C2322 A Father!
"Creitecesh!"
"They're in the Creitecesh!"
Yu Yuan and the Light Spirit exclaimed in unison.
The God of Oblivion, Harris, slipped through a spatial rift, weaving like a luminous thread through the many Star Rivers of the Wasteland, his path converging on a singular destination.
That destination was the Creitecesh!
Devoid of Star River energy, the Creitecesh was as silent and desolate as the true Abyss, making it an ideal hiding place.
The Soul Power of the Primal Soul had not yet penetrated this region, and the Path of Undead had not been laid out across the Creitecesh.
This was due to the Secular Bird Queen, who had once opened the Spring of Death here and planted a Wraith Tree, stripping the entire Astral Domain of any star power.
Before the Spring of Death was destroyed, the consciousness of the Death God, Kurkova, had infiltrated the area.
Kurkova knew the Creitecesh well. It was also through the Spring of Death within the Creitecesh that the Space God had captured Zhong Chichen.
Yu Yuan and the Primal Soul, tracking Harris's trail, deduced that his destination was the Creitecesh and surmised that the Space God and the Death God were likely concealed there.
"Uh, what's going on?"
Loong Jie scratched his head, emerging from his confusion.
Ballo, Yuan Lianyao, and Green Willow were plagued by splitting headaches, struggling to recall recent events, but their memories were blank.
In their minds, the God of Oblivion, Harris, didn't exist. It was as if this otherworldly deity had never made an appearance.
"I can't seem to recall certain aspects of the starry secrets I've studied."
Ballo looked perplexed. Upon awakening, he attempted to perform a stellar technique, only to find he had forgotten its execution.
Subsequently, Loong Jie, Yuan Lianyao, Green Willow, Qi Yunhong, and other exalted beings experienced similar gaps in their memories, particularly those related to the cosmic order, filling them with dread.
The intricate laws they had so carefully discerned were essential to their status as supreme beings. Their absence not only indicated a significant vulnerability within their Supreme Realm but also threatened to drastically weaken their combat prowess.
Are they still supreme beings, even if incomplete?
"The God of Oblivion has taken some of your memories, but don't worry."
As they awoke, Yu Yuan, at the Dragon Slaying Stage, absorbed the ten levels of the "Soul Altar" into his Mindscape. He transformed the arcane laws they had lost into streams of memory, infusing them into their spiritual Mindscape using different platforms and their senses.
"Just re-contemplate these parts of the laws and their arcane secrets, and you'll be fine."
Yu Yuan explained to them.
Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, sun, moon, stars, extreme cold, and thunder—his "Soul Altar" held traces of these highest laws deep within, unaffected by the God of Oblivion.
"I'm en route to Creitecesh, gathering my strength. I won't be moving too quickly."
His ghostly form spoke calmly, while his possession of Jihui was making haste toward Creitecesh from another region of the Wasteland.
The "Paths of Undead" in the Wasteland were shifting toward Creitecesh, with the formidable Soul Power he had amassed from nearby Astral Domains enveloping the destination.
"I will handle the Otherworld Gods in Creitecesh."
Above that eerie eye, his ghost gave Yu Yuan a slight nod.
The dark energy of the place was drawn into the depths of the eye, illuminating the Star River.
He also concealed some of his dispersed Soul Power within the eye, transferring it to various "Paths of Undead" to strike at the Otherworld Gods causing trouble in Creitecesh.
"Keep an eye on this place. Should any Otherworld Gods step into this realm, you'll be the one to slay them before my demonform is complete."
He tasked Yu Yuan with this duty.
Yu Yuan responded coolly with a "Hmm," and then suddenly noticed that the spiritual sense of the toxic source was brimming with green wraiths.
By the time he sensed danger, the spiritual sense of the toxic source had vanished.
Before Harris fled, he had seeped his divine power into the Dragon Slaying Stage, erasing the lingering spiritual sense of the toxic source.
Consequently, only the crystallized essence of the Toxic Law remained within the jade gourd, devoid of the toxic source's spiritual sense.
"I have a matter to attend to first."
