"Protected, Passive Value, +1."
"Good heavens!"
For the first time, Xu Xiaoshou experienced what it felt like to be looked after.
He had indeed been quite afraid that the fiendish aura of the vicious sword would erupt and blast him back into his original form, turning him into a Berserk Giant.
Yet Mu Zixi had withstood it all with nothing but those strange God-Devil Pupils.
"Can you hold on?"
Lowering himself, Xu Xiaoshou patted his junior sister's shoulder.
"I don't feel anything."
Mu Zixi turned back. Demonic aura swirled within her right pupil.
The vicious demonic aura raging out from all around them was directly absorbed the instant it drew near.
Not only was the girl completely unaffected, she even let out an uncontrollable belch.
"Burp~"
"Uh..."
Mu Zixi's face reddened. She hurriedly turned back and stared ahead.
"God-Devil Pupils...?"
Xu Xiaoshou watched in alarm.
Every time he witnessed the power of those heterochromatic eyes, he was shocked anew.
They could even withstand the power of Yousi Sword, silently absorbing it all without a trace of disturbance.
Didn't that mean Mu Zixi's God-Devil Pupils were in no way inferior to Yousi Sword in terms of rank? Perhaps this was only half their power.
At the very least, ever since he had first seen the God-Devil Pupils, Xu Xiaoshou had never seen Mu Zixi use the other half—the power of the Divine Pupils.
"Good. Stay like this. Once we weather this wave, it should be fine."
Xu Xiaoshou hid behind her and spread his Perception in every direction.
The people likewise lying in wait across Sword-Severing Prairie had already been mostly cleared out by the first eruption of Yousi Sword's vicious demonic aura.
Anyone unable to withstand that demonic aura nearly all had their eyes turn scarlet on the spot, their