Demon Sage Huiyue's body stiffened, his back pressed against an invisible wall as he stared into the depths of the mist.
The mist dispersed.
Revealing a slender figure clad in black.
The girl dragged the Great Wilderness Star-Shattering Halberd with one hand, its blade scraping brilliant sparks across the slick ground.
"Phew..."
Jiang Yuechu slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. Her once-rosy face was now somewhat pale.
She raised her eyes, and the killing intent from before was gone from them.
Instead, there was a trace of heartache that no one could understand.
"One hundred thousand years..."
The girl's voice was hoarse, her tone faint and distant.
"A full hundred thousand years of dao cultivation..."
"Tell me..."
She slowly raised the great halberd in her hand. "I paid such a huge price..."
"And you..."
"Where exactly do you think you're running off to?"
Demon Sage Huiyue looked at the cold face right before him, then at the vicious weapon about to fall once more.
At this moment.
What Demon Sage dignity? What Burning Lamp arrogance?
They could all go to hell!
His eyes flew wide, his pupils shrinking to needlepoints.
His whole body pressed tightly against the wall as his hands flailed wildly, and he let out the most shrill, helpless scream of his life:
"You..."
"Don't you fucking come over here—!!!!!"
[Killed a Burning Lamp Realm creature. Obtained 148,921 years of dao cultivation.]
Along with the pleasant notification.
Jiang Yuechu slowly released her hand, leaving the great halberd to pin down the corpse.
As its life force faded, its skin could no longer contain its true form.
A massive purple-black centipede was crammed into the narrow space.
She let out a long breath and rubbed her slightly sore wrist.
Its hundred legs were stiff as