163: Chapter 163 Arya's SS Talent - Taiyin Siming

Elia's Moonlight Power was a high-dimensional force that transcended convention; under the moonlight, she was completely unable to achieve her tactical intent of pursuing Laya.

Anserwe was horrified.

How could a Third Tier human master such a high-dimensional power that even she, a Peak Fifth Tier queen, could not remain immune to its control?!

What kind of talent was this?!

Very good. It seems this place really has gathered countless true geniuses of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races. Wiping you all out here would be no less impressive than destroying a fleet in space.

"Little human genius, your destiny ends here." Anserwe roared and charged toward Aria.

Aria was fully armed at this moment, her Goddess of Guanghan stance fully activated, moonlight shrouding her body, her battle armor imposing. The queen before her brought immense pressure, but a voice in the depths of her heart told her:

She could fight!!!!

In the brief moment of contact, several rounds of exchanges had already passed.

Whether in terms of strength, speed, senses, or intuition, Aria was completely suppressed by Queen Anserwe.

Fortunately, with the help of the Moonlight Power that could control her opponent, she was still able to hold on.

But the bigger problem was that she couldn't break through her defenses!! Although the Cold Ice Divine Sword in her Goddess of Guanghan stance was sturdy and sharp, it was too difficult for it to deal effective damage across two tiers.

The sword techniques inherited from her predecessor's consciousness were exceptionally exquisite. Aria struck Anserwe's eyes, ears, joints, and other vulnerable defensive spots many times, but she could not break through her defenses—it was all just failing to break through.

At the same time, the battlefield did not give Aria the opportunity to stall for a change; a third party was about to enter the fray.

"Laya, there's another one over there." Elia said coldly.

Laya followed her gaze—on the horizon, another figure was rapidly approaching. It was a Fifth Tier queen, likely Anserwe's adjutant, who had discovered the situation here and arrived to provide support.

Laya gritted her teeth and looked at the stone statue in her arms.

Sailo needed to be placed in a safe location as soon as possible; otherwise, once his stone statue was destroyed, he would truly fall. But if she went to secure Sailo, the arriving queen would join the battlefield, and Elia would have to face two Fifth Tier opponents alone...

"Go." Elia's voice was calm and firm. "Leave him to me."

Laya looked at her deeply and nodded.

"Be careful."

After saying this, she held Sailo's stone statue, spread her wings, and turned into a streak of light, disappearing into the horizon.

A large-scale Glacier Burst temporarily forced Anserwe back.

Elia slowly turned around to face Anserwe, as well as the other queen rapidly approaching in the distance.

Pressure! The pressure brought by two Fifth Tier opponents was so great that even the energy continuously flowing into the Moonlight Crystal within her body felt stifled.

She took a deep breath, connected with the Moonlight Crystal in her Energy Center, and drew power from it with all her might to compensate for the consumption of fighting Anserwe.

However, crack, crack, crack!!!

The sound of glass shattering seemed to ring out!!

The Moonlight Crystal cracked.

Soon, the Moonlight Crystal was covered in dense cracks.

In the next instant—

With a bang, the Moonlight Crystal shattered into dust, scattering into the sky like glittering, broken ice.

Aria was shocked; her energy core had shattered. Could it be that she was about to fall here!!

From her awakening at the edge to the experiences of this past year, everything flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.

The final image that remained was the shadow of Li Yuan.

...

However, Aria's aura did not decline like the shattering Moonlight Crystal; instead, it became increasingly condensed and powerful.

The dust from the shattered Moonlight Crystal did not continue to scatter; instead, it was pulled back, held by something at the center of the dust!

A new energy core!!!!

As the dust was reclaimed, the new energy core revealed its true form: a bead as crystal clear as jade, pure white like moonlight, glowing with a faint golden light.

With the formation of the bead, Aria's temperament changed.

If the previous Elia had only been cold with a hint of stubbornness, then at this moment, she was truly a "Moon Goddess."

In her ice-blue eyes, endless stars and moonlight were reflected. A set of crystal-clear ice armor appeared around her body, every scale shimmering with the radiance of moonlight. A three-foot-long ice sword condensed in her hand, the blade transparent, with a faint silver light flowing along its edge.

