“As expected, experts are coming!”
“And it seems like all the Original God Realm warriors in the Heaven Punishment City are coming together..”
Leylin shook his head and sighed, “She’s learning the Dark Upanishad. If someone disturbs her now, it will affect her progress in advancing her Upanishad.”
Pondering, he spoke out loud, “Aren’t you going to do anything or do you want me to risk my life with my low realm?”
Crossing his arms together, Leylin looked in the direction of a chamber. As he was contemplating whether Fiona would help or not and what his next course of action should be, Leylin felt a corrosive undulation.
Under the horrifying darkness, a hoarse voice arose in the dark room. “Don’t be cocky boy, that damn girl knows I won’t just stand and stare. That’s why she dares act recklessly like that.”
The voice stopped. The only dark halo that wasn’t affected by the darkness appeared clearly, illuminating this chamber. Fiona stood out of the darkness.
Leylin said, “It would be a honor to witness an Eternal Realm expert make a move. My realm and powers are too low. Although I want to help, I can’t do much.”
“Hmph! I am old but my head still works fine, you are certainly not an average individual, not that i assumed so considering your heritage. And I know despite your cunning personality, regardless of your motives, you would have helped Leona anyways.”
“It’s enough that you have this thought,” Fiona nodded, talking faintly. “You are standing in the way. You should leave.”
A tender flow of energy tried to bound the Leylin, trying to bring him away from this house. Leylin frowned and released his soul consciousness to suppress the energy.
But to his surprise, it was extremely agile as well as powerful leaving him unable to dodge. Leylin was about to be thrown and just then without wasting any time and he immediately performed Bloodline Arcane Arts and burnt the energy with his seething immortal demon blood.
“I can handle myself well.”
Fiona who turned around not caring about Leylin, widen her eyes in surprise she was visually shocked, looking at him with seriousness.
She opened her mouth after a while of silence, “Very well then.”
Immediately after Leylin felt a formidable energy fluctuation rocketing through the air from Fiona.
Her energy wave shook the mountain and cracked the ground. It was powerful as ten volcanoes erupting at the same time, bursting out grumblingly in the Heaven Punishment City. They could feel a terrible quake almost instantly.
A pale flame arose in the absolute darkness. It expanded over the entire city. Under that energy wave, all rules and principles of the mortal world seemed to be subdued.
The aura of this force could snatch away any creature’s life. It shrouded the entire city, making every single warrior in the city fearful. They almost kneeled down.
All warriors in the city, regardless of their realms, realized that they were facing a character in the Heaven Punishment City who could even discolor the earth and sky. That erosive aura wanted to destroy everything else.
Even Leylin paled slightly, he first hand experienced the ferocious battle that had begun.
“What a frightening power. That corroding power is very powerful. It seems like it could melt all kind of energy.”
As Leylin was gauging her, he saw something dazzling floating up into the sky at Leona’s shabby manor.
They were divine crystals!
The crystal clear divine crystals glowed gloriously like bright stars. They lined up, arranging neatly in the sky of the Heaven Punishment City and spinning continually. The energy inside the divine crystals was all taken. The ear-piercing whistle and hissing resounded from the crystals as their energy was stirred up, falling like rainfall.
‘Formation… There is also power of laws. What a splendid display of control and precision!’
The divine crystal stored thick earth and heaven energy. The quantity of energy in a crystal could be compared to the amount of Essence Qi in the body of a Third or a Second Sky of King God Realm warrior.
However, it was hard to release the energy inside the divine crystal at once, let alone use it to attack in a battle. Even the strong experts couldn’t use the energy all at once. They had to absorb the energy little by little and blend it into their body.
Nobody knew that the divine crystal could be used this way. The divine crystals were triggered then arrayed into a natural, magical formation, creating an unpredictable movement of energy.
More than ten thousand divine crystals bigger than raindrops fell and turned in the sky like blazing white meteors. The dark energy didn’t affect them. From time to time, the crystals collided with each other, sending radiant sparks into the air.
A divine crystal could provide the energy of a King God Realm warrior. When more than ten thousand pieces fell altogether, it was equal to more than ten thousand King God Realm warriors attacking at once with all of their best powers.
