Using the continuous teleportation of the electric field, Bai Ye quickly arrived in front of a street.
As soon as he revealed himself, Bai Ye felt waves of heat wash over him.
The street ahead had already completely ignited, and what's more, explosions continued to echo through the sky.
"Fighting this fiercely?"
Bai Ye waved away the black smoke drifting towards him and then walked forward.
With thick smoke and flames, it wasn't easy to find someone in this environment.
But at this moment...
From within the flames, a staggering figure slowly emerged.
Around thirty years old, covered head to toe in black soot, with multiple wounds on his body, he looked utterly disheveled.
The man's vision was blurred. He vaguely saw someone standing in front of him and instinctively reached out, grabbing Bai Ye's clothes, and mumbled, "Save me..."
Bai Ye nodded. "Alright!"
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 stabbing his heart.
Deus Mondotore!
Number Six!
Bai Ye hadn't expected to suddenly receive such a great gift, truly coming without any effort.
As Deus's eyes widened, Bai Ye yanked the sword out, drawing a splash of blood. Deus's body then slumped, falling at Bai Ye's feet.
"You have killed Number Six. Your next target is Number Five."
With Deus dead, killing just one more would put him on par with Li Jiayi and Hamir.
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 why was he so badly injured? He looked 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 him would result in disqualification. So, even if they fought, Number Five shouldn't have injured him this badly.
It was as if he was trying to kill him.
Was he, like Lancegard, unwilling to participate in the Wish Mission and wanted to leave?
"Number Five, I remember his name is Xu Mengfei?"
As Bai Ye pondered, footsteps echoed from the burning street.
A young man slowly strode forward, a long saber in his hand, heading towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow, surprised by the man's appearance.
The man, no, perhaps "boy" was more accurate.
His face looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, very youthful.
The World Battlefield was brutal; age wasn't a shield against being summoned. It was rare to see purely young boys and girls. Their minds were not yet mature, making it difficult for them to survive on the World Battlefield.
These young ones, along with the elderly, were usually the first summoned ones to die.
But what did that have to do with him?
Bai Ye wouldn't spare someone for being good-looking, nor would he show mercy to someone elderly. He certainly wouldn't let a kid off the hook just because he was young.
Bai Ye's principle for killing was always whether he needed to kill or not.
As the other party approached, Bai Ye spoke, "Xu Mengfei?"
Bai Ye's words were met with a smile in response.
The smile looked somewhat eerie, chilling, and carried a hint of malevolence, and then...
Xu Mengfei suddenly raised his saber and slashed at Bai Ye.
The next instant, as the blade cut through the air, the surroundings were filled with the sound of wailing ghosts, making it incredibly desolate.
Even within the surrounding flames, specters appeared, struggling and crying out.
A very sinister blade energy surged forward, transforming into a ghostly face as it cut through the air, roaring ferociously at Bai Ye.
Bai Ye blinked, then looked at the saber in Xu Mengfei's hand, and his face showed surprise.
"Demon Blade, Onikiri!"
Bai Ye recognized the saber.
To be precise, Bai Ye had seen that saber in his previous life.
Onikiri was a famous sword and one of the Ten Demon Blades. It was incomparably sharp, and according to legend, it had once slain Ibaraki-doji, one of the ten most powerful yokai in Japan, which is why it was called Onikiri.
However, in legend, it was precisely because it had slain Ibaraki-doji that Onikiri's blade became stained with Ibaraki-doji's demonic aura, causing every subsequent owner of Onikiri to be haunted by spirits and meet a terrible end.
Of course, legends were just for listening to and not very practical.
What was practical?
Onikiri was a...
Gold-quality weapon!
In fact, Bai Ye had not only seen Onikiri in his previous life but had also owned it. However, he only owned it, never daring to use it.
This was because Onikiri had very strict usage restrictions.
After drawing the blade for the first time, the user would be cursed by Onikiri, and malevolent spirits would haunt them. From then on, they would have to kill three living beings every day, whether they were summoned ones or natives, to continue using Onikiri.
Moreover, after the first draw, the curse became irreversible. Even if the sword was sheathed or not used for combat, the curse could not be stopped, unless it was traded to the next owner.
Secondly, Onikiri's effects were very powerful, but its usage conditions were equally harsh and extremely troublesome.
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 a varying number of souls.
The troublesome part was that all of Onikiri's effects included a buff state called "Confusion."
Yes, a buff state!
In the state of Confusion, the user'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. In his previous life, Bai Ye had survived on the World Battlefield until the end; did he still care about killing?
The indecisive 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 too outrageous. A minimum of three kills daily, and using its effects required even more.
What Bai Ye found most unacceptable was the "Confusion" effect on top of such harsh conditions.
In Bai Ye's opinion, this effect was not a buff at all, but pure trouble. While the physical attributes could double, the body was not under his control, meaning his life and death were not in his own hands.
This was something Bai Ye absolutely could not tolerate. Therefore, in his previous life, Bai Ye had decisively disposed of Onikiri by "selling it cheap."
However, Bai Ye truly hadn't expected to have such a fated encounter with Onikiri again in this life.
But this time, Onikiri was not in Bai Ye's hands.
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