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Chapter 110 Misfortunes never come singly
"You...deceived me, tormented me! In this cruel world, no one wants me to have an easy time!!"

With the rune array broken, no one could control the rampaging Turbid Tears, and the Ice Man, Sethlen, descended into madness. Melancholy and sorrowful emotions seeped into the ice along with his cries, turning the normally colorless ice into jet-black crystals. The black ice crystals surged like a tide, sealing off all the surrounding buildings almost instantly. But the rampaging power did not cease; it trembled, groaned, and tumbled, forming clusters of thin ice crystals resembling nerve endings.

Countless ice branches stretched upwards, exploding in all directions like ice flowers blooming in the air. Below the flower-filled sky lay the groaning ice man—no, at this moment he could no longer be called "human." His body had almost completely transformed into frozen water element, his frenzied, ghostly form wandering within the ice, causing this moving mass of ice to crumble and shatter, becoming yet another cluster of budding flowers.

When this ice flower blooms, the entire city of Jinye will be engulfed in ice!
"Wow...ah..."

Three hundred meters away, atop a delicate cluster of ice flowers, Miss Qingye from Shura Island concealed her dagger behind her back, making a slightly guilty sound. A true-blue, unaffiliated Heartbreaker, she feared no elemental power; the chill beneath her feet was less dangerous than a toothpick. But most people in Golden Leaf City weren't Heartbreakers; they couldn't withstand the freezing tide, and even a strong gust of cold wind would give them a cold. Under these circumstances, if that Twilight Continued her rampage…

The Ice Age.

Corpses lay strewn across the fields.

Mass killing incident.

Elemental derivatives proliferated everywhere, and soon the Fireflies appeared, and the Demon Slayers roamed freely. The largest, the Tearful One, would most likely transform into the Greedy Demon. Many years later, a chivalrous hero passing through this horrific place, having cleared away the calamities, began investigating the source of the disaster. They discovered that everything could have been salvaged, but at the critical moment, a foolish, heartless individual accidentally shattered the sealing array with a single blow…

So, who exactly was that idiot who harmed the entire city? It was Miss Guang Shi Qingye, who happened to be in Jinye City during those few days...

"No! Nooooooo!!"

Miss Qingye let out a short, deep wail, her demeanor slightly deviating from that of an elite. She frantically pointed at Chu Hengkong: "Those tentacles over there! We can settle our scores later. Let me clean up this mess first!! If this continues, Jinye City will be destroyed!"

Chu Heng lowered the gun barrel and glanced at her indifferently: "What do you want to do?"

"Let me finish dealing with the turbid tears in half a minute—"

“Wrong answer,” the assassin said coldly. “You’ve died again.”

The tip of the white spear pierced the ground, and almost simultaneously, Qingye felt a chill behind her. She only realized that two indistinct shapes had arrived behind her, and in a "real" field of vision that neither of them could see, the two Shadow Knights raised their shadow blades and viciously slashed at the head and center of her shadow!
The knights' sneak attack was precise and ruthless, but Chu Hengkong's spear flashed even faster. A streak of white light pierced the ground, obliterating the two shadow knights into a blurry gray mist. Qingye broke out in a cold sweat. She still didn't know the enemy's attack method, but her intuition told her she had escaped this time. She panicked slightly: "You could see that?"

"I can't see clearly." Chu Hengkong put away his gun. "But never let the enemy stand behind you."

At this moment, a new gray fog rose from the ground, thicker and more smoky than the previous thin fog. One by one, knights emerged from the smoke and lined up to meet the enemy at the command of their knight commander.

In Chu Hengkong and Qingye's eyes, the entire street was shrouded in gray mist, and strange creatures with indistinct shapes surged within it, making Jinye City appear like a ghost town. They all raised their arms high, and an unknown power coalesced into a giant weapon pointing straight to the sky.

The next instant, the Shadow Greatsword slashed towards the two of them!

Two figures dodged to the left and right. Chu Hengkong used his tentacles to pull out the unfortunate man hiding in the house, while Qingye used Shadow Threads to complete the rescue of the remaining civilians. The rescued civilians, like two bunches of flying grape heads, each let out a scream of varying degrees. Immediately afterwards, the giant sword cleaved through the bungalows, shattered the frozen earth, and the shadow formed a crescent-shaped sword aura that cut through thorns and brambles, shattering many frozen bouquets and piercing the surface of the Ice Man Sethlen.

The sword energy did not dissipate; instead, it was "absorbed" by the frozen flower buds formed by Sethlen, making the black ice crystals even thicker. As the ice crystals dimmed to the point of shadow, thousands of pitch-black ice blades resembling scythes were generated amidst cries, unleashing a deluge of pitch-black freezing energy.

Seeing this, Wu He hurriedly waved his hands, using a set of ordinary palm techniques to protect his body. The strengthening effect of the Steel Body Talisman had not yet dissipated, and he was confident enough to remain unharmed, but the more he defended, the more stiff his limbs became, and his mood darkened, as if he had been invaded and sealed in ice by the enemy's emotions.

This freezing energy, like the turbid tears, was insidious, lacking in lethality but extremely adept at penetrating. Realizing this, Wu He grew increasingly agitated. He kept telling himself not to be controlled by emotions and not to fall for the underhanded tricks of the Supreme Path, but when he saw Ji Huaisu draw his Shadow Blade, he couldn't hold back: "Stop! Using Reverse Shadow against Turbid Tears, as if they haven't had enough to eat? Like cures like?!"

"Unfortunately, my cooking skills are not good enough. No matter how good the ingredients are, it's all for naught."

