Free Web NovelChapter 318: Chapter 317: Kiss of Annihilation, End of the Spirit Battle
WHOOSH.
The pale-cyan Gang Wind howled and swirled.
Ziyuan stood poised within the gale, her deep purple hair fluttering and dancing in the currents!
At that moment.
Behind her.
A graceful, elegant, and mysterious purple-black phantom of a Spider Demon materialized!
Its pale purple limbs swayed and stretched, gleaming with a smooth, metallic sheen.
Yet they simultaneously possessed a gentle warmth like ivory, appearing as the most exquisite work of art.
Its six crystalline, jewel-like compound eyes shimmered with a magnificent luster, glittering brilliantly.
Mysterious, dangerous, magnificent!
The Sun-Eating Demon Spider Emperor!
At this moment, Ziyuan had manifested a projection of her true form!
Of course, manifesting this projection didn’t mean that Ziyuan intended to reveal her true Spider Demon body.
After all, she wasn’t an idiot.
With combat experience as rich as hers, Ziyuan naturally knew that against a warship, a demon beast’s massive body only served to increase its target profile, wasting Demon Power for no reason.
In her human form, Ziyuan could maintain high-speed maneuvers, and only twelve Plasma Cannons were able to lock onto her position and strike.
But if she manifested her true form...
The Ghostly Flood Dragon could grow several hundred Blood Flame Cannons in the next instant to give Ziyuan a ’warm welcome’.
Of course, Ziyuan didn’t know that the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s hull could come alive and grow more cannons.
But she had clearly perceived the earlier moment when the Ghostly Flood Dragon used its "Song of Hell" to shatter the Array on Spider Demon Island!
Thus.
For this battle, she had already sealed away the tactic of ’manifesting her true form’.
In battle, her massive, hundred-zhang-long true form was nothing more than a blood bank to her.
—A source of flesh and blood for the rapid regeneration of her human body!
Beyond that.
Its only other use was...
...to activate her trump card!
HUMMM!
A purple light flared in Ziyuan’s eyes.
An instant later, on the projection of her true form, one of the pale purple compound eyes suddenly burst!
Ziyuan clenched her jaw, a flash of agony crossing her devastatingly beautiful face.
"An eye as the sacrifice, blood as the offering!"
HUMMM!
The shattered eye melted into a viscous purple fluid.
Mixed with Spider Demon blood, it automatically sketched out an ancient purple rune in the void.
"Kiss of Annihilation!"
Ziyuan clutched her right eye, spitting out each word with venom.
As an Ancient Exotic Species, a favored child of a bygone era, Ziyuan’s clan still had a few tricks up its sleeve.
For instance, sacrificing an eye to activate an emergency innate ability!
—The Kiss of Annihilation!
This ability was born from the power of the Sun-Eating Demon Spiders, yet it was even more cryptic and profound.
It was even close to the level of a ’Divine Technique’!
Once activated, it could completely seal the target’s five senses, Divine Sense, and spiritual perception.
Annihilation!
According to ancient legend.
The Sun-Eating Demon Spider was once believed to be capable of devouring the sun.
But in truth, they knew they weren’t devouring the sun itself, but the perception of their victims.
HUMMM!
The purple rune sent out rippling waves.
A moment later, high in the sky, the howling Gang Wind suddenly stalled, and its many cyclones dissipated!
It was as if it had lost its controller!
’It hit...’
A flicker of triumph appeared in Ziyuan’s eyes.
The Kiss of Annihilation was the trump card of the Sun-Eating Demon Spider clan for a reason; it was far beyond what any ordinary sensory deprivation technique could achieve.
Aside from its potent effects and high priority,
it possessed another major advantage.
Namely: its transmission vector.
Every technique requires a transmission vector.
Spiritual Qi, Divine Sense, space...
However, the Kiss of Annihilation’s transmission vector was unique—it was perception itself!
It was like the vengeful spirits from horror movies Su Ye had seen in his past life, the ones sealed on videotapes.
To observe it is to be struck by it!
And in this battle, Su Ye’s Divine Sense permeated the area for tens of miles around in order to control the Gang Wind.
Because of this, the Kiss of Annihilation was, it could be said—a guaranteed hit!
It was precisely because of this absurdly overpowered property...
...that this technique required the sacrifice of an eye to be used!
Furthermore, the lost eye couldn’t be regenerated quickly using the superior constitution of a fourth-rank great demon.
It could only regenerate slowly over time.
Having used the Kiss of Annihilation, Ziyuan would now have to wait several years, perhaps even decades, for her eye to fully regenerate.
Worse, because the eye had burst, her very origin was damaged, and her cultivation was also affected.
Her previously near-stable realm was instantly knocked back to its starting point. Six years of hard work had just gone down the drain.
The price was undeniably steep.
’Compared to True Techniques, these bloodline abilities passed down from the ancestors really have a lot of flaws...’
Ziyuan thought with self-deprecation.
Then, she shook her head, her expression growing calm once more.
’So what if it has flaws?’
’Can it not still kill?’
At this moment.
Su Ye had been forcibly taken ’offline’ by the Kiss of Annihilation.
The currents of the Gang Wind, having lost their controller, no longer pursued her relentlessly.
This gave Ziyuan a chance to catch her breath.
"Hooo..."
She took a deep breath, and all the Spiritual Qi within a hundred-zhang radius was drawn into her lungs, converting into Demon Power at an incredible speed.
And immediately after.
She made a grasping motion with her right hand, and a Sun-Eroding Spider Spear materialized!
WHOOSH!
She threw the spear!
Her slender, fair arm erupted with immense power!
This time, the Sun-Eroding Spider Spear she threw didn’t transform into a sky full of phantoms. Instead, it split into three in midair, each one trailing a shockwave as they streaked toward the Ghostly Flood Dragon!
However.
HUM.
Aboard the Ghostly Flood Dragon, cannons raised their muzzles, and twelve Plasma Bombs roared forth!
"Eh?" Ziyuan froze.
’Logically, while the Kiss of Annihilation is in effect, the victim’s five senses and Divine Sense should be completely sealed. They should be no different from a corpse.’
