Chapter 30 Taking a Risk

Yun Bai stabilized his stance. Seizing the moment when the miniature Black-robed Demon had spent its strength after its attack and had not yet fully retracted its arm, he lunged forward. His hands, like a pair of iron pincers, tightly gripped the miniature Black-robed Demon's right arm. Then, with a twist of his body, he executed a beautiful shoulder throw.

The Black-robed Demon was slammed hard onto the "ground" of the Sea of Consciousness, stirring up a wave of invisible ripples. However, the Black-robed Demon did not stop there. It rolled on the ground, quickly stood up, and a flash of anger flickered in its eyes.

Taking a deep breath, it adjusted its breathing and rushed at Yun Bai once more. This time, it changed its tactics, employing a continuous attack method with its left and right fists rapidly alternating, raining down blows upon Yun Bai like a violent storm.

Yun Bai retreated while continuously blocking with his arms, each block accompanied by a dull thudding sound.

Every strike that hit his Divine Soul produced an overwhelming, agonizing pain.

Spotting a gap in Yun Bai's attacks, the Black-robed Demon suddenly sidestepped, dodging a straight punch. Its right fist then slipped under Yun Bai's arm, striking him heavily in the ribs from an awkward angle.

Yun Bai grimaced in pain as his body tilted, but enduring the agony, he quickly clenched his left fist and counterattacked toward the Demon's temple. The Demon leaned its head back, narrowly evading the blow.

Reasonably, Yun Bai should have seized the opportunity to close in and give his opponent no room to breathe. However, having just taken a solid punch to his left ribs, he was in too much pain to mount another attack.

"Hmph, kid, you're quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat. A pity, though," the Black-robed Demon sneered sinisterly.

Yun Bai suddenly felt his Divine Sense slipping out of control. Looking down, he saw that his left ribs were continuously turning illusionary, eventually vanishing into nothingness bit by bit!

"The Demon Race has no Divine Sense. He is using some method similar to a Heart Demon invading the body to forcibly possess me," Yun Bai thought, sensing danger. "He came prepared; he has a counter-effect on my Divine Sense!"

"Jie jie jie." The Black-robed Demon disdained to say more to someone he considered a dead man.

Yun Bai's entire Divine Sense body began to grow illusionary, bit by bit.

But he could not give up.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, it was not just a competition of Divine Sense strength, but a battle of wills. The moment he lost heart would be the moment of his death!

The Black-robed Demon closed in once again.

"Get the hell away from me!" To the Black-robed Demon, Yun Bai's shout already sounded exhausted and desperate.

Thus, the two tangled together once more.

The Black-robed Demon's offensive was continuous, like an unstoppable combat machine, every strike a killing Move.

"Aaaaah, what a formidable kid." Unknowingly, they had clashed for over a dozen exchanges, and Yun Bai was still resisting tenaciously.

The more the Black-robed Demon fought Yun Bai, the more alarmed he became.

Yun Bai was clearly just an eighteen-year-old greenhorn.

Given the Demon Race's lifespan of hundreds of years, Yun Bai was no different from a mere child.

Yet, he was unable to defeat this very kid even after all this time.

Combat within the Sea of Consciousness was not just a clash of cultivation bases, but a clash of wills.

Ordinary Cultivators would completely break down after just a few exchanges.

Because the pain inflicted upon the Divine Soul was the most intrinsic pain of life; one could not pass out from it, forced to experience every single ounce of agony with absolute precision.

Such endless agony was enough to crush the will of the vast majority of people!

Only the Demon Race could completely block out this kind of pain. This was one of the major pillars of the Demon Race's strength!

The tenacity of this Human Race kid astonished him.

What a pity that in the face of absolute cultivation suppression, all of this was merely the struggle of a cornered beast.

For his demon soul, which had used a divine corpse to Breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Second Realm, taking down a Human Race kid whose Divine Sense cultivation had only just entered the Early Stage of the Second Realm was merely a matter of time.

