I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Xu Wenkui's body was split in two at the waist, the gap filled with flashing silver arcs of electricity and burning black flames.

Looking inside her wound, there was no flesh or internal organs, only an empty, pitch-black void.

The Forgotten Greatsword and the Night-Shining Blade attacked one after the other, piercing towards the body that had been split in two.

"Pfft—" "Pfft—"

With two muffled thuds, the two halves of the body, each covered in eyes, were shattered, and hundreds of eyeballs were blown out, a truly gruesome sight.

Suddenly, all the eyes flying in the air turned around and focused their pupils on Xue Jing.

Instantly, Xue Jing's body stopped, suspended in mid-air, motionless.

Unlike before, when even his ability to think was stopped, Xue Jing found that he could still think and his five senses could still perceive his surroundings.

His skin began to wriggle, and like Xu Wenkui had just done, it started to bubble up continuously, as if there were insects under his skin trying to break out.

But soon, prompts kept popping up on the panel.

[Divinity +11]

[Divinity +19]

[Divinity +32]

[Divinity +24]

……

Within seconds, his skin gradually calmed down and returned to its normal state, and his panel showed an increase of nearly 600 points of divinity.

The hundreds of eyeballs floating in the air paused slightly, seemingly a little surprised.

Then, whether from exhaustion or something else, all the eyeballs suddenly seemed to weather away, gradually dispersing into countless tiny particles invisible to the naked eye, and disappeared.

A naked female body appeared floating in the air; it was Xu Wenkui.

Her eyes were closed, and she seemed to have fallen into a coma as she plummeted toward the ground.

Xue Jing frowned, somewhat confused, unsure of the situation, but he quickly flew over, grabbed her by the back of the neck, and lifted her up in his hand.

He reached out and spun Xu Wenkui around, ignoring her shapely naked body, and simply used his other hand to pry open her eyelids for a look.

It was still those strange eyes with horizontally shaped pupils, but the radiating blue lines on the whites of the eyes had disappeared.

After touching those eyeballs, prompts continued to pop up on the panel.

[Divine matter detected; absorbing divinity...]

"...This thing is not an ordinary alien plant; it should be something like a 'stigmata' of a recipient."

Xue Jing pondered.

"What just happened? This person had clearly mutated into a Corruptor, yet he was able to reverse it and revert back to human form... Is it because Aban absorbed all the power from his eyes?"

"There are still many things I don't understand... but it should be over by now, I'll think about the rest later."

Xue Jing let out a soft breath.

The enemy's strength was somewhat beyond his expectations when he was ambushed.

Although Ning Fengwan's invincible Lionheart warning made him realize that it would be very dangerous, he still faced it head-on, relying on the fact that his Twin Souls had finished cooling down and that he had a full set of life-saving measures.

In the end, although we won perfectly, there was a bit of luck involved.

The Serpent Slayer was perfectly able to counter that ferocious giant serpent, the enemy's greatest asset, and those strange eyes were also completely neutralized by Aban.

This is why he won the victory relatively easily.

Without these two factors, this would likely be a tough battle. He might not necessarily lose, but there's certainly no guarantee of a 100% win.

It seems I need to be a little more cautious in my actions from now on.

"Now it's harvest time. Let me see how much divinity you can get..."

Xue Jing turned his gaze to the giant, mangy snake, which now had only two heads and was covered in huge wounds.

……

Thank you so much for the incredible generosity of "Ignore the Master"! Another 10,000-yuan reward! Master, you're so confused!

Chapter 279 Special Divinity, Changes in the [Dragon Horns], Annihilation Flame Lightning Cannon

Amidst a bloodcurdling roar, another snake head was severed by the black giant's blade.

The crimson-gold snake blood scattered across the sky and sprayed onto the giant's body, corroding and melting its exquisite armor, leaving countless pits.

The remaining snake head opened its sharp-fanged maw, its throat bulging like a balloon, and spat out towards the giant.

An enormous amount of crimson-gold flames spewed out from its gigantic maw.

The temperature was unbelievably high. Even Xue Jing, who was floating in the distance, couldn't help but cover his face with his hand. He felt the temperature around him rise sharply, and soon his skin felt like it was about to be burned.

If he was like this even from a distance, then the black giant, who was the direct target of the attack, must have been even more so.

The giant melted at an astonishing speed. The Shadow Flame material that made up its body was first melted into a black liquid, and then evaporated. Before long, even the Qi clone in the 'cockpit' was turned into air and disappeared.

This was the first time the giant serpent had used its ability to breathe fire since the start of the battle, and its power exceeded Xue Jing's expectations.

If he were to be hit by this attack, the only way to save his life would be to hide inside the Beast of No Return.

"Interesting... Legend has it that the Infinite Dragon Ananda Shesa could spew flames of destruction that could destroy everything on earth. This must be a lower-powered version of that move..."

