Was she looking for an opening, then waiting for a chance to counterattack?
Watching the razor-sharp ice crystals and Zhang Yunlu striding toward her over the waves, Huang Qi couldn't help frowning slightly.
It was clear she had decided to fight with everything she had, but...
The moment hadn't come yet. He still couldn't kill her.
The next moment, Zhang Yunlu swung the longsword in her hand and tapped one of the ice crystals.
With a sharp crack, the enormous ice crystal shattered into countless tiny shards. They glinted with a frigid light and swept toward him like a storm.
Huang Qi's expression didn't change. He calmly uttered a single word.
"Burn."
Two fire serpents immediately burst from the Bio-Weapon Hub resting in his palm. They coiled and twisted upward, their blazing light carrying terrifying heat. The ice crystals melted and vaporized wherever they passed.
Hiss!
Steam billowed, and chains that seemed forged from firelight bound a great mass of clouds.
Suddenly!
Two streaks of bloody swordlight severed the fire serpents and slashed diagonally through the steam!
Huang Qi raised a hand and pointed. Golden-red light flowed from his fingertip and collided with the razor-sharp bloody swordlight.
Both dissipated almost simultaneously.
And in the instant the swordlight and golden-red glow vanished together, Zhang Yunlu had already charged right up to him, sword in hand. Her face looked terrifyingly demonic, her expression impossible to make out, but the resolve in her eyes never wavered.
"Did you think you'd have the advantage at close range?"
He gently clenched his right hand. The strange polyhedron, bright as a star, broke apart. Countless tiny facets and edges, constantly shifting in color, began to reassemble.
In the blink of an eye, the polyhedron had transformed into a massive two-handed axe, its body red as molten