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"Xiao Liu! Are you ready yet?"

Yun Bai was also getting anxious.

If Xiao Liu didn't join the act soon, Yun Bai wouldn't be able to keep it up.

The Black-robed Demon keenly sensed that Yun Bai's resistance was growing weaker and weaker. A smug smile crept onto his lips, and a greedy light flickered in his eyes.

In his eyes, victory was within arm's reach; this tenacious Human Race kid was finally going to be completely defeated. Thus, the Moves he executed grew increasingly fierce, as vicious as a venomous serpent leaving its cave. Every strike carried destructive power, seeking to completely disperse Yun Bai's Divine Sense.

It was finally about to end! The Black-robed Demon breathed a slight sigh of relief.

At the critical juncture.

[Beep! Repair progress 47%]

Xiao Liu's voice finally rang out, sounding like heavenly music.

Although Xiao Liu's repair progress had not yet reached 50%, he could already temporarily borrow Yun Bai's body.

[Requesting permission for the Sea of Consciousness White Hole singularity...]

"Approved!" Yun Bai did not hesitate.

The entire space of Yun Bai's Sea of Consciousness suddenly began to boil.

"What is going on?" The Black-robed Demon was shocked by the strange phenomenon, feeling the entire "world" changing.

The world suddenly turned into a silvery-white quantum ocean, with countless glowing data chains cascading down like the Milky Way.

"What is this?!" The Black-robed Demon watched in shock as the waves of Divine Sense flowed beneath its feet, the bands of light that formed them wrapping around its soul body.

A figure coalesced within the flow of Divine Sense, this quantum consciousness body incredibly solid: "You've come."

The Demon grinned savagely, releasing Devilish Qi. The pressure of the Late Stage of the Second Realm whipped the data sea into a frenzy: "A cornered beast's struggle, nothing but cheap tricks!"

He didn't believe Yun Bai had any tricks left up his sleeve. If he did, he would have used them long ago!

Before his words could even fade, he suddenly discovered that his Devilish Qi was being analyzed by the data chains. Those glowing codes, like hungry piranhas, frantically devoured his soul body.

"Impossible!" The Demon shrieked, retreating. "What kind of sorcery is this?"

In truth, Yun Bai was suffering in silence. Xiao Liu's repair progress was only at 47%; he had to buy time.

Those seemingly fierce data chains were merely a defensive illusion simulated by Xiao Liu in the Sea of Consciousness; the actual damage was negligible.

"Hmph!" The Black-robed Demon decided to split off another portion of his Soul Power to invade Yun Bai's Sea of Consciousness.

"His power suddenly intensified!" Yun Bai gritted his teeth and held on. Although Xiao Liu had taken over his body, the essence of the Divine Sense he could utilize was still Yun Bai's own weakened Divine Sense.

This so-called "quantum Sea of Consciousness" was merely a paper tiger to buy time.

[Transferring energy...]

Yun Bai retreated step by step within his Sea of Consciousness. The originally silvery-white data ocean had already been mostly blackened by the Black-robed Demon's Devilish Qi. The Demon transformed his Devilish Qi into a nine-headed giant python, clawing and biting at the quantum barrier. Every attack caused Yun Bai's Sea of Consciousness to tremble violently.

"Jie jie jie! As expected, you were just putting on a show. An arrow at the end of its flight!" The Demon's arrogant laughter rang out.

[Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep!]

Xiao Liu's warning alarms sounded like rapid drumbeats, hammering against Yun Bai's nerves.

[Repair progress 50%. Warning! Activating the White Hole singularity!]

"Approved!!" Yun Bai roared in the depths of his consciousness.

The tables have turned! Finally, it is coming!

Like seeing the moon after the clouds disperse, like sweet rain after a long drought, like parting the clouds to see the sun, like a withered tree blooming in spring!

[Rewriting core protocols...]