I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch-Chapter 249 - 227. Time to close the net.

Arrows terrifying as black dragons reflected in his vertical, green pupils.

The Viper's mind had almost short-circuited. He had never imagined death could come so close! They were just two Third Rank rats, how could they wield such dreadful power...

Suddenly snapping back to reality, his slit pupils contracted to pinpoints. In his horror, he tried to use his Spiritual Clothes for defense, but the more urgent he felt, the more frantic he became.

Spirit Manipulation and Blood Beast contamination had left him not just physically stiff, but mentally so, frozen in place, as time seemed to slow to a crawl.

With his mouth agape and eyes wide, the black light roared over his body. His flesh visibly bloodied, disintegrated, with waves of black and golden light spreading out—

A fierce wind blew, whipping up the sand and creating dust devils, while the towering metal remains of the battleship cracked and snapped.

"No..." In the midst of the black light, the vague silhouette of a Spiritual Body twisted and struggled. A faint voice of despair, equally muffled by the black light, could be heard as the roaring Black Dragon faded away, and a ghastly figure with visible bones and blood fell to its knees with a thud, its eye sockets hollow, showing nothing but white bone.

It must be said that, even among Fifth Rank Spirit Masters, there are disparities. It was estimated that this Viper had been a Fifth Rank Spirit Master for many years and was very difficult to kill.

Even after such a combo of moves, there was still a breath of life left in him.

The woman in the black dress quietly appeared beside the Viper, delivering a palm strike that gave him the fatal blow.

As the remnants of the Spiritual Body collapsed, the Viper slowly tipped to the ground.

The blond man standing at a distance was somewhat baffled, his scalp tingling with numbness. What... what had just happened?

Just a second ago, the Viper was full of vigor, but in the blink of an eye, his flesh had dissolved, leaving only a bloody skeleton on the rough road, dead beyond any doubt.

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Regaining his senses, the blond man's casual, lazy smile gradually stiffened. Lifting his eyes, he looked toward the man in white and the woman in black in the distance.

He saw the couple turn their gaze slowly toward him.

"!" The blond man felt a sudden shock in his heart, his heart leaping to his throat. Run! Run! This thought emerged in his mind, but to his despair, he found himself so frightened that his legs trembled, and with a thud, he fell backward to the ground, his cheeks sweating and twitching crazily.

Mu Qingtong glanced at him indifferently and didn't pay any more attention. Instead, she bent down to pick up two red Spirit Papers from the Viper's skeletal remains, with faint golden lines flickering and moving on them.

A C-rank Spirit Paper and a B-rank Spirit Paper.

[Mu Qingtong glanced at them casually, and you memorized the "C·Gravity Floating Skill" and "B·Fingertip Lightning" Spiritual Particle Structure Diagrams]

[At the same time, through simple analysis, you mastered the "C·Gravity Floating Skill"]

After looking over them, Mu Qingtong tossed the two papers toward Xia Feng, and he caught them.

[Quickly integrating and analyzing the structures of Light and Thunder Spiritual Particles, you rapidly completed the understanding and integration of "B·Fingertip Lightning"—30%...50%...80%]

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"Boom!" With a loud explosion, Reynolds and the blind old man looked out the window in confusion.

All they could see was a towering black light in the distance, the Cloud Platform too vast for them to discern what was happening. They assumed the Viper had released some powerful Spiritual Clothes, killing those two rats.

Was such grandstanding necessary just to kill two Third Rank rats?

Reynolds shook his head. However, it was good in a way—the Viper had used such a powerful move, his Spiritual Quantity must be running low.

Thinking this, he glanced at the blind old man.

The blind old man's black and gold shackles quietly disintegrated, and his Spiritual Pressure instantly returned. The four black-robed men guarding them hadn't reacted in time, pressing their blood-spurting necks as they slowly fell to the ground.

Reynolds' shackles opened in response.

He took out his handkerchief and gently wiped the bloodstreak from his cheek, folded it neatly, and then got up with a faint smile, "Let's go, it's time to close the net."

Praying mantis catches the cicada, the golden sparrow lies in wait — now was the perfect time to ambush the viper.

However…

When an old man and a young man arrived near the place where the black light burst forth, they both were stunned.

The body of what seemed to be the viper lay in a pool of blood, as ragged as torn fabric, and a woman in a black dress was holding an object resembling a purple crystal to the viper's forehead, seemingly devouring its soul.

While the man in white stood not far away, casually flipping through Spirit Paper in his hand before slipping it into his pocket; then he looked up.

Seeing that the young noble of the Golden Sparrow had indeed followed, Xia Feng did not hesitate, drawing his bowstring again; a black-golden beam of light rapidly converged along the bow.

Reynolds' eyes narrowed slightly; the situation had indeed taken an unexpected turn.

Based on the battle traces at the scene, it appeared that the viper had been killed by these two 'rats', and possibly with an instantaneous strike?

Such a trump card was truly terrifying; probably no one would have expected that two Third Rank could assassinate a Fifth Rank Spirit Master.

But that no longer mattered, for whoever had used that black Light Spirit Clothes earlier had undoubtedly consumed a substantial amount of Spiritual Pressure.

"Housekeeper Feng, kill them."

Reynolds' command came in an indifferent voice, and the blind old man nodded, conjuring a white staff in his hand and planting it in front of Reynolds, instantly surrounding him with a milky-white protective shield.

"Young Master Reynolds, please stay inside this circle, I'll be back shortly."

Saying this, the blind old man stepped forward, creating a deep pit in the ground, and his figure rapidly shot towards the man in white drawing his bow, his body engulfed in blood-red flames that roared into the shape of a giant beast's silhouette.

Xia Feng paid no attention and continued to draw his bow with concentrated force.

Meanwhile, the woman in the black dress, dragging golden six-tails behind her, silently hovered in the air, blocking the path of the blind old man; her silver hair flowing in the wind, she extended her arm, slender fingers sparking with white electricity that furiously gathered and then suddenly dispersed into the sky.

[100%—You have comprehended "B·Fingertip Lightning"]

From the sky, a dense shower of electrically charged raindrops fell, and in the blink of an eye, it began to split rapidly, spreading over an area as large as a football field, then converging from all directions towards the blind old man.

The sky and earth darkened, leaving only flickering electric light.

The blind old man with his weathered face remained impassive, merely stepping lightly.

Instantly, only a twisted afterimage shattered by the electric current was left in his place, and in a flash, his fiery silhouette had once again advanced a hundred meters.

[You've analyzed the principle of 'Instantaneous Step' and comprehended the Fighting Skill·Instantaneous Step]

[Instantaneous Step·Afterimage: Utilizes a special arrangement of minute Spiritual Particles from residual blood attached to leg muscles to achieve high-speed mobility, leaving an afterimage in the original spot, which appears like a clone.]

Unlike Spiritual Clothes, Fighting Skills hardly consume any spiritual quantity, but they can provide a very powerful effect. Of course, the effort and sweat paid is often many times that of learning Spiritual Clothes, making it very difficult and hence very unpopular.

Mu Qingtong left behind a black-dress afterimage in her place, and the next moment, she appeared behind the blind old man, swinging a scarlet blade that formed in her hand!

The old man's head flew into the air—

But it turned into a fiery illusion which quickly dissipated.

Mu Qingtong frowned and looked up, only to see the true body of the blind old man appearing behind Xia Feng,

His turbid gray eyes downcast, hands like dead branches covered with red-colored Spiritual Clothes, a massive blood-red fire hammer appeared in the air,

Smashing rapidly towards Xia Feng's head!