These blood vessels were like a forest of activated red thorns, suddenly growing wildly and weaving into an enormous net in the air. It covered the sky and the earth, enveloping the Mirror Demon in an attempt to forcibly bind and stabilize its constantly shifting form.
The Mirror Demon struggled violently. Its remaining shattered mirror arms and body constantly cut and refracted, severing and deflecting a large number of blood vessels. However, even more vessels surged forward to entwine it, deathly restricting its range of movement.
He Jiulu suddenly made a terrifying move — she raised her right hand, pressed her index and middle fingers together, and unhesitatingly stabbed them into her right eye, which featured a red pupil with a black cross pattern.
With a violent gouge and a pull.
A complete eyeball, still connected to a few optic nerves, was brutally ripped from the socket and immediately thrown out.
The moment the eyeball left her palm, it began to expand at a speed and in a manner that defied the laws of physics.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a gigantic, eerie eyeball with a diameter of over 3 meters. The black cross pattern in its pupil rotated slowly as it hovered in mid-air, emitting an unspeakable suction.
The frenziedly dancing colored light filaments, fragments of broken images, and even some of the Mirror Demon’s own components that were temporarily bound by the blood vessels —
All were forcibly pulled by this suction, seamlessly penetrating and sinking into the giant eyeball as if swallowed into another space.
The Mirror Demon struggled even more violently. It seemed to instinctively sense the threat and wanted to flee.
But He Jiulu’s network of blood vessels and the suction of the eyeball formed a perfect coordination, forcibly pinning it in place and dragging it bit by bit toward the eye.
Inside the eyeball, the inhaled chaotic matter and energy could be seen crashing wildly, yet unable to escape.
Expressionless, He Jiulu reached out her left hand and made a sudden grasping motion toward the giant eyeball.
“*Puff — !*”
Like a punctured balloon, or perhaps the wail of space being compressed to its limit, the giant eyeball suddenly contracted at a speed even faster than its expansion.
In an instant, it compressed from 3 meters in diameter back to its original size, and then even smaller, becoming only the size of a fingernail before silently annihilating.
The Mirror Demon’s material, nearly one-third of its total body, along with the absorbed energy from the alien realm that had been forcibly compressed inside, triggered a violent explosion under this extreme spatial pressure — one that was silent, yet enough to make the entire Wanxiang Heaven tremble.
Though confined within a tiny point of annihilation, the terrifying energy shock still pulsed through space, shattering the Mirror Demon’s remaining body structure even further.
“*Squeak-cluck-cluck*, nicely done!” the Red Crow Rabbit shrieked. “Sui Luowen!”
Without needing a reminder, Sui Luowen was already prepared. She gripped the massive Tidou brush, ‘Criticism,’ with both hands. Her body spun like a dancer as she swung the brush toward the Mirror Demon’s remaining form, which was structurally unstable and filled with chaotic energy from the heavy damage.
DRIVE AND TEAR
Accompanied by the silently chanted incantation, the tip of ‘Criticism’ carved a deep, pitch-black spatial rift in the air, its edges flickering with a dangerous light.
This rift was not a straight line. Instead, it spread along a twisted trajectory that followed the patterns of the Luoshu Nine Palace grid —
It precisely avoided the Mirror Demon’s main body bound by the vessels and the edges of He Jiulu’s network, skillfully trapping the large remaining chunks of the demon’s body within.
The Mirror Demon tried to use its remaining shattered mirror arms to touch or refract the rift, but the spatial cutting force contained within far exceeded its understanding.
The moment the shattered mirrors made contact, they silently dissolved into a stream of basic particles, as if thrown into a meat grinder.
Immediately after, Sui Luowen turned her left hand toward the portion of the Mirror Demon’s body trapped by the rift and made a sudden kneading motion with her five fingers. Her Trait activated at full power.
“*Creeeeeak — crack!*”
The ear-grating sound of space and matter being forcibly twisted rang out.
The part of the Mirror Demon’s body, along with the countless distorted images reflected within it, was like modeling clay grabbed by a pair of invisible giant hands. It began to deform, compress, and twist violently, violating its own physical structure.
The shattered mirrors collapsed one after another, their colors forcibly blended into a mass of murky gray. Ultimately, it was kneaded into a trembling chaotic sphere about 1 meter in diameter, its surface covered in cracks with occasional bursts of chaotic light leaking from within.
He Jiulu’s attack did not stop there. While Sui Luowen handled the trapped portion, He Jiulu faced the last remaining core fragments of the Mirror Demon that were still trying to reorganize.
She opened her mouth slightly, and then — the corners of her mouth suddenly tore toward both sides, reaching all the way to her ears.
It was not just one mouth. From top to bottom, three bright red oral cavities filled with fine, sharp teeth opened in succession.
Her tongue split into three parts, transforming into three blood-red tentacles that shot out from her mouths. Each tentacle was covered in hideous barbs along its edges. Like a localized storm of bloody lashes, they whipped toward the fragments.
“*Snap, snap, snap, snap — !*” The sound of the dense whipping was almost continuous.
Every strike tore away a small piece of the shattered mirror or a wisp of chaotic energy, completely dispersing it into nothingness.
At the same time, the blood vessels she had previously sent out and had yet to retract acted like living poisonous snakes. They stabbed into the fragments from all directions, frantically injecting destructive ‘Elements’ to disintegrate the structure from the inside.
Finally, He Jiulu raised her head, which now had only a left eye remaining, and locked onto the Mirror Demon’s core — the last tiny bit of distorted light shrinking under the frantic whipping and vessel punctures.
She raised her right arm. The skin on her arm ruptured again, and the bone, muscle, and nerves inside gushed out like living things, weaving and shaping themselves —
In an instant, they condensed into a flesh-and-blood spear nearly 2 meters long, crimson and dripping with hot droplets of biomass.
PIERCE
Accompanied by her cold intent, the blood spear tore through the air. Carrying an aura of indomitable destruction, it accurately struck the Mirror Demon’s final core.
“*Boom — !*” A dull explosion sounded.
The core was completely pierced and destroyed by the blood spear.
The chaotic sphere Sui Luowen had twisted seemed to lose its support. The cracks on its surface suddenly expanded, and it silently disintegrated into a cloud of dull dust, vanishing into the background of frantic colors.
The battle ended in a flash. From the moment He Jiulu and Sui Luowen joined the fray to the Mirror Demon’s destruction, only about 10 seconds had passed.
Wanxiang Heaven lost the obvious anomaly of the Mirror Demon, but its inherent frenzy did not stop; it simply became more disordered.
“*Squeak-cluck-cluck*, clean-up complete! Let’s wrap this up!” the Red Crow Rabbit hopped around. “Staying in this dump too long will turn your brain into a rainbow! Let’s get out of here!”
He Jiulu expressionlessly retracted all her blood vessels, and the torn sleeves of her military uniform repaired themselves automatically.
At the site of her gouged-out right eye, flesh squirmed. A new eyeball, also featuring the black cross pattern, would regrow after a short period.
Sui Luowen also lowered ‘Criticism.’ She panted slightly, keeping a wary eye on the surrounding environment, which remained bizarre and surreal.
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