The sweet duo queue suddenly became a five-person party, and Yun Liu felt the pressure double.
Everyone had no time to think, immediately throwing themselves into battle, maintaining a certain distance as per Senior Sister Qin’s instructions.
“See that? The glowing red parts are the Magic Cores. Attack around the weak points!”
Yun Liu rubbed his brow, calmly directing the girls to reorganize the formation, assigning clear roles.
The second-stage Nili Magic Golem was a mechanics checkpoint—if its Magic Core was broken ten times in succession, it would shatter, and stacking three layers of shattering would break the formation, creating a long period of vulnerability for damage output.
“Yes, Young Master.”
Lin Shu followed orders, darting across the ground to attract attention.
Her agile figure kept shifting, but her punches landed on the Golem like tickles.
The Nili Magic Golem stomped furiously, sending out tremors that froze the annoying ‘fleas’ in place.
Before Lin Shu could break free from the stun, she saw a massive fist grow closer and slam down on her.
A figure flew through the air, crashing through several walls and landing in another street.
“Hiss……”
Ji Shiyu rubbed her chest.
Just watching made her chest ache—if that punch hit her, her chest would be flattened!
The Golem’s speed in the second stage had clearly increased, with both defense and attack significantly enhanced, and it was immune to slows.
This Boss was clearly unfriendly to melee combatants.
Even General Lin, a highly regarded Jindan Stage powerhouse, was sent flying by the Demon Puppet at first contact—completely unreliable!
If a Jindan Body Cultivator struggled, fragile Sword Cultivators were in even greater danger.
The remaining four shrank back, sweating, gaining a new appreciation for the Golem’s lethality.
They absolutely couldn’t be touched.
Qingyun spread like mist, sword energy weaving a net.
Qin Cha once again sent a Spirit Species into the Golem’s gaps, but the tactic proved ineffective.
When the Golem swung its fist, it exposed the right shoulder’s Magic Core.
Xiao Xinran deftly slashed at the red glow, only to be jolted so hard her arm went numb.
“—!”
Yun Liu counted softly, ghosting to the Golem’s side.
His flying sword left his hand, patching a crack, finally breaking through.
Compared to the reckless Xiao Xinran, Ji Shiyu was much sharper and soon spotted a blind spot.
The Seven Stars Sword transformed into a golden whirlwind, the Cloud-Slicing Style launching a fierce attack at the Golem’s lower half, starting to ‘fix its legs.’
Experienced Ji Shifu would lightly scrape and then Sword Ride away, never greedy for damage, returning only after the Golem finished stomping in rage.
“Fuck you!”
Before long, Lin Shu came charging back onto the battlefield, cursing and rolling up her sleeves to pull aggro. Her body was sturdy, suffering only minor wounds.
Bang!
Unsurprisingly, the familiar rhythm repeated.
Xiao Xinran saluted and watched as Sister Lin soared away.
Qin Xing played both dad and mom, pulling aggro with Sword Riding while multitasking to cast the Qingyun Tree Armor on the three others, attracting most of the firepower and losing her initial composure.
The Nili Magic Golem swung its Crystal Arm, demonic aura spreading like blades, with Demon Shadows swirling and the earth trembling.
Facing such an enemy, there was no clear opening. Xiao Xinran, who had favored a straightforward, aggressive style, suffered a few setbacks and wised up.
Finally, after Lin Shu took flight again, she found an opportunity to unleash the Flame God, successfully breaking the fourth red crystal.
She let out a breath, feeling smug as she glanced at the lagging ‘foot fixer’ behind her—even scraping damage was a point of pride.
Xiao Xinran turned her head, only to see Yun Liu at the front casually execute a triple break, his quiet counting matching the combined total of the other four.
The white-robed youth moved with a strange body technique around the giant, his blurry figure unreadable yet always evading the Golem’s every attack, dancing on the knife’s edge.
“Roar—!”
