"Whoosh!"
In the nick of time, Leng Yue's figure flickered, and the angelic power within her surged, her Angel Blade slashing towards the Blood Ancestor's right hand, which was reaching for Qiao Ying.
"Clang!" "Clatter!~"
A sound similar to metal clashing echoed. However, Leng Yue's Angel Blade struck the spatial energy barrier surrounding the Blood Ancestor, causing the space to twist violently before shattering with a sound like breaking glass.
Leng Yue's Angel Blade did not stop but continued forward, hitting the Blood Ancestor's arm.
"Screech!"
Upon being struck by Leng Yue's Angel Blade, a deep gash appeared on the Blood Ancestor's arm. However, no blood gushed out.
"Whoosh!~"
At this moment, Qiao Ying also turned, her Angel Blade slashing towards the Blood Ancestor's chest.
Meanwhile, after striking the Blood Ancestor's right arm, Leng Yue's Angel Blade rapidly adjusted its trajectory, sweeping upwards from below towards the Blood Ancestor's neck.
"Clang!"
"Screech!~"
Qiao Ying's Angel Blade struck the front of the Blood Ancestor's chest, blocked by the spatial energy barrier, emitting a clear metallic sound.
Leng Yue's Angel Blade, however, sliced through the Blood Ancestor's neck. But she could not press her advantage further.
The Blood Ancestor twisted its body and rapidly retreated, while the spatial energy barrier shattered by Leng Yue's attack reformed around it.
"Whoosh~ Screech!~"
"Ah!~"
At this moment, Xue Jiu cried out in agony as his entire right arm was severed by Ye Feng.
Ye Feng paid little attention to Xue Jiu, his gaze fixed on the retreating Blood Ancestor.
He noticed that the wounds on the Blood Ancestor's arm and neck, inflicted by Leng Yue's Angel Blade, were not bleeding profusely, nor were they burning like other blood races injured by angelic power. Yet, they were not entirely without effect.
The wounds on the Blood Ancestor's arm and neck were filled with angelic power, like a shining blade embedded within its arm and neck.
The Blood Ancestor frowned slightly, reaching out with its left hand and grasping at its right arm and neck. It then grabbed the small blade-like angelic power, squeezing it forcefully. The angelic power blades shattered and dissipated.
"Little angel... it seems you possess two different kinds of angelic power..."
"The angelic power that just shattered my spatial energy barrier... wasn't that your own strength?!"
The Blood Ancestor stared at Leng Yue with blood-red eyes and spoke slowly.
As its words fell, the wounds on the Blood Ancestor's arm and neck had already healed completely.
"Big Brother, be careful of your feet!"
Before Leng Yue could respond, a small cry rang out.
"Damn it!"
Ye Feng turned his head and was astonished.
The arm he had just severed from Xue Jiu was convulsing and rapidly transforming into a grotesque man with a rat's head.
The rat-headed man's body writhed, and a swarm of black nails inscribed with runes pierced through its body, shooting towards Ye Feng at extreme speed.
"Clink clink clang!"
"Ding!~ Clang!"
Ye Feng, wielding his Tang blade, swung it rapidly, knocking down all the rune-inscribed black nails fired by the rat-headed man.
"These things... Blood Sealing Runes?"
In the urgency of the moment and the poor lighting, Ye Feng had not seen them clearly.
Now, seeing the scattered rune-inscribed black nails at his feet, he immediately recognized them. They were the Blood Sealing Runes that Sphinx had used to suppress Shen Botian's arcane energy in Mech City.
"Whoosh! Screech"
"Ah!"
The rat-headed grotesque man, failing in his attack, attempted to flee but was beheaded by Xue Shi, who had arrived.
"Hiss~ Rumble! Rumble!~"
Xue Shi did not stop there. He unleashed several balls of intense flame, reducing the rat-headed man's corpse to charcoal.
"Ye Feng, Xue Lu and Xue Jiu are both King-level fused entities!"
"This rat-headed man was likely fused and modified by Xue Jiu to become his arm!"
As he spoke, Xue Shi's body also began to contort, his final form becoming quite tall, giving Ye Feng a vaguely familiar feeling.
Immediately, Xue Shi removed his wooden-patterned mask.
"This..."
Upon seeing the face beneath Xue Shi's wooden-patterned mask, Ye Feng was slightly taken aback, for it was the very likeness of Shen Botian.
"Ye Feng, this is not my true body, but it's a long story..."
"Shen Botian" sighed softly. "Ye Feng, your purpose for coming to Brad Base was likely to rescue that angel named Qiao Ying!"
"Now that your objective has been achieved, we need to hurry and leave here. The Blood Ancestor's energy fluctuations are growing stronger..."
"Shen Botian's" tone was unusually heavy, and his expression was filled with worry.
"Leave!"
Ye Feng glanced at the Blood Ancestor not far away, who was scrutinizing them with blood-red eyes, and frowned slightly.
The Blood Ancestor's pupils were now vertically slit, making it look quite terrifying.
"Little one, we indeed need to hurry and leave here!"
Ling Xi also flashed to Ye Feng's side and spoke.
"Uh... can't we capture that Blood Ancestor and study it..."
Ye Feng's expression was somewhat hesitant, clearly not intending to retreat just yet.
"Capture... capture the Blood Ancestor... and... study it..."
Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, Ling Xi, Qiao Ying, and "Shen Botian" were all stunned, staring at Ye Feng as if they had seen a ghost.
Xiao Xiao was still entangled in a fight with Xue Ba and Xue Lu and had not heard Ye Feng's words.
"Yes!"
Ye Feng nodded, his expression quite serious.
This was not due to any particular eccentricity on his part, but rather a strong desire to investigate the spatial energy barrier formation known as the Unsin Barrier and why it bore demonic runes.
After all, spatial energy was the most troublesome power for him currently. During the ancient ruins, that fellow wielding the divine artifact Spear of War, Tu'ao, also possessed spatial energy, which had caused him considerable trouble.
Further back, in the Goblin Kingdom, Asmodeus, one of the Seven Archdemons, summoned by the Goblin High Priest through a formation, had emerged directly from fractured space.
Ye Feng felt that understanding more about spatial energy was always beneficial, especially since he had begun practicing that mysterious set of movements, which could cause his true energy to undergo peculiar changes, enough to penetrate spatial energy barriers.
However, he had always lacked combat experience in this area, especially against powerful opponents.
And the current Blood Ancestor was clearly a suitable test subject for verifying and improving his combat strength!
"This..."
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Leng Yue, Ling Xi, Qiao Ying, and "Shen Botian" were momentarily at a loss for how to respond.
They had considered the possibility of Ye Feng refusing, but they had never imagined that Ye Feng's reason would be to capture and study the "Blood Ancestor."
"Ling Xi, Leng Yue, Qiao Ying, judging by the numerous weapons embedded with angel bones possessed by the Ten Great Blood Guards, these fellows must have killed quite a few angels..."
"Don't you want revenge?"
After a pause, Ye Feng spoke again.
As he spoke, he specifically looked at Leng Yue.