King of Assassins

Red Sand Continent of Sea Dragon Star, dozens of kilometers deep underground at Sinking Sand Mountain.

Shi the Thirty-seventh was patrolling the lake's edge with a small squad of brothers. This underground lake was so vast that Shi the Thirty-seventh found it hard to describe.

Once, he dove into the lake and swam for an entire day without reaching the opposite shore.

During that time, he was almost swallowed by a giant fish in the lake. Since then, he dared not venture deep into Green Light Lake again.

Why is it called Green Light Lake? Because its waters emit a ghostly green glow. In the dark underground, Green Light Lake is very conspicuous.

Green Light Lake is also the water source for all life within several hundred kilometers around it.

The Stone Clan considers Green Light Lake as their territory, at least the side with the water belongs to their Stone Clan.

Lizardmen live by family grouping. Most families have no name. Those with names are very powerful.

Shi the Thirty-seventh is very proud of his clan. He was awarded a name by the Clan Leader for his bravery in battle.

Shi the Thirty-seventh, which means he ranks thirty-seventh in his clan.

According to the weak human's terminology, he should be a Level 10 warrior.

Shi the Thirty-seventh does not hate humans; on the contrary, he quite likes them.

Human skin is smooth, muscles firm. Men or women, they're all fun to play with. When he gets bored, he can eat them.

Even eaten raw, humans taste quite good.

Shi the Thirty-seventh feels a bit regretful that he hasn't seen humans for some time.

According to human timing, it's ten hours plus ten hours plus ten hours...

He doesn't know how many sets of ten hours have passed!

If Shi the Thirty-seventh counted carefully, he could figure it out. But counting so clearly held no meaning.

He only knew that lately, he's been eating armored beetles, which are massive but have skins as hard as metal and are impossible to bite through.

One has to peel back the iron skin to get to the soft flesh inside. The problem is the flesh is too tough and needs to be cooked for ten hours to eat.

This soft flesh tastes particularly bad, and although nutritious, he doesn't enjoy eating it.

Shi the Thirty-seventh also liked various human gadgets, like watches. Like longswords.

He doesn't like firearms, which lack power, are loud, and the flashes are blinding.

In the quiet underworld, glowing and noisy lifeforms are nothing but prey.

Shi the Thirty-seventh considers humans foolish for using such weapons underground.

As for human night vision goggles and the like, he has no interest at all.

The lizardman's transparent eyelids can filter strong light, protecting their eyes and allowing them to see through the dark.

For lizardmen, there is no darkness. The world is always gray. The difference is only in shades.

For lizardmen, there are no other colors.

The term Green Light Lake actually originated from humans. Before that, they called it Light Lake. To their eyes, Green Light Lake was glaringly white.

Even so, lizardmen hold a great love for Green Light Lake.

Lizardmen love water. In the underworld, water is always the most precious resource, worth using all their power to fight for.

In fact, there are many lizard tribes around Green Light Lake.

Shi the Thirty-seventh doesn't know how to count numbers; he can only say it's many, many.

The Clan Leader says they have many, many, many kin scattered deep underground.

Even the Dragon God they worship probably doesn't know how many lizardmen there are.

Thinking of this made Shi the Thirty-seventh feel a bit disrespectful. He knelt on both knees, his scaly forehead lightly touching the moist ground.

He silently mouthed, "Great Dragon God, forgive my disrespect and ignorance..."

The surrounding lizard warriors thought Shi the Thirty-seventh was leading them in prayer, so they all knelt as well.

This squad of lizard warriors numbered thirty. Each lizard warrior stood over two meters tall, not wearing clothes, but strapping on bands and satchels to carry weapons, rations, and other supplies.

Thirty strong lizard warriors knelt on the ground, praying messily to the Dragon God.

But their actions were soundless, and their prayers made no sound.

Above the lizardmen's heads were large patches of mushrooms. These mushrooms are not only poisonous but as hard as rocks.

Only some special underground creatures can eat them.

A group of lizard warriors was hiding under the mushrooms, shrouded in shadows, almost undetectable from outside. Their outer scales could change color with the environment, and even adjust the temperature with it.

Gao Xuan stood atop a giant mushroom, his eyes closed, relying solely on Spiritual Sensing, the environment for thousands of meters around clearly mapped into his mind.

With his strong Spiritual Power, he could even capture floating tiny dust particles in the air, as well as extremely fine spores, including some complex odor particles and so on...

Such detailed observation allowed him to collect vast amounts of information every moment.

For an ordinary person, even if they could observe so much information, they could not process it.

Gao Xuan's 34 points of Spiritual Power are not fake. His ability to process information is stronger than a regular Light Computer.

In this underworld, all information has meaning.

The spores drifting in the air prove there are similar spore creatures far off. This open underground space is very large.

Humidity, temperature, including fine dust, everything demonstrates a change in the environment.

Gao Xuan discovered these spores on the scales under a few lizardmen's feet, proving these lizardmen had come from the direction of the wind.

Of course, he didn't need such complex reasoning. With his abnormal observation skills, he could easily find traces of the Lizardmen's paths.

The reason why every Golden Powerhouse is so strong is because, by this stage, all traces are transparent in their eyes. As long as they wish, they can see through most people and most things at a glance.

This doesn't require profound wisdom. Basic logic is enough.

Gao Xuan stood on the top of the gray mushroom for less than a second before he fully understood the group of Lizardmen below.

