CHAPTER 133: 133

"Well, this is troublesome." Lin Meilin merely shook her head, though there was a slight smile on her face as if she had achieved what she wanted.

"Who would have thought that one day, Nine Yin Physique and Crimson Heart would team up together?" Her charming voice echoed in the surroundings; unfortunately, she didn’t receive any reply.

But Lin Meilin didn’t care. She simply waved her hand, summoning more than fifty wind blades, each one aiming to strike the two women who had just stood up.

Looking at the dense number of incoming wind blades, Cang Yue merely raised the thin, long needle in her hand before slashing it down, and in that instant, the air in front of her seemed to have been split into two as a single large arc of black light rushed towards Lin Meilin.

The moment the black arc touched the wind blades, it shattered them like fragile pieces of glass. The wind blades, which were previously strong enough to rip apart stones and the ground, couldn’t even leave a single trace on the black arc of light.

At the same moment Cang Yue attacked, Lin Yue made her move too. Similar to Cang Yue, she too raised her hand as the black ribbon appeared in her hand, but this time it wasn’t covered in black internal energy. Instead, the entire ribbon was dyed red as if it were drenched in blood.

And just like Cang Yue, Lin Yue slashed it in front of her, unleashing a red arc of light that corroded everything it touched. The wind blades that Lin Yue was helpless against just a few moments ago had now disintegrated before they could even touch the light.

"My, my... What a surprise." Lin Meilin seemed to be enjoying it as she looked at the two incoming attacks.

Even though her attacks were disintegrated in an instant, there wasn’t any hint of panic on her face. She merely let out a smile before lifting her right foot and smashing it down on the ground.

And the moment she did that, the entire Blue Faced Tribe seemed to tremble for a moment before two massive walls suddenly sprang from the ground in front of the two incoming attacks.

But Lin Meilin didn’t just stop there. She waved her hand once again, and in the next instant, the two walls were covered with a thick layer of water that merged with it, turning it into sticky mud.

Lin Meilin waved her hand once again, and a thick layer of fire suddenly enveloped that muddy wall, as if roasting it before turning it into incomparably solid.

*BANG

*BANG

The two attacks finally made contact with the walls as the sound of two consecutive explosions filled the air, along with dust.

And once the dust settled, the scene was finally revealed.

The wall Lin Meilin summoned was tattered like an old, washed-up piece of cloth, but surprisingly, it held up. Even though it was almost on the verge of falling apart, it still managed to block two terrifying attacks, which were enough to claim the life of an ordinary Core Condensation Expert.

On the other hand, Cang Yue felt her scalp tingling.

Even though she was using her physique and growing increasingly powerful with each passing second, she was fully in control of her emotions and body, unlike Lin Yue in the distance, who was already growling like an animal.

It was this clarity that made her realise what she was up against.

Just like the Vein Expansion realm, the Core Condensation realm was also divided into five stages.

Those who controlled one element were the beginners who had just stepped into the Core Condensation realm.

These were the weakest Core Condensation realms experts who could only use one element.

Just a while ago, when she was fighting the Blue Faced tribe leader, she thought that the opposite party was someone who was somehow lucky enough to step into the Core Condensation realm.

She became increasingly sure of that as their fight continued, and the woman only used wind elements.

This was why she was sure that she could take her out using her Nine Yin Physique.

But now...

Looking at the woman using one element after another, she felt her heart turn cold. She could take on a Core Condensation realm expert, but only someone with control of one element.

Against someone who could control two elements, she would be like a sitting duck, not to mention against someone who could control four elements, and perhaps even five.

One had to understand that at two elements, it isn’t just about controlling the elements but also merging them to enhance their power further.

Looking at the woman inside the walls, the first thought that came to her mind was to grab Yang Ze and rush out of this place as fast as possible. She knew her capabilities perfectly and didn’t want to rush to her death.

Only Lin Yue, who seemed to have lost her mind, rushed towards Lin Meilin with an inhumane rage.

She didn’t care whether the opponent was a single-element user or five. She just kept on slashing her ribbon as dense red light arcs tore through the air, aiming towards Lin Meilin.

Taking advantage of the situation, Cang Yue retreated hurriedly, but before she could move any further, she felt she hit an invisible wall. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn’t move past it.

"This whore." Throwing a punch at the invisible wall behind her, how could she not understand that it was put up by the Blue Faced tribe leader to prevent her from escaping?

Gritting her teeth, she could only rush towards the figure of the enchanting woman in the distance who welcomed the red arcs with a smile on her face.

Looking at the incoming red slashes, Lin Meilin simply waved her hand as fifty blades appeared around her. But unlike before, these blades weren’t made out of wind, but of lightning.

"Damn it." Seeing it, Cang Yue’s heart almost leapt out of her throat. The thing she feared the most had finally come true. This whore was at the peak of the Core Condensation. Someoen who could control all five elements... wind, earth, water, fire and lightning.

Looking at the lightning blades emitting world-destroying power, she felt a sense of suffocation like never before. Even her Nine Yin physique seemed to be suppressed for now.

Lin Meilin simply waved her hand as the lightning blades collided with Lin Yue’s attacks, tearing the air and ground underneath as wild lightning arcs shot all around.

Cang Yue could only slash in front of her, bravely meeting the residual lightning arcs, but her eyes were focused on the scene in the distance.

Even though Lin Yue’s attacks were powerful and strange, how could they compare to the might of lightning?

