"Hmm!?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng's eyes narrowed, arcane energy surged beneath his feet, and his body shot towards the Sphinx.
"Whoosh!~"
"Ah!~"
The Tang saber flashed, the Sphinx let out a scream, its body was cut in half, and it fell to the ground.
"Huh?"
"What the hell is this guy?"
Ye Feng looked at the Sphinx on the ground with some surprise.
Because he found that after the Sphinx was cut in half at the waist by him, the wound did not bleed, nor was the wound a human's flesh, blood, and bones. Instead, it was filled with all sorts of mechanical parts, liquid metal, and the like...
"Xiao Xiao, be careful!"
At this moment, Shen Yun Yao's anxious cry rang out.
"Bang!~ Boom!~"
Immediately after, a huge explosion sounded.
A silver figure was instantly blown away, and it happened to be heading towards Ye Feng.
"Crash!~"
Suddenly, a large wave of water surged from the ground, coiling up Xiao Xiao and catching her. It was Shen Yun Yao's water elemental arcane energy.
"Xiao Xiao, are you alright?"
Shen Yun Yao quickly leaped to Xiao Xiao's side, her voice filled with concern.
"I'm fine!~"
Xiao Xiao, with smoky smudges on her face, gently shook her head, her face still lingering with fear.
Just now, Wang Ba Tian had actually cut off her wrist, which she was controlling, and then detonated it...
"Ye Feng, this Sphinx..."
Seeing the Sphinx's body cut in half on the ground, Shen Yun Yao was very surprised.
"Creak creak creak!~"
"Gurgle~! "
Before Shen Yun Yao could finish speaking, the Sphinx's cockpit suddenly opened. Its head emitted a strange sound, as if it had exploded, and something bloody drilled out.
Before Ye Feng could get a good look, the Sphinx's head suddenly flashed red, forming a massive skeletal blood shadow.
The skeletal blood shadow had black runes that had only appeared when dealing with Shen Bo Tian before, exuding a powerful pressure on Ye Feng and the others. The skeletal blood shadow opened its mouth and lunged towards Ye Feng, attempting to devour him.
"Whoosh~ Rumble!"
Before Ye Feng could make a move, a silver light shot out, directly dispersing the skeletal blood shadow. It was Xiao Xiao who had acted.
But before Ye Feng could breathe a sigh of relief, his expression suddenly changed drastically. A sense of great danger came from behind him. He abruptly turned his head and saw a blackish-red insect that bore some resemblance to a centipede.
The moment Ye Feng turned his head, the blackish-red insect leaped towards him. The scraps of mecha beneath its feet left numerous scratches.
"Ugh~! Ah~!"
The blackish-red insect landed on Ye Feng's back, and Ye Feng immediately cried out in pain. At this moment, the insect let out a strange cry and quickly moved along Ye Feng's spine towards the back of his head. Judging by its posture, it intended to burrow into Ye Feng's brain.
A tremendous sense of danger washed over him. Ye Feng's eyes narrowed, and the somewhat peculiar arcane energy within his body instantly erupted.
"Buzz!"
"Sizzle~"
A flash of white light, and the blackish-red insect let out a strange cry, was shaken off Ye Feng, and quickly burrowed into the ground.
"What is that? Did that insect just come out of the Sphinx's head?"
Although the scene had happened very suddenly, almost in the blink of an eye, Ye Feng had still keenly captured some information.
"Flesh is weak, embrace ascension through machinery!"
While Ye Feng was thinking and pondering, a suppressed, low voice came from beneath the ground. It was the Sphinx.
"Rumble~ Rumble~ Boom~"
"Creak~ Bang~ Clang~!"
Following that, the ground where Ye Feng and the others were standing began to tremble. A large amount of steel and scattered mecha wreckage in the ruins seemed to be drawn by something and began to move rapidly.
After a while, they formed a giant architectural structure with a human-like shape, resembling a small mountain. The humanoid giant structure kept adjusting itself and finally formed a mecha appearance.
"Damn low-class humans!"
From the head of the giant architectural structure, the Sphinx's furious roar erupted.
"Holy crap... What the heck is this Sphinx?"
Ye Feng was quite surprised. After all, after the opponent and Wang Ba Tian had dealt with Shen Bo Tian, they were clearly at their last leg. He never expected them to have such a trick...
"Die!"
At this moment, the Sphinx roared angrily, and a giant fist made of reinforced concrete and mecha wreckage smashed towards Ye Feng.
"Boom!~"
A large pit was smashed into the ground, sending dirt and stones flying. Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Shen Yun Yao, and the others had already dodged.
"Bang bang!~ Bang~!"
The Sphinx controlled the giant fist made of reinforced concrete and mecha wreckage and madly pounded the area where Ye Feng and the other two were, kicking up a lot of dust.
"Pfft pfft!~"
Amidst the dust, a large number of yellow arcane talismans flew out, rapidly flying towards the Sphinx. Soon, they were distributed around the Sphinx's massive body. It was Shen Yun Yao who had made her move.
"Arcane · Thunder Prison!"
Shen Yun Yao formed a hand seal, and the arcane talismans surrounding the Sphinx suddenly flashed with electricity, emitting dense lightning that struck the Sphinx.
"Zzzt!~ Zzzt~! Zzzt~~!"
Under the attack of a large amount of ferocious lightning, the Sphinx's giant body, composed of various miscellaneous items, rapidly collapsed.
Amidst the falling dirt, cement slabs, steel bars, and mecha wreckage, a small, blackish-red shadow was rapidly moving in one direction. It was the insect that had just drilled out of the Sphinx's head.
Ye Feng squinted his eyes and suddenly rushed into the ruins. The moment the insect landed, the Tang saber flashed, pinning the insect to a stone.
"Ah!~"
The blackish-red insect let out a shrill scream and struggled a few times. The Sphinx's voice came out, "Damn low-class human, don't get cocky, Blood... Blood Ancestor will avenge me!"
As the voice faded, the blackish-red insect's body went limp, and it stopped moving.
"This insect..."
Ye Feng crouched down and found that although this blackish-red insect had countless tentacles-like feet on its sides, like a centipede, its face was a human face, identical to the Sphinx he had seen before.
"The... the rumors are true..."
At this moment, Shen Yun Yao ran to Ye Feng's side, her face full of shock.
"Rumors? What rumors?"
Ye Feng looked at Shen Yun Yao with some confusion.
"The Sphinx we saw earlier was probably just a shell it was parasitizing. This strange blackish-red insect that just crawled out of that head is the real Sphinx!"
Shen Yun Yao looked at the Sphinx's "corpse" not far away, which had a large hole in its head but was incredibly pale. She swallowed and replied.
"The real Sphinx?"
Ye Feng looked at the motionless blackish-red insect under the Tang saber and frowned slightly.
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