The Saintess Has A Showdown 333-334

Chapter 333: Umbrella Immortal, Save Me!!!

–Heavy Rain Realm

Above the Grand Yin Concealed Rain Pavilion, the lingering blood-red moonlight aura dissipated, transforming into a light drizzle of blood.

A crescent moon-shaped, red core frantically darted through the bloody mist, trying to escape.

However, just as it was about to break free…

Clang—

A chain, its sound sharp and piercing, and the crescent moon core vanished in a flash of light.

Reappearing in its original position, the core, its aura filled with terror, looked around frantically.

A circle of red, feather-like chains surrounded it, their ends connected to its core.

It was trapped, unable to escape.

Damn it, it was that Hong Xiaoqianyu from earlier!!

Such audacity, daring to restrain a legendary being like itself!

The Laughing Red Moon seethed with impotent rage, unable to move, at its captor’s mercy.

So be it. It would glare at them with its most terrifying death stare!

Meanwhile, Gong Lianyue stood there, naked and exposed, the holy light barely concealing her body, unable to go anywhere.

Why didn’t her clothes reappear after the transformation…?

[Your body is now made of water, having merged with one of the Ten Sacred Waters.]

Hong Xiaoqianyu, beside her, answered the unspoken question.

A being of pure water couldn’t wear human clothes. This was why many legendary beings had… unique fashion choices, or simply chose to remain naked.

Elemental types couldn’t wear the furs of biological types, nor could biological types wear the… essences… of elemental types.

And weapon types never wore clothes.

“Then what am I supposed to do? Walk around naked forever?”

Seeing the nearby Spirit Masters and spirit beasts, previously frozen by the Nether Princess Bai Xue’s aura, beginning to stir, Gong Lianyue’s voice was laced with anxiety.

If everyone saw her like this, she would become infamous throughout the Heavy Rain Realm!

A few legendary beings and Saintesses had already seen her, which wasn’t a big deal. After all, most beings in the spirit world, especially elemental types, were usually naked.

[You can use my manifested form, at minimal spirit energy cost.]

The Ice Forged Decapitator, its voice echoing from within her soul core, offered a solution.

Without hesitation, Gong Lianyue summoned it.

The next second, a blue light, and a transparent, revealing garment materialized, covering her body.

Although no longer completely naked, it was still rather… suggestive.

Without the concealing effect of the flowing ribbons, the deep valley of her cleavage and the high-cut skirt made it look like she was wearing lingerie.

This was too revealing! Couldn’t it be a bit more… modest? This was indecent!

Gong Lianyue sighed, but she had no other choice.

At least she was eighteen now, of… age. A little bit of skin shouldn’t be a problem…

If she were still in her awkward teenage years, two years ago, she wouldn’t have dared to wear this in public. She would rather transform the entire robe into flowing ribbons.

[Should I transform the entire robe into ribbons?]

“N-No, that’s fine. I was just… thinking…”

As Gong Lianyue’s voice trembled, the Heavy Rain Realm Spirit Masters began to awaken.

The Nether Princess Bai Xue’s aura had affected the entire Grand Yin Concealed Rain Pavilion and half the Heavy Rain Realm. Now, as the ice melted, billions of lives stirred.

Fortunately, the spirit energy density in the Heavy Rain Realm was more than thirty times greater than the Sea Region’s. If this had happened there, the entire Sea Region, and even the Wind Realm, would have been frozen.

As the legendary beings and the Saintesses still struggled to comprehend the situation, Gong Lianyue, having completed her magical girl transformation, casually beckoned, and the Laughing Red Moon’s life core flew towards her.

The Laughing Red Moon, its physical body gone, offered no resistance, its screams echoing as Gong Lianyue held its core.

“Now, tell me your purpose and your identity. Or I’ll swallow you whole and use you to construct a spirit diagram.”

“I am the Laughing Red Moon, Third King of the Moon Protection Court! I came to the Heavy Rain Realm in preparation for the Moon Calamity’s arrival! Release me immediately!!”

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Hearing the crescent moon core’s indignant cries, Gong Lianyue and Hong Xiaoqianyu exchanged shocked glances.

Was this creature… even worth keeping alive…?

“The Ice Forged Decapitator still needs a spirit diagram. Should we just use this?”

[No, that would be a waste. A lord-level core is worth seventeen or eighteen ordinary legendary cores. I don’t need it right now.]

[But I heard the Fourth Seat needs a moonlight-attribute legendary core. If you give it to her, you might be able to exchange it for something more valuable.]

