Power of the Starry Sky

The moment he saw Yue Shen unleash his move, the two long tusks of the Skeleton Mammoth beneath the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon also flashed with bright light.

The two white tusks, as thick as arms, turned as hard as refined iron in the blink of an eye, directly colliding head-on with Yue Shen's Star Radiance Cross Slash.

"Boom!"

As Yue Shen's Star Radiance Cross Slash cleaved into the two tusks of the Skeleton Mammoth, a dense cloud of smoke instantly exploded upward.

"Awoo-"

Caught deep within the smoke, the Skeleton Mammoth suddenly let out a mournful cry, followed by the crashing sound of a giant object collapsing to the ground.

The thick white smoke slowly dissipated, revealing that the previously overwhelmingly domineering Skeleton Mammoth had already collapsed onto the ground.

Not only were its two thick, long tusks broken into several pieces scattered across the ground, but even the greater part of its skull had been shaved off. The two green lights that had originally hung within its eye sockets also quietly extinguished, its life force completely severed.

The two leg bones, as thick as oil barrels, had likewise burst apart entirely, and the white smoke filling the sky was shockingly its scattering ashes.

Hearing the commotion over here, Long Haochen, who had just used Shield Block Impact to shove away the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon before him, could not help turning his head to look.

Brother Yue's strength... Long Haochen's expression was somewhat grave, is actually this terrifying...

"What a truly terrifying power..." The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, leaping down from the mammoth skeleton, was also in quite a wretched state.

One of its forelimbs, used to block the aftershock of Yue Shen's Star Radiance Cross Slash, was covered entirely in cracks, and its originally verdant body had also been dyed white by the dancing ashes all over the sky.

"Hiss~"

The head of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon grew extremely similar to that of a lizard, and at this moment it was flicking the forked tongue in its mouth.

"I refuse to believe that with your Fifth Tier strength, you can still pull off a move like this!" The twin-blade demon sneered, looking at Yue Shen and Sol as though gazing upon a delectable delicacy. "I am going to offer you and your magical beast to the Demon God Lord."

"Roar-"

Sol off to the side had ever suffered this kind of provocation, immediately letting out a roar in response, and forthwith moved to spray its breath toward the twin swords in Yue Shen's hands.

Yet before it could even open its mouth, Yue Shen pinched its snout shut with one hand.

"If we do that again, these two swords might not be able to bear it; you know they are very important to me," Yue Shen shook his head, saying, "Next, we switch to another tactic."

"Arrogant!" The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon roared, then abruptly charged toward Yue Shen with its two forelimbs raised high overhead, the sharp spikes upon them aiming straight for Yue Shen's chest.

White light shone as the Fifth Tier skill Holy Sword activated.

The light swords in Yue Shen's hands once again turned bright white, the twin swords in his grip crossing horizontally as he used Divine Guard Block to stem the charging momentum of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon.

"Puff, puff, puff..."

Under the purifying effect of the sacred Light Element energy upon the surfaces of the twin swords Holy Fire and Blazing Sun, the forelimbs of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon began to emit a series of sounds.

Because the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon did not know any skills and cultivated solely External Spiritual Power, coupled with the fact that its tier was at the peak of the Fifth Tier, it was naturally extremely difficult for Yue Shen to resolve it without Sol's help.

One had to know that the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon before him was still an existence on the verge of evolving into a Sixth Tier Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demon, and its External Spiritual Power at this moment had already reached as high as four thousand points.

Moreover, after returning from the Knight Sacred Mountain, Yue Shen had also deliberately lowered his cultivation speed, dedicating more time to cultivating his tacit understanding with Sol and developing new moves.

Therefore, over these past six months, the speed at which his spiritual power increased was actually not fast at all, having only barely managed to approach breaking through to the fifth-tier seventh-level spiritual power. (Ye Hua: Are you cursing again?)

Though viewed purely from numerical figures, Yue Shen's current strength did not make him a match for this Verdant Twin-Blade Demon.

Yet one must not forget that Yue Shen at this time was already a Child of Light, and his own attribute suppression reduced the gap between the two to a certain extent, not to mention that what he was currently using was still the strongest defensive skill of the knights: Divine Guard Block.

Receiving this strike from the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, Yue Shen's feet remained utterly motionless at the base.

Instead, he seized the opening of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon's attack to slash a gash across its chest with the shining Blazing Sun.　　Feeling the pain, the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon wanted to widen the distance. Yet unexpectedly, Yue Shen abruptly launched a charge toward it at that moment, the twin swords in his hands transforming into countless sword shadows as they thrust toward all the vital parts of its entire body.

The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon did not dare to be careless, but by now it no longer had any very good countermeasure, and could only raise its two forelimbs to forcibly endure Yue Shen's Lightning Thrust.

"Clang, clang, clang, clang-"

A continuous series of sounds resembling metal striking one another rang out in succession.

Under Yue Shen's deliberate attacks, the forelimb of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon that had already developed cracks shed large chunks of carapace fragments, exposing bluish-black bloodied water.

"Hiss..."

Scars covered the entire body of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon as it looked at Yue Shen at this moment with eyes full of dread; it had not expected that the strength of this Fifth Tier human warrior before it would actually be so formidable.

However, Yue Shen was not feeling well either at this moment; the spiritual power within his body at this point was already left with very little.

Although there were no colorful marks hung upon his body, once his subsequent spiritual power was completely exhausted, it would become his turn to take a beating.

Even though the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon at this time looked utterly wretched, the injuries upon its body were not fatal, and had practically no major impact on its combat effectiveness.

However...

Sensing a certain strange elemental fluctuation, the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon abruptly turned its head, discovering that the space beside it had been inexplicably torn open with a gash, and a golden crown flashed past before its eyes.

"Swish..."

Sol, having covertly activated Spatial Teleportation, bit down and tore off that entire crack-filled long limb of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon.

Not only that, but the Starry Sky Element at the corner of Sol's mouth also seeped into the severed wound on the upper limb of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon along with it, a sensation that made it feel as though countless sharp knives were stabbing into its own wounds one after another.

"Roar-"

The roar of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon cut off halfway, and one could see that upon its chest there were abruptly one red and one gold bone-deep sword marks.

The eyes of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon were filled with disbelief; it had originally thought that as long as it persisted until this human's spiritual power was exhausted, it could easily slaughter him, yet it never expected that it would die at this very final step.

"Hah... hah..."

Yue Shen breathed lightly in his mouth, the extreme deficit of spiritual power within his body causing him to feel a wave of discomfort.

Seeing this, Sol, which had reappeared by his side, hurriedly flew forward and allowed Yue Shen to rest his hand upon its body, granting Yue Shen a moment to catch his breath.

"Control the intensity when you reinforce my equipment in the future, otherwise my equipment and spiritual power won't be able to hold up." Yue Shen smiled bitterly, saying, "The spiritual power consumed by that Star Radiance Cross Slash just now was far too much more than when we trained previously."

Originally he could have fought this match more perfectly, but considering it was his first time fighting side by side with Sol, being able to discover some problems could not be considered anything less than a harvest.

"Don't let enemies sway your emotions in the future; that's very dangerous in battle." Yue Shen reminded it.

Sol blinked its eyes and nodded thoughtfully.

"Still, that final bit just now was indeed done beautifully." Yue Shen stroked the crown atop its head. "Well done."

Hearing Yue Shen's praise, Sol immediately became spirited, lacking any of the bearing an Aurelion Sol ought to have.

Allowing Sol to teleport away on its own, Yue Shen then dug out the magic crystal from within the corpse of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon on the ground, before storing the corpse inside his Storage Ring.