Killing You Is Like Killing a Chicken
The moment Luo Li plunged into the gray-green mist of death, a dense aura of decay and decay enveloped her as if it were a tangible force, attempting to erode her life force.
For an ordinary A-level ability user, just resisting the erosion of this domain would require most of their strength.
But Luo Li merely frowned slightly, and the invisible [Spacetime] force field around her fluctuated slightly. Those deathly auras that tried to approach were as if they had hit an invisible wall, and were quietly twisted and pushed away, unable to get close even a little bit.
The advantages of [Spacetime Affinity Physique] and the "Controller" rank are now clearly evident.
"Intruders... fresh flesh and blood... become a member of my skeletal Antimatter Legion..."
A deep, hoarse sound, like countless bones grinding together, rumbled from the depths of the valley, carrying with it a spiritual allure and oppressive force.
Immediately afterwards, the ground trembled, and countless pale skeletal hands burst forth from the earth. Densely packed skeleton warriors and skeletal beasts crawled up from the mountain of white bones, their eye sockets flickering with eerie green soul fire, surging towards Luo Li like a tide!
These skeletal creatures may not be individually strong, but their sheer number of thousands, combined with the overwhelming aura of death, is enough to make any powerful individual's scalp tingle.
"A small fry should have the awareness of a small fry."
Luo Li's eyes were indifferent, and he didn't even wield Enma.
He simply lifted his foot and took a light step forward.
[Spacetime Domain] -- Partial Expansion!
Centered on the point where his toes landed, an invisible ripple instantly spread out over a range of ten meters.
Within range, all the charging skeletal creatures froze in motion, as if trapped in the thickest amber; even the soul fire in their eye sockets ceased to flicker.
The next second, Luo Li's thoughts stirred slightly.
"Broken."
Snap... Clang...
Within a ten-meter radius, all the solidified skeletal creatures, along with their bone weapons, were instantly reduced to dust as if crushed by an invisible giant hammer, offering no respect whatsoever, and were directly returned to their most primitive state of bone dust!
Clear the area!
Luo Li continued forward without stopping.
[Space-Trace Instant Shadow] activated!
His figure flickered uncertainly amidst the dense army of skeletons.
Each appearance was accompanied by a small-scale explosion of the [Spacetime Domain], turning large swathes of bones into dust.
Occasionally, a fish that slipped through the net would pounce close, but he didn't even bother to use Enma. With a casual wave of his hand, a tiny spatial rift would slice it cleanly apart, like the sharpest blade.
He strolled leisurely, leaving nothing but dust in his wake, creating an absolute vacuum.
The efficiency is outrageously high!
This wasn't a battle; it was a crushing defeat, a cleansing!
The presence deep within the valley seemed to have been enraged.
Boom!
An even larger aura of death soared into the sky, and three skeletal giants, each over five meters tall and composed of countless enormous animal bones, emerged from the depths of the mist with earth-shaking strides!
They emitted energy fluctuations approaching A+ level, and their enormous bone claws, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound as they tore through the air, slammed down towards Luo Li!
"It's starting to look somewhat presentable."
Luo Li finally stopped her flickering figure, looking at the bone claws that were pressing down like a small mountain, without dodging or avoiding them.
He raised his left hand and gently squeezed it against the descending giant claw.
The skeletal giant's powerful slam, less than a meter from Luo Li's head, suddenly slowed down like a movie in slow motion, its speed decreasing by more than tenfold.
The enormous bone claw hovered in mid-air, slowly descending, looking almost comical.
At the same time, Luo Li Li's Bloodblade Enma, moved.
There were no fancy moves, just a simple diagonal slash.
The blade, imbued with the [Path Imprint], flowed with brilliant silver light, tracing a graceful arc.
The moment the blade touched the skeletal giant, it was like a hot knife cutting through butter—there was no loud bang.
The thick arm bones, harder than steel, along with half of the body, began to disintegrate and vanish silently after the blade sliced through them.
It wasn't a break, but rather it was directly erased at the atomic level by the forces of Spacetime.
The first skeletal giant froze, its upper body collapsing like a sandcastle.
Luo Li's figure disappeared again, appearing on the shoulder of the second giant, where Enma gently touched its enormous head.
[Causal Tracing] -- Weakness, Core of the Soul!
The tip of the knife gleamed faintly.
Bang!
The head of the second skeletal giant, along with the soul core hidden deep in its chest cavity, exploded simultaneously, and the massive skeleton collapsed with a deafening roar.