The Fourth Seat… that was the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer!

“Good. I’ll contact her later,” Gong Lianyue agreed, causing the Laughing Red Moon’s core to tremble violently.

The White Flower Moon-Treading Deer, Fourth Seat of October!!!

Unlike the gentle Illusion Sea Concubine, it had inherited the Cold Deer King’s violent nature, instantly killing the Sixth Full Cycle Ice Dome Azure Bird upon its birth, and within days, subduing dozens of legendary beings.

Judging by its cultivation speed, the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer should have already reached the half-step Sun and Moon Realm, the Star Shattering Stage, perhaps even the true Sun and Moon Realm.

If the Ninth Seat gave it to the Fourth Seat, it would definitely be devoured!

This White Flower Moon-Treading Deer… it was a threat to the White Moon Lord!!!

Realizing this, the crescent moon core’s pale surface dimmed, and it began to struggle frantically.

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you have your milk today?” Gong Lianyue mocked, amused.

She wasn’t actually holding it tightly. It was Hong Xiaoqianyu’s petal chains that were restraining it.

Hearing the blue-haired girl’s mockery, the enraged and humiliated Laughing Red Moon turned its gaze towards the seemingly calm Umbrella Immortal and shouted,

“Umbrella Immortal, save me!!!”

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Gong Lianyue, watching the Umbrella Immortal’s face drain of color, mentally blinked, a question mark appearing above her head.

Chapter 334: The Sea Region’s Empress

After two years of secluded cultivation in the icy spring, Gong Lianyue had emerged, her first battle a decisive victory against the overlord-level Laughing Red Moon.

Having contracted the Ice Forged Decapitator, one of the Ten Sacred Waters, she had intimidated the native legendary beings of the Heavy Rain Realm into submission.

Shui Qingyue, the Sorrowful Saintess, now stood at the pinnacle of power in the Heavy Rain Realm.

Even within October, her strength was among the top five.

At this moment, at the end of the Three Lives Gate’s palace, on the throne that once belonged to the Umbrella Immortal, sat a blue-haired woman in a bathrobe.

Her bare, white thighs peeked out from beneath the robe, a subtle yet alluring sight, her delicate toes, like pearls, the deep valley of her cleavage… her appearance undeniably provocative, like a lascivious, tyrannical empress.

And before the throne, barely three meters away, the Umbrella Immortal clutched its beloved umbrella, trembling, its clothes drenched in sweat.

“Everything I said is true. The Laughing Red Moon is yours. I have lost all contact with the Moon Protection Court.”

“The Moon Protection Court has three kings, led by the Black Moon Dead Tower Palace of the Sun and Moon Realm, commanding seventeen ordinary legendary beings.”

“You’re lying. Such a small force, challenging October? I don’t believe it!”

Gong Lianyue wasn’t about to let the Umbrella Immortal off so easily.

The Black Moon Dead Tower Palace was, at best, an overlord-level legendary being, without even a title. How could it possibly challenge October?

Forget the Myriad Volt Phoenix and the Northern Dragon Sleeve Assassin of the Lost Realm. They wouldn’t stand a chance against her.

“No, it’s true. There are more than ten smaller organizations like our Moon Protection Court. We are not responsible for dealing with the higher-ranked disaster zones.”

“I’ll even lick your feet! Please, spare us!”

The Umbrella Immortal, its voice filled with desperation, was about to grovel at the blue-haired woman’s feet, but Gong Lianyue, her face a mask of disgust, quickly moved her foot away.

“Try it, and I’ll shove my foot down your throat.”

Not only Gong Lianyue, but even the Silent Water Maiden, standing with the other Twenty-One Seats, was taken aback.

Why drag her into this? She was innocent…

So, the Moon Protection Court wasn’t the only faction devoted to the White Moon Lord. Even the Umbrella Immortal had received its intelligence on October from a more powerful faction. They couldn’t have infiltrated the Lunar Demon Hall on their own.

Glaring at the Umbrella Immortal, Gong Lianyue pressed,

“Tell me the truth. The Three Lives Gate is deeply rooted in the Heavy Rain Realm. Why would you help the Moon Calamity destroy your own home? You’re not even a moonlight-attribute spirit beast!”

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“Do you really think I, along with the Mist-Born Sea Emperor and the others, can stop the Moon Calamity?” the Umbrella Immortal wailed, tears streaming down its face.

It had helped the Moon Protection Court because the Laughing Red Moon had promised to protect the Three Lives Gate.

