Finally, with the perfect cooperation between Qi Ling and Jian Lan, an excellent opportunity was created for Qi Ling. Jian Lan's Immortal Slayer unleashed seven sword lights, restricting the Skeleton King's body and rendering it unable to move for a very short time.
Although the sword light has no physical existence and cannot directly restrict the opponent's movements like shackles or ropes, since the Skeleton King is still in human form, there must be signs before it acts, commonly known as the pre-action animation.
What Jian Lan has done is to use his swordsmanship to its fullest potential to unleash seven sword lights at the same time, blocking all of the Skeleton King's pre-action animations, thus interrupting all its actions and creating a restriction effect equivalent to imprisonment.
Such a skill is unimaginably difficult; at least Qi Ling knew he couldn't do it. So he didn't waste the opportunity created by Jian Lan. He grabbed the Skeleton King's head with his right hand, his arm muscles bulging, almost doubling in size.
"Goodbye, Skeleton King, rest in peace as a headless knight!" With that, Qi Ling suddenly exerted force with her right hand, prying the Skeleton King's head off and holding it in her palm.
Having learned from her previous experience, Qi Ling knew that even if she twisted its head off, it wouldn't be enough to kill the Skeleton King. But in this situation, Qi Ling could confidently use her World-Destroying Black Flame. What could be more secure than holding it in her hand?
Then a black flame rose from Qi Ling's palm, engulfing the Skeleton King's head and turning it to ashes in mid-air. Even Qi Ling couldn't directly touch such a powerful flame, so everything was accomplished in mid-air.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the Skeleton King's head turn to ashes. This powerful monster was indeed the strongest they had ever seen, far stronger than those Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
According to Qi Ling's estimation, given this guy's strength and martial arts skills, even if he faced the Sky Azure Bull Python, he could probably cut off Da Ming's head in a single exchange, which is truly terrifying.
"Haha, alright, now we've finally dealt with this guy, so we can..." Qi Ling said, about to dispel the changes in her Blood Devil state, but just then, a violent tremor followed.
The tremor was so strong that everyone felt as if the entire cave was shaking. What surprised Qi Ling even more was that the Skeleton King's headless body did not fall down, but slowly floated into the air, emitting blue flames.
Then, the Skeleton King's body suddenly exploded in all directions. Enveloped in countless bones, a ball of blue flame floated in the air, instilling a strange sense of dread.
Immediately, everyone realized where the tremor came from. From beneath the earth, even more bones emerged and converged on the blue flames, far more in number than before.
Qi Ling stared in utter shock at the rapidly accumulating giant skeleton and exclaimed, "Are you kidding me? Has Red Blood gone berserk? How can there be a third form? This is unbelievable!"
After the Skeleton King completed its third transformation, what appeared there was a gigantic humanoid skeleton monster with only half a body. Although it had no lower body, its enormous body could touch the top of the cave with a single hand, as if it no longer needed to move.
Compared to this colossal creature composed of countless skeletons, even Qi Ling, who was currently maintaining his Blood Devil Avatar form, appeared extremely small, not even as big as one of the giant skeleton's hands.
What was even more despairing was the immense pressure emanating from the Skeleton King at that moment. It was an unimaginable force, and there was absolutely no sense of being able to defeat it.
Such an existence truly deserves the oppressive aura of a five-star monster, is the Skeleton King's true strength, and is what enables it to guard this place.
Looking at Qi Ling in front of him, the Skeleton King seemed to reveal a disdainful smile, then raised his giant hand and slapped it towards Qi Ling.
With a wave of his hand, he created a fierce gust of wind that swept towards Qi Ling with devastating power.
Such an attack was impossible to avoid, and Qi Ling had no choice but to defend with all her might. However, as soon as the two sides made contact, Qi Ling's body immediately retreated uncontrollably, and her feet plowed two deep furrows in the ground.
Faced with such astonishing power, even in his Divine Dragon Emperor form, Qi Ling was unable to resist and was eventually cornered, even forced to dismantle his Blood Devil Avatar.
Subsequently, the other four also suffered the same fate, all being sent flying and crashing into the wall by the Skeleton King's palm strike. Each of them sustained injuries of varying degrees, and under the Skeleton King's oppressive aura, they were even unable to use their own Soul Skill.
"Damn it, how could this happen! Is this kind of monster something that humans can really handle?" Cao Yang spat out a mouthful of blood, supporting himself with one hand on the demonic spear as he struggled to his feet. His other hand, broken by the Skeleton King's attack, hung limply at his side.
As for the others, the situation wasn't much better. More importantly, facing the fully-formed Skeleton King, no one could imagine any possibility of victory.
Even the Skeleton King seemed to sense the despair of the crowd and couldn't help but let out a series of sneers, as if mocking their overestimation of their abilities, that they actually thought they could defeat him with such an attack.
"There's no other way. It looks like if we don't fight this hard, we're doomed." Just then, Qi Ling said slowly, then stepped in front of everyone, standing in front of them to face the Skeleton King.
"All of you, get out of here right now! I'll handle the rest," Qi Ling said slowly, her back to the crowd.
Everyone was stunned by Qi Ling's words. Bei Na said, "What? But Qi Ling, what are you going to do? This guy is too strong, you're no match for him! If we're going to leave, we'll leave together!"
Qi Ling replied, "If we all go together, none of us might be able to leave. Besides, how could I possibly leave before achieving my goal? Bei Na, Jian Lan, don't worry, I can beat it."
"But..." Bei Na was about to say something when Qi Ling confidently interrupted her, "Alright, Bei Na, trust me, everything will be fine."
Under Qi Ling's insistence, the group had no choice but to trust Qi Ling and struggled to escape towards the exit above.
But the Skeleton King naturally wouldn't let them escape so easily. He raised his giant hand again, ready to chase after them.
The instant the Skeleton King raised his hand, a flash of red light appeared on Qi Ling's body. His Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill had been activated, and eight enormous tentacles suddenly emerged from the ground, completely enveloping the Skeleton King's massive body.
" Eight Desolations Heaven-Imprisoning Prison!" Qi Ling smiled slowly, " Skeleton King, now, this is a matter between the two of us, so don't get distracted!"