The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1198: Sorry

Simultaneously, four Black Gold blades and the Butterfly Twin Blades flew twenty meters toward Gao Xinxin.

One wing vanished from Gao Xinxin’s back, turning into a white band and swirling around her at a high speed, capable of deflecting almost anything.

Thirty seconds later, the Black Gold weapons thrusting toward Gao Xinxin glanced off.

The moment they were deflected, lightning crackled toward Gao Xinxin. Already familiar with the trick, Gao Xinxin was prepared. She continued to manipulate her thread of wings to attack Qing Ling as silver scales emerged on the skin covered by her black dress—Lightning controlled from afar wouldn’t be strong enough to hurt her, the lighting imbued in weapons naturally included.

Qing Ling knew that wouldn’t work. While dodging the cutting threads, she curled her finger.

Elemental Conversion!

The lightning strikes transformed into countless sunflower petals. Although the petals held no offensive power, they were able to obscure Gao Xinxin’s vision with enough numbers and density.

Gao Xinxin frowned. The white band around her vanished and cut the petals around her with hundreds of slashes. The smaller yellow particles scattered, clearing up her sight. She saw a flash of light above and jerked her head up. It was Qing Ling.

She had seized the second-long opening to reach Gao Xinxin from above. Raising her Tang Dao, she brought it down toward Gao Xinxin with radiant lighting flickering at the tip, as if she had summoned it from the night sky.

Gao Xinxin’s lips curled into a faint sneer.

Rumble. The pale lightning overwhelmed Gao Xinxin, the blade aura imbued with electric currents cut a charred ditch into the flower garden.

It missed! Qing Ling realized with a start.

A quick black image flashed toward her at such a speed that she couldn’t get out of the way or raise her Tang Dao to block the attack in time. At that moment, Qing Ling realized that she and Gao Yang had still underestimated Gao Xinxin.

Her speed limit wasn’t the speed of her wings, but herself. When Qing Ling got close to her, Gao Xinxin moved at a greater speed than her wings and easily dodged Qing Ling’s attack, launching herself at Qing Ling.

It was almost as quick as Gao Yang’s Teleportation.

The thoughts flashed through Qing Ling’s mind. To her surprise, pain didn’t come. A figure appeared before her—Gao Yang. He had broken out of Invisibility to teleport to her, taking the hit.

Gao Xinxin’s thin arm pierced through his chest like a dagger. It had meant to carve out Qing Ling’s heart, but to Gao Xinxin’s shock, the deadly move ended up hitting her brother instead. Following the shock was an instinctual jealousy.

Then immediately, she realized her mistake. It was so obvious, yet the realization came belatedly: This must be a double.

How foolish of her to worry about a double.

With absolute apathy, Gao Yang knew that Qing Ling alone wouldn’t be Gao Xinxin’s match, and he knew that Qing Ling would be in danger sooner or later. He had been watching over her and already planned to take a hit for her as part of the plan.

He had taken Gao XInxin’s weakness into consideration—namely himself. It could be Gao Yang and Qing Ling’s only chance.

The real Gao Yang turned into a golden current and whisked Gao Xinin away from Qing Ling and his double.

He tackled her out of the garden and tumbled down the hill, hurtling into a stone statue in the clearing at the foot of the mountain. As they crashed into the ground, they left a thin ditch that stretched more than ten meters long.

Shrouded in Golden Armor, Gao Yang tightened his hands around Gao XInxin’s frail neck to strangle her. Gao Xinxin’s hair ran down messily. Her dress was all crumpled, and her body covered in slick silver scales.

The unexpected move had caught her off guard, but she reacted quickly and focused her energy on armoring herself before summoning her six wings to her.

She had thought that her wings would return to her in a second. Then Gao Yang would be cut into pieces if he didn’t flee.

But that didn’t happen. Gao Yang continued to strangle her and pin her to the ground, and the wings didn’t return to her.

Gao Xinxin frowned in confusion. Then she realized that the clearing was locked in an Absolute Barrier without her noticing. Trapped in a golden square the size of a soccer field, even the six wings of light were kept away.

Under Psychic Armor’s influence, Gao Yang stared down at the death monster wearing the skin of his sister with no emotion on his face. Even his apology sounded disingenuous.

“Sorry, Sister.”

A great pillar of flames rose and expanded, filling the barrier completely in two seconds. The golden cube turned a bright red instantly like a branding iron meant to punish the mother of nature.

Gao Yang had enough flames to fill an Absolute Barrier. He had created one at such a scale because a lack of oxygen would severely decrease the force of his fire even though he could conjure it without any.

The fire burned all the oxygen inside the barrier in seconds, and the flames weakened.

The barrier shattered with a clink. Two figures soared into the night sky with a long burning trail like intertwining fireworks.

Gao Yang never thought that he could kill Envy with Fire alone, but the pain of being burned could deprive her of her mental function for an effective counter.

Under the torment of the overwhelming pain, Gao Xinxin instinctively jumped up while dragging Gao Yang with her. Gao Yang allowed that to happen, deactivating the barrier for their passage.

A slender woman was coming in quick on her blade—Qing Ling. With her body turned slightly to the side, she held the hilt of her Tang Dao with cyan light radiating from her eyes.

She had been charging energy as she approached, injecting most of her energy into her Tang Dao with her gaze tracking her target.

“Gao Yang!”

Still holding onto Gao Xinxin, Gao Yang didn’t even turn around before activating Unreachable—replicated with Evanescent Omnireplication.

Qing Ling drew her Tang Dao. It tore a large ugly cyan gash across the night sky, instantly engulfing Gao Yang and Gao Xinxin.