210: Chapter 210 Summer's Demise?

Chen Du plummeted rapidly.

The wind howled in his ears, and his vision was blurred by a deluge of blood raining from the sky.

He tried to tighten his grip on his blade.

But the muscles in both arms were completely torn; he couldn't even lift a single finger.

In this state of total weightlessness, a beam of intense blue light burst into his pupils.

It was Xia Mo.

Wrapped in an aura of extreme cold, her ethereal beauty became a forbidden zone that none dared desecrate.

The girl jerked her head back in mid-air.

Her eyes gazed at the falling Chen Du, her gaze filled with an inseparable tenderness.

"Chen Du..."

"This time, it's my turn to protect you."

Before her voice could fade...

Xia Mo's delicate body shuddered violently, and she suddenly spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood.

The moment the crimson blood left her mouth,

it condensed into eye-catching red ice crystals under the extreme cold, falling away like rustling leaves.

Chen Du's eyes nearly split from strain.

"Don't do anything stupid! Get back! I'm the captain!"

He roared with all his might, but his voice was torn to shreds by the gale.

Xia Mo did not retreat!

She didn't have the sacrifice notebook, nor did she have a god-given cheat.

She used the most primitive and tragic method—sacrificing her own life essence.

Boom!

Under the frantic infusion of vitality, the Swiftwind Wings erupted into a blinding halo of light!

Their size surged threefold!

Xia Mo was engulfed by the halo, transforming into a burning, ice-blue butterfly.

She charged straight up against that mountain-sized super-tentacle pressing down from above!

On the deck.

The heavily injured Tang Ran gripped the railing tightly, her fingernails snapping: "Xia Mo! You're crazy!"

Lin Keke slumped to the ground.

She stared blankly at that streak of blue light in the sky, tears streaming from her eyes.

The disparity was too great.

Before the peak Overlord Rank Abyssal Devourer, that ice-blue butterfly was smaller than a speck of dust.

Beep beep beep!

In that instant.

The Heavenly Dao's alarm rang simultaneously in the minds of all survivors in the area.

[Warning! Detected an S-rank Awakened One breaking through genetic shackles!]

[Target's vital signs are failing rapidly; players, please do not attempt this lightly!!]

Before the alarm could fade.

Xia Mo had already charged to the front of the super-tentacle.

The monster roared!

It attempted to crush this reckless little insect with absolute power!

Xia Mo's eyes were as calm as a deep well.

Her aura had changed.

When the crimson rain falling between heaven and earth touched her hundred-meter domain, the water turned to ice.

As Xia Mo raised her blade, the sky full of ice shards turned into a storm, all converging onto the edge of the sword name!

"Frozen Heavens..."

At that moment, the girl's ethereal voice drowned out the sea monster's roar and the thunder's boom.

"Hundred Flower Burial!!!"

She pressed both hands onto the hilt and swung the most perfect, yet most tragic, strike of her life.

Clang—!

A crisp sound echoed across the sea.

Hidden Rule—Fatal Strike forced to trigger!

Tenfold Critical Hit!

This was no longer a physical slash.

This was an absolute freeze on a conceptual level!

A massive ice-blue sword beam spanning thousands of meters carved through the darkness, trailing a path of extreme cold that froze space itself.

There was no world-shaking explosion, no tragic scene of flying flesh and blood.

The tentacle that could crush a steel fortress didn't offer a shred of resistance the moment it touched the sword beam!

It was sliced directly in half.

Before the monster's black blood could spray, it was frozen into ice shards.

The sword beam's momentum did not slow, piercing straight into the depths of the clouds!

It struck precisely at the massive fleshy tumor on the Abyssal Devourer's main body.

Crack... crack crack crack...

The scalp-numbing sound of freezing became the only melody in this world.

The hundred-and-fifty-meter-tall peak Overlord Rank sea monster, along with the black tsunami it had just raised,

completely lost its color within two short seconds.

They transformed into a giant, crystal-clear sea glacier that towered into the clouds!

Through the thick layers of ice,

one could clearly see the eyeballs on the Abyssal Devourer's surface bulging with fear.

A massive divine kin had all its life force severed by a mortal girl's single strike!

The gale stopped.

The thunderstorm ceased.

The suffocating pressure of the evil god between heaven and earth was swept away by the extreme cold.

