After the field was cleared, only Chang Shu's and Shen Mengqi's teams remained on the arena.
At this moment, because Chang Shu had entered the field alone, she was a certain distance away from her teammates. Chen Xu sent a soul message to Shen Mengqi and then walked straight toward Chang Shu.
Upon receiving the message, Shen Mengqi immediately informed the others and they began charging toward the rogue cultivators on the other side.
Seeing this, Chang Shu wanted to intercept them, but Chen Xu used Teleport to instantly block her path.
"Chen Xu of the Bone Path. I ask the Bright Moon Fairy for her guidance."
Chang Shu frowned. "The aura on your body is very foul. I do not like you. Moreover, you do not look like a good person, so I hate you even more."
"Oh? We have never met before, so why does the Bright Moon Fairy say such things?"
"Hmph, you scoundrel. You took advantage of others while they were resting to eavesdrop on their sleep-talking. Mother told me everything."
Hearing this, Chen Xu looked up at the sky and gave an awkward smile. "The Bright Moon Fairy has misunderstood. I only sensed a flicker of divine sense and investigated out of curiosity. It was an unintentional act."
"Hmph!" Chang Shu let out a soft snort and said no more. She raised her hand, sending a beam of protective spiritual light lashing toward Chen Xu. Chen Xu did not dodge, instead controlling the massive bone palms behind him to meet the attack.
Seeing that the strike was ineffective, Chang Shu gathered the full moon once again and attacked Chen Xu.
"I am not like them. This kind of thing is useless against me." Seeing that Chang Shu was still using the same old move, Chen Xu raised his hand to summon a skeleton soldier. On the skeleton's body, Chen Xu had already used his mental strength to engrave several runes.
The full moon struck the skeleton soldier, and an Ice Ring exploded. The runes were triggered, and the full moon was eroded by half, turning into a crescent moon. Then, the crystal arm exploded with a second Ice Ring. The runes triggered by the pure ice-attribute element brought an even greater erosion effect, and the remaining crescent moon dissipated into the air.
Meanwhile, Shen Mengqi and the others had already reached the rogue cultivators' front line.
Chang Shu's teammates were usually only required to follow behind her to finish off enemies or provide support. Facing the two sword cultivators charging fiercely at them, along with a spear cultivator whose wind arrived before the spear itself, they were momentarily unsure how to block them.
The burly man swung his iron chains and stepped forward quickly, intending to block the first wave of impact for his teammates.
But Wang Sen and Zhao Yifang ignored him. With their hands forming sword seals and their footsteps shifting, they slipped through the gaps in the swinging chains and attacked those behind him.
Just as the burly man tried to turn back to stop them, a large spear stabbed directly into his chest. The immense force caused him to stumble back several steps.
Before the man could steady himself, the spear stabbed again, strike after strike hitting his chest. The man retreated while swinging his chains to block.
However, with a flick of her hand, Zheng Hong whipped up a wind vortex that tangled the chains onto the long spear. With a sudden pull, she dragged the man over along with his chains. Such immense strength even pulled the man into the air.
Holding the spear with both hands, she swept it out, and the butt of the spear slammed heavily into the man.
A cracking sound rang out.
The massive force sent the man flying, and the chains on his body snapped apart.
"Big Brother Da Yuan!"
Chang Shu could not help but cry out when she saw the situation in the distance. Looking at the smiling Chen Xu in front of her, anger rose within her.
A cold, clear true qi spread from Chang Shu's dantian, and strands of Profound Yin spiritual power gathered toward her. They transformed into a celestial raiment and a Bright Moon Heavenly Ribbon. An osmanthus mark appeared between her brows, and her entire expression was no longer as gentle as before. It was cold, extremely cold, looking as if it no longer possessed any mortal air.
"Ha, you can even transform! Good, very good." Chen Xu had not expected this. He had anticipated Chang Shu would be his final opponent, but he did not expect her to have a transformation skill. If this were a game, it would be the start of a phase 2 boss battle.
Chang Shu, having changed her form, used Shift and Swap to appear directly behind Chen Xu. She lashed out with her heavenly ribbon, slapping Chen Xu directly onto the arena floor. Then she turned and waved her hand. The heavenly ribbon leaped out like a silver dragon in the sky, instantly reaching the back of the burly man who was also flying through the air, catching him and placing him on the ground. Then she twisted her body and spiraled upward, flying toward Zheng Hong.
