Bai Xian'er stared blankly at the beautiful Setting Sun as it disappeared. For a moment, she forgot all her martial techniques, which led to a backlash from her cultivation and injured her.
She looked over at Lu Yin, recognizing that he had just used a comprehension technique, which were very troublesome to deal with.
Lu Yin continued to release his inner universe in an attempt to pull Bai Xian'er into it.
He pointed her index finger, and an attack as sharp as a sword pierced the void and exposed the Hollow. The attack even ripped through Lu Yin’s universe, and continued on straight at him. This finger was like the sharpest weapon in existence, surpassing even Supreme’s sword.
A landmass appeared in front of Lu Yin with a thunderous roar, even as his Wordless Heavenly Book added vitality to the landmass as it flew towards Bai Xian'er.
Her finger tore through the landmass, slicing right through it. The land trembled as it pressed down with an incredible force.
There was a loud boom, and the landmass shattered. Both Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er were forced backwards from the shockwaves of their clash.
The Second Scourge trembled slightly, and many people looked down at the ground. Was there a battle being fought underground as well?
The entire Second Scourge started cracking, and even the black Mother Tree tilted slightly due to the tremors.
Down beneath the black Mother Tree’s roots, Lu Yin stared at Bai Xian'er and raised his hand again before his landmass crashed down upon her.
She allowed the impact, and it shattered her body.
Once again, Lu Yin felt overwhelmed. He was clearly able to injure or even kill Bai Xian'er, but her ability to instantly recover was infuriating. She had no need to defend herself from any of his attacks, and she simply allowed all of Lu Yin’s attacks to land. This power of hers was even more difficult to deal with than her ability to manipulate his sense of time.
Even Flipping the Sky did nothing to help Lu Yin in the current situation.
The landmass was already capable of crushing Bai Xian'er, but what did that accomplish?
Bai Xian'er instantly recovered, but this time, something around her changed. A large tree sprang up from the ground behind her. Was that her Progenitor’s world?
Lu Yin’s expression changed. Bai Xian'er was finally using her Progenitor’s world.
Throughout the battle, she had only used her innate gift and a few battle techniques, but never her Progenitor’s world. She was finally exposing her true strength.
However, why did the tree look so familiar?
Once the tree fully emerged, another plant started climbing up it. It was a lotus vine.
It was a tree and a lotus vine.
Lu Yin suddenly remembered. This was a tree lotus vine.
In the Perennial World, the Nong family’s home was Seed Garden, and in it, they had a special garden dedicated to plants that had been planted by people the Nong family had acknowledged. All the plants were grown from all-growing seeds, and no two plants were the same, just as each person’s character and abilities were unique.
There was a tree lotus vine in that garden, and it had been planted by Bai Xian'er. It was an extremely overbearing plant, and it stole all the nutrients from the nearby soil, which led all the nearby plants to wither, even those which had been planted by Progenitors.
But that tree lotus vine was a plant that Bai Xian’er had planted. How could her Progenitor’s world also be a tree lotus vine?
When Bai Xian’er had planted her all-growing seed, she had not been even close to the Progenitor level. In fact, she had been far from becoming a Semi-Progenitor. What connection could she have with the tree lotus vine?
Lu Yin stared at the plant in shock.
As the tree lotus vine appeared, Bai Xian'er's expression turned cold. An indescribable arrogance and nobility could be seen deep in her eyes, as a hint of an aura that felt incredibly domineering and greedy appeared.
With the tree lotus vine at her back, Bai Xian'er seemed even more of a stranger to Lu Yin, but it was possible that this was her true self.
The Investiture of the Gods appeared above Lu Yin, illuminating the underground region with a golden light that burst upwards through the cracks and riddled the Second Scourge as they shot towards the sky.
Lu Yuan, who was in the middle of a vicious battle with Ancient God, frowned at the sight. The Investiture of the Gods being used meant that Little Seven was facing a formidable enemy.
The other most powerful experts, such as Wu Tian, Hongyan Mavis, and Garan Zhiluo, all looked at the ground as well. They could sense an extraordinary aura.
Massive mechas arrived in the Second Scourge from the Infinity Empire, as well as several of the Scourge Occupation’s experts.
At this moment, the humans had more powerhouses than the Aeternals.
