When Yu Jing had fully recovered and risen from the ground, he noticed a small, incredibly fast figure moving at a speed that was nearly impossible to follow, her body performing bizarre movements like those of an acrobat.
"Yu Xiaoxiao, you're amazing!"
However, just as the two were locked in fierce combat, the unpredictable evil spirit Shen Yixuan noticed that she had lost contact with the male pet she had spent so much effort cultivating. Her gaze immediately shifted to the completely desiccated stitched giant corpse beside Yu Jing, and her mouth instantly fell open in an O shape.
"My corpse puppet!"
A scream erupted from Shen Yixuan's mouth. The center of her translucent body frantically absorbed the Yin cold in the room. Her long black hair floated in the air, and her sharp teeth extended until they stretched her mouth into something utterly inhuman. Her hollow, eyeless sockets stared at Yu Jing, who had killed her precious puppet.
The temperature in the room dropped another five degrees Celsius.
Black claws struck directly at the dagger held in one hand by Yu Xiaoxiao beside her.
"Clang!" The tremendous force completely split open her tiger's mouth. Her petite body slammed into the wall before tumbling to the ground. Yu Xiaoxiao had already exceeded her limits after activating the Killing Bloodline for the first time. The powerful impact injured her internally, and she coughed up a large amount of blood.
Although her silver eyes had not faded, it seemed that all the bones in Yu Xiaoxiao's body no longer permitted her to continue moving under such a heavy load.
The entire world beneath her silver pupils was gray. However, when Yu Xiaoxiao saw Yu Jing standing nearby with his body recovering, the discomfort in her heart slowly faded.
The evil spirit Shen Yixuan shifted her attention entirely from Yu Xiaoxiao to Yu Jing.
The fully transformed evil spirit woman crawled frantically on all fours across the ground, constantly changing positions within a three-meter area and making herself impossible to predict.
"The perfect man I worked so hard to collect was destroyed by you. I'll tear your tendons and bones apart, flay you, devour your brain, and make you wish you were dead! I'll torture you endlessly!"
Her twisted body suddenly leaped up from a position roughly three meters from Yu Jing. Two black claws slashed diagonally downward at him in a crossed strike.
"My body can keep up with this speed."
Yu Jing did not choose to engage her head-on immediately. Instead, he lowered his body slightly, then performed a forward roll to evade her claws and fled toward one side of the room.
The evil spirit missed her strike and landed beside the giant corpse, which had been reduced to nothing but skin.
Looking at the creation she had nurtured for more than twenty years reduced to this state, she touched the corpse skin with her palm. Waves of madness and hatred surged violently within her, while her hanging black hair scattered in every direction.
She crawled rapidly across the ground like a spider. Her sunken, empty eye sockets made her even more terrifying.
Sizzle, sizzle. Her sharp teeth ground against each other as she chased Yu Jing.
Yu Jing's goal was not actually to flee. Instead, he went to Jiang Pengyu, whose heart had been torn out and whose body had grown somewhat cold from massive blood loss. He injected the green plant matter in his palm into Jiang Pengyu's body.
--A powerful lifeform detected. The target is in a near-death state. Absorption is recommended to strengthen physical constitution--
The instant Yu Jing's body came into contact with Jiang Pengyu's, a message was transmitted to his retinas. Yet no extra expression appeared on Yu Jing's face. He immediately changed his escape route, moving the battlefield away from Jiang Pengyu.
"Run. My former prey all fled here in panic just like you."
With six limbs crawling across the ground and her spirit-form body moving lightly, Shen Yixuan gradually caught up to Yu Jing.
When the distance between them reached five meters, numerous plant vines grew from Yu Jing's right arm and anchored themselves to the ground, instantly halting his rapidly moving body before he turned around one hundred and eighty degrees.
"I've been waiting for you to come over."
The rapidly moving evil spirit Shen Yixuan looked somewhat bewildered. Her body was about to crash into Yu Jing, who had abruptly stopped in front of her.
Seeing her prey offer himself up, Shen Yixuan laughed. "Since you're so eager to die, I'll treat you the same way I treated your friend. First, I'll dig out your heart. Then, before your brain dies, I'll put it back in. Die!"
Yu Jing faced the hollow-eyed evil spirit without the slightest panic. As four arms reached for him, his eyes focused on tracking the path of every arm. He calmly analyzed them and determined where to evade.
"I can see them clearly."
His body tilted thirty degrees downward and to the side. The four black-nailed arms just happened to sweep past his face, neck, and side. At most, they left several shallow blood marks across his face and chest.
Seizing the opening, Yu Jing moved in front of the evil spirit.
"Crack!"
Having absorbed the giant corpse earlier and become saturated with energy, Yu Jing's right arm—which was filled with vines moving beneath the skin—exploded open at the surface. A mass of green plant vines whipped through the air, making his right arm look incredibly powerful.
The plant-covered right arm rose vertically. His palm pressed against the evil spirit's chin, and his five fingers clamped onto her face. With the full force of his arm, he flipped her body downward.
"Boom!"
The evil spirit was instantly driven downward by the tremendous force and smashed into the ground. Cracks spread slightly through the earth.
The evil spirit's head was crushed apart by Yu Jing's strike. A liquid resembling starlight flowed from inside, while her bones turned into specks of starlight and vanished.
"Watch out!"
Yu Xiaoxiao's voice came from nearby.
Yu Jing was startled that the female ghost was still alive. Just as he was about to shift his body and evade, the evil spirit Shen Yixuan's four arms swiftly pierced through him. Fortunately, he had moved beforehand; otherwise, the attack would have pierced straight through his heart.
"Urgh!"
A large amount of blood burst from his mouth.
"...The core is in her chest. I clearly could have inferred that from Jiang Pengyu's attack just now. Why did I hesitate? Damn it..."
Yu Jing endured the pain and tried to use his remaining strength to break open the core at the center of her chest.
Who could have known that Shen Yixuan's arms, still piercing through Yu Jing's body, would begin twisting incessantly? The pain penetrated to his marrow, and Yu Jing's life force rapidly leaked away. The strength in his right arm also dwindled.
The headless evil spirit formed a temporary mouth at the bottom of her chest. Shen Yixuan's voice came from within.
"Die! I only want your head! I can sense that there are still many living beings in these mountains. I'll capture new prey and make brand-new dolls. Die, you fool who tried to kill my man. You really are..."
Her laughter abruptly stopped halfway through. A streak of silver light fell from above and plunged straight into the speaking mouth—in other words, directly into the center of the evil spirit's chest.
When the core inside was pierced by the rune-inscribed silver dagger, glowing cracks spread across the evil spirit's entire body.
"Ah, I won't die... I still have things left to do. I have to kill that man!"
A heart-rending scream echoed through the basement. Countless ghost faces poured from the cracks, but in the end, they vanished completely along with the main body.
Yu Jing watched Yu Xiaoxiao collapse to the ground nearby after exhausting the last of her strength. Then he lowered his head and looked at the four arm-thick bloody holes in his own body. He had already undergone a major repair after absorbing the giant corpse, and his body had reached its limit.
Before he fell, his trembling right hand reached forward because of an obsession. In the end, it grasped Yu Xiaoxiao's fair little hand.
Yu Jing wore a hooded outfit stained red with blood. A trace of blood leaked from the corner of his mouth, and his vision blurred as his eyes slowly closed...
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