The lightning blades tore through her blood red slashes before hitting her on the stomach.

Lin Yue’s body stiffened for a moment before her mouth emitted black smoke, and she fell down on the ground with her life and death unknown.

After Lin Yue fell down, Lin Meilin finally turned around with a smile to face Cang Yue, whose body was now completely covered in black fog. Even the ground underneath her was beginning to crack due to the sheer pressure she was emitting.

"Nine Yin Physique truly lives up to its name." Lin Meilin didn’t attack, but her leisurely voice still reached Cnag Yue’s ear, who in turn tightened her grip on the thin needle.

Ignoring Cang Yue’s silence, Lin Meilin kept on speaking.

"But how long can you last?" Her voice had a hint of teasing.

"Nine Yin Physique, once activated, could only last for nine minutes. With every minute doubling one’s strength."

"Of course, activating it before reaching the Core Condensation realm also comes with its own risks."

Speaking till here, Lin Meilin went silent for a moment before gazing deeply at Cang Yue.

"Your body must be under intense stress. For the current you, the seven-minute mark is your limit and any more and your body will be ruined beyond recovery."

"Are you sure you want to do that?"

Listening to Lin Meilin’s words, Cang Yue’s eyes narrowed into slits as her breathing almost came to a halt.

It took her a moment to come back to her senses as she gazed deeply at the enchanting woman in front of her.

"Senior is wise." Even though Cang Yue was praising her, she didn’t cancel her physique. By now, five minutes have already passed, and she was nearing her limits, but she didn’t take any action.

At the moment, her strength was thirty-two times her original strength. But even with such strength, she wasn’t sure she could even touch the opponent, much less cause her any harm.

"If you don’t mind me asking..." Cang Yue’s voice lowered a pitch as she spoke further. "Who exactly are you?"

"Oh!" Lin Meilin simply raised an eyebrow with a smile. "Don’t you already know?"

"Aren’t you here to take off my head?"

Listening to her teasing voice, Cang Yue could only shake her head.

"Senior must be joking."

"How could such a barren tribe be led by your esteemed self?"

Cang Yue wasn’t lying. If the opposite party were someone who barely managed to reach the Core Condensation realm somehow, she wouldn’t have thought about it.

After all, the world was full of lucky people and strange encounters. Even with the mighty sects controlling the path beyond the Vein Expansion realm, there were bound to be some leaks.

But what she didn’t believe was that someone who was at the peak of Core Condensation was the leader of this bandit group. Not only was it absurd, but it didn’t even make any sense.

In the realm of Core Condensation, resources are absolutely meaningless. So, the fact that Blue Faced tribe was robbing the Sword Sect’s tribute was absurd.

"Not to mention you didn’t use any life-threatening attacks on us." It was only now that she noticed this anomaly, too.

The woman in front of her was strong enough to kill them a hundred times over. And yet, she didn’t.

Forget about killing; she didn’t even use any life-threatening attacks against her and Lin Yue from the very beginning.

Even when she barged into the room and attacked Yang Ze, she only knocked her unconscious.

Cang Yue just couldn’t understand why the opposite party would do that.

"Who are you, senior? And why are you here?"

"Ha..."

"HAHA...."

"HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Lin Meiling’s charming laughter filled the air as she heard Cang Yue’s reasoning. But in the end, she didn’t give a clear answer.

"You have a vivid imagination." She merely shrugged in response before raising her hand as a massive ball of water that was almost three radius in meters appeared above Cang Yue before falling down.

Looking at the ball of water crashing down on her that was slowly turning into ice, Cang Yue didn’t waste any words. She didn’t know what the opposite party wanted to do or why she was here, but since she was attacking instead of talking, she was an enemy.

Perhaps she merely wanted to play with them and watch them despair. Like a cat playing with a mouse. It knows the mouse can’t escape from its clutches, so it would play with it for a long time.

Perhaps the woman in front of her was the same, too.

With this in mind, Cang Yue simply slashed towards the ball of ice that was falling on her.

With her strength that has now increased by one hundred and twenty-eight times, Cang Yue shattered the entire ball of ice with a single stab of her needle.

"Your final minute." Lin Meilin, on the other hand, just smiled. Cang Yue was already at the seventh minute. Any more and her body would be damaged beyond repair.

Cang Yue too sensed it, but she didn’t stop.

"What do you want?" In the end, she chose to compromise. She knew she was no match for the woman in her current state and was willing to give up on this mission.

But right now, her priority was to get out of this place safely.

"What do I want, huh?" Lin Meilin seemed to be thinking for a while as she muttered further, "What do you want?"

"What do we all want?"

She merely kept on smiling.

And just when Cang Yue was getting more and more confused and frustrated, Lin Meilin finally thought about something as her eyes lit up.

"I want him..."

With a smile, she pointed towards the figure of Yang Ze, who was lying on the ground while groaning in pain.

*Swish

Before she could even finish her sentence, Lin Meilin saw Cang Yue swinging the needle at her neck with all her strength.

"Heh." Lin Meilin narrowly dodged each attack while Cang Yue kept on attacking relentlessly. She could endure anything... but when it comes to Yang Ze, she wasn’t willing to compromise.

The two of them moved around as Cang Yue kept on attacking while Lin Meilin kept on dodging.

Their cat-and-mouse chase lasted for a while before Lin Meilin suddenly stopped and let out a teasing smile before opening her cherry lips, which were hidden under the violet veil, to speak.

"EIGHTH MINUTE."