After Jiang Kai unleashed Sword Shakes Nine Heavens, the Regeneration Armor suffered severe damage. Immediately after, countless wounds appeared all over his body, and in an instant he was drenched in blood!
Hu Yan widened his eyes. Could it be that the power contained within Sword Shakes Nine Heavens was too terrifying, so terrifying that even Captain Kai himself could not withstand it, causing a backlash?
But right at this moment, several of Jiang Kai's skills were actually triggered automatically at the same time.
Playing God With Lives, A Fool's Dream, Desperate Outlaw, Godless Land, Gambler's Time, Ghost Eye Focus, Kicking Someone When They're Down, and even the Arsonist's Tempering Fire all activated on their own!
With all these skills in effect, Jiang Kai's attributes reached their absolute peak.
Jiang Kai was completely enveloped in a mass of golden red light, evenly matched against the Dog King's black aura.
The two of them almost moved at the same time. One red and one black burst of light collided in an instant.
With a thunderous boom, heaven and earth shook violently. A blinding white light swept out from the point of collision, spreading hundreds of meters!
The surrounding trees were actually cut clean through at the waist by the white light!
"My god…" Hu Yan said blankly. "What level of energy clash is this?!"
The white light flashed by in an instant. Hu Yan anxiously looked toward the center of the battlefield.
Within the white light, there were two figures. Judging by their outlines, the two were less than a meter apart. One had two massive arms grotesquely disproportionate to its body, while the other held a sword with both hands, thrusting straight forward.
Only when the white light completely dissipated did Hu Yan finally see their situation clearly.
The Dog King's claws had landed on Captain Kai's shoulders, but the Demon Slaying Sword had already pierced straight through the Dog King's chest!
A moment later, the Demon Slaying Sword suddenly erupted with a fierce burst of sword qi, surging toward the forest behind the Dog King.
In just an instant, a裂缝 nearly a hundred meters long appeared behind him!
At the same time, the Dog King's arms suddenly snapped clean off at the middle.
The two forearms fell limply from Jiang Kai's shoulders.
That single strike from Jiang Kai severed the Dog King's arms and pierced straight through his body!
Hu Yan stared wide eyed and said in horror, "This is the skill Captain Kai comprehended? That's way too terrifying!"
On the battlefield, the Dog King's eyes gradually returned from blood red to clear black and white.
When he looked at Jiang Kai, he was unexpectedly calm.
"Sword Shakes Nine Heavens… so strong…"
Jiang Kai coldly looked at the Dog King. "It's alright."
Gravely wounded and struck by Jiang Kai's fatal blow, the Dog King's life was slowly slipping away.
The Dog King's voice was weak, carrying a sense of age, release, and acceptance. "That's fine. The road I had to walk was too difficult to begin with. Dying in your hands saves me a lot of trouble."
Jiang Kai let out a soft sigh. "If you had chosen to leave this place, I originally intended to spare your life as much as possible. But you insisted on hunting players."
The Dog King sneered. "I just wanted to become stronger, strong enough to change my lowly fate. Was I wrong?"
"You kill me. Isn't that hunting too? When you kill me, is that somehow justified?!"
Jiang Kai quietly looked at the Dog King. Points of light had already begun to appear on his body, breaking him down.
To be honest, Jiang Kai himself could not really say where the Dog King was wrong.
Was it acceptable for humans to hunt him, but not for him to hunt humans?
After a moment of silence, Jiang Kai sighed softly. "You're right. Maybe it's just that our stances are different. I can't stand by and watch you continue to hunt my own kind."
The Dog King smiled faintly. "To receive your acknowledgment before dying counts as some comfort, I guess."
"Kid, actually you're the same as me. We're both just sacrifices."
Jiang Kai frowned slightly. "What do you mean?"
"It means we can't escape the arrangements of fate, and we also can't uncover the true face of Ghost Star." The Dog King looked up at the sky. The dark clouds parted, revealing a vast blue expanse.
