At this moment, Mo Xi's gaze was like a torch as she carefully scanned the person before her.
The opponent's eyes were blood-red, like two balls of burning blood fire, and his body was surrounded by an intensely suffocating blood energy. That aura carried the violence of someone long accustomed to slaughter, something an ordinary person could never possess.
"Who are you, and why are you looking for Mu Yao!" Yunli demanded sharply, her voice exploding through the curtain of rain.
Blood Butcher ignored her, merely tilting his head and looking at the two people before him thoughtfully. His scarlet gaze wandered back and forth between Yunli's Old Mettle and Mo Xi's ice mist.
"So, neither of you is Mu Yao?" He grinned, revealing his stark white teeth. "Then I'll just kill you both first!"
With that, Blood Butcher suddenly raised his hands, forming gun shapes with his fingers and pointing them at Yunli and Mo Xi.
The next second, two small but condensed blood arrows shot out from his fingertips, as fast as bullets, heading straight for their faces!
This attack was far less swift than the previous one. Mo Xi gripped her frost spring sword and immediately took a defensive stance, surrounded by swirling ice mist.
Yunli's reaction was even faster. She hoisted Old Mettle onto her right shoulder, kicked off the ground, and charged head-on into the attack with crisp, clean movements, without the slightest hesitation.
The blood arrows arrived in an instant. Yunli's eyes narrowed, and she gripped Old Mettle tightly with both hands, swinging her arms with force.
Bang!!!
Amidst the dull sound of impact, the condensed blood arrows were instantly smashed to pieces, turning into a spray of blood mist that splattered everywhere.
Yunli didn't stop for a moment. Taking advantage of the momentum, she gripped the handle of Old Mettle with both hands, her petite body spinning at high speed. Her long hair danced wildly in the wind as she used centrifugal force to throw Old Mettle fiercely at Blood Butcher once again.
Blood Butcher, having been prepared, suddenly lowered his body and dodged to the side the moment Old Mettle came crashing down.
He felt a gust of wind carrying scorching heat brush past his side. The force was so strong that it made his clothes flap violently, and he only narrowly avoided the heavy blow.
Just as Blood Butcher intended to seize the opportunity to counterattack, he clearly underestimated the force of Yunli's throw.
With a loud "boom," Old Mettle crashed heavily onto the ruins. The immense impact caused it to skid dozens of meters across the ground before stopping, sending bricks and stones flying. The powerful force caused the entire ruin to shake violently.
Blood Butcher, standing on the ruins, had not expected this at all. He felt the ground beneath him tremble violently, causing his body to sway involuntarily, and the blood-colored light beam he had originally gathered at his fingertips was deflected.
It was in this fleeting moment of vulnerability that Yunli, moving like lightning, had already closed in on Blood Butcher.
Blood Butcher's reaction was quite rapid. His blood instantly boiled throughout his body, the blood-colored patterns surged, and he swung a heavy punch imbued with violent power.
But Yunli had anticipated this. She tilted her body slightly to avoid the fist, and at the same time, her delicate hand landed on his wrist, precisely striking the pressure point on his elbow joint.
With a soft "click," Blood Butcher's fist instantly lost its strength, and his entire arm hung limply.
Immediately after, Yunli clenched her left fist, the force of the punch cutting through the rain, and struck Blood Butcher's chest with the momentum of thunder.
Thud—
Blood Butcher let out a muffled groan as his body flew backward again. After plowing through the debris of the Ability Bureau for dozens of meters, he was embedded heavily into a broken wall, causing it to crack instantly.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Blood Butcher coughed up a large mouthful of black blood, mixed with fragments of his internal organs, his body trembling uncontrollably from the excruciating pain.
He looked extremely disheveled at this moment. Yunli's seemingly small punch had left a bloody hole in his chest, from which blood continuously gushed out, staining the ruins beneath him red.
Tap—
Before Blood Butcher could recover for even two seconds, Yunli was already approaching him step by step, her pace steady and carrying an unquestionable sense of oppression.
