Qin Feng organized his thoughts.
"Originally, I thought the Chu family offended the Blade of the Underworld, which led to their massacre."
"Now it seems... she was first hunted by the Chu family?"
"Then she slaughtered the Chu family and conveniently wiped out the affiliated Dongfang family as well..."
Of course.
After committing this act, the Blade of the Underworld didn't fare well herself.
Because the Chu family had military and official connections, the Great Xia authorities issued a warrant for her arrest after the incident.
In the end, this world's number one assassin was killed by the Great Xia authorities.
This happened not long before Qin Feng's rebirth...
"In the era of the Abandoned Gods Game, even the top ten global powerhouses find it hard to contend with a behemoth like the Great Xia authorities."
"Especially since the Blade of the Underworld was a lone wolf."
"However..."
"This was also because her strength hadn't reached a truly heaven-defying level."
The Great Xia authorities had resources and manpower; as long as they had members with strong enough talent and class, their development had no reason to be inferior to other lone wolves.
Top powerhouses banding together to hunt down the Blade of the Underworld was quite normal.
But Qin Feng's situation in this life was different from the Blade of the Underworld.
He possessed the 'Judgment Authority,' far stronger than the Blade of the Underworld in his previous life.
Not to mention a global top ten...
Once Qin Feng developed in this life, even the top hundred from the previous life combined wouldn't be his match.
Moreover, Qin Feng's class was Shadow!
This only amplified his intimidation factor!
After several tests, Qin Feng had confirmed that the Great Xia authorities dared not offend him in any way now.
"If there are still remnants of the Dongfang family, they definitely can't be spared."
"Those who work for money, even less so."
Qin Feng looked ahead, where nine players were besieging a Silver-tier 'Flame Mummy,' and it was clear they all had the 'Slayer' tag after their names...
Seizing the opportunity, he entered the fray.
Night Ring Blade!
Dark blade light spread out from Qin Feng as the center, expanding around him instantly.
Splat! Splat! Splat!
-37263 (Weak Point Attack)!
-10677 (Block)!
-34890 (Weak Point Attack)!
-0 (Dodge)!
...
Ten damage numbers popped up instantly!
Among them, eight players and the Silver-tier 'Flame Mummy' mini-boss were instantly killed by Qin Feng's single skill!
Even a Warrior who happened to activate the 'Block' skill and blocked more than half the damage couldn't withstand this strike!
Only a young archer with a longbow triggered 'Dodge' and became the sole survivor in the field.
"Looks like I need to boost my accuracy."
"Otherwise, if others stack dodge, it could be troublesome for me to kill them..."
Qin Feng thought to himself as he looked at the lone surviving young archer.
The young archer was stunned at the moment of the incident.
"What the heck, what's going on?"
"Buddies, why did you all suddenly die?"
Before he could react, Qin Feng was already behind him, delivering a 'Piercing Strike'!
Even though it was an unevolved 'Piercing Strike' skill, the Forest White Bone Blade in his hand struck the back of the opponent's head, still causing over ten thousand weak point attack damage.
Instantly killing him!
The once noisy rock platform fell silent!
Qin Feng raised his hand, casting 'Subshadow' to re-enter stealth mode.
He first raised his hand and cast 'Blossoming Curse' on all the corpses in the field!
Scarlet flowers appeared on the bodies of the nine players.
As Qin Feng absorbed both their tradable and untradable lifespans, he heard two extremely chilling system prompts:
——
[Player 'Mentougou Big Flower' has less than 1 day of remaining lifespan and has been truly killed by you!]
[Player 'As Handsome As Me Are All Protagonists' has less than 1 day of remaining lifespan and has been truly killed by you!]
——
"..."
Qin Feng was a bit surprised.
These two were really unlucky.
"It seems their untradable lifespan was almost depleted."
"The tradable lifespan was a few hundred days, but unfortunately, I absorbed it all."
Under normal circumstances, even if players had a hideout as a base, they would definitely reserve a certain amount of lifespan to avoid true death.
This group of players was no exception.
But the key is...
Qin Feng's 'Blossoming Curse' could absorb all their tradable lifespan!
It could also absorb 50% of the remaining untradable lifespan!
Even if these two originally had enough lifespan, they were still 'sucked to death' by Qin Feng after dying at his hands!
From then on, these two were completely erased from this world!
"In my eyes, as long as there's no untradable lifespan left, they're already dead!"
That's the role of untradable lifespan.
In the Abandoned Gods Game, there are several skills that can be used on corpses and deduct the target's remaining tradable lifespan, besides 'Blossoming Curse'!
Some special bosses even have this ability.
Once there's no untradable lifespan left,encountering such entities means only death.
Of course, a skill like Qin Feng's current Blossoming Curse, which can absorb the target's untradable lifespan, was unheard of in Qin Feng's previous life...
According to the rules of the Abandoned Gods Game.
Inevitably, the 'untradable lifespan' will decrease more and more in the later stages.
But soon, players will encounter NPCs who can convert tradable lifespan into untradable lifespan.
However... the cost of this conversion is quite steep!
Those NPCs are ruthless when it comes to ripping people off.
"Greedy Hand."
Qin Feng killed the Silver-tier 'Flame Mummy.'
Since he arrived when the mini-boss was already mostly defeated, the loot didn't belong to him...
But that didn't matter.
Qin Feng could use Greedy Hand.
He cast it directly on the boss's corpse, gaining six extra loot drops, collecting 24 Evolution Points, and nearly 10 years of tradable lifespan!
"They just mentioned the Blade of the Underworld is in this place?"
"Not sure where exactly..."
Qin Feng maintained his stealth, looking around the rock platform, which was illuminated red by the lava river's glow, but saw no sign of anyone.
He wasn't too concerned.
With his current anti-stealth capabilities, as soon as the opponent appeared, they couldn't escape his detection.
Just as he was about to move forward to the core boss room of the 'Evil Spirit Academy,' a slightly nervous girl's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Is it Shadow? I want... to cooperate with you!"
"???"
Qin Feng was baffled.
He turned around, but saw no one!
The entire rock platform only had the corpses of the nine players and the Flame Mummy!
No one else!
But the girl's voice clearly came from somewhere behind Qin Feng!
"Could her stealth level be higher than my level 5 anti-stealth?"
"No..."
"If it's the Blade of the Underworld, she should be—right below the platform!"