Volume 8, Chapter 564 – One Against Seven (Part 4)

“Although… but… sister… during the transformation period, you cannot use your Divine Sense, otherwise your soul will suffer severe damage.”

Mimi weakly reminded.

“Although but? How about ‘because therefore’? Why didn’t you say so earlier?”

Qi Huang nearly spat out blood in frustration. If she couldn’t use her Divine Sense, it meant she could only stand there and take the beating, and she couldn’t even reinforce her existing Divine Sense shield.

“Uh… Mimi forgot for a moment.”

Mimi said plaintively.

“Forget it. Hurry up. I hope my Divine Sense shield at the eighth layer of the Divine Realm can hold on for a quarter of an hour.”

Qi Huang felt somewhat helpless, thinking to herself that this was supposed to be giving her a cheat, so why did it come with such a strong negative status effect? It’s really life-threatening!

“Why did the doppelgänger of the Huarong Sect’s Holy Maiden put on another dress in the middle of fighting?”

“Who knows? Probably felt cold!”

“Nonsense! With such intense fighting, she should be sweating buckets, how could she feel cold?”

“Then she must be trying to use seduction. She’s making herself look beautiful so those two male monsters can’t bear to strike her seriously.”

“That’s possible. You have to admit, although she doesn’t show her face, just that curvaceous figure of hers is enough to make men fantasize.”

The cultivators one after another speculated about Qi Huang’s intentions.

“Haha, thinking about wearing pretty clothes at a time like this, planning to seduce me? Too bad, the cultivation world has no shortage of women!”

Zheng Wei mocked while attacking with his long spear. His face was deathly pale from excessive blood loss, looking exactly like a zombie.

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“Unusual activity always signifies a scheme. Why did she put on another dress while fighting? Could this dress have something special about it? Is it also made from the fur of a Nine Nether Demon Cat?”

Cao Yang frowned deeply.

“I don’t know. This shield is too strong; I can’t use my Divine Sense to probe it.”

Hua Yu explained, her face ashen. She had expended too much energy to cast “Bloody Hell” and was already at the end of her rope.

“Also… even if she can’t counterattack, she shouldn’t just stand there and take the hits, right? Why isn’t she dodging?”

Cao Yang raised another question.

“Husband, I feel things aren’t that simple. Could she be brewing some powerful move?”

Hua Yu said worriedly.

“As the saying goes, long nights invite bad dreams. Attack with full force quickly!”

Cao Yang reminded them, the attacks from his hands becoming even more fierce. His treasured sword radiated light several zhang long, each slash stirring up terrifying shockwaves. The other two did the same.

While undergoing the transformation, Qi Huang carefully observed her Divine Sense shield. If danger arose, she would have no choice but to use the Ghost Hair. This was the only offensive method she could still use besides Divine Sense, and it was her trump card.

“Heavens, how strong is her Divine Sense shield? It’s actually remaining motionless under the combined attacks of those three.”

“Earlier, just using her Divine Sense, she was able to suppress Cao Yang, who’s at the mid stage Divine Realm, making him unable to lift his head. She must definitely have reached the late Divine Realm, the seventh, eighth, or even ninth layer!”

“If that’s the case, then wouldn’t they be at a stalemate? Those outside can’t break in, and the one inside can’t counterattack.”

“Yes, now it’s just a battle of attrition, to see who exhausts their strength first.”

The cultivators watched with nervous tension, afraid to miss a single detail.

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“Disciple, are we just going to stand by and watch your doppelgänger being besieged?”

Shi Yuqi asked anxiously.

“Yes, should I send a few disciples up to help?”

Protector Yuan suggested.

Hearing this, Hua Meng subconsciously took a few steps back; she didn’t want to help a competitor.

“No need.”

Cheng Hongling refused tersely, because her doppelgänger had never let her down before.

“It’s no good, husband! Although she only has Divine Sense for protection, its layer is far higher than ours. We simply can’t break through.”

After attacking for a while longer, Hua Yu said, listless and weak.

“Brother Cao, I think this Divine Sense shield must be at least at the eighth layer of the Divine Realm or above. Otherwise, it couldn’t be so indestructible.”