Shortly after, the explosions reverberated in the Heaven Punishment City densely. Most of them came from Leona’s manor. It seemed like all the experts had been affected, and they were trying their best to resist.
Giant hands appeared in the void of the Heaven Punishment City, which looked more like the hand seal of the Death. It slowly pressed down, snatching over the silhouettes there.
Each hand was eccentrically pale and wielded corroding power. White mist hovered, sending shivers down people’s spines and rising the hair on their nape. When the hands pressed down, the divine crystals exploded, contributing the energy into that giant pallid hand and strengthening the corroding power.
Rumble Rumble Rumble!
Just like a terrible earthquake, horrifying explosions echoed in an area of the Heaven Punishment City. The shockwaves expanded, turning houses into debris.
Not long after that, they could hear the miserable screams and whines in the loud explosions. It seemed like many people were subdued under those pale hands. They couldn’t even move.
The noisy commotions of the Heaven Punishment City oddly quieted down all of a sudden.
No sound was made in the darkness. No one knew why the energy commotions in Leona’s area halted.
It seemed like the Original God Realm warriors who came to this area had been pushed to the ground by the pale hands. Their powers were restrained so they couldn’t use their powers Upanishad to counterattack. They could only try their best to resist the erosive power. Basically, they couldn’t affect Leona.
After a while, screams and yells arose from another section of the Heaven Punishment City.
Dozens of thousands of warriors with different realms in the city had been alerted to the earth-shattering battle. Instinctively, they dashed in the dark and approached the area. They screamed and yelled to show the others their locations.
Different power classes Soul Consciousness collided and scattered. Sometimes, they created a tremendous soul collision, leading to a soul attack.
The Heaven Punishment City had just been quiet for a moment but now it fell into an even louder bustle. Warriors living in the city often had a lot of enemies. Once they sensed the Soul Consciousness of the opponent, they would immediately attack in the dark.
Today, the Heaven Punishment City’s warriors were fighting each other. The rule of fighting prohibited in the city was temporarily broken. Many people had seized the chance and killed the ones they didn’t like. More and more battles took place in the city. Screams, yells, grunts, hisses, whine, and bloodthirsty roared sounded at the same time.
Rumble Rumble Rumble!
A series of terrifying quakes sent out from the center of the battle. The earth-shattering shockwaves created the exaggerated scene of the day the earth explodes.
Rocks, big trees, and other miscellaneous debris were sent into the air with frightening energy. Many warriors, who just came, got hit before they could steady their body. Their God Body exploded instantly.
When their realms and energy weren’t enough, taking risks and jumping into the center of the battle resulted in soul-shattering consequences.
In this darkness, the Heaven Punishment City didn’t have only the battle at Leona’s manor. Warriors were fighting against each other in small alleys of the city. Whenever they sensed their enemy’s Soul Consciousness, they would attack immediately. People continued to die.
As time passed by, the battles became wilder and fiercer.
While Leona comprehended the Dark Upanishad to use the absolute darkness to shroud the entire Heaven Punishment City, Fiona battled many experts on the other side while Leylin observed.
The battle continued for a while but eventually things calmed down. The Original God Realm experts had to bear the loss.
As they now knew it was hard to break that tough defense to attack Leona, they gradually ceased their attacks.
At the moment, it seemed like Leona had passed the critical point of her fusion with the Heart of Darkness and understanding the Dark power Upanishad. She was able to control the situation now.
The absolute darkness that had shrouded the Heaven Punishment City was expanding, covering the whole Land of God Punishment.
When her progress came to the last phase, she could control that dark power, shrinking the darkness coverage towards her location.
After a while, a light appeared near the edge of the Heaven Punishment City. The light that was confined shined one last time.
Seeing this sign, people understood that Leona’s comprehending progress was about to be complete.
After a while, an unknown soul energy fluctuation shot out furiously from Leona’s location.
After a second, all the dark powers seemed to find the drain port, overflowing massively into Leona’s area. Then, the space above that location twisted and the manor collapsed into the ground. Instantaneously, Leona’s aura disappeared into thin air.
