The flames consumed everything.
Yuxia’s figure completely vanished from this world.
Just as Yuxia had said before, she didn’t want others to see her in such an ugly and weak state. Even at the moment of her death, she was proud.
Lu Mo watched the gradually extinguishing flames before her, remaining silent for a long time.
The residual warmth of the other person still lingered in her arms, and she could still feel the warmth transmitted by that trace of God-blood on her cheek.
‘She’s dead.’
The woman’s voice sounded in her mind, now unusually tinged with complexity.
‘And in the end, she actually gave the most precious God-blood in her body to you.’
God-blood was the most valued thing by the God-descendants.
They regarded God-blood as their most important possession, above all else, even life.
There was also a saying that when a God-descendant died, the God-blood served as a guiding light for their soul, leading them to the divine kingdom to be reborn.
Yet Yuxia had just given her own God-blood to Lu Mo.
As if… she considered Lu Mo more important than her own life.
‘Tell me, does she like you?’ the woman asked again.
‘Do you like her?’
‘She told you to keep going. What kind of path do you ultimately plan to walk?’
The woman chattered on.
But Lu Mo did not answer.
She just remained silent.
No divine talent, yet she could suppress a Sequence Hero to the point they couldn’t lift their head; a human, yet she could wield a Sin Emperor’s Armament.
The woman grew more and more curious about Lu Mo.
And now, a God-descendant was willing to offer everything for her at the end of her own life.
She desperately wanted to know what this girl would ultimately grow into.
What would all the power she had accumulated along the way ultimately face?
What would it sever?
The last spark of fire dissipated amidst the blood rain filling the sky.
Lu Mo slowly closed her eyes, suppressing all emotion deep within her heart.
When she opened her eyes again, her gaze had become icy and clear.
She slowly raised her head, looking toward the clouds interwoven with blood-red, black, and deep yellow.
Toward the figure beyond those clouds.
The woman sensed a powerful, cold killing intent beginning to spread around the girl.
Lu Mo tightened her grip on the sword in her hand and began walking toward the sky.
The rain of flesh and blood, the tide of rotting corpses…
The mastermind behind all of this was right there in the sky above!
***
Meanwhile, high above in the sky.
Thick clouds churned, countless twisted creatures wriggling within them, emitting piercing shrieks.
They surged toward Rumina, and as they moved, countless chunks of flesh, stitched limbs, and organs constantly sloughed off their surfaces, plummeting toward the earth below.
This was the source of the rain of flesh and blood.
Rumina snorted coldly, her long spear thrusting out violently.
In an instant, a large swath of the aberrant creatures exploded on the spot, and the clouds within a hundred-meter radius were utterly annihilated!
But this lasted only a few seconds.
The next moment, more foul and corrosive power surged forth, coalescing once more into new clouds.
“A Grand Duke, and two at that, yet all you can do before me is hide?” Rumina spoke coldly.
Soon after, a weak, sinister female laugh came from beyond the clouds:
“The War Goddess’s power is indeed formidable… Naturally, we wouldn’t dare to face you head-on.”
As she spoke, the figure of the female Grand Duke gradually became visible.
She was in a wretched state. Her long hair was scorched black by holy light, her body covered in penetrating wounds, and half her face was nearly destroyed.
Yet even so, she was not dead.
Flesh squirmed like maggots at her wounds, slowly repairing her body.
‘Duke Pestilence…’
Rumina spoke her title.
Duke Pestilence was one of the few remaining Demon Grand Dukes in the human world, skilled in large-scale poisoning and plague.
She could envelop a battlefield with her Heavenly Dominion phenomenon, spreading disease and corruption, causing enemies to rapidly rot without any warning.
Yuxia had once fought her and suffered greatly.
Fortunately, Rumina had arrived in time then.
Holy power had a strong suppressive effect on demons, and Rumina was extremely skilled in close-quarters combat, so she had quickly suppressed her opponent.
But right at this moment—
A sudden change!
BOOM—!
A massive figure abruptly burst forth from behind Rumina.
It was a rotting behemoth stitched together from countless corpses.
It opened its bloody maw, from which countless arms stretched outward, simultaneously spewing forth corpse-water condensed from Heavenly Dominion power!
Once touched, one would be corrupted!
Rumina reacted instantly, her spear spinning. Holy power transformed into a spiral, shattering both the corpse-water and the arms.
