The Blue Silver Emperor's Vitality

Jiang Ming did not move.

It was not that he did not want to move. He knew he could not.

A level-ten body facing the Teleportation ambush of a hundred-year Soul Beast, relying on reaction speed to dodge?

That was a joke.

He relied on instinct.

The instant his senses transmitted the warning, his body reacted—Space Shift.

How far could a level-ten Soul Master's Space Shift reach?

At most, half a meter!

And it consumed a massive amount of Soul Power!

But half a meter was enough!

A shadow of claws swept through where he had been standing, shredding the afterimage he had left behind.

Jiang Ming landed half a meter away, his expression turning grim.

The consumption was too great.

One short-distance Space Shift had nearly drained a third of his Soul Power.

The Space-Rending Beast's strike missed, and its body condensed five meters away.

The black curse flickered at that moment.

The Space-Rending Beast's limbs visibly trembled, as if it were enduring immense pain.

The glow in its silver eyes dimmed slightly.

Watching the Space-Rending Beast, Jiang Ming rapidly calculated.

He had only one Space Shift and one Space Tear that could not break its defense.

His Space Shift could only travel half a meter and consumed too much power. He could not use it many times.

His Space Tear, which could currently only be used to pick flowers, was little more than a scratch to a hundred-year Soul Beast.

But the other party was also in terrible condition and could not sustain a prolonged fight.

That curse was slowly killing it.

Every use of Spatial Ability would accelerate the process.

Both sides possessed Spatial Ability.

Its spatial level completely crushed his, but his Space Shift could barely evade its attacks.

There was only one deciding factor in this battle.

Who would collapse first.

The Space-Rending Beast did not give him more time to think.

A second Teleportation.

Jiang Ming activated Space Shift.

This time, it was to the left!

But the Space-Rending Beast changed its move at that moment.

Its claws did not slash at a single point. They swept across the entire area.

Jiang Ming appeared half a meter away, but the beast's claws still swept across the left side of his waist and abdomen.

Four deep bloody gashes instantly opened up!

Had he not used Space Shift, that claw would have cut him in half at the waist.

The Blue Silver Emperor's vitality circulated wildly within him, repairing the horrifying wounds.

The Space-Rending Beast reappeared four meters away.

A complex change appeared in the glow of its silver eyes.

It was hesitating.

It had used Spatial Ability twice, yet failed to kill this tiny level-ten Soul Master.

This human, who was only level ten, could evade fatal blows every time.

And with every Teleportation, the curse would sink deeper, leaving it less time.

It had to gamble!

The black figure blurred beneath the moonlight.

It was not Teleportation.

It was high-frequency, continuous, nearly crazed short-range Space Leaps.

Jiang Ming's senses were completely overwhelmed in that instant.

Within a radius of ten meters, Space-Rending Beast spatial fluctuations were everywhere. He could not distinguish real from false, nor tell which came first.

He had no time to judge the direction of the attack, because attacks were coming from every direction.

Now, he could only rely on his sixth sense!

Space Shift!

Forward!

A silver-white claw shadow swept past Jiang Ming's back!

He had dodged it!

But that was not enough!

Jiang Ming squeezed out the last trace of his Soul Power and activated Space Shift again.

This time, to the left!

But he was a little too slow.

The silver claw shadow tore across Jiang Ming's back, leaving a deep bloody gash.

Had he been half a second slower, that attack would have taken his life!

Jiang Ming rolled halfway across the ground and struggled to his feet.

His Soul Power was completely exhausted!

The Space-Rending Beast's figure emerged once more.

The black curse had already spread across its entire body, making its limbs tremble violently.

It could no longer use Spatial Ability.

But it still had sharp claws and fangs!

Meanwhile, this level-ten Soul Master had nothing in his hands.

In this contest, it had ultimately proved more skilled!

The Space-Rending Beast charged toward Jiang Ming.

Its sharp claws sealed off all of Jiang Ming's paths of retreat.

Its mouth gradually opened, revealing sharp teeth aimed at his throat.

Jiang Ming did not retreat.

He no longer had the Soul Power to use Space Shift, nor did he have room to retreat.

He met it head-on.

He deliberately thrust his left arm into the Space-Rending Beast's mouth.

The Space-Rending Beast instinctively closed its fangs.

Sharp teeth sank deeply into the muscles of his forearm.

It was not a sharp stabbing pain, but a crushing agony, as if his entire arm had been shoved into a millstone.

The beast's sharp claws tore open Jiang Ming's shirt, leaving a savage wound across his chest.

His left arm was bitten to pieces, and his chest was torn open!

Faced with injuries that should have been almost certainly fatal, Jiang Ming's face instantly turned deathly pale, yet he did not make a sound.

His right hand drew a refined steel dagger from his waist. With all his strength, he drove it into the Space-Rending Beast's left eye.

Silver fluid sprayed from its eye socket, splattering Jiang Ming's face!

"Awooo!"

The Space-Rending Beast let out a heart-rending scream.

It was not an ordinary sound.

It was the sharp, soul-trembling sound produced when space was torn apart.

Jiang Ming's eardrums ruptured in an instant, and blood seeped from his nose and the corners of his eyes.

But his dagger did not stop.

After plunging it in, he twisted it violently.

Once, twice, three times.

He could feel the dagger's tip grinding something apart.

Something soft, something full of resilience. Every twist produced faint cracking sounds.

That was its brain.

The Space-Rending Beast's body began to convulse violently.

Its jaw, which had been clamped around Jiang Ming's left arm, loosened involuntarily, and its claws slipped from his body.

Its limbs flailed wildly through the air. Its claw tips tore open the surrounding space, leaving black cracks one after another, but those cracks quickly closed again.

Silver fluid poured from its eye socket, wounds, and the corners of its mouth at the same time.

The glow in its remaining right eye rapidly dimmed.

From bright to gray, from gray to utterly extinguished.

It took only two seconds.

The Space-Rending Beast's body stiffened for a moment, then went completely limp.

It was dead.

Jiang Ming dropped to his knees.

It was not that he wanted to kneel. He simply could not hold on any longer.

The wound on his chest was deep enough to reveal bone. Through the split flesh, white ribs could be seen beneath.

More than half of his left arm had been crushed, broken bone fragments piercing out from the muscle.

His waist, his back—claw marks were everywhere. His whole body looked like a rag repeatedly torn apart by a wild beast.

Blood poured from every wound, gathering into a small pool beneath him.

For anyone else, such injuries would have been enough to kill them on the spot.

But Jiang Ming did not die.

A gentle golden energy surged from deep within his body.

Wherever that energy reached, torn blood vessels reconnected, severed muscles were stitched together, and shattered bones were slowly set back into place beneath a golden glow.

The Blue Silver Emperor's vitality!

Within this body on the verge of collapse, the life force belonging to the Blue Silver Emperor circulated frantically.

It was not healing, but preservation—it firmly anchored Jiang Ming's body on the boundary between life and death, refusing to let it fall into the abyss of death.

This power was the only confidence Jiang Ming had in daring to fight this battle.

Without the Blue Silver Emperor's life-sustaining ability, he would never have stood here.

He would not even have come here in the first place.

A level-ten Soul Master using a dagger to kill a hundred-year spatial Soul Beast.

That was courting death.

But with the Blue Silver Emperor, courting death became surviving after being driven into a dead end.

The premise was that you truly were not afraid of death.