Yin Shui'er was startled by the gunshot from the mountain, and her legs involuntarily weakened. The punch she threw also lost some of its force.
This punch only blocked the headless ghoul for 0.4 seconds.
Then, she was pounced upon.
Yin Shui'er looked at the skull that wasn't there, her apricot-shaped pupils filled with a deathly pallor.
Was she going to die?
The bodies of the two froze in mid-air.
The headless ghoul's claws had already reached her neck.
It was at this moment that spatial turbulence surged, and a bronze metal bullet flew in.
As the two figures fell freely, the bullet struck the headless ghoul's chest, and dark green blood bloomed like an eerie flower between them.
If Yin Shui'er's punch had been slightly stronger, blocking for 0.5 seconds, then the bullet would have, as Xu Mu had worried, entered her heart.
But all of this was within Gray-White Eye's calculations.
Thump!
A bloody red hole appeared in the headless ghoul's chest, and it instantly lost its life.
Yin Shui'er noticed this, as the ghoul, despite pouncing on her, had no further actions.
She didn't know who was helping her, but there was no time to think. She quickly pushed away the headless ghoul, picked up the lantern and copper bell from the ground, and began to shake them vigorously. The clear ringing of the bell repelled the white bones beneath the house, and the lantern's golden light seared the green-haired ghoul beside her.
The smell of burnt corpses wafted through the air, and the ghoul was thus completely dead.
Yin Shui'er, her face pale, endured the smell of burnt flesh and moved the lantern to the eaves to further drive away the ghoul, while also feeling confused.
Just now, there was a loud noise from an unknown direction, she hadn't noticed.
Then, did Ao Lang, who had just fled, have a change of heart and come back to help her?
Thinking of this, Yin Shui'er shook her head. That was impossible. The guy had fled so eagerly that he hadn't even taken these two spirit-warding artifacts with him. By now, he was probably galloping out of Gui Ye on horseback, how could he possibly come back to save her?
Then who was it?
As she was in doubt, the antelope great demon within the elemental water sphere in the sky was also nearing its end. Just as Yin Shui'er had thought, even ghouls needed to breathe, and the antelope great demon's massive size meant it needed even more oxygen.
This was not an underwater tunnel, so it was about to suffocate.
"Another one has arrived, are you going to make a move?"
Xu Mu sensed the ghoul's fluctuations and then discovered from the direction of the western mountain that another sable-shaped great demon was flying over. It was wrapped in darkness, and its beak was longer than half its body.
And most importantly, it was flying towards the water sphere in the sky. Everyone was stunned, was it going to save the antelope great demon?
Xu Mu chuckled and shook his head. These beasts without self-awareness knew how to rescue their companions, yet the person outside was constantly talking about the survival of the fittest.
"I say, are you going to get so angry that you'll slaughter it too."
The shadow materialized into Xu Mu's appearance, sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking at the pair of gray-white eyes with some amusement.
"If I may be so bold, looking at this fierce bird, it doesn't seem like it's going to save it..."
Not receiving a reply from the main entity, Charles coughed twice.
The mutated great sable flew in the air with incredible speed. Its long, sharp beak pierced the water sphere.
By then, Yin Shui'er had no energy to adjust the surface water flow resistance, so it shattered upon contact.
Dense elemental water energy poured down, cascading into the air like a waterfall.
The next second, the antelope great demon breathed fresh air, but then, as Charles had predicted, it wasn't there to save its companion.
The sable demon's eyes were too ferocious. So ferocious that even after breaking the water prison, it didn't stop flying. Its sharp beak directly pierced the antelope great demon's neck, and dark green blood splattered, a gruesome scene.
Meeeee...
The water prison shattered, and the antelope great demon's neck also broke. It let out a painful cry and then fell heavily from the sky onto the ground.
Having drawn blood, the sable demon still wouldn't let it go. Battles between demons were only about life and death, so it withdrew its beak and fiercely stabbed down again.
The beak, sharp as a knife, descended. Although the antelope great demon lacked intelligence, it knew how to fight back. Facing this stinking bird ten times smaller than itself, it powerfully kicked forward with its forelegs, thick as a century-old tree.
With a bang, the foreleg struck the mutated great sable. Due to the vast difference in size, their strength was not on the same level. With a single blow, the great sable demon was sent flying dozens of meters.
Thump!
At the critical moment, the sable demon spread its wings to protect itself. Every feather in its wings was as hard as steel, so it wasn't severely injured.
Amidst the flying dust, it took advantage of the antelope great demon not having stood up and immediately charged forward like lightning, kicking up a cloud of dust.
But this time, it didn't succeed, because the antelope's speed was also fast. Even though its neck was pierced, it had enough spirit to turn its massive yet not clumsy, coiled horns.
