C1116 Queen's Divine Visage!
"Chen Qinghuang!"
Many eyes that had been intently watching the Great Demon God Grec suddenly diverted, drawn into the shadows.
There, a remarkable spectacle was gradually taking place.
The Deathwing Lair had been cleaved by a vast crimson sword river, dissipating the darkness at its core and causing many Dark Realm Shura to suffer—some perished, others wounded.
Following the sword's strike, Yu Yuan and the Dragon Slaying Stage reestablished their connection, sending a call through the Endless Space to the Dark Realm.
The sword spirit, long fused with his arm bone, traveled via the Dragon Slaying Stage into the Dark Realm through a hidden conduit linking the lair and the realm, charging toward the Titanblade.
Subsequently, Sabonis sensed trouble in the Dark Realm and issued an order to decimate Ionodios.
The Great Demon God Grec, too, was compelled to make a full descent.
The expansive crimson sword river remaining above the lair was bombarded by dark energy enhanced by Sabonis. The river hissed as infinite sword light and the Dark Realm's ice energy tore at each other, clashing millions of times each second, gradually depleting their respective forces.
Amidst this tumultuous battle between the crimson sword river and the Absolute Darkness, Chen Qinghuang made her astonishing entrance.
Her arrival was so extraordinary and captivating!
The Divine Visage she displayed even overshadowed the significant disturbance caused by the Demon God Grec's entry into Ionodios.
At that moment, Chen Qinghuang's Divine Visage stood hundreds of feet tall, not as towering as Jun Chen or as imposing as President Lyi's Holy Mountain, yet she possessed three heads and six arms.
Her outward-facing visage, still adorned with a dragon robe and imperial crown, was concealed behind a beaded curtain, radiating an immense vitality as if capable of resurrection at any moment.
This Chen Qinghuang, with her hands crossed over her lofty chest, glowed resplendently, exuding a sacred and untouchable aura.
On her left, another Chen Qinghuang displayed a fierce and malevolent face, one that spelled doom for all beings.
With a sweep of her hands, she unleashed swathes of the flame of destruction, driving the sentinel Sinton to retreat in fury. Even as he disappeared into the darkness, his form was still engulfed by the searing flames.
Chen Qinghuang, wielding the power of destruction, was akin to the God of Destruction herself. Wherever her gaze landed, all things would shatter and burst.
The very fabric of reality—the Domain, the stars, the heavens, and the earth—seemed poised to explode in her presence.
To the right, Chen Qinghuang's face was of extreme beauty, yet it was pale and devoid of luster.
Her eyes swirled with the breath of death, suggesting that all beings under her gaze, those with flesh, blood, and intelligence, should not exist in this world but instead be consigned to the depths of the Abyss.
This Chen Qinghuang was like a deity presiding over death.
In one hand, she gently grasped the Frost Well, observing the Frost Queen trapped at its rim.
With a casual flick of her other hand, she swatted Lin Zhuyun, who had stealthily drawn near, drenching her in blood before casting her into the depths of darkness.
The towering Chen Qinghuang, hundreds of feet high with three heads and six arms, shared a single divine body.
On the front, she was imbued with a rich vitality, wielding the secular bird's power of rebirth.
To the left, Chen Qinghuang commanded destruction, capable of obliterating all, while to the right, she reigned over death, her existence seemingly dedicated to the eradication of life and the end of worlds.
The triune Chen Qinghuang, with a slender waist, descended into the Deathwing Lair, much like the Frost Queen caught at the well's mouth.
A potent death force surged into the lair from all directions of Ionodios.
Around the lair's rim, pale Death Blossoms slowly unfurled. The force emanating from Chen Qinghuang infused each blossom, preventing the surrounding darkness from penetrating even slightly.
The Withered Sword and the Death Crane, now aligned with the Chamber of Commerce, simultaneously sensed something.
Recently, the mighty beings from various races, including Shura, Warpbeast, and Ghoul, who had perished in Ionodios, had their death force devoured in an instant by the Deathwing Lair, as if inhaled by a great whale, under Chen Qinghuang's enigmatic Divine Visage.
Chen Qinghuang, with the hand of death clutching the Frost Well, slightly lifted her head to look upon Sabonis.
The towering Sabonis halted his battle with Zhongli Dapan, Green Willow, Beru, and Mia. He refrained from further ravaging the Divine Visage of the Holy Mountain that President Lyi had transformed into. He even allowed the massive Golden Chariot to descend slightly, leveling it with Chen Qinghuang's Divine Visage.
Chen Qinghuang received a high degree of respect from the Blood King.
