bioinnovel Chapter 184 The Power of Severance, in the Name of Absolute Cutting!
Chapter 184 The Power of Severance, in the Name of Absolute Cutting!
"You're that strong?"
As soon as Xue Youyou said this, even though Guanghan Zhan was just a sword, Xue Youyou could still feel it rolling its eyes at her.
Immediately afterwards, a clear and familiar female voice rang in her ear. Guang Hanzhan's voice was deep and mature, and her tone was full of undisguised disdain: "As a beast tamer, you don't even know the strength of your own pet beast. Shouldn't you reflect on that?"
Xue Youyou snorted softly and replied matter-of-factly, "Who told you to be so withdrawn for so many days? You haven't used it in a long time. Even if I'm a genius beast tamer, I'll still get rusty."
Guanghan Zhan was silent for a moment, probably choked by her twisted logic.
Then, Xue Youyou paused, her joking expression fading, and changed the subject seriously, asking, "Have you figured it out now?"
What she asked was naturally the matter that Guanghanzhan had been confining himself in the pet space for the past few days, pondering deeply. Unexpectedly, this seclusion lasted for several days.
Guanghan Zhan was silent for a moment, then sighed softly: "I understand, but I don't really understand."
Xue Youyou blinked, puzzled, and asked, "What do you mean? Does that mean you understand, or you don't?"
Guanghan Zhan looked as if it wanted to say something but hesitated, the moonlight on the sword flashing on and off, as if reflecting its turbulent emotions at this moment.
After a long silence, it spoke again, its voice lowered: "I think I've figured it out. But... I hope I'm wrong, Youyou..."
The last two words were pronounced exceptionally lightly and with an unusually lingering tone, as if they had been held on the tip of the tongue for a long time before being released.
Xue Youyou immediately got goosebumps all over her body.
When did Guanghan Zhan ever call her name in such a sticky, mushy tone?
Xue Youyou suppressed her awkwardness and asked, "What's wrong? You look preoccupied?"
I won't tell.
"...Then I won't say."
Xue Youyou decisively gave up asking further questions.
She never liked to force people to do things they didn't want to do, and the same went for her pets. Since Guanghan Zhan didn't want to talk now, she would wait until it wanted to.
Guanghan Zhan chuckled enigmatically, "Hehe... Such ladylike behavior, you know."
"..."
Just as the two of them were chatting idly, oblivious to everyone else, Su Yao's face had turned extremely grim thirty meters away in the air.
Its alluring and beautiful face was now clouded with rage, the veins on its forehead throbbing, and its eight carefully groomed tails were standing on end because of its suppressed anger, making it look like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
At the crucial moment of a life-or-death battle, the opponent was actually able to chat and laugh with his pet beast.
This incredible sense of relaxation is clearly saying—you're such a weakling.
Undoubtedly, this is a super humiliation for this high-ranking, superior super-reliever, who comes from a higher state, was born into a top power, possesses the noble bloodline of the Qingqiu fox clan, and has lived for over a thousand years!
"Enough—!"
Su Yao let out a low growl, suppressed to the extreme, her fox eyes blazing with almost insane rage. Her sleeves billowed, her eight tails thrashed behind her, and the remaining orange foxfire around her burned wildly, coalescing behind her into a hundred-meter-tall orange flame fox phantom.
The grotesque phantom of the demonic fox roared silently to the sky, tearing the clouds within a radius of several miles to shreds with its violent surge of energy, even dimming the moonlight.
"These inhabitants from a mere lower-level state, relying on their contract with a divine beast still in its growth stage, think they can be so arrogant as to come here—"
Su Yao's voice was no longer calm and composed as before; instead, it was a shrill roar born of utter rage: "Today I'll show you that even divine beasts can't save you from your arrogance!"
Before the words were even finished, it swung its arms forward with a sudden burst. The hundred-meter-tall orange-flame fox phantom behind it responded, opening its massive, sky-covering maw of flames, carrying an aura of destruction capable of burning the entire world, and lunged fiercely at Xue Youyou.
This attack was delivered by Su Yao without holding back.
