Demon Blood, Maiden Vail

Lady Mingyan stood bloodied, broken—but unyielding.

The deck of the spirit boat was cracked and burning, pieces of spiritual wood floating in midair as talismans shattered all around her. The Demonic Sect Ancestor hovered before her, surrounded by crackling black qi and soul fire. His eyes were pits of rot, and his aura pressed down like a mountain soaked in corpses.

"You fight like a madwoman," he hissed, voice echoing like a funeral bell.

Lady Mingyan spat blood onto the burning deck. "Better than dying like a coward."

Her fingers trembled as she pulled a **defensive soul talisman**, activating a golden armor barrier just in time to block a soul flame spear. Then, she lunged forward.

**Close combat began.**

The ancestor struck with venomous claws and spectral whips.

Mingyan countered with soul talismans, spatial flickers, and brute force. Her armor glowed faintly—a **high-grade defensive artifact** with time-warping effects. It slowed down time around her body, making each of the ancestor's attacks just slightly too slow.

He growled. "You think that armor will save you?"

She smiled. "No. But it buys me enough time to tear you apart."

Her palm burned with light as she activated **Time Acceleration**, sending a wave of brutal speed through her limbs. Her punches struck faster than he could block. Her whip lashed out, breaking through multiple layers of his defensive qi.

But the cost was high. Blood poured from her eyes, her soul trembling with strain.

Still, she fought.

Every movement screamed defiance. Every talisman she hurled was imbued with her pain and resolve—**binding talismans**, **soul chains**, **explosive scrolls**, and **piercing wind blades**. She used up everything.

Then, just as the ancestor raised his skeletal scythe to finish her—

He froze.

His feet touched the formation lines.

His mind trembled.

**Illusion.**

Lady Mingyan's voice drifted into his soul.

> "You thought I was fighting recklessly? You were wrong."

She appeared beside him—**not physically**, but as a whisper in his ear—and unleashed the **Mind-Shaking Roar**.

**"LION'S ROAR!"**

A wave of sound exploded directly into his soul. It tore through his mental sea like a beast of thunder. His eyes rolled back. Blood leaked from his ears.

Before he could recover—

**Boom!**

All her remaining **binding and sealing talismans** activated at once—space-locks, soul-cages, and time-freezes.

The ancestor fell.

He was **suspended in midair**, frozen between time and space, unable to move, breathe, or even blink.

Lady Mingyan fell to one knee, panting.

"I'm too injured to activate the sealing formation," she muttered. "But that doesn't matter. Your beast pouch? Already sealed. Your fate? Already decided."

---

Below, Lady An moved like a ghost. Her sword danced through the battlefield, slaying dozens in silence. Every step she took rewrote the terrain with deadly illusion formations. Her spiritual cannons took out the last of the demonic foot soldiers attempting to flee.

Formation that trapped them is from outside. They can go away without paying prices. Or wait for reinforcement.

Lady Baihua and Lady Fengyuan combined their powers in a deadly ballet of spatial compression and temporal distortion. They opened a **time-space tunnel**, bursting through enemy lines and appearing behind the **formation masters** hiding in the back.

"No formation," Lady Fengyuan said coldly, "can protect you from time itself."

The formation masters fell.

The battlefield turned still—but it wasn't over.

From above, two **beast roars** shattered the quiet.

A massive **crimson bird** with blazing wings and a **scaled serpent** as thick as a tree trunk descended from the sky. They ravaged the remaining enemies, burning and crushing everything that moved.

---

Lin Yuan watched as silence finally fell.

Corpses littered the ground.

The enemy's storage rings, beast bags, and soul jades were gathered in one large pile by Lady Baihua.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and stepped forward, collecting the remains of their foes—not for greed, but for justice. **This was survival**.

Lady Mingyan limped toward the pile and knelt before it.

Her eyes glowed darkly as she activated the **Soul Devouring Art**.

"No waste," she said hoarsely. "If I'm bleeding… then their souls will pay for it."

Black light surged. Screams echoed through the spiritual wind.

The souls of the slain enemies were pulled one by one into Lady Mingyan's palm—refined, purified, and sealed. Her body shook, but her expression was serene.

---

Yet even as peace returned, tragedy remained.

A refugee woman cried out—her water had broken.

Lady An rushed to her side, but the damage from the siege was great. The boat's healing rooms were destroyed, the formation chamber fractured, and medical supplies depleted.

It was uncertain if the child would live.many people get injured. While protection people they got stuck under woods. More than hundred people injured by broken woods that flay in the sky. Lady an help them to safety. Lin Yuan give those healing pill to give them only one. Because it's high grade.