Chapter 12 Naval Battle

Ye Xiao tried her best to suppress her emotions, but there was still an uncontrollable doubt and panic in that "voice"!

This was an emotion that Ye Xiao already had.

She and Xu Zhuoxing have lived together for three years; they're like best friends, like comrades-in-arms.

There were moments when the two of them worked together; when they called Qi An together; when they went for a walk on the beach together...

When discussing certain topics, they often find themselves thinking alike, or deeply empathizing with each other's feelings and perspectives.

At such moments, they are like confidants, like companions in old age who are detached from romantic feelings.

Ye Xiao was already emotional; she was extremely saddened and indignant!

However, the polluting fumes from the "Black Sun" also affected Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao had not received the same professional training as Xu Zhuoxing, but she was always good at comforting herself, good at putting worries and difficulties behind her, and good at maintaining hope and motivation even in the face of a catastrophic situation!

But now, that feeling of despair, of "not succeeding," keeps surging over her head.

Ye Xiao knew she shouldn't be distracted at this time, and even less should she pass on the pressure to her daughter.

But she couldn't control it; she even lost the motivation to keep frying as she continued.

It's no use, it's no use, it won't work...

"Mom, get out of the way!" Qi An shouted, and several tentacles wrapped around Ye Xiao, pulling her backward violently!

While Ye Xiao was stunned, several torrents of black mist, each as thick as her waist, surged towards her from above and below, through the gaps in the flames!

Qi An used several extremely thick tentacles covered in thick scales to wrap Ye Xiao up and pull her behind him.

Qi An stepped forward and swung his bone sword, which was almost as long as a spear, horizontally!

The force she unleashed was the limit of her power at that moment! With a single sword strike, she cleaved through two torrents!

Both torrents came from the front, and another one came from her right.

As Qi An swung his sword, he also struck a thick tentacle to the right, but the tentacle was swallowed up by the torrent on the right!

The torrent of black mist, illuminated by the firelight, resembled a giant mechanical python formed from some kind of liquid metal—smooth, glossy, cold, and tough!

It is also unpredictable and flexible enough, with its top splitting into two, like a giant python opening its blood-red mouth.

It bit off half of Qi An's body!

This "giant python" was not the only source of attack. Behind Qi An, there were also several "small pythons" as thin as a man's arm, which struck Ye Xiao!

But Qi An had already wrapped a layer of his tentacles around Ye Xiao.

Therefore, whether on the right or behind, the several "pythons" were biting into Qi An's flesh and blood!

Qi An's body was half inside the other's big mouth, and he was almost bitten in two by the other's huge "biting force"!

But she held on! Where she was bitten, the "python's" huge mouth still grows long, dense, and menacing thorns!

These long spikes weren't sharp at the tip, so they didn't pierce the "python's" skin, but they did push up the "python's" huge mouth!

After being lifted up, the long thorns broke off at the base, allowing Qi An to escape.

With his shoulder almost detached from his body, Qi An switched to his other hand and swung his sword again!

The torrent on her right side that nearly bit her in two was beheaded by her sword!

Qi An spun around again, spraying a large amount of green blood in the air as he went to cut down the black mist that was attacking Ye Xiao.

She also grabbed the tentacle that connected her to Ye Xiao, intending to fly her downwards.

The series of explosions gradually subsided, and most of the bubbles had burst.

The other half of the bubbles either drifted away with the wind when Ye Xiao stopped attacking, or were blown away by the airflow driven by the "Black Sun" tentacles, and were then detonated in the distance by the black mist.

In this massive explosion, all of Black Sun's clones shrank and became smaller, but none of them were completely killed!

After this second round of matches, both sides had sustained injuries.

Qi An's side was at a disadvantage because they were once again surrounded by the Black Sun clones.

This encirclement is three-dimensional; in addition to the horizontal ring, there are additional encirclements both vertically and diagonally.

Qi An tried to pull Ye Xiao through the gap between the two clones below, but she couldn't budge her.

In those brief two seconds of delay, the encirclement was completely closed, and a black torrent roared in, weaving a dense black net!

"Mom, what are you doing?" Qi An asked anxiously.

The high-quality pollution from this "black sun" really does affect her mother.

Earlier, when her mother suddenly stopped frying food, alarm bells had already gone off in her mind, and now her heart felt even colder!

But Ye Xiao's situation wasn't as bad as she thought.

In some ways, it's not that bad.

