I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Jing suddenly disappeared from its sight.

There were no warning signs, and no movement was observed.

He instantly appeared at the giant snake's vital spot.

Before it could react, the ten sharp claws of the snake-slaying soldier on both hands plunged fiercely into the giant snake's body!

……

Chapter 278 The Corruptor Monster, captured! Time to reap the rewards! (4K)

“Hihaha——!!!”

The seven snake heads rose upwards, their mouths wide open, revealing huge sharp teeth, and they let out extremely painful roars.

Naga, having lost most of its ability to think, could not understand what had happened. It only knew that the little insect that made it feel inexplicably dangerous had suddenly disappeared and then suddenly reappeared beside it, and then it split open.

Excruciating pain, along with a feeling of terror it had never experienced before, as if it were being hunted by a predator, swept over its entire body.

The strong flesh began to weaken rapidly, becoming brittle, as if it had turned from stone into an egg. The once flawless scales, flowing with divine power, gradually lost their luster, became dry, and then cracked, withering away like dead leaves.

Finally, the wind blew off its dense scales, causing a rain of snake scales to fall within a radius of hundreds of meters.

"What!?"

Xu Wenkui never expected that the Naga giant serpent would suffer a severe injury from Xue Jing right from the start.

First, another previously unseen ability, suspected to be spatial teleportation, caught her off guard. Before she could concentrate and use the Silent Nether Nest Eye to aid her defense, the Naga Serpent was successfully attacked.

Furthermore, for some reason, he also seemed to possess some ability to restrain the Naga serpent. With just a seemingly insignificant attack, the Naga serpent's entire body appeared to wither.

Adding to the many abilities he has shown before... just who is this person?

Without time to think, Xu Wenkui immediately focused her gaze and used the Eye of the Silent Nether Nest to freeze the giant serpent, bringing it to a standstill.

"boom--!"

After successfully landing a blow, Xue Jing immediately channeled his energy and unleashed a finishing punch, intending to press his advantage. However, the punch struck the still body of the giant snake, causing his fist to bounce off. The force of the impact sent him flying dozens of meters away before finally coming to a stop.

"Ok?"

He glanced at Xu Wenkui on the other side and raised an eyebrow.

This woman's eyes are still a real problem...

Although it can be broken by relying on Aban's ability to absorb divinity, absorbing divinity also requires a process, which probably requires continuous contact for less than a second.

This gave her some room to maneuver, allowing her to do what she did just now: use the Silent Netherworld Eye on the giant snake the instant Xue Jing's attack hit, directly deflecting his attack.

"Fortunately, I caught her off guard by using the suddenness of the shadow jump... I've already seized the initiative, and now it's just a matter of finishing her up."

The instant Xue Jing attacked the giant serpent with the Serpent Slayer Vanguard, he poured all the power of the Serpent Slayer Vanguard that Ning Fengwan had shared with him into the giant serpent's body at once.

His hands have now returned to normal, without the silvery claws.

"We need to find a way to kill this woman first..."

In a flash, Xue Jing figured out how to fight next.

He inhaled a large amount of oxygen through his mouth and nose. The high-intensity force that would instantly overload and destroy the body of an ordinary martial artist was easily withstood by his True Martial Body. Wisps of light golden energy began to emanate from his entire body, gathering to the side and forming a light golden transparent humanoid figure that looked exactly like him.

Qi energy splits into multiple bodies.

Then, an invisible rift opened in the void beside him, from which dozens of thick roots emerged, folding over each other and casting numerous shadows under the sunlight. The black energy was drawn out, transforming into black flames that gathered and coiled around the energy clone.

The black flames continued to burn and expand, reaching several meters, tens of meters, and nearly a hundred meters...

Before long, a hundred-meter-tall Shadowflame Giant, dressed in a magnificent full-body suit, was fully formed, holding a huge long sword over ninety meters long, modeled after the Night-Shining Blade.

"..."

Xu Wenkui and her group stared blankly at the giant that was slowly taking shape, exuding an extremely oppressive aura.

"What kind of opponent are we facing?"

One of the Xu family members who survived the March 1st incident swallowed hard and spoke with a somewhat numb expression.

Everyone was trembling with fear and trepidation, but the Shadowflame Giant didn't even glance at them. He simply turned around, stirring up a large amount of air currents, and flew towards the Naga serpent, which had already broken free of its stillness.

"hiss--!!"

The giant, crimson-gold serpent had almost all its scales fallen off, resembling a scaly snake with a severe skin disease. Its aura was also much weaker than when it first appeared, lacking the imposing presence it initially exuded.

But it was still a giant beast hundreds of meters long, and its seven heads roared with their mouths wide open, still exuding considerable power.

It spotted the Shadowflame Giant with its strong presence at a glance, and immediately crawled towards the giant at high speed.

"boom--!"

The two colossal creatures collided. The Shadowflame Giant held one snake head in one hand, binding it, while wielding a long sword in the other, confronting the remaining snake heads. Every move of the giant and the behemoth caused tremendous noise and air currents, creating an extremely oppressive atmosphere that left onlookers speechless.