The third giant seemed to realize the fear and tried to retreat.
But Luo Li was faster.
He immediately activated [Spacetime Displacement], swapping his position with that of a rock behind the giant!
Appearing behind the giant, Enma thrust out with a backhand, precisely piercing the gap between the bones in the back of the giant's neck.
[Path Imprint] -- Spacetime Erosion, erupt!
Dark red blade energy mixed with silver Spacetime turbulence suddenly exploded from inside the giant!
The third skeletal giant shattered instantly, like a balloon being inflated, sending bone fragments flying in all directions like a torrential rain!
The entire process, from the appearance of the three skeletal giants to their instant annihilation, took no more than five seconds!
Luo Li barely even started breathing.
"It seems you won't personally get involved unless we drag you out."
He flicked away non-existent dust from Enma, his gaze piercing through layers of mist, locking onto the source of the largest and most decaying aura deep within the valley.
[Space-Trace Instant Shadow] can be activated continuously!
His figure left afterimages in the mist, ignoring all terrain obstacles and the obstruction of the remaining skeletal creatures, and almost instantly reached the core of the valley.
There stood a colossal throne made entirely of the skulls of various creatures.
A figure sat regally on the throne.
It was covered in a tattered black shroud, and what was exposed was not flesh and blood, but a skeleton as black as obsidian, covered with cracks and signs of decay.
Its head was a huge, twisted goat skull, with two eerie green, lake-sized flames of the soul burning in its eye sockets.
S-Class Vampire Lord – "Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse"!
It clearly hadn't expected that Luo Li could break through its skeletal Antimatter Legion and three skeletal guards so easily and quickly, appearing directly before its throne.
The two flames of the soul flickered violently, revealing their inner shock.
"Human... you..." The Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse ' voice was tinged with disbelief.
Luo Li had no interest in listening to its nonsense.
He was in a hurry to get home to be with his wife.
The right eye [Peering into Secrets] instantly detected the area-of-effect decay curse that the Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse was about to unleash within the next few seconds.
The left eye, [Tracing Causes], rapidly analyzed the structure of its pitch-black skeleton, searching for the weakest energy node.
You can save yourself the trouble of writing your last words.
Luo Li interrupted it, her tone as flat as if she were simply stating that the weather was nice today.
His figure vanished again!
The Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse roared, gathering a massive amount of death energy. Its enormous bone claws slammed into the open space in front of it, having anticipated Luo Li's location.
However--
The location where Luo Li appeared was not in front of it as it had predicted, but... directly above it.
The eeriness and unpredictability of [Space-Trace Instant Shadow] are displayed to the fullest extent!
"Die."
Luo Li gripped the Enma tightly with both hands, the silver threads on the blade shining brighter than ever before.
He pushed the power of [Path Imprint] to its limit, and at the same time mobilized the vast [Spacetime] Path power within his body, pouring it all into this one strike!
[Spacetime Slayer - Enma] -- Ultimate Technique: Instant Eternity!
One slash and it's down!
There was no earth-shattering fanfare.
Only a single, extremely thin silver line sliced through space itself, descending from the sky and silently passing over the enormous goat skull of the Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse and the body beneath it.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely at that moment.
The skeletal claws that the Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse had unleashed froze in mid-air, his massive body stiffened, and the soul fire that had been flickering in his eye sockets solidified.
It failed to mount any effective defense or counterattack.
One second later.
Click...
A faint cracking sound was heard.
Starting from where the silver line passed, countless fine, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the black body of the Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse.
The cracks spread rapidly throughout his body.
The next moment, amidst its soul's fluctuations filled with horror and resentment, its body, along with the skull throne beneath it, shattered inch by inch like rocks weathered over millions of years, ultimately turning into the finest black dust, falling down in a soft rustling sound.
Only a core crystal, roughly the size of a fist, resembling a black crystal, remained in place—a crystal containing immense energy of death and decay.
Instant kill!
A true, decisive, instant kill!
From the moment Luo Li appeared before the throne to the moment the Grand Duke of the Decaying Corpse turned to ashes, the entire process took less than three seconds.
Luo Li landed slowly, her breathing steady, as if she had only done something insignificant.
He bent down and picked up the core crystal that exuded an ominous aura, then casually weighed it in his hand.
"S-rank lord?"
He pursed his lips, his tone carrying a hint of lingering disappointment.
"Killing them is no different from killing chickens."
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the ultimate challenge mission: "Proof of Protection"!]
[Task rewards are being distributed...]