I will eventually become a divine being through accumulating constantly

""Gah!?"

The remaining snake person let out an unintelligible cry of astonishment, but before he could make any move, Xue Jing had already pressed the tip of his giant sword against the snake person's chest.

Upon the blade, silver-white lightning flickered, and Dragon Thunder poured out, spreading along the blade and onto the snake person's body.

At level 5 Dragon Horn, the gravity surged to its twentyfold limit, immediately causing the snake person to collapse with a thud, pinned to the ground, unable to move.

"One prisoner is enough, I guess. Next..."

Xue Jing turned his head to look towards the robed leader not far away.

The park was exceptionally quiet at night, with no one around except for the small crackling sound of silver-white lightning flickering on the collapsed dragonkin.

Xue Jing and the leader locked eyes for a moment, but seeing that the other party did not move, he was about to take the offensive.

At that moment, the leader's figure flashed, disappearing from the spot.

The next instant, he appeared beside the snake person sprawled on the ground, reaching out with his right hand towards him.

Seeing this, Xue Jing raised his eyebrows and, with a Whirlwind Thunder effort, spiraling indentations emerged as he swung the giant sword, emitting a dull whooshing sound of the air current.

"Boom——!!"

After a loud explosion, the leader shattered, bursting into countless fragments.

But upon closer inspection, it was not as it seemed.

Those fragments were actually snakes of various sizes and shapes.

At a cursory count, there were at least two thousand.

Xue Jing's gaze sharpened as he instinctively flashed past, and a huge, clear full moon suddenly appeared in the sky above with countless Silver Cherry Blossom petals elegantly drifting down.

He had actually performed the Secret Technique: Cherry Full Moon with the giant sword in his hand!

In an instant, of the more than two thousand snakes that erupted from the leader, Xue Jing had slain over a thousand in the blink of an eye.

Miao Miao on his shoulder also flashed out, crazily waving the silver-white Serpent Slayer Spearhead on her front paws, ensuring instant death to any snake that was touched; in a short amount of time, she had killed two to three hundred.

But there were simply too many snakes, and they could not all be killed.

One of them landed on the snake person, baring its fangs and biting into his neck.

The rest of the snakes swiftly scattered in all directions, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The park quickly returned to silence, even the rustling sound of snakes crawling had vanished without a trace.

"He got away..."

Xue Jing propped the Forgotten Greatsword on his shoulder and looked down at the snake person on the ground.

By this time, the snake person's face was turning green and purple, trembling non-stop as large chunks of his fine scales fell off his body, and after a while, he stopped moving and died.

"I thought there might be a tough fight ahead, turns out it was just a few small potatoes..."

Xue Jing was somewhat speechless.

"To think he ran away, as if running away wasn't enough, he also sealed his teammate's fate; no professional ethics at all."

Miao Miao shook her head, "If he's an assassin... this is actually a sign of high professional ethics."

"Next time I see him, I've got to be wary of this strange escape technique, this guy is like Kibutsuji Muzan..."

Xue Jing walked over to the body of the snake person, squatted down, and began to search the body with his hands.

Miao Miao asked with confusion, "What are you doing? Be careful, the poison on this person looks very potent."

Xue Jing replied, "These creatures are Blessed Ones, right? So they should have 'Stigmata' on them... Don't worry, I'm wearing 'Shadow Flame'."

After searching for a while, Xue Jing quickly found a golden scale growing in reverse at the chest of the snake person.

He reached out a finger to touch the scale.

[Divine Substance detected, absorbing Divinity...]

"Just as I thought!" Xue Jing's eyebrows rose as he directly ripped off the golden scale and held it in his hand.

"As for the other one..." Xue Jing's gaze turned towards another snake person's corpse he had sliced apart.

After searching for a while, he found a thumb-sized chunk of red-gold muscle on the inner side of the corpse's thigh.

[Divine Substance detected, absorbing Divinity...]

