Chapter 388: True Form (9/10, Autumn Subscription)

Chen Lao shouted sharply! But Lord Han merely shook his head calmly.

"The Rain Tier has not emerged, and the world contends for supremacy. How many years has it been since your Wu Yu Clan produced an immortal? No… now it should be called — a Demon! No demon, no immortal; when the Rain Tier meets, all strife can cease. What do you think, Daoist friend Chen?"

"Shut your mouth! You old thing, how dare you bring this up! Today I will tear apart your rotten mouth and destroy you utterly, body and soul!"

As if provoked, Chen Lao's eyes reddened, and he charged straight forward.

Mid-charge, his body split open with a massive maw like an octopus feeding, transforming into a giant sphere of human bone that engulfed Lord Han in an instant, forming a sealed bone sphere that cut off inside from outside!

"Lord Han?!"

Fang Yue and the others cried out in unison.

"Chen Lao?!"

Ma Ling'er growled lowly, her face dark.

The bone sphere cut off inside from outside; no one knew what was happening within.

But from time to time, a white line could be seen slicing through space, carving a gash in the bone sphere, only to be swiftly repaired and restored by the rapidly growing bone.

Everyone knew the battle inside was fierce, but there was simply no way to intervene.

Fang Yue understood that the outcome of these two's battle would decide the final result of this defense.

But he could only stare helplessly, for he had tried attacking the bone sphere and couldn't even leave a single mark.

Having calmed himself, Fang Yue looked toward Ma Ling'er ahead.

And Ma Ling'er, at this moment, also looked toward Fang Yue.

Clearly, they had arrived at the same thought.

Since there was no room to intervene in the battle inside, then settle the battle outside!

With a great roar, Fang Yue charged forward.

Lin Ling and Hua Wuye beside him only now reacted, coordinating their attacks with Fang Yue.

522!

482!

475!

With the two assisting, Fang Yue quickly gained the upper hand, a string of damage forcing Ma Ling'er to retreat step by step.

Just as Fang Yue's trio thought victory was in hand, Ma Ling'er suddenly stopped retreating and took their attacks head-on.

A spear pierced her forehead, a fist shattered her breastbone, twin blades severed her Achilles tendons.

But Ma Ling'er merely stood there, coldly watching the three.

"Good… very good! I did not wish to reveal this form to others, to leave you a final shred of dignity, to draw a perfect period on my human flesh."

"Now it seems there is no need for that!"

"Chen Lao is useless — dropping the ball at the critical moment — then it falls to me…"

"The Sixth Princess of the Wu Yu Clan, royalty of the Wu Yu Clan, shall crush you like ants and utterly destroy Gu Yue Cun, sweeping it into the dust of history!"

With every sentence Ma Ling'er spoke, a layer of skin peeled from her body, and her bones grew another degree larger.

Fang Yue's trio's expressions changed as they all retreated in unison.

When they stopped and looked at Ma Ling'er, she had become a reptile — or rather, an ant-shaped skeletal creature.

Her entire body was composed of massive bones, resembling an ant's form, but at the head position was the human face that Ma Ling'er's earlier bone kite had displayed.

"Tremble, insects. This is my true form, the absolute bloodline of the Wu Yu Clan's royalty!"

Ma Ling'er's massive body leapt high, the sharp bone spurs on her body like swords thrusting toward the three in rapid succession.

Clang-clang-clang!

Fang Yue hastily raised his weapons to block.

But it was fast — too fast.

After revealing her true form, Ma Ling'er's attack speed was absurdly fast; even Fang Yue found it taxing to keep up.

"Ah!!"

Suddenly, Lin Ling's scream rang out.

Fang Yue looked back to see Lin Ling had failed to block in time; her right thigh had been pierced nearly through, and she lay on the ground clutching it.

The three were now all beneath Ma Ling'er's enlarged white-bone body's belly, and the dozen-plus white-bone long legs growing from her like an ant's continued their frenzied assault on them without pause.

"Lin Ling!"

"Lin-ge!"

Fang Yue and Hua Wuye cried out in unison.

Fang Yue tried to rush over, but was forced back by the onslaught of more white-bone long legs.

Hua Wuye, however, wasn't singled out, and with nimble movements dodged most of the attacks, reaching Lin Ling — who was barely evading — at the cost of several wounds.

"Take him and go! I'll handle things here!"

Fang Yue roared, and the Ningtai Ring on his hand directly conjured a Fire Blade!

Starfire Blade Technique!!

A spark flashed, and the already fierce flames burned even more violently.

As the next white-bone long leg thrust at him, Fang Yue slashed at it with one blade.

Boom!!!

The blazing Fire Blade severed the white-bone long leg in a single cut.

4433!

Fang Yue's eyes lit up.

Worthy of the precious blade I've trained so hard with — truly formidable!

Without ceremony, as the remaining white bone legs surged forward, Fang Yue swung his blade repeatedly.

4933!

4233!

4133!

In a string of damages, Ma Ling'er's long legs were severed one by one.

All of this was unexpectedly simple, effortless, and slightly eased Fang Yue's heart.

When Fang Yue charged through, slashing off legs until he reached Ma Ling'er's torso and head, he noticed her expression was calm, even mocking.

"You thought…"

Crrr!

15000!

The Fire Blade pierced straight into the human face on her ant-like body.

Ma Ling'er's voice cut off abruptly.

Then the bone ant body collapsed with a thunderous crash, disintegrating.

Fang Yue leapt back to the ground.

He watched the white bones on the ground warily, his brow tightly furrowed.

Because the system prompt did not sound.

He hadn't killed this strange Ma Ling'er yet!

He stole a glance back at the situation behind him.

Fang Yue's face turned as dark as water.

Amidst swirling dust, shouts of battle and cries of despair filled the air.

The Guard Team's desperate resistance was powerless against hundreds of bone kites.

People fell like straw, reaped down, emitting only moans and wails.

Even the Guard Team members held out only briefly before being torn apart and killed.

Lin Ling and Hua Wuye had just escaped Ma Ling'er's pursuit when they were immediately surrounded by these bone kites, struggling to resist but clearly outmatched.

Fang Yue looked at the pile of white bones, then at Gu Yue Cun—nearly half destroyed—and the dead bodies; he gritted his teeth and prepared to rush to help Lin Ling and the others escape first.

Then he saw a humanoid strange, entirely composed of bones, slowly rise from the bone rubble.

The bone strange had no flesh, skin, or hair left, but its face was Ma Ling'er's face, while its arms and legs were sharp sword-like blades, and behind its back, six sword-feathers spread like those of a six-winged angel.

"You're still alive…"

Whrrr!!

Before Fang Yue could finish speaking, his vision blurred—and his arm flew high into the air.

Crrr!!

Blood gushed out like a fountain only now.

I… lost my arm?

Fang Yue's expression froze in shock; only now did he snap back to awareness.

He stared at his severed left arm, and the blood-loss prompt flashing on his forehead—his entire body… plunged into ice!

355!

(End of Chapter)