The absolute darkness that had covered the Heaven Punishment City for two hours vanished.
Light appeared again over the Heaven Punishment City.
At Leona’s area, people were sitting on the ground. They looked distressed and pale. Many bodies were scattered around.
The ones who were still alive were the most intimidating existences of the Heaven Punishment City, which included Weerlig Kaloz, Jashin and Barrette. Surprisingly, Carthew, Alavid and others from the three powerhouses of Raging Star Flame Area were also in this group.
However, their situation was really terrible. They had blood all over their body.
The local Original God Realm of the Heaven Punishment City, were only taught a mild lesson and were fatigued.
The earth-shaking battle seemed to have settled. However, no one knew what happened in that battle or how fierce it was except for the ones who had joined it.
Zahira, Aagon and Fatima were the first ones to arrive in this area. They could feel the energy impacts but they didn’t know who was battling whom.
Due to the darkness shrouding, they could only use the Soul Consciousness to sense. However, the King God Realm Soul Consciousness would be affected, resulted in the damage to the soul. Thus, no one dared to take risks to go nearer.
Those who were at the Original God Realm gathered outside of Leona’s stone room. They all participated in this battle. However, none of them showed the happiness of a victory. They seemed to be damaged, standing or sitting with a grimace. No one knew what they were thinking.
Leona’s garden wasn’t large. It was around twenty of land. At this moment, an abyss that they couldn’t see the bottom appeared in the garden, giving people a wicked and strange feeling.
Around one hundred houses were crushed into nothingness. Dust hovered in the air that hadn’t settled yet. At first glance, this area seemed to be ground. Everything was destroyed.
The Original God Realm experts stayed in ruins, looking at each other with hostility, saying nothing.
Several thousand warriors of the Heaven Punishment City gathered around the area of the Original God Realm experts, but no one dared to approach. They stood there, looking anxiously.
The eroding energy that had scared the entire Heaven Punishment City had disappeared. In the void, the exhausted fist-sized divine crystals turned white-gray. They were still floating and hadn’t fallen down yet.
Those crystals had created a vague net with a thick mesh, enveloping ten miles. All the Original God Realm experts were standing inside the coverage of that stone net.
From ten miles outside, several thousand onlookers weren’t included in the coverage of the big net. The hermit who had created the net seemed to aim at only the Original God Realm experts. Warriors who didn’t cross the line wouldn’t be affected.
However, the ones who dared to jump in all died, except for those at the Original God Realm.
Hundreds of corpses from different forces were the harsh evidence for this theory.
Everybody kept silent. Whether they were the experts at the Original God Realm or the onlookers at the King God Realm, they all had grimaced at the shattered aftermath of the battle. They felt bitter, their eyes worried.
No one knew whether that hermit had left or not.
Thus, since they couldn’t see or sense that hermit’s aura, none of them dared to act rashly.
Weerlig, Alavid or others didn’t dare to jump into that deep abyss to find Leona, even though they were intimidating experts at the Original God Realm.
“He… must have left already, right?” Weerlig sat on a pile of crushed stone. He talked uncertainly after a while.
Everyone just beamed a forced smile and answered nothing.
“We… were treated differently. He didn’t consider us his enemies. He just didn’t want us to come near,” Weerlig contemplated for seconds then said, “We can confirm that he’s a member of the Heaven Punishment City. As long as we, the local warriors, stay honest, he won’t touch us.”
Pausing for a while, he continued, “Those who wanted to take advantages of the situation, of course, didn’t receive a decent ending…”
While he was talking, he raked through the bodies scattering around, frowning.
“It’s our luck that we survived this time.” Barrette sighed, shaking his head. “Too powerful. Today, I finally know that we’re too weak compared to the real experts.”
Barrette couldn’t help but shiver at the mere thought that he previously wanted to create trouble for the kid who stole his Fatima. With such an expert watching Land of God Punishment even they as Great pirates and Original God Realm warriors can’t act wantonly.
Contrary to them Fiona didn’t show mercy when attacking people from other forces. They were all wounded; their condition wasn’t good.
