Chapter 37: His Domain

"Let me see... how much power this space could hold!!" Ling Mengyao said, her voice full of excitement as she raised her hand above her head, magical energy gathering above her palm.

The butterfly wings behind her began to flap fiercely, which allowed her to fly upward at lightning speed. Until she reached a certain height, she stopped. The wings folded inward and began to wrap around her, not even letting a strand of hair be exposed.

Seeing that the wings started to glow, Jiang Zihan somehow had a strange feeling. He immediately shouted toward his teammates. "Do all you can to attack her! It doesn’t matter if it isn’t effective, just stop what she’s doing right now!"

Hearing this, everyone unleashed their strongest attacks toward Ling Mengyao. Shen Qingyi even materialized a D-Rank Ice Crystal Longbow in her hand and shot several frost arrows towards her.

Out of their expectations, after the dust caused by their attack slowly disappeared, they found out that Ling Mengyao did not take any damage. Instead, they were all swallowed by the wings, and even caused the wings to glow even brighter.

Suddenly, Jiang Zihan felt that his space had started to become unstable, as if it was gonna collapse any time. "How is this possible...?" he muttered.

Then he looked up, his expression determined. We can’t put this off any longer. We have to finish fast!

In the next moment, Jiang Zihan rushed forward with dozens of stars surrounding him, as if they were protecting their owner. The stars lined up, arranging themselves into a staircase beneath his feet. In the blink of an eye, he appeared right in front of Ling Mengyao, and he gathered all his strength into his right leg and unleashed a roundhouse kick toward Ling Mengyao.

Just as his roundhouse kick was about to land, the butterfly wings that were wrapping around Ling Mengyao suddenly opened up, and a pair of pale violet eyes met his gaze. Those eyes looked empty, as if they didn’t hold any human emotions, and the moment their sight landed on Jiang Zihan, he felt an indescribable pressure coming from them.

The next moment, Ling Mengyao raised a finger and lightly tapped on the tip of his foot. Time seemed to stop for an instant, and Jiang Zihan sensed that his kick might have hit into empty space. His pupils shrank as the impact caused numbness in his legs.

Seeing that Ling Mengyao planned to move, he forced himself to break out of this condition and used this impact to fall backward as he tried to regain his footing with the help of multiple stars.

What... What kind of power is that...?

Wasn’t she supposed to have lost fifty percent of her strength in this space...?

Unless...

As if suddenly recalling something, he clenched his fist so tightly that it even left marks on his palm.

"That was a decent kick. At least it was a bit more interesting than those attacks from before. Only this can allow me to take this game more seriously," Ling Mengyao commented while the butterfly wings behind her opened to the fullest. "Let me see your determination!"

After saying so, countless pale-purple specks of light flew out from her wings, so beautiful it was as if a rain of stars filled the sky. However, the more beautiful it is, the more dangerous it is. She pointed toward Jiang Zihan, and in the next moment, those specks of light strike toward him at lightning speed.

There was so much that it blocked all of his escape routes, not giving him any possibility of running. His gaze sharpened as he raised his right hand and summoned dozens of streams of starlight to gather in front of him, transforming into a barrier to protect their owner.

However, out of his expectation, those pale-purple specks of light did not slam on the barrier as he once thought. Instead, they suddenly scattered around a few meters before they touched the barrier and bypassed the protective barrier, targeting straight toward him. What—?!

Seeing this, Mo Shiyan frowned as he quickly released the arrow he had been charging for the whole time and shot it toward Ling Mengyao.

Ling Mengyao wanted to dodge when she realized that the arrow was able to track her movements. Her expression changed a little as she reached a hand out to form a protective barrier in front of her. Then she suddenly sensed another presence coming from behind her.

Without even looking, she reached out her other hand in that direction and formed another protective barrier, blocking Shen Qingci’s attack completely.

However, just as Ling Mengyao had waved her hand to neutralize her attack, the arrow suddenly erupted with a bright silver light. Mo Shiyan clenched his fist in her direction, which made the arrow become even brighter, and its speed raised immediately. It carved an unexpected arc through the air, slipping through the protective barrier in front of Ling Mengyao and targeting straight toward her shoulder.

"Oh?" A light of surprise flickered through Ling Mengyao’s eyes as she did not expect the arrow to be capable of changing its direction in mid-air. The next moment, she gently shifted her body gracefully and allowed the arrow to graze past her without even touching the corner of her clothing.

At the same time, Jiang Zihan pointed toward Ling Mengyao, and suddenly the dozens of stars that were previously scattered throughout the domain lit up simultaneously, and several chains of starlight shot toward her from every direction.

He had noticed that while he was within his own domain, he could even temporarily evolve his threads into chains of starlight, granting him greater strength and better control over his ability. But it seems like as long as he steps out of this space, it would return to normal.

On the other side, Shen Qingci also caught the opportunity to rush behind Ling Mengyao at lightning speed as he materialized the dagger in his hand, stabbing it straight toward Ling Mengyao’s back.