that this ability to condense solar energy into a bullet most likely came from a gift bestowed by the Sun God.

The Immortal Array began to falter, and Xia Jinshi immediately made his move.

Black Hole Spheres whistled forth one after another, attaching themselves to the gaps and holes created by the Sun Bullet.

Then, those bullet-sized holes rapidly corroded and expanded. The light of the Immortal Talismans dimmed, and the array collapsed step by step.

This was one of the abilities Xia Jinshi had obtained from the God of Curses: Deep Destruction!

This ability was extremely strange. It was basically ineffective against an intact target. But if the target had already suffered damage or defects, Deep Destruction would rapidly magnify that damage and throw the target's interior into chaos.

Though the two Chosen had never worked together before, both were highly experienced. Their cooperation upon making a move was as seamless as if it had been tempered through countless battles.

A blood shadow flashed and instantly arrived before Bai Xiaowen.

Dense blood-colored blade shadows sealed off all the space around Bai Xiaowen—the Chosen One of the God of Black Night excelled in close combat. The instant the array was damaged, he had already gripped two Blood-colored Curved Blades and cut into the battlefield, heading straight for Bai Xiaowen.

As for Qiao Liqun, he was simply ignored, because Xia Jinshi had already transmitted that he would deal with Qiao Liqun personally.

Clang, clang, clang—

Ripples spread across the surface of Bai Xiaowen's Mind Power Armor, and fine cracks crawled across its surface.

"My Mind Power Armor is clearly formless. Why are there so many cracks?"

Bai Xiaowen frowned slightly.

A formless Mind Power Armor could be continuously replenished with Spiritual Power to maintain its losses, much like a miniature Territory Protective Barrier. Unless a single attack exceeded the barrier's resistance limit, or sustained output exceeded the barrier's replenishment speed, it could keep defending indefinitely.

But in that instant, Bai Xiaowen felt the "form" of his Mind Power Armor solidify. He could no longer charge it with energy.

With a crisp crack, the Mind Power Armor shattered like glass.

"Artifact, Ring of Solidification."

The Blood-colored Curved Blade Chosen continued his fierce assault, and a wave of thought spread outward. "Any energy barrier can be easily broken by me. Die!"

The Blood-colored Curved Blade stabbed in, slicing Bai Xiaowen's body apart vertically and horizontally.

Wood chips scattered everywhere. It was merely a decoy body.

"Where is the real body?" The Blood-colored Curved Blade Chosen immediately slipped into the Shelter of the night, his voice becoming ethereal and impossible to trace. "Find him!"

Xia Jinshi spread out his Spirit Sense to search. This was also the duty of one with Spirit Specialization. As long as he found Bai Xiaowen and broke Bai Xiaowen's concealment technique, he believed the Chosen Ones of the Sun God and the God of Black Night would swiftly force Bai Xiaowen into a desperate situation.

"No need to look. I'm here."

The voice suddenly sounded behind him. Xia Jinshi spun around sharply, opening the Black Demonic Tome.

However, before he could cast a spell, a huge black-and-white hand had already rapidly closed in.

This was a great hand condensed from Death God's Power combined with True Yuan Power.

How large was it?

Two hundred feet long and one hundred feet wide.

Xia Jinshi felt like Monkey trapped in Buddha's Palm.

Though it was merely an illusion that lasted a brief instant, it was enough to fill Xia Jinshi with terror.

This was clearly an ordinary skill, so why was its range so vast?

It proved one thing: Bai Xiaowen's maximum Spirit Power Value had expanded to an astonishing extent, surpassing Divine Bloodline Grade.

With such a broad range, there was no hope of dodging through speed. One could only escape using abilities such as Blink.

Xia Jinshi immediately activated one, but his Blink Technique failed.

The surrounding space seemed to have been coated in Strong Glue, and also seemed like tightly shut doors.

There was simply no way to pass through!

"Not good..." Xia Jinshi's heart turned completely cold. This meant that the priority of this attack had surpassed the priority of his Blink Technique.

That was also Xia Jinshi's final thought.

Like crushing a little chick to death, Bai Xiaowen directly crushed Xia Jinshi to death.

This was Bai Xiaowen's first time using Death God's Power together with True Yuan Power and striking with his full strength.

Death God's Power mainly raised priority. This was energy on the level of a Deity.

After the Classic of Supreme Emptiness rose to Level 19, Bai Xiaowen's understanding of Spiritual Power became even more refined, and the combination of Death God's Power and True Yuan Power had begun to show results.

"Whew, you really were clean and decisive. Xia Jinshi was considered one of the stronger Chosen, yet you crushed him to death with one hand."

Qiao Liqun's figure appeared nearby. Beside him, the Chosen One of the Sun God stood blankly, completely motionless.

Qiao Liqun had successfully made that Sun God's Chosen One enter the Dream Realm.

As for the Chosen One of the God of Black Night, the Blood-colored Curved Blade Martial Warrior, he was enveloped in a golden barrier at the spot where Bai Xiaowen had initially stood, as if imprisoned in a jail.

From the first exchange to the decisive outcome, this battle had lasted only a few breaths.

Yet the final result was Xia Jinshi's death and the capture of the other two Chosen. Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Liqun had won with ease.

"Senior Qiao, do you believe me now?"

Qiao Liqun chuckled. "I do, I do. With this level of strength, even alone, you could hold the pass against ten thousand."

If Bai Xiaowen's slaughter of groups of Native Monsters on Yellow Sand Star and throughout the subsequent journey had merely demonstrated his ability to clear mobs, then killing Xia Jinshi this time was enough to prove his ability to precisely eliminate powerful Evolutionists.

One was PVE, while the other was PVP. Naturally, the latter inspired greater awe in other "players."

Bai Xiaowen made a move to Imprison the Chosen One of the Sun God and the Chosen One of the God of Black Night. Then, he split off two threads of Spiritual Power and hung them from the Pillars of the Central Hub Divine Hall.

Bai Xiaowen did not kill the two men. He did not actually bear such deep grudges against them; their only conflict was that they belonged to different factions. Imprisoning them so they could not affect Bai Xiaowen's subsequent actions was enough.

The two Chosen hanging from the Pillars, along with Xia Jinshi's corpse, also warned those who came later and made them afraid to act rashly.

Day after day passed, and more and more Chosen from different factions arrived afterward.

At last, the person Bai Xiaowen had been waiting for appeared.