With a whoosh, he tore through the void with the Dragon Slaying Stage, creating a luminous rift, and traversed it with his real body.
Moments later, Yu Yuan's real body, wielding the Dragon Slaying Stage, reemerged in the Stellar Phoenix Astral Domain.
Transforming into a golden beam of light, the Dragon Slaying Stage sliced through the chaotic currents of the Void's Maelstrom, enveloped by the Space God Devitt, and slipped through the rift it created.
At that time, the Void's Maelstrom was a torrent of blood, with vibrant pools of crimson and emerald scattered across this enigmatic place, resembling an array of floating marshes of varying sizes.
The overwhelming stench was nauseating. Amidst the bloodied waters, there were several small islands and two towering temples floating aloft.
The Beast God Temple and the Phoenix Shrine stood with their doors firmly shut, shrouded in a faint, poisonous mist.
The venom within the mist and smoke was infiltrating the temples, causing the walls to hiss and crackle.
Exotic patterns etched into the temples' facades were being eroded by the toxic fumes, and it seemed as though the grand structures might crumble at any moment.
"This girl..."
Yu Yuan's eyes quickly scanned the inner realm before settling on a purple phoenix lying in a blood-soaked pool.
The purple phoenix had draped its wings and body over a piece of skin imbued with potent toxins. Its own body was under assault from the virulent poison, leaving its once resplendent feathers ragged and torn, with some areas still oozing thick blood.
From her wounds, miasma and smoke wafted towards the two towering temples.
Her phoenix eyes had lost their luster, clearly indicating she had sustained grave injuries.
She had encountered obstacles while delving into the arcane secrets of the skin's poison. It seemed she would be reduced to a mere pool of blood before unraveling its full mysteries.
Unable to shatter the Space God's spatial seal or detect her mother Zhiya's movements, the Void's Maelstrom she had crafted at Zhiya's behest had turned into a tomb for her and the alien beasts.
Despair began to take hold.
She realized that she was destined to be consumed by the blood, and the two Holy Temples would succumb to the poison, dooming all the alien beasts hidden within to death.
Then, out of the haze clouding her vision, the Dragon Slaying Stage appeared.
Above it stood Yu Yuan, whose expression of concern and sorrow brought a warmth to her heart, reigniting a glimmer of hope.
"Father..." she whispered in her heart.
Yu Yuan's brow furrowed as he let out a soft sigh. The Dragon Slaying Stage came to a halt before her phoenix-like gaze.
Whoosh!
His form, that of the Undead Sovereign, emerged from the Dragon Slaying Stage and gently set a jade gourd before Yu Zhu.
"Contained within this gourd are the arcane secrets of the toxic rule from the Otherworld. Unlike the other Beast Gods, you should be able to grasp it swiftly. Don't worry, you won't die."
Leaving the gourd behind, Yu Yuan drifted away.
Whoosh!
Yu Zhu gently pressed down on the jade gourd with her phoenix claw. As her venom-infused bloodline chain made contact with the gourd, the intricate toxic laws brightly revealed themselves.
She had already realized that attempting to decipher the profound mysteries of the toxin within the skin was futile.
The skin, imbued with the toxin, was riddled with chaotic and disordered rules. To unravel the profound mysteries of the poison within would take an untold number of years.
She would be consumed by the blood before she could grasp even a few truths of the poison—such an approach was clearly impractical.
Yet, within the jade gourd, the toxic laws required no laborious effort on her part to sequence correctly; she could directly absorb and understand them.
Thanks to the poison, the eight-legged spider, and the Primal Vitality, she already possessed a profound insight into the world's toxins.
In this realm, she was only marginally less adept than Chen Qinghuang.
The jade gourd Yu Yuan had bestowed upon her was her elixir of life. As her bloodline connected with the gourd's toxic secrets, the poison from the skin ceased to affect her.
The psionic abilities of the skin and the toxins within the miasma now served to mend her grievous wounds.
"I knew you would come to save me."
It was only after Yu Yuan had vanished that she murmured to herself.
Her wings once again took on a resplendent appearance. The horrific wounds on her body began to close, and the blood that had pooled around her drew closer, transforming into her source of strength.
