Chapter 996: Gui Hua, Serve the Master Well Together with Me
Xia Feng was unaware of Gui Hua’s plan. However, upon realizing that Gui Hua’s ultimate goal had always been the Empress, he vaguely understood that Gui Hua’s previous willingness to bleed heavily to trade him the Golden Sparrow Feathers was not right.
Although Gui Hua had to give up three Golden Sparrow Feathers to ask for his help in dispelling the Heavenly Gifted Calamity Poison, thus successfully snatching Sky Pivot Five, it was still possible that this old schemer had hidden intentions and tampered with the Golden Sparrow Feathers.
Xia Feng quickly conveyed these thoughts to the Empress through his mind.
“It’s alright. I am merely a wisp of useless ethereal spirit in the Place of Seal. My priority now is to make Gui Hua lower her guard,” the Empress responded mentally as she took the feather.
Xia Feng was surprised. “So, Your Majesty, you had already anticipated that Gui Hua would cause trouble for you when Burning Heaven invaded?”
“Naturally. Otherwise, why would I, who am already a remnant spirit, specifically split off an even weaker ethereal spirit to descend upon the Place of Seal?”
The Woman in imperial dress cast a glance at Xia Feng with her beautiful eyes, her thoughts indifferent. “I told you long ago that I would eventually bring you back to the Place of Seal to see my main body. You didn’t need to scheme against me like that before.”
“…”
Heh. So, you were just doing it incidentally when you pretended to be Miss Evil Dragon and toyed with me? Xia Feng secretly rolled his eyes.
However, thinking about it carefully, the Empress’s intention in asking him to trade Heavenly Realm Spirit Energy for Golden Sparrow Flowers and even to approach Gui Hua was likely to draw Gui Hua’s attention, making her unable to resist the temptation.
Then, through the Black Crow’s feathers, she would be brought into the sealed place disguised as the Heavenly Revelation Divine Palace.
From this perspective, both Gui Hua and the Heavenly Martial Empress were old schemers, setting traps for each other in secret, while he, Xia Feng, was merely a pitiful chess piece.
But so be it. As long as it benefited Miss Evil Dragon, being a chess piece was fine, it didn’t matter.
Now, only the final step remained: using Sky Pivot Five and the Spirit Awakening Tree to successfully awaken the Dragon God’s main body, thus easily suppressing Gui Hua and leaving her no escape!
This step was also the most difficult.
Sky Pivot Five was controlled by Gui Hua. How to snatch it to reduce the sealing power of the Place of Seal was a problem.
Without Sky Pivot Five, the sealing power could not be reduced, and Miss Evil Dragon could not be awakened.
But only Miss Evil Dragon could snatch Sky Pivot Five.
It was a complete paradox.
“Buzz—” The rose-red light flow on the back of his hand flickered and continued to fade. Xia Feng glanced at it; the Gui Hua Calamity Contract was almost invisible and on the verge of shattering.
This was Sky Pivot Five annihilating the power of the Calamity Contract, and it was about to succeed.
Once the Gui Hua Calamity Contract disappeared, Xia Feng would have no power to restrain or threaten Gui Hua. The Star Position Devouring would likely complete simultaneously, achieving True God status, or even ascending directly to Heavenly God.
Seeing this, Xia Feng knew he could wait no longer.
The Woman in Phoenix Dress lounged lazily on the throne. Unlike her majestic and indifferent demeanor in front of the Golden Sparrow tribe, she now crossed her legs, her snow-white feet swinging leisurely. The cold malice at the corner of her lips was no longer concealed, as if she had already imagined how she would torment that lowly human. Her slightly narrowed, curved rose eyes shone with increasing pleasure.
Clearly, the mother of the Golden Sparrow Flowers was not a proper goddess.
However, just as she was lost in thought, contemplating the 108th method of torturing Xia Feng, her expression suddenly turned confused.
The twin star pattern on her brow, which had been rotating, suddenly stalled. One of the rose-red and golden planets distorted, emitting a faint glow.
Sensing that something was wrong, her gaze shifted slightly. She quickly sat up straight and pointed a finger at her brow, but she could not block nor escape an attack from her own soul.
