Dangerous Situation

In another 1–2 seconds, Yu Jing would lose his head before his body could react.

"Rumble!"

At this moment of extreme crisis, the rocks directly overhead were loosened and split apart by a violent impact, and a figure fell together with the rubble.

A swift punch shot toward the spot where the vine net had been torn open.

"Smack!"

In Yu Jing's eyes, the punch struck the white-clothed woman's face at an angle, caving in the bones of one side of her face.

"Ahhh!" Accompanied by a shriek, the female ghost's body was sent flying three meters away.

The evil spirit female ghost's scream stimulated the stitched giant corpse behind them. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaoxiao darted around the giant corpse with agile movements, already severing its more important joints and the tendons in its limbs. The giant corpse could not break free to protect its master.

"Just in time, Jiang Pengyu."

Yu Jing had just sensed death approaching. Now, he could not help but let out a sigh of relief.

The reason Jiang Pengyu could fall from above Yu Jing at such a critical moment and land a punch on the female ghost all came down to the group's thorough preparations before entering the basement.

Before the incident, Yu Jing had not only made preparations concerning Yu Xiaoxiao. To prevent the team from being split apart by mental interference, he had separated a small portion of the plant matter from his body and distributed it among all his teammates, allowing him to sense their locations.

(Because he had considered the danger posed by the plant matter, Yu Jing had not planted it into his teammates' retinas. If it caused blindness, the consequences would have been unimaginable.)

Earlier, the team had been scattered by the mental interference. Yu Jing, who had been standing before the door at the end of the underground passage, had immediately sensed Yu Xiaoxiao behind the iron door, as well as Jiang Pengyu and Men Qian in the inn above.

Through the signal transmission, Yu Jing had had Jiang Pengyu lock onto his position directly overhead. At the critical moment, Jiang Pengyu had broken through the separating layer and launched a surprise attack on the evil spirit below.

As Jiang Pengyu fell from above, a faint-white vortex of energy swirled between his fists. Feeling the solid impact transmitted through his punch, he excitedly asked Yu Jing:

"Where did I hit her?"

Three meters away, the female ghost's cheek had been caved inward by Jiang Pengyu's punch. A fluorescent substance seeped from the cracks in her facial bones, clearly indicating that she had suffered serious injuries.

"You hit her head perfectly. The evil spirit is three meters away from us... It looks like the effect is pretty good. Follow me! When she tore apart the vine net I released earlier, some of the plants had already entered her palms. You should be able to see them with the naked eye."

Following Yu Jing's gaze, Jiang Pengyu caught sight of a spirit marked by the plants Yu Jing had used. It was the evil spirit female ghost, normally invisible to the naked eye.

"I'll restrain her. Jiang Pengyu, you're responsible for shattering her body in one strike."

Yu Jing was the first to reach the evil spirit Shen Yixuan, whose head had been damaged. A large amount of plant matter burst from his arm and wrapped around the entire spirit. A complete human outline appeared in the eyes of the Jiang Pengyu who followed close behind.

"Core!"

The body-tempering technique Jiang Pengyu cultivated was related to the meridians and acupoints of the human body.

The energy flowing over his fists was the result of his cultivation. Observing the human outline wrapped in plant matter, Jiang Pengyu read the energy's movement through the differing force exerted on each part of the plants, analyzing the location of the energy core within the evil spirit Shen Yixuan's body.

Powerful energy gathered in his right fist as he aimed it at the center of her chest and struck.

Once his descending fist landed on the core, the victor would be decided.

At the critical moment, Yu Jing, standing to the side with his mind intensely focused, noticed that something was wrong. The female ghost's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened.

The female ghost seemed to have deliberately lain on the ground and pretended to be unconscious, specifically luring the two of them closer.

"Hahaha, simple-minded humans." A bone-chilling voice echoed from all around them.

"Jiang..."

Before Yu Jing could finish shouting, the vines restraining the female ghost were torn apart by pale arms.

The arms stretched out and aimed at Jiang Pengyu's right chest.

"Slash!" Before Jiang Pengyu's fist could land, his heart was completely ripped out.

This happened only thirty centimeters from Yu Jing.

"Crack!"

Without the slightest pause, the clawed hand clenched. Jiang Pengyu's body collapsed to the ground, a massive hole in his chest and his eyes dimmed to lifelessness.

Yu Jing's eyes widened. He stood rooted to the spot, stunned by Jiang Pengyu's death.

The evil spirit Shen Yixuan immediately grabbed Yu Jing's head. However, considering that Yu Jing was a "high-quality target," she did not kill him at once. Instead, she used her claws to sever all four of his limbs at the roots and threw him onto the ground.

"Little girl! Take a look at your boyfriend."

The voice echoed throughout this cubic room. While Yu Xiaoxiao was entangled with the stitched giant corpse, she used a moment of free time to look over.

In Yu Xiaoxiao's vision, Jiang Pengyu lay on the ground, showing no sign of life.

Yu Jing's limbs had been severed by a sharp weapon. Although green plants were helping stop the bleeding around the wounds, he had completely lost the ability to move.

Jiang Pengyu's death did not affect Yu Xiaoxiao greatly.

But Yu Jing's severely injured appearance stabbed into Yu Xiaoxiao's heart like a steel needle. Since childhood, no matter how much painful training she had endured, Yu Xiaoxiao had never felt anything this unbearable.

The bloodline power hidden deep within her body was activated. Yu Xiaoxiao's round brown pupils transformed into sharp silver pupils shaped like blades.

In an instant, Yu Xiaoxiao's speed doubled.

She determined that killing the giant corpse would require cutting out its core and would take a great deal of time. But there was no time to waste. Using the sharp dagger in her hand, Yu Xiaoxiao forcibly severed the giant corpse's legs at the roots, causing it to lose the ability to move.

As her light body landed, she immediately turned and rushed toward the evil spirit Shen Yixuan, who was holding Yu Jing.

The icy killing intent released from Yu Xiaoxiao's body actually made this evil spirit female ghost, who had slaughtered a hundred people, shudder.

Yu Jing was important to Shen Yixuan's evil spirit and needed to be preserved. She temporarily threw Yu Jing's immobile body onto the ground beside her and focused all her attention on the clearly transformed Yu Xiaoxiao before her.

"Smack!"

Yu Jing's body hit the ground. With all four limbs severed, the wounds split open further from the impact, causing pain that ordinary people would have found impossible to endure.

But Yu Jing had already experienced the sensation of flesh splitting open in the research institute. With the plant matter in his body helping reduce the pain to a certain extent, Yu Jing fixed his gaze on the stitched giant corpse lying on the ground after Yu Xiaoxiao had severed both its legs.

His body yearned intensely to draw energy from the giant corpse...