"Feng Bo, we're here to help you!"
Seeing Feng Bo being pummeled, Chiyou and Yu Shi could no longer stand by. Yu Shi immediately released his Red Dragon.
The Red Dragon, initially only two meters long, transformed into a colossal crimson Eastern Divine Dragon nearly a hundred meters in length.
Simultaneously, a sudden and violent storm erupted in the surrounding heavens. Amidst the torrential rain and howling winds, the Red Dragon soared into the sky, charging toward Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Chiyou had finally tamed his unruly mount, the Iron-Eating Beast, which now ceased its antics.
Riding the transformed panda, now seven to eight meters tall and radiating primal ferocity, Chiyou thundered toward Phoenix.
By this time, the Red Dragon had reached Phoenix and snapped its jaws around her.
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Though the Red Dragon swallowed Phoenix whole, it felt as if it had bitten into thin air. As expected, the real Phoenix materialized atop the dragon's head in the next instant.
Adorning Phoenix's hair was a beautiful ornament that seemed to shimmer with radiant light.
"Three against one? Aren't you ashamed? But... this ends here!"
Standing atop the Red Dragon, Phoenix showed no fear as she faced Chiyou, his two companions, and their Divine Beast mount. Instead, she calmly produced a weapon—a Western-style knight's lance.
The lance was exquisitely crafted, its pure white exterior gleaming.
Holding the lance, Phoenix suddenly drew a black knight's sword, Black Abyss, from within its shaft.
Though outwardly appearing as a single pure white knight's lance, the weapon was actually composed of two parts: the pure white Knight's Lance, White Flower, on the exterior, and the black knight's sword, Black Abyss, concealed within.
Phoenix, wielding the Black Knight's Sword in her left hand, unceremoniously plunged it into the Red Dragon beneath her feet. The dragon's scales, normally impenetrable, offered no resistance, parting as easily as tofu. In the next instant, Phoenix activated the sword's destructive power.
She withdrew the blade and leaped off the Red Dragon's body.
As Phoenix landed, the Red Dragon—once akin to a Divine Dragon—began to wail in agony. Its body was already disintegrating from the inside out, its structure unraveling into utter chaos. It wouldn't be long before the creature completely dissolved.
The damage inflicted by Black Abyss could only be healed by White Flower, whose regenerative power required the Black Abyss to function.
"You bastard! What have you done to my Red Dragon?!"
Yu Shi, who had rushed to the scene, watched helplessly as the dragon self-destructed. His face twisted with fury, and he surged forward with renewed speed.
"I simply disassembled it. And you're next."
"I am the blackness that devours all, the white that nurtures all; born before creation, existing beyond annihilation."
Divine Key: Abyss Flower, First Designated Power—Holy Spear Bloom!
As Yu Shi charged forward, Phoenix calmly reassembled the black Knight's Sword and white Knight's Lance into a single weapon. Raising the Knight's Lance, she hurled it straight at Yu Shi.
The Abyss Flower struck Yu Shi instantly, detonating with the force of a nuclear weapon. A massive white mushroom cloud erupted from Yu Shi's position.
A blinding white light engulfed the entire world, filling every corner of the sky and earth. Phoenix could see nothing but the glare, her vision completely obscured as if she had been hit by a flashbang.
Several minutes passed before the white light began to fade, and the world gradually returned to normal.
As the blinding white light faded, the Abyss Flower stood firmly planted before them. Yu Shi, the Heretic God of Rain, had been banished back to Myth.
Phoenix approached the Abyss Flower, once again drawing her Knight's Lance. She turned to face the remaining foes: Chiyou and Feng Bo.
"Yu Shi... Damn it, you little brat! You've truly infuriated me!" Feng Bo roared, his fury burning as he watched his closest companion, Yu Shi, vanish into Myth.
"Tempestuous storms, whirling the four corners into maelstroms... Wind of Annihilation!"
As Feng Bo uttered the Spirit Speech, eight colossal tornadoes, each hundreds of meters tall, materialized around him. Swirling with devastating force, they hurtled toward Phoenix, intent on obliterating everything in their path.
The tornadoes carved deep ravines into the earth, ripping apart mountains and bedrock, leaving trails of destruction tens of meters deep as they surged toward Phoenix.
Chiyou didn't remain idle. Perched atop his Iron-Eating Beast, he took a deep breath.
Then, a massive cloud of white mist erupted from his lungs.
The dense fog drifted ominously. When an unlucky bird strayed into its path, it immediately began foaming at the mouth and plummeted lifelessly from the sky.
This was no ordinary mist; it was a virulent poison.
Combined with Feng Bo's tornadoes, the storm now carried toxic power, transforming the natural disasters into venomous whirlwinds of destruction.
Just as the tornado was about to strike Phoenix, Feng Bo noticed a single feather, faintly glowing, emerge beside her. In the next instant...
A voice rang out behind him.
"I am the black that descends to Hell; I am the white that ascends from Heaven!" Divine Key: Abyss Flower, Second Nominal Power—Holy Spear Reverse Flow!
The beautiful Knight's Lance pierced straight through Feng Bo's body from behind.
"You..."
Feng Bo stared at Phoenix beside the tornado, then at the Phoenix behind him. He couldn't comprehend it. How could there be two of her? And when had the one behind him even gotten there?
But he had no time to ponder these questions, for he had already been utterly banished back to Myth.
"The combined power of Fenghuang Down and Abyss Flower is truly remarkable..." Phoenix murmured, holding the Knight's Lance and turning to face the final enemy, Chiyou.
Black Abyss possessed the power to disintegrate all matter, while Fenghuang Down directly influenced the target's mind and consciousness. This combination ensured absolute precision in every strike.
"Next... it's your turn, Chiyou! Go forth! Black Abyss Wither!"
Phoenix hurled the Abyss Flower forward with all her might.
Chiyou's expression darkened as he saw the Knight's Lance hurtling toward him. Having witnessed its power to instantly slay Heretic Gods, he dared not meet it head-on.
"Iron-Eating Beast, run!" Chiyou shouted.
He had no desire to continue fighting this strange Campione. Between the Xuanyuan Sword and this terrifying Knight's Lance, who knew what other horrific weapons she might possess? It was a hopeless battle.
"Squeak..."
Hearing Chiyou's command, the Iron-Eating Beast turned to flee with him. But both of them quickly realized the Knight's Lance had locked onto them with a tracking function.
Worse still, the lance's speed far surpassed theirs, making escape impossible. Resigned, Chiyou gripped his tiger-headed greatsword, preparing to stand his ground.
In an instant, the Knight's Lance arrived before Chiyou. He shoved the Iron-Eating Beast aside, ready to slash with his sword. But before he could move, the beast suddenly surged forward, placing itself directly in the path of the lance.
Before Chiyou could even register the sacrifice, the Knight's Lance pierced through the Iron-Eating Beast's body and struck him squarely.
In that instant, both man and beast were transported back to the realm of Myth.
Black Abyss Wither: By drawing upon the power of the Black Abyss without separating the Abyss Flower, this ability can instantly annihilate enemies at the Pseudo-Herrscher level or higher.
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