All Osmanthus Tree's efforts did was divert that green sword-light away from Lin Qi's heart, preventing it from killing him instantly.
Before Lin Qi could recover from the searing pain, hundreds more long green arrows came hurtling toward him. When they were less than a hundred meters away, all the arrow-lights suddenly exploded. Countless large and small, long and short fragments of green light shattered and refracted, stabbing toward Lin Qi from every direction at once.
Osmanthus Tree's roots and stems sent up countless azure afterimages, crashing heavily into the arrow-lights that had entered Lin Qi's body. Arrow after arrow shattered, but countless holes of varying sizes had already been punched through Lin Qi's body. The Blood-Soaked Tiger Soul Armor let out a groan of unbearable strain. Lin Qi, too, threw back his head and roared in agony. Then he dropped the Army-Slaying Axe and suddenly clamped both hands around the elven goddess's head before him.
With a pfft, a streak of green light shot in through Lin Qi's Adam's apple and pierced out through the back of his neck. A golden-red fountain of blood followed the green light, spraying over a hundred meters away. Lin Qi felt his body suddenly turn hollow.
Throwing back his head, Lin Qi let out a frantic roar. His arms suddenly tensed, and amid the elven goddess's hysterical scream, he forcibly snapped her neck. Yet the elven goddess was fiercely valiant as well. In that instant, both her hands pressed tightly against Lin Qi's body. Accompanied by her final, barely audible divine incantation, dozens of silver-white rays like unicorn horns erupted from her palms and wildly pierced through Lin Qi's body.
Lin Qi spat blood and flew backward, while the elven goddess crashed heavily to the ground. Lin Qi's strike had not only extinguished