Star Chen's ghostly purple afterimage descended like a phantom! The Dragon Shadow Long Sword surged with crimson light! The aura it exuded was utterly astonishing!
Having barely managed to block the previous relentless barrage of attacks, the female Daoist priest currently had absolutely no chance to catch her breath!
Fortunately, Little Moon Spirit's desperate interception earlier had bought her precious breathing room. Instinctively flapping her Phoenix Heaven Wings, she shot away like a fired projectile!
Swish! The purple and crimson light flashed past like lightning, striking only the residual afterimage the female Daoist had left in place!
How close! She’d nearly lost her life! Though she had escaped disaster, the female Daoist was drenched in a cold sweat!
Star Chen, missing his strike, performed an aerial step mid-air! The Phoenix Heaven Wings flapped a few times, and his body, which had been plummeting in a straight line, abruptly and bizarrely shifted its descent path. After tracing a strange Z-shaped arc, he instantly drifted far away!
The surge in energy intensity was immediately followed by an increase in speed! At this moment, Star Chen's and the female Daoist’s energy strengths were nearly equal.
However, Moon Shadow’s talent excelled in speed, and Star Chen, having merged with Moon Shadow’s energy and data, naturally inherited this characteristic. In terms of sheer velocity, Star Chen now far surpassed the female Daoist!
Furthermore, the integration of the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Style's charging characteristic allowed Star Chen to forge an unprecedented path in aerial combat.
Miss an attack, retreat immediately! Never giving the opponent any chance to counterattack.
Once sufficient distance was achieved, and enough potential energy for the charge was stored, he could launch the next wave of assault! This was the aerial combat philosophy Star Chen had mastered!
By the time the female Daoist reacted, Star Chen had already flown far out of reach. His speed was absurdly fast! Even Little Moon Spirit stared, slack-jawed!
"Damn it, this is a movement and sword technique." The female Daoist finally discerned something important! It was obvious the opponent was relying on astonishing speed and powerful Dou Qi energy to unleash wave after wave of charging attacks!
If she were struck by him, the consequences would be catastrophic!
And even if she managed to evade his attacks using her movement techniques, her opponent could use that momentum to increase the distance! He completely ignored her counterattacks! Because his speed was simply too overwhelming!
Meanwhile, although Little Moon Spirit possessed flying speed comparable to his, her attack intensity was only forty thousand points—not nearly enough to penetrate his defense!
Thoughts flashed in her mind! The female Daoist instantly envisioned the shadow of failure!
If this continued, she might truly meet a bitter end!
Since that was the case, she had no choice but to go all out!
Activate Soul Burning Level Three Dao Technique, boosting energy by six times to one hundred and twenty thousand! Release the Ultimate Skill, Level Three Dao Power Shield!
The increasingly violent pain, coupled with a head that felt ready to burst, made the female Daoist feel as if her very soul was being torn to shreds by the dreadful agony! Her fierce, contorted face even squeezed out tendrils of startling blood from the extreme tension!
This was the absolute limit the female Daoist could muster!
The moment the golden protective Dao Power Shield sprang up, all her Dao technique energy coalesced within the Profound Heaven Sword! Then, she shot towards the distant Star Chen like a bolt of lightning!
This was the final opportunity. The extreme state of Soul Burning Level Three—even with the female Daoist's robust spiritual power and extraordinary endurance—could only be sustained for five seconds!
No matter what, she had to defeat her opponent within these limited five seconds! Just one strike, just one hit with the Soul Fire Talisman saturated with all her mental Dao technique power, and she was certain she could blast him to pieces!
On the other side, Star Chen, having missed his sword strike, soared out over a hundred meters before executing another aerial step and suddenly changing direction!
Thanks to the special amplification effect of the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Style, an even more astonishing Dou Qi energy condensed within his body, far more violent and intense than before! It was almost nauseatingly potent!
Amidst a muffled roar! That purple afterimage suddenly exploded into a dazzling ball of seven-colored light, as magnificent as fiery clouds in a sunset! The entire sky seemed to be consumed by fierce flames! Accompanying this was a suffocating, dense killing intent! Then, the overwhelming, fiery red clouds, as if condensed and compressed by an invisible force, spun and danced before compressing into a single colossal red fireball! It hurtled forward!
At this moment, the third move of the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Style—"Moon Destruction, Star Sinking"—was finally unleashed!
The massive red sphere of light shrieked with piercing, distorted sounds due to its incredible Dou Qi intensity, and the very space around it was squeezed nearly to shattering by the astonishing aura, displaying strange distortions and ripples.
"Danger! Target Dou Qi intensity instantly spiked to one hundred and sixty thousand." The bio-electric alarm in his mind blared: "Sufficient to penetrate the Level Three Dao Power Shield."
"Blast it, another surge!" Little Moon Spirit’s delicate face instantly turned ashen! She cried out in alarm!
"What?" The female Daoist could hardly believe it! Her opponent had managed to boost his Dou Qi energy yet again in that instant! However, the female Daoist was already committed, with arrows on the string and no turning back; she had absolutely no room to dodge or retreat!
The enormous crimson sphere of light, like a blood-colored comet falling from the sky, trailed a scarlet, dazzling, gigantic streak across the dim, strange sky, colliding with the female Daoist with terrifying, world-destroying might! Moon Destruction, Star Sinking—the heavens and earth change color—this technique relies on absolute life-or-death stakes; there is no room for trickery!
In the blink of an eye, it rushed before the female Daoist!
