A pained scream arose as a flying bat monster was cleanly cleaved into two pieces by the sharp Mountain and River Sword.
Even because the sword was so fast, its body maintained its original shape for a moment before suddenly splitting in half.
The Mountain and River Sword, having been enhanced last time, was now even closer to achieving a purple level.
It had transformed from Mountain River Sword·Refined to Mountain River Sword·Thousand Forged, with a drastically increased power.
Initially, Zhang Xiaoman had some reservations and didn’t go all out in the fight.
After all, the monsters around him were numerous, and he dared not be too reckless.
However, after he withstood an attack from one of the monsters with a Magic Shield, he was surprised to find that he hadn’t lost any Dark Energy at all; the monster couldn’t breach his defense!
Instantly, his heart, hidden like a swift storm, started to pulse with excitement.
Zhang Xiaoman executed a Stepping Forward Slash, instantly appearing behind a monster, and swung his Mountain and River Sword, immediately decapitating it.
He now realized that with various buffs, his defensive power had reached a terrifying level.
Constitution Enhancement, Holy Knight Aura, Iron Armor Spell, Magic Shield, Holy Star Ring—adding up all these statuses, these First Order little monsters simply couldn’t hurt him.
Feeling confident, Zhang Xiaoman began to let loose, consecutively using the Stepping Forward Slash, harvesting the lives of the monsters one by one.
Now, being within the range of the Sword Array, he wouldn’t even consume much physical strength.
This was because of a Sword Array— Transforming Heaven and Earth— which effectively solved the problem of endurance in prolonged battles.
The effect of Transforming Heaven and Earth was to convert physical attacks received into physical strength and energy attacks into energy.
This conversion mechanism happened before the effectiveness of Zhang Xiaoman’s defensive skills, absorbing the incoming attacks.
This resulted in the monsters’ attacks not only failing to injure the human before them but inadvertently restoring some of his physical strength as well.
Although due to the current level of his skills, this conversion ratio wasn’t very high, far from achieving a perpetual motion effect, it still offered significant help in such battles.
Finally, after several minutes of intense fighting, the squad of attacking flying bats was almost completely annihilated.
Unable to fly, they could hardly escape, leaving their backs exposed to the Star Guard, only hastening their demise.
Zhang Xiaoman didn’t know how far he was from the Dimension Rift, but he guessed that the noise from his fighting must have been heard by other creatures.
At that moment, he simply chose not to leave, reasoning that he was bound to encounter them sooner or later. He decided to take advantage of the Sword Array’s effects to annihilate them all at once.
"Ding, absorbed Ghost Bat essence, points increased by 7."
"Ding, absorbed Ghost Bat essence, points increased by 6."
"Ding, absorbed Ghost Bat essence, points increased by 8."
As a series of system notifications sounded, Zhang Xiaoman and Star Guard commenced absorbing this type of monster called Ghost Bat.
However, their number, over fifty, was a bit difficult to handle at the moment.
While absorbing, the Star Guard suddenly took on a battle stance. Zhang Xiaoman looked in the direction, not seeing anything yet, but he could hear faint footsteps.
Finally, when the monsters entered the range of his Spirit Detection Technique, he could see clearly that they were a group of Red Split Dogs.
The distinctive howling of the Red Split Dogs echoed through the underground space, their numbers no less than the recent Ghost Bat swarm.
Zhang Xiaoman became more cautious this time, although the individual Dark Energy strength of the Red Split Dogs was not as strong as the Ghost Bats, that didn’t mean their combat power was lacking.
Compared to the airborne Ghost Bats, these ground-based combat species, the Red Split Dogs, clearly posed a greater threat.
Although his defensive power was strong now, it wasn’t unlimited.
Not to mention anything else, just the Iron Armor Spell alone wouldn’t allow him to keep it up indefinitely.
However, he felt his pockets, where he kept a few Spirit Binding Scrolls, and wasn’t too worried.
Although his Dark Energy didn’t allow him to cast too many Iron Armor Spells, since he couldn’t afford the energy cost, he might as well spend some money.
After all, by killing these creatures, he would be able to earn back his points, principal and interest included.
As the Red Split Dogs drew closer, Zhang Xiaoman was already prepared for battle.
The Star Guards beside him were also ready to strike, no longer using bows and arrows.
After all, in a short time, a Star Guard could only launch three such energy attacks, and it would be too wasteful to use them on these dogs.
At that moment, one of the Holy Knights suddenly stepped forward.
Zhang Xiaoman was puzzled as to what he was doing, only to see the latter raise his hands high and then a brilliant golden glow appeared between his hands, holding a glowing Light Hammer above his head.
Feeling the Dark Energy Fluctuation coming from it, Zhang Xiaoman quickly tried to discern it.
"216, 203, 197... No, there’s not enough time, it’s too short!"
The Holy Knight moved quickly, arranging the Dark Energy Formula on his hands, as skilled as a veteran who had performed the action thousands of times, so proficient that even this Extraordinary Level powerhouse had to admire the opponent’s speed.
As the Holy Knight moved, he smashed the Light Hammer overhead towards the rushing group of Red Split Dogs.
Like the previous Light Gun, the Light Hammer rapidly increased in size during its swing, eventually becoming a thirty-meter-sized hammer that brutally smashed into the middle of the Red Split Dogs.
A loud noise erupted as the giant Light Hammer shattered upon impact like ice crystals, mixing with the debris and bricks from the ground, making it hard to distinguish one from the other.
At the same time, the surrounding walls also shook, dust and debris flew everywhere, and the scenery was laden with gore as the dogs in the front were directly smashed into a pulp.
The power of this strike was terrifying.
The Red Split Dogs behind immediately halted, looking at their companions now reduced to a pulp, they let out a series of pitiful howls and then turned tail and fled.
"They’re running away?"
Zhang Xiaoman was stunned and somewhat speechless; these dogs were too cowardly, what happened to the decisive battle to the death, what about the promised points, and they just ran off like that?
He felt himself growing more and more disenchanted with Biological Species.
If it had been Calamity Species or Demon Series, those iron fools would definitely continue to charge at him and battle for three hundred rounds.
While he hesitated about whether to pursue them, from another direction, several more figures appeared.
This immediately made Zhang Xiaoman abandon the idea of chasing and instead, he turned his focus to the new combat situation.