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Chapter 253: Life for Life, Dying Person, Restlessness
The high priest's decisive decision instantly led to a shocking reversal of the situation.

Taking advantage of the Knight Commander's attack, he cut off his left arm and then used the severed arm as a sacrifice to directly transform it into energy.

In this way, it can successfully penetrate the Undead Holy Armor that exists in material form and accurately hit the driver inside the armor.

At this moment, the left arm that pierced through the knight's body was no longer just close to the surface of the body, but was completely integrated with the heart that was beating at a high speed, as vigorously as a blood pump.

As the high priest initiated the sacrifice, he mobilized the divine power within him to ignite his arm...

With a whoosh sound, the arm, which was originally only marginally energized, instantly caught fire like a block of ignited alcohol.

The knight commander's body was burned along the heart in his chest and then to other organs.

This extremely pure solar energy does not appear in the form of physical combustion. Its surface features are more like some kind of dirt that continues to spread.

With the violent contraction of the heart, it invades every tissue and cell in the Knight Commander's body through blood circulation and metabolism.

In this situation, even if the Undying Fighting state could provide the Knight Commander with the terrifying recovery power of regenerating severed limbs...

It was also difficult to resist the curse of the scorching sun that surged from the inside out, into every corner of the body like a rising flood.

Because the speed of this spread is actually tied to the Knight's physical condition, similar to being poisoned by a snake, the more you move, the faster it spreads.

The Knight Commander's death fight state is when his body is at its most active, and he can instantly proliferate and repair any wound.

In this way, the High Priest struck the Knight Commander's heart in the chest, dealing a fatal blow.

If he withdraws from the Undying Fight, he will not be able to suppress the already spreading Sun Curse. If he continues to maintain the status quo, the powerful recovery and self-healing ability of the Undying Fight will accelerate the spread of the Sun Curse energy all over his body.

In the end, the Knight Commander was one step behind and was tricked by the High Priest.

He also never thought that the other party would be willing to use the strategy of cutting off one of his own arms to accelerate his own death.

Apparently, he had sensed the Knight Commander's true intentions and decisively changed his strategy.

Otherwise, if he continues to waste time, the consequences will not be as simple as breaking an arm. The long-term possession of the scorching sun will cause the high priest to burn out the last bit of his vitality.

But the Knight Commander obviously did not accept his fate.

The advanced Undead Holy Armor quickly gave the remaining time.

Because the body was ignited from within, the immortal fight that could originally give rise to a new body also quickly weakened from the duration of one minute to the last three seconds.

In fact, if it weren't for the Undying Fight's efforts to suppress it, an ordinary mid-stage second-level evolver wouldn't be able to withstand it for even a millisecond. The moment of contact, he would be directly ignited and burned to death by the Fiery Sun Curse, which is as powerful as the third level.

Even the Knights Templar could not withstand it for more than a second.

The current three seconds, plus the half second required to react, are the last remaining strength of the Immortal.

The Knight Commander, regardless of the danger, turned his hand around and firmly grasped the high priest's right wrist, which was pushing his left arm, and held it firmly.

In this way, even if the opponent bursts out with instant movement comparable to the speed of sound, one of his arms will need to be cut off in advance.

The process during this period is the final effort that the Knight Commander can make.

After firmly fixing the opponent's body position, the Knight Commander then swung the spear in his hand and stabbed it towards the high priest's chest.

The torso is the largest target area on the opponent's decaying body, and the chest has important organs such as the lungs and heart. As long as they can be destroyed, the opponent's last vitality can be overdrawn by consuming the power of the scorching sun.

Exhaust the high priest to death and die together with the Knight Commander.

But what he didn't expect was that at this moment the high priest suddenly released the special state of being possessed by the scorching sun, and the energy fluctuations around his body suddenly receded.

The high priest, who was left with only an ordinary second-level body, had his armor under his gray robe torn apart by the spear, and his entire body was pierced.

The Knight Commander's original plan to consume the opponent's state and speed up the overdraft of his vitality by the Sun Curse was directly resolved by the High Priest at this moment.

Instead of consuming more of the power of the Fiery Sun, it is better to directly withstand this piercing damage.

For a second-level evolver, physical damage can be repaired with essence or potions as long as it is not fatal.

It just takes a bit longer.

It was obviously impossible to recover in this way during a battle, but this fierce life-and-death struggle was nearing its end...

There was obviously no need for the high priest to overdraw his last bit of vitality for a dying person.

Seeing that his plan had failed, the Knight Commander was about to retract his spear, but he found that the High Priest suddenly forced his way forward, holding the spear as thick as a small bowl that pierced his chest, and came in front of the Knight Commander.

