C2297 Showing Weakness to the Enemy

Kuna scrutinized the Secular Bird Queen with a contemptuous shake of her head. "I had hoped you might become a follower of mine, serving me as your lord."

"Clearly, you are not."

Upon her arrival, she discovered that Chen Qinghuang harbored both the powers of destruction and death within her. Moreover, the death force bore the unmistakable mark of Kurkova's teachings. Kuna had no interest in nurturing such a Secular Bird Queen.

This realization prompted her to swiftly shift her focus. She intended to harness the toxic cosmic order she wielded, drawing upon Yu Yuan's abundant vital energy to augment her own power.

The source of the poison she cultivated and the Way of Poison she had mastered demanded a robust physical vessel.

For Kuna, Yu Yuan was an exquisite elixir, capable of significantly boosting her strength.

"Galuba, let us join forces for now and partake in the spoils before us."

As the Snail Goddess Kuna soared through the void, her serpentine form disrupted the Sea of Light as she crossed the twinkling expanse of the Star River. The brilliance faltered and died out one by one under her influence.

Her emanating miasma and smog engulfed the Sea of Light, eroding even the sources of illumination.

The force of light proved ineffective against this deity from the Otherworld.

"So it is settled!"

The God of Destruction, Galuba, animated the statue built from the Coal of Annihilation, its solitary eye alive with countless twinkling pupils.

"Blessing of destruction..."

He murmured, first fixing his gaze on the Secular Bird Queen, then chanting in an arcane tongue from the Otherworld.

A cacophony of voices invaded Chen Qinghuang's mind. She listened intently, recognizing them as praises from another world, extolling Galuba.

Galuba's legions of followers, spread across many worlds, now had their adulations channeled by him into Chen Qinghuang's consciousness.

The din of billions of worshippers disrupted her thoughts and spiritual wisdom.

Involuntarily, she found herself echoing the praises for the God of Destruction, just like Galuba's devotees.

"Embrace the essence of my destruction, and you shall be bound to me!"

Galuba reveled in his triumph.

Flames of destruction, burning beyond the unknown reaches of the Astral Domain, were drawn by his power and surged in wildly.

"Very good!"

Kuna nodded in approval, aware that Galuba was gearing up for a significant confrontation.

Beneath her elongated body, a tentacle-like centipede leg suddenly detached and shot forward.

The tentacle burst in mid-flight, unleashing a torrent of psychic energy laden with deadly poison toward Yu Yuan's Mindscape, attempting to corrupt his soul.

"Snail Goddess!"

"Snail Goddess!"

"Redeem us, Snail Goddess!"

"..."

The murmurs of billions were carried by this psychic torrent into Yu Yuan's Mindscape, spreading an evil force capable of invading the soul and causing it to vanish.

The devout worship of Kuna, the Snail Goddess, was harnessed by her as a formidable power.

She now directed this malevolent psychic force at Yu Yuan, intending to plunge him into the same chaos that had overwhelmed Chen Qinghuang under Galuba's influence.

The Snail Goddess, seeing the success of the God of Destruction's tactic, replicated it with flair.

Using the devout faith of their followers to launch a spiritual torrent was a common ploy among the gods of the Otherworld, sometimes yielding miraculous results, other times proving futile.

Take the present moment, for instance.

This evil force, entwined with the faith of the believers, entered Yu Yuan's Mindscape only to elicit laughter from him.

"Galuba forgot to mention that I'm as adept in Mind Magic as that intruder from the Underworld," Yu Yuan said with a smirk.

The Snail Goddess's spiritual torrent failed to stir even a ripple in the depths of Yu Yuan's Mindscape before it vanished without a trace.

"Ah!"

Kuna, the Snail Goddess, cried out in astonishment.

She was well aware of the tumult caused by the Primal Soul's invasion of the Abyss into the Underworld and the Void Domain.

This malevolent force from the Otherworld had brought great suffering to both Kurkova, the Death God, and Devitt, the Space God, disrupting their souls on several occasions.

If Yu Yuan was connected to it, wasn't it absurd to try to infect him with the spiritual beliefs of the followers?

Kuna inwardly cursed her misstep and hastily ceased her ineffective assault.

Her body, contorted and hurtling through the void, finally came to a halt before Yu Yuan.

"Rise!"

Yu Yuan unleashed a mighty roar, the meridians within his Solar Spirit body resembling torrents of blood-colored waterfalls, brimming with endless vital energy.

His stature was rapidly increasing!

In no time, his eleventh-level Solar Spirit Body, amidst a tumultuous blood-colored tempest, took on a form as imposing as a mountain.

It overshadowed the dilapidated world around it, and the vast umbrella adorned with florals and verdure burst apart under the strain of his red crystal-like body.

Spheres of vibrant smoke and vivid miasma clouds clung to his shoulders and head, crackling with energy, yet the Snail Goddess's venomous power couldn't penetrate his defenses.

This towering presence, crowned with stars and draped in the sun and moon, radiated an aura of unparalleled grandeur. With each opening and closing of his eyes, it seemed as though a sea of blood was churning across the heavens and earth.

In comparison to Yu Yuan at this moment, the Snail Goddess, who was hurtling towards him, appeared significantly diminished.

