157: Chapter 157 No Moon!

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Su Ming slowly raised the lieyuan spear.

The spear tip pointed downward.

Hanging by his side.

Like someone about to face death, he had let go of all defenses.

His movements were slow.

So slow that it didn't seem like a posture one should have in battle.

The Heaven-Devouring King Python's golden vertical pupils contracted violently.

It saw the human who had just crawled back from death; the aura on his body had changed.

Like a blade that had been re-sharpened.

Su Ming's mind was completely clear.

The decisiveness of Treading the Wasteland, the annihilation of Moon-Slaying, the unstoppable nature of World-Piercing—the three merged at that very moment of death.

The three were no longer three distinct paths.

They were three sides of the same path.

The layer of window paper shattered, and he saw a smooth, open path ahead.

A point of purple light condensed at the tip of the spear.

It was faint.

Like the last star before dawn.

Sharp intent, killing intent, and conviction, along with every shred of power from the Desolate Heaven Bone Spine in his bones, were all converging toward the spear tip.

Sacrifice!

As the purple light gathered, his HP began to plummet!

90%!

Blood Qi was forcibly extracted from the nine hidden acupoints, bypassing the Meridians, skipping the cycle, and pouring directly into the lieyuan spear.

The spear body trembled.

Dense, purple-black patterns emerged on its surface.

It was as if some ancient Spirit Inscription was awakening on the spear.

80%!

Su Ming's complexion turned pale, the color draining from his face.

His lips turned purple.

His eye sockets sank.

He seemed to be aging rapidly, the blood vessels under his skin visibly collapsing.

The purple light at the spear tip was expanding.

Condensing!

Emitting a suffocating sharpness.

70%!

The Heaven-Devouring King Python's vertical pupils contracted sharply.

Fear!

Unease!

Its three hundred years of instinct were screaming.

An intense unease welled up from the depths of its Soul!

It had seen this human's World-Piercing strike.

That strike was indeed terrifying, but it had a limit; it could withstand it. But this move in front of it...

It was different!

That sharpness was still climbing!

There was no sign of it stopping!

That point of purple light was like a thorn piercing into its eyes; every time it expanded, its unease intensified.

"Die!"

It moved.

The Heaven-Devouring King Python opened its massive maw.

"Hum—!"

Its massive python body suddenly coiled and tightened, with itself as the center, a gray-white Protective Aura storm crushed outward in all directions!

The storm covered a radius of one kilometer!

An area-of-effect skill.

A suppression skill nearing the Domain level!

The gray-white Protective Aura turned into countless threads, piercing through the air, piercing through his Protective Aura, and wrapping around Su Ming's body!

Stripping!

The Blood Qi on the surface of his body was being pulled away strand by strand.

Like countless invisible leeches clinging to his skin and sucking his blood.

The extracted Blood Qi turned into gray-white light spots, flying toward the Heaven-Devouring King Python and sinking into the gaps between its scales.

It was sucking his blood to recover itself!

The shocking wounds on the Heaven-Devouring King Python were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Damn!

It can play like this too?

60%!

His HP was plummeting faster under the dual consumption!

His own sacrifice plus the passive stripping.

The numbers were like a runaway timer, spilling wildly!

50%!

The storm's stripping...

Was too slow.

Su Ming's mouth twitched.

The Heaven-Devouring King Python's area suppression was indeed terrifying; if it were any other Level 5 Martial Artist, they would have already been stripped into a dried corpse, but the speed at which Su Ming was pouring his life into the spear was much faster than its stripping speed!

It was scraping skin on the outside.

He was bleeding out on the inside.

The purple light at the spear tip became increasingly sharp, cutting the air into countless tiny air vortices, emitting sharp hissing sounds.

40%!

His body was withering.

Muscles collapsing.

His complexion turned from pale to ash-gray.

He looked like a specimen drained of all moisture.

30%!

Su Ming's vision began to blur.

His ears were buzzing.

Was it enough? Not enough!

Still a little short.

The Heaven-Devouring King Python felt the crisis.

A real crisis!

The energy density of that mass of purple light had already exceeded the peak of his World-Piercing strike!

And it was still rising!

The Protective Aura storm intensified!

The gray-white light curtain compressed!

