What’s going on? The confident goddess was somewhat bewildered by this purple barrier. She had expected to kill Bai Ling instantly, but she didn’t anticipate that the most crucial step of the instant kill would go wrong.
If she can’t control Bai Ling, how can she kill her instantly?
She can’t.
Not only can she not kill her instantly, but this moment of her being stunned also presented Bai Ling with an opportunity for a sneak attack.
Bai Ling possessed extremely strong combat intuition. Seeing the goddess momentarily stunned, how could she possibly let such a mistake by her opponent pass? Without a doubt, she immediately swung her sword at the goddess.
With her hands crossed in front of her, the goddess easily blocked Bai Ling’s sword. Without any charge-up, Miss Bai’s damage output wasn’t particularly high (for a goddess).
The goddess could block this sneak attack with little effort. Upon realizing that her attack wasn’t causing significant damage, Bai Ling immediately changed her combat style.
Her objective was to stall the goddess, preventing her from focusing all her attention on Reticia. Therefore, she only needed to ensure she didn’t lose and keep the goddess’s attention tied to the real world.
Thus, Bai Ling began to run.
Watching Bai Ling dart around in the sky, the goddess also felt a headache. The energy she allocated to dealing with Bai Ling wasn’t substantial, preventing her from fully unleashing her power. After her hypnosis ability failed, this portion of her energy was destined to be sidetracked.
You might ask why she couldn’t allocate more energy to this side.
Come on, Reticia in the dream was far more formidable than Bai Ling in reality. After the goddess divided her energy, her combat power within the dream was significantly weakened. Reticia, seizing this rare opportunity, launched a fierce offensive, even gradually turning the tide.
In the dream world, combat power was determined by the strength of one’s spiritual power. Undoubtedly, Reticia, having overcome her inner demons, could be considered top-tier in terms of spiritual power in this era.
With the dream energy serving as a backup power source, her combat power truly reached a divine level.
If the goddess wanted to invest more energy in the real world to quickly defeat Bai Ling, then in the dream, Reticia could swiftly crush the consciousness the goddess had left in the dream, leaving her completely unable to manage both ends.
As it is now, she could at least maintain an advantage on both fronts, though the advantage was extremely slight.
As time passed, the goddess grew increasingly anxious. The ritual had to begin, but with her current energy reserves, the probability of successfully completing the ritual wasn’t high.
Moreover, there were these two bothersome insects by her side who would undoubtedly sabotage the ritual, making the already low success rate even more pathetic.
What should she do? The goddess had to make a choice: accept defeat, withdraw with the collected energy back to the spiritual world, and wait for another opportunity, or go all the way and force the ritual?
Was there even a choice?
She had been confined for long enough. If she were confined any longer, she would truly go mad. Would there really be another opportunity?
Her range of activity was limited to this small area. If humans were determined to guard against her, she would be helpless. An exposed, un-free goddess was easy to deal with; they just needed to stay away from her.
Without any energy to absorb and no key to unlock the seal, wouldn’t the goddess be imprisoned forever?
Therefore, there was only one chance. She had to brace herself and push forward.
Even if the ritual’s failure would result in extremely severe backlash, potentially even rendering her half-dead, if she didn’t take a gamble, there would be no chance at all.
Furthermore, even if the ritual failed, the goddess was confident she could escape into the spiritual world alive, at least without losing her life.
“Do I have no choice but to force the ritual?” The moment was fast approaching. The goddess made her decision. Even under the attacks of these two, she would forcefully perform the ritual!
After making her decision, she immediately distanced herself from Bai Ling, needing a moment to connect the two worlds.
Sensing the goddess retreating, Bai Ling realized the goddess might be doing something she didn’t want her to do. She immediately turned back and launched a fierce offensive against the goddess.
The goddess did not dodge, nor could she. She needed to use herself as an anchor to summon the dream world into the real world. During this guidance period, her physical body in reality could not move.
The air grew thick, and a massive shadow appeared in the sky. The already dilapidated streets became even more ethereal as the various elements belonging to the other world began to solidify. That fantastical world was truly about to descend.
Previously, only projections had descended into the real world. Now, the real entity would descend.
When the two worlds merge, that is when the goddess will perform her ritual.
“See that colored light spot? Stare at it. When I say go, unleash your ability on that spot.” Outside the colorful sky curtain, on top of a tall building, the white-haired woman said to Xiao Ya, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with her eyes closed.
Xiao Ya wore a metallic-looking helmet, resembling the kind of equipment in some movies used to boost the abilities of psychic users.
In fact, this helmet did serve such a purpose.
With the help of this helmet, Xiao Ya could project her abilities to extremely distant locations, such as into that colorful sky curtain.
Since Xiao Ya was very fragile, the white-haired woman dared not let Xiao Ya enter the sky curtain directly. Having the goddess use her abilities at close range could be disastrous for Xiao Ya, and she would be heartbroken.
Therefore, she chose a more complex method, one only she could use.
That was to guide Xiao Ya and remotely project her abilities to a designated location. This required the guide to possess terrifying mental fortitude, and the white-haired woman happened to meet this condition.
“Will there really be no problems?” Kira sat on a small chair beside her, still feeling a bit dizzy. She had spent a considerable amount of time in the dream world, casting many spells, which had left her exhausted.
“Don’t worry, Kira. I’m sitting so far away, I definitely won’t be in danger. Besides, my sisters are fighting hard on the front lines. Since I have the ability to help, why should I do nothing?” Xiao Ya opened her eyes and smiled at Kira. “My sister is so strong, I can’t hold her back.”
