But she also felt that she could easily dodge this attack if she simply fled.

She should have made a decision instantly.

But as the two thoughts battled in her mind, her thoughts went blank for a fraction of a second.

By the time she came to her senses...

She was completely defenseless as the Holy Spear plunged directly into her slender abdomen!

Lu Cang drove it in with savage force!

The entire Holy Spear began to disintegrate the instant it made contact with Aertemi!

Even a Holy Spear sealed with a hundred layers of Restrictions couldn’t make direct contact with Aertemi without disintegrating!

His heart bled.

This Holy Spear was a Weapon Lu Cang desperately wanted.

’If only I could have kept it...’

BOOM!

A pure beam of light shot out, following the Holy Spear!

It blasted forth!

Piercing through!

BANG!

Aertemi, who normally couldn’t be harmed by any ordinary Combat Skill, was instantly dissolved into ashes by this searing, pure light!

With a hundred billion souls!

Her body was obliterated!

It was another blow powered by a hundred billion souls.

Combined with the Holy Artifact from the Dark Church, he had found an opportunity to grievously wound her again.

The Holy Spear in Lu Cang’s hands disintegrated along with it—

"You... how long will you continue to struggle?"

Aertemi’s voice echoed faintly by his ear. Lu Cang turned his head to look back.

He saw Aertemi, now extremely close to him.

But...

Date of Death: 10 years, 6 months, 22 days

’It seems that attack was remarkably effective...’

It was just that one moment she was killed, and the next she appeared before him, completely unscathed.

If he couldn’t see her Date of Death, the sheer contrast would have probably left him with nothing but despair.

The darkness had now been broken, and the light had dissipated.

’Looks like I just need one or two more effective attacks to bring her Date of Death to zero.’

In an instant, Lu Cang teleported far away—but Aertemi’s face still appeared right in front of him.

"I’ve seen everything now."

"Those... Root Magic spells you’ve left everywhere."

"Just how many Root Magic spells have you mastered? To even have one from the Space Element."

"You clearly haven’t caused me any harm."

"So why do I still feel a sense of danger?"

Aertemi’s voice gradually grew colder.

"Speaking of which, the way my fingers died so bizarrely earlier... you’ve also mastered an ability from the Destiny Element, haven’t you."

She didn’t know that her Date of Death was approaching.

From her perspective, she should still be Immortal and Undying, capable of infinite Rebirth.

But she could smell... a crisis.

An extremely unique premonition, one concerning life and death.

"Skin and flesh."

SWISH!

SWISH SWISH SWISH—

Lu Cang switched positions again, simultaneously using Gap Flash to retreat at extreme speed!

"Blood and bone."

Countless spells erupted in front of him!

BOOM!

Thunder, storm, Flame, Light—

The multicolored Elements grazed past Aertemi’s body, but they failed to cause any real damage.

But then, his Future Technique projected the Reflection of the Past.

An illusory Holy Spear was conjured!

"All things have their outer shell."

Her eyes held a bewitching glint as she maintained a constant distance from Lu Cang.

SWISH!

She thrust out her hand and waved it fiercely!

The illusory Holy Spears that had been conjured instantly crumbled and disintegrated!

The two locked eyes. Aertemi continued to chant, murmuring incantations.

"And the crimson fruit within awaits its plucking."

This scene made the situation all the more terrifying.

Suddenly, his Final Sense delivered an unparalleled premonition of danger!

As the final line of the chant was completed, Aertemi, still at that constant distance, reached out her hand—

’I can’t dodge this!’

A bit of cold flowed from Lu Cang’s hand!

He had not yet used the Holy Artifact from the Cold Church; Lu Cang did indeed have one more ace up his sleeve.

’No—’

’I can’t use it!’

’It would freeze us both indiscriminately, and she would surely break free first.’

In that single instant.

In that seemingly frozen moment, a thousand storms raged through Lu Cang’s mind!

He activated Source Body·Gap Flash.

BANG!

Several beams of light burst from within Lu Cang’s body!

And at that very same moment!

WHOOSH—

Just as she extended her hand!

Lu Cang’s entire skin, flesh, and bones dissolved like scattering dust!

He disintegrated in an instant.

Aertemi stared at the disintegrating body before her.

Then she looked toward the four beams of light that had shot out!

The heart.

The brain.

The kidney.

The liver.

This man had just launched his own four organs in four different directions.

And what was left in his original spot was just an empty shell.

’Shedding skin to survive? That’s a trick I got tired of ages ago.’

’But, with only a few organs left...’

’Can you still resist?’

Aertemi teleported in a single step, about to retrieve all the defenseless organs and capture Lu Cang alive. However, in the next instant—

Aertemi’s pupils contracted!

She saw flesh and blood grow wildly around Lu Cang’s brain. His entire skeleton regenerated in a moment, and in the blink of an eye, he had reformed into a complete human shape!

’What kind of Recovery Power is this?’

Warrior Mastery—Rapid Recovery (Exclusive): Recover from any injuries at an extremely fast speed. The heavier the injury, the faster the recovery.

’This injury is heavy enough, right!’

The ten-thousand-fold recovery speed of the Ten Thousand Battles Absolute Body!

Plus the powerful effects of the Recovery Potions still lingering in his body.

Even if only his brain remained.

It only took a fleeting moment to complete his Rebirth!

Lu Cang’s body flew backward through the air.

’Finally, the cooldown for Forgetfulness Void is up again.’

From the moment he met and started fighting Aertemi...

Until now, not even a full minute had passed.

The cooldown for Forgetfulness Void is only a short five seconds.

But in reality, Lu Cang had been constantly switching Restrictions, repositioning, and counter-attacking—

Up until now, he had only managed to use Forgetfulness Void a mere eight times.

And she had still managed to catch him during several openings.

Several times, he had almost been hit.

Lu Cang remembered that when he first saw those grunts, their Date of Death was 30 minutes.

In other words...

Reinforcements would only possibly arrive after those 30 minutes were up.