Their physical structures, their Source Power operations, their weapons and equipment, all presented themselves clearly and completely in Gao Xuan's mind.

This is the essential difference in life levels between the two sides.

Gao Xuan even heard the contents of many Lizardmen's prayers and heard them calling the Dragon God.

Their forked tongues made the Lizardmen's pronunciation very strange. Yet they still spoke the Alliance's standard language.

This was somewhat peculiar, as Lizardmen would obviously not accept education from the Human Race. How could they speak the Human Race's standard language?

Someone must have taught the Lizardmen the language. Speaking a common language with the Human Race should be to facilitate communication and allow the Lizardmen to understand humans better.

After all, the Lizardmen have decent intelligence but lack sufficient educational resources and corresponding cultural heritage.

Directly adopting the mature cultural system of humans is very effortless and will make it easier for the Lizardmen to counterattack the surface in the future.

In Gao Xuan's view, Lizardmen are only suitable for living in the Underworld. It's difficult for them to establish a stable civilization once they reach the surface.

Gao Xuan was a bit curious, who was the Dragon God that the Lizardmen worshipped?

That Charm Race Evil God?

But the title "Dragon God" did not sound like a naming habit of the Evil God from the Charm Race.

Divine mythology can't be spread haphazardly either. For low-tier evil gods to communicate with their followers, the first priority is to let followers know their true titles.

An Evil God could easily make up a name, but such a made-up name would be unable to establish a connection with the followers.

Gao Xuan speculated that the Lizardmen might have their own Divine, which is quite normal.

With so many passages between Negative Space and Positive Space, it's not surprising for a few Evil Gods to emerge. Although Evil Gods are chaotic, cooperation isn't impossible.

Of course, the specific situation needs further observation. Information is still too sparse at the moment.

Gao Xuan floated lightly down from the mushroom top, landing right behind a Lizardman warrior.

The silver armor condensing from Celestial Spirit Sword Qi emitted a crystal bright gleam in the darkness.

Although the Lizardman warriors were kneeling and praying, they were very sensitive to light.

All the Lizardman warriors immediately stood up and drew their swords, all seeing Gao Xuan clad in silver armor.

Even though Lizardmen and humans have different aesthetics, the group of Lizardman warriors was still stunned by Gao Xuan's handsome appearance.

This is an instinctual reverence of low-tier life forms for high-tier life forms.

Just like rabbits who have never seen a tiger, but upon seeing one, will be extremely terrified and scared.

This is essential information inherited in the genes of intelligent lifeforms. The ability to discern strength determines the choices one can make, thus ensuring a better chance of survival.

The smarter Lizardman warriors could control their instincts with their intelligence.

When a group of Lizardman warriors recognized the opposite party as a human, they all revealed grim smiles.

They had killed many human warriors who were mostly very weak, leading the Lizardmen to an incorrect perception of humans as a weak species.

The Lizardmen's faces were covered in scales, and their heads were flat and long, somewhat resembling the head of a crocodile, but their mouths weren't as long.

Compared to humans, the Lizardmen's mouths were still too large and long. When they grimly smiled, they revealed sharp black and yellow teeth.

The corner of Shi the Thirty-seventh's mouth even drooled long strands of saliva; he really liked the taste of humans.

He didn't want to just kill the opponent like that, so he softly said, "Catch him alive!"

Lizardmen have no ears but have very fine ear holes. They are extremely sensitive to subtle vibrations.

Shi the Thirty-seventh's low command, which a normal human standing next to him wouldn't have heard, was as loud as a shout to the Lizardmen.

All the Lizardmen responded neatly in unison.

The Lizardman warrior nearest to him even put down his weapon and reached out with a giant hand with four fingers towards Gao Xuan's neck.

Gao Xuan slowly raised his hand and playfully touched the giant claw with his index finger.

This action was not threatening at all, the real threat was the bluish-white electric light that shot from his fingertip.

Upon penetrating the Lizardman's claw, the electric light erupted instantly; the tall Lizardman didn't even have time to show a fearful expression before the blazing electric light gushed out of his seven orifices.

The Lizardman's tall body glowed in the thunder light and then silently twisted and smashed into pieces.

The fierce electric light surged forward suddenly, like a ferociously wild electric snake.

The remaining twenty-nine Lizardmen were all enveloped by the electric snake, which continuously split into tiny snakelets.

Within 0.1 seconds, all Lizardman warriors were shrouded in layers of electric light.

The violent thunder light unleashed terrifying currents and high temperatures, most of the Lizardmen were instantly torn apart by the thunder light, blasted into fragments like pieces of black charcoal.

Standing last, Shi the Thirty-seventh watched helplessly as his brothers were blasted into ashes, unable to react.

The electric light falling on him had weakened considerably, yet it was still unbearable for him.

Shi the Thirty-seventh lay in his own excrement, twitching in extreme fear: This human is terrifying, I want to go home...

Through his transparent eyelids, Shi the Thirty-seventh saw the radiantly glowing human approaching step by step. He was even more terrified. He wanted to beg for mercy, but his tongue was numb from the electricity, unable to utter a single syllable.

Gao Xuan kicked Shi the Thirty-seventh: "Get up now and clean yourself, and there's a chance you might survive."

Hearing this, Shi the Thirty-seventh almost cried: This human eats food that has to be cleaned!