Absolute Destiny Game

"Roar!" King Mingyuan let out a Furious Roar, and the Red Flame Dragon Head suddenly exploded with overwhelming flames, expanding outward like a giant fire shield, frantically scorching the incoming Cold Ice Power. Ice and fire collided, producing loud sizzling noises, erupting into a sky full of white mist, forcefully blocking and dissolving Xiao Jie’s Ice Array.

"Interesting, such comprehensive Resistance. Then, let’s see how you handle this move?" Xiao Jie spoke calmly, his spell transformed again.

Will Drives Five Elements—Cloud Burning Skill!

The area recently steamed by the flames suddenly became hot and turbulent! In the next moment, as if ignited by invisible fire, the entire cloud turned into blazing red flames, enveloping King Mingyuan in it! The flames spewed by the Red Flame Dragon Head now served as a catalyst for the Cloud Burning Skill, making the fire even fiercer!

Seeing this, King Mingyuan opened the mouth of the central black Dragon Head immediately, spraying out a stream of pure black water vapor, attempting to use water to counteract fire, forming a protective layer around itself.

"Oh? Dragon Clan’s Water Manipulation Technique? This King Mingyuan has integrated quite a few signature skills." Xiao Jie raised an eyebrow slightly, but his hands moved without delay.

Will Drives Five Elements—Heavy Rock Array!

Instantly, countless dust, pebbles, and earth element essence in the air seemed to be summoned by an invisible giant force, crazily converging and compressing from all directions towards King Mingyuan! Driven by the Five Elements Power, these insignificant particles became incredibly heavy, wrapping around King Mingyuan’s massive dragon body layer upon layer like countless shackles!

"What!?" King Mingyuan struggled angrily, tearing with claws and sweeping with the Dragon Tail, but faced with such all-encompassing restraints from the law-level, its brute force was of little effect. In the blink of an eye, its huge dragon body was completely enveloped by heavy earth and stone, forming a giant earth ball with a diameter of over fifty meters!

The gravitational force resumed its effect, and the giant earth ball, like a meteor, uncontrollably plunged rapidly towards the city below!

"Open!"

King Mingyuan, caught between surprise and anger, crazily mobilized its demon power, employing a life-preserving sorcery from its treasure trove—

Sorcery—Blood Wing Soaring!

"Rip!" A cracking sound! The sides of the earth ball suddenly exploded, stretching out a pair of massive wings made entirely of pure flesh and demon power, filled with twisted blood vessels and membranes! These temporarily generated flesh wings flapped furiously, stirring chaotic air currents, forcibly halting the rapid descent.

However, before it could celebrate, the White Dragon Dharma Aspect waiting in the clouds above roared down like white lightning! Four dragon claws sparkling with cold light firmly pressed onto the recently stabilized heavy earth ball! The immense impact force directly struck the top of the earth ball.

Immortal power injected, weight doubled!

No matter how the Netherworld King’s flesh wings flapped, they could not stop the descent, and the earth ball crashed heavily towards the ground like a meteor.

"Boom!!!!!"

-10891 (Heavy injury)!

The terrifying impact caused the ground to shake violently, exploding a giant crater nearly a hundred meters in diameter, with dust rising like a mushroom cloud and debris shooting out like cannonballs in all directions!

As the earth and stones crumbled, King Mingyuan’s grotesque and strange dragon body was exposed again, its scales shattered, flesh torn, and the three dragon heads were also listless, evidently severely injured in the crash just now.

However, the Life Value of a world boss is indeed tenacious; even after such a heavy blow, it still has more than twenty thousand points remaining.

"I... won’t die! Demon Star Power shelters me!" King Mingyuan let out an unwilling hiss, as the sinister energy belonging to the Demon Star within it began to circulate madly. Its broken dragon scales, fractured bones, and shattered flesh began to squirm, regenerate, and reshape at a visible speed, trying to rapidly restore its combat power.

The White Dragon form of Xiao Jie hovered in mid-air, coldly observing the astonishing regeneration scene. Suddenly, he noticed something; during the moment of frantic flesh and blood reshaping in the opponent’s body, he keenly captured, below King Mingyuan’s chest position, there appeared a fist-sized, crimson-glowing treasure bead-like object, which surfaced amidst the writhing flesh, only to be quickly covered and protected by newly grown flesh buds and tissues.

"That must be its strength core, and also where the Deadly Strike lies!"