Upon contact, the amount of Divinity on the Skill Panel began to climb rapidly by dozens of points per second.

Xue Jing's eyes showed pleasure.

When will Dragon Cult attack next?

Online now, urgent!

(Here is a concept image of Xue Jing at this time↓)

..."

In a dimly-lit alley, hundreds of snakes of various shapes and sizes stealthily slithered in, gathering and intertwining until slowly forming a humanoid shape.

A black robe materialized out of thin air and cloaked the figure, obscuring its true appearance.

"There's been a serious miscalculation of combat power... two Snake Servants are simply not enough," he said, deep in thought.

"The most crucial thing is, he's not just a Martial Artist... That ability covering his entire body, like armor, renders my 'poison' utterly ineffective," he added.

"That damned An Luping, providing such unreliable intelligence, not a single detail was accurate," he cursed through clenched teeth.

"Forget it, I should go back and report. The Divine Child should understand my difficulty..."

...

"Thump, thump—"

Ning Yuantai, who was watching short videos in an SUV with a bracelet, heard the sound of knocking on the car window and quickly turned off the video to look.

"Xue!" he greeted, opening the car door and stepping out.

Only then did he notice that Xue Jing was holding a strange corpse.

"Hm? Xue, what's this?" asked Ning Yuantai, puzzled.

"Just now, it suddenly attacked me... seems to be a member of a Heretical God Cult called the Dragon Cult," said Xue Jing casually.

"The cause of this person's death is poisoning; I thought maybe we could analyze what kind of poison it is and work out an antidote or something of the sort?" Ning Yuantai said solemnly: "Bold attack in broad daylight, right in front of everyone. These cultists really think they can defy the heavens."

Xue Jing looked up at the pitch-black night without saying a word.

"It should be possible, the equipment at the Zhige Base is pretty comprehensive," Ning Yuantai said as he walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk.

"Xue, just put him here, that'll be fine," he said.

After doing as instructed, Ning Yuantai closed the trunk.

The two got back in the car and started it; the vehicle left the parking lot with the roar of an engine that sounded like a beast and headed towards the Zhige Base.

On the way, Ning Yuantai curiously asked:

"Xue, why did the Dragon Cult attack you?"

After glancing at Miao Miao, Xue Jing thought for a moment and said, "That's a long story, not so easy to explain right now."

Hearing this, Ning Yuantai tactfully refrained from probing further and changed the subject.

As they chatted, Xue Jing opened the Skill Panel.

[Divinity Held: 2163]

The two Blessed Ones from the Dragon Cult provided him with about twelve hundred points of Divinity.

'About the same as that person from the Flower God Society whose name I can't remember,' thought Xue Jing.

Indeed, the Blessed Ones were a trade no less significant than Divine Relics...

However, what was regrettable was that, unlike the last time when he absorbed the Stigmata from a Blessed One of the Flower God Society and activated Plant Pact, this time no new Divine Skills were triggered.

'Is it because the Stigmata of these two Snake People Blessed Ones didn't meet the conditions for activation? Or...'

Xue Jing glanced at the Dragon Horn on the panel.

'The Divine Skills applicable to them have already been activated by me before?'

'No matter, gaining Divinity is already an unexpected huge gain,' he thought, contentedly closing the panel.

This sudden attack by the Dragon Cult felt like they had come bearing gifts.

Beyond Divinity, he gained some other benefits...

Recalling the recent battle, where he channeled the Forgotten Greatsword as a medium to perform 'Impeccable' and 'Cherry Full Moon,' Xue Jing fell into contemplation.

"Could it be that this is the true method of using Combat Skills? Or is it a sign that Combat Skills are about to elevate? Not sticking to the external form of the weapon in hand but mastering a method of commanding one weapon as though it were thousands?"

"Dugu Qiubai was known to say that anything could be a sword... If my conjecture is true, then wouldn't I be able to pick a blade of grass from the ground, Lift Light as if Heavy, and wield it as a Giant Sword?"

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