After My Rebirth, I Ended Up Happily Ever After with the Saintess - Chapter 100

In the flash of a moment, the area before the altar had become a veritable killing field!

The Shadow Demon Emissary’s venomous chain, transformed from its body, followed like a shadow, striking directly at Ye Li’s lower body from a treacherous angle, its speed leaving only a black blur! Above, Gao Sheng’s enraged downward strike with his dark, gigantic palm carried a destructive, malevolent aura, already pressing the water barrier condensed by Qin Yixuan until it crackled, cracks spreading across its surface!

Attacked from two sides, there was no escaping!

A flicker of madness and resolve crossed Ye Li’s eyes! The Reincarnation Mirror Shard was right before her; she would never give up!

“Senior Sister Qin, trust me!” she cried out in a clear voice. Instead of slowing down, she accelerated to her utmost limit, completely ignoring the chains attacking her feet. Her entire focus and spiritual power were poured into her right hand, reaching for the unstable blue halo caused by the Stone Dragon’s destruction!

This was a gamble! She was placing her back completely in Qin Yixuan’s hands!

Hearing Ye Li’s shout and sensing her unwavering determination, Qin Yixuan’s cold, clear eyes instantly burst with dazzling light! Without the slightest hesitation, she gritted her teeth, and the Nine Heavens Profound Water Scripture circulated frantically within her body at an unprecedented speed. The Azure Sea Bright Moon Pearl unleashed a never-before-seen surge of profound blue divine light!

“Profound Water True Aura, Condense!”

She abandoned a comprehensive defense, condensing the vast majority of her power into a single point. The water barrier instantly contracted, forming an incredibly solid blue ice shield flowing with countless profound runes. She violently thrust it upward to meet Gao Sheng’s dark, gigantic palm!

Boom—!!!

The dark giant palm and the Profound Water Ice Shield collided violently, erupting in an earth-shattering sound! The energy storm spread out like physical ripples, blowing away several cultivators and Ice Crystal Guards who were close to the altar!

Qin Yixuan was struck as if by a heavy hammer. Her delicate body trembled violently, her face instantly turning ghostly pale, and she couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood, staining the front of her robe. But her determined arms held the ice shield steadfastly, refusing to retreat a single step! This earned Ye Li that critically important instant!

Meanwhile, just as Qin Yixuan resisted Gao Sheng, the Shadow Demon Emissary’s chain had already touched Ye Li’s ankle! A chilling, malicious aura instantly invaded, attempting to freeze her spiritual power and tear apart her meridians!

In this split second of crisis!

Ye Li’s left hand, which had been tightly clutching the previous shard with a faint sensation, reached its peak resonance with the main shard in her sea of consciousness! An idea came to her: she no longer tried to resist the chain’s encroachment. Instead, she turned the tables, guiding a wisp of the Reincarnation Mirror’s original power along the chain backward!

Buzz!

The seemingly indestructible, venomous chain, upon contacting the Reincarnation Mirror’s original power, let out a desperate shriek as if ice had met a blazing sun. The black mist quickly dissipated, and cracks appeared on its body!

“What?! Impossible!” The Shadow Demon Emissary let out a shriek of horror. It felt its fundamental demonic energy being purified and consumed!

This instant of delay was enough!

Ye Li’s right hand finally pierced through the now-thin blue halo and grasped the palm-sized, warm and jade-like Reincarnation Mirror Shard, within which flowed a river of stars!

The shard felt cool upon touching, but it instantly resonated with the main body in her sea of consciousness with incredible intensity! A surge of original power, far more immense and pure than any previous time, flooded into her limbs and bones like a breaking dam! Her cultivation level soared frantically at this moment, instantly breaking through to the middle stage of the Spiritual Mansion Realm, and it was still steadily climbing!

What was even more surprising to her was that a more lucid memory fragment poured into her mind—information about more uses of the Reincarnation Mirror, especially… a short-range, small-area “Spatial-Temporal Stasis” ability!

On the other side, Qin Yixuan’s situation was becoming perilous. She was, after all, weaker in cultivation than the forcibly enhanced Gao Sheng. Resisting one blow was already her limit. The cracks on the ice shield were growing, and it was on the verge of shattering!

Gao Sheng’s eyes grew even redder. He roared and raised his palm again, gathering even more terrifying dark energy, vowing to crush Qin Yixuan, along with Ye Li below, into powder!

“Senior Sister Qin!” Ye Li sensed Qin Yixuan’s rapidly weakening aura and panicked! There was no time to fully digest the power she had just gained, but she didn’t hesitate for a moment!

“Come here!” She pulled Qin Yixuan, who was swaying from exhaustion, to her side. The two stood back-to-back. Qin Yixuan’s blood stained Ye Li’s back, and the warm sensation sent a jolt through Ye Li’s heart.

“Hmph! A desperate struggle! Die together!” Gao Sheng and the Shadow Demon Emissary, who had just recovered from the backlash of the Reincarnation Mirror’s power and was filled with shock and fury, launched their strongest attacks simultaneously! An even larger dark giant palm and a black spike condensed from the Shadow Demon’s core power, carrying an aura of absolute destruction, roared toward the two back-to-back girls from above and below!

The shadow of death completely enveloped them!

The battle raging throughout the hall seemed to pause. Everyone was stunned by this scene of inevitable death!

