"...I finally understand why you wanted the Lightning Lord."
Originally, Jing Yuan had harbored some doubts, but the moment he saw "The Propagation," everything became crystal clear.
The reason for needing the Lightning Lord was simple.
Because "The Propagation" was not a Path that humans could tread.
If Jingliu were to forcibly absorb the power of these remains for her own use, she would likely lose her reason in an instant, becoming a beast beyond human control.
This would undoubtedly ruin her plan directly.
After all, the negative debuff of "The Propagation" was equivalent to a Plus version of being Mara-Struck.
If one could not distinguish between friend and foe, let alone master the power, how could one fight The Abundance?
Jingliu had certainly anticipated this, and the Lightning Lord was the method she used to solve it.
In this entire galaxy, if there was any form that could complete the acceptance of the Swarm Emperor's remains and truly obtain an improvement without negative side effects, then there was only the Spirit of the Xianzhou Alliance.
Not only is the Spirit an independent unit, but it is also an unconscious aggregate of energy.
With no consciousness to speak of, there is absolutely no fear of losing one's mind and going out of control. This also meant that the negative debuff of "The Propagation" was completely ineffective against it.
Furthermore, when the Spirit devours the Swarm Emperor's remains, the effects will not backlash upon its master. As long as the Spirit's master is normal, then no matter how many changes the Spirit undergoes, it remains equivalent to being normal.
To desire the power of "The Propagation" without being affected by it, letting the Lightning Lord refine it was indeed the only path available.
Jingliu said not a word; she tacitly admitted to Jing Yuan's guess.
The golden Spirit, the Lightning Lord, emerged from behind her upon her summons. Immediately following that, the Lightning Lord extended a massive hand.
It grabbed the coffin containing "The Propagation" directly!
Instant refinement!
In but a split second, a sky-filling Swarm suddenly surged out from the coffin, frantically gnawing at the Lightning Lord's body. The power of "The Destruction" emerged upon the Lightning Lord!
A moment later, under Jingliu's drive, the Swarm was wiped out in a puff of smoke!
The Lightning Lord did not yield in the slightest, gripping the coffin of "The Propagation" deathly tight! Slowly, the coffin and the Swarm Emperor's remains gradually disappeared.
The Lightning Lord refined both the coffin and the contents simultaneously.
Lines symbolizing "The Propagation" climbed up the Lightning Lord's colossal body cast from flashing yellow thunder. The color of the Lightning Lord shifted from golden yellow to dark purple, as if it had been polluted.
Beside it, swarms filled with the life aura of "The Abundance" spread out.
Black flames ignited within Jingliu's crimson eyes.
At this moment, the Eighth Lord Ravager completed her own ascension!
This was her Complete Form, a weapon of mass destruction in Complete Form against "The Abundance"!
"Acceptable, but only just acceptable."
Leon walked forward, understanding that she had already completed her plan.
Then, next, it was his turn to make her understand what kind of stats were required to clamor against an Aeon.
The absolute strength born from this would teach Jingliu what love is!
"Please enlighten me, General Leon!"
Jingliu gripped the Epiphyllum Sword, and the dual-colored flames symbolizing two Paths ignited once again from the blade's body!
The Lightning Lord behind her also raised its Formation Glaive. The Swarm began to grow restless, and bright green vines transformed from the coffin wrapped around the blade's body!
The auras of "The Propagation" and "The Abundance" were revealed from the Lightning Lord's body; neither lost out to "The Hunt" and "The Destruction" on its master's Epiphyllum Sword!
The Golden Blood of Destruction, the Coffin of Abundance, the Lightning Lord of The Hunt, and the Remains of Propagation.
Heaven-defying intensity created by four "Aeon" items!
There was no doubt that the Jingliu standing here now was—an unprecedented Lord Ravager possessing four Paths!
Unmatched by anyone, unstoppable by anyone, her sword pointed at The Abundance!
Jing Yuan, who had retreated to the rear, had a grave expression on his face, and uneasy emotions rose in his heart.
