When dealing with S-rank Awakened, Shi Ming always adhered to the principle of "saturation attacks."

This was because he knew from personal experience that the more advanced a skill, the more bizarre and unpredictable it was. The slightest carelessness could lead to disaster. Therefore, he never put all his trump cards in one basket. Moreover, he had to strike while the enemy was down and go for the kill, giving them no chance to fight back or even breathe.

’I’ve found your main body!’

Under the dual pressure of the Corrupting Domain of Ragnarok and the Light Storm formed by the Pillar of Dawn, "Virus," who was hiding deep within the seawater-eroded rock of Fujing Mountain, had nowhere left to hide.

Under normal circumstances, her hiding spot was excellent.

Deep within the rock walls of Fujing Mountain, eroded by seawater, she was even protected by a high-tech shielding device. It was covert and safe.

But the Light Storm from the Pillar of Dawn had instantly tripled the size of Fujing Mountain’s inner cavity. Thick layers of rock were shaved away, and even the volcano’s crater at the summit, unchanged for ten thousand years, was now teetering on the verge of collapse.

The single mother body was the weakness of "Infinite Mother Body."

The moment "Virus"—already showing multiple signs of corruption on her body—was exposed, she once again split into more than thirty subclones, forming a dense mass to shield herself and resist the still-lingering Pillar of Dawn!

But Shi Ming wasn’t about to give her a chance to struggle or turn the tables.

’Who knew what other skills she had stuffed into that "Flesh-Eye Roulette" of hers!’

The Extremely Cold Saber was unsheathed again. A blade gleam approaching absolute zero sliced cleanly through the flesh-ball of several dozen bodies, carving a long river of ice crystals through the torrent of blood, water, and flesh.

Third Law!

The flesh-ball was violently split open and then churned to pieces by the fading aftershocks of the storm. Virus barely managed to dodge the fatal strike, but her left arm was severed, and the same side of her body was frozen stiff by the Extremely Cold Saber. This caused her control over her subclones to plummet, forcing her to focus all her energy on evasion, with no mind left for attacking.

A severed left arm could be regenerated.

But the signs of corruption on her body were growing more severe.

This was a decay that even splitting and regeneration couldn’t stop!

Virus had never been forced into such a corner. As one of Lighthouse’s geniuses, when had she ever faced something like this? But given the current situation, no matter how unbelievable it was, she knew with certainty that even if she wasn’t struck by the Extremely Cold Saber in Shi Ming’s hand, the abnormal corruption on her body would soon trigger a terrifying transformation.

Her eyes turned cold and decisive.

’I have to kill him!’

She prepared to use her ultimate trump card!

’Shedding a skin to kill a top expert from Dragon Country... it’s worth it!’

BANG!

After using her subclones as a shield to block Shi Ming’s attack for a moment, the combat suit on her body shattered, revealing seven horrifying, disgusting, mucus-covered eyes, all squirming and rolling.

Flesh-Eye Roulette.

The seven eyes spun around rapidly.

The topmost eye was bizarrely sinister. It was now blood-red and swollen, like a terrifying cyst that would burst with the slightest pressure!

Shi Ming felt a sudden sense of inexplicable danger.

His past experience fighting Edward made Shi Ming extremely wary of this A-rank skill. He raised the Extremely Cold Saber in his hand again, while with his left, he took out the Star Lamp, preparing to use the blood of the Nameless Cocoon to cast the single-target hard control skill, "Eternal Life Law"!

’Ah Jian, it’s time for your blood to do its work!’

He had just placed the blood of the Nameless Cocoon into the Star Lamp and hadn’t yet had time to activate and ignite it.

His movements became sluggish.

On Virus’s chest, the most sinister eye suddenly burst open.

It completely disintegrated.

Immediately after, a colossal eye that looked down on the mortal world with disdain rose up from behind Virus!

It had a hundred-meter-long, shadowy white pupil filled with a dense, web-like structure. Around the eye’s periphery, grooved, brown tentacles spread and expanded, growing wantonly within the confined space.

’This is bad!’

As the giant eye’s pupil swept over him, Shi Ming felt an immense sense of crisis.

