Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 846 The Power of Holy Light
"mark!!"

This scene was jaw-dropping, and even Mark, the Shadow Assassin, found it hard to comprehend.

In their view, Mark suddenly rushed out of the shadows and slashed Xiao Ran from behind. As an assassin, if he had retreated immediately upon arriving here, he would have been a model assassin.

But what everyone saw was that Mark not only didn't leave, but instead threw a knife handle at Xiao Ran's face, and then Xiao Ran slashed off his head with a backhand stroke.

Is he in the head?
This was the thought that flashed through everyone's minds.

Everyone else is just feeding kills to the enemy in the game, why is he doing it himself?

However, as Mark's companion, Kaslia knew very well that as a shadow assassin, Mark was definitely one of the most outstanding killers in recent years.

He once easily assassinated the leader of three organizations and escaped unscathed, even when they joined forces to attack him. He also traveled across three countries in one night, completing an unprecedented speed assassination.

How could such an excellent assassin die so suddenly? What happened to the cursed artifacts on his body?
It's like a top-tier executive stepping into a puddle and drowning.

Mars performed even better than that third-rate assassin.

Mark died unjustly. How could he have known that the large knife in Xiao Ran's hand was so monstrous? How could he have known that Xiao Ran's mental attack would just happen to make him the target of the "Execution" judgment?

But that's how the world is; it wasn't until Mark's body and head rolled to the ground that everyone woke up from their daze.

Seeing that Mark was dead, Kaslia's eyes turned sinister. They had been teammates since they became beginners, and their relationship was closer than that of brothers.

Suddenly, Kaslia took two steps back, creating distance between herself and Xiao Ran. Then, she took out a dagger and, to everyone's bewilderment, plunged it into her left eye.

"Is she insane??"

Those behind Yang Zhendong murmured amongst themselves upon seeing this scene.

"What kind of skill is this? Why does it require gouging out one of its own eyes?"

"I don't know, but I've heard that corpse stitchers can repair mutilations, and transplanting an eye is already quite simple."

"Idiot, haven't you realized yet? These people aren't Chinese."

"Shut up!!" Another team member was startled, glanced at Yang Zhendong, and immediately covered the mouth of the team member.

Fortunately, with so much noise around him, Yang Zhendong didn't notice the chatter of his teammates behind him.

He looked at Kaslia with a heavy expression, feeling increasingly uneasy.

Regardless of their profession, once someone starts self-harming, they are almost certainly going to fight to the death.

It's just unclear what kind of power this woman is trying to gain through self-harm.

Yang Zhendong's gaze then fell on Xiao Ran, and he wondered, "Is his appearance here an order from the company, or an accident?"

"Damn!!"

Thinking of this, Yang Zhendong felt a surge of rage. Xiao Ran's sudden appearance had disrupted all his plans.

Yang Zhendong quickly calmed down and stared at Xiao Ran.

Although the plan has changed, it might also be an opportunity!

only……

In an instant, Yang Zhendong had already made many choices in his mind. He clenched his fists and stared intently at Xiao Ran, his eyes full of struggle.

"puff!!"

Blood gushed from Kaslia's left eye, staining the ground. Her entire left eye had been gouged out.

The bloody scene did not frighten Xiao Ran. His eyes gleamed with a fluorescent light, and with the added boost of noon, he saw that the golden aura on Kaslia's body actually increased rather than decreased at this moment.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran dared not be careless in the slightest and poured out more joss paper from the space.

Large amounts of joss paper were scattered from mid-air, turning to ashes before hitting the ground, and the oppressive atmosphere around them grew stronger and stronger.

Xiao Ran formed a hand seal, and black liquid began to emerge from beneath her feet.

"What...what is this?!"

Hiding behind, Yang Mingjie saw the black liquid suddenly gushing out from under his feet and instinctively wanted to dodge. Xiao Ran glanced back at him, casually brushed it aside, and a coffin suddenly emerged from the pool of corpses, swallowing him whole.

"Let's stay inside for now."

At this moment, Xiao Ran was ready to get serious. Facing a B-level expert, he was prepared to fight to the death. Xiao Ran didn't dare to say that he could protect anyone, so he threw Yang Mingjie into the coffin and relied on the power of the corpse pool to ensure his safety.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

The bell tolled louder and louder in the void, each ring causing waves of malevolent energy to ripple through the surrounding space.

The chilling aura exerted immense pressure on everyone, and even with the protection of Yang Zhendong's cursed artifact, they still felt a chill run through their bodies.

Even my legs and feet started to feel numb.

"boom!!"

Suddenly, a loud roar erupted from the left, and a huge flame exploded in the air.

Then Dales rolled over and crashed heavily to the ground.

When he stood up again, he was clearly seriously injured, his face as pale as paper.

His eyes were fixed on the front of him in horror.

Flames surged before his eyes, and the Azure Skeleton Demon emerged from the flames. He looked down at his abdomen, which had been scorched by the flames, exposing his bare white bones, and his expression suddenly turned grim.

This injury was nothing to him, but his perfect body was ruined.

It's worth noting that when Qinghai possessed Liwang's body, he had gone to great lengths to succeed. Now that his physical body was destroyed, Qinghai was understandably furious.

