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.
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?"
"What kind of monster is she...?"
"Shall we wait here?" Asked a man.
"Huh? Are you stupid? Why would we?" Said a woman that got really scared after seeing the crater.
"Well, Yasenia is a beast, and normally, they are weaker just after evolving, right? Maybe we can take that time window to ambush her."
It was common knowledge that a beast would be at its weakest when the evolution finished, so if they were lucky, they would be able to capture, kill, or slave the powerful creature, in this case, Yasenia.
However, many of them disagreed. "I'm not doing this. That woman is a freak. I haven't seen her lose besides the time she faced off against Isla, and she was a whole realm lower!"
Another said, "That's true. What about now that she is similar to us? Even weakened, she would be able to beat us senseless, and in the best-case scenario, we make her flee. Bye!"
The third one nodded. "Moreover, if we mess with her when she is weakened after she recovers, we will have to bear her retaliation. I really don't want to die so young. I'm also leaving."
Most people left, but others stayed in the surroundings to spectate. They wanted to see what all these things would lead to.
After waiting for more than one day, the fluctuations of that place became much stronger. Pulse after pulse of energy emanated from the center of the area.
Right after that, the spiritual energy in the surroundings rushed toward the center of the dome more violently than before. It was like a whirlpool of pure energy was being devoured by something.
At that moment, Angel felt like she was taking a bath in a refreshing spring. Her muddy and tired mind slowly reawakened, and her meridians and dantian regenerated. Angel felt like a lot of time had gone by, but it also felt like all had happened in an instant.
Her body felt light, her pores opened, breathing the world's energy, and her mind became clearer by the second. 'What happened? I remember entering a cave and then... I forgot.'
Angel tried reminiscing as the energy warmly flowed inside her meridians and dantian, giving her enormous strength.
Even her bloodline was changing.
Her body figure and face didn't change besides further perfecting. Her long blonde hair was now glossy as if made of threads of gold, shining beautifully with the sunlight.
Her skin was fair and supple like a marshmallow, and her facial features lost imperfections creating a cute yet somewhat mature and gentle countenance.
When her eyes opened inside the crystal coffin, they also somewhat changed. Her eyes were big and had a natural moist sheen, giving her a naïve and innocent gaze. Just one look, and you would want to pinch and pat her until she smiled.
Her facial features combined into an extremely appealing and saintly face that would create a good impression on anyone who looked at her.
Even her body was perfected; her breast became rounder and softer, her waist slimmer but more defined, and her muscles, bones, and skin more resistant without losing femininity. However, her height remained in the mid 150cms, staying as short as before.
The transformation was drastic, but it also perfectly maintained Angel's core appearance unchanged.
Yasenia saw all of this with the same eerily calm face. She had been standing in the same place for almost a day straight, and the only thing that moved was because of the winds created by the ritual.
Not even Fu Jing Jing and the Mirror knew what was going on in the dragoness's mind.
The Mirror had somewhat of a bad feeling, but it didn't know why. However, it couldn't stop the ritual nor do any tricks since it could feel that the moment it did something strange, those silver-red slit eyes would notice.
Even though Yasenia didn't have a spiritual sense yet, [Day and night] created an absolute domain that overcame the strength of spiritual sense manifold. When Yasenia activated [Day and Night], she was the ruler of her surroundings.
That is why the Mirror had that feeling.
The climax of the ritual arrived.
The crystal coffin and all the glass and crystal around exploded into pieces with a powerful explosion!
The surrounding vegetation was blown apart as the shockwave even reached those cultivators in wait on the outskirts.
The sharp crystals injured Yasenia's skin, creating bloody traces, but Yasenia didn't even flinch, close her eyes or move out of the way. Using an energy membrane to protect her eyes, she didn't lose sight of the ritual for a second!
Fu Jing Jing chanted, "May all Truths in the world guide you. May you walk this path and understand your objective. May you create a new path for the truth!"
*Woosh!*
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!?"
Haaa..... the cliff..... damn doing marathon on this takes 2-4 days if theres no distraction and damn feels good ahahahahabahahahah
Keep it going my dear....., and 'Truth' Saint... just DEAL with IT
Your Down bit*h 😎
Yasenia was OP from the start, but recently she is just boring me.
The whole interaction with the dead saintess is way too much in her favor, imo. The Saint doesn't feel like a powerhouse at all.
Her inability to suffer any real downside is just making me want to see her suffer a loss for once.
