Stelle felt like she was in a scene from a magical girl anime she secretly watched on the Express. She was tied up by vines and being lifted into the air.
"The next step isn't that, is it?" Stelle's mind even wandered for a moment in the air.
Of course, it wouldn't come to that. Not two seconds after Stelle was lifted up, a long spear flew through the sky. And as the spear arrived above her head, it transformed into countless golden spears that rained down.
The ferns released by the Abundance Invocation were now all pierced by the spears.
"This really does look like releasing the ultimate of the Path of the Hunt in the Simulated Universe," Derick thought to himself, standing on Polyxia and looking at the results of the battle on the ground.
Without giving the Abundance Invocation a moment's respite, Derick leaped down from Polyxia's head, heading straight for it.
The Lance of Divine Retribution descended from the sky, striking the head of the Abundance Invocation: Deer hard. At the same time, Polyxia pounced towards it, her dragon claws extending to push the giant deer away.
Seizing this opportunity, Castorice grabbed Hyacine's clothes and jumped to the side, landing on the ground.
"Hyacine, do it now."
"Alright." Standing on the ground, Hyacine lightly unleashed the authority of the Sky Titan. In an instant, a lightning storm descended from the sky, fiercely smashing down on the monsters formed from the Abundance energy.
The attacking monsters were almost completely cleared out by Hyacine in one go.
Hyacine looked at her handiwork with satisfaction. At this time, a female voice, both majestic and tender, came from behind her. "Thank you all for this time. If you hadn't come in time, this defensive battle would have been quite difficult."
Hyacine turned her head and saw Fu Xuan, whose stature was similar to hers, walking past the Cloud Knights to thank her.
Jing Yuan was hiding his actions, so the only one who could come here to command the Cloud Knights, besides him, with the ability and prestige to do so, was Fu Xuan. Yukong might have been able to as well, but Fu Xuan was the next-generation general, so it was more appropriate for her to take command in this situation.
"We were here anyway, so of course we have to protect the civilians from harm." Hearing Fu Xuan praise her like this, Hyacine was a little embarrassed.
Stelle and March 7th also ran over. Stelle, as curious as ever, asked Hyacine, "Hyacine, Hyacine, can you teach me that technique of manipulating the weather?"
Before, she wanted to learn how to turn into a giant dragon from Polyxia. Now, seeing that Hyacine could control the weather, Stelle wanted to learn that too. Although it was cool for her to attack people with a baseball bat, turning into a giant dragon or controlling the weather was even cooler.
Hyacine explained to Stelle, "Stelle, this is the authority I obtained from the Sky Titan after defeating it in our homeland. It can't be taught to others."
The roar of the Abundance Invocation: Deer came from afar, and everyone's gaze quickly turned towards Derick. They were still in the middle of a battle over there; the dangerous situation wasn't over yet.
But seeing the Deer being suppressed by the combined forces of Polyxia and Derick, everyone felt that it couldn't cause much more trouble.
The Deer continuously released branches filled with Abundance energy to attack, but those branches were cut down by Derick as soon as they were released.
And the main body of the Deer was also being frequently suppressed in its battle with Polyxia.
Having once been the Titan of Death, and with a part of Derick's factor in her, Polyxia's physical strength and power were not the least bit inferior to the Deer's, perhaps even superior. And in terms of combat skills, although Polyxia's were worse than Derick's group, that was in comparison to battle-hardened warriors. Compared to the Deer, which only knew how to attack with instinct, she was on a whole other level.
At the same time, the species they had transformed into were also different. A real deer is a herbivore, with only its antlers having any offensive capability. But Polyxia had transformed into a giant dragon; her teeth and claws were the best offensive weapons, not to mention she could also spew terrifying dragon's breath from her mouth.
After a few attacks, Polyxia had the Abundance Invocation: Deer completely suppressed.
Fortunately for it, the Abundance power from the Ambrosial Arbor was plentiful, so Polyxia's several attacks were unable to inflict a fatal wound.
"Derick, it's your turn!" Polyxia said to him.
"I know." Derick nodded seriously.
