Chapter 241: Fusion…?

“Why are you just watching? And why are you holding a bucket of popcorn?! You think this is a show?!”

Bai Qiuyin suddenly felt the urge to punch this unreliable guy, but she suppressed the impulse and glared at Hong Lingyan.

“What are you doing? Hurry up and cut Zoa Sagg’s connection.”

Hearing this, Hong Lingyan blinked, grabbed a few pieces of caramel popcorn, and stuffed them into her mouth.

“But I already finished it just now. Didn’t you notice Zoa Sagg hasn’t resurrected?”

“Finished?”

Bai Qiuyin raised an eyebrow and glanced at Hong Lingyan but didn’t doubt her. The other woman might be unreliable sometimes, but she was still very dependable.

So Bai Qiuyin looked at the spot where she had just destroyed Zoa Sagg and confirmed that, just as Hong Lingyan had said, there was still no sign of Zoa Sagg regenerating there. Only the Void continued to shift silently.

“In that case, let’s go help the others and take care of the Demon Grand Duke.”

Bai Qiuyin pulled Hong Lingyan along and flew toward where the group was battling the Demon Grand Duke.

“Uh, does this mean I have to show myself in front of others?”

Hong Lingyan was startled and said with some reluctance.

But even as she said that, she didn’t break free from Bai Qiuyin’s grip. She just looked a bit displeased.

“Otherwise what? You want to keep hiding?”

Bai Qiuyin saw through Hong Lingyan’s thoughts. She was probably worried about others asking when she had arrived, afraid of being found out that she’d been hiding all along.

“Dream on. You’re coming with me to deal with the Demon Grand Duke. Just tell everyone I called you over to help.”

Bai Qiuyin said irritably.

“As for anyone asking, just say—”

“Ugh, fine, fine. I shouldn’t have come to help you in the first place.”

Hong Lingyan let out a light sigh and followed Bai Qiuyin to the battlefield where everyone was fighting.

The battle was still ongoing, but what was different now was that the Demon Grand Duke looked somewhat hysterical. Not only had his body swollen by a size, but even his strength had suddenly become much greater.

Everyone could barely hold their ground against such a Demon Grand Duke, but defeat was only a matter of time.

What happened?

Just as the two of them raised this question, Li Xueman appeared beside them and explained,

“Those thunderbolts earlier were Bai Qiuyin’s doing, right? Did you guys take care of the Evil God?”

“Yeah.”

Hong Lingyan had just nodded when she felt something was off. Why wasn’t Li Xueman curious about why she was here?

But the thought had barely surfaced before she crushed it. Now wasn’t the time to worry about that.

“Looks like it’s related to that.”

Li Xueman muttered and then explained,

“Just now, it seems Weisasi had his body invaded by some kind of existence, which caused him to suddenly become like this.”

“But he seems to have some resistance against that existence, so his consciousness is still intact—just somewhat deranged.”

“Some kind of existence? Then it must be Zoa Sagg.”

Bai Qiuyin gave an “mm” and said,

“We just cut that thing’s connection with its possession body, and now it’s latched onto the Demon Grand Duke. What a pain. Can we still use the previous method to eliminate it?”

With that, she looked at Hong Lingyan, who was deep in thought, and asked.

“That’s difficult.”

Hong Lingyan shook her head and said gravely,

“If it were just Zoa Sagg alone, it only has instinct and can’t resist. But Weisasi is different—he’s capable of controlling Zoa Sagg’s power, so cutting the connection is hard.”

With that, Hong Lingyan gave Weisasi another strange look and said,

“Though his state seems different from a normal possession.”

“Maybe even he himself never expected Zoa Sagg to forcibly possess his body. This connection might be the result of some condition that came along with it.”

“Some condition?”

Bai Qiuyin was taken aback and asked in confusion,

“What kind of condition?”

“How would I know?”

Hong Lingyan shot her a glare and said,

“I’m not omniscient. How could I possibly know? It could be Zoa Sagg’s trump card, or maybe part of his consciousness like a clone got corrupted. Anything’s possible.”

“Ah!!”

As they talked, the teammates clearly couldn’t hold on any longer. Someone had already been severely injured.

Hearing the scream, Bai Qiuyin stopped worrying about all that and pulled the two of them along as she flew over to support.

On the other side, Ling Xiaoyou stared blankly at the sudden change in circumstances, her little head somewhat short-circuiting, unable to understand what had happened.

At this moment, the stars in this space had all returned to brightness. That meant the Demon Grand Duke had been eliminated by them.

That’s how it should have been.

Ling Xiaoyou stared blankly at the vanished body of the Imperial Capital Guild President, then shifted her gaze forward.

But was the one before her now really the Demon Grand Duke Weisasi?

There, where the Demon Grand Duke had been, he still was.

It was a burly figure, his robust muscles almost a carbon copy of the Imperial Capital Guild President’s. But above the shoulders, it wasn’t the Guild President’s middle-aged face—it was the handsome appearance of a young man.

This was the Demon Grand Duke, Weisasi.

This incongruous feeling, like a “macho barbie,” left Ling Xiaoyou stunned, feeling like she needed to wash her eyes.

Not only that, but strange tentacles grew from his body. The tentacles writhed chaotically, seemingly not controlled by Weisasi, just unconscious autonomous movement.

The reason Weisasi had become like this was simply because, just moments ago, Ling Xiaoyou and Bai Shuanglian had been about to eliminate Weisasi, but the latter had immediately abandoned his erosion of the stars and directly cast magic arts to obstruct the two.

Then he himself lunged straight at the lump of squirming minced flesh.

And then—he melted.

Literally melted. Just as snow melts and flows into the earth, he too flowed into that lump of minced flesh.

Afterward, when the two had dealt with the magic arts Weisasi had used to stall them, they discovered he had turned into this hideous state.

“No wonder so many people like using Zoa Sagg’s flesh. It really is convenient.”

Weisasi seemed to no longer care about the two at all, muttering to himself. He clenched his fist, feeling the abundant strength in his palm, and squeezed out a burst of air.

“But the erosion is strong enough. Good thing I’m just a clone. As long as Zoa Sagg’s possession body still exists, even if I get fully eroded, my main body will keep me stable. No need to worry about corruption.”

With that, Weisasi looked at the two and revealed a ferocious grin.

“It’s a shame to give up progress, but as long as I kill you two, I can use this powerful body to break the Seal at an even faster pace.”

“So—die!!”