I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Although the tip of the greatsword is not exactly sharp, it is still shaped like a sword tip, and the area of ​​force application is very small.

One of the snake-men had its limbs severed on the spot after being stabbed five times, and a large hole appeared through its chest and abdomen.

"Hiss—!!"

He widened his dark golden vertical pupils, opened his mouth to reveal sharp teeth and a thin, snake-like tongue, and let out a hoarse, unpleasant scream.

"This is……"

Xue Jing looked at the Forgotten Greatsword in his hand with some disbelief.

For a fleeting moment, for some reason, he had a strange illusion, mistaking the greatsword in his hand for a nine-foot-long spear.

Therefore, he subconsciously used the 'seamless' technique he had learned in the consciousness space before.

The result was that... he actually used the Forgotten Greatsword as a spear and successfully thrust it five times with 'seamless'.

During the battle, there was no time to think about what this phenomenon meant.

Xue Jing swung his sword and severed the head of the snake-man, which he had already impaled into a human stump... no, it should be said that he brutally smashed it off.

"Gah!?"

Upon seeing this, the remaining snake-man let out a surprised cry that was difficult to understand, but before he could make any move, Xue Jing pressed the tip of his greatsword against his chest.

Silver lightning flashed on the sword, and dragon lightning poured out, spreading along the sword to the snake-man.

The Lv5 dragon horn, activated with a maximum gravity of twenty times, immediately caused the snake-man to fall to the ground with a thud, sinking into the ground and becoming unable to move.

"Keeping one alive is enough, right? What's next..."

Xue Jing turned his head and looked at the leader dressed in black robes not far away.

The deserted park was exceptionally quiet at night, with only the crackling of silver lightning on the dragon-man lying on the ground.

Xue Jing and the leader stared at each other for a while. Seeing that the other party did not make a move, he was about to take the initiative.

At that moment, the leader vanished from the spot in a flash.

The next instant, he appeared beside the snake-man who was lying on the ground and reached out his right hand to touch him.

Upon seeing this, Xue Jing raised an eyebrow, unleashed a burst of energy with his right hand using the Whirlwind Thunder technique, creating spiraling grooves as he swung his giant sword at the attacker, producing a muffled whistling sound.

"boom--!!"

With a loud bang, the leader exploded, turning into countless pieces.

But upon closer inspection, it turns out that's not the case.

Those fragments turned out to be snakes of various shapes and sizes.

Even a rough count would reveal at least two thousand entries.

Xue Jing's gaze sharpened, and he instinctively flashed past. Suddenly, a huge and clear full moon appeared in the sky, and countless silver cherry blossom petals slowly drifted down.

He actually unleashed a powerful technique, Cherry Blossom Full Moon, with the giant sword in his hand!

In an instant, of the more than two thousand snakes that the leader had unleashed, more than a thousand were instantly killed by Xue Jing, with cuts that were extremely smooth, as if they had been cleaved by a sharp divine weapon.

The cat on his shoulder also burst forth, wielding a silver-white snake-slaying spear. All snakes died instantly upon a single touch, and in a short time, two or three hundred were killed.

But there were just too many snakes; they couldn't possibly kill them all.

One of them landed on the snake-man, opened its mouth to reveal sharp teeth, and bit him on the neck.

The remaining snakes immediately slithered in all directions and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The park quickly returned to silence, even the rustling of snakes disappeared without a trace.

"He got away..."

Xue Jing slung the Forgotten Greatsword over his shoulder and looked at the snake-man on the ground.

At this moment, the snake-man's face turned bluish-purple, and he trembled incessantly. Large chunks of his fine scales fell off his body, and in a short while, he died motionless.

"I thought I was in for a tough fight, and I made all the necessary preparations, but it turned out to be just a few little slugs..."

Xue Jing was speechless.

"They actually ran away, and not only that, they killed their teammates. They have no professional ethics whatsoever."

The cat shook its head and said, "If it's an assassin... that's actually a sign of high professional ethics."

"Next time we see him, we'll have to be careful of this weird escape move. This guy's acting like some kind of Muzan Kibutsuji..."

