Remove all restrictions and transform into a bizarre girl.

Before the group could react...

The depression, like an hourglass, began to sink.

A few seconds later, only a large crater remained in the original spot.

At the same time, a huge figure appeared before everyone in the darkness.

The phantom slowly coalesced in the night, its outline blurred yet enormous, as if woven from dark red light and flowing shadows. It had no distinct limbs or facial features, only a rough human shape, swaying slightly in the night breeze, its edges constantly changing and reassembling.

It hovered above the collapsed crater, about three stories high, with dark red light shining through it, like a mass of lava compressed in a transparent shell.

The moment the phantom appeared, Chen Nian leaped back several steps, quickly assessing the opponent's form while creating distance.

The phantom had no physical form, and the black matter that shot out from the ground stopped attacking after it appeared, as if it had completed its defensive mission and been retrieved.

The phantom hovered in the air and, without any hesitation, launched an attack directly at the group.

A palm, as large as the Five Finger Mountain of Buddha, slapped towards Chen Nian and the others.

The phantom materialized extremely quickly, and the giant hand extending from the dark red aura carried a suppressive airflow, drawing an arc in the night sky as it pressed down towards the location of the group.

Wherever the giant palm passed, the air seemed to be distorted, emitting a low hum. The sand on the ground was swirled up by the palm wind, forming a rolling dust curtain that surged in the dark red light.

"Scatter!"

Chen Nian's voice was short and forceful. At the same time, she activated the "Treading Snow Without a Trace" skill and glided to the left and forward, avoiding the coverage of the giant hand.

Upon hearing the command, Su Wanqing rolled to the right, her two kukri knives leaving shallow marks on the sand. Xia Luoling pulled Xia Luoxue back, the two sisters working in perfect coordination, narrowly avoiding the edge of the palm strike.

Fang Anya then flashed directly in that strange direction, holding her dagger horizontally in front of her, and stabbed forward.

Fang Anya, also a Sequence Seven Transcendent, inflicted considerable damage on the eerie phantom with this strike.

At the same time, the eerie phantom's giant hand landed on the ground with a muffled thud, denting the sand and forming a clear handprint, with the soil around the edges still peeling away.

The phantom paused slightly after delivering the palm strike, indicating that Fang Anya's attack had had some effect on it.

But the phantom was eerie; it only paused for a moment before its outline began to solidify again. The dark red light surged once more, and another giant hand began to take shape.

Chen Nian regained her footing when it condensed for the second time, her gaze fixed on the area inside the phantom where the dark red light was most concentrated. That was its core, located on the phantom's chest, about the size of a human head, and it was pulsating at a steady frequency.

We need to find a way to get close to this position and then kill him with one blow.

Chen Nian held the Miao knife in his hand and launched another attack on the strange creature.

The other sisters weren't idle either; they all used their skills to attack the strange creature.

Chen Nian glided along the ground with the speed of the snow-treading sword, leaving an icy blue trail in its wake.

Instead of charging directly at the core of the phantom, she first circled around it, cutting into the blind spot where its giant hand was swinging from the side.

The phantom's giant hand landed on her original path, slamming onto the open ground and raising a cloud of dust, but Chen Nian was no longer in that position.

She stopped behind the illusory figure, holding the Miao sword horizontally, and icy blue cold air quickly condensed on the blade.

This strange creature is also at the seventh tier of the Sequence. For Chen Nian, as long as she can hit it, she can kill it instantly.

She looked at the core of the phantom, and after determining the most suitable angle of entry, she lowered her body slightly and then suddenly launched herself out.

Under the attack of the crowd.

The movements of the phantom gradually slowed down.

It was as if it had been forcibly slowed down.

good chance!

Chen Nian's Miao knife pierced straight in like a military bayonet. When the blade cut into the dark red light in the core area, she felt a strong resistance, as if she had pierced a high-density energy body.

She poured all her ice energy into the blade, and the chill spread along the edge, spreading a layer of white frost on the core surface.

The cracks that were healing were refreezed, and the dark red light began to dim under the cover of frost.

The phantom emitted a low, muffled sound, as if it came from the depths of the earth, and its entire outline trembled violently.

The giant hand that was gathering suddenly dispersed, turning into a stream of dark red light spots that converged back towards the core, as if trying to resist the erosion of the frost.

Chen Nian felt the resistance on the blade increasing, so she pushed the blade forward another inch, and more cold air seeped into the interior through the cracks on the core surface.

A continuous hissing sound came from the surrounding air, as if a continuous release of energy was pushing the shape of this phantom to the brink of instability.

It began to distort, its outline becoming blurred and trembling, as if unable to withstand the continuous output, peeling away fragments of dark red light from its massive form, scattering in the night wind and dissipating silently.

solved.

Seeing Chen Nian land, Fang Anya immediately came over.

"Are you alright, Niannian?"

Chen Nian landed with her knees slightly bent to cushion the impact. After regaining her balance, she rotated her right wrist, which was holding the knife, to make sure that the previous strike hadn't put any extra strain on her joints. Then she shook her head and said, "It's nothing. It's just that the resistance at the end was a bit too great, and my arm jolted."

Fang Anya's gaze lingered on her right arm for a moment, and only after confirming that there was no obvious damage did she look away and look at the large crater left behind after the afterimage dissipated.

The dark red light at the bottom of the pit had completely died out, leaving only exposed rock layers and loose sand. The cracks at the edge of the cave entrance no longer widened, like a door that had been completely closed.

The lingering smell of heated minerals in the air gradually faded, slowly carried away by the winter night wind.

Su Wanqing ran over from a distance, the two kukri knives already tucked back into their straps. She peered into the pit, then turned to Chen Nian and asked, "Is that all? It won't grow back, will it?"

"The core has been destroyed, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Let's go down and take a look. Since our assigned task is to investigate here, we should collect some data before going back," Chen Nian said.

Hearing Chen Nian's words, the other girls nodded.

Chen Nian walked to the edge of the pit, squatted down, and shone her flashlight into the bottom of the pit.

At the bottom, some dark red fragments can be seen scattered in the sand, like remnants of a shattered core shell, gradually fading into ordinary dark gray stone flakes, losing their luster.

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