Chapter 257: Why Isn’t She Dead Yet?

Chapter 257 -255: Why Isn’t She Dead Yet?

Xiao Ya had just scrambled to her feet, her face bruised and swollen from Shen Yue’s beating. When she saw the scene, her heart skipped a beat!!

She had never seen such a terrifying sight before!

She also never imagined that this group’s power could be so horrifying!!

Seeing that Shen Yue was distracted…

A vicious glint flashed in her eyes. She curled her fingers into a claw and lunged for Shen Yue’s throat!

But just as her fingertips were about to break the skin of that slender neck, her wrist was suddenly seized.

The next second, the woman grabbing her wrist clamped down on her arm.

She was flung into the air like a ragdoll before being flipped over Shen Yue’s shoulder and slammed brutally onto the ground.

A cloud of dust billowed out from the impact. The pain was so intense she nearly passed out, and before she could even process what had happened…

…the woman’s foot planted itself on her chest. Shen Yue looked down at her and said:

“You’re misbehaving, rabbit!”

Xiao Ya wanted nothing more than to tear this woman limb from limb.

She knew full well that this woman was deliberately keeping her alive just to humiliate her!

In this short span of time, she had been slapped more than a dozen times and kicked flying several dozen more!!

But every time she hit the ground, before she could even catch her breath, the woman would haul her up again, repeatedly slamming her down, tormenting and brutalizing her!

And through all these exchanges, she had exhausted every technique she knew, yet she hadn’t managed to land so much as a scratch on this woman!

Worst of all, no matter how desperately she called upon it, the Purple Rabbit within her refused to awaken!

‘If this continues, I’m really going to die at this woman’s hands!’

Her eyes turned bloodshot as she screamed:

“What do you want?! Why don’t you just kill me!”

Shen Yue kept her foot on Xiao Ya, looking down at her.

“Kill you? My goal was never to kill you!”

Xiao Ya froze, a trickle of blood escaping the corner of her mouth.

“Then what do you want?”

Shen Yue replied, “To beat you into submission!”

Those five words made Xiao Ya burn with fury.

“In your dreams!”

But before the words had even left her lips, Shen Yue kicked out, sending Xiao Ya flying several meters like a sandbag once again.

She lay prone on the ground and spat out another mouthful of blood.

Every bone in her body felt shattered. The pain made her tremble…

‘A normal person would have died long ago…’

‘So why wasn’t she dead yet?’

For a moment, she even wished she would just die!

Then she wouldn’t have to suffer being kicked and tossed around like a punching bag by this woman!

Shen Yue walked over again, looked down at her, and voiced the thought aloud:

“I know you want to die. You want to be free. But I’m afraid you don’t realize just how special you are. So special, in fact, that you’re very difficult to kill. So, you’ll just have to endure it!”

Xiao Ya, still lying on the ground, froze.

“What do you mean?”

‘What does she mean, I’m special and hard to kill?’

Shen Yue deliberately played coy.

“You want to know? Fine. If you’re willing to beg for mercy, kneel on the ground, and admit defeat, then I’ll tell you!”

Hearing this, Xiao Ya gritted her teeth.

“Dream on!”

‘This woman had not only tormented her and trampled on her dignity, but now she actually wanted her to kneel and surrender!’

She would rather die!

Shen Yue knew she would be stubborn to the end and wasn’t in any rush.

“Fine. Then you can keep getting hit!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she grabbed Xiao Ya without an ounce of mercy and smashed a fist into her lower back.

Xiao Ya was sent flying once again…

But this time, she made no sound as she fell, passing out completely.

Shen Yue walked over, her eyes narrowed as she studied the motionless Xiao Ya on the ground.

A closer look would have revealed that her strikes weren’t random; each one had landed precisely on Xiao Ya’s acupressure points and meridians!

Of course, an occasional blow or two was thrown in purely to vent her own frustration.

‘But logically, after a beating like that, there should have been some kind of change in Xiao Ya. Why is there still nothing?’

Just as she was puzzling over this—

“Miss Shen Yue, look out!”

Wu Huo’s voice suddenly rang out from behind her.

A black shadow, accompanied by a vicious gale, shot straight for her neck.

Shen Yue sidestepped, dodging the attack.

She countered with a palm strike!

But the black shadow instantly multiplied into countless copies, all of which swarmed her.

Shen Yue’s eyes narrowed. She finally drew upon her Vitality Power, unleashing an invisible force that crashed directly into the cluster of black shadows.

In that instant.

A few whimpering thuds echoed as the figures fell, allowing Shen Yue to finally get a clear look at them.

They were nine identical copies of Hu Tu!

The nine Hu Tus clutched their chests as they staggered to their feet, glaring at Shen Yue as if they wanted to eat her alive. The next second, all nine sets of fingertips morphed into sharp, hooked claws.

Hissing like wild beasts, they lunged at Shen Yue once more!

At that moment, several Dragon Guards and men from the Mystic Mechanism Building caught up.

“My Lady, be careful!”

They all attacked in unison!

Wu Huo immediately moved to stand in front of Shen Yue.

“Miss Shen Yue, this Hu Tu really is unkillable! Just now, we clearly cut down three of them, but in the blink of an eye, three more identical copies appeared!”

‘This matches what Ge Miao said perfectly!’

‘They just keep reappearing after being killed!’

It was too bizarre!

Shen Yue narrowed her eyes, watching the men from the Mystic Mechanism Building and the Dragon Guards locked in combat with the Hu Tu clones.

“Of course your powers can’t kill them. That’s a job for me!”

‘After all, she was the one who had taken the five lives Hu Tu had lost before.’

‘That meant he *could* be killed!’

‘But it could only be done with Vitality Power!’

She commanded, “Find his true body and cut off his tails!”

“Yes!” Wu Huo replied instantly.

Shen Yue spared a glance for the still-unconscious Xiao Ya on the ground, then shot into the fray!

As long as Hu Tu had even one life remaining, he could endlessly create nine new copies of himself.

Therefore, to suppress his ability, they had to find Hu Tu’s true body and sever his nine tails!

「Meanwhile, on the other side of the hill.」

The battle between Huang Ziyue, Bai Chaosi, and the black-robed figure had reached a fever pitch.

The pair were using nearly all of their strength, trying to break through the skull-like Spiritual Body the black-robed figure had manifested.

But no matter how they attacked, the massive, ghoulish skull stood like an indestructible bulwark before the black-robed figure.

Moreover, its offensive was growing increasingly fierce.

Just then, after the pair launched another coordinated attack, the ghoulish skull, far from shrinking, actually grew in size…

A massive, bony claw launched a vicious strike, swiping brutally toward the two of them!

The enormous bone palm crashed down like a mountain, accompanied by the ghastly skull’s shriek, as if intending to rip Huang Ziyue and Bai Chaosi to shreds!!

The two tried to leap back, but the skull’s speed was astonishing, giving them no time to retreat.

Their expressions hardened in unison as their spiritual power flared, wrapping around them like a red aura to form an airtight barrier.

The bone claw slammed down, crashing against the barrier with an ear-splitting boom!

They took the full force of the blow, and trickles of blood seeped from the corners of both their mouths!

Just as they were struggling to hold on, the bone palm above them suddenly clenched, applying more pressure…

The next second…

CRACK!

Cracks instantly spiderwebbed across the spiritual power barrier.

It shattered completely!!

Unable to resist the force, Huang Ziyue and Bai Chaosi were sent flying.