Chapter 298: Results of the Ritual.
When Yasenia opened her eyes again, they changed to a mix of silver and red. She looked at Angel's dancing eyes and caressed her cheek softly. Angel made more incoherent sounds as Yasenia caressed her. She truly felt her heart breaking seeing her like this. 'Even in this estate of mind, you can recognize me. Don't worry, love; you will return to normal soon.'
The red in her eyes receded slowly until her iris were completely silver with bloody red cracks on them. She had clearly relaxed again. However, those eyes were filled with an unsettling calmness. After giving Angel a kiss on the forehead, she laid her back on the coffin and turned toward Fu Jing Jing. She slowly said, her tone even.
"Finish it. I will protect the area if someone dares come close."
Both of them let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. They didn't dare question anything more and began the ritual again.
From inside the black sphere created by [Day and Night], Fu Jing Jing waved her arms and manipulated the energy in the surroundings.
The crystal began covering the surroundings again, advancing at a much higher speed than before. Yasenia ignored it and kept her eyes fixed on Angel.
Slowly but surely, Angel was slowly trapped inside the crystal coffin again. Since she didn't even understand what was happening, Angel looked at that with a foolish expression. This made Yasenia's aura even more profound as any signs of emotions left her silver-red slit-eyes.
The Mirror caught something strange, but it didn't dare provoke the unstable creature who was about to explode at the slightest push. The current dragoness was like the calm before the storm.
When Angel was completely covered in that crystal coffin, Yasenia observed a change slowly occur. Compared to before, the chain that connected the Mirror and Angel's heart gradually changed from golden to black.
Fu Jing Jing explained, "It is changing colors because the Heavens doesn't view master-slave contracts well. However, it won't affect either of them in any bad way."
Yasenia listened, but her entire being seemed frozen in ice. The dragoness did not relax a single muscle for a single instant, nor did she liberate Fu Jing Jing from her current spherical and transparent black prison.
Moreover, without the need for the motion of stabbing the ground, Yasenia deployed [Full Moon] to cover the whole ritual area.
Her energy control in the [Day and Night] mode was completely different from before. Even Fu Jing Jing was impressed by the effortlessness Yasenia had in creating complex energy patterns.
The silver dome stretched outward for almost two hundred meters, covering the whole ritual area with comfortable space to maneuver around.
Hours went by, and cultivators approached the place out of curiosity.
Their previous fight had been too destructive, and cultivators in the surrounding area flocked toward them.
Furthermore, the giant silver dome was too eye-catching to miss, even from a distance.
However, Yasenia was naturally releasing her aura, flooding more than five hundred meters around her with a presence that would scare even a first-level Unification Realm expert.
Some brave ones approached, but the moment they crossed the sensing area of the dragoness in this mode, which was one whole kilometer, a star rain fell down from the sky.
White explosions flooded the surroundings as Yasenia kept her position, and her eyes didn't even move from the crystal coffin.
This brutal massacre was like a signal, and many stopped trying to advance.
The cultivators in the surroundings discussed what was happening. "What's going on here?"
"Maybe a treasure is being born? Normally, treasures have defenses before they appear completely. That attack reminded me of something similar."
"The Heavenly dragoness is inside." A voice from a man came from the side, alerting the group of cultivators.
"What do you mean?"
The man that previously talked with Yasenia said, "The Heavenly dragoness is inside. There was a fierce battle before. That attack over there is one of the aftermaths of that battle."
They followed his gaze, and their gaze landed upon an enormous crater that went far beyond anything they could do.
"Hisss."
They took a sharp breath, stunned at the might of the attack. At first, most of them thought that it was just a landmark of the area! That's how impactful it was. Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates
Fu Jing Jing's attack was like a deterrent that made every single one of them halt their steps. "Maybe this one isn't for us."
"Did the Heavenly Dragoness truly fight against something like that?"
An enormous vortex appeared that sucked in all the crystal shards and grounded them into pure translucent energy.