Her fair, delicate feet stepped without hesitation onto the wreckage soaked in rain and blood. Cold, muddy water mixed with dark red blood foam splashed up, staining her ankles, but it did not affect her stride in the slightest.
Blood Butcher narrowed his eyes, deliberately letting his head hang low, the wound on his chest still oozing blood, appearing as if he were unable to fight anymore.
In reality, the blood inside his body was frantically gathering and compressing toward the palms of his hands, and the blood-colored patterns beneath his skin were lighting up silently.
Ten meters. Seven meters. Five meters.
Just as Yunli walked within three meters of him.
He suddenly exploded into action, slamming his hands together with his fingertips pointing toward Yunli. A blood-colored light beam, several times thicker than before, shot out instantly. It was so fast that it left only a dark red afterimage as it flew straight toward Yunli's face!
This move was a high-pressure blood spear formed by the extreme condensation and compression of blood, released in an instant.
It was not only fast to the extreme, but the terrifying power contained within it was also astonishing; even hard copper walls and iron bastions would be easily subjected to Piercing, leaving them with no power to resist.
"If you want to blame someone, blame your own carelessness!"
A flash of cunning crossed Blood Butcher's eyes as he looked at the defenseless Yunli, his voice filled with crazy laughter. "Less than three meters away, and you are defenseless. Just wait to suffer the Piercing!"
Just as Blood Butcher's eyes flashed with malice, thinking he had succeeded, Yunli simply continued forward with a calm expression, her golden eyes quietly watching his death throes.
She immediately raised her slender right arm to her chest and swung it forcefully toward the blood-colored light beam.
The moment the light beam touched her fair forearm, it was nonchalantly deflected, veering off its original trajectory and crashing heavily into the broken wall nearby, blasting up a spray of rubble.
"What!"
The weakened Blood Butcher spat out those two words in disbelief, his scarlet pupils suddenly dilating, his face full of shock.
Yunli had already walked up to him with unhurried steps, looking down at Blood Butcher from above, her golden eyes devoid of any ripples.
Yunli raised her hand and used her fingertips to casually wipe away the bloodstains on her right forearm with the rainwater, her fair skin as smooth and clean as before.
The high-pressure blood spear, capable of Piercing through copper walls and iron bastions, hadn't even been able to penetrate this girl's skin!
Blood Butcher still wanted to mobilize the remaining blood in his body to put up a fight, but he suddenly felt his body go cold, his whole body instantly stiffening, unable to move even a finger.
It turned out that at some point, Mo Xi had thrust her frost spring sword deep into the ground, and frost had spread along the water on the ground, covering Blood Butcher's entire body.
At this moment, he was firmly frozen by the frost, and no matter how much force he exerted, he could not break free from this cold shackle.
Yunli nodded gently toward Mo Xi, then looked down at Blood Butcher and demanded sharply.
"What did you do to Captain Chen and the others from the Ability Bureau!"
"Hmph! That bunch of overconfident trash has long been torn to shreds, dead beyond dead!"
Even now, Blood Butcher showed no fear and continued to spout nonsense: "Just wait! Next time we meet, I will use the same method to cruelly kill you too, and make you like them, turning you into a pile of mud in the ruins!"
At this time, Mo Xi stepped through the accumulated water and walked over. Looking at the frozen Blood Butcher, she smiled disdainfully. "You don't actually think you can break free from my restraints, do you?"
Although she said that, she couldn't help but feel a bit surprised in her heart—the opponent's vitality was truly tenacious.
With such a bloody hole in his chest, where even his internal organs were clearly visible, an ordinary person would have long since collapsed, but he was still able to survive until now, and even launch an attack; it was truly shocking.
However, Blood Butcher did not explain, only staring at the two with cold eyes, as if wanting to deeply engrave their appearances into his mind.
"Merely two little girls, you are only lucky, relying on the help of this rain to luckily beat me! Next time we meet, I will definitely make you pay with blood!"