Luo Fan pressed the trigger of the Pear Blossom Needle Storm with his fingertip.
Of the forty-nine steel needles, only forty-five erupted from the tube at the same instant, as this Uncanny Artifact's side effect caused some needles to jam.
The steel needles tore through the air with a dense chorus of piercing whistles, blanketing Ding Wanning.
Ding Wanning did not dodge.
Her eyes were still filled with thick darkness, and a bloodthirsty, evil aura seeped from every pore of her body.
She did not even lift her eyelids at the steel needles hurtling toward her.
Clink, clink, clink-
The steel needles struck her body in a succession of crisp metallic clangs.
The body of a Seventh-Tier Sequence User, even without any defensive skills reinforcing it, was far beyond what mere steel needles could pierce.
Their tips bent against her skin and bounced away without leaving even the faintest mark.
Not a single steel needle managed to injure Ding Wanning.
In Luo Fan's eyes, two numbers were changing simultaneously.
The stacks of Killing Blow rose rapidly from zero-ten, twenty, thirty, forty-five.
The marks of God-Tier Enchanting accumulated in tandem: ten, twenty, thirty.
Thirty stacks. Full.
Ding Wanning frowned slightly.
A tiny flame ignited out of nowhere on her skin, which was covered in black markings.
At the same time, a strange blue color began spreading from where the steel needles had touched her-the mark of Poisoning.
It spread throughout her body along her blood vessels and meridians, leaving a faint fluorescent glow across her flesh wherever it passed.
Burning and Poisoning triggered simultaneously.
Ding Wanning lowered her head to glance at the pale flame on her arm, then at the spreading blue poison markings.
There was no pain or fear in her darkness-filled eyes, nor even any other emotion.
She