
Xie Ruo, standing motionlessly looked at the foreign woman in front of him. The woman protected the king and the elders from the explosion with the barrier, so they only sustained harmless injuries. While that woman looked fine, just like Xie Ruo.
The sky blue dress that dangled down was still so clean. He looked no older than Xie Ruo, with a stern and flaming look. Looking at Xie Ruo, he narrowed his eyes.
"You look a bit like your brother" he said.
Xie Ruo frowned. Judging from her strength, she should have been Goddess Ling who was called the true leader of Lingyue Palace. He had never met the woman, how could he know about her 'brother'?
The woman pulled the barrier protecting her stupid subordinates. Then evict them away using the aura he let out. His aura was no less powerful than Xie Ruo's aura.
Xie Ruo slightly pulled the corner of his lips, it seemed like he was going to find a commensurate opponent. He had been waiting for it for a long time.
"I'm the leader of Lingyue Palace, Ling Yi."
Xie Ruo tilted his head. "I thought you would proclaim yourself a goddess by introducing yourself as Goddess Ling."
"That's just an idiot. After all, I am nothing compared to a true goddess." There was no expression whatsoever on his face, looking flat and cold with a deep look.
"I don't think you're down." Xie Ruo sneered as he folded his hands together.
"No, because my hope is in sight. Xie Ruo, your pure energy is not yours, why can't I take it too?"
"You know that?" Xie Ruo felt this Ling Yi was unusual. How do you know the secret?
"Because the pure energy is mine, nor is it from myself. Even so, we are different. Your pure energy training isn't perfect, whereas I'm different."
"You intend to test it? Although I am not the owner of genuine pure energy, and my training is not perfect, what can you do? In the end, I'm still not something you can think of."
"I knew. The descendants of the last dragon god, the heir to the divinity of the dragon god, and the soul who was transferred twice from another world. Is that enough?"
Xie Ruo's calm rapture turned serious. How did that woman know so much? He was sure no one could tell. Even his friends don't know that much. Who told him?
Ling Yi continued, "Xie Ruo, no need to be surprised. It's just, someone you shouldn't have offended, told me everything about you, including your whereabouts. Otherwise, I couldn't possibly know that 'Xie Ran' that time turned out to be you."
"Who is he?" Xie Ruo was curious. He did not offend someone who knew all his secrets. What is Bai Long? But Bai Long is dead. Who else knows all that?
"Unfortunately, this person did not want to be named. All you need to know is that he won't let you go, no matter who protects you even if it's a god. In the end, you will fall into regret."
Perhaps if it was just then, Xie Ruo would consider the remark to be just a mere joke. But now, he was actually acting so seriously. It is not just a warning, but a threat. A person who holds a grudge without cause to him, let alone someone is still a secret and unknown, it is much more terrifying.
"Did you order your dogs to bring me here just for this?" Xie Ruo did not want to take too long anymore. He has to find out who is behind all this. Even until Ling Yi hid it, that person should not be an ordinary person.
"As I said, the pure energy I have is not really mine. We are the same, stealing it from others which means that our pure energy can move from one body to another. Therefore, I give you a choice, give your pure energy to me and move on, or die from being absorbed by force."
Transferring pure energy from one body to another, was just like transferring one's strength to another's body. The concept was the same as the spirit absorption that Xiao Haozu had when fighting with Hydra. A person who was absorbed would become useless, and repeat cultivation, or worse experience death.
Only, the case of Xie Ruo and Xie Ran was different. The pure energy had completely fused with Xie Ruo's dragon aura, so that when his soul switched bodies, Xie Ran's pure energy was carried along with Xie Ruo's soul.
But, the cultivation that Xie Ruo trained during becoming Xie Ran and his pure body was still attached to Xie Ran's body. That was why Xie Ruo had to cultivate from the start. It can't be called stealing, because it can't be changed.
Since Ling Yi's strength was quite strong, plus no matter how much strength he absorbed, Xie Ruo had to be careful and kill him quickly. People like this should not be allowed to live longer.
"Xie Ruo, make your choice." Ling Yi was still as calm as before.
Xie Ruo looked at Ling Yi sharply. "If you want it, show me if you deserve it." Xie Ruo took out an elemental spirit sword that resonated with the cold flames in his hand, a sign he was ready to fight.
