Chapter 1520: Mixed Battle

With a ripping sound, the veil, as flimsy as paper, was sliced through. A cold gleam shot directly towards Mu Qing’s head, covering it from above.

Mu Qing’s expression drastically changed. Only then did she realize how incredibly sharp this guillotine was.

She wanted to dodge again, but it was already too late.

The guillotine flickered mid-air, creating numerous phantom images. With a flash, it vanished into thin air.

Mu Qing inwardly cried out, "Not good!" She barely had time for a layer of greenish-blue armor to appear on her body when colossal, gleaming silver blades materialized from all directions nearby.

A sharp, whistling sound emanated from the surfaces of the great blades. Waves of sinister, cold light surged forward, enveloping Mu Qing completely, leaving no escape.

Mu Qing's face instantly went deathly pale. But she immediately gritted her teeth, and with a sudden flick of both sleeves, two dark, short staves appeared in her hands.

As she lightly waved them, a mountain of staff shadows instantly materialized before her. She moved her body, charging directly towards one of the cold light waves.

Mu Qing knew very well that she had lost the initiative, and remaining in place would surely be fatal.

A furious storm of clanging and crashing sounds erupted.

It was unknown what kind of treasure those black wooden staves were, but the staff shadows they created initially managed to forcefully smash open the cold light, protecting Mu Qing as she rushed inside.

However, moments later, waves of cold light appeared relentlessly, as if infinite. The black staff shadows instantly became sparse.

The two black staves were rapidly sliced by the cold light, becoming fragmented and damaged.

Mu Qing was terrified. When she tried to retract her hands to cast other divine abilities, the surrounding cold light surged past the protection of the remaining staff shadows and enveloped her.

The green armor only managed to flash wildly a few times before being completely engulfed by the cold light.

After a single scream, there was no other sound from within.

It appeared Mu Qing had fallen just like that.

The white-haired beauty was stunned, barely believing what she had witnessed. She knew very well that Mu Qing's divine abilities were by no means inferior to her own.

At this moment, the golden-armored puppet lightly tapped towards the cold light.

Instantly, the light receded, and all the cold light gathered in the air, coalescing once again into the silver guillotine.

Below the guillotine, Mu Qing's body, shattered into countless fragments, floated in mid-air. Strangely, these fragments did not bleed a single drop, as if they were not made of flesh and blood.

But the golden-armored puppet merely glanced at them and paid no mind.

With his discerning eye, he had long perceived that Mu Qing was a wood spirit. Her corpse transforming in such a way was not at all unusual.

Now, he sneered, and with a single-handed incantation, the guillotine spun and shot out once more.

Its target was the nearby Purple Blood Puppet.

This puppet's enormous body was truly an ideal target.

Originally, his intention was to launch a surprise attack when the group's magical power was almost depleted, capturing them all in one go.

However, the six-legged creature had unexpectedly infiltrated beneath the pool and also possessed the rarely known art of severing spirit veins.

This made the golden-armored puppet anxious.

If the connection between the pool and the local spirit veins were truly severed by the opponent, even if he managed to kill these outsiders, he would still be greatly punished upon returning to his clan.

Therefore, after waiting for so long, he could no longer tolerate it and made his move.

What he didn't expect was that Mu Qing had, with extreme vigilance, set up so many warning spiritual threads nearby, causing him to unknowingly expose his presence.

But for the golden-armored puppet, it was inconsequential.

With the Five Dragon Guillotine in hand, the current enemies had expended considerable spiritual power, and the Underworld Thunder Beast was also restraining them. With so many favorable conditions, eliminating them was a certainty.

The blood-robed figure, hovering above the Purple Blood Puppet, saw the silver rainbow approaching. A flicker of fear crossed his eyes. Without a moment's hesitation, he pointed a single finger at the oncoming silver rainbow.

Instantly, the enormous blood orb before him trembled and shot out as a streak of blood-red light.

Almost simultaneously, the Purple Blood Puppet beneath him, amidst flashing purple light, rapidly shrank in size, becoming indistinguishable from a normal human in the blink of an eye. However, its six eyes flashed simultaneously, and six blood-red light beams, forming a straight line, shot out one after another, following the blood orb.

The blood-robed figure floated, landing beside the Purple Blood Puppet.

With a soft thud, the silver rainbow, upon contact with the blood orb, surprisingly vanished into the orb without a sound.

Seeing this, the blood-robed figure was overjoyed.

His blood orb was not formed from ordinary essence blood, but refined from ten thousand years of vile qi, specifically designed to defile all kinds of treasured spirit artifacts, and had almost never failed.

These thoughts had just flashed through the blood-robed figure's mind.

After a sudden booming burst, the smile in the blood-robed figure's eyes instantly froze.

The blood orb was instantly pierced through by countless silver rays, forcefully bursting open and transforming into a pungent blood mist.

This blood mist lingered for only a moment, then turned into a foul-smelling black gas, and dispersed, vanishing.

At this moment, the silver rainbow of the Five Dragon Guillotine had already collided with the six blood-red light beams.

Strangely enough, as the incredibly sharp silver rainbow struck the blood beams, its silver surface flickered, and its surging speed seemed to slow down slightly.

In an instant, several light beams successively landed on it, causing the silver rainbow to tremble and reveal its true form.

The blood-robed figure's eyes lit up. He hastily formed a hand seal with one hand.

