Summoning her Dao Shell was the final gambit that Ku Waowen could use. All of her techniques and skills had already been used, and none of them were effective against Lin Mu.
His strength was certainly superior to hers and their speeds were almost the same. But the more she fought, the more Lin Mu was gaining an advantage. The only thing she could not rely on was something that was far more powerful than everything that she had used until now.
And that thing was her Dao Shell. One must know that she was at the Shell expansion stage of the Dao Shell realm and thus the full power of her Dao Shell could be used.
This was significantly different from when Lin Mu had faced the Dao Shell of the Troll Demon beast. That was incomplete and this one was completed as well as expanded.
Ku Waowen raised her hand and gestured for the Dao Shell to rise as well. Then pointing forwards with her index and middle finger, she shot the Dao Shell straight towards where Lin Mu had been located.
~BANG~
The Dao Shell slammed into the same place where Lin Mu's had been embedded and further pushed him into the wall. Despite being five meters thick, the walls of the ruins were unable to bear it and Lin Mu was pushed deeper into the soil outside.
~ROAR!!!!~
An unwilling roar could be heard coming from the wall and a second later a blurry figure shot out of it.
"Oh no, you don't!" Ku Waowen sent the Dao Shell to hit Lin Mu.
~BANG~
~SHUDDER~
Lin Mu bashed into the Dao shell and shook the air. Visible tremors could be seen going through the ground as the clash of two powers spread.
~THUD~ THUD~
Lin Mu's feet exerted power and thruster into the ground for support. Having anchored himself, Lin Mu held his ground and even started to resist the Dao Shell this time.
"IMPOSSIBLE!" Ku Waowen was stunned.
She knew just how strong her Dao Shell was. It was not only many times tougher than her own body, but the impact from it was enough to destroy a mountain. She had killed a Shell Genesis stage Dao Shell realm beast with a single hit of the Dao Shell before.
Its force was enough to crush the beast into a pancake. And yet, Lin Mu barely seemed to be injured. It was both confusing and terrifying to her.
'Such offense and defense… no normal technique can offer this… is he using a sacrificial technique?' Ku Waowen wondered.
"HAAAAYAAAAAAAA!" Lin Mu who was still resisting the Dao Shell, increased his power and halted the Dao Shell in its place.
No longer was he being pushed back and was like a sturdy peak instead.
A Ferocious expression appeared on Lin Mu's face as he extended his claws and gripped onto the Dao Shell. Hugging it like a large ball, Lin Mu let his vitality burst forth.
"BREAK FOR ME!" A Demonic Voice was let out by Lin Mu's lips as a stunning power exuded from his body.
Ku Waowen anxiously tried to pull the Dao Shell back, but was unable to.
"He can't just hold on to the Dao Shell like that. RETURN!" Ku Waowen ordered.
~WEENG~
The Dao Shell tried to heed her call and move back, but couldn't escape Lin Mu's clutches. Lin Mu and the Dao Shell were almost the same size, with Lin Mu being a head taller.
He could grasp the Dao Shell in its entirety and hold it in place like an anchor. No matter how much Ku Waowen tried, the Dao Shell was stuck. Lin Mu gazed at her maliciously and a chill spread through the old woman's body.
A premonition appeared in her heart and her fear grew.
"GRAAAAAAAA!" Lin Mu let out a Demonic Cry and used as much of his power as he could.
The vitality overflowed and nourished his body, letting his muscles exert more strength than they normally could. His body glowed in a crimson light and made him appear like a demon that had stepped out of a bloody sea.
"DEMONIC MIGHT!" Lin Mu uttered.
~BADUM~
In that moment, it was as if time had frozen, and everything stood still. Ku Waowen watched on unwillingly as cracks started to cover her Dao Shell. With each fraction of a second, the cracks spread more and more until finally, the Dao Shell was reduced to fragments.
~SHATTER~
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Ku Waowen let out a blood curdling cry as a deathly pain spread all over her body.
The loss of a Dao Shell was not something that a cultivator could bear easily. While there was still the possibility of them being able to remake it, there was a higher chance for them to simply run out of longevity before that.
A Dao Shell realm cultivator could live for about two thousand years on an average and even if one became one at the age of eight hundred years, which was still an early estimate, they would only have twelve hundred years left to live.
But for Ku Waowen, that number was far less. After all, she had spent many years in cultivating her Dao Shell and expanding it. Her current appearance was actually natural, and she possibly had less than a hundred years left to live.
This number would have been higher if not for the skills that used up her lifespan in exchange for power. The Xieye Yun Frost Cage was once such a skill and had taken at least fifty years of her longevity to be used.
It was a gamble she had taken, but now it had only proved to become her bane. Plus now that she had lost her Dao Shell, she couldn't do much.
~HUU~HUU~HUU~
Lin Mu took deep breath as he looked at Ku Waowen. He seemed to be quite tired than before and it was evident breaking the Dao Shell had taken him a lot to do.
"Time for my vengence…" Lin Mu muttered as he walked towards Ku Waowen.
