I'm not just human!

With a thunderous explosion, the bronze-armored cavalryman made his move.

The bronze lance in its hand seemed to transform into a blur, stabbing towards Nidhogg with incredible speed and suffocating pressure!

The moment the lance thrust out, it transformed into a sky full of spear shadows, almost instantly covering a hundred-meter radius around Nidhogg.

In fact, under normal circumstances, even a wolf-level superhuman could achieve such attack methods and range if they signed a high-level secret contract such as "Weapon Master" or "Gale Dance".

But ironically, when such a method was used by a Bronze Cleaner, the feeling it gave everyone was—

Unstoppable! Inescapable!

Even Thorloki, who had signed twenty-five secret pacts, felt that if he were to face this move from afar, he would surely die!

Nidhogg's eyes narrowed. Faced with this almost certain-kill attack, a sinister smile appeared on his majestic and resolute face.

An inexplicable dark light erupted from His body, so intense it was unbelievable. In the next instant, He also thrust out a spear.

when--!

With a resounding clang like the striking of a cathedral bell, Nidhogg staggered back three steps, and the bronze-armored cavalryman swayed before finally regaining his balance.

As the dark light dissipated, Nidhogg's right arm, which held the black iron spear, revealed a bizarre appearance completely detached from reality.

His right arm had completely transformed into a dragon's arm, with steel scales covering every inch of his skin, gleaming with an indestructible, cold light.

But that wasn't all. A misty haze rose from between the scales, and within the haze, crimson moons appeared and disappeared, each moon bearing a mystical emblem composed of secret runes.

Some emblems are patterns of crossed swords below a crown, others are a circle of cornflowers surrounding a gushing spring, and still others are giants made of pomegranate flowers roaring at the sky.

And among these red moons, beneath the mist, one can see countless miniature figures of strange or supernatural creatures, darting out and disappearing from the metal scales, creating a lively and extraordinary scene.

His one arm was like a miniature world.

Nidhogg was completely insane, his eyes turned bloodshot, his thick black hair flew wildly, and his fighting spirit intensified, making him appear even more frenzied than his nephew.

"Again!"

Nidhogg let out a loud shout, took a step forward, gripped the black iron spear firmly in his right arm, and thrust the spear at the head of the Bronze Cleaner. He completely disregarded any rules and simply attacked with brute force.

when--!

Another resounding blow followed as the bronze-clad cavalryman and Nidhogg clashed again. Both men were forced back several steps this time. A trickle of dark blood spilled from the corner of Nidhogg's mouth, and the bronze-clad cavalryman was also badly injured, his hand trembling violently before he could grip his lance tightly.

"Hahaha, let's do it again!"

Nidhogg let out a wild laugh, his expression growing increasingly deranged. He leaped into the air once more, creating a sonic boom as he charged madly towards the bronze-armored cavalry.

The bronze-armored cavalryman raised his spear to counterattack, and the two instantly turned into afterimages that were invisible to the naked eye. Various intense lights erupted, accompanied by wind, rain, thunder, lightning, spatial distortion, black mist, and eerie wails. In an instant, they were locked in a fierce battle.

Something's not right...

At this moment, Xia Fa pushed forward with both hands using his sabers, forcing the bronze-armored cavalryman who was charging at him with a spear to retreat a few steps.

He had just leaped up and swung his two swords down, but the bronze cleaner blocked it with a circular light shield. It then launched a counterattack, only to be forced back by itself.

But it was precisely because of this that Xia Fa realized the strangeness of these three bronze cleaners.

To be precise, these three Bronze Cleaners... their combat strength is very strange.

It's worth noting that the Bronze Cleaner they encountered in the Land of Stagnant Time was incredibly powerful, even with most of its body missing and the wounds on its cross-sections burning with the pale, devouring flames of the [God of a Billion Fires] constantly eroding its life force.

Not only could it break through the ritual defense array left by the god [Kongsu], but with a casual shot, it almost instantly killed the guardian lord, who was a transcendent monarch, as well as him and Tefaro.

Although the Lord of Guardians only possesses one Overlord-level Secret Contract plus twenty-nine other Secret Contracts, lacking the [Eternal Certificate] and having not mastered the Divine Battle Techniques or overcome the critical point of losing control once, his combat strength is considered among the weakest of the Extraordinary Monarchs.