Then he slowly raised his palm and slapped the Knight Commander's forehead.

The Knight Commander, who was nearing the end of his life, was a little slow to react, and was ultimately disrupted by the attack of the Fiery Sun Palm.

Less than two seconds had passed before the final duration of the Immortal Fight was exhausted.

The next moment, the whole person fell backwards.

The three early-stage second-level apprentice knights nearby became anxious upon seeing this.

Although in the entire Knights Templar Order, he only has a Knight Commander in the middle stage of the second rank, which can only be regarded as an upper-middle level existence, but in the Holy City of Storms, his status and importance are comparable to the first person under the bishop.

Apart from the seven bishops who hold great power, only the leader of the Storm Chapter of the Knights Templar, an elite knight in the late second stage, has stronger strength and status than the Knight Commander.

A figure who could be ranked in the top ten of the Holy City of Storms unexpectedly perished midway through a small apprentice novice mission...

This will obviously become a big event, and even this news will sweep across the Holy City of Storms, causing turmoil.

In addition to being held accountable, the details of the tragedy and failure process of the participating members will also become the information that the superiors value most.

In particular, the force that ambushed and launched the raid was actually the Fiery Sun cultists, who were deeply hated by the Holy See.

You must know that after the siege of the Fiery Sun Cult that year, the church's pursuit of the Fiery Sun Cult continued for a full hundred years.

This group of cultists were almost completely wiped out.

The top leaders of the entire cult almost disappeared, and the middle leaders were all caught and executed.

It can be said that the inheritance of the Lieyang Divine Sect has been cut off in half.

Even if there are still believers of Lieyang in the future, they will have to explore on their own because there is no inheritance. However, what this group of people lack most is time and opportunities for trial and error.

Even if a group of hundreds of people could be gathered, it would be difficult to form an organized force and cause a disaster like the previous one.

But the appearance of the high priest now shows that there are still some people who have escaped the net among the high-level leaders of the Fiery Sun Cult during the encirclement and suppression that year. Otherwise, so many second-level Fiery Sun priests and first-level Fiery Sun servants would not have been secretly trained.

More important than the death of the Knight Commander and the sacrifices of everyone is to spread the news of the revival of the Sun Cult.

And relevant information must also be supported by physical evidence.

The best evidence at the moment is the burned-out second-level body of the Knight Commander.

Not only was it rich with the energy of the Blazing Sun Curse, but the Knight Commander's Undead Holy Armor, with its built-in control system, completely recorded the battle. It not only preserved the Knight Commander's physical changes, but also the enemy's attack methods and internal energy fluctuations, all recorded in full through the sensor device.

As long as the Knight Commander's remains are taken away, it will be a good proof of what happened here and make the Storm Holy City realize the seriousness of the situation.

Thinking of this, the three apprentice knights looked at each other and quickly decided on a battle strategy.

Because of the death of the Knight Commander, the High Priest immediately pulled out the alloy spear that pierced his chest and prepared to recover from his injury.

At this moment, he has reached the end of his life. Even if the serious injury on his chest is repaired, he can only hang on for half a breath at best. After a few months, he will still reach the end of his life.

Although the tiger is dead, its power still remains.

Even a dying high priest can easily kill an early second-level apprentice knight.

The gap in evolutionary level spans more than six levels. Even if the Templars have gone through thousands of trials and tribulations, it is difficult to make up for the huge gap in life level.

Therefore, even if these three apprentice knights wanted to complete the unfinished work of the Knight Commander, it would be difficult to achieve this feat.

On the contrary, the most profitable decision is to seize the Knight Commander's body and leave this place.

After all, the condition and injuries of this high priest were so serious that he not only lost his entire left arm, but also had a fist-sized hole in his chest.

Within a few days, his life force would be exhausted due to serious injuries.

The three apprentice knights, who were already struggling to survive, quickly took action.

They brandished their spears, ignoring the early and middle stage second-level priests chasing them from the sides and back, and attacked the high priest who was slumped on the ground.

Showing obvious intention to kill.

He wanted to kill the high priest who was almost dead and complete the beheading.

The high priest sat in the ruins, his back against the rock wall, his eyes slightly narrowed, a ray of golden light flashed through them.

They were just three apprentice knights, but they wanted to kill him. They were obviously overestimating their own abilities.

Although the injury was currently too severe, the twenty-ninth level of evolution was enough to directly repair the bleeding on the surface of the wound and the scab had already formed.

The heart was also gradually healing itself, but because of the excessive consumption in the previous battle, the growth and division rate of the evolving cells had slowed down.

