Chapter 95: A Multi-Person Sport
“The water spirit energy is becoming thinner. We must be close…”
“We won’t be able to replenish our spirit energy beyond this point. One or two full-powered battles will likely exhaust us. Let’s try to avoid unnecessary fights.”
As they approached the Storm Realm, the surrounding winds intensified, making it difficult to even breathe.
Leading the way through a narrow crevice at the edge of the Wind Valley, the veiled Blissful Saintess’s expression was grim.
Gong Lianyue didn’t care about the warning.
Forty Life Fruits. If that wasn’t enough to recover, then there was only one explanation: when people are killed, they die.
What did stamina have to do with facing overwhelmingly powerful enemies?
Luo Kuxin also remained silent, lost in her own thoughts.
Hearing no response, the Blissful Saintess turned around, then her face contorted in anger.
While she was risking her life scouting ahead, what were these two Saintesses’ spirit beasts doing?!
Two flowers and a vine were entangled with a small fox, writhing and squirming, like some kind of… multi-person sport.
Instead of conserving their spirit beasts’ energy, they were engaging in… this!
“Hey, don’t you think this is a bit strange?”
“What?” The Blissful Saintess, about to scold them, was distracted by Luo Kuxin’s question.
“Didn’t the Swallow God say this was an emergency passage? We’ve been walking for four or five hours and haven’t seen the end. This is longer than the main gate’s path.”
“…”
“Could we be lost?” Luo Kuxin asked.
“Impossible. We would have encountered a Saint-rank spirit beast by now.”
“But this path is getting narrower. This can’t be an emergency passage!”
“Well, I don’t know either!!”
As the Wrathful Saintess and the Blissful Saintess bickered, Gong Lianyue suddenly stopped, her teardrop eyes narrowing, focusing on something in the distance.
At the top of the cliff, a silver-gray, humanoid rabbit spirit beast was doing squats, a rather comical sight.
The rabbit’s physique was similar to a delicate human girl, its soft, floppy ears dangling and swaying with each squat, inviting a gentle caress.
“Wow, what a cute bunny! Much cuter than our Snowtooth Rabbits!” Luo Kuxin exclaimed, her eyes lighting up. She really wanted to compare the force of this bunny’s punch with a Snowtooth Rabbit’s!
“What species is that?”
The Blissful Saintess frowned. She considered herself a spirit beast expert, having memorized the entire compendium since childhood. Encountering an unknown species so soon after entering the Wind Realm was a blow to her pride.
Just then, the silver rabbit stopped its squats and looked at the three intruders with gentle eyes.
Curiosity in its gaze, the rabbit, effortlessly traversing the near-vertical cliff face, slowly approached the three girls.
“It’s spotted us!”
“Aaaaaah, it’s so cute! I can’t take it~~~”
Luo Kuxin, her girlish heart overflowing, rushed towards the rabbit excitedly.
Your tastes are… interesting, Gong Lianyue thought, her eye twitching.
She didn’t find this upright rabbit cute at all. It looked rather unsettling, like a kangaroo.
What puzzled her even more was that this spirit beast seemed to be wild. There was no trace of a Spirit Master nearby.
Both Wind Realm and Sea Region spirit beasts should have avoided the mixed spirit energy of the Wind Valley…
As the green-haired girl approached, the silver rabbit’s mouth suddenly stretched into a wide, terrifying grin.
Bang!
The next second, the running green-haired girl exploded, reduced to a bloody mess.
“…”
“…”
The sudden, gruesome scene stunned both the Blissful Saintess and Gong Lianyue. The flower and vine wrapped around the little fox shattered like glass.
The Wrathful Saintess of the Ice Shield Palace, dead before even officially entering the Storm Realm?
This was like a poorly written horror movie, a romantic scene turning gruesome, the loving couple suddenly devoured by a shark while playing in a pool.
Green blood, like spilled paint, dripped from the rabbit’s fist, the pungent metallic scent snapping the remaining two girls out of their shock.
Luo Kuxin had been killed by a single punch from this rabbit!
