C1853 It Had Always Been Vengeful

"Senior Brother..."

Zhong Chichen distanced himself from the Nest of Perdition and retreated to stand beside Qin Luo of the Ruby Hand. As he raised his head to gaze at the crimson sky, the blood-red firmament cast a somber glow on his face. Yet, his multicolored eyes sparkled with a newfound brilliance, inspired by Yu Yuan's words.

"I am still Zhong Chichen. You were once Hong Qi, and we... we were once brothers in arms. I vividly remember the affection you showed me and the closeness we shared."

He reminisced about three hundred years prior, when he and Yu Yuan, both unawakened and confused, shared a sincere camaraderie.

Yu Yuan's recent gesture of rescue had moved him, stirring a sense of nostalgia.

"I'll start by reversing the Dark Phoenix's tampering with the space rules of the Everlands."

Looking frail, he clutched the enigmatic Book of Time and soared toward the blood-red expanse of the Dragon Slaying Stage.

Upon his entry, Yu Yuan immediately perceived his intentions and his desire to harness the power of the Dragon Slaying Stage.

Yu Yuan acknowledged with a simple "Good."

Within the depths of the scarlet sky, Zhong Chichen reemerged in his vibrant Chronowyrm form. Amidst the deep red, his scar-laden draconic form wove together streams of spatial light.

With a whoosh, the intertwining spatial light was empowered by the Dragon Slaying Stage, transforming first into chains of glass-like crystal, then assembling into an intricate and mysterious pattern.

The dazzling pattern burst forth from the bloodied sky that shrouded the Marsh, visible for only a fleeting moment before vanishing.

Yet in that brief instant, the fundamental structure of space, warped by the Dark Phoenix's influence, seemed to be realigned by Zhong Chichen.

The dormant teleportation circles and the Domain Channel linked to the Hellmouth resumed their functions.

Ignoring the clash between Loong Jie, Mo Baichuan, and the Dark Phoenix's avatar, Zhong Chichen completed his task and remained within the blood-colored sky in his draconic form.

"I've decided to abandon my journey to the Darkpinion."

He murmured within the bloody world, confident that Yu Yuan was listening.

"The Secular Bird Queen harbors a grudge against me. When I fell into the Nest of Perdition, she was only slightly losing her fight with the Dark Phoenix. But my entrance into the nest, and the dispersion of my dragon's breath, led her to let the Dark Phoenix suddenly amplify its power and secretly use the death force to imprison my vitality."

"The reason I was instantly overwhelmed and became so passive was largely due to her influence!"

"She indulged the Dark Phoenix, allowing its power to penetrate unchecked, nearly resulting in my death."

"Until..."

Zhong Chichen's voice was heavy with bitterness. "Until your vital energy intervened and you clashed with the Dark Phoenix, she finally exerted her full strength. Had she not felt your presence, she would have remained indifferent."

"I had intended to join forces with Loong Jie and Mo Baichuan to confront and eliminate the Dark Phoenix in the Darkpinion."

Zhong Chichen disclosed the insights he had perceived.

At that moment.

Yu Yuan, standing in the Nest of Perdition with his real body, clutching segments of dried red crystal branches, also distinctly felt the surge of destructive and deadly vital energy flooding into the nest.

This corroborated Zhong Chichen's account.

With the collaboration of Jihui and Tan Xiaotian, the Secular Bird Queen was not without the power to fight back.

"Eh!"

Suddenly, numerous tiny, dark-brown blood crystals, filled with the potent poison capable of corroding flesh, emerged within the branches constructing the Nest of Perdition.

A portion of the Dark Phoenix's purple vital energy was rapidly eroded, drastically reducing its dominion within the nest.

"The toxic bloodline rules of the Chaos Serpent have indeed been deciphered by her."

With a mere thought, Yu Yuan withdrew his life-giving vital energy, ceasing his battle with the Dark Phoenix within the nest.

He also sensed that as the toxic power manifested in the nest's branches, the Dark Phoenix began retracting its force.

Quickly, the conflict surrounding the Nest of Perdition subsided.

In the Ashlands, she had emerged victorious in her battle against the formidable Chaos Serpent, gaining mastery over the toxic rule, which proved to be incredibly useful.

The deployment of the toxic rule made her battle with the Dark Phoenix an evenly matched exchange.