Yasenia stood there as her blood flowed from her wounds into the vortex.
What Fu Jing Jing and the Mirror didn't realize because they were in the most important part of the ritual was that between those blood droplets, there was one that was different.
A pure, ethereal-looking golden droplet drifted inside the vortex and meshed with everything else.
That's right; it was blood essence!
If you remember, blood essence was the life of a cultivator, and every drop was as important as a limb. However, Yasenia had, without hesitation, used one right now. Even though Yasenia had more blood essence than a common cultivator because of her talent, this would definitely hurt her foundation.
The blue crystal chains that connected with the coffin dissolved in energy particles and mixed with the glass and crystal that the vortex was gathering into a pure glass and light-attributed energy.
Surprisingly, Yasenia's blood also mixed in this, changing that pure crystal's glow into a bloody undertone!
Only then did they realize that something was wrong.
Yasenia's blood should have been purified from when all the things converted, but instead, it mixed.
However, all rituals had one unavoidable fault Yasenia learned the hard way when Cecile's trouble happened. They couldn't be stopped when reaching the climax, or the ones doing it would be gravely injured or worse.
That is why the Ice Phoenixes didn't stop the ritual with Cecile even though they knew something was very wrong.
When they sneaked a glance in Yasenia's direction, they saw the same cruel smile as before, making their hearts drop. 'We've been tricked!'
Yasenia looked on as the vortex was absorbed in Angel's dantian, her smile becoming wider by the second. 'Did they really think I would forgive them for hurting Angel? Did they truly think my wrath would appease with those half-assed excuses?'
Although spending that blood essence would slow down her cultivation speed for the next years and maybe weaken her. It was something Yasenia could live with, knowing what effects it would have.
When Angel absorbed everything, the crystal coffin exploded, liberating her! Then, Yasenia heard Fu Jing Jing chant with gritted teeth, "Now, you shall become the master of the one and only Mirror of Truth and receive the knowledge of my inheritance!"
Angel slowly floated upward toward the Mirror, and the black chain pulled the Mirror's body toward her. Slowly, what was left of the Mirror fused inside Angel, and the surroundings became calm again...
Only for a second.
*BOOOM!*
Angel's aura exploded with such power that it blew Yasenia away for tens of meters! It would have been more if she hadn't used her Tail instantly as an anchor.
The aura explosion literally blew up [Full Moon] into pieces the moment it touched it and continued expanding. An enormous crater expanded from Angel as the central point as her aura inflated multiple times.
The cultivators outside felt like a steel wall slammed into them face-first and were sent flying with internal injuries. Some of the weakest ones even died because of the impact!
A big change occurred at that moment.
When Angel floated into the Mirror's previous position and assimilated the Mirror inside of herself, Angel opened her eyes violently and took in a deep breath.
She was like a suffocating person taking in air after leaving the water.
Right after, her hair color changed from her roots all the way to the tips, becoming a bright and beautiful scarlet, and her eyes turned green. With it, a slight bloody aura spread inside the holiness of the ritual.
Yasenia felt a soul-level connection at that moment with her, making her smile become even wider. 'No way, such extra benefits come with it? That drop was more than worth it.'
After taking some deep breaths, Angel blinked twice, regaining control of herself, and slowly floated down and landed on her naked feet.
When her feet touched the ground, in a three-hundred-meter area, the soil instantly became covered with a combination of red and blue glass and crystal. However, this happened only for a moment, after which it dissipated into particles.
Finally, Angel's red hair and eyes returned back to blonde and blue, finishing the ritual completely. Angel turned around and saw Yasenia looking at her with a smile. Then, her mellow and slightly deep voice caressed her hearing sense like a soft melody. "How do you feel, Angel?"
Angel smiled and opened her mouth, only to be interrupted by Fu Jing Jing's shout, "What is the meaning of this, Dragon!? What did you do!?"