265: Chapter 264 Mission Completed

The Fire of Nirvana burned brighter and brighter, quickly reducing King Seth's mangled remains to nothing, leaving behind only tattered clothes, a broken crown, and a notched greatsword.

[The aged king, a warrior unwilling to wither and decay.

King Seth of Dona, this body still contains 11,500 points of spirituality essence, of which 4,600 points have been fed back to you; you have gained a total of 4,600 points of spirituality value.]

[Current spirituality value: 4,932]

[You have obtained rule fragment x1]

He's finally dead!

Receiving the System notification, Chu Xuan's tense nerves finally relaxed. The blood he had been suppressing in his chest could no longer be held back, and he spat it out with a "wah" sound.

Chu Xuan knelt on one knee, using his saber to prop himself up, barely managing to keep his body from collapsing. His current health points were only 320, which was only about thirty percent of his total health points.

"Is this the difference between real attribute and ordinary attributes..."

Chu Xuan couldn't help but spit out another large mouthful of blood, which even contained some fragments of internal organs. The webs of his hands had long since been torn apart by the impact, and blood flowed incessantly.

Recalling the previous battle, a single slash on the opponent was like a mere scratch, only dealing dozens of points of damage. Even a heavy blow to the throat failed to kill him directly; his defense was simply too strong.

He had only taken two punches from the opponent and was already seriously injured. Especially just now, even with the shield formed by the indestructible flowing shadow blocking it, his internal organs and bones were directly damaged by the opponent's charged frontal punch.

The subsequent series of high-intensity exchanges further aggravated his injuries due to the counter-shocks. He was entirely relying on a single breath, not daring to relax.

Besides the basic attributes, the opponent's "Killing Instinct" was also quite troublesome. Several defensive counterattacks had almost cost him his life.

If not for the consecutive advantages created by the All-Cutting Slash and teleportation skills, the close-quarters combat with his peak-level Basic Saber Techniques, and the three exclusive skills of the Purifier—if any of these had been missing, it probably wouldn't have been so easy to kill King Seth.

"But, in the end, I won..."

A faint smile tugged at the corner of Chu Xuan's mouth.

Thinking back, this was the first time he had fought an enemy head-on with his full strength since leaving the school dormitory.

Previously, whether facing the Great Buddha or the Azure Dragon, his strength had been too weak, forcing him to use every trick in the book to fight.

As for the Night Demon and other low-Rank Specters, it was purely a matter of bullying weaklings.

But when facing King Seth, every moment of the exchange was filled with tension and the thrill of a challenge, actually giving him a sense of boiling blood and hearty satisfaction.

Although his body was severely injured at this moment, an uncontrollable surge of excitement and restlessness still churned deep within him.

At the same time, Chu Xuan was also reviewing his gains and losses from the battle, noticing many areas where he had been negligent and could have done much better.

The most critical point was that in the Early Stages of the battle, he had reserved too much spirituality value for the Fire of Nirvana instead of using it first to enhance his combat power; his behavior had been somewhat conservative.

Secondly, he had wasted too much spirituality value using the Eye of Insight on the king and continued to consume it afterward to monitor the opponent's health points at all times, losing some of his composure.

As various thoughts flashed through his mind, Chu Xuan felt he had gained a lot.

During these reflections, Chu Xuan's hands didn't stop. He rummaged through his waist pouch and took out several healing medicines he had exchanged from the official Night Watchers forum.

He selected a few that were suitable for his current Rank and had stackable effects, taking them one by one.

Most of these medicines were products of the Research Department. Although their effects weren't as good as the special grade life recovery potion rewarded by the System, they were still quite effective.

First, his health points stopped draining, followed by a cool sensation flowing through his limbs and bones, easing the previous pain as his health points quietly began to recover.

Once his health points had recovered to 520, reaching fifty percent of his total health, Chu Xuan took out another 20 dirt pills.

Some of these were borrowed and not yet returned, while others were stock gifted by Bai Yunfei before he left.

Chu Xuan didn't stand on ceremony and accepted them all, but after the plane took off, he transferred a large amount of points to him through the mall as a gesture of reciprocity.

As for the chilled flesh and blood packaged in biological bags by Han Feng, Chu Xuan politely declined.

Now, after taking the 20 dirt pills, the effect was immediate. Chu Xuan's health points instantly increased by 200, reaching 720, and his injuries continued to heal.

[You have stopped the source of a Tyrant of Destruction sacrifice. The world will of the War Dragon Continent has granted you an additional rule fragment...]

[The War Dragon World refuses to grant it. Correcting...]

[You have received the gift of the War Dragon World, rule fragment x1]

[Current rule fragments: 5]

Chu Xuan was slightly surprised.

He had actually obtained another rule fragment...

Moreover, it seemed the War Dragon World was originally unwilling to give it, but it was forcibly taken?

Chu Xuan was naturally more than happy about this.

Although he didn't quite understand the specific utility of these rule fragments yet, he knew they were clearly good things. At the very least, when he reached the next Rank and wanted to use Dream Return, these rule fragments would be indispensable.

Meanwhile, after King Seth's death, the armored guards also lost their will to fight. Their combat power plummeted, and they fled in all directions, pursued by the insurgent army.

Chu Xuan didn't intend to hunt these people down for spirituality value. Instead, he stood up and prepared to return to the fifth floor of the castle to see how the battle was going there.

Just then.

Boom!!

With a thunderous roar, a giant vicious dog was blasted out of the castle, falling from the sky and crashing onto the ground. Of its original three ferocious dog heads, only more than half remained.

Tang Zheng was covered in blood, riding on the back of the creature's neck and punching wildly. Amidst a low growl, he hammered the last dog head into a bloody pulp.

"Finally killed it!"

Tang Zheng let out a long breath and lay flat on the ground.

Seeing this, Chu Xuan's heart stirred. He reached out, a ball of Fire of Nirvana igniting in his palm, and pressed it against the carcass of the vicious dog, but it had no effect.

"It was killed by Tang Zheng, so the spirituality value has been divided and recovered, turning it into a completely dead object..." Chu Xuan realized this and wasn't disappointed; it had just been an experiment.

"Brother Xuan, I can't hold on. Quickly, get me some healing potions, I can't take it..." Tang Zheng panted, blood oozing from every pore. He had clearly overextended his Talent again.

However, just as Chu Xuan stepped forward, the previously half-dead Tang Zheng suddenly burst into laughter.

"Holy crap... killing this trash dog actually rewarded me with 1,300 points of spirituality value... and this actually counts as an A-Rank Strange Creatures? There's even a first-kill reward!! I've struck it rich... whatever, add to my stamina first!"

After a short while, Tang Zheng abruptly sat up, his withered expression regaining quite a bit of color. He waved his hand at Chu Xuan, his face full of joy: "No need, Brother Zheng can handle it himself!"

He took out his own potions and pills and swallowed them. Clearly, his stamina attribute had increased, and his health points had grown accordingly, allowing his overextended body to recover significantly.

At this moment, through the broken gap on the fifth floor of the castle, Chu Xuan saw the four-person team led by Jian Mei, along with Xu Shuya and Tan Ziming, peeking out.

Although everyone was wounded and in poor condition, fortunately, there were no casualties. Presumably, the impact on the rating wouldn't be too great.

Chu Xuan was quite looking forward to seeing what kind of good things the so-called Path of Trials' contribution points could be exchanged for.

[Detected that you have successfully slain King Seth of Dona]

[Collective Mission: Assassinate the King, completed! Basic reward of 100 contribution points has been issued...]