He immediately used "Black Tortoise Shield" and withstood a wave of a bizarre attack!

The 50% reflected damage shot straight back, hitting the illusory pupil of the evil eye, but it dealt no damage whatsoever.

His eyelid twitched violently.

"Eye of the World, acquire—"

Before he could even finish his request, the Eye of the World directly displayed a large block of information.

[Holy Hall 004: Immortal Evil Eye!]

[Your luck is really "good." Although you killed Edward, you ultimately couldn’t prevent this Holy Hall Level Skill from appearing in the world. Another Flesh-Eye Roulette, cloned at a great cost, has devoured the shed husk of the Immortal Evil Eye and unleashed its signature skill!]

[Eternal Sanctuary!]

[After this skill is released, the user enters an indestructible state and an illusion of the Immortal Evil Eye appears behind them. All living beings that fall under the illusion’s gaze will be disintegrated by its sight, broken down into the most basic biological energy, and absorbed into the Eternal Sanctuary to become a part of eternity.]

[It has been forcibly suppressed to S-rank and will only last for 30 seconds. Furthermore, its disintegration speed has been greatly reduced, but it is still incredibly powerful.]

[Survive for 30 seconds!]

[Then, find a way to destroy it!]

[Otherwise, Infinite Mother Body + Flesh-Eye Roulette + Holy Hall Flesh will create a terrifying enemy and competitor, and your trump cards are not infinite!]

The tables had turned.

Before, it had been Shi Ming using Holy Hall Level Skills to kill Awakened from Lighthouse. He never expected that Lighthouse would actually succeed so quickly in their plan to use the "Flesh-Eye Roulette" to unleash a Holy Hall Skill! Understanding just how terrifying Holy Hall Skills were, Shi Ming rapidly calculated possible countermeasures.

One use of Black Tortoise Shield granted three seconds of damage immunity.

Even if he went all out and used it five times, that would only give him 15 seconds of invulnerability. The reflected damage was useless against an enemy in an indestructible state. And his other methods would likely be unable to shake a Holy Hall Level Skill.

Besides, he couldn’t retreat now either.

Under the influence of the Immortal Sanctuary, his movements were already becoming sluggish.

His opponent was no pushover, either. She was using this kind of skill to annihilate him completely; how could she possibly let him escape?

But he still had a trump card!

He removed the blood of the Nameless Cocoon from the Star Lamp and carefully put it away.

Immediately after, Shi Ming took out a drop of black blood—thick, heavy, and comparable to mercury—and quickly dripped it into the Star Lamp! This was the blood of the Great Black Heaven Dragon, a fresh piece of loot he had just acquired and stored in his inventory for less than an hour.

’Holy Hall versus Holy Hall!’

’You have to risk the bait to catch the wolf!’

The Immortal Evil Eye’s "Eternal Sanctuary," unleashed by an S-rank Awakened’s Flesh-Eye Roulette, was suppressed in power. No matter how strong, it was ultimately a pirated copy. But a Holy Hall Level Skill unleashed by the Star Lamp was the genuine article, with 100% of its power, as if cast by the sea beast itself.

’Next,’

’I’ll show you what a real Holy Hall Level Skill looks like!’

’Hopefully, the sleeping Great Black Heaven Dragon won’t sense someone using and "desecrating" its blood. It has been slumbering 3,000 meters underground for nine thousand years and has just entered a dreamless, deep sleep. Unless it faces a life-or-death crisis or a major shock, it shouldn’t wake up, right?’

The Eye of the World didn’t show any warnings.

ROAR!

The mercury-heavy blood, its power activated by the Star Lamp, completely seeped into Shi Ming’s body.

In the blink of an eye, his pupils transformed into a dragon’s vertical slits. On either side of his shoulders, two identical phantom heads appeared, both bearing Shi Ming’s original likeness. Beside his original arms, two new pairs of arms materialized.

Three heads and six arms, each wielding a different authority.

This was the human manifestation of the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s "Nine-Headed Sanctuary": three heads and six arms.

But Shi Ming, having cast the skill, knew that this was only its first form.