Jiang Kai said calmly, "I don't think that's necessarily true. The divine ruins that have appeared on Ghost Star seem to be leading us deeper and deeper into understanding this place."
"And if there are realms beyond the transcendent, then one day we'll know the truth!"
"Divine ruins?" The Dog King looked at Jiang Kai, his gaze carrying a trace of mockery. "Does this world really have gods? If so, why would they stand by and do nothing while watching gods and spirits bring devastation?"
"Those ruins, were they really left behind by gods, or are they rules that Ghost Star arranged long ago?"
"If they've already become part of the rules, can they truly still be called gods?"
The Dog King's series of questions left Jiang Kai speechless.
The Dog King looked at Jiang Kai and sighed. "I originally wanted to personally unravel these mysteries, but now it seems I don't have that chance."
"Kid, if one day you can see the answers, do me a favor and tell me… if I can still hear it."
The Dog King's body decomposed faster and faster. In the end, he didn't even leave behind a corpse, but dissipated directly like a player.
After the Dog King completely vanished, a card pouch appeared on the ground.
Jiang Kai bent down to pick it up and found quite a few items inside, including a summoning skull.
The other items were roughly equivalent to a King level BOSS loot chest.
But this time, Jiang Kai had no interest in checking the loot. Instead, he looked at the fading points of light in the sky and fell into deep thought.
After a long while, Jiang Kai let out a sigh.
Even if it was just because their stances were different, he still had to kill the Dog King. Reality was simply that cruel.
After sorting it out in his mind, Jiang Kai turned and walked back to Hu Yan and Ruan Yu.
Hu Yan was badly injured, while Ruan Gui was fast asleep, snoring loudly.
Jiang Kai helped Hu Yan and Ruan Yu roughly tend to their wounds. With Little Hunqiu helping them recover, the two of them finally managed to keep their lives.
"Captain Kai, that skill you comprehended is way too strong!" Hu Yan said excitedly. "But it looks like you can't really withstand the power of Sword Shakes Nine Heavens either."
Jiang Kai shook his head. "That's not really it. Sword Shakes Nine Heavens requires fully activating all of the body's potential. All buff states are automatically triggered, and it ignores cooldowns. It's a forced activation."
"Sigh, the problem is two of my skills only activate when I'm at low health. So Sword Shakes Nine Heavens is insanely strong. Ten times true qi damage, one hundred percent critical hit rate, plus three hundred percent critical damage. And the higher your attributes, the greater the boost. But every time I use Sword Shakes Nine Heavens, I have to beat myself half to death first."
"I really don't want to use this move."
Hu Yan didn't think much of it. "Captain Kai, when you run into a powerful enemy, even if you don't use Sword Shakes Nine Heavens, you still end up hurting yourself anyway."
"A forced activation is still better than using Time Has Not Yet Come."
Jiang Kai thought about it, and that was true.
Sword Shakes Nine Heavens puts him directly into a severely injured state, but Time Has Not Yet Come is pure self torture, a cycle of dying and reviving…
"Yeah. Hopefully the other two moves of Sword Shakes Nine Heavens won't be this harsh on myself."
"Sword Shakes Nine Heavens still has two more moves?"
Jiang Kai nodded. "The Heaven Shattering Demon Slaying Sword was derived from Sword Shakes Nine Heavens, and its power is far inferior. The other two moves of Sword Shakes Nine Heavens require learning the derived skills first, and those derived skills are in the memories of the other two swords… damn, Mister Three Swords really knows how to mess with people."
Hu Yan sighed. "Running into the Dog King this time really made me appreciate how rare Dongli is… How many secrets are still hidden on Ghost Star? It feels like even now, we're still completely clueless."
Jiang Kai smiled slightly, slung Hu Yan onto his back, then picked up Ruan Yu. "No matter how many secrets there are, as long as we keep walking forward, we'll find the answers eventually!"
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