Divine Harem: My Sect of Heavenly Beauties

She was surrounded from every side, and she could feel the tremors coming towards her. There was no escape. Her scalp went numb as she gritted her teeth in desperation.

'No! I can't die yet! Not like this! I'm not a disappointment for my sister.'

She stopped running and raised her sword, ready for the battle, even though she knew it was a death sentence. She took a deep breath and circulated her Qi as ice began to form around her.

The ground was soon covered in a blanket of hard ice as it fought against the tremors below. It was then the ice right to her broke as a spike made of tree roots emerged, aiming directly at her. It was also smeared in the dark blood she was so wary of.

Even a tiny amount had almost crushed his spirit, so she didn't dare to imagine what would happen if she touched more of it. Would she die instantly or turn into a mindless body?

She didn't know, and neither did she want to know. She took a step forward and slashed at the root spike, making a deep gash in it as it continued to advance towards her. She was ready for that and rolled to the side.

Without waiting, she jumped up and again slashed at the spike with her sword, which was covered in ice, making it heavier and sharper. She cut horizontally as her sword dug deep into the spike; however, she wasn't done, as she created more ice around her sword, making the spike cut from the other side.

But in the process, the spike fell off, and the dark blood flew in the air and spread all around. Fortunately, she had summoned her armour, so she was relatively safe. However, she could feel her armour getting eaten away by the dark blood as if it was corroding it.

'This won't do! The armour won't last long, and once the armour is gone, I'll be dead!'

The young woman clenched her teeth as she put the tip of her sword on the ground. But she didn't get the time to rest as she could already see cracks in the ice blanket. It also won't last long.

She took some time to catch her breath and ran to the edges of the ice blanket. It was weak on the edges, but she had no choice. She simply held her sword, ready to handle anything.

As she expected, a spike had already risen from the ground the moment she reached the edge. Her heart sank looking at it because, this time, the spike also carried the teeth-filled vines, which whipped around it like whips.

'I'm sorry everyone. Because of me, you're going to lose!'

The woman sighed, feeling her strength disappear. But then she gripped her sword even tighter and clutched her head with her other hand.

"Aghh! W-What?"

Her mind was in intense agony as two emotions fought, trying to overcome each other. It was a very strange, painful experience where she felt her whole mind shaking.

But she also knew of the danger that was approaching her. Her years of battle-honed instincts were screaming at her for the threat, but her body wasn't listening to her. In fact, she wasn't even sure about herself. What was she feeling? What was she? Who was she?

"Calm down!"

Suddenly, her mind turned completely blank as all the raging emotions disappeared, leaving her in an oddly calm state. She felt a hand resting on her shoulder and wondered if she had dismissed her armour.

She raised her head to look at her saviour and found a red-headed woman with bright crimson eyes looking at her. Her body shuddered as she murmured.

"S-Sister!"

Ning Xi looked at the young woman with complicated emotions and sighed. She patted her head and said.

"We'll talk later. But as of now, you're disqualified, along with your Water Lilly Sect, from the Annual Sect Tournaments because an organiser has to help you. Do you accept it?"

The young woman looked down in guilt and nodded.

Ning Xi sighed and looked around at the spikes coming at her, realising who her opponent was. Then, she looked at her hand, which had a vine. She crushed it as the dark blood splashed on her hand, but she couldn't care less about it.

'A High-Stage Tier 4 Dark Vraksha at the get-go. What a luck you have.'

She then felt a chill as her head snapped in the other direction, only to find a woman with short black hair standing there with long daggers in her hand, staring at her with golden eyes.

'Damn this woman! I swear, even heaven won't have anyone as creepy as her!'

She wanted to curse out loud, but knowing that this would be broadcast back to the audience, she had to keep the facade. She cleared her throat and asked.

"You should know this place seeing the condition, do you still wish to challenge it? I won't save you!"

'Like hell, I will! I should be worried about that tree!'

Ying Yue shook her head and spoke in a neutral tone.

"There's no need for that. I'll handle every consequence of my actions."

"As you wish, then."

Ning Xi shrugged, and after picking up the young woman who had already lost consciousness, she flew up in the distance.

Ying Yue stood on the spot as she looked at the various vines surrounding her. Now that they had lost their former target, they aimed for a new one.

'This is going to be tough. I didn't arrive in time to see its abilities. All I know is it attacks by its vines, which have these teeth which are sharp enough to even cut through Tier 3 armours. Then, there are these spikes that come out suddenly from nowhere.'

Ying Yue narrowed her eyes, jumping away from the vines as she analysed the situation. But no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't discern what Spiritual Creature it was. And that put her at a disadvantage.

'There is no way these simple attacks took out that girl. I can sense it; she's strong. But then, how did she get defeated?'

But she was eager to fight this unknown Abomination, which was almost a whole realm higher than hers.