Volume 5 Chapter 132
by Need_More_SleepVolume 5 + Chapter 132: Boiling Blood
“Disappear beneath divine punishment, Silver Dragon.”
The Ame-no-Murakumo Sword shattered the golden light, and the azure lightning engulfed Xia Yi.
In that clash, she was defeated.
Even the full power of a Sword Saint could not overcome the Fox God’s sorcery.
The gap between their realms was simply too vast.
Though she had already touched the threshold of the next great realm, she was, at her core, still only at the fourth tier.
In true combat, she could not sustain maximum output indefinitely.
In the end, the White Night Cult Leader overwhelmed her.
“Opposing a god is folly.”
He stepped slowly through the air.
Looking down upon the scorched earth below, he showed a hint of surprise.
The Silver Dragon Princess… was still alive?
“Cough…!”
Xia Yi coughed up blood, her body swaying. The golden armor shattered piece by piece, dissolving into nothingness.
Her dragon-scale armor had been pierced by the Fox God’s sorcery. She was riddled with wounds, her senses nearly numbed.
What had saved her at the final moment… was the King’s Armor.
It had absorbed most of the damage, but once pushed beyond its limit, it could no longer remain. The remaining force, she had endured directly.
Had it not been for her royal Silver Dragon bloodline, granting her physical resilience far beyond ordinary beings, she would have already turned to ash.
“…”
Her vision blurred; her breathing grew erratic.
“Impressive. To survive the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword…”
The White Night Cult Leader frowned.
This outcome had slightly exceeded his expectations.
A minor inconvenience, nothing more.
Xia Yi was now gravely injured, one step from death, practically a corpse already.
In this state, she posed no threat.
Fox God sorcery consumed immense divine power, especially techniques like the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword.
Reforming the thundercloud sea required time.
Having only recently ascended through the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline, he could not quickly replenish his power.
Thus, unless necessary, he would avoid excessive expenditure.
With this in mind, he gazed down upon Xia Yi.
Why use a sledgehammer to crush a chicken?
Even if she was a Sword Saint, one strike had already nearly killed her. There was no need for another.
“Silver Dragon Princess, you are indeed different from the rest. You possess remarkable trump cards. But as you have seen, before true divine power, they are meaningless.”
Through the Yasakani Magatama, he continued to control Takamagahara.
The sun-wheel above began to rotate, gathering searing energy into a single point, locking onto Xia Yi.
“Abandon resistance. Instant death is your greatest mercy, do not prolong needless suffering.”
“Ugh…”
Xia Yi half-opened her eyes, unable to focus. Her senses were dulling rapidly.
Was the Azure Fox God saying something…?
Her ears rang, she could hear nothing.
Yet her Sword Saint instincts still functioned. She could feel the attack locked onto her, about to fall.
If she did nothing, she would die.
Death?
Slowly, she lifted her head. In her blurred vision, she saw the blazing light descending from the sun-wheel above.
The laser reflected in her silver eyes, drawing ever closer.
No… I cannot die yet.
This is an enemy that must be defeated.
As long as she could still swing her sword, she would not give up.
A will as unyielding as steel rose within her heart.
She gripped her holy sword.
The blade, ever fighting alongside its wielder, responded to her pure resolve, resonating with her soul.
Golden light surged from the hilt, enveloping the blade and transforming its form.
“Holy Sword, Release!”
With the unleashed blade, Xia Yi struck, carving a slash that severed space itself, shattering the incoming beam and grazing the White Night Cult Leader.
The strike cut through the azure fox’s body, drawing blood from his back.
“What?!”
The White Night Cult Leader was stunned.
Even on the brink of death, the Sword Saint had counterattacked, breaking his beam and injuring him.
Was this holy sword imbued with some special property against him? Why was its unleashed power so effective?
The burning pain across his back ignited his fury.
Though he far surpassed her in the realm, though he had utterly dominated, she had still seized a chance to wound him.
“Very well… very well! You have truly angered me! Since you are so eager to die, I will send you to the abyss with Fox God Sorcery!”
His nine massive tails rose again, each channeling divine power into the sky, forming a sacred mirror.
“Fox God Sorcery: Yata Mirror!”
Unlike the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword, this required little preparation. Its purpose, amplify all techniques.
Even the sun-wheel’s beam would become unimaginably destructive.
“If I could… land one more hit…”
Xia Yi gasped, her body trembling violently.
Every breath drained her life.
The unleashed holy sword could kill the Azure Fox God, but only if it struck.
“End it!”
The Fox God roared.
The sun-wheel’s beam passed through the Yata Mirror, magnified into a catastrophic ray that burned through space itself.
“M-move…!!”
Xia Yi raised her sword with all her strength, conjuring an ice barrier through chant suppression to defend herself.
The beam pierced the ice shield, melted the holy sword, and tore through her body.
Under the overwhelming force, the sword slipped from her grasp and fell to the ground. The light faded from her silver eyes.
As her life was about to fade, the Fox God’s magatama emerged from her body, emitting a soft crimson glow that enveloped her.
It was the power of the Red Fox God, sustaining her life.
“How persistent. Even if you cling to this last shred of life, what can you possibly achieve?”
The White Night Cult Leader sneered. He will finish her now.
This time, he would leave no chance.
The sun-wheel gathered power again, preparing to erase what remained of her life.
The King’s Armor was gone. The holy sword is broken.
Xia Yi had fallen into absolute despair.
“As long as you remain within Takamagahara, you will never have any chance of victory.”
But… was that truly the case?
Was the Azure Fox God truly invincible?
Did she truly have no way to turn this around?
Perhaps it was the illusion before death, but memories surfaced.
In a frozen wasteland, upon an icy throne, sat a silver-haired dragon girl, her expression filled with arrogance.
“My adorable descendant, how pitiful you look,” she said. “Is defeating a self-proclaimed god truly so difficult?”
…No.
Xia Yi rose from the ground.
The method to defeat the White Night Cult Leader… wasn’t it simple?
There was no need to overthink it.
If she was not yet a King-tier being, then she would become one.
The blood of the Silver Dragon royalty began to boil within her veins, her heartbeat resonating like the tolling of an ancient bell.
She raised her hand toward the Azure Fox God in the sky.
“Domain Descend…”
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