Chapter 80: The Blooming Ice Butterfly

  "I'll hold them off, you two get out of here!!" Elinda struggled to her feet, pushing Tang Yan away, and without another word, charged forward towards the pale scholar. Her body was severely injured, with no hope of survival left, but before her life slipped away, she wanted to give Tang Yan and Du Yang a chance to escape.

  "Let's go back, we haven't reached the point of sending ourselves to death yet... Hmm? Hei Niang, help me protect her!" Tang Yan was about to stop Ailinda when he noticed a burly man not far away. This person was most affected by Bing Die, with more than half his body frozen in ice. His current situation was extremely miserable.

  "Three seconds, finish him!!" Du Yang understood Tang Yan's intention, let out a loud roar, and his spiritual power surged forth. The violent Stone Forest reappeared, blocking the old woman and the other three people outside.

  "Soul confusing! Fierce tiger! I'll let you know why the flowers are so red today!" Tang Yan displayed his mysterious shadow martial arts, instantly approaching, two large seal marks rushing towards that second-grade Wu Zong.

  His face changed greatly, with more than half of his body frozen in ice, and his movements were affected. He couldn't withstand Tang Yan's attack at all, turned around and was about to flee, but the effects of Golden Butterfly and Fierce Tiger hit him one after another, causing his body to burst with ice shards and blood splashing everywhere.

  "Bastard!!" The man's expression suddenly turned ferocious, a surge of turbulent earthy aura swept across the sky, as if a howling tidal wave had engulfed Tang Yan. These dust particles were purely condensed spiritual energy, capable of producing a sealing effect, just like the stone forest that Du Yang had created earlier, which was frozen stiff by them.

  In the distance on the high platform, Tang Ming Jing and others were breathing rapidly, watching the chaotic battlefield with tension. When Tang Yan was buried by the earth wave, their hearts directly rose to their throats.

  Hoo-hoo-hoo!! The dust quickly gathered and converged towards the central area, condensing at an astonishing speed.

  "Ah!!" A cold and evil aura suddenly surged out, a grayish light column shattered the earth waves, with an unstoppable momentum piercing through space.

  Due to the influence of the Soul Seal, this person's consciousness was somewhat confused and couldn't dodge at all. As a result... Puchi... The Light of Annihilation not only pierced through Turang, but also accurately penetrated his skull, with thick blood splashing across the sky.

  "What the...?! What kind of freaky thing is this?!" In the distant high platform, everyone gasped in shock. One hit and a second-tier Martial Ancestor was instantly killed? This was somewhat excessively abnormal!

  "Have you found the problem? Tang Yan and Du Yang are only first-class martial artists, they can't withstand this level of battle at all, but they're still safe and sound until now." Yang Ruyan's eyes were fixed intently on the battlefield.

  Yang Xingwei nodded slowly: "That's right, every martial skill they displayed consumes a huge amount of spiritual power. Normally, three consecutive times would be the limit, but they seem to always maintain their abundant spiritual power."

  On other high platforms, calm people also discovered this most unthinkable thing one after another.

  "Look closely, every time Du Yang uses his martial skills, he swallows something!"

  "That's right, Tang Yan also swallowed, Du Yang was the most frequent."

  "What's inside that jade bottle?"

  "Could it be some kind of elixir?"

  Many family members' eyes began to burn with desire, the elixirs that could quickly replenish the consumed spiritual energy were enough to make anyone's heart move. With them, when facing an opponent of the same level, they would almost be invincible.

  "There are four more! Elinda Master, you take care of that leper first, and the other three will be ours!" Tang Yan swallowed a vial of Spiritual Source Liquid, and the surging spiritual energy spread throughout his body, rapidly nourishing his parched meridians.

  At this moment, I finally saw a glimmer of hope!

  "Can she?" The white-faced scholar let out a cold hum, the silver gun's light flickered, and a terrifying impact force poured into Elynda's entire body. Already covered in wounds, Elynda was sent flying on the spot.

  How is this possible!! Tang Yan and Du Yang's faces changed drastically as they rushed over to guard Elynda.

  Ailin spat out a large mouthful of blood, her breathing was already in disarray and her slender body trembled uncontrollably.

  They never thought that her injuries would be so severe!

  "Swallow the Spirit Source Liquid!!" Tang Yan finally panicked, gesturing to Du Yang to guard, and hastily took out the Spirit Source Liquid and stuffed it into Ailin's mouth: "Hold on, kill a few of them, we can escape, hold on!"

  Ailin's voice was hoarse with phlegm: "I'll give you one last chance, seize the opportunity and escape!!"

  "Don't spout nonsense, the three of us combined are the strongest!!" Tang Yan felt his heart racing with anxiety as he hurriedly helped Eirin eliminate the remaining lightning from her abdominal wound.

  "I... really... can't hold on anymore..." Elinda coughed up blood continuously, her consciousness starting to fade.

  "For Pete's sake!! You're hurt this badly, why didn't you say so earlier?!" Tang Yan was anxious and a bit irritated, earlier Ailin had rushed up without hesitation, thinking her injuries weren't severe, but now it seemed...

  "Airlia, this is your last chance, give up your resistance!" Rachel and Liu Weihua chased after her.

  Ailing and weak, Erlinda struggled to her feet: "What kind of last chance are you offering me? Mercy? Or imprisonment? What guarantees can you make?"

  Rachel was speechless, after all, she was of a lowly status and couldn't decide Elinda's life or death.

  Ailinda looked around at the dense crowd of 'spectators', smiled wryly, and thought to herself that she had indeed been impulsive, did she regret it? Perhaps a little, but... no regrets!

  "Tang Yan, Du Yang, I actually prefer it when you call me..."

  "Huh?"

  "Call me Sister Voice."

