Chapter 240: I'm Cutting Your Internet Cable!

“How could this be called fear? I’m just waiting for the right moment to strike, it’s not like I was too scared to come out!”

“And what about you?” Hong Lingyan placed her hands on her hips, putting on a tough front as she spoke.

But Bai Qiuyin shot her a glare and said, “Oh, is that so? I’ll take what Frost Ripple told me at face value. Once this incident is over, I’ll come find you.”

Hong Lingyan’s body stiffened almost imperceptibly for a moment, but she quickly reverted to that tough facade and scoffed, “Come then, who’s afraid of who!”

Yet from her words and movements, there was an undeniable air of guilt and bluster.

Bai Qiuyin had no intention of calling Hong Lingyan out right now, since things were still urgent. That sort of matter could be settled after the event was over. The priority was dealing with the Demon Grand Duke and Zoa Sagg first.

She glanced toward Zoa Sagg’s direction, only to see that it had merely looked at the suddenly appearing Hong Lingyan before losing interest and turning its gaze back to Bai Qiuyin, then accelerating its charge.

Bai Qiuyin blinked away again, luring Zoa Sagg far off, then said to Hong Lingyan as she caught up, “You were present the whole time before, so I won’t bother explaining much to you.”

Hong Lingyan was left speechless. She had thought her concealment methods were quite sophisticated, but even that formidable Demon Grand Duke hadn’t noticed her, yet Bai Qiuyin had.

“So how did you know I was there all along?”

“Intuition.”

Bai Qiuyin explained simply, leaving Hong Lingyan stunned.

“Do you think the two of us can take down that monster?”

Hong Lingyan looked at that beastly creature, shook her head, and said, “After all, it’s not a true lifeform, just an aggregate of will. Even what’s here is merely a possession body, not the main body…”

“Of course I’m not talking about taking down its main body, are you stupid? I’m just saying we deal with the possession body, not the main one.”

Bai Qiuyin looked at Hong Lingyan like she was an idiot, seemingly shocked that the usually clever Hong Lingyan had also failed to grasp her words.

“…”

Hong Lingyan took a deep breath, as if silenced by Bai Qiuyin’s words.

If it weren’t for that “intuition” comment dragging most of her focus onto that sentence, she wouldn’t have made such a low-level mistake.

But since it was Bai Qiuyin after all, Hong Lingyan still trusted her somewhat. Not in terms of strength—in that regard, the two were about equal, on the same level. What caused her worry was…

Hong Lingyan quickly cut off that train of thought, refusing to think about things unsuitable for this occasion.

She pondered for a moment, glanced at Bai Qiuyin who was off luring Zoa Sagg again, and said, “If we’re only dealing with the possession body, that makes things much simpler. Either we destroy the possessed flesh, or we sever the link between the possession body and its main body.”

“Which one’s easier?”

Bai Qiuyin asked in a brief moment of respite.

“The latter, naturally. The other party is a ‘deity’ after all. Even the possessed flesh carries a measure of immortality, so dealing with it is troublesome. But striking at the link is far simpler.”

Hong Lingyan watched the chase scene between Bai Qiuyin and Zoa Sagg, and oddly felt it looked like walking a dog.

Hmm, Bai Qiuyin was the bone being thrown, and Zoa Sagg was the dog.

Then what was she? The master throwing the bone?

Hong Lingyan’s thoughts raced, and then she saw Bai Qiuyin return again, asking, “Do you have a specific method of execution?”

“Of course I do.” Hong Lingyan pointed at some kind of passage and said to Bai Qiuyin, “And you don’t need to worry about that. All you have to do is keep Zoa Sagg pinned down. Such a link definitely has some kind of passage, so we need to do our best to hold it back. Leave the rest to me!”

Hearing this, Bai Qiuyin didn’t argue. After all, when it came to souls and consciousness, she only needed to serve as the tool. Hong Lingyan’s research went far deeper than hers. Since she said to leave it to her, that meant even if she explained it, Bai Qiuyin probably wouldn’t understand anyway.

With that thought, Bai Qiuyin, faced with Zoa Sagg’s attack this time, did not dodge again but instead charged head-on.

Seeing that its prey hadn’t fled this time, Zoa Sagg opened its bloody maw even wider and picked up speed.

Bai Qiuyin lightly ran her finger along the blade’s edge, and with a hum, lightning leaped forth, empowering her longsword.

That thunder seemed like divine punishment, stretching across endless void, causing the chaotic fluctuations around to accelerate or slow, as if the entire void trembled beneath it!

Bai Qiuyin took a deep breath, a sharp gleam flashing in her eyes, and in the next instant, the countless thunderbolts were gathered into the sword’s edge, finally condensing into a single violet-gold sword light.

As if instinctively sensing the threat, Zoa Sagg couldn’t help but slow down, seeming to intend to retreat.

But the craving for food and the prey being so close, the instinct to devour it drove it to accelerate again, wanting to swallow Bai Qiuyin before she could complete her attack!

But Bai Qiuyin wasn’t about to give it that chance!

She shifted her wrist slightly, and such immense energy concentrated on her longsword, causing the blade itself to seem to let out a faint whimper.

Yet Bai Qiuyin paid it no mind. The next moment, the longsword fell, and a seemingly ordinary sword light was unleashed.

That sword light was violet-gold, appearing to be just a normal slash.

But the surrounding void twisted subtly beneath it, and in an instant, the abundant void energy was converted into lightning, absorbed into the sword light.

Thus, the violet-gold grew ever more dazzling, yet the sword light became more and more subdued in its edge.

Then, the sword light struck Zoa Sagg’s body.

This process seemed lengthy, but it was only an instant before the sword light had already slashed into Zoa Sagg.

In that moment, countless Nine Heavens Profound Thunder with terrifying auras shredded, scorched, and annihilated Zoa Sagg’s body!

In the end, nothing remained in that spot, as if Zoa Sagg had been completely eradicated by Bai Qiuyin.

But was it truly eradicated?

Bai Qiuyin herself knew it wasn’t. Even to this extent, with everything composing its body annihilated, it would reform again before long.

She glanced at the longsword slowly shattering in her hand, took out another from her spatial artifact, then looked at Hong Lingyan, wanting to know how her part was going.

And then…

She saw Hong Lingyan holding a bucket of popcorn, munching away with great enjoyment, as if she was quite satisfied with the performance just now.

Bai Qiuyin: “……???”