Beneath the lift shaft platform, a staircase paved with crystals forged from the bones and spirits of countless innocent sacrifices descended into the abyss.
Bai Li was placed by He Lian in a hollow at the top of the stairs.
Due to excessive blood loss, the tip of her tail hung limply to the ground, and the venous quartz in her palm flickered with a final trace of ethereal blue.
She could only watch helplessly as the three descended the steps, unable even to stand.
“Be careful… beside the crystal core… that is Nephthys’s home ground, where the pressure of the cursed law is strongest…”
Xue Yin’s Moonlight Staff hovered at her side, her hero form fully unleashed.
With each step she took, the crystals beneath her feet briefly lost their original purple-red color.
That was the Moon Court Domain and the evil god’s cursed law vying for every inch of ground.
Jin followed closely.
Black flames crouched low beneath his feet, compressing that primal power to its limit.
His molten-gold vertical pupils were fixed on the pink-gold figure.
He Lian walked at the front.
His broken left arm was tightly bound to his chest with cloth strips, and his right hand was clenched into a fist.
Even with only one hand, he remained an insurmountable bulwark.
At the end of the stairs, the space opened up.
In the center of this open area, a dark purple crystal core about a hundred feet in diameter floated in midair.
Countless human faces surfaced on its exterior—
All souls devoured by the evil god Nephthys, rising and falling across the crystal surface, silently begging.
Beneath the crystal core stood a single figure.
Her entire body was covered in a high-gloss black latex restraint suit, the fabric joined by countless silver inverted cross fasteners.
A faint purple mist seeped from its surface, and within three feet of her, even light was distorted.
“Welcome home, vessel.”
High Priestess Liserah von Crowe’s voice carried not a trace of warmth.
Xue Yin’s staff lifted slightly, silver mist forming a barrier before her.
“I am not a vessel. I am Xueyin Yueling, and I have come to end this!”
“Is that so? Names don’t matter, hehe~”
Liserah laughed softly.
“What matters is that you are the final piece. Our lord has slumbered for many years. Cloud Ruins Bazaar will become a living altar, and you shall become the eye of the new god.”
“Dream on.”
Jin stepped forward, black flames rising, his molten-gold pupils locking onto the opponent.
“As long as I’m here, no one touches my master.”
Liserah’s gaze swept over the three, her smile turning cold.
“High elf? Fallen angel? Rock-born chief? …How absurd. You think that by isolating the pressure within our lord’s curse, you can defeat me?”
Before her voice faded, her form teleported to the core area of the curse directly beneath the crystal core.
Blood runes on the ground flared, resonating with the markings on her restraint suit.
Liserah’s speed increased severalfold.
Before her afterimage faded, dozens of blood-binding threads burst from every joint of her restraint suit, shooting straight at the three’s vital points.
The blood-binding threads abruptly changed direction in midair, attacking blind spots, locking onto the three from the most impossible angles.
Xue Yin swept her staff, the tip carving a silver arc in the air.
“Moon Court Barrier!”
The silver mist coalesced into a giant curved shield, blocking most of the attack.
However, two threads still grazed He Lian’s right arm from a blind spot.
The wound edges showed dark purple corrosion patterns—
Wounds from the evil god’s covenant blood could not heal normally within the curse core area.
“Brother He Lian, suppress the left flank! Jin, high-speed harassment!” Xue Yin shouted, at the same time tapping her staff on the ground. A giant net woven of starlight appeared on the floor. “Static Domain String: Full Area Mark.”
With each step Liserah took, a silver light anchor lit up under her feet.
Xue Yin’s hero form granted the Static Domain String an even greater ability—
Not only could it sense trajectories, but it also turned dynamic predictions into tangible markers.
He Lian exploded into action.
With only his right hand, he unleashed a supreme punch from the left flank.
The wind pressure tore the air, producing a piercing sonic boom.
Before the fist landed, the qi had already split the ground!
The crystal floor shattered in layers, cracks spreading radially for a hundred meters.
The entire crystal core chamber trembled slightly from this fist.
Liserah sneered.
A blood wall rose from the ground to block the punch.
Hiding behind the blood wall, she used the obstruction of view to trace an arc of blood light in the air, aiming directly at He Lian’s waist.