Seeing this, Zheng Hong held her spear with both hands and spun the spearhead, stirring up a wind vortex in an attempt to block her.
The heavenly ribbon did not resist the rotating force of the wind. Instead, it followed the wind and wrapped around the long spear. It wound around it circle after circle until it was completely covered, then suddenly tightened. The long spear turned into fragments and scattered in all directions.
Zheng Hong instinctively raised her hand to block the fragments, her eyes filled with shock and confusion. This was a top-tier yellow-rank artifact; even a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator could not destroy it so easily.
Before Zheng Hong could finish being shocked, the heavenly ribbon attacked again, winding and coiling in the air like a silver dragon before flicking its tail and whipping Zheng Hong directly off the arena.
"Ah Hong!" Shi Jing immediately flew into the air, wanting to catch Zheng Hong. He did not expect the force to be so great that even he could not react in time, and the two of them flew off the arena together.
The heavenly ribbon flew back to Chang Shu's side and nuzzled against her face, like a pet waiting for its master's praise after completing a task.
Chang Shu nodded and raised her hand to stroke the heavenly ribbon. Then she looked toward the two sword cultivators, Wang Sen and Zhao Yifang, and raised her hand to fire two full moons at them.
Boom! Boom!
A massive skeleton hand swept past, and the two full moons exploded in the air.
Then, two more, three more giant hands reached out from the Undead Kingdom. Finally, a Skeleton Hybrid fully entered the Immortal Island world.
The Skeleton Hybrid was a sudden inspiration Chen Xu had after reading the 《Anchoring Method》.
The Anchoring Method allowed a soul to use an external object to anchor itself in a fixed world so that it would not become lost.
Chen Xu had made some small modifications to it.
He anchored all 3,000 skeleton soldiers to himself, or more accurately, to his Artificial Soul Prosthetics. Then, through runic combinations and connections, he created this thirty-meter-tall skeleton monster with six arms and two heads.
Because the souls were anchored, Chen Xu could instantly engrave multiple runes within the Skeleton Hybrid. The crystalized left hands of the skeleton soldiers could even maximize the power of the runes.
"The Bright Moon Fairy's transformation is truly amazing. That strike almost knocked me silly." A small hole opened in the chest of the Skeleton Hybrid, revealing Chen Xu's face. "But at only this level, you still cannot defeat me."
Six arms triggered the Bash technique, taking turns to strike at Chang Shu.
The osmanthus mark between Chang Shu's brows flickered, and a bright moon emerged around her, blocking the first round of attacks.
Chen Xu was not surprised that the attack failed. Two hands grabbed the bright moon in the air, while the remaining four hands took turns frantically striking it. The skeleton head on the left also opened its massive mouth. The power of the Dissipate rune, triggered by Chen Xu's mental strength from his chest and amplified by the crystal arm meridians inside the Skeleton Hybrid, surged out and shot toward the bright moon.
One breath, two breaths, yet the bright moon remained perfectly intact.
Chen Xu triggered another set of runes. This time they were pure amplification runes. A thick, pure undead aura spewed from the mouth of the skeleton head on the right.
The previously flawless bright moon slowly began to show a grey spot, and then more and more appeared. After five breaths, the grey spots had filled half of the bright moon.
"Truly a disgusting aura." A cold, emotionless voice came from within the bright moon.
In the next instant, the bright moon proactively exploded, and Profound Yin power surged forth. Chen Xu mobilized his mental strength to trigger defense and deflection runes on the Skeleton Hybrid, blocking the attack.
Then he controlled the arms again to strike at Chang Shu.
This time, Chang Shu did not choose to gather a bright moon for defense. Instead, she sacrificed the Bright Moon Heavenly Ribbon to bind the six arms of the Skeleton Hybrid. Due to the massive size of the Skeleton Hybrid, the Bright Moon Heavenly Ribbon absorbed the residual Profound Yin spiritual qi in the air and grew significantly longer, only then managing to complete the binding action.
With another Shift and Swap, Chang Shu arrived in front of the Skeleton Hybrid's chest, looking at Chen Xu through the small hole.
"Disgusting."
