La Signora's self-healing seemed to have finally ended, marking the end of their brief respite.
Clap, clap, clap...
La Signora applauded leisurely as she sauntered toward them, teasing, "What a pitiful pair. Don't worry, I'll send you off together, so you'll have company on the road to the underworld~."
"I hadn't noticed there was a little healer hiding here, too~."
Her gaze abruptly shifted to Ah Yin. In a flicker, she swept behind Ah Yin like a ghost.
Ah Yin raised both hands, and a pale blue barrier immediately enveloped her.
[Third Soul Skill: Blue Silver Barrier]
But before the barrier could fully form, La Signora's pale, delicate hand clamped around Ah Yin's neck like a mighty pincer. With a casual lift, she left Ah Yin dangling in midair. Ah Yin's face instantly turned deathly pale, her shapely legs swinging as she struggled helplessly.
"No!" Ji Feng cried out.
"So beautiful~. You'll make a perfect addition to my collection of ice sculptures."
La Signora's lips curled into a cruel smile. The Cryo Delusion on her body abruptly unleashed a surge of freezing air. After a flash of azure light, Ah Yin's figure became a massive block of ice, her terrified, struggling expression frozen within.
"Don't rush. Now, it's time to deal with you two little lovebirds."
The woman slowly turned around and folded her arms beneath her chest, making her figure look even fuller and more seductive. Ice and fire intertwined around her, radiating an eerie, sinister pressure.
"Run... I've recovered quite a bit. I should be able to buy you some time. She's after me. She won't chase you."
Even Bibi Dong had to marvel that Ah Yin truly deserved to be called a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Her healing ability was astonishingly powerful. In less than a few minutes, most of Bibi Dong's injuries had already healed-and those had been inflicted by a Super Douluo's flames.
In that case, I can fight again!
The girl rose to her feet and shielded Ji Feng without leaving room for argument. Her long pink hair danced in the breeze, her figure upright and imposing, like a brave, fearless goddess of war.
"Now, run!"
Bibi Dong gave the quiet instruction, keeping her eyes fixed on La Signora without daring to look away.
"What kind of joke is that?! How could I let you buy me time?! This is all my fault! Without me, your life would never have ended here! If anyone's going to buy time, it has to be me!"
Ji Feng gripped Bibi Dong's shoulders tightly, his voice utterly resolute.
"At this point, what can a Soul Scholar like you possibly do?!"
Bibi Dong urged him anxiously, but La Signora flickered forward again, appearing before her in an instant. With a cold laugh, she retorted, "Naive little girl. You're both in the same situation. At this point, what can a Soul Emperor like you possibly do?"
"I was only playing with you earlier. You didn't really think... you had the right to stand before me and run wild, did you, little girl?"
"Before me, there's no difference between the two of you."
Her skirts fluttered as La Signora lashed out with a whip-like kick. Bibi Dong could barely catch a pale afterimage. She reacted swiftly, raising both hands before her as her soul power surged, preparing to unleash her fifth soul skill, Thousand Blades, Ten Thousand Shields. But before the skill could take shape, the kick slammed into her chest.
Bang!
Splurt!
Bibi Dong spat out a mouthful of blood, her body hurtling backward like a kite with its string cut. The wilderness was empty, with no rocks or other obstacles to absorb the impact. In an instant, she flew out of Ji Feng's sight.
"Bibi Dong!" Ji Feng roared, but it was already too late to react. He could only reach helplessly in her direction, watching her fly more than a hundred meters without losing momentum.
Now that La Signora was no longer holding back, a single casual blow had grievously wounded Bibi Dong.
"Don't worry, I'll rescue your little girlfriend! She won't get far."
La Signora curled her crimson lips in malicious amusement and spread the black-and-red wings behind her. Ji Feng felt a scorching gale blast his face. The next moment, a thunderous explosion rang out in the distance, accompanied by a woman's heart-rending scream of pain. Bibi Dong came hurtling back toward him!
La Signora had caught up with Bibi Dong while she was still flying through the air and delivered another vicious kick midway, forcibly sending her back!
Watching that graceful figure fly toward him, Ji Feng did not hesitate for even a moment. He stepped forward and caught her tightly in his arms, placing his own body behind hers to serve as a human shield.
Bang!
Bibi Dong's body slammed into him. Ji Feng felt as though every bone in his body had shattered. The tremendous impact sent them both hurtling backward for hundreds of meters, their momentum only barely stopping when they crashed hard into a thick ancient tree.
Ji Feng's breathing was ragged, and bone-piercing pain swept through his entire body. He lowered his head to look at Bibi Dong in his arms. Her face was as white as paper, much of her chest had caved deeply inward, and she no longer even had the strength to speak.
"Dong'er..."
Looking at the girl's closed eyes and wretched state, Ji Feng was about to say something, but a mature, resonant female voice cut in. With a wave of scorching heat, the woman appeared before them again like a ghost. She, too, sighed and remarked, "Such tenacious vitality. You're still alive after all that."
"Let me end your suffering!"
As she spoke, La Signora raised her slender, white-jade foot in its high heel and stamped down hard. Ji Feng rolled over to shield Bibi Dong, taking the blow head-on with his own body.
La Signora raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
She simply pressed harder with her right leg. Like a guillotine blade, her high heel tore Ji Feng's chest open through brute force and black-and-red flames. Great swaths of skin and bone ripped apart, twisted, and deformed, while blood poured down in heavy drops like a waterfall.
Bibi Dong felt warmth splash onto her cheek. She struggled to open her eyes and saw the blood-drenched body shielding her, nearly deformed and torn to pieces from blocking La Signora's foot. His bones creaked in anguish, and the flesh throughout his body had twisted out of shape. Yet Ji Feng had not uttered even a single groan. He merely shielded her in silence.
He stared straight at La Signora, four-petaled, clover-shaped pupils appearing in his eyes.
Meanwhile, Bibi Dong trembled violently. Her body, originally too weak to even lift a hand, suddenly erupted into an almost instinctive struggle. Her shattered chest flared with agony, every breath feeling as though countless blades were scraping her organs. Yet she was oblivious to it all. Only that dripping crimson remained in her eyes.
"Ji... Ji Feng..."
A faint, broken whisper squeezed out of her throat. Tears welled uncontrollably, mingling with the blood on her face and running down her pale jaw. She wanted to push herself up, wanted to reach out and grab him, but the slightest movement sent a tearing pain through her chest. All she could do was tremble her fingertips helplessly.
The next moment, the woman seized Ji Feng and violently flung him away. Her beautiful face was frosty as she glared in displeasure at the traces of blood staining her high heel. "Don't dirty my soles with your filthy blood!"
"What a filthy species. Even in death, you aren't clean."
"No!!"
Bibi Dong let out a grief-stricken roar, yet she could only watch as Ji Feng was hurled away like a rag. Boundless hatred and despair surged in her eyes, and the soul power throughout her body rampaged wildly. Even with her body on the verge of collapse, she still tried to rise with every last ounce of strength. Her eyes were blood-red, filled with madness!
"I'm going to... kill you..."
The low, hoarse whisper seeped through her teeth, laden with endless venom.
"Kill you!"
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