Ye Xiao's gaze was indeed fixed. She stared straight at Qi An's upper body, which was struggling to heal and was also torn and gruesome, from the blood-soaked tentacles wrapped around her own body to Qi An's upper body, which was also torn and gruesome.

The black mist in Ye Xiao's eyes, the black mist that had dragged her down into the abyss of pollution, faded away.

The demonic chant of "Useless, useless..." that kept echoing in her mind was completely extinguished by a sharp, overwhelming rage!

Her! My! Darling!

Ye Xiao shrank her entire body and wings in one swift motion, freeing herself from Qi An's tentacles that were holding her!

Several golden bubbles were expelled and arranged in a straight line.

Ye Xiao thrust the rod straight in, aiming the entire string of arrows at the black sun clone directly below her.

Several bubbles exploded simultaneously, creating huge sparks!

The black sun clone was blasted and plummeted downwards!

The encirclement then broke through again.

Ye Xiao kicked Qi An, pushing her out of the fray!

A torrent of black mist roared in from all directions, one of which was already right in front of her!

She grabbed it with both hands, held it tightly, and with a forceful snap of her elbows, broke it in half like she was breaking a sausage!

At the same time, Ye Xiao's own large wings fully unfolded, and the scales on the wingtips stretched out like knives and stood up completely!

With these upright "long swords" in hand, Ye Xiao somehow managed to spin rapidly in the air!

All the torrents of black mist were like a child's finger that accidentally touched a high-speed spinning chainsaw, getting a piece chopped off and then suddenly retracting.

As the torrent receded, Ye Xiao's spinning stopped.

Her few spins not only repelled all the attacking black mist at once, but also, like blowing up a balloon, created a huge golden sphere that could completely envelop Qi An!

The moment Ye Xiao hovered, the large ball split in two, and Ye Xiao slapped one of them!

The two largest black sun clones on either side of her were struck head-on by the two golden spheres!

The golden sphere did not explode immediately, but instead seeped into the black sun clone, overlapping with it in part!

Tentacles, like celestial maidens scattering flowers or spider demons' tentacles, sprouted from Ye Xiao's front and back, growing out in all directions.

All the tentacles closed up above Ye Xiao's head again—plunging into the body of the black sun clone directly above her head.

With her clone on her head, Ye Xiao entangled with it, rammed into it, and charged straight out of the battle!

Two giant golden spheres exploded on either side of her feet!

The two balls bit into the two clones and exploded, turning them into a bloody mess!

The flesh of these "black suns" was extremely heat-resistant and did not vaporize, but simply crumbled, with the crumbs soaking Qi An below!

Qi An didn't feel nauseous. Instead, she exhaled and put her heart, which had been sinking, back into her stomach.

Her mother was not consumed by the corrupted will; her fighting power remained off the charts!

Qi An's fighting spirit was also ignited like never before. She realized that her mother had only become sober and erupted because of her injury.

Her mother couldn't bear to see her in pain.

She couldn't bear to see her mother in pain!

After being kicked out of the battle circle, Qi An adjusted his posture in mid-air.

The moment she regained her balance, she hooked onto the falling black sun clone.

Just like Ye Xiao dealt with the clone above her head, Qi An cut off its outstretched attack, and then used its dense tentacles to pierce into its body!

Qi An's tentacles violently destroyed and multiplied within the spherical body of the Black Sun clone!

The dark-colored fleshy ball expanded rapidly, growing larger and larger until its shiny outer skin burst open!

Its black and green flesh resembles the black sesame filling of a glutinous rice ball, and it's being squeezed so hard that it's oozing out!

The filling wasn't pure black or pure green; it also had a hint of white.

That's Qi An's flesh.

Qi An discovered that she couldn't manipulate Qiu Yunmeng's body structure and cause destruction as efficiently as she could in Qiu Yunmeng's body.

It seems that the "Black Sun" can resist her pollution!

However, Qi An was unable to corrupt the other party, but he was still able to make his tentacles grow wildly.

She still managed to achieve what she had planned against the four-winged priest during the battle at the new base—to grow inside it and then disembowel it from the inside out!

The black sun clone, its belly ripped open, was reduced to pieces of flesh that fell to the ground.

The two large clones, which were blasted to their faces by the giant golden ball, were shattered even more completely.

Ye Xiao also tore the one that was wrapped up in her clothes to pieces.

The original giant "black sun" split into nine black sun clones.

In this third round of battle, Qi An and her daughter killed four!