369 Ch 369 - I'm no coward! II
"Coward! If you dare curse my man again, I'll use illusions to give you a painful memory loop that'll haunt you for life!"
The fox girl huffed smugly. Despite only having Foundation Establishment cultivation, she fearlessly pointed her little finger at the Divine Transformation stage's nose with a vicious warning.
But when Jinyue showed off like this, Yino's mind drifted back to Azure Forest - that fox who'd cried in his arms after Yuebai called her an orphan.
Sometimes it takes one villain to handle another. Mei didn't dare make a peep now. She might not know Yino, but she'd definitely heard of the Witch Cult's top illusionist.
"Actually, you're not wrong. If I only had Core Formation stage, there's no way I could take you down tonight."
At some point, Yino spoke up again.
During this whole conversation, he'd been secretly laying all the evil mark groundwork.
Now, with the evil technique time over, Yino stood up from the wall and dusted off his hands.
He'd never really focused much energy on Mei anyway - his attention had been on that raging [Mother Goddess Heart] the whole time.
Thinking about this, Yino smiled while stroking Mei's face.
"But what if tonight I not only break through to Nascent Soul stage, but also devour the demon abyss core and get abyss attribute buff bonuses?"
"—?!"
At these words, Mei's eyes went wide.
But right after, she heard heart-wrenching wails and earthquake sounds from deep in the crimson palace behind them—
!!!!!!
"This, this is—?!"
Mei looked back to see that just now, Yuyan had successfully severed the giant heart's final blood vessel in coordination with Liuli.
With all vessels cut, the giant heart cried out once before losing its crimson glow and falling into a dark, weakened state.
At the same time, Yino seized the moment. He tossed the now-useless Mei aside, raised his hand to summon his sword, and reawakened the Innate Sword holy Physique that had been dormant in his body—
"Jinyue, time for our blood-pumping combo technique!"
!!!!!!
Mei looked back to see that just now, Yuyan had successfully severed the giant heart's final blood vessel in coordination with Liuli.
"This, this is—?!"
With all vessels cut, the giant heart cried out once before losing its crimson glow and falling into a dark, weakened state.
At the same time, Yino seized the moment. He tossed the now-useless Mei aside, raised his hand to summon his sword, and reawakened the Innate Sword holy Physique that had been dormant in his body—
"Jinyue, time for our blood-pumping combo technique!"
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"Successfully severed the seventh vessel!"
"Liuli, use everything you've got to attack that heart!"
At the front of the crimson palace battlefield, Yuyan had already entered second stage. Wielding a six-foot Frost Chant in spinning strikes, she manifested a massive Sword Master phantom behind her.
At the same time, with the heart stopped, the crimson nun on the other end of the battlefield lost her glow and collapsed motionless.
Taking this chance, the already battle-scarred Liuli finally broke free.
Through her sisterly heart connection with Lily, she could receive the purest natural blessing for a short time.
In an instant, Liuli's fatigue vanished.
Like bathing in supercharged photosynthesis, the blood-colored vines and gray carnations around her rapidly grew and bloomed.
Finally, life energy erupted like a geyser, whipping her pale hair and scattering the white bandages that always wrapped her body.
A gray-white carnation bud appeared on her chest.
In moments, the carnation kept growing, manifesting into a towering phantom. Under Azure Forest's photosynthesis, this carnation's scale easily matched the Divine Transformation stage plum blossom phantom from before—
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!
Carnation and glacier sword strike erupted simultaneously.
After the explosion, with aftershocks still rippling, Yuyan and Liuli's red and white figures kept pouring out attacks. Their dazzling full-screen light show lasted a solid thirty seconds without letting up.
In this scene, energy shockwaves flashed everywhere, making even the massive crimson palace seem too small to contain them.
But just as the thirty-second burst was ending, the giant heart that had been paralyzed in the palace depths suddenly started violently beating again.
The heart was like a bottomless abyss pit.
Every beat released spiritual energy density beyond Divine Transformation stage.
In just seconds, the oppressive atmosphere throughout the crimson palace jumped three or four levels due to the heart's pounding.
Under such overwhelming pressure, Yuyan and Liuli gradually couldn't catch their breath. As the thirty-second output window ended, their attack frequency naturally slowed down.
Only...
Watching that giant heart constantly devouring demon abyss energy, they suddenly realized a serious problem - Yino hadn't taught them how to handle the heart's second-stage corruption phase.
BOOOOM!!!!
Thunder roared in fury. The heart's final beat released energy density that completely exceeded Yuyan's sensing range.
This was definitely a colossal entity beyond mortal comprehension!
In this situation, Yuyan inexplicably lost her will to fight. She'd originally thought this giant heart was only Divine Transformation level.
Turns out the first stage was just playing around with them.
When this Mother Goddess heart got serious, its cultivation was far beyond what Yuyan's current realm could even dream of challenging!
"This is bad..."
Bathed in the colossal entity's demonic might, Yuyan couldn't help but gasp. Even her floating position was now pressed down so she couldn't lift her head.
This transcendent being that surpassed Divine Transformation by three or four realms could probably turn invaders to ash with just a blink or finger snap.
"Is this how it ends..."
In her daze, Yuyan could only whisper softly, because in reality the Mother Goddess Hert's demonic pressure was crushing her so hard she could barely stay standing. She slowly began sinking to her knees.
But just then, a young man's roar echoed from the back of the palace—
"Tell Senior Sister I'm no coward!!!"
Yuyan: ?
At these words, the entire crimson palace was filled with the young man's raw, desperate shout.
Under the overwhelming crimson divine might, Yuyan and Liuli both looked back in surprise. They saw a white-robed young man surrounded by holy golden light charging forward, leaping high with the grace of a swallow.
For a moment, Yuyan's jaw nearly dropped in shock.
He no longer seemed like a human youth of flesh and blood, but a righteous divine light carrying heaven's mandate.
Under pressure that had brought even Yuyan to her knees, that Yino somehow defied physical laws and charged straight up with his sword!
Not only did he have a protagonist's heavenly aura.
Behind him, two golden phoenix feathers as brilliant as blazing suns had sprouted—
"YINO!!!"
Seeing the young man about to plunge his sword into the heart with both hands, Yuyan was caught up in the blood-pumping scene and couldn't help shouting.
THUNK—!!!
The moment that evil sword pierced the heart, terrifying demonic prassure erupted again.
The demon abyss consumed the young man's figure. Bathed in burning black flames, strange evil mark curses gradually crawled up his arms and spread to his face...
But even with his white clothes burned away and burns covering his body, Yino holding the demon blade still gritted his teeth silently and refused to let go.
Thunk—
The demon blade drove another layer deeper into the heart's exterior, followed by another spray of flesh and demonic flame.
Damn it! How can it hurt this much!
Yino finally couldn't hold back a low groan.
What was I supposed to say for the blood-pumping lines again!
Shit, the pain made me forget my words!!!
Anyway, I've got the Innate Sword Holy Physique going, so even without reciting those dumb original lines it should be fine, right!