“Still planning to resist to the end?”
“You’ve already given it your all, haven’t you? But can you still fight like this? I bet you can’t even stand…”
Grandmaster Xuan Yin said coldly, “Even if you could stand, I’m right here. Go ahead and hit me if you have the guts.”
She kept taunting, not angered by You Yuelan’s struggle, but rather satisfied. The more You Yuelan struggled, the more intense her pain would be after defeat. Only this way could she humiliate Yijia’s corpse in front of You Yuelan, maximizing the stimulus to You Yuelan and somewhat making up for Yijia’s uselessness.
In fact, if circumstances allowed, she might even want to…
“Huff—huff—”
You Yuelan exhaled, and without anyone noticing, a pair of silk gloves had already appeared on her hands.
The path she cultivated was the Path of Strength, the so-called “one force breaks ten thousand techniques.”
The next moment, You Yuelan vanished from her spot.
Grandmaster Xuan Yin showed surprise for the first time: “This is—”
Before she could finish her sentence, a fist brimming with endless rage smashed into her face, distorting the face of this wooden puppet.
Grandmaster Xuan Yin’s hands and feet floated up, and she rapidly retreated, crashing toward the edge of the Mustard Seed Secret Realm at an astonishing speed.
Just as Grandmaster Xuan Yin regained her bearings, a moment before her head was about to hit the edge of the secret realm, a hand grabbed her skull with terrifying speed, then reversed her trajectory, slamming her head viciously into the ground.
The terrifying force, combined with unparalleled speed, created this devastating blow. Even Grandmaster Xuan Yin’s puppet body, forged from ten-thousand-year Dark Iron Wood, cracked.
But it wasn’t over.
Before Grandmaster Xuan Yin could catch her breath,狂暴 fists fell like raindrops, each one like a falling cannonball, shattering heaven and earth.
“What’s going on? How can this be?!”
Grandmaster Xuan Yin couldn’t believe it. She could only cover her head with both hands, protecting the vital parts of the Mechanism Puppet in an extremely awkward manner, to avoid being destroyed by this relentless assault.
Finally, Grandmaster Xuan Yin seized a flaw in the manic offensive, grabbed You Yuelan’s foot, and hurled her away.
You Yuelan flipped in midair and landed on the ground.
Only then did Grandmaster Xuan Yin have time to observe the changes in You Yuelan.
She was shocked to find that You Yuelan kept exhaling white mist, her eyes blood-red, constantly circling around her, searching for openings.
The constantly circulating Sleeping Lotus Scripture brought a terrible side effect to its cultivator: an overwhelming urge to sleep at all times, and the more one resisted, the stronger the drowsiness became.
It was a fatigue that came from the depths of the soul, something willpower alone could not overcome.
That was why Grandmaster Xuan Yin had been so confident, never worrying that You Yuelan might have a chance to turn the tables.
But some souls are destined not to be trapped.
To suppress that terrifying drowsiness, You Yuelan had chosen to forcibly seal herself within her Dao Foundation, letting her body fight purely on instinct, with the sole goal of exterminating Grandmaster Xuan Yin.
The price was that her Dao Foundation and soul were constantly under unimaginable pressure.
If this continued, her soul would shatter together with her Dao Foundation, annihilating completely.
Grandmaster Xuan Yin naturally understood this and snarled, “Madwoman! Damn madwoman! Who allowed you to do that?!”
“I’m here to harvest you—why fight back? Who gave you the right to resist? Do you think that will help?!”
“If you’re just a medicinal herb, then obediently grow!”
One plan after another exceeded Grandmaster Xuan Yin’s expectations, finally breaking her composure, and she even wondered if she was cursed.
You Yuelan didn’t answer her. Instead, she repeated the same sentence in a low voice:
“Don’t touch her!”
Grandmaster Xuan Yin squinted, sneering coldly: “Interesting. Earlier, when your senior sister died right in front of you, you were unmoved. Now a woman you just met is about to die, and you’re fighting tooth and nail to stop me, hehehe.”
“If your senior sister were still alive and saw you like this, who knows how furious she’d be. You’re quite the ‘filial’ one—she treated you like a little sister.”
You Yuelan still repeated:
“Don’t touch her.”
Grandmaster Xuan Yin’s body stiffened for a moment, then she remembered: You Yuelan couldn’t hear her now; she was acting purely on instinct.
In other words, her provocations were completely useless, and You Yuelan wouldn’t even feel regret or pain.
Grandmaster Xuan Yin couldn’t help cursing, “How can you be unaffected, and even be three times stronger than your peak state?! What charm does that woman have?!”
“Damn it! How did such a big change happen?!”
“If I hadn’t forcibly cut off a part of this puppet’s soul earlier, how could I be losing to you in close combat?!”
Both Yijia’s extreme concern for those around her and You Yuelan’s drowsiness were carefully chosen by her.
The reason she went through so much trouble to restrict You Yuelan was simple.
Under normal conditions, You Yuelan was stronger than Yijia!
You Yuelan’s combat talent far surpassed Yijia’s.
So, to prevent unexpected developments, she had placed this lock on You Yuelan from the very beginning.
Added to the fact that everything You Yuelan had learned was taught by her, even if they fought head-on, with a small realm gap, she was confident she could kill You Yuelan within ten moves.
With this double insurance, it was virtually unassailable.
But she just had to run into Lin Huanhuan, who somehow broke both layers of insurance.
While Grandmaster Xuan Yin was seething inwardly, You Yuelan suddenly lifted her head, seizing a flaw in her opponent.
Pushing off the ground with one foot, she closed in with a quick step.
Her right leg bent slightly, her waist twisted with extreme flexibility, then she stomped hard on the ground.
With her toe as the center, the ground beneath her cracked inch by inch.
Her left leg lashed out like a whip, aimed at Grandmaster Xuan Yin’s left temple.
Before the whip kick landed, Grandmaster Xuan Yin heard the crackling sound of the air breaking.
She quickly raised her right hand to block.
“Bang!”
Her body uncontrollably flew to the left.
Grandmaster Xuan Yin knew clearly that she couldn’t hesitate; otherwise, if You Yuelan closed in and entangled her, it would be hard to break free.
Without further hesitation, Grandmaster Xuan Yin grasped the air with an empty hand.
The white mist around them surged, and a giant hand formed from white vapor seized You Yuelan, slowly tightening, squeezing her body.
You Yuelan struggled slightly, then, understanding the structure of the giant hand, she gave a powerful jerk, shattering it instantly.
She landed swiftly and charged at Grandmaster Xuan Yin again.
“Hmph, I was just caught off guard. Don’t think I’m afraid of you.”
“If I hadn’t been seriously injured by that Soul Path sneak attack and needed to preserve enough energy to harvest this medicinal herb and send it back, I could still kill you!”
Seizing the chance to catch her breath, Grandmaster Xuan Yin sneered, raised her hand, and waved.
The surrounding clouds churned, surging toward You Yuelan like countless tentacles.