Under the crimson sky,

this giant glacier connecting heaven and earth reflected an eerie and poignantly beautiful ghostly light.

In the air, specks of ice-blue light dust drifted down.

That was Xia Mo's dissipating spiritual energy.

The light dust scattered freely, landing on the deck of ferry no. 0819 and on the shoulders of the stunned crowd.

It felt like a grand and resolute funeral.

And at the center of the light dust,

the fire of life within Xia Mo was completely extinguished.

Her head of jet-black hair faded inch by inch, turning a blinding snowy white.

Her cold eyes slowly closed, and frost gathered on her long eyelashes.

Crack!

The azure light wings on her back turned into countless fragments and dissipated in the wind.

The girl was like a falling ice spirit, plummeting silently from a height of a thousand meters.

Whoosh—

The weightlessness of the fall continued.

But Chen Du's mind could no longer hear any sound.

He stared fixedly at that petite figure with snow-white hair rapidly falling from the sky.

That was the first woman to climb into his bed, the Xia Mo who would blush and let him have his way with her.

"Xia Mo—!!!"

The hoarse roar directly tore Chen Du's vocal cords.

Blood gushed from the corners of his mouth.

To hell with reason! To hell with the Heavenly Dao!

An unprecedented surge of violent emotion exploded from the deepest part of Chen Du's soul.

The Shadow Power within him, which had already been depleted, went completely berserk under the stimulation of this emotion!

The shadow that had been spread flat on the sea surface coiled upward like vines.

It forcefully wove a black slide in mid-air.

Chen Du stepped onto the slide, kicked off, and caught the falling girl, pulling her tightly into his embrace.

Cold.

Bone-chilling cold.

Through her tattered leather clothes, Xia Mo's body was as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.

Chen Du held her as they slammed onto the ferry's deck with a boom.

The massive impact smashed a deep crater into the alloy deck.

The girls around them scrambled over, weeping uncontrollably.

Chen Du knelt on one knee at the bottom of the crater.

He lowered his head, holding Xia Mo tightly in his arms.

The girl's arm hung limply.

Her fair fingertips brushed past Chen Du's cheek, leaving a cold trail of frost.

No breath, no heartbeat.

"Xia Mo..."

Chen Du's eyes went completely hollow.

In his mind, the chatterbox monster mouth was now tightly shut, not daring to utter even a single punctuation mark.

It felt a killing intent ten thousand times more terrifying than that of an abyssal evil god.

Rumble!

Above the firmament.

That massive bloodshot eye, which had fallen into a brief daze from being frozen, finally reacted.

The dignified avatar of the god of fear had actually been tricked by an ant!

The vortex within the blood eye spun frantically.

The seawater of the entire region began to flow backward into the sky.

"Ants..."

A grand voice filled with endless malice directly crushed the clouds.

"I... shall wipe out your bodies and souls!"

The countdown for the Heavenly Dao's obliteration had only three minutes left.

Not only was the desperate situation not resolved, but the pressure was also ratcheted up by the evil god's rage.

Tang Ran, Li Yaozhi, and the others looked up in despair, waiting for death to arrive.

"What the hell are you all dazed for? Waiting to die?"

A hoarse yet absolutely authoritative low growl tore through the atmosphere of despair on the deck.

Chen Du knelt on one knee in the crater.

He carefully held the snow-haired Xia Mo in his arms.

He looked up, glancing at the blood eye in the sky that was still trying to break free from the ice.

"Xia Lai! Get back to the cockpit!"

Chen Du turned his head, his tone brook no argument. "Within three minutes, we are getting out of this sea!"

"But... but Third Sister, she..."

Xia Lai slumped beside Chen Du.

This usually carefree Mechanic who loved to tease was now crying like a broken child.

Beside her, Xia Xin was also slumped on the deck, covering her mouth and weeping silently, her shoulders shaking violently.

Chen Du looked down, quietly gazing at the lifeless Xia Mo in his arms.

He slowly reached out, exceptionally gently tucking a few strands of frost-covered white hair behind the girl's ear.

"Stop crying."

Chen Du's voice became unusually gentle.

"She's not dead. She's just too tired and has fallen asleep for a while."

He turned his head slightly, looking at the weeping Xia sisters, a wild and arrogant smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"Do as I say. As long as I'm here, not even the Heavenly Dao can take her..."