Instantly, the blood-colored light beams condensed, surprisingly transforming into a massive blood-red sword that lunged at the guillotine, entangling and fighting with it.

The Five Dragon Guillotine was incredibly sharp, but against the blood-colored flying sword, it couldn't immediately cleave it in two and was momentarily held at bay.

Seeing this, the golden-armored puppet's eyes flashed with malice, and he inwardly chanted a related incantation.

Instantly, the Five Dragon Guillotine burst forth with dazzling silver light. With a rapid spin, countless cold rays surged out.

Finally, with a "bang," the blood sword was still chopped into several pieces by the cold light, turning into a mass of blood-red light.

The blood-robed figure in the distance saw this and suddenly opened his mouth, spitting out a blob of essence blood.

This blood then transformed into several blood-colored runes, which flashed before the blood-robed figure and strangely vanished.

The next moment, the blood light in the distance flashed wildly a few times, then gathered in one spot, surprisingly transforming into another blood-colored flying sword.

This flying sword hummed, and in a flash, it once again entangled the Five Dragon Guillotine, preventing it from escaping.

The white-haired beauty, initially fearful of the Five Dragon Guillotine due to Mu Qing's unexpected demise, was overjoyed to see this treasure unexpectedly blocked by the blood-robed figure's blood sword.

She no longer cared about the black light formation above her head. She hastily flipped her hand, and a black leather bag suddenly appeared in her grasp, which she tossed into the air.

The bag spun lightly, its mouth inverted, and a surge of hazy, shadowy qi poured out. Revealed within were over a hundred extraordinarily tall, fully armored ghost soldiers.

This woman had always kept this group of ghost soldiers in reserve.

The white-haired beauty let out a sharp cry and swiftly pointed at the golden-armored puppet in the distance.

The ghost soldiers immediately raised their swords and blades, riding on shadowy winds, and charged towards the golden-armored puppet, shouting battle cries.

The golden-armored puppet in the distance saw this situation and sneered.

He turned his head and asked a horse-faced, human-bodied ghoul beside him:

"These things are yours. No problem, right?"

"Rest assured, my lord. These are but low-level ghouls; how could they be my match?" the horse-faced ghoul, whose body was exceptionally crystalline, replied with a bow.

The puppet nodded.

Instantly, a glazed light flashed on the ghoul's body, transforming it into a streak of five-colored light that shot out.

A moment later, it fiercely plunged into the shadowy winds, conjuring a pair of long blades out of thin air, and engaged with the hundred-plus ghost soldiers.

The golden-armored puppet, without even glancing at the battle, immediately began chanting incantations, once again forcefully urging the Five Dragon Guillotine, sparing no spiritual energy.

Instantly, after a long, clear hum from the silver rainbow entangled with the blood sword, it split into five, forming five startling rainbows of various colors.

One of them continued to entangle and fight with the blood sword, while the other four split into two pairs and shot towards the blood-robed figure and the white-haired beauty like lightning and thunder.

The white-haired beauty's expression subtly changed. She looked at the green light curtain in the sky, which was already swaying precariously due to the lack of support from Mu Qing and her magical power, then glanced at the blood-robed figure standing beside the Purple Blood Puppet. Her complexion became uncertain.

Seeing no hope of victory, the woman couldn't help but feel a desire to retreat.

But at this moment, suddenly, from within the golden light formation that enveloped the green area below, a deep, prolonged roar was heard, followed by intense fluctuations on the surface of the formation, causing the nearby ground to tremble slightly once more.

"Friend Six-Legs is about to emerge," the blood-robed figure's cold voice suddenly echoed in the white-haired beauty's ears.

The white-haired beauty was startled. Her expression hesitated for a moment when a cold gleam flashed before her, and two startling rainbows appeared incredibly fast, close at hand.

Helplessly, a disheveled ghost shadow appeared behind the white-haired beauty. She extended both hands forward into the void, and instantly, two colossal black ghost hands materialized above the startling rainbows, reaching down to grasp them.

At the same time, the beauty flipped her other hand; a small white bone banner appeared in her grip. With a slight wave, a surge of grey misty light gushed forth, sweeping towards the startling rainbows as well.

On the other side, the blood-robed figure and the Purple Blood Puppet, working together, were also surrounded by the other two startling rainbows and had fallen into a bitter struggle.

Just then, a warning sign suddenly arose in the white-haired beauty's heart. She couldn't help but turn her head and glance towards a corner of the palace.

As a result, her face instantly turned ashen!

She saw that in that corner of the palace, beside Yuan Yao and Yan Li, who had been standing there blankly, a young man had appeared at some unknown point. His hands were placed on the two women's shoulders, and countless slender golden arcs were leaping from his hands, surging into their bodies.

The young man was, of course, Han Li.

Yuan Yao and Yan Li, who had initially been expressionless, trembled uncontrollably. Threads of blood were being forced out of their bodies, and their faces revealed expressions of extreme agony.

"Thief, how dare you?!" The white-haired beauty, in shock and fury, suddenly let out a sharp cry.

Han Li, however, ignored the beauty's loud cry. The golden arcs surging from his hands merely intensified for a moment, forcing all the blood threads out of their bodies instantly, which were then obliterated by his evil-repelling divine thunder.

The two women's bodies went limp, and they collapsed to the ground.

Han Li's body glowed with vibrant green light, enveloping the two women. He then transformed into a green rainbow and shot directly towards the main hall's exit.