C359 Internal and External Battle

Within the little world of the brown iris, a soul spirit of unimaginable size rampaged with its head touching the heavens and its feet firmly planted on the earth. It collided with the crescent moon, and with a downward gesture, it devoured the resentful spirits and residual souls dispersing from the Silvermoon Queen's Soul Orb.

The land was blanketed with exotic flora, and soulstones formed mountain ranges crisscrossed by streams where countless Ice Shards surged. These Ice Shards were the crystallized essence of the Dark Realm Shura's remnant souls.

Scarlet sword lights, like rivulets and springs, drifted through the void, all converging upon this realm. Yet the terrain was not merely inert. Crystal mountains rose like towering stone columns, emitting dazzling light to greet the incoming scarlet sword lights. Meandering rivers froze into icy blades, launching themselves at the sword lights.

The region erupted with brilliant flashes and powerful collisions. The principles of swordsmanship and the Dark Realm Shura's laws clashed incessantly, throwing time and space into turmoil and inverting day and night.

Deprived of the Silvermoon Queen's aid, the Shura's soul spirit could not regain its peak form. Conversely, the sword spirit, having connected with the sword's will on the walls of the Soulforge Pool, was reinvigorated, allowing the crimson sword lights to assail the Shura without end. Thus, the sword spirit gained the upper hand.

With the heaven soul's expansion, the colossal soul of Yu Yuan consumed all the residual souls and resentful spirits from the Soul Orb and advanced toward the Dark Realm Shura. Each stride spanned hundreds of miles, sending tremors throughout the little world. As the soul spirit passed, the spiritual energy amassed by the Dark Realm Shura, thick as fog, was dispersed with a mere shrug of its shoulders, causing the void to thunder as though on the brink of collapse.

The luminous mountains and rivers of the Shura's domain quivered, on the verge of shattering. Yu Yuan's soul, seemingly slow but deceptively swift, was on the cusp of entering the battlefield.

On the other side, the Silvermoon Queen gazed upon the now-empty Soul Orb, a small crescent moon materializing on her forehead.

This crescent, etched into her Lunar Spirit's brow, was the Soul Crystal of Yue Fei.

Yue Fei was pressing the Silvermoon Queen to find a way to leave this place posthaste.

She cautioned her that it was futile to resist and that she mustn't push herself.

Upon witnessing Yu Yuan's colossal soul spirit emerge and consume all the residual souls and resentful spirits released from the Soul Orb, the empress realized her defeat.

Her body, a fusion of the Lunar Spirit and the demonic blood within Wei Feng, had sustained severe damage in this realm.

When her crafted crescent moon crashed to the ground, she experienced a backlash as if the impact had struck her directly.

The dense network of fissures spread across her skin beneath her silver garments, the damage even reaching her real body, causing her to sustain injuries in the outside world.

"He is not the one who shattered our homeland and nearly eradicated our people."

"The entity reigning over this world must be a high-ranking member of the Boulderdawn. The Boulderdawn are the foremost experts in Mind Magic throughout the entire Everlands. Maybe he can accomplish what the Moon Slayer cultivator could not."

"This little world is slipping from our grasp, and the remnant soul and spiritual wisdom of the Dark Realm Shura may soon cease to exist."

"Yupan, find a way to leave, the sooner the better."

"..."

Yue Fei, in the form of a crescent moon on Lee Yupan's brow, urgently conveyed her soul consciousness.

She implored the Silvermoon Queen to make a swift exit from this little world, without even a backward glance.

The name "Yupan" was a term of endearment reserved for her alone.

After all, it was she who had chosen the name Lee Yupan for the Silvermoon Queen.

Shortly after the empress's birth, she informed the head of the Lee family that Lee Yupan would practice the mystique of the Moonfiend clan, and she would serve as Lee Yupan's guardian.

She vowed to assist Lee Yupan in every possible way to rise to imperial power as a woman.

Thus, the Silvermoon Queen had been in daily communication with her since infancy.

A single utterance of "Yupan" stirred the empress, prompting her to contemplate her escape.

The Golden Fiend, who had intruded headlong, was now skulking in the shadows, his soul quivering with terror.

Both the Silvermoon Queen and the now-enlarged Yu Yuan possessed the power to obliterate him; he had longed to flee for quite some time, but alas, he found no means of escape.

While Yue Fei and the Silvermoon Queen were secretly communicating, he was plotting his escape.

Yet, he had no idea where he could possibly flee.

"Swish! Swish!"

Suddenly, dozens of scarlet sword lights struck like lightning.

The Silvermoon Queen, clutching the Soul Orb, watched as the crescent mark on her forehead burst open.

She couldn't react in time; the scarlet sword lights pierced her body, shredding her silver garments into fluttering fragments.

The Soul Orb she wielded went dark just as it emitted a purple glow.

The Horcrux, once treasured by the Lee family and passed down to Lee Yu, shattered like a crystal ball hitting the ground, scattering into countless shards.

With a resounding boom, the queen's corporeal form exploded.

The Silvermoon Queen's Lunar Spirit reemerged, isolated and insubstantial, with the crescent on her forehead now a mere wisp of smoke.

In that moment, the Silvermoon Queen realized she had been reduced to her original state. Without her unique, carefully constructed corporeal body, she could no longer resonate with this world.

The rich divine force was no longer hers to command or capture at will.

"Run now!" Yue Fei's remnant soul screamed frantically within her Lunar Spirit.

Lee Yupan's Lunar Spirit hovered in place, motionless.

Without the Soul Orb or a corporeal body, she was just a Lunar Spirit. How could she possibly escape?

The sword's will, densely interwoven at the world's edge, would obliterate her instantly upon contact without the Soul Orb or a corporeal body.

She refused to let her Lunar Spirit perish here.

...

Outside, beneath the blazing sun.

The diminutive commander, draped in a purple silk cloak, leapt down.

Boom!

The vitality that surged from her, powered by the Ancient Echoes of the Void, crashed down on Yu Yuan like a tidal wave from the ocean depths.

Yu Yuan, lost in a sweet dream, remained oblivious.

Sword's will burst forth from the sword sheath atop the platinum skull.

The sword's will transformed into streams of arc light, piercing through the air.

Shen Feiqing flicked her hand, and her purple cloak billowed out, transforming back into silk and enveloping the incoming beams of arc light and sword's will.

The commander in the purple cloak seized the moment to launch a punch at the hole.

It was like thunder from nowhere!

The commander's fist, defying the distance of space, seemed poised to bore through the very earth.

The force of the punch cascaded down like a torrential waterfall.

The ground surrounding the hole suddenly gave way, sinking down abruptly.

"Mr. Yan?"

Tong Laoqian, standing in the Jade Tower, sensed trouble and called out urgently.

Qi Hongyi, too, snapped back to awareness. Upon seeing Shen Feiqing's forceful punch, she quickly looked to Tong Laoqian and Yan Qiling for answers.

Yan Qiling was visibly agitated.

But Yu Yuan, as if roused from slumber, suddenly reached out with his free hand and grasped the sword sheath.

With a swift motion, he drew it from its resting place.

One hand targeted the Shura's eye in the Dark Realm, while the other, clutching the sword sheath, instinctively lunged towards the descending fist of Shen Feiqing.

The sword's will burst forth, a series of radiant arcs, each one aimed directly at Shen Feiqing.

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