Xue Jing walked to the snake-man's corpse, squatted down, and reached out to feel around on his body.

The cat asked suspiciously, "What are you doing? Be careful, the poison on this person looks very potent."

Xue Jing said, "These people are recipients, so they should have 'holy marks' on them... Don't worry, I'm wearing 'Shadowflame'."

After searching for a while, Xue Jing quickly found a golden scale growing in the opposite direction on the snake-man's chest.

He reached out his finger and touched the scales.

[Divine matter detected; absorbing divinity...]

"As expected!" Xue Jing raised an eyebrow, tore off the golden scale, and held it in his hand.

"Then the other one..." Xue Jing looked at the other snake-man corpse that he had already dismembered.

After searching the body for quite a while, they finally found a thumb-sized piece of reddish-gold muscle on the inside of the corpse's thigh.

[Divine matter detected; absorbing divinity...]

Upon touching it, the amount of divinity on the panel began to rise rapidly at a rate of tens of points per second.

Xue Jing's eyes revealed pleasure.

When will the Dragon Cult launch its next attack?

Waiting online, it’s urgent!

(Concept art of Xue Jing at this time ↓)

……

In a dimly lit alley, hundreds of snakes of different shapes and sizes stealthily crawled to the spot, gathered together, and gradually formed a human shape.

A black robe appeared out of thin air on him, covering his entire body and obscuring his true appearance.

"The combat strength assessment was seriously flawed... Two snake servants are simply not enough."

He said this with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Most importantly, he is not just a martial artist... that ability that covers his entire body like armor makes it impossible for my 'poison' to penetrate."

"Damn An Luping, that bastard from the outer ring is unreliable. What kind of lousy intelligence did he provide? It's completely inaccurate."

He gritted his teeth.

"Never mind, I'll go back and report first. The Divine Child should understand my predicament..."

……

"咚咚-"

Ning Yuantai, who was watching short videos with his wristband in his SUV, heard a knock on the window, quickly turned off the video, and turned to look.

"Brother Xue!"

He greeted them, opened the car door, and got out.

Only then did he notice that Xue Jing was carrying a strange corpse.

"Huh? Brother Xue, what's this?"

Ning Yuantai asked in confusion.

"The one who suddenly appeared and attacked me... seems to be a member of an alien cult called 'Dragon Cult'."

Xue Jing said casually.

"The cause of death was poisoning. I was wondering if we could examine and analyze the components of the poison in his body and find an antidote?"

Ning Yuantai's eyes turned serious: "In broad daylight, in front of everyone, they actually dared to attack you in the street. These heretics are truly outrageous."

Xue Jing looked up at the dark night and said nothing.

“It should be fine. The equipment at the Zhige base is quite complete.” Ning Yuantai said, walking to the back of the car and opening the trunk.

"Brother Xue, just leave him here."

After Xue Jing did as instructed, Ning Yuantai closed the trunk.

The two got into the car, started it, and with a monstrous roar of the engine, the car drove out of the parking lot and headed towards the Zhige base.

On the way, Ning Yuantai asked curiously:

"Brother Xue, why is the Dragon Cult attacking you?"

Xue Jing glanced at the cat, thought for a moment, and said, "This is a long story, and it's not easy to explain right now."

Upon hearing this, Ning Yuantai wisely refrained from asking further questions and instead changed the subject to something else.

While chatting, Xue Jing opened the skill panel.

[Possessing Divinity: 2163]

The two Dragon Cult recipients provided him with approximately 1,200 points of divinity.

'It's similar to what that Flower Goddess Association member, whose name I've forgotten, provided.'

Xue Jing thought to himself.

The business of receiving these gifts is indeed as lucrative as dealing with divine relics...

Unfortunately, unlike the last time when absorbing the Holy Mark of the Flower Goddess Recipient activated the [Plant Pact], this time no new divine skill was activated.

'Is it that the stigmata of these two snake-people recipients do not meet the activation requirements? Or...?'

Xue Jing glanced at the [Dragon Horn] on the panel.

'The divine skills they possess, I already activated before?'

'Never mind, it doesn't matter. Being able to absorb divinity is already a huge unexpected gain.'