Using the continuous teleportation of the electric field, Bai Ye quickly arrived before a street.
The moment he materialized, Bai Ye felt waves of heat washing over him.
The street ahead was already fully ablaze, and constant explosions could be heard resounding through the sky.
“Fighting this fiercely, are they?”
Bai Ye waved away the drifting black smoke and walked forward.
In this environment of thick smoke and flames, finding someone wouldn't be easy.
Just then...
From within the flames, a stumbling figure slowly emerged.
He was around thirty years old, covered head to toe in black soot, with multiple wounds on his body, looking utterly disheveled.
The man's vision was blurred. He vaguely saw a person standing before him and instinctively reached out, grabbing Bai Ye's clothes, and mumbling, "Save me..."
Bai Ye nodded. "Alright!"
The next moment, the Thunder Fang Savage Beast appeared in Bai Ye's hand.
*Thwack!*
Bai Ye thrust the sword forward, piercing the man's chest and stabbing his heart in one blow.
Des Mondotore!
Number Six!
Bai Ye hadn't expected to receive such a great gift so suddenly, truly a reward that came without any effort.
As Des's eyes widened, Bai Ye yanked out the sword, drawing a spray of blood. Des's body went limp and collapsed at Bai Ye's feet.
"You have killed Number Six. The next target for pursuit is Number Five."
With Des dead, only one more to go, and he would be on equal footing with Li Jiayi and Hamill.
However...
Bai Ye looked at the corpse, somewhat puzzled.
Wasn't this guy Number Six?
Number Six was supposed to be pursuing Number Five, so how did he get so injured? He looked like he was on his last legs and about to die!
According to the rules, while Number Five could fight back, he couldn't kill Number Six. Killing him would result in elimination. So, even if they fought, he shouldn't have been injured this severely.
This was clearly a fight to the death.
Was he, like Lancegard, unwilling to participate in the wish mission and wanted to leave this place?
"Number Five, his name is Xu Mengfei, if I recall correctly?"
As Bai Ye pondered, footsteps echoed from the burning street.
A young man slowly paced forward, a long saber in his hand, walking towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow, surprised by the man's appearance.
The man, no, perhaps calling him a boy was more accurate.
His face looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, very youthful.
The World Battlefield was cruel. It didn't refrain from summoning the young just because of their age. It was rare to see purely young boys and girls; their immature minds made it difficult for them to survive on the World Battlefield.
These youngsters, along with the elderly, were usually the first Chosen Ones to die.
But what did it have to do with him?
Bai Ye wouldn't spare someone because they were good-looking, nor would he show mercy because they were old. He certainly wouldn't let a child off the hook just because they were young.
Bai Ye's principle for killing had always been whether he needed to kill or not.
As the other person approached, Bai Ye asked, "Xu Mengfei?"
Bai Ye's words were met with a smile in response.
The smile looked somewhat eerie, sinister, and exuded a demonic charm, and then...
Xu Mengfei suddenly raised his saber and slashed at Bai Ye.
The next instant, as the blade cut through the air, a wailing sound of ghosts echoed around, sounding utterly mournful.
Even the surrounding flames seemed to manifest wraiths, struggling and crying out.
A powerfully demonic saber energy surged forward, transforming into a ghostly face as it tore through the air, roaring ferociously at Bai Ye.
Bai Ye blinked, then looked at the saber in Xu Mengfei's hand, his face showing surprise.
"Demon Blade, Onikiri!"
Bai Ye recognized the saber.
More accurately, Bai Ye had seen that saber in his past life.
Onikiri was a famous sword, one of the Ten Great Demon Blades, incomparably sharp. Legend had it that it had once slain Ibaraki Doji, one of the ten strongest demons in Japan, hence its name, Onikiri.
However, according to the legend, it was precisely because it had slain Ibaraki Doji that its blade became stained with the demon's aura, causing every subsequent owner to be haunted by demons and meet a terrible end.
Of course, legends were just that, stories. Not entirely practical.
What was practical was this:
Onikiri was a...
Gold-grade weapon!
In fact, Bai Ye had not only seen Onikiri in his past life but had even possessed it. However, he had only possessed it and never dared to use it.
Because the usage restrictions of Onikiri were extremely harsh.
After drawing the blade for the first time, one would be cursed by Onikiri. Evil spirits would haunt the user, and from then on, they would have to kill three living beings daily, whether Chosen Ones or natives, to continue using Onikiri.
Moreover, once the blade was drawn, the curse was irreversible. Even if the sword was sheathed or not used for combat, the curse would still take effect, unless it was traded to the next owner.
Secondly, while Onikiri's effects were extremely powerful, its usage conditions were equally harsh and incredibly tricky.
The harshness lay in the need to accumulate souls. The method of accumulation was simple: killing people. The souls of those killed by Onikiri would be extracted and sealed within the blade.
Each of Onikiri's different effects required the consumption of a different number of souls.
And the tricky part was that among all of Onikiri's effects, there was a "Chaos" buff state.
Yes, a buff state!
In the Chaos state, Onikiri's user's physical attributes would double, but they would lose consciousness and reason, their bodies completely controlled by Onikiri until they killed an enemy or were killed by an enemy.
Killing, Bai Ye didn't care about. If Bai Ye could survive on the World Battlefield until the end in his past life, why would he care about killing?
Indecisive people had long since turned to dust. The World Battlefield never belonged to the benevolent.
But even if Bai Ye didn't care, he still found Onikiri outrageous. A minimum of three kills per day, and more souls required to use its effects.
What Bai Ye found most unacceptable was the "Chaos" effect, which was so incredibly tricky, despite such harsh conditions.
In Bai Ye's opinion, this effect was not a buff at all but pure trickery. While the physical attributes doubled, the user had no control over their body, meaning their life and death were entirely out of their own hands.
This was something Bai Ye absolutely could not tolerate. Therefore, in his past life, Bai Ye had decisively disposed of Onikiri through a "bargain sale."
However, Bai Ye truly hadn't expected to have such a fateful encounter with Onikiri again in this life.
But this time, Onikiri was not in Bai Ye's hands.
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