Chapter 550: "What Else Do You Have?"
As the cloth on her face fluttered in the wind, the puppet-like followers behind her came to life and spread out in a refined pattern, circling around Noah and Xin Yan, who were the only ones visible to them.
Those who could fly moved behind them, ensuring they did not retreat or run away. Meanwhile, Wei Rui retreated to the back of the formation and started chanting words under her breath, bringing her fore and middle fingers before her mouth.
Seeing the encirclement, Noah chuckled, a dark, mirthless sound. "So many cannon fodders—is this the trap you prepared for me?"
Not responding to Noah's words, Wei Rui continued to mutter as the 'cannon fodders' did not just stand there to make up the numbers and intimidate Noah.
As they raised their swords, pointing them at Noah and his companion, a complex pattern beneath their feet connected each small array to form a larger one.
The array glowed, and a huge dark red energy pulsed through the air above the ship before it manifested into the form of a face.
Noah immediately recognized the form as a dragon head—not the eastern kind, but the kind he saw in his previous world.
Though the dragon head was not very clear or detailed, the power Noah sensed from it was enough to take down someone in the Soul Formation Realm.
'Noah, I feel a deep sense of disgust seeing this beast. What is that?' As Noah observed the dragon head slowly opening its mouth, he heard the familiar voice of the woman beside him in his mind.
'It's probably a reaction from your bloodline towards the dragon,' Noah replied calmly while analyzing everything at a very fast speed before the dragon even opened its mouth.
'That's a dragon?' Noah was even more surprised when he heard the deep sense of disgust in Xin Yan's voice. He wondered if he had failed to remove the influence of the blood that affected her personality.
But soon, he realized that it was not the blood affecting her personality; it was the dragon bloodline showing its disgust toward the imitation of the divine bloodline.
'No, it's merely an imitation—a fake head made from energy, like a technique used to replicate one of a dragon's basic attacks, the Dragon Breath.' As Noah spoke, the dragon's head fully opened, revealing a huge amount of flames gathering inside that even burned the air around it.
Seeing the flames gathering in the head, even though Xin Yan did not feel any heat, she felt an urge to destroy the head, obliterating it before it could even use the attack.
Sensing her emotions, Noah turned to look at Xin Yan and asked, "Do you want to deal with them?"
"Can I?" Xin Yan's heart did not even skip a beat before she asked back. Getting the nod of approval from her dear, she smiled gently before turning her head toward the 'Fake Imitation' in the air.
Her eyes shone with a rare coldness that was only seen by the people she had already killed in her life.
"Roar!!!"
Xin Yan's facial expressions changed as an unintended growl escaped her mouth along with the scowl on her face. The sound reverberated through the air, shaking the very foundation of the ship.
High up in the air, the head was stretched to the limit. The flames gathered within its maw, intensifying, ready to unleash a devastating attack.
The array beneath the cultists glowed ominously, feeding power into the beastly apparition, amplifying its strength with every passing second.
Immediately following the roar from Xin Yan, the temperature in the surroundings dropped at an astonishing rate. The air seemed to have stopped moving as if it had also frozen with the drop in temperature.
The cultists, sensing the change in the surroundings, tried to reinforce the array, pouring more of their spiritual energy into the dragon head. The flames within its mouth surged, growing hotter, ready to unleash their wrath.
But Xin Yan was faster. With a flick of her hand, small amounts of ice crystals infused with ice laws started to condense.
WoooshHH!
Splurttt!!!
At the same time, the ice crystals moved in a controlled manner and stabbed the cultists, except the woman leading them, in their heads, cutting the supply to the array.
One by one, their bodies fell to the ground lifeless, while those in the air fell toward the forest below the ship, suddenly lighting up in flames out of nowhere.
Noah lowered his hand and raised his head toward the dragon head, which showed no signs of disappearing even after it stopped gathering energy.
Swishhhh!!
Instead, it unleashed the unrestrained breath it had been gathering for a while. As if some kind of dam gates had been opened, the flames rushed down in the form of flooding waves with the intention of swallowing them whole.
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Wei Rui, who hadn't stopped her actions all this time, watched everything from the side. Even though she should have felt that victory was within her grasp, she felt something absurd was about to happen.
And it did!
Creaakk!!
The flames that were on their way toward Xin Yan and Noah suddenly slowed down. Not only did they slow down, but they also started to freeze. The air around the flames crystallized into intricate ice patterns. The once intense, blazing heat was now being smothered by an overwhelming cold, emanating from Xin Yan's very presence. Her figure glowed with a subtle blue hue that made the air around her twist unnaturally.
Wei Rui's eyes widened in disbelief as she watched the flames, meant to incinerate her enemies, falter and turn to ice. The ice moved along with the flame and reached the dragon head, freezing it whole.
The dragon head, once menacing and powerful, began to crack, its fiery form struggling against the encroaching frost!
Wei Rui bit her lips behind the mask, her eyes shimmering with determination. The power behind that attack was supposed to be unstoppable, but here it was, being effortlessly countered by this seemingly gentle woman.
Xin Yan's expression remained calm, almost serene, as she raised her hand toward the dragon head. With a single decisive motion, she clenched her fist, and the frozen flames shattered into countless shards, dispersing harmlessly into the wind.
"What else do you have?" she asked, looking down at Wei Rui as her previous gentle smile graced her face.