133: Chapter 133 Fangs in the Shadows
Facing Night Crow's question, filled with shock and disbelief, Lin Qingzhi only slowly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, then curled her lips into a cold, mocking... smile.
A helper?
Did she, the dignified Ice Phoenix Empress, need a... helper to deal with a 'cripple' like him, who was already severely wounded?
She didn't answer; instead, she gave her most domineering... answer through her actions!
"Whoosh!"
Her figure moved once again!
This time, she didn't choose to clash head-on with Night Crow.
Her petite body was like an elegant yet deadly snowflake dancing in the night wind, circling the completely passive Night Crow as she launched a textbook... hit-and-run battle!
How rich was her combat experience?
It was an... art of slaughter, honed over a thousand years amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
She knew perfectly well that her current advantage lay in movement and technique, while her weaknesses were power and... endurance.
Therefore, every move she made was refined to the extreme!
She didn't engage in any direct collisions with Night Crow's violent Demonic Power. Instead, like a top-tier assassin, she attacked from extremely tricky angles every time, targeting the... wounds and flaws on his body that I had already locked onto with Heat Perception during the previous fight!
That Dantian Qi Sea torn apart by the Ice Phoenix Divine Thorn!
That soul node pierced by the Soul Devouring Nail!
And those... meridians and joints that had become incredibly fragile due to the rampage of Demonic Power!
"Puchi!"
"Chila!"
Cold sword Qi continuously condensed and shot out from her fingertips!
Leaving new... wounds on Night Crow's already scarred body!
"Aaaaah! Damned woman! If you have the guts, fight this seat head-on!"
Night Crow was being driven mad!
He felt like a clumsy bear trapped in a cage with nothing but brute strength, being constantly toyed with and provoked by a cat with incredibly agile movement!
He wanted to counterattack, but Lin Qingzhi's figure was like a ghost; he couldn't even touch the corner of her clothes!
He wanted to defend, but Lin Qingzhi's attacks were extremely tricky, accurately hitting his most painful and vulnerable spots every single time!
His already meager Demonic Power was being... consumed at an extremely fast rate!
And the lethal poison inside him was also continuously eroding his sanity and... life force!
"Go to... hell for this seat!"
Finally, after being tortured to the point of near-collapse, Night Crow completely erupted!
He no longer cared about suppressing his injuries and frantically mobilized all the remaining Demonic Power in his body, preparing to unleash an indiscriminate... area-of-effect attack that was enough to completely destroy the entire secret chamber!
He wanted to bury this damned woman along with me, the 'Little Bug' hidden in the shadows, right here!
However, at that fatal moment just as he was about to condense his Demonic Power and launch this mutual destruction attack—
I moved.
I, the... shadow he had always ignored and who he considered to be just an insignificant 'harasser', moved.
I activated the silent flight of Overclocked Wing Vibration, my figure turning into a true... dark shadow that could not be locked onto by any divine sense!
I appeared by his ear in an instant!
Then, I vibrated my wings frantically at a terrifying frequency that exceeded his reaction limits!
"Buzz—!!!"
An invisible, sharp... mental noise capable of tearing the soul, like the sharpest surgical knife, stabbed fiercely into his already chaotic... sea of consciousness!
"Ugh, ah!"
Night Crow's body suddenly stiffened!
He felt as if his brain was being pierced by ten thousand red-hot steel needles at the same time!
That intense, soul-derived stinging pain caused a fatal... stagnation in his terrifying demonic technique that was about to take shape!
And what kind of person was Lin Qingzhi?
She had been waiting for this exact moment!
"Ice Chains!"
Her cold voice suddenly rang out like a death sentence!
Several crystal Ice Chains composed of the purest Ice Phoenix True Essence, shimmering with a grim cold light like living venomous snakes, instantly shot out from the void, tightly binding and freezing Night Crow's... right arm, which had revealed a flaw due to the stagnation of his Demonic Power!
"Crack!"
His entire right arm was completely covered in a thick layer of incredibly hard Profound Ice in an instant!
And our cooperation was far from over!
The second after his arm was frozen, I, this deadly 'shadow', appeared again!
I aimed my mouthparts, which had evolved to be comparable to an alloy drill, at his frozen... wrist joint, which had temporarily lost all sensation and defense!
And I stabbed down hard!
"Crack!"
A... crisp sound, sharper and louder than any previous bone fracture, exploded in the deathly silent secret chamber!
Under our seamless cooperation, Night Crow's right arm, covered in Profound Ice, was actually... struck by me using pure physical strength, creating a hideous... bone fracture deep enough to see the bone!
"AAAAAH—!!!"
Agony!
A bone-deep agony, enough to make any iron-blooded tough guy faint on the spot, instantly spread throughout his body!
Night Crow let out the most shrill and painful... roar of his life!
For the first time in this hunting feast hosted by the two of us, master and servant, he tasted the... flavor of total defeat!
Looking at his face, which was completely distorted by pain and shock, I exchanged a glance with that figure in snow-white clothes.
Both our eyes were filled with a kind of... cold smile called 'perfect chemistry'.
However, just as we thought victory was within our grasp, an anomaly... suddenly occurred again!
Night Crow, driven into a corner, had a flash of madness and gambler-like desperation in his eyes!
He actually took out a blood-red... pill from his bosom that emitted an endless aura of ill-omen and tyranny, and swallowed it in one gulp without hesitation!
"Boom!"
A terrifying aura, more violent and chaotic than any before, suddenly erupted from his body!
His right arm, which had been fractured by me, was actually... recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye!
His eyes, which had been somewhat unfocused due to the pain, completely turned into a... blood-red color filled with madness and the desire for destruction at this moment!
He grinned hideously and charged toward Lin Qingzhi regardless of the cost!
"Since you're looking for death, this seat will grant it to you!"
"Domain Expansion—Eternal Night Funeral!"