Chapter 193 The ripples that spread after the battle ended...
The ripples spread outwards little by little until all the green light threads were ground into powder.
"What's going on?!" Sang Zhitao looked at the jade pendant in disbelief.
The jade pendant seemed to be startled as well, trembling as it moved a few steps toward her.
"No?" Qingyan said, frowning.
Sang Zhitao bit her lip, looking helpless: "She could do it before, I don't know either. I seriously injured her last time, it's impossible for her to recover so quickly."
Qingyan looked at Zhen warily, opened her mouth as if to say something, but was interrupted again.
The human saint and the fox lord stared intently at Sang Zhitao, then suddenly raised their twisted arms, pointed at her, and said something.
A whooshing sound came from behind them, accompanied by a whistling sound as it pierced the air, heading straight for the two of them.
"Watch out!" Qingyan flew upwards quickly with Sang Zhitao.
A sword and a paper umbrella suddenly flew past the spot where they had just been standing.
The sword and paper umbrella had an eerie green hue, interspersed with many white spots, resembling the tentacles we first encountered.
“It’s contaminated.” Sang Zhitao frowned.
"Pollution?" Qingyan was taken aback. "You mean you were controlled by her?"
Sang Zhitao nodded, then frowned and looked at Zhen in the middle: "Zhen?"
The girl opened her eyes, her empty gaze sweeping over Sang Zhitao.
She tilted her head, seemingly lost in thought, before finally uttering two hoarse words: "Peach?"
"What did you do?" Sang Zhitao stared at her, feeling that something was really wrong with the person in front of her.
He forced a strange smile and said, "I'm so hungry..."
“You ate them.” Sang Zhitao understood instantly and nodded.
Zhen continued smiling, looking at Qingyan: "She's delicious."
Sang Zhitao ignored her and turned to Qingyan, saying, "They must have truly devoured their abilities. I can defeat Zhen, but not them."
“Neither Zhen nor I originally used the power system here, but she devoured the people here and their abilities, which means I must also use the power system of this world, but now…”
Qingyan immediately understood what she meant. Sang Zhitao only had the power of the second realm, while the two in front of her had already broken through to the fourth realm. If it weren't for their mission to protect Qingyuan Realm, they would probably have ascended like their predecessors in the past.
"What should we do then?" Qingyan frowned. "We can't just ask Elder Qing to come over, can we? Elder Qing can't leave Qingliang Cave right now."
Thinking of the old man who was now just a soul, Sang Zhitao shook her head: "It's no use. You said that the three of them are the three strongest people in the world. Qing Lao alone cannot possibly take on two of them."
"We can't just watch her grow like this." Qingyan watched as Zhen, who was constantly devouring the two realm lords with a smile, watched as the bodies of the two realm lords grew increasingly withered. He believed that it wouldn't be long before they merged into Zhen's body and became nourishment for her.
Sang Zhitao bit her lip, frowning as she pondered what other options she could have. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the pink peach-shaped jade pendant around her neck. Her eyes lit up, and she instantly had an idea.
"Can you absorb the power inside?" Sang Zhitao turned to look at the jade pendant and pointed to the pink jade pendant around her neck.
The green jade pendant was taken aback at first, then floated in front of her and looked at the pink jade pendant for a while, before starting to flash green light continuously.
After a while, pink ripples spread across the pink jade pendant, and then the two beams of light slowly approached, touched, and merged.
Sang Zhitao's eyes lit up, and she turned to Qingyan with delight: "It seems like there's a way!"
Qingyan couldn't help but smile. Just then, she saw the tentacles on the ground cross the large pit and head towards the edge where the children were.
She frowned slightly: "Can your 'Hidden Space' really hold all these children? The battlefield is spreading out quite far now; I'm worried something might happen."
Sang Zhitao turned her head and looked at him with a troubled expression: "My cultivation is not high enough, I'm afraid I can't let go of it."
"Let's give it a try," Qingyan said helplessly. "We can't just stand by and watch someone die. After all, we came here to save the child."
Sang Zhitao agreed and used her "Hidden Universe" technique on the children, and sure enough, there were seven or eight children left that she couldn't fit inside.
Sang Zhitao probed into her sleeve with her divine sense and tidied up the space. She then took out all the tentacle remains and threw them to Qingyan: "Keep them for now."
Upon seeing this, Qingyan caught it without hesitation and threw it into his sleeve pocket.
After tidying up for a while, Sang Zhitao finally put all the children inside.
It seems that they have absorbed almost all the people over there. The two realm masters can no longer be seen as human, and they look like two deformed tumors growing on her arms.
"Why don't you use your sword technique to attack her anymore?" Sang Zhitao looked at Qingyan with curiosity as she looked at the green jade pendant, which had almost completely absorbed the pink jade pendant.
Qingyan couldn't help but roll her eyes at her: "I've already used no less than a hundred sword techniques, and it's been completely useless."
Sang Zhitao then noticed her trembling right hand, her fair fingertips still constantly making sword gestures.
"Huh? I thought it would be the same as before." Sang Zhitao chuckled awkwardly and scratched her head.
Qingyan sighed: "It looks impressive and has a grand scale, but it also consumes a lot of energy. I'm still fast, agile, and just as aggressive."
