Chapter: Chapter 323
“Her speed is quite fast, but is the remaining energy really enough?” Looking at the altar in the sky that could already be seen with the naked eye, the white-haired woman stood with her hands behind her back on the tall building, quietly waiting for the east wind to arrive.
Outside the altar, Bai Ling also stopped her attempts to attack. She had wanted to stop the deity from performing the ritual, but the altar’s self-contained shield had rendered all her attempts to intervene useless.
Just as she was about to increase her output, a message from the white-haired woman made Bai Ling stop.
The white-haired woman told Bai Ling to be patient, stating that even if Bai Ling sacrificed her life, she wouldn’t be able to break through the barrier. Bai Ling needed to wait for a moment that the white-haired woman had been anticipating for a long time.
Space turbulence from afar would disrupt the energy barrier protecting the altar. At the same time, Xiaoya’s ability would be precisely delivered to the altar, eliminating all special abilities on it.
This would directly interrupt the ritual the deity was performing, causing a significant backlash to her. What Bai Ling needed to do was to strike while the iron was hot, preferably to eliminate the deity permanently.
As for whether she would be accidentally injured by Xiaoya’s ability after rushing forward, there was not much to worry about. With Xiaoya’s current ability, being able to deliver it from a distance was already an extraordinary feat. Moreover, she was erasing the power of a deity. Optimistically, her ability would last for more than a second.
Although it was only for a second, it was definitely enough. The ritual could not be interrupted midway, and this one-second energy vacuum was enough to collapse the deity’s entire plan.
The deity did not have extra energy to restart the ritual.
“However, wouldn’t it be better for me to charge up here directly rather than rush forward?” Bai Ling scratched her head, thinking that fighting in close combat might not be as good as unleashing a powerful attack from here. When the barrier shattered, she could launch her ultimate move to catch the deity off guard.
This way, the damage inflicted on the deity would definitely be greater.
Regarding Bai Ling’s thoughts, the white-haired woman said that she had a good idea, but space turbulence did not distinguish between friend or foe. While it was disrupting the altar’s barrier, it might also interrupt Bai Ling’s charge-up. If the charge-up was forcefully interrupted, Bai Ling would also suffer internal injuries.
Would she then have to charge at the deity, who was also injured, in such a state? What kind of crippled brawl would that be?
“To be safe, I suggest not doing anything extra.” The white-haired woman looked to the west, counting down in her heart. “Prepare yourself, the space turbulence is coming!”
About ten seconds after she finished speaking, a strange fluctuation, imperceptible to ordinary people, swept through Central City.
On the material plane, this strange fluctuation caused no obvious effects, at most causing a momentary disruption in electromagnetic signals. However, on other levels, the impact of this fluctuation was catastrophic.
The first to bear the brunt was the transparent barrier enveloping the altar. This product of the ancient divine eras could not even support it for a second under the might of nature before shattering into pieces, completely exposing the altar.
Although it could regenerate, for a short period, the altar had lost its means of protecting its interior.
“Now, Xiaoya, act!” Seeing the barrier shatter, the woman shouted loudly.
Upon hearing the long-awaited signal, Xiaoya immediately concentrated her energy and activated her ability towards the coordinates she had found long ago.
When Xiaoya’s ability was activated, it did not produce any anomalies. Just like herself, it appeared unusually harmless, but in reality, the effect of this ability could only be described with one word: terrifying.
The deity within the altar had not yet recovered from the shattering of the barrier when a wave of weakness suddenly struck within her body. All her energy was gone.
Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for a moment. In the next moment, she could sense the energy within her again, but this did not improve her expression, because her ritual had been interrupted.
Before the barrier shattered, she had only unsealed two pillars, and the remaining energy in her body was enough for her to unseal two more. She had planned to unseal the remaining two pillars in one go and then quickly escape.
But now, because of that momentary interruption of energy transmission, the ritual had been interrupted.
Since it was interrupted midway rather than being voluntarily canceled by the deity, the moment the ritual was interrupted, the deity felt an excruciating pain. That was the backlash from the seals.
“Cough, cough, what happened?” Covering her mouth, the deity coughed twice and checked the remaining energy in her body. It was no longer enough to restart the ritual and then unseal the seals, meaning she had to stop here?
Although she had unsealed part of the seals, she still felt very unwilling.
She had finally found this opportunity, and yet she missed this excellent timing because of those mortals. How could she be reconciled?
“Die!” Just then, Bai Ling rushed onto the altar. Upon seeing the colored figure whose face was unclear as it stood in place, she immediately swung her sword and attacked the deity.
Talk? Banter? Miss Bai wouldn’t care about these things. She only knew that this colored figure was an enemy, and the best way to deal with enemies was to kill them with her sword.
The Sword Saint had never been an intelligent character.
The sneak attack from Bai Ling threw the deity into a panic. She had separated from Zimu’s body and was in a spiritual state. In this state, the deity was extremely fragile. Her fragility could even compete with Miss Bai for the position of chief glass cannon.
Due to the backlash from the interrupted ritual, the depletion of energy from unsealing the seals earlier, and various other reasons, the deity was actually being suppressed by Bai Ling.
Wielding streaks of starlight sword energy, Bai Ling became more and more proficient. Honestly, she enjoyed this feeling of dominating her opponent. Once she found this feeling of having the upper hand, Miss Bai’s combat power immediately increased by a notch.
Several times, her sword almost struck the deity’s true form, and could have caused real damage to it.
Although she hadn’t hit it, Bai Ling believed that with a little more time, she could definitely wound this weakened deity, and even kill her!
The deity also realized this. If it dragged on any longer, her situation would be quite dire. The material world was ultimately not her domain, and her disadvantage in fighting here was too great.
