Chapter 1604: I

Soon,

Lin Qianxue's aura surpassed the peak limit of the universe, nearing the Eternal Stage!

Her pale golden eyes had now transformed into pure, deep violet.

The whites of her eyes vanished, as if two purple black holes devouring all light.

Her slender, delicate body was utterly wrapped in thunder, her battle robe snapping violently.

Swish—

She herself became a violet thunder column, tearing through heaven and earth, charging straight into the heart of the insect sea!

The insect queen Haili's blue compound eyes snapped toward the approaching violet thunder column.

"Oh? Another human, and they've burned their life core?"

A flicker of surprise crossed her eyes, then turned to cold mockery:

"Then die here together!"

With a graceful flick of her hand, she tore open the void, revealing three more dark insect portals.

Endless insect warriors shrieked forth, the insect sea swelling past thirty thousand!

Meanwhile, Xu Jingming, struggling desperately at the center of the insect sea, sensed that familiar thunder aura.

His peripheral vision caught it, and his heart lurched!

"It's Senior Sister!"

There, Lin Qianxue was hurtling toward him at breakneck speed.

Deep violet thunderlight swirled around her, her aura surging to a terrifying level.

Her exquisite face was as pale as paper.

A trail of blood marked her bitten lip, yet her pale golden eyes burned with unyielding resolve.

Clutching her long spear tightly, its tip spitting lightning, she was about to charge recklessly into the insect sea!

"Could she think I'm about to die?"

Xu Jingming instantly realized.

"Looks like she really does think so~"

Inside his consciousness, the succubus little girl Vera lazily swung her white legs.

Her peach-heart tail swayed, her large purple eyes brimming with glee at the spectacle:

"Your acting fooled even your own senior sister—impressive, Jingming-beast~"

"Wait, you can actually do this?!"

Xu Jingming stared in shock, "I was just pretending!"

He'd planned to feign defeat, slowly wearing down Haili's insect warriors.

Then team up with Vera to enslave her.

But Lin Qianxue's arrival completely ruined the rhythm!

"This is trouble.

Judging by Senior Sister's condition, she's clearly taken a desperate pill with massive side effects."

Seeing Lin Qianxue about to plunge into the insect sea,

Xu Jingming immediately channeled his spiritual force, sending a sharp, urgent voice through the insect sea, precisely reaching her ears:

"Senior Sister, I'm fine—this is all fake!"

"Fake?"

Lin Qianxue's body froze mid-surge.

Her pale golden eyes turned sharply toward the center of the insect sea.

There, Xu Jingming's previously weak and disheveled figure suddenly straightened!

Boom—!!!

His monstrous demonic body, four point two meters tall, erupted upward, violet demonic energy blasting skyward!

The royal bloodline's pressure swept outward, instantly dispersing the bloodthirsty aura surrounding the insect sea!

At the same time, Xu Jingming raised his finger toward the sky and muttered:

"Furious Thunderstorm!"

Crackling—!!!

Above, pitch-black thunderclouds gathered furiously, forming a terrifying vortex over ten kilometers wide!

Then,

Countless black lightning bolts poured down like a celestial river inverted, becoming a storm of annihilation!

Boom—!!!

Where the lightning passed, insect warriors vanished like paper burned to ash!

Tens of thousands of insects were obliterated in the thunder.

Only the ninth-rank universe insect guards, with their tough carapaces, barely held on.

In just three breaths, the insect sea surrounding Xu Jingming was half-clear!

Blackened earth lay exposed, the air thick with the stench of charred flesh!

"Is this… the Furious Thunderstorm I gave him?"

Lin Qianxue hovered midair, her pale golden eyes wide, her exquisite face filled with shock:

"But how could its power be this strong?!"

She clearly remembered, this T2 combat technique, though powerful,

But it's extremely difficult to achieve such a terrifying scale and destructive power.

This power now doesn't feel like the peak of the universe—it's more like a Immortal Realm being unleashed!

"And this aura..."

Feeling the vast, abyss-like demonic qi and Lei Ting surrounding Xu Jingming, Lin Qianxue's heart surged with shock.

This strength is countless times stronger than when she last sparred with him!

Just how powerful has this little brother become now?!

Just as Lin Qianxue was stunned.

Xu Jingming had already transformed into a pitch-black lightning bolt, instantly crossing several kilometers.

Arriving beside Lin Qianxue.

The Lei Ting dissipated; his four-meter-two demonic body slightly bent forward.

Those eyes, wreathed in Lei Guang, looked at her and called out: "Senior Sister."

"Little brother, what is this?" Lin Qianxue was utterly bewildered.

Deep purple Lei Guang still swirled around her.

The potency of the Ji Ling Dan was still burning furiously; her Life Core sent waves of tearing agony.

Yet Xu Jingming's vibrant, aura-shattering appearance left her momentarily speechless.

"He's a masochist.

Everything just now was fake—he did it to make Haley generate more insectoid warriors to attack him."

Wei La's soul form drifted out from Xu Jingming's consciousness sea and hovered in midair.

She crossed her arms, her heart-shaped tail swaying triumphantly.

Her large purple eyes blinked repeatedly as she explained solemnly:

"This guy loves being surrounded by insect swarms.

Tsk tsk, such a peculiar taste~"

"This..."

Hearing this, Lin Qianxue's exquisitely beautiful face grew even more confused.

Masochist? Fake? To make the insectoids produce more warriors?

The information overload was too much for her to process at once.

Her mind, already tense from the Ji Ling Dan's potency, now spiraled into chaos.

"Don't listen to her nonsense."

Xu Jingming shot Wei La a furious glare, his gaze cold as a blade.

Wei La instantly shrank her neck, her heart-shaped tail drooping as she muttered softly:

"It's true though."

Xu Jingming ignored her, turned to Lin Qianxue, and softened his tone to explain:

"I'm practicing my Killing Art.

I want to kill as many insectoid warriors as possible, absorbing their killing aura to refine my Killing Domain."

"I see."

Lin Qianxue finally understood, her tense mind relaxing slightly.

But the next instant, she suddenly let out a muffled groan.

Her slender body trembled; the deep purple Lei Guang around her surged violently.

The Ji Ling Dan's potency was still burning furiously!

"What pill did you take? Can you stop it now?" Xu Jingming asked urgently.

He could clearly sense the wildness and instability in Lin Qianxue's aura.

"SS1-grade Ji Ling Dan."

Lin Qianxue's crimson lips curled into a bitter smile as she shook her head:

"It's too late to stop.

Once the potency erupts, it can't be halted until it's completely exhausted."

She never imagined.

Her frantic rush to rescue him had turned into such a colossal blunder!

Not only did she fail to help—she'd ended up trapping herself!

"It's not your fault—Xu Jingming's acting was just too realistic."

Wei La drifted over again, nodding sagely as she commented.

But the moment she finished speaking,

the pink heart pattern on her abdomen suddenly flared bright!

"Ahh—!!!"

Wei La screamed in agony, her soul body trembling violently as if struck by lightning:

"Wrong! Master! I was wrong!

I'll never speak out of turn again! Spare me!"

The soul punishment from the Shi Xin Wen made her face pale as paper; her heart-shaped tail hung limp.