Chapter 731

Hummm!!

The sword tip struck the 【Gui Mo】, a faint, nearly invisible thread of black qi forming a thin membrane.

Though thin, it was extraordinarily resilient.

Niuzuo had expected to pierce the 【Gui Mo】 as easily as before, but this time, he felt resistance.

The 【Gui Mo】 seemed thicker than before!

His strike could barely pierce through!

Could it be… he's been holding back?

In Niuzuo's shock, the shattered Ice Blades had already, as if controlled by unseen hands, turned into a storm of ice shards descending upon him.

Sssssssss—

Niuzuo hadn't taken these ice shards seriously.

But when the first shard pierced his wrist at blinding speed, Niuzuo's eyes widened in disbelief.

Only then did he realize these shards weren't mere remnants of Ice Blades—they were controlled by Fang Yue, transformed into sharp projectiles!

Dense ice shards rained down upon his entire body.

Each shard condensed Fang Yue's surging internal force, devastating in power.

Czzzzzzzzz—

Every ice shard striking his body made Niuzuo shudder.

The dense hail of shards tore his body into countless holes, spraying blood like he'd been hit by a continuous machine-gun barrage.

Niuzuo tried to defend, to mobilize his internal force to resist.

But within the 【Still World】, his thoughts raced—yet his body couldn't keep up.

Worse, the moment the first shard pierced him, the freezing power of the 【Frozen Heart Method】 had already invaded his body, slowing even his thoughts.

Only when the final shard pierced his body did he finally widen his eyes, unleashing a burst of internal force that blasted everything around him away.

Fang Yue stepped back smoothly, unscathed in this exchange.

Niuzuo stood there, drenched in blood, his body riddled with countless puncture wounds, face dark with fury.

"Lord Niuzuo… Lord Niuzuo is losing?!"

"How could this… he's Lord Niuzuo!"

"Just who is this guy…?"

The Phoenix Organization members who had been focused on retrieving the 【Nuomian Gui】 now stared in stunned disbelief at Niuzuo's disadvantage.

For in their minds, Lord Niuzuo was the leader of the Twelve Seats and the uncrowned king of Chunuan City!

How could such a powerful Lord Niuzuo be outmatched by a mere nobody? It was beyond their wildest imagination!

"Night Rain is gaining the upper hand!"

"Night Rain! Night Rain! Night Rain!"

The survivors of Chunuan City erupted in cheers.

Yang Diandian's morale soared; she led a group to charge the Phoenix Organization's retrieval team.

The two sides clashed, shouts of battle filling the air, chaos erupting.

Yet the surrounding turmoil did not affect the two combatants.

"You…"

Niuzuo swallowed medicine, his gaze dark as he stared at Fang Yue.

He'd thought this was a sure win, but Fang Yue's tenacity exceeded his expectations.

This guy… truly has the strength to fight me!

At this moment, Fang Yue's right hand had been reattached, fully restored.

Even his Qi and Blood had been restored to full capacity under the support of 【Night Breath】.

But the consumption of 【Gui Value】 and internal force was unsustainable.

Both 【Still World】 and 【Gui Mo】 are tied to 【Gui Value】.

The more 【Gui Value】 infused, the stronger their power.

Just now, Fang Yue had poured massive 【Gui Value】 into both, pushing their power to a peak and reversing the tide.

Now that Niuzuo is wounded, the situation is gradually falling into his rhythm.

Boom—

Above, the black ring thundered, and 【Night Rain】 poured endlessly.

Fang Yue said nothing; silently swallowing medicine, black qi coiled around his feet as he charged Niuzuo, his speed surging violently—nearly becoming a shadow!

Though Fang Yue's speed was fast, it still fell within Niuzuo's ability to adapt.

Only when Fang Yue roared…

"Still World!"

The instant the words left his lips, Fang Yue's speed skyrocketed to inhuman levels!

In the environment where everything else slowed to a crawl, Fang Yue surged forward like a madman—Niuzuo's vision couldn't track such ferocious speed; he could only unleash his internal force to meet the assault head-on.

Bam!!

With the burst of internal force, shockwaves erupted in concentric rings from Niuzuo.

Previously, Niuzuo had used this move to escape danger—but this time, he realized… Fang Yue, facing the violent explosion of internal force, merely paused for a moment, then pierced through the airwave like a blade's tip, cutting straight through it, charging directly toward Niuzuo!

"How is this possible?!"

Niuzuo's face turned pale; as his ox spirit form surged behind him, Fang Yue was already upon him.

At this moment, he felt a lethal threat.

The motion of raising his sword to block had already begun, but he knew clearly that in Fang Yue's eyes, this movement was no different from slow motion—it could not effectively block the attack!

"I never thought I'd be driven into such a desperate corner!"

"Should I use that technique now…? This was originally meant as a gift for Feng Wang and Huang Hou… Fine, let this ignorant brat see it!"

A chill flashed in his eyes; Niu Zuo suddenly stopped blocking with his sword, as if giving up resistance, and calmly watched Fang Yue charge toward him in a frenzy.

Amid the slow-down effect of 【Still World】, he whispered two words.

"Yin Xu."

Boom—

In the slowed, still world, an illusory bell tone suddenly rang out, vast and thunderous, as if directly echoing from deep within every person's heart.

In that instant, the world fell silent!

In that instant, Fang Yue froze in place, utterly stunned!

As the bell fell, the bindings on Niu Zuo's body unraveled layer by layer, revealing a grotesque and twisted form.

It was a chest stitched together with threads.

As the bandages fell away, the threads on the chest snapped one by one; the long wound running from top to bottom split open, exposing the tangled, rotting flesh within.

Piles of rotting flesh, as if crammed too tightly in an overfull warehouse, surged out of Niu Zuo's chest the moment the "door" opened, pus and decay rolling onto the ground.

Behind the rotting flesh emerged a strange ox head with closed eyes, nearly filling the entire wound in Niu Zuo's chest.

Boom—

Another bell tone rang out.

At this moment, Fang Yue snapped back to his senses.

Seeing Niu Zuo's transformed form, he hesitated for a moment—then swung his blade anyway.

Ssshh—

Amid spurts of black blood, Ice Blade struck precisely upon the ox head on Niu Zuo's chest.

But it… could not penetrate further.

Ice Blade was stuck on the ox head.

At the same time, Niu Zuo slowly closed his eyes, while the ox head within his chest, its eyes previously shut, slowly opened them!

(End of Chapter)