73: Chapter 73 Greed is the Original Sin

Everyone present was so silent that they even stopped breathing.

On the entire ice plain, other than the howling wind, no other sound could be heard.

The eight top powerhouses beneath the altar now seemed to have been collectively petrified, each frozen in place, their faces filled with indescribable shock.

A Boss, killed in two hits?

And it was a Boss that could transform, had a second stage, and had strengthened from excellent grade early stage to excellent grade mid-stage!

Is this... reasonable?

They looked at the man on the altar, who was calm and composed, as if he had just casually swatted a fly, feeling as if their worldview had been overturned.

This was no longer a question of strength.

This was outrageous!

This was abnormal!

Was this man really a player who had only entered this survival world seven or eight days ago, just like them?

He's probably the big daddy invited by the system, right?

Anna stood in the crowd, her icy blue eyes also gleaming with an unusual light.

But unlike the shock of others, her eyes held more of a... shared pride.

Look, this is the man I chose!

Just as everyone was lost in their own thoughts, still immersed in the huge impact and unable to extricate themselves.

On the altar, the headless corpse of the Ghost Ink Frost Wolf rapidly decomposed and disappeared in a flash of light.

Immediately after, there was a series of crisp 'ding-ding-dang-dang' sounds.

A large pile of loot, shimmering with green and blue light, rained down from the sky, covering the entire altar.

And in the center of that pile of loot, a dark, constantly twisting and rotating spatial rift quietly appeared.

Behind that rift, it seemed to connect to an unknown world, filled with mysterious aura.

[Dungeon Quest Reward: Deep Secret Realm Entrance Activated.]

The system's prompt sounded again.

This time, it came with additional information.

[Deep Secret Realm Entrance: Limited to one person.

Activation Time: Ten minutes.

If no one enters within ten minutes, the entrance will automatically disappear.]

Limited to one person!

The moment they heard this information, everyone present's breathing quickened.

Their gazes were fixed on that spatial rift, and in their eyes, a flame called 'greed' flashed in unison.

The ultimate reward!

A unique opportunity!

Who wouldn't want it?

Although Li Taiping's strength was so powerful that it made them despair.

But they also saw with their own eyes that Li Taiping had unleashed two earth-shattering slashes in a row to instantly kill the second-stage Boss.

They imagined that such attacks must consume a huge amount of energy!

Now, he was most likely outwardly strong but inwardly weak, at his most vulnerable!

This was an opportunity!

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to snatch food from the tiger's mouth!

As long as they could kill him, they would not only get the sole qualification to enter the secret realm but also claim all the treasures on him for themselves!

This temptation was simply too great!

So great that it was enough to make some people forget fear and take risks!

"Attack!"

A sharp, somewhat frantic shout suddenly rang out!

Sakurako, the girl who looked like a doll, was the first to move, her eyes gleaming with a morbid fanaticism!

She bit through her tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood onto the huge folding fan in her hand.

"Secret Art: Blood Sacrifice!"

Boom—!

After absorbing her essence blood, the folding fan instantly erupted with an extremely terrifying energy fluctuation.

Sakurako's aura also surged at this moment, forcibly elevating from Good-Grade Late Stage to excellent grade early stage!

Clearly, this was a forbidden trump card that required a huge price!

"Die!"

She let out a shriek, and with a fierce swing of the folding fan in her hand, she aimed it at Li Taiping on the altar!

A terrifying tornado composed of blood-colored wind blades appeared out of thin air, sweeping towards Li Taiping with the power to tear everything apart!

Her timing was incredibly cunning.

It was precisely the moment Li Taiping had just killed the Boss, when his mind was most relaxed.

She was confident that under her full-strength strike, this 'weak' man would absolutely not be able to resist!

However, facing this fatal sneak attack, which was enough to instantly kill any good grade powerhouse, Li Taiping on the altar didn't show even a trace of surprise on his face.

He didn't even turn his head.

He just calmly uttered two words.

"Seeking death."

Before his words even finished.

He swung his sword backhand.

There were no fancy effects, no astonishing aura.

It was just a plain, unremarkable swing backwards.

A seemingly ordinary sword light shot out.

That sword light met the blood-colored wind blade tornado in mid-air.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

The sword light, incredibly smoothly, split the terrifying blood-colored tornado in half from the middle.

Then, the sword light continued its momentum, flashing across Sakurako's neck at a speed that surpassed the limits of vision.

"Ugh..."

The madness and triumph on Sakurako's face suddenly froze.

She lowered her head and saw a thin line of blood on her chest, appearing at some unknown moment.

She wanted to say something, but only a 'ho-ho' sound of air escaping came from her throat.

The next second.

A head, as exquisite and beautiful as a doll's, flew into the sky.

Her eyes were filled with shock, filled with disbelief.

He... he wasn't weak at all?!

This was her last thought.

Again, a single sword strike decapitation!

And at the same time Sakurako made her move, two other people in the team also moved!

One was the taciturn assassin-type player with a very low sense of presence.

The other was the magician wearing gold-rimmed glasses!

However, the magician was a beat too slow.

The moment he saw Sakurako instantly killed by a single sword strike, the greed on his face was instantly replaced by endless fear.

Without thinking, he turned and tried to escape.

But it was too late.

Li Taiping's figure appeared before him as if teleporting.

"Pfft!"

Another head fell to the ground.

The assassin, on the other hand, was firmly intercepted by Anna, who had maintained a high level of vigilance.

"Get lost!" the assassin roared, his dagger transforming into a sky full of cold stars, each move aimed at Anna's vital points.

But Anna's swordsmanship was equally exquisite, her knight's longsword danced impenetrably, blocking all attacks.

Seeing Li Taiping effortlessly deal with the other two, the assassin was terrified out of his wits and no longer bothered to entangle with Anna.

The battle boots on his feet suddenly lit up with a flash of light, his speed surged, and he turned to flee from this place of trouble.

However, Anna clung to him like sticky candy, making it impossible for him to escape.

Just then, a cold sword light flashed past him from behind.

Thus, in an instant, all three of the infighting individuals turned into headless corpses.

The remaining good grade mid-stage players, who had not made a move from beginning to end,

were now scared pale, their legs trembling, and they were as silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to even breathe heavily.

They all raised their hands, indicating that they absolutely had no ill intentions.

The entire altar once again fell silent.

Only three headless corpses silently told the tale of greed's end.

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