But he was wrong.
As the light dissipated, Liang Chuyin appeared, floating in the air. Far from being dead as Heaven Bing had hoped, she was completely unharmed, not even injured.
The only evidence of the attack was a massive crater on the ground below her, large enough to be a swimming pool.
“You… this…”
Heaven Bing was so shocked that he had forgotten to flee.
He might have lost confidence in defeating Liang Chuyin, but he still had some faith in the power of his cannon. He thought that even if it didn’t kill her, it would at least injure her, giving him the option to fight or retreat.
But how was this woman completely unscathed?
Heaven Bing couldn’t understand.
“Cooled down, huh?” Liang Chuyin swung her whip, smiling. “Now it’s my turn.”
The crisp sound and the nearly 100-meter-long light trail perfectly captured the aura of this strike.
The six jets on Heaven Bing’s armor spewed out large amounts of gas, propelling his body to move rapidly.
The whip strike missed.
Heaven Bing sighed in relief, thinking that at least this attack was normal.
But the second strike followed immediately.
Crack! Heaven Bing barely dodged, the whip’s shadow grazing his body and leaving a deep mark on the ground.
Before he could catch his breath, the third strike came.
Liang Chuyin floated in the air, lashing out strike after strike while Heaven Bing dodged frantically below. This scene was almost a replay of their earlier situation, but their roles reversed.
Thanks to the movement power provided by his armor, Heaven Bing managed to dodge dozens of attacks by Liang Chuyin. This was nothing short of a miracle, and even he felt lucky.
When Liang Chuyin finally stopped attacking, Heaven Bing even thought this woman wasn’t so impressive. Even with a full set of golden-grade equipment, her evolution level was still too low.
But Liang Chuyin shattered his confidence with another smile.
Around him,一countless lines of light, straight and curved, began to appear. Their thickness… was about the same as Liang Chuyin’s whip.
These were the shadows left by the whip strikes earlier!
“Light and Shadow Prison, hope you like it.” At this moment, Liang Chuyin looked like a little devil with horns.
Heaven Bing didn’t have time to care about Liang Chuyin’s sarcasm. Looking around, he realized there was no space for him to escape. These lines of light had truly formed a prison, trapping him inside.
He decided to act decisively. Knowing he couldn’t just wait for death, and unsure what other weird abilities this woman’s equipment might have, Heaven Bing charged forward, ignoring the lines of light.
Crack! The moment he touched one of the lines, it lashed out, striking and sending him flying.
This flight was disastrous, as it inevitably led to him hitting other lines. A chain reaction began.
Every time he touched a line, he was struck with immense force and sent flying again, hitting yet another line. In this uncontrollable state, Heaven Bing was like a ping-pong ball, being struck back and forth by the lines, his body spinning and tumbling in mid-air.
His once-excellent mechanized armor began to crack under the relentless attacks.
Dizzy and disoriented, Heaven Bing was jolted awake by the warning sounds from his armor. Realizing that he would die if this continued, he gathered all his ranged attacks and unleashed them outward, not caring what they were.
Light shards, pulse cannons, laser beams… various attacks erupted from his body, colliding with the lines of light and causing violent explosions.
Heaven Bing fell to the ground in just a few seconds with a thud. The lines of light—the so-called Light and Shadow Prison—were gone, leaving only a struggling Heaven Bing on the ground.
“Equipment… can equipment really bridge the gap between levels?”
Heaven Bing stuttered. The data on his heavily cracked helmet told him that his condition was dire. His body had suffered massive impacts, and while his armor had absorbed most of it, he was still severely injured. His combat power had plummeted.
What pained him even more was that his mechanized armor had sustained irreparable damage. Even if he survived today, it would never function at 100% again.
“How much combat power do you have left? And how much do I have?”
The Moon Saint Armor consisted of six pieces, with the gloves and boots being pairs, technically making it eight pieces. Liang Chuyin was especially curious to know her combat power with these eight golden-grade pieces equipped.
At the same time, she gained a deeper understanding of this golden set.
Ye Zhongming once gave Liang Chuyin a liquid called New Face.
It was an equipment cleanser that could allow equipment to have the potential to “evolve” to the next level, and it randomly added an extra skill slot to the treated equipment, which could be filled with skill scrolls.
At the time, Ye Zhongming had intended for Liang Chuyin to use it on her Earth Armor set. With his smith level at the time, he could have added skill slots to at least three or four pieces of equipment. Once skills were added, these pieces might have become golden-grade, potentially allowing Liang Chuyin’s equipment to surpass even Mo Ye’s Holy Army Coat, which had been the second-best set in Cloud Peak after Ye Zhongming’s.
But Liang Chuyin had refused to use New Face immediately.
Later, when she obtained the Moon Saint Armor and Ye Zhongming upgraded to top-grade smith, New Face was used on this set.
Every piece gained an extra skill slot.
However, she hadn’t yet added skills to them, as this required careful consideration to ensure they complemented the existing skills of the armor or her job.
This anticipation had even led Liang Chuyin to fantasize that, once all the skills were added, the Moon Saint Armor might become seven-colored grade.
Even though she knew this was wishful thinking, Liang Chuyin never gave up. She truly wanted to know what her combat power was and what it would become after adding the skills.
Heaven Bing quickly checked his status and sent a signal with a thought. His heart calmed down as he realized that all he needed to do was hold on. Reinforcements would arrive soon.
It was probably Heaven Yi, whom he disliked the most, but at this point, who cared?
Seeing his opponent draw a laser blade, Liang Chuyin decided not to ask anymore. She would kill him and find out for herself.
Only someone from Cloud Peak could be so confident in killing someone of a higher level.
“Moon Attraction.”
Liang Chuyin tilted her head slightly, and the princess-crown-like helmet erupted with a burst of light, darkening the sky. This light seeped into her body.
As she raised her whip again, a bright crescent moon appeared behind her. Against its backdrop, Liang Chuyin looked like a moon goddess.
Then, the whip came down—not at Heaven Bing, but above his head.
A starry sky appeared with the whip’s shadow, filled with countless stars.