Chapter 299: Ying's Fight to the Death!

  Ying's daydream with Bing and their future children ended with a harsh smack on the back from her team's spellmaster. She felt the weight on her body become significantly lighter. The smallest of steps would surely send her flying right into the middle of the enemy team. While she wanted to give a glare to the slightly-satisfied spellmaster, the annoying words of a flying bug drifted into her ears.

  The blue-haired graceful swordsman, Shen Su, couldn't help but taunt the dazed and idle Ying as she disappeared from her previous spot. "Stay out of my way, you fatty-loving cow." Shen Su grinned after leaving her message in Ying's ear. She charged straight into the middle of the enemy team as a fiery explosion seemed to combust from behind her.

  Ying's explosion of flames seemed to manifest into a vengeful female deity. No one could accurately describe the large woman they saw floating above the Blazing Demonic Sword Maiden but everyone single one of them could feel the fire licking their skin just by looking at her unexplainable beautiful rage. The ring melted into something black and liquid-like when Ying rushed forward in a straight line right toward Shen Su.

  Shen Su's instincts screamed at her immediately. Even before Ying moved, just the sound of the fiery combustion was enough to put her on the defensive. So, when Ying suddenly appeared behind her while she was in the middle of their three opponents, she was already prepared to dodge anything that came at her. While she didn't expect the fat cow to actually try to kill her for insulting that fat slob, it looks like she was right! Ying really did have feelings for that fatty!

  Ying only saw red as she stood over Shen Su's body. Her giant sword was raised overhead, ready to cleave the mouthy bitch into two. Not a single thought was spared for the three surrounding Shen Su or the disciples and elders that would get affected by the aftermath of her unrestrained slash. Ying didn't handle insults to herself very well. She was more than willing to kill for less. She's done so before.

  Insulting Bing? Insulting her feelings for Bing? The cute, adorable, peaceful man she decided to choose as her husband?! There was only one path for Shen Su to tread after such a thoughtless remark.

AND THAT WAS DEATH!

"Mountain Cleaving Slash!" Ying shouted.

"Did I hit a nerve?" Shen Su smirked as multiple life-saving treasures activated on her body. Several circular barriers protected her body as hell unleashed around and behind her.

"Tch!" Multiple elders rushed in to contain the damage from Ying's slash.

  A sea of bright orange flames rose on the left and right sides of Shen Su. They shot into the sky, several meters tall and wide. A greedy hungry fire ocean wanting to devour all that is and ever was surged around the ring. The three surrounding Shen Su turned into ash and then nothingness before the elders could even attempt to save them. Kuai, the spellmaster on Ying and Su's team, immediately fled as far as he could with a movement talisman once he saw the loss of all sanity in Ying's eyes.

  The elders were forced into forcefully dispersing the flames with their own qi. A task that proved harder for some of the lower staged elders and caught the curiosity of a few as well. None of them had the time to focus on Ying and her target to protect the rest of the disciples. Shen Su cleverly took advantage of the fact that such a big move would definitely leave Ying vulnerable afterward. Ying's eyes bulged as she saw Shen Su unharmed and completely fine after taking her unrestrained sword move.

"If it means that much to you, I'll send him off with you." Shen Su effortlessly impaled Ying through the stomach with her blade. "Maybe in your next life, you'll be able to be together." She laughed.

  Despite having a cold long sword slowly thrust through her gut, Ying didn't so much as twitch in pain from it. Her eyes seemed to have turned into balls of raging fire. She stared into Shen Su's twinkling blue eyes and fiercely grabbed her thin wrists tightly holding onto the sword impaled into her body. It didn't take much effort on Ying's part to crush her wrists.

  A muffled scream escaped Shen Su's throat as she bit her lip to stop her screaming. She surged qi within her blade and began to make a mess of Ying's body through her sword as Ying dropped her wrists and slowly pulled back her fist. Blood dripped from her mouth and stomach but qi continued to build in her fist. Both Shen Su and Ying knew what would happen if that fist landed on Su's pretty face.

  Ying was neither just a body cultivator nor a qi cultivator. Just like Hu Tao, she chose to progress in both body and qi through her cultivation. She didn't believe that she could ever catch up or defeat Hu Tao if she focused on one over the other. So, with the help of Jing's resources and her own ambitious nature, she went down the most difficult and costly path. As far as she knows, only Jing, Hu Tao, and herself were the only ones to do so. Not including Li Li.

  Ying's come a long way in her body cultivation. While she was nowhere near Bing's raw strength, very few people among her peers were capable of taking a qi-less strike from her without using qi to defend. And little miss bitch used up all of her life-saving treasures to block her first attack. Ying only smiled as she felt the qi from Shen Su's sword tearing through her innards.

  Her fist continued to glow brighter and brighter until it burst into dark violet flames. Shen Su couldn't help but scream for help as Ying's fist soared toward her face. A deep innate fear filled her soul as it neared her. She didn't understand it and she didn't want to understand it. All she wanted was for this big-chested bitch to hurry up and die!

"Interesting..." A pillar elder easily blocked Ying's fist filled with enough power to severely injure someone more than two major stages above her. His fist glowed with a gentle white flame, seemingly eating Ying's fire.

  He separated Ying and Shen Su from one another as a small trail of blood leaked from his mouth. For a little Qi Consolidation disciple to injure someone like him, what an amazing talent... That purple flame couldn't be any ordinary flame. Although he had no proof, he had a feeling that this girl's flame was something legendary...

"I'll handle this." The pillar elder flicked two pills into both Shen Su and Ying's mouths before taking them and disappearing from the stage.

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"Should we be worried?" Bing asked.

"..." Jing knew the elder that took Ying from some of her past life experiences.

  Pan Yi was his name. The creator and first master of the Hell-Devouring Flames. The Hell-Devouring Flames was the name of his self-created martial arts meant for and against anything flame-natured. With this martial art, there were few flame-natured objects, beasts, and people that could harm them.

  Jing assumed that this master was interested in taking Ying as his disciple. Why he also took Shen Su, she had no clue. She doesn't remember anything about him being lecherous or perverted. Just that he only had one disciple and taught him everything before dying in a battle against the future Ice Leopard Queen. Jing didn't have a problem with him taking Ying as his disciple. As long as Ying also agreed, there was nothing to worry about.

"Ying would message us if she needed aid." Lei Zhi reminded him of their communication talismans.

"Oh yeah..." Bing pulled out his talisman, ready to read it if a message came.

"Well, that was something..." Lin Shu wasn't sure how to react after such a scary and exciting match like that. Could she become that strong if she stayed in this group long enough?!

"I didn't know she was so strong..." He Wenqing was terrified.

"..." Xiucai only felt validated in trusting his instincts earlier. This group was truly the place he needed to stay if he wanted to break free from his clan. It was only with these monsters would he truly grow strong enough to live how he pleased.

"Jie, you're not going to explode like that if someone talks about Hu Tao badly, are you?" Lin Shu asked.

"Maybe when I first met him. I really didn't like him back then. If someone teased me about it enough, I'd probably explode like Ying did up there. But now, there isn't much someone could say to get that kind of reaction from me regarding him." Su Jie answered.

"You don't have any nerve points like that either do you Xiucai?" He Wenqing asked.

"?" Xiucai shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know.

"Well if someone does say something about us, don't let it get to you. Me and He may not be as strong as you but we're not helpless to defend ourselves!" Lin Shu roughly patted his shoulder in reassurance. It was only him and Jie left in the competition from Heaven's Angels.