Chapter 91: Split into Four

Upon hearing this, the Phantom Spirit seemed to become happy; it quickly transformed into the shape of a longsword and steadily landed in Yuan Yao's palm.

Yuan Yao looked at it, and her brows and eyes softened a bit.

Soon, she adjusted her condition, swiftly lunging toward the direction of the tentacles while gathering all of her mental strength onto the Phantom Spirit sword.

The black mist seemed to sense her purpose, quickly catching up to her, and just as it was about to intercept her, it was suddenly struck by a strong golden light.

With a 'hiss', the black mist seemed to have encountered something frightening and shrank back.

"You guys go ahead, I'll handle this!" the golden egg emitting golden light floated in midair, its childish tone faintly revealing arrogance and conceit.

Yuan Yao turned her head and glanced at the golden egg.

"I believe you!"

Upon hearing this, the golden egg felt not moved but a little panicked, and it quickly said, "Don't really believe me!"

Yuan Yao: "……"

"Oh."

"What do you mean 'oh'?!" Seeing her nonchalant attitude, the golden egg hurriedly said, "You must absolutely not believe me! If I encounter danger, you must come protect me right away! Otherwise, I'll split open for you to see!"

"I actually kind of want to see you split open." Yuan Yao said, then she raised her sword and thrust toward the huge tentacle!

At the critical moment, the huge tentacle actually split into small tentacles that swiftly wrapped around the sword in Yuan Yao's hand.

Yuan Yao's face showed slight surprise, but immediately, the corner of her mouth involuntarily curled up slightly.

Only to see her suddenly exert force with both hands, tightly gripping the sword hilt.

With a 'crack' sound, those fragile small tentacles were instantly and easily severed by Yuan Yao's sharp sword light.

Then, she flashed her figure, leapt up, and swung her longsword accordingly, accurately inserting it into the top of the massive tentacle.

The heavily injured tentacle immediately suffered excruciating pain, its whole body violently spasming and curling up.

Yuan Yao didn't give it a chance to catch its breath; she firmly gripped the longsword and again exerted full force to chop down, and in an instant, a deep, bottomless great crack split open on the tentacle.

At this moment, countless small tentacles, as if gone mad, surged like a flood toward Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao dared not delay in the slightest, quickly employing her movement technique to swiftly dodge sideways.

But she momentarily let her guard down, and one of the tentacles seized the opportunity, tightly coiling around her ankle, then with all its strength hurled her hard against the hard stone wall.

Bang!

Yuan Yao felt as if her whole body were about to fall apart, the pain unbearable, her vision darkening, but she gritted her teeth, mustered strength, and swung her sword backward to cut off the tentacle wrapped around her ankle.

And just as she fell to the ground, countless tentacles attacked again.

"Wield Sword to Level the Heavens!"

She unleashed the sword move, swiftly slaying these tentacles.

These tentacles seemed to attack endlessly, impossible to slay completely!

Yuan Yao suddenly lifted her gaze, and in an instant she released powerful mental strength.

In just a moment, these tentacles, which were brandishing claws and fangs, became as if frozen.

She quickly passed through these tentacles, then gripped the longsword tightly, stabbing it again and again into the massive tentacle.

Viscous blood spattered onto her face and body, bringing a wave of foul odor.

But Yuan Yao could no longer worry about that; she had only one goal: to rescue Eldest Senior Brother and the others!

She stabbed the huge tentacle in various spots with over a dozen thrusts!

The tentacle felt the pain!

It struggled madly, its body writhing.

And the people originally attached to it seemed to lose their adhesion, all falling to the ground.

"I'll stab you to death!" Yuan Yao felt its struggle, her gaze growing ever sharper.

She almost turned that huge tentacle into a sieve.

The black mist broke free from the golden egg's golden light and attacked toward Yuan Yao's direction.

Yuan Yao seemed to sense it; without turning her head, she had already controlled her mental power to block it.

Yuan Yao drew the Phantom Spirit sword; amidst the huge tentacle's trembling, she retreated several steps and then executed the Grand Void Sword Art!

"Cross Cut!"

In an instant, the huge tentacle was split into four!

Meanwhile, the Nightmare Beast under the Ghost-faced Youth's foot on the ground above, seemingly severely wounded, let out an extremely mournful wail!

At this moment, its color instantly shifted from red to white!

It had lost the soul power and blood provided by the tentacles!

The Ghost-faced Youth seemed to sense this, and glanced toward the nearby ground cave entrance.

"Release me! I will kill her! Kill her!" the Nightmare Beast hysterically roared.

"You didn't say earlier?" the Ghost-faced Youth withdrew his gaze, his eyebrows slightly raised.

The youth lifted his foot.

The Nightmare Beast, immersed in its fury, didn't hear the Ghost-faced Youth's words clearly; after being freed from its bonds, it immediately headed for the underground cave entrance.

The Ghost-faced Youth sheathed his sword.

Just as he was about to step away, he suddenly halted his glance and looked toward the nearby underground cave entrance.

…

Underground cave entrance.

After Yuan Yao had slain the tentacles, she was about to walk toward Eldest Senior Brother and the others lying on the ground, but suddenly her hairs stood on end, a great danger approached, and her heart pounded wildly.

She quickly turned around, about to raise her sword to block.

But in the next instant, she was blasted to the ground by a terrifying mental power impact, heavily falling and blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

At this moment, the skull head had lost its reason due to fury, and now it simply could not remember that Yuan Yao had a life-saving talisman.

It only wanted to kill her to vent its anger!

If it weren't for it, how could it have been forced to such a point?!

"Be careful!" the golden egg exclaimed.

Terrifying spiritual power surged toward Yuan Yao's direction, crushing everything, intending to utterly annihilate her body and soul.

Yuan Yao's expression changed dramatically; she quickly gathered her own spiritual power to resist!

But she could not possibly withstand the Nightmare Beast's all-out strike!

At the critical moment, she thought of something, quickly pulled out an object from her storage space, and flung it toward the Nightmare Beast.

Boom!

The Great Sun Burning Heaven Mirror erupted with blazing true solar fire, as if it would scorch everything here to ashes.

Ahhh!

When the Nightmare Beast's spiritual power touched the true solar fire, it was scorched, and the intense pain made it emit a shrill scream.

Seeing this, Yuan Yao, enduring the pain in her body, quickly climbed to her feet, raised both hands, formed a hand seal, controlled the Great Sun Burning Heaven Mirror, and softly shouted: "Burn it!"

The Nightmare Beast quickly withdrew its spiritual power.

At that very moment, the black mist surged like a raging sea toward its underside, recondensing into an enormous body. This gigantic form composed of black mist exuded a suffocating aura.

Immediately afterward, the Nightmare Beast raised high its giant claw formed from black mist and slammed it down hard onto the Great Sun Burning Heaven Mirror.

This strange black mist actually showed no fear of the raging flames, easily piercing the scorching true solar fire and striking heavily against the Great Sun Burning Heaven Mirror.

With a loud 'bang,' the Great Sun Burning Heaven Mirror fell like a struck meteor, crashing heavily to the ground.

At the same time, the Nightmare Beast lunged toward Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao's eyes flickered; she realized that if she engaged the Nightmare Beast in fierce battle here, she might implicate the innocent and accidentally injure the comatose Eldest Senior Brother and others nearby.

Thus, she made a swift decision, her form flickered, and she hurried toward an empty, uninhabited place.