In the depths of endless space, a palace the size of a grain of rice hid in invisibility, enduring the battering of spatial turbulence as if facing sea spray, unyielding, unstained by dust.
Within the temporary palace, Fang You caressed the card in his hand, which emanated a deep crimson glow. His gaze grew resolute, filled with intense killing intent.
"Character Summoning Card · Chi Tianzhu (Crimson)"
Similar to the last summoning card, using this item would summon a peak projection of a certain character to the mortal realm, maintaining its presence for one hour.
However, the previous summoned character, the ultimate King Hei, was only at the Half-step Seventh Awakening. This current summoning card…
It did not specify the peak combat power of Chi Tianzhu in his normal state.
"But, as one of the Nine Pillars of the Kandela Empire, even the weakest among them must surely be a High-ranking Ninth Realm expert, and a strong one at that."
Fang You was confident that the summoned Chi Tianzhu would be far more powerful than his 'High-ranking Mode'.
However, whether he could defeat and even kill three High-ranking beings with one against three, he was unsure.
He had only encountered three High-ranking beings before.
1+1+1 was by no means as simple as 3.
He had prepared two plans. The first was the usual approach: he would possess the summoned Chi Tianzhu, using the belief of burning fire and the power of the world to amplify Chi Tianzhu's own skills.
The second plan was for him to control the power of the world, enter High-ranking Mode, and face the three with a two-on-three advantage.
Which one to choose would depend on the situation.
"Ding!"
"Prompt: Do you wish to use the 'Character Summoning Card · Chi Tianzhu (Crimson)' to traverse time and space, awaken the Ninth Pillar of the Kandela Empire, Chi Tianzhu, to the mortal realm, and utterly eradicate the disaster."
"Yes!"
The crimson card in his hand melted like ice and snow.
...
Deep space was profound, concealing hidden dangers.
Whether it was the spatial rifts that periodically opened and closed, the randomly blowing winds of annihilation, or the occasional 'creatures' appearing in the high-dimensional abyss, they all posed a considerable threat to demigods.
But for High-ranking Ninth Realm beings, this chaotic deep space was like their own home; they entered and exited with utmost freedom.
Great Lord Yujin, commanding a massive black river, pushed aside the winds of annihilation and spatial rifts, surging forward.
A face contorted with fury appeared on his body, built from layers of mud.
Occasionally, vibrant green sprouts would emerge from the gray-black mud, growing tenaciously. A gray hand would reach out, pluck the young sprout, and pull it out fiercely.
This was filled with Great Lord Yujin's boundless rage.
This was a wound inflicted by laws, one that could not be healed in a short time.
Great Lord Yujin could not afford to wait for slow recovery.
He chose to call for backup.
Anyone who dared to disrupt the Lord's sacrificial ritual would be eternally buried in the endless Styx.
Around Great Lord Yujin, on this surging black river, were two other terrifying colossal figures.
One of them resembled Great Lord Yujin, a colossal figure also composed of countless soft, sticky substances, but this figure was covered in dense, eerie eyeballs.
—"Great Lord Thousand-Eyes"!
The last being appeared much more normal: a colossal black dragon engulfed in flames, its wingspan exceeding ten thousand meters, obscuring the sun.
This was "Great Lord Black Dragon".
He was different from Great Lord Yujin and Great Lord Thousand-Eyes in origin. He was once a humble descendant of an ancient god, who later was enlightened and threw himself into the embrace of the Black River Lord, finally reaching the Ninth Realm.
He would dedicate everything to the great Lord, killing all enemies blocking the Lord's path.
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Great Lord Black Dragon roared.
Great Lord Thousand-Eyes roared.
Great Lord Yujin had been roaring incessantly, appearing rather unintelligent.
Suddenly, the roaring stopped. The three terrifying high-ranking beings of the evil god faction, as if by mutual agreement, turned their gazes towards a single spatial direction.
Space froze.
The winds of annihilation ceased their howling.
At the end of the deep space, a surging long river appeared, a river of ethereal time and history.
Light particles converged, weaving into a figure that was both blurred and clear.
This figure did not seem tall, holding a blood-red spear. The moment she stepped out of the river of history, space trembled.
A chilling killing intent shot up into the sky from this figure. Her fierce, beast-like crimson eyes fell upon the three high-ranking beings, paused, and then erupted with crimson light.
Swish!
Holding the spear, Chi Tianzhu transformed into a crimson rainbow, piercing through Great Lord Yujin, who was at the forefront, in an instant.
Her laws were not sophisticated.
She was simply strong, fast, and ferocious!
Great Lord Yujin was still contemplating the familiarity of this figure when his body was already pierced; he couldn't react.
He remembered!
"Chi Tianzhu! A rare powerhouse among humans!"
"I have been killed by her before."
He added, his rage intensifying.
He was always the one getting hurt!
