243: Chapter 242 Mission: Shatter the Night, Completed!

The bluestone bricks of the Central Plaza were pitted and uneven, with long, deep ravines crisscrossing the ground.

"Awoo!!"

Howls echoed repeatedly. The Night Demon was covered in blade wounds; although the wounds were not deep and might not even have caused damage to its health points, the attached Fire of Nirvana made it howl incessantly in agony.

It had only the power to parry but no strength to counterattack, and its health points soon bottomed out.

Meanwhile, Chu Xuan still had a full 400 points of spirituality value.

During another attempt to flee, it was struck by Chu Xuan's blade and fell backward. However, this time, the Night Demon acted uncharacteristically, suddenly grinning with a strange smile:

"A bit interesting."

Swish!

A blade swept across.

The massive wolf head was severed, and the ground was marked with a long scar from the Slash, which was instantly incinerated by the Fire of Nirvana.

"Hm?"

Chu Xuan's eyes suddenly narrowed; he immediately sensed something was wrong.

Before this, every Slash Chu Xuan landed at most gave the Night Demon a small cut, barely scratching the surface of its skin.

Such minor damage hadn't even caused the opponent to lose any health points; it had all been accumulated through the true damage of the Fire of Nirvana.

But this final Slash had met no resistance at all, and Chu Xuan had managed to decapitate it directly. This feeling of excessive ease instead made Chu Xuan feel vigilant.

Especially at the last moment, the opponent's unbridled smile seemed completely out of place with its previous performance of constant screaming and wailing.

In a flash of thought, Chu Xuan suddenly received a System notification.

[You have killed the Night Demon · Clone. There are 100 points of spiritual essence remaining in the flesh and blood of this body. 40 points have been fed back to you; you have gained a total of 40 points of spirituality value.]

"A Clone?"

Chu Xuan frowned, feeling that something was fishy.

"Clap! Clap! Clap..."

A rhythmic clapping sound suddenly rang out from not far away. A youth with a feminine appearance walked out from behind a large banyan tree dozens of meters away.

"Incredible. You are worthy of being someone granted the God's Must-Kill Guidance. To actually be able to kill one of my Clones, I am willing to call you a Super Genius. You are qualified to leave this place alive."

"What I admire most is a Genius, so go ahead. I won't kill you, and I will release the shackles of the Domain for you, allowing you to leave freely."

"Not only that, you can also take these companions of yours with you. I hope that one day, you will truly grow up to be worth my main body taking action personally to have a hearty battle with you."

The youth walked over slowly with a composed demeanor. The darkness around him grew thicker, like an abyss or ink. The whole person seemed to be inside a black hole, with a compelling Aura.

The corners of his mouth curled up high, revealing an exaggerated, evil smile: "Poor lamb, cherish this chance to survive. I can let you off the hook, but you only have three minutes."

As the youth spoke, Chu Xuan received a System notification.

[You have been released from Assimilation.]

Released from Assimilation?

Let me off the hook?

Chu Xuan felt increasingly that something was wrong. He immediately used the Eye of Insight on the youth in front of him. This time, the spirituality value spent was not much, consuming only 50 points.

[Name: Night Demon, Type: Strange Creatures, health points: 125/1140 ...]

Chu Xuan paid special attention to the opponent's "health points," then looked at the opponent's seemingly arrogant and confident expression, and then suddenly smiled.

So that's how it is!

Chu Xuan wore a cold sneer and stepped toward the opponent.

"You don't want to leave?"

The youth's expression turned cold suddenly, and he waved his hand, saying, "My mercy is limited, and I won't give you a second chance. Have you thought it through?"

"A Clone after Assimilation can switch identities with the main body, but while you are utilizing the Domain's rules, you also seem to be bound within this one-hundred-meter range. Your main body cannot leave..."

As Chu Xuan spoke in a low voice, his pace suddenly accelerated, his body like an arrow shot from a bow, heading straight for the youth.

"Damn it!"

The youth let out a strange cry and turned to run. His speed was extremely fast, but it was still slightly inferior to Chu Xuan's.

Soon, when the distance between them closed to within twenty meters, black flames appeared around Chu Xuan again, and his long blade was raised high before he suddenly disappeared the next instant.

When he reappeared, he had already arrived directly in front of the escaping youth.

A Slash with full force descended without the slightest obstruction, instantly cleaving the youth in two and killing him on the spot.

[You have killed the Night Demon · Clone. There are 95 points of spiritual essence remaining in the flesh and blood of this body. 38 points have been fed back to you; you have gained a total of 38 points of spirituality value.]

Another Clone?

Chu Xuan looked closely and soon discovered another person hiding in a flower bed more than ten meters away. He immediately swung a Slash imbued with the Fire of Nirvana without hesitation.

Bang!

Accompanied by a wail, a youth wearing sportswear was forced out by this Slash, tumbling over. He was in an incredibly sorry state. When he suddenly turned his head, he saw a long blade wreathed in black flames already descending vertically.

"Don't..."

The youth's face was filled with terror and shock.

He was interrupted by this Slash, but he was not decapitated. It seemed that, just like the previous Night Demon, his skin and flesh were even harder than copper and iron.

But seeing this, Chu Xuan actually felt more confident, understanding that there should be no more Assimilated Clones around now.

"Lord of All Spirits, save me!!"

Amidst the shrill wailing, the youth no longer had the strength to resist or flee. When he was already at his last gasp, he suddenly let out a long howl, his entire body's muscles instantly swelling as if he were about to undergo a mutation.

An invisible storm swirled, and an inexplicably terrifying Aura radiated from within his body.

"Die!"

Chu Xuan roared suddenly. Seeing that the opponent had only a dozen or so health points left, he bore the pressure and delivered the final Slash.

The Night Demon's health points hit zero, the Fire of Nirvana suddenly flared up, and that terrifying Aura disappeared from then on.

The flames burned fiercely, and it wasn't until more than two minutes later that they were completely extinguished.

[You have killed the Night Demon. There are 8500 points of spiritual essence remaining in the flesh and blood of this body. 3400 points have been fed back to you; you have gained a total of 3400 points of spirituality value.]

[Current spirituality value: 3800]

[You have obtained rule fragment x2]

Following the successive System notifications, Chu Xuan let out a long breath. It had been exactly one minute, and his hand felt slightly sore.

This Night Demon was indeed tough enough.

And this Night Watchers standard-issue long blade was now full of nicks and covered in cracks; it looked like it would be completely ruined if he slashed a few more times.

"I succeeded..."

Chu Xuan looked at the pile of clothes left on the ground, feeling a sudden sense of relief in his heart.

Walking this path, from being killed repeatedly by Chen Qing at the beginning, to the life-and-death escape in the dormitory building, and finally the relentless pursuit by the Night Demon outside the dormitory building.

Now, with the killing of the Night Demon, it was as if a huge boulder that had been pressing on his heart for a long time finally shattered with a roar at this moment, vanishing into nothingness.

[Detected that the Purifier has killed the Night Demon, successfully leading the human faction to victory. The Gloom here is being forcibly dispelled...]

The night disappeared, and the sky suddenly brightened.

Everything happened without any warning.

It was just that the air was still hazy, and a faint red light was still converging toward the ring-shaped phantom in the sky.

It wasn't until about another minute later that the huge vortex in the sky slowly dissipated and disappeared without a trace.

And that ring-shaped object floating in the sky, which had become incredibly solid and looked like it was about to drip blood, also gradually faded away at this moment, finally disappearing completely.

[Mission: Shatter the Night, Completed!]

[Mission Rating: S]

[Mission rewards have been generated, preparing for distribution...]