Xiao Ya actually didn’t know that Bai Ling was the legendary Sword Saint, but she at least knew that her sister was extremely powerful. And as her sister’s sister, she couldn’t disgrace her sister!
Rumble…
“What is this…” Reticia, after another round of exchanges with the goddess, straightened up in mid-air. Just as she was about to take advantage of this moment to turn the tide, the anomaly occurring in the dream world interrupted her actions.
The entire world began to shake. The tremors weren’t significant, but undoubtedly, the entire world was trembling.
What was happening? What was this goddess doing? Two questions appeared in Reticia’s mind.
After a second, Reticia couldn’t come up with an answer, so she decided to stop thinking about it and just act to prevent it, which would be more convenient and faster.
Thinking was something done only when one lacked strength. Now that she possessed such formidable strength, she didn’t need to use her brain when dealing with some matters.
Pointing her finger at the distant goddess, several meteors instantly appeared in the sky and hurtled towards her. This attack, which could instantly kill inner demons, was now being used by Reticia as a normal attack.
It could only be said that with ample backup energy, Reticia’s combat style had become more unrestrained. The magic she had previously used so sparingly was now being unleashed as if it were free.
These meteors naturally couldn’t harm the goddess; at most, they could only consume some of the goddess’s energy. Within the dream world, neither Reticia nor the goddess could kill the other. Every attack they made was consuming the other’s spiritual power. When one party’s spiritual power became too low, the other would naturally achieve victory.
As for killing the other quickly? This was a dream. Even if their heads were severed, as long as their spiritual power was supplied, both of them could regrow their heads instantly.
So, it was a war of attrition. Regardless, Reticia, backed by the entire dream, was full of confidence.
The goddess, on the other hand, seemed to be in a hurry. Since the goddess was in a hurry, Reticia was even less so. This indicated that her actions were effective; otherwise, the goddess wouldn’t be anxious.
“Not dodging? What is she doing?” However, this time, the goddess’s reaction truly shocked Reticia. Faced with these attacks, the goddess would have 100% chosen to dodge previously, only opting to withstand them when she couldn’t dodge.
But now, with space to absolutely dodge, the goddess stood her ground and took the meteors Reticia hurled head-on.
That layer of colorful light, like a city wall, blocked all attacks for the goddess.
Although her attacks were blocked, Reticia wasn’t surprised. She had already grasped the nature of this world. Those grand attacks were essentially materialized spiritual power, not equivalent to the true magic of the real world.
So, she was simply using her spiritual power to collide with the goddess’s spiritual power. Her own spiritual power was definitely not as strong as the goddess’s, and she couldn’t break through that spiritual barrier. She could only deplete the goddess’s spiritual power.
However, the goddess could clearly dodge. Why was she standing still?
Reticia looked at the goddess hiding behind the colorful light barrier and noticed the seven-colored girl’s face was filled with a solemn expression mixed with a hint of madness.
Was she pushed to a desperate situation, preparing for a final gamble?
The pressure they were applying wasn’t that great, was it?
Reticia had an objective evaluation of her own strength. Although she could stall the goddess with the support of dream energy, to say she was applying significant pressure to the goddess would be a joke.
And the person distracting the goddess was probably Bai Ling. Bai Ling’s combat power in reality was much lower than hers in the dream world. It was impossible for her to make the goddess feel pressure.
She was using cheats; the opponent could still suppress her steadily. Miss Bai didn’t have any cheats and was lucky not to have been eliminated.
Since it wasn’t due to their side, why did the goddess suddenly change her combat style and stand there like a target dummy?
“She’s anxious, so there must be something that needs to be completed immediately.” Thinking this, Reticia quickly scanned her surroundings, trying to see if there was anything she had overlooked amidst the battle.
With this glance, Reticia saw something familiar: her home in the real world.
But this was a dream!
“No, it still seems like a phantom, but it’s gradually solidifying. Are the dream world and the real world about to completely merge?” Before entering the dream world, Reticia had witnessed the initial stages of the dream and reality merging. Now, it seemed the merger was nearing its final step.
The goddess was probably anxious about this. While the two worlds were merging, she had something to do.
What could it be?
It must be to break the seal.
“Huh? What’s in the sky…” Just then, conspicuous curse chains appeared in the sky. Those chains descended from various parts of the sky, wrapping around the goddess’s body, causing a look of pain to appear on her face.
Were those the seals?
This was the first time Reticia had seen seals that restricted the goddess’s freedom. She had initially thought the so-called seals were just a place the goddess couldn’t leave through normal means, but she hadn’t expected these seals to be like this.
They not only prevented the goddess from gaining freedom but also punished any goddess who tried to break the seals.
What should she do now? Reticia didn’t even need to think. If the goddess wanted to break the seals, how could she possibly let her succeed?
It was definitely about causing destruction, preferably to completely ruin her plan and kill her directly.
However, the destructive effect of Reticia’s actions wasn’t significant. Although she exhibited pain, the goddess did not relax her vigilance against Reticia at all. All the magic Reticia hurled was blocked by that thin colorful light barrier.
After blocking this barrage of attacks, the goddess’s complexion turned pale. The energy she was consuming now was being depleted with every use! Reticia had a blue buff, but she didn’t.
She was having trouble gathering enough energy to break the seal. Now, being depleted by Reticia like this, her chances of success were undoubtedly even slimmer.
But she had no choice. She could only firmly grasp this opportunity. Once she failed, a fate more tragic than death would await her.
“Whether it’s life or death, one must gamble to know the outcome.” The goddess could already sense the physical body in the real world. A giant lock appeared before her eyes. She needed to insert the key into the keyhole and then turn it.
So now, the first step to breaking the seal begins!
