294: Chapter 294 The Only Chance of Survival

In the stone cave.

"Zhao Yan," a sinister smile on his face, was walking slowly with an eerie gait toward the place where the two were hiding. Behind him, numerous yellow phantom shadows followed closely, as if waiting for the next opportunity to possess him.

At this moment, the two, still hiding within the range of the aura concealment, had their brows furrowed.

Li Shishi, in particular, didn't know if her luck was just terrible this time, but she hadn't triggered an "Instant Kill" in five consecutive strikes.

Even so, the original Zhao Yan would not have been able to dodge her Saber Qi alone. However, the Star Beast possessing Zhao Yan was different; its reactions were unexpectedly fast. She had pushed her combat techniques to the limit, yet the opponent always casually dodged her attacks in all sorts of unexpected ways.

Because Zhao Yan himself was also a Tier 6, every blade she swung had to contain a massive amount of spiritual energy. Now, after several missed strikes, her spiritual energy was nearly bottoming out...

And "Zhao Yan," relying on these few attacks of hers, had basically locked onto their hiding spot and was bringing the mass of Star Souls over to find them.

"What should I do... What should I do..." Li Shishi gripped her blade tighter, her knuckles turning white.

Plans could not keep up with changes.

All the hopeful fantasies she had before were completely shattered after Zhao Yan was possessed by this peculiar Star Soul.

"Drag it out a bit longer, I must drag it out a bit longer..."

As if her sincerity had moved the heavens, this time, her Saber Qi finally triggered an "Instant Kill."

Seeing the Saber Qi approach, "Zhao Yan" once again used his eerie movement technique to dodge, but the Saber Qi seemed to have eyes of its own, latching onto his figure tightly.

Although "Zhao Yan's" figure was so fast it almost turned into an afterimage, and he even began running around the stone cave, the distance between him and the Saber Qi was unavoidably and constantly shrinking.

"Can I finally rest for a while..."

Watching this scene, Li Shishi was preparing to heave a sigh of relief, but she inadvertently noticed an unremarkable red scratch on "Zhao Yan's" face.

She clearly knew that all her previous attacks hadn't caused him any harm, so why was he injured... and the wound actually hadn't healed yet!

"Didn't he say his 'Undying' could withstand at most ten of my 'Instant Kills'... This is only the fifth time..."

Li Shishi gritted her teeth; her intuition told her that if this Saber Qi actually struck him, he might really die...

Over there, the Saber Qi carrying the "Instant Kill" rule had already reached "Zhao Yan's" neck; just a little bit further, and he would be decapitated once again.

But just at this moment, the Saber Qi suddenly vanished.

"Bang!"

Forcibly cancelling the killing move left the red-haired woman as if she had been heavily struck. Her figure swayed slightly, and she knelt on one knee, emitting a dull thud.

She suppressed the metallic, bloody taste rising in her throat, struggled to open one eye, and looked toward Shangguan Mingyue beside her with an apologetic expression.

But the first thing that met her eyes were the deep green stripes already crawling up his neck.

"Brother Shangguan..."

She looked at the man's face in disbelief, only to see two glaring lines of crimson already seeping from the corners of his mouth.

He had actually been unable to hold on for a long time...

This was her first feeling, and her intuition had never been wrong.

The black-haired man gave her a comforting smile, then reached out and handed her a spirit talisman, with blue spirit runes of the spatial attribute shimmering faintly on it.

"Brother Shangguan... isn't this the teleportation spirit talisman from the ruins back then... I remember there was one for each person, and we had already used them up..."

It was a sudden Star Beast horde; in order to evacuate quickly, Shangguan Mingyue immediately had all team members use their teleportation spirit talismans.

Every one of them had evacuated safely. Because of the randomness of the teleportation locations, it took them quite a bit of effort to gather together later, but afterward, they were slow to see any sign of Shangguan Mingyue.

It wasn't until the next day that everyone discovered their captain dragging his scarred and exhausted body back.

At the time, he explained that his luck was too bad, having teleported into the territory of a big guy, and he had only managed to escape with great difficulty.

And at that time, she had immediately walked up to help him treat his wounds.

She still remembered Zhao Yan laughing heartlessly back then and saying: "Captain, you wouldn't have been reluctant to use the spirit talisman and fought your way back out of the beast horde, would you..."

Without any surprise, she had fiercely taught this guy a lesson back then...

But now... she realized that it turned out his teleportation spirit talisman back then really hadn't been used... He had truly fought his way out of the beast horde just to save this spirit talisman...

And now, he had given this only chance of escape to her...

Li Shishi fell silent.

After a while...

"This was something you and Zhao Chu had planned long ago, right... You are all deceiving me... He deceived me, letting me kill him inadvertently; you are also deceiving me... Actually, even in the ideal situation from before, you couldn't have held on for that long at all..."

Tears kept welling up in Li Shishi's eyes.

"And everything you did was just to use your own deaths to make me use this teleportation spirit talisman without hesitation, and then escape like a stray dog with its tail between its legs?!"

She punched the ground hard and roared in anger.

Because of her voice, and coupled with the fact that the original aura concealment device was gradually shutting down along with Shangguan Mingyue's condition, the footsteps of "Zhao Yan" walking toward them became faster and faster.

At this moment, Shangguan Mingyue was also at the end of his rope; the blood from his mouth flowed more and more. His consciousness was completely blurred, and he was standing straight purely by willpower.

"Brother Shangguan..."

Looking at the appearance of her beloved, Li Shishi bit her lip, as if she had made up her mind.

"Yun Liu is a newcomer who only joined 'Starlight' this year; he is still young, and his future is still long... Moreover, we made an oath back then that we would live and die together from now on... So..."

"Don't you even think about abandoning me!"

After shouting this, she suddenly took the teleportation spirit talisman and slapped it onto the unconscious Yun Liu on the ground, while simultaneously imbuing it with the last of her spiritual energy.

The blue stripes on the teleportation spirit talisman immediately lit up, waves of spatial fluctuation radiated out from it, and the young man's figure gradually blurred along with it.

"'Tumor,' although because you are a newcomer, everyone usually likes to joke with you, especially 'Zhao Chu'—he has a fast mouth sometimes and always makes you angry. I hope you won't take it to heart..."

"Later, if you meet Hammer, please tell him never to come here to find us; as long as you are still around, 'Starlight' will continue to shine in the Human Alliance..."

As she spoke, Li Shishi suddenly smiled with relief.

She suddenly remembered the smile Zhao Yan gave her back then, as well as the smile Shangguan Mingyue had just given her.

So this was how you felt at that time...

But just at this moment, a pleasant voice rang out abruptly beside her.

"Eh? This spirit talisman looks quite similar to his..."