Chapter 51 He's a Goner

Hearing this, even though the situation was terrible, Tail couldn't help but smile.

After spending these days together, she had come to understand Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu a little.

Although Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu was inhumanly calm most of the time, it didn't mean she was heartless; she just didn't care about many things.

Checking the 'corpse' in her arms, still with no reaction, Tail felt a little worried.

"By the way, Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu, could you beat that woman from earlier?"

[That You Long? If I were at my peak, I could fight her.]

The implication, of course, was that she couldn't beat her now.

After all, how much strength Qi-Ba-Jiu could exert depended on Tail's endurance, not simply Qi-Ba-Jiu's upper limit.

"I'm hindering you, Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu..."

[If you feel sorry for me, leave Jing City as soon as possible, heal your injuries, and strive to cultivate to the Rain Realm, so that I can perfectly descend into your body.]

"...Sorry, I can't leave yet, at least not until Ye Ge wakes up."

No one knew that Fang Yue was still alive. Before Fang Yue truly logged in, she had to protect Fang Yue's body!

Suddenly, Tail seemed to sense something, quickly hugged Fang Yue tightly, and held her breath.

The contact between bodies made Tail's cheeks flush slightly, and her heart stirred, but soon, the thumping sound from the bridge suppressed all her thoughts.

The presence on the bridge didn't seem to notice Tail; it was just passing by. Judging from the sound, it was leaving in a hurry, as if to avoid the rain.

Once the sound faded away, Tail breathed a sigh of relief and wondered, "Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu, do you think that You Long can beat those Uyu royal family youkai?"

[The other three are fine, but one of the Uyu royal family... that guy's strength might even exceed my peak strength...]

"Even the peak Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu isn't a match?! Then isn't that... Demon-level youkai?!"

[You think too highly of me. I might seem unfathomable to you, but in reality, I'm just within the Rain-level range.]

[The Rain-level is a very special realm. From beginning to end, there's only the one Rain Realm. There are no distinctions like initial-stage or mid-stage, so the gap between the upper and lower limits is extremely large. If you really have to divide it, then perhaps there are only two levels: Rain-level and Peak Rain-level.]

[Back then, I often thought I had reached the peak of the Rain-level, cultivated to the extreme of my strength, and possessed invincible power. I was just one step away, just short of the final spirit root, to reach the unfathomable realm of immortals. However, reality told me that I was still far from being truly invincible.]

[Because... there are too many monsters stuck in this realm. In order to overcome the shackles of the spirit root, these old monsters stuck in the Rain-level have researched many, many unconventional methods, infinitely raising the upper limit of the Peak Rain-level realm. In a sense, reaching the Peak Rain-level is just the starting point for the strength of this realm.]

[If you define a regular Peak Rain-level expert as 1, then the strength of those old monsters who study unconventional methods might be 10, 100, or even an absurd difference like 1000 or 10000! The difference in strength within this range even made me wonder several times if there was any need to break through to the immortal realm, or if those monsters might have researched a completely new cultivation system that was not at all inferior to the path of immortals.]

[But in fact, I was wrong. Immortals are, after all, immortals, a transformation that comes from the orthodox path of cultivation! Breaking through that realm will change the entire world, and it's not comparable to anything at the Peak Rain-level.]

[So, Peak Rain-level is a very vague, special realm where both the upper and lower limits are ridiculously large, and it's almost impossible to determine the difference in strength without actually fighting.]

[As for the Uyu royal family youkai we saw earlier, when I was controlling your body to escape, I only took a distant glance, so I can roughly confirm that it's also at the Peak Rain-level strength, and... it should be much stronger than me! But it's definitely still within the Peak Rain-level realm; it certainly hasn't reached the legendary Demon-level realm. I'm very sure of that.]

Qi-Ba-Jiu recalled the Uyu clan's First Prince. From the first moment she saw that guy, Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu felt uneasy.

That First Prince exuded an ominous aura from head to toe, and even she couldn't see through his strength!

However, it was indeed still within the Rain-level range; there was no doubt about that.

"Peak Rain-level... is just the starting point?"

Tail's mouth widened slightly. This was the first time she had heard Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu mention anything about the division of Rain-level strength realms.

She had always thought that reaching the Rain-level meant reaching the peak.

Now it seemed that the water within just the Rain-level realm alone was so deep that she couldn't even fathom it.

[Don't think too much. If you reach the Rain-level realm, my descent will no longer be a burden to you, and I'll be able to directly unleash my full strength from my prime. If you can reach the conventional Peak Rain-level, I can unleash strength beyond my former peak! With your power combined, you might really have a chance to approach the combat power of the Immortal realm!]

"My power?"

[Yes, your Void Spirit Root. Your constitution is very special. Someday you'll understand...] kan shu la

When Lord Qi-Ba-Jiu said this, her tone suddenly paused.

[He seems... completely hopeless.]

What?

Tail was stunned, then suddenly realized something, looked down, and her eyes widened. Her body trembled unnaturally due to the emotional fluctuations.

Because the corpse in her arms was once again turning into paper!

And this time, the paper transformation was swift and unstoppable, but after a while, it reversed like rewinding time, returning to normal.

Then, Tail saw that in the friend list, Fang Yue's avatar was completely displaying the gray and white state representing death.

At the same time, she felt a cold aura surrounding her.

[Lifespan exhausted, yin servants appear.]

[Although I don't know what method Night Dawn used to maintain the integrity of the corpse, there's no doubt that he exhausted his lifespan and is completely hopeless. Tail, stay away from him. If you provoke the yin servants, even I won't be able to protect you.]

"No... No!!"

Memories of meeting Fang Yue flashed through Tail's mind. Her eyes turned red, and she suddenly hugged Fang Yue's corpse tightly, burying her head in Fang Yue's chest, facing the coldness of the corpse directly.

"He won't die... He... He still has to save You Sisi, he still..."

Just as Tail hugged Fang Yue's corpse tightly, she suddenly felt her hands empty. She only heard a bang, and she had actually crushed Fang Yue's chest to pieces.

Those fragments shattered like particles, disintegrated, and dissipated into the air.

Her expression froze, and the tears she had been holding back finally flowed from her eyes. kan shu wu.xia

"How could this happen... How could this happen... I couldn't even protect his corpse..."

As Fang Yue's chest shattered and disintegrated, the other parts of Fang Yue's corpse also disintegrated into particles like dust, rising into the air in a double helix shape, disappearing.

And Tail, just shed tears, repeatedly checking the friend system.

"System prompt: After system inspection, this person cannot be found. Please clean up the friend list in time."

"System prompt: After system inspection, this person cannot be found. Please clean up the friend list in time."

"System prompt: After system inspection, this person cannot be found. Please clean up the friend list in time."

Listening to the system sounds in her ears, Tail, with tear-reddened eyes, finally realized.

Fang Yue was already dead.

Fang Yue's corpse had completely shattered, as if it had never existed in the world.