Using the continuous teleportation of the electric field, Bai Ye quickly arrived in front of a street.
As soon as he appeared, Bai Ye felt a scorching heat wave wash over him.
The street ahead had already completely ignited, and explosions continued to resound through the sky.
"Fighting this fiercely?"
Bai Ye waved away the black smoke that drifted over and walked forward.
Dense smoke and flames made it difficult to find someone in such an environment.
But at this moment...
From within the flames, a staggering figure slowly walked out.
He was about thirty years old, covered in black soot, with multiple wounds on his body, looking utterly disheveled.
The man's vision was blurred, and he vaguely saw a person standing in front of him. Instinctively, he reached out, grabbed Bai Ye's clothes, and mumbled, "Save me..."
Bai Ye nodded, "Okay!"
The next instant, Lei Ya Nu Shou appeared in Bai Ye's hand.
*Puff!*
Bai Ye thrust the sword forward, piercing the man's chest and impaling his heart.
Deus Mondotore!
Number Six!
Bai Ye hadn't expected such a great gift to be delivered to him so suddenly, truly obtained without any effort.
As Deus's eyes widened, Bai Ye abruptly pulled out his sword, drawing a splash of blood. Deus's body then went limp and collapsed at Bai Ye's feet.
"You have killed Number Six. Your next target is Number Five."
With Deus dead, eliminating just one more would put him in a tripod position 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. How did he get so badly injured, looking like he was at the end of his rope and about to die?
According to the rules, Number Five could fight back, but he couldn't kill Number Six. Killing would result in disqualification. So, even if they fought, Number Five shouldn't have inflicted such severe injuries.
This was clearly a fight to the death.
Was he, like Lancegard, unwilling to participate in the wish mission and wanting to leave?
"Number Five, I recall his name is Xu Mengfei?"
As Bai Ye was thinking, footsteps echoed from the burning street.
A young man slowly paced forward, holding a long saber, walking towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow, surprised by the man's appearance.
The man, or perhaps a boy would be more accurate.
His face looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, very youthful.
The world battlefield was cruel; it didn't spare anyone just because of their age. It was rare to see boys and girls who were purely young, their minds not yet mature, finding it difficult to survive on the world battlefield.
These youngsters, along with the elderly, were usually the first Chosen ones to die.
However, what did that 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 kid off the hook just because they were young.
Bai Ye's principle for killing had always been whether he needed to kill or not.
Watching the other person approach, Bai Ye spoke, "Xu Mengfei?"
Bai Ye's words were met with a smile in response.
The smile looked somewhat sinister, chilling, and carried a demonic charm, and then...
Xu Mengfei suddenly raised his saber and swung it at Bai Ye.
The next instant, as the blade slashed out, the surroundings were filled with the sounds of wailing ghosts, incredibly mournful.
Even amidst the burning flames, spectral figures appeared, struggling and crying out.
A deeply demonic saber energy surged forward, transforming into a ghostly face as it cut through the air, roaring ferociously at Bai Ye.
Bai Ye paused, then looked at the saber in Xu Mengfei's hand, his face showing surprise.
"Demonic Blade, Onikiri!"
Bai Ye recognized the saber.
To be precise, Bai Ye had seen this saber in his previous life.
Onikiri was a famous blade, one of the Ten Great Demonic Blades, incomparably sharp. Legend had it that it once slew Ibaraki-doji, one of the ten strongest demons in Japanese folklore, hence its name.
However, according to legend, precisely because it had slain Ibaraki-doji, the blade was tainted with the demon's malevolent aura, causing every wielder of Onikiri to be plagued by spirits and meet a terrible end.
Of course, legends were just that, not always practical.
What was practical?
Onikiri was a...
Golden-quality weapon!
In fact, Bai Ye had not only seen Onikiri in his previous life but had also possessed it. However, he had only possessed it, never daring to use it.
This was because Onikiri had extremely strict usage restrictions.
After drawing the blade for the first time, the wielder would be cursed by Onikiri. Evil spirits would then haunt the user, and they would have to kill three living beings daily—whether Chosen Ones or natives—to continue using Onikiri.
Moreover, after the first draw, the curse was irreversible. Even if the blade was sheathed or not used in combat, the curse would not cease unless the blade was traded to the next owner.
Secondly, Onikiri's effects were incredibly powerful but came with stringent and incredibly troublesome conditions.
The stringency lay in the need to accumulate souls. The method of accumulation was simple: by killing. The souls of those killed by Onikiri would be extracted and sealed within the blade.
Each of Onikiri's different effects required a varying number of souls to consume.
And the troublesome part was that all of Onikiri's effects included a "Confusion" buff.
Yes, a buff!
Under the state of Confusion, the wielder's physical attributes would double, but they would lose consciousness and sanity, 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 previous life, why would he care about killing?
Indecisive people had long since turned to dust; the world battlefield never belonged to the kind-hearted.
But even if Bai Ye didn't care, he still felt Onikiri was too outrageous. A minimum of three kills per day, and then requiring more to use its effects.
What Bai Ye found most unacceptable was the troublesome "Confusion" effect despite such harsh conditions.
In Bai Ye's opinion, this effect wasn't a buff at all but pure trouble. While the physical attributes doubled, the body was not under one's control, meaning life and death were not in their own hands.
This was something Bai Ye absolutely could not tolerate. Thus, in his previous life, Bai Ye had decisively disposed of Onikiri through a "bargain sale."
However, Bai Ye truly hadn't expected to have such a connection with Onikiri, meeting it again in this life.
But this time, Onikiri was not in Bai Ye's hands.
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