Chapter 156: Clash of the Titans (Part One)

The explosion's fiery glare illuminated the entire forest.

However, the location of this explosion and fire was not on the ground of the dimensional boundary, but rather nearly five hundred meters high in the sky above it.

Just as those missiles were about to cross into the boundary, they inexplicably detonated prematurely.

The shockwaves and flames were blocked by an invisible barrier. As all the brilliant light dissipated, beneath the purple moon, the banshees and countless vines within the boundary remained completely intact.

High in the air, the six-winged banshee's eyes were blazing crimson, and her six cicada-wing-thin blood wings were still shimmering with an intense purple light.

Her eyes were seductive, and then she turned around once more, casting her gaze toward the little deer.

"This world is truly interesting indeed. Yet the more it is so, the more delightful it becomes. Watching you struggle and resist only to slowly sink into despair is truly something to look forward to. Hahaha~~~."

Suddenly, a voice echoed in Jiyu's mind.

This voice sounded somewhat deranged, almost neurotic in its tone, brimming with arrogance and contempt.

"Pitiful little creature, your disguise is truly laughable. I can sense the aura of divinity upon you."

"You seem somewhat difficult to deal with, but the will of the Purple Moon is not something you can oppose. In your ignorance, do you perhaps still think you can protect your world?"

"Yet even gods are fundamentally incapable of resisting the will of the Purple Moon. You will soon understand what despair truly means."

"Come, offer me your tribe now, and sacrifice their flesh and soul to me. Only thus can you attain true redemption."

The six-winged banshee's voice was filled with a wicked nature and intense greed.

Licking her lips, she looked at the little deer while also gazing at the tens of thousands of deer in the forest who appeared somewhat trembling with fear.

Beside her, those two-winged banshees continuously emitted wicked laughter.

They circled around the six-winged banshee, fluttering up and down while greedily eyeing the herd of deer nearby.

Regarding the intelligence displayed by the banshees and this bewitching voice, Jiyu made no response whatsoever.

He was currently estimating the strength of the banshee before him.

The six-winged banshee was powerful, at least judging by her ability to completely ignore the threat of those short-to-medium-range missiles.

However, the little deer could easily accomplish the same feat.

Moreover, from the banshee's words, Jiyu could also tell that she still held a certain degree of wariness toward the little deer.

Therefore, at this moment, Jiyu actually felt a sense of relief in his heart.

So what if the banshee was powerful? Could she still not breach the boundary?

Furthermore, facing this six-winged banshee, the little deer's instinctive sense did not produce any overwhelming feeling of crisis.

Naturally, Jiyu began to make a certain assessment based on this.

Consequently, Jiyu instead formed the intention to test the waters.

Blue Star was the home turf of both the little deer and the life on Blue Star; Jiyu could not possibly allow the little deer to simply watch these banshees continue to exist here.

If they were to cower and hold back now, sitting idly by as the banshees gathered in ever-greater numbers within the boundary, then when the day of the boundary's expansion finally arrived, it would only make the little deer increasingly passive.

Therefore, weighing various factors, Jiyu's gaze finally hardened.

Offer up the tribe? That would depend on whether you possess the capability to do so.

Jiyu saw no need to exchange idle chatter with the banshee.

Toward such a corrupted, wicked, and greedy creature, the only thing Jiyu needed to do was completely eliminate them.

At this instant, the little deer moved.

It began advancing from the center of the concentric forests toward the boundary where the banshee resided.

Seeing the little deer approach, an even more wicked smile instantly appeared on the banshee's face.

The two were nearly ten kilometers apart, but even so, given their powerful vision and the elevation difference between high and low, both could clearly observe the other's every move.

At this moment, the little deer began to quicken its pace. Simultaneously, as it walked toward the boundary, its body began to expand continuously.

Body length: 10 meters.

Body length: 50 meters.

Body length: 300 meters.

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Shoulder height: 5 meters.

Shoulder height: 30 meters.

Shoulder height: 150 meters.

Ultimately, in less than a dozen seconds, the little deer's size instantly transformed into that of a colossal behemoth.

At this moment, all the trees surrounding the forest were reduced to the scale of mere grass and dwarf shrubs in comparison to the little deer's massive form.

The little deer's body was gigantic, and its outer fur was covered with sparkling patterns resembling colorful blossoms.

With a single step, the ground of the entire forest trembled.

Its massive footprints deeply depressed the forest floor.

The five rings of the forest each contained open spaces filled with lush grass.

Naturally, when the little deer took a step, these patches of grass were trampled into the earth.

However, this phenomenon quickly vanished.

Because once the little deer's elemental transformation unfolded, the weight of its body seemed to vanish entirely.

Its footsteps fell as lightly as a gentle breeze; though it stepped upon the grass on the ground, the very tips of the blades were sufficient to support its immense physical form.

Under the elemental transformation, the little deer's body still appeared normal, showing no transparency and no dispersion of its physical form.

Of course, this was merely a superficial appearance.

In reality, at this moment, the little deer's entire body had already transformed into a certain decomposed elemental state.

