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"Qing Luan Legitimate Inheritance: Verdant Fall Luminous Shadow Sword."

Her black hair moved without a breeze, and a magnificent jadeite longsword slowly emerged. The glimmering ghostly light it emitted seemed especially fitting for this dark world, casting a faint spectral glow over the entire underground area.

Unlike the secret techniques of the Natural Sequence, this secret art could be utilized with the Withering Sequence (Necromancer Sequence). It was said to have been created by Qing Luan and Zhu Que working together, with its counterpart being Zhu Que Legitimate Inheritance: Yellow Springs Wandering Immortal Sword.

With a gentle flick of the sword edge, it sounded like the tinkling of jade stones, echoing under the underground dome and taking one back to times long past.

The girl holding the jadeite sword then gracefully descended, her attire gradually phasing into a resplendent dress of snow-white sleeves and a red skirt. The strands of her hair fluttered in the wind, before being wound up by red ribbons and tied neatly at the back of her head.

"Who is that!?" Deep within the underground, Haus, who was interrogating several elders, saw the sudden burst of light above the dome and the girl slowly descending.

"Cough, cough..." Next to him and the gang members, the bound and kneeling elders coughed and strained to lift their heads. Seeing the figure descending gracefully, hope glistened in their murky eyes, and they became visibly excited.

"That's the young lady, she, she's back... She's returned after all, not abandoning us." Unlike before, the dress Tilan was phasing into was an exact replica of the one Gu Yongrong wore while performing a sword dance at the ceremony. With her resemblance to her mother, she was like a living image of Gu Yongrong from the past stepping out again.

"What young lady? You bunch of forsaken old men, don't go mad here. Speak up, who is she?" Haus kicked an elder in front of him away before picking up a heavy machine gun beside him and aiming it at the descending figure as he pressed the trigger.

The rapid storm of bullets, augmented with red tracer rounds, fired off. Unfortunately, due to the distance, they couldn't hit the descending figure accurately.

Swinging the jade blade in her hand, Tilan easily deflected the sparse bullets. Holding the sword in one hand and caressing its blade with the other, a glint passed through her eyes. Then, her form became like a phantom as she swiftly flew towards the gang members, her path as straight as if she were sliding.

"Withering Secret Art: Ethereal Ghost Shuttle."

Upon arriving in front of the gang, she encountered their frantic gunfire and turned her body, creating several exact replicas of herself—each one holding a jadeite sword.

"Withering Secret Art: Splitting Shadow."

Although they could not compare with the Elf Secret Arts' Seven Butterfly Transformations, these shadow replicas were still excellent for battle against groups. (In the Seven Parts of Butterfly Transformation, as long as one avatar survives, the original body remains unharmed, but the clones from Splitting Shadow only hold a strand of the original's consciousness and would soon disperse; they cannot substitute for the original to block harm.)

The jade blades were particularly conspicuous in the gloomy depths, and with swift strikes, they knocked down gang member after gang member. They clutched their instantly perforated wounds, curling up in agony on the ground, leaving only the leader Haus remaining.

Compared to the Sequence 2 and Sequence 3 elite gang members around him, he stood out significantly, with a tall and robust stature and possessing almost perfected Sequence 5 strength.

Watching as she gathered her shadow replicas and reappeared before him, he scowled and fired the machine gun again. Yet, the bullets passed through her as if she were but a phantom, landing uselessly behind her.

As a member of the Withering Sequence, upon advancing to Mid-High Rank, one could easily switch between specter and reality. Much like the Dragon Sequence's transformation into a dragon, it was also a distinctive feature of this Transcendent Sequence.

"Damn it!" He cursed and threw aside the gun, then hurriedly pulled out a large pistol from his chest, with what looked like gold inscriptions on it.

"Bang!"

The pistol fired, unleashing a crimson-gold bullet with a blast of air and assailing the standing girl.

Finally, the girl did not use her phasing state to dodge but used the blade in her hand to parry and deflect it.

The crimson-gold bullet struck against the sword edge, sparking golden-red flashes and spewing molten metal. Although deflected, it left black marks on the jade blade, evidently the sword's integrity was significantly damaged.