On the third layer of shattering, the Golem howled and collapsed to its knees, crystalline armor cracking wide and exposing the complete Magic Core.
Seeing the black stone giant fall still, Ji Shiyu and Xiao Xinran blinked and looked at Yun Liu.
Yun Liu snapped, “What are you looking at me for? Attack!”
“Oh!”
The four finally relaxed, unleashing all their earlier frustration on the Golem. In less than ten seconds, the output overflowed.
Crack!
The Magic Core shattered, the soul-stealing grand array instantly weakened, and the thick clouds in the sky began to disperse.
Ji Shiyu looked up, seeing far fewer Demon Shadows circling above.
“Did we succeed?”
“Not yet!”
Qin Xing shook her head, still gripping her spirit sword, aura locked tightly onto the kneeling Golem.
She could feel the demonic aura growing even more violent.
The crisis in the northern gardens was the first to be resolved, but the Nili Magic Golem was not yet fully defeated.
During this time, only the white-robed youth refrained from violently attacking the Magic Core, instead strolling around the area, setting down Spiritual energy at various positions, as if constructing a Magic Array.
Dealing with the third stage was even more troublesome—a race against time where any misstep meant casualties.
However, some players with wild imaginations discovered a way to skip the challenge: using the Returning Spirit Mountain-Suppressing Array to instantly annihilate an out-of-control third-stage Golem.
Yun Liu signaled for the four to retreat.
After a brief silence, the Magic Crystal remnants indeed began to rise again.
It stretched out its hands, tearing open the Magic Core to reveal an internal crystal skeleton, with a black heart still pounding and emitting a foul stench.
“…It’s alive!?”
Qin Xing covered her mouth, face pale, once more witnessing the cruel methods of the demonic cult.
The Golem was originally a Blackstone Mountain Demon from Nili Abyss, refined into a puppet.
After its host died, it broke free from control, its ferocity unleashed—if you endured until the Monster Core burned out, you naturally won.
“Roar!”
The mountain demon tried to charge at the group but stepped into the array, where the ground softened like a swamp, trapping it.
The black heart quickly withered and shriveled, sending up wisps of blue smoke.
A fun fact—the Returning Spirit Mountain-Suppressing Array was mostly used for spirit vein mining, but had an unexpectedly effective low-health execution effect against petrified earth-type demons.
Seeing the array take effect, Yun Liu put away a thick stack of Thunder Shock Talismans, nodding in satisfaction.
“Young Master…You understand arrays too?”
Lin Shu’s voice trembled, her eyes wide.
Where did this nuclear-level envoy come from—did he prepare all those Thunder Shock Talismans for a man-made tribulation?!
Even if suppression failed, the resulting bombardment would likely annihilate the Golem.
The outcome wouldn’t be pretty.
She had thought the two life-saving benefactors were already frightening enough.
She hadn’t expected the Young Master behind them to be even scarier…
“I know a little.”
Yun Liu sheathed his sword, gazing toward the distant city.
At the same time, the eastern Magic Core was also shattered, the clouds receding.
Ji Shiyu squinted and jogged over.
The first thing she thought of was to tattle, babbling about the shocking events in the Royal Capital, eager to redeem herself and tactfully leaving out her own mischief—like a gossip scout from the front lines.
“Reporting, Teacher! I suspect it was the Fake Princess’s doing! Demoness Jing Rui and her followers are also missing!”
“If not her, then who? The fox tail can’t be hidden anymore.”
Qin Xing covered her mouth and laughed, finding Huangmao adorable.
Wasn’t it a bit late to confess now?
“I’m not blind. Tell me something I don’t know.”
Yun Liu glared at Ji Shiyu, long since used to the disobedient Huangmao’s antics.
Fortunately, this challenge went unusually smoothly.
The Nili Magic Golem was much more difficult than the Baishui Black Serpent, and without Ao Tian’s cheat to help.
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