Her last real loss was in that tournament and even then it didn't matter really. The prize was pretty worthless other than her girlfriend wanting it.
I can see where you are coming from. It's just that Yasenia is growing and reaching her potential. Her strongest foes are Isla and the rest, and the Saint wasn't fighting against her from the beginning.
The interaction this time was Yasenia having the initiative and the Saint trying to find a way to reason with her. Fu Jing Jing knew that Yasenia was Angel's lover, which was like a stopper.
However, depending on how Yasenia plays her cards in the next two chapters, she may be in trouble.
Finally, this time it wasn't about a strength challenge. If Fu Jing Jing fought seriously with the intention of finishing Yasenia off, I would have to finish the story because Yasenia would die, no doubt.
I understand the wish for a challenge, but there will be times for that. Now, we are seeing Yasenia outgrowing the people of her generation slowly. Therefore, it is normal for her to be strong right now. She has basically caught up to those before her.
TLDR: The Saint never wanted to beat Yasenia, and if they fought to the death, she would have obliterated Yasenia, and the novel would have ended. The other characters are being outgrown by Yasenia's insane improving speed, which has been reiterated in the novel, making her overpowered for her current area. In gaming terms, she has outgrown her current level area.
@Mortrexo
I get she has outgrown her level area.
I suppose the Saint feels like she should be more of a secret Boss that is hidden in a low level area and Yasenia has far too much control in their interaction.
Her dragon arrogance and Angel being in danger makes her reaction in character.
While I understand why the Saint doesn't obliterate her, I guess my issue is more how the thing came off to me. It doesn't feel like she could kill her the moment the Saint decided to screw the consequences.
Rather than reckless, Yasania is appearing more like a master schemer playing with the Saintesses self imposed restrictions. Her saying all according to plan wouldn't shock me at this moment.
@reader15 While you are not wrong, what Yasenia is doing is something obscure. You will find the next and the following chapters, I don't want to spoil them.
Also, didn't Fu Jing Jing's named-attack give enough clues? That attack that basically blew up a massive crater and inflicted Yasenia with absolute terror? She even thinks to herself that her chances of surviving that attack would have been close to zero.
@Mortrexo
I will wait since I have faith you can pull it off in the next chapters. I wouldn't be discussing my issue, if I didn't think your writing ability was good. I don't comment often, so this story managed to engage me after all. Its just I slowly felt the story was getting more and more easymode for the protagonist.
Popcorn stories have an important place, but considering her mothers backstory, I don't think you were aiming for a simple OP protagonist slapping fools and dominating everything feel good story. But this is where I see the story heading at this rate. Her seduction ability already went from a fun quirk to basically a form of mindcontrol.
The named attack part was great, but I suppose the later development with the Saintess developing fear diminished her a lot in my eyes, since willpower was stressed a lot in this story and hers seemed too lacking for her level.
@reader15 Well, I can't argue with those points. You made it clear, and you are mostly right. I hope you like how I develop the conclusion.
There will be some chilling chapters after Angel's problem, and then we will jump right into the action again. Thank you for taking the time to write your opinion! I really want to avoid the super OP protagonist slapping fools around. I want Yasenia to be very strong but beatable, after all.
Even then, for writing such an extensive comment, I will give you a small "spoiler." Read at your discretion~.
There is a big power-up coming for Yasenia to finish the Secret Realm arc. So it will inevitably slightly fall into that category for a short amount of time.
@Mortrexo And the worst part its the slave contract, whats the wrondoing of an equal contract? Even knowing that heavens dosent like it, she its just like a villainess at this point
@Erecc I see that you really took Yasenia's attitude in this matter to heart, hahaha.
The thing with an equal contract is that both sides have the same authority. Yasenia didn't want a strange variable to be inside Angel, so she decided to make it foolproof.
During this whole interaction, you have to put yourself in each character's perspective, or else it is very frustrating. If you re-read it without knowing anything about Fu Jing Jing's thoughts and Yasenia's thoughts and seeing the general situation Angel was in before, everything makes sense.
@Mortrexo Yea, and even with all that in mind, even after taking all without consideration or giving anything back, she even wants to use the soul of the saint as nourishment, truly heroic damn
@Erecc Heroic? Yasenia never was heroic. She isn't even considered a moral person. I think I've explained it before, but Yasenia's only interests lay in her dears' safety.
Also, if she wanted to negotiate with Fu Jing Jing, she had to have some bargaining chip. Her control over the ritual's outcome by using her blood essence is that. If you continue reading, you'll see that she ended up not using Fu Jing Jing and even freeing her from a vicious cycle.
