I transformed into a cute girl and lived a carefree life in the apocalypse.

The Night Ghost and the Sequence-level creature resembling a deer also stopped their attack, staring intently at the location of the Mountain Kirin.

If Yan Shan really dies suddenly, then today's battle is over, and there is no need to continue fighting.

The entire battlefield fell silent.

"marshal?"

It's unclear what kind of emotion caused people to choke on their words. What kind of state is Yan Shan in right now?

Could it really be that they sacrificed their lives to destroy the heavens?

For a moment, a lingering sense of sorrow filled the air.

Huang Tao's Su Yuchen noticed a sign; they could still feel a faint, almost nonexistent breath coming from the mountain qilin's mouth and nose.

Still alive!

Huang Tao was overjoyed, but in an instant, he broke out in a cold sweat.

We can't even spare a single person on our side, but the Skeleton Hunter is still there. In the current state of the Mountain Kirin, how can we possibly win?

If the Bone Hunters choose to attack at this time, then everything will be over.

"Squeak..." The skeleton hunter just circled around Yan Shan in fear, seemingly very wary of Yan Shan's possible sudden attack.

After all, they had just been deceived by the mountain qilin's apparent madness; Tianqiong died instantly, and one of its bone blades was broken.

Perhaps this is just another illusion staged to lure it into continuing to fight to the death?

Based on this, the skeleton hunters only dared to circle around him, but never dared to launch the first attack.

Even if we assume that the mountain qilin is on the verge of death and unable to fight anymore, who knows if it still has a breath left, waiting to drag itself down with it?

It doesn't know, it doesn't know what the outcome will be.

Should we attack? Or retreat?

The Skeleton Hunter hesitated for a long time, making Mu Mu, Huang Tao, and the others' eyelids twitch and their hearts leap into their throats.

It felt it couldn't let things continue like this, so it decided to test the waters first.

Swah——

With its remaining single-armed bone blade, it swung forward, white air emanating from the blade and splitting the earth in two.

Moth

The sound was similar to the spray of gas. The shockwave, which could split the entire city in two, playfully exploded into a white cloud of gas just before it touched the mountain qilin's body, without even making a ripple.

"?!"

The Skeleton Hunter retreated in horror. This was a sight that the Mountain Kirin had not been able to display before. Its attack was utterly ineffective, like a devastating blow.

It unleashed more than a dozen waves of energy, ravaging the earth beyond recognition. However, all these fierce attacks vanished into nothingness before even reaching the mountain qilin.

He really does have the strength to fight again; everything before was just an act!

The Bone Hunter once again considered retreating, but a certain intuition in his mind reminded him...

—Kill him quickly!

Two conflicting thoughts clashed fiercely in the skeleton hunter's mind. Given Sky's death, it could not follow its proud intuition this time, and had too many concerns.

This continued for more than half a minute, and then a change occurred.

Starting from the head of the mountain unicorn, its skin began to stiffen, and its scales became dull and lifeless, resembling parched and cracked earth that had been exposed to the scorching sun for months, turning it into a withered and emaciated creature. This change continued to spread throughout the mountain unicorn's entire body, transforming it into a sculpture.

The blazing red light in the Skeleton Hunter's eyes dyed everything before it red, including the enormous sculpture, which was also tinged with an ominous red glow.

"This, this is...?"

Everyone stared in disbelief, and some even shed tears, their bodies hunching over.

At this moment, something that had been supporting them all along collapsed in their hearts.

"Really... dead?" Mu Mu stared in disbelief at the scene, but she felt that things were not so simple.

She had clearly witnessed the scene of Death testing the mountain unicorn; the shockwave had vanished before it, causing no harm whatsoever.

She had witnessed this scene once before, during the Yongjing Campaign, when Yan Shan fought against death.

At that time, Yan Shan was a Qilin, a true pure-blooded Qilin.

So now?

click-

A cracking sound rang out, and a crack appeared on the mountain qilin's head, revealing a person inside a lump of crystalline 'amber,' motionless.

boom--!

The amber exploded, a massive blast erupted, and the person inside emerged.

This was a young man in his early twenties, his body glowing brilliantly. He was far too powerful, burning like a god, illuminating the clouds for miles around. The golden light emanating from beneath his skin made the skeleton hunter feel an urge to bow down.

His momentum is rising, climbing, and sublimating!

Even an ordinary person could see that this young man seemed to be breaking through a certain barrier and entering a realm that they dared not even imagine!

