Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 442 Seeing Through
An emergency mission with a penalty of forced execution...

Xin Lailai looked at the task rewards and penalties at the edge of his vision, then glanced at the task introduction, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.

With his current level of authority and the strength of the lord system, it should normally be impossible for a battle park of this difficulty to set the mission penalty as a forced execution with no way out.

But the park is still set up like this, so there are only two possible explanations:

The first explanation is that the lord's incarnation in front of them is actually an empty shell, the kind that will break at the slightest touch. Because the task is too simple, Paradise simply issues a task with a punishment of forced execution.

But if this is the explanation, then the 1 gold skill point in the mission reward obviously doesn't make sense.

He was very clear about how rare the resource gold skill points were. Basically, the park would only release tasks involving gold skills when it involved extremely difficult challenges and events that could generate huge benefits for the park.

You have to know that he was only rewarded with 3 gold skill points for conquering the entire Dawn Star Paradise, but now it is just a Overlord unit in a damaged state that the Paradise offers a full 1 gold skill point as a reward, and the mission penalty is the most stringent forced execution. In this case, Xin Lailai can only think of one most reasonable explanation:
——That is, Paradise extremely "hates" the [Lord Incarnation] in front of him, to the extent that he was willing to kill him even if it meant forcible execution, forcing him, the pioneer, to wipe out the opponent.

If this is really the case, then this kind of "disgust" obviously cannot come from the lord incarnation itself, but should come from the lord system behind the other party.

In other words, someone who used the Lord System in the past, or perhaps the entire Lord System itself, had committed something serious enough for Paradise to put the entire Lord System on the 'blacklist', which led to the scene before his eyes.

"Interesting, if that's true..."

Xin Lailai thought about it, his eyes moved, and he glanced at the headless body of the instigator who was lying on the ground and being held in the arms of the noble girl, and said:

"If I'm not mistaken, Paradise should have also issued temporary tasks to you guys, right?"

The words mixed with the fluctuations of the soul fell, and the body of the instigator held in the arms of the noble girl did not move at all.

"If you don't answer, I will treat you as if you are really dead. Then I will destroy your body and the remnants of your soul. Then I will use the same method to deal with the woman holding you, the woman over there, and the cat."

"Ahaha~ Lord Black Sword is really humorous? He actually likes to make such weird jokes. It's really confusing~!"

This time, the headless corpse lying in the arms of the noble girl reacted immediately. It sat up from the ground with a thud, touched its empty head, and said in an unknown voice:
"You actually said such scary words to a corpse, Lord Black Sword, that's too much. Could it be that you are also practicing the profession of a necromancer?"

"I haven't practiced Necromancer concurrently, but I know a little about the inheritance of the Soul Clock Tower faction. At least as far as I know, no one who has opened up the 'spiritual orifice' can die from a little physical injury."

Xin Lailai glanced at the instigator who deliberately shrunk his soul's head in front of him, and exposed his lie.

In normal life, because the soul is too weak, when the body dies, the soul will be directly exposed to the energy environment of the spiritual world because it loses the protection of the material world. It only takes the slightest energy ripple to shatter it and turn it into soul residue, which gradually decomposes and dissipates over time.

But when the soul's strength reaches a certain level, even if the body dies, the soul can continue to survive in the spiritual world and become what ordinary people call a wandering ghost.

And if the strength of the soul continues to increase, it can even be possible to achieve complete death, that is, when the origin and destiny begin to dissipate, one can still rely on the powerful soul power to forcibly lock a small part of the origin and destiny, allowing oneself to continue to move in this world in the form of a residual soul.

Of course, to achieve this, soul strength alone is definitely not enough. One's own origin and destiny must also be strong enough to have the opportunity to lock it with soul energy and leave behind a remnant soul.

This is also the reason why those who can leave behind a remnant soul are almost all the strongest. After all, if they are not strong enough, they will not be able to hold on until the remnant soul forms their origin and destiny after death, and it will probably have dissipated completely.

——Unless it is someone who uses the Soul Clock Tower's 'Soul Awakening Secret Technique'.

The secret art of awakening the spirit.

As far as Xin Lailai knew, this was one of the three most famous "brain-opening" secret techniques of the Soul Clock Tower at that time.

The so-called three "brain hole" secret techniques, as the name suggests, are three ways to greatly enhance one's own strength by opening a brain hole in one's brain through some special means. The existence of the "brain hole" secret technique can be said to have contributed greatly to the Soul Clock Tower becoming a dominant force back then.

