192: Chapter 191 Divine Soldiers Descend from the Sky

Lin Fan's heart sank; his remaining spiritual power was less than forty percent.

Xu Ziyan had completely lost his combat effectiveness and could barely stand, let alone help; it would be good enough if he didn't drag them down.

The situation was not optimistic.

Lin Fan moved his right leg, and the small light wings on his ankle fluttered slightly.

He had already prepared to face a level fifty-six king spirit rank Armor Beast with only forty percent of his spiritual power.

Just then, an ice-blue beam of light shot out from behind a stone pillar not far away, accurately hitting the joint between the Red-Armored King Insect's head and its thorax.

The Red-Armored King Insect's movements suddenly froze, and a layer of white frost formed on its mandibles.

Lin Fan snapped his head around.

"My, look at how pathetic you two look."

Ye Qing and Ye Wushuang stepped out from behind the stone pillar.

Ye Qing glanced at Lin Fan, her lips curling slightly. "Finding you two really wasn't easy."

Xu Ziyan sat slumped on the ground, and as he looked at Ye Qing and Ye Wushuang, his eyes reddened, and he almost burst into tears.

"Oh my god, Sister Qing, Wushuang, you're finally here..."

The first thing Lin Fan noticed was Ye Qing's right ear.

Her auricle was covered in a layer of fine, pale silver scales. The scales were as thin as a cicada's wing, and their edges glowed with a soft moon-white light, fitting against her ear like an exquisite piece of jewelry.

Dew-Condensed Clear Moon Fox—Mental attribute, level fifty-one, heaven spirit superior, Armorization part: right ear.

Her hearing could now capture the sounds of every living thing within this Secret Realm.

Her head was shrouded in a pale green halo shaped like the silhouette of a deer. Antlers extended outward from both sides of her forehead, phantoms condensed from emerald light.

Forest Whisper Phantom Feather Deer—Wood attribute, level forty-nine, heaven spirit superior, Armorization part: head.

Those phantom antlers were not just for show; green sparks of light flickered at the tip of every branch, and the power of life flowed within them.

Her left hand was deep purple, nearly black. Her nails had extended into inch-long dark spikes, and her palm and forearm were encased in a moss-like dark carapace.

Underworld Moss—Dark attribute, level fifty-two, king spirit inferior, Armorization part: left hand.

To his surprise, the Shadow Moss that had once been Ye Qing's lowest quality and Rank had leaped forward to become her strongest Armor Spirit.

A pair of translucent wings unfolded from her back with a wingspan of nearly three meters. The wing membranes were pale blue and covered in fine silver patterns, looking like a precise map.

Wind-Whisper Sky-Cloud Owl—Wind attribute, level forty-nine, heaven spirit intermediate, Armorization part: back.

The wings did not flap, but Ye Qing's body had already risen slightly off the ground. Her toes hovered above the silver-white grass, her entire person supported by the wind.

The Armorization of her right leg was less obvious; the entire leg was shrouded in a translucent, jelly-like substance, a visual effect caused by spatial distortion.

Abyssal Rift Jellyfish—Space attribute, level forty-nine, heaven spirit intermediate, Armorization part: right leg.

With five Armor Spirits armorized simultaneously, the aura of a level fifty-two Armor Emperor spread out under the moonlight like an invisible hand pressing down on the battlefield.

Ye Qing's overall strength was far greater than before.

The Red-Armored King Insect's mandibles snapped shut, and its six legs took a half-step back—it felt the threat.

Ye Qing didn't look at Lin Fan; her gaze remained locked onto the Red-Armored King Insect.

Her right ear twitched, and the silver scales flashed in the moonlight.

Moon-Listening Insight, a perception skill of the Dew-Condensed Clear Moon Fox, was capturing every trace of spiritual power fluctuation, every muscle contraction, and even the direction of the lava energy flow inside the Red-Armored King Insect.

Lin Fan took a step back, yielding the battlefield.

The Red-Armored King Insect also seemed to sense the reversal of hunter and prey.

It did not charge recklessly as before. Instead, it dug its five intact legs deep into the ground, pulled its scythe-like antennae back, and opened its mandibles slightly.

A mass of dark red lava condensed deep in its throat—not for an attack, but as a deterrent.

Ye Qing gave it no chance to test the waters.

The Underworld Moss on her left hand activated first—Shadow Lock.

Five deep purple chains shot out from the fingers of her left hand. Each was as thick as a wrist and covered in barbs, which were coated in a ghostly green poisonous light.

The chains were so fast that even Lin Fan's left eye could only capture five afterimages.

The Red-Armored King Insect tried to parry with its scythe antennae, but the chains bypassed them as if they were alive, accurately coiling around the bases of its five legs.

The barbs pierced into the joints of its carapace, injecting the ghostly green toxin. The Red-Armored King Insect's legs began to weaken as the muscles beneath its shell lost their strength under the toxin's erosion.

The Red-Armored King Insect let out a screech, and the lava ball in its mandibles spat toward Ye Qing.

Ye Qing didn't dodge; the wings of the Wind-Whisper Sky-Cloud Owl on her back gave a light flap—Flowing Cloud Dash.

Her figure transformed into a streak of blue-white light, circling around the right side of the lava ball.

She was so fast that before the heatwave of the lava ball could even touch the hem of her clothes, she had already appeared directly above the Red-Armored King Insect's head.

The Dew-Condensed Clear Moon Fox's Moon Seduction Heart-Charm from her right ear activated simultaneously. An invisible ripple of Mental Energy spread from her right ear, hitting the Red-Armored King Insect's head dead center.

It planted an illusion into the Red-Armored King Insect's consciousness—that the ground beneath its feet was collapsing.

The Red-Armored King Insect's five legs exerted force at the same time, trying to jump away from the "collapsing" ground.

But its legs were already bound by the Shadow Lock; this jump failed to break the chains.

Instead, it pulled itself into an extremely awkward position, belly up, exposing the weakest part of its carapace to Ye Qing.

Ye Qing did not waste this opportunity.

The Forest Whisper Phantom Feather Deer's Forest Judgment on her head activated—those emerald phantom antlers suddenly brightened.

Countless hair-thin green light beams shot out from every branch tip of the antlers.

They converged into a thick emerald pillar of light that blasted vertically down from the sky, hitting the Red-Armored King Insect's exposed belly.

The moment the light pillar touched the Red-Armored King Insect's belly, the emerald light seeped into the gaps of its carapace like water.

The life force within the Red-Armored King Insect was forcibly drained away. Its carapace turned from dark red to grayish-white, and the lava glow within its black patterns extinguished like a candle.

The Red-Armored King Insect's screeching turned from sharp to hoarse, and from hoarse to a faint whimper.

Its five legs twitched powerlessly under the restraint of the Shadow Lock, and its scythe antennae slumped onto the ground.

Ye Qing descended from the air, her toes lightly touching the ground.

She clenched the fingers of her left hand, and the Shadow Lock suddenly tightened, pulling the Red-Armored King Insect's legs in five different directions.

Then, she gave her left hand a violent flick.

The Red-Armored King Insect's body suddenly stiffened as the five chains instantly pulled in different directions.

With a wet "splat!", it was instantly torn apart by the five chains.

The battlefield fell silent.