Previously, he didn't think she could win against Leon, but after personally experiencing the intensity of Jingliu's ascension, he felt it wasn't so absolute anymore.
With two Paths, Jingliu could instantly kill him—instantly kill a Heavenly General of the Reignbow who was going all out.
Now with four Paths, even if Leon could win, it probably wouldn't be that easy, right? In the end, would it not be a case of mutual destruction?
Jing Yuan thought this way.
It wasn't just him; even the Xianzhou Alliance had always had an unclear assessment of Leon's strength. Everyone only knew he was strong, but exactly to what degree he was strong, no one had a number in their hearts.
Jingliu's aura, combined with Jing Yuan's crushing defeat just now, began to make him feel that it would probably not be an easy task for Leon to distinguish a victor against her. It wasn't even impossible that he might lose...
Jing Yuan watched the battle situation with heavy worries. Naturally, he hoped Leon would win. If Jingliu won, she would lead the Alliance towards an extreme.
But facing this current peak of a Lord Ravager before his eyes, could Leon... really win?
"This is your only chance."
Leon spoke thus.
The longbow slung over his shoulder disconnected its string as if sharing a mind with him, separating from his body on its own.
"Come, display your intensity."
"The Expedition" expanded its body, and dazzling deep blue light shone from the bow.
"Prove to me that your stats are truly above mine."
Leon raised his left hand, holding the bow, and pulled the string with his right hand.
To kill an "Aeon," Jingliu's intensity was still far from qualified!
She looked at Leon without any hesitation. Holding the Epiphyllum Sword, she flashed to his front in an instant! And the Lightning Lord, gripping the Formation Glaive tightly, followed close behind, striking at Leon's face in a second!
Jingliu swung her sword, and the Lightning Lord swung its blade following her movements!
Leon played ranged; at a glance, he was a glass cannon. His close combat skills must be bad—or rather, not necessarily bad, but they shouldn't be good. At least, he couldn't compare to a powerhouse like Jingliu, famous for being the Sword Champion.
Although there was a suspicion of opportunism, Jingliu needed this victory incomparably, so she didn't give Leon any chance to draw his bow.
She rushed straight for his person!
Two attacks, four Paths, assaulted him simultaneously!
"The Hunt," "The Destruction," "The Abundance," "The Propagation"—the Paths on Jingliu's body merged with each other, forming a strike sufficient to rival an "Aeon"!
This four-Path "Emanator" brought out her full power right from the start! From the mighty momentum shaking the heavens and the earth, one could see that Jingliu held nothing back!
Clang! The sound of blades colliding.
The Lightning Lord's blade and Jingliu's sword were both steadily caught by someone!
"The purity... is too low."
Leon held two short blades transformed from "The Expedition". One high and one low, perfectly countering the weapons of the Lightning Lord and Jingliu!
"Do you know?"
Imaginary Energy of a magnitude far exceeding Jingliu's surged from his body, suppressing her in an instant!
"Four Paths is barely the threshold to meet me."
Leon exerted force with both arms, and Imaginary Energy was utilized accordingly! With a clang of the dual blades, he easily knocked Jingliu and the Lightning Lord back!
Even if Jingliu had four Paths now, the Imaginary Energy she could contain and master still couldn't even see his back. Under the circumstances where the magnitude of Imaginary Energy and output intensity of the two differed too greatly, Leon was able to knock back the enemy attacking with full force without blowing away any dust!
He indeed didn't know any professional combat techniques.
But he had stats, and he understood what "when the force is great enough, bricks fly" meant. Why engage in flashy tricks? Just chopping directly with a blade was enough!
After knocking Jingliu back, the tails of Leon's dual blades connected to form a bow, and immediately, he drew the string and condensed an arrow in one smooth motion.
"Your stats are low, armor penetration is non-existent, total damage is pathetic... nothing but empty theoretical accounting."
Accompanied by Leon's listing of the spreadsheet, an unadorned purple light arrow was shot.
"Nothing constituting your intensity is decent!"
The light arrow was quite ordinary, but in Jingliu's eyes, it was not so.
