Chapter 452 - 423: Forceful Slaying, The Dagger is Revealed
’Hmm?’
’Lie Lin... is fleeing?’
「At that moment.」
In the distant sky, a fiery-red stream of light was rapidly approaching.
The fiery light flashed, and in an instant, it had crossed dozens of miles. Lie Lin’s figure was becoming clearer and clearer!
Lin Yinxiu could see him clearly now. Lie Lin was covered in blood, his right arm torn off at the shoulder. Fear overflowed from his ferocious dragon head!
From his appearance, it was obvious he was grievously wounded!
"Xuetu, save me!"
Seeing Xuetu’s figure, Lie Lin’s expression became incredibly vivid, like a man falling from a cliff who had just spotted a lifesaving branch!
’He really is fleeing...’
Seeing this, a flicker of astonishment crossed Lin Yinxiu’s face.
Even Xuetu was stunned for a moment, his pupils contracting.
Compared to human Golden Core cultivators, Tier Four dragon-men had no Divine Techniques, but their innate Scale Armor granted them extremely powerful defensive capabilities!
Even armor at the Spiritual Treasure level was inferior!
With Lie Lin’s Defense Power, among all the cultivators of the Flame Alliance, only Mr. Zuo and Mr. Yun, the two great Late-stage Golden Core cultivators, could have wounded him so badly!
’But...’
’Mr. Zuo and Mr. Yun are clearly being held up by the Grotto Master.’
’I can’t believe there’s someone like that among the Flame Alliance’s Golden Core cultivators. Could it be...’ A strange light glinted in Xuetu’s eyes.
Though his mind was racing, it didn’t affect his actions.
As a veteran evil cultivator, Xuetu had mastered the art of Dual-tasking centuries ago.
While his mind was occupied, he formed hand seals, unleashed his Golden Core Realm, and summoned a Spiritual Treasure that looked like a red silk ribbon!
WHOOSH.
The red silk flashed with brilliant light and merged with the Golden Core Realm, manifesting a river of blood!
The river of blood surged forward, reeking of a pungent, foul stench. From within its depths, several bizarre, purplish-red tentacles, each dozens of feet long, shot out toward Lin Yinxiu, wrapped in bloody water!
"Vile arts!"
Lin Yinxiu snorted, her star-like eyes turning sharp as she clenched her fists.
The metal bracelets on her fair, slender arms erupted with blinding lightning. Lin Yinxiu aimed her well-defined knuckles at the purplish-red tentacles and threw a punch, her body transforming into a flash of lightning!
"Shenxiao Thunder Flash!"
FZZT!
The lightning flickered, followed by a sonic boom!
Lin Yinxiu’s figure shot through the purplish-red tentacle!
BOOM!
Behind her, the purplish-red tentacle, as large as a building, suddenly froze in place.
A huge, charred hole appeared in its core, and the entire tentacle fell limply back into the river of blood!
An instant kill!
The shockwave billowed out!
The blast made Lin Yinxiu’s moon-white cheongsam flutter loudly. Her expression was radiant and spirited!
After establishing the Shenxiao Thunder Pool and gaining a sufficient supply of Thunder Essence, her Purple Thunder Bracelet Spiritual Treasure could finally be used at full power!
"Hmm?" Xuetu was somewhat astonished.
’How did this woman’s strength increase so much in such a short time?’
’I have no choice.’
Xuetu gritted his teeth, his expression pained, and formed another hand seal.
The blood sloshed and churned, and a dozen more tentacles emerged from the river!
"Ugh..."
’So many tentacles?’ Lin Yinxiu was taken aback.
"Heh..."
"Have fun playing with my little darlings for a while!"
Xuetu sneered. These purplish-red tentacles were bio-beasts he had painstakingly cultivated.
Although they weren’t particularly strong against a Golden Core cultivator, they were more than enough to stall for time!
Then, his figure transformed into a streak of blood-red light.
He turned in Lie Lin’s direction, intending to provide backup.
"Xuetu!"
Gazing at the Escape Light flying toward him from the distance,
Lie Lin’s spirits lifted, and he tried to flap his wings to accelerate!
However,
the next moment, his joy was replaced by terror!
"You’re quite the runner."
"But I’ve had my fun. Let’s end this."
A cold voice sounded from behind Lie Lin.
At the same time,
a black dot, like a speck of dust, appeared behind him. The shadow rapidly writhed and expanded, forming a doorway.
SHIING!
In an instant, an icy, silver slash resembling a crescent moon shot out from the shadow doorway, flying at incredible speed toward Lie Lin’s back!
’This is bad!’
His scales bristled!
Lie Lin’s golden, vertical pupils tightened abruptly!
At this crucial moment between life and death, he could only rely on instinct, shifting his body ever so slightly...
SHIING!
The Moon Arc whirled past.
It grazed Lie Lin’s head, shearing off the entire row of diamond-shaped spikes on top and even... slicing away a chunk of his flesh!
On his originally crimson dragon head, a patch of white was now visible.
—It was his skull!
But even so, the feeling of surviving a near-death experience allowed Lie Lin to breathe a sigh of relief. He once again tried to flap his wings and accelerate toward Xuetu!
However.
’Hmm?’
The command to flap his wings was not carried out by his body.
Lie Lin’s heart filled with dread, and an intense wave of pain shot from his back!
"My wings?!"
He glanced back and saw his own back.
His wings were completely gone. The cross-sections were smooth and clean, almost beautiful.
GUSH.
Thick, scorching dragon blood, like lava, was spewing from the wounds, spraying across the sky!
—The previous Moon Arc Slash had cleanly severed both of his wings!
WHOOSH.
The two severed dragon wings were plummeting toward the sea below!
It is said that for a Divinity Transformation Level Body Cultivator, every drop of blood is infused with their will. Even severed flesh can obey commands, and they can even be reborn from a single drop of blood.
But, Lie Lin clearly lacked such an ability. His wings, now detached from his body, were free to go, plummeting toward the ocean.
At the same time, having lost his wings, even though he could rely on his Tier Four Realm and use the Spiritual Power within his body to barely stay afloat, his speed had dropped drastically!