"Pfft-!"
The gray-black beam condensed from pure "true demon qi" clung like a maggot to bone. Slipping through a gap in the Origin Bright Lamp's purifying ripples, it overtook them despite being unleashed later and struck the Silver Moon Scarlet Eyes mark between Yue Li's brows with unerring precision!
"Crack!"
The grating sound of something shattering came not from bone, but from the very source of her divine soul! Yue Li's breathtaking face twisted instantly. With that single strike of demonic qi, a tiny yet fatal crack was forcibly driven into the mark woven from silver moonlight and scarlet gold between her brows!
"Aaargh-!"
Yue Li let out a scream so shrill it scarcely sounded human. She felt a strange power, icy, deathly still, and filled with an endless hunger to devour, cling to her like a maggot to bone. It burrowed frantically through the crack into her sea of consciousness, lunging straight at the newly formed ancestral spirit projection of the "Silver Moon Red-Eyed Heavenly Wolf"!
"Roar-!"
The ancestral spirit projection roared in agony. Under the gray-black demonic qi's corrosive assault, its massive body began to tremble and writhe violently. The once-solid silver and scarlet light dimmed and grew murky at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Pfft!"
As though struck by a crushing blow, Yue Li spewed a mouthful of blood interwoven with silver and scarlet. Her aura weakened by more than thirty percent in an instant! Behind her, the bean-sized flame of the floating Origin Bright Lamp abruptly dimmed as well, as though suffering backlash from her divine soul. It flickered unsteadily, threatening to go out at any moment!
"Palace Master! That demoness is wounded!" Wild delight flashed in Lu Yun's eyes as he shouted, "All forces, advance! Flatten Mulan!"
"Kill-!!!"
The Heavenly South allied army,