"You want to rival an 'Aeon' on the same stage with just this?"
"Aha," "Mythus," "Terminus."
Accompanied by the shooting of the light arrow, the phantoms of three "Aeons" emerged from behind Leon. Their figures had varying depths; one couldn't distinguish them without looking closely.
Aha was the deepest, Terminus slightly shallower, and Mythus the last.
And after the three appeared, the sound of breaking air and the sound of air freezing followed closely. A tall centaur figure, appearing as if substantial, appeared in the sky directly behind Leon!
"The Hunt" Aeon, Lan, joined the battlefield!
Not only that, but behind "Lan," a figure of an Emperor cast from ice crystals hung high!
The figures of "Lan" and "Fuli" far exceeded the three "Aeons" that appeared first!
"Fuli" was the largest, "Lan" second. The attention "Fuli" paid to him even surpassed that of "Lan," so high that it was as if the "Remembrance" Aeon was Leon himself!
Jingliu was stunned for a moment.
Facing the flying light arrow, the Lightning Lord subconsciously moved to protect its master. But just as it hadn't protected Jing Yuan earlier, it couldn't protect anyone this time either.
Finally, the arrow pierced through the Lightning Lord, taking the Golden Blood within Jingliu's body along with it!
Jingliu's body bent forward from the impact, curling up completely. The immense pain caused her to open her lips subconsciously. Her expression twisted, and she coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood due to internal injuries!
With a platter, the Golden Blood of Destruction rolled onto the ground along with the dark red blood.
Under this strike, the Lightning Lord could not avoid a miserable state either.
The remains of "The Propagation" and the spherical "The Abundance" energy body formed from the coffin—both were stripped from the Lightning Lord's body by Leon with a single arrow!
Under the violent stats, they were directly destroyed without a trace!
"The Propagation" and "The Abundance"—did you expect Leon to leave them with whole corpses?
It wasn't that "The Propagation" couldn't be kept, but a dead person should just lie obediently in a coffin. Not come out and cause trouble.
Cough, cough!
The Lightning Lord dissipated without support, while Jingliu lay wretchedly on the ground facing up.
This high-spirited Eighth Lord Ravager was broken in a single strike by the Eighth Heavenly General of the Reignbow... who was also of the eighth rank!
The victory and defeat of the two were easily determined in just one encounter.
The stats Jingliu was proud of, the plan she was proud of—before Leon, they were as fragile as paper, shattering at a touch!
There are no towering trees in the galaxy that reach the heavens, only one thing conquering another.
Jingliu looked dazedly at Leon directly in front of her.
Shock, surprise, despair, confusion about her defeat. Difficulty accepting it, a sense of powerlessness, and relief. All kinds of emotions mixed together, lingering in Jingliu's heart.
Leon was right; a four-Path Emanator had only just reached the threshold of meeting him.
—Because he was a five-Path Emanator contestant!
These five Paths were even all obtained by personally receiving the approval of the corresponding "Aeons." They were the genuine article. Completely different from the false scene Jingliu piled up with four kinds of items.
How could doping ever win against the word "Talent"?
Yes, from the very beginning, she had no hope of defeating him.
Everything, in his view, was completely nonsense, right?
Leon was correct. To point her sword at an "Aeon," she did not yet have that qualification. The stats of an "Aeon" would only be stronger than Leon's. If the all-out her couldn't even get past Leon, how could she talk about an "Aeon"?
Jingliu recognized reality, and her crimson eyes lost their light.
This beating was more useful than a thousand words of dissuasion.
"Whoever has the bigger fist is right."
In this galaxy, this is the truth.
After all, in the final analysis, wasn't the ultimate goal of Jingliu's plan to prove that her fist was bigger than Yaoshi's, so she was right, and Yaoshi had to die? Now Leon's fist was bigger than hers. It proved that her plan, before an "Aeon," was completely wishful thinking.
"Form without form, intent without intent."
Leon stowed his bow, slinging "The Expedition" back over his shoulder.
"Go back and train more."
