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The wind blowing out of the elevator could freeze a person stiff. The third basement level was packed with blood-red ice that filled the entire floor. It was blood wine frozen by Bai Ling’s demon power, and the source of that blood wine now lay on top of the ice, shattered everywhere.
“What’s going on?!” Young Man panicked. He had followed the high-ponytail woman’s orders and thrown the bronze box containing the snake scale down from the beam. The demon energy leaking from that scale should have made the newly born vengeful demon several times stronger within minutes.
But now the vengeful demon had already become a pile of ice shards. The air in the venue was absurdly clean. Five minutes ago, this place should have turned into a demon nest filled with demon energy!
Even the snake scale had vanished!
Obviously someone had killed the vengeful demon minutes earlier, cleared the demon energy, and taken the scale at the same time!
But who could clear that level of demon energy within minutes?
Young Man turned his head stiffly toward the high-ponytail woman beside him. Beads of sweat the size of beans seeped from his forehead.
The high-ponytail woman said nothing, but from the trembling snake-shaped pendant on her earlobe, Young Man could tell she was furious!
“Prepare to withdraw!”
The high-ponytail woman took several deep breaths before forcing those words out through her teeth.
Her words landed on the ice, bone-chilling cold.
She pulled a snake-scale mask from behind her waist and covered her face with it. In one breath, she had already leaped out of the elevator shaft.
“Where are you going?!”
“To get the scale back!” Just from that sentence, anyone could tell the high-ponytail woman truly wanted to kill someone.
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On the big screen, behind the boss, who was a black-robed Daoist nun, eighty-one ancient swords flew out in a flurry. On the lighting rig twenty meters above the venue, frost was spreading along the metal frame.
“Let me guess. This short one is yours?” Bai Ling’s heel tapped against the lighting rig beam. From the moment the high-ponytail woman appeared, she had sensed that this woman was neither human nor a vengeful demon, but an ancient demon like herself.
An ancient demon mixed in with demon hunters? That was strange, but not impossible.
Look at her, Bai Ling. She also spent every day among demon hunters, and had even gotten into the Demon Suppression Bureau dormitory.
“Where is the scale?” The high-ponytail woman did not answer Bai Ling’s question. To be honest, she did not care whether this short one lived or died. Though the short one was indeed her subordinate, compared to the snake scale her sister had left behind, this short one was expendable.
“Ah, that snake scale in the elevator shaft was yours?” Bai Ling answered with feigned surprise. Frost was already slowly spreading from beneath her feet.
She glanced down. The venue was packed with a dark mass of heads.
Perfect. She could use this chance to burn off some of the demon power overflowing inside her.
Scales suddenly covered Bai Ling’s cheeks. In her slit pupils flowed a color like molten liquid gold.
“Crack!”
The snap of her fingers pierced the deafening venue speakers. Vast cold air exploded above the venue, accompanied by the crisp sound of ice crystals shattering.
The sweeping cold froze the movement of molecules in an instant.
Time was frozen!
Bai Ling stepped toward the high-ponytail woman. Each step formed a layer of ice beneath her feet. When she crossed twenty meters on floating ice crystals and arrived before the high-ponytail woman, her legs had already become a snake tail.
“This feels good.” As she spoke, sound waves carved ice cones into the frozen air.
If not to burn off that overflowing demon power, she would not have used her ultimate move right away.
Releasing ultra-low temperatures that could almost freeze time placed a heavy burden on her. So far, she had only released it twice.
The first time, she escaped right under Elder Qin’s nose and even cleared the rain clouds covering all of Lin’an.
And this third time, in a half-human, half-snake state, she had completely frozen time.
The extremely high demon-power circulation efficiency in her half-human, half-snake state gave her the illusion that she could do anything.
“Come quietly with me to the demon market.”
Bai Ling had no intention of killing the high-ponytail woman here. Who she was, where she came from, why she was doing this, and that inexplicable snake scale were all questions. If Bai Ling killed her now, those questions might never be answered.
Bringing her back to the demon market and handing her to Guan Qing was the safest plan.
Besides, handing her to Guan Qing would distract Guan Qing, so she would not ask about Bai Ling avoiding her.
“Crack, crack!”
The sound of ice crystals breaking suddenly rang out. From the corner of her eye, Bai Ling caught the high-ponytail woman’s fingers twitching slightly.
She actually broke free from frozen time?!
Before Bai Ling could even be shocked, vast demon power exploded in an instant. The cyan snake tail danced like a steel whip. Amid the deafening crash of ice crystals shattering, the frozen world cracked layer by layer like glass!
Time surged forward!
The moment her ultimate move was shattered, Bai Ling’s snake tail slammed backward with force, launching her dozens of meters away. Only when she landed on the beam did she see the high-ponytail woman’s current posture.
Her hair tips swept away ice shards in the air. Her originally slender legs had become a cyan snake tail. The scales on her mask opened and closed slowly with her breathing, as if alive.
This high-ponytail woman was not only a snake demon. Her current form was completely identical to Bai Ling’s!
No wonder she could break free from frozen time.
Because she and Bai Ling were the same kind of demon.
The instant Bai Ling saw the high-ponytail woman’s form, she already had her answer.
Ice cones condensed in an instant and shot toward the high-ponytail woman like bullets, only to be ground into fragments by the cyan snake tail.
The next second, Bai Ling appeared above the high-ponytail woman holding a long saber, and swung the blade coated in ice crystals down.
“Clang!”
The blade struck a pair of short daggers in midair. After the attached ice crystals shattered, there followed a teeth-aching sound of twisting metal.
A green glow spread from the poisoned short daggers, but when it tried to climb along the long saber toward Bai Ling’s wrist, it faded away.
Bai Ling used the force to retreat instantly. Her snake tail wrapped around the upper lighting rig to steady herself. Now she was like a giant white python coiled high, waiting for prey, the hunting instinct of a snake.
But the high-ponytail woman had no intention of pursuing. She stared blankly at Bai Ling’s unconsciously twisting snake tail, as if seeing an old friend.
Broken ice shards fell one after another. Before they landed, they had already melted into droplets the size of fine rain. They fell onto the surging crowd in the venue. Players struck by the droplets looked up in confusion, but could only see the pitch-black lighting rig.
They had no idea that a life-and-death struggle had just erupted on the beam twenty meters above their heads.
“Phfft!”
A sudden shot shattered the strange silence between the two snake demons coiled on the beam.
The suppressed bullet from a silencer hit the high-ponytail woman’s raised snake tail and sparked. Then came an unending barrage of suppressing fire.
The venue’s big screen suddenly began playing a special-effects animation of a human hero unleashing a new version ultimate. The bright light illuminated the darkness spreading over the lighting rig, and also illuminated these sudden uninvited guests.
It was the Demon Suppression Bureau!
The bronze beast masks they had cast in the shape of Taotie reflected a chilling luster.
An entire special tactics squad was firing in waves. Smoke drifting from the silencers passed the leader’s brow, where there was an old scar Bai Ling recognized.
It was Xu Zhi! Why had he come so fast?!
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