The black sword, flowing with brilliant golden energy lines, slashed down. Space itself seemed to curl outward like severed flesh, revealing a twisted, dark luster to the naked eye.
—Tingyun split apart.
The sudden turn of events caught almost everyone off guard.
"Miss Tingyun!"
March 7th blinked blankly, unable to understand why Caelus would suddenly attack Tingyun.
She watched helplessly as the delicate Foxian girl was split in two by the forty-meter long sword, the expression on her charming and beautiful face frozen in shock and disbelief.
"What happened? Is this infighting?"
Dan Shu, who was circulating the Profound Qi Curse Method in a standoff against Fu Xuan, was attracted by the commotion behind her, causing her attention to shift momentarily.
Fu Xuan, aware of Phantylia's true identity, saw her Matrix of Prescience Eye flash. Seizing the moment of Dan Shu's distraction, a pink-purple array encompassed all the withered, gray-black profound Qi.
As Fu Xuan extended her palm, the great array seemed to be grasped within it, transforming into a sphere of light.
Pink-purple flames ignited within the sphere. Using a principle similar to a flour explosion against the Qi, Fu Xuan threw it toward Dan Shu, detonating it.
Having utilized her opponent's distraction to catch her off guard and injure her, Fu Xuan deployed a defensive array and turned her gaze toward where 'Tingyun' had been.
She saw the Foxian girl's severed body ignite with a green-blue spirit fire, which transformed almost instantaneously into a blazing, brilliant golden entropy fire, burning like a scorching sun.
It erupted like underwater lava spewing forth, surging and rolling back to gather into a massive Spirit of Starfire, burning and flickering violently in mid-air.
The aura of a Destruction Emanator, a Lord Ravager, bloomed abruptly, crushing down upon the entire battlefield!
Fu Xuan, the Cloud Knights, Dan Shu, and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus were all shaken by this imposing pressure, struggling to remain standing.
Only Welt inside Senjinmaru and Caelus inside Sword King Ryujinmaru remained immovable as mountains.
"W-What is the situation?"
Inside Torijinmaru, March 7th stared at the fire spirit that resembled a small sun, her face full of confusion.
Entering Phase 2 directly was enough to demonstrate Phantylia's current mood.
"You people! When did you find out?!"
With a tone trembling with rage, a pair of eyes shimmering with the golden light of Destruction snapped open, filled with a chilling, murderous intent.
Phantylia had exploded!
Exploded in both the physical and psychological sense!
As the mastermind, she had originally been smiling and enjoying the stage play of the "two huskies" fighting back and forth. She never expected that one of the lead actors would silently run into the audience and stab her, the spectator, in the back!
And it was a nearly fatal stab!
Phantylia had personally experienced the power of the King's Sword.
If not for her intense premonition warning her the moment the sword cut into her core, causing her to subconsciously unleash her true power to dodge the blade, the consequences would have been unpredictable.
Being split by that strange and bizarre sword wouldn't kill her, given her existence as an Emanator, but she would likely suffer heavy damage!
One must remember, her true form was the energy lifeform, a Heliobus! She was naturally immune to the physical attacks of ordinary swords and blades.
But that sword was different; it contained a power that could sever all things!
Although that power couldn't threaten an Aeon, in terms of pure attack power, it was capable of inflicting harm upon an Emanator.
Nearly getting hurt was one thing, but the most, most, most important thing was that they had seen through her disguise long ago.
Therefore, Phantylia had reason to suspect that Caelus had deliberately mixed Energy Residue into the cakes for her to eat!
Humiliation!
When had she, Phantylia, ever endured such humiliation!
The shameful memory of eating Energy Residue, combined with the thrill of nearly suffering heavy damage, caused Phantylia's mental state to completely shatter, unable to maintain her hypocritical, gentle facade.
"Take a guess?"
Facing the enraged Phantylia, Caelus could clearly feel the pressure even from within Sword King Ryujinmaru. It was a power that permeated the firmament, as if seeking to drag all things into the abyss of Destruction.
"Your acting was very good, but you're still a bit lacking to fool me. Phantylia, was the Energy Steamed Cake tasty?"
Holding the King's Sword high and slashing down to split the scorching pressure of the Destruction Emanator, Caelus grinned, frantically dancing on the edge of the minefield opposite her.
"Do you want to eat more? Your Benefactor has plenty here."
"You all deserve death!"
After a brief silence, the scorching temperature rose abruptly.
Terrifying Destruction entropy fire began to shroud the world. It was like a suffocating ocean overturning, seeking to burn every living being here to ash.
"Don't even think about it!"
Seeing this terrifying power, Fu Xuan performed hand seals, connecting her Matrix of Prescience Eye to the Matrix of Prescience.
"Heavenly Law of Great Evolution, All Kalpas Return to One!"
At this moment, the entire world seemed to be drawn into the Matrix of Prescience Eye on Fu Xuan's forehead.
She brought her hands together in a grasping motion, and a dazzling purple barrier array instantly rose between heaven and earth, appearing like a self-contained world trapping everyone and Phantylia within it.
She did this to protect the Cloud Knights outside the barrier; otherwise, every Cloud Knight within the Alchemy Commission would die.
"Hmph, feel free to try. Even if I bear the weight of the Alchemy Commission on my back, needing one hand to support the Matrix of Prescience, I, Caelus, am still invincible in this world!"
Sword King Ryujinmaru's cape flapped in the wind as Caelus looked up at the sky.
"Jing Yuan, do it!"
In a pavilion one kilometer away from the Guanyi Terrace, the Divine Foresight General, eyes lowered, chuckled softly as he placed a piece on the chessboard before him.
