CHAPTER 958: CHAPTER 926: SIN SHADOW · BLAZING FEATHER

However, it doesn’t matter. This journey specifically brought Xia Feng along. Later, find a time to once again absorb the Pale Dragon Spirit Blood from Xia Feng to restore the bloodline.

In thought, she looked up at the Tree of Sin on the ceiling.

"Where is Ni Yan? Why are only you resurrected?"

"Your Highness, rest assured. Due to the particularity of the Sin Shadow, Ni Yan’s resurrection will take slightly longer, but it’s nothing serious."

Saying this, Zhuo Hua walked slowly towards Huang Zhaoyue, his smile enigmatic, "However, Your Highness, besides watching you take the Abyss Bone Flower with my own eyes, I actually have another task on this trip."

The black cat crouched on Huang Zhaoyue’s thigh, her slender white hand gently stroking the soft fur on the arched back of the black cat, her beautiful eyes with faint slits lightly lifted: "Oh? What task is this?"

Zhuo Hua instinctively glanced at the black cat, but didn’t pay much attention, and cheerfully raised his eyes, "The task is like this: if there is an opportunity, I need to severely injure Huang Zhaoyue until unconscious and seal her into the Tree of Sin before sending her back to the Imperial City Courtyard. This task is decided upon discretion, not mandatory."

"Your Highness, why don’t you be honest with your subordinate, how severe is the injury? If it reaches level 5, then I’ll abandon this task, how about that?"

Zhuo Hua approached step by step, strolling with a leisurely pace, yet his tone seemed seriously discussing.

Huang Zhaoyue’s eyes remained faintly aloof.

Her injuries were indeed more than just five points, even though the Goddess Hall supplied rare spiritual materials for healing, her current strength was less than one in ten.

If she were to fight Zhuo Hua face-to-face, there was simply no chance of winning.

"I remember you are Double A Holy Realm, right?"

"Hmm? Your Highness actually remembers such a small fry’s strength data, I’m quite flattered."

Zhuo Hua’s lips curled in a light mocking curve, "If it were in the past, with my Double A strength, I truly wouldn’t dare confront Your Highness head-on, but alas... hehe~ Your Highness, if I fight with all my strength, how many minutes do you think you can persist?"

Huang Zhaoyue’s gaze remained indifferent and cold, calmly watching the approaching man in feathered clothes as if she didn’t sense the slightest crisis and never considered him worth noticing.

This made the hidden years-old evil thoughts and anger in Zhuo Hua’s heart subtly rise like poison liquid seeping through.

Yes, it was that disdainful, all-conquering gaze!

Zhuo Hua’s lips curled in a sinister arc, truly reminiscent. When he first joined the Great Sin Army and first saw this Highness, it was also this gaze of arrogant disregard for any existence that left a lasting impression.

Now, seeing her still leaning against the metal-backed chair, gently stroking the black cat, with no intention to flee, Zhuo Hua found it laughable, such pretense, Your Imperial Concubine!

"What, Your Highness, have you realized there’s no way out, so you’re planning to give up struggling?"

Huang Zhaoyue couldn’t be bothered to respond to the provocative man in feathered clothes, only asking mildly in her heart: "Can you handle it?"

"...I thought you had some ultimate secret move, turns out you’re relying on me to act." Xia Heimao was somewhat speechless, responding in thought.

"I can tell you’ve advanced to Venerate Second Realm. You managed to deal with a Venerate Four Spirit Master at Venerate One Realm, now already a Double A Venerable, dealing with a Holy Realm shouldn’t be a problem, right?"

Huang Zhaoyue pondered, "Zhuo Hua is Double A Holy Realm. Even if you can challenge Holy Realm across several levels, it might still be difficult against him. But it doesn’t matter, I have some strength left, together, we can defeat Zhuo Hua without issue."

"....."

Listening to her detailed analysis, Xia Feng sighed, "No need. Just sit and heal, watch the show peacefully, I’ll handle this nobody alone."

