Chapter 555: Chapter 552: You’re in Big Trouble
After all, a vast chasm lay between the Early-stage Void Realm and the Peak of Void Realm.
Not everyone could defy all logic and kill enemies of a higher level like Mo Qi did.
Qin Xueyun held nothing back, activating the Evil Seed. A tyrannical wave of Energy crashed against Gu Peng like a tidal wave.
CRACK!
In the very first exchange, Gu Peng suffered a crushing blow. The bones and sinews throughout his body cracked, emitting faint popping sounds.
But Gu Peng gritted his teeth and didn’t retreat a single step.
His Dragon Elephant Bloodline caused him to emit a golden light, warding off the sinister, evil energy.
The Essence Blood Sword pierced through Qin Xueyun’s Protective True Essence without resistance, stabbed into her Sea of Consciousness, and began to wreak havoc.
"Ah!"
Her soul stabbed, Qin Xueyun instinctively clutched her head and shrieked in pain. Her imposing aura weakened in an instant.
"Kill!"
Gu Peng’s eyes lit up. Enduring the excruciating pain from his internal injuries, he changed his fist into a claw, thrust it into Qin Xueyun’s chest, and seized her heart.
Qin Xueyun’s aura instantly deflated. She coughed up a mouthful of blood and stared at Gu Peng in disbelief.
"This... How is this possible?" Qin Xueyun couldn’t believe she had lost to Gu Peng, and in just three moves.
"Nothing is impossible. Cultivation isn’t everything. From the very beginning, your weakness was your mind, not your Cultivation."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Peng mercilessly ripped out Qin Xueyun’s heart and crushed it to pulp in his hand.
"No!" Qin Xueyun cried out in alarm, but she couldn’t change her fate.
With a destroyed heart, even an ordinary Immortal would be fated to die, let alone someone in the Void Realm.
However, Qin Xueyun didn’t die immediately. She collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood, feeling her Life Force rapidly draining away. Her face was filled with indignation.
"Wh-Why? How did you do it?"
Qin Xueyun felt like she was going insane.
She had thought that merging with the Evil Seed would make her invincible. She had even been plotting to kill two birds with one stone, taking out both Gu Peng and Mo Qi, and was willing to give her life to do it.
But now her life was forfeit, and she hadn’t even managed to touch the hem of Mo Qi’s clothes.
Gu Peng alone had appeared and finished her off.
The gap between her plan and reality was just too vast.
Perhaps wanting Qin Xueyun to die with an explanation, Gu Peng regulated his True Essence to suppress his injuries and said, "You may have possessed the Cultivation of the Peak of Void Realm, but you have almost zero combat experience. You don’t even know some of the basics of the Martial Dao. Your loss to me was inevitable."
"Even a lion uses its full strength to catch a rabbit, yet you only deployed your Protective True Essence against my attack. That was far too arrogant."
"I don’t know where you got that sinister, evil energy, but I possess the Dragon Elephant Bloodline and its pure Primordial Yang Breath. In terms of attributes, it’s the perfect counter to you."
"My first punch was just a probe, a feint to show weakness, but you thought I couldn’t withstand a single blow."
"So with my second attack, I directly burned my bloodline, using the Primordial Yang Breath to break through your evil energy. That Essence Blood Sword threw you into disarray. You even forgot your final defense, leaving yourself wide open. Taking your heart was child’s play."
For years, Gu Peng had rushed all over the place for Gu Lele’s sake. Though his Cultivation was average, his knowledge and combat experience were extremely rich.
In contrast, Qin Xueyun was like a flower raised in a greenhouse, with no strengths other than her wild ambition.
Although the Evil Seed had given her immense power, she had no idea how to use it.
To put it bluntly, the reason she lost, and lost so completely, was that her combat experience and intelligence were utterly crushed by Gu Peng’s.
After hearing Gu Peng’s words, Qin Xueyun gave a miserable laugh. "So, was I really that pathetic?"
Gu Peng said nothing, silently recovering from his injuries.
’I must have been out of my mind,’ he thought. ’To think I liked this kind of woman for so many years and nearly lost my life for her on several occasions.’
’It wasn’t worth it. Not worth it at all!’
"Gu Peng, you must be very happy now, feeling vindicated and quite pleased with yourself, right?" Qin Xueyun asked.
Gu Peng shook his head. "I just feel it’s a pity, for your sake."
"A pity?" Qin Xueyun sneered. "You’re pitying me? You think you’ve won?"
Before Gu Peng could respond, Qin Xueyun’s expression suddenly became crazed. "Die! You all have to die! You’ll all be buried with me!"
She gathered the last dregs of her power, communicated with the Evil Seed, and gave the order to self-destruct.
Qin Xueyun knew that although the Evil Seed had merged with her, she hadn’t even unleashed one percent of its power.
Detonating the Evil Seed would absolutely cause massive, destructive damage.
This was her final trump card.
"Gu Peng, you can’t beat me! Hahaha!" Qin Xueyun laughed wildly. "Let’s die together!"
But just then, the snap of fingers pulled Qin Xueyun back to reality.
SNAP!
HISS!
Blossoms of blood bloomed across Qin Xueyun’s body.
Spatial Blades, formed from Space Folding, detonated inside Qin Xueyun, flawlessly stripping the Evil Seed’s power from her body.
"Gorging and Drinking!"
Mo Qi made a grasping motion with his hand. Streams of sinister, evil energy flew out from Qin Xueyun’s wounds, converging in his palm to form a pitch-black skull.
And at that moment, Qin Xueyun sensed that she had lost her connection to the Evil Seed.
Having suffered fatal injuries time and again, Qin Xueyun had reached the end of her road.
"You... what did you... do to me? Why... why..."
Before she could ask why the Evil Seed hadn’t self-destructed, all signs of life vanished from Qin Xueyun. She was dead.
Mo Qi’s perception had been monitoring the battle all along. The Evil Seed inside Qin Xueyun’s body could never have escaped his notice.
A self-destruction was never going to succeed. Spatial Blades had long been lying in wait inside Qin Xueyun’s body. The moment she made any strange move, Mo Qi could handle any surprises with a single thought.
’This thing is clearly bad news.’
Mo Qi looked at the Evil Seed in his hand. With a thought, he activated his Nether Soul Flame, intending to destroy it.
The Evil Seed seemed to sense his intent and struggled to escape.
But how could Mo Qi let it get its way? He clamped down on it firmly.
The Evil Seed skull let out a piercing shriek before quickly turning to ash under the scorching heat of the Nether Soul Flame.
However, a flash of light seemed to remain within the ashes.
"Hm?" Mo Qi frowned. ’What is this?’
Just as he was wondering, the flash of light suddenly shot out and imprinted itself on Mo Qi’s wrist.
It happened so suddenly that Mo Qi had no time to dodge.
By the time he could react, the dust had already settled.
"What the hell is this?" Mo Qi hurriedly checked himself.
He found nothing wrong, aside from a new, fingernail-sized skull tattoo on his wrist.
"Little Brother Mo Qi, are you alright?" Xiao Zhengheng and Di Zhong asked nervously.
Gu Peng also rushed over. "Brother Mo Qi, that..."
Mo Qi waved his hand. "I’m fine."
"Fine? Hehe, you’re in big trouble now!" a wizened voice suddenly rang out.
Everyone was startled. At some unknown point in time, Elder Ku Mu had appeared beside them, holding a wine gourd.
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