Chapter Ninety-Six: Three Joys at the Door

But the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast overlooked one crucial thing: how could it unleash Blade Storm within the blue fog without causing the slightest disturbance?

The moment it activated the skill, Qin Chuan noticed the blue poison mist surging violently.

“Blink!”

Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Chuan flashed to the side and fixed his gaze on the center of the storm ahead.

Yet the storm did not seem to move at all.

“Damn, it’s a living target!”

Qin Chuan was overjoyed. He immediately unleashed the first phase of his ultimate skill and began bombing the fixed area.

In the air, orange light flickered as a hundred sword shadows descended from above.

Swish, swish, swish!

Clang, clang, clang!

At this point, Qin Chuan’s ultimate skill dealt seventy-five percent of his full damage, with a sharpness value of roughly 765 or more.

The Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast, however, had only a toughness value of 700-plus, so breaking its defenses was more than enough; it could even deal considerable damage.

After all, even if not every sword shadow landed, a third of them hitting was still quite possible, and three seconds of continuous bombardment was indeed rather satisfying.

“Aahhh! What is going on?!”

Not only did the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast fail to kill Qin Chuan with Blade Storm, it instead came under relentless attack and howled in agony.

In truth, if Blade Storm was used properly and dropped into a dense cluster of targets, it was practically a meat grinder.

The skill could eventually be moved, but unfortunately the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast was nowhere near the required level, so it could only endure the barrage of Falling Sky Strike in silence.

At the same time, the blue poison mist drifting around them began rushing rapidly in one direction.

“What the hell is going on?”

Qin Chuan looked over and only then realized that Sleepyhead had opened his mouth wide and was violently inhaling the blue poison mist, sucking it clean in just a few seconds.

“Wow, this little underling’s tastes are getting more and more extreme!”

Sleepyhead smacked his lips with an unsatisfied look, leaving Zi Zi utterly stunned.

“Damn it, all the poison mist I gathered so painstakingly!”

Once the toxic haze was sucked away, the figure of the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast was finally revealed.

By then, the three-second Blade Storm had come to an end at last.

Its body was riddled with countless tiny sword holes, and blue liquid spilled across the ground.

It was truly a pitiful sight.

And yet, an even greater surprise had already arrived unnoticed.

Whoosh!

Qin Chuan finally found his opening. He launched a Flowing Strike, and in the blink of an eye it slammed into the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast.

Ding! A forty-percent slow has been triggered.

Ding! Freeze triggered. Duration: three seconds.

Qin Chuan’s luck was unbelievable. A single sword strike had inflicted a freeze.

With that hit, Qin Chuan instantly seized the advantage, and it also sealed the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast’s fate in his hands.

Once the forty-percent slow took effect, the beast’s speed immediately dropped to 480-plus. That was simply nowhere near enough to matter before Qin Chuan, let alone with a three-second freeze on top of it.

“Why can’t I move?”

“Agh!”

Qin Chuan followed up with a basic attack, striking so hard that the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast was driven to the brink of collapse.

He executed his usual three-second, eight-sword combo, reducing the beast to a state of near death.

“No, impossible! I’m this strong—how could I possibly lose?”

Panting heavily, the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast stared in disbelief, before that disbelief gave way to terror.

At that moment, it finally tasted what fear truly was.

Although the three-second freeze had ended, the slow remained. Qin Chuan had already returned to his starting point and was now charging back in.

The Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast finally released the last skill in its possession.

“Judgment!”

If the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast had used Judgment before unleashing Blade Storm, the outcome might have been different.

But reality offered no such “ifs.” Its blind confidence had created an irreversible situation.

And so, the beast regretted it bitterly.

After activating Judgment, it immediately turned and retreated, desperately trying to recover its 800-plus speed as quickly as possible.

When Qin Chuan entered a five-meter range, he was struck by Judgment, and all of his skills were instantly sealed.

Although Qin Chuan had anticipated that the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast still had one more skill, he could not predict its exact effect.

“Damn, I didn’t expect this bastard to have such a perverse skill.”

Qin Chuan cursed under his breath and kept pursuing.

He also had to catch the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast before the slow effect wore off.

The effect of Judgment would expire in 1.8 seconds, and those 1.8 seconds became the beast’s last hope of escape.

The slow effect would last for one second. If Qin Chuan could not catch up within that second, then in the remaining 0.8 seconds the beast might very well run dozens of meters away.

And it seemed that half of that second had already passed.

Just as the one-second mark was about to slip by and Qin Chuan was still a little distance away, it seemed the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast might finally escape.

“Haha! I can already feel my speed about to return to normal!”

“This guy is too troublesome. I’d better run for my life.”

The joy of surviving by a hair filled the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast’s core. At that moment it no longer cared whether Qin Chuan lived or died; after all, once life was gone, nothing else mattered.

It saw things very clearly: living was better than anything else.

“Thunder Art!”

Then, with a thunderous crack, a bolt of lightning slammed directly onto the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast’s head, inflicting a paralyzing effect.

The foot it had just stepped forward with froze in place.

“Damn it, how could this happen!”

Qin Chuan was overjoyed at the sight. “Zi Zi, nicely done!”

That was right. Zi Zi had already formed her sword seal long ago, preparing to support Qin Chuan.

Seeing the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast fleeing in panic, she immediately unleashed a single-target Thunder Art.

She wielded that technique with ease, and the strike hit cleanly.

After landing the blow, Zi Zi’s face blossomed into a radiant smile.

This miraculous assist finally made her feel like more than just dead weight.

Every time, Qin Chuan had been the one standing at the front, and she had felt somewhat guilty about it.

Ding! Killed level 28 Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast. Gained 270,000 experience. Because this was a cross-level kill, an additional 100% experience bonus is granted. Congratulations, Host, you have gained 540,000 experience.

Qin Chuan naturally was not going to miss such a golden opportunity. He stepped forward and finished off the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast with a single sword strike, tearing it to pieces.

Ding! Speed Soul Pearl discovered. Can increase speed by 20%.

Ding! Five-Colored Blue Poison Pearl discovered.

Ding! Blue Spirit Liquid discovered. Can render blue poison mist harmless.

The system notifications rang out three times in a row, leaving Qin Chuan dumbfounded.

“Damn, the boss dropped top-tier gear?”

As soon as the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast died, Zi Zi and Sleepyhead rushed over.

Merry with delight, Zi Zi immediately planted a “sweet kiss” on Qin Chuan without hesitation.

Hum.

Once again, Qin Chuan felt that electrifying sensation, and the sword in his hand gave another faint, melodious hum.

At that moment, it could truly be said that three blessings had arrived together: the joy of killing the Five-Colored Blue Spirit Beast, the surprise of top-tier loot dropping, and Zi Zi’s special reward.

What was even more fatal was that Zi Zi had gently hugged him as well.

Still the same...

At this very moment, Qin Chuan felt as if he were about to faint from happiness.