The moment their gazes fell on the black-haired man's face...
With a loud 'boom'.
Xiao Jin felt his thoughts suddenly stop, his mind was like mush, and all the sounds seemed to disappear from his ears.
If someone were outside right now, they would see that Xiao Jin and Yun Ye had blank expressions and lifeless eyes, while a trace of blackness was gradually spreading towards the center of their pupils.
"Hmm! That's not right..."
Suddenly, a cool sensation surged from Xiao Jin's body, and the cotton-white mist kicked away the black with a 'smack,' gradually gaining the upper hand.
Xiao Jin also shuddered and suddenly woke up.
The moment she woke up, she decisively closed her eyes and stopped looking in the direction of the black-haired man. At the same time, she raised the broken shadow and stabbed herself in the thigh.
The intense pain restored Xiao Jin's clarity of vision and lessened the confusion in her mind.
She then turned to look at Yunye on the other side and saw his demented state. Without hesitation, Xiao Jin cut open his palm.
"Hmm~" Yunye slowly woke up.
Recalling what had just happened, he nodded to Xiao Jin: "Thank you."
Xiao Jin: "It's alright, I almost fell for it too. That should be the remains of an evil god without a doubt!"
The two were immediately faced with a dilemma.
"If we can't even take a look, how are we supposed to destroy them?"
Xiao Jin remained silent for a long time: "Use a powerful tool to destroy it directly."
"Are you confident?" Yunye asked.
"No." Xiao Jin shook his head frankly: "I don't even know if we can break the ice, but this is all we can do now."
"Then let's get started!" Yunye agreed with Xiao Jin's idea.
However, the two people who were talking did not see that, in the ice, the black-haired man's eyelashes seemed to tremble slightly.
………………
Xiao Jin and Yun Ye stood together in front of the huge ice.
The two exchanged a glance, needing no further words. Xiao Jin gripped his longsword tightly with both hands, the tip gleaming with a cold light, like the brightest star in the night sky.
Yunye's body surged with bloodlust, and the air around them seemed to be subtly torn apart. A steel blade 'whooshed' out from between his sharp claws.
"Three, two, one!" With Xiao Jin's low roar, the two exerted their strength at the same time, and the long sword and sharp claws, carrying an overwhelming momentum, slammed into the cold surface.
However, the result was as they expected: no cracking sound was heard, and the ice remained as still as an eternal rock.
Yunye's eyes darkened, and he was about to try again when suddenly—
"Click, click..."
Heavy footsteps suddenly approached from behind.
The two turned around abruptly and saw the monster, made of pieces of corpse stitched together, charging towards them. Its rotting muscles were taut, sharp bone spurs protruded from its joints, and it let out a beast-like growl from its throat.
Xiao Jin and her companion had repeatedly blasphemed against the gods, enraging the Stitched Monster. It was determined to kill them both and restore peace to the area around the gods.
Xiao Jin and Yun Ye felt a chill run down their spines, but they had no time to pay attention to it.
"Watch out!" Yunye shouted, and with a wave of his weapon, a shield instantly formed around the two of them, blocking the first wave of attacks from the Stitches.
But the Frankenstein's power was beyond imagination; the shield teetered on the brink of collapse, as if it would crumble at any moment.
"Ignore the corpse for now, take care of the Stitches!" Xiao Jin shouted coldly, his figure flashed, and the blade went straight for the Stitches' neck.
She wielded her long sword, each strike accompanied by the sound of wind cutting through the air, aiming directly at the Frankenstein's vitals.
Yunye was not to be outdone. He threw out a jade tablet, the runes on it shining brightly, the stored magic power converging into beams of blazing light that continuously bombarded the Stitched Monster, sparking bursts of sparks.
The battle was extremely fierce. The two of them and the Stitches seemed to form an independent battlefield, and everything around them was being devoured by this violent energy.
Each clash was accompanied by the roar of clashing metal and the explosive sound of magic, sending chills down one's spine.
Finally, Xiao Jin's longsword pierced the opponent's body, and the massive Stitched Monster collapsed with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.
To their surprise, a bottle of clear solution rolled out from its corpse, the bottle engraved with ancient runes and emitting a faint blue light.
“This is…” Xiao Jin picked up the solution.
[Cold Bone Dissolving Agent]
[Uses: Can melt thousand-year-old ice and break seals.]
A flash of understanding crossed Xiao Jin's eyes. "So, to break this ice seal, we need a cold marrow dissolving agent. No wonder we couldn't break through it."
Yunye nodded, his expression grave: "It seems we almost missed the key. Now we should be able to destroy the skeleton."
Then, Xiao Jin slowly walked up to the black-haired man. This time, she still kept her eyes down, trying her best not to let her gaze fall on him.
As the bottle is uncorked and the liquid is poured out, the ice makes a sizzling sound as it is poured into the solution, like a hot iron being plunged into cold water.
Xiao Jin's fingertips trembled slightly as she watched the ice melt inch by inch, and the outline of the black-haired man gradually became clear in the mist.
Tiny ice crystals still clung to his eyelashes, and his skin shone with a cold, jade-like luster in the dim light, as if he were merely asleep.
Unfortunately, Xiao Jin only dared to look directly at his chin.
Yunye on the other side was also very nervous, his palms sweating for Xiao Jin.
Soon, the ice melted, completely exposing the remains.
"Now!" Xiao Jin took a deep breath, raised his long sword suddenly, and slashed down fiercely at the man's chest with the force of a fierce thunderbolt!
"--clang!"
Xiao Jin's pupils constricted sharply: "...What?"
The longsword did not provide the tactile sensation Xiao Jin had imagined. She only felt a jolt in her palm, and looking up along the blade, her heart stopped for a moment.
A pale, slender hand, raised at some unknown time, firmly gripped the blade of the shattered shadow.
"What happened?" Yunye's heart skipped a beat.
He had a keen sense that something was amiss, but Xiao Jin had no time to respond to Yun Ye.
"Oh, what a pleasant surprise!"
The mocking voice pierced Xiao Jin's eardrums like a venomous snake, and her vision suddenly distorted. A large expanse of black and red surged into her field of vision like a tide, and a sharp buzzing sound rang in her ears, as if countless people were screaming in her mind.
However, the power that helped awaken Xiao Jin before has reappeared.
This time, Xiao Jin broke free from the mental attack even faster. She bit her tongue, and the intense pain kept her awake, but her body felt like it was filled with lead, and she couldn't move.
—The evil god has awakened.
At that moment, these words appeared in both of their minds simultaneously.
Otherwise, who else could catch his knife? Xiao Jin gritted his teeth.
On the other side, the black-haired man slowly emerged from the ice, ice crystals falling softly from his hair.
Seeing that Xiao Jin had recovered so quickly, he tilted his head and looked at her with great interest.
A scarlet tongue gently licked the corner of her lips: "What...are you?"
Before he finished speaking, his hand was already reaching for Xiao Jin's neck!
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