Then, he summoned the Spear of Divine Retribution back to his hand.
Derick condensed the power of the Lance of Divine Retribution, simply unleashing the energies of both the Titan of Death and the Titan of Discord, and infused them into the spear.
His whole person, with the help of the energy, rose into the air. He gripped the Spear of Divine Retribution with both hands, looked down at the Deer, and threw the long spear with all his might.
"Come on! Die for me!"
With the two Titan energies converging, the energy stored in the Spear of Divine Retribution reached its limit. Towards the Deer, the fierce spear stabbed viciously at it.
The weather, which had become overcast due to Hyacine's celestial summons, was instantly cleared away by the appearance of Derick's spear.
Everyone's eyes were all on this long spear. Purple and golden energies intertwined, crisscrossing each other, brewing an extremely grand destruction.
The spear struck the body of the Abundance Invocation: Deer. The violent energy instantly submerged it. It didn't even have time to struggle before its entire body was completely covered by Derick's energy.
The Deer only had time to let out a mournful cry before its entire body completely dissipated. The remaining Abundance energy quickly returned to the Ambrosial Arbor.
On the ground, the other monsters formed from the Abundance energy also vanished into thin air after the Deer was killed by Derick in one blow.
Seeing this situation, the Cloud Knights felt a temporary sense of relief.
And at this moment, Phantylia, leading Ruan Mei, the disguised Tingyun, and Derick's second clone, arrived at the front lines.
"Lady Ruan Mei, the battlefield is ahead. You mustn't go over there; it's very dangerous," Phantylia said to Ruan Mei after stopping behind the Cloud Knights' formation.
Ruan Mei nodded slightly.
The appearance of these few people also attracted everyone's attention.
Seeing Derick's second clone, Stelle was very happy. She ran over and greeted it.
"Hey, buddy, you're here too!"
And beside her, Castorice and Hyacine simultaneously assumed a fighting stance. Castorice quickly stepped forward to hold Stelle back and looked at the second clone.
"Careful, that enemy is very difficult to deal with."
Her gaze was fixed on the second clone as she spoke to Stelle.
"Difficult to deal with? Isn't that my buddy?" Stelle looked at Castorice with some confusion.
"This creature is very strange. It, no, to be precise, its kin, once ate the Titan of Discord alive. The Titans of Reason and Time were also eaten by its kin. In Amphoreus, it is the most dangerous enemy besides the Flame-Reaver," Castorice said with a grave expression.
As she spoke, she tightened her grip on her scythe, ready to attack the second clone at any moment.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Hearing Castorice say this, a deep confusion appeared in Stelle's clear eyes.
This buddy of mine, the buddy who saved me twice, is a bad guy?
No, that's impossible.
"My buddy is not like that," Stelle insisted to Castorice.
Derick also came to their side at this time. Faced with Castorice's aggressive posture, he naturally also adopted a fighting stance, looking as if he was ready to fight his own clone at any moment.
"Stelle, we fought this guy's kin many times on Amphoreus," Hyacine also tried to persuade her from the side.
"Its kin is really like that?" Yunli also came over. Although she had some opinions about this guy for stealing her candied fruit skewer, she still found it hard to believe it was a bad guy.
Stelle was still confused, but Ruan Mei came before them at this moment.
"You… you know the origin of this creature?" Ruan Mei asked them.
"We don't know either." Derick said without batting an eye. "When it appeared, it was a mystery in our homeland. We only know that it suddenly appeared one day and devoured one of our Titans. After that, we also fought it many times. Although we can defeat it, with its immortality, we have no way to completely eliminate it."
At this time, Stelle went over to Derick's second clone and patted its body. "Buddy, your kin has done quite a lot! Compared to it, you seem a bit lacking."
The second clone remained motionless.
Ruan Mei asked Derick with an expectant look, "Where is your homeland?"
"Amphoreus. Our homeland is Amphoreus," Hyacine answered impatiently.
"That name…" Ruan Mei's face was filled with doubt. This was a name she had never heard of either.
