Bai Ye watched the Cutter King, who had stood up again, panting heavily.
The loose bandages on the opponent's body were slowly tightening.
"Bandages?"
Bai Ye felt he had discovered something fishy. The opponent shouldn't have a super-regenerative ability, because even with super-regeneration, it wouldn't be to this extent.
The problem should lie...
In the bandages!
Bai Ye felt he couldn't treat the Cutter King as a normal being.
As long as the bandages remained intact, this fellow's body, no matter how it was cut, could be pieced back together by the bandages.
Then, he would cut the bandages!
Bang!
Bai Ye took a sudden step forward, then transformed into an electric current and rushed forward, instantly appearing beside the Cutter King. He raised his sword and slashed forward.
And then...
"Hmm?"
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow. He hadn't cut through!
The current Lei Huo Qing Ming was a super-quality weapon, yet it couldn't sever the bandages. This was preposterous.
"Ah!"
At the same time, the Cutter King roared, his dual sabers slashing towards Bai Ye again.
His saber intent was formidable!
With a slash, a silver saber glow shot out.
Bai Ye tilted his head slightly, and the saber glow grazed his cheek, shooting straight into the sky.
In an instant, the sky was filled with dancing saber light.
Innumerable saber glows appeared, quickly obscuring a portion of the sky. Then, dense saber lights converged, forming a silver waterfall that descended from the heavens.
The saber glow shocked the heavens, extending tens to hundreds of meters. Just looking at it could make one's heart tremble.
Bai Ye didn't even spare it a glance. He directly raised his hand and slashed at the sky with his sword.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
The sounds of thunder and fire explosions continued to ring out, and a pillar of lightning carrying flying fire shot up, crashing into the descending saber waterfall.
With a boom, a shattering sound echoed from the sky.
The violent collision made the entire sky tremble, and then ripple-like waves of energy spread out in all directions, shattering the surrounding clouds.
The Cutter King's extraordinarily terrifying saber strike had been casually blocked by Bai Ye.
After blocking the strike, Bai Ye grabbed the Cutter King's body, pulling him up from the ground, and said, "You thought you had me cornered because I couldn't cut your bandages?"
Bai Ye sneered, and large patches of poison appeared on his body, seeping into the bandages.
"Ah, ah, ah..."
Almost instantly, the Cutter King screamed and struggled frantically.
Bai Ye curled his lips. Just as he thought.
The Lei Huo Qing Ming shouldn't have been unable to cut the bandages, or at least not without any damage. The opponent's bandages couldn't possibly be of higher quality than the enhanced Lei Huo Qing Ming.
Then there was only one possibility: the opponent's bandages had extremely high resistance to physical attacks, or were completely immune.
In that case, a different method of attack was needed.
As the poison continued to seep into the bandages, white smoke continuously rose from them, and they were corroded and severed by the poison.
And as the bandages broke, the Cutter King's face showed a look of terror and pain.
Then...
Hiss!
Bai Ye reached out, and the Lei Huo Qing Ming returned to his hand.
With a swift movement, the sword tip traced a silver arc across the Cutter King's neck, and his head flew off.
"This time..." Bai Ye looked at the bandages on the ground, corroded and severed by the poison, and said, "There's no way to recover, right?"
The surroundings were silent.
The bandages did not writhe like snakes again, and the severed head naturally could not speak.
Even the body beneath the bandages began to dissolve into blood due to the poison.
Bai Ye shrugged. "It seems there's no recovery."
With that, Bai Ye looked in the direction of Xue Cheng and walked forward, carrying Lei Huo Qing Ming on his back.
Clap, clap, clap...
Xue Cheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly clapped his hands and looked at Bai Ye, smiling, "Impressive. I truly didn't expect the Evil Spirit Gang to have a master like you. Are you interested in finding a new path?"
Bai Ye said, "What? The Hidden Dragon Society?"
"Is that not possible?" Xue Cheng said, "Whatever the Evil Spirit Gang can give you, we, the Hidden Dragon Society, can give you. Whatever they cannot give you, we can also give. In fact, if they give you X, we can give you double."
Xue Cheng spoke with confidence. Although the Evil Spirit Gang's morale was high recently, and even their reputation had surpassed the Hidden Dragon Society after their large-scale recruitment, the resources controlled by the Evil Spirit Gang were certainly nowhere comparable to the Hidden Dragon Society.
The Hidden Dragon Society had been collecting resources since the moment they entered the World Battlefield.
"Unfortunately!" Bai Ye said, "I'm not interested."
Bai Ye did not deny that he was not a member of the Evil Spirit Gang.
Did Xue Cheng misunderstand?
It was best if he did. If his strength could make the Hidden Dragon Society feel threatened, then the Hidden Dragon Society would definitely be wary of the Evil Spirit Gang.
This way, the relationship between the two factions would naturally worsen, and they would be more likely to engage in conflict.
This was the outcome Bai Ye wanted to see, so why deny it?
Xue Cheng thought for a moment, then said, "Since you're not interested, I won't force it. How about we enter the game dungeons alternately? We can also split the bosses, with each side taking half, or we can return to town now and have a detailed chat at a tavern?"
Bai Ye suddenly chuckled, looking at Xue Cheng and saying, "Are you scared?"
Xue Cheng's smile instantly froze on his face, appearing extremely stiff.
In the adult world, some things are known but cannot be said.
The Cutter King had been killed!
This truly made Xue Cheng's heart falter.
In terms of pure strength, Xue Cheng believed he was on par with the Cutter King, not weaker, but not stronger either.
Therefore, Xue Cheng easily concluded: in a one-on-one fight, no one on his side was likely a match for Bai Ye.
Weighing the pros and cons, Xue Cheng's first reaction was to recruit Bai Ye; if that failed, he would seek peace.
To put it bluntly, Xue Cheng admitted defeat.
However, these were things that everyone understood internally; one couldn't simply state them.
And then...
Bai Ye said it, not only saying it but saying it very directly.
Xue Cheng took a deep breath and said, "What do you want?"
Bai Ye looked at Xue Cheng for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "I want blood."
This statement made Xue Cheng's gaze deepen again.
At that moment, Xue Cheng felt a familiar sensation from Bai Ye, which struck him as strange, but he quickly understood.
He had felt a similar aura from the Cutter King.
The aura of a madman!
The aura of slaughter!
The aura of bloodshed!
In that instant, Xue Cheng understood some things.
Although Bai Ye had said these words with a smile, he was not joking.
Bai Ye was serious!
He wanted...
Blood!
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