Resident Mu Yun’s eyes were bloodshot. He wanted to rescue them but was tightly held back by his opponent! Leng Ning, Xuan Tianzi, and others were equally anxious but powerless to break through the encirclement!

In this final, hair’s breadth moment between life and death!

Ye Li felt the chill and the faint but steady heartbeat of Qin Yixuan against her back. A surge of unprecedented fury and protectiveness rose from her heart! She could not die! Qin Yixuan could not die either!

“Stasis!”

She recklessly activated the Spatial-Temporal Stasis power she had just comprehended, which was still extremely unstable! Simultaneously, she unreservedly injected the surging original power of the Reincarnation Mirror into it!

With her as the center, the flow of time in the three-zhang radius around her abruptly became incredibly slow! The incoming dark giant palm and black spike seemed to sink into an invisible mire, their speed drastically reduced!

But this stasis was incredibly brief, and the consumption of spiritual and soul power was terrifying! Blood seeped from all seven of Ye Li’s orifices, and her sea of consciousness felt as if it were being torn apart!

Just as the Spatial-Temporal Stasis took effect for this fleeting moment, stimulated by the life-or-death crisis and the strange spatial-temporal power erupting from Ye Li, a divine, sacred origin deep within Qin Yixuan’s body, which had been dormant—the origin of the “Nine Heavens Profound Maiden”—was finally completely activated!

An indescribable, pure, noble, and seemingly transcendent sacred aura, like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years, violently erupted from Qin Yixuan’s body! Her eyes instantly turned a pure azure blue, as if they contained infinite oceans and starry skies! A complex and profound blue divine pattern emerged on her forehead!

“Blasphemy against the divine, you shall be punished!”

A cold, majestic voice that seemed not to belong to this world escaped Qin Yixuan’s lips! The Azure Sea Bright Moon Pearl in her hand erupted with unprecedented light, transforming into a true blue bright moon! The moonlight scattered, purifying all things!

The dark giant palm and black spike, slowed by the Spatial-Temporal Stasis, melted and evaporated rapidly under the illumination of this sacred moonlight, as if meeting their nemesis, making a “hissing” sound!

“Divinity… Divinity! You are…” The Shadow Demon Emissary let out a shriek of extreme terror, as if seeing the most horrifying thing in the world, and immediately turned to flee into the void!

Gao Sheng was also intimidated by the sudden sacred aura. The redness in his eyes receded somewhat, revealing confusion and fear!

“Star Extinction—Universe Frozen!”

Ye Li endured the agonizing pain of her soul being torn apart, seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and fused her newly enhanced cultivation and the power of the Reincarnation Mirror Shard into her self-created strongest sword technique! The Profound Ice Sword transformed into an ice-blue river of stars spanning the heavens and the earth, carrying the supreme intent of freezing time and annihilating stars, sweeping towards the Shadow Demon Emissary and Gao Sheng!

Qin Yixuan (or rather, Qin Yixuan temporarily dominated by the Goddess’s origin) also struck simultaneously. The blue bright moon transformed into countless rays of purifying divine light, showering down!

Sacred Moonlight and Star Extinction River—two fundamentally different yet equally powerful forces—at this moment, merged perfectly due to the life-and-death trust they shared!

Rumble—!!!

An explosion that defies description rang out in the center of the hall! The light swallowed everything!

When the light gradually dissipated, only a wisp of dark smoke and a distant, desperate shriek remained where the Shadow Demon Emissary had been, clearly having paid an enormous price to barely escape. As for Gao Sheng, he was hit head-on by the sword qi and divine light. His entire body was scorched black, his meridians utterly shattered, and he was sent flying like a broken rag doll, smashing heavily against an ice pillar, his fate unknown!

Shi Long and the few disciples from War Maniac Peak had long been scared out of their wits and tried to flee in the chaos, but they were intercepted by the quickly reacting Leng Ning, Xuan Tianzi, and others and were soon subdued.

Silence!

A deadly silence!

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the two girls standing proudly by the altar, supporting each other.

One had blood seeping from her seven orifices and a pale face, but her eyes were still sharp as knives, tightly clutching the blue shard that emitted mysterious fluctuations.

The other, though weakly leaning against her companion, her divine pattern on her forehead slowly receding, and her eyes regaining clarity, the lingering sacred aura commanded awe and prevented anyone from looking directly at her.

Ye Li and Qin Yixuan, standing back-to-back, had unexpectedly joined forces in this desperate situation to repel the Shadow Demon Emissary at the peak of the Spiritual Mansion Realm and the out-of-control Gao Sheng at the late stage of the Spiritual Mansion Realm!

In this moment, their figures were deeply imprinted in the hearts of everyone present.

Ye Li felt the faint yet steady heartbeat coming from her back, and an indescribable emotion welled up in her heart. She turned her head, meeting Qin Yixuan’s gaze, which was looking back at her.

That gaze was filled with the relief of surviving a calamity, gratitude for Ye Li’s trust and decisive action in the critical moment, and a bond forged through the trial of life and death, an unbreakable connection.

No words were needed; everything was understood in silence.

After this battle, their relationship had surpassed that of mere allies, reaching a state of mutual reliance in life and death.

And the acquisition of the Reincarnation Mirror Shard, along with the awakening of the Goddess’s origin within Qin Yixuan, foreshadowed that their destinies would henceforth move towards an even grander and more turbulent direction.