As Zhang Wen and Linoah were engaged in a flirtatious exchange resembling lovers teasing each other, a golden pillar of light rising from the horizon suddenly expanded, forcing apart the silvery dragon-like battle energy entwined around it. The energy shattered into countless silver specks that scattered into the air. Soon after, a deep, earth-shaking rumble echoed from a distant place, faintly reaching Zhang Wen and Linoah’s ears.
“The puppet of the Southern Overlord is finished,” Linoah sighed softly, her tone gradually turning sharp. “Since you and he are such inseparable friends, why don’t you go accompany him on his journey to the afterlife?”
As the final word left her sensuous lips, Linoah’s figure was already enveloped in a deep blue hue of psychic energy. To Zhang Wen, she appeared oddly familiar.
“Energy overflow?!” Instantly, Zhang Wen recalled the source of his familiarity. Linoah’s current appearance, wrapped in psychic energy, was almost identical to Agate during their battle!
However, this only left Zhang Wen with an absurd feeling. In all the Empire’s records, there had never been any mention of psychokineticists unable to control their psychic energy!
“Hehe! That’s right!” Linoah giggled, her slightly crouched body suddenly springing forward like a cannonball aimed at Zhang Wen. In her hand, a short blade bristling with terrifying barbs appeared.
Caught off guard, Zhang Wen could only hastily gather the last remnants of his battle energy and swing his sword upward in desperation.
Clang! Linoah’s and Zhang Wen’s crystal energy blades collided, producing a sharp metallic sound.
“What are you…?” Zhang Wen, sent flying backward, barely managed to steady himself, staring at Linoah in disbelief. At the moment their blades clashed, the terrifying power surging from Linoah’s short sword made Zhang Wen almost believe his opponent was not Linoah, but Agate himself!
“Hehe! Teacher Zhang Wen, how do you like this move? I’ve practiced for a long time to reach my current level,” Linoah smiled sweetly, once again forcefully pushing off the ground. Her high-speed movement even caused visible ripples in the surrounding air.
“I don’t even know anymore… who between you and Robert is the real madman. You actually managed to use psychic energy… as if it were battle energy,” Zhang Wen struggled to fend off Linoah’s relentless attacks, barely having the chance to even allow himself a bitter smile. He had to split each complete sentence into several fragments to finish speaking.
“If you insist on thinking that way, you could say we’re both mad,” Linoah replied.
“Hey! Speaking of it… the poison inside your body… should not have been completely dealt with yet, right? Otherwise… you wouldn’t need… to convert psychic energy into battle energy to fight me… Considering my current state… if you attacked with psychic energy… I would die even faster! How long can this energy conversion method last?”
Zhang Wen shouted while defending against Linoah’s attacks. Undermining Linoah’s confidence through words was the only way Zhang Wen had left to extricate himself from this predicament.
“Giggles! Robert was right, you really are smart. This state can only last for fifteen minutes. Plus, the secret potion that temporarily converts psychic energy into battle energy is very inconvenient to produce. I haven’t had many opportunities to practice, so after the conversion, I still can’t control the battle energy in my body well,” Linoah chuckled lightly, but her short sword mercilessly slashed across Zhang Wen’s left arm, leaving a deep, long wound.
The intense pain caused Zhang Wen’s movements to involuntarily stall for a moment, which Linoah seized immediately. She punched him in the abdomen, sending him rolling sideways.
“…Still, fifteen minutes should be more than enough to deal with you!” Seeing Zhang Wen, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, shakily rise to his feet, Linoah smiled seductively, stepping closer to him.
“Hmph! Even if you defeat him, there’s still me!” Somewhere in the background, Xiaoxi, who had somehow woken from her unconsciousness, shouted furiously like an angry little wildcat and charged toward Linoah.
“Giggles! Little girl, you’re still far from being my match!” Linoah easily sidestepped Xiaoxi’s attack. Then, seizing Xiaoxi by the back of her neck, she turned and hurled her toward Zhang Wen amidst Xiaoxi’s startled scream.
Immediately afterward, Linoah blurred and reappeared beside the seemingly dazed Zhang Wen and Xiaoxi. Her right hand, wielding the dagger, struck like a venomous snake aiming at Zhang Wen’s heart.
