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Then—
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Whoosh!
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She moved.
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Stepping onto the first thread, she charged forward.
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The threads were thin but steady.
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She ran at blinding speed, as if sprinting across flat ground.
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One thread.
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Two. Ten…
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She drew closer and closer.
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Ahead, the pink silhouette wrapped inside the space grew clearer.
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“Linlin…”
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Wait for me.
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Ruan Yuan shouted in her heart.
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The threads beneath her feet began to tremble.
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Xiran had noticed her.
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More tendrils surged toward her.
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But Ruan Yuan was faster.
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She leaped, dodged, and sprinted between the threads.
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The red energy blades spinning around her slashed away any tendrils that drew too close.
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Closer.
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Closer.
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Finally, she entered the enclosed space. She saw it.
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It was a transparent cocoon.
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Inside were two tiny figures.
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Sitting together on a slide.
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One pink.
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One black.
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Pressed close to each other.
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“Linlin!”
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Ruan Yuan shouted.
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“Wait for me!”
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But before the words could carry, even more tendrils came rushing at her.
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Ruan Yuan swung her blade.
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One tendril severed.
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Two dodged.
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She used the third as a springboard and kept charging.
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Kept shouting.
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“Linlin!”
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She didn’t know if Linlin could hear her.
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But she had to shout.
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Because she had promised.
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She would wait for her to come back.
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“I’m willing!”
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Linlin’s voice reached Xiran’s ears beneath the setting sun.
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Xiran looked at her. Those eyes reflected only Linlin’s figure.
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Then—
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Rumble.
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The slide beneath them suddenly began to shake.
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Not a gentle sway—it was violent, earthquake-level shaking.
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Linlin nearly slid right off. She grabbed the edge in a panic.
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“Huh? What’s going on? Is it an earthquake?”
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She looked up at the sky.
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The setting sun was still there.
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The golden-red light was still there.
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But the ground was shaking.
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The slide was shaking.
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Even the air was shaking.
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Xiran sat beside her, completely still.
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She seemed utterly unaffected by the quake.
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She simply looked at Linlin.
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Those deep black eyes held only Linlin.
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She reached out with small hands and cupped Linlin’s face.
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Gently. It’s fine.
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Softly, as if holding something precious.
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Then she began to knead.
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Rubbing this way and that.
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Linlin’s face was squished out of shape, her mouth forced open.
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“Mm… Xiran… I’m talking about the earthquake…”
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“It’s fine.”
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Xiran repeated.
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Her voice was soft and carried a smile.
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“I’ll kill every single one of those annoying things, one by one, until they’re completely gone.”
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She paused.
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Then she gave Linlin an extremely, extremely gentle smile.
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“Hehe.”
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Linlin froze.
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The smile was so gentle it didn’t seem real.
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But for some reason, a chill ran down her back.
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“Annoying things”?
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What things?
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She had no idea what was happening outside.
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She only knew that Xiran’s current expression, tone, and that little “hehe” felt terrifying.
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The kind of terror that was… very gentle, yet made your skin crawl.
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Like someone saying “What lovely weather today” while holding a knife.
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Linlin didn’t dare ask any more questions.
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She simply let Xiran knead her face while sitting on the trembling slide, her mind in complete chaos.
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At the same time, outside.
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In the black night sky, a figure was moving at terrifying speed.
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Not flying.
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Running.
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She stepped across the enormous black tendrils like they were a trampoline, using each one to launch herself forward.
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Every leap covered hundreds of meters.
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It was Ruan Yuan.
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She was in full Full Deployment state.
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A shattered halo of black-red energy floated above her head.
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Her eyes blazed with blinding white light.
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Glowing square patterns shone on her chest.
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Red energy blades spun around her.
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The black blade in her hand was coated in red energy.
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She weaved between the tendrils like a red meteor.
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Her target was singular—the tiny pink figure wrapped inside.
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But it was too far.
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The net woven from those tendrils was at least several thousand meters away from Linlin’s space.
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The magic power writhed like living creatures.
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Ruan Yuan stepped on them and used the momentum to charge ahead.
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Each tendril was as thick as an ancient tree, its surface covered in black root-like fibers.
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Two. Three…
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She drew nearer.
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Bang!
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She slammed into an invisible wall.
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A black barrier appeared out of thin air and bounced her backward.
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Ruan Yuan flipped several times in the air before barely landing on another tendril.
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“What…”
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She looked down at the blade in her hand.
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The black blade was embedded in the tendril, but the barrier completely blocked it.
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Sparks flew where blade met barrier.
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Then a massive rebound force hit.
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Ruan Yuan was blasted away.
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Before she could steady herself, several giant tendrils attacked from every direction.
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They were like living pythons with invisible mouths, lunging at her.
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Ruan Yuan swung her blade.
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Red energy blades carved arcs through the night sky.
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The first tendril was struck.
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Bang!
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The tremendous force numbed her arm.
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The second tendril was already in front of her.
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She twisted aside and slashed at its side.
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Bang!
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Third.
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Fourth.
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Fifth…
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She spun and weaved among the tendrils, slashing, dodging, counterattacking with momentum.
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Every strike sent sparks flying.
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Every strike delivered massive recoil.
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Finally, she found a foothold.
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Panting, she glanced at her panel.
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[Damage: 1]
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[Damage: 1]
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[Damage: 1]
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All 1s.
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Ruan Yuan froze.
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One point of damage.
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She hadn’t even broken through the armor.
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The tendrils’ defense was so thick she couldn’t get inside.
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Critical hits?
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She checked her panel.
