Cooperating to Kill the Two-Thousand-Year Crystal Bear, Dark Gold Suddenly Crashing into His Eyes

"Why am I so unlucky..."

Mu Xi's expression darkened.

Before she could even sense what kind of existence it was, there had already been such a commotion.

This likely meant that it was a thousand-year Spirit Beast!

Helpless, she could only pull herself together and warily watch her surroundings.

Then...

The tremors grew increasingly intense.

And their frequency became faster and faster.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, a scream rang out.

Mu Xi's pupils contracted. Unable to hold herself back any longer, she leaped up and climbed onto a branch, finally seeing what was happening.

A Crystal Bear!

A thousand-year one!

One of the strongest beings within the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform.

This violent disturbance

was caused by it chasing three Spirit Masters at high speed.

After Mu Xi climbed onto the branch, she happened to see the Crystal Bear smash one of the Spirit Masters to pieces with a single swipe.

Flesh and blood splattered everywhere!

Although Spirit Masters would not truly die after dying within the Spirit Ascension Platform,

unlike Spirit Beasts, which turned into specks of light upon death,

from the perspective of others, a Spirit Master's death was clearly more direct and far more real.

The other two Spirit Masters ultimately failed to escape the Crystal Bear's paws as well.

They were both killed.

Mu Xi had wanted to save them.

Unfortunately, she had no chance.

Moreover, the Crystal Bear was already stained with quite a bit of blood.

Clearly, the three before her were not its only victims.

"A Jin..."

Mu Xi's face went pale. She suddenly seemed to understand why she had been unable to find Lin Jin all this time.

Even though she knew that Lin Jin would be perfectly fine even if he died at the Crystal Bear's hands,

still...

It would hurt so much!

Her aura could not help but become unsteady.

Roar!

The Crystal Bear's crystalline red eyes suddenly fixed on her.

Boom!

It kicked off the ground and leaped high into the air, pouncing toward Mu Xi.

Mu Xi's face turned pale. She had already forgotten to press the Escape Button on the back of her hand.

Her second Spirit Ring lit up instinctively.

A ring of flame rippled outward.

Second Spirit Skill, Repelling Fire Ring.

The Crystal Bear's furious strike failed to land, and its massive body was directly flung away.

This only made it angrier.

A red glow actually began to radiate from its body.

It was about to enter a Berserk State!

Mu Xi knew that facing a Crystal Bear like this alone was extremely risky.

Thus, once she came to her senses, she reached for the button on the back of her hand.

But at that moment—

Clang!

A sound like metal striking metal rang out abruptly.

Mu Xi froze.

Looking closely, she saw a hammer that was not particularly large shoot through the air and smash into the Crystal Bear's head.

At the same time, flames blossomed.

The Crystal Bear cried out in pain. Its body reeled backward from the immense force and lost its balance, though it quickly recovered.

Its vicious gaze instantly shifted toward another direction.

The moment Mu Xi saw the flames, her hand had instinctively stopped.

Following the Crystal Bear's gaze, delight immediately appeared on her face.

"A Jin, you're not dead!"

Elsewhere,

Lin Jin had also noticed the disturbance and tracked the Crystal Bear here.

This Crystal Bear's cultivation had already surpassed two thousand years.

If he killed it, the spiritual energy it produced could grant the Fire Elemental Sprite a hundred years of cultivation even though he possessed two Spirit Rings.

That alone would be enough to bring the Fire Elemental Sprite into the thousand-year tier.

Yet unexpectedly,

before he had even found an opportunity to strike,

he had spotted Mu Xi, whom he had been searching for without success for so long.

Repelling Fire Ring!

He naturally already knew about Mu Xi's second Spirit Skill.

It was also a Spirit Skill that felt incredibly familiar to him.

Though born from different Martial Souls, their effects were more or less the same.

It had pushed the Crystal Bear away, yet inadvertently given him an opportunity.