The sharp, mutated beak failed to pierce the antelope great demon's body, instead hitting its hard, coiled horns.
As a result, a crack appeared on the antelope's coiled horns, but the sable demon's beak was also dulled considerably. The antelope great demon stood up and struggled fiercely, its neck wound bleeding profusely.
The antelope charged, and the great sable dared not confront it head-on. It dodged and weaved, flying above the antelope's head, its sharp claws leaving several bloody gashes on its body.
Bang bang bang bang!
The two stage-two mutated great demons continuously clashed, using their most primitive and wildest methods. They relied solely on their feathers and horns to try and kill each other.
Dark energy leaked from space, and fierce winds howled. The two figures moved up and down, fighting on the ground or in the air. Claws tore at iron feathers, and coiled horns shattered bones. They fought from east to west, and then the battlefield expanded into Heyano Village. Fragile houses and buildings collapsed in an instant, dust filled the sky, and some villagers who had not managed to evacuate were tragically killed.
In just a short moment, half of Heyano Village was destroyed.
Under the pressure of this level of combat, the more than two hundred ghouls all scrambled to evade. Engaged in combat of this caliber was too astonishing; anyone caught in the crossfire would surely die a gruesome death.
Yin Shui'er also hid behind an inconspicuous wall. She hadn't expected that a second stage-two mutated great demon would break through the blockade and arrive here. After breaking her water prison, it had actually started fighting with the antelope great demon!
"It seems demons aren't as emotional as you think," Bai Tong said indifferently, clearly responding to Xu Mu's earlier taunt.
But even so, Xu Mu, watching from the Heavenly Palace, didn't feel any embarrassment. Although some people had died, Yin Shui'er had survived. Most importantly, if the two of them hadn't fought, more people would have died tonight.
Compared to human lives, what did it matter if he lost some face from being ridiculed?
He opened his mouth nonchalantly and said:
"Ah, yes, yes, yes!"
"Anyway, fewer deaths are always a good thing. When the two of them are both badly injured, you can take the opportunity to shoot them one by one, and tonight will be considered a success."
Faced with his shamelessness, Gray-White Eye had no choice but to frown and shake his head. How much longer would these days last? Would he have to share a body with this guy forever, with their consciousnesses still connected?
Just as he was about to refuse to shoot the two great demons, two more auras surged from the sky.
Not ghouls, but evolved humans.
Xu Mu in the Heavenly Palace naturally detected them as well. Following the shadow's field of vision, he spotted a familiar figure five hundred meters away.
"Liang Chen?" Xu Mu looked surprised. Hadn't this kid run away? Why was he here instead of going back to Buluo City? Was he here to eliminate evil for the people?
Thinking of his previous actions, Xu Mu shook his head. It would be good enough if this kid didn't turn around and help the ghouls kill people.
"Stage-two ability user."
Xu Mu, with gray-white eyes, turned his head expressionlessly, a flicker of disappointment in his eyes. He could sense the hostility from the two, although he didn't know why.
But once he knew their strength, he lost interest in understanding them, because with such strength, they wouldn't last three rounds under him.
Rumble!
Just then, the battle in the village finally reached a conclusion. Although the antelope great demon had the advantage in strength, it had lost the initiative and lacked alchemical potions and altars like Feng Tianzhu's to recover from its injuries.
Ghouls also bled and died from fatal wounds, it was just that they were harder to inflict fatal wounds upon compared to ordinary creatures.
Thump!
The antelope great demon's corpse crashed down, smashing into a cluster of houses. Faint cries could still be heard from the village. Yin Shui'er cautiously peeked out.
"Is it over?"
Screeeech!
A clear cry answered her question. The sable demon flew into the air, its iron-like arrow feathers stained with腥 green blood, its badge of honor.
But the next second, Yin Shui'er was confused, because after killing the antelope great demon, this sable demon didn't care about the remaining villagers. Even though her lantern had lit up, the sable demon ignored her and instead sped towards a hillside outside the village at an extremely fast pace?
The next second, Yin Shui'er understood. She remembered that she had almost been ambushed and killed on the rooftop earlier, and someone had supported her from a distance with their ability.
So this sable demon was going to find that person now.
"Can that person defeat this stage-two great demon?"
Yin Shui'er's clear eyebrows were filled with worry. She did her best to make the lantern shine brighter, trying to offer some support to the person on the hillside, or at least see who that person was, what they looked like.
However, she was not Charles, she did not have the infinite sight of mechanical eyes, nor Xu Mu's shadow ability, which could see in the dark.
She was currently just an ability user who had exhausted her ammunition. Her visible distance was very limited.
So Yin Shui'er could only see what seemed to be a blurry shadow on the mountain.
She couldn't recognize who it was, it was so blurry that she couldn't even be sure if it was a person or a strangely shaped rock.
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