Chapter 1033: Cost

The "Myriad Bones Giant Beast" seems just born, still in its adaptation phase. Its massive body sways slightly, three heads emit incomprehensible low roars, six huge weapon arms swing unconsciously, each motion tearing the air with a fierce wind and a denser surge of resentful aura! It does not launch an immediate attack, but the terrifying pressure locking onto the two, like an invisible shackles, makes even breathing difficult for them!

The shadow of death has never been so heavy and desperate! Ahead lies this world‑ending vengeful spirit beast, behind an endless tide of vengeful spirits, the two are like fish meat on a chopping board.

"There… that way!" Han Wuxian endures excruciating pain and dizziness, pointing to the base of the towering ruins just behind the Myriad Bones Giant Beast! That spot is the source of the scorching wave! It is less than a hundred zhang from them! Yet the terrifying beast stands in between!

A faint yet extraordinarily pure and domineering scorching aura stubbornly seeps from the cracks of those ruins! That aura carries a blinding, all‑consuming heavenly might, faintly resonating with the Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force within his body! Even… it makes the surrounding surging resentful aura subconsciously avoid that area!

"Golden flame… there is an immensely powerful fire source!" Han Wuxian's eyes flare with the last spark of madness! It is the only, dim hope in this dire situation! "Charge forward! Trigger it! Perhaps… it's the only chance!"

"Charge… forward?" Yun Li looks at the Myriad Bones Giant Beast blocking the path like a mountain, despair filling her eyes, "How to charge?"

"Bet!" Han Wuxian's blood‑stained mouth twists into a near‑savage grin, "Bet it's just born… its actions are still sluggish! Bet it… fears that fire source!"

He stops explaining, uses his last ounce of strength, and forcefully pushes Yun Li to the side: "Separate! Distract its attention!"

At the same time, he endures the searing pain in his left leg and the weakness in both arms, dragging his battered body toward the front of the Myriad Bones Giant Beast, launching a suicidal charge! While charging, he unleashes every remaining Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force in his body without reservation! The scorching golden light envelops him like a burning meteor, dazzling amid the gray‑black sea of resentful aura!

"Roar!!!"

As expected! Han Wuxian's provocative, scorching move instantly draws the entire attention of the Myriad Bones Giant Beast! Its three ferocious heads roar thunderously! Its six massive weapon arms rise high, bearing a destructive momentum, and slam down on Han Wuxian! Like six collapsing peaks!

Boom!

Giant hammers, long spears, sickles… wrapped in burning black flame and space‑rending resentment, completely cover the area where Han Wuxian stands! The ground is bombarded repeatedly, instantly turning to powder! A violent energy shockwave sweeps outward, shredding large swaths of surrounding vengeful spirits!

Han Wuxian's figure, like a dead leaf in a gale, is instantly engulfed by this cataclysmic attack!

"Han Wuxian—!" Yun Li lets out a heart‑rending scream, tears welling up in her eyes!

Yet at this hair‑trigger moment!

At the core of the destructive storm, a faint golden light suddenly flares! Han Wuxian is not hit directly! At the instant the attack descends, he pushes the Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force to its limit, pairing it with the exquisitely precise footwork "Crane Tread Flowing Cloud Step·Startling Swan Transformation", dancing on the knife's edge, moving with beyond‑limit speed and foresight, narrowly slipping through the minuscule gaps among the six attacks!

The price is grievous! The raging shockwave and the scattered resentful black flame slash his body like countless steel knives! His already scar‑covered frame instantly sprouts countless deep, bone‑visible wounds, blood gushing like a fountain!

He looks like a Blood Man, his left‑leg injury worsening, almost unable to stand! Yet the mad flame burning in his eyes grows even hotter!

He succeeded! Using himself as bait, paying the price of grievous injury and near death, he lured the Myriad Bones Giant Beast's full‑force strike, buying Yun Li that fleeting chance!

"Yun Li! Now! Charge forward! Ignite!" Han Wuxian roars with his last strength, his voice hoarse as a broken gong, his body can no longer support him, collapsing heavily to the ground, his consciousness sinking rapidly amid agony and blood loss.

Yun Li instantly grasps Han Wuxian's intent, her immense grief and anger turning into resolute power!

Tears still wet her eyes, yet she erupts with unprecedented radiant brilliance!

"Falling Star·Flowing Light Escape!"

The remaining Starlight Power within her ignites recklessly!

She becomes a brilliant azure meteor, moving faster than the eye can track, seizing the brief interval when the Myriad Bones Giant Beast's attack misses, its old power wanes and new power has not yet arisen, like an arrow piercing space, she darts across the beast's mountain‑sized body toward the ruin's base emitting the scorching wave!

"Roar!!!" The Myriad Bones Giant Beast, realizing it's being toyed with, lets out an even more enraged roar from its three heads! Its massive body whirls abruptly, trying to chase Yun Li! Yet its huge size and the newborn sluggishness make it a beat behind!

Yun Li has already reached the ruin's base! Before her lies a deep, bottomless fissure half‑covered by a massive broken stone! That pure, domineering, all‑consuming scorching aura streams endlessly from the fissure's depths! The rocks at the fissure's edge glow a dark‑red, as if melted by extreme heat!

No time to hesitate! Yun Li forms a hand seal, converting her pure Starlight Power into a pulling beam, blasting it fiercely into the abyssal fissure! Attempting to trigger that terrifying fire source!

Buzz!!!

Deep within the fissure, it is as if a sleeping volcano awakens! An indescribable terrifying heat wave erupts with a boom! A blinding, pure‑light‑formed golden blaze, like an angry fire dragon, spews out of the fissure in an instant!

This golden flame is utterly domineering! Wherever it passes, even space slightly warps! The resentful aura in the air crackles like ice, instantly purified and evaporated! Those vengeful spirits that rush toward Yun Li, upon touching the heat wave emitted by the golden flame, emit a mournful shriek, their forms instantly fading and collapsing!

"It worked!" Yun Li exults wildly! This golden flame absolutely suppresses the vengeful spirits!

Yet, an anomaly rebirths!

The spewing golden blaze, seemingly drawn to Yun Li's Starlight Power or sensing the fragments of her star core, behaves as if alive, abruptly changing direction, turning into a raging golden fire dragon that lunges toward Yun Li herself… devouring! Its speed and ferocity far exceed imagination!

This flame's domination is beyond her endurance! Once it touches her, she would instantly turn to ash!

The joy on Yun Li's face freezes into extreme horror! She has no time to dodge! She can only watch, helpless, as that cataclysmic golden fire dragon, bearing the might to scorch the eight seas, rushes toward her!

The deathly scorching aura instantly engulfs her!