The villain, caught in a chaotic situation, only wants to boost his popularity.

—"The second form is coming!"—

Xue Li felt the touch of Mu Jing's fingertips tracing across her palm.

Her gaze suddenly sharpened like an ice shard, instantly switching from a slight daze to a fighting stance.

The air above the battlefield seemed to be ignited, and thick red mist surged up from the ground.

The black aura surrounding the demon began to boil, and red runes, like red-hot branding irons, flickered at the corners of its eyes.

As the demon floated into the air, the light from the runes was so bright it was blinding.

The next second, three blood-red afterimages exploded from the crimson mist—

The demon's split clones wielded giant scythes.

The red light flowing along the blade twisted like a living thing, rushing towards Mu Jing and Xue Li with a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air.

Mu Jing reacted almost the instant his clone appeared.

He wrapped his left arm around Xue Li's waist, and with his right fingertips he gently circled the first joint of her thumb, the coolness of his fingertips carrying a clear instruction:

—Ten meters to the right rear—

Xue Li's pupils contracted sharply. Without the slightest hesitation, her body was forced back to the left by Mu Jing's force.

The three clones missed their target.

However, it did not stop, but left a distorted red afterimage in place before shooting into the sky like an arrow.

"【Ice Lotus Flower • Frost Thorns】!"

Xue Li's voice was as cold and clear as cracking ice.

As she chanted, a pale blue halo suddenly appeared directly below her three clones.

Within the aperture, thousands of ice hairs shot out like a torrential rain.

Each one gleamed with a chilling light, precisely piercing the clone in mid-air.

The sound of ice crystals piercing the air was as dense as the buzzing of bees.

Almost simultaneously, Mu Jing, carrying Xue Li, was forced back dozens of meters again.

The clone in the air suddenly hurled its scythes, and the three scythes, glowing with crimson light, drew three deadly arcs in the air.

The target was the location where Mu Jing and Xue Li had retreated!

As soon as the two figures left, the scythe crashed down on the spot where they had been standing.

The ground was instantly smashed open with three bottomless cracks, and rubble flew like arrows.

But Mu Jing's gaze grew even more serious—he knew this was not the end.

Sure enough, the moment the clone in the air was struck by the ice hair, its body suddenly twisted and swelled.

When it expands to a giant silhouette five meters in size.

The three clones exploded simultaneously, bursting out with blinding red light.

Three rotating red holes were left at the center of the explosion.

The scythes that were thrown out did not disappear; they exploded along with the clones.

The intense red light almost engulfed the entire battlefield, turning even the field of vision crimson.

In just a few seconds, a crater tens of meters deep was created at the center of the explosion.

Suddenly, he pressed Xue Li's head down, and the two of them bent over at the same time.

Almost simultaneously, a red scythe suddenly appeared at neck height.

The red light on the blade grazed Xue Li's hair, and the resulting gust of wind made her white hair disheveled, and you could even smell the burnt smell of the high temperature emanating from her hair.

This is the devil's ultimate move—the clones high in the sky are just a decoy; the real fatal blow is hidden in this seemingly empty air.

The sickle missed its target and immediately slammed into the ground, creating a shallow, fan-shaped crater with a loud "boom," sending shards of rock flying like arrows.

Mu Jing had already carried Xue Li towards the deep pit, which was tens of meters deep, and jumped down.

Just then, Xue Li received a new command from Mu Jing.

She couldn't help but exclaim, "What?"

—This time, the instruction was to have her use a secret spell on the two of them?

But seeing the determination in Mu Jing's eyes, she didn't hesitate at all and immediately recited the secret incantation: "[Freeze a Thousand Miles]!"

In an instant, ice crystal rings spread out beneath their feet, climbing upwards as if they were alive.

It quickly covered their calves, chests, arms...

The chilling aura of the ice crystals caused the surrounding red mist to condense into frost, and even breathing produced white vapor.

Before the ice crystals spread to her chin, Xue Li recited the secret incantation again:

"【Ice Lotus • Frost Thorns】——"

Six pale blue halos appeared ten meters above her head.