Zhang Wen desperately rolled aside with Xiaoxi, barely dodging Linoah’s strike. However, after completing this movement, Zhang Wen, whose internal battle energy had completely dried up, instantly felt an indescribable fatigue. Moreover, his head and abdomen felt as if mischievous little snakes had slithered inside, causing unbearable pain. His vision and hearing also suddenly became blurred.
In a daze, Zhang Wen seemed to see Linoah lunging at him with the dagger again. With his back against a tree and unable to dodge, Zhang Wen could only stretch out his hand desperately, attempting to grab Linoah’s wrist. However, before his hand reached halfway, another sharp pain coursed through his body.
“Battle energy completely exhausted? Damn it!” Zhang Wen bitterly chuckled inwardly, his thoughts flashing as he suddenly lost all strength in his body.
Thus, Zhang Wen’s outstretched left hand failed to grab Linoah’s wrist, instead getting pierced completely through by the dagger. The dagger, having pierced Zhang Wen’s left hand, still had enough force to continue forward, embedding about a third of its tip into Zhang Wen’s shoulder.
“Ahh!” Accompanied by Xiaoxi’s scream, blood spurted from Zhang Wen’s body, staining the dagger red. Then, dripping from the dagger, it fell onto Xiaoxi in his arms.
“Tsk!” Seeing that her attack had failed to hit Zhang Wen’s vital points, Linoah spat in frustration and tried to pull the dagger back. However, when she pulled, she found the dagger hadn’t moved at all!
“How is this possible? This guy’s battle energy should have been completely exhausted!” Linoah frowned in shock.
Then, Linoah noticed that the blue glow on the dagger’s surface was rapidly fading! Next, before Linoah could figure out what Zhang Wen had done to her dagger, she suddenly realized in horror that her entire body’s battle energy was rushing toward the dagger like a flood breaking through a dam, unstoppable!
In the blink of an eye, Linoah panicked as she felt a large portion of her battle energy had already surged into the dagger! Meanwhile, Zhang Wen’s left hand gripping the dagger and the wound on his pierced left shoulder were all glowing with a strange bright blue light!
Linoah frantically tried to let go of the dagger, only to discover her right hand was somehow stuck to it. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t release the dagger’s hilt!
“Zhang Wen, what exactly did you do?” Horrified, Linoah finally lost her usual composure. She shouted in panic, but in just this short moment, Linoah felt her entire body’s battle energy had drained away like receding tides!
Once the last bit of strength was completely drained from Linoah’s body, the force that had been holding her right hand to the dagger instantly disappeared. Caught off guard, Linoah stumbled backward and fell to the ground in a disheveled manner.
“Damn it! This guy really has a habit of being unpredictable. Even after reaching this point, could he still turn the tables?” Linoah, lying on the ground, completely ignored the slight pain on her body. She clenched her fists tightly, unwillingly rising to her feet again, her beautiful eyes once more locking onto Zhang Wen.
However, after magically absorbing all of Linoah’s battle energy, Zhang Wen, with his eyes closed, collapsed straight to the ground. Even the wounds on his hand and shoulder, from which blood continued to flow, seemed to go unnoticed by him. Xiaoxi, held tightly in Zhang Wen’s arms, also closed her eyes, seemingly unconscious.
“What’s wrong with this guy? What exactly did he do?” Linoah’s heart stirred, quickly realizing her own condition seemed somewhat off.
Linoah hastily checked her condition and immediately showed an expression of extreme shock. She found that her battle energy had not been absorbed by Zhang Wen but had transformed back into psychic energy within her body! Moreover, the Zero-Ancient Serum she had injected into herself had vanished without a trace!
Could this guy have absorbed the Zero-Ancient Serum I injected into myself? Linoah looked at Zhang Wen in disbelief but quickly shook her head repeatedly.
No! Absolutely impossible. Back in the Federation, her teacher had conducted hundreds of experiments. This guy would be no exception. Even super-tier warriors, after injecting the Zero-Ancient Serum, died within a short time due to being unable to withstand the rapidly expanding power, right? The only suitable users of the Zero-Ancient Serum were psychic users of tenth tier or higher. Anyone else who used that serum would meet the same fate!
