Chapter 987: Nowhere to Retreat
“Wrong, it’s not help, it’s a transaction.” Hezi said calmly, “Burning Heaven can trade with Calamity to invade Sparrow King Star. Mother can also trade with Calamity to achieve her plan.”
Jin Xiangfeng nodded thoughtfully, “Mother’s goal is to take back authority. Then Calamity’s goal is… Xia Feng?”
“Could it be that Xia Feng has something unknown about him?”
Hezi didn’t answer, nor did she speak further, only her vacant eyes continued to gaze south towards the cloud platform without moving.
After a two-second pause, her gaze slowly lowered, looking at the ground directly below her.
There was a strange wood with golden patterns etched on it, half buried in the dark soil, and it was now gradually sprouting and growing taller.
“The Spirit Awakening Wood has started to grow. How long will it take to form the Spirit Awakening Tree?” Beside her, Jin Xiangfeng’s voice was hoarse, heavy with age.
“Three hours.”
Hezi stated the approximate time in a calm voice, then turned her head, “I need to activate the Blood Corrosion Cage at any time to prevent Xia Feng from escaping. Jin Shi, the Star Devouring Ritual and the Spirit Awakening detection will all be your responsibility.”
Jin Xiangfeng nodded, the Star Devouring Ritual would also take about three hours to form.
The most important thing now was the Spirit Awakening detection, to ensure that no other gods existed within the scope of the Spirit Awakening Tree’s coverage, including secondary planes, secondary spaces, and any spatial teleportation points.
Otherwise, if the Star Devouring Ritual was not completed, it would instead summon or resurrect unknown gods, which would be disastrous.
At the same time,
At the very front of the three thousand arrays on the ground, twelve祭柱 (altar pillars) stood at varying heights. Vortices lit up on top of the pillars, and figures slowly emerged from them.
The representatives of the front line, Bai Shou Xian and Lei Chonghua, projected their avatars and descended to this place.
Ke Zelek, An Xingjia, and Madam An also leaped onto the altar pillars successively.
Soon, except for the first representative who could not come, all eleven representatives were present.
To fill the gap of this last seat, Bai Shou Xian had Corvis ascend an altar pillar.
The Star Devouring Ritual was divided into twelve main officiants and three thousand subordinate officiants. The twelve main officiants were the most difficult to control, requiring those with great talent in cultivation to be competent.
Corvis, as a genius of the Eighth Generation, although not yet fully developed, possessed considerable talent, comparable to the other representatives. Being in charge of a Star Devouring Ritual main officiation would not be a problem.
Corvis was naturally excited about this.
He had originally truly believed that this was a formation to deal with the Burning Heaven Holy Lord. Not only him, but other clan members also thought the same.
Until the appearance of the twelve representatives, the rise of the twelve Star Devouring Altar Pillars, and the mental command from Jin Shi Ji for the clan members to change the formation.
They all suddenly realized that the preparations of a thousand years were finally coming to an end today!
It was also at this moment that Corvis realized that the cloud platform in the center of the arc, located to the north, was actually the formation’s core.
And Sister Qing and Konan were on the formation’s core.
Thinking of this, Corvis’s memory began to become chaotic, large swathes of memory scenes turned illusory, and his pupils dilated.
—He did have a third brother, but he died on the day he was born?
Konan was not his brother?! Instead, he was—Xia Feng?!
Xia Feng, this person was a lowly individual from District 51, who disappeared after becoming a wanted criminal. This was known to many high-ranking members of the Golden Sparrow Flower. He carried the authority of Mother’s Sub Palace and was the target of the Star Devouring Ritual.
Therefore, when the Star Devouring Ritual began, Corvis instantly realized something. Xia Feng had used Calamity’s rules to become Konan, but Mother had used him to set a trap?
But why was Sister Qing also on that cloud platform formation core? What role did she play in this trap?
Corvis was perplexed,
But it no longer mattered. Knowing that ‘Konan’ was merely a false existence impersonated by that lowly individual Xia Feng was enough.
Sister Qing had originally warned him not to make a move against Konan again. Now, Sister Qing was probably the one who wanted to kill Xia Feng the most.
Corvis indifferently raised his eyes towards the cloud platform, a cold smile curling up the corner of his lips. How dare he pretend to be the brother of him and Ke Yanqing? Such a mongrel was simply courting death.
Xia Feng’s legs gradually grew heavy, and the slender hand of the woman with her hair tied up with a wooden hairpin rested on his shoulders. Her sickly beautiful eyes slowly dilated.
“Are you sure you want to do this here…” Xia Feng supported her small waist, whispering hoarsely against her hot earlobe, “There are people all over the ground.”
“…” Ke Yanqing trembled all over, her heart filled with an indescribable bitterness, on the verge of collapse. Of course, she knew there were people all over the ground!
But when she accepted this mission, she had personally promised Mother that she would absolutely complete the mission perfectly! She had nowhere left to retreat.
“Why don’t we just go home? Don’t do it here, ah—” Xia Feng’s voice was choked off, the heavy sensation on his thigh made his scalp tingle, “Sister Qing, you—”
The man’s voice lost its disguise, gradually converging with the evil voice of the K-Masked Man in her memory, murmuring in her ear. Ke Yanqing felt an electric current run through her from her back to her toes.
She didn’t understand why, upon hearing the K-Masked Man call her Sister Qing, amidst her fear, disgust, and even hatred, there was a sliver of excitement. That excitement spread rapidly like water soaking into paper, until it turned into euphoria, dyeing her beautiful eyes crimson.
Her slender hand slowly climbed up, tightly embracing Xia Feng’s broad back. Her beautiful, cold face was tense. Even though the corners of her lips twitched, she maintained an indifferent expression.
Of course, her trembling voice, pressed against the ear of this disgusting K-Masked Man, was still gentle, with a sweetness and tenderness she had never dared to imagine before, “Right here, hold me tight~”
The K-Masked Man was startled, then obeyed her command and held her tightly, asking simultaneously, his tone exceptionally calm and indifferent, “Oh, and then?”
The sickness in Ke Yanqing’s crimson beautiful eyes became more alluring, her pretty face flushed. She didn’t have time to ponder the changes in his tone. She only knew that everything she was doing now was merely to delay this person, and at the same time, to intensify the Blood Corrosion on this foolish K-Masked Man!
As for the impurity of his exterior, it was nothing! Her soul remained clean and unstained.
Her sacred heart was clear!
That’s right, just like this—
The K-Masked Man suddenly covered her red lips tightly, her pupils trembling and widening.
—This!
Clouds and mist swirled.
If one ignored the strange formation being performed by the more than three thousand people on the ground, this place truly resembled a Wonderland depicted in an ink wash painting.
Xia Feng supported the slender side waist of the woman with her hair tied up with a wooden hairpin with one hand, his other hand was also not idle.
He paid little attention to Ke Yanqing, merely enjoying the foolish woman’s self-importance while secretly observing the progress of the formation on the ground.
Ke Yanqing wanted to keep him on the cloud platform, but in reality, Xia Feng had no intention of leaving.
Just as Star Position Devouring Hua Shen wanted to Star Devour Yue Hongli, Yue Hongli also wanted to Star Devour Hua Shen.
The current situation was indeed worth a gamble.
One wrong move could lead to a complete loss, and Yue Hongli might truly be Star Devoured by Hua Shen.
Due to the incompleteness of her Godhead and authority, Hua Shen was currently only at a near-god strength comparable to the Light Holder. Once the Star Devouring was completed and her status was restored, she could return to the True God Realm, and even in a short time, she might directly ascend to the Heavenly God Realm.
