Chapter 1204: Ultimate Synergy The Giant Warrior and Curse Mage's Extraordinary Output

At this moment, Xu Xiaoshou's heart was filled with countless green plants.

In his mind, the image of Tian Ren Wu Sui as all-powerful collapsed in an instant. This old thing couldn't beat Er Hao at all!

If you can't win, why pretend so convincingly?

You even fooled me into thinking you could take on this Tianji Shen Shi single-handedly! Xu Xiaoshou felt a mix of anger, amusement, and a touch of emotion.

What was Tian Ren Wu Sui's real goal?

He knew full well he couldn't defeat the Tianji Shen Shi, yet he still charged in to save people...

Aside from scheming for something grand and risking a price even he couldn't afford, Xu Xiaoshou couldn't think of any other reason.

Whoosh!

On the horizon, Er Hao finished a kick that interrupted all of Tian Ren Wu Sui's attacks, then flashed to another position. The out-of-control Tian Ren Wu Sui let out a wail as his body was flung away, just like Er Hao had been when he couldn't control his form under Xu Xiaoshou's sword earlier.

But now, the tables had turned.

Thud.

Another kick.

This time, Tian Ren Wu Sui couldn't predict it and had to take it head-on.

In combat mode, Er Hao's physical strength was clearly far superior. Tian Ren Wu Sui was kicked in the waist, his body convulsing before barely transforming into a mist of decay.

He was already extremely weakened.

Yet, as his body split in two, Tian Ren Wu Sui roared in fury once more.

"Xu... Xiao... Shou—"

"Damn it!"

Xu Xiaoshou couldn't stay put any longer.

If there had been any doubt before, those wails confirmed it for both him and Er Hao. Tian Ren Wu Sui's combat awareness was no match for Er Hao in combat mode.

Or perhaps, even without combat mode, Er Hao was too fast for him. Once caught in a combo, Tian Ren Wu Sui was like a ball, getting kicked around endlessly!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Er Hao's figure appeared in an instant above the two scattered halves of Tian Ren Wu Sui's body, delivering simultaneous vengeful kicks.

He had been played too—thinking Tian Ren Wu Sui was so strong! Turns out, that's all he's got?

Thud! Thud!

Tian Ren Wu Sui's body split into four pieces, with flesh flying everywhere.

At least his physical body was tough. If it had been someone like Han Ye, a semi-saint, he'd have lost consciousness by now. Xu Xiaoshou made his move.

He dispelled his invisibility technique and reached toward the heart area of the headless Yu Ling Di, aiming to attack the enemy by striking at his support. He remembered that under the San Yan Tong, Yu Ling Di had unconsciously mentioned "heart."

Whether it was the "heart" as in the organ or something else, getting to the Men of the Secondary Face must be related to it!

But as soon as Xu Xiaoshou's hand touched Yu Ling Di...

Er Hao, who had been beating the four "corpse" segments of Tian Ren Wu Sui, appeared directly at the bronze ding—arriving by a swift kick.

"Shit!"

Xu Xiaoshou cursed angrily and quickly used his invisibility technique.

Whoosh, Er Hao's violent kick sliced through like a blade but missed Xu Xiaoshou in his invisible state. Failing the strike, Er Hao vanished, moving so fast he left four afterimages in the sky.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The four bloody segments belonging to Tian Ren Wu Sui, after Er Hao squeezed in a kick at Xu Xiaoshou, hadn't even regained mobility before each was exploded into eight pieces.

"This is insane..."

Xu Xiaoshou's face turned green at the sight.

Damn, so this is "combat mode"?

With one person suppressing two semi-saint level forces while still guarding the headless body of Yu Ling Di... It was terrifying!

How do you even fight a Tianji Shen Shi?

"Hit him directly, you idiot—don't maneuver around! He's always faster than you!"

Tian Ren Wu Sui's body, divided into eight segments, still wasn't dead and hadn't passed out. He even shouted insults.

"You think you're so tough? Just this?" Xu Xiaoshou shot back without hesitation.

Even as he said it, he gritted his teeth and transformed into a berserk giant, wielding the Four Swords as he charged at Er Hao, slamming down with one.

Er Hao swayed lightly, and the Four Swords missed.

Almost simultaneously, as a "ambush detected" alert popped up, Xu Xiaoshou hurriedly blocked with Yan Mang.

In an instant, a massive force hit his back, shattering the internals of his berserk giant form and forcing his true body to materialize.

"Pah!"

One kick turned the giant into a dwarf; the transformation broke, and Xu Xiaoshou spat blood, his injuries healing rapidly. "At least it's just shock damage."

As that thought flashed, Xu Xiaoshou glanced in horror to see Er Hao already in front... Wait!

Up, left, right!

How were there Er Haos everywhere? Clones?

