The End of the World: I am the Blood Monster Princess (GL) - Chapter 79

Defeat came like a landslide.

Under the swarm’s relentless assault, Gu Xiaoran’s group of psychic users, who had already been struggling against Chen Mo’s team, completely fell apart.

The moment Guo Yang saw Chen Xi, he immediately released his mental control over Su Mu.

Summoning the power of the Bl00d Clan, his bat wings drew a sharp arc through the air, slicing straight toward Gu Xiaoran.

“D*mn it…”

Gu Xiaoran was caught between a rock and a hard place.

Just as the bat wings launched, Su Mu flipped nimbly into the air and clung tightly to Gu Xiaoran’s left arm.

Using her own Bl00d Clan energy as a guiding mark, she lured the bat wings toward them.

No matter how Gu Xiaoran tried to dodge or use his psychic powers, there was no escaping the blow.

If you won’t let go of me—then we’ll die together!

Gu Xiaoran went completely berserk. Swinging his left arm with Su Mu still attached, he slammed it hard into the ground.

Boom—!

Dust shot into the air. Su Mu felt like she’d been hit by a truck. Stars danced before her eyes as she lost her grip.

Just before passing out, she released a burst of Bl00d Clan energy, triggering a small-scale bl00d mist explosion right next to Gu Xiaoran.

At such close range, the explosion instantly disrupted and erased the five layers of psychic energy shielding Gu Xiaoran’s arm.

And then—the bat wings arrived.

Following the force and trajectory, the bl00d-colored streak of light stabbed straight into Gu Xiaoran’s left arm!

Even a body as tough as a demon from the abyss couldn’t withstand a direct hit powered by all of Su Mu’s Bl00d Clan energy.

Flesh tore apart. Meridians ripped open. Bones shattered.

By the time Su Mu groggily pushed herself off the ground, Gu Xiaoran had lost both arms, lying there like a withered tree.

“Ah? Ahhh?”

“Pathetic. In the end, you still lost.”

Su Mu dusted herself off, then stomped on Gu Xiaoran’s head as he tried to lift it.

Elsewhere, the battle was almost over. With the swarm and psychic users working together, the Olympic Stadium quickly fell.

“Guo Yang, I…”

Now face-to-face, Chen Xi was still hesitant about her current form and didn’t dare get too close to Guo Yang.

“Chen Xi, I’m sorry. I wasn’t strong enough to protect you…”

Guo Yang wasn’t afraid of how she looked. Still the big brother figure, he pulled Chen Xi—who was now much taller than him—into his arms.

Chen Xi folded up the spider legs from her lower body and crouched down, burying her head into Guo Yang’s chest, choking back sobs.

“Wait, wait!”

“This is such a touching scene!”

Dragging the half-dead Gu Xiaoran behind her, Su Mu threw his massive body down in front of the two of them.

“I remember you said that if you died, Chen Xi would never be able to turn back, right?”

“Well, you’re still alive. So turn her back.”

“Otherwise, I’ll pop your eyes out one by one and make you eat them. Then I’ll rip out your tongue and—”

Su Mu pressed the Abyss Bl00d Blade against Gu Xiaoran’s jaw. Pain jolted through him, making him tremble all over.

That’s right—he’d lost both arms and was already halfway in the grave, but he was still alive.

And every living thing has a basic instinct to survive. Gu Xiaoran didn’t want to die.

“I need a vial to hold the potion,” he said. “And I need psychic energy to make it. Heal me first…”

“And you have to promise not to kill me.”

Gu Xiaoran pleaded.

“You think I care about Chen Xi that much?”

“Trying to use her as leverage? Pathetic.”

Su Mu summoned the Abyss Bl00d Blade to her foot and stomped down hard on Gu Xiaoran’s groin.

Splurt—!

She didn’t even use full force, but the bl00d spurted high. Gu Xiaoran screamed in agony.

“I’ll give you psychic energy and a test tube. Turn Chen Xi back.”

“If you say another word of nonsense, I’ll crush your head.”

Su Mu said coldly, gathering Bl00d Clan energy in her palm and gesturing for him to take it.

Then she pulled out a sealed vial of Chen Mo’s bl00d from her pocket and drank it, tossing the empty test tube to Gu Xiaoran.

Even though the pain was enough to make him pass out, Gu Xiaoran didn’t dare delay.

He grabbed the test tube and began guiding the Bl00d Clan energy from Su Mu’s hand to make the potion.

“Chen Xi, come here.”

Gu Xiaoran called.

Splurt—!

Su Mu kicked him again in the thigh, shattering it completely.

“Be respectful to my people.”

She glanced at him with disdain.

“Yes, yes…”

Gu Xiaoran was numb at this point. He simply cut off the nerves to his lower half with his remaining psychic energy to stop the pain.

Now, all he wanted was to finish the job and survive.

Using the Bl00d Clan energy, a bit of bl00d from Chen Xi, and his own psychic power, Gu Xiaoran crafted a light blue potion.

[Reversal Elixir]
Requires an S+ tier Potion Master psychic to create.
Drinking this elixir removes side effects caused by previous potions, such as cross-species body transformations.
Side effect: Slight reduction in psychic energy granted by the previous potion.

“Drink this and you’ll return to normal.”

Gu Xiaoran handed the vial to Chen Xi, who reached for it—but Guo Yang stopped her.

“We don’t know if he poisoned it. He drinks it first!”

Guo Yang didn’t trust Gu Xiaoran one bit and tried to make him taste it first.

“It’s fine. Drink it.”

With the help of her Bl00d Clan Eyes, Su Mu confirmed the potion was safe and nodded to them.

Chen Xi took the vial and drank it.

Moments later, her massive spider body began to shrink and morph, transforming back into her human form.

Guo Yang quickly took off his jacket and wrapped it around her. The two of them hugged again, crying in each other’s arms. Su Mu watched them, smiling like a proud auntie.

Though the potion changed her body, it didn’t alter her face—Chen Xi still had the same mischievous, playful look from when she first met Su Mu.

A human psychic boy and a bug-girl spider—an epic love story.

This couple was seriously shippable.

But for now, there were more important things than gossip or fangirling.

“Gu Xiaoran, tell me why you came to kill me. If your story’s interesting enough, I might let you live.”

“Start talking.”

Su Mu smiled faintly and dragged Gu Xiaoran by the neck, tossing him beside a ruined tank to let him sit up.

After a short rest, Gu Xiaoran began to tell his story.

Before the apocalypse, Gu Xiaoran had been a student at Lin’an City’s Sports University.

One afternoon, the day before the apocalypse, a ragged man in tattered robes claiming to be the Primordial Deity of Blue Star—named Tan Fantoli—found him.

At first, just like Su Mu, Gu Xiaoran didn’t believe him, thinking he was some random con artist.

Then the man casually tossed two potions.

One landed in the grass, turning the bugs into meter-long monsters and making the weeds grow taller than Gu Xiaoran.

The other landed near a tree by the track, transforming it into a strange sapling with branches like fingers.

“The path of the Potion Master holds the power of life and death—capable of deciding the rise and fall of stars.”

Tan Fantoli had said.