And according to what they saw from the soul cultivation manual given by Shan Xi, among the three "brain hole" secret techniques, the one that has the greatest increase in soul strength and power is the "Ascension Secret Technique", the one that has the greatest increase in soul potential and potential level is the "Origin Secret Technique", and the one that has the greatest increase in soul regeneration ability and life-saving ability is the "Spirit Awakening Secret Technique".

Among the records he had seen, the most famous record of the 'Secret Art of Awakening the Soul' was the inheritor of a seventh-order soul clock tower system. After practicing the Secret Art of Awakening the Soul to the 'Five Holes' level, he successfully formed a residual soul after his own death, setting a record for the lowest level of residual soul, which has not been broken to this day.

It can be said that those guys in the soul system who practice the secret art of awakening souls are just like the undead system in the ordinary system. The existence of the body is nothing more than a shell to accommodate the soul for these people. As long as the soul can be stuffed in, let alone their own corpse, even if they use the corpse of a mule, they can still perform two backflips on the spot.

As for how Xin Lailai determined that the brain hole in the instigator's head was opened by the secret technique of awakening the soul? This was due to the secrets and little common sense of the soul system that Kagus told him and Ling Yuzi.

According to Kagus, if you meet someone from the Soul Clock Tower faction and they have a particularly bad temper and start a fight after just a few words, then there is a high probability that this guy is using the 'Secret Art of Ascension' to open his mind.

If a person is extremely silent, is in a daze and absent-minded all day long, and talks about all kinds of life philosophies as soon as he opens his mouth, acting like a master of philosophy, then this person is most likely using the 'Secret Art of Origin' to open his mind.

And if the whole person is nervous, has a bad memory, speaks incoherently, and makes people wonder if he just escaped from a mental hospital, then there is no doubt that this guy must have used the "secret art of awakening the spirit" to open his brain.

"Tsk, that's why I hate people who read too much! They're not interesting at all!"

On the ground, the headless "corpse" who knew that he could not hide, snorted with disgust, stood up from the ground, dusted himself off, and took out a human head with a hole in the forehead, wrapped in plastic wrap, from the storage space. After removing the plastic wrap, he attached it to his own head.

"Hmm? It seems to be a little stuck? Xiaocheng, come over here and help me turn it a few times. It seems that this head has been stored for too long and its shelf life has expired!"

"Master, you connected it the wrong way. The spine is not aligned."

"Oh! I just felt something was wrong. Sorry, could you please wait for me a moment, Black Sword?"

Boom!

The instigator responded with a deafening roar, and in the distance, a blood-red giant as big as a mountain was walking step by step towards the direction where Xin Lailai was.

"war!!"

"I know, I know. Don't push me anymore. Can't you understand our difficulties? I just managed to get a head connected. If it explodes again, it will be very troublesome."

A roar that was enough to shatter an ordinary person alive exploded from the battlefield. The instigator, who was turning his head, waved his hands helplessly and sighed.

Xin Lailai looked at the instigator who was turning his head like turning a valve in front of him, and didn't say much.

Kagus had already told him how weird people who used the secret art of awakening spirits were, so the other party's performance was actually within his expectations.

"Ah! I'm fine! Haha, I finally got it right!"

The next second, an excited shout was heard, and the instigator who had just had his head connected twisted his neck, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with his joints, he immediately clapped his hands in excitement to celebrate. "Well, Xiaolan, why are you all silent? And Black Sword, didn't you just say you wanted to merge..."

The instigator, who had received the spare head, turned his head while muttering to himself, and saw a huge bloody foot that was rapidly enlarging in his sight and whizzing towards him. The figure of the noble girl had retreated to his rear, and the black-haired young man had moved to the air over a hundred meters away.

"Ah?"

boom--! !

The next second, a huge foot that was more than ten meters wide and nearly twenty meters long stepped down heavily, causing the entire earth to tremble twice. A large amount of glass-like objects that were fired at high temperatures in the previous battles flew up along with the shock wave, refracting bits of crystal light under the night sky.

then……

"That was a close call! I almost died again."

A nervous voice sounded from mid-air. The instigator had moved to mid-air without anyone noticing. He was held there in a princess hug by Sylvie, who was still in the state of smoke. He looked down at the scene below and whistled.

"Hehe, yes, so how are you going to repay me this time?"

A charming laugh like a silver bell came from Sylvester's mouth. Sylvester deliberately restored her upper body to normal, then swallowed the instigator's arm with her full breasts, licked his cheek, and blew hot air into the corners of his eyes.

"Well...how about I lend my cat to you, Xiaowei, to play with?"

