I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

A thunderous roar erupted as Night-Cutting Ice, carrying annihilating flames and lightning, transformed into a dark blue dragon-shaped spear beam wreathed in crimson-gold light, piercing towards the black candle's body, which was protected by its outer shell.

"昘——"

The first layer penetrates without resistance, like a hot knife slicing through butter.

Then came the second layer, the third layer... with almost no obstruction, the sharp, dragon-head-shaped spearheads were about to annihilate the monsters from another world.

Suddenly, a mournful cry rang out.

"omo—!!!"

Amidst the shriek, Xue Jing's expression changed, and he instinctively sidestepped, quickly dodging the attack.

The next moment, the sharp, dark blue spear tip pierced through the spot where he had dodged.

It turned out that the Night Blade had suddenly 'betrayed' him, turning its spearhead around and making a sharp U-shaped bend, aiming straight for its master.

Xue Jing quickly retreated, his brows furrowed, and reached out his left hand to grab the tip of Ye Caibing's spear. At this moment, it was like a living snake, constantly twisting and struggling, trying to attack Xue Jing, but Xue Jing held it down firmly with both hands.

"omo—!!!"

Another sharp whistle rang out, and a hissing sound immediately came from Xue Jing's body.

That was the continuous sound of sharp objects piercing flesh.

Thick, glistening blood slowly seeped from his body, staining his clothes bright red.

At this moment, Xue Jing was like a soft hedgehog armor worn inside out, with sharp thorns growing all over the inside of his clothes, piercing into his flesh. More barbs continued to grow from the thorns, gradually spreading throughout Xue Jing's body.

The pain was so intense that it was unbearable for ordinary people, and it was the kind of pain that would cause someone to go into shock within seconds.

But for Xue Jing, whose daily cultivation involved enduring this kind of pain, it was nothing.

His expression didn't change much, he just frowned slightly, straightened the struggling Night-Cut Ice in his hands, and threw it to the ground like a javelin, where it sank deep into the ground, unknown how many meters.

Then, he grabbed his clothes with his right hand, his face hardened, and with a burst of strength, he ripped them off!

"Whoosh—!!"

Amidst the horrifying sound of flesh being torn apart, Xue Jing's flesh, which had been caught on the barbs of his clothes, was all ripped off at once, leaving him covered in blood and riddled with dents, his internal organs and bones clearly visible to the outside world.

On his torn clothes, countless glistening, healthy pieces of flesh hung from the dense, crooked barbs, still pulsating and displaying tremendous vitality.

As the flame of life was ignited, the large amount of missing flesh and blood in his body began to wriggle and regenerate at a visible speed. Soon, Xue Jing, who was completely naked, was restored to a perfectly intact state.

His body, as perfect as if sculpted by a god, was exposed to the air. Xue Jing remained expressionless as black energy condensed and transformed into pitch-black flames, annihilating the mutated clothes in his hands into ashes.

He then flicked his hand, and the Shadow Flame in his hand transformed into a black flame coat, which he draped over his body.

His gaze fell upon the parasitic candle below, meeting the five eyes of its host's face.

At this moment, the gaze of those five eyes was completely different from the previous chaotic and ignorant turbidity; it seemed much more composed, exuding a sense of wisdom that gave the impression that they were thinking.

Xue Jing frowned slightly.

"A different person logged in?"

This ingenious use of the ability to activate material mutations directly on the enemy's items is completely unlike the unintelligent old Japanese creatures that Wu Youqing described.

If Xue Jing were merely a martial arts expert with limited skills, he would have already suffered a devastating loss that would have determined the outcome of the battle.

Could it be that some being with advanced thinking abilities has possessed this parasitic candle?

"Hey, you can communicate now, right?"

Xue Jing spoke in a flat tone.

"..." The Parasitic Candle stared at Xue Jing without responding.

"Play dead..."

Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, and with a thought, countless streams of black energy gathered and covered his body.

Before long, the Shadowflame Giant, clad in full, ornate armor, made its long-awaited reappearance.

The Shadowflame Giant, even larger than the host of the Parasitic Candle, raised its jet-black longsword and slashed fiercely at its opponent. Its enormous size caused the air to tremble and roar.

"boom--!!!"

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, the parasitic candle was cleaved into the ground by a powerful blow, and the soil slabs spread out in a ring of 'earth waves' like ocean waves.

"If you don't want to talk, then go die."

Xue Jing stood with his arms crossed in the 'cockpit' on the chest of the Shadow Flame Giant, looking down at it calmly.

With a thought, the giant's body began to construct changes that simulated the internal workings of the human body.

