C2088 I Failed
"Thank you."
Yuen Bu exhaled deeply in relief.
His massive ape-like form bled waterfalls of blood from his chest, casting a blinding blood light. After creating a crimson world, the blood receded from his chest.
The roar of the Beast God echoed from each blood-red realm, establishing layers of bloodline constraints.
Brie and the Ninth Level warriors of the Winged Race and Dark Elfkind staggered and fell, blood streaming from their mouths at the mere sound of the Beast God's roar.
Chen Qinghuang's brow furrowed as she conjured a shimmering green sky beneath her feet, sheltering the heads of the Dark Elfkind and Winged Race.
Their hearts, nearly ruptured by the Beast God's bellow, and their bodies, on the verge of bursting, found solace under the emerald canopy.
"Break!"
Yuen Bu's fangs gleamed with a ferocious bloody light as he bellowed in the ancient Beast language of the Desolate Realm.
The Skyshatter Hammer, trailing a comet's tail of brilliant starlight, crashed down upon Cao Jiaze's crown.
Boom!
A torrent of blood light, laced with lightning, warped the fabric of spatial laws.
A conduit materialized between the plummeting Skyshatter Hammer and Cao Jiaze's head.
Blood light and lightning solidified into dense laws of order, filling the conduit like a mysterious, chaotic sea.
The Beast God's roar intensified, resounding like earth-shattering thunder.
As the spokesperson for the will of the Desolate Realm's source blood, all the mightiest beings born there, and the grand laws derived from the realm, were offered up to the source blood, their essence etched into the Beast Temple and within Yuen Bu's heart.
He could harness all of it, weaving the law's powers together to exponentially amplify their might.
The Chaos Abyss, conjured by the old lizard, had not vanished but continued to whirl outward.
Inside the Chaos Abyss, the lizard inhabiting Cao Jiaze watched Yuen Bu with a peculiar look, waiting for Yu Yuan's nod before proceeding.
The combined flagpole of the Profound Dao Flag and the Soul Summoning Flag materialized in its grasp, thrusting upwards.
The flagpole transformed into the most lethal weapon between heaven and earth, with innumerable bloodline mysteries and sinister soul secret arts emerging and vanishing within the flag's fabric.
Its soul laws, the secret arts of its spirit, and the intricate bloodline essence were all contained within this banner.
This flagpole had become an almighty Artifact!
It obliterated all the thunder and cleaved through the sea of chaos, striking the Skyshatter Hammer with a resounding clang.
The flagpole punctured the Skyshatter Hammer, leaving a gaping hole.
It quivered intensely, the flag sweeping across all directions.
As the flagpole waved, the blood-red heavens and earth seemed to tear apart like a shredded curtain.
Yuen Bu's offensive was effortlessly dismantled by it.
Yet, the entity inhabiting Cao Jiaze suffered greatly; his neck, face, and blood vessels burst open, blood gushing wildly.
Cao Jiaze's form was ghastly, as if he had been grievously wounded by a sharp weapon.
"I knew this body would be of no use to you!" Yuen Bu exclaimed, more thrilled than alarmed.
He also frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied with the fragility of Cao Jiaze's body, which couldn't withstand his torment.
At that moment.
The Secular Bird Queen, perched upon the Hannya Divine Tree, plucked a leaf and cast it behind her, then gestured to Brie and all the members of the Winged Race and Dark Elfkind to retreat to the Dark Elfkind's Starfield.
This was a battle beyond Brie's reach, a Tenth Level combatant; a single misstep could mean utter annihilation.
Brie was wise to heed the warning. As he touched down on the leaf, he drew the Mighty Truncheon, causing the leaf to expand dramatically.
Whoosh!
He, along with the Dark Elfkind and Winged Race, used the leaf to make their escape from the fray.
"Uh!"
At that moment, Yu Yuan's spirit trembled, sensing that something was amiss with his physical form.
...
In the Abyss.
Within a pitch-dark pit, a shadowy mirror surfaced, revealing a silhouette akin to a shadow forged from Yu Yuan's inner demons.
It represented Yu Yuan's dark and malevolent aspect.
In the mirror's realm, it looked up and smiled at Yu Yuan.
Yu Yuan, having constructed six levels of the Soul Altar, felt the world spin as it smiled, his consciousness blurring.
It was as if he were locked in combat with his own inner demon.
"Derivative Spell of Demon God!"
At the mere flicker of a thought, Demon Gods that had vanished with the passage of time, the mightiest beings of the Tenth Level, and innumerable behemoths materialized in the dark void behind Yu Yuan.
There were also many beings with vast wings of light, radiating dazzling brilliance.
Boom!
Ghosts and gods, swirling around the Yin Meridian tributaries, were conjured by Yu Yuan with his soul energy, imbued with the sinister force that dragged all beings towards the Demon Realm.
