The opportunity I gave you is used up!

And within the Buried Bone Trench!

Only Qin Feng, Evil Sound Old Ghost, and a youth from the KEY Guild named Totsuka remained alive.

Qin Feng was currently communicating with Evil Sound Old Ghost in Ancient God Language.

Over there, the youth 'Totsuka', amidst his shock, also realized that his current situation was very dire!

He discreetly put the light and shadow crystal back into his storage bag.

Then, he took out a teleport stone from his storage bag.

It was obvious.

This guy was planning to flee!

“We, the KEY Guild, lost this NPC Competition.”

“However, it's not like we gained nothing.”

“Inside the light and shadow crystal, all the footage of Shadow's battle with this NPC has been recorded!”

“Through the footage recorded by this light and shadow crystal, we can study Shadow's fighting style and various skill sets in detail!”

“Perhaps we can find a way to counter him from this…”

Totsuka thought to himself.

Regarding 'Shadow', whether it was the youth Totsuka or the other Sakura Country players in the East Capital Ruins, they all already had trauma!

He had once come to East Capital and killed the Epic BOSS 'Long-tailed Snake Demon', and in the end, even caused North Korea to take action against Sakura Country, forcing Sakura Country to pay a quite heavy price before finally settling the matter temporarily.

That time, over a hundred thousand people died in East Capital!

And all the benefits were taken away by 'Shadow'!

Not only that, their national officials even paid Shadow 'reparations' of several tens of thousands of years of lifespan.

This point was viewed as a disgrace by many among the Sakura Country's populace.

They were extremely displeased!

Wasn't all of this just because Great Xia had a 'Shadow'?

Undeniably, Totsuka was a musical genius.

Even in his previous life, the KEY Guild, under his leadership, had successfully 'invited' Evil Sound Old Ghost back to their Hideout.

But his stance was also very pure.

He wanted to seize any possible opportunity to find methods and ways to deal with 'Shadow'!

This light and shadow crystal of the battle between Qin Feng and the NPC was such an opportunity.

“While they aren't paying attention to me right now…”

The youth Totsuka's expression became very calm.

His movements were very careful, appearing as if he hadn't moved at all, as he silently gripped the teleport stone in his hand.

As long as he used the teleport stone, he could teleport back to the guild Hideout.

Whether it was the light and shadow crystal or the teleport stone, it meant this guy had already passed the High-Level Divine Authority Tower challenge and had quite high combat power.

But…

Just as he wanted to use the teleport stone.

Qin Feng, not far away, suddenly glanced in this direction.

This glance made the youth Totsuka's expression freeze.

Without thinking, he directly knelt down toward Qin Feng: “Big Brother Shadow! Please spare me! On behalf of our KEY Guild, I apologize to you! Please forgive us! We are willing to pay thirty thousand years of lifespan to ask you to let our guild go!”

As he said this, cold sweat poured down Totsuka.

Because he wasn't sure if Shadow could understand his language.

But regardless, he felt that his actions of kneeling and prostrating were very sincere, right?

“That's right, I can't just walk away like this.”

“If I don't get Shadow's forgiveness, then even if I run, he can still hunt me down, hunt down our guild…”

“So, I must win his forgiveness!”

“Then, secretly study that light and shadow crystal!”

Even this youth hadn't clearly seen what exactly happened in the battle just now.

But as long as the footage from the light and shadow crystal was played in slow motion, he believed he could definitely figure something out…

And in his view.

Shadow was obsessed with lifespan.

So, by giving a compensation of thirty thousand years of lifespan, Shadow should be able to forgive them, right?

Although…

Totsuka didn't even know what exactly their KEY Guild had done wrong.

But in any case, apologize to Shadow first and offer reparations!

Unfortunately, though.

This guy's little tricks had been seen by Qin Feng from beginning to end.

He glanced at Totsuka and saw him gritting his teeth, clearly in an extremely nervous state.

Qin Feng said indifferently: “You're quite proactive. However, haven't you forgotten something?”

Qin Feng's meaning was, naturally, that light and shadow crystal.

“Ah, sorry… so sorry, Lord Shadow!”

The youth Totsuka seemed to understand the saying 'a wise man submits to fate' very well.

Hearing Qin Feng's words, he immediately grit his teeth, an expression of extreme reluctance appearing on his face, but in the end, he still took out a light and shadow crystal from his storage bag.

He respectfully placed that light and shadow crystal on the scorched black earth.

He seemed very obedient.

But Qin Feng took one look and still shook his head.

“Playing petty tricks in front of me, the opportunity I gave you is used up.”

He raised his hand.

Shadow Blade.

Puff!

An invisible blade instantly pierced through the youth Totsuka's head, yet it didn't cause any health damage, nor did it stack any instant death gauge.

Rather—

It was 'Soul Harvest' from the White Sprout Blade!

It consumed a full 1,200 points of Divinity, which converted to 18,000 years of lifespan.

Directly killing the youth's soul!

In this way, the youth would be unable to revive through any means, equivalent to soul imprisonment!

Thud.

The youth Totsuka's eyes widened. While still in a kneeling position, with an expression of unwilling resentment, he leaned backward and fell heavily to the ground.

His body didn't look dead.

Just like Sister Li back then.

However, his soul had already been imprisoned by the 'White Sprout Blade', causing the White Sprout Blade to stack another 5 points of the Instant Death Affix!

And this scene fell into the eyes of the NPC Evil Sound Old Ghost nearby.

This old fellow was well-traveled and knowledgeable; seeing this sight, his expression changed instantly.

“This is… soul damage!”

“This means that this Blue Star assassin definitely has equipment or skills that reach the Ancient-Grade level, otherwise it would be impossible to have soul-level abilities!”

“Although some classes come with inherent soul lethality, but…”

“This assassin didn't show any soul-related abilities at all when fighting me, which shows that this shouldn't be a characteristic of the assassin's class.”

“But how is this possible?”

“How could a player at this stage obtain something of the Ancient-Grade level?”

Evil Sound Old Ghost was almost scared witless!

Facing this situation, his mood was also extremely complex. He realized that in this cycle of the Blue Star Civilization…

It seems an extremely extraordinary existence has been born!

And…

This Blue Star assassin…

His personality seems to be extremely brutal!

Although he was a player from another country, in Evil Sound Old Ghost's eyes, that youth Totsuka had already surrendered, admitted his mistake, and was willing to compensate for the losses… although he didn't know what losses this Blue Star assassin had suffered, at least the other party's attitude in admitting their mistake was very upright.

Even that light and shadow crystal had been obediently handed over.

In the end, he was still killed at the soul level by this assassin, making him unable to revive—permanent Death!

“What a pity, such a pity. This kid was a genius.”

Evil Sound Old Ghost's cloudy eyes were filled with regret.

But Qin Feng glanced at him.

And said indifferently: “Are you pitying him?”