Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Little Lover
This is no fault of Tian Xun, as even within the Celestial Race, only a minority practice the Divine Emperor Skill.
Nor do all those Celestials who have mastered the Divine Emperor Skill possess the Innate Skill of Celestial Descent, which is also a rarity among rarities.
She had never fought against someone with the power of Celestial Descent and had only seen other Celestials use it, but there were no restrictions like flight bans at that time, so she didn't know that Celestial Descent had this kind of effect.
The information she found had never mentioned such a thing.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Cosimo's speed was unbelievably fast, but to Tian Xun, even such speed was terribly slow, like a snail crawling.
If she wanted to make a move, it was still not too late to rush to Razor Fang Island and, just as Lin Shen had suggested, shoot him dead with the Pet Gun first.
Tian Xun did indeed arrive outside Razor Fang Island, but she did not draw her Pet Gun.
Although Lin Shen had failed and hadn't defeated Cosimo, his performance had nevertheless touched Tian Xun.
Tian Xun believed that Lin Shen, alive, was more valuable and should not be allowed to die this way.
Watching as Cosimo, imbued with the terrifying strength of Celestial Descent, aimed a punch at Lin Shen, Tian Xun was about to intervene when she suddenly saw a terrifying aura surge out of Lin Shen as well, with a bloody halo blossoming around him.
"What is that power?" Tian Xun was somewhat astonished, stopping outside Razor Fang Island, without charging onto the island.
Because she sensed that the power fluctuations from Lin Shen were no weaker than those of Cosimo with Celestial Descent.
In the short duration of the fight, the number of offerings in the Sacrificial Halo had increased unknowingly, and the Attribute points had soared wildly. In such a brief time, they were almost reaching three hundred points.
Originally, Lin Shen had wanted to delay for a while longer. At this rate, persisting a bit more to break three hundred points would have been a matter of minutes.
Unfortunately, Cosimo did not give him such an opportunity. Celestial Descent broke through the flight ban, and the golden spirit body provided Cosimo with a powerful Attribute enhancement, doubling all his Attributes.
His Attributes were already close to one hundred and fifty, so after doubling, they soared to nearly three hundred.
Cosimo's strike was meant to be decisive. The speed and strength granted by Celestial Descent were far beyond what Mutators could compare with. In the face of absolute Strength and speed, all tricks were useless. This Imperial Kill Fist was enough to blast Lin Shen into pieces.
However, when Cosimo charged towards Lin Shen and swung his fist, he couldn't believe his eyes as Lin Shen dodged with a speed not inferior to his, sidestepping the punch.
And as Lin Shen sidestepped, he also managed to throw a punch of his own.
Having been toyed with by Lin Shen for so long, Cosimo, whose mind was filled with a murderous rage, could not have imagined that Lin Shen could match his speed. His killer punch was all-out, intended to annihilate Lin Shen without any reservation.
Cosimo couldn't stop his forward momentum, and it was unclear whether it was his face that collided with Lin Shen's fist or Lin Shen's fist that collided with his face.
Under the dual augmentation of the Crown of the King and Celestial Descent, the Ninth Turn Ascension Carapace was shattered by Lin Shen's fist.
Cosimo's shocked and horrified face was revealed beneath the carapace. In his incredulous eyes, Lin Shen's fist distorted and deformed his face, eventually smashing half of it to pulp.
Cosimo's body, like a cannonball, was blasted away, flying out of the boundary of Razor Fang Island in an instant. He flew far in the star ring, crashing onto a floating ring island the size of a soccer field, breaking off a corner of it. His entire body sank into the rocks before finally coming to a halt.
"This... how is that possible..." Tian Xun stared blankly at Cosimo, whose body was embedded in the rocks, with only half of his head remaining, finding it somewhat hard to believe for a moment.
That was Cosimo of the Ninth Turn Ascension, who also had the double enhancement of Celestial Descent and Crown of the King, yet he was killed by a Mutator with a head-on punch.
"How did he do that?" Tian Xun looked towards Lin Shen on Razor Fang Island, her expression incredibly strange.
After that punch, Lin Shen didn't feel his strength being drained from his body. Instead, the offerings to the Sacrificial Halo were quickly increasing, accumulating over twenty points in a short while, and they were still increasing rapidly.
Lin Shen saw Tian Xun outside of Razor Fang Island, directly rode the Evil Dragon over to her, bowed slightly, and said, "Star Lord, I have not failed you."
"You now go back to Ocean Heaven Island immediately, take your elder sister to the Paradise Palace where I live. Today, you have not been here, nor have you seen Cosimo," Tian Xun suddenly said these few sentences.
"Star Lord!" Lin Shen was slightly startled. By saying this, it meant that she intended to take the blame for this incident, which was not what had been agreed upon before.
"Do as I say," Tian Xun said with a smile.
She had made up her mind that she would protect Lin Shen no matter what, even if it meant turning against the Metichi Family.
Without the Metichi Family, there would still be Meigeqi, the Meishuqi Family wanted to cooperate with her, although they were not as powerful as the Metichi Family. But talents like Lin Shen, she might encounter only once in a lifetime.
A Mutator killing someone of the Ninth Turn Ascension was very rare in the history of the universe.
This man, Lin Shen, she, Tian Xun, had decided to claim as her own.
Lin Shen probably also understood Tian Xun's thoughts, so he said no more, directly rushed back to Ocean Heaven Island, fetched his elder sister, and went to the Paradise Palace where Tian Xun lived.
Once Lin Shen left, Tian Xun moved as if she teleported to Cosimo's corpse, waved her hand casually, and Cosimo's body immediately turned into ash and disappeared.
Tian Xun then cleared all the equipment on Razor Fang Island, and with the exception of the one set of images in her own hands, no one else in the world knew of the battle between Lin Shen and Cosimo, or the terrifying Fist Power of the Mutator.
When Lin Shen arrived at the gates of Paradise Palace with his elder sister, the already-returned Tian Xun personally welcomed them into her palace, even affectionately holding Lin Miao's hand, repeatedly calling her 'sister,' which made everyone on Paradise Island who saw this scene almost drop their eyeballs.
Tian Xun personally arranged for Lin Shen and Lin Miao to stay in her palace, and then called Lin Shen alone into the dome hall of the palace.
"Star Lord..." Lin Shen began to ask what Tian Xun planned to do next.
Tian Xun walked up to Lin Shen, her long delicate fingers pressed to his lips, and said with a smiling face, "I said if you, as a Mutator, could kill Cosimo, then you would be my lover from now on. When we're alone, I hope to no longer hear the two words 'Star Lord.'"
"Then how should I address you?" Lin Shen, taken aback by Tian Xun's straightforwardness, found himself somewhat out of his element.
"You may call me whatever you wish," Tian Xun said with smiling eyes, giving Lin Shen a reassuring look.
"Tian Xun?" Lin Shen ventured.
"My lover, you can be bolder, more intimate," Tian Xun encouraged Lin Shen further.
"Tian Xun... darling..." Encouraged by Tian Xun, Lin Shen felt his courage swell.