However, the Bronze Cleaners... are capable of hunting down gods. There are no weak gods, because they are all at least Mysterious Emperors who have been upgraded with a kind of [Eternal Certificate]. Some gods have even more bizarre and unexpected origins, making them even more unpredictable and difficult to guard against.

And now, Nidhogg, who is only the Emperor of Mystery and [Eternal Chaos], is actually able to fight to a draw with a Bronze Cleanser.

Even though Nidhogg possesses a supernatural body, and the golden star dragon sealed within his body is close to the level of a god, logically speaking, if the Bronze Cleanser goes all out, Nidhogg simply cannot withstand it and can only avoid the battle and delay.

Not only Nidhogg, but he himself should also be unable to stop this Bronze Cleanser in front of him.

Xia Fa understood this problem very well from the beginning, so he had a plan, a plan that he didn't tell anyone.

The initial plan required several of the strongest superhumans present, including him, to separate and hold off the bronze cleaners, so that the most crucial step could be implemented.

But now, the situation seems to have changed a lot. There's no need to use that desperate plan anymore; a better plan can be used.

"Wait, could it be...!"

Xia Fa suddenly realized something.

This is the Old Forge, created by the Great Old One, the [Rhine Calamity], with the power of the Ancient Oracle.

The cleaners, though of extremely mysterious origin,

However you look at it, a Bronze Cleaner is just a Bronze Cleaner. While they may be incredibly powerful among the gods, they are very likely to be slaughtered when they encounter an Outer God.

As for the Bronze Cleaners encountering True Gods... needless to say, the True Gods could wipe them out on the spot with a single thought.

This is like how, even if all the beings in the real world and the Celestial Realm were combined, they could not possibly defeat any one of the nine Great Gods.

The Great Old Ones are beings of the same rank as the True Gods.

Xia Fa had two questions before: First, given the cold and ruthless style of these Bronze Cleaners, why did they choose to sneak in and launch a sneak attack? And second, why did they have to take advantage of his moment of lapse in concentration, when he was about to leave the old forge after obtaining the Rhine Blade, and then hide at the door to launch a sneak attack?

Secondly, under normal circumstances, why would the Bronze Cleansers, whom even the gods could not defeat, have their assassination positions of the three lances arbitrarily changed by Nidhogg, the Mysterious Emperor, with his "Eternal Chaos," and even have space disrupted by Nidhogg, forcibly separating the three of them?

Now, Xia Fa vaguely guessed what was going on.

"Could it be that the spirit of my [Rhine Calamity Blade] is in a state of primal disorder because it is mobilizing the remaining ancient power of [Rhine Calamity] from the old forge to suppress these Bronze Cleaners?"

"So that's why it told me to run away?"

However, there was no way to escape; the space had long been imprisoned by these three bronze cleaners.

But since the strength of these three Bronze Cleaners has been suppressed to a rank slightly lower than that of the Divine Capital by the combined power of the Old Forge and the spirit of the [Rhine Blade of Calamity], then—

"These bronze cleaners seem to be suppressing their power; we have a chance to defeat them!"

Xiafa immediately shouted in his spiritual intuition, instantly transmitting the message to Nidhogg, Norton Dragon, and Airo Tong.

"But be aware that once a Bronze Cleaner is killed, its corpse will immediately emit a Bronze Pursuit Beacon and plant a Bronze Cleaner Mark on the person who killed it."

"The Bronze Pursuit Beacon is difficult to stop, so you need to think of a way to deal with it. As for the Bronze Cleaner Mark, if it is not removed, you will be relentlessly hunted down by the Cleaners."

"If we manage to escape, let your respective gods remove it for you."

"Now, guide them to the boundaries of the old forge."

"Guide them, let them break down the wall with their own attacks!"

Although the thought process was complex, Xia Fa was in a state of near-peak physical and mental condition, and completed the overall analysis and reached a conclusion in just a few seconds.

Therefore, he immediately used his spiritual intuition to pass on the information about what would happen after killing the Bronze Cleanser to Nidhogg, Norton Dragon, and Airo Tong, and also gave a second simple plan.

Since the Bronze Cleaners have imprisoned the Old Forge, if we can lure them into breaking down the walls of the Old Forge themselves, although the space will still be imprisoned, I... might be able to use the [Star Bubble] to teleport out briefly!

Even a fraction of a second of teleportation would be enough. Then, I could crush the Redemption Spark Crystal and request a physical entity to come and help me!