Whether true or not, it knew that the combined strength of their three ordinary legendary beings couldn’t possibly stop the Moon Calamity.

The Umbrella Immortal had witnessed the devastation caused by the White Moon Lord’s previous awakening through its dream world. That power… it was beyond the realm of legendary beings, beyond the limits of comprehension, a terrifying glimpse of that unimaginable realm.

Nothing but despair, chaos, destruction, and annihilation. Not a single trace of life had remained in its dream.

Decades ago, the Umbrella Immortal had been traumatized by the residual aura of the White Moon Lord, its spirit and will shattered…

Therefore, it had made a desperate gamble, choosing to assist the Moon Protection Court in destroying the very realm it was supposed to protect.

Crack—

The next second, a wave of icy air, emanating from the blue-haired girl’s soul core, froze the Umbrella Immortal solid.

With a single breath, the Nether Princess Bai Xue had turned the Umbrella Immortal into a statue of ice, a figure of despair, frozen within the Three Lives Gate’s main hall.

“Don’t worry, I’ll release you after the Moon Calamity. I don’t need you causing any more trouble.”

“As for the rest of you, you are dismissed. For the time being, Shui Huangyou and the Endless Saintess will be in charge of the Three Lives Gate. Business as usual.”

Hearing the commands of the blue-robed woman on the throne, the Twenty-One Seats, who had been standing at attention, breathed a collective sigh of relief, then exchanged confused glances.

She had taken over.

How had she so easily usurped control of the Three Lives Gate?

And the Endless Saintess… her presence here was understandable, but Shui Huangyou… what was that mermaid doing there?

The high-ranking water-type Saint-ranks stared at the smug, triumphant mermaid, unable to comprehend it. How had this frivolous creature become so close to the Sorrowful Saintess?

After the Twenty-One Seats and the Endless Saintess left, Gong Lianyue began sorting through the resources delivered by the Ice Forged Decapitator.

Two water-type legendary life cores and a mountain of treasures, enough to fill the entire Three Lives Gate hall. It had required tens of thousands of spatial artifacts just to transport it all, packed into a massive treasure chest.

These resources were more than enough to construct perfect spirit diagrams for both the Nether Princess Bai Xue and the Nether Spring Narcissus. The Lunar Demon Hall had spent two years gathering them.

However, the Moon Calamity’s awakening was fast approaching. There was no time to waste!!!

Having arranged the resources, Gong Lianyue immediately began the process of spirit diagram construction.

–Star River Bathing Rain Sect

Meanwhile, the blue-haired snake woman, the Mist-Born Sea Emperor, its tail twitching nervously, held a report from the Endless Swamp, its face pale.

The Sea Region, a small, previously insignificant realm near the Wind Realm, the Cangsheng Palace, and the Sun-Seizing Divine Metropolis, had been the source of several shocking events in the past three years.

Three years ago, Gong Lianyue, the Sorrowful Saintess, disguised as Shui Qingyue, her legendary spirit beast disrupting the Wind Realm Overlord’s birthday celebration, stealing the Shadowlurking Blade, Night’s Executioner, and defecting.

A few months later, Gong Lianyue, during the Sea Region Ranking Battle, summoned the Jade Concubine of the Waterfall Lake, repelling a clone of the Snow Monarch.

A few days later, Gong Lianyue, within the Cangsheng Palace, summoned the Snow Monarch and reclaimed her legendary spirit beast.

Two and a half years ago, Gong Lianyue repelled an invasion from the Hegemony Moon Realm, led by the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer, and was suspected of possessing more than five legendary spirit beasts…

The day after the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer’s retreat, Gong Lianyue entered the Heavy Rain Realm’s trial.

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The name of the Sorrowful Saintess had already spread throughout the Sea Region, secretly hailed as its uncrowned empress.

However, due to the three-year seal on the realm’s borders, this news hadn’t reached the outside world until now, three years later, causing shockwaves throughout the Heavy Rain Realm.

Besides the completely bewildered Endless Swamp, both the Wind Realm and the Cangsheng Palace had recently pledged their allegiance to the Sea Region.

Having read the report, the Mist-Born Sea Emperor was drenched in a cold sweat.

Five legendary spirit beasts?

The information was outdated. It was now six…

Suddenly, its gaze fell upon a line of uncertain speculation, and its pupils constricted.

[On the day of the Sorrowful Saintess’s awakening ceremony, the Sea Region experienced an incident similar to the Yin Lake Palace’s Whole Realm Freeze Incident.]

What was this…?