No, it was his speed!

One person, one kick, about to tear me apart right here? Terrified, Xu Xiaoshou tried to use his invisibility technique.

But then, from afar, the dismembered Tian Ren Wu Sui seized the moment of Xu Xiaoshou's danger to catch his breath. "Don't vanish! Are you a coward? Just hold him off for three breaths—three breaths is enough!"

"Three breaths?" Xu Xiaoshou was so angry his lungs felt like bursting. "You try it! I can't even hold for half a breath!" But even as he said it...

Knowing Tian Ren Wu Sui was essentially a curse master who needed a front-line tank to create opportunities, and recalling their tacit coordination from the last fight against Ye Xiao... Xu Xiaoshou clenched his teeth and endured, continuing to act as the shield.

What a miserable life... "Zhi Jie Force Field." "Explosion Stance." "Great Devour." "Immovable Ming Wang."

In a flash, Xu Xiaoshou activated his four awakening skills and detonated his self-exploding domain on his body surface.

He went berserk, igniting all sorts of energy in his qi sea, even trying to revert to his berserk giant form to lessen the pain. But after the giant was kicked apart, it couldn't be activated temporarily.

This was Xu Xiaoshou's latest discovery—he used to activate it autonomously and shut it down before it broke. This was the first time he'd encountered something absurd enough to shatter even the berserk giant in one kick!

Whoosh.

Er Hao vanished.

With all defenses up and no kick landing, Xu Xiaoshou already felt pain assaulting him from everywhere.

But to his shock, this Tianji Shen Shi had disappeared!

He hadn't kicked; instead, while Xu Xiaoshou was immobilized, he went elsewhere!

"Holy shit!"

Realizing this, Xu Xiaoshou's emotions were a jumbled mess.

In that moment, he even wanted to drag Dao Qiong Cang out and smash him to pieces for creating such a disgusting thing!

In his sluggish state, his "perception" saw Er Hao flash to the bronze ding and casually drip another drop of sacred blood into the headless Yu Ling Di.

Then, Er Hao went to the barely connected, self-repairing, and undefended Tian Ren Wu Sui. One kick.

Boom!

Xu Xiaoshou's self-exploding domain erupted. Tian Ren Wu Sui was kicked apart again.

"Xu... Xiao... Shou!"

"What the hell are you doing?!"

Tian Ren Wu Sui, blasted into pieces of flesh, still wasn't dead and let out a hysterical, insane roar. "My, my..."

Xu Xiaoshou, who hadn't even held for half a breath let alone three, felt a bit ashamed, but the next second, he snapped back and retorted,

"You've got to be kidding! I couldn't hold him—don't expect miracles from me!"

"You have to hold him, even if you can't."

"You do it then, if you're so capable—stop yelling!"

"Is this how you talk to someone saving your ass?"

At that point, Er Hao was stunned—not by the infighting, but by the strangeness of it all.

Xu Xiaoshou had invisibility, a strong body, and rapid recovery; he'd only been hit a few times, so it made sense he wasn't dead. But Tian Ren Wu Sui was shredded to pulp and still talking?

What kind of constitution was that?

Was his Decaying Body that special?

Er Hao frowned, his movements pausing slightly.

Even if it seemed impossible, his internal database deduced a frightening conclusion. Meanwhile, the noisy arguing continued on the battlefield:

"Are you an idiot? Hug him and self-destruct—how's that any different from just dying?"

Tian Ren Wu Sui's voice, full of frustration, echoed from the pieces of flesh all around.

"You hug one and try!" Xu Xiaoshou thought this Yan Wang member was utterly ridiculous. Was his life the only one that mattered? Mine wasn't worth anything?

Last time, it was his second true body that exploded, not Xu Xiaoshou himself!

Do it again, and it wouldn't be an attack—it'd be suicide!

"Where's your trump card? Use it—why hide it now?"

Tian Ren Wu Sui was about to lose his mind.

"Are you seriously sick? I used all my trump cards ages ago!"

"You always hide things so well—you must have one last trick, pull it out!"

"My last trick is you, damn it!"

With Xu Xiaoshou's roar, Tian Ren Wu Sui's voice cut off abruptly, as if choked.

Er Hao was amused too, nearly laughing.

So stupid.

These two had no synergy at all.

They'd each treated the other as their trump card.

In the end, the cards were all played early, with no hidden hands left.

"It's now!"

"It's now!"

As Er Hao's thoughts paused, two voices—one hoarse and aged, the other excited and young—roared out in unison.

Er Hao's pupils shrank. A trap?!

When did they reach a consensus?

Er Hao blinked, and suddenly, a double-winged black demon berserk giant appeared before him.

The giant stood on the Cheng Shi Ice Lotus, enveloped in white flames, with ten thousand swords bowing above its head and nine dragons of Fen Zu on its back. It exuded an aura that swallowed mountains and rivers!

