One Sword Instant Kill, and You're the Strongest Sequence?

The effect of [Piercing] was actually very simple: it thrust out a sword technique for single-target damage, making it somewhat more powerful than the area-of-effect [White-Line Slash].

But after the thrust landed,

it inflicted the target with an effect similar to "Severe Wounds." These bubbles were the manifestation of "Severe Wounds." They could block certain recovery and damage-reduction effects while continuously corroding the target and dealing damage.

This was practically the sword technique Su Xing had always dreamed of.

It even made Su Xing start to wonder whether the little figure in his mind could evolve his skills according to his own thoughts.

That guess would have to wait until the next evolution to be confirmed.

With that in mind, Su Xing immediately opened the system panel and looked at the three skills eagerly awaiting nourishment.

Su Xing understood the principle that sword moves, Breath Rhythm, and stances formed a whole. After some thought, he decided to raise Draw-Sword Stance to Tier Three first. Draw-Sword Stance was also a technique that could enhance the damage of sword skills. Its only drawback was that he needed to draw his sword, but... if that little figure really could evolve skills according to Su Xing's wishes—

perhaps

Su Xing could turn [Draw-Sword Stance] into a sword move that did not require drawing a sword. Then, this sword technique's only weakness would disappear.

After thinking for a while, Su Xing glanced at his phone.

It was four o'clock.

It was about time to return to the sword dojo.

Su Xing let out a breath and loosened his right hand. The black sword formed from energy suddenly dispersed into the world, turning into faint specks of black light.

He followed the mountain path, walking step by step toward the sword dojo.

When the blurry outline of the sword dojo appeared in Su Xing's vision, two figures suddenly emerged from its entrance and ran straight off in one direction.

Was this...

a mission?

Su Xing immediately recognized the two figures as Su Yu and Shen Ruyun.

At such a late hour, the only reason they would be running out was the mission they had mentioned that morning. Thinking of this, Su Xing gave up on returning to the sword dojo and directly followed after them.

The southern suburbs of Cang City.

The suburbs were silent at night. The residential buildings here were scattered and sparse, most of them low, old single-story houses.

The families living here usually went to bed early. Looking around, only a handful of dim yellow lights could be seen.

Inside one of the lit rooms, a pale-faced man with deeply sunken eye sockets was shaking a bowl filled with dark red, thick blood. Looking at the bowl of blood made his mouth water, as though the finest delicacies were laid out before him.

Behind him lay the pitiful remains of an entire family.

A husband, a wife, and a little girl were all kneeling on the floor, bowing toward one direction. A huge gash had opened in their backs, and from outside, it was possible to see that all their internal organs were gone.

"Heh, that trash Xue Cheng!"

"Who would've thought he'd also fall to some mysterious powerhouse? I really don't get it. Is killing one person really that difficult?"

"In the end... it still has to rely on me. I definitely won't disappoint our High Priest!"

As he spoke, the man downed the blood in the porcelain bowl in one gulp, then took a deep breath. A smile called "happiness" spread across his lips as his piercing laughter echoed through the room.

"Ha ha ha ha! As long as I capture Su Yu, I'll finally be able to break through to Tier Four!"

Halfway through his sentence, his pupils suddenly contracted. Sequence energy surged through his body without hesitation, and his entire body abruptly turned red, reforming into a human shape like a mass of crimson liquid.

Boom!

A violent explosion rang out!

His body seemed to suddenly burst apart, forming a massive hole, but it quickly drew back together and reformed into a human shape. This was his sequence, Liquefaction. Clearly, he had used Liquefaction to evade the dangerous attack.

The man touched the bridge of his nose and revealed a cruel smile. He glanced toward the source of the sequence energy, then condensed his right fist into solid form and punched through the wall beside him, leaping outside.

"The ambush failed. Switch to Plan B!"

Su Yu lay prone atop a mountain ridge. Bai Lan's crisp voice came through his earpiece. He narrowed his eyes and looked toward the distant target area, where explosions were sounding.

A red energy rapidly gathered in his hand, forming a spear.

This mission was simple: kill this Tier Three priest of the Spirit Cult. This was the proactive offensive proposed by Liu Ming, known within the organization as the "Decapitation Plan."

