As for the identity of this Fallen Angel God...
No new Angel God had appeared in the past ten thousand years.
Without a doubt, she was the last Angel God, Qian Renxue.
And she was also Ye Guyi's ancestor.
Ye Guyi felt all the Soul Power in her body being suppressed. Even breathing took effort.
She could not understand.
Angels represented light and justice. How could one become something so evil?
"Elder Yi, can we handle this thing?" Qi Xuan quietly asked Elder Yi in his mind.
Elder Yi snorted disdainfully. "That thing doesn't even qualify as a remnant soul. It's just a monster formed using a god's shell."
As long as she isn't the real Angel God.
Qi Xuan let out a huge sigh of relief.
Elder Yi said irritably, "If this thing had even the slightest real connection to a god, one glance from her would kill you."
Not far away, the Fallen Angel God raised the enormous blood-red sword in her hand and brought it down toward Ye Guyi's head!
Ye Guyi gritted her teeth, trying to gather her Soul Power for one final resistance, letting her last glimmer of light shine like a moth throwing itself into a flame.
A streak of black lightning flashed before her eyes, wrapped an arm around her slender waist, and vanished from the spot with her.
Ye Guyi felt a powerful surge of momentum through her body, and the scenery before her eyes blurred.
Bang! The enormous sword shattered the floor, sending broken stone flying in every direction.
A trace of confusion crossed the Fallen Angel God's wickedly alluring face.
At the other end of the room, Qi Xuan barely managed to stop with Ye Guyi in his arms. He gasped for breath, cold sweat pouring down his back.
In that instant, Qi Xuan had unleashed his second and third Soul Skills in succession, using both Yin Lei Transformation and Three Thousand Thunderclaps to burst forth at the fastest speed he could currently achieve and forcibly snatch Ye Guyi from the Fallen Angel's grasp.
The Fallen Angel had already locked fully onto Ye Guyi with her aura. When Qi Xuan rescued Ye Guyi, part of that oppressive aura naturally shifted onto him.
For that brief instant, he felt as though he had plunged into an ice cavern, his entire mind descending into chaos.
Had he not already passed a sanity check and grown somewhat accustomed to the feeling of losing SAN, he probably would have been cleaved apart along with her.
"It's you? You aren't with them?" Ye Guyi recognized Qi Xuan and asked in surprise.
"I'm from Shrek Academy," Qi Xuan replied briefly. "I noticed something wrong here while passing by, so I came to investigate."
Ye Guyi did not question him. She looked toward the distant Fallen Angel. "Then do you have a way to deal with her? I probably won't be able to fight for now."
"Then look after Cui'er. I'll give it a try." Qi Xuan brought Ye Guyi over to Cui'er, then stood up to face the Fallen Angel.
Ye Guyi raised her hand and used the last of her Soul Power to cast her first Soul Skill, Holy Light Illumination, on Qi Xuan.
It protected Qi Xuan from the encroachment of darkness to a certain extent and accelerated his Soul Power recovery.
"You've been powered up. Get in there."
By Ye Guyi's estimation, the Fallen Angel was not particularly strong in terms of raw power.
But one outrageously unfair thing about her was that she possessed a divine aura.
That made the situation complicated and troublesome.
Simply put, a divine aura could reduce damage from attacks below god level to an enormous degree, while granting every attack true damage with divine penetration.
A battle between a god and a non-god was practically an old man toying with a mischievous child.
Ye Guyi could use her angel origin to bypass the divine aura and fight the Fallen Angel.
If her level had been a little higher, this Fallen Angel would have been nothing more than a meal served up on a platter. Unfortunately, she was only level forty, so the balance of offense and defense was reversed, and the Fallen Angel had whipped her around like a spinning top.
Holiness and corruption were, by their very nature, nourishment for each other.
The Yin-Yang Mystic Thunder of Qi Xuan's Martial Soul had some connection to the righteous energy of heaven and earth, so it also had a certain suppressive effect on the Fallen Angel.
But if he could not break through her divine defenses, he was completely out of options.