Xue Jing's gaze shifted slightly as he looked at the giant snake, which had completely weakened after exhaling fire and seemed to have exhausted itself.

He raised his right hand to the side, opening his palm. The Zhaoye Blade, which was in the distance, flew over at lightning speed and stopped in front of Xue Jing, gently placing the hilt on his hand, which he then grasped.

"You little snake, you really delight me."

Xue Jing tossed Xu Wenkui, whom he was holding in his left hand, upwards. Then, with a flash, he appeared in front of the giant snake, which now only had one head left, pulling along the colorful flames.

Despite its listlessness, the giant snake immediately raised its head upon seeing the enemy, quickly opened its mouth, and swallowed Xue Jing whole in a flash.

A few seconds later.

"Pfft-"

Suddenly, a wound appeared on the giant snake's neck, from which silver arcs of electricity and jet-black flames spilled out.

A painful roar came from the giant snake's mouth, and it writhed in the air, its whole body writhing in agony.

Then, lacerations began to appear all over its body—a second, a third, a fourth…

The wounds deepened and deepened, eventually reaching near the snake's tail. The giant snake had more than thirty wounds in total, almost cutting its body into more than thirty pieces.

Only after the last wound appeared did the pitch-black figure wielding a long knife emerge from it, his entire body dripping with crimson-gold blood.

The giant snake had stopped struggling and could no longer make a sound. It was on the verge of death and fell to the ground, unable to move.

Xue Jing swiftly swooped down towards the falling giant snake, the cold light of his sword flashing. He slashed at its remaining head, cleaving its mouth open. The blade continued to extend deeper, cutting through its brain and body...

Finally, they cut all the way to the snake's tail, splitting the entire snake in two from the very middle, revealing its reddish-gold internal flesh and viscera in a cross-section.

[Slaying a special creature possessing divinity grants +2882 divinity]

Having absorbed special divine essence, the 'dragon horns' underwent some changes.

"Ok?"

Xue Jing reached out and grabbed Xu Wenkui, who was falling just in time. He raised an eyebrow as he looked at the prompt on the panel.

The 2,800+ points of divinity were within his expectations. This giant serpent felt similar to the true dragon cub in the border region, while that cub provided him with over 2,500 points of divinity.

But the following prompt... was something I had never seen before.

This is the first time that a divine skill has undergone such a special change as [Visualization] becoming [Visualization True] and [Power Circulation] becoming [Hidden Dragon Power].

"The [Dragon Horn] was activated after killing that pureblood dragon in the border region... Although they are both dragons and serpents, this giant serpent and the pureblood dragon seem to be from different lineages, one leaning towards the east and the other towards the west..."

"I originally thought that any unexpected gains would be the activation of new divine skills, but I didn't expect that the connection would actually occur with the [Dragon Horn]..."

Xue Jing was intrigued. He ignored the other thousands of experience points gained from regular and extraordinary skills and immediately used the Dragon Horn.

A crackling sound of electric arcs rang out on his forehead, and a pair of silver-white lightning dragon horns grew from his head.

In an instant, a sudden realization dawned on him, and he instinctively understood a new use for a dragon horn.

As he chanted the mantra, the dragon horns on his forehead underwent a transformation.

The lightning dragon horns, which were flashing with silvery-white arcs of electricity, gradually darkened in color, turning into a crimson gold, and the flashing arcs also showed more traces of burning flames.

The overall design has also changed; it is no longer in the shape of lightning, but in a spiral shape with beautiful, slightly curved, crimson-gold dragon horns.

Xue Jing extended his index finger, pointing down at the giant snake's corpse that had been cut in half.

Burning crimson-gold lightning condensed and compressed at his fingertips, radiating intense flames and lightning light.

"boom--!!"

The crimson-gold light cannon emitted a deafening roar, a cacophony of thunder and explosion, as it hurtled toward the giant snake's corpse at an incredible speed.

“Huahuahuahua——”

Like burning, or like being struck by lightning, the giant snake's corpse was rapidly charred, destroyed, and turned to ashes under the cover of this crimson-gold light cannon.

The intense destructive power caused Xue Jing's eyes to widen slightly in surprise.

"Wow... this power."

It is extremely pure, without any special effects; it is simply the ability to maximize destructive power.

"Annihilation Flame Lightning".

Xue Jing stretched out his palm and looked down at the crimson-gold flames flowing between his fingers.

(Prototype: Elden Ring, Baylor's Flame and Lightning, image below)

This is the new ability... or rather, the new change that [Dragon Horn] gained after absorbing the special divinity from the giant serpent.

The silver-white dragon thunder, which can affect gravity, cannot be used simultaneously. They can only be used separately by changing the shape and color of the dragon horns on their heads.

In terms of sheer instantaneous destructive power, this newly acquired Annihilation Flame Lightning is probably even stronger than the Lv10 [Shadow Flame].

After all, Shadowflame has many functions and is not a skill that focuses solely on killing power.

"Ruthless enough, I like it!"