Chapter 988: Severed at the Waist! Split in Two
[From Vivian's Resentment Value +1000!]
What kind of bizarre spiritual art is this? How can it swap positions? Does it have to be this troublesome?
Jiangnan twisted the blood-drinking knife in his hand, and a piercing pain shot through him as Vivian coughed up another mouthful of blood!
"Despair Ice Cave!"
A wave of extreme cold erupted from Vivian's center, freezing everything around her into ice sculptures—even her own plant-type allies weren't spared!
Jiangnan withdrew his blade and instantly teleported back!
Vivian struggled to her feet. Blood vines shot out from her back, burrowing into the ground, while the wound on her chest healed rapidly!
Her eyes were filled with resentment: "Such big talk. Let's see how you plan to kill me!"
A cold voice came from behind her!
"Like this!"
Jiangnan, clad in full Glazed Armor, appeared instantly behind Vivian, a red gleam flashing in his eyes!
He swung the blood-drinking knife viciously toward her neck!
The threat of death made Vivian's hairs stand on end!
"Frost Sword!"
In an instant, hundreds of icy blue swords materialized around her, forming an impenetrable sword net!
They deflected the blood-drinking knife while the remaining swords let out piercing shrieks as they stabbed furiously at Jiangnan!
But Jiangnan didn't dodge at all. He charged straight into the swords as they closed in!
"Displacement!"
Jiangnan and Vivian swapped positions again!
Caught off guard, Vivian was pierced through by her own swords, leaving a dozen bloody holes!
Vivian gritted her teeth in frustration: "Tch! How annoying!"
And now Jiangnan was inside the sword net!
Vivian wasn't about to let this chance slip away. She controlled the ice swords to rapidly stab toward Jiangnan!
"Marked Teleport!"
But they hit nothing. Jiangnan had already teleported right beside Vivian!
His blade slashed down toward her head. Vivian could only barely twist her body to the side!
Her shoulder and arm were severed by Jiangnan!
[From Vivian's Resentment Value +1000!]
In a panic, she hurriedly summoned all her ice swords to stab at Jiangnan!
Jiangnan ignored them completely, his face savage: "Just die already!"
He didn't even bother to defend. The only thing on his mind was offense!
Three frost swords pierced through his Glazed Armor, stabbing through his abdomen, thigh, and shoulder, drawing streams of hot blood!
But Jiangnan used the opportunity to close in, swinging the blood-drinking knife upward!
It slashed from Vivian's lower abdomen all the way to her chin, splattering blood all over Jiangnan. Her entire body was sent flying!
Jiangnan clutched his stomach and coughed up a mouthful of blood. His body staggered as he leaned on the blood knife, shaking his head.
Without a word, he teleported again and chased after her!
Vivian whipped out blood vines, plunging them into the mother vine's roots to absorb nutrients. Her wounds healed quickly!
Seeing Jiangnan charging at her, she felt her scalp tingle!
This guy was a madman. He'd completely abandoned defense!
Trading wounds for wounds, only focused on killing her, huh?
That was fine by her. At this rate, she could just wear him down!
With that thought, a smile crept back onto Vivian's face!
Xia Yao's wolf claws slashed a Platinum-level plant-man into three pieces. Watching Jiangnan charge ahead, her eyes were full of anxiety!
Damn it!
Xiao Nan had completely lost control!
Seeing Shan Mao injured like that had been the last straw!
The anger that had been building up inside him had finally exploded. In this state, going up against Vivian, who could recover with her blood vines, would cost him dearly!
In a cross-rank battle like this, one misstep could mean death!
"Wu Liang! Awoo~"
Xia Yao let out a childish wolf cub howl, and Vivian, who was about to attack Jiangnan, froze for a moment!
Seizing the chance, Xia Yao rushed toward Jiangnan recklessly!
Wu Liang knew exactly what Xia Yao meant!
"Hit me if you dare!"
He used a taunt skill, drawing all the frost swords to turn and stab at him!
He also pulled Vivian's aggro toward himself!
Xia Yao pounced on Jiangnan, pinning him to the ground, straddling him, and holding his face in her hands!
"Xiao Nan! Calm down! Don't act impulsively! Take it slow—we can win this!"
Jiangnan's pupils reflected Xia Yao's figure. His body was taut like a drawn bowstring!
Xia Yao pulled Jiangnan into her arms and gently patted his back!
"Good Xiao Nan! There, there! There, there!"
The redness in Jiangnan's eyes gradually faded. Touched by Xia Yao's gentle voice, he finally calmed down!
Then his eyes snapped wide open. He grabbed Xia Yao's slender waist and leaped up from the ground like a spring!
His blade sliced through the neck of a plant-man charging at them!
"Phew... I was being stupid. Thanks!"
He'd been completely blinded by rage just now, wanting nothing but Vivian's life. That state was too dangerous!
If it weren't for Da Lang Mie snapping him out of it, he might have really been done for!
Xia Yao rolled her eyes and jabbed Jiangnan in the stomach with her elbow!
"Why are you thanking me? You think I'm not worried about you getting hurt?"