@Mortrexo Well yeah, cause if she tried, she would blow up herelf killng this greed lizard in the process, which i would have done, by the way
@Erecc But that's not logical.
What's Fu Jing Jing's objective? What's Fu Jing Jing's identity?
Her objective is passing on her inheritance, and her identity is a Saint, someone protected by the heavens in one way or another.
Yasenia knew that she couldn't really kill Fu Jing Jing, or else misfortune would plague her existence. However, she could act otherwise to intimidate Fu Jing Jing. Then, when the conflict was resolved, and Yasenia understood that everything went in Angel's favor, she gave Fu Jing Jing a chance to cut herself from the cycle.
Fu Jing Jing understood that Yasenia had never wanted to kill her unless she was really trying to do something terrible to Angel, which she wasn't.
Chapter 300 is the aftermath, and I think everything is quite nicely explained. Fu Jing Jing's attitude changed in the middle of the chapter after finally understanding what had happened.
Of course, you may say, but Yasenia could've handled it in another way. But what if Fu Jing Jing wasn't a saint but someone trying to take over Angel's body? At that time, if Yasenia had acted calmly and spoken rationally with that person, you would've become as angry. Saying things like, why isn't she directly attacking them? Why is she losing time speaking with them?
Therefore, the only reason for your anger, if I'm being honest, is that you knew Fu Jing Jing was harmless to Angel, while Yasenia didn't know it.
P.S. Something logical, by the way. Your reaction is what I expected some readers to have, so don't feel like you are wrong. I know that from a reader's perspective, this whole fiasco was frustrating.
@Mortrexo It dosent make sense, its not like she knows the saint, she dosent know if she wants to be cut off, she is basically extorting her for power, after destroying the meaning of thr inheritance that the saint was trying to preserve, so, withput any doubts, the saint should have told her to f*ck off, and if shebtried to refine her soul, blow herself up
@Erecc She knows that she is a Saint. No one dares personify a Saint because Heavens would punish those people. This was also explained in the chapters when Angel was taking the inheritance. It is a complex situation where none of the people involved would have an emotional outburst. Yasenia stayed internally calm and calculating. Fu Jing Jing didn't want the work of her life to fall into obscurity because an ant in the Mental Nourishing Realm interrupted it.
Can you imagine a God blowing herself up because a mortal made a ritual she made fail? It is illogical.
What do you think?
@Mortrexo Its not a ritual she made, its the inheritance that she wasnprotecting for millenias, the whole point of giving it, and this lizzard just perverted it, not beign enought, she extort her under the menace of refining her soul, after forcing her dear mirror friend into a slave contract, and, i want to say it again, after destroying herbinheritance, transforming an heroic and truthful one into, something that is not her inheritance, and then, she extort her for even more, under the menace of refining her soul, and then you said, but what if she wasnt a saint, but yourself gave the answer to that, she cant impersonate a saint cause heavens would punish there, so its just, at the end an ungrateful greed lizzard, after seeing my inheritance getting corrupted and the meaning behind it being destroyed, just as this lizzard said with a smug smile, without a doubt, i would kill her even if i have to reincarnate into a whore
@Mortrexo And in the end, angel its not suitable to get it, even if its compatible, this saint was a heroine, who gave her live to save the world, and angel its a dog, that waves her tail at any whimp of the lizzard, if i were her, i would prefer see it lost in the river of times, before see those pair of villaineses use it, cause she its a saint, and its more or lest protected of their greed, but others may not have that luck
@Erecc I see. That is a completely valid opinion. Everybody thinks differently. I hope, however, that this small altercate doesn't affect the experience of the rest of the Novel~. Much love for commenting about your thoughts ~.
@Mortrexo cant you just get yassenia kilked? Or at least her lovers? *_*
@Erecc You are quite a sadistic one, eh? Hahaha, but well, technically, chapter 323 can maybe satiate some of your sadistic blood.
@Mortrexo Im just with the others, yassenia its getting to full of herself, the battle in the phoenix mountain had calmed that pride, but now its ragging like a firestorm, maybe i am a little sadistic XD cause i wanna see her suffer for her pridefull stance
@Mortrexo I don't understand the Saint's motivation not to kill Yaseria. This is her life's work to pass on her most prized inheritance, and she found the perfect candidate. Then the candidate's lover smashing through like a bull, and appears like she will sabotage the ritual. Why wouldn't the Saint kill her to save the ritual?