The Lightning Lord, thousands of meters high, manifested. With the sun as its crown and flowing clouds as its raiment, a giant glaive wrapped in endless lightning tore through the dark clouds and descended violently, directly slashing apart the gilded entropy fire that filled the sky.
"The General of the Xianzhou..."
"No good, it's an ambush!"
Phantylia reacted immediately.
Those two damned gray-hairs had discovered her identity long ago and must have informed Jing Yuan, who had been lying in ambush for her here at the Alchemy Commission!
As she thought, Phantylia erupted with power once more, green-gold spirit fire soaring into the sky.
Flame and thunder intertwined to create countless strange phenomena, curling into a violent energy tide that whipped up a storm roaring across the horizon. It crashed down, crushing most of the buildings within the Alchemy Commission and knocking countless Cloud Knights and Disciples of Sanctus Medicus to the ground.
"Is this the power of an Emanator?"
Caelus clicked his tongue as he watched the collateral damage from the overload of fire and thunder.
Due to the limitations of the carrier and technology in the game, the damage caused in battle scenes naturally couldn't be fully rendered.
Emanators, as the few existences between heaven and earth favored by Aeons, held the authority of the Paths and drew upon Path energy.
Even for those at the bottom of the Emanator tier like Phantylia and Jing Yuan, destroying a planet would be easy—something even certain powerful Pathstriders could achieve.
Dan Shu looked at the giant glaive falling from the sky, her face incredibly grim for a moment.
Undoubtedly, that closed-eyed General had arrived!
This meant the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus had completely lost any chance of turning the tables.
The only consolation was that before this, she had organized for a small number of core members, along with the remaining assets, operating funds, and elixirs, to be transferred away.
She hoped Mr. Gin could take advantage of the Xianzhou forces gathering at the Alchemy Commission to take them away quickly and go into hiding.
"Little pawn of Destruction, this ends here."
Jing Yuan's voice resounded through the heavens as he stood in the firmament, wielding the Stone Fire Dream Body.
The lightning blade traversing the sky pierced through the entropy fire, ruthlessly bombarding the giant Spirit of Starfire and nailing it firmly to the earth.
"Joined as One."
Fu Xuan changed her hand seals, cooperatively shifting the Matrix of Prescience to withstand the shockwave of the Lightning Lord's attack.
The Six Commissions were located within their own separate Grotto-Heavens. The volume of these six Grotto-Heavens naturally could not compare to the large residential Grotto-Heavens; they were merely small Grotto-Heavens.
If the Lightning Lord's attack struck the ground at this angle, the entire Alchemy Commission would be affected.
Under the damage transfer of the Matrix of Prescience, this strike only destroyed the area within a thousand meters of Phantylia, with the shockwave collapsing a quarter of the houses.
"Damn it!"
As the lightning dissipated, revealing a crater of unknown depth and the Spirit of Starfire lying within it, electric currents filled the scorched earth. Phantylia was exasperated.
Although Caelus's sneak attack hadn't critically injured her, it had still wounded her.
She hadn't expected that a dignified General of the Xianzhou, an Emanator of The Hunt, would also use a despicable sneak attack!
"No, I can't fight him head-on here."
The green-blue flames wilted, and the fireball trembled ceaselessly. Angry as she was, Phantylia had not lost her reason.
Caelus's sword had damaged her core, and after taking a strike charged by the Emanator of The Hunt for so long, her condition had declined severely.
Moreover, she had not yet obtained a physical body. Fighting the Xianzhou General head-on in her current state was not a good choice.
If she took just one more hit, she would likely fail completely.
In any case, the most important Ambrosial Arbor had already completed its rebirth. The rest was just for her to pluck the fruit of victory.
Phantylia made up her mind to discard Dan Shu.
"Hmph, don't celebrate too early. This show has only just begun!"
Phantylia, appearing fierce but weak inside, uttered harsh words. The green-gold flames exploded, quickly winding around all the members of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and burning fiercely.
"Wait! Phantylia, what are you doing?"
Seeing this, Dan Shu's heart went cold, her chest filled with fear and rage.
Phantylia glanced at her with disdain, then resumed her posturing: "Since you all insist on me taking the stage, prepare to comprehend the true meaning of Destruction."
The flames on the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus dispersed, revealing strange Voidrangers before everyone, their bodies still retaining the characteristics of evolved Mara-struck.
Possessing both the recovery of Abundance and the aggression of Destruction, the Abundance Voidrangers launched an attack on the Cloud Knights and the Express crew.
Phantylia vanished into thin air from where she stood.
It only looked like she vanished; a Heliobus could avoid the spectrum visible to humans, hiding its form.
"No way? A dignified Lord Ravager actually ran away directly?"
Even Sword King Ryujinmaru's super vision couldn't see clearly, as the Heliobus could alter the energy balance within the area.
"Don't you have any dignity?"
Caelus, sensing that Phantylia had smashed through Fu Xuan's barrier and fled into the distance, couldn't hold back a retort.
"Huh? Miss Tingyun is... a Lord Ravager of the Antimatter Legion!? W-What exactly is going on!?"
March 7th's exclamation came through the Mashin Mecha communication channel.
She hadn't recognized Phantylia at a glance; she only realized the other's identity after Caelus said the words "Lord Ravager."
"It's a long story."
Caelus turned his head to look at Jing Yuan.
"Everyone, I leave this place to you."
Jing Yuan greeted everyone, then chased closely after her.
As an energy lifeform, a Heliobus had a natural advantage. If she was bent on escaping, Jing Yuan really couldn't stop her.
Moreover, fighting inside the Alchemy Commission, Jing Yuan couldn't go all out at all, or he might destroy the entire Alchemy Commission.
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