Watching the devil laughing arrogantly, Ling Xiaoyou took a deep breath.
Although the surrounding environment could give her a significant attribute boost, it consumed a large amount of Spirit Power and water every moment, so she couldn’t hold out for long.
It all depended on whether Su Lihua could finish charging within that time.
Ling Xiaoyou glanced discreetly at Su Lihua’s position and saw that the jade bead above her head had accumulated a layer of faint gray mist, reaching the same level as during their previous fight with the Bishop at the pier.
The next moment, Ling Xiaoyou drew her bow and nocked an arrow.
The tip of the azure arrow ignited with a ghostly blue flame, and then she shot it fiercely.
The arrow cut through the air, igniting the rain in its path, lighting up a brilliant fireworks display, and headed straight for the unicorn demon’s throat.
But the next moment, a thick, strong hand caught the arrow.
The unicorn demon glanced at the ghost fire burning on the arrow, disgustedly moved it away, then crushed it with a single grip.
Afterward, he attacked Ling Xiaoyou with a speed completely incongruous with his bulky body, slamming the spiked chain ball in his hand downward.
‘So fast!’
Ling Xiaoyou was startled and quickly transformed into water, diving to the side.
With a booming crash, the water on the ground exploded, sending splashes flying everywhere, making the downpour even more violent.
The unicorn demon was about to throw a second strike at Su Lihua when, sensing something, he spun around rapidly.
The iron ball came down, but was forcibly scattered by a wave falling like a waterfall.
Then he stomped hard, leaving a deep crater in the ground, and shot forward like a bullet toward Ling Xiaoyou, who had surfaced from the water.
Seeing this, Ling Xiaoyou was startled and quickly pulled back the bowstring, shooting several arrows simultaneously at the unicorn demon’s eyes, throat, heart, and other vital spots.
But the demon only sneered, shook his body, and his skin gleamed with a metallic luster, easily deflecting Ling Xiaoyou’s attacks.
Then the unicorn demon lunged in front of Ling Xiaoyou and punched, sending her flying into the wall, creating a large crater.
Ling Xiaoyou felt as if her entire body had been shattered.
She turned into water and slowly slid down the wall, merging into the water on the ground.
If she hadn’t used most of her Spirit Power to enhance her body and blocked that punch with the Cloud Water Bow at the last moment, she felt she would have been reduced to soul fragments.
Even so, Ling Xiaoyou still felt terrible.
If she had blood inside her, she would probably be bleeding from the corner of her mouth by now.
“In the end, this is all you’ve got.”
The unicorn demon walked slowly toward where Ling Xiaoyou was hiding.
Even if he didn’t know exactly where she was, he knew she couldn’t escape.
The next instant, the spiked chain ball spun violently, its powerful suction almost drawing in all the surrounding water.
The unicorn demon prepared to smash the entire area, so there would be no need to search for her.
But immediately after, a huge longsword shot up from beneath the water, stabbing toward the demon.
Not only that, but rolling waves also crashed toward the demon, carrying the momentum of cleansing the world.
Ling Xiaoyou’s figure burst out from the water.
The Cloud Water Bow had been charged for some time underwater, manipulated by her water control.
The arrow on the bow was no longer azure, but a sharp arrow so blue it was almost black.
She had to take this chance to hit the unicorn demon hard!
The arrow shot out rapidly, aimed straight at the unicorn demon’s weakest spot—his eye.
The demon was shocked, never expecting Ling Xiaoyou to still have strength to move.
Seeing the attack incoming, he spun the chain ball in his hand, intending to smash the arrow directly.
But the layers of waves had already reached him.
Under the constant battering, the low-quality chain ball was like dead wood in the sea and was directly cut to pieces by the longsword.
The longsword struck the demon, but to him it was nothing more than a tickle.
But Ling Xiaoyou had created the longsword not for attack, but for—restraint!
The next moment, the longsword transformed into a spinning vortex, like a lasso, firmly binding the demon, making it impossible for him to move for that brief instant.
The unicorn demon roared, seeming to realize his predicament, and struggled violently.
But his struggles were futile at this moment—the restraint that gathered all of Ling Xiaoyou’s Spirit Power was not so easy to break, at least not within this second!
In an instant, the arrow pierced the unicorn demon’s eyeball, and bright red blood gushed out.
The unicorn demon felt the excruciating pain in his right eye, slowly pulled out the arrow, crushed it, and stared expressionlessly at Ling Xiaoyou, saying:
“…Very well, brat. You’ve successfully angered me.”
This attack was only a minor wound to him, but it was a huge insult—because it meant he had been hurt by someone far weaker than himself.
How could that not infuriate him?
But what puzzled and even unsettled the unicorn demon was that after seeing he wasn’t dead, Ling Xiaoyou actually looked relieved and even sat down on the ground, as if she didn’t care about him at all.
This made him suspect that the brat was playing a “hollow city” bluff.
This behavior only made him angrier and more confused.
But then, as if sensing something, he abruptly turned his head and looked toward Su Lihua.
Su Lihua had already opened her eyes.
The jade bead floating above her head had become clean and clear, with no more mist.
And the mist that had disappeared…
The unicorn demon lowered his head and looked at his heart.
There, a thick wisp of mist was touching his body.
The next moment, his body began to disappear, followed by his limbs, then his neck, and finally his head.
The unicorn demon vanished—or rather, had completely died from this world.
No one knew where he had gone; perhaps only the creator of that jade pearl artifact knew.
“Good thing you made it in time, Su Lihua.”
Ling Xiaoyou felt like lying down in the water to rest, but she cared about her image, so she just sat in the water.
“Huff… huff… I really need to train harder. If I had more Spirit Power, the artifact would definitely charge faster.”
Su Lihua looked even more exhausted than Ling Xiaoyou, who had just fought.
Her face was pale, and she also sat directly in the water.
She had poured all of her Spirit Power into the artifact to make it charge faster.
It was a pity that this artifact was only a defensive one; its attack method required active triggering, otherwise it wouldn’t have come to this.
“Alright, we’ll talk about this later.”
After recovering in the water for a while and gaining some strength, Ling Xiaoyou stood up, walked to the metal door, and used water to fake a fingerprint.
As she opened it, she said:
“We still have important things to do. We need to rescue everyone quickly, then go back and support Bai Shuanglian and the others!”