Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

He had two pieces of Supreme Level equipment on him, one for attack and one for defense, both single-use items.

The defensive gear could keep him safe and sound.

The attack equipment delivered a Supreme Level strike, which would probably blast open the entire crystal ore, destroying the mine in the process.

Yang Junming didn't care about whether or not the mine would be destroyed anymore—he just wanted to save his own life.

But to activate the equipment, he had to take it out of his storage ring. Both of his Supreme Level single-use items were kept in the storage ring.

The Kunpeng Pendant hung around his neck, and it could automatically sense if its master was under mortal attack, activating its protection on its own.

Equipment stored in the storage ring didn't have that feature; it had to be triggered manually.

The Grandmaster Realm Elf Squad kept a tight grip on Yang Junming, even stripping him of his clothes and storage ring, leaving him only in his underwear.

"I'm screwed!"

*Yang Junming fell into utter despair.*

After the buff muscle elf seated above made a neck-slitting gesture, ten Grandmaster Realm elf squad members hoisted Yang Junming and carried him to the edge of a Black Water Pond, tossing him in.

"Gibber jabber!" The Grandmaster Realm Elf Captain chanted a spell, and thick black mists rose from within the pond, swirling around Yang Junming.

Yang Junming felt overwhelmingly drowsy, his eyelids falling heavy, the urge to sleep irresistible.

*But if he truly fell asleep, he might never wake up again.*

Just then, a Ten-Star Grandmaster Realm elf rushed in from outside, squeaking urgently to the muscle elf seated above.

*If Xiao Ye had been there, he'd have instantly recognized this elf as the one Cheng Bingxi let escape.*

At the report, the tall and imposing muscle elf's face twisted in anger.

"Chee chee chee chee!"

It pointed at the human Yang Junming in the Black Water Pond; the Ten-Star Grandmaster Elf nodded, eyes brimming with hatred.

*It was as if they were saying: these humans killed fifty or sixty of our little elves, and we've got to avenge them.*

The Venerable Realm muscle elf suddenly leapt up, hopped to the edge of the Black Water Pond, grabbed Yang Junming, and hauled him out, away from the pond and onto a table topped with a guillotine blade.

Freed from the black mist that coiled around the Black Water Pond, Yang Junming quickly became alert.

At first, he was instinctively overjoyed, but when he took in the scene around him, he was dumbfounded.

A guillotine—an execution stage!

The razor-sharp guillotine blade above his head gleamed cold and menacing, massive and heavy as a ton of bricks.

If it came down, he'd surely be decapitated, body and head torn apart.

The Venerable Realm muscle elf shackled his hands and feet in binding spells, clearly about to set the blade loose for a beheading.

At this moment, a circular halo rose from the Ten-Star Grandmaster Elf, floating up and expanding into a round portal about two meters wide.

Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi jumped out from within.

"Brother Xiao, save me!"

Just as Xiao Ye landed, he heard a desperate shout.

The Venerable Realm muscle elf, seeing two humans appear, showed not a trace of surprise or panic, calm as ever as it released the guillotine latch.

BOOM! A single sound.

The guillotine dropped straight down, aiming for a certain neck.

Xiao Ye's brow twitched.

[Five Elements Control][Gold Element Control][Earth Element Control]

He triggered two elemental skills in quick succession.

The guillotine, made of earth and gold elements, was instantly deconstructed. Its hard, razor-sharp effects stripped away, it turned soft and limp.

On the surface, it looked the same, but as it hit Yang Junming's neck—

It didn't cause even a scratch.

The blade even crumpled and warped, totally wrecked.

Xiao Ye went over and deactivated the restraints on his hands and feet. Yang Junming was finally free—he immediately got out his equipment from the storage ring, ready to use at any time.

"Brother Xiao, thank you." he said in deep gratitude.

Xiao Ye nodded, saying, "All these elves are mine. In a bit, you can assist us in killing them."

Yang Junming thumped his chest in agreement, signaling no problem.

The Venerable Realm muscle elf flew into a rage, and the Grandmaster Realm elf squad charged all together, launching an attack.

They activated the Illusion-Reality Conversion skill, entering Phantom State.

Yang Junming threw a punch at a nearby elf, but his fist passed right through thin air, not causing any damage at all.

His face turned grim, "Phantom Spirit Type elves are really hard to kill—not touchable, not even visible. You can only sense their position through energy fluctuations…"

"It's best to use mental attacks to take them out."

"Try not to go head-to-head with them…"

Yang Junming quickly explained, but halfway through, he was left utterly shocked.

He watched as Xiao Ye unleashed [Life and Death Mastery], flooding the phantom bodies of every Grandmaster Realm elf with destruction factors, ravaging and annihilating all structures inside them.

In just a few seconds, over a dozen phantom-state elves collapsed to the ground, battered and barely breathing, forced back to their physical forms.

On the verge of death.

Xiao Ye activated the Template Adjuster's extraction function. Мy Virtuаl Librаry Еmpirе (М|V|LЕ1МРYR) thаnks yоu fоr rеаding аt thе sоurсе.

[Grandmaster Realm Spiritual Illusion Elf, 16 Spirit Illusion Rule Fragment Crystals successfully extracted]

[Grandmaster Realm Spiritual Illusion Elf, 8 Creation Rule Fragment Crystals successfully extracted]

Xiao Ye, confused, asked, "Are they really that hard to kill? I thought it was pretty easy."

Yang Junming: "…"

*As Xiao Ye killed so many Ten-Star Grandmaster Realm elves with just a wave, Yang Junming was left completely stunned.*

*They were both Kunpeng Academy prodigies, but—damn—it was infuriating to compare them. The two simply weren't on the same level.*

*Xiao Ye had already left him in the dust, as far out of reach as the stars.*

Cheng Bingxi was busy too, firing [Life and Death Mastery] at full power.

The elves leaping at them, wave after wave, were all beaten down round by round.

Their prized Illusion-Reality Conversion was a complete joke against Cheng Bingxi, useless and futile.

With the power of Extraction, Xiao Ye kept harvesting Rule Fragments as well.

[Grandmaster Realm Spiritual Illusion Elf, 260 Phantom Spirit Rule Fragment Crystals successfully extracted]

[Grandmaster Realm Spiritual Illusion Elf, 120 Earth Element Rule Fragment Crystals successfully extracted]

[Grandmaster Realm Spiritual Illusion Elf, 40 Creation Rule Fragment Crystals successfully extracted]

*By now, he had a total of 316 Phantom Spirit Rule Fragment Crystals—more than enough, far exceeding what was needed.*

*His demand for Rule Fragments was greatly reduced.*

*Now, Xiao Ye recalled Dean Yunxi's instructions: The Spiritual Illusion Elf King Beast lineage could produce Crystal Essence. He had to catch a few and toss them into the Sacred Spirit Secret Realm.*

The Venerable Realm muscle elf wasn't bothered in the slightest, because he was in the Venerable Realm.

These humans were clearly only in the Grandmaster Realm.

The gap between the Grandmaster Realm and the Venerable Realm was like heaven and earth, worlds apart.

"Roar!"

The muscle elf's body shifted into Phantom State, releasing a Void Realm Domain that instantly engulfed the three of them.

[Void Realm Domain: Able to phase out enemy body parts, making them undetectable and unusable after phasing]

"Ah, my hand!" Yang Junming wailed, as his hand became transparent, losing all sensation—then his feet, then his entire body.

A smirk of arrogance crept across the Venerable Realm muscle elf's face. It glanced at Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi, but when it saw their situation, it was taken aback.

Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi were completely unaffected by the Void Realm Domain.