An ancient and magnificent, dark, incomplete tower materialized above her head, precisely trapping her within.
“Boom—!!” The tower body crashed to the ground, creating a shallow pit hundreds of meters in diameter. The incomplete tower, thousands of meters high, pierced the clouds.
However, compared to the World Tree, which was tens of thousands of meters taller, it was still quite small.
Although the black tower had not been restored to its maximum size, it was sufficient to suppress Gui Hua.
The Woman in Phoenix Dress’s expression became serious as she looked around at the misty gray fog.
She hadn’t seen such dense Calamity Force in a long time. This was… the Refining God Tower?
The Calamity Demon’s Refining God Tower?!
That lowly human actually had a connection with the Calamity Demon?! The Woman in Phoenix Dress narrowed her almond-shaped, alluring eyes.
Xia Feng, so this is where you’ve been waiting for me, Lord!
Since you cannot stop me from devouring Yue Hongli in the stars, you would hide the Refining God Tower for Yue Hongli, allowing me to escape no matter what when my soul and Yue Hongli’s become one.
The Woman in Phoenix Dress realized the crux of the matter.
Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible for the Refining God Tower, with its cumbersome speed, to imprison her.
But since the Refining God Tower’s domain barrier unfolded from her own soul, everything was different.
Wherever she went, the Refining God Tower’s domain barrier followed, leaving her no escape.
“Buzz—!” The Calamity Sea churned and converged madly towards the swaying phoenix dress in the center.
With the characteristics of the Refining God Tower, this Calamity Mist possessed the effect of suppressing and even devouring divine power.
Gui Hua clearly sensed that her divine power, accumulated over thousands of years, was rapidly draining. She had not yet returned to her divine position, so she could only rely on unorthodox methods to accumulate divine power, which was thousands of times less efficient than that of a True God.
Therefore, the loss of this divine power directly caused her aura to plummet, making it impossible for her to continue suppressing and stabilizing Sky Pivot Five.
The silver light sphere in her mental sea, bearing countless afterimages, began to show more and more afterimages. In less than two seconds, her spirit substance was completely filled and began to impact her incomplete godhead.
A sharp pain shot through her mind, and her soul felt on the verge of exploding and disintegrating. The Woman in Phoenix Dress abruptly closed her eyes, suspended in the gray mist, her entire body trembling imperceptibly.
Is this the backlash of Sky Pivot Five? she murmured to herself, but then a wave of boundless rage washed over her.
Because an identical almond-shaped rose pupil to hers slowly opened in the darkness, gazing at her intently. It blinked and commented, “Idiotic Gui Hua, just as the Master said, nothing more.”
“!!!”
The Woman in Phoenix Dress’s eyes snapped open, but her gaze had already changed, losing its majestic laziness and gaining a naive earnestness.
She raised her hands and looked at this long-lost divine body, nodding in satisfaction. “Gui Hua, I will be with you in the future and serve the Master well!”
“?!!!”
As she spoke, her gaze shifted again, alternating between dignified anger and an idiotic blink. Her left hand raised and plucked the silver light sphere – Sky Pivot Five – that had appeared on her brow. However, her right hand suddenly grabbed her left wrist, pulling it to press Sky Pivot Five back onto her brow.
Her beautiful divine face grew solemn as she began to fight with herself.
But in the midst of the Sky Pivot backlash, her main personality’s consciousness was briefly chaotic. In an instant, she could not resist the sudden sneak attack from the subordinate personality lurking in the shadows and lost control. The subordinate personality seized the initiative, completely pulling Sky Pivot Five out of her soul and flinging it fiercely towards Xia Feng outside the tower.
After completing all this in two seconds, the subordinate personality could no longer resist and lost control, with the main personality regaining the initiative. The Woman in Phoenix Dress’s rose pupils contracted slightly.
She knew she could not wait any longer. Once Sky Pivot Five fell into Xia Feng’s hands, the Empress would have the means to restrain her.
As for whether the Calamity Contract would shatter, there was no time to worry about it now. She had to become a god immediately!
Buzz— The twin star pattern on her brow began to shine brightly.
(End of Chapter)