But this does not mean that the high priest cannot act.

He only needed to raise his hand and release the Fiery Sun Palm to easily kill an early-stage second-order Templar Knight, especially since the opponent was already covered in wounds.

However, in this case, continuing to overdraw his vitality to kill these minions will make the high priest's condition worse, and his life span of several months will be directly reduced to less than one month.

So in order to reduce the release of the power of the scorching sun, he decisively picked up the alloy spear beside him and planned to cooperate with his men to deal with the remaining knights who were ignorant of the danger.

In a flash, the three early-stage apprentice knights burst into their extreme state and arrived in front of the high priest at a speed of over 100 meters per second.

But they did not attack together, but suddenly dispersed. One of them confronted the high priest head-on, while the other turned around and fought back, shielding his teammates from the early and middle stage priests who were chasing behind them.

The last one, who was also the knight in the best condition, directly lifted up the remaining body of the knight commander on the ground with one spear.

After hugging him in his arms, he quickly broke out.

Because the three men's previous feint attack disrupted the encirclement set up by the other early and middle-stage priests, they were eager to rescue the high priest and stop the three men's surprise attack, so they gathered towards the high priest at the same time.

This gave the apprentice knight who had seized the Knight Commander's body an opportunity.

After escaping the battlefield, he headed southwest without looking back.

That was the location where the other team members escorted the apprentices to escape, and it was also the only chance of survival for everyone at the moment.

Because there is the Zhuma Temple over there, which is the resting place of the Lord of the Holy Spring.

All you have to do is run all the way through these 100 kilometers to reach the edge of the temple's coverage, meet the temple knights patrolling nearby, and get support.

Outside the temple, the Knights Templar's combat power is almost the same as that of the Knights Templar, but within the range of the Lord of the Holy Spring's glory, they are comparable to the third-level existence.

Not to mention the priests of the Fiery Sun Cult, even a third-level divine envoy would have to retreat.

After the apprentice knight escaped with the remains of the Knight Commander, the other junior and middle-level priests also noticed his intentions and reacted quickly.

Unfortunately, when he was about to give chase, he was intercepted by the apprentice knight who turned back and fought back, fighting for his life.

The latter was directly attacked by two mid-level priests and six early-level priests and died on the spot.

Seeing this, the apprentice knight who was fighting with the high priest immediately stopped and turned back to block the early and middle stage priests behind him, buying more time for his teammates to escape.

In the end, he fought for his life, but only gained ten seconds.

But these ten seconds were enough for the apprentice knight to escape a kilometer away. Coupled with his decisive escape before, his figure had now disappeared into the ruins.

I could only barely see a wisp of smoke rising in the northwest direction.

After the two mid-level priests confirmed that the two bodies on the ground were completely dead, they immediately arranged for the other early-level trainee priests to go in pursuit.

Then he came before the high priest and asked about the situation:

"Without the help of power armor, we can't catch up with these knights after a long journey. Do we still need to give chase?"

The High Priest shook his head, took the second-order Rockhorn Essence Reagent handed to him by another mid-level priest, and swallowed it orally:
"Forget it. Next, we should kill as many of the remaining members of the Knights as possible, especially those apprentices in the late first stage. They are the Knights' backup force."

"As a result, the military strength of the Holy City of Storm will be greatly reduced, and its control over external forces will continue to decline after this devastating defeat."

"The final payment from Life Farm should be arriving soon. This batch of high-grade essence will serve as the basic resources for the revival of the Divine Religion. All we need to do next is lurk on the edge of the Holy City and secretly develop believers."

As the right and left arms of the High Priest, the two mid-level priests nodded, then looked at the leader who was barely breathing, and said hesitantly:

"Your injuries..."

The high priest smiled with relief:
"Even if there hadn't been this battle, I wouldn't have lived to see the day when the Divine Religion rises again. The road to future revival still depends on you all."

"I have nothing left to teach you. You are the future of the Divine Religion."

"From now on, you can break up into smaller groups and proceed according to the original plan on your own. You don't need to bring me along as a burden."

"They stole the Knight Commander's body to target me. If I go to the Holy City, I'll probably be spotted..."

"Leave me here. The Fiery Sun Divine Realm is approaching. I can finally return to the Divine Kingdom and meet the God of the Fiery Sun..."

After saying this, the high priest looked towards the southeast, his eyes flickering.

At the same time, near Shengquan Village in Oasis Town.

Liu Qian, who was energizing the grenade, and Su Yueyue, who was soaking in the holy spring water, both sensed an inexplicable restlessness in their blood.

(End of this chapter)