The reason it still looked normal was simply because all the particles of its particulate body were tightly clustered together.

This was the outward manifestation of elemental transformation.

It was not dispersed, yet it had already lost the properties of flesh and blood.

The gigantic deer's eyes gazed into the interior of the boundary, where the banshees were already growing restless.

Seeing the little deer suddenly transform from an ordinary living being into such a terrifying behemoth step by step, how could those two-winged banshees not feel terrified?

These two-winged banshees also possessed a modicum of intelligence, much like the little fairies of the past.

In terror, they began to retreat behind the six-winged banshee, while the six-winged banshee herself looked somewhat stunned, a fleeting thought of temporary retreat flashing through her mind.

The full display of the little deer's form made the six-winged banshee feel an extremely intense sense of threat.

Yet her greedy nature prevented this banshee from retreating immediately.

Toward the life of a normal world, she harbored the same greed and yearning possessed by all life in the Purple Moon world.

Even in her strength and supposed intelligence, driven by her greedy and bloodthirsty nature, she chose to stay.

However, lingering in place, this banshee suddenly raised her head within the boundary and let out an extremely piercing shriek.

The shrieking sound transformed into rolling sonic waves that whipped up a fierce gale even in the forest outside the boundary.

Simultaneously, amidst the six-winged banshee's shriek, a miniature purple moon unexpectedly emerged above her head.

This purple moon was about the size of a basin, and its purple radiance appeared incomparably intense.

The illusory purple moon cast its radiance down, bathing the entire body of the six-winged banshee in light.

Thus, under the illumination of this bizarre miniature purple moon, the six-winged banshee's size also began to grow.

Fifteen meters.

Twenty meters.

Fifty meters.

Ultimately, the six-winged banshee's size increased to around fifty meters.

At the same time, behind the six-winged banshee, an extra pair of illusory purple wings suddenly sprouted from among her six wings.

The sudden addition of a pair of purple wings amidst her three pairs of blood wings looked exceedingly bizarre from any angle.

Meanwhile, the instant the banshee's body enlarged, the tiny illusory purple moon hovering above the eight-winged banshee's head began to melt like viscous purple liquid, sliding downward.

When the purple orb had completely melted and flowed like liquid near the front of the banshee, the liquid began to take shape.

In a fraction of a second, it transformed into an illusory giant purple bow.

A purple bow, radiating a strong purple light, as the eight-winged banshee opened her eyes once more.

Within her crimson pupils, even a ring of purple resembling a moon appeared.

She extended her left hand and instantly grasped the giant purple bow.

Simultaneously, as she watched the little deer approach, the newly formed pair of purple wings behind her transformed into beams of light, swiftly appearing before her.

The beams of light materialized into two giant arrows.

Radiating an intense purple glow, they hovered quietly in front of her.

Then, holding the bow in one hand and the arrows in the other, the banshee suddenly soared up into the air once more, fluttering her wings.

In mere seconds, she had flown to the highest reachable altitude within the boundary.

That was a height of nearly fifteen hundred meters.

Looking at the banshee, looking at the bow and arrows in her hands, a feeling of deep palpitations began to rise within the little deer's heart.

Jiyu halted, stopping on the ground less than a kilometer away from the boundary.

Meanwhile, high in the sky, the banshee pointed her bow and arrow directly at the little deer.

Her pupils were filled with bloodlust, devoid of even the intelligent demeanor she had previously projected.

The banshee did not loose the arrow because the little deer had not yet entered the boundary.

And the little deer did not move because Jiyu was worried about the potential harm that bizarre bow and arrow might inflict upon it.

This standoff lasted only a few seconds before a dozen brilliant lights appeared once more high in the sky.

Those lights descended from the dark night, and the banshee seemed truly provoked.

Although the missiles were fast, in the banshee's eyes, they were like crawling tortoises.

With her enhanced dynamic vision, she captured the entire trajectory of the missiles, and precisely because of this, the banshee let out another shriek.

Amidst this shriek, the flesh and blood of over a dozen of the two-winged banshees, who had been panicking anxiously beneath her, suddenly burst apart.

The instant the flesh of the two-winged banshees exploded, it instantly condensed into blood-red giant arrows.

The moment the dozens of missiles in the high altitude entered the boundary zone, these arrows soared straight up to collide with every single missile.

Then, the explosions erupted instantly.

Fire flared for a fraction of a second, but these flames and shockwaves were completely swallowed up by a peculiar phenomenon formed by the blood arrows.

The sensation was akin to the blood arrows creating some kind of ultra-absorbent black hole, devouring every trace of fire and shockwave into nothingness.

This bizarre spectacle genuinely shocked the military personnel observing from Lion, but unlike the Lion military, Jiyu seized the fraction of a second when the six-winged banshee was distracted, and abruptly charged toward the sky.

A terrifying sonic boom erupted from the ground, and in a millisecond, the little deer's body leaped a thousand meters into the air, reaching the front of the six-winged banshee.

The little deer's life-grafting trait was fully unleashed, and at the same time, its massive antlers closed in on the banshee's lower abdomen.