Xueluo Crystals

Li Dui ignored Kuang Yu's fury.

The power of his blade techniques steadily increased.

Before coming to the Xueluo World, he had mentally prepared himself. In this world, there was often no such thing as reason.

In the City Lord Mansion, buildings were frequently destroyed by the aftershocks of their battle.

If Li Dui hadn't eased the pressure his domain exerted on the other areas after finding Kuang Yu, who knew how many people in the mansion would have died by now?

Outside the mansion, many powerful figures who had sensed the commotion watched the battle from afar.

The pressure on Kuang Yu grew greater and greater. They had fought for so long, yet he hadn't even touched his opponent once. Instead, he'd been slightly injured from blocking the attacks head-on.

He didn't think he could defeat the Iron-Armored Man in a direct fight. By now, he couldn't care less about a City Lord's dignity. In a low voice, he said, "I'm willing to hand over everything I own. I only ask that you let me leave. What do you say?"

Li Dui stopped in surprise. Was there really such a good deal? Was a City Lord this afraid of dying?

Ha.

"Hand it over."

Kuang Yu removed a bracelet and a ring from his left hand with a humiliated expression, then tossed them toward Li Dui.

Li Dui caught them and was about to inspect them when Kuang Yu's expression turned vicious. Blood gushed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The Long Halberd in his hand unleashed a fierce blade of light that abruptly shot toward Li Dui.

"Buzz."

After being weakened by the Origin Force battle armor, a massive surge of soul energy struck Li Dui's mind.

Kuang Yu was confident that even another City Lord would be stunned for a moment by his desperate Soul Attack.

Then his most powerful killing move would surely hit his opponent. What chance did a mere Cloud Sky Rank fighter have of surviving a direct hit from his killing move?

But why did that bastard's battle suit seem a little off?

There was no time to worry about that now. Seeing the Long Halberd about to hit his opponent, Kuang Yu's eyes lit up with delight.

The onlookers at the edge of the battlefield stared at the Iron-Armored Man standing motionless. Some sighed, while others looked down on him. The Iron-Armored Man was indeed powerful, but he still wasn't a match for the City Lord.

Suddenly, a point of light flashed at the tip of Li Dui's blade. Without a sound, it coalesced into a dazzling streak of blade light and struck the incoming Long Halberd.

"Clang!"

A thunderous crash rang out.

The Long Halberd flew from Kuang Yu's hand and slammed into his own head. He was thrown backward, crashing into the ground and leaving a huge crater.

Li Dui flashed into the crater. Kuang Yu's smashed head was slowly regenerating.

A Domain Lord wouldn't die as long as his Life Core remained intact. And the Life Core could be hidden anywhere in the body.

Of course, even for a Domain Lord, the head was still a vital spot. If it was smashed, he might not die, but his thinking and self-control would both suffer. Unless he had already killed his opponent, a Domain Lord whose head had been destroyed was nothing more than a sitting duck until it recovered.

Li Dui searched with his soul power for a moment, then swung his blade again, cutting into Kuang Yu's left thigh. The Life Core shattered. Kuang Yu's body jerked, and his head stopped regenerating.

The City Lord was dead.

The onlookers scattered in all directions. The three Domain Lords were the fastest to flee. They unleashed their domains to accelerate themselves.

Li Dui couldn't be bothered with a few ordinary Domain Lords. Suppressing the slight discomfort in his stomach with Origin Force, he shot skyward toward the clouds.

Those three Domain Lords had probably noticed that something was wrong with his battle suit.

The Xueluo World also had communication devices. At the Domain Lord level, some of them might even have one.

However, the communication devices here couldn't transmit in real time. They could only send messages at the speed of light.

At the speed of light, in a place where distances were measured in light-years, that was very slow.

After entering the cloud layer, Li Dui took out his spaceship and ordered Xiao Le to fly out of the Xueluo World.

He didn't rush to inspect what he had gained. First, he focused all his attention on his mind.

The "Ring" remained as it had been. Silent and still, with only various colors of light flowing through it.

Kuang Yu had begged to be spared in front of so many onlookers. Li Dui had known right away that it was a trick. Kuang Yu could have sent his words directly to him. The only reason he'd spoken aloud was to distract him.

Kuang Yu probably hadn't expected him to believe it. He was simply trying to create an opening to launch his attack.

What Li Dui hadn't expected was Kuang Yu's Soul Attack.

Under normal circumstances, Kuang Yu's Soul Attack would have been weakened by his Tier 5 Battle Suit, and Li Dui's willpower was strong. It wouldn't have caused him much trouble.

The problem was that his consciousness hadn't been affected at all.

It was just like when he'd been in the Illusion Sea, connected to the "Ring."

He could "see" the Soul Attack coming, "see" the impact and the tremors. He could even clearly make out the slight damage it caused.

But his consciousness remained unaffected.

Of course, he'd also been connected to the "Ring" just now. To be precise, his connection to the "Ring" hadn't been severed since he entered the Xueluo World.

Simply staying connected without comprehending it didn't consume much of his mental energy at present.

Originally, he'd done it to become immune to illusion attacks. Now, it turned out that he was nearly immune to Soul Attacks as well.

At least, he was immune to Soul Attacks from Domain Lords.

To be precise, "immune" might not be the right word. The impact was real, and the Soul Attack hadn't caused him no harm.

But the damage that would normally have impaired his consciousness, and in turn lowered his control and combat strength, had all been negated.

Why were Soul Attacks so frightening? Wasn't it because of that? Once your consciousness was damaged and your control dropped far enough, you would fall unconscious. Then others could do whatever they wanted to you.

As for the damage itself, it wasn't so bad. Getting hurt was no different from taking a blade to the leg.

At least, he wouldn't die from a minor injury.

Li Dui decided to stay bound to his Hula Hoop bro for good. They were connected anyway, no matter where he went. There was no downside, no risk of losing out, nothing.

After sorting out his situation, he could finally admire his spoils.

Come out, Xueluo Crystals!

He searched through the Space Bracelet, finding piles of all kinds of things. No Xueluo Crystals.

"Damn it!" Li Dui refused to believe that a City Lord wouldn't have any spare Xueluo Crystals. He continued searching through Kuang Yu's Space Ring.

At last, in an exquisite wooden box, he found two long, triangular-prism-shaped crystals, blood red throughout.

The two crystals were faintly translucent. As he held them, they seemed to give off an intangible pulse, like the beating of a heart, one wave after another.

These were definitely the ones. Li Dui was sure.

They were valuable treasures. They could increase a person's Gene Multiplier to as much as a hundred times. If Li Dui remembered correctly, they had come from the blood and other remains of a Natural Beast God that had been surrounded and killed. He didn't know the specifics. In any case, these things were produced only in the Xueluo World.

They were probably renewable. Otherwise, the Human Race wouldn't have let the natives here fuse with them.

The only problem was how difficult they were to fuse with. The mission description had said that 99.5 percent of those who completed the Xueluo World cultivation mission chose the option of handing in one Xueluo Crystal.

Li Dui had no doubt he could fuse with one. That was one of the Earthlings' advantages. At most, he'd spend some time slowly working at it in a place rich in Blood Sha Energy. Before coming here, he'd prepared himself for a long stay in the Xueluo World.

He just didn't know how many he'd ultimately be able to fuse with. No matter. He'd gather plenty and keep them in his pocket. Later, he could trade them to the Giant Axe Martial Arena for the refined kind. Li Dui thought to himself.