Eight full moons were instantly generated and pressed against the Skeleton Hybrid's chest. Chang Shu raised her hand, condensed another full moon in her palm, and pressed it against the hole.
Crash!
As if a mirror were shattering, nine full moons bloomed simultaneously. The massive impact sent the Skeleton Hybrid flying back.
Seeing the attack work, Chang Shu turned her head toward Wang Sen and Zhao Yifang again. But this time, there was an extra person. Seeing Chang Shu reveal this otherworldly form, Ma Ku no longer cared about maintaining the condensed fire lotus. He charged directly into the formation, intending to detonate the fire lotus in his palm.
But just as he was about to trigger it, Chang Shu appeared beside him. A full moon trapped Ma Ku and the fire lotus together, then flew off the arena.
In mid-air, the fire lotus exploded, and the massive impact shattered the full moon, but the Ma Ku who fell from it had already lost consciousness.
Just as Chang Shu intended to finish off the remaining two sword cultivators, a cry of pain from the heavenly ribbon echoed in her heart. Looking up, she saw that the Skeleton Hybrid had actually grown even larger. Without enough Profound Yin spiritual qi to make the Bright Moon Heavenly Ribbon longer, the ribbon tried to pull away and leave after realizing it could no longer bind the target.
However, Chen Xu grabbed it directly. With both hands working together, a tearing sound echoed as it was ripped into two pieces.
The Skeleton Hybrid was now a full fifty meters tall, anchored by 8,000 skeleton soldiers. Normally, Chen Xu could not anchor so many skeleton soldiers as the Artificial Soul Prosthetics could not carry that many anchors.
But Chen Xu had summoned the Overlord's Castle and held it in his hand. The amplification brought by the Overlord's Castle eased the pressure on the soul prosthetics.
The Teleport runes on the lower limbs activated, and the Skeleton Hybrid flashed to Chang Shu's side. Holding the Overlord's Castle, he smashed it down fiercely. The massive impact sent everyone nearby—the rogue cultivators in Chang Shu's team and the two sword cultivators, Wang Sen and Zhao Yifang—flying off the arena.
The Insidious Trap set by Bone Guard Four in the castle was also automatically triggered by the massive impact. Various undead auras and polluting curses spread out. The ground turned into patches of grey and black.
Chen Xu picked up the castle, intending to check on Chang Shu's condition.
"You have truly... angered me."
Unexpectedly, Chang Shu's voice came from above. This Bright Moon Fairy now had her hands crossed over her head. She looked up at the sky and shouted devoutly.
"Mother, I pray for your blessing to purify the darkness before me."
The broken pieces of the Bright Moon Heavenly Ribbon also flew to Chang Shu's side, dancing up and down as if recounting its ordeal.
In the next instant, the entire sky turned dark, and the sun's light was blocked. Then, a bright moon appeared in the sky, and the moon's light descended upon the earth.
"Heh, so you're using a hack because you can't win!" Inside the Skeleton Hybrid, Chen Xu had already adjusted his posture from standing to lying flat.
The moon in the sky was excessively large, and the Profound Yin power all around, which was so thick it almost condensed into liquid, radiated its dissatisfaction and anger without concealment. The Skeleton Hybrid was being dissolved at an extremely fast speed.
An even more desperate point was that Chen Xu felt the world beginning to reject him, and this feeling was growing stronger and stronger.
"Haha. Is this the Sky's Hearing? Interesting, truly interesting."
Chen Xu, who was now loathed by the Immortal Island world, could only barely maintain his presence here by relying on the power of the Overlord's Castle, but he could not hold out for much longer. Thus, Chen Xu proactively detached from the Skeleton Hybrid and landed on the ground.
He looked in Shen Mengqi's direction. "This should be her final move. As a price, you will have to handle the rest yourself. I hope to hear good news from you at the Military Academy." He waved his hand at the same time.
Then he turned toward Chang Shu in the sky and gave a curtain call bow. All he received in return was a cold snort and even more furious Profound Yin spiritual qi.
Before the Profound Yin spiritual qi could break through his mental defense and consume him, Chen Xu took the Overlord's Castle and returned to the Undead Kingdom.
On the field, only Chang Shu and Shen Mengqi remained.
One was suspended in the sky like a celestial deity. The other stood on the ground, looking up like a weak mortal. However, this mortal possessed eyes full of courage.
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