"Hehe!"
Upon the full arrival of the Blood Fiend clan's current patriarch, he manifested as a middle-aged man with a beard covering most of his cheeks. Clad in a blood-red robe, his formidable presence was undeniable. His eyes, shifting through shades of dark red, crimson, and orange-red, fixed upon Chen Qinghuang.
Like Sabonis, he too was taken aback by Chen Qinghuang.
"The Empress of the Songbird Empire!"
"The very empress who renounced her throne, fell from the status of Solar Spirit, and then ascended once more among the stars of the Extraterrestrial Star River to reclaim her freedom! She was the bane of the Otherkin! The sharpest sword wielded by the five greatest powers!"
"How has she grown so powerful?!"
Dark disciples from the Everlands, such as Peach Madam, Taruer, Tan Yuan, and others, were nearly agape at the sight of Chen Qinghuang's miraculous Divine Visage, with her three heads and six arms.
Yu Yuan took deep breaths to steady his shaken spirit, equally astonished by the Songbird Queen at this moment.
"Chen Qinghuang!"
Tian Zang, Hei Xun, Indigo Wraith, and even President Lyi and Jun Chen cried out, their faces betraying their alarm.
Tian Zang, Hei Xun, and Indigo Wraith, representing Boulderdawn, obeyed the master of the bronze coffin.
President Lyi and Jun Chen, as heads of the Chamber of Commerce, along with the God-King, had long schemed to exploit Ionodios for their clandestine purposes.
They were unfazed by the Blood King's arrival, unmoved by the appearance of the Great Demon King Grec, and remained composed even as darkness threatened to swallow Ionodios whole.
But now, at the sight of Chen Qinghuang's three-headed, six-armed Divine Visage, their composure shattered!
It seemed that the first unforeseen event had finally occurred.
"What do you want?"
Blood King Sabonis and President Lyi of the Skyreach Consortium simultaneously posed the same question to Chen Qinghuang.
President Lyi's Divine Visage, once as imposing as a mountain range, had receded into his normal human form as he sat upon his throne.
Together, he and Sabonis turned their attention to Chen Qinghuang.
"Go."
With a firm grip on the Frost Well, Chen Qinghuang uttered a command. The crystalline well split open, releasing the Frost Queen from its confines.
The Frost Queen and Chen Qinghuang exchanged a glance before vanishing abruptly.
A sudden chill enveloped Yu Yuan, signaling to him that the Frost Queen had used her bond with the Crucible of Evil to return to the little world inside the cauldron in the span of a breath.
"I apologize."
Chen Qinghuang shook her head in regret, addressing both President Lyi and Sabonis.
Her veiled face, hidden behind a curtain of pearls, seemed to direct the same apology toward Yu Yuan.
Crack!
Her hand, the harbinger of death, clenched, and the peculiar Frost Well shattered, breaking into shards of ice that cascaded down onto the darkened earth.
"No!"
"How dare you!"
President Lyi and the Blood King roared in outrage.
Chen Qinghuang, seemingly oblivious to their protests, grasped the Dragon Slaying Stage with both hands and yanked it upward.
A viscous ripple formed between the Dragon Slaying Stage and its nest, which she severed with a single pull.
"This is yours."
Once all connections were severed, she hurled the Dragon Slaying Stage toward Yu Yuan.
A burst of golden brilliance and a web of crimson attempted to intercept the Dragon Slaying Stage mid-flight, conjured by President Lyi, the Blood King, and the formidable Demon God Grec.
Yet, in a mere moment, the Dragon Slaying Stage materialized within the Dissolving Fortress, also a product of her alchemy, and with another swift motion, it landed in the palm of Yu Yuan.
As Yu Yuan regained hold of the Dragon Slaying Stage, his unique perception of the Dark Realm was abruptly severed.
Clutching the Dragon Slaying Stage once more, Yu Yuan gazed toward the Deathwing Lair, where he could faintly discern the sound of cracking echoes.
He quickly realized that the passageway connecting the Dark Realm to Ionodios had been mercilessly shattered. This was the work of Chen Qinghuang, her wielded power, and her merging with the Deathwing Lair.
Every Shura in the Dark Realm was now trapped, with no escape route—none could return, including the Blood King, Sabonis.
The sword spirit that had ventured into the Deathwing Lair had lost all connection with Yu Yuan. What fate awaited the Divine Sword was now beyond his knowledge.
With a single move, Chen Qinghuang had crafted a new scenario, throwing the plans of all parties into disarray and leaving everyone in a state of surprise and awe.