The behemoth was blasted back, large chunks of flesh falling off.
The clouds were blasted apart, and she saw the man standing atop the behemoth.
The man had a crazed expression, his upper body bare, muscles twisted and disproportionate all over his body.
Upon careful sensing, one could even detect mixed auras of humans, elves, and other different races on him.
The man licked his lips, revealing a greedy smile:
“Quite fast reflexes… After I kill you, should I take your hands, or your eyes?”
Rumina responded coldly:
“Today, you will take nothing.”
Duke Mutilation.
Another notoriously infamous Demon Grand Duke.
His ability was to create rotting corpse creatures completely under his control.
He himself was obsessed with taking organs from powerful individuals to piece together the “most perfect body.”
It was the combined abilities of Duke Pestilence and Duke Mutilation that had created the rain of flesh and blood and the tide of rotting corpses.
Originally, this disaster would have descended directly upon the main human camp.
The corpse tide would have followed closely, detonating everything, turning the entire encampment into an uninhabitable, corrosive hell.
But Rumina’s appearance had forced the two Grand Dukes to divert most of their power to the sky.
Now, the two Grand Dukes joined forces against humanity’s War Goddess.
In terms of pure realm, Rumina was more than enough to suppress them.
But she could clearly sense—
Their Heavenly Dominion phenomena were completely different from the intelligence reports.
The corrosive power was many times stronger.
Whether it was the number of aberrations in the clouds or the scale of the rotting corpses on the ground, it far exceeded anything before.
‘This corrosive power and the raw materials for these rotting corpses… they’re probably your own kin, aren’t they?’ Rumina questioned coldly.
‘To achieve this scale, you’d need to slaughter at least tens of thousands of elite demon troops.’
Duke Mutilation laughed maniacally:
“Correct! I did it!”
“I stimulated the corrosive power within them, then transformed them into my rotting corpse servants, piecing them together into my most satisfactory masterpiece!”
“If the Demon King granted me more authority, I could do even better… Hahahaha!”
His body trembled with excitement.
‘You’re truly insane…’
Rumina muttered.
‘You could actually go this far even against your own kin.’
“Our own kin?” Duke Pestilence covered her mouth with a light laugh. “That inferior blood doesn’t deserve to be called kin.”
“And all of this is merely the necessary sacrifice to exterminate you humans.”
“Haven’t you humans done similar things before?”
“Silence!”
The next instant, Rumina attacked.
Holy power erupted, her domain expanded, blasting toward the Heavenly Dominion phenomena of the two!
Heavenly light, a sea of flesh-clouds, and a tide of aberrant corpses collided violently.
The three powers clashed madly.
Although Rumina could suppress the two Grand Dukes’ main bodies, she struggled to gain the upper hand in the clash of phenomena.
The corrosive power even began to subtly seep into her own domain.
If they could fully control this power—
The consequences would be unimaginable.
Rumina tried to contact other human powerhouses but found the surroundings had long been completely isolated by the corrosion.
She could neither make contact nor easily withdraw.
—!
Holy power erupted once more, space cracking.
Rumina forcibly tore through the rain-clouds and the rotting behemoth, bursting out of the core corrosive area.
She stood high in the air, confronting the two Grand Dukes.
Right at that moment—
Tap, tap—
Footsteps sounded in the sky.
Rumina’s expression changed.
Another enemy?
Soon, she saw a girl walking slowly out from the blood-red rain clouds.
Spotless.
Expression cold.
Killing intent—chilling to the extreme.
‘Lu… Lu Mo?!’
Rumina’s pupils constricted sharply.
She hadn’t detected the other’s presence at all!
The two Grand Dukes were also stunned.
Because Lu Mo had walked out from within their Heavenly Dominion phenomena.
Yet no one had noticed.
Lu Mo did not speak.
She merely looked at the weapon in the female Grand Duke’s hand.
Then, her gaze fell upon the other’s body.
At that moment—
The female Grand Duke felt a destructive killing intent lock onto her.
As if… it intended to annihilate everything.
“Lu Mo, you—”
Rumina was about to speak.
The next instant.
Lu Mo’s figure had already vanished.
A sword scar tore through space, clouds, and the corpse-beast.
Heavenly Dominion power erupted violently.
That sword intent—
Was even more extreme, more terrifying than before.
It even made Rumina feel a chill for an instant.
The girl had already appeared before the female Grand Duke.
Then—
She swung her sword down!