Fusion Is Power! (Thanks to Yagami Kiba for Becoming an Alliance Leader)

"It's fine, just a scratch!" Liu Shuyue said urgently. "Let me try again!"

Chen Xuan crushed a Blood Orange and smeared it over her wound. "How many lives do you have to spare?"

"This time, half... no, thirty or forty years will be enough!" Before frost had fully formed over the wound, she struggled to stand.

"Let me do it," A Jiu said suddenly. "I can use the first level of the Demon Extermination True Sword too. And I'm still young. Even if it costs me fifty years of life, I can afford it!"

"There's me too," A Hua added. "I can share half my brother's burden. It'll only cost me twenty years!"

"You two..." Liu Shuyue froze, then shook her head. "No... Even if you can use a Wind Riding Talisman, you can't control it well enough yet. Once the roots catch up, you'll be fighting with everything you have just to dodge them, let alone cast a spell."

A Jiu fell silent.

She was right. Even a genius like him couldn't master Wind Riding in just half an hour.

"Oh no! That thing looks like it's about to burst!" Xu Xuanling, who was standing guard nearby, suddenly cried out.

Everyone looked over. The membrane at the bottom of the droplet had turned almost transparent. Its web of blood vessels was fully visible, and the shadow inside stood out in sharp relief.

The membrane hadn't actually turned transparent. It had been stretched to its limit, thinning from a thick layer to something as fine as paper, like a balloon filled with water. Add any more, and the thinnest point at the bottom would split open.

"I don't have to dodge the roots." A Jiu seemed to have made up his mind. "Even if they catch me, I'll cast the