The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 800: Make Quick Work

Qing Ling threw her Tang Dao with her left arm pushed to triple the original strength. With level 6 God of Blades and Metal enhancing the blade, the Tang Dao shot at Six Rime’s chest like a bullet.

Six Rime faltered. She was forced to let go of the waterjets since she couldn’t move away in time. Tapping into her entire reserve of energy, she quickly formed a layer of ice on her chest like a mirror to protect the heart.

Clink!

The Tang Dao hit the newly formed ice mirror and shattered it, but with the momentum offset, the blade failed to pierce Six Rime’s chest.

Still, the great pain made Six Rime stagger back.

Six Rime had incredible Willpower for controlling elements, but her physique was on the weak side, and the hit almost broke two rib bones.

Splash. The threads of water around Qing Ling turned into regular droplets and fell without Six Rime’s control. Qing Ling was drenched by the downpour.

She splayed her right hand to summon her Tang Dao back, but failed. Looking more closely, she realized that Six Rime had conjured a few irregularly shaped ice pillars, one of which had frozen her Tang Dao in place.

Six Rime changed tactics. To deal with Qing Ling, it was best to take her weapons away first so that her ability to fight would be greatly compromised.

Seeing through Six Rime’s plan, Qing Ling frowned and rushed toward Six Rime with only her Xiu Dao. At the same time, she made a resounding sound with a finger snap.

Rumble.

It went dark over Six Rime’s head. Three strikes of purple lightning suddenly came down.

While Six Rime was locked in the Absolute Barrier, she had witnessed Qing Ling killing Zero Hatred and learned that Qing Ling now had Lightning. Thus, she wasn’t caught by surprise.

Six Rime jumped to the side and narrowly avoided the lightning strikes. At the same time, she sent three ice cones flying toward Qing Ling to stop her from making follow-up attacks.

With masterful techniques, Qing Ling cut the three ice cones with a crescent of blade aura and rushed to where Six Rime had been, making a horizontal slash with a cyan aura.

Clink! The ice encasing the Tang Dao cracked.

With another slash, Qing Ling broke the ice completely. She recovered her weapon without delay. At some point, though, a freezing chill had crept up to her feet and quickly took the form of giant ice crystal petals, closing in on Qing Ling from all directions.

Having guessed that Qing Ling would take her weapon back, Six Rime set up a trap beforehand.

Qing Ling reacted quickly. With a leap, she flew into the sky. The petals failed to swallow Qing Ling as they quickly closed, but one of her ankles was caught by the two tallest petals.

Absolute coldness shot to the other parts of Qing Ling’s body from her ankle.

Without hesitation, Qing Ling brought her blades down for a thrust and broke the ice petals restraining her ankle. With her calf going temporarily numb from the freeze, she was half a beat late in jumping away.

Three sharp ice cones flew toward Qing Ling.

Clink, clink, clink.

Qing Ling twisted her body midair and cut them down with quick slashes. Then she suddenly felt a tremendous pressure coming from behind her, like the train of death was racing to crush her.

It was Azure Dragon!

While fighting Gao Yang, Azure Dragon had been keeping an eye on Six Rime. He came to the conclusion that Six Rime would soon lose to Qing Ling, Can, and Ke Yo since she wasn’t made for a prolonged fight.

Within fifteen meters, Gao Yang was a little faster than he was with Teleportation, but beyond fifteen meters, Azure Dragon was faster.

Knocking Gao Yang back with a punch, Azure Dragon then used a feint to fool Gao Yang into raising his arms to brace for an attack. Then Azure Dragon quickly whirled around and made a powerful leap, rushing toward Qing Ling after her ankle got frostbite. He was going to take her out with a punch.

He knew this could be his only chance. He must not miss it.

Whistle.

There was a strange whistle. Everyone, even Azure Dragon, got distracted for a moment. Azure Dragon was already on course to hit Qing Ling, though, and he managed to utilize the great inertia to make a swing at Qing Ling, only the punch wasn’t as powerful without the backing up of his energy.

Thud.

Rather than hitting Qing Ling, the fist ended up hitting something else a meter from her. What stopped Azure Dragon was an almost translucent wind barrier—Can had made a move before Ke Yo used her whistle.

The wind barrier wasn’t going to crumble the instant the whistle distracted Can, and thus it managed to block Azure Dragon’s unenhanced punch.

Still, the wind barrier was fragile, and it shattered into countless wild currents. While unhurt, Qing Ling got swept away by the strong currents.

The whistle ended. Qing Ling quickly recovered her control and twisted around midair, stepping on her two Black Gold darts.

As soon as she steadied her footing, Azure Dragon quickly made another jump and reached her. As expected of a top fighter, he was terrifyingly fast and gave her no room to breathe.

Qing Ling frowned, raising her blades to attempt a block.

Whoosh. Her vision blurred. She was suddenly ten meters away and held in someone’s arms. Gao Yang had teleported over just in time to rescue her.

They didn’t even have the time to exchange a glance before they parted and each rushed toward their opponent.

Qing Ling’s heart sank.

She could sense great tension all over Gao Yang’s body. He couldn’t even spare her a glance, let alone make orders to command the battlefield.

That told her that Gao Yang had to pay full attention to Azure Dragon to even rival the man, and that was all he could do.

In fact, he had failed to keep Azure Dragon fully occupied, almost allowing Azure Dragon to kill Qing Ling. As time went on, Azure Dragon would become resistant to more and more of Gao Yang’s Talents, and Azure Dragon would absorb some of Gao Yang’s energy for himself.

Such was the terrifying strength of the strongest awakener on paper. It made despair-inducing.

I have to kill Six Rime quickly and help Gao Yang fight Azure Dragon, or we’ll all die here.

Qing Ling charged at Six Rime with her blades and shouted, “With me!”

While invisible, Can understood Qing Ling’s unspoken words and the danger they were facing.

Hovering in the air, she let go of Ke Yo and helped her land safely with a gust of wind while she joined the fight herself.

Without the protection of Invisibility, Ke Yo immediately put distance between her and the battlefield, hiding and awaiting her chance to make a move.

About a dozen air blades flew toward Six Rime.

Six Rime raised her left hand, conjuring countless droplets above her head. They quickly came together to form a net of water, offsetting all the air blades.

From her left, Qing Ling dove toward her.

With a downward swing of Six Rime’s right hand, an ice stake shot out of the ground and made a sneak attack at Qing Ling like an insect hidden underground. With an agile leap, Qing Ling dodged the ice stake while making a crosscut at Six Rime.

The perpendicular slashes flew toward Six Rime, one blue and the other purple.

Without the time to get away, Six Rime conjured an even sturdier ice shield and pulled her raised right hand down. The water net that had just blocked the air blades turned into a thick water shield to protect her.

Splash.

The quicker blue slash cut into the water shield and splattered water all over, but failed to destroy the shield.

Then 0.1 seconds later, the purple slash hit the water shield without making a splash, but instead disappearing into it instantly.

Six Rime’s eyes widened. The second slash wasn’t a blade aura conjured with God of Blades, but a fake consisting of lightning elements!

She realized it too late. The electric currents entered her body and made her go numb, shortcircuiting her energy for a second.

In the meantime, Qing Ling was already right before her.