83: Chapter 83 Extreme Loss

But Lin Ye's familiars won through a complete system, flawless coordination, and defying tenacity!

On the front lines, the Shahun Hounds stubbornly resisted and clung on tenaciously, using their physical bodies to drag down the Angel Legion's charging formation, sparing no expense in depleting their own baleful qi to buy an opportunity for close combat.

High in the air, the Soul-Devouring Owls maneuvered and harassed, precisely unleashing soul shocks to constantly interfere with the angels' divine souls, causing slight stagnation and flaws in their holy attacks, which the Shahun Hounds would then exploit to launch attacks.

The holy light that originally restrained all baleful and evil things was completely held in check for the first time!

The Angel Legion's purification power was continuously consumed, yet it could not quickly purge the baleful qi or disintegrate the enemy forces, leaving them passively trapped in an endless battle of attrition and close combat.

Every sweep of holy light could only wear away the surface baleful qi, but it could not eradicate Lin Ye's endless natal baleful qi.

Every close-quarters slash that defeated a Shahun Hound was met with more familiars carrying plague and baleful qi stepping up to fill the vacancy, stubbornly entangling the formation.

The situation on the battlefield completely subverted everyone's understanding.

Everyone had originally thought that since holiness restrained baleful qi, Bai Ruoxue would initiate a one-sided suppression and easily defeat Lin Ye's familiars.

But once the battle truly began, they discovered that Lin Ye's high-tier baleful qi perfectly offset the holy restraint, and his complete familiar system forcefully withstood the top-tier charge of six hundred Six-Winged Angels, even faintly stabilizing the situation in close combat without falling behind!

On both sides of the arena, Lin Ye and Bai Ruoxue confronted each other from afar, their gazes closely locked onto the opposing battlefield as their expressions shifted differently.

The solemnity in Bai Ruoxue's cold eyes grew increasingly dense, and her fingertips tightened slightly.

She finally confirmed completely that the origin level of Lin Ye's baleful qi was truly enough to look her divine origin in the eye or even slightly surpass it; this decisive battle was by no means the easy victory she had imagined, but a true life-and-death battle between peers at the peak.

Lin Ye's expression was calm, and the fighting spirit in his eyes grew increasingly burning hot.

The soul suppression of the Soul-Devouring Owls after being tempered by soul fire, the refined combat power of his familiars at full health, and the origin suppression of his high-tier baleful qi—all of his trump card advantages were fully displayed, and his chances of winning were far greater than everyone anticipated!

The fighting spirit in Lin Ye's eyes also completely blazed into a prairie fire, and the killing intent that had been suppressed for years completely broke free from its shackles; he clearly knew that Bai Ruoxue had a deep foundation, powerful attacks from her Six-Winged Angels, and rank suppression as well, so such a stalemate of close combat would ultimately only end in a draw. To win first place in Quanzhou, he had to completely let go and fight to the bitter end with all his might.

The next instant, Lin Ye's mind shook violently, and a low shout exploded from his mouth!

"Lift the baleful seal!"

The black-and-red baleful qi, which had originally been on par with the holy light, suddenly surged in concentration by several times, its color transforming from a murky, pitch-black to a deep crimson. The biting power of slaughter, destruction, and erosion flooded the heavens and earth, suppressing every inch of airspace.

The air across the entire arena was instantly evacuated, frozen, and distorted, and the terrifying baleful qi coercion caused the 100,000 spectators in the audience to hold their breath, an extreme sense of suffocation welling up in their hearts.

Not stopping there, the blood-colored brilliance around Lin Ye suddenly burst apart, and the burning power of Blood Boiling surged and circulated as his sealed talent activated once again—Blood Boiling!

Rolling blood-colored spiritual energy, carrying monstrous baleful qi, poured entirely into the bodies of all his familiars!

In an instant, all the familiars went completely mad. The 1,300 Shahun Hounds were intertwined with blood-red baleful energy, their physiques expanding by another circle, their muscle lines bulging menacingly, and their fangs and claws radiating a pitch-black, bloodthirsty cold light. Their already fearless charging momentum became even more frantic, and their physical hardness and collision power skyrocketed by more than thirty percent.

The wings of the 486 Soul-Devouring Owls trembled violently, their pitch-black feathers stained with blood-red patterns. Their soul power, having surged by twenty percent, was completely unsealed, and the soul ripples all over the sky intertwined into a net. Targeted soul shocks came continuously, locking firmly onto the soul origin of every single Six-Winged Angel, constantly tearing apart their holy protective spiritual light.