And they hadn’t even seen it move.
If Luo Kuxin were still alive, she would definitely reconsider comparing this rabbit’s punch to a Snowtooth Rabbit’s…
Swish!!
A silver fist, the size of a sandbag, filled Gong Lianyue’s vision, growing larger as it approached. The rabbit, as if teleporting, had crossed dozens of meters in an instant, appearing before the blue-haired girl.
It was a speed she couldn’t possibly react to, yet the air around her suddenly solidified, time slowing down, like a dying person’s life flashing before their eyes.
As if divinely guided, in her final moments, the girl’s mind raced.
[Jade Shatter]
Boom!
The Iron Jade Ice Scorpion materialized, its jade pincer clashing with the rabbit’s fist.
The terrifying impact shattered the nearby cliff face, the shockwave deafening, sending the Blissful Saintess tumbling backwards.
A few seconds later, as the dust settled, a massive crater was revealed.
The scorpion’s pincer, the one that had clashed with the rabbit, was shattered, crumbling like gravel.
What the…?
Hiding behind the scorpion, Gong Lianyue’s expressionless face contorted in shock.
The Iron Jade Ice Scorpion, far larger and more powerful than the silver rabbit, its pincers enhanced by Jade Shatter, had been severely injured by a single punch.
The silver rabbit, a dissatisfied expression on its face, glared at the scorpion and punched again.
Boom!
Boom, boom, boom!!!
The scorpion blocked the rabbit’s flurry of punches with its remaining pincer, the impact shattering the surrounding rock face.
After the terrifying barrage, the scorpion, both its pincers broken, was struck by another punch, its upper body exploding in a shower of gore.
Her spirit beast dead, her soul core shattered, the blue-haired girl collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Less than a minute after entering the Storm Realm, one Saintess was dead, the other incapacitated.
The Blissful Saintess’s face was contorted in disbelief. She turned stiffly, looking back at the narrow crevice they had come through. Could it be?!
Having easily dispatched the Iron Jade Ice Scorpion, the cute, fluffy silver rabbit stretched, glancing at the veiled, silver-haired woman before losing interest.
It looked back at where the blue-haired girl had fallen, but the spot was empty.
The rabbit’s adorable face froze. It quickly dropped to the ground and looked over the edge of the cliff, the sound of something falling reaching its ears.
“…”
“…”
Chapter 96: All Saintesses Defeated
Whoosh, whoosh—
Plummeting from the cliff, the wind whipping at her clothes, the blue-haired girl slowly opened her cold, teardrop eyes.
As a Dual Soul Body with two soul cores, she possessed two distinct spiritual presences.
Logically, this should have resulted in a split personality, but Gong Lianyue hadn’t experienced any such symptoms yet, or perhaps she simply hadn’t noticed.
When a spirit beast died and its soul core shattered, she could use her other core to quickly repair it, reviving the spirit beast at full strength.
In fact, she hadn’t even truly lost consciousness this time. Years of tempering her will with the Steel Moon Chapter had allowed her to withstand the mental shock of a shattered soul core.
Within her spirit space, the Iron Jade Ice Scorpion’s dimmed aura had already been restored.
Of course, the Dual Soul Body wasn’t the same as the Heavenly Lotus Body, which granted instant revival.
The Heavenly Lotus Body essentially negated death, granting immortality. The Dual Soul Body’s method of restoring a shattered core was more akin to reincarnation, a completely different concept.
As the blue-haired girl plummeted, she suddenly vanished, replaced by a frost-covered soul core, falling rapidly towards the abyss below.
Within the Water Element Commander’s Core – Crystal Chamber
“He Daoqi, you deliberately led us down a dangerous path. Were you planning to die with us?”
“Aaaaaaaah!!!
The moment she entered the water-filled space, Gong Lianyue activated the spirit energy restraints covering He Daoqi.
The pained screams lasted for more than ten seconds before stopping, the black-haired girl collapsing to the ground, tears streaming down her face, her body twitching.
