The four of them surged with power, their radiance dazzling. As their energies flowed together, the very space trembled. The combined force of the four rushed towards the coloured-pattern killing spider with world-shaking sharpness.
Ruoshui and the others fixed their gazes coldly. Their power continued to pour out. With three heaven and earth artifacts combined with Ruoshui’s own strength, terrifying trajectories formed in the sky, binding the coloured-pattern killing spider.
The killing spider erupted with torrential killing aura. The aura carried a bone-chilling yin-cold force. As it surged, it felt as though it could tear out a person’s primordial spirit. Hissing sounds emerged from its body. Under the four’s combined assault, the overwhelming killing aura was forcibly confined to the centre.
“Crush it!” Seeing the coloured-pattern killing spider restrained, the empire’s prince shouted. The Asura Thousand Transformations in his hand burst with vast golden light, shooting straight towards the spider.
Struck by this scorching radiance, the coloured-pattern killing spider thrashed wildly. Its killing aura clashed against the golden light, producing sizzling sounds and white smoke that rose like something being scorched.
“Use your full strength! Blast it to death!”
Seeing the effect, the empire’s prince roared loudly. He also shouted to the many cultivators still on the periphery.
Ruoshui and the cultivators knew that only by joining forces could they escape this calamity. They attacked frantically, pushing their power to the absolute limit. Spiritual energy collided against killing aura. The two opposing forces clashed, whipping up violent hurricanes.
The hurricanes swept outward, destroying what had once been a clear, paradise-like space. The jade stone ground was crushed into powder.
Everyone unleashed their strongest power against the killing spider. The spider refused to yield, counterattacking with equally ferocious and terrifying means.
In the midst of it all, Ye Chu witnessed a scene that made his scalp tingle. Every terrifying surge of power that could numb one’s head crashed towards this coloured-pattern killing spider. The spider swept its eight legs in response, unleashing heart-shaking killing aura attacks.
This was a collision of peerless forces. Radiance blazed brilliantly, blinding and dazzling. Under the impact of these two opposing powers, the entire tomb shook violently, the intensity almost unbelievable.
“Hiss…”
A spider’s roar erupted. This seven-coloured spider went completely berserk. Its radiance flared even brighter. The torrential killing aura struck a great cultivator.
He barely had time to resist. In just one breath, his entire body turned into white bones. His primordial spirit was wrapped in killing aura and dragged straight into the coloured-pattern killing spider’s mouth.
The Three-Yin Coloured Pattern Killing Spider possessed the divine ability to counter primordial spirits. Naturally, it could devour them as well.
“Die!”
Seeing one cultivator die just like that, everyone went mad. The light surging from their bodies grew even more intense as they pressed down relentlessly.
The coloured-pattern killing spider was terrifying. It withstood these torrential attacks single-handedly. Its aura was greatly diminished, yet Ruoshui and the others did not fare well either. One by one, their faces turned deathly pale. In such a fierce exchange, none of them felt any confidence.
Ruoshui wanted to completely obliterate the coloured-pattern killing spider. She could not help stepping forward. Her figure danced gracefully. Radiance exploded from her body in ten thousand zhang, carrying torrential power that surged with heart-shaking majesty. Even Ji Die and the others felt their hearts tremble at the sight.
Only now did they truly realise just how powerful this woman was. Powerful beyond human limits.
With ten tenths of her power capable of shaking mountains, Ruoshui struck towards the coloured-pattern killing spider. Her force was torrential, her radiance boundless.
This strike was terrifying. When it landed on the coloured-pattern killing spider, the spider instantly weakened noticeably. Even its seven-coloured light dimmed. This made the crowd overjoyed. They could not help cheering as their attacks grew even fiercer.
The coloured-pattern killing spider’s body turned ferocious. All eight legs shot out simultaneously. From within its body, seven-coloured rays burst forth like lightning, carrying an incomparably heart-palpitating aura as they shot towards Ruoshui.
Ruoshui had just unleashed her peerless strike and was already weakened. She could not dodge such lightning-fast killing aura. The seven-coloured killing threads wrapped around her and seeped into her body.
“Pfft…”
Ruoshui spat blood and flew backwards. Her entire face turned pale. Red swelling appeared across her body, yet a halo of light flowed over her, quickly eliminating the swelling.
The killing aura was eroding her, attempting to corrode Ruoshui. But the halo within her body resisted, blocking the killing spider’s invasion.
Ruoshui crashed to the ground. Qing Wenting’s heart tightened, her expression changing drastically. Seeing the coloured-pattern killing spider suddenly weakened by several degrees, its light dimmed, she immediately understood what power the spider had just used.
As Ye Chu approached Ruoshui, Qing Wenting shouted loudly, “Do not go near her! The killing spider used its essence core to heavily injure her. The killing aura clinging to her right now is the most terrifying kind.”
Ye Chu’s expression changed. Naturally, he knew how terrifying the killing spider’s essence core would be. Looking at Ruoshui, whose body constantly swelled and subsided, Ye Chu could not suppress his curiosity. With the killing spider’s essence invading her, even if she had some mysterious power inside her, her body should begin to rot and ulcerate. Yet she was resisting. Just what kind of force existed within this woman’s body that could prevent the corrosion?
“Hiss…” The killing spider once again erupted with terrifying killing aura. Without Ruoshui, the strongest among them, no one could withstand it. Another great cultivator was swept up by the killing aura and turned into white bones.
Qing Wenting and the others had no choice but to dodge aside.
Everyone’s faces turned ashen. Some could not help trembling. Everyone knew this killing spider was now beyond their ability to handle.
Killing aura swept towards Ye Chu. Qing Wenting’s expression changed drastically. She wanted to pull Ye Chu away, but one of the killing spider’s legs swept towards her, forcing her to evade.
“Ye Chu…” Qing Wenting shouted, her eyes turning bloodshot. Ye Chu could withstand ordinary killing aura, that was true, but this killing aura came directly from the spider’s eruption. Even great cultivators were no match for it in its presence.
Everyone thought Ye Chu was doomed. Yet to their astonishment, although the killing aura entering Ye Chu’s body twisted his face and turned him deathly pale, he remained unharmed.
Amid everyone’s shock and disbelief, Ye Chu’s gaze fell on Ruoshui. At this moment, Ruoshui’s body continued to swell and subside. Her form had been tormented to the point of looking somewhat grotesque. Ye Chu thought to himself that even if Ruoshui had some mysterious power inside her, if this continued, it would be enough to torment her to death.
Naturally, he would not stand by and watch Ruoshui die. He reached out, grabbed Ruoshui, and pulled her to his side.
“Do not!” Not only Qing Wenting shouted, but everyone else could not help warning Ye Chu. This goddess-like woman had been invaded by the killing spider’s essence core. Touching her was courting death. “Ye Chu! Let go quickly!”
“I am going to save her!” Ye Chu ignored Qing Wenting’s warning. The words he spoke left everyone stunned. They found it laughable. Even a figure like her could not save herself. On what basis could he save her?
Yet no one could have imagined what happened next. Ye Chu lifted the peerlessly graceful woman in his arms. He leaned down, and his lips pressed against her cherry-like lips.
This scene left everyone dumbfounded, including Qing Wenting and Ji Die.
“This brat is courting death! Even at a time like this, he still thinks of taking advantage of the goddess! Taking advantage of her vulnerability, what a beast!”
“…”
Such thoughts surged through everyone’s minds. Ji Die’s usually calm eyes finally showed a change. Her cold and proud beautiful face grew even more aloof. “Just like three years ago. His true nature never changes!”