The black mist of the surviving Plague Seed Mosquitoes on the flanks surged several times over, mixed with the rampaging high-tier baleful qi and Blood Boiling power. The erosive toxicity of the plague spores doubled layer upon layer; wherever they landed they took root, and whatever they touched corrupted, frantically disintegrating the angels' holy barriers.

The battle situation completely reversed in an instant!

The previously evenly matched stalemate shattered with a bang. All of Lin Ye's subordinates went on a rampage, abandoning all defense and opening up an ultra-mad onslaught mode.

Under the multiple suppressions of violent baleful qi, unsolvable plague, soul shocks, and Blood Boiling enhancements, the originally solid angel holy light formation began to rapidly crack, collapse, and disintegrate.

One by one, the Six-Winged Angels guarding the front lines had their holy barriers forcibly torn apart by baleful qi, their sacred bodies continuously corroded by the plague, and their souls constantly torn apart by the soul-devouring power. Even with defying bloodline grades and unbreakable defenses, they could not withstand such an omnidirectional, dead-end-free violent onslaught.

Bang, bang, bang—!

Dense explosive sounds continuously resounded across the arena. One by one, the Six-Winged Angels of perfect appearance and top-tier combat power had their bodies shatter, their holy light extinguish, and their feathers scatter as they plummeted heavily from high altitude, completely losing all vitality.

The fall of every angel triggered a wave of palpitating uproar across the audience.

On the opposite side of the arena, Bai Ruoxue, who had always been calm, composed, and as steady as Mount Tai, stripped away all her composure from her cold face for the first time, covering it with heavy solemnity and anxiety.

Seeing the Angel Legion fall in patches, she could no longer hold back her strength. The golden divine mark between her brows suddenly lit up, and dazzling ten-thousand-foot holy light soared into the sky, piercing through the entire arena!

SSS-rank Divine Natal Talent—Advent of Holy Light, fully activated!

Endless divine origin poured down from the void, blessing the bodies of all surviving angels. The originally dim holy light surged once again, the damaged holy barriers repaired rapidly, and the angels' offensive and defensive speed, purification power, and soul resistance instantly doubled.

In the dark, a holy shadow of a saintess hovered in the sky, scattering endless holy brilliance to forcibly stabilize the battle situation on the verge of collapse.

This was Bai Ruoxue's bottom-of-the-box top-tier talent, one of her ultimate trump cards for dominating her peers and remaining undefeated throughout the arena; unless facing a life-and-death desperate situation, she would never easily use it.

But even with her talent fully opened and holy light enhancements maximized, the declining trend of the battlefield was still difficult to completely reverse.

The high-tier baleful qi level unsealed by Lin Ye already steadily suppressed the divine origin, and coupled with the omnidirectional enhancement of Blood Boiling and the linked suppression of the complete familiar system, a combat power fault line had already been formed.

As time slowly ticked away, under the continuous violent offensive, Six-Winged Angels still continuously fell and were annihilated.

Watching each meticulously cultivated Six-Winged Angel collapse with a crash, a clear sense of heartache and soreness welled up for the first time in Bai Ruoxue's cold, waveless eyes.

Outsiders only saw that the Six-Winged Angels had formidable combat power and were numerous in number, but no one knew that the cultivation cost of every single Six-Winged Angel was an astronomical figure sufficient to crush ordinary geniuses.

From larval hatching, bloodline purification, and holy light nourishment to origin tempering, talent awakening, and battlefield coordination, every angel required consuming massive amounts of divine crystals, top-tier origin holy dew, and high-tier divine kingdom resources.

Six hundred Six-Winged Angels consumed all the resources she had accumulated over the years, a small half of her family's foundation, as well as countless days and nights of heartfelt nourishment and patient cultivation; they were the core foundation for her reaching the summit of Quanzhou and steadily residing at the ceiling.

Ordinarily, even if they suffered slight damage, she would feel heartache for a long time. Now on the battlefield, perfect-grade angels were perishing one after another, completely annihilated without even a chance for reshaping and rebirth.

Every time an angel fell, it meant that a huge sum of resources was completely thrown down the drain, and years of hard work went down the river.

Bai Ruoxue's gaze turned slightly red, the anxiety and heartache deep within her heart growing increasingly intense, and her arrogant state of mind was completely shaken by the battle situation for the first time.

She could withstand the suppression of combat power and accept the disadvantage of the battle situation, but she could not withstand this kind of ultimate attrition where her family fortune was forcefully worn hollow.