“When?!” Leticia looked back in surprise. The spiritual barrier she had set up showed no signs of being touched, and she couldn’t sense Huang’s spiritual fluctuations within the golden energy.
Was she deceived?
How did Huang do it? If Huang was really there, then who was fighting her now?
The Huang here was clearly Huang. If it were just a fake, it wouldn’t have been able to fight Leticia to this extent.
She couldn’t discern what had happened.
“Hahahaha, Dragon God, I admit, your arrival has completely disrupted my plans, and your strength is also much greater than I imagined.” The lava great bird wore a savage smile, and the burning resentment in her eyes made Leticia tremble inwardly.
This guy has gone completely mad!
“Since I can’t live, you don’t expect to have a good time either!” Letting out a sharp cry to the heavens, the lava giant bird suddenly burst forth with radiant golden flames. Her aura rapidly climbed, instantly surpassing Leticia.
“Burning her spirit, what a madman.” Leticia immediately saw what Huang was doing. She was burning her own spiritual power, and for Huang in this state, it was a suicidal act!
Although it could gain immense combat power in a short period, this method caused too much damage to the spirit. This was true for ordinary people, and even more so for Huang, who was already an undead being.
Regardless of whether Leticia lived or died after this battle, Huang would definitely not be able to survive.
The phoenix engulfed in flames tore through the barrier set up by Leticia and fiercely grabbed Leticia, who was trying to escape, with its sharp claws. In this situation, Leticia had no room to maneuver.
“I left my memory there. Now she should have accepted my memory. Even if I die, she will become the next me and kill the heavily injured you. Hahaha, go to hell with me!”
Huang was a madwoman. Leticia had never realized this fact so clearly. This person, who always liked to drag others to their deaths, was truly the most difficult opponent she had ever encountered.
Infinno tried to stop Huang’s self-destruction with golden chains, but Huang’s current state was beyond Infinno’s ability to restrain. The golden energy chains were completely melted by the giant phoenix as soon as they approached, rendering them useless.
Struggling forcefully, trying to break free from Huang’s grasp, Leticia despaired as she realized that Huang, who had thrown everything she had onto the gambling table with a death wish, truly had no way to stop her from dragging her to her death.
She was doing her best to protect herself with the Dragon God’s authority, hoping for a greater chance of survival in the upcoming explosion.
While attacking Huang with magic now would be effective, Leticia’s output capability was not enough to finish this guy off in a short time. If she couldn’t finish her, it would be useless; she would still have to take the full impact of the self-destruction.
This was the self-destruction of an ancient deity. Leticia truly dared not guarantee her survival in such a situation.
Moreover, even if she survived, the big egg that had accepted Huang’s memories would surely become a new Huang. Then, seeing her heavily injured state, it would probably try to kill her with all its might.
This was almost a certain death situation, a deadly trap laid by a phoenix with her soul.
What kind of deep hatred had made Huang so twisted! What exactly did the Dragon God do back then!
*Huff*, calm down. Are there any other ways to avoid this self-destruction?
My body is completely controlled by Huang. It’s impossible to break free now. And taking the damage of Huang’s self-destruction at point-blank range, even with maximum defense, the outcome would definitely not be good.
So my body is definitely going to take the full damage. At best, it’ll be a serious injury.
But my spirit seems to have a chance to remain unharmed, right?
Leticia remembered that she was not an ordinary deity. For other deities, the body and spirit were closely related; damage to the body would also cause a certain degree of damage to the spirit.
But she was different. She was the God of Dreams!
The previous God of Dreams did not have a physical form but was a pure spiritual entity. Even when she appeared in the real world, she was like a ghost.
In simple terms, for the God of Dreams, the physical body was not important at all!
Can I directly abandon this physical body and hide in the spiritual world?
When she became the God of Dreams, Leticia remembered that she had returned to her body through a form of possession. Since it was possession, it would be a feasible method to now disengage possession and return to the happy old home, the spiritual world.
With this thought, Leticia immediately made a decision. Staying here to take the self-destruction head-on would at least result in a serious injury. It would be better to hide in the spiritual world first.
“Ancestor, I’m going to hide in the spiritual world for a bit. Are you okay over there?”
“Your body’s defense is good, and my本体 is very sturdy. There’s no problem.” Infinno understood Leticia’s idea. After thinking carefully for a few seconds, she felt that this was indeed a very good coping method. It was just a physical body; if she didn’t want it, she didn’t want it.
She could just create another one later if she wanted.
After receiving the ancestor’s reply, Leticia began to gather her spiritual power. Soon, the spiritual power used to control the body was rapidly reeled in.
A translucent Leticia, shimmering with iridescent light, appeared inside the dragon’s body. She curiously glanced around her. This was the first time she had actively entered this state.
However, she didn’t see anything. The increasingly violent energy fluctuations from outside told her that now was not the time to be curious.
It’s time to run!
She tore the space in front of her, and a colorful vortex appeared. Without hesitation, Leticia plunged into it and returned to the spiritual space that felt so familiar.
The spiritual world and the real world had a certain correspondence, but this time Leticia could only see one dream. It was a dream at the intersection of gold and white. Looking closely, she could even see a small bird rolling on the ground, hugging its head.
Is this the dream of that egg?
Leticia blinked her eyes. It seemed she had stumbled upon a way to perfectly resolve this crisis.
…
After Leticia escaped into the spiritual space to take refuge, Bai Ling, who was anxiously pacing nearby, suddenly noticed that the aura of the giant dragon had changed.
