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Long before the duel began, Yino had suspected someone had stationed experts in the Liu mansion's backyard.
After several exchanges with Lin Ze, though, Yino ultimately decided to strike.
The reason was simple, Lin Ze was utterly pathetic.
Countless times Yino had wanted to hold back, but Lin Ze's strength fell far below expectations. He had virtually no defense against Yino's evil curses. Even the many elders present showed perception skills nowhere near Yino's expectations.
The victim, the observers, none had any guard up against Yino...
Gradually, with the evil curse formation complete, this became Yino's perfect opportunity!
So in that final moment, Yino gripped the dragon pendent at his waist and steeled his resolve to punch straight through Lin Ze's chest.
The crimson spiritual markings on Yino's arm blazed with blood-red light simultaneously.
Two months after returning from death's door, Jinyue made her entrance in brand new form. Illusion techniques from the abyss covered the entire dueling ground instantly.
This time, with Yino's abyssal refining abilities as backup, Jinyue no longer had to worry about the Abyssal Eye's physical burden.
Unleashing her illusion techniques without restraint, Jinyue finally showed hints of the game's Pleasure Witch's true style.
This demonstrated Jinyue's real power.
Yino had suspected this countless times, how could the Pleasure Witch from the game, whose cultivation was like a bottomless pit that toyed with the world, possibly remain stuck at Foundation Establishment after rebirth?
Now, after that trip to the demon abyss, Jinyue's cultivation had shot straight to Core Formation. Just her eye's potential alone could easily push beyond Nascent Soul stage!
"Yino, hurry up! Elders outside have seen through the illusion!"
At the abyssal illusion's storm center, the red fox girl covered her right eye while blood gradually seeped from her left eye's abyssal patterns.
About five seconds earlier, Yino had pierced Lin Ze's chest. At that exact moment, Jinyue had activated her illusion technique.
Now, five seconds later, Jinyue's left eye had become bloodshot and nearly painful enough to make her faint.
Illusion techniques worked .
The lower the target's cultivation, the less energy the illusion consumed. But the more flawless you wanted it to appear, the more energy cost exploded exponentially.
With all these cross-realm elders present at the Liu mansion, even burning through her life force with the Abyssal Eye, Jinyue could only maintain this for five seconds. That's why she only kept the scene frozen, Yino and Lin Ze motionless. Just blocking the original view exhausted her enough, let alone creating an entirely new scene.
"This time's more than enough. Go back and let Lily and Wangxue tend to you."
"Once this finishes, I'll personally give you a blood transfusion!"
Yino seized the moment, yanking his palm from Lin Ze's chest while reactivating the crimson peach blossom spiritual markings on his other arm.
As Jinyue's form dissolved into peach blossoms and vanished from his side, Yino felt two streams of life force flowing into his body.
From his right arm came Jinyue's life force, freshly tainted by the Abyssal Eye.
In the game, this corruption would surge Jinyue's power while bringing shortened lifespan and madness. But now with Yino here, he could help her refine the abyssal power to achieve relative balance.
The other special life force comprised Azure Dragon true blood Yino had just extracted from Lin Ze.
Once again exceeding Yino's expectations, in just those five seconds, using the evil curse's advance infiltration and preparation, this single strike had nearly drained all the true dragon bloodline from Lin Ze's body.
The bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish!
Yino's instincts proved right, Lin Ze at this point was indeed far weaker than in the game. Miss today, and once Lin Ze's cultivation broke through to Nascent Soul, Yino would never have such a perfect chance to strangle this threat in its cradle!
Just as Yino savored the fresh dragon blood coursing through his body, his lips curving in satisfaction.
The illusion shattered. An aged mournful cry from above and to the side reached Yino's ears first.
The speaker possessed extremely high cultivation. The instant Yino heard that voice, he felt terrifying pressure from Emptiness Refining realm bearing down from behind.
Yino didn't need to turn around to identify the speaker.
Elder Ming, the Lin family death-sworn warrior whom the family had planted beside Lin Ze for secret protection in the game's early-to-mid stages.
This represented common configuration for immortal sect family disciples in novels.
Back when Ruoning came to Azure Forest, Yino had figured she had shadow guards following her. But perhaps due to Azure Forest's cultivation restrictions, Yino had never actually seen any elders stationed around Ruoning from start to finish.
Just because he hadn't seen them didn't mean they weren't there.
At least in the game's Liuli Sect arc, Ruoning had her own Emptiness Refining stage elder guards.
Now, this Elder Ming represented just one of many.
"You bastard! What did you do to the young master!"
Elder Ming's first move upon appearing wasn't attacking Yino but rushing at top speed to support the chest-pierced Lin Ze.
However, after confirming Lin Ze wasn't in mortal danger, the elder finally raised his head, eyes blazing with killing intent as he glared at that white-robed boy floating in mid-air, blood still dripping from his arm.
"This old man will save the young master! Elder Ming, go capture that boy! Remember, we need him alive!"
As Jinyue's illusion shattered, Lin Guo rushed to the battlefield.
He took the wounded, unconscious Lin Ze from Ming's arms while following the elder's gaze to glare at Yino with reddened, vicious eyes.
Those five seconds of illusion screening, forget the Lin family elders, even the many Liu mansion elders present had no idea what Yino had actually done to Lin Ze within that illusion.
In this moment, the Lin family elders gave their grief-stricken orders.
The Liu mansion elders, who originally wouldn't permit bullying the weak with numbers, all fell silent. Though the victim wasn't a Liu mansion disciple, such a bloody, brutal scene still far exceeded the world's perception of what a child could accomplish. Updates are released by novel·fıre·net
No one looked at Yino with sympathy anymore.
Liu Ruoxin and Li Shauna, who used to look down on Yino the most, now both wore expressions of terror, as if seeing some terrorist who had completely shattered social order.
"Exhilarating! Exhilarating!"
"Come on! With such fine sport, challenging an Emptiness Refining stage like Elder Ming wouldn't be out of the question!"