Sang Zhitao nodded thoughtfully and looked at Zhen in front of her: "Why don't you stop fighting? I really think it's useless."
Qingyan quickly released his hand seal and waved it in the air for a long time: "You should have said so earlier, I was about to get cramps."
The green jade pendant had by then completely absorbed the power of the pink jade pendant.
The pink jade pendant that everyone gave to Sang Zhitao as a talisman had faded considerably in color.
Sang Zhitao hung the jade pendant back around her neck before looking at the green jade pendant: "Is this alright?"
The green jade pendant glanced at Qingyan, then at Zhen, as if it had made up its mind, and suddenly rushed in front of Qingyan.
Before the two could react, she snuggled into Qingyan's arms.
"What?!" Both of them were taken aback.
Qingyan looked at Sang Zhitao blankly, her face full of confusion.
Sang Zhitao waved her hands repeatedly: "I don't know."
Suddenly, Qingyan frowned, her face turned pale, and large beads of sweat dripped from her forehead.
With a "clang," and a cry of pain, the magical artifact fell from her hand, making a metallic clanging sound.
"Jade Pendant! You attacked your teammate!!" Sang Zhitao quickly supported her, her hands constantly touching her chest, anxiously calling out, "Come out, my ancestor!"
She hadn't called out a few times when the green jade pendant floated out from Qingyan's chest.
Before Sang Zhitao could reprimand it, a fist-sized blue jade pendant appeared behind the jade pendant.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but twitch her lips. She stared at the jade pendant for a while, feeling a sense of familiarity. Then she looked up at the illusory sky, feeling a sense of powerlessness all over her body.
Just as Qingyan was recovering, staring blankly at the two jade pendants floating from her chest, and then looking at her with suspicion, she suddenly shouted at the sky, "You're crazy!!!"
Qingyan was startled by her voice.
Sang Zhitao ignored her and pointed at the sky, shouting, "Why are the fragments of the world appearing inside a human body again?! What am I supposed to find?!"
"What world fragment?" Qingyan frowned and tugged at her hand. "This thing is a world fragment? What is a world fragment?"
Sang Zhitao took a few deep breaths before waving her hand weakly, "It's a long story, let's talk about it later."
She glanced at her green jade pendant again: "Are we going to eat it all before beating you up again?"
Unlike in the game world where the jade pendant devours world fragments and then crushes Zhen, it drags the world fragments to its side and then flies towards Zhen together.
Just like before, the familiar spinning, the familiar lighting.
The current light is a beautiful mix of green and pink, cyan and blue, creating a vibrant and colorful effect.
It's also a bit thicker than before.
As Sang Zhitao had thought, having accumulated power from several sources and with the help of the world fragments, they truly did not break free from the light this time.
"Destroy!" Sang Zhitao chanted the incantation again.
The two realm lords were thus sliced into hundreds of pieces by dozens of beams of light.
"Pfft!" As the fragments fell to the ground from mid-air, Sang Zhitao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Tao Tao!" Qing Yan quickly hugged her. "What's wrong?"
Sang Zhitao looked up at the sky, her brows furrowed: "Oh no, we've been tricked!"
"What?" Qingyan looked up at the sky in confusion.
Sang Zhitao wiped the bloodstains from the corner of her mouth: "This is not the real body, it's a puppet. She deliberately made me use the world fragments and the jade pendant to deal with her, so that she could use the formation to absorb my power."
"What do we do now?" Qingyan asked, watching Sang Zhitao's face drain of color, turning her frighteningly pale.
Sang Zhitao clutched her chest, looking at the jade pendant.
The jade pendant, which had been startled by Sang Zhitao's vomiting of blood, reacted at this moment and rushed into Sang Zhitao's chest with the fragments of the world.
Sang Zhitao's face immediately regained its color, and the puppet that had been cut into pieces gradually lost its life.
"Quick, cut all the tentacles off for me." Sang Zhitao hurriedly reminded Qingyan as she watched the withering slowly spread from the base of the tentacles.
Upon hearing this, Qingyan immediately released all the spiritual swords from his sleeve and severed all the tentacles.
The moment the tentacle was severed, the puppet, now fragmented, became nothing more than withered wood, and the surrounding environment began to change.
The green forest gradually faded in color and then slowly disappeared.
The white soil slowly disappeared, leaving behind a mirror-like empty space.
The original large pit has disappeared and become a lake.
“This…” Qingyan watched the strange change unfold, her face showing constant vigilance.
Sang Zhitao shook her head and reminded him, "This is the true nature of this space. Let's get out of here quickly."
"Hmm." Qingyan looked around and sensed the exit that appeared after the two layers of barriers disappeared, so she flew directly there.
A flash of white light, and the two returned to the human world.
Once outside, the two discovered that this space actually connected the Three Realms.
They have now arrived at the most famous place in the demon realm—Demon Moon Lake.
"This is Demon Moon Lake. It seems we've arrived in the Demon Realm." Qingyan looked around and breathed a sigh of relief at the somewhat familiar location.
"Let's contact Elder Qing and the others first," Sang Zhitao said with a sigh of relief.
Qingyan nodded, helped her sit down on the grass, and began contacting the people in the Cloud Sea Realm.
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