The Saintess Has A Showdown 558

Chapter 558: Gong Lianyue’s Death, the Secret Realm Ends

Bang!
Bang!!
Bang, bang, bang!!!

While the Ice Antelope Grand Concubine and the White-Browed Concubine were toying with the Cold Star Sinking Iron, the Grand Yin Palace Master and the Lord of the Nether Spring were engaged in an epic battle high in the sky.

The Lord of the Nether Spring wielded its black longbow like a great saber, its movements full of vigorous power, clashing wildly with the Grand Yin Palace Master’s cotton-like rabbit ears, tearing the entire world apart with crisscrossing fissures.

The afterimages of black and silver intertwined madly, their terrifying spirit energy fluctuations shaking the heavens.

After a period of fighting, the Lord of the Nether Spring suddenly noticed that the Cold Star Sinking Iron it had fired had missed. Because the White-Browed Concubine had teleported Gong Lianyue too great a distance, the lock-on had failed.

…

…

The Lord of the Nether Spring requested a mid-battle pause. Guarding against the Grand Yin Palace Master, it shamelessly entered an intangible state, then slowly and deliberately drew its bow again, aiming at the distant Gong Lianyue who had just escaped death.

This time, no material substance could touch it.

At the same time, the Cold Star Sinking Iron obediently returned to the string of the Infinite Nether Bow, once again serving as an arrow.

To be able to hold out this long against a legendary, invincible existence is already something to be proud of, Gong Lianyue thought. But it’s a pity. The moment this arrow is fired, the dust will settle.

Because this time, the Cold Star Sinking Iron was preparing to be launched in its physical form!!!

The Lord of the Nether Spring rarely used the Cold Star Sinking Iron’s true body, as it would place a severe burden on the realm, possibly even causing the entire sky to collapse under its weight.

But faced with the mobility of Gong Lianyue’s numerous spirit beasts, it had no choice but to do this to ensure a hit.

Faced with the terrifying pressure emanating from the Cold Star Sinking Iron, even the Grand Yin Palace Master’s calm expression grew extremely grave.

Right now, she was only a God-Leaf stage Lost Realm being. She could sense that the Fallen Heaven-level Lord of the Nether Spring had not yet unleashed its full power.

Whoosh—!!!!

In an instant, the black spirit energy radiating from the black water droplet as the bowstring was drawn taut covered the sky like a collapsing, tree-shaped shadow diagram. The nearby space crackled with turbulent, vibrating auras.

And at the same time, a gentle, sea-blue aura enveloped Gong Lianyue’s entire body, vibrating gently like a cradle of seawater.

Ah, this… The Sea Breath Cradle, one of the Ten Sacred Waters, had voluntarily requested to enter the fight!!!

【Don’t move. Any being covered by my aura will be immune to all negative effects. You might even be able to withstand the Lord of the Nether Spring’s guaranteed-death arrow.】

As the Sea Breath Cradle’s words fell, Gong Lianyue stopped her unnecessary struggles. With a bashful look, she allowed the tide of seawater to vibrate against her body, an extremely uncomfortable sensation, like being tossed about in a tsunami.

It turned out the Sea Breath Cradle wasn’t as lewd as she had imagined; rather, the very nature of this Sacred Water was to sway and undulate like a tidal wave.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

In that instant, a black comet flashed.

The Cold Star Sinking Iron, erupting from the Lord of the Nether Spring’s longbow, was like a long river streaming down from the nine heavens. It carried an incredibly ferocious and heavy aura that shattered the entire world.

Wherever the black droplet passed, the entire secret realm began to crack and dissipate, collapsing and being destroyed like a rolled-up scroll.

The Azure Spring faction, the Vast Sea faction, the Grand Yin faction, the Snow Prison faction—all beings within the secret realm began to be annihilated and scattered like clouds in the wind, turning to dust under the terrifying, oppressive might of the Cold Star Sinking Iron.

The black waterfall torrent grew larger and larger in her vision. Gong Lianyue and her spirit beasts had no time to react.

To ensure it hit the blue-haired woman, the Cold Star Sinking Iron even seemed to vaguely transcend the limits of the Fallen Heaven stage for an instant, reaching a level beyond the comprehension of ordinary life.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

As the black arrow, the Cold Star Sinking Iron, pierced through, Gong Lianyue’s body, clad in the Sea Breath Cradle, shuddered violently. The world before her eyes instantly turned a blurry white as her consciousness sank to the bottom of the sea.

Her connection to all her spirit beasts was erased. A feeling of loneliness, as if she alone were doomed beyond redemption, welled up in her heart.

“So this… is death?”

As the blue-haired woman’s consciousness faded and her body sank into the abyss, she failed to notice an unusual movement within her spirit core.

A flash of deep, pitch-black shadow flickered past, filling her second, hidden spirit core.

At the same time, the Mythical Secret Realm was disintegrating. In an endless world of void and emptiness composed only of spirit particles, only the desolate back of the Lord of the Nether Spring remained.

After an unknown amount of time, a shimmering, fluorescent speck of starlight gradually appeared behind its black, water-flow body.

【With this, the final key has been obtained.】

【But, we completely miscalculated. To think that the one to resolve this crisis wasn’t the White-Browed Concubine or the Illusion Sea Concubine, but the Sinking Moon Prison Master, who evolved with that little one. She didn’t even have to open her Sun and Moon Domain…】

After the fluorescent speck of starlight finished speaking, the Lord of the Nether Spring remained silent for a moment before speaking.

“Master, the Cloud Spirit World is a world dominated by plants and weapons. With the Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower’s bloodline to guide us, things will go much more smoothly.”

【Regardless, the more trump cards she has, the better. This is far beyond the limits of power we initially judged her to have. And she even managed to produce the Grand Yin Palace Master, a being that can only be born in the even more distant Moon Spirit World. This probably didn’t even count as a crisis for her.】

“Master…”

【What is it?】

“N-nothing.”

The Lord of the Nether Spring hesitated, but ultimately did not voice the doubt in her heart.

Because not long ago, she had accidentally discovered a strange, unfamiliar aura that had inexplicably appeared within Gong Lianyue’s second, hidden spirit core.

The situation concerning Gong Lianyue seemed to be gradually slipping from her control. After all, not even a mythical being could have predicted that two rabbits from different eras could fuse together. The entire development had completely exceeded their initial predictions.

Even more absurdly, a high-rank spirit beast from the Cloud Spirit World, the little fox, turned out to have a mythical bloodline. That was something they couldn’t possibly have planned for; after all, Gong Lianyue hadn’t even awakened back then.

【If you have nothing to say, hurry back. If she discovers you, you’re finished.】

“Ah!”

Startled by the star-speck figure’s words, the pensive Lord of the Nether Spring let out a sudden cry. She transformed into a black stream of water and swiftly flowed back into the spirit core of the unconscious blue-haired woman.

Bang—!

As the Nether Spring Narcissus’s consciousness returned to the core, the entire Mythical Secret Realm began to shatter and collapse, reverting to an endless, pitch-black space of nothingness.

The mythical battle… had ended!!