The gaping wound was hundreds of meters in diameter, its edges entwined with deep crimson flowing light that refused to dissipate.
Previously, Flowing Edge had inflicted a wound several thousand meters long, which Great Lord Yujin could heal with a thought.
However, the wound left by Chi Tianzhu was impossible for Great Lord Yujin to heal. He could only shift the hole to the outer edge of his body to minimize its impact.
While Great Lord Yujin was injured, the other two high-ranking beings attacked simultaneously.
Great Lord Thousand-Eyes' eyeballs all fell, freezing space. The crimson rainbow seemed to be caught by a hand.
Great Lord Black Dragon instantly unleashed endless black flames, burning through the space they touched, using space and chaotic energy as fuel. The flames burned fiercer and fiercer, quickly engulfing the imprisoned space.
Fang You's heart was about to clench.
Crack—
A crack appeared in the solidified space. Before the crack could spread, the entire space exploded.
Dark, collapsing voids continuously spread outwards, devouring everything and everyone.
The black flames were unaffected.
The crimson rainbow was also unaffected.
On the skin of the small figure within the rainbow, mysterious patterns appeared. She still did not evade, raising her heavy blood-red spear and smashing it down with immense force.
Space vibrated violently again, creating tsunami-like ripples.
The encroaching black flames were all extinguished.
At this moment,
Chi Tianzhu looked up. Before her, three colossal disaster stars had appeared, descending in a triangular formation.
This was the exquisite coordination of the three high-ranking beings.
Each of their moves could not last two moments before Chi Tianzhu, but their combined efforts formed a relentless assault.
Chi Tianzhu seemed to be growing increasingly agitated.
Blood flowed rapidly within her, roaring like thunder in the silent, deep space. Her golden-red blood ignited, her eyes becoming more ferocious.
She let out a low roar, and space violently vibrated.
Boom—!
The colossal disaster stars shattered.
The tiny figure raised her fist and smashed the stars before her into fragments. Unabated, she shot out through the spatial cracks.
At this moment, the imprisoned space once again attacked, like a tide.
Chi Tianzhu's left hand, which had not yet made a move, ignited with crimson flames, extending to the tip of her spear. She directly collided with the solidified space and then burst out again.
CRACK—
The imprisoned space behind her shattered with a bang, causing the entire space to collapse. The scenery of the great domain below was faintly visible.
It was a misty gray.
Pieces of space, like shattered glass, fell and embedded themselves into the gray land, bending and distorting the entire landscape.
And these spatial fragments continued to drift down, like snowflakes.
The power was too immense!
The speed was too fast!
Fang You suspected that if his mind were not firmly locked onto Chi Tianzhu, he wouldn't be able to keep up with her speed at all.
Great Lord Yujin couldn't keep up either.
When he came to his senses, a blood-red spear had been magnified a million times, piercing his body and nailing him firmly to the deep space like a spike.
He was injured again!
Great Lord Yujin struggled for a moment but couldn't break free. He became even more ferocious, his eyes fixed on the crimson figure before him: "Without your weapon, how will you fight the three of us!"
The response was a hand like a sharp sword, deeply piercing his body, and then pulling outwards.
RIIIP—
Although she hadn't revealed her true form, and her body was that of a small human, this pull directly tore off a large portion of his flesh and blood, accompanied by pain that reached into the depths of his soul.
"Save me!"
A shadow fell. Great Lord Black Dragon swooped down, his soul-shattering roar echoing.
But Chi Tianzhu also roared, her voice like that of a god and demon, overpowering even Great Lord Black Dragon's mighty roar.
She turned and punched Great Lord Black Dragon away, then delivered a whip kick, like a dragon's tail sweep, shattering Great Lord Thousand-Eyes' attack.
Her dictionary seemed to have no word for evasion.
After repelling the two obstructing high-ranking beings, Chi Tianzhu's ferocious eyes fell upon Great Lord Yujin.
She bent her fingers into claws, the crimson light stretching, piercing through three thousand miles of territory.
One claw strike!
A section of Great Lord Yujin's body vanished; he instantly became several hundred meters shorter.
One punch!
Another section of Great Lord Yujin's body vanished; he instantly became several hundred meters shorter again.
Claws, fists, stabs, tears...
Chi Tianzhu, nailed to Great Lord Yujin's colossal body, her divine blood burning continuously, fought more and more madly. She performed a "body disappearance technique"!
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that High-ranking Ninth Realm beings were incredibly difficult to kill, possessing many methods of substituting death, Chi Tianzhu could have镇压 (suppressed/killed) Great Lord Yujin with a single claw strike.
She "killed" Great Lord Yujin dozens of times, instilling fear in this high-ranking being.
She allowed the black flames to burn her, ignoring them. Instead of showing injury, her aura grew stronger, shaking space to the point where it could no longer solidify.
Clink—
Suddenly, with a light sound.
The crimson spear, like a nail pinning the heavens, fell onto the spatial fragments.