Simultaneously, a vague consciousness reached out to Yu Yuan, granting him an immediate understanding of the events.

"I understand."

Within the realm beneath the blood-red canopy, a manifestation of Yu Yuan's vital energy took the form of his avatar. He addressed the disgruntled Seven-Colored Dragon, saying, "Back in the Ashlands, you and Loong Jie conspired to harm her right after her battle with the Chaos Serpent."

"You two are planning to enlist her aid to help the little spinosaurus reach maturity, enabling it to continue its hunt of the Abyssal Leviathan and the Abyssal Greater Basilisk within the Ashlands."

"She has always held grudges."

"As soon as your dragon's breath manifested within the Nest of Perdition, and the Dark Phoenix caught wind of your scheme and began her assault, she too took the opportunity to push her own agenda."

"She doesn't trust you and intends to avenge herself upon the Ashlands."

After the explanation, Yu Yuan's real body departed from above the Nest of Perdition. Unbeknownst to him, the power of the Dark Phoenix that had seeped into the nest had been expelled by the Secular Bird Queen.

Control of the nest had changed hands once more, seemingly settling into permanence.

Suddenly, Yu Yuan realized that the battle in the Darkpinion, even with the involvement of a Beast God from another world, Jihui, Tan Xiaotian, and the empowered Secular Bird Queen working in unison, did not put them at a disadvantage.

The situation was not as dire as he had anticipated; it was not a one-sided defeat.

With a whoosh, the massive Blood Rune was absorbed by the Earthfire Crucible under Mo Baichuan's command. Within the luminous walls of the furnace, the Blood Rune transformed into a gracefully dancing purple phoenix.

The ferocious earthfire blazed intensely, engulfing the phoenix formed from the Blood Rune, seemingly breaking the Dark Phoenix's grip on the blood of all beings in the Everlands.

Amidst the fierce flames, the artifact soul of President Lyi seemed to wear a smile of vengeance fulfilled.

President Lyi's initial failure to ascend to godhood was due in part to Han Miaoyuan and the consent of the Dark Phoenix.

"You will all perish, and the Everlands will meet its end because of you. Meanwhile, I will await the challenge from all of you in the broader expanse of the Star River."

The human form of the supreme Dark Phoenix merged into the violet-gold spear as if dissolving into blood.

The spear soared straight into the heavens!

Within the spear, the bloodline patterns from the young little spinosaurus, ignited by the Dark Phoenix's vital energy, unleashed the distinctive dragon's breath of the ultimate sovereign of the cosmos.

The essence of the Dark Phoenix was entirely hidden within the violet-gold spear, now resembling a counterfeit young Titan Spinosaurus.

The spear, flashing like arc light, effortlessly pierced through the blood-colored canopy of the Dragon Slaying Stage and the wall of the Everlands, vanishing into the external expanse of the starry sky.

Yu Yuan's expression shifted subtly.

Loong Jie, Mo Baichuan, Zu Ann, and the rest were too late to intervene when they realized the spear had already pierced through all barriers and seals.

The Dark Phoenix was wielding the power of the Old Titan Spinosaurus, a bloodline force capable of shattering any seal.

The spear served as her dragon form.

The Dragon Slaying Stage's transformation into a blood-red canopy, along with the laws of the primordial golden dragon god, the Chronowyrm, the frost wyrm, and the limits of life from the Primal Blood within the canopy, seemed unusually forgiving towards the Titan Spinosaurus's aura.

The various seals hardly offered any resistance, as if recognizing the spear as a legacy of the Old Titan.

Everyone watched helplessly as the Dark Phoenix's avatar escaped its confines.

Crack!

A sword light, brilliant beyond compare, struck the spear with precision, dimming its radiance instantly.

The Dark Phoenix let out a piercing scream from within the spear, echoing like the cry of a dragon.

Lin Daoke, standing beyond the wall in the starry sky, saw that the spear remained intact and, with a furrowed brow, began to muster another strike.

His sword light, blinding and powerful as if to cleave heaven and earth, burst forth from the sword that was his divine form, sending the mighty beings from beyond the stars scattering in retreat toward the Moon Stronghold.

"Lin Daoke, remember your actions today! The Sword Sect will face ruin because of this very sword!"

The violet gold spear vibrated in the void, tearing open numerous spatial rifts, and in an instant, it vanished into the enigmatic Phoenix Shrine.

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