Chapter 435 — Killing Until No One Dares Fight

For now, though, what people wanted to know was whether Shi Jin, blasted out of sight by a single blow from the Fiery Dragon King, was alive or dead.

If dead, he should at least have turned into a totem by now.

If alive, then where was he?

"He's fine. He suddenly got stronger and canceled out that blow," the World Tree avatar, the Boar God, said in surprise, staring at the shattered arena.

From the fiery abyss of the crater in the ground, amid ragged coughing, Shi Jin slowly flew up.

His clothes were now in tatters, but the man himself looked relatively intact; even his expression betrayed little out of the ordinary.

"Hah—" Shi Jin's arms had all but transformed into enormous phoenix wings, the Flame of Regeneration mending his injuries. Floating slowly upward, he landed atop a stone pillar and raised his head to look up at the Fiery Dragon King.

His expression was anything but friendly.

"Hm???" The Fiery Dragon King's expression shifted, eyes full of shock—he had not expected the boy to still be alive.

How was that possible? Even a dragon—another invincible overlord—should have been gravely wounded by that strike.

Why did this human look completely unhurt? Even with recovery skills, it should not have been this thorough!

"Shi Jin is fine!"

"Look, he's flown out again."

"Maybe he should just stop fighting." Over on the Imperial Capital University side, Yin Huan looked worried. True, Shi Jin had done any number of unscientific and utterly outrageous things in his eyes, but his opponent was the heir of a demigod faction—a power that had once driven ancient Donghuang to the brink of collapse.

This opponent was different from all the others; it was basically impossible for another miracle to happen.

Yin Huan, the youngster who had crossed blades with Shi Jin several times, had already admitted he was no match for Shi Jin and hoped Shi Jin would keep pulling off miracles. But now he only worried for Shi Jin's safety and hoped Shi Jin would not push himself.

"He'll be all right, won't he? This is the first time I've seen Brother Shi Jin struggle this much." Seeing that Shi Jin was unharmed, Zheng Hai and the others breathed a sigh of relief. First they had been stunned by Shi Jin's astonishing possession ability, but right after that they were cowed by the Fiery Dragon King's absurd strength.

Zheng Hai had seen his master's strength. The Fiery Dragon King's power might still fall short of the Bahai Legend going all out, but it had already completely surpassed the Legendary standard. Paired with its Beastmaster, it could already be called "titled Legendary."

"This human must not be left alive."

"Punkham, the Fiery Dragon King—kill him."

Voices kept rising from the Totem Nation side as well.

At this moment, though they had learned that Blue Star had external enemies, having witnessed Shi Jin's terrifying potential, the great Totem Nations instantly

sensed the threat Shi Jin posed.

This fellow, in his level-six form paired with a king-tier undead, already had power comparable to an invincible overlord. If he broke through to Legendary with the World Tree branch sap, and his pets reached overlord tier as well—how terrifying would that be?

Could he threaten true totem tier?

Right now, every totem faction that had entered the World Tournament hoped that in this battle Punkham, the Fiery Dragon King, would finish Shi Jin off—even if it meant turning him into a totem undead and eliminating him that way.

The boy could not be allowed to keep competing. He could not be allowed to break through to level seven. He had to be strangled while still at level six.

"ROAR!!!" At this moment, seeing that the level-six Shi Jin had successfully withstood one of its blows, Punkham the Fiery Dragon King sensed an enormous threat in him and knew the boy could not be allowed to continue in the tournament.

Otherwise, once he broke through, he would inevitably become its third deadly threat, after the Thunder Crown Rubber Divine Tree and the Azure Dragon Crown Prince.

"It's my turn now, isn't it." Just as Punkham the Fiery Dragon King was thinking how to end Shi Jin's life, Shi Jin lifted his head slightly. His arms, transformed into phoenix wings, reverted to normal, and a flame sword spirit reappeared in his hand.

"I didn't want to use this state, but it seems that without it, beating you will be difficult."

"The price this state demands—you'll pay it with your life."

Shi Jin raised his head, his crimson pupils now tinged with a ring of

sinister purple.

To defeat Punkham, Shi Jin had three options: first, activate the Taiji Domain to assist Red Pupil; second, send out Ginseng Baby to fight alongside him; third, still fight with Red Pupil, but unleash their full combat power!!!

Just now, the super-tier skills Red Pupil used had all been racial skills, none of them above perfect proficiency, so even combined, they were no match for Punkham.

But they had more than racial skills. They also had super-tier taught skills raised to perfect proficiency, custom-made for Red Pupil!!!

Perfect-tier, Demon Blade Curse; perfect-tier, Resurrection of the Dead!!

The former could store within the body the curses of slain living beings and release them when needed, entering a cursed state that traded enormous side effects for far greater combat power.

The latter could turn slain life into undead puppets. At present, Red Pupil's undead space already held three overlord-tier puppets.

A moment ago, Shi Jin and Red Pupil had already pushed their burst to its near limit—but that was only the limit under normal circumstances, the limit Shi Jin could endure.

If there was a limit he could endure, there was naturally one he could not. It looked unbearable, but in this ultimate burst state, all the burden could be shifted onto the undead puppets through the combo of Body Double and Resurrection of the Dead.

In this state, Shi Jin was invincible, with the undead puppets as

The attack of a sacrificial offering would strike terror even into a Totem.

It would cause the undead puppet to collapse and die completely.

So Shi Jin basically never used it. However, if he used this combined ultimate secret art as a premise, then slaying a new, stronger lifeform and refining it into the next undead puppet—that would be no problem.

"I hope no one else will repeat your mistake." Shi Ying's words were like an echo from a cold hell, reverberating in the Flame Dragon King's ears, making it want to sneer while simultaneously revealing an incomparably grave expression.

Then, an expression of utter shock.

Before the Flame Dragon King could even react to where this sense of crisis was coming from, a violent fluctuation suddenly erupted from Shi Jin's body. The red flames on his body all transformed into utterly evil purple flames!!!

A sky-blotting sea of purple flame instantly dyed the heavens and earth, startling everyone.

Did Shi Jin have other trump cards?!

"This is—" The World Tree clone and the Boar God, and even one demigod legend after another, could all sense the even more terrifying, more sinister power erupting from Shi Jin.

This evil power made even the Totem Nation Overlords who had killed countless beings tremble in their hearts.

At this very moment, the air currents around Shi Jin suddenly churned. A towering purple aura enveloped his entire body, burning his crimson hair and crimson eyes into purple hair and purple eyes.

"Mew, mew, mew." In Shi Jin's hand, beneath the greedy, yandere-like voice of Crimson Pupil, this domain-like purple flame seemed to burn through space itself. One Overlord undead puppet after another was summoned forth by Crimson Pupil through Undead Revival.