One-eyed Lorraine let out a piercing howl. The entire Lake Heart Island shook like a slumbering giant awakening.
The amassed small hill of tens of thousands of skeleton heads rattled and tumbled, emitting creaking and grinding sounds.
Suddenly, a soccer ball-sized skull jumped up, its hollow eye sockets shooting two green lights.
Its ghastly white jaw snapping open and closed viciously as it lunged toward Yue Jinghua.
Yue Jinghua didn’t dare to slacken, the "Soft Finger" wrapped around her fingertips whistled out, and with a flash of silver light, the skull was sent flying by the sharp blade.
One after another, more skulls came biting in a string, the "Soft Finger" like a whip, weaving through the skull heads.
Quickly forming a set of fingerprints, a Summoning Array rose beneath Yue Jinghua’s feet.
The Flash Mink Leopard, like a black whirlwind, raced over the heads and bones. Its sharp claws and fangs wide open, after a few slashes, those skull heads were shattered as if made of mud.
Yue Jinghua and the Flash Mink Leopard walked side by side, connected by the Summoning Array, their minds linked as one, like two well-coordinated partners, one sending a "Soft Finger", the other delivering a claw strike.
The swarming skulls were scattered about in disarray.
"Lorraine," Yue Jinghua said, unflustered, "Lorraine, it’s not too late to stop now, otherwise, you will be consumed by the Evil Qi and degenerate into a Demon Beast."
The Dark Beast, born of the mystical essence of heaven and earth, only those with talent and through arduous cultivation could have the chance to ascend to Holy Beast.
With Lorraine’s advanced human intellect from the 23rd century, combined with the Ancient Xuan Skill gifted from the South Country Eighteen Towns, becoming a Holy Beast was just a matter of time.
Yet, for its own selfish love, it massacred living beings, clearly violating the Heaven and Earth Laws, and in doing so, it would never be able to condense a Holy Pill and achieve Holy Beast status.
Lorraine, at this moment, was on the verge of madness; Yue Jinghua’s words had no effect, instead, it seemed to have provoked it further.
"You’re actually a Summoner? Summoners are the natural enemies of Dark Beasts. Today, you must die." One-eyed Lorraine let out a furious roar, the sound indistinguishable from a beast, devoid of humanity.
In that strange eye, red blood vessels crazily invaded its pupil, and its eyeball completely disappeared, leaving only a blood-colored vortex.
Waves ten meters high surged up from Blood Lake, and humanoid skeleton frames broke through the water. It was clothed in a Devil Cloak, holding two bone-made shuriken, a humanoid Skull Soldier.
The Skull Soldier was similar in size to an average adult male, equipped with a trident in its hand, uttering odd cries as it charged toward Yue Jinghua.
The "Soft Finger" like thread and blade entangled the trident; the Skull Soldier, more intelligent than the skull heads, twined around the Soft Finger. No matter how much Yue Jinghua tugged, it refused to let go.
A silver-white figure appeared, like a meteor streaking across the night sky, calm and composed, the "Soft Finger" released.
The hand waved controlling the blade, the strike was both fierce and fast, targeting the Skull Soldier.
"Bang," when the palm struck the Skull Soldier’s body, the skeleton underneath cracked into several segments.
Before the bones could shatter, the skeleton reassembled itself once more.
In front of Yue Jinghua, those skulls—all more ferocious than evil spirits—were like moon reflections on water, dispersive and then coalescing again.
Both the Flash Mink Leopard and Yue Jinghua took turns attacking, with the same result.
"Cackling," One-eyed Lorraine let out a ghastly laugh, "Undying Skeleton Soldier, broken yet undying. The deep Evil Qi of Dan Demon Tomb, you and your Dark Beast will soon exhaust your strength. Die, die, die. All of you, die."
"Can’t kill it, but killing you will do," Yue Jinghua simply abandoned the incessant Skull Soldier, the "Soft Finger" at her fingertips taut, "Thump," with a twist, the Skull Soldier was flung several meters away.
Her figure was like a dark cloud on a thunderstorm day in June, rapidly advancing toward One-eyed Lorraine.
Her fingers brushed her long hair, tossed it behind her back, and the heavy "Lianyun" Sword was drawn, cutting through the wind fiercely, chopping toward the sole eye.
As the blade passed through One-eyed Lorraine’s eye, Yue Jinghua suddenly leaned forward, almost tumbling to the ground.
One-eyed Lorraine vanished, as if it had suddenly used Invisibility Technique.
"Not good," an alarm went off in her mind.
"Whoosh, whoosh," two ghostly Skull Soldiers appeared on Yue Jinghua’s left and right, swinging their tridents in unison.
At that moment, one of the Skull Soldiers stumbled and fell to the ground. On the ground, the Cannibal Green Rush with its fluffy big leaves shook, its stems and tendrils entangled the Skull Soldier on the right.