Chapter 953: A Situation Spiraling Out of Control (1/2, begging for monthly tickets)

The Sect Master of Blazing Fire Sect was so unwilling!

He hadn't even used his Blazing Fire Avatar, he hadn't given it his all—what counted as this… what counted as this!

The Sect Master of Blazing Fire Sect wanted to roar, wanted to bellow, but his consciousness was gradually sinking into darkness.

"Sect Master!!"

Just then, the Blazing Fire Sect's Grand Elder—the one he had placed such high hopes in—ran to his side at once, cradling his half-ruined head.

Grand Elder…

The Sect Master of Blazing Fire Sect summoned every last bit of strength, parted his lips, wanting to entrust Blazing Fire Sect to the Grand Elder.

But the next moment, he felt his own flesh and blood, as if dissolving, slowly flowing along the Grand Elder's hands, being drawn into the Grand Elder's body.

How could this be?! Grand Elder, what on earth are you?!

He stared at the Grand Elder in shock, only to see the Grand Elder wearing a sorrowful expression, fully embracing the half of his head that remained.

In the final instant his vision closed, he saw… the Grand Elder's lips curl ever so slightly, and a whisper meant for his ears alone.

"Blazing Fire Sect is mine now."

Grand Elder?! You bastard, don't tell me—?!

The Sect Master of Blazing Fire Sect clearly wanted to do something in his agitation, but the moment his head was pulled into the embrace, he was completely drawn into the Grand Elder's body.

Darkness surged in, and a Sect Master perished utterly on the spot!

"Sect Master!!"

The Grand Elder took the cue to wail and weep loudly, and in that very posture, glared furiously at Qi Ba Jiu and Fang Yue on the plaza.

"It was they who killed the Sect Master! All disciples of Blazing Fire Sect, hear my command—by the authority of Blazing Fire Sect's Grand Elder, I order you to kill these two, to avenge the Sect Master!!"

Avenge him…

Only now did the Blazing Fire Sect disciples come to their senses one by one, exchanging uncertain glances.

They had all witnessed with their own eyes the inhuman battle between the Blazing Fire Sect Master and the Extreme Ice Sect Master.

Beings of that level were simply not something they could handle—wouldn't charging in now be suicide?

But very quickly, a Blazing Fire Sect Elder shouted loudly: "Everyone, don't be afraid! Have you forgotten the intelligence we received? That fellow's power simply can't last that long! We coordinate our actions, buy time, and she will—"

Before that Elder could finish speaking, they saw Qi Ba Jiu, who had been holding the palm-strike stance in the distance, suddenly spurt a mouthful of blood with a 'pfft,' stagger twice, drop to one knee, and the flame in her left eye and the frost in her right eye both instantly dimmed by more than half.

"Qi Ba Jiu Daren!?"

Before the Extreme Ice Sect disciples could even pull themselves out of the emotions over their Sect Master's death, they saw this scene and cried out in shock on the spot.

"Now's our chance!"

Nearly without a moment's hesitation, every Blazing Fire Sect Elder burst toward Qi Ba Jiu Daren all at once.

They knew better than anyone just how terrifying Qi Ba Jiu Daren truly was, and how vast the gap between her and people like them.

So they had to seize the chance—while Qi Ba Jiu Daren was weakened, strike a fatal blow and take her down!

"Protect Qi Ba Jiu Daren!"

"Nobody is to come any closer!"

The alarmed shouts of the Extreme Ice Sect Elders and Qi Ba Jiu Daren's sharp rebuke rang out almost simultaneously.

Fang Yue, who had just been about to go support her, immediately hesitated.

In that brief moment of hesitation, those Blazing Fire Sect Elders had already charged right up to Qi Ba Jiu Daren.

"Got her!"

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and the Elder at the very front ignited flames on both hands and slammed them viciously toward Qi Ba Jiu Daren, who was half-kneeling with her back to him.