Anserwe certainly wouldn't just watch Aria strike a pose. She broke free from the restraints of the moonlight and lunged forward, swinging her blade.

"Third Tier, to be able to force me to this point, you truly deserve the title of genius, but this is where it ends."

However, her response was a sword beam. Aria's transformation sounded complex, but in reality, it had been completed in an instant.

"Heh, overestimating yourself..." Anserwe scoffed. A mere sword beam, and from a Third Tier at that, what could it possibly do to her?

"Bang..." With a loud noise, Anserwe was knocked flying more than 10 meters away. She hadn't taken the sword beam seriously and had taken it head-on.

A very fine sword mark, running from her left shoulder across to her right hip, appeared on the surface of her scale armor, oozing a few drops of blood.

Her defenses had been breached.

"Fourth Tier!! You mongrel, you toyed with me." Anserwe thought Aria had deliberately hidden her strength to ambush her.

After all, she had never seen something like a breakthrough on the battlefield before.

However, it wasn't as simple as Aria just advancing from Third Tier to Fourth Tier.

The moment Elia broke through to the Fourth Tier, her talent also began to undergo a mutation.

Her original S-rank talent, "Moonlight Condensing Ice," seemed to have been activated by some higher-level power. Those ancient memories carved deep into her bloodline began to awaken.

In her mind, an image appeared—

It was an endless starry sky, with a bright moon hanging high. Under the moon, a peerlessly graceful woman stood in the air, holding an ice sword. In her eyes, the birth and death of the entire universe were reflected.

Taiyin Siming.

She held dominion over moonlight and governed the Yin of all things. She controlled life and death, determined reincarnation, and judged good and evil.

That was an existence from ancient myths, a being of higher standing than the gods.

And now, this inheritance had descended upon Aria.

Her talent panel appeared in her consciousness, and the text on it was changing rapidly—

[Talent Name: Moonlight Condensing Ice → Taiyin Siming]

[Talent Rank: S → SS]

[Talent Attributes: Stars, Freezing, Destiny]

[Talent Abilities Updating...]

Aria opened her eyes.

Her ice-blue eyes became even more profound at this moment. Deep within her pupils, it seemed as if an endless starry sky was rotating.

At this moment, the other queen also arrived. Without a word, she joined the battle, attacking Aria from the side.

Aria turned her body, her ice sword tracing a perfect arc, simultaneously blocking both attacks.

"Clang! Clang!"

With two crisp sounds, fighting two opponents at once, she remained completely fearless.

But facing two Fifth Tier opponents simultaneously, she must have been under significant pressure.

Just having reached the Fourth Tier, taking on two Fifth Tier opponents, she still seemed able to hold on.

What kind of concept was this?

If she were allowed to advance to the Fifth Tier, who else could keep her in check?!

"Use full force, end this quickly!" Anserwe shouted in a low voice.

Both burst forth with full power, their blade lights forming a net that enveloped Aria.

Aria gritted her teeth and swung her sword to meet them, but she did not retreat.

Her Moon Goddess stance was indeed unreasonably strong, but she was, after all, just entering the Fourth Tier. Although she was no longer in as much danger as before.

However, facing the full-force siege of two Fifth Tier opponents, she was ultimately going to fall into a disadvantage.

With every collision, a trace of cold energy on the Cold Ice Divine Sword would be shaken away.

One sword strike.

Two sword strikes.

Ten sword strikes.

Twenty sword strikes.

Several cracks appeared on the Cold Ice Divine Sword.

However, an inexplicable chill rose in Anserwe's heart; this was the danger sense belonging to the Zerg.

Just at the moment she was distracted—

The bright moon behind Aria suddenly shone brilliantly.

The moonlight poured down like a tangible substance, infusing into the Cold Ice Divine Sword in Aria's hand.

This was the true power of Taiyin Siming.

Moonlight Power condensed in her palm, transforming into a brand-new sword.

It was no longer an ice sword, but a semi-transparent sword flowing with silver starlight. On the sword's body, faint phantoms of countless stars could be seen, flickering with her breathing.

Divine Sword Wangshu.