With a thunderous clash, Bai Pu’s great sword met the Celestial Wolf’s long saber in a violent confrontation.

The evil qi of the long saber unsurprisingly shattered and dissipated, leaving a shallow wound on the Celestial Wolf’s surface - the residue of the Shattering Mountain Sword Qi.

-124.

Of course, the Slaughter Mystical Arts was not simple either. Although the physical aspect of the evil qi was broken, the fluctuation of killing intent at the spiritual level was transmitted to Bai Pu’s mind through this weapon clash, attempting to affect Bai Pu’s mentality.

Simply put, it was trying to make Bai Pu lose his cool.

Bai Pu’s face was as calm as still water, losing his cool was not an option.

Seizing the moment when the Celestial Wolf’s body was unstable, he stepped forward, thrusting his great sword toward the center.

The Celestial Wolf’s speed was greatly reduced and could only attempt to block.

Bai Pu’s great sword touched and immediately withdrew, merely a feint, followed by a swift kick to the Celestial Wolf’s waist.

The feint was as smooth as flowing water, leaving the Celestial Wolf somewhat bewildered.

"What? You, a young man, why are you so unfair in martial arts?"

"Coming to deceive, to ambush an old comrade like me." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

If it were a one-on-one fight, the Celestial Wolf would have already been halfway defeated.

Fortunately, there was still the Beastman Leader Zavala beside him, who deeply understood the principle of lips and teeth depending on each other. When Bai Pu’s great sword swung toward the Celestial Wolf’s head, he quickly swung a massive club, striking horizontally at Bai Pu’s lower back, attempting to provide support for the Celestial Wolf.

Bai Pu did not dodge.

Shua! Peng!

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh, and the dull thud of a bone club striking a human body, almost sounded simultaneously.

Bai Pu’s figure swayed slightly but was unharmed.

At his lower back, the surface of the Iron Waist Guard from the Immortal King developed a fine web of cracks.

Crackle crackle, the cracks rapidly expanded, pieces of solid sand turning into flowing sand, revealing Bai Pu’s true form at his lower back.

Sand Armor!

The Sand Armor could itself absorb up to 798 points of damage.

The key is that after activating the Sandfall Domain, it continuously absorbs the life force of surrounding enemies, transforming it into new energy sand grains to replenish the Sand Armor.

In this regard, the Sand Armor is somewhat similar to the previous professional skill Flesh Armor.

But numerically, it is much stronger, with the Sand Armor’s durability limit being six times the Endurance Attribute!

The mechanism is also more robust; during the Sand Armor’s duration, Bai Pu’s resistance to being interrupted further increases.

Like just now, a full-power strike from a Level 8 Enhanced Warrior, if it hit someone else, they would have been sent flying, even those with Heavy Armor Mastery in the Tank Profession would stagger several steps.

But Bai Pu, relying on the interruption resistance of the Sand Armor, merely had a slight sway of his body, exposing a very small opening.

Bai Pu chose to endure Zavala’s strike to trade damage for damage.

Taking damage himself while inflicting even greater and fiercer damage onto the Celestial Wolf’s head!

Bai Pu took a hit as if nothing happened, but it was different for the Celestial Wolf.

When Bai Pu’s great sword slashed at the head, the Celestial Wolf only had time to move slightly aside, letting the shoulder with thicker armor take the blow.

Blood spurted, and the shoulder armor of the Celestial Wolf exploded as if made of paper.

The residual power of the Shattering Mountain attack directly broke the shoulder, exposing a section of stark white bone shards.

-456.

"Ah!!"

The Celestial Wolf howled in pain, forced to kneel on one knee by the slash.

Bai Pu followed the trajectory of the wind, using Zavala’s club for momentum, converting forward force into rotational force, spinning a sword to slash horizontally at the Celestial Wolf’s neck.

The Celestial Wolf’s eyes showed desperation, tearing open a scroll, a thick white shield suddenly covering his body.

However, this layer of white shield, upon contact with Bai Pu’s sword imbued with the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts, became unbalanced in energy and shattered.

The chainsaw great sword swiftly took off the Celestial Wolf’s head, like cutting down a blade of grass.

"How is this possible!"

Xilou’s eyes widened, at the moment the Celestial Wolf perished, a layer of red mysterious energy appeared on his body surface, and his form disappeared silently.

The fluctuation of Divine Power.

Seeing things were going badly, Xilou, disregarding any plans, directly activated the Divine Power granted by the Divine Envoy to forcefully return.

As his form faded, Xilou’s facial expression was hideous, muscles twitching. It was unclear whether the heartache was for the depletion of Divine Power or the worry over the task’s failure.

Bai Pu easily defeated the Celestial Wolf, a Level 9 Heroic Profession, dying like mere grass.

In a contest of masters, the most fundamental is still actual strength.

The Celestial Wolf had many dashing and displacement skills, and two different shield skills for survival. This allowed him to be agile and unpredictable against ordinary opponents, leaving them defenseless.

But Bai Pu’s Sandfall Domain mercilessly restricted all dash-type displacement, and the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts countered shields and armor.

Today, Bai Pu was like Yang Guo wielding the Profound Iron Heavy Sword.

An artful simplicity, ordinary attacks enhanced with the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts, rivaling the power of skills.

Except for strong hard-core opponents like the Golden Wheel Dharma King, possessing immense strength for a frontal clash, the rest like the ghosts of Shanxi or the unorthodox factions of the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands, with their fancy tricks and strange special effects, found it difficult to be useful.

Bai Pu directly approached Zavala.

Level 9 Two-Handed Swordsmanship was in no way inferior to Zavala’s technique, while Bai Pu’s mastery of the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts was far beyond Zavala’s reach.

Each clash of sword and club would send a spray of bone fragments. Zavala felt a constant illusion of collapsing mountains appearing in his vision, swaying his heart and mind, making it hard to fight calmly.

Bai Pu continuously inflicted superficial wounds on Zavala.

The damage was not high, only two or three hundred each time, but over time, this Level 8 Enhanced Warrior with more than ten thousand blood was also overwhelmed.

Zavala felt heartache for his weapon, fearing it would be shattered by Bai Pu, he became more hesitant and focused on evading, trying to avoid hard clashes with Bai Pu.

But as a result, his openings became unavoidable, allowing Bai Pu to seize the opportunity, strike his chest with a full-power blow, causing blood to gush out, knocking off 1352 points of life value, with even the chest bone clearly visible!

"Damn it... I can’t hesitate any longer!"

Zavala, gritting his teeth against the severe pain, pulled out a beast skin scroll and unfolded it!

The beast skin scroll was etched with sinister patterns in dried blood, resembling a dark red eye that even seemed to blink at Bai Pu.

Bai Pu suddenly felt a chillingly cold energy invading his body.

[You are affected by the Voodoo Curse, losing 1 point of Power, 1 point of Agility, 1 point of Endurance, and 1 point of Spirit per minute; losing 100 points of Life Value per minute. This effect doubles every minute.]

At present, the chillingly cold energy only affected the skin and muscles, yet to reach deep into the blood vessels, bones, or even the internal organs.

Bai Pu estimated that once the curse penetrated deeper into the body, the "effect doubling" would occur.

Cultivated in the Advanced Fighting Qi Cultivation Method, Bai Pu was not completely powerless against such sinister tactics. His internal Demon Fighting Qi operated at full speed, resisting the invasion of the Voodoo Curse.

[The priority of the Voodoo Curse’s effect is 9 points, the defense priority against Exotic Energy of the Sandfall Fighting Qi is also 9 points. When you fully operate the Fighting Qi Energy to resist, the curse cannot continue to take effect.]