A chill came over. Luo Qiaoying happened to be standing at the door, the stray hairs on either side of her face gently lifted by the wind blowing from the city. Even here, she could still feel the obvious cold.
Although she was only wearing a bathrobe, Luo Qiaoying didn’t show any sign of being cold. Instead, she kept staring at the giant palm above the city.
As the palm kept pressing down, the wind grew stronger. When it reached its limit, that entire block would be reduced to ruins.
“Miss, the medicine is here.”
Ye Qianlan brought a wooden bowl filled with steaming medicinal soup.
Luo Qiaoying took the medicine but didn’t drink it right away. Instead, she said teasingly, “Ye Qianlan, if even I can’t stop that thing, will Donghai City be destroyed again?”
Ye Qianlan’s mouth twitched.
“Seeing my hometown destroyed twice in a row… my life experience is quite something.”
“Miss, don’t say such disheartening things.”
Seeming satisfied with the expression on her face, Luo Qiaoying gave a mischievous smile, then put on a serious face and downed the medicine in one go.
She returned the empty bowl to Ye Qianlan. The female guard retreated without a word, closed the door, and left the stage to her superior.
Luo Qiaoying exhaled a white puff of breath, rubbed her somewhat cold hands, and took two steps forward.
She raised one arm, aiming at the disaster-stricken city district.
A surge of aura mixed with extreme cold erupted from her body, swirling around her and gradually transforming into pink petals.
The petals grew more numerous, even engulfing Luo Qiaoying herself.
She opened her mouth and gently blew a breath.
whoosh
The petals that had been dancing only around her instantly flew forward.
At that moment, the buildings in the disaster area could no longer withstand the pressure of the black storm. Cracks appeared one after another, on the verge of collapse at any moment.
Lu Yunze, who still had the Luo siblings on his back, stopped in his tracks and stared blankly at the sky.
The Divine Hand’s movements suddenly halted, as if someone had pressed the pause button on a video.
“Huh, what’s going on?”
He wasn’t the only one confused. Sun Huaimeng, lying on the ground, was also stunned.
She had thought an apocalyptic scene was about to unfold, but after the Divine Hand stopped, she was completely stunned.
They all saw the pink petals scattering in the sky.
If viewed against the night, they might have been beautiful, but at this moment, they only seemed eerily strange.
Lu Yunze raised his hand to catch one of the petals. It felt as cold as ice.
The petals fell to the ground, and in an instant, transformed into thick, dark green vines.
They grew wildly upward without any support, a truly spectacular sight.
The vines climbed all the way up until they touched the Divine Hand, wrapping around it layer by layer.
Then, the vines contracted rapidly, as if trying to tear the sky-covering Divine Hand apart.
The Divine Hand trembled violently, and the wind became even more chaotic, as if it were desperately trying to break free from the vines’ bindings.
The two sides fell into a stalemate.
The vines dug deep into the Divine Hand but couldn’t go further; the Divine Hand also couldn’t break free from the vines.
‘Is it Sister Qiaoying?’
Lu Yunze immediately understood who was helping.
But clearly, merely stalemating the Divine Hand was far from enough.
Just then, he also noticed that countless flower buds had grown on the surface of these vines.
The buds grew at an astonishing speed, blooming into pure white, breathtaking flowers.
The next scene was even more shocking.
Countless arms reached out from inside the vines, grabbing the surface and pulling. One by one, semi-transparent blue monsters emerged.
They had slender limbs and varied heights, but their faces were almost identical.
Their faces had no features—only two red-glowing eyes and an open mouth.
From the moment they appeared, the Blue Monsters wailed and cried as if they had suffered a great injustice.
Then, guided by the pink flowers, they kept climbing upward.
Lu Yunze swallowed.
The scene before him was like a parade of a hundred ghosts.
The Blue Monsters knew neither fatigue nor fear.
Even if blown down by the gale, they would start climbing again.
They climbed onto the Divine Hand, biting and clawing wildly with teeth and claws.
Each time, they tore off a large chunk of flesh, but strangely, not a single drop of blood flowed.
The Divine Hand struggled even more violently, even letting out a silent howl, stirring up more wind to sweep the surroundings.
But no matter how it struggled, it couldn’t escape the vines’ entanglement or the Blue Monsters’ biting.
Its massive size only made its death process exceptionally long, forcing it to endure more pain.
“No!”
Sun Huaimeng let out a shrill scream.
Finally, the Divine Hand could no longer hold out. Under the contraction of the vines, it was torn to shreds.
At that moment, after being dismembered, the Divine Hand turned into a sky full of gray dust, slowly dispersing with the dying wind.
The Blue Monsters burrowed back into the vines.
The vines also withered rapidly, eventually turning into a ground of dried roots.
Luo Qiaoying, standing at the doorstep, slowly lowered her hand.
Her already pale, sickly complexion turned even whiter.
She sat down heavily on the ground, gasping for air as if she hadn’t breathed fresh air for a long time.
“Miss!”
Ye Qianlan, hearing the commotion, rushed out of the house and helped her up.
Luo Qiaoying was sweating a lot, but her body was ice cold, and her lips had no color at all.