Within the aperture, hundreds of ice hairs, as fine as needles, gleamed with a chilling light, as if they could freeze even the air.

Just then, a red figure appeared above them, wielding a giant scythe and charging towards them.

The red light on the sickle almost engulfed the two of them.

But it didn't notice that it was facing six pale blue halos.

The next moment, thousands of ice blades rained down from within the aura, precisely piercing the red figure's armor.

"Ziqiang——!"

The sound of ice shards striking armor was sharp, like fingernails scraping titanium plates, sending chills down one's spine.

Each impact sends out tiny sparks.

The red figure's armor was instantly covered with countless ice spikes.

"Thud thud thud thud!!" The red figure, pierced by the ice blades, let out a demonic roar, its body suddenly twisting and swelling.

Black energy surged from its seven orifices, coiling around its body like venomous snakes.

Then, its body exploded with a deafening roar, and the shockwave spread downwards.

Inside the ice amber below, Mu Jing and Xue Li were tightly embracing, the icy outer shell separating them from the explosion.

The black energy and the cold energy corroded each other.

It made a "crack! cluck cluck... snap!" sound, like thousands of glass marbles rolling on a tin roof, jarring and eerie.

Tiny cracks even appeared on the ice crystal shell, but they quickly healed under the repair of the cold air.

Eventually, the black mist dissipated, revealing a huge crater on the battlefield.

Black mist and ice crystals still lingered at the bottom of the pit.

Beneath the deep pit, Mu Jing and Xue Li were embracing.

—It's over, are you okay?—

Xue Li felt the words Mu Jing was writing on her palm.

She exhaled a puff of white breath, traced words in his palm with one hand, and patted his hair with the other.

—You've become Santa Claus!—

Mu Jing smiled, shook his body, and ice shards fell down, making him look even more like Santa Claus.

—Ms. Xue Li looks even more like the Snow Queen of the Arctic!—

Xue Li laughed, but quickly frowned and forcefully ran her fingertips across his palm.

—What did you call me?!—

—Li'er—

Although Mu Jing tacitly acknowledged in his heart that Xue Li was an "unromanceable character".

But after Xuehua's previous "tutoring" and the way Huanmeng addressed him, he instantly realized that it was time to change the way he addressed her.

Xue Li did not show the tenderness he expected; instead, a dangerous glint flashed in her eyes.

—You're so smooth-talking! How come you're so good at it?—

Mu Jing did not respond immediately, but instead tightened his arms and pulled her into his embrace.

He traced his fingertips along her neck and began to write, stroke by stroke.

Meanwhile, in the [Real-world Bullet Comment Section]:

"Miss Xuehua, I'm reporting them! They're flirting!!! It's clearly flirting!"

"Big brother/sister, we're still in the fighting phase. Can't we talk about love after we're done fighting?"

"Looking at them now, who remembers when they first met, they fought like enemies!"

"The prison mirror directly turned an unromanceable character into a little girl!"

"Master Jing, please teach your apprentice a few moves!"

"Bro, let's give up! It's too reliant on character modeling and skill!"

"Brother, I'll teach you. Just let Mu play through the original work a hundred times from beginning to end, and you'll be fine!"

"Guys, this trick works like crazy! I've become a master at playing visual novels! Now, whenever I run into someone, my mind automatically conjures up three possible scenarios!"

"A master!"

"An absolute master!"

"Guys, stop talking, they're fighting again!"

Just then, another unexpected event occurred on the battlefield.

—The final test, the third stage, is coming!—

—It's okay, I believe in you!—

At the bottom of the crater that had just been blasted, the ground began to shake violently, as if some enormous creature was about to burst out of the earth.

A giant pupil totem with a diameter of 10 meters slowly emerged.

At the very center of the totem, a figure covered in black armor is slowly rising.

The patterns on the armor flowed with black energy like twisted blood vessels, exuding a suffocating aura of danger.

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