  "What do you want to do?" Tang Yan's heart skipped a beat.

  "I'll do what a sister should do." Elinda suddenly broke free from Tang Yan's support, swallowing all the spiritual liquid into her mouth. The surging energy poured in, bursting her meridians on the spot.

  "No!!" Tang Yan's face changed greatly.

  "Come on, let's go!!" Eriinda rushed towards the high-rise building in front of her with an icy expression.

  "Come back!!" Tang Yan's face turned pale, and he was about to rush up, but was held back by Du Yang's arm around his neck: "Let's go!"

  "Let go!!" Tang Yan struggled like a madman, but Du Yang didn't care at all, tightly controlling Tang Yan, his face gloomy as he wildly sprinted towards the distance.

  "Let go!! Du Yang, you're crazy!! Let me go!! Don't blame me for being rude!!"

  "Don't let her down!" Du Yang tightly grasped Tang Yan's neck, without looking back or stopping.

  "Ahh! Let go!!" Tang Yan's body burst forth with a fierce golden light, violently shaking off Du Yang.

  At this time, the white-faced bookworms and others came back to their senses, just wanting to chase Du Yang, but a terrifying energy fluctuation suddenly burst out of Elynda's body. Countless ice butterflies quickly took shape, fluttering in mid-air, and the temperature plummeted drastically.

  "Ten years later, all of you will regret today's decision! Tang family, you will regret the compromise and cowardice of today. Yang family, Li family, you will pay the price for your indifference today. Giant Elephant Academy, Ling Wang Fu... In ten years' time, I, Ailinda, predict with my life that you all... will definitely perish!!" Ailinda closed her eyes, letting the crazy surge of spiritual energy inside her body rip through her meridians and internal organs, as more and more ice butterflies condensed, almost reaching tens of thousands.

  Like a crystal blue light spot, dazzling in the sunlight.

  This is the spiritual liquid of twenty third and fourth grade demon beasts. This is a sudden compression, a reckless catalysis that triggers an explosion!

  "Get out of the way!!" Rachel and the others' faces changed greatly, although they didn't know what Elynda had eaten, but at this moment, the fluctuation of energy was really terrifying.

  "Ice butterfly, explode!" Elinda whispered, and the ice butterflies that filled the sky suddenly gathered together, transforming into a huge blue ice butterfly. Its wings were resplendent and dazzling, crystal clear, and as it flapped its wings, starlight scattered everywhere, creating a breathtakingly beautiful scene.

  "Don't..." Tang Yan was struck by lightning, stiffening on the spot, staring at the dazzling ice butterfly, but his mind was a complete blank.

  "Get down!!" Du Yang rushed over, frantically urging on his spiritual power. A large number of stone forests burst out of the ground, layer by layer wrapping and tightly guarding the two people.

  The ice butterfly's wings fluttered violently, and a terrifying energy wave radiated from it, sweeping across the sky. Immediately after, a fierce explosion erupted, without scorching heat or dazzling flames, but with a bone-piercing chill and a piercing blue glow, which was the ice butterfly's final burst of radiance.

  BOOM!! The blast wave swept over an area of several thousand meters, freezing all objects in its path. Even some residents were affected, and Rachel and others were blown to a bloody pulp, completely transformed into ice sculptures.

  Tang Ming Jing and others who were watching from a distance quickly retreated, stopping only when they were a thousand meters away. They stared at the exploding ice butterfly in shock, its beauty was dazzling, yet it also carried a sense of desolation.

  A self-destruction of a third-grade Wu Zong actually exploded with such terrifying power!

  Almost comparable to King Wu!

  Even surpassing Wu Wang's full-power strike!

  It's completely unreasonable!

  Actually, at the moment when Eirinda self-destructed, in the fleeting milliseconds of the dazzling ice butterfly's piercing pain that caught everyone's attention, no one noticed that a faint, white smoke-like thing suddenly appeared out of thin air and enveloped Eirinda's body, then dissipated into a powerful energy that stirred up the explosive spiritual liquid, bringing about this ridiculously powerful explosion.

  And in an instant, the white fog disappeared into the sky along with the piercing light.

  At the same time, outside the Giant Elephant City, an old man who was smoking a dry pipe coughed dryly and with a wave of his hand, a smoky thing like a cloud of smoke was absorbed into his body.

  No one noticed the anomaly, the whole city was immersed in shock, shocked by this madness, shocked by the power of self-explosion, and their minds only echoed with a question - what did no one eat at the end?

  At this moment, the entire Giant Elephant City fell into a brief silence, and even the conflicts at the city gate came to a standstill. People looked up one after another, gazing at that magnificent giant ice butterfly bursting into bloom.

  As the ice butterfly melts away, a cold wave sweeps across the entire city!

  "...regretting today's compromise and weakness..." Tang Ming Jing's absent-minded gaze, with Ailin Da's last cold voice echoing in his ears.

  Compromise? Weakness?

  I, Tang Ming, have lived a life of chivalry and bravery, yet I am bestowed with such a title. Indeed, Tang Yan is not my biological son, but he has always been regarded as one by me. He is now struggling at death's door in the distance, while I stand by as a spectator to watch?

  Ka ka!! Du Yang scattered the stone pillars, and the ice layer on top shattered accordingly. Because he had escaped a thousand meters away, the impact was not too great. Looking at the distant devastated area, the crystal layers of frost, Du Yang felt very displeased in his heart.

  Erlinda's mentor sacrificed her own soul to create an escape opportunity for them.

  This kindness, this determination, he can't bear it.

  Tang Yan knelt on the ground, his eyes dull and expressionless. The last call of Ailinda echoed in his ears, while the image of that beautiful butterfly was frozen in his mind, its brief bloom like a heavy hammer striking his heart.