The Last Witch Lord

"Stop her!" Priest Ai Jing knew that under the influence of the Chaos Element, ordinary techniques were completely useless.

Now, they could only stop her physically.

Seeing this, Priest Hao Yang drew his longbow. With no time to charge the shot, he took aim and fired immediately.

However, his target wasn't Xiu Ye, but the Medicine Furnace she was rushing toward.

Since Xiu Ye was too difficult to stop, he would just push her target further away.

Yet, the long arrow formed from Priest Hao Yang's spiritual rhinoceros struck the side of the Medicine Furnace with a sharp clang, failing to move it a single inch.

Meanwhile, Priests Zhan Yan, Wu Hai, and Chu Qi—who had kept their focus on the Medicine Furnace—were closer. They struck out, intending to use martial force to block Xiu Ye's approach.

But the moment Xiu Ye raised her hand, a massive amount of white algal threads bloomed across her body. The instant they brushed against Zhan Yan at the front, the threads burrowed straight into his arm.

Zhan Yan blanched. Without hesitation, he used the Rending Technique to sever his own arm.

Techniques couldn't stop her, and physical contact was impossible. How were they supposed to stop Xiu Ye?

Fortunately, at that moment, Cat Girl finally mobilized her hair, sending it shooting swiftly toward Xiu Ye to form a cage from the outside in.

Xiu Ye, who had been charging forward unopposed, was forcibly stopped by Cat Girl's Chaotic Green Silk Algae.

Cat Girl pushed the power of the Chaotic Green Silk Algae to its absolute limit. Her face flushed bright red, only to rapidly drain to a sickly white.

Xiu Ye was incredibly close to the Medicine Furnace, yet at the very last moment, she couldn't take a single step forward.

Looking back at the priests who had already surrounded her, her previously calm face twisted in anger.

"You all know I'm going to die. I can only survive if I use the Medicine Furnace to reverse-fuse the Chaos Element. Why must you stop me?"

Priest Ai Jing was in the middle of casting a powerful non-contact technique, while the other priests held the perimeter to prevent Priest Xiu Ye from escaping.

Only Priest Qian Que had time to answer.

"The Medicine Furnace created the Mutated Element. If you activate it again, it will likely plunge the Void Province back into chaos, and it might even affect the other major provinces. You are a priest too; you should understand what matters most to the Wizard World."

Xiu Ye struggled desperately to break free from the Cyan Silk Algae clinging to her body. As she continuously strained against it, portions of the algae began to snap.

"I can't care about that anymore! Yun Province, which I once risked my life to protect, was so easily abandoned by all of you. I don't care anymore. I just want to save myself."

With that, Xiu Ye forcefully twisted her body, wrenching one hand free from the Cyan Silk Algae and grabbing at the Medicine Furnace less than half a zhang away.

Cat Girl was dripping with sweat, on the verge of losing control over Xiu Ye.

The Chaos Element on Xiu Ye's body was also resisting the Chaotic Green Silk Algae.

If not for the fact that Xiu Ye had yet to completely reverse-fuse the element, Cat Girl and the Chaotic Green Silk Algae wouldn't have been a match for her at all.

Right now, all she could do was hold on and wait for Priest Ai Jing to complete her large-scale technique.

Just as Cat Girl felt she couldn't hold on any longer, she suddenly saw Priest Ai Jing's eyes widen.

Was it complete?

Immediately after, the motionless white mist surrounding them was suddenly drawn in by an invisible force. It formed into six white crystalline panels that closed in from above, below, and all four sides, threatening to completely imprison Priest Xiu Ye.

The "Heaven and Earth Net" technique heavily relied on mutual generation and restriction, as well as adapting to the environment. Casting it successfully required exceptionally strong mental control and an even more powerful Wizard Embryo Fragment.

Once successfully cast, even white mist that normally could not be controlled would condense into a cage at her command.

Just as Priest Xiu Ye was about to be trapped inside, the Medicine Furnace in front of her suddenly opened its top lid on its own.

The Medicine Furnace was an inanimate object. No one expected it to suddenly open on its own after sitting dormant for decades.