Absolute Imperial Rule!

Boom! In a dual assault, just from eye contact, Er Hao's mind thundered like a lightning strike, stunning him.

But as a Tianji Shen Shi, he wasn't greatly affected by such momentum.

Almost instantly, Er Hao recovered, his body turning silver and expanding to a thousand zhang tall!

Yet at that very moment, in the distance, a crimson Xue Shi Zhu rose abruptly.

A flash of non-combat mode crimson passed through Er Hao's eyes, and his thoughts stalled briefly.

When he regained focus, he saw the double-winged black demon berserk giant in front, its hands cracking and turning dry, withered, like charred wood.

"Come on!"

"Keep hitting me!"

"Why'd you stop? That's not like you, Tianji Shen Shi!"

The giant vented its inner frustration wildly.

The enlarged Wuxiu Chi Jiao Hand, just as Er Hao had once smashed Tian Ren Wu Sui's head, delivered a vicious double strike to the silver giant's ears.

"Shatter!"

Boom! Space distorted instantly.

The Wuxiu Chi Jiao Hand flattened Er Hao's head in defense mode on the spot.

The force spread, cracking his body below with fissures.

The vertical shockwave tore through space in an instant, blasting upward toward Zui Yi Dian's sky and downward to Zhen Huang Dian's depths, then exploding outward.

Thunder roared like a calamity, drawing all eyes.

And it wasn't over!

The two energy seeds compressed in the giant's palms were shaken loose by the strike and embedded directly into Er Hao's mangled ear canals.

Xu Xiaoshou succeeded with the hit, then kneed the immobilized silver giant upward, sending it flying to a position perfect for his next attack.

Then, Xu Xiaoshou thrust forward with built-up momentum, like twin dragons seizing pearls, slamming both palms into Er Hao's chest and blasting him into the spatial fragments.

Boom—

The void shattered.

Space hurled a long, black torrent northward from Zhen Huang Dian at a speed too fast for the eye.

Far away, the out-of-control Er Hao was ejected from the spatial fragments, and then a deafening explosion rang in his skull. Boom!!

The massive blast first expanded Er Hao's body from a thousand zhang to even larger.

The invisible shockwave pushed out in all directions from Zui Yi Dian, demolishing the maze walls. Then, the terrifying aftereffects overflowed from Er Hao's cracked wounds.

Some were absorbed, some expelled... each trying to restore him.

But the first wave of the internal explosion had already sent Er Hao into a dazed, unconscious state.

Tian Ren Wu Sui, barely repairing his ruined body from behind, looked up and was stunned by the scene. He glanced at the double-winged black demon berserk giant and nearly forgot to act.

So strong?

Just exploiting one flaw, and even the Tianji Shen Shi was sent flying?

Had Xu Xiaoshou grown this powerful?

"Why are you standing there? He can't possibly die that easily!"

Xu Xiaoshou turned and shouted, immediately dispelling the double-winged black demon berserk giant form and beginning to heal his nearly shattered body.

It was terrifying.

Even beating a non-resistant Tianji Shen Shi had shaken him to pieces.

Imagine how monstrous Er Hao's defense mode was in combat!

As he recovered, Xu Xiaoshou looked toward Tian Ren Wu Sui.

He had no finishing move; he'd have to escape after patching himself up. If Tian Ren Wu Sui had no finisher either...

That would be perfect—use this brief lull to scatter and flee, each to their own fate.

"The space is still sealed!"

Xu Xiaoshou probed and found that as long as Er Hao wasn't completely done for, the space lock wouldn't lift. He felt desperate.

Just then, as if saluting Xu Xiaoshou's feat of blasting the combat mode Tianji Shen Shi, Tian Ren Wu Sui pressed his right hand to his left chest and bowed slightly toward the distant Er Hao.

"Degenerate Three Rites, Bowing Rite."

The Xue Shi Zhu hummed and brightened intensely, its crimson light illuminating everything.

It seemed Heaven Dao and Sheng Dao couldn't bear this bow, manifesting with a boom before decaying and degenerating, exploding into shattered decay blocks.

Countless dao principles degenerated, endless space collapsed.

For tens of thousands of li around, even Zui Yi Dian's maze walls rotted and fractured.

Under Tian Ren Wu Sui's will, everything in heaven and earth went mad, turning into decay gas that endlessly poured into Er Hao's cracked body.

Er Hao's body, not yet restored, darkened in an instant.

Like a flawless jade suddenly tainted, it lost all luster, becoming like rotten stone.

Thud.

Er Hao's arm rotted and fell.

Thud, thud, thud...

His body turned into chunks of parts, crumbling and falling, shattering on contact with the spatial fragments, brittle as biscuit crumbs.