The fire staff took a hit from the golden light, but instead of being damaged, it completely absorbed the golden radiance into its body. The golden light rapidly circulated through the fiery staff before settling at one end, gradually transforming into a sharp spear tip.
At that moment, the fire staff had been fully transformed into a crimson-gold short spear!
The Immortal Path killing move, Zha Jin Yan Yang Qiang, had finally been successfully activated!
"Your time has come." Zhao Lianyun exhaled a turbid breath, her face brimming with excitement. Her right hand gripped the Zha Jin Yan Yang Qiang tightly as she slowly raised it high, aiming at Zhao Pu across from her. In that moment, her spirit soared and her morale was at its peak.
Zhao Pu wore a grave expression, his eyes fixed on the spear in Zhao Lianyun's hand. He praised it genuinely: "That's an impressive spear. Both its temperature and radiance are restrained — once it erupts, the damage will be terrifying. However..."
At this point, his tone suddenly shifted, and a smile of scheming triumph crept across his face.
He continued toward Zhao Lianyun: "Don't you feel something's off about you right now?"
"Huh?" Only then did Zhao Lianyun notice something warm and salty trickling from the corner of her lips.
She reached out with her left hand and wiped gently, only to find it covered in bright red blood!
Without realizing it, she had started bleeding.
"What is this?!" Zhao Lianyun's pupils shrank to needle points, her body shuddering.
"This is my killing move — Blood Runs Dry. Hehehe." Zhao Pu burst into hearty laughter.
"Impossible! You clearly..." Zhao Lianyun started speaking, but suddenly a flood of blood poured uncontrollably from her mouth, staining her white teeth entirely red.
"Haha, you were about to ask how I showed no signs of activating an Immortal Path killing move, weren't you? In truth, I started long ago — I simply used a different method." Zhao Pu smiled.
"Could it be... the rumored technique — Move Disassembly?" Yu Yi Yezi's eyes went wide as he blurted out in shock.
Zhao Pu glanced over at him: "Kid. You're surprisingly well-informed."
Gu Insect Raising, Application, and Refinement — these three domains are all profoundly vast.
In the realm of Gu Insect Refinement, there are various techniques. The same is naturally true for Gu Insect Application.
When it comes to Immortal Path killing moves, there are many extraordinary methods and tricks. For example, the combination moves mastered by the Scorching Heaven Demonic Woman. She could use two or more Flame Dao Immortal-grade killing moves in rapid succession to achieve even greater effects.
Another example is the Move Variations mastered by Fang Yuan. The Ten Thousand Self of Slave Strength and Merged Power inherently unleashes a massive number of Strength Dao illusory clones for combat. But through Move Variation, Fang Yuan gained the Ten Thousand Self First Form: Strength Great Palm Seal. This variation was itself based on the Ten Thousand Self, yet it achieved offensive effects that the original Ten Thousand Self could not.
And the technique Zhao Pu employed was Move Disassembly. If he had directly activated the Blood Dao Immortal-grade killing move Blood Runs Dry, the ever-vigilant Zhao Lianyun would certainly have noticed and disrupted or dodged it beforehand. But Zhao Pu broke the move into several components, using them one by one during the exchange. Once all components were deployed, the full power of Blood Runs Dry was achieved.
The advantages of this approach were obvious. There was no signature visual effect, leaving the opponent to fall into the trap without realizing it. Impossible to guard against!
"Blast it! He was hiding his true strength the entire time — pretending the whole while! On the surface he kept attacking without breaking through my Life-Locking Silver Chain's defense, but in reality he was secretly executing his scheme. And in the end, he succeeded!"
In just a short moment, Zhao Lianyun discovered that not only were her mouth and nose gushing blood nonstop, but her ears had begun to leak blood as well. Her eyes also took on a faint reddish tint, causing her vision to grow increasingly blurry.
Zhao Lianyun's heart pounded wildly. She couldn't help but think of Yu Yi Yezi's appearance.
"I've fallen for his trick after all!"
"If this continues, won't I end up just like Yu Yi Yezi?"
"What a cunning bastard!!"
Her mind in turmoil, Zhao Lianyun hurled the Zha Jin Yan Yang Qiang in her hand toward Zhao Pu.
But Zhao Pu had long been on high alert, extremely wary of the fire spear. The moment Zhao Lianyun's shoulder twitched, he was already moving.
The Zha Jin Yan Yang Qiang had no homing ability, but its speed was tremendous — it shot past Zhao Pu, grazing his shoulder.