He Lian spun to dodge.
Xue Yin’s Static Domain String helped him precisely capture the attack direction.
Seeing the attack fail, Liserah tapped the ground with her toes and teleported into the air.
Her restraint suit emitted purple mist, extending into a pair of translucent purple wings.
Looking down at the three from above, she said, “You have defiled our lord’s resurrection ritual! You will pay the price!”
She chanted in a low voice.
Behind her, a phantom of an inverted cross altar built from blood crystals appeared.
At the altar’s peak, an undying purple flame burned.
The ground split open instantly.
Blood vines burst from the earth, each vine covered in barbs, with curse runes crawling across their surfaces.
Jin did not dodge.
Black flames exploded from his feet.
“Scorched Path!”
The black flames used the vines as fuses, pushing the flame flow toward the source, directly toward Liserah’s feet.
Liserah quickly waved her hand, severing the blood vines.
Blood sprayed from the breaks, turning to mist in the air, but Jin’s black flames still burned fiercely at the severed ends, never dying out.
“The fallen angel bloodline truly is troublesome…”
“Jin, close-quarters suppression! Brother He Lian, seal her landing points!”
Xue Yin raised her staff high.
Seven silver markers lit up around Liserah simultaneously.
Jin activated Void Step, his form splitting into several afterimages between the rock layers and the crystal core, speed maxed out.
Each afterimage was an attack route from a different angle, making it impossible to predict the final landing point.
Black flames coiled around his arms as fists and palms struck, targeting the silver markers.
Liserah hastily blocked.
Her restraint suit hardened into temporary armor, deflecting most of the impact.
The areas where black flames burned left charred marks.
At the same time, He Lian leaped.
Jin’s close-quarters suppression forced Liserah to block, and in that moment of blocking, Liserah’s concentration wavered.
He formed his right hand into a palm and struck “Mountain Suppressing Palm” at the inevitable landing point marked by silver!
Before the palm wind arrived, the ground had already collapsed into a bowl-shaped deep pit.
The crystals at the bottom were all ground to powder.
This was the ultimate manifestation of overwhelming form with force in fist theory.
Liserah was just retreating downward from blocking Jin’s combo, and her landing point was exactly sealed by this palm.
She had no choice but to take it head-on.
“Clang—!”
The palm strike collided with the restraint suit, producing a dull metallic thud.
Liserah’s spine jolted, and a trickle of dark red blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.
“Interesting.”
She wiped the blood from her mouth and suddenly tore open her waist restraint.
Dozens of blood-blade whips howled out.
Xue Yin tapped her staff on the ground.
Countless silver thorns burst from the earth, interweaving layer upon layer before her—
Genesis Thorns: Ring Array!
A silver thorn wall rose from the ground, blocking thirty percent of the attack;
Jin’s black flames formed a net, incinerating forty percent;
He Lian blocked with his right hand, withstanding the remaining force.
His clothes were shredded, and his right arm was drenched in blood.
Liserah took this opportunity to thrust her fingers into a crack in the crystal core.
The cursed resonance activated!
Her speed doubled again, her form becoming an afterimage, and her wounds rapidly healed under the nourishment of the crystal core’s pulse.
They couldn’t give her time to catch her breath and recover.
Jin charged at high speed, but in the face of the blood blades’ speed enhanced by the curse, his reactions were already stretched thin.
The first blood blade dodged the black flame defense, pierced in from his blind spot, and went through his left shoulder.
The second followed closely, entering his right ribs.
The third silently crept along the ground, piercing through his thigh from below.
“Jin!” Xue Yin cried out.
Xue Yin drove the Moonlight Staff into the ground.
Silver mist gushed out like a spring.
“Genesis Touch: Emergency Healing!”
Her mana was draining rapidly.
On one hand, she had to maintain the boundary power to resist the evil god’s cursed pressure;
On the other, she was using Genesis Touch to heal Jin’s wounds.
But this time, she would not let anyone slip away from her.
He Lian had charged almost simultaneously with Jin.
He watched helplessly as Jin was struck and taken out of the fight, but his steps did not stop.