Before her, only a few clumps of gray-black mud remained, slowly wriggling.
Chi Tianzhu stepped forward.
Crushed.
The gray-black mud transformed into the smallest particles in the world, completely dissipating.
At this moment, Chi Tianzhu wiped her mouth, slowly turned her head to look at the remaining two high-ranking beings, and revealed a smile more demonic than the devil's.
Great Lord Thousand-Eyes: "???"
Great Lord Black Dragon: "???"
They did not fear sacrifice; they could offer everything for their great Lord.
But dying without understanding why, they absolutely refused.
The two high-ranking beings tore through space, fleeing towards the Central Spooky Realm.
Faster than them was Chi Tianzhu. The crimson rainbow pierced through space and time, then directly pierced through Great Lord Black Dragon's colossal body.
He fell to the ground!
At this time, spatial rifts finally opened, and the time that had been delayed slowly began to flow.
It was as if Chi Tianzhu had thrown the spear only after Great Lord Black Dragon was pierced and fell to the ground.
She descended from the sky.
The terrifying black dragon roared, struggled, wailed, and whimpered incessantly.
Black divine blood spilled onto the ground, forming a strange lake like a dangerous land. His colossal body, in Chi Tianzhu's hands, underwent another rapid disappearance technique.
Great Lord Black Dragon's characteristics were different from Great Lord Yujin's. With no other high-ranking beings interfering, in a short moment, Chi Tianzhu achieved a double kill.
However, at this time, the last high-ranking being, Great Lord Thousand-Eyes, had already fled countless spatial distances.
High-ranking Ninth Realm beings could already treat space as nothing. Traveling from the Central Spooky Realm to the outer reaches of the Spooky Realm would not take much time.
But Chi Tianzhu was faster.
If normal high-ranking beings folded space for rapid travel, then Chi Tianzhu tore open and pierced through one layer of space after another.
She pursued.
She stepped over one star river, crossed a gray sea, broke through several inter-domain regions, and firmly locked onto the scent of Great Lord Thousand-Eyes, her prey...
Huh? Where did they go?
She seemed to have not chased in the wrong direction?
Chi Tianzhu scratched her head. Her fragmented memories seemed to tell her that this was normal and not to worry.
She fell into thought.
...
Fighting three and achieving a double kill!
As expected of one of the Nine Pillars of the Kandela Empire!
Fang You also swallowed.
Chi Tianzhu's combat style was not profound or exquisite. Throughout the entire battle, only one point was highlighted: 'ferocity'. Fiercer, faster, and more ruthless than the servants of evil gods, she dominated the entire battle.
"Unfortunately, one still managed to escape."
It wasn't actually regrettable.
He had considered intervening himself, but after thinking about it, he felt it was unnecessary. There was no need to waste precious world power, and the after-effects of his previous High-ranking state had not yet completely subsided.
"Letting one escape allows us to pinpoint the 'culprit' and divert the Black River faction's attention."
Let the Black River faction search for Chi Tianzhu.
They might not even recognize Chi Tianzhu.
...
In the higher space, some distance away.
Two human sages swallowed hard, filled with a sense of dread.
"Brutal!"
"Too damn brutal!"
"He/She literally tore apart two high-ranking beings!"
Thinking of this, the two sages felt fortunate.
They had just considered intervening and sniping at the three Black River high-ranking beings, but fortunately, they hadn't.
If they had acted, they probably would have been torn apart by this ferocious god.
They didn't think that in dealing with Black River high-ranking beings, they would be on the same side as this ferocious god; that was out of the question.
"Not only does he/she possess unparalleled combat strength, but their fighting style is also incredibly fierce and cruel. This individual is highly likely to be a subordinate of a certain evil god."
"However, it's still unclear which evil god faction this power belongs to."
"Alas, as expected, there are simply too many high-ranking beings in the evil god factions, so many that new faces emerge from time to time."
The two humans, who had lived for countless years and traversed many great domains of the Spooky Realm, sighed deeply.
...
Outside the Spooky Realm, in a quiet starfield far from the star-scattered outer worlds.
The starry sky was deep, the nebulae dim, and the entire space seemed like a still picture, magnificent yet only desolate.
In the depths of this endless desolation and darkness, where time itself seemed to have stopped, a young girl lay curled up quietly.
The girl was petite, with fair skin, hugging her knees as she curled up, like a beautiful specimen frozen in amber.
However, the beauty was only on one side.
On the other side of the girl's body, her arm, shoulder blade, and waist were all missing.
Yet, even in her incompleteness, there was a soul-stirring beauty, a beauty that transcended perfection, a beauty from a high-ranking life form.
The beautiful, still scene in the deep star sky had been maintained for tens of thousands of years, perhaps longer, but at this moment, the eyelashes of the curled-up girl suddenly trembled slightly.
In the frozen land of time, time began to flow again.