Bones, blood, internal organs, muscles... Although far less refined than the real human body, they can still roughly simulate the rough workings of force.

With a loud thud, like the operation of a large machine, the Shadow Flame Giant unleashed the Hidden Dragon Flowing Tornado Thunder. The pitch-black giant blade whipped up a massive spiraling tornado of air and slashed horizontally toward the Parasitic Candle.

"call out--!!!"

Extremely fierce, the massive blade of light, hundreds of meters long, slashed into the distance, cleaving the peak of a small mountain on the outskirts of the southern city several thousand meters away.

The parasitic candle's enormous body was also split in two, with the upper part shooting skyward.

Without any hesitation, Xue Jing aimed at the candle body on half of the parasitic candle's body in the air, and the Shadow Flame Giant swung his jet-black longsword down vertically.

"boom--!!"

The outer shell protecting the main body was immediately struck by this incredibly heavy blow, shattering the main body inside with a deafening roar.

"Kill successful..."

"—Yeah, right!"

Xue Jing immediately turned his gaze, his sharp eyes looking at the other half of the parasitic candle's host body located on the ground.

"You bastard, trying to fool me?"

Amidst the crackling of electric arcs, the shattering crimson-gold flames of lightning coiled around the giant's jet-black longsword, enchanting it and greatly increasing its destructive power.

"Eat my Dragon Sword!"

The Shadowflame Giant swung its robe upwards with a backhand slash, aiming at the half of its host's body on the ground.

"昘——"

It was smoothly split in two, and on the cross-section inside its body, half of a black candle was extremely conspicuous. It was the main body of the parasitic candle, which had actually moved here from its back.

Xue Jing sneered.

"You didn't tell me you were dead before you died, so you're sure you weren't dead? Are you trying to pull a switcheroo on me?"

Two more slashes were made, forming a cross-shaped cut, which shredded the black candle hidden in the lower half of the body into tiny pieces.

Then Xue Jing jumped out of the cockpit, stretched out his palm, and aimed at the fragmented black candle body.

Crimson-gold flames and lightning condensed on his palm, and terrifying destructive power blasted out in the form of a light cannon.

"Om-!!"

The black candle itself turned into charred ashes in the fading glow.

[Slaying a special creature possessing divinity grants +4027 divinity]

Upon seeing the notification that Aban had posted, Xue Jing's eyes widened.

Hmm? Young Master Duo?

……

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Book Title: High Martial Arts: I Have a World of Mountains and Seas

Synopsis: Martial arts and destiny coexist.

Fang Qingyu was born into a single-parent family, and his biggest dream was to learn martial arts and get into a martial arts school.

Until Fang Qingyu had a dream.

In dreams, there are no kingdoms, and there is no need to reproduce offspring, yet the family still thrives.

There is also the One-Eyed Kingdom, whose people have only one eye in the middle of their faces, yet they became the overlords of the grasslands.

And the eerie Rain Master's Concubine Kingdom, where each of her hands tightly grasps a giant python, known as the Rain Master's Concubine. Any man who witnesses her nakedness will be devoured.

One day.

Dreams become reality.

Fang Qingyu begins to escape his fate of being buried alive; he begins to rebel.

They snatched the shovel from the burial man, removed the tail from King Rongxuan's corpse, and tore off the head of the Candle Dragon.

Just discovered.

They were originally a divine race that was high and mighty.

Nothing more than that.

Chapter 307 Night Blade, who ate the Rubber-Rubber Fruit, the incident ends, Xue Jing's status in Qingcheng (4K)

[Slaying a special creature possessing divinity grants +4027 divinity]

Four thousand divinities!?

The unexpectedly huge gain made Xue Jing's eyes widen slightly.

He had killed many creatures that possessed divinity, and in his mind, the more powerful the creature, the more divinity he would gain after killing it.

In his estimation, although the parasitic candle's abilities were troublesome, it wasn't particularly strong. Based on his comparison with the divine creatures he had killed in the past, the reward would be at most around 2000.

In comparison, he only gained about 2500 points of divinity from killing the dragon cub at the edge of Roaring Waterfall.

If the dragon cub hadn't been weakened by the Serpent Slayers, Xue Jing, at his current full strength, could have defeated it using his numerous techniques, but the process would likely have been far from easy.

This parasitic candle... it didn't feel like a true dragon cub, but it exuded nearly half as much divinity.

"It seems that the formula 'the stronger the strength = the more divinity is released' is not accurate, and it depends on the specific situation."

Xue Jing rubbed his chin, in a very good mood.