Chapter 78: Total Annihilation! Jiang Chuxuan

Of the remaining three team members, only the vice-leader, who possessed a fire-based ability, was third-rank upper tier.

The other tall, thin man had a healing ability and virtually no combat power.

The remaining woman shared the same beast-type ability as their leader.

Together, the three possessed considerable combat strength.

Yet under Xu Jingming, who had activated 'Lei Jitai,' even if all three swallowed Blood-Raging Pills, they were still utterly crushed.

Plos—

More than ten minutes later, the Dark Cloud Gale Spear was withdrawn from the body of the last woman.

Boom!!

The woman, her face still streaked with fear, collapsed with a thunderous thud, lifeless.

"The last one..."

Xu Jingming's cold, emotionless blue-purple vertical pupils scanned the surroundings.

Compared to ten minutes ago, the cave now held five corpses.

Each died differently—some with crushed skulls, others pierced through the heart by the spear.

Some were charred black by lightning...

More than a month ago, Xu Jingming had merely beaten Zhao Chunlin into serious injury, and it was Senior Supervisor Zhao Yi who dealt with him afterward.

Thus, this was truly his first act of killing.

And he killed five at once!

Before this, Xu Jingming had thought killing would make him feel uneasy.

Yet in reality, having slain five in succession, he felt not the slightest emotional ripple.

"All of them deserved to die. Killing them was no loss."

On Xu Jingming's resolute face, not a single expression changed.

He swung his spear, shaking off the blood clinging to it.

His towering form slowly reverted to its original height of one meter eighty-nine; the dragon-like vertical pupils brimming with lightning gradually returned to normal.

The torrents of lightning swirling around his body vanished simultaneously into the air.

"Lei Jitai is effective, but it drains too much."

A hint of exhaustion appeared on Xu Jingming's face.

Using 'Lei Jitai' for just over ten minutes left him more drained than fighting a ferocious beast for two or three hours!

Of course,

the combat boost granted by activating Lei Jitai was worth it.

"Senior, are you alright?"

At that moment, Jiang Chuxuan walked up, her long legs carrying her forward.

During the battle, she had continuously used her ice ability to assist Xu Jingming, even after swallowing Blood-Raging Pills.

She even seized the moment when the vice-leader and another were distracted by Xu Jingming, and with a blade of condensed ice,

personally killed the weak support-type ability user.

In fact, as a million-follower content creator of ferocious beast-killing videos, this was also her first time killing someone.

And her first kill came amid such bloody chaos!

On the ground, corpses lay arranged, blood flowed freely—it could serve as a filming location for any R-rated horror movie!

For an ordinary girl, suddenly facing this scene, she would have vomited three or four times already.

Yet Jiang Chuxuan, though her delicate face turned slightly pale, did not vomit.

Instead, she looked at him with genuine concern.

"I'm fine, just tired."

Xu waved his hand, "Let's collect the Earth Spirit Spring and the rare herbs first, then rest a bit."

Jiang Chuxuan nodded, took out another jade vial from her space ring, and joined Xu Jingming by the spring.

"Good—the Earth Spirit Spring hasn't been contaminated by blood."

Seeing the spring, still clear and pure, surrounded by rare herbs and flowers, Xu Jingming exhaled in relief.

As an S-grade heavenly treasure, the Earth Spirit Spring was extremely precious.

Once polluted by impurities like blood, it could not even be purified, and its medicinal efficacy would plummet drastically.

That was precisely why, during the battle, Xu Jingming had deliberately avoided this pool.

The Earth Spirit Spring was unharmed, but many of the surrounding rare herbs and flowers had been damaged.

Still, compared to the Earth Spirit Spring, the herbs were not nearly as valuable.

Even if trampled and broken, they remained usable.

There was plenty of Earth Spirit Spring; Xu Jingming and Jiang Chuxuan filled five and a half small jade vials before draining it dry.

A small depression remained on the ground.

"In a few decades, this spot might form more Earth Spirit Spring again."

"Then we can come back once more."

A faint smile appeared on Xu Jingming's lips.

He handed Jiang Chuxuan one fully filled vial and the one half-filled:

"This is for you."

Jiang Chuxuan hadn't expected the half-filled vial to be given to her, and she exclaimed in delight:

"Thank you, Senior~~"

However, just as she was about to reach out and take it.

The effects of the Blood Burst Pill suddenly wore off, and her whole body went weak; her foot gave way beneath her.

With a soft cry, she tumbled down into a seated position.

In the battle just now, that vice-captain who wielded fire-type abilities had also hurled an 'Flame Demon Hand' at Jiang Chuxuan.

Although most of the flames had been blocked by the net of lightning formed by Xu Jingming's Doushen Shenlei.

A small portion of the fire still managed to scorch Jiang Chuxuan.

Even though she had promptly used her ice-type abilities to extinguish it, her battle suit was still somewhat damaged, causing a bit of spring to spill out at her chest and thighs.

Now sitting on the ground, her tattered battle suit seemed unable to contain the fullness of her chest, directly exposing the greater part of a snow-white northern hemisphere.

Jiang Chuxuan naturally noticed this too, and her pretty face instantly flushed red to the tips of her ears.

And because of the side effects of the Blood Burst Pill, her whole body was drained of strength, and she couldn't muster her spiritual power.

Naturally, she couldn't pull spare clothes from her spatial ring either. Just as she was feeling awkward and shy about it.

Xu Jingming's low voice rose from the side: "The side effects of the Blood Burst Pill are severe. Let me take you aside to rest first."

With that, a black men's T-shirt was draped over her sensitive areas.

Then her entire body was scooped up by Xu Jingming in a princess carry, as he walked toward a clean spot nearby.

The upper half of Xu Jingming's battle suit had already been blown apart when he used 'Thunder Extreme State' earlier.

Thus, Jiang Chuxuan, held in Xu Jingming's arms, could see with perfect clarity the well-proportioned muscle lines right before her eyes.

Coupled with Xu Jingming's strong masculine aura.

For Jiang Chuxuan, a young girl experiencing such close contact with the opposite sex for the first time.

Her already slightly flushed pretty face turned an even deeper crimson, like an apple.

At the same time, she could also feel her heartbeat suddenly quicken, as a feeling she had never experienced before spread through her heart.

Just like that, amid all these complicated emotions, Jiang Chuxuan was gently leaned against the cave wall and placed on the soft beast-hide old nest that had originally belonged to the Burrowing Earth Dragon.

"You rest here for a while. I'm going to go gather the rest of the exotic flowers and herbs."

Only after Xu Jingming turned and left did Jiang Chuxuan snap out of those complicated emotions.

She looked at the black short-sleeve draped over her, and a glimmer of autumn light flickered in her beautiful eyes:

"Senior, you're really so gentle..."

"Speaking of which, Senior is also my fan, isn't he."

Thinking of this, a hint of delight that even she herself hadn't noticed welled up in Jiang Chuxuan's heart...