"Squeak—" The skeleton hunter belatedly realized what was happening and launched its most powerful attack with all its might!

This guy isn't dead! He's about to officially break through to the Soul Heaven realm!

114. This is... the King!

Yan Shan had calculated everything perfectly, making good use of the fear he had instilled in them before, and successfully bought himself time!

However, this also carries a sense of desperate gamble.

He poured all his energy, vitality, and everything else into the battle against the heavens, which allowed him to gain the upper hand in the encirclement of two veteran sequence-level beings and successfully kill one of them.

After killing Tianqiong, he truly had no energy left to fight.

If the original Skeleton Hunter had been willing to finish him off with a single blow, he would have been finished instantly, his body cut in half.

But the Bone Hunter was afraid. Yes, how could he not be afraid when an existence no weaker than himself was being beheaded and shattered right before his eyes?

If Yan Shan had still had the strength to fight back then, the Skeleton Hunter would still have pounced on him fiercely, determined to fight to the death.

But at that time, Yan Shan was in a state of near death, which made the skeleton hunters dare not make any moves.

Because it was worried that it would be taken down by the mountain qilin's dying counterattack. Since it was going to die anyway, why take the risk of finishing it off?

This gave Yan Shan an opportunity, and he gambled and succeeded, achieving his goal of going all in.

He bought himself precious time to accumulate the last bit of energy within him, igniting a prairie fire.

The earth trembled, the sky spun, as if the world was ending, and Yanshan was transcending to a higher level.

A milky-white shockwave swept in, splitting the air in two, and even Yanshan in front of it was to become its target, to be annihilated.

However, just like before, it disintegrated on its own even before it got close, and the white cloud of gas in the air seemed to be mocking how ridiculous the skeleton hunter's counterattack was.

Since ranged attacks don't work, let's go for melee!

The Skeleton Hunter raised its bone blade and charged forward, but then a silver line streaked across the sky and blocked its way. It crashed into it, but when the silver line broke, it found itself in a starry sky.

The Milky Way rotated, and the celestial bodies that appeared to be scattered like stars were actually in fixed positions. The Bone Hunter felt as if he was being pressed down by a giant hand.

It shrieked and shook its body violently, causing the celestial body beneath its feet to crumble under its force. But in an instant, the 'hand' pressing down on it tightened its grip.

"Hmm! Let me see... whether you're strong enough to break through... or I... am more durable."

With a pale face, Mu Mu picked up a water bottle made of a special container from her waist. It was filled with a transparent liquid that glowed.

She took a big gulp, and as the kettle separated from her cherry-like lips, a few strands of silvery liquid remained connected, suggesting that it contained not pure water, but a liquid similar to saliva.

"Hmm... Ha!" Mu Mu wiped her mouth. "Indeed, the original flavor is the most effective compared to brewing tea."

#Xiaoze, far away, is trembling#

Seconds later, Mu Mu's pale and weak face turned as red as if it were on fire, feeling like her body was about to burst, and she needed another outlet to release the heat inside her body.

She pushed her powers to the limit, fixing a star map in front of her firmly in place. The impact that made her whole body ache kept coming from it, and the overflowing energy would disappear in seconds. Several times it almost broke out, but each time, she would take another sip of the liquid in the bottle to replenish her energy and continue to carry out her mission of suppressing the skeleton hunters.

On the other side, Yan Shan floated in mid-air, sacred and invincible, his aura dominating the six directions and eight wastelands, his eyes closed, undergoing his final sublimation.

There was a live volcano inside him, constantly trying to extinguish it, but the effect was the opposite, lifting him to even greater heights.

--alienation.

He used what was considered a calamity as fuel and a stepping stone, seizing its essence to transcend the world.

The situation had initially spiraled out of his control and was almost completely swallowed up by him, but he managed to suppress it by leveraging the momentum from his life-or-death struggle with the two Sequence-level beings.

"Huh? What's that?" Someone saw something in the sky.

He covered his eyes with his palms and looked through his fingers. It was directly facing the sun, and the glaring sunlight made him squint.

It was a tiny black dot, the size of a grain of rice. At first glance, he thought he was seeing things, but after blinking slightly, he realized he wasn't mistaken. And the dot was getting bigger and bigger...

boom--

The heavens and earth shook, ushering in a great catastrophe. The boundless earth began to sink and bulge, and a section of the city wall swayed up and down as a result, eventually collapsing and creating a large gap.

The force of the impact knocked Mu Mu off balance, and the Milky Way Realm shattered for the third time, from which the Skeleton Hunters emerged.