Chapter 64: The Water Element’s True Form
The mountain range was cleaved by an icy white arc, an aura of desolation emanating from the shattered chasm.
Floating a hundred meters above the ground, the Frost Snow Woman looked down at the devastated forest below, exhaling a cloud of icy mist, her expression cold.
With ten strands of the Snow Monarch’s fur, she was no different from an offensive Saint-rank spirit beast.
Meanwhile, within the ruins of a hidden forest…
Three glowing green, humanoid figures huddled together, one gently holding the shaken blue-haired girl in its arms.
“Sorry, I’m late.”
“W-Wrathful Saintess?” Gong Lianyue asked, her expression puzzled.
A perfect heroic rescue scene, but the glistening drool dripping from the woman’s mouth made her want to slap her.
Seemingly sensing the lingering scent of the little fox, the creature within Luo Kuxin was frantically secreting saliva, which flowed back up her throat and out of her mouth, a disgusting sight.
Come to think of it, all three green figures were the Wrathful Saintess. She hadn’t expected her to be able to create multiple clones.
Gently placed on the ground by the green figure, Gong Lianyue calmly patted her skirt and asked,
“What now? Even if you subdue the Frost Snow Woman, she might not obey you.”
“There’s nothing we can do but try,” Luo Kuxin sighed.
Their initial agreement was simply to create an opportunity. Saint-rank spirit beasts weren’t so easily tamed. Their pride was greater than their fear of death.
She wondered how many years the Sorrowful Saintess had spent wearing down that Bloodbath Fox Sovereign.
“Whoosh~~~”
A chilling wind swept through, and the two Saintesses froze, their minds seemingly turning to ice.
Long, soft, white hair fluttered as a breathtakingly beautiful Snow Woman descended.
Seeing the Frost Snow Woman up close for the first time, the blue-haired girl’s pupils constricted, captivated by her cold, stunning face.
So beautiful, she seemed almost unreal…
For a moment, Gong Lianyue even forgot to summon her spirit beast, simply staring at the woman’s face, her vision slightly blurred.
The next second, the Snow Woman raised her sleeve, a chilling aura sweeping towards the blue-haired girl.
The three green figures moved simultaneously, shielding Gong Lianyue, forming a wall.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Three bloody splats as the white threads lashed out, the green figures flung aside like useless trash.
The chilling white threads then circled the blue-haired girl, harmlessly enveloping her, forming a flag-like spirit array.
“…”
“W-What’s happening!?”
After a few seconds, Gong Lianyue finally realized something was wrong and anxiously checked her soul cores.
For some reason, the Cloud Dream Flower and the Iron Jade Ice Scorpion’s auras had dimmed, covered by a layer of frost, as if dormant, unable to be summoned.
Only the Water Element remained available.
Had the Frost Snow Woman done this?!
Just then, the three mangled green figures twitched. They stood up like grotesque tumors, swaying unsteadily.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Without even looking at them, the Snow Woman flicked her white threads, effortlessly tearing them to shreds again.
Then, pulling on the threads, she sent several white lines slicing towards the blue-haired girl.
Engulfed by the approaching web of white threads, the terrifying sensation of imminent dismemberment filled Gong Lianyue, her teardrop eyes constricting.
“Water Element!!!”
At the very last moment, Gong Lianyue summoned the Water Element.
Even a low-rank spirit beast was better than waiting to be killed naked.
The watery figure materialized. The Frost Snow Woman’s eyes lit up, her attack pausing for a split second, and then—Bang!!!
The white threads, originally intended to intimidate Gong Lianyue, accelerated with terrifying speed, striking the Water Element’s life core with a force hundreds of times greater than before.
With a bang, water splashed everywhere, the icy shell shattering.
The Water Element and its core were torn to pieces, and the blue-haired girl collapsed to the ground, her vision going black.
Water sprayed everywhere, and from within the shattered icy shell, two life cores were revealed.
One core was like a surging, deep blue ocean, as pure and beautiful as a calm water surface, a sparkling sapphire.
The other contained faint purple stars, shimmering with a translucent, beautiful luster, like a mysterious, otherworldly dimension.
“…”
Seeing the two different-colored cores, the Frost Snow Woman’s expression shifted between shock, confusion, and hesitation, before finally settling on her target.
Three swirling white threads snaked out, wrapping around the ocean-blue core and pulling it towards her.
Clutching the core tightly, the Frost Snow Woman, her face radiant with joy like a little girl, soared into the sky with a flick of her sleeve.
Boom!
Icy wind swirled as the ice-blue comet shot upwards.
That fiery fox would surely be coming after her, but with the two Frost Snow Women working together, they could definitely defeat it!!
The Snow Woman wiped the ocean-blue core with her sleeve. For some reason, the color of this fellow Frost Snow Woman’s core was strange, not as pale and icy as others. It must have been tainted by that fox.
Boohoo, poor Snow Woman, Big Sister will avenge you!!!
Meanwhile, unnoticed by anyone—
The unconscious, blue-haired girl’s body began to change. Her physique grew taller, her water-blue hair cascading down to the ground.
Her slender legs became longer and more shapely, her flat chest developing curves…
As if maturing instantly, she transformed into her appearance from two or three years in the future. No, this was her true form.
A few seconds later, Gong Lianyue’s body floated upwards like a marionette, her eyes enveloped in a faint purple starlight, like a deity, looking down upon the world.
The boundaries between heaven and earth seemed to disappear. Where she was was heaven, and where she looked was earth.
Gravity reversed, the girl’s water-blue hair floating upwards.
The circular spirit energy surrounding her condensed, transforming into a deep purple, diamond-shaped crystal that enveloped her.
And what happened next was witnessed only by the recovering Wrathful Saintess…
Swish—
A wave of purple ice spread outwards, engulfing everything within a three-hundred-meter radius.
Time and space seemed to freeze, replaced by a vast expanse of visible purple ice.
Both the Frost Snow Woman, fleeing with the other soul core, and He Daoqi, arriving from the distance, were frozen in place.
Beside Gong Lianyue now floated a female, elemental figure made of purple ice crystals.
The elemental figure possessed a graceful, feminine form, its surface shimmering with beautiful star patterns, a true beauty among elemental spirit beasts!
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