Zheng Wei also panted heavily, making a conjecture.

“Don’t say eighth layer Divine Realm, even if it were Heavenly Tribulation Realm, we can only forcefully attack now.”

Cao Yang bit his finger, then wrote several talismanic characters on his treasured sword with blood. He then threw it into the air.

The sword grew against the wind, instantly reaching five or six zhang in length, like a giant pillar holding up the sky. The bright red talismanic characters on the sword body also enlarged proportionally.

“Art of Driving the Sun!”

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Cao Yang roared, once again madly channeling the True Qi from his body into the sword. The several blood talismanic characters on it became increasingly blindingly red. The sunlight reflected by the sword body was intensified countless times, forming a terrifying red beam of light that shone directly onto Qi Huang’s Divine Sense shield.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle…

Under the baking of that terrifying beam of light, Qi Huang’s Divine Sense shield finally emitted a faint, crisp sound.

“Husband, it’s working!”

Hua Yu was overjoyed and mustered the last bit of her True Qi to coordinate the attack. Zheng Wei did the same.

Qi Huang patiently waited for the soul transformation to complete. She had figured it out: if the Divine Sense shield broke, it broke. At worst, it just meant revealing another trump card. She was dead set on snatching the title of “Nine Monsters” from these few individuals today.

Hearing this, Cao Yang was secretly pleased and continued to pour True Qi into his sword. The reflected light gradually lost its red hue, beginning to shift towards yellow, a sign that the temperature was increasing yet again.

Crack! Crack!

The cracking sounds from Qi Huang’s Divine Sense shield had become clearly audible.

“This Cao Yang truly lives up to being the number one little monster. With only a cultivation at the sixth layer of the Divine Realm, he can actually shake my Divine Sense at the eighth layer.”

Qi Huang was somewhat surprised, thinking to herself that these monsters were indeed not easy to deal with. If she hadn’t stumbled into this power-up by accident, she would probably only be able to look up to these people for the rest of her life.

As time passed, a few cracks, fine as spider silk, began to appear on Qi Huang’s Divine Sense shield!

“See that? The Divine Sense shield is about to break.”

“It’s still far off. Just a few barely detectable cracks. Who knows how much longer Cao Yang can hold on.”

“Yes, look at him, drenched in sweat, body trembling. He’s clearly reached his limit too.”

The watching cultivators pointed and discussed.

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This was indeed the case. Cao Yang was exerting all his strength to perform the Art of Driving the Sun, and his internal True Qi was depleting rapidly. He was now on the verge of exhaustion.

‘If I still cannot break this Divine Sense shield before my True Qi is completely exhausted, then I will become fish on the chopping block, completely at someone’s mercy!’

Cao Yang quickly realized this, and a sudden fear arose in his heart. After all, since childhood, he had never tasted the bitterness of defeat.

‘If I lose to some young brat like this, wouldn’t I, the number one genius of the cultivation world, become a laughingstock?’

The more Cao Yang thought about it, the more afraid he became. He could no longer care about face. He shouted to the surroundings: “You few who haven’t made a move yet, don’t you see how extraordinarily talented this junior is? Don’t you want to ‘instruct’ her? If she achieves great things in the future, you will all share some of the credit.”

“Brother Cao speaks wisely! It would be such a pity if we couldn’t personally ‘instruct’ such excellent material!”

Xiao Dian from the Jingtian Sect responded. Before his words faded, he had already appeared on the field.

“Is Xiao Dian also going to join the gang-up? Four against one, even if they win, it won’t be glorious!”

“What do you know? Losing face is better than losing outright.”

“So what if those three lose? What does it have to do with Xiao Dian?”

“Are you stupid? They are all descendants of Immortals. If one of them is defeated by the Huarong Sect’s Holy Maiden, the value of their Immortal bloodline will greatly depreciate. So now they are a community of shared interests.”

“So that’s how it is! No wonder! Before, these little monsters were all scheming against each other. Why are they suddenly so united today!”

The watching cultivators one after another showed expressions of understanding.

“Brother Cao, hold on! Watch me break her Divine Sense shield with one strike.”

Xiao Dian looked at Qi Huang in the field, a confident expression on his face.