The giant dragon had been very agile before, trying hard to break free from Huang’s restraint. But after a certain moment just now, the dragon stopped struggling and even stopped moving.
Its eyes, which had been emitting brilliant golden light, became unfocused, as if it had lost its soul.
Lost its soul?
Bai Ling caught the key point. This must be Leticia finding a way to avoid Huang’s attack. With Leticia’s full evasion skills, she definitely didn’t need to worry.
So, what she needed to do now was to take Yu away from here as much as possible, so that this little one wouldn’t be harmed by Huang’s self-destruction.
With a flash, Bai Ling appeared behind Yu, grabbed Yu’s collar, lifted the anxious girl, and fled rapidly into the distance.
“Huang is seizing her body!” Yu was so anxious that she could barely speak clearly. “I want to help her!”
“What can you do to help her? Can you defeat Huang’s will?” Bai Ling couldn’t let Yu do such a foolish thing. Leticia didn’t know where she had gone, and she didn’t understand things on the spiritual level. How could she let Yu go and throw her life away?
“Wait until Leticia comes back before thinking about other things. For now, you better stay here and don’t think too much.”
Holding Yu tightly in her arms, Bai Ling flew away at her fastest speed. She didn’t know the power of Huang’s self-destruction this time. She could only infer from the terrifying aura erupting from the lava giant bird that the power of this self-destruction would likely be quite immense.
It was even more terrifying than the energy body’s self-destruction before, because this time, Huang was gambling everything she had, aiming only to drag Leticia down to hell with her.
They fled until they could no longer see the two entwined giant beasts in their sight. Before Bai Ling could catch her breath, the ground began to tremble, and a dazzling golden flash streaked across the horizon. A giant fireball rose slowly with the momentum of destroying everything.
The ground began to melt again, turning into lava under the extreme high temperature. Bai Ling immediately summoned starlight to protect herself and Yu, and continued to flee rapidly into the distance.
Even the prelude to this self-destruction was so grand. Could the final explosion be weak?
It was obvious that it couldn’t be weak. A deity self-destructing with her soul as fuel could easily destroy this entire space, right?
All Bai Ling could do was to get as far away from the center of the explosion as possible and then quickly return after the explosion.
In the sun-like fireball, the golden great bird, no longer bearing any traces of lava, looked at the giant dragon held in her claws with an extremely ferocious expression. She had of course realized that the one held in her claws was just an empty body. The real Leticia had already detached from this body and fled to an unknown place.
But once the self-destruction process began, it could not be stopped. Huang could only hold onto this physical body and head to hell with it.
After countless years, Huang, along with the Dragon God, had permanently left this world.
Her last shred of rationality burned away, Huang could no longer control the terrifying energy within her. After a moment of chilling silence, the true explosion began.
An invisible burst of heat destroyed everything, and golden flames filled the sky. In an instant, the lava space began to shake precariously under the energy turbulence brought by this self-destruction.
Fortunately, the space was created with great care by Huang in the past, so it managed to barely withstand this self-destruction. However, it was only barely supporting itself. Countless black spatial rifts appeared in the lava space, heralding the space’s imminent destruction.
The barrier that Leticia had previously set up to protect the big egg shattered instantly under the impact of the scorching energy, but the big egg was not affected by the energy of the self-destruction. Or rather, it absorbed the scorching energy that rushed towards it.
Faint phoenix cries echoed from the golden-white sphere that the big egg had transformed into. After the previous phoenix god completely perished, a new phoenix god seemed to be reborn from the ashes of the former, bathed in flames.
The energy turbulence generated by Huang’s self-destruction provided nearly endless energy to the big egg. The development, which would have taken some time, was rapidly completed under the impetus of this self-destruction.
Golden light shot out from the inside of the golden-white sphere. Soon, the sphere was covered in cracks.
Understanding that it could truly break out of its shell, the golden light within the large sphere dimmed for a moment, and then erupted completely.
A second sun rose in the lava space, and the energy left by Huang’s self-destruction surged towards the second sun, being absorbed by it.
A beautiful, bright yellow great bird flew out of the sun. She spread her magnificent, huge wings. Although her face held a touch of childishness, it still possessed the divine nature unique to a deity.
This was a newborn deity, yet her strength had already reached the pinnacle of the world. This was a deity, a true darling of the world.
However, the mental state of this great bird seemed to have a small problem. After breaking out of its shell, she felt countless memories flooding her mind. This influx of memories was too vast, making it impossible for her to digest them for a moment.
In addition to this, she also sensed an enormous amount of fragmented power scattered throughout the world. She didn’t know why she had so many scattered power fragments, but she instinctively began to summon these fragments back.
The moment she made this decision, numerous golden pillars of light appeared in various parts of the great plains. Countless warring rebels were engulfed by the flames emanating from their armor and weapons. These flames, after consuming their hosts, transformed into giant birds and flew toward the sky, flying straight to the north.
They felt the summons and had to respond.
These scenes were unfolding everywhere on the great plains. Among them, the rebel forces suffered the most damage. The Orc royal tents had ordered the collection and destruction of divine blood weapons long ago, so their losses this time were almost zero.
But with those fiery great birds flying straight to the north, no matter which faction of orcs it was, they all realized one thing.
Something had happened in the north.
Golden flames occupied the sky. This… seemed to be the symbol of a god’s return in a prophecy!