White mist spewed out from the Medicine Furnace.

When that white mist came into contact with the surrounding mist, it devoured it with a corrosive force.

When it touched the crystalline panels created by Priest Ai Jing, it rapidly corroded them into nothingness.

Priest Ai Jing's technique failed. She pressed a hand to her forehead, her complexion terribly pale.

Fortunately, the volume of the white mist was limited. After corroding one crystalline panel, it dissipated and lost its corrosive effect.

Once the white mist escaping the Medicine Furnace dispersed, everyone realized that there was actually another Xiu Ye standing right in the middle of the furnace.

This second Xiu Ye had her eyes tightly shut, standing quietly inside the Medicine Furnace like a living corpse.

Seeing two Xiu Yes, everyone grew anxious. They feared that the Xiu Ye inside the Medicine Furnace would be just as insane as the one outside.

Priest Ai Jing waited for her spiritual rhinoceros to settle, then cast the "Heaven and Earth Net" once again.

At the same time, Priest Qian Que cast the Telepathy Technique, forcefully piercing the mist's blockade to make contact with the Xiu Ye inside the Medicine Furnace.

"The Xiu Ye inside the Medicine Furnace has lost her soul; she's nothing but an empty shell," Priest Qian Que immediately informed everyone.

Hearing this news, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn't that they couldn't handle two Xiu Yes, but rather that they simply didn't want a second frenzied Xiu Ye to appear.

Just as everyone remained on guard, another crisis struck.

The soil beneath the Medicine Furnace and around everyone's feet began to shudder, undulating up and down like rolling waves.

Priest Hao Ze looked down and noticed that the mud beneath their feet was bulging upward, rapidly taking the shape of mud monsters.

"Watch your feet! Monsters are attacking!"

His voice alerted the several priests who had been completely focused on besieging Xiu Ye.

"These mud monsters are truly endless," Priest Chu Qi, who was standing on the periphery, shouted angrily. Countless tiny water droplets shot from his hands, instantly shattering several mud monsters that had just reached half a meter in height.

Seeing this, Priest Xiu Ye, who had still been struggling, suddenly froze in place.

She glared fiercely at Priest Chu Qi before sweeping a furious gaze over everyone present.

"You all boast of your greatness, looking down on this mud! But all my avatars were imprisoned. The Myriad Hearts inside my body were stripped away by corrosive vines, and in the end, I was refined into white mist in agonizing pain. The people of Yun Province advanced wave upon wave to save me, only to be ground into a meaty pulp by the Medicine Furnace! And you? You call them monsters at a time like this?"

"You think I'm selfish, but I've already died once for the Wizard World! Why must I continue to sacrifice myself?"

Priest Chu Qi was stunned. He hadn't expected the truth to be so cruel.

Priest Qian Que's eyes dimmed slightly.

Li Ban had once asked them to research this mud. But after learning the truth of the situation, the higher-ups of the three major factions had still decided to conceal it.

Even if they had been the people of Yun Province in life, they were indeed mindless monsters now.

They hadn't announced the truth simply because they didn't want the lower-tier priests to be compromised by sympathy in battle.

Priest Qian Que raised his eyes to look at Xiu Ye. "I'm sorry, Xiu Ye. The dead must make way for the living. Perhaps I don't have the right to judge you, but I will not let your actions endanger the Wizard World."

At that moment, Priest Ai Jing, who had been silently casting her spell this whole time, finally completed the "Heaven and Earth Net" once again, trapping Priest Xiu Ye—who had given up her resistance—inside it.

Priest Qian Que then altered the minor rules of the surrounding environment once more, causing the trapped Priest Xiu Ye to float into the air.

Cat Girl severed the Cyan Silk Algae that had been sealed up along with her and retracted what remained.

Looking at Priest Xiu Ye, who was sealed within the square ice crystal, she thought to herself, 'No wonder we attract a huge horde of mud monsters every time we shatter a crystal. It turns out it's the people of Yun Province, who deeply love and respect Priest Xiu Ye, coming to save her.'

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