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"Haha, the enchanted bullets I bought with a heavy price are not easy to block, are they?" Having said that, he fired repeatedly, letting out 5 bullets in just two seconds.

The sword edge deflected them once more, and the girl in the red dress with snow-white sleeves twisted her body to avoid the trajectory of the bullet that flew past her face.

Finally, after blocking these five special enchanted bullets, her Jadeite Sword began to show long cracks, as if about to shatter.

"How are you going to block this time?" he sneered while backing away hastily, then pulled out the magazine at his waist and reloaded his gun.

In response to such a question, the girl just shook her head, let go of her sword blade, and allowed it to break apart on the ground. But just as Haus began to smile, the girl reached out her hand to the side, and a brand-new Jadeite Sword coalesced out of thin air, grasped firmly in her hand.

A pale cyan stream of air rose from the ground and wrapped around the sword in her hand, causing her skirt and hair to flutter. Then she moved, crossing the hundred steps' distance in an instant, driving the Jadeite Sword straight through Haus's shoulder. His right hand, which was holding the gun, went limp as the sword pierced through his body, bringing up trails of blood before being withdrawn and pushed to the side, rolling towards the ground.

If she had not been reluctant to kill, with one slice during the withdrawal of her sword, she could have decapitated her opponent, although that would have made the scene particularly bloody.

Clutching his numb right arm, Haus writhed and howled on the ground, then twisted rapidly, trying to dodge the girl's pursuit, but it took him more than ten seconds to realize that she hadn't followed him. She just stood quietly with her sword, watching him flee.

"You..." he gritted his teeth, a mix of trepidation and a desperate urge to fight back.

A few seconds felt like a century, but eventually, Haus couldn't let go of the secret treasures and everything he had so difficulty unearthed. He pounded his chest and, while the girl was distracted, opened the hidden cylinder and swallowed something that looked like an elixir.
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An opaque stream scattered, spreading a nauseating, disorienting, chaotic, lawless invisible substance that eroded the surroundings like some ancient virus, but not as quickly as expected, as if its viscous nature made it hard to dissolve.

Although this feeling was ominous, the abundant magic power gradually filled Haus's body, causing him to swell and grow taller. However, this enlargement and growth were unnatural, with disproportionate limbs and body parts, giving a twisted sense of discordance.

What had been normal eyes now bulged outwards and turned a grayish hue. The right arm, previously left numb by Tilan's thrust, also turned a purplish hue and became thick and swollen—three times the size of the left. One leg broke under the weight of his expanding body, while the other became extraordinarily robust. Finally, a nine-meter-tall monster appeared before the girl.

Although it seemed stronger, Haus was like a creature without consciousness, merely howling wildly, swinging his arms, and smashing things around him.

"Help."

The old man, who had been tied up to one side, along with some gang members who had lost the ability to fight, scrambled away from Haus. However, a few could not escape in time and were directly seized by him.

Holding these people as if playing with dolls, Haus flung them aside casually before moving towards where there were more people, as if their living souls were attracting the unconscious him.

Facing the approaching giant monster, the remaining people either ran away in terror or became confused and seemed unable to move. Everything in front of them became chaotic, with various hallucinations emerging.

"Is this... Chaos Phantom?" the girl wondered silently, as if seeing something similar to what she had encountered a year before.

Could it be that what Haus had unearthed in the ruins was this kind of thing? However, compared to last time, its corrosiveness and pervasiveness weren't strong; it seemed to be artificially altered.

Moving swiftly, the Jadeite Sword pierced the enemy's head in a flash, but upon entering the eye socket, Haus did not die. Instead, his right hand quickly wrapped around, sweeping towards Tilan.

The girl had no choice but to dodge and abandon her sword. Then the hand grasped the Jadeite Sword, which was like a toothpick to it, pulled it out, and swallowed it. The condensed magic power of the jade was tainted and corroded and then absorbed by him.

A calamity from ancient times, the remnants of ancient human souls, the undying twisted beings, the byproduct of the second destruction of human civilization, this was the Chaos Phantom, an apocalyptic plague that once contaminated the Milky Way.