In any case, the entities of the Entity Redemption Society are practically openly opposing the Cleaners, so they shouldn't be afraid of the consequences of killing three Bronze Cleaners.

Nidhogg quickly received the spiritual intuition transmitted by Shafa, and in the midst of his busy work, he couldn't help but turn around and glance at Shafa in surprise.

He never expected that, judging from this, it seems that Xia Fa had killed a Bronze Cleanser.

Nidhogg could vaguely sense that if these Bronze Cleaners weren't suppressed, their strength would be at least at the level of gods. So... how did Xia Fa manage to do that?

As for Norton Dragon and Airo Tong, they were being chased around by the third Bronze Cleaner and were barely holding on.

However, after receiving Xia Fa's spiritual intuition, the two young masters of the divinely favored family did not hesitate to carry out the order, leading the third bronze cleaner to the location on the left wall of the old forge.

call out!

Just then, a barely perceptible soft sound drew Xia Fa's attention back to the battle.

That was the bronze cleaner in front of him, who thrust a spear directly into his forehead.

The spear seemed to have very little force, but the moment it was thrust out, the surrounding space distorted, and faint flashes of lightning streaked across the void, revealing it to be a long-planned, deadly strike.

Seeing this, Xia Fa gripped the Rhine Blade and the Catastrophe Blade tightly with his six arms on each side, and his twelve wings flapped simultaneously.

His silver-white metallic body suddenly accelerated, actually dodging the spear thrust from the bronze-armored cavalryman, and instantly closing in on it.

Using its speed to close the distance, Xiafa's twelve silver arms bulged simultaneously, and he drew his two sabers, aiming for the head of his warhorse and its own head respectively.

This move was incredibly risky. These Bronze Cleaners, while possessing many extraordinary and difficult-to-defend abilities, seemed to prefer using brute force to overcome all opponents, and their combat skills were extremely high.

Suppressed by the lingering power of the past, their supernatural abilities seemed to be rendered useless, but they were able to focus more on close-quarters combat.

However, Xia Fa was also well-versed in this art, which is why he found a way to turn the tide in the face of life and death!

To Xia Fa's surprise, the bronze-armored cavalryman withdrew his momentum extremely quickly. Even though the bronze lance had not yet reached its peak, in an instant, he had already withdrawn the bronze lance and placed it horizontally in front of him.

Ding--!

A crisp sound rang out, a sound that even Xia Fa found quite pleasant.

He watched in disbelief as his Rhine saber pierced through the bronze lance of the Bronze Cleaner!

The broken bronze lance was split in two. One piece spun and flew backward, crashing into the floor, while the other piece remained in the hand of the bronze cleaner.

The Rhine saber, after piercing the lance, still had considerable momentum and was heading straight for its face.

The bronze cleaner acted decisively, slapping his horse's back with both hands and flying backwards, barely avoiding the Rhine saber's thrust, like a true cavalryman who had experienced the battlefield.

At the same instant, the mournful cry of its warhorse rang out, its brain pierced by the Disaster Horse-Slaying Blade.

"Truly worthy of being an ancient treasure..."

Xia Fa had long known that this move was unlikely to succeed, but he never expected that the sharpness and destructive power of the ancient treasure would reach such a level!

The bronze cleaner's lance couldn't even be blocked; it was pierced through and broken!

Xia Fa even suspected that initially, the Bronze Cleaner intended to use its bronze lance to deflect the Rhine saber, and then thrust it out to deflect the Calamity saber and save its warhorse.

Unexpectedly, the bronze lance was pierced in two, putting the lance itself in mortal danger. It had no choice but to dodge first, and naturally couldn't worry about the warhorse anymore.

"Now the bronze-clad cavalry have become bronze-clad infantry..."

As Xia Fa pondered this, he looked up and saw the bronze cleaner standing on the ground, holding half a lance in both hands.

As for the warhorse, it had long since collapsed and died to the side, grayish-black blood flowing from its mouth, its head split open, clearly beyond saving.

The bronze-armored infantryman was clearly unprepared for this situation. It looked at the fallen warhorse, then at the two ancient, heavy horse-slaying swords in Xia Fa's hands, as if it were learning and adapting to something.

Xia Fa, of course, would not give it the chance to adapt. With a flap of its twelve wings, it attacked the bronze-armored infantryman at incredible speed.