Ah Yao's punch was quite heavy.
She immediately gave chase and arrived at an underground palace. Everywhere she looked, there were colossal stone pillars hundreds of feet tall, and the air was thick with mist. Ayao stood in a passageway that resembled a bridge, leading ahead to a deep abyss below.
A figure stood up from the swirling mist. Suddenly, the figure unleashed an even more powerful aura than before. A Yao looked surprised; Nangong Qi's strength had increased from the True Demon Realm to the Earth Demon Realm. Nangong Qi stepped out of the mist, and A Yao saw the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth.
Those were the bloodstains left after he was seriously injured by her punch.
However, as a demon, such injuries did not prevent Nangong Qi from continuing to fight. Ayao clenched one hand into a fist, her anger intensifying. Was that bastard Lou Munan trying to force her to kill Nangong Qi with her own hands?
"Nangong Qi, it's me, A Yao. Don't you remember me?" A Yao said softly as she looked at the white-clad man walking towards her step by step, her eyes filled with deep sorrow.
Nangong Qi's body suddenly trembled, and a struggle appeared on his face. Seeing the change in his expression, Ayao's heart trembled as well. She softly called out again, "Nangong Qi..."
The man in white raised his longbow, reaching for the bowstring with his other hand, and spoke with difficulty:
"Kill...kill me..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled the bowstring with his left hand. No arrow was shot out, but the sound of the bowstring vibrating was terrifying enough. Layers of even more terrifying silver-white ripples appeared in the air, and the huge stone pillar shattered instantly.
Ayao dodged the sonic attack, creating a distance of a hundred feet between herself and Nangong Qi.
She watched as Nangong Qi looked up at her. His violet eyes had regained their clarity, but deep pain and despair remained within them.
He regained his senses, but was unable to control his body.
With a wave of his hand, Nangong Qi unleashed a barrage of silver spiritual threads that shot towards A Yao, instantly slicing the ground beneath her into countless fragments. She leaped into the air, and Nangong Qi fired an arrow at her, which then split into tens of thousands of smaller arrows, like a silver rainstorm.
Ayao brandished her longsword, unleashing a storm of sword energy that swept away all the rain of arrows.
"Kill me—"
Nangong Qi shouted, and the sound made Ayao's heart ache.
She gritted her teeth and dodged the arrows Nangong Qi fired again. As she formed a hand seal with her left hand, purple magic circles appeared on the ground below Nangong Qi. Several purple chains shot out from the magic circles, binding Nangong Qi's hands and feet and restricting his movements.
Nangong Qi's entire body shimmered with silver light. He gazed sorrowfully at A Yao, but his body was uncontrollably trying to break free of its restraints. The chains were snapping one by one. He looked at A Yao, his voice filled with anguish: "A Yao, kill me, please..."
Ayao stared at his face, her hand clenched into a fist inside her sleeve.
boom!
A blinding light erupted from Nangong Qi's body, which seemed to be burning with silver-white flames. Ancient symbols appeared on his body, which were the totems of the demon race. He instantly appeared behind A Yao and reached out his left hand to grab her.
Ayao suddenly dodged to the side.
Five bloody claw marks brushed past A Yao, leaving shocking marks on the giant stone statue thousands of feet away.
Nangong Qi, relying on his willpower, temporarily halted his attack. He looked at A Yao, his voice filled with sorrow: "I...can't control myself..."
Ayao said, "I know."
His violet eyes welled up with tears: "My time is running out..."
Ayao looked at him and said, "I know."
Lou Munan never intended to let Nangong Qi live. He crudely helped Nangong Qi increase his strength, which resulted in his lifespan burning rapidly. Even if A Yao didn't kill Nangong Qi, Nangong Qi wouldn't live for more than a few days, at most seven days, before he would surely die.
“Ayao, kill me…” Nangong Qi looked at Ayao, his voice trembling, “I don’t want to live like this.”
Not wanting to live like this meant not wanting to live as a demon. Even though she sealed him away, she couldn't turn him back. A Yao was reborn as a phoenix, but Nangong Qi had already been corrupted by Lou Munan's dark power; his primordial spirit was polluted, and he had no way to turn back.
Even if they are transformed into other races, they will still be demons after the transformation.
"Ayao, please, kill me..." Nangong Qi pleaded.
Ayao looked at his face and finally nodded gently.
The man in white with purple eyes smiled. His body was out of control again. He raised his hand holding the longbow once more, struggling to stop himself from drawing the bowstring. He looked at A Yao with a sorrowful smile:
"Didn't you say you wanted to have a good fight with that guy who looks a lot like me? Now, just treat me like him, okay?"
Ayao closed her eyes, then opened them again. She looked at Nangong Qi and said, "Okay!"
A smile slowly bloomed on Nangong Qi's face. He released all resistance, and his body once again burst forth with dazzling silver light. His cultivation level rose from the Earth Demon Realm to the Heaven Demon Realm. He originally had seven days of lifespan left, but now he only had a quarter of an hour left.
Nangong Qi's long hair flew wildly, turning from black to white at the ends. He shot an arrow at A Yao, an unstoppable arrow that transformed into a giant silver-white dragon tens of thousands of feet long. The dragon roared and charged towards A Yao.
A Yao stomped her feet in the air, and the entire space shook violently. Endless runes spread out from beneath her feet, and she shot towards the giant dragon, raising her left hand to unleash a punch.
Her fist was surrounded by a restrictive light. This fist, which was clearly disproportionate to the dragon's size, produced a deafening sound the moment it touched the dragon's head. In the blinding light, the dragon was actually shattered by a single punch.
But after the giant dragon disappeared, a rain of arrows rained down from the sky. This rain of arrows was terrifying; each arrow transformed into an ancient ferocious beast: a phoenix, a true dragon, a qilin, a taotie, a qiongqi, a bifang, a Chongming, a nine-tailed fox...
These ancient ferocious beasts roared and charged towards A Yao like an army. The scene was terrifying. Before these holy beasts even reached A Yao, the terrifying pressure emanating from them had already shattered the space around them.
A Yao's phoenix wings unfurled behind her, revealing a gigantic phantom of a phoenix. At the same time, numerous restrictive runes were imprinted in the void, shining brilliantly as if a god had descended.
Ayao gripped the sword with both hands, and the sword's light shot into the void like a divine rainbow...
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