The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1046: Lightning Viper

Qilin wasn’t surprised when the attack failed. He deactivated his many Talents and put more energy into Phantom. Six other shadow soldiers emerged, while the twelve were still grasping onto Qing Ling’s weapons.

Qing Ling frowned, using Metal once more to try and retrieve the weapons. Qilin kept the weapons in the shadow army’s control with the help of Telekinesis.

His plan was clear: Qing Ling’s battle prowess depended on her weapons, and taking the weapons from her would effectively undermine her strength.

He looked up at Qing Ling. Due to their distance, he couldn’t send the soldiers to fight her, but the range of his control over water elements was much greater.

He lifted his right hand.

The fire hydrants behind him burst. Water shot toward Qing Ling in dozens of streams, quickly freezing into ice spears.

You think that’s enough?!

Qing Ling used the one Butterfly Twin Blade left under her feet as a stepping stone to launch herself to the side, dodging the ice spears. She landed on a building and ran along the wall. Then she leaped toward the other side of the road.

As she jumped between the buildings, eight ice spears chased after her and ended up plunging into the buildings.

She wasn’t simply dodging the attacks. Electric currents crackled out of her right palm like a strange magnetic stone in light form. As she jumped away, she pulled hard with her hand, and metal objects including window grids, AC units, billboards’ metal stands, lamp posts, and street signs flew toward her.

In the blink of an eye, she landed on the opposite building across, and the second before more ice spears rained down on her, she made another powerful leap toward the other side of the road once more, the “magnet” in her right hand pulling the metal objects in range along.

In a matter of seconds, Qing Ling had zigzagged between the buildings and collected all metal objects in her way while dodging the ice spears, approaching Qilin in the middle of the road.

When Qilin realized what Qing Ling was planning, the metal objects following her had already formed an asteroid band, hurtling toward him with her.

Qing Ling launched herself from the Butterfly Twin Blade.

The metal objects transformed and merged into a gargantuan metal viper, injected with ample lightning elements to shroud it in indigo lightning. Like a greedy, terrifying snake in games, it flew along the road and lunged at Qilin with crackling lightning wrecking everything in its way.

Qilin was manipulating several corpse puppets to fight Gao Yang, and thus he couldn’t retrieve too many Talents to defend himself.

Yet he stood where he was calmly.

As he knocked his cane on the ground, the eighteen shadow soldiers immediately cast aside the Black Gold weapons and converged in front of him in a formation.

The lightning viper bit into the eighteen shadow figures. Surging currents drowned the world in white.

Qilin’s body had turned gray-blue at some point, transforming to rubber with plasticine, which was an insulator resistant to lightning.

The eighteen shadow soldiers couldn’t withstand the prowess of the viper. They began to crumble and almost turn into wisps of black smoke. But then Qilin used Telekinesis once more. The shadow soldiers retreated while combining forms to become a giant. It grappled the metal viper’s mawl and fought back as hard as possible.

The giant’s feet crushed the road, staggering back and leaving two deep trenches on the ground.

The shadow giant was beginning to crumble, but the lightning viper was losing its momentum as well, and the lightning elements were dissipating. The loss of magnetic field left the giant snake scattering into a pile of metal.

Qilin retracted his shadow. He wondered at the improvement Qing Ling had shown since the battle at the Qingyang Bridge. He didn’t expect her to show such mastery over the two elemental powers.

The moment of distraction allowed Qing Ling to approach him from the side. She was dashing at him at full speed.

Qilin was surprised. Why would she dare to get close to him again?

He was just about to use Eidos when two Black Gold darts shot at his eyes with a flash. Too late to dodge them, he closed his eyes. The darts glanced off the shadow shielding his eyelids with sputtering sparks.

Meanwhile, Qilin sensed with Mind’s Eye that Qing Ling had gotten close.

She had no weapon, yet she showed no fear. The twelve Black Gold blades scattered everywhere were no longer trapped in the grasp of shadow. They answered their owner’s call and lifted into the air.

With a thrust of her right hand, her Tang Dao was already in her hand, stabbing at Qilin.

Clang! Qilin parried the tip of the blade about to penetrate his throat with a swing of his cane, using Telekinesis at the same time to trap Qing Ling’s Tang Dao.

Having predicted it, Qing Ling let go of her Tang Dao and twisted her body around. Her Xiu Dao was suddenly in her left hand.

The blade sliced at Qilin’s neck. Unable to move his cane in time, Qilin raised his shadow-armored arm instead to block the attack.

The powerful attack scattered the shadow into strands. They followed the movement and grappled Xiu Dao, wrenching it out of Qing Ling’s hold.

Again, Qing Ling had let go of her weapon earlier, twisting around in the air and stepping on the Black Gold darts flying under her feet. With a quick leap, she flipped forward over Qilin’s head, catching two Black Gold blades in the air.

Clang, clang! Upside down, she brought the blades down on Qilin’s shoulders.

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Qilin sank to the ground, feeling his shoulders tense. His shadow armor had been shifting all over his body multiple times to defend him, causing gaps to form.

He used Telekinesis once more.

Clang, clang!

But then Qing Ling let go of her weapons faster again, catching the two other single-edge swords. As she landed, she whirled around to swing at Qilin’s back. This time, the fierce blade auras cut the thin part of the shadow armor open, drawing blood.

Qilin hissed in pain. Instead of taking her weapons and pinning her down with Telekinesis, he opted to activate Six Senses Judge.

The wave of energy deprived Qilin of his vision, and Qing Ling of her vision and hearing.

She was now wielding her Butterfly Twin Blades—both of them. She rushed toward Qilin before the world suddenly became dark and silent.

But it didn’t matter!