Only a god could stand against a god, unless he could also use Guanyin's Tears.
"Dora-Elder Yi, think of something!" The only cheat Qi Xuan possessed that could contend with a god was the demigod-level Elder Yi.
"Three minutes. I can strip away her divine aura for you for three minutes," Elder Yi said with a long sigh. "Any longer, and my divine sense fragment will set your Sea of Consciousness ablaze."
"No problem. I just tested her. She has no intelligence, and she's incredibly clumsy with her skills." Qi Xuan brimmed with confidence.
According to Elder Yi, the Fallen Angel before him was merely a humanoid amalgamation pieced together from a huge mass of unidentified creatures. She had no real intelligence at all.
As Elder Yi's divine sense spread, a wisp of gray mist drifted over to envelop the Fallen Angel.
In an instant, Qi Xuan felt something silently shatter, and the evil aura surrounding the Fallen Angel surged toward him without restraint.
In exchange, however, Qi Xuan also felt that omnipresent pressure disappear.
He no longer hesitated. Brilliant lightning began to coil around his entire body.
Mystic Thunder Three Tribulations Transformation, first transformation, Yang Lei Transformation!
Frenzied lightning swirled around him, covering the surface of his body like a suit of armor and raising his imposing presence another few notches.
The Little Thunder Dragon in his dantian roared as well, then coiled above his right shoulder.
Crimson Palace Thunder Transformation: Thunder Armor!
Back during the Freshman Tournament, Qi Xuan had tried wrapping lightning around his body, but because of his Martial Soul's quality and his control over the element, he had only been able to cover his right arm.
After his Martial Soul evolved into Yin-Yang Mystic Thunder, however, his affinity with the lightning element had grown considerably stronger.
With Yang Lei Transformation active, he could now control the lightning element as effortlessly as moving his own limbs, covering his entire body to form a suit of armor.
Qi Xuan was certain that, in his current state, he could probably smash the Hell White Tiger from back then apart with a single punch.
Qi Xuan's goal was simple: unleash the greatest possible damage in the shortest possible time and go all out against this Fallen Angel.
After Elder Yi stripped away her divine aura, the Fallen Angel's invincible defenses no longer worked. Her health bar had been revealed to him.
And if she had a health bar, he could kill her by force!
Golden arcs of electricity cracked violently through the air. Qi Xuan appeared before the Fallen Angel in a flash, lightning blazing around his right fist as he drove it viciously toward her bewitching face!
The Fallen Angel was caught off guard by his speed, too. She did not even have time to block with her enormous blood-red sword. In her haste, she could only fold her eight blood-red wings together to shield herself.
Crackle, crackle.
An explosion rang out, and the Fallen Angel flew backward. All eight blood-red wings were scorched black, and the one that had met Qi Xuan head-on had actually snapped, dragging behind her in tatters.
This was the explosive power of ultimate lightning!
Qi Xuan gave her no time to react. With Three Thousand Thunderclaps beneath his feet, he charged straight at her again.
At the same time, he stirred the lightning element in the air, sending it rushing toward the Fallen Angel from every direction.
The Fallen Angel neither dodged nor retreated. She held her enormous blood-red sword horizontally and swung it in a massive arc, intent on trading wounds with Qi Xuan!
Thanks to her advantage in reach, the Fallen Angel's blade struck Qi Xuan's chest before his fist could hit her.
"Foolish."
Qi Xuan's assault did not slow in the slightest. As though he had no concern for his own safety, he slammed his right fist into her left cheek. Countless surges of lightning element erupted in an instant, blasting that exquisite face into a bloody ruin.
The instant the enormous blood-red sword touched his body, an orange-yellow barrier abruptly expanded, enclosing Qi Xuan within it.
No matter how wildly the bloody light raged, for three seconds, his protection remained as impregnable as a fortress with walls of metal and a moat of boiling water.
Looking at the somewhat battered Fallen Angel, Qi Xuan arched an eyebrow.
"An Invincible Shield. Never seen one before, have you?"
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