Thinking of this, Linoah gritted her teeth, desperately trying to free herself from the troubling thoughts.
In any case, as long as she killed him, this plan would be completed safely and soundly. Soon, Linoah made up her mind.
Considering that attacking Zhang Wen with psychic energy might cause some strange consequences, Linoah pondered for a moment and finally walked resolutely toward Zhang Wen. She intended to pull out the dagger embedded in Zhang Wen and stab him again.
Soon, Linoah reached Zhang Wen’s side. She gripped the dagger’s hilt and slightly infused a bit of psychic energy. The dagger swiftly retracted from Zhang Wen’s wound, transforming back into a rectangular psychic steel plate.
Linoah hesitated slightly before reshaping the psychic steel back into a dagger. Then, without hesitation, she thrust the dagger toward Zhang Wen’s chest. However, before Linoah’s dagger could touch Zhang Wen’s body, she saw Zhang Wen suddenly open his eyes. His right hand shot out like lightning, grabbing her wrist holding the dagger.
“Ugh…” The force from Zhang Wen’s right hand caused Linoah to involuntarily cry out in pain. She looked at Zhang Wen in disbelief, their gazes locking.
The moment their eyes met, Linoah’s heart instinctively skipped a beat. As a psychic user who had transcended the Saint Tier, and also as a master spy who had undergone extremely rigorous training, Linoah’s insight into gazes far exceeded ordinary people’s imagination.
From Zhang Wen’s gaze, Linoah’s first impression was an unfathomable depth. That feeling involuntarily reminded Linoah of her teacher, that ascetic who seemed to see through everything. However, beyond the wisdom-like depth, Linoah could clearly discern from Zhang Wen’s gaze a naked, beast-like desire.
The combination of these two almost diametrically opposed sensations made Linoah feel as if she were completely naked, all her secrets exposed under Zhang Wen’s gaze.
“Ahh!” Overwhelmed by a surge of shame and anger, Linoah cried out and mercilessly swung her left fist toward Zhang Wen. Bang! The fist, filled with immense psychic energy, struck Zhang Wen’s body.
“Wo…” Zhang Wen let out a bestial growl, his face showing an expression of extreme anger.
A flicker of fear surged in Linoah’s heart. She hurriedly shook her arms, trying to free her wrist. But Zhang Wen’s hand was like an iron clamp, tightly gripping her.
Apart from Zhang Wen himself, probably no one else could understand the pain he was enduring at this moment. The moment Linoah pierced Zhang Wen’s left hand and shoulder with her dagger, Zhang Wen suddenly felt a stream-like substance surge into his body through the blade. Wherever this stream flowed, Zhang Wen’s previously exhausted battle energy began to surge forth continuously.
Initially, Zhang Wen felt delighted at this situation. However, his joy hadn’t lasted even a second when he realized the situation was spiraling out of control. The stream surging into his body suddenly split into countless parts, simultaneously rushing into every meridian of his body! As the stream flowed, astonishing battle energy kept surging forth. In a blink of an eye, it exceeded the limit Zhang Wen’s body could bear!
Qi deviation?! The moment this thought, almost driving him mad, flashed through Zhang Wen’s mind, he experienced an excruciating sensation.
Pain! In that instant, only this feeling remained in Zhang Wen’s mind. He could clearly feel that the battle energy filling his meridians seemed to be tearing apart every blood vessel! Inside his body, it felt as if countless little knives were continuously cutting his flesh. Dazedly, Zhang Wen himself was even surprised that he hadn’t immediately fainted despite enduring such pain!
Fortunately, this unbearable pain only lasted for a brief moment. Soon after, Zhang Wen felt as if a fire was burning inside his body. The battle energy of the Spring Water Technique surged wildly.
In the past, Zhang Wen had occasionally experienced similar sensations. At those times, the surge of combat energy had been gentle, like the warm and pleasant sunlight of March or April. But now, what Zhang Wen felt was like an enormous fire threatening to burn everything to ashes! Waves of wild, surging energy pounded Zhang Wen’s nerves, wave after wave, stirring up within him an uncontrollable desire.