Jiangnan scratched his head sheepishly. Just then, Wu Liang, covered in blood, let out a roar!
"Brother Nan! I can't hold on anymore! Catch!"
With that, he used Wild Charge, slamming hard into Vivian, sending her flying toward Jiangnan!
Jiangnan licked his lips and handed Xia Yao a bottle of fake liquor!
"Eight Flash! Can you handle it?"
Xia Yao grinned and winked at Jiangnan playfully: "Leave it to me! Is eight flashes enough? I can try for nine if needed!"
Jiangnan shook his head: "Eight flashes is already over your limit. But it's enough to kill her!"
With that, he teleported toward Vivian!
Xia Yao tipped back the fake liquor, her pretty face flushing red!
"Blood Incineration • Wolf King!"
In that moment, white steam rose from Xia Yao's body as she pushed her physical limits to the max!
"Light Feather! Silver Shadow! Steel Claw!"
Her body turned into a silver phantom, vanishing instantly, moving so fast it was almost impossible to track with the naked eye!
"Nine-Star Flash! First Flash!"
Silver starlight swirled around Xia Yao as she flashed past a Platinum-level plant-man in an instant!
Its body was mercilessly torn apart by her wolf claws, and a portion of the silver starlight around her turned crimson!
"Second Flash! Third Flash!"
Her figure darted back and forth across the pit, continuously killing plant-men and building up energy!
Her speed only increased!
Jiangnan dodged another of Vivian's Ice Cave attacks, his body covered in frost!
"Da Lang Mie!"
A crimson figure shot toward him like an arrow, moving so fast even Jiangnan's eyes couldn't keep up!
All the silver starlight floating around Xia Yao had now turned crimson!
The accumulated energy burst forth in an instant!
Its power was eight times that of the first flash, amplified by the physical attack boost of the Deadly Green Club!
"Nine-Star Flash! Eighth Flash!"
Her wolf claws were about to strike Jiangnan's waist!
"Spatial Displacement!"
In the next moment, Jiangnan and Vivian swapped positions!
"Bam!"
Vivian didn't react in time. She only felt a sharp pain in her abdomen!
Then she was sent flying by an immense force!
Under Xia Yao's Steel Claw Eighth Flash, Vivian was cut cleanly in half at the waist, split into two pieces. Blood sprayed through the air!
Vivian: !!!!!
What kind of terrifying attack power was this?!
She was only Platinum rank? Even if this body of hers wasn't built for physical prowess, she was still Diamond Eight!
And she'd actually broken through her defense?!
But Vivian wasn't panicked at all. With blood vines, this kind of injury was easy to recover from!
Blood vines shot out from her back, aiming to burrow into the mother vine's roots!
But just then, Jiangnan activated Spatial Displacement again!
He'd left a Spatial Mark on Vivian's stomach. This time, he only displaced her lower half!
Now, Jiangnan was incredibly close to the severed edge of Vivian's upper body!
He pulled out a pistol and unloaded a magazine of Spirit-Binding Bullets straight into her wound!
Instantly, her spiritual power and abilities were sealed. Even the blood vines went limp!
Vivian's upper body crashed hard onto the ground, coughing up large amounts of blood!
Blood pooled into a small puddle beneath her!
[From Vivian's Resentment Value +1000!]
She glared at Jiangnan with hatred!
"You've got some nerve! A few of you destroyed one of my blood banks?"
Jiangnan stood before Vivian, knife in hand!
"Don't think you can die that easily. Believe me, soon enough, death will feel like mercy to you!"
Vivian laughed brightly: "Hehehe~ I don't believe that. We'll meet again soon!"
"Next time, you'll be the one dead!"
Jiangnan frowned, a bad feeling rising in his heart. He raised his knife to finish her off!
But at that moment, the mother vine's root, dozens of meters thick, swung toward them fiercely!
Jiangnan could only teleport away!
"Boom!"
With a deafening crash, the mother vine's root smashed Vivian's upper body to a pulp!
It sucked in the blood along with it. She was clearly dead beyond a doubt!
Jiangnan was stunned. What just happened? Did she choose to kill herself out of fear of being interrogated for intel?
Was she that decisive?
But just now, he hadn't seen a hint of fear of death in Vivian's eyes!
Instead, there was a sense of amusement!
What did she mean by "we'll meet again"?
The swaying mother vine root went berserk, sending out countless blood vine branches that started slaughtering the plant-men in the pit and absorbing their blood!
At least Liu Mang and Li Si had already rescued Shan Mao and the others who were hanging!
All the Dark Night members who had been captured and used as blood bags had successfully been moved outside the cave!
As the mother vine root raged, cracks spread across the walls of the pit. Boulders as big as houses crashed down. It looked like it was about to collapse!
"It's caving in! Da Lang Mie! Get out first! I'll come out later!"
Xia Yao and Wu Liang evacuated the pit, looking back at Jiangnan curiously!
What did he still need to do?
Jiangnan's face twisted with malice. Suck my Shan Mao's blood? I'll chop you to bits, you bastard!
Jiang the Grudge-Bearer raised his blood-drinking knife and charged straight at the mother vine root, leaping onto it and hacking away with all his might!
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