But before his fists could land, Qi Ba Jiu Daren spun around at a speed nearly impossible to follow with the naked eye, and a single hand had already precisely locked onto his throat.

The flame in her left eye and the frost in her right eye were no longer as ferocious as before, yet that terrifying power still made one's heart tremble with fear.

Held by the throat by a master of this caliber, he was virtually powerless to fight back.

Feeling the whoosh of wind behind him and the searing heat on his neck, his heart gave a sudden lurch.

"Wait—"

Crack!

His neck was snapped on the spot by Qi Ba Jiu—the wound scorched black yet shot through with an extreme chill, radiating a strange and terrifying aura.

After slaying that Elder as easily as slaughtering a chicken, Qi Ba Jiu Daren casually flung the corpse aside, then looked up at the second one who had charged up before her—leaping high into the air, his entire body wreathed in flames.

"Fiery Dragon Descends from the Heavens!"

The enemy bellowed out the crude technique he had left behind, and the noise grated on Qi Ba Jiu's ears.

Her gaze icy, she watched the man, turned her hand into a blade, and with a casual upward sweep—

Sizzle—!!

A thin line of flame shot skyward, slicing the airborne man clean in two from bottom to top.

By the time the bisected corpse hit the ground, it crumbled like broken ice, scattering chunks of flesh across the floor.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth.

Qi Ba Jiu Daren's figure vanished in an instant, becoming a streak of fiery red, teleporting across space at blistering speed, leaving only afterimages that lingered for a heartbeat before the eyes of those Blazing Fire Sect Elders.

By the time Qi Ba Jiu Daren landed back in her original spot, those Blazing Fire Sect Elders had either frozen solid on the spot and perished instantly, or vaporized outright, not even ash remaining.

"Qi Ba Jiu Daren!"

The Extreme Ice Sect disciples cried out in excited surprise, but the moment Qi Ba Jiu Daren returned to her original spot, she suddenly coughed violently twice, and fresh blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.

When Qi Ba Jiu calmly raised her head to look at Fang Yue—

Gush, gush, gush.

Fresh blood poured from her seven orifices—mouth, nose, ears—in a gushing torrent, and her entire body kept oozing blood, as if the capillaries beneath her skin had burst, or as if her body had suffered damage on a deeper level, down to the very cells.

"Her body has reached its limit."

Listening to Qi Ba Jiu Daren's calm tone, Fang Yue's face darkened on the spot.

This is too reckless!

I thought you had some kind of plan, but it turns out you're just overdrawing the tail's body to vent your own anger!

His figure moved, and Fang Yue exploded toward Qi Ba Jiu's direction.

But the instant he set off, from the Blazing Fire Sect's side, a figure likewise exploded out, its speed even matching his own under normal conditions!

By the time Fang Yue reacted, that guy had already rushed to Qi Ba Jiu Daren's side.

Without a single second's pause, his large hand had already pressed down on Qi Ba Jiu Daren's head, shoving Qi Ba Jiu Daren's head straight toward the ground.

Accompanied by a thunderous boom, amid the floor shattering, that figure pressed Qi Ba Jiu's blood-drenched head dead against the ground and dragged it forward.

Debris flew wildly all along the way.

Half of the tail's face scraped crazily against the ground, blood splattering.

But at this moment, Qi Ba Jiu Daren, who was controlling the tail's body, spoke in an icy tone, calmly.

"You're seeking death."

"Is that so?"

The Grand Elder of the Blazing Fire Sect laughed coldly; the smile had only just begun to bloom when he suddenly felt his hand go light, and his right arm separated from his body on the spot.

Squelch!!

The arm flew high, and from the severed wound, blood erupted wildly as if it were free.

A large hand seized his throat on the spot.

"It's you?!"

Amid the Grand Elder's stunned cry of alarm, his body was controlled by a burst of Supernatural Strength and slammed viciously into the ground.

(End of this chapter)