Before, she had the body to possess and could even counterattack. Now that she had separated from the possessed body, she could only be chased.
If she continued to passively endure attacks like this, the outcome could be quite bad. The deity knew this very well, so she could not continue to be beaten like this.
Taking advantage of a gap in Bai Ling’s offense, she suddenlyopened her mouth and let out a piercing howl. This was a move that directly attacked the spirit. If someone with weak mental defense heard this howl, they could become an idiot.
Bai Ling’s mental defense was naturally not up to par, but the mental shield on her was still active, protecting her from the deity’s mental attacks.
However, the shield could only exert a weakening effect. The destructive power of the deity’s howl was truly immense, and even the shield could not block all of the damage.
The mental attack that pierced through the shield caused Bai Ling to freeze in place for a moment. Taking advantage of Bai Ling’s immobilization, the deity immediately created distance between herself and Bai Ling, reaching out and tearing fiercely at the air behind her.
A black rift appeared in front of the deity. As long as she stepped into this rift, she could return to the spiritual world, where she would be safe.
These mortals could not find the deity who desperately wanted to hide in the vast spiritual world. She only needed to be careful, and she could slowly recover to her peak state, then seize another opportunity to perform the ritual and remove all the seals.
With this thought, the deity stepped into the rift.
But to her surprise, the spiritual world was actually repelling her at this moment. The repulsive force from within the rift greatly slowed her movements.
And this, at this moment, could be considered a disaster.
Because behind the deity, there was a killer holding a sword.
Seeing the deity trying to escape, Bai Ling, who had already recovered, immediately swung her sword and attacked. And now, the deity was stuck in the rift, unable to advance or retreat. If she went forward, she would definitely be hit by a sword, and if she retreated, it was uncertain whether she could find another opportunity to open a portal like this again.
Opening a portal also required energy, and the deity’s current energy was not abundant.
After much deliberation, the deity gritted her teeth and decided to take Bai Ling’s attack head-on, as returning to the spiritual world was the top priority.
Thus, Bai Ling’s sword pierced the deity. The starlight, carrying a hint of mystery, erupted within the deity, weakening her already unstable colored form to the point of near transparency.
This strike seriously wounded the deity.
Bai Ling still wanted to press her advantage, preferably to eliminate the deity permanently, but just as she thought this, the deity finally managed to squeeze her entire body into the spiritual world.
The black rift vanished in an instant, and along with it disappeared half of Bai Ling’s starlight sword.
Looking at the broken sword in her hand with a smooth斷口, Bai Ling sighed regretfully. It was a pity that she couldn’t keep the deity. Such a hostile deity alive was an unavoidable threat.
No one knew what tricks this deity would pull next, and no one knew if they could stop the deity’s plan next time. If weeds were not removed, they would grow again with the spring breeze.
Compared to that, the broken sword was a minor issue. After all, the starlight sword was an energy body; if it broke, it broke, and she could condense it again.
“She escaped, what a shame.” Bai Ling informed the white-haired woman about her situation. In her opinion, this crisis had ended.
“Perhaps, she still has one last hurdle to overcome. Whether she can escape or not is still uncertain.” Hearing Bai Ling’s voice, the white-haired woman said nothing, but in her heart, she spoke her true thoughts.
In the spiritual world, the deity would still encounter an opponent, an opponent who had been waiting for a long time.
She wondered if the Demon King could seize the opportunity to kick the deity while she was down. If she could kill the deity, that would be best.
Leticia, waiting in the spiritual world, of course, did not know about the events happening outside. The flow of time in the spiritual world was counterintuitive and could never be converted with a fixed formula from the material world.
For example, the deity had only spent about ten minutes in the material world, but for Leticia, only a few minutes had passed. She had just stabilized the half-dream she had managed to save and was about to go out to help when a black portal suddenly opened before her.
Seeing the colored figure, looking weak and haggard, crawl out of the black passage, Leticia scratched her cheek. What was this, waiting by the dike and actually waiting for the rabbit to bump into the stake?
“Oh, isn’t this our great deity? What’s wrong? Weren’t you quite majestic just now? Why are you like a stray dog now?” Leticia walked up to the deity step by step and asked in a mocking tone.
Hearing Leticia’s words, a hint of anger flashed across the deity’s face, but it was followed by intense fear.
Meeting Leticia at this moment was no joke.
Her current state was arguably the worst since her birth, and although Leticia had expended considerable effort to protect that half-dream, these expenditures were quickly replenished by the dream’s own feedback.
Leticia could now be considered to be in peak condition. The peak condition Leticia could fight the deity one-on-one, although she was at a disadvantage, she would not be defeated quickly, which meant that Leticia’s strength was quite good.
So, in this situation, could the deity still defeat Leticia?
This question seemed easy to answer.
She couldn’t, of course, she couldn’t.
“I think there might be some misunderstanding between us…” The deity racked her brain, trying to find a way to escape, but before she could finish speaking, a piercing pain shot through her chest.
Leticia did not want to give the deity a chance to speak. The trap set by the deity had almost cost her her life. Leticia was never a broad-minded girl. Since the deity wanted to kill her, she would naturally retaliate.
“Honestly, I’ve always wanted to know if deities can be killed.” Leticia channeled the energy within her body and looked at the increasingly faint colored figure, a smile appearing on her face. “It seems now that deities can also die.”
“You… will regret this…” the deity said intermittently. She could feel her power continuously flowing towards the girl who had plunged her hand into her chest. Why was this, she didn’t understand.
However, in the last moment of her consciousness disappearing, she felt a sense of freedom. The seals that had weighed on her for so many years were gone.
So, death was also a way?
