133: Method of dissecting an ox

The battle was in full swing.

With the combined physical stats of Xu Le and the Little Black Snake, he was not inferior to Such Existence at all. Coupled with the two golden hammers capable of dealing blunt damage, he was like a war god possessed.

Two balls of golden light in his hands continuously struck the tentacles of Such Existence, causing the latter to tremble with every blow.

"This won't do!"

Even with the octopus body, Such Existence felt all its tentacles going numb; it simply couldn't block the attacks.

Seeing an opening, a snake tail lashed down from the air, and Such Existence hurriedly raised its tentacles to resist.

Following that came an invisible spatial fluctuation; Such Existence once again extended a tentacle to stir the weak point.

The Little Black Snake's eyes lit up as it crept over and unleashed the "Despair Strangulation" Skill. Such Existence tried to dodge, but the Void Serpent's tail whipped over, wrapping around one of the tentacles.

Such Existence kept stabbing at the Little Black Snake with its tentacles, but the Little Black Snake was completely unafraid. With "Void Armor" weakening the first layer of attacks and its Indestructible Vajra talent weakening the second, Such Existence's barrage of stabs barely managed to deal 36,000 damage.

"Lock!"

The Little Black Snake roared in its heart, tensing its entire body, and finally managed to wrap around all eight tentacles.

The Void Serpent followed up, rushing forward and twisting its body to add another layer of binding to the tentacles of Such Existence.

Entangled by two snakes, Such Existence could not exert any of its power and could only watch helplessly as Xu Le held the two golden hammers and smashed its head.

"namo amitabha buddha, Benefactor, we shall meet again in a while."

Such Existence's expression was calm as it nodded slightly.

Xu Le thought, "Not good," and took a moment to cast Mental Shock, but he saw a speck of golden light drift out from the octopus's head and float away outside the courtyard wall.

The octopus opened its bewildered eyes, and especially upon seeing that its health bar was less than 10%, its large eyes flashed with a look of pleading.

"That wasn't me just now, I'm innocent, let me go."

Xu Le remained expressionless, continuously swinging the dual hammers in his hands, smashing five or six more times before stopping.

"It really wasn't me, please let me go!"

The octopus, which clearly couldn't speak, had teary eyes, and a pair of lively pupils told everything.

A glimmer of excitement flashed in its eyes; Xu Le had stopped, so there was a high probability it could survive.

As long as it could survive, it would definitely... run away without looking back. It couldn't afford to offend them, it couldn't afford to offend any of them.

Xu Le put away the dual hammers, switched to his staff, and blasted it with "Chain Lightning."

"You..."

The octopus died with a bewildered expression, and the next moment, a white phantom of the octopus drifted into the staff.

[Experience +99,990,000]

Swish!

A white light drifted up from over Xu Le's head.

Finally reached level 70.

A new Contract Space appeared out of thin air.

Xu Le opened his eyes and turned to look at the position 13° to the right. Something over there seemed to be calling to him, resonating with the newly vacated Contract Space.

"What is this?"

"A fated contracted beast?"

Xu Le cast Mind Link and extended it toward that direction, reaching nearly 200,000 meters, but found nothing at all.

"Is it even further away?"

"Or is the new contracted beast special, having no mind, and thus no connection point?"

Xu Le retracted his gaze and, seeing the bewildered octopus, breathed a sigh of relief.

He had almost beaten the opponent to death with the golden hammers just now. If he hadn't equipped the scythe of death staff, he would have lost the ghost of a Void Creatures.

Lying on the ground was also a Skill book.

[Skill] The Art of Butcher (Passive)

[Quality] mythic-grade · Universal

[Learning Conditions] Melee class, creatures killed ≥ 1,000,000

[Skill Description] Normal attacks can pinpoint the enemy's weak points and ignore 60% of armor.

[Note: Killing one cow is a sin, killing ten cows warrants beheading, killing a hundred cows is slaughter; only after killing a million cows can one comprehend the true meaning of this.]

"Damn!"

Xu Le was so excited he almost jumped up. He wanted to learn it immediately, but seeing the "Melee" requirement, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

But then he thought of the Little Demon Monkey. This Skill, combined with its Battle Saint Body talent, would be an almost invincible existence in the Late Stage.

By the time it killed enough, even a powerful backer would be easily killed in one shot with a spear.

Combined with its star radiance profound spear, it could cause 60% + (1-60%) * 30% = 72% armor penetration damage. (Not additive; it first calculates the normal attack, then the weapon penetrates the remaining armor.)

Summoning the Little Demon Monkey, Xu Le tried to apply the Skill to it, only to find that it didn't meet the requirements yet.

It had killed quite a lot in the Xiaoyao Realm, but it hadn't reached one million yet.

In the Void Realm, the Void Creatures Xu Le encountered were all powerful, and he didn't know where ordinary Void Creatures were, so for now, he could only plan to go to the Fallen Zone to farm monsters after returning to Blue Star.

The Little Demon Monkey looked at the Skill description, drooling all over the floor, and returned to the Contract Space with great reluctance.

Xu Le put away the Skill book and cast his gaze toward the two Void Creatures hiding outside the courtyard wall; they were actually still hiding, hoping to reap the benefits as the third party.

Taking advantage of the stats stacked by the Little Black Snake, Xu Le was about to jump over the courtyard wall to hunt down the spider and Cockroach hiding outside, when he suddenly thought of something and paused.

"They fled so decisively before; were they really thinking of being the third party?"

"Especially the spider; after seeing that Buddhist scripture, it fled out of the courtyard wall like it had seen a ghost, without looking back, yet it kept hiding outside. That seems somewhat illogical."

"The void wind!"

"Right! The dust and star fragments in the void wind are not to be trifled with. The Cockroach was almost killed by it before, so how could it dare to hide in the wind to ambush him now?"

"If they were unwilling to give up, wouldn't it be better to hide in the corner of the courtyard wall?"

"Even Such Existence, after the Possession of the octopus brother, hid in the corner."

"That's right. Such Existence is theoretically a 'local tyrant'; why didn't he flee outside? Even if he was eager for revenge, he could have returned after the Possession was complete."

Xu Le's eyes grew brighter and brighter; he finally understood the special nature of this place.

The void wind clearly passes in three days, but it has existed here continuously, which can only mean that the flow of time here is different from the outside.

And the difference in time flow is huge, so huge that time outside is close to a standstill.

This time flow must be adjustable.

Before, the flow was consistent with the outside, which is why they were able to encounter this temple.

He judged that what could control the flow of time was a treasure, or perhaps the temple itself.

If Such Existence could control the flow of time, he would have used it in the previous battle, so how could he have given Xu Le a chance to win?

Although there are many restrictions, it is definitely a good treasure.

"Must not miss it!"

Xu Le immediately extinguished the thought of leaving. Having entered a treasure mountain, he couldn't just act like a saint and leave just like that!

"Wouldn't that be worse than a beast in a joke?"

He immediately became busy, searching for the treasure that could control the flow of time.

After a fruitless search, he walked back into the main hall. Xu Le's gaze fixed; on the table, a yellowish leaf scripture lay quietly.