“I-I… I didn’t! I didn’t lie to you!” After a long while, He Daoqi stammered, her voice filled with grievance.
“You told us not to go left, so we went right, and my spirit beast was killed in seconds by that rabbit! I’m currently falling to my death!!” Gong Lianyue raged.
“Wait, a rabbit…?”
He Daoqi’s breath hitched, her dull eyes widening slightly as realization dawned.
She stared at the blue-haired girl as if she were looking at a lunatic.
“Aaaaaaaaaah!!!
Heh, the Sorrowful Saintess hated that look. Immediate execution.
He Daoqi lay on the ground, twitching, then whispered weakly, “I meant left from the Wind Realm’s perspective. Wouldn’t it be the opposite direction for you, coming from the outside?”
Gong Lianyue’s expressionless face froze. Now that she thought about it… that actually made sense!?
“Are you stupid?! Why didn’t you say so earlier?!”
Cursing angrily, Gong Lianyue vanished from the Crystal Chamber.
So that silver rabbit… must have been the Storm Realm’s Gatekeeper, the Tyrant Demon Seed…
A few seconds after the Sorrowful Saintess left, the black-haired girl slowly rose from the ground, her face pale, gasping for breath.
She hadn’t expected the three Saintesses of the Sea Region Alliance to miss such an obvious detail.
More than the unjustified torture, He Daoqi was worried about encountering a Saint-rank battle in her current weakened state.
The Tyrant Demon Seed, a Saint-rank.
That rabbit was a vicious beast on a completely different level from the Frost Snow Woman. The cliff Gong Lianyue was currently falling from had been level ground a year ago.
It was the aftermath of her own battle against the Tyrant Demon Seed, the ground shattered by a single punch from the rabbit.
“I hope she’s alright.”
Whoosh, whoosh~~~
The wind whipping through her hair, the blue-haired girl reappeared high in the air, still falling rapidly.
As she descended, the shape of the abyss below became clearer.
Gong Lianyue’s ice-blue, teardrop eyes narrowed. She noticed five massive gouges in the ground at the bottom of the cliff, like giant fist prints.
She didn’t have time to be surprised!
Boom!
A torrent of blue water erupted from her body, forming a swirling vortex that cushioned her fall.
A few seconds later, Gong Lianyue landed, swept along by the water, and exhaled deeply.
After all her trials and tribulations, she was no longer paralyzed by fear when facing a Saint-rank spirit beast. However, that silver rabbit was strange. It hadn’t radiated any Saint-rank aura.
Since she had jumped off a cliff to escape, it shouldn’t bother chasing her… right?
Besides, the Blissful Saintess was still up there to distract it.
As for the Wrathful Saintess… whether dead or alive, it didn’t matter. She would eventually reappear and join her in the Gray Citadel.
Gong Lianyue stretched casually and looked towards the opening in the abyss. Exiting through there should lead her into the Storm Realm.
However, the next second…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
A deafening explosion, like a missile strike, the ground before her shattering, sending debris flying in all directions.
The silver rabbit, falling from above without any attempt to slow its descent, landed, creating a massive cloud of dust that obscured everything.
Gong Lianyue’s mind froze, her fingers twitching, as she watched a blurry figure emerge from the dust cloud.
No way, had the Blissful Saintess been eliminated already?
Her perfect escape route… discovered!
The Frost Snow Woman, at least, hadn’t shown much hostility. But facing a Saint-rank with clear killing intent, Gong Lianyue felt a wave of despair.
A moment later, the silver rabbit waved its arm, dispersing the dust, and stepped forward, its adorable appearance now tinged with a menacing ferocity.
[Saint-rank Biological Offensive Type – Tyrant Demon Seed]
He Daoqi, the Swallow God, had said it herself. A single punch from this rabbit had nearly killed her, tearing her apart.
Gong Lianyue knew she was no match for this silver rabbit!
However, just as she was about to suffocate from fear…
Pop!
The ground cracked, and a green figure emerged from beneath the rabbit, their eyes meeting.
“?”
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