"What's the meaning?"
The old patriarch of the Beast Taming Sect tensed his wrinkled face and took a step back warily. Only then did he catch a glimpse of golden light shimmering in her left palm.
Looking down, I saw that she was clutching a handful of golden crystals, the sharp edges of which had cut into her palms and festered into her flesh.
She is absorbing solar crystals!
Sun Crystal is a mineral from the earth, and Eri's blade was also forged from a certain mineral. They are from the same source, so there's no reason why Sun Crystal would reject her, right?
The crystal shrank and disappeared little by little in her palm, leaving only specks of gold dust, which were then swept up by the blood and seeped out from between her fingers, giving the blood a golden sheen.
—The vines swept away the golden luster, not a single drop fell.
Then, with a thought, Chu Hongluan filled her blood-soaked palm with another handful of sun crystals.
"You still have some strength left!"
With a powerful flick of his sleeve, the patriarch of the Beast Taming Sect unleashed a savage burst of spiritual energy that struck her wrist directly!
Chu Hongluan could see clearly that his attack was aimed at crippling her hand.
However... she only felt a numbness in her forearm, and several sun crystals rolled to the ground.
That's unbelievable.
"What's this?"
The patriarch of the Beast Taming Sect frowned and asked her.
Chu Hongluan couldn't help but laugh. Despite being on the verge of death and in a disheveled state, her laughter was exceptionally bright and unrestrained, like a blood-red thorn flower blooming amidst ruins.
"It's a bit too late to notice now. Do you even know... how many rounds of absorption have I undergone?"
The Beast Taming Sect's patriarch looked rather grim, but still forced himself to remain calm and coldly rebuked, "Stop making a fuss!"
"The Demonic Vine's attack is a killing blow. It should have drained all your spiritual power the moment it pierced you! Without spiritual power, even if you have reached the Mahayana stage, you can only be slaughtered by the Demonic Vine! Then the Demonic Vine will slowly drain your essence and blood, and then corrode your flesh from the inside out, leaving you confused but conscious, and you can only watch helplessly as you are eaten away by the vine bit by bit."
In his early years, when his cultivation level was still low, he used the demonic vine to defeat the strong with the weak many times, and even killed people of higher levels, without ever failing!
"But why! You can still maintain your thinking ability, and even use spiritual power to retrieve items from your mustard seed bag! And what exactly is that golden crystal? If you tell me honestly, I can let you die a quick death!"
Why?
Chu Hongluan suppressed the strange feeling in her heart. She didn't know why, but now was not the time to dwell on the reasons.
Her left hand has begun to regain sensation, and now it's her turn to dominate the battlefield.
"Why are you asking me? You should ask your demonic vine if it's showing any unusual symptoms—ask it if it's satisfied with drinking so much of my blood!"
Chu Hongluan was still smiling, ignoring the vines that had pierced through her entire chest, and slowly straightened up as if she couldn't feel the pain.
His eyebrows curved upwards, and an eerie, blood-red glow shifted from dark to bright. His red lips were stained with blood, exuding an indescribable bewitching and sinister aura.
"Waaaaah—waaaaah—"
The vines let out groans like a baby sobbing, and suddenly began to writhe unbearably, as if trying to shrink back, but they were bound by the master-servant contract and had no choice but to continue to suck Chu Hongluan's blood according to the original instructions of the Beast Taming Sect's patriarch.
At some point, every branch of its became extremely hot, with golden light flickering within it, as if some powerful and terrifying force was surging through its meridians, eroding its body in reverse!
The magic vine began to wither.
It kept whimpering, pleading for help from its owner.
"It's so noisy."
Chu Hongluan turned her hands behind her back, used her spiritual power to twist and turn, and grabbed all the vines that were piercing her flesh from behind!
Pull it outwards!
The vines rubbed against flesh, making a chilling sizzling sound. The vines had long since wilted and lost their strength, and Chu Hongluan actually managed to pull them out with one hand!
The vine struggled desperately, but that seemingly soft and boneless slender hand was like a shackle, tightly fastening itself to its body, rendering it unable to move.
The Beast Taming Sect's patriarch finally reacted and immediately struck Chu Hongluan in the chest with a backhand palm strike!
Chu Hongluan sneered, and with a forceful pull of her left hand, she ripped the demonic vine off the dead trees it was entwined with—uprooting it completely!
Then, like cracking a whip, she lashed out fiercely at his palm!
The surging demonic energy emanating from the Demon Vine instinctively began to devour the spiritual energy of the Beast Taming Sect's patriarch the moment it touched it.
The Beast Taming Sect's patriarch's expression changed drastically, and he retreated repeatedly, exclaiming, "You beast! You can't even recognize your master!"
"Waaaaah—waaaaah—"
The vines are also in pain. Bound by the master-servant contract, harming their master is tantamount to harming themselves!
Chu Hongluan let go, and the demonic vine fell heavily to the ground. It tried to run away by twisting its roots, but Chu Hongluan casually stepped on it and stomped it into the mud.
She wiped the bloodstains from her lips with her hands behind her back, raised her knife, her red eyes gleaming, and a bloodthirsty aura surged around her.
"Come on, old man, let me see how much skill you still have without your contracted beast."
Enraged, the Beast Taming Sect's patriarch laughed instead of engaging in pointless verbal sparring. He immediately pressed forward and launched a fierce attack!
What an arrogant and ignorant little brat!
With such severe injuries and almost no spiritual energy left, what made her think she could cause any trouble for him?!
Chu Hongluan maintained her stance with one foot planted on the demonic vine, not moving an inch. She countered every move with ferocious sword intent. The Beast Taming Sect patriarch racked his brains, but he couldn't even break through within three feet of her!
Driven to desperation, the Beast Taming Sect's patriarch attempted to exploit the abundance of spiritual energy to launch a long-range air barrage!
Chu Hongluan didn't even lift her eyelids. She used the same trick again, hooking the demonic vine with her toes and throwing it into the air. She caught it with her left hand and lashed out with her whip!
When demonic energy and spiritual energy met, the spiritual energy tucked its tail between its legs and fled in all directions.
"You! You are utterly shameless!"
The patriarch of the Beast Taming Sect cursed angrily, his face turning from green to white, then white to black. Having held a high position for most of his life, he racked his brains but could only come up with the word 'shameless,' unable to think of any more vulgar words.
But now he finally realized that Chu Hongluan was deliberately provoking him, forcing him to take the initiative and expend his spiritual energy.
When his spiritual energy was depleted to roughly the same level as hers...
A beast tamer without a contracted beast will surely die in a fight against a sword cultivator.
Chu Hongluan watched as his expression shifted unpredictably, and he showed no signs of attacking for a long time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she quickly took out a bottle of Bone-Regenerating and Muscle-Mending Pills and a bottle of Spirit-Returning Pills and drank them down.
Seeing this, the Beast Taming Sect's patriarch couldn't help but mock, "You were injured by the demonic vines, and demonic energy has invaded your blood and meridians. Ordinary healing and rejuvenating medicines will be completely ineffective..."
He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.
His eyes widened as he watched helplessly as the hole in Chu Hongluan's chest slowly healed! The spiritual energy around her gradually solidified!
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
She's actually immune to demonic energy!?
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