Before the people in the city could recover from the shock of witnessing millions of swords raining down, another anomaly arose.
“What is that...?”
“I can't see clearly. It looks like a cloud of black mist. That's the direction of the Lan family's ancestral home. Could it be a monster?”
“It... it's possible...”
“Didn't the Divine Lady just say that the Lan family worships an evil god?”
Everyone shuddered in unison.
Before long,
a cloud of black mist appeared in the sky above the Lan family's ancestral home, churning, twisting, and expanding continuously.
A bone-chilling coldness spread across the area, and the sky, which had just been illuminated by the sword formation, plunged into darkness once again.
Within the black mist, a pair of eyes slowly opened.
They were crimson, pupil-less eyes, as massive as city gates. Suspended in the night sky, they were exceptionally terrifying.
Anyone swept by those eyes felt a bone-deep chill rush from their spine straight to the crown of their head.
The Majestic Pressure descended, causing those with weaker wills to fall to their knees on the spot, their legs turning to jelly as even breathing became difficult.
Cui He clenched her teeth, veins bulging on her forehead as she forced herself to stand, her heart filled with horror.
Is this the evil god? To think it would be this terrifying!
As the black mist churned restlessly, a cold, eerie voice carrying monstrous rage echoed from all directions.
“How dare you slaughter my believers! What audacity!”
As it spoke, the crimson eyes rolled, eventually locking onto the moon-white figure hovering in mid-air.
“I will carve out your heart and tear you into ten thousand pieces, making you suffer the agony of eternal damnation!”
The Divine Lady confronted those crimson eyes from a distance.
There was not a single ripple of emotion on her face. Her expression was indifferent and detached, as if she were looking at an insignificant object.
The night wind rustled her sleeves and silver-white hair. Shimmering with pure light, she exuded a sacred majesty that soared above all living beings.
“A mere evil spirit who hasn't even cultivated a true physical form, yet you dare dream of carving out my heart?”
At these words, the black mist began to churn and twist violently, transforming with a roar into a hideous beast that blotted out the sky. “I am an evil god! How dare you look down on me so casually!”
“Noisy.”
The Divine Lady uttered only those two words.
Immediately after, she raised her hands, her fingers moving in rapid succession to form an incredibly complex hand seal.
“Cosmic Form.”
The moment the words fell, the world changed color.
The sky, obscured by the black mist, was suddenly torn open. Moonlight and starlight poured down simultaneously, bathing the Divine Lady and making her look as though she were cast from colored glass, dazzling and magnificent.
The longsword beneath her feet let out a clear, resonant hum, and the golden patterns on the blade lit up in unison.
The golden light grew brighter and more intense.
Within moments, the golden light shot up into the heavens, extending to heights beyond the reach of human sight.
The light was so brilliant and intense that even the citizens of Chaoyang City who had not yet been awakened threw open their doors and windows.
They thought dawn had arrived.
Only when the light subsided slightly did they understand.
Everyone finally saw the scene before them clearly, and they all wore expressions of utter disbelief.
Cui He tilted her head back, her neck bent almost at a right angle and her mouth wide open, but she could not utter a single word.
Fine beads of sweat broke out on Chen Zhi's forehead as he stared intently at the sky, his eyes filled with profound shock.
Fang Shuo sat flat on the ground. “The Divine Lady's wrath is truly terrifying...”
Lan Yi, leaning against A'han, was also staring at the horizon. Aside from shock, her eyes held a sense of relief.
A mortal beholding a deity is like a mayfly beholding the vast heavens and earth.
Before realizing how terrifying a deity's power truly is, one always harbors a naive sense of hope.
Had she not woken up in the end and turned toward the light, she would have surely had both her soul and body obliterated because of that tiny shred of hope.
Just like Blind Granny and Lan Tao. Lan Yi turned to look at the corpses around her, then looked up at the sky again.
There,
a golden Cosmic Form materialized behind the Divine Lady. It stood over a hundred zhang tall, its head touching the heavens and its feet firmly on the earth.
The Cosmic Form's face was identical to the Divine Lady's, cold and majestic. Countless golden runes flowed around its body as it held a giant sword, sending waves of killing intent and chilling cold rushing forward.
After a brief moment, the Cosmic Form opened its eyes. Its golden pupils held no emotion, only absolute pressure.
The illusory projection of the evil god trembled violently. Its ink-black mist began to melt away rapidly, like lingering snow under a blazing sun.
“No... this is impossible...”
“How... how can you be this strong?” Fear surfaced within its crimson eyes. “Why... why are you so much stronger than me?”
“I am clearly a god as well!”
It struggled desperately, attempting to retreat into the evil god statue enshrined within the Lan family's ancestral home, but the golden light followed it like a shadow.
The Divine Lady stood at the center of the Cosmic Form's brow.
Her icy voice echoed from the mouth of the Cosmic Form.
“Since ancient times, evil has never triumphed over good. Today, for the future peace of both the immortal and mortal realms, I shall rid the world of you, a plague.” She clenched her fingers, and the Cosmic Form's hand tightened in unison.
A sudden burst of light exploded between heaven and earth.
Everyone temporarily lost their hearing, only able to watch as the golden light swallowed all the darkness in the sky. The evil god, along with the Lan family's ancestral home, was crushed into nothingness like fragile tofu dregs.
As the golden light dissipated,
both the evil god and the Divine Lady's Cosmic Form vanished.
The night sky returned to its clear state, with a bright moon and sparse stars, as if that earth-shattering display of divine power had never occurred.
Yet the corpses of the evil god's believers slain by the sword formation and the Lan family's ancestral home, which had been completely obliterated by the Cosmic Form, served as a stark reminder to everyone that what had just transpired was entirely real.
A dead silence fell over Chaoyang City.
Once they snapped out of their daze,
the crowd fell to their knees in unison, prostrating themselves on the ground as their bodies trembled uncontrollably in sheer terror.
【Lan Yi Shock Value +100】
【A'han Shock Value +100】
【Fang Shuo Shock Value +100】
【...】
【Current Shock Value: 13850000】
Not only were the people inside Chaoyang City terrified, but Shen Yu and the others outside the city were equally shaken.
Coming to his senses, Shen Jue said in a low voice, “Fuyan, this is the first time I've seen the Divine Lady display such immense wrath.”
Shen Yu gazed toward Chaoyang City. “It must be that the evil god she spoke of committed heinous acts. The Divine Lady would never use her divine power to punish others without reason.”
He spoke these words for the benefit of the soldiers behind him, refusing to allow anyone to harbor any negative misconceptions about the Divine Lady.
The Divine Lady might not care about such things, but he did.
“Second Young Master Shen is right. Our Divine Lady is such a benevolent deity. For her to go to such lengths, that evil spirit must have been utterly heinous!”
“It must have harmed countless people!”
“To think there were actually people in Chaoyang City worshiping an evil god. I wonder what they were thinking.”
“Exactly. It's truly disgraceful, completely humiliating us mortals. It makes me look down on them...”
The soldiers whispered among themselves, discussing the matter animatedly.
Shen Jue swiftly mounted his horse and ordered the soldiers behind him, “Follow me into the city!”
“Yes, Sir!” Holding torches high, the troop marched toward Chaoyang City in an orderly formation.
From afar, they resembled a single spark poised to start a prairie fire.
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