Before she finished speaking, Bai Ying raised her hand, and a dazzling golden light suddenly burst forth from her palm. A palm-sized dragon scale artifact appeared in mid-air, its scales covered with strange black patterns. Strands of corrosive power moved across the surface of the scales like living things, and even the air hissed and corroded wherever it passed.
"Who says I can't kill them!"
With that clear, light shout, the dragon scales transformed into a streak of crimson lightning and shot through the air.
The scales grew rapidly in the wind, eventually becoming the size of a millstone, with a chilling glint at their edges, even tearing the space itself into fine black cracks.
"Click."
A crisp cracking sound echoed through the sky.
The protective aura surrounding Ruan Xinrou, formed from the life essence of the Huayang Ancestor, crumbled inch by inch like thin ice in the face of these scales containing the corrosive power of the ancient dragon race.
The moment the light shield shattered, countless blood-red crystal fragments flew everywhere, refracting a poignant light in the sunlight.
"No! This is impossible!"
Hua Yang Lao Zu's eyes were bloodshot, and blood was almost bursting from the corners of his eyes.
His body surged with spiritual energy, his hair and beard stood on end, and his robe, embroidered with the sun, moon and stars, fluttered and rustled even without wind.
"That's a magical artifact forged with my life essence, accumulated over three hundred years of cultivation, how could it be..."
Before the joy on Ruan Xinrou's face could fully bloom, it froze into a distorted expression. She suddenly clutched her chest, her slender body trembling violently, and her once radiant skin visibly lost its color.
What terrified her most was the tearing pain that came from the depths of her soul. The system that had always been with her was now struggling frantically to break free, like a startled fish!
[Emergency disconnect procedure initiated... Warning... Core module damaged... Energy leak...]
The cold, mechanical voice echoed intermittently in her mind. Ruan Xinrou looked inward and was horrified to find that the ball of light in the center of her mind, which had always emitted a soft white light, was now disintegrating like a shattered glass lamp, with countless streams of data escaping from the cracks like fireflies.
"Trying to run away?"
Bai Ying's cold voice seemed to come from the deepest hell.
Her right hand remained in the same sword gesture, the Starshine Sword emitting a chilling light; her left hand, with its five fingers like hooks, suddenly clenched in the void. This clenching, seemingly effortless, caused the space within a hundred feet to tremble, with faint patterns of the laws of the Great Dao flowing between her fingers.
"Stay here!"
"Sizzle!"
With a teeth-grinding tearing sound, a dazzling golden light was forcibly pulled from Ruan Xinrou's crown. The golden light twisted and changed in the air, gradually condensing into a palm-sized humanoid figure, which vaguely resembled Ruan Xinrou by about seven points.
Mysterious rune chains constantly appeared on the surface of the luminous figure, but they would disintegrate and recombine in an instant, emitting a piercing electronic buzz.
With a light turn of the white firefly sword, the starlight in the sky instantly transformed into hundreds of silver chains, binding the struggling light figure layer by layer.
Bai Ying's eyes gleamed with starlight as she stared at the imprisoned figure of light, a hint of disgust flashing in them. "This is your greatest reliance? An anomaly who steals the fortune of others?"
The luminous being suddenly trembled violently, emitting a sharp, synthesized electronic voice: [Supreme Law fluctuation detected... Requesting the initiation of a negotiation protocol...]
"Negotiation?" Bai Ying's lips curled into a cruel smile, and the Starshine Sword in her hand suddenly burst forth with a dazzling moon-white light. "When you plundered my fortune, when you wanted to replace me, did you ever think of negotiating? When you used the Lingxiao Sect and the Lingyin Sect as stepping stones to enhance your reputation, did anyone give them a chance to negotiate!"
As the last word fell, sword light poured down like a cascading silver river. This sword strike contained all the cultivation she had painstakingly cultivated over a century, and also incorporated a trace of spatial law she had just comprehended from the dragon scales. Wherever the sword's edge passed, the void was neatly torn apart like a scroll, revealing the pitch-black chaos behind it.
"No!!"
Ruan Xinrou let out a shrill scream, but could only watch helplessly as her body disintegrated inch by inch in the starlight.
First, the fine clothes turned to ashes, then the smooth skin developed spiderweb-like cracks, and finally even the bones began to weather and dissipate.
Before being completely annihilated, her pupils reflected Bai Ying's cold face, and... the system light cluster that was being torn apart by the sword light.
Bai Ying watched Ruan Xinrou's disappearing figure, a trace of relief flashing in her eyes, for her own tragic death in her previous life, and for the hardships she had endured in this life.
She finally killed her...
Hua Yang Patriarch let out a roar that was not human, and the entire mountain trembled at the sound of it.
He unleashed a terrifying aura, and a phantom of a crimson sun appeared behind him: "How dare you!!"
Bai Ying slowly turned around, her blood-stained sword drawing a poignant arc in the air, aimed directly at the Void Refinement stage expert. Her blood-stained robes fluttered wildly in the storm of spiritual pressure, yet her voice was terrifyingly calm: "Don't rush, it'll be your turn soon."
Before she finished speaking, a lotus-shaped, snow-white Dao pattern suddenly appeared between her brows, and her aura began to rise at an astonishing speed. The once clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and the faint sound of a dragon's roar could be heard from beyond the heavens...
Hua Yang Patriarch's face was completely distorted; his once dignified and otherworldly features were now contorted into a grotesque demon. His spiritual energy surged, and the pressure of his Void Refinement stage cultivation was released without reservation, causing the space within a hundred miles to tremble.
"You brat, how dare you kill my carefully nurtured disciple!" His voice was as cold as the deepest hell, every word carrying a chilling killing intent. "Today, I will tear your soul from your body and refine it, so that you will never be reincarnated!"
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