However, since he was only Tier Two, he had not directly participated in the frontal battlefield.

Instead, like Shen Ruyun, he had been assigned to lie in wait at the rear, in case a heavily wounded enemy escaped. However, he and Shen Ruyun had not been stationed together, instead waiting in two separate locations.

Su Yu watched the direction of the battle. That area was somewhat far from where he was, so he could not see clearly, but he could still see bursts of sequence light erupting from time to time and hear the echoes of combat and cries of injury.

Su Yu suddenly thought, It seems... to be going smoothly.

Splash!

With a sound like a water balloon bursting, a crimson water figure suddenly seemed to explode, transforming into droplets of crimson water that swiftly escaped the Special Department's encirclement.

And the direction it fled in... was exactly where Su Yu was waiting!

"Su Yu, run! Don't try to stop him!"

Bai Lan's anxious voice immediately came through the earpiece.

But those crimson droplets had already rapidly converged in midair, reforming into a spherical water figure that crashed toward Su Yu with the sound of tearing wind. It was simply too fast!

Tier Two against Tier Three—

the enormous gap in realm left Su Yu momentarily stunned. He had not prepared for battle at all. No one had expected the enemy's method of assault to be so strange and unusual!

I'm done for...

That was the first thought to enter his mind.

Yet he still clenched his teeth, trying with all his strength to activate the Judgment sequence. He knew there was completely no time, but... he had to try!

The instant Su Yu raised his hand, the enemy was almost in his face. Su Yu could even smell the thick stench of blood on him after he had liquefied. Some of it naturally came from himself, while some came from others.

"Heh, I'm finally going to complete His mission!"

"You little bastard, blame your rotten luck. Die!"

Just as that crimson figure drew closer and closer,

Su Yu suddenly caught sight of a man in a pure black short-sleeved shirt, holding a black sword, appearing beside him. White light gathered across the black sword, and like a beast unleashed from its cage, it stabbed straight at the enemy!

"Big brother...?!"

Su Xing's breathing gradually grew rapid. Wild killing intent filled his eyes, and his heart pounded like a war drum. His right hand slowly clenched in the air as several black points of light swiftly gathered in his hand beneath the cover of night, forming a sword.

From Su Xing's perspective,

the crimson water figure was rapidly closing in on Su Yu.

After only one exchange,

Su Xing had almost immediately determined that the opponent was a powerful sequence user no weaker than Xue Cheng.

Ten meters, five meters, four meters, three meters...

Just as the crimson water figure was about to reach Su Yu!

Su Xing drew his sword and turned into a streak of white light, vanishing from where he stood in an instant. With one step, he crossed four or five meters, suddenly appearing before the water figure like a god of war bathed in white radiance.

Su Xing thrust his black sword straight forward. Specks of white light flickered along its blade, drawing a thin, long white line through the night.

With this strike,

Su Xing used his full strength from the start!

Seeing Su Xing suddenly appear, the liquefied man froze for a moment. Then an exaggerated curve spread across his lips. He changed direction and crashed toward Su Xing, roaring with laughter.

"So you're the mysterious expert!"

"Then you can die first!"

His entire body was made of liquid, granting him an extremely strong immunity to physical attacks, especially attacks like sword strikes.

The old Su Xing might truly have had no good way to deal with him. But now that he possessed [Piercing], he no longer feared this kind of sequence!

Die!

The next instant, Su Xing's sword light pierced straight through his heart.

Splash!

A sound like a stone falling into water echoed through the darkness. Seeing this, the fully liquefied man smiled even more wildly.

But before he could laugh for long, his limbs went weak and his body began to boil and convulse. The man's pupils abruptly contracted as an intense aura of death enveloped him in an instant.

He staggered back several steps in disbelief, staring at the large hole in his chest. His liquefied heart had begun to split apart, while the liquid spread throughout the rest of his body desperately surged toward his chest. Yet it was blocked by a ring of fine, dense bubbles that continuously boiled around the wound, unable to replenish it in the slightest.

Pfft!

He spat out a mouthful of blood, immediately leaving his liquefied state. Like a torn sack, he collapsed limply to the ground, losing all signs of life on the spot.

Heh, nothing special...