Chapter 486: Strange Phenomena (4/10, Autumn Subscription)

Damage numbers popped up, but Fang Yue froze on the spot.

Because Liao Guanjia wasn't dead yet!

Such abundant Qi and Blood at the Xiantian Realm?!

Fang Yue only has 800 HP right now, and this woman got hit twice for over 2,000 damage—counting everything, at least 3,000 damage went out.

Without 【Breath of the Night】, how is she still alive!

Wait…

Fang Yue suddenly remembered—after the first wave of 【Blazing Fire Explosion】, Liao Guanjia had popped a pill.

That would explain it, though he didn't know what pill she'd taken, how strong its effect was, or how much Qi and Blood it had restored.

These thoughts flashed through Fang Yue's mind in an instant, but the motion of his hands never stopped. The Fire Blade churned, ready to stir Liao Guanjia's heart to pieces.

No matter how strong you are, if your heart is shattered, how can you live!

But just then, the bone shield that had seemed to fail to block the Fire Blade a moment ago suddenly burst open and transformed into a Bone Coffin, wrapping Liao Guanjia within, accompanied by high-frequency vibration.

Boom!

The Fire Blade Fang Yue had condensed shattered with a crash.

What?!

Fang Yue's face changed; he immediately sensed something unusual about the Bone Coffin.

He tried once more to condense a Fire Blade and stab down, but the instant it made contact, it shattered from the vibration—the Fire Blade collapsed on its own!

This time, Fang Yue was truly shocked.

He condensed the Fire Blade again, slowly stabbing down, carefully feeling out that feedback.

By the time the Fire Blade collapsed for the third time, Fang Yue was lost in thought.

That Bone Coffin was like a shield made purely of Internal Breath.

It was shifting at a frequency that corresponded to the Fire Blade, synchronizing with it, and ultimately causing the Fire Blade to collapse entirely.

This was an extremely complex operation—at the very least, Fang Yue couldn't do it himself.

He had merely followed Lord Han's guidance, going through the fixed procedure step by step to condense the Fire Blade.

To use a program as an analogy, Fang Yue's Fire Blade was the product of copy-pasting a god-tier coder's code—a fixed combination.

But the Bone Coffin had cracked the Fire Blade's underlying source code, then tampered with that source code, causing the program to crash.

The sheer complexity was self-evident.

Anyway, after trying two more times, Fang Yue gave up completely—with his knowledge and fundamentals, he couldn't handle the Bone Coffin's variations. If Lord Han were here, he could crack it easily.

But giving up on the Fire Blade didn't mean giving up on killing.

With a cold laugh, Fang Yue condensed the White Flame in his right fist and slammed it straight down onto the Bone Coffin.

After throwing that punch, Fang Yue felt something very strange.

What he felt was a multi-stage change.

At first, when his fist slammed into the Bone Coffin, the feedback was soft—the Bone Coffin caved in, leaving a fist-shaped dent.

But as the fist pressed deeper, the Bone Coffin was like a dynamically shifting material—going from soft to hard, and the change was lightning-fast, overwhelmingly forceful.

Before his fist could reach Liao Guanjia inside the Bone Coffin, the coffin's material had already become utterly indestructible; even the high-temperature Fire Fist couldn't advance a single inch!

Fang Yue tried blasting it with several more punches, then hacked at it a few times with the Fire Blade, his expression growing increasingly grim.

Good thing this isn't an exam—otherwise he'd have to say… he couldn't solve this problem!

What Fang Yue had left was 【Blazing Fire Explosion】, but… the Fire Blade couldn't cut through, and the Fire Fist couldn't smash through.

Would this 【Blazing Fire Explosion】 actually work?

Fang Yue thought for a moment, first said hello to the parchment, then glanced at his Lifespan.

"Lifespan: 3 years, 6 months, 28 days."

Fang Yue:!!!

How did it drop so much?! Where did all that Lifespan go??

Fang Yue was immediately shocked. Earlier, when the parchment said his Lifespan was almost running out, he'd assumed it was just because he'd used 【Time Rewind】 a bit too much.

Looking at it now, five years of Lifespan had just evaporated!

How could this be?!

【Dummy! You got drained way too hard by the Fluorescent Bracelet.】

【Also, besides adjusting to the actual dynamic situation, 【Time Rewind】 consumes more as your strength grows.】

【Earlier, you were being suppressed by a massive amount of Fluorescent Bracelets, and 【Time Rewind】 had to reverse all that suppression back—the consumption for that part is enormous.】

【That's why I told you to use less of moves like 【Blazing Fire Explosion】 that need to be paired with 【Time Rewind】.】

【At your current strength, a single 【Time Rewind】 costs quite a bit of Lifespan!】

So that's how it was…

Damn it! It's all that rotten woman's fault—what does she take me for?

Wrapped in Fluorescent Bracelets from head to toe, I almost got sucked dry!

As for what the parchment said about 【Time Rewind】's consumption increasing as his strength grew, Fang Yue could understand that.

After all, reversing time for an ant versus reversing time for a mountain are completely different energy expenditures.

That said, the remaining Lifespan was still within what Fang Yue could accept.

Flames ignited across his body, and Fang Yue exploded on the spot.

"Blazing Fire Explosion!!"

Boom!!!

The ground shook violently, and amid firelight shooting skyward, the Bone Coffin's material once again underwent a dynamic shift and response.

The surface, which had originally been pitted and cratered by the explosions, was restored in an instant.

When Fang Yue's 【Time Rewind】 took effect and he saw the Bone Coffin completely unscathed, his face immediately darkened.

Because every method he could employ had already been used up.

If even so he still couldn't break the Bone Coffin, then he truly was out of options.

As for the 【Haijiao Pill】 meant for a last stand, it absolutely could not be wasted here.

But just to let Liao Guanjia off like this, to leave her here unattended?

Fang Yue was momentarily at a loss, unsure how to handle it.

And just then, on the surface of the Bone Coffin, black blood slowly began to seep out.

As if the blood inside was welling up, and just as Fang Yue was wondering what was happening, the Bone Coffin was suddenly rapidly converted by the black blood — splashing, in the shape of a coffin, a pool of black blood across the ground.

Looking down at the ground again, Liao Guanjia's corpse lay there with an expression of unwillingness, dying with eyes unclosed in death.

And the corpse's eyes… were an inky black, oozing black blood.

"Dead? Dead from the Possession?"

For a moment, Fang Yue was a bit dumbfounded.

After slashing twice more and confirming there really was no reaction, Fang Yue let out a breath of relief.

But as for whether Liao Guanjia was now human or a Possession, he wasn't entirely sure.

Only, looking at Liao Guanjia's corpse, for some reason Fang Yue always felt that her current state was somewhat similar to how he had once looked after taking the 【Fierce Yuan Pill】 — eyes pitch-black, black blood streaming down.

He tried searching the corpse and fished out a dozen or so black stones, along with various bottles and jars of pills — some for cultivation, some for healing wounds.

And what caught Fang Yue's attention was a single exquisitely crafted jade key.

After examining it for a while, Fang Yue pocketed the key.

"The main personnel of Ning Mansion have all been cut down by me. I wonder if those underlings know where Lord Han is being held."

Ning Wudian had once said Lord Han was locked in a secret chamber, in an underground cell.

The question was how to get into that place.

Thinking of this, Fang Yue headed outside, intending to grab some lackeys and ask for directions.

But before he could get far, he heard wailing cries for help coming from ahead, along with the chaotic sounds of killing — approaching at tremendous speed, from far to near!

(End of Chapter)