Seeing that the giant serpent Naga was already entangled with the Shadowflame Giant, the Xu family members slowly turned their necks and stared stiffly at Xue Jing, who was also looking at them.

Not far from them, the Forgotten Greatsword and the Night-Shining Blade were constantly pacing back and forth, exuding a malicious aura, like thugs surrounding passing girls in an alley and preventing them from leaving...

"...Uh, is it too late to surrender now?"

Someone asked hesitantly.

The words had barely left his mouth when a flash of light appeared.

The Shining Blade was as clean as ever, its bright blade unstained by a single drop of blood. The man stood frozen in place, a smooth bloodstain appearing on his neck. His head slowly slid off, spraying blood.

"Sister Kui!?"

Seeing that Xu Wenkui had not used the Eye of the Silent Nether Nest to protect them, Xu Muchun hurriedly looked at her and realized that something was wrong.

At this moment, Xu Wenkui's skin was writhing violently all over his body, bubbling as if the water was boiling. He squatted down, looking extremely pained.

"Sister Kui, the inhibitor, quick!"

Xu Muchun immediately took out the suppressant injection and hurriedly handed it to Xu Wenqiu, but she seemed to have lost her hearing and did not react at all.

Seeing this, Xu Muchun gritted his teeth, immediately removed the needle sheath from his hand, and haphazardly inserted it into Xu Wenkui's arm to inject the medication.

For a moment, the blistering on Xu Wenkui's skin seemed to ease slightly, but then it rebounded as if it had rebounded, and the wriggling became more and more intense.

"Uh...ah!!"

Xu Wenkui let out a hysterical scream. At first, it was a normal woman's voice, but in the second half it turned into a low growl like a wild beast.

To everyone's astonishment, her skin was broken open all over her body.

Eyes with horizontal bars and radiating blue stripes on the whites of their eyes appeared all over her body, densely packed and extremely disgusting.

There are no fewer than thirty eyes on her face alone.

All the eyes blinked, their pupils darted around, and they looked around frantically.

Upon seeing this, Xue Jing frowned slightly.

The moment his eyes met those of one of Xu Wenkui's eyes, his vision blurred, and all sorts of colorful images appeared out of thin air in his field of vision. But before he could see what they were, everything suddenly returned to normal.

At the same time, a panel pops up automatically, continuously displaying prompts.

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity...]

Looking at Xu's group again, apart from Xu Wenkui who had eyes all over her head, everyone around her started waving their arms and shouting, their expressions ranging from blank to ecstatic to sorrowful, clearly indicating that they had lost their minds.

Xue Jing looked wary.

"This is... a mutation disease? This person's mutation rate is already 100%?"

Those who receive the gift, or those who practice the new forbidden martial arts and have foreign implants in their bodies, will experience various symptoms of alienation when they can no longer withstand the erosion of the foreign substance on their body and mind, once the threshold of 50% is reached.

Reaching 100% will result in an irreversible transformation into a monster...

Such thoroughly alienated people are called 'polluters'.

Polluters are the product of madness and distortion. After being transformed into a polluter, a person does not necessarily lose consciousness and intelligence. Some polluters are extremely intelligent and even have the ability to become human. They may even disguise themselves as their original person and reintegrate into human society.

But... none of the polluters are the original person.

They are a different kind of creature, not human. Even if they retain their memories, they have no concept of morality, honor, shame, good, or evil like humans.

"It looks like some kind of monster similar to the Cthulhu type... Just looking at it makes your sanity plummet and drive you crazy."

"Even I, who possess the [Visualization of Truth], am affected."

Xue Jing frowned.

However, this ability to influence the mental state of others seems to be a divine means that can be absorbed by the panel, and therefore has no effect on him.

Xue Jing glanced over and observed the situation on the side of the giant snake and the shadow flame giant.

The giant serpent, weakened by the Serpent Slayers, was clearly no match for the level 10 Shadow Flame Giant. It was already in a state of decline, and three of its seven serpent heads were cut off by the giant's long sword.

The armor on the Shadowflame Giant was slightly damaged, and it was being continuously repaired with black flames.

We don't need to worry about what's happening over there; all we need to do now is deal with this monster covered in eyes.

Xue Jing controlled the Forgotten Greatsword and the Night-Shining Blade, wanting to test their quality.

At this moment, the Xu family members surrounding Xu Wenkui suddenly stopped and knelt down in mid-air, bowing repeatedly to Xu Wenkui.

“■■■■……”

They began chanting incomprehensible words, like incantations. As they chanted, their entire bodies suddenly began to melt and dissolve, as if ice cream were being heated to a high temperature.

Their facial features twisted and melted, and their eyes turned into two blobs of black and white pus that flowed down. Before long, everyone turned into a thick liquid made of flesh and blood, flowing towards 'Xu Wenkui' out of thin air.

"call out--!!"

The black and white light formed by the combination of black flames and white lightning flashed by, trailing a long, colorful tail of flame at an incredible speed.

Flame-like Colors and Thunderous Plow Blade.

Currently, Xue Jing's strongest combination technique, which he can unleash with his physical body, sweeps across the area.