Bai Xian'er looked up and raised her own hand. It was still a delicate, pale white hand, but this time, her movements gave Lu Yin a sense of unimaginable strength. Something had transformed.
Bang!
When the fist and palm touched, Lu Yin found himself stepping back. He had lost in terms of brute strength.
Bai Xian'er pressed her palm forward, pressing in on Lu Yin.
He used Extremes Must Be Reversed and released Infinity. As the lines of strength collided with each other, Extremes Must Be Reversed absorbed the resulting backlash, and Lu Yin threw another punch at Bai Xian'er.
She responded with the same simple palm strike.
There was another loud collision, and Lu Yin was forced to retreat yet again. This should be impossible. There was no way Bai Xian'er could be physically stronger than Lu Yin. This had to be due to her tree lotus vine. No, this was the Fay Blossoms.
Lu Yin's eyes slid past Bai Xian'er to focus on the distant tree lotus vine Progenitor’s world and the Fay Blossoms blooming on the plant. The true power of the Fay Blossoms was not inducing numbness, explosive pollen, or even draining strength.
The flowers’ true purpose was to absorb power.
The tree lotus vine did not simply repel all power. It was able to repel power, but it could also absorb it.
Aggressively absorbing all power. This was the tree lotus vine’s true ability.
Lu Yin thought back to the scene he had witnessed in Seed Garden. All the plants on the ground near the tree lotus vine had withered away, aside from the tree lotus vine itself. This was because the surviving plant had absorbed all the other plants’ nutrients. This was the dominance of the tree lotus vine.
Bai Xian'er threw another palm strike at Lu Yin. He struggled to defend himself, but his strength was instantly suppressed. Each palm strike snapped bones and broke tendons. He used Wielder-realm battle force, the Cosmic Art, and even divine energy, but nothing worked.
Earlier in their battle, Bai Xian'er had absorbed an ocean of Lu Yin’s power with her tree lotus vine. At the moment, all of that absorbed power was being combined with Bai Xian’er’s own strength and then used to overwhelm Lu Yin. Even within his inner universe, Lu Yin had been rendered powerless.
Setting Sun.
The beautiful glow of a sunset filled the region, but Bai Xian'er remained unscathed. She was using nothing more than raw power, and there were no battle techniques.
Lu Yin lashed out with his consciousness. Even if doing this meant further damaging his star of consciousness, Lu Yin was willing to take that risk.
Even that was useless. Bai Xian'er had no weaknesses.
She looked at his cracked star of consciousness. "So that's it. These stars are manifestations of your power. If I break them, you will lose all of your strength, won’t you, Brother Xiaoxuan?"
Lu Yin's pupils shrank. He did not hesitate at all as he used the God of Death Transformation. Death energy filled his body, and a scythe appeared in his right hand as a shield appeared in his left. Chains whipped around with a whistle as they wrapped around Bai Xian'er.
She coldly commented, "Even if the God of Death himself were here, he wouldn't be able to defeat me. The God of Death is nothing more than one of Tai Chu's disciples."
As she spoke, she grabbed hold of a chain and shattered it with a single yank. Lu Yin's scythe slashed at her, but a fist met it, and the punch not only shattered the scythe, but also Lu Yin’s shield.
"You are even stronger than the God of Death's power, Brother Xiaoxuan. You're finished," Bai Xian'er declared in an icy tone. She stepped onto the landmass in Lu Yin’s inner universe and looked up to see the stars connected to the landmass. On the landmass, she could see a sea of stellular energy.
Her hand pressed down, holding onto the landmass as a massive tree shot up from the ground. Again, it was her tree lotus vine.
Bai Xian'er had sent her Progenitor’s world right into Lu Yin’s inner universe. She wanted to use the domineering nature of her Progenitor’s world to absorb Lu Yin's power and utterly crush him.
At first, she had simply wanted to defeat Lu Yin. But after seeing the power of his inner universe, Bai Xian'er had developed other ideas.
She wanted to steal Lu Yin's power and claim it for herself. Given the domineering nature of her tree lotus vine, Bai Xian’er was confident that she could do just that.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, thank you for helping me to accomplish this," Bai Xian'er said as her smile returned to her face.
OMA's Thoughts
Translated By: OMA
Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox
TLC'ed By: OMA