Chapter 79: Strange Fireworks

This kiss seemed to contain a strange power.

The severed arm being kissed suddenly twitched slightly.

The charred outer layer peeled away, revealing tender new flesh beneath.

Next, all the scattered fragments of broken limbs on the ground began to wriggle, gathering toward Yan Hua as if they possessed life.

They flowed along Yan Hua’s wounds, merging into her body.

The missing limb began to regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Don’t worry, Master.”

The confusion faded from Yan Hua’s eyes, replaced by determination.

“I will protect you, and kill the Fire Demon.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Yan Hua suddenly opened her mouth wide.

Bai Yue felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, surrounded instantly by a warm, soft sensation.

Mu Chenxi, watching from the side, saw it all clearly.

Yan Hua had actually spat out a Great Stomach, securely sheltering Bai Yue inside it.

What in the world is this thing!?

The Fire Demon was once again intimidated by Yan Hua’s bizarre powers.

Although it was shocked by her strangeness, its greed for the Mysterious Woman Beyond the Heavens overcame its reason.

Just a single sentence could allow it to break through its limits.

If it could control this power, becoming the Sovereign of Heaven and Earth was not impossible.

Flames surged violently around the Fire Demon as it charged madly toward Yan Hua, its burning claws aimed straight at her head.

But the Fire Demon’s schemes ultimately came to nothing.

Countless arms sprouted from Yan Hua in an instant, shooting out like chains to cover the sky.

The Fire Demon hurriedly spewed flames, burning the attacking arms, but the charred flesh crazily regenerated in the fire.

The arms even began actively absorbing the fire, causing her body to swell larger.

Moments later, the Fire Demon was pinned to the ground, unable to move beneath the mass of arms.

Yan Hua seized the opportunity to spit out another massive Great Stomach, which slowly floated upward.

The Fire Demon struggled frantically, letting out a howl of unwillingness.

Its answer was a thunderous explosion as the Great Stomach burst apart.

Countless bone spikes shot out like a meteor shower, piercing the Fire Demon through and pinning its body to the ground, where it convulsed relentlessly.

The light of life faded from the Fire Demon’s eye.

In its final moments.

Its only remaining eye still flickered with unwillingness, filled with the Flood of Memories.

Is it over?

Were all those days and nights of slaughter, devouring, and struggling to survive in the frozen wastelands just a joke?

Memories surged endlessly.

A strong female Fire Demon appeared in its mind—the strongest of the Great Fire Demon Tribe.

That was its wife.

Its wife loved it dearly.

It loved her as well.

It made it feel like a person again.

After their wedding night, its wife soon became pregnant, but worry always lingered in her brows.

“If the child inherits your bloodline…”

At that time, the Fire Demon remained silent, gazing at the vast sky, feeling only the biting cold.

The screams of its wife during childbirth still echoed in its ears, and indeed, the child did not disappoint the hopes of the tribe.

It was also a Guilt of Kin-Slaying, a great joy for the tribe.

But the Fire Demon could not feel happy.

Its wife died, just as its mother had.

It gazed up at the gray sky.

Now, it opened its last remaining eye, looking at the desolate heavens, as if meeting its past self.

Its vision remained blurred, unable to see the path ahead.

Its body felt heavy, so heavy.

Was it about to fall?

Was it all over?

No!

It absolutely could not fall here!

The suppressed guilt of kin-slaying, the tribe’s hopes, and the piercing unwillingness of being torn apart as a vagrant in a past life, as well as its longing for its strong wife.

All these emotions intertwined into a blazing fire, burning wildly within its dying soul.

“Roar!!!”

A howl of unwillingness tore from its throat.

The dormant Dao Resonance around its body was reignited by this obsession.

Golden light surged violently across its broken body.

With its last strength, the Fire Demon raised its head, its solitary eye fixed on the gray sky, and its hoarse voice shook the surrounding air.

“Heaven and earth are heartless, treating all things as mere straw dogs! Hahahaha….”

Broken laughter echoed like a battered bellows.

The aura on its body soared with its laughter.

The once scattered pressure reformed, growing even more frenzied than at its peak.

“Hahahaha…hahahaha….”

The Fire Demon’s laughter squeezed from its ruined throat, like the ragged pull of a bellows.

Yet Dao Resonance rippled once more from its body.

Within the Great Stomach, Bai Yue could see everything clearly.

She slapped the inner wall in panic.

“Yan Hua! Kill it quickly! It’s about to break through again! Don’t give it a chance!”

Bai Yue was going mad inside.

How could this Fire Demon defy the heavens and keep breaking through?

Yan Hua’s expression became serious at Bai Yue’s words.

She tensed her body and spat out another Great Stomach.

The Great Stomach exploded in succession, countless bone spikes firing like a torrential rain.

But searing flames erupted from the Fire Demon’s body, deflecting all the bone spikes that struck it.

Terrifying Dao Resonance continued to surge around the Fire Demon, its aura still rising.

Yan Hua paid no attention to the Fire Demon, focusing only on the panicked Bai Yue.

She wanted nothing more than to fulfill her Master’s request.

Her Master was always so gentle, always caring for her.

Now, only she could protect her Master.

She had to protect her Master.

Power.

She needed power.

Thinking this, Yan Hua closed her eyes.

The next moment, strange black energy seeped from her body, and her back suddenly began to bulge.

Something seemed about to break free from within.

This bizarre change made Bai Yue’s pupils contract in shock, her heart tightening.

Finally, Yan Hua’s back began to writhe uncontrollably.

Suddenly, the flesh tore open, and a head emerged.

The head was unmistakably Yan Hua’s, yet it was wrapped in thick black energy.

Even more terrifying, the eyes, mouth, nose, and ears on this head were all tightly sewn shut with black threads—no gap at all.

She struggled, writhing within that grotesquely swollen back.

It was difficult for her to crawl out completely, for her exposed upper limbs had no hands.

By the time she fully emerged from Yan Hua’s body, Yan Hua’s original form had already begun to collapse, while this new Yan Hua floated gently upward.

She had no arms or legs, and even her facial features were sealed shut, exuding an eerie black aura.

Mu Chenxi and Bai Yue both stood stunned, staring at the strange Yan Hua, a peculiar sense of familiarity rising within their hearts.

This aura was eerily similar to the one lurking in the dark corners of Yan Hua’s sea of consciousness.

This was Yan Hua.

Bai Yue could feel that this was Yan Hua.

But seeing her like this made her heart ache terribly.

“Fire Demon. Danger.”

“Die.”

Yan Hua had no mouth.

She uttered a muffled sound from deep in her chest.

That heavy sound was like a death knell, making one’s soul tremble.

The Fire Demon suddenly felt its soul firmly locked.

Black energy erupted around it, and the Dao Resonance that had been surging instantly halted.

“What the hell is this thing!?”

The Fire Demon was terrified.

It was just a step away from enlightenment—why had such a bizarre monster appeared?

It howled in unwillingness, but under the spread of the black energy, its soul began to tear and collapse.

Soon, not even a trace of the Fire Demon’s soul remained.

Its shattered body collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud.

It was dead—utterly dead.

Rain began to fall.

Except for the steady sound of rainfall, the surroundings fell silent.

The rain washed the blood from this devastated battlefield.

The strange Yan Hua seemed to have exhausted her strength as well.

She fell toward the ground.

Bai Yue, alarmed, rushed forward without thinking.

She opened her arms, unhesitatingly catching the eerie, black-energy-wreathed Yan Hua and holding her tightly in her embrace.