Never mind. Later, I'll contact Herta and have her search for the location of Amphoreus. For there to be a second one of this creature, it's definitely necessary to capture it for detailed study.
Ruan Mei thought to herself.
One must know, Derick's clone contained a very dense energy of the Aeon of Voracity. This was different from the Vidyadhara, who only had a little bit of the power of the Aeon of Permanence. This unknown creature she had been studying for a long time had a very close relationship with the Aeon of Voracity.
Before, she had thought there was only one such creature in existence, but now there was another one. To take two at the same time for experiments… Ruan Mei felt a little excited.
Although she didn't say her thoughts out loud, seeing her expression, Derick had already guessed more or less what she was thinking.
She wants to go to Amphoreus, and she might even bring Herta with her.
Herta plus Ruan Mei… Lycurgus, you're in for a treat this time! And if Ruan Mei and Herta go, Screwllum and Stephen can go too, right? And when that time comes, I can even ask Teacher Feixiao to come along. Isn't there a Lord Ravager over there? I'm sure she'll be interested.
Lycurgus, you dared to make me leave. I'll have the Emanators hold a meeting at your house.
Derick chanted in his heart.
As he was thinking this, Ruan Mei gave a gentle smile and assured Derick and Castorice, "Don't worry. This creature is very docile. With me here, it won't do anything dangerous like attacking people."
Ruan Mei's preliminary guess as to why the two creatures behaved differently was probably because of the different amounts of things they had devoured. The experimental creature in her hands had been constantly fed by her, always on the verge of its devouring limit. It was already full, so it wouldn't engage in devouring behavior.
In contrast, the creature on Amphoreus was probably in a long-term state of starvation. Because of this starvation, it would adopt extremely aggressive behavior, carrying out large-scale devouring of the local creatures.
Castorice and Hyacine had also heard Yunli introduce Ruan Mei's identity and knew how powerful this gentle-looking woman was. She was much stronger than their teacher, Anaxa.
Anaxa really can't compare. Ruan Mei is certified by Nous, while Anaxa is still far behind, the kind who couldn't catch up in a lifetime.
Since she now said this creature was not a problem, then it probably wasn't a problem, right?
Castorice and Hyacine were half-believing, half-doubting, but they still lowered their weapons and didn't intend to continue attacking. But they still kept a certain distance from the second clone, remaining vigilant.
Stelle, watching from the side, breathed a sigh of relief. She also didn't want to see her friends on both sides fight.
Stelle quickly said to everyone, "Alright, let's move on to the next step. Now that the enemies here are dealt with, shouldn't we go and see what that grown Ambrosial Arbor looks like?"
The others all nodded.
"Let's go, let's go over now." Fu Xuan also came before everyone at this time.
"We need to cross the sea to get to the Scalegorge Waterscape. It's not convenient for the Cloud Knights to continue advancing. I have prepared a large ship here. Let's go over together."
"Thank you, Master Diviner."
"No, you all have contributed to the Xianzhou. It is I who should be thanking you."
Fu Xuan pointed to the warship in the distance, gesturing for the others to follow her.
Scalegorge Waterscape, before the Ambrosial Arbor.
Derick's group, the members of the Astral Express, Fu Xuan, Yunli, and Yanqing, as well as Phantylia leading Ruan Mei's group, all walked here.
Along the way, Tingyun had been keeping her form concealed. March 7th couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked Ruan Mei, "Why does that person keep covering their face and body?"
"Yes, this little lady is also very curious," Phantylia also said lightly.
"This… needs to be kept secret for a while longer." Ruan Mei looked up at Phantylia, a faint smile on her lips.
Phantylia instinctively felt a little uneasy, but she glanced at the now fully mature Undying Divine Realmn and felt there was nothing to be afraid of anymore.
"What if I insist on knowing?" Phantylia said with a loud laugh.
Everyone watched as "Tingyun" suddenly changed her appearance, instinctively taking a few steps back.
"You… who are you?" Stelle asked Phantylia.
"Me?" As Phantylia said this, she took a step forward. After a few steps, her head quickly twisted a hundred and eighty degrees.
"Who do you guess I am?"
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