Zhang Wen had never encountered a situation like this before. The recent episode of “overexertion” left him even more cautious, fearing any slight negligence. He could only exert all his strength to try to control the surging combat energy. However, the lingering pain within his body made it nearly impossible for him to concentrate.
Then, at this critical moment, Linoia pulled the dagger out of Zhang Wen’s body again. The moment the dagger was removed, an intense, bone-piercing pain almost drove Zhang Wen to the brink of mental collapse. Finally, Zhang Wen managed to endure the pain through sheer willpower, only to be punched by Linoia. A surge of immense spiritual energy surged into Zhang Wen’s body, wreaking absolute havoc on the combat energy within him.
The unbearable pain intertwined with desire, causing Zhang Wen’s consciousness to gradually blur. He knew he could no longer control himself; whether he lived or died would now be entirely up to fate. However, one thing Zhang Wen was certain of was that Lino, the one responsible for all this, would soon face her retribution.
“Linoya…” With the last bit of strength he could still control, Zhang Wen stared at Linoya’s face and murmured in a voice that was almost gratified, “This is what you brought upon yourself!”
“You…” Linoah glared at Zhang Wen in flustered anger. Just as she uttered that single word, she suddenly realized that Zhang Wen had lunged straight at her. Taken completely by surprise, Linoah was tightly embraced by Zhang Wen. The two rolled over on the ground together.
Feeling Zhang Wen’s arms tightly wrapped around her waist and his hands pressing against her hips, Linoah flushed with anger and involuntarily felt a hint of shyness deep in her heart. “You scu—mmph!” She had barely begun to curse when, without warning, Zhang Wen kissed her on the lips.
“Waaah! Waa!” Linoah tried to struggle, but she couldn’t break free from Zhang Wen’s arms at all.
Under such circumstances, all her struggles seemed to turn into deliberate acts of arousal. Her full, soft breasts pressed tightly against Zhang Wen’s chest, while her long legs entwined tightly with his, continuously rubbing back and forth.
Finally, Linoah seized an opportunity to break free from Zhang Wen’s lingering kiss. She tilted her head back coldly, gasping for breath, and uttered a few words in disdain: “Today, you win. If you want my life, just take it. Bastard!” Before the last word had even faded, Linoah had already raised her right hand without hesitation and plunged the dagger toward her own head with all her strength.
Puh! The dagger pierced into the flesh, blood spurted out, once again drenching the dagger in red.
Linoah stared in disbelief at the man before her. Just moments ago, Zhang Wen had actually blocked her dagger with his bare hand. Her attempt at taking her own life had failed, and once again, Zhang Wen’s left hand was pierced.
Doesn’t this guy feel any pain?
Thinking about the excruciating pain of having her palms pierced twice, even Linoa, who remained expressionless while attempting suicide, couldn’t help but twitch her eyes. Yet Zhang Wen seemed completely unaffected. After blocking Linoa’s suicide attempt with the dagger, Zhang Wen casually pulled the dagger out and flung it far away. Then, a faint blue glow enveloped Zhang Wen’s injured left hand, and the wound from the dagger quickly stopped bleeding.
“Do you think I can’t kill myself just because I threw away the dagger? I can still…” Linoah growled furiously, clenching her teeth once more. However, when she instinctively locked eyes with Zhang Wen, her heart involuntarily skipped a beat.
Zhang Wen’s gaze remained as before, deep and full of desire…
“This guy… has he entered some kind of uncontrollable state? He just said it was my own fault. Could it be… that he’s indeed that unpredictable bastard, as always!” In the blink of an eye, Linoah had roughly pieced together the cause and effect. She bit her lip hard and quickly began thinking of ways to resolve the current awkward situation.
However, before Linoa could come up with a feasible idea, her lips were already forcefully claimed by Zhang Wen. At the same time, the pink battle suit covering Linoa’s body was roughly stripped off and tossed aside with barely any resistance. Then, Zhang Wen’s hands slowly traced upwards along Linoa’s soft body, finally grasping her full, round breasts.
“Y-You… bastard!” Linoah’s delicate body trembled violently, yet her tone carried less anger and more maidenly embarrassment.
Zhang Wen’s merciless hands continued to ravage Linoah’s body, yet her resistance grew weaker and weaker. One by one, her clothes were roughly torn off by Zhang Wen and thrown aside.