"Qinghai, come back!"

At this moment, Xiao Ran's voice came, causing Qing Hai to pause and turn around to look at Xiao Ran in confusion.

Although puzzled as to why Xiao Ran told him to give up, Qinghai immediately returned to Xiao Ran's side.

Xiao Ran didn't look at Qing Hai, her gaze fixed on Kaslia in front of her. At this moment, Kaslia raised her head, and golden eyeballs were being formed from the eye sockets where her eyes had been gouged out by golden holy light.

When their gazes fell upon Xiao Ran and Qing Hai, they simultaneously felt a strong sense of being spied on, as if the other was about to see through all their cards.

"Damn it!! This woman is weird, she seems to be able to see my true form."

Only then did Qinghai realize the danger.

“Kaslia!” When Dales saw Kaslia’s eyes flashing with golden light, his heart tightened, and he immediately took out a cursed item from his space.

It was a metal coffin, which appeared to be cast in bronze and was covered with rust and marks from being hacked and chopped.

Grade B cursed item: [Spirit's Home].

This item does not require activation.

Privilege: Home

Once inside the coffin, you can choose a time; before that time is up, no attack can open the coffin.

The timeframe is set to start at one month.

(Note: Every day while you are in the coffin, you will experience the pain of a disease.)
The coffin was found inside an altar, and when it was opened, there was only a skeleton inside.

At first, people thought it was an empty coffin, but little did they know that the coffin itself was a treasure.

Once inside the coffin, although he would be safe, he wouldn't be able to get out for the next month. If he fell into the enemy's hands, he would have no choice but to accept his bad luck.

At this moment, Dales didn't care about anything else and jumped into the coffin in one swift motion.

He knew that Kaslia was about to get serious, unleashing the Templar Knights' unique ability: the Sanctified Body.

It is said that this process involves constantly sacrificing one's own flesh and blood to obtain holy essence, until the physical body is completely sacrificed, at which point one can obtain the qualification for the next rank, A-level angel.

It sounds wonderful.

However, during each Holy Flower, the sacrificed flesh and blood not only gain terrifying power but also an Ascension Point. However, this point is not proportional to the amount of flesh and blood sacrificed; its value depends entirely on luck.

It is said that only by reaching a certain threshold of Saint Hua Points, while still alive, can one qualify for advancement to Rank A.

Legend has it that there was an unlucky guy who sacrificed his entire body, but he was just a hair's breadth away from the critical point and ended up dying in excruciating pain.

As the sacrifice was completed, Kaslia's golden heavy armor seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light, and even Xiao Ran's [High Noon] could not see any weakness.

"Accept your judgment!!"

At that moment, the floor beneath Kaslia's feet shattered, and her figure rushed towards Xiao Ran at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.

"Stop him!"

As soon as Xiao Ran finished speaking, the Azure Skeleton Demon rushed forward. A cloud of demonic smoke billowed as the Azure Skeleton Demon's flesh and blood rapidly rotted into billowing black smoke.

In a short while, most of his physical body rotted away, and a pair of eyes opened in the black smoke—it was a wisp of the Azure Skeleton Demon's primordial spirit.

With a wave of his hand, he unleashed a terrifying, decaying power, reaching out to grab Kaslia.

"Get away!!"

With just one punch, Kaslia unleashed a burst of holy light from her metal fist, more than ten times stronger than before!

The terrifying power of holy light compressed and condensed into a nearly tangible spear of light, which slammed into the thick demonic energy that the Azure Skeleton Demon had transformed into, carrying the pressure to purify all things.

The power of this holy light clearly exceeded the instantaneous limit that Kaslia's sophisticated mechanical prosthetic limb could withstand.

Within the blinding white light, dazzling sparks of electricity flickered. The intricate internal structure of the prosthetic limb emitted a cracking sound as it struggled under the strain. The metal joints visibly twisted and deformed under high temperature and pressure, and the surface even began to melt, dripping molten metal!
"Fuck!"

The holy light and the decaying demonic energy collided violently, producing a chilling sound, as if boiling oil had been poured onto ice.

The viscous, dark, and malevolent demonic energy seemed to have met its true nemesis in the face of this holy light!

"Roar!!"

From within the demonic energy came the painful roar of the old demon Qinghai, a sound filled with disbelief and horror.

"puff!"

The demonic energy, condensed like a giant python, was forcefully pierced and torn apart by the holy light! The core of the demonic energy emitted a painful thud, and the dense mass symbolizing the core of the Azure Skeleton Old Demon's primordial spirit was violently dispersed, like coal thrown into a furnace, instantly disintegrating and disappearing by more than half!
Despite the aura of the Azure Skeleton Demon being dispersed, Xiao Ran remained expressionless, knowing that it was merely a wisp of Azure Skeleton's true form.

But this punch had bought him enough time, and Xiao Ran completed the hand seals at that moment.

A bell tolled in the void.

"Boom!!"

The instant the bell rang, a shower of guiding coins, resembling goose feathers, fell from the sky.

A green light ignited in Xiao Ran's eyes. He crossed his hands, cupped them in front of Kaslia who was rushing forward, and bowed deeply.

"Suppress and Kill - Yama Knocks on the Door!"

(End of this chapter)