Crack!
A Raymon Beast God, enshrouded in thunderous lightning, bellowed towards the mirror below.
With the completion of the sixth level of the Soul Altar, Yu Yuan gained access to a greater array of powers, and the divine and demonic entities he could manifest were no longer confined to his initial capabilities.
Every formidable being he had vanquished and dissolved could now be resurrected through his use of the Derivative Spell. By imbuing them with a thread of his soul consciousness, they began to unleash their might.
All the gods, Beast Gods, and supreme beings from various races were manifestations of his power.
Boom! Rumble!
The celestial gods and devils, under Yu Yuan's mental command, executed sophisticated secret arts. Lightning forged from their bloodlines, they brandished sword spells capable of cleaving stars, launching an assault on the Yu Yuan within the dark mirror.
He sought to vanquish his inner demons with this act.
Whoosh!
Two dazzling beams of light erupted from his pupils, striking the dark mirror.
Inside the mirror, the Yu Yuan that represented his dark and malevolent side, gave a sinister shake of his head.
Beneath him, a vivid image suddenly materialized.
An inverted Evil God Temple emerged, its dome facing downward as if it were a reflection of the departed sanctuary, left behind by the dark mirror through eons, now etched within.
The Evil God Temple settled upon a fractured expanse of earth.
It resembled a pitch-black mirror laid over the broken terrain, with the Evil God Temple rooted upside down in this fragmented land.
The dome of the Evil God Temple seemed boundless, as if it connected to another realm.
As the Yu Yuan within the dark mirror shook his head in eerie fashion, the Evil God Temple began to tremble.
Accompanied by the rumbling, the temple crumbled apart, and the skeletal remains that formed the Evil God Temple appeared to transform into Evil Gods, merging into the body of Yu Yuan.
Boom! Bang! Bang!
The Demon Gods, Demon Gods, and supreme beings of various races, all brought forth by Yu Yuan's Derivative Spell, perished abruptly.
The clusters of soul energy that Yu Yuan had released were also obliterated by an overwhelming and enigmatic force.
At that moment, the consciousness of the Darkness Origin Spirit emerged from the depths of Creation Land.
"The Darkness Stage forged within your sea of consciousness did not fracture with your demise. It has been preserved, and what you now behold is this obsidian mirror."
No sooner had these words been spoken than a ceaseless stream of dark light burst forth from the mirror.
It seemed intent on dragging Yu Yuan's true form into its ebony depths.
This mirror, once a tier of the Soul Altar crafted by Yu Yuan during his reign as the Abyss Lord, was now under the sway of the Darkness Origin Spirit, concealing profound mysteries.
Within the mirror, a reflection of Yu Yuan, akin to his own shadow demon, fixed its gaze upon him, watching as he valiantly struggled against the darkness, casting forth boundless radiance.
Regrettably, not a single beam could penetrate the mirror.
"You are not my shadow demon; you are me!"
With a thunderous roar, the six-tiered Soul Altar within his sea of consciousness materialized at Yu Yuan's brow, shining forth like a resplendent pagoda.
Every dark light that sought to ensnare Yu Yuan from within the mirror was instantly dissolved.
"Darkness, indeed, proves to be your most steadfast ally."
With these words, Yu Yuan turned his back and strode away, his fixation on the power of the Darkness Origin Spirit dissolved.
The Yu Yuan within the mirror silently observed his departure, making no further move.
Even after Yu Yuan vanished from Creation Land, his counterpart within the pitch-black mirror persisted.
Slowly, the landscape within the mirror, born from a plane of darkness, began to subtly shift.
The reflection of Yu Yuan, seemingly his own inner demon, now sat beside a pool within a luminous crystal sphere. Flames danced in the pool, while overhead surged a sea of azure-black souls.
This mirror served as a conduit to the heart of the Vast Ocean.
This Yu Yuan had been inhabited by the Origin Soul, ascending to the status of Undead Sovereign.
The so-called Temple Reflection was, in fact, a manifestation of power borrowed from the surface of the Vast Ocean, utilizing the real Evil God Temple's energy as Yu Yuan displayed his might in the form of a ghostly deity.
While Cao Jiaze could not endure its force, Yu Yuan's ascended form, now the Undead Sovereign, was more than capable.
The entity harnessed Yu Yuan's spectral body to unleash its current power through the Darkness Stage crafted by Yu Yuan himself, thwarting Yu Yuan's intentions.
The enveloping darkness in the mirror slowly consumed everything, and the black flames within the massive crater vanished into the earth's depths.
Bound by an unyielding pact, the Darkness Origin Spirit, aware of its awakening and newfound strength, denied Yu Yuan's demands.
Within Yu Yuan's mind, the coveted layer of the Darkness Stage eluded his grasp, remaining beyond reach in the Creation Land.