“Damn it! Pretending to have lost consciousness, and then doing whatever you please with me… I really don’t know what to do with you,” Linoah said softly, gently stroking Zhang Wen’s face, her beautiful eyes filled with an extremely complex expression. “Ah!” she suddenly murmured in pain, gently frowning as a delicate cry of discomfort escaped her lips. Beneath her, on the grass where she lay, were scattered spots of crimson, like fallen petals.
At the moment of merging with Zhang Wen, Linoah suddenly felt her own energy fluctuating rhythmically in response to Zhang Wen’s movements. A sensation of indescribable tingling, as if seeping from her very marrow, coursed through her body, causing her to instantly lose all strength.
“Woo…” Linoah couldn’t help but let out a melodious, whimpering moan, her sexy body tightly pressed against Zhang Wen’s, while her shapely legs actively rubbed against him.
A tidal wave of pleasure surged repeatedly, accumulating ceaselessly within Linoah’s body. All Linoah could feel was that she was flying higher and higher on those waves of delight, each one so intense it made her want to burst into tears.
Suddenly, like a stone cast into a lake, a powerful ripple ten times stronger than before spread through the telekinetic energy gently flowing within Linoah. At the same time, the pleasure that had been building up inside her body for a long time exploded in an instant. Linoah felt as if she had been lifted straight into heaven.
“Ahh!” Linoah screamed, her mind going completely blank. Her entire body arched violently backward, and her delicate, beautiful feet were thrust straight out with all her might.
Dozens of seconds later, Linoa finally weakly released Zhang Wen, who had erupted at the same time as her. She raised her upper body and lay beside Zhang Wen, completely naked, feeling the lingering subtle ripples of energy within her body and the wonderful sensation that followed.
“Hey! Are you still alive?” Moments later, Linoah suddenly heard a voice beside her that she both loved and hated.
Linoah hurriedly opened her eyes and realized that Zhang Wen had already woken up without her noticing when. He was now lying on his side, smiling at her.
“Zhang Wen? You’ve actually woken up!” Lino Ya frowned tightly, quickly sitting up, but then suddenly remembered with a start that she was still completely naked.
Seeing the glance Zhang Wen cast toward her chest and legs, Linoah couldn’t help but blush. She suppressed her embarrassment, sprang to her feet, quickly picked up her underwear and combat suit that had been thrown aside earlier, and hurried behind a cluster of bushes.
“Zhang Wen, don’t you dare think that just because of what happened today, I’ll let you off the hook. We’re destined to be enemies. The next time we meet, I still won’t show you any mercy!” While quickly putting on her clothes, Linoia stuck her head out of the bushes and shouted at Zhang Wen with a seductive smile.
“If I said I would go easy on you, you’d probably find it insulting. So I won’t. If you fall into my hands, I will kill you.” Zhang Wen also picked up his clothes and dressed himself, then gave Linoor a faint smile.
“Hmm!” Linoah nodded with a smile, gazing into the distance. The red beam of light belonging to Agate had already disappeared at some unknown moment. Linoah’s expression immediately changed.
“King Wang is about to return! Let’s stop here for today!” Linoah quickly blurted out two sentences.
“No problem,” Zhang Wen shrugged. “But what are you planning to do next? Are you still going back to the camp with me?”
“Are you kidding?” Linoah scoffed, casting a sarcastic glance at Zhang Wen. “My identity has already been exposed. Even Garritt knows I’m the Soul Dancer. What’s the point of returning to the camp?”
“Oh? Then what about that test subject? Are you saying you don’t plan to keep looking for him? The ‘key’ to him is still in our camp,” Zhang Wen asked, frowning slightly as he posed the question again.
“Hehe! You’re really such a gullible little fool,” Linoah said with a seductive smile, shaking her head as she sprinted towards the western part of the jungle. “Don’t tell me you actually believed that the so-called ‘key’ is really that little girl from Themis Academy? Wrong! The key mentioned in the prophet’s prophecy has absolutely nothing to do with her. From the very beginning, that was just false information I deliberately spread to lure away all those irrelevant nuisances who might interfere with my plan. The real ‘key’ is actually the ‘Zero—Ancient Reagent’…”
“What?”
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