"Sixth-Level Fire Talisman." Unable to evade, the female Daoist roared, and the Soul Fire Talisman, condensed with all her Dao technique energy and reaching an intensity of one hundred and twenty thousand, finally flew out!
"Moon Command Shockwave." And Little Moon Spirit, regardless of the consequences, launched her strongest Moon Command Shockwave.
This was the most desperate gamble, a fight to the death! The female Daoist had no room to fight or flee, and Little Moon Spirit was equally determined to risk her life!
Two golden beams instantly shot out, whistling through the air!
Rumble! Amidst a series of muffled explosions, they finally slammed into the blood-colored comet falling from the sky! Under the grim sky, a colossal circle of light burst forth instantly! It presented a distortion, a ripple of blurring light, as if a massive black hole had suddenly appeared in the void!
However, the golden light seemed like an easily shattered bubble, instantly pierced by the gigantic red sphere of light! And that world-destroying crimson sphere continued its charge, losing none of its speed! In a flash, it closed to within ten meters!
"Ah!" The female Daoist’s face turned ashen!
"No!" Little Moon Spirit cried out in despair!
As the red comet was about to strike!
But a sudden change occurred!
"Come back," a clear, ringing voice suddenly sounded, "My hero."
A flash of light enveloped the female Daoist and Little Moon Spirit!
With a whoosh, the two figures vanished!
Yes, they disappeared, vanishing out of thin air without warning!
At the critical moment, Aries Daoist finally unleashed his ultimate trump card!
As the female Daoist's master and husband, Aries Daoist still retained the final summoning authority! Summon Hero and Recall Hero!
But it was this last summoning authority that finally allowed the female Daoist to escape disaster! She was recalled into the nano-space within Aries Daoist’s mind!
Swish! The red comet passed right through the spot where she had been and then exploded violently on the ground!
Boom! Crash! Amidst earth-shattering explosions, the entire ground trembled madly, like a small nuclear bomb detonating. In the desert, there was a brief tear and distortion of space!
The astonishing blast shockwave rapidly spread outward! Grains of sand flew everywhere, as if the entire desert had been lifted hundreds of meters into the air in an instant, forming a gigantic, bizarre mushroom cloud!
And the terrifying blast wave slammed the ground-bound Aries Daoist, making him tumble and crawl as he was flung far away!
"Hurry and run," Aries Daoist, utterly disheveled, scrambled onto the back of the White Tiger!
Man and tiger bolted like the wind toward the distant horizon!
A long time later! The dust settled!
In the empty desert, only a solitary figure remained!
Struggling against a near-fainting dizziness and the Dou Qi energy inside him that felt ready to explode, Star Chen looked around blankly!
He couldn't believe that a strike he was certain of had gone awry! This almost drove Star Chen mad with frustration!
However, the high-intensity battle had pushed Star Chen to the brink of collapse! Both mentally and physically!
Helplessly, Star Chen suppressed his aura and quickly left the scene!
Wolong Villa Central Headquarters!
Amidst heavy breathing! The colossal body of the Fire Dragon resembled a slightly stirring volcano, exuding a terrible aura of destruction! On the other side of the crystal wall!
Xing Zhan intently scrutinized the mysterious and terrifying monster! Although this wasn't the first time he had seen it, and although he had spent several days with this dreadful creature separated only by the crystal wall!
Xing Zhan remained extremely curious about the giant, mysterious being!
Possessing unparalleled strength, yet being kept like a beast in this cramped space by Wolong Villa! What on earth was going on? It was hard to imagine what methods Wolong Villa used to restrain this terrifying behemoth!
Furthermore, what he had seen and heard over the past few days had also sparked intense curiosity in Xing Zhan about the true nature of Wolong Villa, giving him some vague understanding!
Whether it was Crescent Moon or the personal guards of those Guardians, they all possessed astonishing strength!
Any one of these individuals appearing on the Mara Continent would be a top-tier master; perhaps, except for Old Man, no one could stand against them. And even Old Man, without Moon Shadow’s help, might not be their match!
Yet, such a group of heaven-defying, enigmatic powerhouses were trapped within Wolong Villa, unable to step outside the compound for three thousand years!
What secret lay hidden within this?
Was it truly, as they claimed, because they couldn't adapt to the outside environment?
Everything in the main hall also struck Xing Zhan as incredibly novel!
The strange crystal wall that could automatically display patterns (Xing Zhan didn't know it was a large computer)
The beads that emitted light without relying on magic (those were electric lamps, electric lights)
The peculiar device that transmitted sound and images without spatial magic (that was a radio)
And even the strange machine that automatically dispensed hot, delicious beverages without magical heating (a coffee warmer)!
All of this far exceeded Xing Zhan's imagination; his common sense couldn't begin to comprehend it!
Mysterious monster, mysterious humans, mysterious tools!
What kind of existence was Wolong Villa, and what kind of civilization was the so-called Wolong Civilization?
Just as Xing Zhan was deep in thought!
A set of low footsteps sounded behind him! Without turning around, Xing Zhan already knew it was Crescent Moon!
"His Highness Xing Zhan, you have waited long enough." Crescent Moon’s tone sounded somewhat grave: "The Young Master wishes to see you."
"The Young Master." Xing Zhan sighed inwardly; it seemed the days of loafing around waiting for death were finally over.
"Please follow me." Crescent Moon directed.
For the first time in five days, Xing Zhan had the opportunity to leave the main hall!