Huang Zhaoyue was slightly startled, a bit surprised.

To face Zhuo Hua alone?

Although she already knew Xia Feng’s cultivation talent was extremely terrifying, possibly another Huang Ye, wanting a Double A Venerable to single-handedly challenge Double A Holy Realm still seemed somewhat fanciful.

Unless... Xia Feng had some powerful secret she wasn’t aware of?

"Tap—Tap—"

The man in feathered clothes ascended the steps layer by layer, just a few steps away from stepping onto equal ground with Huang Zhaoyue, he chuckled, snapping his fingers.

Immediately, the shadows beneath twisted like specters, forming a long-necked peacock with dark red feathers streaked with white, proudly lifting its head, the crest blazing red.

[Sin Shadow: Blazing Feather]

"Your Highness, hehe~ how about your subordinate giving you ten seconds to escape?"

"Oh, right, this is the Eternal Flow Sea. Afraid even if you want to run, Your Highness, you can’t."

To Xia Feng, the man in feathered clothing’s nonsense was plenty, and it seemed his spirit was somewhat off.

Stretching his cat’s paw, he leapt lightly from Huang Zhaoyue’s thigh, landing quietly.

His orange-yellow slitted pupils calmly watched the approaching feathered man, stepping forward gracefully with cat-like steps.

Zhuo Hua paused, laughed: "Though Your Highness possesses the Sin Shadow, it’s not within the Sin Tree Network, lacking the aid of the Power of Sin. The Sin Shadow you cultivate is merely superficial, could it be... Your Highness wants to use such a useless beast to deal with me?"

As he spoke, the peacock before him lifted its neck arrogantly, letting out a loud screech, cold killing intent flashing in its beast eyes, and its feathers ignited with runes outlining Extreme Flame, spreading into a blood-red sea of fire surging towards the black cat high on the steps!

Sin Shadow: Blazing Feather, possessing high speed and blazing flame potency.

The fire it generates has a temperature approaching the surface of a Constant Star and is erosive to the Spiritual Base. Once infected with this blaze, the Spiritual Base will slowly become poisoned, the Spiritual Pressure becoming unstable. If the blaze is not removed in time, there’s a significant chance of Spiritual Base collapse and loss of cultivation!

This Sin Shadow, rated ’Rare II’ within the ’Sin Leaf System’, is certainly considered a very powerful attack-type Sin Shadow.

As for Huang Zhaoyue’s Sin Shadow: Extreme Abyss, due to not being connected to the Great Sin Network, never having undergone any auxiliary evolution via the Power of Sin, and never showing any abilities, there’s no official record of it.

But two years ago, Zhuo Hua happened to witness Huang Zhaoyue display an attack-type ability, also capable of releasing flames, but those flames paled significantly compared to Blazing Feather’s potency.

Therefore, Zhuo Hua judged that Sin Shadow: Extreme Abyss could at most be rated ’Ordinary V’, no more.

In the Sin Leaf System, Sin Shadows are rated as Garbage, Ordinary, Rare, Legend.

Each major tier is further divided into five sub-levels, progressing step by step.

For instance, Ordinary has Ordinary I, Ordinary II... Ordinary V.

The Ordinary tier is the level most of the Great Sin Army soldiers possess.

Garbage and Rare, both these levels are very scarce, and Legend is counted on one’s fingers.

"Bang——!!!"

The sea of fire formed by the Blazing White Extreme Flame instantly engulfed the black cat.

This kind of tier-level suppression with Sin Shadow doesn’t even require Zhuo Hua to act, it can easily annihilate this creature!

Of course, unless the master’s Spiritual Base breaks first, Sin Shadows will never truly die, at most temporarily unable to be summoned for a time.

"Buzz Buzz——" The control room was vast, flames spreading over the ship’s walls, boiling like the fire from hell.

Zhuo Hua wore a kind smile, hands in pockets, stepping up the final step.