The moment is fleeting! Xiao Jie didn’t hesitate. The White Dragon moved like lightning, diving instantly to the bottom of the pit to pounce on King Mingyuan, who had not fully recovered yet.

Combat Skill—Divine Dragon’s Claw!

The Netherworld King futilely raised his dragon claws to try to block, but Xiao Jie sprayed a Frost Dragon Breath, directly freezing the opponent’s claws.

The incredibly sharp white dragon claw accurately and ruthlessly pierced directly into the deepest wound on King Mingyuan’s chest, vigorously reaching for the depths of its body! Xiao Jie could feel the writhing flesh and tenacious fascia constantly hindering him, but Xiao Jie pressed on regardless, furiously thrusting in!

"Pfft!"

With a muffled sound, the dragon claw suddenly tightened, forcibly tearing out the crimson treasure pearl, still pulsing violently and emitting an ominous aura, from King Mingyuan’s body!

-20139 (Deadly Strike)!

"No——!!!" The three dragon heads of King Mingyuan simultaneously let out a despairing and shrill wail, the sound filled with disbelief and endless regret. Its body, which was frantically reconstructing, seemed to lose all support and instantly lost vitality, the writhing flesh visibly turning gray and stiff. The light in its eyes quickly dimmed and finally extinguished completely.

The massive dragon corpse crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

[System Announcement: Player [Hidden Moon Following Wind] successfully killed the World Boss [King Mingyuan (Demon Master)], earning 15,000 World-saving Merit! Their heroic deed will be recorded in the annals of history!]

"Huh? It’s dead just like that?" Xiao Jie looked in surprise at the crimson treasure bead in his hand and the body of King Mingyuan. By all accounts, even if it hit a vital point, it would at most result in double damage from a "Vital Strike" effect, and it should be impossible to instantly kill a World Boss with more than twenty thousand Blood Volume.

For this Physical Combat Skill to deal a few thousand damage would already be extraordinary.

How could it be this powerful?

"Could it be...?" At this moment, a realization suddenly dawned on Xiao Jie.

He recalled how, during the battle with Red Dust, his teammates were also taken down with just a single strike, almost all killed instantly.

And Xia Yi the Unrivaled also seized an opportunity to decapitate Red Dust in one strike; such instant-kill scenarios are hardly seen in games, as the Game World often boils down to a comparison of damage numbers.

He also remembered that after he became an Immortal, the Life Value entry in his status bar changed to "????". Initially, he thought it was some kind of hidden attribute of an Immortal; now, he realized it might not be so. The body of an Immortal, in some way, might be closer to "reality". Real people in the real world do not have specific health numerics, and life or death often depends on whether it’s a fatal wound.

For Immortals who recognize themselves as "real existences", some game rules of this world might be weakened or even nullified on the "real level" they inhabit. Unless they are countered by forces or rules targeting Immortals, they may be very difficult to kill; but once they encounter an attack that can break their defense and point directly to their essence, it might trigger an "instant death" mechanism similar to the real world.

The claw strike just now not only grabbed the core, but in the moment of grasping, instinctively utilized some degree of the Immortal’s power to interfere with reality. This wasn’t merely calculating game skill damage, but was closer to a "real" kill on the "real level".

"Just like Master Hongchen at the time... He had already become an Immortal then, so he could easily instantly kill those non-Immortal existences that hadn’t yet touched the rules." Xiao Jie recalled the previous battle, his reasoning growing clearer. "In other words, the Immortal self, to some extent, is a manifestation of real rules, or at least can modify and set the rules of a small area around themselves."

"Thus, showing Blood Volume is the ’game rule’ of this world. And the Immortal’s recognition of themselves as a ’real True Man’—this perception itself may be a confrontation and overwriting of the world’s fundamental rules. From the result, it is clear that the ’real’ perception of the Immortal has, to some extent, overshadowed the ’game’ rules of the system."

Xiao Jie’s heart opened up, alleviating many previous worries. "It seems that Immortals indeed have the potential to transcend the foundational data framework! Even the system finds it difficult to simply define and constrain them with mere numerics!"

Thinking of this, he felt much better and glanced at the crimson treasure bead in his hand, now displaying Item Attributes as King Mingyuan died.

Xiao Jie casually touched the corpse, and his eyes immediately lit up. Truly worthy of a World Boss, the drops are not bad at all; he just wondered if there was any Ascension Item among them.