"Watch your tongue, you imbecile!"
A proud Tribe Leader, publicly slandered as a 'slut', erupted the hidden gates of anger within Anastasia's heart.
Just then, she relied on the bounce-back momentum of Kami's burst to plummet into the shattered landscape.
Then...
AWUUUU!
A loud wolven howl rushed from the depths of her soul.
Her bones began to fracture and emit continuous popping noises, she instantly dropped onto all four as a thick mass of dark gray fur encased her skin.
Her humane features began to recede as her bestial, inborn form began to surface once more.
In the blink of an eye, the robust barbarian-looking woman who resembled a Goddess of War morphed into a ten-meter wolf-like creature.
What was eye-catching about this wolf-like creature was its obsidian mane that had a tinge of spiraling demonic essence cascading towards the skirts.
This type of dreadful demonic essence was a manifestation of Anastasia's killing intent interwoven with her dark Qi.
Anastasia's dark Qi focuses on influencing the spiritual resonance, hence its ability to directly bypass into a human's knowledge sea, thus disturbing their state of breakthrough.
Facing the formidable soul disturbance of a Wolven Monster, Kami's expression became extremely solemn.
In truth, after breaking through to the Eclipse Realm, the use of one's spirit in life or death battles becomes extremely frequent.
The power of one's soul isn't entirely dependent on their cultivation base, so it is more or so a desperate measure used by the weaker party to circumvent a disadvantageous situation.
In fact, Kami was trying to wear out Anastasia before she could take her beast form because, at this point, her predator instinct has already taken over her mind.
Unless bloodline suppression is used, Anastasia won't stop before solving her killing intent.
Floating a dozen hundred meters above, Kami's eyes flickered with profound light.
Clusters of flames began to cascade out of his Qi Essence before he held his long sword in a strict horizontal stance in front of his chest.
Pouring his entire cultivation base into the sword light of his Sword Potential, an enormous pressure of crimson flames and dense Qi weaved into a shroud of energy covered his blade.
Slowly, his sword ascended towards the heavens into a vertical pillar of flames that threatened to incinerate space itself.
Arima's eyes brightened with naked greed as he watched from the clouds above, Kami's Qi Essence was so dense to the point Arima's index began to twitch.
He couldn't help but cover his trembling lips with his pale palm as anticipation began to throb into his heart, how much he wanted to rip out Kami's heart and slurp down every drop of blood essence before sucking in the magnificent amount of heaven and earth energy to temper his body.
Contrary to Arima's ecstatic expression, Anastasia's face grew correspondingly grim.
The darkness of her pupils stretched towards the very edge of her iris.
Nigh-instantly, she infused her vocal cords with every bit of Demonic Essence she could muster before erupting a reverberating bestial roar.
Like a thunderstorm breaching the deep abyss.
The soundwaves carried a destructive soul-power that traveled along with the vibrations throughout the winds, crashing blatantly against one's knowledge sea.
This sudden burst of soul-power caused Kami to snort coldly, his blood flow was disturbed and his energy plummeted greatly, but he persisted through to launch his attack.
"Golden Crow's Peak!"
Although Kami spoke lightly, the space around his long sword seemed to flicker and disintegrate.
Swif~
Kami swung his sword in a diagonal arc that seemed to sweep away all light as the flames took the form of a soaring dark crimson crow.
Although the potential lethality of the attack dropped significantly, it was still something the current Anastasia couldn't cope with.
Kami decided to be decisive and strike to kill.
At this point, there's no point in preservation if Anastasia decided to unsheath her claws and fangs.
Realizing the imminent crisis, all the hair on Anastasia's body chilled.
Without hesitation, she shot hundreds of meters back from her original positioning in an attempt of escaping the claws of demise.
"Wishful thinking!" Kami snorted, she launched her move and now she thinks it's easy to avoid the top-secret martial skill of the Luhei Household? Is there anything that good in this world?
Of course, Anastasia knew this was practically futile. But, she still wanted to buy enough time for Arima to act, she couldn't help but grimace trying to wrap her mind on why he's keeping his hand.
After a few moments of fleeing and chase, the massive crow of crimson flames impacted underneath Anastasia.
If she hasn't made a timely leap, her four limbs would have been swept off by the crow's peak as it descended.
BOOM!
A ten-meter-sized beast was launched in a cloud of smoke as the rotten smell of incinerated flesh permeated.
Anastasia's desolate eyes had a spark of horror as she jerked her head left and right and in all directions.
Seeing her helpless look, Kami's eyes were void of any emotion as he spat a mouthful of blood.
"What are you looking for? Do you think your useless tribe can help you now? They're probably already dying under the hands of my soldiers. What a pity, you were beautiful."
Kami assumed Anastasia was searching for her loyal subjects, how would he know that she's desperately searching for Arima?
'That bastard!' She gritted her teeth as her scalp turned numb.
She wouldn't dare look Kami in the eye, her pride wouldn't let her to.
Alas, if she had at least looked at him, she'd be somewhat surprised.
Arima had ghostly appeared behind the still trash-talking Kami some point in time, looking down at him with an amused expression.
At this moment, the entire scene turned gloomy silent.
Even those who have long been wailing in pain and fuming with anger had horrified expressions as they looked in Kami's direction.
Kami naturally misunderstood, not in his wildest dreams had he imagined that a serpentine male with a ferocious expression is closer to him than his own blade.
Kami observed the horrified people and the petrified Anastasia with a sneer of ridicule all over his face.
He was surprised to see that even his friend Lord Xue was pointing in his direction with a trembling finger.
"Sigh... Brother Xue, I've shown you something unsightly. I didn't think I'd be this cruel today but don't worry, I didn't lose my min-..."
Suddenly, Kami felt his chest somewhat empty and cold.
Looking down just a tiny bit, he could see a hand protruding from his chest along with a river of blood.
Kami choked on his blood as his teeth got tainted red, suddenly, all-encompassing chills crept over his skin.
Giving it a second look, he saw the hand gripping his own heart that was still beating.
Ba-dump...
Ba-dump...
Ba-dump...
No one knows how but Kami's heartbeats resounded into everyone's ears alike.
Arima hovered there in midair, holding Kami's corpse that began to wither and lose its vitality at a rate visible to the naked eye.
And then, a horrible scene occurred.
Arima's lower half turned into the lower half of an emerald python twice as thick as an adult male's waistline before it coiled around Kami's body like a long whip.
Just like that, Arima's grip functioned like a grinding disk, shattering Kami's bones into powder. Once his dantian collapsed, Arima inhaled the entirety of its Qi Essence like a fresh breeze of dawn, only to swallow Kami's bloody heart in full view.
Gulp...
Kami's heart slid down Arima's throat, the perfect outline of the heart was as clear as Adam's apple as it traveled down.
An eerie silence filled the Palace grounds.
From the moment Arima made his move till now, perhaps half a cup of tea's time had passed.
Arima did every action with meticulous care in a leisure manner as if he put no one in his eyes.
After Kami's skin lost its final bit of vitality, the remnants dropped like a leaf in front of everyone.
...
"Ahem," After a moment of silence, Arima cleared his throat and said calmly.
"Submit or die."