Sword light and black mist exploded in the starry sky, their shock waves pulverizing countless floating stellar fragments.
Qin Yelan rested her toes on a surviving stellar fragment, stardust clinging to the ends of her hair, her breathing already slightly hurried.
Dark mist had torn a wound in her left shoulder deep enough to expose bone. Black mist was burrowing into her body through the wound, relentlessly gnawing at her Ice Light origin.
Lan Yeqing hovered a short distance opposite her, half her body frozen stiff by Ice Light. Half of her face, originally identical to Qin Yelan's, was now covered in translucent ice shards.
She raised a hand and broke the ice off her face, an icy smile spreading from the corners of her mouth.
"What? You think you can devour me with that little strength? Why not stop resisting and give yourself up to me? Wouldn't it be better to follow our sister together from now on?"
"You mean Qin Yiqing? She isn't my sister at all now."
Qin Yelan gritted her teeth. Ice power flowed through her wound, instantly freezing the Dark Mist that had invaded her body. She swung her sword backhanded, sending more than a dozen Ice Light slashes tearing through the air toward the Divine Acupoints all over Lan Yeqing's body.
"You and I follow different paths. I will never join the Dark Country."
Lan Yeqing dodged the slashes with a flicker of movement and flicked several black needles from her fingertips. The needles were coated with Dark Poison she had refined for thousands of years. Even the slightest scratch would let it travel through the meridians and poison the origin to death.
"Different paths? We're all pursuing the path beyond Transcendence. What difference is there?"
The black needles came at tremendous speed. Qin