Xue Youyou withdrew her gaze and turned to look at the orange-flame fox demon rushing towards her. The firelight flickered gracefully in her icy pupils, but it could not melt the crystal-clear snowflake on her eye.
"Go forth, Guanghan Zhan, let this fox see your power."
She spoke softly, as if she were saying something very ordinary to an old friend.
Guanghan Zhan did not respond. It spoke through its actions.
On the ice-crystal-covered sword, layers of moon-white patterns lit up, echoing the cold, bright moon in the sky. A more profound, annihilating sword intent, even deeper than before, slowly awakened from the sword, spreading silently in all directions like a freezing tide that chills everything.
[Orange Skill - Taiyin Nine Chapters]
Guanghan Slash is the strongest slashing skill, with extreme penetration and extreme damage.
Xue Youyou reached out and lightly grasped the sword hilt; the hundred-meter-long giant sword felt as light as a feather in her hand. She took a deep breath and slowly raised the Guanghan Sword above her head.
At this moment, the moonlight and the sword light became indistinguishable.
The next instant, she drew her sword.
The first sword.
The hundred-meter-long giant sword, imbued with the radiance of the moon, slashed down fiercely, its blade colliding violently with the fiery maw of the demon fox phantom in mid-air.
Without any stalemate or tug-of-war, the Orange Flame Fox's flames, powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas, were extinguished silently the moment they touched the sword's edge. They were not blown away or neutralized, but were fundamentally decomposed and annihilated by a higher form of energy.
The second sword strike.
The phantom fox disintegrated inch by inch under the sword's edge, scattering into countless sparks like fireflies. However, the sword's momentum did not diminish; the moonlight sword energy continued its relentless advance, slashing straight towards Su Yao.
Su Yao hastily retreated, her eight tails whipping around to create eight layers of foxfire barriers in front of her. However, this was futile against the near-perfect penetration of the Guanghan Slash.
The sword flashed silently, shattering the eight-layered barrier with ease.
The third sword, the fourth sword, the fifth sword...
Xue Youyou unleashed eight consecutive slashes, each one hitting the same spot precisely—the base of Su Yao's tail.
No one could see how many swords she unleashed; all they saw were countless orange fox tails snapped off at the root like harvested rice stalks, falling piece by piece from the sky. With each severed tail, Su Yao's aura plummeted, and by the time the eighth sword struck, she had almost lost even the ability to maintain her flight.
The power of the Qingqiu Fox originates entirely from its tails. Severing all eight tails is equivalent to losing all its power.
Su Yao's face was ashen, and for the first time, genuine fear appeared in her fox-like eyes.
It never imagined that its mighty, ultimate strength would be so fragile and vulnerable in front of the Ten-Slaying Divine Beast.
However, Xue Youyou's sword did not stop.
The ninth sword strike, the final strike of the Taiyin Nine Chapters, is also the most concentrated and destructive of all nine strikes. If all nine strikes hit, they can directly trigger a lunar explosion, blasting the opponent to smithereens.
The moonlight condensed into an extremely thin silver line on the sword's edge, sweeping towards Su Yao's neck.
Su Yao closed her eyes in despair.
This sword strike was unavoidable and unblockable.
however--
hum!
The sword's edge abruptly changed direction just an inch from its throat. The silver line, powerful enough to cleave mountains, grazed Su Yao's earlobe and silently sliced an unnamed hill hundreds of meters behind her into a smooth, mirror-like surface, without even a single fragment falling.
Su Yao opened her eyes in a daze, the chilling sound of the sword blade still lingering in her ears. She saw Xue Youyou's icy eyes calmly watching her, without killing intent, without pity, only an indescribable indifference.
"you……"
Su Yao opened her mouth, only to find her voice terribly hoarse. All eight of its tails had been severed, its body utterly empty; for the first time in a thousand years, it felt what "weakness" truly meant. Yet it did not die. At the last moment, its opponent spared it.
"Why?" it asked with difficulty.
Xue Youyou tilted her head, as if she thought the question was redundant: "I'm just here to challenge them, not to kill them."
She paused, then gave a faint smile: "Besides, strictly speaking, I haven't actually killed a beast tamer or a pet yet, so I don't want to give you this precious first time."