Chapter 3680 A Fateful Encounter?
"Aha~"
However, Shirley's laughing voice came out.
She cackled again, unable to believe she had come out alive while not wasting a single life of her three lives. All four opponents were equal in power level, and they actually didn't give her time to use a Divine Technique, forcing her to rely on icefire energy.
Otherwise, if she had used the Eternal Pyre Phoenix Conflagration, then she could've at least burned two of them to death instantaneously with how close they were to each other in terms of distance. However, they could've also used Defensive Talismans, so this worked out in her favor, at least having managed to kill two of them.
She swiftly sat up and looked around, knowing that the lightning inheritor also wouldn't possibly be able to stay hidden with those Empyrean Stage Beasts still looking to murder them in cold blood. To those beasts, she and the others might've well just been fire ants playing around.
With everything settled in her thoughts, Shirley stood up and narrowed her eyes at Dewzai.
"You dumb vixen." Shirley clenched her teeth, "You're truly a fool who doesn't know how to survive. Too naive. Too idiotic. Too-"
"That's right!" Dewzai screamed out, "I have never left my home until the Heavenly Ice Stasis Valley, not knowing the ways of the world, but so what? Didn't you also lay down your life for me when you should've just left!? You fool! You naive idiot!"
Dewzai cried out as her face churned with grievance.
Only her face was visible within the soul wisp. It was reduced to such a form after karmic attacks shredded it to such a level, leaving her utterly vulnerable.
"…"
Shirley's anger left her face. In fact, it seemed to be faked, causing her to look away and smile as she ruffled her hair before she looked straight back and moved her lips, not a sound coming out.
"You-!"
Dewzai's soul shuddered.
She was called a bedwetter. She felt ashamed, but for some reason, she couldn't get angry and felt only aggrieved.
"Well," Shirley reached out her hand to heal her right arm.
Water spread out from her palm as she began using healing techniques to regenerate her arm. At the same time, she also internally dealt with the crystal rupture by using icefire energy to counter it.
Normally, using icefire energy to defend was suicide, but she had learned to control it incredibly well. She wondered if her skilled usage of Icefire Laws sent waves of shock across the First Haven World, making her smile lightly.
"Don't just hover there. Come closer. I promise I won't hurt you."
"…"
Dewzai felt like a little fairy caught by an evil woman. She didn't like the look in Shirley's eyes as though she was planning something wicked for the near future.
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Fanwain appeared in some volcanic mountainous regions.
Seven seconds passed as the barrier faded, but he refused to stand up, still looking dumbfounded, unable to believe how a damned phoenix bested him without even being able to show his prowess.
However, he was also instantly able to tell that he wouldn't be a match.
"Aha, it's my loss. That woman sure was shrewd enough to confuse all of us and even jump in herself to reclaim the pill. By this time, she would've been killed…"
He had this sudden urge to want her underneath him, but even more than that, he felt that it was a pity he lost that pill. His eyes flashed with greed, wanting to get back, and the urge to kill those four inheritors also surged within him.
"Oh my~ What a coincidence."
"Speak of the devil…"
Fanwain looked shocked at the person before him. Her seductive voice instantly caused his heart to skip a beat but made him extremely cautious as the person standing before him was none other than Fairy Thunderblaze, Zenova Artoria. He was just thinking about her as he placed Shirley on the list of the most powerful fairies in his mind.
"Good afternoon, Fanwain~" Zenova Artoria smiled behind her veil, "Don't you think this is karma?"
"Don't you mean fate?" Fanwain stood up, his expression churning with greed, "Why don't you become my wife to commemorate our reunion?"
With him having missed the opportunity to plunder the Gilded Realm Ascendant Pill, he wanted to achieve something else worth his attention.
Zenova Artoria inclined her head, "Surely, you don't mean your plaything?"
"I'm caught."
Fanwain raised his hands. His heart churned as he could inhale her attractive floral scent even if she stood ten meters away as the wind was blowing in his direction.
'No one's gonna complain if I have a taste of her, right…? She's most likely a Divergent, after all…'
He almost trembled and drooled, but something else made him unsure as he inclined his head, looking behind her.
"But don't you have your own playthings there?"
Zenova Artoria's lips curled behind her veil. She glanced back from the corner of her eyes, gazing at two men crawling on the hot crimson volcano. Their necks were laden with some kind of lightning leash with annihilative heavenly lightning spikes, which also led all the way from the back of their nape to their forehead, occasionally electrocuting their soul.
They also seemed to be stripped naked, leaving only their underwear.
Connected to their leashes was a crimson lightning rope in Zenova Artoria's hands.
"You even seem to fancy a kid…"
Fanwain blinked as he looked further back and saw Yi Feng, the scaredy kid who cried for coming here. Although he didn't seem to be leashed, his expression appeared quite bleak.
Indeed, Yi Feng had a deadpan expression.
He was thinking how he could only be a prisoner ever since coming here. He was caught thrice, but looking at Altross and Zoltross crawl like dogs, he suddenly seemed to smile before he kicked their butts.
"Keep moving, bastards!"
"Ugnnn!"
Altross and Zoltross let out a muffled cry full of humiliation as they crawled further, but with a wave of Zenova Artoria's hands, the leash swayed and sent a jolt of annihilative lightning across their spine and soul, leaving them limp again.
"What?" Zenova Artoria smiled, "These two are just a gift to my lovely Earth Dragon Empress as they messed with her~ It shouldn't be confused with my hobbies, although I won't promise that I won't develop one for you~"
"…"
Fanwain's expression froze. He could clearly sense Altross and Zoltross were Level Nine Immortal Kings, yet their cultivation bases were suppressed by Zenova Artoria who was only a Level Four Immortal King.
"Shit-"
*Bang!~*
He could only utter one word before a crimson strand of annihilative lightning struck him, before he blanked out.