"No, you really need some fresh air."

Kaka ka!

The terrifying sound of friction emanates from the two Demon Scythes.

"You... despicable... human."

The voice of Demon Scythe · Habo Diya begins to break up, like a radio facing interference.

"When you tried to invade my brain, you were far more despicable."

Su Xiao’s hand tightly grips the two Demon Scythes. Demon Scythe · Habo Diya is indeed a Mid-level Growth Weapon, but she devours her master.

As for Demon Scythe · Habo Diya calling Dragon Slash a Lower Growth Weapon, that was entirely a smoke bomb thrown by Su Xiao. He exaggerated the upgrade requirements of Dragon Slash significantly at the time, making Habo Diya believe she was superior to Dragon Slash.

With a crack, the edges of the two Demon Scythes shatter, and light red crystal shards float out from inside.

"This isn’t... a lower-tier counterpart, it’s a monster from the void."

Demon Scythe · Habo Diya’s voice is very weak, but strangely, she does not resist or self-destruct.

"I see, you’re... Annihilation Law... I actually... tried to calculate against Annihilation Law..."

Habo Diya’s voice begins to break up again, and suddenly, the two Demon Scythes shatter with a loud crack, sending a large array of blood-red crystal shards flying.

These blood-red crystal shards form a human figure, seemingly a woman; she is Habo Diya.

Habo Diya’s lips move, speaking something unknown, and soon her body shatters, turning into a shower of blood-red crystal shards.

Su Xiao understands what she said by observing her lip movements; she only said four words.

’You are a liar.’

Habo Diya was actually not ill-content; she realized the outcome would not be good the moment she failed to invade Su Xiao’s brain. As for self-destruction, she would not allow herself to do so; she could accept losing after a duel of wits with Su Xiao, but never quietly self-destruct in a closed space.

The red crystal shards floating in mid-air are quickly absorbed by Dragon Slash, the absorption speed being extremely fast.

[Supreme Blade has completed the sacrifice, Ultimate Blade Effect 2 is triggered, allowing the replacement of the existing additional ability ’Vanquish Sect (Passive)’ and choosing from three replacement types.]

Three abilities appear before Su Xiao. Two of them are gray, which means even if replaced, Dragon Slash cannot activate these abilities. Su Xiao decisively chooses to replace with the ability Dragon Slash can use.

[Replacement chosen, Vanquish Sect (Passive) disappeared, new ability ’Blood Thirsty Praise (Passive)’ has successfully merged.]

Su Xiao lightly swings Dragon Slash in his hand, causing ripples to suddenly appear in the space before him, making him momentarily stunned as he quickly checks Dragon Slash’s attributes.

Dragon Slash+7 (Blade Value 0%)

Origin: Shadow of Annihilation Law

Quality: Gold

Category: Long Knife

Durability: 105/105

Attack Power: 131~200 (Increase 17~19 points)

Equipment Requirements: Shadow of Annihilation Law Inheritor

Supreme Blade Effect 1: Sharpness +31 (Increase 15 points)

Supreme Blade Effect 2: Blood Thirsty Praise (Passive), when using Dragon Slash to attack, 12% of the damage dealt will be converted into a healing effect to heal oneself.

Note: This skill is only effective on biological entities, ineffective on Mechanical Ethnic, Undead, Energy organisms, and Ghosts.

Supreme Blade Effect 3: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active), when holding Dragon Slash, can break through the space barrier to move a distance of 5 meters, choosing freely between 0 meters to 5 meters.

Note: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active) has a cooldown time of 2 minutes.

Note: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active) requires consuming 600 Blue Steel Shadow Energy.

Note: This skill awakened with the Supreme Blade Ability enhancement and devouring a Mid-level Growth Weapon.

+5 Additional Effect: Significantly enhanced armor piercing

Rating: 390 (Increase 90 points)

Description: Loss, meeting, battle together, rebirth, growth, legend.

Price: Non-transferable.

...

Due to Dragon Slash’s upgrade to Gold Quality, the Enhancement Level decreased significantly, but the Blade Value soared dramatically. Su Xiao suspects this is due to devouring the Growth Weapon. According to previous experience, Dragon Slash’s sharpness should have increased by 6 points during this upgrade, but it has increased by 15 points.

The increase in durability, attack power, even the Blood Thirsty Praise (Passive), these enhancements were not unexpected to Su Xiao, what caught him by surprise was the third ability of Supreme Blade.

Previously, Su Xiao had raised the Supreme Blade by Level 1, increasing the additional ability of Dragon Slash, but this ability only activated upon Dragon Slash’s upgrade in quality.

At that time, a prompt appeared that Supreme Blade’s third ability would awaken according to Su Xiao’s combat style.

Originally, the actual ability that awakened is unknown to Su Xiao, but after Dragon Slash devoured the Demon Scythe, Dragon Shadow Flash emerged.

This ability is quite simple. Su Xiao can consume 600 Blue Steel Shadow energy for spatial movement within a 5-meter radius around him, or break through the space barrier to teleport forward.

Spatial ability has always been the ability Su Xiao dreamed of having, yet unable to learn magic skills, this pursuit seemed doomed from inception.

Now, Su Xiao finally possesses the ability to spatially move at a distance, though not far—only five meters.

For long-range Contractors, this ability is quite weak, but Su Xiao engages in close combat. In life-or-death close combat, even a distance of 1 meter yields a significant advantage, greatly impacting the battle’s outcome.

What can be done with a movement of 5 meters? As far as Su Xiao is concerned, during close combat with an enemy, he can suddenly move behind the opponent and deliver a slash to the enemy’s nape.

Not only that, when Su Xiao charges towards the enemy, the enemy will undoubtedly employ various abilities to block him. This sudden forward 5 meters, not only evades the enemy’s attack but also accelerates the approach.

Is that all it’s good for? Certainly not. If the fight reaches a critical point, Su Xiao can use the ability to dodge the enemy’s big move and capitalize during the enemy’s weakness to strike off their head.

Penetrating space and spatial transmission are different abilities; though very similar, they are of different levels, and different overall directions.

Su Xiao penetrates the space directly, rather than exchanging or moving within the space, thus generating less spatial fluctuation.

Although the distance covered is short, the speed is faster, reducing the chance of being noticed by the enemy.

At the First Tier, Su Xiao encountered an enemy capable of spatial movement, which covered a long distance. But every spatial move generated a strong spatial fluctuation, like a lighthouse at night for someone with strong perception.

Dragon Shadow Flash is strong, yet not without weaknesses. Firstly, its maximum distance is only 5 meters; secondly, it has a high cost of 600 Blue Steel Shadow Energy = 600 Mana Value.

Therefore, Su Xiao will only use this ability at crucial moments, during a battle only 2 to 3 times, twice being the optimal use.

Do not underestimate these 2 uses—for instance, during the previous battle with Senju Hashirama, when both sides fought fiercely until the end, if he suddenly appeared behind Senju Hashirama, the battle would end instantly.

Demon Scythe · Habo Diya didn’t increase Dragon Slash’s Blade Value, yet considering the current situation, this is a greater yield.

This leads Su Xiao to decide covertly; in the future, he must procure more Growth Weapons for Dragon Slash to devour.