39: Both sides suffer losses

However, Yun Feng's current state was also quite poor.

The continuous attacks had already depleted much of her energy, and she still had to divert some power to protect Thunder.

Although Black Tiger was injured, Blood Rose and Shadow Skeleton still maintained sufficient combat power.

On the other side, the battle between Monsoon and Silver Fox was even more perilous.

Monsoon was currently completely blind in one eye, and the toxin from the opponent's sharp claws was still spreading across the other half of his face.

Silver Fox had also been heavily injured by Monsoon's sudden assault just now.

"Monsoon, I advise you to hand over the item quickly. I can act as if nothing happened and give you the antidote."

"Otherwise..."

Silver Fox looked at Monsoon's current face and spoke with a triumphant smile, trying to persuade him.

Monsoon did not answer. He looked toward Yun Feng and Thunder nearby, who were in a bad situation. Though he was anxious,

his current physical state could not hold out for long. He had to find a way to severely wound or even kill Silver Fox to have any hope of turning the tide.

Withdrawing his gaze and looking back at Silver Fox, Monsoon pulled out a cyan energy crystal and swallowed it in one gulp.

Wind-elemental energy surged between his hands—

"Wind Dragon Manifest!"

"Roar!"

Accompanied by a dragon's roar, a Wind Dragon dozens of meters long appeared out of thin air, soared into the sky, and then dove toward Silver Fox's position.

The massive airflow it generated caused deep gouges to appear on the ground.

Silver Fox realized that his Hunting State was being suppressed the moment the Wind Dragon appeared.

Furthermore, it felt as though an invisible force was trapping him in place, making him unable to move.

Just as the Wind Dragon opened its mouth to swallow Silver Fox, Silver Fox suddenly struck his own chest with a claw, causing a mouthful of fresh blood to spray out.

"Blood Puppet Life Substitution!"

The blood instantly transformed into a bloody mist, which then condensed into a substitute doll.

The moment the Wind Dragon swallowed the doll, Silver Fox's true body had already appeared a hundred meters away.

However, his own condition was also very dire; to escape the Wind Dragon, he had not hesitated to spit out his heart's blood.

At this moment, Monsoon's aura was extremely unstable. Summoning the Wind Dragon while heavily injured consumed too much energy.

Cyan light particles were now constantly seeping from his seven facial orifices, showing that his divinity was severely overdrawn.

Yet he still gritted his teeth, controlling the Wind Dragon to pounce toward Silver Fox once more.

As it neared Silver Fox, to prevent him from dodging, the Wind Dragon suddenly transformed into nine tornadoes carrying terrifying energy, surrounding Silver Fox directly.

The heavily injured Silver Fox found himself with no way to escape. Gritting his teeth, he channeled all his energy into his right claw.

His body began to swell unnaturally, and patterns of the god of hunting appeared on the surface of his skin.

"Heart Source Sacrifice: Final Chapter of a Hundred Beasts!"

In the next instant, he thrust his right claw into his own chest, pulled out his heart, and then violently crushed it.

Immediately, a terrifying power erupted, creating a space of absolute darkness within a radius of several hundred meters.

One ferocious beast after another leaped out from the Void Realm, each carrying a portion of Silver Fox's energy as they crashed into the nine tornadoes.

"Boom!"

Interwoven cyan and black power surged constantly, forming a terrifying energy storm that even swept Monsoon into it.

When everything dissipated, Monsoon was half-kneeling on the ground, his body covered in claw wounds.

Silver Fox was in even worse shape. Although he would not die thanks to the power of the god of hunting, the attack just now had consumed too much of his Origin.

After his body reconstructed, his aura was withered to the extreme.

The ground where the two stood was filled with massive craters and extending cracks.

Both sides could be considered to have lost their ability to fight.

Meanwhile, after Qin Yue sent a request for help to The Officials, there had been no response.

The situation outside could be seen through the monitoring screens of the stronghold.

Looking at Monsoon's state, and then at the increasingly dangerous situation for Yun Feng and Thunder,

everyone was anxious, but they remained somewhat helpless.

"System, how much longer until I can perform divinity fragment Fusion again?"

Zhou Xing contacted the System at this time.

"Still three minutes left!"

The System's answer allowed Zhou Xing to breathe a sigh of relief.

If it was three minutes, Yun Feng and Thunder should be able to hold on.

"Forget it, I can only go all out. You two, help keep an eye on things for me."

Looking at Qin Yue and Su Mingyue, Zhou Xing directly pulled out the Attribute-less Energy Crystal that Monsoon had given him earlier and swallowed it.

"Don't..."

"You..."

It was clearly too late for the two to stop him.

Zhou Xing then pretended to sit cross-legged on the spot, his aura constantly erupting.

In secret, Zhou Xing had already had the System completely convert the power of this energy crystal into backup energy for storage.

The purpose of doing this was to prepare for a successful Breakthrough in a moment. Otherwise, if he did nothing and suddenly reached the Control Realm, it would easily arouse suspicion.

Outside, the situation was now extremely critical.

When Yun Feng was smashed into the ground by the power of the God-Burying Spear, the attacks from Blood Rose and Shadow Skeleton came too swiftly.

Blood Rose's right arm suddenly mutated into a giant Rose Cannon Barrel, and without any pause for charging, she fired a concentrated Corrosive Shell at Yun Feng.

Shadow Skeleton's skeleton completely shattered at this moment, revealing half of a rotting face.

He thrust his claws into the ground, and surges of Skeleton Power constantly gathered forward.

"Corpse King Descent!"

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the ground ahead, and a headless giant skeleton holding a Bone Hammer crawled out from the rift.

Wrapped in ghostly fire, the moment it appeared, it charged toward Yun Feng with the Bone Hammer under Shadow Skeleton's control.

Thunder could no longer care about suppressing the toxin. He stood up abruptly, his fingers intertwined as lightning power constantly condensed—

"Thunder Punishment Heavenly Prison!"

Instantly, nine massive lightning pillars the thickness of water buckets formed a barrier that enveloped the area ahead, trapping the Corpse King in place.

Bolts of lightning power continuously struck the Corpse King's body until it finally disintegrated.

The backlash caused Shadow Skeleton to spit out a mouthful of blood, which sizzled upon hitting the ground.

At the same time, Blood Rose's Corrosive Shell was struck head-on by a bolt of lightning as soon as it approached, exploding on the spot.

Within the Heavenly Prison barrier constructed of lightning power, it was directly and completely purified.

After unleashing this strike, the Undead Toxin on Thunder's shoulder, which had almost disappeared, actually condensed once more and spread rapidly.

The wound on Thunder's shoulder could be seen turning pitch black, with the flesh festering.

"Old Zhao, bear with it."

*Sizzle!*

Yun Feng's voice came over, followed by a blast of incandescent flame that landed on Thunder's shoulder.

"Hiss—Ah—!"

Thunder, who was already in unbearable pain, was now being seared by Yun Feng's Sun Flame Power. The extreme agony nearly caused him to faint.

However, the effect was significant; all the festering flesh was burned away.

The toxin attached to his shoulder bone turned into black mist under the high temperature and evaporated directly...