Ji Huaisu answered with ease and pleasure; she truly felt little pressure. The giant shield of light protected her with its warm power, and the ice man's freezing aura evaporated as soon as it got close. She circled the ice man with the shield on, then suddenly lowered the shadow blade in her hand and slammed it forcefully into a spot on the ground.

"--what!"

A painful cry rang out from the depths of the ice flowers, and the icy air that was spraying in all directions suddenly stopped. Wu He was momentarily stunned and uncertain; even with his vast experience, he couldn't recognize the origin of this move. From Ji Huaisu's perspective, the battle was actually quite simple. She had merely roughly estimated the man's position inside the ice armor and struck him with the hilt of her sword, delivering a heavy blow.

This was no ordinary Shadow Reversal technique, but unfortunately, Ji Huaisu was busy fighting and didn't have time to be complacent. The previous counterattack with the Ice Man's greatsword proved that directly using Shadow Blades was useless; to defeat an enemy, one had to rely on positive emotions. Therefore, she focused on strengthening her light shield, modifying it into a heavy-topped, thick-handled warhammer. She stomped heavily on the shadow, wielded the light hammer, and without a word, struck the ice ball ten times!
The long-handled warhammer shone brightly, a golden flame erupting from its head. The nascent purifying flames brought intense heat to the weapon, and the relentless hammer blows left ten charred marks on the icy surface. This intense heat could easily melt steel, and if fully unleashed, it could easily reduce a street to ashes, but it had little effect on the ice. A small portion of the ice crystals melted under the intense heat, and new ice instantly formed.

Ji Huaisu's thinking was correct, but ultimately she wasn't truly pure fire; her flames weren't enough to melt the renownedly sturdy ice armor. Wu He had already seen the problem. He glanced at the girl and reached into his robes.

"Don't force yourself with this much strength. Step back, I'll handle this guy."

He took out a new talisman, its inscription drawn with dried blood, the dark blood seeping into the back of the paper. The moment the talisman appeared, Ji Huaisu felt a sense of oppression in his heart, an indescribable aura emanating from it, like a gaping maw devouring flesh and blood, making Wu He appear cold and sinister as well.

She instinctively pointed her hammer at Wu He: "Stop! That's an evil thing!"

Wu He pointed two fingers of his left hand to the ground, and layers of crimson flames broke through the ice, forming a formation that trapped Ji Huaisu. In the brief few seconds that the two were fighting together, he had already been distracted and prepared a plan to target his "teammate." He rushed towards the icy shell, leaving only a sneer, his undisguised contempt silencing all of Ji Huaisu's words.

You think you can stop me?

Do you have the power to stop the tears from flowing?

If you're not capable, then stay in the game and watch. The battlefield of Point 3 is not for a mere Reverse Shadow to speak for!

The icy mist obscured his vision, and the battlefield was far from his position, so Wu He decided to unleash a little of his power. He easily dodged the ice flowers blocking his path as if he were strolling in the countryside, and with lightning speed, he tossed the intercepting ice crystals behind him. The talisman in his hand seemed to pulsate with life, as excited and expectant as his own heartbeat.

"Open the talisman, offer blood as a sacrifice and present the axe!"

The Blood Sacrifice Axe Talisman is one of the most precious talismans that Wu He always carries. This talisman is like a living thing; it can devour the flesh and blood of enemies and convert their supernatural abilities into its own.

Normally, he rarely had the opportunity to use this talisman. Enemies he valued wouldn't be sacrificed for nothing, and the fragile talisman paper couldn't survive long in high-intensity battles. But this idiot, Turbid Tears, was slow to move due to his berserk state, and no one around him could stop him. This was a golden opportunity!

Wu He was thrilled at the power he was about to acquire, laughing like a wild beast about to pounce. The distance closed, the ice flowers were almost within reach, and the blood-sacrificing talisman shot out with a powerful gust of wind…

At that moment, the frozen earth suddenly cracked open, and a giant, smooth, white egg rose from the ground, standing between Wu He and the Ice Man! Standing before the talisman!

Wu He's eyes were a fascinating mix of anticipation, ferocity, and utter utter disbelief. But the talisman had already been cast and couldn't be retrieved; that malevolent blood talisman was imprinted on the surface of the large egg, affixed to its pristine white shell!

With a crisp pop, the giant egg's shell, riddled with cracks, shattered. Nearly ninety percent of the shell was infused with talismans, transforming it into a square object resembling a brick. As the shell dissipated, amidst the billowing dust, the creature within the giant egg revealed its true form. Its outline was rounded, smooth, and without any sharp edges—it was…

Another giant egg, four meters tall!

【Miss Ji, do not be afraid, General Fei is here to help!】

A line of small characters appeared on the (probably) rear end of the giant egg. It rolled around halfway and searched for a long time before finally finding Ji Huaisu with his mouth half open.

[Sorry, I got a little lost after burrowing underground for so long. I always repay kindness, so I'll help you in this fight! My shell is incredibly hard; ordinary ice and snow can't harm me. Just attack me from behind my proud body!]

"Ah," Ji Huaisu said, "Oh. Well, thank you."

The giant dome sensed something was off: "...Did I even help?"

Ji Huaisu silently pointed behind him, and the giant egg turned 75 degrees, revealing a face as black as coal due to the effect of the tempering talisman.

[Hey! You're as black as charcoal, are you perhaps the Black Whirlwind of Jinling?!]

Wu He gritted his teeth and threw a punch at the big egg: "You bastard!! I'll kill you!!"

Why? >`<
　Who is the unluckiest person in this round? That's a difficult question to answer (serious expression).
　　
　
(End of this chapter)