Chapter 35: Awakening
On Fallen Whale Island, the massive black tornado that had enveloped the edges was now contracting, leaving only a hundred-meter area in the center.
Since the target had shifted from all Sea Concubine Palace members to the Sorrowful Saintess, there was no need to bother with anyone else.
Eliminate the Saintess as quickly as possible and leave before reinforcements arrived!
Within the swirling black storm, an eerie silence hung in the air.
Gong Lianyue lay motionless, playing dead, while the silver-haired, crow-masked girl stared in disbelief, a drop of cold sweat trickling down her forehead.
“What the hell…?”
She looked incredulously at the water-blue, diamond-shaped crystal in the Eight-Headed Mist Crow’s grasp. It was completely undamaged, not a single crack.
It was just the life core of a low-rank Water Element. Why couldn’t she shatter it with a full-powered attack?!
This durability was definitely abnormal!
Without needing any prompting, the humiliated Mist Crow growled, extending four claws covered in grisly veins from its misty form, wrapping them around the crystal.
Gong Lianyue continued to play dead, the Mist Crow’s continuous growls echoing in her ears.
Wait a minute!!!
What were they doing?!
Playing with it right here? How disgusting!
Nauseating, vulgar, filthy, despicable!!
Gong Lianyue couldn’t help but peek through a slit in her eyelids. The Eight-Headed Mist Crow was squeezing the crystal with all its might, as if kneading something.
Is that all? The Saintess was disappointed. She had expected something more interesting. This? This was it?!
A few seconds later, under the Mist Crow’s full force, a crack finally appeared on the surface of the water-blue core.
Thud!
At the same time, Gong Lianyue, who had been playing dead, rolled her eyes and slumped to the side, fainting.
“…”
“Phew, it’s finally over~~~”
The silver-haired girl wiped the sweat from her brow. Before she could even catch her breath, her eyes widened in shock.
Less than a second after the core cracked, the blue-haired girl, who should have been unconscious, stood up, her eyes vacant, her expression strange.
She had planned to attack when the enemy let their guard down, but somehow, she had ruined her own perfect plan.
Gong Lianyue’s eyes began to rotate counterclockwise, like swirling water, tracing a semicircle.
Ding-dong!
Her teardrop eyes returned to their normal position.
And then, they fell out…
Ah!!!!!!!
No, those weren’t eyeballs—
Although they looked like eyeballs, they were actually teardrops attached to her pupils.
The teardrops slid down her cheeks, smudging her makeup and revealing six water-colored beauty marks.
With the teardrops gone, the girl’s eyes were completely white, pure and empty.
No pupils, only the whites of her eyes.
Then, as if unconsciously, the white-eyed, blue-haired girl reached out towards the Eight-Headed Mist Crow.
Swish!
Swish, swish!!
Responding to the summons, the cracked crystal broke free from the Mist Crow’s grasp and flew back to Gong Lianyue at an incredible speed, floating and rotating in the air.
Feeling nothing, seeing nothing, the crow-masked woman felt a surge of inexplicable terror, no less shocking than when she had seen the Autumn Water Hundred Flower Fox Princess.
Within the swirling black wind, the strange aura intensified.
More and more cracks appeared on the surface of the ice-blue crystal, quickly forming a dense network of lines.
With a bang, it shattered completely.
As the ice fragments scattered, the silver-haired woman’s pupils constricted, and she gasped in disbelief.
“What!?”
The crystal she had just crushed was a fake, merely a layer of frozen frost covering the real core.
Reflected in her eyes was the true, shocking reality.
Hidden beneath the frozen frost, two diamond-shaped soul cores, radiating an icy beauty, floated in the air.
What the hell? Two?
One soul core was like a surging blue sea, as pure and beautiful as a calm ocean surface, a sparkling sapphire.
The other contained faint purple stars, shimmering with a translucent, beautiful luster, like a mysterious, otherworldly space.
Pfft!
Gong Lianyue suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her entire body covered in crimson.
Her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, all the blood vessels in her body ruptured, her flesh torn apart by the surging spirit energy. But she remained motionless, her expression indifferent.
The next second, the two soul cores merged, once again covered by a layer of chilling frost, their auras disappearing.
They returned to their original form, like the ordinary, ice-blue core of the Water Element. But in reality, it was just a hard layer of ice.
A torrent of water erupted from the core, condensing into a humanoid figure—the Water Element.
The turmoil within Gong Lianyue subsided, and she stood motionless, like a delicate doll.
After a moment of stunned silence, the silver-haired girl burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha, I see! I understand now! This is your true form, and your weakness!!”
“You seem to be far more valuable than I anticipated. This trip has been incredibly profitable!!!”
“But you can’t hear me now, can you?”
“Darling, knock that Water Element away and bring her to me.”
“Ooo——”
The Eight-Headed Mist Crow roared, its eight heads snapping forward like snakes, its massive, dark form surging towards the Water Element.
Just as they were about to collide, a sickening ripping sound echoed.
The Water Element’s back was torn open, water spraying out like blood and freezing in midair.
Whoosh~~~
A massive, purple, crystalline arm, as thick as an elephant’s leg, burst from the Water Element’s back, like a grotesque extra limb, piercing through its body.
Deep purple swirls covered the arm, forming beautiful, star-like patterns, fierce and terrifying.
Even more bizarre, a teardrop-shaped, ice-blue eye grew on the purple wrist, darting around, an abstract and twisted sight.
Swish!
The eye suddenly stopped moving, rolling upwards in a comical expression.
Bang!
The next second, the Water Element was swatted into the ground by the Eight-Headed Mist Crow, weak and helpless.
Simultaneously, the purple arm extending from its back stretched out, brushing past the Mist Crow, and effortlessly grabbed the silver-haired girl’s head.
Every Spirit Master in the world knew one thing: during a battle between powerful spirit beasts, the Spirit Master must never expose themselves.
Hong Tao had done well, safely hiding inside the Hellfire Dragon.
The Stone Lord’s master had been a negative example, foolishly sitting on her spirit beast’s shoulder, easily killed by a stray gust of wind.
At this moment, the silver-haired girl, her head gripped by the purple arm, remembered this common knowledge.
But… it was just a Water Element…
Splat!
With a gentle squeeze, the purple arm crushed the girl’s head, viscous fluid spraying everywhere. The Eight-Headed Mist Crow froze, its frantic movements ceasing.
No matter how powerful their spirit beast, if a Spirit Master exposed themselves, whether Dead Sea or Samsara Stage, they would instantly face death.
Life dissipated, stars dimmed.
The massive purple arm slowly retracted, returning to the Water Element’s body.
Floating in the air, the water flowing around the Water Element calmed, as if nothing had happened.
Calm returned to Fallen Whale Island.
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