While torturing the fire bear, Lin Qiao suddenly sensed a level-eight vibe coming from the cliff. Soon, a level-seven vibe and four level-six vibes were also sensed from there as well.
She kicked the bear up into the sky, then cast a glance at where Si Kongchen's vibe was coming from. In the next second, she disappeared from where she was and flashed into the sky, swiftly swinging her claws at the wound on the bear's side neck.
"Roar!" Suffering that strike, the fire bear fell to the ground, face down. It was injured quite badly, but none of those injuries was lethal. What scared it was Lin Qiao's netherworld fire that would grasp any chance to shroud its body.
The bear was nimble, but still wasn't able to effectively defend against Lin Qiao, who moved like a ghost.
Feeling more and more wounds being left on its skin and less and less energy left in its nucleus, the bear started wanting to leave. It realized that he had to find a chance to run away as soon as possible.
Little did the bear know that Lin Qiao had decided to finish it off once she sensed Si Kongchen's vibe. If she couldn't kill the bear, she would throw it into her space and hide it there.
However, in order to throw the bear into her space, she needed to touch the bear's body with her hand. It wouldn't work if the bear was wrapped in energy. She had to wait until the fire on the bear's skin died.
The bear's fire had weakened largely. In the midair, Lin Qiao furrowed her brows and her eyes instantly turned purely black. Her power started growing strong, and her long hair fluttered behind her back in the air amidst her energy waves. She reached out both arms and spread her fingers toward the bear, releasing a great amount of black fire.
Streams of dark fire gushed out of her palms and wove into a dark fire dragon, baring its teeth and brandishing its claws while charging at the bear at wind speed.
"Roar!" Within a blink, the fire bear was devoured by the dark fire dragon and disappeared in the dragon's mouth. The dark fire dragon was way too swift, and the bear couldn't even react before it was devoured.
As the dark fire dragon ate the fire bear under her control, Lin Qiao immediately cupped her hands before her chest.
Following her movement, the dark fire dragon shrank into a sphere and grew smaller and smaller, denser and denser. It no longer looked like fire, but gradually turned into a weird, black ball that was twisting constantly.
Lin Qiao quickly moved her palms toward each other as if she were pressing an invisible ball between her palms.
"Roarrrr…" Under Lin Qiao's control, the black fire became a huge black sphere with a diameter of ten meters, from which a series of bear roars could be heard. The level-eight mutated beast couldn't be killed so easily. Lin Qiao's power was special and scary, but she still wouldn't be able to suppress the fire bear if she weren't a zombie emperor.
At the moment, she was trying to bring the bear down quickly with all her power.
While trying everything she could to suppress the bear in the black sphere, she had also been paying attention to the cliff. Feeling that the people on the cliff had started moving toward her, she had her heart sinking.
Lan Lu couldn't possibly leave his Chief to help her stopping Si Kongchen at that point. On the contrary, he needed to be extra careful because Si Kongchen might attack his Chief.
Lin Qiao felt that the bear was struggling intensely inside the black sphere; it was really hard to kill. Also, it still had a good amount of energy left inside its body.
Lin Qiao had a bad feeling. She knitted her brows, feeling Si Kongchen come closer and closer. She wanted to kill the bear, but she had no time. She couldn't bring it into her space either.
So now, she had no choice but to face Si Kongchen. That man was coming with no good intentions anyway.
She turned to where Si Kongchen was coming from and looked that way expressionlessly. She controlled the dark sphere with one hand and put the other near her mouth, making a whistle.
Within a blink, over ten figures showed up by her sides, including Lan Lu and his unconscious Chief.
"They're not friends. I'm surprised that Si Kongchen actually thinks so highly of my Chief," Lan Lu landed meters away from Lin Qiao while carrying Dong Xiaowei, the level-nine man who was taller than himself, on his shoulders. He looked at where Lin Qiao was looking at and said.
"You should say that your Chief's level-nine nucleus is way too appealing. Not only humans and beasts, but the zombies are also coming at him," Lin Qiao said coldly.
"Zombies? Are you talking about you guys?" Lan Lu gave her a glance with confusion, then looked at the group of zombies behind her.
"Are you playing dumb?" said Lin Qiao, "I think you can tell that there are other zombies nearby apart from us."
Lin Qiao summoned Mo, Ye Qingxian, Jingyan, Yan Xiao and the other zombies. They would have no chance against Si Kongchen, but they had the power to stop the group of level-six people behind him.
"Mo, Qingxian, Six, Xie Dong, you go and take down the weakest four that Si Kongchen has brought here," Lin Qiao gave her order in a peaceful tone.
"Yes, ma'am!" The four responded immediately.
Lan Lu looked around; Lin Qiao was right. The vibes of some high-leveled zombie were approaching slowly from tens of meters away.
"They're here!" Lin Qiao's voice was suddenly heard.
Swish! Following the shrill sound, a beam of metallic light flashed toward Lin Qiao's face. She quickly raised an arm to shield herself.
Clang! The sound of metal on metal could be heard along with her movement as dazzling sparks were generated.
Bang! Puff! A straight, single-edged long sword that looked like a Tang sword stuck slantingly in the ground. The sword edge was glowing brightly while giving out a strong, pressing vibe of killing.
"If I saw it clearly, you blocked my sword with a bare hand, didn't you?" A woman said affirmatively with surprise.
Lin Qiao turned and saw a woman wearing a black army coat with her thighs exposed show up beside the sword. The woman looked young. She was tall, with a perfect body shape, a delicate face, and a pair of seductive eyes.
She bent over slightly, then reached out an arm and grasped the hilt of the sword, swinging it up to put it on her shoulder. Meanwhile, she was observing Lin Qiao with great interest.