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[Critical Hit Rate: 56.14%]
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In front of Xiran, her critical hit rate might as well have been zero.
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Attacking head-on was useless.
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She couldn’t do this alone.
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Ruan Yuan took a deep breath.
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She had to find a way to reach the space holding Linlin.
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The tiny pink silhouette cradled in Xiran’s arms was just ahead.
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But those tendrils, those barriers, those invisible walls… how could she get past them?
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As she thought, something caught the corner of her eye.
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Far away, something enormous was moving.
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Very large.
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Extremely large.
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Ruan Yuan turned her head.
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She froze.
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In the distance, a gigantic figure was walking this way.
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What was that?
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A humanoid skeleton.
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Deathly white bones with dark red light flowing through the joints.
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Draped over the skeleton was a long black evening gown that trailed across the ruins like flowing night.
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The cuffs and hem were embroidered with golden patterns that glowed faintly in the moonlight.
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The most striking feature was its head.
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Within an impenetrable darkness bloomed enormous, vivid red spider lilies.
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The flowers swayed in the night wind like living things breathing.
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Jealous Witch Incarnation · Jiang Niaoniao
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Jiang Niaoniao?
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The name flashed through Ruan Yuan’s mind.
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That white-haired girl who had massaged Linlin?
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She had turned into this?
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And… her direction.
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Ruan Yuan narrowed her eyes.
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Jiang Niaoniao’s target was the same as hers.
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The tiny pink silhouette wrapped inside.
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It was Linlin.
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“Another one trying to steal her…”
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Ruan Yuan murmured.
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Then she saw the black evening gown on Jiang Niaoniao’s back suddenly spread open.
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Like bat wings, stretching to both sides.
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What it revealed wasn’t fabric.
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It was pitch-black space.
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Bottomless.
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Like an entrance to another world.
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Something inside that space was moving.
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Surging.
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Rushing outward.
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Countless tendrils.
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Shadow-like, without solid form, yet clearly visible.
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More and more shadow tendrils poured from the evening gown, spreading in every direction.
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Denser and denser.
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Finally they gathered, forming countless long, slender, tentacle-like things.
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But unlike Xiran’s tendrils.
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Xiran’s were thick, black, and solid.
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Jiang Niaoniao’s shadow tendrils were dark red, slender, and semi-transparent.
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Like shadows.
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Like illusions.
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Yet somehow real.
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The shadow tendrils began stretching forward.
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Toward Xiran.
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Toward the colossal Envious Witch Incarnation.
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Xiran finally moved.
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The several-thousand-meter-tall behemoth turned its attention for the first time to the tiny pursuer behind it.
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Countless tendrils detached from its main body, twisting and morphing in the air.
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They coiled together, fused together.
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Becoming enormous black dragons.
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Black scales.
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Burning eyes.
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Open maws.
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Each black dragon was connected by thin threads—like umbilical cords—linking back to Xiran’s main body.
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The black dragons spiraled through the night sky and lunged at Jiang Niaoniao.
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One of them opened its mouth and spewed a stream of flame.
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Not ordinary fire.
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It was black-purple.
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Like ink, yet like molten lava.
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The flame streaked through the air toward Jiang Niaoniao’s shadow tendrils.
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The instant the flame touched the shadow tendrils—it vanished.
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Not extinguished.
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Eaten.
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The shadow tendrils opened invisible mouths and swallowed the flame whole.
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The black-purple fire burned inside the shadow tendrils for nine seconds.
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Then it was completely snuffed out.
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Absorbed.
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But some of the flame slipped past the shadow tendrils.
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It fell.
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It fell into the city.
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It landed on a dozens-of-stories-tall building.
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Boom—!
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The black-purple flame exploded instantly.
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The entire building vanished as if erased by a rubber.
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No explosion.
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No collapse.
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It simply… disappeared on the spot.
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All that remained was a massive crater, its edges still burning with black-purple fire.
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Inextinguishable fire.
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The thought flashed through Ruan Yuan’s mind as she stared at the flames.
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This was Xiran’s attack pattern.
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Inextinguishable fire.
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She looked up.
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The shadow tendrils had already coiled around the first black dragon.
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Like vines wrapping a giant tree.
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Like a spider wrapping its prey.
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The black dragon thrashed, rolled, and roared.
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It was useless.
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More and more shadow tendrils swarmed in, denser and denser.
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Finally they completely enveloped the black dragon.
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Like an enormous cocoon.
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Nine seconds later.
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The cocoon split open.
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There was nothing inside.
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The black dragon had vanished.
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Eaten.
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And Jiang Niaoniao’s main body grew larger.
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Nearly a hundred meters taller.
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She was absorbing Xiran’s power.
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Ruan Yuan’s eyes lit up.
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This was her chance.
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Xiran had finally sensed the threat.
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The several-thousand-meter-tall behemoth truly acknowledged the tiny pursuer before it.
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Countless more tendrils detached.
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They twisted, fused, and morphed in the air.
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One. Two. Ten. A hundred…
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Hundreds of black dragons spiraled through the night sky.
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Their eyes burned blood-red.
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Their maws gaped wide, ready to spew inextinguishable fire.
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The threads connecting them back to the main body wove the entire night sky into a massive net.
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Every thread was an umbilical cord for a tendril.
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Every thread led back to Xiran’s main body.
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Ruan Yuan stood among the threads.
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She looked up.
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The dense black threads formed a cage that covered the entire sky.
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But it was also an opportunity.
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Those threads were the channels connecting the tendrils to the main body.
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Ruan Yuan took a deep breath.
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By stepping on them, she could get closer.
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She gripped her blade tightly.
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