"Yu Yuan, summon me quickly! I will aid you in slaying her!"

Loong Jie's bellow echoed across the Dragon Slaying Stage.

He was eager to emerge and assassinate the Snail Goddess, urgently clamoring, "Once I transform, my dragon blood will solidify into fine gold, immune to the warping power of that flesh!"

"I can incinerate her as well."

Yuan Lianyao, also present on the Dragon Slaying Stage, noted the Snail Goddess's apparent fear of fire.

She shared her insight but refrained from requesting her release from Yu Yuan, clearly cautious of the peculiar flesh.

Ballo and Green Willow, both eleventh-level supremes, refrained from volunteering themselves, fully aware that stepping off the Dragon Slaying Stage would expose them to the corrupting influence of the Origin Realm's Five-colored Flesh.

"Feign weakness, pretend to be overpowered," Bertain's Soul Voice advised timely. "You must give these two Otherworld deities the illusion of a possible victory. Galuba's real body in Deichakeon is in communion with this divine effigy, and he too might be lured here!"

"Fall back, and whatever you do, don't let Loong Jie reveal himself. And make sure to conceal the other supremes on the Dragon Slaying Stage."

The big devil continued to speak. Yu Yuan, the towering Solar Spirit, immediately grasped the meaning behind his words. The luminous Dragon Slaying Stage was suddenly shrouded in a blood curtain, responding to his mental command. Inside, Loong Jie, Yuan Lianyao, Ballo, and Green Willow, the four exalted beings, could still witness the shifting scenes of the outside world, including the approach of the Snail Goddess. However, Kuna, the Snail Goddess, and Galuba, the God of Destruction, were unable to peer inside the Dragon Slaying Stage. In truth, these two gods from the Otherworld paid little attention to the artifact in his possession and were unaware that it concealed several supreme beings.

"Feign weakness, give her a glimpse of hope!" the big devil instructed.

Yu Yuan, a Solar Spirit standing amidst the dense miasma clouds at the edge of the shattered cosmos, felt the ice, gold, and rock that coated his body begin to fade away. Within his Solar Spirit Body, the abundant vital energy could morph into a variety of forces, allowing him to harness the power of the Soul Altar within his real body. He had just merged the rules of gold, arcane power, and ice force to construct a defensive layer on the surface of his Solar Spirit Body. This defense enabled him to remain composed even within the toxic miasma.

Nevertheless, he could sense that the defense he had built with these three forces could potentially be shattered by the Snail Goddess and eroded by her potent poison, albeit at a very slow rate. Before his defenses could be dissolved by the Snail Goddess's venomous power, there was a significant chance he could gravely wound or even slay her!

The Snail Goddess, witnessing the formidable display of his Solar Spirit's divine might, had halted her advance, revealing her concern. The continuous emergence of profound cosmic orders from his Solar Spirit Body, capable of melding into a defense, had taken her by surprise. She was clearly indecisive, contemplating whether to withdraw and avoid further risks in this alien realm.

Prompted by the Demon God's reminder, Yu Yuan deliberately concealed the profound meaning of his metal magic's Primal Anima, causing the golden radiance that once enveloped his body to vanish. With the disappearance of his most robust golden defense, the toxic smog began to seep further into his being.

The Snail Goddess's face lit up with delight. She thrust the first pair of hook-like legs at the front of her body towards Yu Yuan's legs, piercing through the rock and ice that formed his lower defenses.

Within those sharply hooked feet lay a potent venom that surged directly toward Yu Yuan's legs—a poison not to be taken lightly.

Yu Yuan let out a cry of pain. Before the venom could graze his skin, he hastily teleported away using the Dragon Slaying Stage.

The Snail Goddess, observing that she had successfully penetrated Yu Yuan's defenses and that he was clearly terrified of the venom within her hooks, sensed an opportunity.

Her serpentine body began to undulate through the void of the shattered cosmos, sweeping toward Yu Yuan's fleeing form with a force capable of toppling armies.

Throughout this ordeal, Bertain remained still, merely observing from the sidelines while contemplating their strategy.

"The deities from the other side show no clear vulnerabilities. Their physiques are robust, on par with the Cosmic Giant Beasts of our Origin Realm, and their regenerative abilities are astoundingly potent. Moreover, each possesses a formidable soul that wields their unique powers in concert with their spirit in their assaults."

"With their formidable bodies, mastery of Soul Power, and astonishing regenerative prowess, they are indeed formidable adversaries."

The big devil recognized that neither the Snail Goddess nor the yet unseen God of Destruction would be easy to confront.

It's no surprise that even the Primal Soul from the Abyss had met its match in their world.

"I have arrived!"

A bizarre laughter echoed from the depths of the spring, heralding Galuba's approach.

Boom!

A towering Otherworld deity with an enormous head, a slender torso, a single eye, and eight arms stepped through the spring into the Wasteland.

Next to his imposing presence, the statue crafted by Chen Qinghuang seemed no more than a toy model.

"Kuna, the one who dispatches our quarry first shall claim the victory," declared Galuba, the God of Destruction, upon his arrival. He spoke with a boldness that filled the air, "We cannot linger here too long. We must resolve this swiftly!"

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