However, Ye Qianlan was already used to this. She asked if she had any other discomfort while helping her inside.
“Miss, without your help, I…”
“Ye Qianlan, there’s something I need you to listen to carefully.”
Luo Qiaoying had to take a breath after every sentence.
“I’m listening.”
Ye Qianlan’s tone was firm.
“I… I…”
Luo Qiaoying took a moment to prepare herself.
“I want to drink Keke Cola.”
“…”
Ye Qianlan’s eyes turned strange.
Luo Qiaoying couldn’t pretend anymore and could only give her an awkward smile.
“Miss…”
“What?”
“From now on, we’ll only buy Ganshi Cola at home.”
“Huh? How can you do that?!”
The Divine Hand turning into fragments signaled that the farce tonight had finally reached its climax and conclusion.
The bright moon reappeared.
Lu Yunze was still a bit dazed.
Just now, he had witnessed a true battle among the big shots.
He was like a tiny ant, only able to look up from beneath them.
But fortunately, one of the big shots was on his side.
With the greatest enemy already dealt with, Lu Yunze was in no hurry to take Luo Yuyao and Luo Heng away from here. He could finally rest a bit.
“By the way, where’s Sun Huaimeng?”
Lu Yunze suddenly turned around and found that her original lying spot was already empty. He couldn’t help but gasp.
Meanwhile.
In a hidden path not far from Lu Yunze,
Sun Huaimeng trudged forward with her injured body.
The syringe in her hand still had half a dose of purple liquid, and her mind was full of unclear murmurs.
If it weren’t to survive, she would never inject herself with Boiling Blood.
She had seen too many companions driven mad by Boiling Blood, so she wouldn’t easily gamble with her own life.
“I can’t believe the Divine Hand actually lost?”
Sun Huaimeng gritted her teeth, her pupils trembling.
“Luo Qiaoying… That woman is freakishly strong?”
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She even started frantically scratching her own hair.
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded.
“There’s even more freakishness waiting for you.”
Sun Huaimeng’s heart sank. She quickly looked up.
On the road ahead, a girl holding a scythe stood against the moonlight.
Her expression was cold, as if she wasn’t even looking at a living person.
“You… not dead yet?”
Sun Huaimeng’s eyelid twitched.
“If you’re not dead, how could I die?”
Jiang Sui gave a light smile.
“Thanks to you, I truly understand just how terrifying Luo Qiaoying is.”
“She’s an opponent I can’t face head-on right now.”
While watching the battle between Luo Qiaoying and the Divine Hand, Jiang Sui felt the same sensation as when she faced the Baigui Shitu in Central City.
Engaging in direct conflict with such beings would be very deadly.
Sun Huaimeng remained silent. She inserted the syringe into her arm again and injected all the remaining Boiling Blood.
In that instant, her breath seemed to stop.
The murmurs in her mind boiled to the limit, but her body regained its vitality.
Jiang Sui, the moment she discarded the empty syringe, raised her scythe and charged.
Sun Huaimeng didn’t choose to engage head-on. Instead, she threw herself at a pile of construction gravel.
She hid behind it, opened her mouth and let out a piercing sonic scream, blowing away all the gravel.
Jiang Sui immediately closed her eyes, but her pace didn’t slow at all. She swung her scythe.
“Aaaaah!”
A scream tore through the night sky.
Jiang Sui rubbed her eyes. When she opened them again, she only saw a long cat tail lying on the ground.
She looked around but didn’t find Sun Huaimeng’s body. She couldn’t help but scratch her head.
“Guess that’s revenge for the sewer.”
“But next time we meet, I won’t let you get away.”
Jiang Sui picked up the tail, pinched the still-bleeding stump, and then pressed her blood-covered palm onto the Ancient Book.
The Ancient Book slowly bloomed like a flower, illuminating her face.
By the time Lu Yunze finished up and returned to Luo Qiaoying’s residence, it was already late at night.
Luo Yuyao and Luo Heng were both staying at the hospital. Only he could come back bouncing and lively.
Lu Yunze had wanted to thank Luo Qiaoying in person for saving his life, but he only met Ye Qianlan.
“Miss Qiaoying drank her medicine and went to sleep.”
“I see. That’s a shame.”
Lu Yunze had to hold back his words of gratitude.
When passing by Jiang Sui’s room, he subconsciously slowed down.
‘I thought I’d see her waiting for me. I guess it’s too late…’
Come to think of it, when he first entered the house, he noticed that the separate window of Jiang Sui’s room had no light on.
Lu Yunze stopped at the door, deep in thought.
‘Usually, you casually come into my room.’
‘So if I go in to check on you, it should be fine, right?’
Comforting himself like this, he confirmed no one was around and quietly opened the door.
Huh?
Huh?!
No one?!
Lu Yunze pushed the door open fully. The room was indeed empty.
‘Where’s Jiang Sui?’
‘She didn’t go out looking for me, did she?’
Lu Yunze immediately turned around.
The next second, he collided with a soft body.
He sniffled.
‘So fragrant.’
‘It’s the scent of bath gel.’
“Young Master, sneaking into a girl’s room means you have to be punished.”
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