On the battlefield, trust was not spoken comfort; it was believing that comrades would coordinate perfectly.
He seized the opportunity to get close, unleashing a barrage of punches, elbows, and knees like a torrential rain!
He Lian’s fist slammed into Liserah’s chest, but the enhanced restraint suit rebounded the force, causing the old injury on his left shoulder to split open.
The bone fracture sound was clearly audible in the chamber.
His right leg was sliced open with a deep gash by a blood blade, the wound edges eroded by corrosion patterns, and the surrounding skin was gradually discoloring.
“You can’t kill me.”
Liserah straightened up.
The restraint suit was automatically repairing itself.
The cracks on her silver mask were refilled with blood flowing in from the crystal core.
Her voice carried a layer of the victor’s composure.
“As long as the crystal core exists, I am immortal. Every second, every minute, our lord is consuming your stamina. How long can you hold out?”
“Then let me show you,”
Xue Yin’s eyes blazed with rose-pink light, and the light particles at the tips of her hair tore the surrounding darkness into shreds layer by layer, “the power of a hero!”
“Jin! He Lian! That’s enough time, fall back now!”
The two retreated without hesitation.
Xue Yin’s lengthy spell preparation was complete.
“Moon Court Domain: Final Starfall!”
Silver mist gathered at the dome.
Each wisp of mist spiraled rapidly, coalescing into a light meteor dozens of feet in diameter.
Carrying the force of annihilation, it plummeted straight toward Liserah’s head!
Liserah looked up.
Her amber pupils reflected the ever-growing silver-white orb.
She crossed her arms.
Her entire restraint suit liquefied, condensing above her head into an inverted cross blood crystal shield.
“Boom—!!!”
The light blast engulfed everything.
When the smoke and dust cleared, Liserah was kneeling on one knee.
“Impossible…”
She panted.
“You can actually call upon the power of the stars… That is secret-level magic, the ultimate art of the high elves…”
Xue Yin pulled out her staff and stepped forward slowly, looking down at Liserah.
“Because you sacrificed so many innocent people to fulfill your twisted faith, I must end this cycle.”
“Ridiculous… Don’t think… you’ve won.”
Liserah lifted her head.
A hint of human emotion finally surfaced in her eyes.
She mustered all her strength and roared, “Don’t look down on me and pass judgment from up there! Our lord Nephthys… is the only one in this filthy world… who gave us a reason to live… Arrogant… hateful…”
“You have each other, you have hope… But what about us? When we were abandoned by this world, only our lord… only Nephthys was willing to accept us!”
Liserah’s body began to dissolve into light particles, merging into the crystal core.
“With my body as the bridge, our lord Nephthys, descend!”
The light particles completely sank into the crystal core.
Her figure dissipated completely before everyone’s eyes.
Countless billions of blood crystal fragments converged toward a single central point.
Black mist rose from the crystal core.
A semi-transparent humanoid figure, ten meters tall, slowly stood up, its body shrouded in an ominous gloom.
Because the sacrifice was incomplete, the evil god’s power was flawed.
Nephthys barely maintained its form.
Its body swayed as it looked down at the spot where Liserah had dissipated, and the purest killing intent erupted.
“It should have been perfect…”
Nephthys growled, its voice filled with pure, naked fury, echoing off the chamber walls.
“You were supposed to bear my body! How dare you reject divinity?!”
The ground shook.
Nephthys suddenly raised its hand.
Ten Thousand Bloods Harmony activated instantly without preparation.
A thousand blood blades pointed directly at the three.
“Then with your deaths, I shall forge my new king’s crown!”
The evil god raised both arms.
A thousand blood blades spun wildly in the air, forming a huge blood-red vortex, finally converging into a giant spear that pierced heaven and earth.
The final blow was about to fall!
Xue Yin, the three of them, stood back to back.
Jin’s left shoulder was pierced, his right ribs torn, blood flowing endlessly from his abdomen.
He Lian’s left arm was useless, his right leg wounded, only half his combat power remained.
Xue Yin gritted her teeth and raised the Moonlight Staff high.
This blow, she alone had to take it.
Silver light and the blood spear collided with a thunderous roar—
The entire crystal core chamber was plunged into a blinding white light.