Without responding to Mu Xi,

the instant the Crystal Bear turned its gaze toward him, Lin Jin leaped high into the air and brought down another hammer!

Bang!

Although the Cloud Titanium Forging Hammer was light, as a Half-Step Spirit Forging weapon—and after Lin Jin's Blood Sacrifice—it was astonishingly hard.

With Lotus Flower Flame enhancing it, a single blow directly smashed one of the Crystal Bear's eyes apart!

Since it had not died, blood exploded from the Crystal Bear's eye socket instead of dispersing into Spirit Light.

The sight was rather bloody.

Roar, roar, roar!

The Crystal Bear completely toppled onto its back, roaring in pain.

At the same time, its enormous arms slammed down viciously.

However,

Lin Jin had already used the momentum to flip himself away, easily evading the bear's paws.

At the same time, another hammer descended, smashing toward the Crystal Bear's other eye.

But the Crystal Bear was already prepared.

As it shut its eyes, its eyelids actually began to crystallize!

Clang!

The Forging Hammer was knocked away. Even Lin Jin's tiger's mouth split open from the impact, blood spreading across it.

"A Jin, move!"

Mu Xi's voice rang out at that moment.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Jin used the momentum to leap away.

Boom!

Three enormous fireballs over a meter in diameter, radiating terrifying heat, fell like blazing suns.

Mu Xi's third Spirit Skill, Three Suns Shining.

The area within ten meters instantly turned scorched black.

Lin Jin had moved quickly enough, and Mu Xi had deliberately controlled the attack, so he was not caught in it.

"Senior Sister is still Senior Sister!"

Lin Jin gave Mu Xi a thumbs-up.

A proud expression immediately appeared on Mu Xi's face, but it abruptly changed in the next moment as she cried out.

"A Jin!"

Before Lin Jin could turn around, an enormous shadow had already enveloped him.

Yet a smile remained on his lips.

Snap!

A finger snap.

The Crystal Bear, its body covered in shattered crystals and scorched black all over, which had been about to press a paw down on Lin Jin, crashed to the ground.

After struggling for a moment, it turned into specks of Spirit Light and dispersed.

A dense cluster of purple energy appeared and drifted toward Lin Jin.

The Fire Elemental Sprite immediately appeared, flying out without hesitation and plunging headfirst into it.

Mu Xi was dumbfounded, her eyes wide.

She could only feel her heart pounding wildly.

So showy...

But why was it kind of cool?

Walking up to Lin Jin, Mu Xi could not help asking,

"How did you do that, A Jin?"

Lin Jin smiled.

From the moment he smashed the Crystal Bear's eye with his hammer, this outcome had already been inevitable.

Do not forget.

What was Lotus Flower Flame's truly terrifying ability?

To burn anything!

Even within the Spirit Ascension Platform, that could not be changed.

As the closest part to the brain and also the weakest, once the eye had been smashed apart, Lotus Flower Flame had already seeped inside.

Without external defenses,

once Lotus Flower Flame fully blossomed, even without Mu Xi's support,

the Crystal Bear's death would have been inevitable after a certain amount of time.

It was only that Three Suns Shining had accelerated the process.

"Senior Sister, this spiritual energy..."

After explaining, Lin Jin's gaze fell upon the Fire Elemental Sprite, which had claimed all the spiritual energy produced by the Crystal Bear.

"It's fine. I already have three Spirit Rings, and the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform does not offer much improvement to my Spirit Soul anyway."

"This time, what matters more is training my real combat ability, not improving my Spirit Soul."

Mu Xi smiled unconcernedly.

Yet her eyes remained fixed on the Fire Elemental Sprite.

"Wow, she's getting cuter and more spirited!"

Her eyes sparkled, filled with the resentful feeling of why this Spirit Soul was not her Spirit Soul.

Lin Jin was speechless.

Suddenly, terrifying pressure descended.

A streak of dark gold light crashed into Lin Jin's eyes.