Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 139 Defeating Hyotei
Hyotei turned around, preparing to leave and find a place to be buried.

however--

"stop."

A calm, even somewhat cold, voice sounded behind her.

"You think you can just leave after hurting someone for no reason?"

Hyotei's departing steps suddenly halted, her petite body seemingly stiffening for a moment.

She slowly turned her head in disbelief, her emerald green vertical pupils fixed on the white-haired boy who had spoken—Yin Chen.

She almost wondered if she was hallucinating because of the severity of her injuries.

A... mere human brat at the Soul Master level?

After witnessing her instantly severely injure a Soul Douluo, he not only didn't run away in fear, but dared to stop her in such an accusatory tone.
Not only Hyotei, but even Zhang Lexuan, who was being carefully held in Yin Chen's arms, was completely stunned.

Ignoring the tearing pain in her chest, she looked anxiously at Yin Chen, her eyes filled with disbelief and panic.

'Yin Chen, are you crazy?! Quick!'

She wanted to speak up to stop them, but because of her injuries, she couldn't even utter a complete sentence and could only gasp for breath.

The surprise in Hyotei's eyes was quickly replaced by an offended anger.

She was already on the verge of death and her emotions were extremely unstable. Yin Chen's provocation was undoubtedly igniting her final act of violence.

"Stupid humans."

Her voice was as cold as ice.

"If you're looking for death, I'll grant your wish."

Without even a few extra movements, with just a thought, an extremely sharp ice spike, exuding a chilling aura, instantly condensed in front of Yin Chen, piercing straight for his brow with a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air.

This attack is enough to easily kill any Soul Master below the Soul Saint level.

However, faced with this fatal blow, Yin Chen's eyes showed no panic, but rather an unusual clarity.

Even before the ice spikes had fully solidified, his precognitive talent allowed him to "see" the trajectory and landing point of the attack.

Almost at the same moment the ice spikes shot out, the deep purple second spirit ring beneath his feet flashed slightly—

Second Soul Skill: The Other Side of Me.

His figure, along with Zhang Lexuan in his arms, instantly became blurry and illusory, as if separated by a flowing water curtain.

The ice spikes pierced through their bodies without hindrance, as if passing through an illusion, causing no damage, and shot directly into the ice wall behind them, exploding into a cloud of ice powder.

They didn't dodge at high speed, but rather briefly entered a state of temporal phase blurring, making them immune to the attack.

Although taking others to hide in the temporal phase consumes more energy, Yin Chen has already broken through to the Soul Master level, and his soul power reserves are far greater than before.

"what?!"

Hyotei's pupils suddenly contracted.

She was extremely confident in her attacks; even a casual strike was something no Soul Master could dodge, let alone such a completely "ignorable" method.

In that split second, as she was slightly shaken by this unbelievable scene, Yin Chen moved.

He gently placed the seriously injured Zhang Lexuan in a relatively safe location to the side, and at the same time, his purple third soul ring suddenly lit up.

Third Soul Skill: Fleeting Dream.

His figure vanished into thin air without leaving any trace of movement, and in the next instant, he appeared in front of Hyotei as if by teleportation.

The distance between the two was instantly reduced to less than a meter.

At the same time, the deepest black fourth spirit ring beneath his feet also emitted a dark light.

Fourth Soul Skill: This Moment and That Moment.

Hyotei felt a sudden, inexplicable stinging pain on her face, as if she had been punched lightly. The sensation was so real that she instinctively covered her face.

At the very moment she felt herself being "hit," Yin Chen appeared in front of her, his fist clenched, and swung it toward her delicate yet pale cheek.

The result comes before the cause.

Yin Chen anchored the result that "Hyote's face was hit by his fist," and the world's rules automatically corrected the cause and effect, making this result inevitable.

That inexplicable stinging sensation is a strange manifestation of the result appearing before the cause.

Although Ice Empress was confused, her fighting instincts made her immediately raise her hand and accurately block Yin Chen's seemingly harmless fist.

Her strength far surpassed Yin Chen's, making this block incredibly easy.

"madness……"

She was about to make a sarcastic remark when she saw Yin Chen's lips curl into a triumphant smile.

The instant her palm touched Yin Chen's fist—

“Boom-ka-!!!”

A sudden, crimson lightning bolt, imbued with an aura of destruction and judgment, seemed to tear through the void, appearing out of thin air without warning, and struck Hyotei squarely on the head.

"Uhhhhhh-!!!"

Hyotei let out an extremely shrill scream.

This crimson lightning was no ordinary lightning; the power it contained seemed to strike straight at the soul.

Her already collapsing body was as if it had been thrown into a furnace, as if her very essence was violently shaken and disintegrated under this blow.

The emerald light surrounding her instantly dimmed, and her petite body emitted wisps of white smoke. Like a puppet with its strings cut, she collapsed onto the cold snow with a thud, her breath growing weaker and weaker, almost like a candle flickering in the wind.

The 100,000-year-old snow lotus that she had been protecting so tightly in her arms was also knocked out of her grasp by this sudden heavy blow and rolled to the side.

Yin Chen calmly walked forward, bent down and picked up the snow lotus that was radiating a soft glow and a sense of life.

"Give it back... to me..."

Even though Hyotei's consciousness was blurred and her whole body was in excruciating pain as if it were being torn apart, her gaze remained fixed on the snow lotus in Yin Chen's hand, her voice weak but filled with deep obsession.

That was Xue Di's last hope, more important than her own life.

However, to her and Zhang Lexuan's surprise, Yin Chen did not intend to take it. He simply looked down at the snow lotus and then, without hesitation, gently placed it back within the reach of the Ice Emperor.

"Okay, here you go."

"?!"

Hyotei was completely dumbfounded.

This human...didn't he realize how precious this 100,000-year-old snow lotus is?

Why did he return it so easily? What is he trying to do?
Yin Chen ignored her astonishment, instead squatting down and gently poking Bing Di's pale cheek, which was made even paler by weakness and pain.

"You're dying."

He was stating a cold, hard fact.

Hyotei's face darkened, a nameless anger rising within him, but more than that, a deep sense of powerlessness washed over him.

She turned her head away, dodging Yin Chen's fingers, but still used all her strength to hug Xue Lian back into her arms, as if it were her last hope.

"If you want to kill, kill."

She snorted coldly, closed her eyes, and adopted a posture of offering her neck for execution.

A defeat is a defeat; Hyotei wouldn't stoop to begging for mercy from a human.

(End of this chapter)