He had no reaction to Jingliu's defeat; this was known from the very beginning.
What, you ask if he only knows how to shoot arrows? Can't he come up with something new?
Sorry, Leon has "depression"; this is the only thing he knows. With a strong will but a broken body, he just has to sit in a wheelchair.
"You have underestimated 'Aeons' too much."
With those words, Leon retrieved the Golden Blood from the ground and turned to leave with an air of superiority.
Jingliu thought very well, but reality was cruel. In Leon's view, this was just like theoretical maximum total damage. Laughable; it was only in the "theory" part.
Jingliu remained silent. She gazed at the sky; no one knew what she was thinking now.
She was lost, lost once again.
The plan she had decided to devote the rest of her life to had been forcefully shattered by Leon. Where should she go from here?
This wasn't the first time Jingliu was lost. She didn't have the ambition to "kill The Abundance" from the very beginning. After breaking away from the Mara-Struck state, she had traveled alone aimlessly for a long time. At that time, she had no idea what she should do.
Return to the Xianzhou Alliance? As a sinner?
Returning would probably only cause trouble for Jing Yuan.
Jingliu wandered for a long time, until one day while admiring the moon. She thought of the bold words she had spoken to her best friend long ago when they were drunk.
"Even if they are the stars in the sky, I will cut them down."
Jingliu wouldn't continue to be so muddled, so she grabbed this life-saving straw. Later, she received a divine revelation and began to prepare for killing The Abundance.
But now, it was all over.
Her plan had come to a close, failing thoroughly. What should Jingliu pursue now? What should she pursue so that her sword could cut down the stars in the sky?
She didn't know, so she fell into confusion once again.
"Is there a 'The Abundance' wild dog locked up in the Shackling Prison?"
Jing Yuan, who had been slow to recover his senses, was pulled back to reality by this shout from Leon.
He looked at Leon, unable to conceal the shock in his eyes.
Leon won, a crushing victory without suspense. Just as Jingliu instantly killed him in the previous match, Leon also performed a wave of "kicking dead with one foot."
This was something Jing Yuan had never expected. From the moment he leaned towards Jingliu winning, it represented that worry had already risen in him for Leon. This was a Lord Ravager of four Paths! An intensity far above the crowned Iron Tomb!
How did Leon fight like he was playing?
Jing Yuan thought he had overestimated Leon enough, but he didn't expect to still have underestimated him. No, is this really right? A victor was determined in just one encounter?
Jing Yuan felt his previous worries were completely unwarranted.
It had to be said, comparisons really drive people to death. The two-Path Jingliu instantly killed him with one sword, while Leon instantly killed the four-Path Jingliu with one arrow. This really made it hard for him to keep his composure!
No, he was an Emanator too, not a Pathstrider! Why did it make him seem like a Pathstrider?
Jing Yuan sighed with emotion in his heart. He was a Heavenly General of the Reignbow, after all; was he really that unbearable? Could the gap between "Emanators" be so large as to reach this extent?
"...General Leon, are you referring to Shuhu?"
Jing Yuan sighed, beginning to focus his attention on the question Leon asked.
"The Abundance" wild dogs locked in the Shackling Prison—there were too many of those things. However, considering it was for Leon, perhaps only an "Emanator" could be counted as a wild dog; those below "Emanator" could only be considered ants.
Jing Yuan still locked onto the target immediately. Although there were many "The Abundance" wild dogs in the Shackling Prison, there was only one "The Abundance" Emanator. After filtering, it was very easy to find.
"Ah, should be."
Leon didn't know who he was talking about, but he probably wouldn't find the wrong person.
"Anyway, it's a guy with 'The Abundance' aura at the Emanator level."
"That would be Shuhu then."
Seeing Leon clarify the filter conditions, Jing Yuan repeated the name of this Abundance Emanator once again.
"How did General Leon know He was in the Shackling Prison?"
Jing Yuan was somewhat confused because Shuhu's imprisonment was considered a secret of the Luofu. Except for a few people, no one knew.
"Intuition." Leon told the truth.
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