"Very excited." Ling Yi smiled in anguish. His hand took out a long stick with the tip of the crystal that emitted a bright beam.
Ling Yi's wand was stomped to the ground, pushing the magic within the wand to rise and form crystal flakes in the air. Those crystals had an amount that was not small, they were like sharp and shiny spines that were ready to pierce through anyone's body.
Ling Yi's main magic was immortal crystals. Crystals that are indestructible and extremely hard. Crystal magic was extremely rare, barely discoverable as well as possessing a level of strength that trickled through nature. It can form anything according to the will of the owner, both weapons to living things.
Thousands of tiny crystals scattered in the air like the wind, forming a shot towards Xie Ruo. Each shot comes into contact with the object or ground, creating another larger, pointed piece of crystal, attached to the object like a parasite.
Ling Yi was only silent at the spot controlling his crystal which had already made the surroundings become chunks of crystal. There were even some palace disciples who were hit by the attack, became chunks of crystal and died.
Ignoring the lingyue palace disciples scattered everywhere and shouting, Xie Ruo was busy fending off every flying crystal everywhere. The crystal shot had its own count to prepare for the launch, along with all of the crystals that fell and became monstrous chunks.
Xie Ruo dodged precisely based on the crystal shot pause and teleported towards Ling Yi. When he reached behind Ling Yi, the woman instantly realized and aimed her staff.
Swords and sticks are stuck together. Ling Yi's scepter took out a spear-shaped crystal and attacked Xie Ruo. Cold flames instantly devoured him, then scattered all over the sword passage until Ling Yi's crystal staff heated up.
Ling Yi's hand flushed red from the cold flames that were creeping through and made his staff boil. He instantly retreated, then created a layer of crystals to withstand the onslaught of fireballs that rained down on him.
A white fireball the size of a head shot out like thousands of meteors. They hit the crystal fire and replaced the crystal-filled ground into a freezing cold blaze.
Cold flames are not just the hottest flames. As the name implies, it can get very cold and freeze like ice. At the same time, a sensation of heat and cold will appear that can make anyone suffering better to die than live.
Ling Yi felt very upset that his attacks continued to be thwarted. Although immortal crystals cannot be destroyed because they are part of a real illusory attack. But Xie Ruo's cold flames were more ferocious and replaced the immortal crystal reaction with cold flames just like that.
In order to avoid Xie Ruo's fire attack, Ling Yi's back took out a crystal wing that carried him flying high. With each flap of wings, sharp crystals slid in the wind towards Xie Ruo on the ground.
Spiky crystals in an enlarged size hit the ground, plunging into the ground and destroying the freezing cold flames without any residue.
Ling Yi was in a favorable position because it was in the sky, whereas Xie Ruo could not fly unless he became a dragon. But Xie Ruo was not out of sense. He leaped onto each remaining pillar as a pedestal to grab the sky, then teleported while piling his feet with air against gravity.
Behind Xie Ruo, a huge crystal was catching up so Xie Ruo had to accelerate his pace and teleport to the maximum in midair. Suddenly some crystals also attacked him from the front with incredible speed until Xie Ruo had to teleport in the other direction.
Ling Yi intended to trap Xie Ruo from all sides until he could not dodge and die. Plagued by thousands of immortal crystals, anyone had no chance of life or speech to reveal the final request.
Crystals glide from various sides, both front and back, right and left, top and bottom without giving a gap. Using a trap technique like this was Ling Yi's plan after taking out the crystal wings to lure Xie Ruo into the sky. Just when Xie Ruo teleported to one point, he would not be able to run anywhere anymore.
And sure enough, when Xie Ruo had just appeared thousands of crystals surrounded him from various sides without giving a gap. The crystals glided at high speed, whereas Xie Ruo had no other choice but to continue advancing and resisting gravity towards the thousands of crystals.
Xie Ruo did not stop despite knowing he would be torn apart if he continued forward. His gaze was cold, with a silver light that became a trace of his trajectory. In the next instant, thousands of crystals clashed together creating a powerful explosion accompanied by fog that was the effect of the crystal collision explosion.
Xie Ruo was invisible. Ling Yi widened her smile with a satisfied look.