It wrapped around Su Ming until his whole body was covered in gray-white light spots; the entire space was strangling this reckless human!

Within the range of the storm.

The ground sank several meters overall.

The gravel and soil of the earth were lifted up in sheets, turning into powder and dissipating in the air.

20%!

Su Ming's body was swaying.

Like a piece of dead wood about to fall, but his left hand gripping the spear was incredibly steady.

The spear tip remained motionless.

15%!

The lieyuan spear let out a long Dragon roar.

All the purple-black patterns on the spear body lit up, connecting from the tail to the tip into a complete light vein.

12%.

11%.

10%...

"Boom!"

Deep within the Desolate Heaven Bone Spine.

—Indomitable Killing Intent, triggered!

Full-Stack Overlapping Waves instantly filled his entire body! 300% + 1200% attack power bonus, layered on top of that already terrifyingly extreme purple light!

Su Ming's aura surged at this moment!

The energy fluctuation erupting from his Level 5 early-stage shell made even the Heaven-Devouring King Python's vertical pupils tremble.

Su Ming looked up.

In his eyes was a deathly calm.

He looked at the massive python head above him.

His withered white lips moved.

He softly spat out two words.

Spear thrust.

"No Moon."

From bottom to top.

An upward swipe.

The lieyuan spear traced an arc.

No sound.

All sounds in heaven and earth disappeared at this moment; the wind stopped, the air stilled, even the humming of the Heaven-Devouring King Python's Protective Aura storm came to an abrupt halt.

The whole world went deaf at this moment.

A dark purple arc of light bloomed from the spear tip.

Silent.

Invisible.

On a No Moon night, all things perish.

The arc of light swept across the Heaven-Devouring King Python's head.

From the center of its jaw, all the way up.

The python head split open.

Into left and right halves.

The cut surface was as smooth as a mirror; brain matter, shattered bone, and blood slowly overflowed in the vacuum-like silence.

A final trace of disbelief remained in its pupils.

The arc of light did not stop.

It continued to rise.

It swept across the python body.

The hundred-meter giant body coiling in mid-air was cut horizontally into several sections.

Each cross-section was incredibly clean, as if some force beyond physics had erased all matter at the seams.

The first section fell.

The second.

The third.

"Boom! Boom! Boom-boom—!"

Several sections of the python body slammed onto the wasteland one after another, the ground collapsed, and gravel shot into the sky.

The arc of light continued to extend.

In the distance, a three-hundred-meter-high mountain peak stood on the wasteland.

The arc of light swept across the mountain waist.

Silently.

The upper half of the mountain peak slid slightly.

Then... it slowly tilted and collapsed, tens of thousands of tons of rock crashed down, and the rising dust obscured half the sky.

The arc of light still did not stop.

It dragged a straight gully across the earth.

One kilometer, five kilometers, ten kilometers, twenty kilometers... until the end of sight.

A crack ran across the wasteland, intersecting diagonally with the abyss carved out by 'World-Piercing' three days ago.

Like a new scar added to the earth.

Sound returned.

The wind returned.

The belated shockwave, carrying the stench of blood and gravel, swept out from the epicenter in all directions.

Su Ming knelt on one knee.

The lieyuan spear was planted in front of him, supporting his last bit of strength to remain standing.

Blood Qi hit zero.

The ten seconds of Indomitable Killing Intent had three seconds left.

But it was already meaningless.

He looked up at the pile of python body parts broken into several sections in front of him.

The light in the golden vertical pupils was fading, and that pitch-black crack closed forever.

"Hoo..."

Su Ming spat out a breath of bloody, turbid air.

The System prompt exploded in his mind.

[Killed Heaven-Devouring King Python, refinement points + 957]

[Spirituality detected: King Pythons Heaven-Suppressing Edict]

[Can consume 4000 refinement points to refine the opponent's spirituality to enhance yourself.]

[Refine?]

Su Ming leaned on the lieyuan spear.

Kneeling on one knee.

Breathing heavily.

His Blood Qi was bottomed out, the Nine Apertures Psychic True Interpretation was barely maintaining the minimum operation, and there wasn't a place on his entire body that didn't hurt.

But he was smiling.

His mouth crooked, revealing a mouthful of bloody white teeth.

Damn!

Awesome!

"No Moon."

This move, No Moon...