I alone am the Honoured One!

687  The Night of the Bloody Invasion [6]

The sky above the battlefield was thick with smoke, fire, and falling wreckage as the war between the Jade Eclipse Sect and the Vampire forces raged on.

Now, with the sudden arrival of the Coven of Black Hearts, the battlefield had descended into an even greater state of chaos.

But high above where the towering black arks loomed, another battle was about to begin.

Velnorah and Yao Jing flew through the sky, their figures cutting through the wind as they approached the massive arks.

The enemy forces were relentless, and reinforcements would keep pouring in unless they severed the head of the beast

With that, they split up, each heading for a different ark.

As she approached the first ark, Velnorah could feel the dense energy radiating from it.

Velnorah landed on the upper deck of the ark and instantly, an alarm blared as dark-armored vampires rushed out from the vessel's interior.

She spun her crimson scythe as the blade hummed with condensed blood energy and the weapon expanded in size, growing into a massive, curved reaper's blade.

*flick* Without hesitation, she lunged forward, closing the distance between herself and the enemy in seconds.

*SLEESH* Her first horizontal slash carved through the nearest vampire's waist, severing his body in half in precision.

"GRGH-!" His upper torso slid off his legs and his severed body collapsed onto the deck in a pool of blood.

A spear-wielding vampire attempted to thrust forward, aiming for her heart, but she twisted her body at the last moment, dodging the attack with ease.

Before he could retract his weapon, she hooked the scythe's blade around the spear's shaft and yanked it forward, pulling the enemy off balance.

*THOOM* The force of the blow sent him flying backward as his body slammed into the reinforced walls of the ark, leaving a deep dent in the metal before he slumped lifelessly onto the floor.

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In the same motion, she spun and drove her knee into his ribs, shattering them upon impact.

*THOOM* The force of the blow sent him flying backward as his body slammed into the reinforced walls of the ark, leaving a deep dent in the metal before he slumped lifelessly onto the floor.

One of the vampires raised his hand, summoning a barrage of crimson spears, formed from condensed blood essence, and hurled them toward her.

*sleesh* Dozens of jagged projectiles tore through the air aiming at her.

However, Velnorah easily slashed through and continued her slaughter.

With the enemies cleared, Velnorah made her way toward the ark's core chamber.

As she approached the chamber doors, she heard some footsteps.

"Do not let her reach the stones!" one of them shouted.

"Is that... Lady Velnorah?"

*flick* She sprinted forward as she dodged through the defenders with inhuman speed.

*FLEESH* The first vampire she passed didn't even realize he had been sliced apart until his upper half slid off his legs and fell to the floor.

The next two tried to block her path, but she used the blood of the dead vampires to harden into jagged spikes, which suddenly sprouted from the floor beneath them, impaling them through their stomachs.

*SLEESH* With the last of the defenders dead, she raised her scythe and brought it down onto the glowing core.

"Time to get out of here."

*WHOOSHHHH* The ark lurched violently and the warning sirens blared as it began its plummet toward the battlefield below.

...

As Yao Jing landed on the deck of the second ark, she was immediately met with hostility. evil cultivators in pitch-black robes, their bodies covered in blood-red tattoos.

She cracked her knuckles, fire sparking from her fingertips as a smile crept onto her lips. "Tian better praise me after this..."

FWOOM!

A pillar of golden fire erupted beneath her feet, sending out a shockwave of heat as it instantly incinerated the first wave of evil cultivators.

The air boiled, and the deck beneath her began to glow red-hot as the metal warped from the sheer intensity of her flames.

*fwish* Suddenly some dark lances hurled towards her and sensing this, she stomped the ground, causing an eruption of flames to burst forth, melting the lances mid-flight.

Without missing a beat, she lunged forward and closed the distance in an instant.

The cultivator barely had time to react before-

BANG!

Her fist collided with his gut and the sheer force caved in his ribs, sending him soaring across the deck before he crashed into a wall, his body embedded into the metal.

Another cultivator sashed at her from behind, swinging a mace larger than her entire body.

 The weapon howled through the air, evil energy crackling around it.

She exhaled sharply, her eyes flashing with annoyance.

At the last second, she ducked, letting the weapon sail over her head that missed her by mere inches.

As the guy's momentum carried him forward, she pivoted on her heel and—

WHAM!

Her flaming knee shot upward, colliding with his jaw in a brutal uppercut.

The impact sent shockwaves ripping outward and his head snapped back with a sickening crack as molten flames poured into his mouth, roasting him from the inside out.

A cyclone of fire erupted around her, forming an inferno that trapped the incoming cultivators mid-air.

"ARGHHH!!!" They screamed in pain, their bodies roasting alive as they were caught in the rotating vortex of flames.

Some attempted to break free, but Yao Jing clenched her fist, and the cyclone collapsed inward, compressing them into a dense sphere of superheated energy.

With a snap of her fingers, the sphere imploded...

BOOM!

A massive explosion engulfed the upper deck, sending burning debris raining down onto the battlefield below.

She dashed toward the core chamber...

 As she burst into the core chamber, she immediately sensed an overwhelming presence.

Hm?

The walls pulsed with evil energy, and at the very center, there was a single guardian, its body composed of metal armor.

Its singular eye glowed, and its massive hands are clenched into crushing fists, large enough to flatten an entire house.

THOOM.

The guardian took a single step forward and the entire ark shook from its sheer weight.

Yao Jing cracked her neck "Alright, big guy. Let's see how well you burn."

The guardian lunged, its huge arm swinging down toward her, creating a whistling pressure wave that shattered nearby pillars from sheer force.

She sidestepped at the last moment, avoiding the devastating strike and the impact cratered the floor, sending shards of metal flying outward like shrapnel.

BOOM!

Using the opening, she ran up the length of its arm, before launching herself toward its head.

BANG!

Her fist collided with its face, sending ripples of fire energy through its massive body.

Instead, the guardian retaliated with a sudden pulse of evil energy, blasting her backward.

 Yao Jing flipped mid-air, stabilizing herself with a burst of fire beneath her feet.

The guardian let out a deep growl, preparing to retaliate...

Yao Jing smirked and dashed through the air as she clenched her fist tightly and landed a sturdy punch.

BOOOOOOM!

The sheer impact sent shockwaves through the ar and the core chamber trembled as the flames consumed everything in their path.

Yao Jing dashed forward, dodging the guardian's final attempt at an attack, before landing on its collapsing chest.

She raised her fist, condensing all of her fire energy into a single point.

And then... she punched downward.

SHHHHRRRRK!

Her fist pierced straight through its chest and the guardian collapsed down.

She then quickly destroyed the astral stone in the core chamber.

SWOOOSH! The ark lurched violently as its foundations crumbled and its systems failed instantly.

Yao Jing jumped away, soaring out of the ark just as it crashed into the battlefield, exploding in a towering inferno.

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