The instigator looked at Sylvester in front of him, and after thinking seriously for half a second, he picked up the white cat that was standing on the other's shoulder and wrapped around the noble girl with its nine furry tails, and stood between him and Sylvester.

"Meow?"

The white cat, who was suddenly pulled out as a shield, blinked its eyes and showed a confused look.

"No, the cat is already someone else's, so you can't use the cat to make up for it this time, Dong!"

Sylvie smiled charmingly, and pressed her long and slender index finger on the top of the instigator's lips, sliding it all the way down, and finally pressing it on the other's lower lip and prying it gently.

"So, this time, let someone teach you, A-dong..."

"Roar--!!"

Before Sylvester could finish her words, a violent roar suddenly exploded from below, interrupting Sylvester's words.

The blood-red giant, whose attack was fruitless, roared and stomped his right foot forward heavily, causing the ground within a radius of hundreds of meters around him to collapse instantly. Then the flesh wings behind him spread open with a bang. The nearly 500-meter-long flesh wings were like two huge curtains, covering the entire Vatican. The impact of the spread created a huge storm on the spot in an instant.

"war!!"

boom--! !

The huge wings flapped heavily, stirring up a storm, and the blood-red giant's huge body, which was two hundred meters tall, suddenly lifted up a lot, like a mountain that suddenly jumped into the air, and rushed towards the direction of the few people with terrifying power.

"Tsk, what a fool you are."

Sylvies in mid-air looked at this scene with a hint of displeasure in her eyes, but she was still very sensible and did not choose to confront the opponent head-on. Instead, she decisively dodged to the side with the white cat held in the hands of the instigator, the instigator and the noble girl, avoiding the collision of the blood-red giant.

"Hey, the one called Black Sword, don't you want to cooperate with us? Why don't you take some practical actions? Weren't you casting spells so majestically before? Why are you suddenly unwilling to use them now?!"

Sylvie dodged the attack, glanced at the black-haired young man who was standing calmly in the air not far away, and asked in a somewhat unfriendly tone.

"This incarnation is nothing but a shell. Killing it here will just spawn another one somewhere else."

An indifferent voice came from Xin Lailai's mouth. He glanced at the three people and one cat who were huddled together like a family photo, and explained.

From the moment the lord incarnation appeared, he had discovered that although the other party had obtained the power bonus of the lord core, there was no so-called lord core in his body at all. This was one of the reasons why he did not rush to take action, but instead prioritized asking the instigator for cooperation.

Paradise's warning information and his detection information cannot be false. The Lord's core resides in the Lord's body, which is an unshakable fact.

——The lord’s core is within the lord’s body.

——The lord-like body in front of him does not have a lord core.

If you put these two points together, the answer is obvious:

"Roar--!!"

On the battlefield, the blood-red giant that rose into the sky turned around and roared towards the direction of Xin Lailai. A circle of visible shock waves rushed out of its mouth, and the air was severely distorted wherever it passed.

then……

Clang!
A sharp sound of sword collision suddenly exploded in mid-air. Xin Lailai, who had been concentrating on the attack in front of him in the previous second, suddenly turned around and slashed behind himself with a sword. The Yuan Mo in his hand collided heavily with the blood-red sword that suddenly appeared behind him.

A circle of blood-colored ripples spread out from mid-air. The blood-colored figure, who had failed in his attack, did not hesitate at all and decisively drew his sword and fled far away. But at the moment he made the move, a large number of translucent crystal threads suddenly bloomed from the end of the Yuan Mo in Xin Lailai's hand, instantly entwining the blood-colored sword in front of him, causing the momentum of his retraction to slightly stagnate.

Snapped!
The next moment, all the crystal threads wrapped around the blood-red sword blade broke, but in this moment of pause, a palm successfully touched the body of the owner of the blood-red sword blade.

boom--! !

The demonic power wrapped around the black-haired young man's palm exploded, and the violent demonic power collided with the blood barrier on the bloody figure's body, instantly annihilating it and blasting out its true appearance.

"Is that so?"

Xin Lailai looked at the true face of the bloody figure in front of him, without any surprise in his eyes, as if he had already expected this scene:
In front of him, there was a young man with a piece of flesh and blood inlaid on his chest and armor formed by blood-colored tentacles wrapped around his body. He was holding a blood-colored sword and staring at him with red eyes full of madness.

Compared with the youth's demeanor, what deserves more attention is actually the youth's identity:

It was none other than the violator who chose to escape immediately after the giant cocoon representing the core of the lord descended - Blood Prison!
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(End of this chapter)